skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been pretty well cleared up save for the folks who won't accept a version of events that differs from their own personal beliefs.

Ultimately what's more likely? A handful of terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into buildings or a vast government conspiracy, likely years in the making and involving tens of thousands of people made it look like the former while still managing to avoid a single leak after 16 years.

Apparently our government can't do anything except pull off massive conspiracies.
Agreed. I think exclusive supplier contracts are pretty dumb, too - At least without clauses for 'Price match or get out'. And the solution to the former should be (and I'll admit this is a stretch) to fix that problem, or better yet: simply to make your union's services so attractive and obviously a public good that the significant majority want to be sure it sticks around. Yes, the free rider problem is universal - Unions cause it as much as suffer from it (ever heard of unions suffering from deadweight because of seniority rules? No, nobody else ever has either :P)
i hate how this article confuses 'wanting a stay at home wife' with gender equality. so according to this article, having this preference must mean they are not in favor of gender equality.
Just a heads up, but the most recent update really helped with that. It keeps you logged in longer. That was a major frustration, I think I probably had about 50 comments on it.
The ONE piece of metal with the serial number on it, and the ONE piece of metal that clearly has part of an American Airlines logo on it (and the partially ruined american flag stuck in the debris) all remind me of that Dave Chapelle sketch where the cops "sprinkle crack" on the suspect they framed.

The one outlier is the Hitachi tractor rather than a John Deere one. Merica, land of false flags and wrongful world domination!
Not strange at all if you know anything about how systems like this are designed, built, tested, QA'd, shipped, monitored, & supported in the field.

I suppose it could look strange to a naive viewer, but their rational response would be "Gee, I really don't know much about this, where can I learn?", not "Gee, I bet something shady is going on!".
Android and ChromeOS also have several components written in C++, yet the majority of userspace is only available to Java or Web applications.

On modern OSes, that aren't plain UNIX clones, C and C++ are being pushed down the stack just to provide some hardware abstraction layer, with everything else being done in more safer, productive, languages.
Should've asked for money back for false advertising; no ambient rain noise during drought.
I'm I the only person that thinks that Comcast is saying this as a way to calm people down now. Why did they not speak up before the vote. I suspect that within a few years, once the noise quiets, they'll have a thriving business doing just what they said they would not do.
Corruption? Lobbying? Regulatory capture? Influence peddling? Crony capitalism?

I'm not really sure what answer you're looking for here. The basic answer is that the system is corrupt and the interests of big corporations are heard much louder than the interests of individual constituents who don't have as many dollars to throw around capitol hill.
> We made Nigerian scams illegal. We defend against them partly by prosecuting them. We work hard to reduce the frequency and the impact of them.

And guess what? They still happen. We already have the laws to attack the kind of "troll" that shows up at your door in many cases - but guess what? It still happens. Ultimately the law only gets you so far. So we must defend against them in more effective ways - like individual knowledge.

It's a lot easier and more effective to guarantee safety with online matters when you behave safely online than when you start taking risks and expect the law, the website or whatever else to deal with the consequences. That's just wishfully naive thinking.

Yes, in an absolute sense, all harm should be blamed on the abuser, I don't mean to suggest otherwise. But the prevention potential is so much higher if you can attack it at it's destination than at its source - like using a firewall on your server instead of just saying "hacking is illegal, therefore no one will hack me".
Not to mention the fact that software developers will eventually find themselves in exceptionally weak bargaining positions, at least as individuals. Almost uniquely so.

It's great that remote working is possible in software dev, but the flipside is that it's much easier to outsource your job to another country. And working on cutting edge stuff like ML sounds interesting. But it also means you may one day find yourself building the surplus capital that will ultimately replace you. You refuse to do that? Cool, you're fired. Maybe the guy sitting in the cubicle next to you will.

[Dramatization. May not happen.]
I think the counterpoint here is that it's much easier to make a script to automate the process of spreading misery than it is to make quality contributions to an online community.

See https://xkcd.com/810/
I'm considered a millennial and I was born in 1985. The most common I've heard is it is anyone who turned 18 on or after 2000.

Also, I very definitely remember dial-up... and cassette tapes, and VHS, and walkmans, diskmans, CRT monitors, playing outside, etc :)
90s kids remember dial up, vhs, car cassette players and wired ethernet without doubt. In fact, I remember plugging my xbox 360 into my phone jack hoping it was the same as ethernet.
Uggg... the waiting lists. It drives me crazy that libraries actually pay more for ebooks than for physical books. Like, a lot more.
Java Hackers have reasons to nudge4j
Case closed, pictures of the engines exists.
You should go to bed, please.
And you're attacking someone simply for stating that they think "Silicon Valley (especially SF) is all for diversity...as long as you think exactly like they do." From left field, you're bringing up and arguing against "having the opinion that a class of people do not deserve the same rights as others". And declaring that you know what EduardoBautista "wants": "no one to call you out for espousing terrible views. You want freedom from consequences of speech, not freedom from speech." How you come to these conclusions based on that one statement, and then bring up your contrived ideas in a seemingly vitriolic attack against another person, I don't know.

