skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"one version of Windows" marketing

You completely misunderstood the whole point. The one windows does not imply it is one thing which runs on many thing , not at all. one windows whole point is you can use same design/API for your program and target as many device as possible, kinda like Java.(but not compile once , run everywhere part)
Brexit is inconvenient; Syria is a humanitarian catastrophe. There are several orders of magnitude of difference.
They claimed copyright on a Grand Theft Audio screen capture video that had the grenade model substituted for a cell phone. No way you could argue you own copyright on that.
Still no mention of standardization of a "systems language" that's served off a platform known to censor and manipulate... Klabnik and others have lashed out at people in the past over political ramblings, github has been known to engage in political correctness and majority shaming, ugh.

Why on earth do people trust Rust at all? Without a standardized specification there's absolutely no good reason to trust mozilla code, and there's no "correct" way to work on a more properly FOSS implementation since they're essentially just making it up as they go along.

I fear that rust will suffer a Java death, where some of the brightest engineers are conned into working on something people will come to detest later on.

From a langtheory perspective, rust is one of the most backwards, mixed up, kludgy languages to come to light recently but it's ultimately a moot point since most languages are terrible anyways once you get to know them.

C++ already works, why don't we just improve on whatever's lacking?

Rust astroturfers like pcwalton and klabnik can't wait to explain why go isn't competing with rust since they didn't opt for zero cost abstractions in some cases and instead chose to have a coherent language, but go GC is now down to under 5ms, and while I'm honestly not a fan of Google any more than mozilla, I gotta respect the visionaries behind go, the stick-to-it-iveness of the design team, and the relentless performance increases over the past couple years.

I'd rather write lisp or Julia or ruby or something fun than most other junk languages, but watching the front lines of allegedly performant languages always gives me ideas on how to make my own projects faster or more efficient.
There's a pretty hard limit on the benefit that can be achieved that way with no real growth in output, even in the car where redistribution actually proceeds and does so flawlessly. OTOH, I think there's plenty of evidence that Venezuela had largely been governed by a kleptocracy with socialist rhetoric rather than some ideal socialist redistributionist regime.
That's also true of AWS, Digital Ocean, Linode, etc. Hell, you can even host your DNS yourself!
Researchers create new computer combining optical and electronic technology
I have a few domains with public whois, the spam from that today is significantly less than it was when I first registered around 2000. The paper spam is almost zero, just a scammy registrar every once in a while. Email spam is probably less than one a week.
Stray dog found in San Francisco missing for 10 years
A fully-programmable 100-spin coherent Ising machine with all-to-all connections

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/10/21/scien...
Google's redefined privacy policy lets ads follow you everywhere
I don't think electricity here is the problem. In fact, measuring the impact is probably pointless, a lot of servers are always-on regardless of traffic.
If by unbiased you mean in terms of the bias variance trade-off, and not in terms of "tends to align with beliefs of neither side of the political spectrum," then I'm inclined to agree.
Hi, thanks for the reply. After my start-up was acquired the BIGCO decided to integrate a lot of systems. They have been consistently laying off people. Almost 300 people from my start-up have resigned since acquisition. Worst thing is BIGCO is hiring H1B employees as contractors on temp basis.
As a developer, the word that comes to mind for an analogy is "changelog".
> But it's the same 20 servers as a million other companies, so the chance of those servers being a target is much greater.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I feel like my chances of being collateral damage on an attack against someone else is way higher in the cloud.

Even today with GitHub and other SaaS platforms going down, we were all affected.
the goal of 2017 "robust, high-scale servers" is maybe for this.
scripts have fast developing speed,but are not always robust,high-scale,specially for those backend services developed by many developers,here are fields of java,go,.net,even c++.a language with safety,high performance,low resource consumtion is strong competitor.languages with GC such as JAVA are resource monsters,specially when there are unlimited microservices running simultaneously
Speaking of "guaranteed not to allocate", is there a way that you could express that in a type? Seems like that might be nice to have.
If GitHub and Twitter are struggling with this, what chance do the rest of us have?
Is there any established way to test my router/IOT device for Mirai vulnerability?
I've had an IP address from a certain cloud provider for a month. Some abandoned domain still has its nameserver and glue records pointing to the IP, and i get DNS queries all the time.

