skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strictly speaking, that's not true. You can examine it directly, but it requires casting the `struct sockaddr * ` to a `sa_family_t * ` instead. This is valid because regardless of what type of object it really is, it must start with a `sa_family_t` entry,...

No, that isn't guaranteed by POSIX - it has to have an sa_family_t member, but it doesn't have to be the first one.

I also think it's problematic that the use explicitly contemplated by POSIX is considered ill-formed C.

Besides that, you could also use a `union` to combine all the possible `sockaddr`s that you're going to handle together with a `sockaddr_storage`. Then you can do things like normal and simply access the `sockaddr` through the correct union member.

I do not think this is that easy when you include sockaddr_un into the mix, because of the way that sockaddr doesn't include the full size of its path member. This is, in fact, the point that I throw up my hands and use -fno-strict-aliasing because the fact that pointer provenance, rather than just value and type, is important together with the fact that it's not actually clear whether you've correctly laundered the pointer through a union or not, makes it all too... grey.

Some compilers implemented the strict-aliasing optimization (And did lots of other strange things), some did not.

C compilers existed in 1989 that would assume different structure types with common initial sequences couldn't alias? With the "common initial sequence" carve-out in §3.3.2.3? I am sceptical...
Relevant quotes from the article that make it particularly newsworthy.

> WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.

> American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time that they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

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> As part of the inquiry, the F.B.I. is also trying to assess the credibility of information contained in a dossier that was given to the bureau last year by a former British intelligence operative. The dossier contained a raft of salacious allegations about connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and the Russian government. It also included unsubstantiated claims that the Russians had embarrassing videos that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump.

> The F.B.I. has spent several months investigating the leads in the dossier, but has yet to confirm any of its most explosive allegations.

> Senior F.B.I. officials believe that the former British intelligence officer who compiled the dossier, Christopher Steele, has a credible track record, and he briefed F.B.I. investigators last year about how he obtained the information. One American law enforcement official said that F.B.I. agents had made contact with some of Mr. Steele’s sources.
Darn convenient that two different people just happened to create accounts just after you posted this and just happened to land on your submission... and comment on it.
Each of these Earth-observing satellites, known as Doves, is just 12 inches long by 4 inches wide by 4 inches high (30 by 10 by 10 centimeters) and weighs about 10 lbs. (4.5 kilograms).

At that size, you can put 1000s into space at once.
Not that I feel this is the case, but one could argue that having Bill sign his name to something doesn't mean he's not "just a donor" and they're using his name for marketing purposes. Of course, I don't feel this is true, but I wanted to point it out nonetheless :)
I mean they just hate GPL, not open source. Just look at the removal of BlueZ GPL library in 2012.

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/597293/
Thanks for stating the obvious.
>I'm guessing you didn't read the article or have a poor understanding of nutritional science.

First of all, rebuttals disagreeing with comments by suggesting one hasn't read the article are specifically against the community guidelines here, and ad hominen attacks about a commenter's understanding of a subject are also not appreciated.

Math is math. Physics is a science. Theoretical physics specifically, unfortunately, some times can not be tested as expediently as we'd like. Perhaps you'd be more willing to digest it when taken from the horses mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw
Then why is all the discussion in terms of who did win? People who don't like the result are "blaming" this phenomenon, without regard for the fact that this is something that everyone is presumably doing.

When Obama won, I seem to remember a lot of people around here praising the success of his social media strategy.
Twilio!
2.5 is basically the same as 2.4 and is effectively dead since all new work has been going into the 2.4 branch.
K8s is Apache 2.0. Who's to say they don't open the whole project when ready as they have in other cases?

Source: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE
I agree, but they did make it easy to make the bar disappear like before (in Preferences-Disable Stickyness).

You can't hold it against them that they want people to actually use their site.
Scott Aaranson once said that he would consider it criminal if he had the option of making sure that his child was as smart as Turing and he deprived her of it. I totally agree.
Ever heard of Facebook ? :)
Counterpoint: I went on vacation to the Dominican Republic a few years back, and went to one of the more remote villages where there was a river outlet. There was a guy there who wanted to take us out on his boat, but we looked in the water and about half of it was covered with an opaque drift of plastic jugs, pieces of styrofoam, etc. I think in the US we have some antisocial assholes roaming around like the one you saw, but it's not like everyone does it by default.
Rust as a first-class language?
Node.js 7.6.0 RC
how is this natural?

https://www.bodybuilding.com/images/2016/may/what-all-squate...

i agree that squats CAN be good for you, but I am stating that the risks outweigh the benefits. Just one bad form squat in your entire life, and you can permanently damage your knees or back. there are much safer exercises that train the same muscles.

as far as provide some data or get out of here, unfortunately I do not know of any good data source on weight lifting injuries and hazard rates.

