skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually prefer if the uncorrected memory exception were handled by the operating system.

I would far more prefer that the affected program(s) have a chance to react, or be killed as a subset of the system. If the error occurred in a filesystem context there may be other ways of correcting the issue (particularly if it's merely in read cache instead of write cache).

Obviously unhandeled exceptions should cascade until they are either contained or until the entire system halts.
For something like /r/the_donald, you're right. But for something more general, like general Twitter, you're not.
For added irony, at the time the Pres. Elect was "bragging" about how he didn't feel the need to even read such intelligence, as he was "smart enough to know what was going on" and got other information from the "shows he watched".
While it's not some magical spy software during few last years there was plenty of leaks from inside the government and recent arrests was covered pretty well by western press:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-30/how-russi...

Leaks include president Medvedev personal email and his secretary email, then Vladislav Surkov secretary emails and multiple entrepreneurs related to Kremlin. Though I doubt there was a lot of interest to them outside of Russia.
Does any evidence exist that suggests Wikileaks is withholding information on China or Russia? If not, I don't see how you could conclude they're 'focusing on the US'. They publish what they receive.
The more I look at Wikileaks the more I can see them being funded by US/Chinese interests. They are turning from a leaks organization to vehemently anti-Western.
>This is warfare.

No, it isn't.

This is common behavior that Sovereign states engage in all the time. One of the most fascinating things that has happened after this election is how easily people are lowering the bar to declare something "war". What has happened? Should we "declare Cyberwar" on Russia now? Do you think we're not already engaging in both defensive and offensive Cyber, shall we say, "activities" against the Russian Federation?

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-hist...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/01/08/been-hacking-el...
I have the same reaction to the word "opportunity" thanks to some pretty horrific past managers (who of course had MBAs).
I'd be very interested in your story. Have you posted something somewhere about your product and how you got approached by the buyer? Is it an app, a desktop tool, etc?

Curious to hear about these kind of stories in detail... if you guys agree just thumbs up that comment and it'll stick at the top.
Reducing the attack surface of the kernel is one of the primary benefits. Companies like Qualcomm are a constant source of exploits due to the amount of buggy drivers they introduce into the kernel each year.
The words "light cooking" make me angry.
Lets change the question to "how do I want to spend this money?". It sounds like you don't know, since you're unsure how you want to spend this time. If I were in your situation, I'd bank the money until I was certain I knew how I wanted to spend it. By all means take a bit of time off, but be thoughtful about how you spend large quantities of money and time.
I also enjoy the bow and arrow castle defending game in the demos.
Twice as month for a month as for a whole year in 1987. So they were paying 24x as much per month:

12*X/year in 1987
2*12*X/month in 2014

EDIT: We need strikethrough here. Don't know why I said this:

So 288x/year.
Late to the party,but better later than never, so -

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Do you hold WaPo, NYT, CNN to those same standards? Because that is mainly what American "MSM" does, selectively publish information which bebefits the agenda of American foreign policy interests.

It's fair if you align yourself with American foreign policy interests, I do too, but to single out other publications that don't follow that agenda is just a case of having self interested double standards. All of the criticism of Wiki leaks and non-America MSM has all sounded like that to me. "They are selectively publishing different things than we want to be selectively published. Waaah".

But let me guess what the go to response would be: "whataboutism" (aka you can't call me a hypocrite, because some guy made a term for it).
I'm surprised by my preference for old, cryptic, stranger languages. car cdr are better symbolic representation in my mind than first and rest are in clojure. Especially when trying to think recursively.. There's a mystique in languages.
GitHub doesn't charge for anything that's open source. Who the owner is or if they happen to be a customer doesn't factor into it.
The network itself will track everywhere you go so it's like a tracking cookie you can't delete.
Yes. Those are the only two possible options.
Whataboutism
Cool, pryelluw at gmail. No bs or strings (thumbsup).
> The most blatant endgame here for the US is "NK hacked us. They have nukes! It's time to invade!". And then NK becomes a new market for the West to take over for cheap as they did in Communist Yugoslavia and so on

But "They have nukes!" would be reasonable enough reason to invade. Why not work with that narrative as opposed to "They're hacking us!"?