Perhaps people wouldn't call what you're exhibiting "bigotry", but I would: based on a single statement, you jump to conclusions and attack someone based on those conclusions. I think such behavior is one of the biggest problems in (a part of) American culture, and I would wager I'm not alone in thinking this.
>Given the above example, it should expand to this:

I don't think that your expansion is correct at all. Maybe you have a misplaced quote somewhere, but this one is not making sense.
Egacs. Eight Gigabytes And Constantly Swapping.

Moore's Law. Give it another decade and it'll be Etacs.
Seriously, a down-vote for this?!

I feel like there must be hours of video of this event, this is the Pentagon! Yet none is released, why? It annoys me because it could so easily be cleared up, yet instead people are left to become skeptics and doubt the powers that be.
I think we should live more like the way we work. Instead of having separate houses or apartments, we should have giant, open rooms where 10-20 families live together, without any walls. There can be a few kitchens, which can be shared and used on a first-come-first-serve basis, and maybe 3 bathrooms (again shared), and everyone's beds and couches will be part of this one large room. This will vastly improve a feeling of being part of a team among these families. These families will experience excellent collaboration due to this living environment.

I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to live this way.
NYT becoming more and more like BuzzFeed.
If it were that easy they'd be doing it already. It's not that easy.
What's bad is that there's no reason for motorcycles to be loud, with current technology. Car engines these days are whisper-quiet; the exact same could be done with motorcycles. But most motorcyclists (in the US) insist on being obnoxiously loud.

I'll bet Italian scooters aren't like this though.
When I was first introduced to Oracle years ago, I was surprised at how much it acted like an operating system inside. Once connected to the shell you could find processes running, examine memory through data dictionary queries and so forth. Tuning it involved looking at disk I/O patterns, memory usage and making your loops tighter. In the SQL world that meant indexing & reviewing plans for joins carefully.

MySQL & Postgres carry some of those same attributes. Even though they are user processes and the OS controls the lower levels, you would typically deploy them on their own servers, and give them all the memory & disk I/O you could, because they were their own operating systems essentially.

It's not clear to me how building a database "like an operating system" is something new. What I did see new in there was a consistency checking tool. That is super important. Because in a distributed environment you're bound to have drift.

Also I'd like to see how they managed to get full ACID Compliance. Fast network interfaces are great but there is still some latency which means hiccups when multiple nodes try to update the same row.
>But plenty of people don't really need those things, and certainly don't want to pay for them.

Those things don't cost very much when they're shared by a couple hundred units. That's why non-luxury hotels can afford to have such amenities for rather cheap nightly prices. A gym, in particular, is dirt cheap: ~5 exercise machines at even $1k apiece (a high estimate) is still only $5k, which is roughly a month's pay for many people. Spread that one-time cost over 200 units and that's $25 per unit. You can probably expect those machines to last at least 5 years, so that's $5 per year per unit. Whoopee. Definitely not "luxury", unless you're used to 3rd-world living conditions.
Cool. How about we base this union on the values of not forcing people to join it?

I'd be OK with that. Please keep these efforts focused on voluntary interactions.
No need to script! You can use Google's BigQuery with GitHub's data. Some documentation is here: https://www.githubarchive.org/

A `PushEvent` is fired for every open source repository that has `master` updated:

```
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (
TABLE_DATE_RANGE([githubarchive:day.],
TIMESTAMP('2017-03-01'),
TIMESTAMP('2017-03-31')
))
WHERE type = 'PushEvent'
```

It's over 19 million!
You're honestly expecting an aluminum can the be intact after it smashes into a reenforced building at a few hundred miles per hour?

The plane is there, this group of pictures includes pictures of it. There just isn't much left.
Couldn't you just manually reduce your screen resolution? Or is that too drastic to be worth it?
Introducing Google Gnome
> espousing terrible views

Except your typical Trump supporter avatar is being distilled into a handful of beliefs, even though many may have other reasons for supporting.
>i just went searching for footage of this...frustrating there is none

Considering it was pre-iPhone and the FBI confiscated all of the security footage around that area, not terribly shocking.
What kinds of jobs allow 20 hours/week?

I can't remember ever seeing a single software development job (which wasn't contracting) where the employer advertised less than 40 hour weeks.
It was strewn about in tiny pieces after it hit the ground at 600MPH.
This is great, way to go.
Yup, and the end user/developer suffers.