The best I have is baseball, the toll being in the squatting position takes on players knees is, to use some of the language you have used, 'universally accepted'.
The font/color used for author names is too faint, IMHO.
Wait, Fauna uses the Calvin protocol? Would you mind linking a white paper? I didn't realize it was in use outside Calvin/CalvinFS.
Although I'm not a super-fan of the redesign (99% of the time I prefer words to cryptic icons with hover text), I must say, I do love the openness of Stack Overflow with their blog posts, etc.

It's nice to read about the design decisions that go into a large successful site.
It's a bit confusing in this context, I interpreted "blue team" as Democrat team.
The dataset is at http://cp.match.com/en-us/singlesinamerica/pdf/2016-Singles-...
I live and walk along the Charles river and over the last couple of decades Boston and surrounding towns have been actively trying to keep the river and the river walk clean.

Despite all the signs I still have seen people pick up their dogs poop before they pick up their own trash. I literally watched an invidial drop a Twix wrapper while picking up their dogs poop (the fine for not picking up your dog is actually less but there are more signs and I guess stronger culture awareness).

There are signs all over the place not to dump goddam bread into the river or use aggressive fertilizer as this increases runoff and messes up the aquatic wild life.

It's ironic that people will pick up their dog shit because by the middle of summer the swan,geese,duck population is so high from bread dumping that there is bird shit all over the places (walk way). Some of the geese and swans have excrement that is very comparable to the largest dogs.
I used to commute 3 hrs a day just so I could Hipchat with people in the same room. Arg.
The Indian media doesn't care about reality, they want drama and sentimentalization.
Google is IaaS, their PaaS offering (App Engine) never gained much traction AFAIK. I also find the comparison fair, Google is a software engineering company, Amazon is a sales/marketing company.
This also happens in New York City. On trash day people will systematically rummage through the garbage that is placed on the curbs and pull out all recyclable plastic bottles and cans:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/GYHNNA/new-york-new-york-city-nyc-l...
As they say in the analytics world: "sample size".

One person's experience is not a compelling argument against remote work. Thanks for sharing though!
Maybe next time we could upvote one livestream instead of splitting votes between 2 livestreams and one article?
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The plans themselves have changed many times before. They become obsolete over time. What if your plan ID becomes unavailble, or the specs change in a way your application can't handle? Don't shrug off your bad design decisions on someone else.
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I absolutely agree and would add the article seems to miss a crucial aspect "unbundling" which, for a lot of people, are spending less on "entertainment" a monthly basis. Netflix and Amazon haven't spun "unbundling" into reverse. If anything, they're contributing to the acceleration of the phenomena. I didn't sign up for Amazon Prime for the movies or the music. The value for my money was there just for 2 day shipping and would keep it for that reason alone, everything else is a perk.

The article starts off with "No longer would anyone have to buy a $99-a-month triple-play package when all they wanted was the History Channel." And ends with, "the bundle is not a decaying symbol of legacy distribution. Rather, it is the new network effect: a critical strategy to amplify scale in the hope of building or deepening a moat to protect against foes everywhere."

I guess business school elites, like the author, are having a hard time wrapping their minds around what is taking place. It is pretty simple for me; Consumers want more choice and want it for less money on a monthly basis. They are more realistic about how much time they can devote to watching and/or listening to content which reflects in the winners and losers of this space. Further, the proliferation of Android set top boxes, Fire sticks, Kodi boxes, Chromecasts, and Rokus together with youtube and other streaming/free content will continue to erode all of the above.
>and then I lost all energy and got sick for a month.

Let me guess... pretty bad headaches and maybe what feels like palpitations, specially when laying down?
Same here, been repeatedly screwed by FedEx (parcels marked as delivered, carrier shows up 2 or 3 weeks later and won't explain WFT happened), but USPS has treated my parcels pretty well. The employees at my local post office are competent and well meaning, opposite the vibe I get at other shipping places.

Ultimately, they all do work most of the time (except OnTrac, showing up at 11pm at night at my office and calling me is not acceptable).
Given that the name refers to octopus ("octocat"), it's very likely.
I live in California too, and it's not a pain at all for me.
Skimming the article, it doesn't look like they had any system at all (or its just not mentioned).

Daily Scrum, Jira/ticket tracking, Hipchat/slack are are essential tools whether you are remote or in the same physical office.
It's not a question of "should". You can't beat the market. You can fight it, but you will lose. And so will your customers, most likely.
Why Elon Musk's trusted tech chief grew a beard
We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there.

