skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java Developers and Their Long, Horrible Resumes
Putting aside who is better, Trump or Clinton - Clinton and the DNC establishment support National Security Letters, NSA spying, PRISM, Echelon, the idea that if you're not doing anything wrong, you have no expectation of privacy. On a more positive side, some of them believe in FOIA and government transparency.

Yet they don't believe what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Clinton made sure her e-mails were on a private server, immune from FOIA and subpoenas. What hypocrisy.

Their fight against the spread of encryption and security so that they could spy on everyone is what helped lead to the possibility of this leak happening. They have been hoisted by their own petard, and it is glorious to see.
WiMax is a joke compared the point to multipoint LTE solutions in the 2.5 and 3.65 spectrum.
When my team (Cowboys) plays, I'll generally watch the full game. I also watch some SNF/MNF/TNF games. But yes, it's fair to say I don't find every part of every game interesting (like commercials, cheesy halftime commentary, endless review of plays that will obviously be upheld/overturned in replay, 2 and 17 draw plays, etc) However, filtering out noise doesn't make me less of a sports fan, any more than reading headlines on HN makes me less of an industry enthusiast.
the site seems to be down.
Hey, thanks for the discussion, kind internet stranger. You are making me think more clearly.

Should every other programmer on a project be considered a stakeholder? Or does trying to please everyone become a futile endeavour, at some point?

I guess what I'm saying is I literally don't care about the technical upsides and downsides of writing code a certain way anymore. There was once a time where I searched for objective truth in software design, but no more. So it's impossible for me to discuss those topics without sounding like an ass. Does that make me a mediocre programmer?

A lot of these same people have admitted to me personally that I do high quality work. I feel like that should be enough. I shouldn't have to defend every line of code like it's a PhD thesis.

Am I wrong?
Sounds very similar to the lyrics to the track "Would you?" by Touch & Go - which were based upon a 1978 study.

(As used in the theme-tune to "As If", a TV show from the UK.)
Since when has noticing people in places you visit frequently become such a threatening activity?

And btw, it was “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.”; which has a non threatening tone and gives off a completely different vibe.
And no one can add a new bit of software to this computer you "own" until the software has submitted to draconian laws and been reviewed by their experts who will entirely decide your developer livelihood. You'll pay money for the possibility to maybe let a user ever run the software you spent years developing.

We'll call it the iPhone.
Last I checked, the language is not open source so that raises some concerns. It is hard to take closed source languages seriously.
> Restricted gTLDs should have only been for trademarked company names, like .google or .microsoft

Unfortunately however, there are a lot of grey areas... To name a few:

* Amazon have been in a long dispute with the Brazilian government, over the right to operate a .amazon TLD - as the Brazilians claim it should instead be related to the rainforest.

* On the other hand, Amazon have secured TLDs such as .prime, which could also be disputed. Apple have won .apple, Sky have won .sky, ... the list goes on.

* Sometimes, the conflicts can even be with foreign languages. For example, Ferrero are now the registry operator for .kinder - but as this is the German word for "children", it's been the cause for similar debate.

Also, with regards to your concern that there is a lack of variety in available unrestricted TLDs - I disagree; if anything, there are far too many (there's hundreds!!).
Median viewer by age in 2014 -
MLB 53 and trending older / NFL 47 and trending older / NBA 37 and remaining steady.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/06/what-...
Oh wow... how much do they cost to cover a roof?
Turned down for publication, not for the prize.
I'm sorry, what are you asking?
Which is why I brought up DNSoTLS which you conveniently ignored. That 'last mile' problem you speak of is being worked on at the IETF. It's not an easy problem to solve. But I suspect this argument of yours, which is valid BTW, will be less of problem in 5 years. We're already starting to see DNSoTLS testing happening.

You could also run a DNSSEC validating stub resolver on your laptop. Or you can run DNSMasq on my home router with DNSSEC validation enabled. Both of these effectively prevent the MITM you bring up.
I have accidentally put a USB device in my laptops ethernet port several times because the laptop is on the back corner of my desk and all the ports are on the back so the cables all go behind the desk but because of the proximity to the wall I can't easily see the ports. USB and eth are right next to eachother. Wouldn't have it any other way. Don't know what I will replace my T420s' with.
Food for thought: will USB-C be the "last" standard connector? Speaking in terms of the physical connector, not the data protocol. I'm sure it will eventually prove not to be, but it's got a lot going for it and I suspect it will last for a very long time. If USB-A was the dominant connector for nearly 20 years I think C could see a run of 50 years or more. RJ45 connectors are around 40 years old and aren't going anywhere soon. I wonder what the qualities would be of a connector to replace USB-C.
Ehh, the idea that Monopolies are not free markets, is a fairly well understood separation.

