skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The last graph actually shows that the problem still happens with CPython's allocator disabled.

Excuse my ignorance, but couldn't it still be a problem of the python runtime? I.e. they use malloc wrong, etc?
Please don't post snarky one-liners here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion

Enjoy your delusion!
Sandboxing does not have to be provided at application level. The OS or a virtual machine can take case of confinement.

> Leaking information over Tor is no worse than leaking it over non-Tor, and in general cases Chrome isn't directly sending information that allows a single site to identify you.

More like: Leaking local information over Tor is equivalent to not using Tor, and in general cases the user has no control over what data Chrome is sending.
Clearing up some serious misconceptions here:

1) Austin did not ban Uber or Lyft. The city council passed an ordinance that required a gradually increasing percentage of rideshare drivers pass an FBI-approved fingerprint background check. (These rules are in place in other locales in which Uber operates, such as NYC and Houston.) Uber and Lyft formed a PAC that got a proposition on the next local election ballot that would have overturned the ordinance, then spent $9 million on a massive advertising campaign supporting the proposition. The proposition failed overwhelmingly.

2) Uber and Lyft stopped providing services of their own volition within 48 hours. Considering they abide by the same regulations in other cities, it seems pretty obvious to me that it was done in retaliation in order to show other cities considering doing the same that they will actually pull out.

3) Several upstart ridesharing companies immediately jumped into the market and were fully operational in less than a month and are complying fully with the regulations. (Examples are Fasten, Fare, RideAustin, and GetMe.)

4) RideAustin is registered as a non-profit organization, formed by several local tech entrepreneurs affiliated with Capital Factory, an Austin accelerator/VC firm. It is not owned or operated by the city in any fashion.
For example, people on the alt-right frequently claim that the Bogdanoffs are heavily involved in alt-right politics. Is this true? Almost certainly, but it's impossible to know for sure.
Cake farts are even more dangerous than I had realized.
Texas Lawmaker’s ‘Satirical’ Bill Fines Men for Masturbating
> How many Canadians do you think are going to go picking Strawberries in California?

Standing here, looking out the window at the cold snow blowing, I can say that I would very much prefer to be picking strawberries in California at the moment.
> The Nazis didn't have anything like modern surveillance, and they didn't need it to enact the Holocaust. So I'm not sure what your point is; could you clarify?

If they had there would most likely not be a Jewish people to speak of, as it was the little bit of automation they had coupled with a stereotypical dose of German thorougness already did a very good job (good is not really applicable here). Now combine that with say a twist of 'big data' and some nice pattern recognition algorithms (facial recognition for instance, or maybe DNA analysis) and it would have been possible to round up a significantly larger chunk of the Jewish population than what already happened.

The fact that we now have wall penetrating radar doesn't help either.

> The Nazi's logistical problems in enacting the Holocaust were more in moving and killing Jews, less in finding them.

They had a hard time actually, because the local population did a reasonably good job of hiding them in the strangest spots.

> Surveillance enables many kinds of government oppression, but large-scale ethnic cleansing doesn't seem to be one of them, in that it's already possible and efficient.

Yes. But it won't be made any less efficient by all this helpful identification technology we have nowadays, most likely more, and communications intercepted long before a conflict might even help to identify those that would aid the hunted.
A co-worker's son had a couple of internship options one summer: one somewhere in the health world using Mumps--actually, I think it might have been VB plus Mumps--the other at a big finance outfit. I strongly suggested the latter. Whether or not my suggestion had any effect, he took the job at the finance place.
Oh man, we really need to bump this to the top of our FAQ :)

https://www.beeminder.com/faq#qcoi

But maybe the best way to refute that is that we've been around 5.5 years and our long-term churn (not counting short-term churn of dabblers which is embarrassingly high cuz Beeminder is super nerdy and intimidating-looking!) is only 2%/month.

PS: Huge thanks to enoch_r for the beautiful testimonial!
I could be wrong but what I think he/she meant was the fact that Uber has so many investors in it's pie that a loss like Uber would be monumental (considering the profits they'd get if it succeeded).

So it's investors would probably bail it out (and try their best to make sure it's a bit more restrained).
No questions, simply saying Thanks! I've been trying to show people RN and this will make it super easy to introduce it to them. Know a lot of work in the OS community is under-appreciated, so great work & thanks!
You assume too much. Bit rot was the driver towards anything-not-floppy, if I recall the 90s correctly. "Can't break" and "floppies" is an oxymoron - oh God, now I have that horrible sound of a floppy read error (yes, you could actually hear most types of read errors) stuck in my head. (Perhaps the 8-inch floppies are still in use as their lower density gives higher resilience?)
Senior Cloud Engineer Job at Carbon Black (Boston or Remote Position)
I think you're referring to the concept of Javascript Fatigue (which I found was quite funny...). Check out this article: https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b...