Some might say the US has a moral obligation to pursue regime change in N Korea, but US foreign policy has focused on isolating as opposed to invasion
Sock it all away and keep working. You seem like a smart guy. Google "compounding interest."
You can vouch for comments now (and I did for that one), it seems it wasn't downvoted to dead. It was born dead (check their history, didn't read the comments but enough dead posts to see they'd been shadowbanned).
Guaranteed Victory? If Hillary won, they win. If she loses, they get Trump impeached, and they win.
The author has phrased it awkwardly, but he's saying his insurance costs have increased more than 24x. He pays a monthly rate that is double his yearly rate in 1987, and had better insurance in 1987 to boot.
People here are arguing for more companies like REI or Mondragón, and you are talking about proletarian revolution in a situation completely different from the economic and social devastation caused by World War I. This is completely premature hysterics.
Maybe they're downvoting because of the belligerent tone, even though the thrust of your argument has some validity.

I believe the downfall of the weird wide web has been greatly exaggerated. There are still plenty of interesting corners of the internet.

Don't let Facebook and its kind prevent you from finding the interesting parts of the web.
Hmm, I see 3 Dropbox processes two take less than 1MB and one takes 62MB of memory. Not saying Dropbox is super light but it is not too heavy.

Does Dropbox memory usage grow with storage? Asking because I am only using 5GB of storage.
Congrats and good luck!

One minor issue I noticed with your website: most users will expect that clicking on the page indicator in your carousel (where you feature testimonials) will trigger the appropriate content change. Nothing happens when I click on these indicators and there's no obvious way for me to flip through the testimonials other than to wait with my mouse hovering over an adjacent section (since it seems the carousel is paused when the mouse hovers in that section).
"I promise I will not kill you", says the guy pointing a gun to your face.
The Big Bang Theory il primo appuntamento tra Leonard e Penny
Might actually look into doing a quick script and checking this out.. It'd be interesting to look at. Plus I may only be able to scrape public projects, where private repositories may account for some large amount of the real number since those are typically paid for (except for Student accounts, afaik).
What I gathered was poor budgeting (oh, I've already spent $2k this month, well another $200 won't hurt), poor market timing (not much to do here, but do avoid panic selling), and poor management by others (while overseas, this is easier to avoid today with the relative ease of self-managed brokerage accounts).

In some other financial management threads some folks say "earn more, don't worry about budgeting" (that's an almost literal quote I've seen a few times). Ignore that advice. Budget, invest, and spend wisely. Examine what you really need (financially) and do your best to stick with it. Figure out your budget, stick to it, grow your capital each month (on average, some months will be negative because of a big purchase, but outside those outliers you should see more growth than shrinking).

Invest wisely. Don't buy (much) of a stock a friend or friend-of-a-friend tells you about unless you understand it well enough to judge it yourself. I'm focusing my investments within industries I have familiarity with and index funds, this has turned out well so far (a couple "throwaway" investments based on such tips, for relatively trivial amounts of money, one worked out decently, the other was a complete bust). Pay attention to who is managing your money if you're not doing it yourself. Stay on top of their reports. Do not ignore it for a long stretch of time (this burned me with a mutual fund that changed management and started doing terribly, changed again and recouped the losses but should've been worth so much more by now).

Plan your tax strategy. For salarymen, this means planning your retirement contributions and other things to maximize the tax benefit and yield the best per/year net income (including within retirement accounts). For contractors and business owners, this will be more complex and I can't speak to it.

Plan for emergencies, but you can only do so much here. This is partly offset by insurance (I've never been without health insurance, and with one necessary surgery in 2006, the insurance coverage saved me enough to cover all my premiums through 2011 or 2012; other surgeries and things since have put me in the positive through 2020 or later).
I really wonder how this result translates to non-native speakers, especially with native tongues that have gendered nouns (but then there's often the male form as the default).

So am I more likely to assume the surgeon as male because there is no single word for "female surgeon" but in my native language it would be or doesn't that matter for the experiment?
Detailed consistency model explanation starts on page 15.
This feels like a very political move that has little to nothing to do with tech. If you build a union or trade organization which has influence over the biggest CEOs in the world, you have consolidated a lot of power.

I'm left scratching my head after reading this, and I feel like YC may have lost its way.
BS & MS in CS. Worked at one of the big 4 (google/apple/amazon/facebook). Got my MBA from a top 10. Currently in venture capital. If you want to stay in engineering, there's no need for an MBA. It only helps if you want to pivot.
We believe that tech companies can create a better economic future for all Americans by spreading high-paying technology jobs around the country and other measures

I believe this is key. Technology does not have to be binded to one or a few locations. If tech could once again try to be spread across other cities and states that will be good for everyone. It will be good for remote work, cost of living, people will support tech growth more nationwide, there will be new ideas that might not emerge in a tech hotspot and not everyone will have to move to one place which is really a single point of failure.
This reminds me of the Andrew Carnegie Fortune. He was one of the riches man of his time but only left his family enough to be comfortable when he died but none of his descendants are rich. Even his brother's descendants, who were left a rich inheritance, are now having trouble financially.