"A free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

The idea is Monopolies can extract "Monopoly Rent/Economic Rent" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent at a higher price than normal because competitors don't enter the market and lower prices.
GPL is absolutely useless for commercial products, imo. Unless you can run it encapsulated on some sort of web service as a standalone executable. If the goal is to have more open source code, and more code sharing across systems and services then more code should actually be BSD licensed.
Don’t go to art school (2013)
No, the book (his 4th one) was turned down by 18 different publishers before Oneworld, an indie, picked it up.
Yea, you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes," but apparently only perfect geographic-racial balance disproves the existence of these ghettos. Also you equate mental illness and homelessness with slavery. I want some of what you're smoking! But seriously, if you want a white dude pumping your gas, there is Vermont as you noted, and it isn't very far from you!
The main docs page has better examples.
Affero GPL. If the public can touch the product or service, you have to provide the source. My company avoids incorporating any GPL-licensed libraries, even those with linking exceptions.
> Well, it doesn't create any information that wasn't in the original data (nothing can do that, you can only lose information in processing)

I'm not sure this is correct. In a sense, it does contain information that wasn't in the original inputs - i.e information added by the weights in the neural network which itself was obtained by information extracted from an enormous amount of previous samples. Of course, the largest and best trained neural network won't be able to tell the license number given 2 pixels of information, but I am curious as to the theoretical limits of what can be achieved in extreme cases of with very little information as input and a neural network that has almost limitless resources.
What your point was, just now.
I haven't seen very many personal project sites I'm afraid, but Neil Cicierega's looks nice:

http://neilcic.com/
I think Google has done a lot to get us away from different projections with EPSG 3857 and 4326. It's both a blessing (because you can expect most geographic data to be available in that format) and a curse (because 3857 is kind of a shitty projection and the standardization sort of disincentivizes people to learn about the intricacies of coordinate representation).
Can we expect Error 53 after you spill something on the keyboard destroying Touch strip = and computer stops booting .. but you have important data on SSD that is now SOLDERED permanently to the motherboard, and Apple doesnt offer data recovery (only logic board swap at a low low price of $2/3 whole computer) so only option is independent repair shop?
Wix developer replying: https://medium.com/@talkol/how-i-found-myself-accused-of-ste...
ZeroCash: Bitcoin with Zero Knowledge Proofs
I'm not sure why someone would go to great lengths to manipulate HN regarding something like a bad quarterly report or a corruption scandal. HN is not really a significant news source if you're interested in financial or political news, so keeping it off HN's front page won't make any difference - how many people are there whose only news source is HN?

Another way of thinking about it is that HN is a news aggregator, so any article on HN has already been published somewhere that probably has a much higher readership than HN (mainstream media, tech media, etc.). So why bother to manipulate HN?

That said, it's clear that there are articles posted here that have political, social or commercial agendas behind them, so one has to read skeptically (as is true for all media sources).
Actually thinking about it, whatsapp can play a role. They say they want to find ways to stop the spread of such videos - we all know that's nearly impossible on the internet as a whole, but in a world where for most people the internet might be primarily whatsapp or similar there is an obvious way: check files against a database of hashes for 'prohibited' files. Same way Dropbox checks for copyright violations, YouTube for copyrighted video and sound or Microsoft's child porn checker.

So you could say if the company would want to address this issue, which is largely occurring on and through its technology, it could do so. You wouldn't be able to stop initial spreas, but if people get the chance to report the spread might be stopped quite early exactly because it's such a conservative society.

Not saying that's the ultimate solution(or even a desirable one) and there are plenty of caveats - but if companies wanted to address the issue they could at least try, so whatsapp/fb is certainly not 100℅ off the hook. That they haven't made any attempt to provide mechanisms to stop this kind of thing was their choice.

Or is there something that just wasn't active here? Eg does whatsapp block child porn distribution or copyrighted materials? Fb is pretty strict on that kind of stuff so I'd be surprised if there's really no mechanism yet.
> Google Fiber

They just announced last week they're not expanding anymore.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/26...
But this fact is accounted for in the definition of Big O in the "for all n > k" no?

"f(n) = O(g(n)) means there are positive constants c and k, such that 0 ≤ f(n) ≤ cg(n) for all n ≥ k. "
The Open Source Initiative[1] is a good place to start.

1 - https://opensource.org/
You definitely don't need software to add a little delay for turning off the LED, but sure, it would be slightly more complicated than just a dang wire.
If they don't distribute it (SaaS only) then they do not need to publish anything.
That is true - although typed arrays will solve that in the future - but the benchmarks you cite (e.g. fannkuch-redux) still run into a memory floor created by the larger runtime.