It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and will keep on milking iOS even if the iPad Pro is a failure as a laptop replacement.

Windows is still king in the desktop space, at least as far a user base goes, but it's terrible on tablets and phones. MS has all the tech in place with UWP, but it's still pretty far in the race in terms of simplicity and usability.

Chrome OS ticks all the right boxes, and is experiencing a huge growth, but it's not universal. If Andromeda is real, and it's able to become a universal OS that merges Chrome OS and Android it might be the best thing since sliced bread.
I realized that after I read the reply, but couldn't edit.

C'est la vie.
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The value for a lot of people, myself included, is achieved without the video, music and books. If they went away tomorrow, I would still keep prime for shipping alone.
I would really want to know more about this too, built a simple site without all that JS bloat
In 1987 he became the youngest person to become a billionaire, in 1990 he was the 29th richest person in the world. Those were definitely news stories.

I don't have any particular reason to believe the story as it is told, but I am not sure that is a reason to disbelieve it either.
What are the other things they have done?
No one is saying amazon doesn't test their stuff. The argument here is that Google is inherently a more technical company, which is a fair comparison. Their products are more technical. Ad Sense, Gmail, YouTube are incredibly technical products due to their scale, and the argument here is that nothing of similar technicality exists in Amazon's core business, which I think is totally fair.
You did not ever own your own globally consistent, massively scalable, replicated database. The fact that you can now rent one by the hour is strictly an improvement for you, if you need that kind of thing.
> People like to complain that BMI is useless because a few weightlifters show up as "obese" but those are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.

A good explanation I saw is that if you care what your BMI is you probably aren't a weightlifter
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USPS is usually fantastic but, when they fail, they fail very bureaucratically.

Ordered a gift with rush shipping on Dec. 20th. Arrives at the local post office Dec. 22nd, marked undeliverable as addressed the next day.

I call them up and say, "Hey, I typed in 123 Sprig Street, but I meant 123 Spring Street. Can I just drive over and get the package?".

"No."

An employee told me all I could do was update my address with the shipper, wait for them to fail 2 more delivery attempts, have them return the package at their leisure, and have the shipper resend. So I checked the shipping status every day and, sure enough, they tried redelivering to the same bogus address twice. Predictable, at least. Got the package last week.
Article author here. Posted this in the notes, but possibly too buried:

For anyone interested, I intend to write quite often about consumer technology on this blog. Topics will include hardware, software, design, and more. You can follow via RSS or Twitter, and possibly through other platforms soon. Sorry for the self promotion!

Thanks for reading. Please do send any corrections or explanations.
With a standard keyboard, and an OS with support for compose sequences: compose + / + =
Meh, I'll just wait for the iHeart, the iKidney and the iLiver. Surly hope I do not end up with an Android-powered brain b/c my insurance plan does not cover the always reliable and reasonably priced AWS Cognito Plus, while I'm definitely not rich enough to dream about the iBrain 7. Until then, the triple-b diet will do: beer, burgers and bike to work.
Rich People Literally See the World Differently – Science of Us
BEWARE: clicktrap site that locks up your browser pane/tab.
Terrible on tablets and phone? Phones I can agree with but the surface line is getting to be really solid. I've been an iPad guy for years and my next tablet will be a surface.
Is this an actual plan of Google as a company, or is this some sort of Microsoft-style war between divisions where the Chrome team has just decided on its own that the future is based on Chrome and Dart?

Also, considering the way that the ARC runtime for Chromebooks was a failure and had to be replaced by a system that apparently essentially runs Android in a container, will it really be possible for a completely different OS to provide reasonable backward compatibility?
ColdFusion or not - Linode's hosting panel is one of the simplest and flexible management interface I've experienced. Digital Ocean's is too simple, and some other providers are too infuriating. Linode is that porridge that's just right.
Or "I don't want to think about buying individual things, I just want a lot of stuff that I can watch without dealing with billing every time I want to tune into some entertainment". I see it as a UX and a psychology problem, really. If you tell users that each episode costs $1 to watch, they'll watch less than if you charge them $15 a month and make 1 14-episode season available, and they might only watch half of it.