The domain expires in January. I hope it's not set to auto-renew. :-)
As Aristotle might have said if he were here, you committed an error in syllogism number 56.
Some data that provides a different picture:

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2016/08/us-is-doing-be...
Not in Rust's type system. In a pure language, you could have some sort of "Heap" monad similar to the "IO" type in Haskell.
Thanks, that would be a reasonably light-weight alternative.
And what about software developers? Should we be suing the kernel developers for leaving that privilege escalation bug in for 9 years?
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Wild Man of the Restoration (2014)
I think the headline there, "Mirai Botnet Client, Echo Loader and CNC source code", is more descriptive and suitable than the current title.

"Mirai" is a rather generic name; for a moment I was wondering if it was related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai ...but it did make me click to find out.
The year was 1991. My friend and I were partying and playing darts. 301, to be precise. At a certain point, I noted a subtraction error in my friend's score. I pointed it out so we checked everything and found I made some subtraction errors too. We were pretty wasted so this was no surprise.

I had a computer in the garage on my workbench. So I decided to solve this problem by writing some code. About an hour and some number of shots later, bullshitting with my friend the whole time, I had a working scoreboard program.

We continued playing darts. We were both amused that even though I was too wasted to subtract, I could still write code.

We probably should have just switched to Cricket.
>“Well, how about guests?” asked Lucy, before the conversation turned to shadow impact and wind tunnels.

This has a very simple answer: no overnight parking. Keeps residents from owning cars if they don't have off-street parking, so there is always street frontage for visitors. You get a limited set of overnight parking passes for overnight visitors.

In the long run, it's probably the only way to get people to stop blocking development over street parking. Take it away from everyone, except short-term users like guests and car-sharing.

Bonus points of you make an exception for motorcycles/scooters, since they allow far more people to benefit from motor vehicles per square foot of parking.
Every language that exists, compiled or interpreted, typed or untyped, ultimately relies on code which could violate every guarantee that language makes. Most often, that code is written in C or C++, and is a part of the language's runtime or compiler toolchain.
This Is Why Your Drug Prescriptions Cost So Damn Much
The specs are the part I found most interesting.
1) First the specs say 3 images, then they say 2. if you are dealing with a manager that can change the specs like that you might want to over engineer just a bit to cover 'arbitrary number of images'. yes I know this is probable just an error by the writer of the article, but it demonstrates something that happens in the wild.
2) Communication is the missing piece in this story. when a developer is given a task they should ask questions about future requirements. "Is it always going to be 3 images?", "will the images always grow by the same ratio?" and so on. the way to not solve imaginary problems is to talk with the stakeholders.
Sherlock the Cumberbatch character and Sherlock the Arthur Conan Doyle character are quite different, and House is definitely not derived from the Cumberbatch character (simply because that would mean the scriptwriters were time-travelers).
>From a langtheory perspective, rust is one of the most backwards, mixed up, kludgy languages to come to light recently..

Would really like to know more about this. It is not very often that you come across Rust criticism in this forum.

>C++ already works, why don't we just improve on whatever's lacking?

But can it done in such a way that it works with the rest of the language and standard library?
Sure, the federal government could set something up, but I think the tricky part is getting all the individual states to adopt the system.

Two things to note though: the Japanese registry system was originally set up so the government could keep track of its people, and given the level of anti-government paranoia in the US, I highly doubt that sort of change would get support.

A majority of Americans don't even support a uniform ID card for all citizens, which almost every other country has.
Ceres isn't well-suited for long term human habitation due to extremely low gravity and a surface environment much more hostile than that of Mars. You'd either have to have a sizable rotating space station nearby or do everything with remotely controlled and/or autonomous robots, and in the case of the latter you'd be much better building the robots and/or space station on Mars and launching from there than trying to get all of that out of Earth's gravity well.
Wind Fresh. They don't sell it anymore, too good for customers.
A Java "death", where it becomes one of the most popular programming languages in industry? Rust should be so lucky.
Nebulis, a decentralized and uncensorable Internet [pdf]
What is the origin of the name?

I assumed (guessed) it was the last name of the "father of the internet" on Japan.
Official documents are marvelous.

Once you have lived in a country where you can get official documents for pretty much anything you care to prove, it feels like going back to the stone age when you move to a country where you can't.

Case in point: a Korean relative of mine was recently invited to join the board of an organization based in the UK. The UK org's bank wanted proof of address for the new board member, in the form of a notarized translation of a recent utility bill or credit card statement. In Korea, you can walk into any local government office and use a 24/7 self-serve kiosk to print out an official proof of your address. Not some random address like the Japanese koseki, but the actual address where you pay all your taxes and are registered to vote. You can even get it in English if you want. It comes with an official stamp and a cryptographic signature of its contents. But no, the UK bank won't take it. They want your fucking credit card statement.