Why should I rewrite my Android app just because Google can't work out their internal politics?

And yes, I know that you'll probably be able to run Android apps on Fuchsia, but what about bitrot? Will JVM-language based Android be put on Life Support?
~No video has been released to the public.~

edit: Apologies, I was incorrect.
That isn't the one piece of metal left, there are literally other photos of parts in the collection. That is just one piece of metal that they happened to post a photograph of.
Our R&D institute used HORDE [1] back then. However, I was always on the lookout for something that resembles Google Calendar in functionality and usability (and possibly even looks). The same can be said for GMail and its Google Task integration.

[1] https://www.horde.org/apps/groupware
American robots will make America great again, not protectionism, I guess.
We certainly should. We've been through a lot of ideas that were not practical at the time that could be practical again in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pentagon_Security_Camera_...
And for another beautiful convergence: nowadays most software development is done in languages that naturally express capability patterns, namely memory-safe languages. That is, if you have a reference to an object or value, you have the authority to invoke any of the methods on that object or call any functions that accept such a value. So object references are capabilities.

Most such languages only go too far by allowing "ambient authority", whereby any component in your program has the ability to turn a reference to a value that carries little authority, into one that carries significantly more authority. For instance, consider the file open API: you're essentially turning a string, which exposes no unsafe or security-critical methods, into an object that can literally destroy your computer. And literally any library or component you use can open files. It's madness!

To make a memory safe language capability secure, you simply remove all sources of ambient authority. This mainly consists of globals that permits transitive access to mutable state, like file system APIs, global static variables that can reference transitively mutable data, etc.

These insecure APIs are then replaced with equivalent object instances which you can pass around, eg. you can only receive the authority to open a file if you're given an instance to the directory object which contains that file. The entry point of your program would then change to accept various capabilities instead of just string parameters.
Born in 1978 I was clearly too young to be part of Gen X at the time it was popular in the media. Gen Y was sort of a transitional label that never really got traction until it coalesced into Millenial. Ultimately for me it just shows the absurdity of bucketing generations in this way since I clearly don't fit in either.
And please, do not confuse me with one of those people. I just feel more people could be brought around to the logical side of the argument here with a simple 30 second video release, instead we're left without the most obvious and simple version of the evidence that would clear this up - why?! It's so frustrating...
"Attempted" seems like a strong word to use... even the Wiki article you linked, in the introduction, seems to put it somewhere between a hoax and a few people contemplating a coup (far from "attempting").
As a military person, I'm curious how you feel about the US's role in curbing nuclear proliferation.

I agree that we seem to be in pointless wars, but I'd mostly forgotten about the dangers of nuclear proliferation until a Pentagon-working friend pointed it out to me.

Essentially the idea is that the US acts as both the carrot and the stick. We will protect countries that don't have nuclear weapons and threaten any that try.

I think that's the justification for having such a large military.

But it's also a justification that's largely not talked about. So I've been wanting to get alternative thoughtful viewpoints to go along with the one my friend has.
Thoroughly mixed with the debris.
We had hours of footage of two planes hitting the twin towers, and we still have fucking idiots doubting that.

We have hours and hours of footage of the moon missions and people still doubt that.

Pick any conspiracy theory: more information does nothing to stop the conspiracy theory.
Trump and his ilk are masters at name calling and I will never stop returning the favor.
If the Millennial Men have kids and want the best for them, then, yeah. Hard to argue that a mother is better than a baby sitter.
Good news for robots.
Considering the current Administration can't even keep simply talking to a foreign gov't quiet, imagine how much info would be busting at the seams if the gov't had masterminded an attack against their country.
It is here. ... no honestly!
That's demonstrably false. There's video, although a 600mph plane doesn't show up for long in a security camera angle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPoD_7TmNc
Women have expectations now (for the better imho) that simply weren't there 50 or 60 years ago. I know the career sacrifice that my wife would have to make to stay at home and raise our kids would shatter her sense of wellbeing, so I want her to get back into the workforce when she is able: in the long term, a happy, fulfilled wife is going to make for a happier marriage, and I am all about a peaceful life at home.

It also means that at any given time, either of us could support the family in case of disruption (e.g. I start a major project that takes a few years to generate revenue, or she decides to take time off active research to write a book). I value the flexibility that having both spouses work brings our family.
Born in 93, is playing outside really not common anymore or are you just joking?
I'm an older millennial (barely even in the group). My wife has a career and so do I. Plus we have a small child. It would certainly be easier if one of us stayed home (not necessarily her). But I think it would be even better if we could both have a healthy work life balance.
It makes me angry that I have to pay for a kitchen by law (if I rent or buy a whole 'dwelling'), despite never cooking.