It's the idea that you're spending money with a specific action vs spending in general to get access to something where you could theoretically have as much as you want. It's the all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Vegas. You feel like you're beating the house, but the house always wins. In this case though, consumers also win, because it's ~$15/month with no ads and no BS vs $50-120+ a month with Comcast or DirectTV for ads + waiting to watch what you want + contracts (Comcast does e.g. 1-year contracts in some markets) + lots of BS (Comcast also "rents" movies and does things like pay-per-view). The house can still win while providing an order of magnitude better value, but the old business model exists due to their oligopoly and regulatory capture.
>> less than 10% annual turnover for people who pass probation

I would love to see companies willing to give this data in their post on the 'Who is Hiring' thread. That alone tells me this is probably a pretty good place to work.
A surface isn't a tablet, it's a laptop with a touch screen. I've tried them and they are really nice as laptop but they fallback to a finger hostile UI way to often to be called tablets.
Couldn't ticketmaster put a minimum time limit on each ticket sale? So a bot tries to buy a ticket and ticketmaster says sorry you completed the transaction too fast, you are probably a bot. Pick a min time consistent with how long it typically takes a person. This would level the playing field between bots and humans.
> This is a fundamental disagreement of opinion we seem to have here -- you don't particularly care about such contributors, I do

Fair enough. We're obviously not going to change our viewpoints based on this subthread.

It has been an interesting discussion though.
A Unified Framework for Handling Decisions and Uncertainty – Warren Powell
This has been posted at least NINETEEN times in the past 18 hours.

(19 still survive, anyway... not counting any flagged down as dupes:)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Instapaper%20Outage%20Cause%20...
Isro's launch of record 104 satellites
Handset vendors and, especially, mobile network providers, would rather ship their handsets with proprietary unmodifiable software that they can cram with antifeatures that will be that much harder to detect or remove.

Having said that, the reports I've seen contain scant actual evidence that Google actually plan for Andromeda to replace Android, or even that Andromeda is at all important to Google. I take these reports with a mountain of salt. I remember that the "Pixel 3" was definitely just about to be announced back in late 2016, and was definitely going to be running Andromeda OS.
Agreed. There didn't seem to be any processes, tool, and/or adjustments to make a non-centralized network work. I got the impression "assume" is a popular word there.
> I wonder how much of this particular philanthropy is just giving back money that those countries spent? I.e. Microsoft licences, or balance of trade with the donor countries?

I mean, that's literally how capitalism works. You earn money selling a product or services to people, and use that money to purchase products or services from people.
Yes, we do. I want my phone and my laptop to be in total sync, I want to be able to write code on my mobile which I can just continue on my laptop without any hindrance, currently I have a mac and an android phone, I do have Go and Python installed on my mobile, but it isn't that great to code on my mobile, I have to host the repo on an internal version of gogs to get the code synced up and I still have to manually push the code around.

All hail Universal OS!!
The thing that makes Wikipedia so special is the fact that the community strives to follow the guidelines they have set forth:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold

I'm not saying that every Wikipedia article adheres to them, but generally speaking, the quality is good and bias is severely frowned upon. "Random" web pages on any given topic miss out on these guidelines and are generally non-collaborative.

Full disclosure: I'm a big fan/consumer of Wikipedia... absolutely love the philosophy behind it.
> We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices

Wait, do we? Why?
ISRO sends 104 satellites in one go
You may "definitely need" a universal OS but I'm far from convinced I do.

I don't buy that a finger and a mouse/trackpad pointer are equivalent input devices. One obscures the display and is imprecise. The other, well, isn't.

I'm fine with a different server OS than desktop. I see no compelling reason why I need a single OS for all of my personal devices.
It is not the sole reason. But I spoke with a Gates Foundation employee after this happened and it was directly effecting their ability to safely send out vaccinators. So it played a part in the persistence of polio in Pakistan.
I've been with Linode for a little over five years and a satisfied customer.

That being said - their policy for handling DMCA notices is abysmal. They will network filter out your Linode until you respond to the notice.
Cassandra also does that without requiring the "magic" of a system you can only get from a single vendor and never buy. At the same time these walled gardens have come up free software has grown to fill the gaps
Yes, that happens everywhere that practices bottle deposit refunds. But what I'm talking about goes even further - people will rummage plastic bags, even, which I've never seen in NYC or the US at all.
The blog talked about many different things. Not all of them may be related to each other. It is pure speculation from the author.
More? Or as much as? The point being a lack of in office management and process isn't effective either. Sure, sometimes you get lucky and get away with it, but that doesn't make it right.
PSLV-C37 / Cartosat -2 Series Mission Successfully Launched All 104 Satellites
Does Tim lack vision, or does he just not share your vision? You might think we "need" this but not everyone agrees. Combining Chrome OS and Android is uninteresting to me, since I wouldn't be able to develop on it or really do any of the things I use a computer for. Unless they plan to really build on it and attempt to compete with more mature desktop operating systems.
Aw man, I run a live English tutoring operation overseas, with real human tutors working shifts in my app. This could've been really handy (since Upwork didn't really have a nice way of tracking time on mobile, and we just didn't have the dev bandwidth to build something like your product ourselves).