skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I think the equivalent to that "white moderate" today is the person who thinks that anyone rocking the boat and making demands today, like Swartz, is "naive".

I disagree. There wasn't anything naive about the Civil Rights Movement. Its leaders possessed a deep understanding of the society in which they lived. They organized and led large groups of people over a period of fifteen years (with a background of at least another one hundred years to lean on), protested nonviolently even when faced with the threat of violence from those in power, had constructive dialogues with civil leaders, and eventually managed to get their way.

In contrast, Swartz broke into a computer cabinet at a university and downloaded a bunch of academic journals, an act he viewed as a form of protest, but was actually burglary and theft. He was treated extremely harshly and unfairly, but that's because he acted alone with no support or context (unlike, say, Rosa Parks).
> managing an on premise version of everything is mitigation out of scale with the actual risk.

Once you have these services running they're fairly stable and hands-off, especially if you have them firewalled off enough to not have to worry too much about remote exploits. A little bit of docker experience can do the job here, we're small enough that we don't need a fancy high availability configuration or anything, so it keeps things fairly simple.

Of course a disgruntled coworker is a bigger concern, but one which is easier to control than outsiders are. And that's not to mention the many times in the past that I've seen 3rd party companies hacked to do things like steal Bitcoin wallets via their providers. If it's an easy risk to mitigate, may as well do it.
Probably not. The Larsen B collapse was preceded by widespread surface melting across the shelf, which caused lots of crevasses to fill with water, driving them open, and the whole shelf pretty much shattered under the stress. We don't see that sort of melt on Larsen C - even though it's quite nearby, the climate is a couple of degrees colder.

A more probable (but still fairly unlikely) scenario is that this could destabilise the ice shelf over a longer timescale (maybe decades). Removing ice from the front would let the ice behind accelerate, stretch and thin, which makes it more vulnerable to calving again, and so forth.

The most likely outcome though is that there's no significant change to the ice shelf, except maybe the flow of the ice speeds up a bit, which is interesting glaciologically, but probably not something the rest of the world will get excited about.

Obviously, any and all of this could change as the climate continues to warm. If we start to see significant levels of surface melt ponding across the shelf, then we can worry.
Why you shouldn’t restrict Splunk log analysis to IT
Vulnerabilities in Ansible
Laravel seems to pull in at least 9 pieces (probably more) of Symfony via composer: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.3/composer.json

Are those pieces counted in these statistics or the "half the size" thought?
> Apple should find it extremely disconcerting that developers are seemingly beginning to abandon them en masse.

You are reaching, I don't think there are all that many developers abandoning them. I don't know of a single one personally. I've heard of some vocal critics on the internet, but that's hardly representative of a movement.
Becoming the best version of yourself
On V2V / V2X Wireless Communications

> The major concern here is a protocol compatibility and efficiency of communication since the decision should happen in milliseconds and there is no time for extra computation related to differences in a communication “language”.

And again, security is NOT ON THE LIST. How destructive do you think it would be if I were to multiply my velocity vector by -1 while traveling on the freeway?

In fact, Ctrl+F Security. NOT IN THE ARTICLE!!

Holy crap people.
This is really cool.
One killer feature that I don't know if you have considered is some kind of visualization of the stack trace, showing how control passes between the objects & functions. That would really help with dynamic languages, or large codebases that have been Greenspun-d heavily.
It would be very difficult to implement, especially in a cross-platform way, but I bet if you pick a language community like c++, java or something else and focus on it, you might have better results.
>The recent acts of terrorism in Western Europe have only managed to increase the fracture between the Muslim part of the community (which has been around these parts of the world for some 3 generations) and the rest of the people.

Daesh have gone pretty far into the Joker realm, I'd say.
My guess is there are no guarantees. No support. You may get a response you may not. Your request may take 2 ms or 20000 ms. The service may get overloaded, etc.
Ad tech is hot right now with programmatic and header bidding and the future looks brighter with programmatic TV ads.
In every 7-11, there's Bitcoin redeem cards, just like PSN redeem cards, Nintendo, Spotify... Don't know how they work though, I've never tried buying one.
> That market share is partially created by developers using the platform.

And partially created (and probably more so) by having a customer base willing to spend money on apps. Developers will go where the money is.
The problem comes with how you define success.

Do you define it as how your answer or creation measures up to everyone else, or do you define it as you made significant progress in a field you had very little prior experience with. In my math escapades, it's linear algebra, for you it may be differential calculus, etc.

Basically if you always measure success in comparisons to others, you are always going to be disappointed. There are very few times where this isn't true -- such as you entered in a competition for worlds best overall mathematician, which almost doesn't exist, because you have to pick one thing and specialize in it.

