skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing new. Downtown Denver Colorado has had this for years.

http://www.denverpost.com/2007/07/06/downtown-buildings-are-...
Well, I don't know the answer one bit. But I suppose I can rest assured that smugly complaining about down-votes while saying absolutely nothing in a blatantly offensive way is a surefire way to turn one's own irreverence into a self-fulfilling prophecy of victimhood.
Yes, god forbid we encourage mixing of world views because it might challenge both side's opinions of the other and gasp might even lead to some improvements. Lets continue to segregate as much as possible.

Also according to wikipedia there has been a form of the GI bill running basically continuously since WWII, so this isn't a new change.

What I think is hard about college for a lot of people is that much of the learning, even more than highschool, has no immediate relevance. Heck I remember hating a lot of intro CS classes because I was solving problems I didn't care about. Or think about asking a kid what they'd want to program a computer for. For most it's such an abstract problem to problems they haven't even encountered yet that they can't even think of anything. Same goes for a lot of people which can be a bug turn off for a more traditional college education. That said I still think you need a foundation in the theoretical as well as the practical.
Material witness warrants are why tourists should really think twice about the US.

"if it is shown that it may become impracticable to secure the presence of the person by subpoena, a judicial officer may order the arrest of the person" https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3144

That means any witness who intends on leaving the jurisdiction anytime soon may be arrested. And once arrested, bail is difficult given that you are being held because you might flee. So any tourist who is victimized in the US, and may therefore be wanted as a witness, should seriously consider revisiting their travel plans.
I'd have no problem with material witness warrants and mailing as long as the witness gets independent outside counsel paid for by the prosecutor's office. They must not be used to drive up costs and workloads on the public defender offices, particularly in Louisiana where they're so underfunded and overworked already.
Boos instead of Tylenol, sounds good until you start to decide that a 6 pack is a good cure for a headache.
It's a known issue according to what I've read. It's never been fixed. This may be due to the fact that it's hard to trigger and reproduce.
That wasn't my point, but thanks! Also, thanks for implying that I rushed to comment on a story 30 minutes old.
Like you I used to register domains for every cool idea I had. Over time I learnt that unless I used them for gain, it was just a waste of money to keep them registered. I have tried to sell some of them, but as good as I thought the names were, the money being offered was not worth putting up with the tyre kicking and chiselling.

These days I focus on making what I already have generate more income. Painful lesson is that ideas and registered domains are worthless unless you deliver a product or service for which people will pay.
"Tests are proctored by a company that locks down a student’s computer remotely and uses its camera to check for cheating"

I'm surprised that is sufficient.
I take it you didn't read the fine article.
Is that the san francisco view of what code camp people do or the US wide reality. When we're talking about a US wide problem we should be really looking at US wide solutions because, like it or not, a lot of people don't want to live in San Fran. If code camps really only supply SF Startups with front end coders I don't think that's worthy of a national program.
I would do the same: Kennesaw GA, just no office available
FWIW, I would assume that if you dropped the persecution complex and had actually just said what you thought, you would've been far less downvoted than whatever the hell you ended up doing here.
I don't know what the standards of research in experimental psychology are, but this term project paper ended up a bit contrived. We took some superficial vocabulary characteristics of two languages (of which native speakers probably aren't even mindful) and somehow managed to distort this into a relativistic theory of language-based time perception that manages to prove that bilingual speakers have Neo-like abilities to transcend time, almost moving into 'What the bleep do we know' territory.
I'm somewhere in between. When an article gets posted about something you have deep up to date knowledge of, you realize how inaccurate the comments here are in the details. To the point of damaging in some cases.

In this case I suppose I should take a more direct active role in attempting to mitigate FUD or verifiable inaccuracies - but those comments take a lot of effort and sourcing. Probably something everyone here should attempt to do more often though :)

But overall the conjecture and discourse in topics I'm relatively read up on but not a deep subject expert I find quite enjoyable, even if I know some of the details are likely to be wildly inaccurate. It's usually more than enough information to get pointed in the right direction so I can start doing my own highly specific research. I've found out about all sorts of awesome technologies/tools/projects I never would have if I hadn't read the comments on interesting subjects.

Overall I find that to simply be humans. Bar conversation was likely riddled with even less adherence to facts from otherwise scientific and principled people. It just happens, and is part of being human - you do it too and don't even know it. Most likely at least.
ODrive Project – Using inexpensive brushless motors in high performance robotics
It wasn't just the mainstream media deciding out of nowhere to apply the label to an unrelated group; there was a substantial criminal element in hacker culture, and it was through that element that hacker culture became visible, and so that's why "hacker" got stuck on computer criminals.
OP here. In response to your question, I was seizing on a well-known phenomenon (voters responding to a hollow jobs promise) to make an illustrative comparison to my thesis, another situation that evokes similar behavior.

