skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary! Here are some of the recent developments in the case:

- A brand new police-sketch of her face (after interviewing witnesses) aiming for photo realism. (As opposed to the sketch from the 70's which is more stylistic in nature.)

- Handwriting analysis of her diary, itineraries, etc. to narrow down where she could've been educated.

- A complete DNA profile from samples of her internal organs. (Samples were previously thought missing, but have recently been rediscovered.)

- Her teeth (also previously thought missing) have been sent for isotope analysis to narrow down her geographic area of origin. Her dental work is also being studied to match repair methods with country.
I get a random number and use it to select a random page in a book. God controls random numbers and will speak if you hold up your end of the conversation with delightful witty charming conversation.

You knwo it is God. I know it is God. You are fighting God. I am amused.

Yer fucked, obviously.
I suspected as much. Still gotta dig into all this more deeply eventually, but given your anecdote it's probably fine to stretch this out over half a year, a weekend here, a train ride there, etc, rather than attacking it full-on
Ask HN: How would you prepare for another “dot com” bust?
I wasn't a developer during the last "dot com" bust.

I was wondering what advice, if any, those who lived through the past "dot com" bust would have for younger developers, in case we have another one coming our way.

I am assuming keeping a healthy savings account is always a good idea.

Do you have any other advise? Any other stories on what to expect would be appreciated as well.
Yup the first one I remember was Pearl Jam
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-taking-on-t...
Every year TM knows the Great American Beer Festival is going to be crazy popular and sell out within 10 minutes, and every year it's still a mess.

I mean I get it's a hard problem and a large crowd like that can't be easy, but if anyone can do it, Ticketmaster should be able to.
> usually owns the venues outright

Really? "Usually?" I don't believe that.
I always interpret it as more along the lines of "Murphy's Law." It was a curiously persistent trend more than a precise mathematical construct.
Just to be clear - I do work for Microsoft, but have nothing to do with Windows, so I don't have any influence on it.

I don't find any problem criticising what's wrong and commending what's right. I do that openly with "my employer" products, and the competition as well.
Fred Rosen was the former executive at Ticketmaster who came up with the idea to give the venues a cut of the service fee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/business/12tickets.html

Whether that cut is "most of the fee" or 50/50 or a smaller percentage like 20% is unspecified. We'd probably need an ex-employee from one of those venues familiar with a Ticketmaster contract to disclose that figure.
Read this: [1] In C++11, exceptions in destructors have defined semantics, but those semantics are very complicated. Prior to C++11, the semantics were not well defined.

[1] https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/destructors-that-t...
That's basically my point. The level of tech diversity is set by some kind of equilibrium between the cost of writing new code and the value of doing so.
That's about $2k for a good one. Say $4k for the expanding one.
This is why you want to be a winner in a market with network effects. You can treat customers however you'd like once you've won.

Ticketmaster has 'earned' this spot in the ecosystem, and the benefits that comes with. To challenge that would be to challenge the nature of capitalism itself.

As a consumer I'm infuriated but as an entrepreneur, I can relate- why would I stick my neck out there if the potential benefits don't outweigh the costs? Every entrepreneur in the valley wants to be the "Tickermaster of X" or "Uber for X". Everybody wants the luxury of answering to nobody, including customers.
You mean like Polkit (the software formerly known as Policy Kit):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkit
Usually they have an exclusive contract for online sales. You can still go line up outside your local arena and buy tickets from the box office just like your parents used to do.
> I’m going to go hop on my scooter and drive 15 minutes out of my way to the theatre’s box office to go pick up a single ticket. Out of spite!

I have some really bad news for you. The venue is probably also using Ticketmaster as their POS and some of those fees will be the same.

Other than that completely agree, Ticketmaster is a racket.
Perhaps the campaign should include a petition then, to address this through politics.
Depends what your work-load is. For VR, CPU heft is becoming important again. I have an OC'd 2500K and that's the minimum for more advanced VR games.

CPUbench

2500k: 6400

6600k: 7921

That's a 20% improvement which doesn't sound like much on paper, but in real world testing that means about double the FPS for higher-end video cards at high res due to the older 2500k design lacking optimizations and other issues holding back those cards.

http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/5973-my-2500k-vs-6700k-upg...

Lastly, gamers would most likely opt for the i7 6700k which benches at 11000, so almost double that of the 2500k.
If you're more than self sufficient you're of inherent value to your self sufficient rural neighbors and can expect a long happy life.

If you have $5K of easily movable commodity dollars, gold, pasta, in your basement, you're of value in another way, and you're probably not going to like that outcome.
Let me reply to your post by EOD. I will be able to provide better details then.
I would guess, maybe, but if the companies hiring Lispers try to low-ball their pay and work experience too much, the Lispers will just move on to programming a different language somewhere else.