Just realize if you take the time and effort to practice, you will achieve success. We all have the same brain, and barring any learning disability, every human has the same potential for amazing learning, the only difference between those seemingly geniuses with perfect answers that solve problems in a way you could never conceive, is they practiced more, and thought about it more.
> * A global standard

ChaCha is standard enough to make it into TLS and IPSec
Everyone is different, so I'm not going to knock the author for his views.

What I found over the years is that having a routine helps ward off depression, and by definition almost making something isn't a routine it's a one time event.

I would suggest something much simpler. Walking. Take as many steps as you can every day. Log the results, but really you just want to do something to get you moving so the results don't matter, I just like to compete against myself and walking is something I can do just about any day.

Eventually you will feel like doing something other than walking, but there may be weeks or months or you don't -- and that's OK too.

The point is just not to lie around letting the self-destructive thoughts spiral and lock you in that place you don't want to be. But even when you're there, you can still put one foot in front of the other...
Buy high, sell low
>From what I remember of "Masters of Doom" he was indeed using his employer's PCs, office etc but outside of working hours and with the blessing of at least someone higher up.

Sounds like a convenient post-hoc rationalization, right in line with what may be occurring in this developing story about the Rift.
> I've not once ever had a macbook (with OSX) refuse to suspend or resume on me.

Oh, you're fortunate. I'd not seen it prior to Yosemite but the two MBP's (mid-2012 15" and early-2015 13") I have here running Yosemite and El Capitan both with external displays manage to wedge their graphics and have suspend/resume issues. The newer one in particular gets rebooted every day or it eventually wedges its display (ssh sessions continue to work, so I can sometimes recover).
> Cars == freedom

That is a very American statement. For me it is freedom not to have a car.
Yes, but that's true of all sorts of things that aren't really global standards. Don't get me wrong: you should use Salsa ciphers. I'm just trying to provide the most honest possible accounting.
It seems like a good example of the described problem, however. I could also attempt to make a table, and I will conclude that I have seen many better tables made, which could make me feel bad.

The hard part is letting go of being the best, or even succeeding, in my opinion. It's cliche, but the attempt is what matters. If you run a marathon to win it, you will almost certainly be disappointed; but if you run it to be a better runner, to be healthier, or simply to say you did, you will be happier having done it than having not done it because you know you won't win.
This hits me almost every time I think of something. Recently someone suggested to me a game of "snake" (like the old QB game) that used the tilt sensor in the phone to direct the snake. Should be pretty simple.

A few searches later and I'm looking at super-realisticly rendered WebGL demos of mobile 3D pinball examples and thinking "there's no way I could ever implement something like this".

Anything I can think of already exists, and already exists better than I could do it.
Chain of custody should play a big factor here. Between the accused and the technician how many people had access to that system? Further, since the technician is paid when something is found, what is the motivation for the technician to not plant evidence? It's trivial to plant evidence on a hard-drive to the point that if done properly it's impossible for a forensics investigator to come in after the fact and determine the tampering.

This is all before even getting into the topic of potential malware infections, running as a TOR exit node, being used for torrent hosting unbeknownst to the user, etc. There was a case many years ago and I wish I could find the reference to it in which the defense called in an expert witness who convinced the judge to have his machine inspected by a forensic analyst who found it clear of pictures of kittens. The expert witness then had the judge visit an 'innocuous' looking website which didn't have pictures of kittens visible, but loaded them in hidden iFrames. The system was then inspected again by the forensics analyst who then found pictures of kittens, the point being that when your computer is connected to the Internet it really isn't your computer anymore.
I recently purchased a Dell XPS 15. I was caught between purchasing a Macbook Pro 15 (legacy/non-touchbar, which is still available on their site) and the Dell. You can't upgrade the RAM on the new machines or the old machines now. I wanted a Macbook Pro 15 because of how great they are for development (being all Unix based and what not), but "non-upgradability" is just a no go. I don't mind paying for the extra RAM even, but no dice. Since Windows 10 has the Ubuntu subsystem, my decision is so much easier.
Meh. Those technologies are poor examples of your point, imo.
Why has law enforcement suddenly become allergic to warrants? Warrants used to be a rather boring, but important, process that police had to fulfil to show that they had even a very flimsy case.

Now it seems like law enforcement and politicians who serve their whims are outright pushing to remove the warrant requirements from as much as possible. But why now? Warrants aren't new and the landscape hasn't changed that much, why are law enforcement suddenly pushing so hard on this?

Is this just a general theme on the broader problem of police oversight (or lack thereof)? This is one of the few areas of actual oversight left (judicial) so they're trying to remove that too.
The best solution would be for cars and roads to get automated together. The article touches on the idea in the V2X section.

Building super detailed world encompassing maps to tell the car about the road kinda works. But it would be vastly superior if the road itself informed the car as you pass through.