Maybe it'll change your mind
How credible are all these logs? Email records (came up in Oracle Android case) are one thing, emails are a known thing. But how trustworthy are Google Drive logs, a record that only exists within Google, when what they've recorded helps their case? I'm not casting aspersions, just curious how a new kind of evidence plays out.
Several valid points there, but none of them are relevant to what I pointed out, which was simply that if the Scottish government decides they want to use GBP, nobody can stop them (short of invading, I guess).
I'm consistently amazed by friends/family who put their kids to bed well before 9pm (even as early as 7:30-8pm). I don't think I've been able to get to sleep before 2am or so regularly since I was very young... Even if I force myself up at 7-8am, I'm still up until 2-3am most days.

On either saturday and/or sunday I'll let myself sleep until I wake up (usually 12noon-2pm). I'm fortunate enough that my first morning meeting is 9:30, and it takes about half an hour commute. My alarm starts at 7:15, and I usually snooze until around 8... it takes me nearly an hour to get going once up, and even then, I'm usually walking in the door just as standup is starting.

I'm amazed by the early-start types, as I've tried... It only made me really tired and funny for a few days, then increasingly grumpy. At 19, I worked two jobs, first at 4:30am, and second ending around midnight... I was a really grumpy young man by the end of that month (quit one of the jobs, just couldn't keep up with both).

Then I managed to find a job doing creatives/design, and fell into programming from that. All the same, in a lot of places "office hours" have been the biggest contention in the workplace for me. I get things done, I have high quality output, and significantly so.
I don't know the reasoning for the first change, but they explain the need to change it again in the article:

"If you’ve been following along, you know Glitch is a new name for our community; our beta launch last year was under the name Gomix. Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful. But then we realized that in fixing this slight, we had the opportunity to pick a much better name, one that makes it absolutely clear that we’re building a community for everyone."
> demagoguery

Well, if President Trump actually does serve the common people, it will be a wondrous thing.
They work fantastically. Ride Austin is actually way better than Uber in my opinion. In fact even if Uber and Lyft decided to start following the city regulations and return to Austin I would probably never use either in Austin again, simply because I prefer the non profit approach that respects drivers and gives them a much higher percentage.
No errors, default settings, latest Firefox 52.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.

Here's another screen shot, with magnification 300% so you can see the details of the font:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/UnreadableLightGrey2.png

It's the weight of the font that's the problem.

I'd love to know what you're doing that causes this - in part it's problems like this that lead me not to use any significant styling at all on my site.

You have no contact details in your profile, otherwise I'd've emailed you.
Please, check out intercooler.js. I built it for use w/ Rails, and it works really well w/ it. You can develop web apps like you always have, but add AJAX in an intuitive and painless manner when you want to.
I would put together a tutorial on how models are saved and restored if I understood it, which is to say it still confuses me
I understand that's the intent, but what happens is that schools lose money if too many of its students do poorly, which leads to a lowering of standards and a teaching towards tests alone to shovel as many students through the system as possible. The students can make an educated guess at a multichoice question, but lack any real understanding of the topic being taught.
ReasonML doesn't seem to be on the list of presentations this conf. Will Facebook discuss this in the near future? :)
P/invoke with unions in C#
No, not if they're not good at national politics, or don't have the right connections to be effective there.
I was doing iOS dev three years ago, and the Facebook lib for iOS was the worst piece of shit I ever had to deal with.

Their app also used to be unbearably sluggish despite not doing anything too fancy.
New variant of the macOS Proton RAT advertised on Russian cybercrime underground
> Is Facebook's use of the tools merely somewhat unreasonable, such that the tools should still hold? Or is it sufficiently past reasonability that they shouldn't have to hold any longer?

A fair question. The most reliable way to answer it is to see whether there are similar tools that hold up better under load. For example, are there rival version control systems that scale better than Git? Ditto for the other tools.

(Let's all watch out for the human tendency to interpret an affirmative answer as taking a side in e.g. a Git vs X competition. A more useful way to interpret it would be as a source of ideas on how to improve Git.)
> whereas in C++ you'll need to manually chain coroutines.

Boost has stackful coroutines:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/libs/coroutine2/doc/htm...
Would an implosion of Uber be the first step of the end of this tech bubble?
Where do you expect someone to find statistics to cite regarding the internal workings of university labs? Or are you looking for someone's blog post, which would ultimately also be anecdotal?