Yes, might take a little time to get your Github up to speed with samples in a different language and employers intelligent enough to see past "X years in Y language" requirements, but I think it will be an easier shift than numerical algorithms and physics to programming, I think.
In Atlanta I have purchased tickets from Ticketmaster the day before or even the day of a show on numerous occasions. Seems like shows always sell out here in the bay area, but I don't know if that's true for the majority of shows across the country. From my experience it more rarely happens in the southeast.
> One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with no buffer overruns

For a small one time fee of 1000 USD I can copy paste you 50-100 lines of C that provides an implementation of an array without buffer oveflows. Cheaper than switching to rust or you know, learning C properly.
For what it's worth my current car has both an analog and digital speedometer, and I never look at the analog speedometer anymore. The digital is just so much quicker and easier to read.
Google ANGLE – Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine
You're kicked back, but it still creates artificial urgency in the sense that it's applied to shows that will take weeks to sell out any given section.

That wouldn't be so bad (airline tickets are similar) except that the "best available seats" function is very unreliable, and sometimes the only choice for picking seats. With no 'new seats if available' option, you're forced to pick blind and under time pressure whether to give up what you have for the possibility of better seats.
It's focused on providing the platform for developers to build a better ticketing experience thus enabling bands/venues to jump ship.
Before anyone gets the idea of supplementing NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatories such as aspirin), please know that the chronic use of NSAIDs has been found to be related to renal cancer (which is not curable).
I would disagree that they strong arm venues into exclusive agreements. If I owned a concert hall or arena, signing an exclusive agreement would be an easy decision. Have your tickets sold and processed by one of the well known and experienced companies. So what if it has a bad reputation, it doesn't stop people from buying up all the tickets. It's probably the easiest decisions as a venue owner. I'm not saying I agree with it, but if you think about it, Ticketmaster is a great resource for owners.
"Surely I wouldn’t be charged this facility charge if I went directly to Neptune Theatre and purchased tickets"

Yes you would, because the venue pays Ticketmaster a small slice of every ticket sold to use their system.

They just don't explicitly tell you as part of the transaction.
You're not alone. We're still use Pick Basic via Universe for legacy software. It's not working so bad, so.
Overview of chatbots in 2016:
- Almost every messaging platform announced support for bots.
- Almost every major tech company announced their own machine learning and NLP products.
- 30,000+ people starting building bots.
- 100,000+ bots built across different platforms.
- Lots of hype, not a lot of useful bots.
The quote I was thinking of was, "...if the industry doesn't fix its problems, other forces will cause the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction, which will lead to some of the cherished press freedoms being lost."
It depends on the benefit, I've known quite a few people who have been on the artists benefit and there is no pressure to look for a job there.

People will still gravatate towards cities because that's what we do. However a little easing of the pressure on the three main cities would do wonders, as we know the cost of housing is out of control. With the fibre rollout we'll also see the requirement to live in a city is limited, if you can get 100Mb/s and work from home in the Waiarapa why would you bother living in Lower Hutt and face that commute to Wellington?
How is the power comparison?
I agree that a big part of the solution lies in retraining -- as a new way of life. In the future, no job will last long. We all must retrain continuously.

But making training the new norm will require big changes to the status quo of how companies retain skilled employees.

First, we need a much better model for skill credentialism. College degrees are way too slow, too broad, and rarely meet the specific immediate needs of business. Some sort of microdegree equal to 1-4 college courses (and more substantial than today's pop MOOCs) sound about right. But their instruction model also needs to be much more flexible and time-insensitive, so working people aren't locked into semester-based schedules. And student social interaction in MOOCs needs to be much improved over the 1990-era forum message chains I've seen.

Second, we need to encourage employers to spend money and time for retraining. And in return, we need to assure them their newly-skilled employee won't soon take their newfound skills and hop to a better paying job. This requires a contract like those between employees/unions and employers in Europe, but largely absent in the US.

Third, employees probably will have to change jobs more frequently. Thus the system needs to make these job hops smoother, steadying employee cashflow to support long-term debt like mortgages, and minimize risks like making health care coverage liquid and independent of employers.

Unfortunately such big changes will require all involved -- employees, educators, insurers, and employers -- to discard their venerated focus on short-term ROI and cost reduction. Unfortunately existing US practices seem almost perfectly unprepared to act gracefully and quickly. While in contrast, Germany, with its longstanding state support for low-cost education, mobile health insurance, union-business partnerships, and skilled jobs that don't require college degrees, seems ideally positioned.

And of course all this has to happen pretty quickly, while we John Henrys can still compete with the machines.
They charge you to print your own tickets as well.
Despecialized Edition of the Original Star Wars Film
I think the opposite is true: the NYT is a traditional institution with strong publishing process and serious concern for "separation of church and state," as publishers call the sales/journalism divide.