Also, `regex-dna` will probably benefit from compact strings in java 9.

And some of the longer-running benchmarks are in fact faster on java, so I think that supports my point about warmup.
Not my upvote.

I'm on gab.ai and thoroughly enjoy the idea of an alternative to twitter.
So now you can plug a single cable in and get power, display, and accessories. Where's the problem?
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12822018
As a back-ender looking to dabble with modern front-end development best practices, I'm encouraged to find guides like this one. Even if the array of available packages and tools appears dizzying, and often times faddish, it's nice to see the many options laid out rather concisely.

I have a decent handle on React and some of its immediately related tools, which has greatly improved my fluency with contemporary front end work. I may not ever use all these tools, but again it's helpful to see their setup illustrated in an easy fashion.

Apart from React, what would be the next most important tool to pickup?
what is the best open source software for doing oeconomic simulations?
That article and the poll it was based on are hardly reliable. The author had previously written this as speculation (he references this in the article) and that poll is viewed with skepticism by the linked article. Rasmussen has a built in sample bias and that's being generous. NFL has contradicted these assertions [1].

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/nfl-executives-blame-confluence-...
The future of PCs and Macs looks expensive
I don't get the Internet ARP reference? That's just false equivalence.

I think we're just going to continue to disagree. We've argued over DNSSEC on HN many times and it's clear to me we don't see eye-to-eye. That's fine, and I respect your opinion. I just think you're wrong, and I doubt anything you say will convince me otherwise.
In my slightly sarcastic definition "killing machines" are every machine that causes people to die.
I Found Myself Accused of Stealing Code from WordPress
Zoomed-out angles that show all 22 players on the field. The TV broadcast zooms-in on the quarterback so you can't see the receivers, corners, and safeties downfield. All-22 shows everything.
But...lots of headphones only connect on the left side, and run the connection for the right earphone along the headband. I'm pretty sure it's always left or both, never right. Putting the jack on the right really screws that up, even for lefties!
Someone in my local government is talking about making the internet a city utility, like the similarly city owned electricity. They got my vote this election cycle.

It seems that's the only way. Either your city competes with ISP's or ISP's have uncontested regional monopolies.
Here we go again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422064
That's why many people say "Everything is an exit scam in waiting". Even your legitimate meatspace bank will cheat if it thinks the economics make sense.

You could use transparency to tell how much a given escrow agent is holding and don't use them if it approaches the value of their reputation. And/or use a system where they don't hold the funds, they merely choose to unlock a transaction to pay to A or B.
How many people are watching those MLB games at one time nationally?

Games like the Super Bowl where you are talking millions of individuals trying to stream the same thing, from the same source at the same time.

Same with college football with Saturdays.
Apparently these notes are transliterated out of the author's own notes. It is mentioned that this is only for normal vectors, just not conveniently inline: "Note: just for vectors that only represent a direction and have length 1"
It's simply tradition. I've been to a couple of sports events in the U.S. and it doesn't seem overtly nationalistic or jingoistic.
Because Apple does not NEED to make every single necessary object in the universe. LG is making them, they are 5k, they have wide color gamut and 3x USB-C out, and they are in the Apple Store. That's good enough. This enables Apple to focus on what they are good at.
"How I destroyed my server in 15 minutes"
Thunderbolt multiplexes that in, yes.

Although, more accurately, it’s actually just a PCIe connection – you can even connect a GPU via thunderbolt via USB-C
Yes. Just can't watch games live in the United States.

NFL Sunday Ticket is a DirecTV exclusive unless you can prove you can't get DirecTV at your address then you can stream live games.
This is like complaining "mv ~ /dev/null" does what it is meant to do.

I know

- "Keep It Simple, Stupid"

is a thing, but so is

- "UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things."
Internet porn might be new there, but porn/erotica certainly not. Just like Victorian erotica these villagers too will have had at least three possibility to access pornographic materials.

That's actually part of the reason why western women get harassed frequently in India, which is not really a new thing (and buy to neglect that Indian women get harassed a lot) - the men have primarily access to western porn and that's often the only white women they've seen, so if they encounter a real westerner they think she'll behave like those in the magazine's/movies/...
I've done this in a nightclub and it works just fine. Most people will find a compliment to be quite a good thing, especially if it's delivered confidently.
It is not easy to see, but we ARE on a converging path, instead of the other way around. Current high-speed off-board point-to-point data links (SATA, USB3, DisplayPort, PCIe, etc.) have converged onto some sort of 8b/10b differential signaling. We used to have totally separate OSI stacks, but now we are seeing potential to leverage the same physical layer (i.e. USB Type-C). Sure, we would have to carry different protocols, but I am optimistic --- eventually ASIC makers roll out adaptive chips (just like the cross-wire RJ45 @jws mentioned was solved by Auto MDI-X) that are smart enough to negotiate the correct protocol (MAC layer upwards) between the two sides.
We use changefeeds more or less of a queue/pipeline and don't care too much about the initial state. When the changefeeds are created we specifically don't pass the includeInitial argument [0] so we only get a stream of newly modified/created documents.