"[Citation needed]" is just noise when there's no reasonable expectation that the desired evidence actually exists. Moreover, we're not writing Wikipedia here, just trying to have a discussion. Take a chill pill.
The reporting on the issue has just been absolutely terrible. If someone knew nothing about this man and only read the WSJ piece and other articles, it would be totally reasonable for them to come away from that thinking that Kjellberg is an antisemite that runs a pro Nazi YouTube channel.

The media is in a dangerously sorry state.
Let's use logic here. What happens to the price of strawberries if the price of labor goes up 5-10x?

Which people are most affected by the change in price?
Yep I wasn't clear. Austin banned some of the wild west behavior of Uber and Lyft, and they refused to follow along with reasonable restrictions and decided to protest by leaving Austin.
Sounds like a job for Symantec Designs to get a translation from. Although I wonder if it would even be lucrative for them to specialize in an obscure language like this, but maybe!
What is the possibility of criminal charges being brought forth if it's determined that Kalanick actively conspired with Lewandowski?
Organic like:
"Vote for the Snickers Play of the Week"

For me that is quite funny in a way Americans might not get since brands and commercials are more or less everywhere.
Nicely done. Now back to work! LOL :)
Some say this youth-culture obsession is a US workplace problem. That may be true.

To my way of thinking it's a Sili Valley workplace culture problem. Sili Valley is a high-rent district, and doesn't favor people who need more than minimal housing, unless they've already made it big.

Also, Sili Valley is all about the new new things. It will be interesting to see what happens to the present crop of Sili Valley giants in 20 years. What happens when Page, Brin, and Zuckerberg turn 55? What happens when the rapid growth of their companies slows?

Maybe they retire and start concerning themselves with scenic easements and other perqs of the hyper-rich. Or maybe they try to keep reinventing themselves and the companies.

They may make the same mistake Digital Equipment made: responding to a slowdown with a hiring freeze. Once a hiring freeze is imposed, a company loses access to new people and the ideas they bring. The median age increases by one year for every calendar year that goes by. There's nothing wrong with older folks, but not all of us can be managers.

They may make the mistake MSFT made in the first few post-Gates years, and that AAPL is in danger of making now: laurel-resting and inward-turning.

One of the problems of measuring age distribution is this: Averages don't mean anything. Many effective orgs have lots and lots of fresh young faces and a dramatically tapering age pyramid. Military services are a case in point: Sure, the median age is 22. That's because they have vast numbers of 19 year olds. But they also have lots of 30 year old captains, 35 year old majors, and even older colonels and generals.

I'm a developer who started on Hollerith 80-column punch cards. I'm still doing good work. Others can too. But not in Sili Valley: we have too much sense to jump on the latest js framework.
Kind of like how banning competition through taxi medallions are great because instead of investors and owners becoming rich, it just benefit drivers and riders.
One problem with that definition is that intellectual satisfaction is disproportionately affected by confirmation bias. For instance, an article entitled "10 reasons why <politician> getting elected means the end of America" might be clickbait to some, but not others depending on what <politician> contains.
I actually think this might be a blessing in disguise for Uber. I always argued self-driving cars would destroy Uber should Apple or Google want to enter this space.

Why? Because self-driving cars are basically a fleet service driven by a software. Once you remove the driver (where Uber spent so much acquiring) The only differentiator is the consumer facing experience. Neither Uber or Lyft will have as much power as Apple and Google since they ultimately own the mobile experience.

I ultimately envision this business as kind of a Kayak mobile on the phone managed by Siri or Google/Apple maps that will call the nearest taxi or the cheaper rate aggregating from multiple possible vendors. Larger fleets (Uber, Apple, Google) to smaller individually manage fleets. Car companies might decide to also enter that market in collaboration with financial underwriter.

So having a network of drivers ultimately gives Uber some leverage and removing them from the equation, I think it'll actually destroy Uber. This is why I think, this could be a blessing in disguise.
There won't be an academic paper supporting this until a senior academic thinks it's a worthy concept for investigation and follows up by asking his postgrads to work the idea up into a publishable paper. Quite meta really.
This is the comment that takes the middle ground and explains to both of you that nothing is black and white and there are bad and good things about Trump's immigration agenda. His plans could actually be philanthropically motivated, but they are undeniably being prematurely spun into action without reasonable consultation from an array of experts and this is the source of most of its flaws. These flaws may or may not be too big to ignore, but without a panel of unbiased experts assigned to investigate the matter we are making an immature decision to support his impulsive strategy of setting policy.
Ask HN: Ever tried listing all the people that you want to thank in life?
Have you ever thought of making a list of all the people that you want to thank for their role in your life?