If someone is publishing a paid article, it _absolutely_ needs to be marked as such.
I've mistakenly clicked the "insure my tickets!" which is done by a third party anyways...

I ended up calling after reviewing my email I received afterwards and saw the added fee. They promptly removed it, but it seemed like that happens all too often...
back then, when a user selected seats, they were temporarily "locked" (at least from our end). If other users were "browsing" seats, they would see those seats as unavailable. Honestly, we did this because it was easier to "lock" the seats as it made searching easier for other users on the systems. It lessened the e-mails that said: "I thought I had these seats XYZ picked, but I didn't get them...". We weren't really being nice, but it came off that way.

If a user took longer than the 4 minutes or so there would have had to be more users on the system wanting the same type of seats and none available. This really didn't every happen except for insanely popular events, like NYE or some very popular singer, etc. If after 4 minutes, your time was up. You were taken back to search again, but we said "your last seats are still available. Check out now?".

I cannot say now-a-days, if the timer has more importance and I cannot say from a Ticketmaster standpoint technically. What I can say is how we used to do it.

Edit: added the "Honestly" part, first paragraph.
Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users
Link to the paper: http://ares.lids.mit.edu/fm/documents/anytime.pdf
Psychological JuJitsu
Any specific implementation?
Ship date RSN.
Another reason why it is difficult to create the "google" for the law is that some laws are copyrighted and are not in the public domain. Stop. Think about what I just said. There are laws that you must pay to read.

A good example of this is when a state or municipality enacts a building code. A common building code is the electrical code published by NFPA. Most states use this. NFPA owns the copyright for this. You cannot publish a PDF of the electrical code on your website, yet you are required by law to follow it.

There may be other cases of this, I don't know. But I think it is crazy!
I would put money on the legal profession being revolutionised (read: sped up) by machine-learning and AI (read: CPU cycles).

The ability to refer to any. case. ever. to provide a potentially watertight argument will be pretty hard to beat.
Why isn't there more support for nuclear-powered desalination?

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-n...
The most exciting thing about the release is probably the support for XPoint memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
This bothers me. What's a good alternative for a medical student on a paltry budget (so preferably free)?

I still use Skim from time to time but the comment annotation UI being broken in 10.12 was a deal-breaker.
> you're arguing for the benefit of society to the detriment to the individual

Isn't that just a marketing challenge? Seems like going carless can be presented as a benefit, with many pros over cons, if the infrastructure begins to get built out.

With driverless smart-cars (which, I know, might be as much of an impossible nerdgasm pipe dream as flying cars):

* You no longer have to pay for insurance on a car that spends 90% of its time idle in your garage, nor gas, nor maintenance - except for the fees built into "hiring" the car, which is directly proportional to your use of it.

* No more car payments, either. No longer are you taking an instant 25% hit as soon as you drive a 2017 Hyundai Sombrero or whatever off the lot.

* For a lot of people, losing their car is financially crippling. If you wreck your car that you depend on driving to work in, most times insurance doesn't pay out enough to replace it with an equivalent car. Often, it doesn't pay out enough to replace it with any car.

* Tired of figuring out who in your four-driver family gets to use the car this weekend? Now your husband, Tiffany and Timmy can all get to their football game, football game, and football game on Saturday.

* Tired of spending three hours a day chauffeuring your kids to school and extra-curricular activities? Not anymore.

etc,. etc.
Good Cause Tuesday – Ban All Non-Recyclable/non-compostable Packaging in the UK
Deploying a static site to S3 and CloudFront
Philly has a vibrant LGBTQ community, lots of immigrants, and an amazing food scene... and it's a quick hop to NYC or DC. Just sayin'...
... and will usually host free instructional talks, visits by researchers, etc. And in some cases will come out to your property at no charge to offer advice.
90% of the company website is still Classic ASP. So I will be using that until I can find a new job!
Do you have a daughter? Any concerns re early puberty? http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/10/05/hidden-hormones-can...

All the excess hormones in some milks and meats can cause issues.
All of these dark patterns (and more!) are common in the consumer web space.

While Ticketmaster is a special level of evil, IMO it's important to note that their scummy UX tactics are very much shared by more respectable members of the industry.

> "One of the things that was encouraged in the design was to "hide away" things that detracted the user from checking out quickly."

This for example is pretty much part of the UX playbook for every consumer web startup of any stripe...
It's a hard space to disrupt because Ticketmaster has exclusive rights on venues. So the only disruption is scalpers really.