Ditto for marriage certificates, death certificates, driving and other licenses, public education, land ownership, car and boat ownership, tax returns... pretty much anything a person might need to prove in the course of their lives. Lost the original? No big deal. You can get a new one whenever you want, wherever you want. You can even get the government to prove your employment history for you, if you're worried that your last employer might go bust and become unable to provide references.

And I don't think this makes us any more of a surveillance state than other countries, because the government is supposed to retain official records of all these things anyway. It's just a matter of letting citizens export their own information in a convenient and reliable format.
NEMA is more than 40 stories. Jasper appears to be even taller. Would earthquake regulations prevent someone from building a few dozen (or hundred) more NEMAs?
"The biggest thing I have learned from running a couple short term rental listings is that people are basically good."

I think you're in a honeymoon period where everything is working great because of thoughtful, well-intentioned early adopters on both sides (the providers and the guests).

I have done a lot of airbnb all over the world - and I love it - but I, as a user and the hosts are obviously very literate, technically adept, relatively wealthy people. It's not surprising that it all works out really nicely - and it does.

That can't last. People will find way to game both airbnb and the users of airbnb and it will be a race of con artists and malcontents all the way to whatever cesspool it is that form the back-story of every law we have on the books. Every law that governs a hotel or a taxi or a restaurant is on the books because some asshole got someone killed (or robbed them blind).

Enjoy it while it lasts!
How to build a more secure domain system
What was the description of the TPM role?
How would one even go back and delete as much of their information as possible from services like Google, Facebook, etc?

It's a scary future to imagine, and I think a big reason many people are apathetic about it is due to the complexity in deleting their data and fixing the problem. It's just easier to continue on...
> Where did you draw the conclusion that he had a pre-existing condition?

Might be wrong another article implied it. I thought Boerhaave syndrome had pre-cursors.

Ghost pepper is pure clickbait.

He also had 6 glasses of water which was the probable "leads to" of the real cause and the thing that mattered, vomiting.
> an angry post complaining about English mistakes that is itself splattered with basic grammar errors

The following on the home page [0] is hilarious:

I also maked a sitemap for those who want to dounloud
errything.

[0] https://gnu.moe/
Indeed, part 2 of the piece includes:

> The national koseki system thus started as part-demographic information collection system, part-surveillance apparatus.

> The current Japanese preoccupation with privacy may thus reflect recent historical experience of not actually having any.
His last name is spelled Yedlin, and he is the cinematographer not for VII but VIII.
I agree this may be subjective, but aren't we crossing the line when the 'how' becomes more important than the 'what' (i.e. the purpose of the code?)

Following this principle code example 2 (i.e. Javascript after deduplication) would be the sweet spot. It fulfills the requirements without in the most obvious way, at a good level of abstraction (the requirements did not make any of the three pictures specific -- defining a separate function for each actually goes beyond the requirements, while obscuring the higher-level goal).

All of the subsequent examples focus on using the features of the platform rather than clearly showing the purpose of the code, i.e. unnecessarily obfuscate it.
> Are you saying that Rust, a system programming language, can compete with the scripting languages in speed of developing features?!

I'll say it. At work, the backend is Rails, and I am a Rust contributor in my freetime. I am in the early stages of working on a framework for web apps in Rust & I believe it will be comparatively productive to Rails. Only your code will be faster and many bugs will be caught at compile time.
The law does not prohibit short term AirBnB rentals in general. It prohibits them when the owner does not also occupy the unit. You'd still be able to use AirBnB to rent someone's spare room short term.
Even is patents are invalid, when you bring they back to Earth they will be confiscated. It's like burning a pirate DVD in the middle of the sea and expecting to sell it legally in New York.

(And probably the transportation cost will be still high enough to make it mot profitable.)
The project you're thinking of is called miri, I don't really know the state of it either.

https://github.com/solson/miri
Mirai means future.
What sort of regulation are you referring to? I'm not a plumber or electrician but I replace broken faucets and light switches. No certification required.
I'm not sure what the point of all this blather is. Many people argue that the differences between the genders are largely irrelevant in a lot of situations, and that distinct differences between gender or race are only really relevant when talking about large groups on a statistical basis. Studying these differences doesn't produce anything profound or meaningful, either, just data that irritates people because it promotes thinking in generalities.

Whatever differences there are when dealing with averages are usually irrelevant in human-scale interactions between a handful of people that are, in many cases, randomly distributed across various criteria.