Different strokes.
I saw this previously, which again adds to my frustration! It really just fuels the skeptics argument. Why can we not provide a better shot, why can we not clear this up!?
this could be very useful for some applications.
This is hilarious. I mean, relying on external libraries aside, just look at the readability and intuitiveness of the native syntax by comparison. It's not even close.
What's the comparative divorce rate between families with stay at home dads vs stay at home moms?
Every one of those news outlets publishes multiple stories criticizing the current leader of the United States and the United States' foreign policy agenda. This happens nearly every hour of the day.
Does Facebook actually have less trolling? I don't know how anyone could quantify it but subjectively there seems to be a lot. It's easy to create fake accounts, and some people just don't care.
The Master's as the new Bachelor's: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24mas...

"“Several years ago it became very clear to us that master’s education was moving very rapidly to become the entry degree in many professions,” Dr. Stewart says. The sheen has come, in part, because the degrees are newly specific and utilitarian. These are not your general master’s in policy or administration. Even the M.B.A., observed one business school dean, “is kind of too broad in the current environment.” Now, you have the M.S. in supply chain management, and in managing mission-driven organizations. There’s an M.S. in skeletal and dental bioarchaeology, and an M.A. in learning and thinking."
Hum.... a PC-XT could consume 130 watts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT) without considering a CRT monitor (100 watts, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/lcd-backlight-led-cfl,26...).

With much less power you can run a notebook today. And I don't how much energy it takes to host one Google Sheets in use, but it seems that a search doesn't consumes that much (http://techland.time.com/2011/09/09/6-things-youd-never-gues...). Even the typical user consumes just a bit every month (http://inhabitat.com/infographic-how-much-energy-does-google...)
I feel the same way. Is my history sufficient?
And the educational factor of "it can be done" is essentially all the justification needed to supply PoC with bug reports.

I mean, take:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/675

"I am able to crash a RHEL7'ish
system with the above PoC quickly."

So, someone takes down some critical system running RHEL7 with this (even if it is just a crash) - and the author is on the hook because the only use for the code was educational and "crashing a system"?
Gen Y was the placeholder name until they the millennial name stuck. Depending on who you ask the generation starts from 1977 to 1984 and ends from 1994 to 2000. We are rapidly approaching the time when we can expect some catchy name to stick for the next cohort.

Generations tend to be around 20 years and every one has a big gap between the start and the finish. Just look at baby boomers, do you think someone born in 1946 with a returning GI father and graduating high school right into the start of Vietnam escalation had much in common with someone born in 1964 and not graduating high school until the Reagan administration?
Thank you so much for doing this, the book is awesome!
Your condescension for the average viewer is pretty palpable.
Most of America seems to have forgotten that single issue voters exist on both sides.
How many building security cameras do you typically see pointed at the sky?
Why don't you try an SNI filter.
Seconded. I have a Moto G3. Cheap, solid, beater that IDGAF about key scratches. Never had any hardware issues.

Root-ready by the mfg, running Cyanogen from day 1.
(Perhaps not so) Interesting that the demonstration languages are: Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi and Korean.

Could be a fun one for game DRM? Or apps where an API key is hidden in the binary?
London England, I assume, not Ontario?

European libraries are really nothing like American ones, at least the few I've been to. They are still very much in the "books and only books" mindset that American libraries were at 50 years ago. It's funny, too, because libraries are such an American institution that you'd think the power of tradition would be fairly strong here. Perhaps the constant fight for funding and relevance has propelled their evolution.
True, but the farm labor displaced by the mechanization of agriculture also did not all go into making farm machinery. They went into entire new industries that were made possible by mechanization.

How many of you are engaged in providing a product or service that was inconceivable in 1800? I couldn't even describe what I do to an 1800 era person.

I.e. there isn't a fixed amount of work to be done.
When I say "high-end manufacturing" I'm not really talking about cars. More along the lines of industries that require very, very tight tolerances and exotic materials like tooling or optics.
Strange how this is the top comment but it contains no substantive facts.
lmao. This was a good read, "JAQing off" is now permanently added to my arsenal.
There's no video. It's strange how different things were for photos and videos a mere 15.5 years ago. If it happened today, you'd have sixteen bazillion videos from everybody's phones.

There are, however, a ton of witnesses. I think a lot of deniers don't really grasp the geography and think the Pentagon is some distant, isolated military installation or something. In reality, it's smack in the middle of the sixth largest metro area in the country, and AA77 flew right over a busy highway on its way to the Pentagon, so low that it knocked over light poles and nearly impaled a hapless taxi driver who was almost in the wrong place at the wrong time.