Also did you ever want to publish that list somewhere, like your blog?
> -- A lot of programs are pretty superficial. (Discounted gym memberships and the like.)

A discounted gym membership sounds like it'd save me money though. Is that what people are having problems with?

I thought this was about the question I get in open enrollment if I'm a smoker or not, or the forced yearly checkup other countries' employers have.
How I Made Search in Technical Documentation Accessible to Blind Developers
Best of luck, kenton!

If anyone is looking for alternatives: http://alternativeto.net/software/sandstorm-io/ . I think Cozy, Yunohost, Cloudron, arkOS are the closest alternatives (Bitnami is about 1-click images and DO/linode are about cloud servers). Would be great to hear about other alternatives...
>Uber passengers only pay 41% of the cost of trips, with investor capital making up the difference.

Holy hell. That's not exactly a sound business model.
From the end of the article:

>The gaming vlogger Pewdiepie, whose YouTube channel is the world's largest, made rape jokes early in his career and sometimes uses the word "slut" as an insult. Since August, he has made nine videos featuring Nazi imagery or anti-Semitic humor, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal. (He later apologized but also said the Journal took the remarks out of context.)

And I would read the whole thing, the author did a fair amount of interviews but obviously needed to "anchor" this article to current events and chose a poor one in Pewdiepie. The rest is pretty good.
Or better yet, adapt those "As Seen On TV" 'fart absorbing undies' to the task. As bonus the baristas can go back to their kale and cruciform diet, without worrying that their mighty trumpets would disturb the customers.
"People founding startups are a very small subset of overall immigrants."

True, even less create successful startups in a timely manner (even though they contribute overall). Which makes them so hard to target.

"Also, most people who do start startups are also competent, if not educated, enough to probably qualify under a more traditional points based system."

There's only so many ways to measure something and dropping out school to work for random Internet companies and starting your own before you have kids, which is a common profile for entrepreneurial people in Europe, tends to not tick a lot of them.

The US immigration system desperately needs reform, I just don't think any country has managed to create a formal system that is better for entrepreneurship than the realities of running your business illegally in the beginning (or at least pushing the meaning of a business visa). With some reservation for not having looked into the European startup/freelance visas.
I worked for a vendor that made networking hardware. On the system there was some flash storage. We sold to the TLAs. When we got kit in for a demo it came back out minus the flash. USB drives and the like are never allowed in a secure area. Best case you get fired, worse case you end up in prison for 100 years. In the case of what they are asking for here, it is likely "hey we have spy in one of the secure areas and we want to copy the data from the floppy on the system (still in use as others have pointed out)." If you got caught with the device you would get shot and it would not matter if they could read what was on the device. Crypto would just slow down what is a time sensitive operation.
is that true? or do we merely wish it were true?

certainly talented people will have lots of different options as to where to apply their talent

but lets not pretend that all the places to apply talent are inherently equal, or that that the value propositions of those places is merely a function of whether those places are perceived as welcoming

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though its a highly imperfect analogy to a county, Harvard and Stanford regularly tell 95% of hopeful student that they're not welcome to come and study there, seemingly with little effect on their ability to attract the talent that they do want

I think that does indicate that talent attraction doesn't neatly equal welcomeness

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also seems worth noting, if one of the US's large assets in attracting talented foreigner is its large market available for entrepreneurial ambitions, one of its main competitors in this space doesn't have any issue categorizing entrants in their society based on their likely usefulness for their hosts https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/world/asia/china-work-per...
>In fact I don't know of a single woman that enjoys being in nylons all day.

Maybe you aren't talking to the right ones then. Considering how many young women I see dressed casually in tights these days, apparently a lot of people do like them. If you're talking about business-wear, it's probably because business-wear in general isn't very comfortable; men's suits are horribly uncomfortable too, so I imagine women's business skirts and jackets are just as awful. If you want to see what's comfortable (or at least not horribly uncomfortable), look at what younger people are wearing away from the workplace.
> 59.2% is quite misleading because it includes students and retirees.

Misleading does imply context, which is used to confuse the issue and has traditionally been used to alter the statistic to meet agendas.

People who aren't looking for work, students, retirees, etc is irrelevant. It's a statistic about who is employed versus not employed as a relative portion. While I don't think there is a canonically sound source anymore, we have had a serious system problem for awhile. When even the curated sources by one agency are more pessimistic than the celebrated federal numbers, it's now a question of how wrong they are, not what they say.