Unfortunately governments usually needs 10 years to evolve as much as the tech world does in one. So we'll have to do with workarounds for some time.
He was paid to ... by the customer, right? So that's the crux of it - can he be the paid agent of the customer and the FBI?
super cool to see this here. do the lecture videos go up the same day as the lectures?
Would you get into a self-driving car that you knew had fewer fatalities per mile than the overall human average, but more fatalities per mile than the average of non-drunk, non-sleepy human drivers below the age of 70 and above the age of 20 with more than 5 years of driving experience?

Serious question.
Pre-emption at work. Remind me of that time when these legislators supposedly believed in local self-government?
And what do you do when you are depressed because you are banned from making something you love most?
More like 1 per 100 million miles in the US. And remember that's all cars. I'm sure it would be significantly lower if you consider only late model cars with modern safety features.

Obviously, a lot of people still die in traffic accidents. But the bar is actually still fairly high for automated systems. I also suspect (though I don't have the numbers) that even if automation were just for highway driving that would, by itself, significantly reduce the fatalities.
I think it's funny.
it is a lot like an HMAC. The advantage of something like SipHash is just that it's faster for the same security, not that it's fundamentally different from HMAC.
'persons or effects' is the language, right? So medical exams are a search of sorts.
It seems likely that he really is alive, but AFAIK, there's been no recent signature from a wikileaks private key. People on reddit seem to be convinced he's not in control of the keys anymore, which is somewhat disturbing.
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PhpStorm. There is no other IDE that comes close for PHP development.
Google seems to be trying to reenact that old Microsoft gag org chart, where every business unit is pointing a gun at another business unit.
Two of Razer's triple-screen laptop prototypes stolen from CES
My wife and I visited Mendocino a couple of weeks ago. The natural beauty of it had us talking about the possibility of living there. The first obvious concern: Employment. It's a 3 hour drive to San Francisco.

My first thought was autonomous electric vehicles and exactly your point. Charge the batteries with sunlight and let the car do the driving to the office in San Francisco and back while I'm pounding out code, design documents, presentations, tax returns, or just hanging out on Hacker News ;-) Not every day, but maybe 3 times a week to spend 4 or 5 hours in the office.

Would that work?
Arbitrary Kernel Memory Reads on Illumos
I've met plenty of successful business people for whom profits and tactical considerations do not override ethics, loyalty, or basic decency. There's no physical law that says that the business context automatically inflicts the kind of brain damage that inevitably leads straight to psychopathy.
World’s first 3D-printed virtual reality art is a glorious gamechanger
When you are depressed

1. talk to people who care about you - face to face at every meal if possible but at least at every lunch if not. Be around other people and interact with them. Join communities where performance is not needed but people are thankful if you just show up.

2. do small tiny things. Eg: buy and cook eggs and eat them, clean your apartment. As you do slightly bigger things, do things for other people. Send $10 to a charity online or to a watsi patient.

Its a constant struggle and its hard as hell. But small tiny steps and support from others help a lot.
I think you might have had more luck with clickthroughs if you had posted a higher debt amount. $2000 is nothing, at least in the US. Between just student loans and my car loan I've got over 10x that amount of debt, and I have a smaller amount of student loans than the average nowadays (and many times less than several people I know, some of which have over $100k in student debt...with a humanities degree, even).

So anyway, when I saw that amount I was just like "Ha, that's nothing. My number is much higher." And I didn't feel that compelled to help. I don't really want to admit that, but I thought you should be aware of it, since it's your experiment.
>So, bashing Marissa here would be really, really pointless and sad

If this was actually evident, what's the point of hiring her for the position with huge compensation? What's the point of taking the job, and why should that decision deserve praise? It sounds to me like she accepted an impossible task for tons of money. That isn't impressive.
Well, let's ensure their mobile offerings don't end that well then. It worked for Microsoft.
As I recall the reaction to removing Flash support was divided at worst. I even recall it as mostly welcomed by developers.
esformatter suffers from the same problems as eslint as described in the post. It doesn't take maximum line width into account, which is a critical piece for laying out code.
Fantastic. One thing I've learned that's incredibly important is code style has to be uniform across all engineers. Seems like an unimportant point to devs that haven't worked with teams that enforce it, but it really is.

As was once told to me, my code should look like your code and yours like mine.
The concern is that ice in general is melting, not that this particular instance is going to cause global sea rise.
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>How high? Why is 100k a magic number? 100k isn't even a big deal in SF or NYC.