Here's a link to a Forbes' article on it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2014/07/08/whats-b...
It's not true that nothing has changed. Facebook and Twitter will show you posts that they think you're likely to interact with, and hide other stories. That didn't happen on Usenet. Those services will also recommend that you follow/friend other users with similar interests, which automatically builds up mobs. That's not how the Internet used to work.
You realize that is a list of most non-latin character sets? Seems it is just to test the framework with unicode.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/450416071/WikiLeak...
And maybe tech unions- call them guilds or free associations or hacker collectives if you can't stomach the term- can do labor relations better than what previous unions could do, as well.
Honest question: how would you reconcile privacy-centric communities like Reddit and definitely-not-privacy-centric communities like Facebook? They both have the same patterns of information bubbles generally feed content in similar ways (broadly speaking) and they both have strong troll subgroups. If anything, Facebook might have a lower overall incidence of trolling because you run the risk of having your profile picture on the evening news.
Ads following you around (retargeting) can sometimes be creepy, but no one had to buy and sell your browsing history to get there.

It is entirely a by-product of the fact that ad slots are auctioned off while a page loads, and when someone wins that auction, they can run JavaScript in your browser.

So if they cookie you on their website, then they get to run JavaScript from winning an ad auction on a different site, they can still see their cookies and know it is "you".

Not trying to downplay any privacy implications here, but ad networks and sites where ads are placed don't actually need any of your browsing history to make this work.

(I simplified this somewhat by ignoring the relationship between the actual advertisers and retargeting providers, but that is just more of an economies of scale/arbitrage thing.)
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Thanks for mentioning TLP - I hadn't heard of it before
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desktop of the Ubuntu LiveCD.

Whenever I have to use that disc in an emergency situation, I'm glad
that there is an icon to amazon (in case I forgot the URL of amazon),
but I'm always struggling to figure out how to get to a bash prompt
If you're going for an MBA, the intention is to pivot away from an engineering position. There's no reason to get an MBA if you want to stay as a SWE.
24x as much per month is also 24x as much per year...
When you define anyone who does not agree with you as a Troll that phrase kind of gets meaningless.

I meet regularly main stream journalists who complain about Trolls winning on internet but talking longer makes me realize that these people actually hate the fact that their "card carrying journalism" is actually made totally worthless by ordinary individuals on street writing a blog from their bedroom.

I am from India and I know specific examples of media personalities trying to shut down totally legitimate blogs by calling them "trolls". Example: http://mediacrooks.com/ Bunch of them even came to silicon valley and tried to lobby with social media giants that their opinion must get more visibility than other internet user.

Personally I dont think bad guys are winning, I think Internet has truly helped marginalized people express themselves without being judgemental about their opinions and without giving more importance to any authority.
A way for hairstylist to market their work and a way for black women to find hairstylist is a problem. Especially when "sistas" relocate to a new area.
I agree with the what (I think) the parent post is getting at: if you're going to form a union, form a union. As in, a labour monopoly. This might sound radical, but I think there is good reason for developers and tech workers to consider this.

There are strong network effects and nearly unlimited economies of scale in most tech markets. In these cases, given enough time, the end result will be a monopsonist employer.[0] This results in lower employment, lower wages and, ultimately, the replacement of labour with additional accumulated capital (e.g. ML algos) and/or cheaper substitute labour (e.g. imported foreign workers). Even in cases where there are a few large firms in competition (e.g. Google and Apple), they will have incentive to collude and make illegal agreements on hiring practices, wage ceilings etc (and there have been documented instances of this).[1][2]

The logical way for software developers to avoid exploitation is to form a labour monopoly (i.e. a union or a guild).

I've noticed some interesting features of the software development labour market: quite a lot of the work is creative in nature, you produce non-rivalrous products (i.e. my consumption of 'software x' does not block someone else's consumption), and the workforce is supposedly peppered with unusually talented individuals who produce 50-100x the value that the average worker does.