If group X was found to be on average 5% higher in some particular measurement than another, what does that mean on a person-to-person basis? All it will do is bias people in their thinking. It's only when that percentage is quite extreme that it's actually significant.
Ask HN: Wasn't e-mail deliverability affected today for domains hosted with dyn?
If you tried to send an e-mail to foo@twitter.com during the dyn outage, would the message be delivered? Perhaps delivered eventually (delayed).
The reuse of their network infrastructure with this approach is elegant, BUT it takes about half of the FPGA to support the network pass through and lightweight transport layer.

FPGAs are about as expensive as high end CPUs, can you afford to buy a high end server and burn half the cores on your OS?

On the flip side, if Microsoft can really eat that cost and offer FPGA space as a public cloud service, as an FPGA dev, I'd rather pay to play than bust 5K on a high end dev board.
>prop 13 was passed because of rapidly increasing property values

The owners who passed it are content to sit on their houses in perpetuity. If property values had continued to rise past owners' appetite for property tax bills, CA homes would be occupied by people under financial pressure to sell them. It seems reasonable to think that would leave prices lower than where they are today.

It wouldn't stop the pressure, probably wouldn't keep those people from getting displaced, but it'd be a relief valve for the tech workers trying to move in.
That does sound convenient. Are there safeguards in place for personal privacy? Can anyone look up information on anyone else?
A proven method of matching planetary velocity.
I'd be tempted to say that `curl | bash` is as insecure as

./configure && make && sudo make install

The logic in the article effectively implies that one shouldn't be installing an software without auditing every single line of code.
True. I blame it on a trend of the 2010s: friendly people who would otherwise write moderate and/or optimistic comments a decade ago, have increasingly lost motivation to partake. This is my theory at least, I can't back it up scientifically or any of that. The causes and/or reasons are that many of those people may have become parents (myself included), or have grown tired of the negativity, or frustrated by the Orwellian developments. We all know the most obvious example on HN: leave a well intended comment and get at least one cynical or even suffocating response that doesn't even get downvoted properly. It gets tiring really fast. Fast forward a couple of years, and most of what's left is enforced so-called constructivism, hyperextreme political correctness, cynisism and depression.

The glory days are over, I think, and I strongly doubt that future generations will keep using the Internet for social interaction.
FPGAs are really expensive today, but I think we're starting to see a real shift in production volumes, especially with Intel jumping in, which might rapidly cut costs on them.

Exciting opportunities ahead for those that can take advantage of hardware like this.
Stripe: Radar
Ask HN: How does this site identify unique visits?
The first time you open the link below, the top button should be enabled. After clicking it, you should get a message saying "Submitted successfully!". Now try reloading that page on clean cash with a different IP. The site "detects" that the link has been clicked before. How is that possible ? There is no data stored on my local machine, cookies, local storage etc.. and the IP is different.

It actually gets spooky, I take a different computer connected on a VPN and load that link for the first time.. Same result! I try to send a GET request via CURL and the HTML page that I receive already has a disabled button in it !

Disclaimer: I am not trying to scam them of a Cobb salad, I just need a similar technology for an app I am working on and I am investigating what is doable.

Link: http://weixin.elementfresh.com/weixin/praise/index.aspx?aid=1255
>why should they no longer be able to live in their home just because the market went crazy

The market didn't go crazy, it saw an uptick in demand. They should be booted because their homes should be replaced with high-rises with enough room for them AND the new demand.
Most people in Venezuela never had access to pharmaceuticals. And, while any difficulties in health care are deplorable, lack of medical resources is the norm on third world countries. So it is difficult to assess how much of this was due to the regime policies or to the bad shape of the economy. The problem in doing this assessment is that all coverage of Venezuela is ideologically tainted. Any perceived problem in Venezuela is taken as the direct result of socialist policies, when in fact the country was poor longer before Chavez came to power. But for example, few newspapers will talk about the fact that the GDP of Venezuela has almost tripled since socialists came to power.
So giving away $100M of his own money isn't in the slightest selfless? He's a selfish individual? Helping terrible diseases isn't doing something lasting for humanity?
>But the average consumer won't realize, especially when the installation and network failure aren't temporally adjacent, that the camera is the cause of the problem.

In theory the user could be presented with a "here is why you've been blocked" explanation when they try to browse any site. They could then (probably) figure out what is the offending device, take it off the network, then click "please let me back on the internet, the bad device has been removed". (Somewhat similar to how the MX blacklists work at present).