Good point. How about high-skilled scientists get paid double that! Besides, the government has to run itself, including the immigration authorities, by taxing these salaries. Best they be high.
I just looked into this on my Dell M3800 with A10 BIOS. This option derates your USB 3 ports to USB 2, so that older versions of Windows that don't support USB 3 out-of-box can still boot on the hardware. I assume once you get through the install from your USB stick, you would install drivers and disable this debug mode
sure, I put an email in my profile. eager to hear from you. hit me up :)
You're refering to true libertarians, but many people like the idea of being one, or at least tell others that they are, even though you're correct that they're often just after some "free market" which is not free at all in practice, or just tax cuts.
You argue that the definition of faith is to (trust, believe, have faith) in something despite not knowing.

We agree in the main. My point is one of where we put the emphasis.

My counterargument, if it is one, is simply that when humans actually have faith in something, it's almost always "trusting what I don't know is going on, because of what I know of this object in other circumstances".

The husband "trusts" his wife to be faithful, not because he has a tracker on her and so knows where she goes at all hours, but because he knows who she is when she's with him.

A soldier "has faith in" in the general's battle plan because of the general's past victories.

I'm just arguing that all the really useful definitions of faith imply that the trust is actually rooted in knowledge and past experience, not merely blind, hopeful, stick-your-fingers-in-your-ears-and-sing-la-la-la ignorance of reality.
They're not. From the article:

> The primary goal of this comparison is to compare how I personally write code vs. how other projects are writing code.
He specifically addressed this. He stated that setting a precendent for proof-of-life via a PGP message is bad and they wanted to avoid doing it. It's bad because it doesn't actually prove anything. He said it is hard to secure PGP keys, and under extreme pressure Wikileaks may lose some.

Really if you don't believe he's alive for the reasons I posted above, it's likely that nothing will convince you!
That's a great article, it really digs into some of the complex issues
How Iran’s efforts to censor porn led to Internet outage in distant Hong Kong -
Not sure, didn't know it formatted JavaScript! This is written in JS at least so if anything it's more approachable to the community.
Just to add my anecdotal counter-point. (I don't have a blog.)

I know a handful of people who normally upgrade every refresh and are flat out refusing this time. A couple (that aren't locked in by being iOS devs) have picked up other laptops instead.

I disagree with your assessment that it's a "great product." I bought a spec'ed out one myself that I eventually returned.

Not claiming either one of us are the majority but I wanted to add my side and not state it as ultimate fact and certainly not present it argumentum ad populum.
There never was an interface problem. The sql libraries opt to accept an `interface{}` instead of `sql.Valuer` as a matter of convenience (so you don't have to define the requisite methods). It wasn't a technical limitation.

> Btw, you don't get a free pass at my other objections just because someone poked a hole in one of them. The other problems still stand. Take them one by one.

You didn't mention other problems, you just whined about Go's feature set. You didn't support your opinions with anything debatable, so there's nothing to discuss.

> the language designers like to pretend it's not exception handling at all.

> You have to name things starting with a capital letter to make them public. Who came up with this convention? It is not shared by any language ever.

> There are built-in functions that use generics, but I'm not allowed to write one? Hypocrites.
The Artic (north pole) is the one floating on water. Antartica (south pole) is a continent just like North America, and its melting contributes to sea level rise just as much as a melting glacier does.
I would also add that it by necessity has to happen dynamically.

In the OP, the author recieves a nudge from his friend, but ignites his spark himself, and connects all the dots.

It's like Inception, you can read however many self-help books, blogs, studies, ideas as you'd like to try to make yourself get out of something, but it won't happen until it's "your" idea.

I have very much experienced this myself, and I can draw parallells between myself and the author, but I know that me telling anyone else won't help them (also from experience), because every transformation happens from within. All you can do is be supportive and present. Nudges and ideas can provide a seed, but they have to grow it. But there's also the risk of appearing pushy and having the opposite effect.
SmartMedia and xD flash cards are notionally controller-less in the sense that the electrical interface is just parallel interface of NAND flash chip and all the FTL stuff is done by whatever device it's plugged into. one problem with that is that it requires all the devices to use same FTL logic with the standard one being NDA'd.
>Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays leaves you open to lots of undeserved bashing.

So are CEOs responsible for the company or not?

Because HackerNews seems to want bank executives to go to prison for actions taken by the company and its employees. However, we don't want to even hold a tech CEO accountable for the financial results of the company because the culture is "stodgy"? One of the CEO's jobs is to change the culture.
1986 - I feel sad. Well that's life.

2016 - I feel sad. It must be that I'm depressed, let me read more about depression so I'll know even how I fail in life, because everyone around me on social media is so much successful and happy.
> webapps for the original iPhone vs. native apps

From what I've heard, Steve never wanted to do native apps, but he ended up caving to demand.
Understanding the state of mind of another is the definition of empathy. "Did that guy see me? Is he waiting for me to go?" is exactly the kind of question that requires empathy to answer.