Uber disrupted the cab business because the cabs don't have exclusive rights on the road (although regulatory issues have perhaps indicated they do have exclusive rights on certain transportation verticals).
Thanks for the feedback and the info on Org-mode Babel. Multi-language is a killer feature.
I think we can lower the risk of these kinds of attacks a lot by reducing the amount of "dangerous" code that runs on devices. There are several ways to do this: run stripped-down embedded OSes and software that only have the bare minimum functionality they need to do what they do, transition as much C/C++ code as possible to Rust, Haskell, Agda, or whatever other higher level language is suitable to the requirements of the application, and use containers/capabilities/sandboxes to restrict potentially unsafe code from interacting with the rest of the system in ways that aren't absolutely necessary to the application.

So, we do have some technical solutions that could greatly reduce the risk. I think the main barriers preventing these techniques from being used as widely as they should right now are that 1) secure and insecure products are basically indistinguishable to consumers, so there is little economic incentive on the part of product manufacturers to ensure their products are secure, 2) we have an entrenched programmer culture (especially in systems programming) that thinks the solution is to "be more careful" and "don't hire dumb programmers", and 3) we have a whole lot of really complicated C and C++ programs that work really well and people are happy with them whereas if you want to ship a product with, say, all of the code from the OS up written in Rust, you're sort of blazing your own trail and you'll have to write a lot of it yourself.
The fact that you only see two choices at the stabilized market right now doesn't mean that these were the only two choices present when the market transformed.

It's impossible for everyone to be happy when you're making the collective decision.
You've got it a bit wrong. Brad Spengler (aka spender) and much of the grsecurity team's goal is making Linux more secure by working on grsecurity. They're not interested in totally rewriting large portions of Linux technical debt to make Linux more secure, but upstream demands they do it. Is spender often a bit of a prick, yes, but is he virtually 100% right on security things, also yes. It wasn't really a rejection from kernel mainline so much as they don't have any interest in submitting it. You can't have rejected what you never submitted in the first place.

Fast forward to now and you have kernel heavyweights like Kees Cook (former Canonical kernel/security lead now chromeos security badass extraordinaire) working on bringing these features into mainline via the aforementioned KSP projects. In the end, Linux is getting more secure, and it is largely in part to the hard work of the entire GRSec team, even if they're a bit abrasive to work with.
And he only uses a walk-behind.

Curtis Stone also has a "do what I do and you can be successful" book: http://theurbanfarmer.co/
Have you considered double-digging? Works pretty well here in New Mexico.
I think the parent means that they would revoke the tickets from you and put them back for sale, but there was no reason for the time crunch, because there weren't other people looking for tickets at the time.
Can you pass this buffer to e.g. read() and it will still guarantee no buffer overflow even if the programmer mis-calculate the size argument to read() ?
MUMPS is standard in places which deal with Intersystems, via Ensemble (integration system) and their Cache database. An intriguing stack of technologies: an old and 100% backward compatible programming language, an object-oriented (non-relational) database with direct access from the high-level language (M; they do not like it when you call it MUMPS), and quite a number of very good software engineers having worked on this system for 30+ years.
Bigger nerd? You for making that joke, me for getting it.
Most Common User Agents
*Simon Fraser University

Edit: I am also very curious about what happened to that bad-ass machine from Kamen.
But I don't care just about current vs. average. I care about current vs. 10 minutes ago vs. this morning vs. this time yesterday vs. same day last week vs. average. Now this can be shown in a dashboard with sufficient cleverness, but I find that most/all dashboards lack this.
Check out http://nim-lang.org. It steals some of Pascal's good ideas.
The Future Is Now: 10 Design Predictions for 2017
"It is a testament to our weak antitrust laws that Ticketmaster has been able to gouge the public for decades with no repercussions whatsoever."

Genuinely interested to know what is keeping a nimble new startup from stepping in and blowing this up.
Listen, I'm no fan of Ticketmaster but you should be very careful in your wording of a piece like this.

Although clearly opinion, it contains real slander and you should tread lightly. For example, "Which means that ticketmaster is purposefully delaying their efficiency in order to get people to purchase more expensive shipping times". This is the conclusion you came to but the company may be able to prove it has the delays for various other reasons. Because it's not a "fact", it's likely slander or defamation. The title is also problematic, "Ticketmaster is a horrible company". You might or might not be able to prove that as fact.
Are you using a particular version? Pharo? Squeak? Commercial?
I don't like cities. I've lived in San Diego and Sunnyvale for a while and didn't enjoy either. When I visit other cities, they all seem dirty and too crowded for me. Now, I work remotely in a small town. It's cheap, the people are friendlier, I don't feel packed in like a sardine, and the outdoors are only minutes away from my front door.
Absolutely! Check out some of the new games, like Smashbox Arena and Arizona Sunshine.

The whole game changes when you have physical controllers that you hold in your hand.
I was fearing it would be a piece about Body Thetans.
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