[0]: https://rethinkdb.com/docs/changefeeds/javascript/#including...
How would you like to live on a tetrahedron?
Built on the foundations of the enlightenment? Without the historical baggage of Europe? Monarchies, feudalism, etc.
Inside Java's ThreadLocalRandom Implementation
Huh? Are you talking about a particular GC? Because every object-oriented program I've ever seen could be described as "Large graph-like data structures (lots of small nodes linked by reference)".
I don't think this is what Piketty used, but I would look at Minsky: http://www.ideaeconomics.org/minsky/
My point was that the structure of said society may lend itself more to facilitate the events leading to the inexcusable, tragic result. That said, there have also been harassment/bullying (not comparing, equalizing the events, to be clear) victims in the US that committed suicide, so I think I get what you're asking.

Let me try to rephrase: I'm not saying this was the case in this incident, but the fairly unique classification rules of the society in question may increase the chances of such an outcome and be another reason to rethink the rules.
That's not necessarily true. Some licenses consider html itself as protected code.
I'm only half kidding but how complex does modern js have to get before it is easier to code business apps in something like unity3d?
Interesting! I hadn't even considered this.
SEXY Funny Girl
So after I bring up the fact that DANE is being used for SMTP you state that no one is using it because it's not being used for HTTPS?

BTW I'm not even arguing for DANE in this thread. I was arguing for DNSSEC specifically. You brought up DANE to make some point about DNSSEC. But we can have DNSSEC without DANE.
If he does, it will only remain amusing for a couple of days...
I tend to run Google searches like these - site:news.ycombinator.com 'AI'
If there's 8 games going on at once, and more than one of them turn out to be good, RedZone is awesome because you essentially get to watch all the good games at once while keeping tabs on everything else.

It's definitely a different experience that immersing yourself in one game and loses some of that richness, but to say RedZone is just like Sportscenter indicates you're not really familiar with either.
PSD support is now disabled by default in GM apparently: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/6072#issuec...
Globalization of capitalism caused rifts in the center-right elite and masses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12823592
> you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes"

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang...

87 people got arrested in a single bust about 12 blocks from where I live, for a combination of selling crack and murder. They're all from the same housing projects.

Yet despite being right around the corner, my neighborhood has one of the lowest violent crime rates in NYC. If that's not an example of ghettoization, I don't know what is.
"stack allocation is much, much faster than any sort of heap-based memory management"

No, it's not. For short-lived objects, at least on the JVM, allocation is a pointer bump, and collection is free, because unreachable objects are not even walked. Stack allocation doesn't beat that by much.
This makes my brain hurt:

Thunderbolt 3 is really an “Alternate Mode” use of the Type-C port/cable, just like HDMI. But in practice, Thunderbolt 3 is a super-set of USB 3.1 for USB-C since no implementation of Thunderbolt 3 will be USB 2.0 only.

Anybody care to explain?
"What's wrong with that?"

Nothing at all is wrong with that. If ESPN, NFL, et al. feel the need to implode their white guy safe space and destroy their own finances in the process, well, it's a free country. I'm good with it. It will also serve to pull some of these people out of the la-la land they live in and face the reality of the hate filled grievance mongers they're surrounded by and have been studiously ignoring all their lives. I see that as a big win. So yes, please continue; fill every game and all the space in between with lectures and --- most importantly --- continue pretending the collapse of NFL revenue has nothing to do with it.

Some have argued that this is really about cord cutting and nothing to do with the intrusion of political controversy. That is badly naive. Watch a Trump rally some time. Call it cultural interest or whatever. Note the thousands of people yelling "CNN sucks! CNN sucks! CNN sucks!" No, it's not really about the Cable News Network specifically; they have the entire MSM in mind, including Hollywood, all cable news and --- now --- professional sports, the only remaining reason they had to justify their $100+/month cable bill. It's exactly the same demographic; some are just a bit ahead of the curve.

The rest will follow.
People's lives are ruined when they're accused of/charged with any crime, regardless of if they're found innocent later on.

It's weird that we only ever see people complaining about this form of it. Predictable, but weird.
Can someone explain what these are? I'm not familiar with Android code.