There are two other industries that have similar features: traditional screen entertainment (TV & Movie), and professional sports leagues. In both of these industries, the content producing workers (baseball players, actors) are invariably a member of an industry guild or union, and they operate more like independent contractors than employees.

Food for thought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony#Welfare_implications

[1] https://www.cnet.com/au/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
TECH INFO: After All These Years, the World Is Still Powered by C Programming
> Tech workers are as disparate and varied as non-tech workers...

Yes, he should visit the rust belt (where I grew up) some time - there are gasp actual programmers making decent money there!

And a whole lot of people who are just never, ever going to be able to learn how to code.
Good catch! Thanks for the feedback. Will be fixed shortly.
>The internet doesn't magically make social, political, religious, and ideological rifts magically disappear, it just seemed like it did because nobody could associate users with their backgrounds.

But one could argue that our modern "Social Media Internet" gives exactly that impression. Whether it's Google, Facebook, Twitter or whatnot: People are being funneled into "ideological bubbles" based on their preferences and being surrounded just by people who share their views.

Thus many people assume they are on the "right side" because everybody in their Internet-social circles thinks exactly like them. That's why many people act so surprised/outraged if they happen to come across somebody from another "social media echo chamber" with completely opposing views.
It's worth comprehending that there are other adversaries to the US other than the Russians. US OpSec sucks, it's punctured by not just the Russians but the Chinese, Israelis, Saudi Arabians, Syrians, Scientologists, Mormons, American communists and anarchists... the media is liable to focus on Russia because it's an easy target, not because it's the real one (or ones).
No, it's not wrong. Which part of his comment is the bigotry you feel like projecting? Is approval for stronger border protection bigotry? Is thinking the EO on immigration is fine bigotry? Is making assumptions about every single political opinion someone has based on a single statement bigotry?

Do you think that liberals or tech employees are somehow above bigotry and treating people poorly? Remember Talia Jane and her letter, and the extreme criticism she faced from HN members? Do you think the attitude you commented with will help bridge a political divide? Because your words are exactly why I think it's laughable to expect tech employees to do anything about polarization other than make it much worse.
Assuming every site is using https I'm not sure how they would be able to make money off of this with web based advertising since you can't inject ads. Does anyone know how else they could make money?
>Making someone's votes count less would strongly discourage voting more often.

But the nice part is you can control how you approach this weighting.

Perhaps every days votes is normalized to 10. So if I only voted once it counts 10x, but if I voted 100 times each would count .1x.

There are tons of ways to implement it so the feeling of uselessness doesn't apply, after all, qt the end of the day we are pretty gullible bags of meat.
Two of the Fuchsia members also worked on BeOS if I recall correctly.
The partisan intelligence gap is widening...
The conclusion of the article is mostly false at least for Linux: UE errors have no reasons to panic the machine in all cases, and by default under Linux the affected processes are simply killed. Of course, if this is kernel memory, then you will panic, but the probability of it being kernel memory is low (amount of kernel memory / total memory...). This has been signaled in the comments (not by me) but unfortunately the article has not been updated to reflect that fact. Also, there is no reason that the policy is not managed by the software, so as long as it is detected, the kernel is free to do what it wants with UE, and everything is fine.

Also I have no proof that any crazy thing can not happen, but there is no reason for single bit errors not to be corrected regardless of the OS. The worse that should happen for them is to not be reported.

IMO if you have the opportunity (the category of HW you want supports it) you would be crazy not to use ECC RAM. Non-ECC RAM is basically the only component in a PC that is not protected. Obvious weak point. I've been beaten at least twice (two defective components, way more than 2 errors before I figured out what was happening) only on computers I was directly owning or using at work (among a total of a dozen of computers). Now I don't want to loose my time anymore, I always use ECC memory when possible (I'm not going to pay a computer twice the price just for that, so it is a "little" difficult with laptops which also have a plethora of other choice criteria, but it is very easy to get affordable workstation desktop computers with ECC)

No modern digital communication bus will be designed without any form of protection, so this make not much sense to have computers without ECC RAM. I would even like to have it on smartphones, but unfortunately I doubt this will happen soon.
This feels relevant, although only somewhat:

https://www.google.com/?q=Amasunzu+hairstyle

"Amasunzu is an elaborate hairstyle traditionally worn by Rwandan worn by men and unmarried women."
Thanks for the feedback. Yes we do know of Ashesi University and yes they do have talented engineers coming out of there.
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You can't. LOLZ. Yet.

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_16384857.html