To me, it was like being in a thread about trees and saying "Trees are green, you know, like money." The "like money" part, was just a comparison.
Can you link to some of the things you've read? What exactly is the "known issue"?
How do these laws differ in other countries? Don't many European countries have similar provisions for guaranteeing access to witnesses?
Another reason to stay silent. Never talk to the police and they won't have a reason, most of the time, to issue one of these warrants. And if they do, still don't talk. Fuck a system that puts its victims in jail. This is not justice. These prosecutors' jobs should not be made easier. Justice would be these prosecutors landing in gen pop. Yeah, it's dangerous.
Cookie-cutter isn't a bad thing. If it solves a real problem or addresses a real need, it will be successful.

I mean Facebook started out as a cookie cutter app. Heck, it was a basic CRUD app. Look at where it is today.

Outside of such unicorns there are also many examples of reasonably successful products that can be categorized as cookie-cutter. Basecamp. Trello. Snapchat. These apps don't do anything groundbreaking or operate on the bleeding edge of technology. But they are well-known and profitable.
Windows non-LAN, wormable RCE 0-day discovered
>> Applications like WordPress or Piwik come with a self-updater, but then you wind up with having to fiddle with the permissions to let the application overwrite itself

Tell me about it! It took me an entire day to figure out how to configure a WordPress install in order to allow it to self-update (without ftp). To do it by only granting owner and/or group write permissions, you have to figure out that you need to modify wp-config.php to define the "FS_METHOD" constant with the value "direct". Without this, WordPress code tries to be super clever with its umask settings, which only makes things worse.

It quite literally took an entire day to set up WordPress to self update. It's easy if you chmod 0777 nuke the entire install, but extremely complicated to set up with acceptable filesystem permissions. WordPress is designed to be sloppily dropped in a webroot, not to be installed by intermediate users who care about security. Well, as "secure" as WordPress can be. And to be honest, the most secure WordPress installation would be incapable of self-updating, as you're granting the web user write access to the entire installation - not just for updates, but for any vulnerability.
The purpose of the term project paper is not to produce truthful research, but for you to practice how to do it. And you wasted that opportunity.
It was a great, gripping write-up. It also corroborated why I told api he was better off using a subset of C or safe language that generated it for software like this. I told him there were tons of ways to analyze or make safe C subsets but almost nothing available that will get similarly great results on C++ code. This was a good example of where its complexity and style of sneaking in abstractions bit him in the ass in a way that might be easier to spot in C, Ada/SPARK, a Wirth language, etc. C++ style is safer on average but highly-robust code is better in restricted, analyzed C if not a safe language.
You seem to be kind of conflating ethics & civil disobedience? And expanding civil disobedience to include, for example, refusing to work assigned to you?

The government does not require companies to comply with a scheme. Companies are free to contract with the government, but certainly aren't forced. PRISM & Muslim registries are also edge cases. There are many companies who choose not to do any work with the military, defense industry, or even gun, drug, or tobacco companies for ethical reasons. Most companies will allow their employees to opt not to work on projects that violate their ethics or values. However, a company would certainly be within their rights to fire an employee for refusing to participate in a project. (its not a smart move, nor does it help with retention of other employees) None of this is, by any means, civil disobedience--nor are ethics and civil disobedience interchangeable. (& it doesn't have to be illegal to be unethical--but civil disobedience is about law-breaking.)

As you may remember, the courts would not permit the government to force Apple to build decryption software to crack that iphone.

And we should not welcome all or encourage civil disobedience. We should just create just laws. Also, we should not redefine or expand the definition of civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is not a "sentencing consideration." All of this is so inside baseball that it'd take explaining all of civil & criminal procedure in order for you to understand. It would take me a long time to make it both clear and accurate and the payoff would not be worth it. Sorry, but yes, you are making many mistaken assumptions:)

There are many public policy reasons why corporations do not & are not considered to engage in civil disobedience. Here's a few quick ones: we don't want companies to direct their employees to break the law or ignore health safety or environmental regulations, or to encourage the formation of criminal enterprises, most (99%?) are defined by a profit-making purpose & this undermines that (& create shareholder lawsuits.) and, despite Citizens United, the overwhelming majority of our laws do not treat corporations as people. For instance, corporations, legally speaking, are not considered to have mens rea or intentions.

TLDR: Citizens United aside, it is actually just not useful or accurate to consider corporations as people, because they aren't. As far as our legal system goes, humans have intentions & a state of mind and corporations don't.

(Feel argue they do, but, as far as the US legal system goes, they don't. And shouldn't. Because they actually don't. So, please, don't. Or, just don't expect my response).
As someone who is 1)Rich(relatively) 2)White, and who has been falsely accused, and harassed by the police for idiotic reasons, I have an enormous amount of sympathy. I went through something similar a couple of times in my life where I had to fight to prove my innocence against incompetent and frankly really stupid police officers who where in my opinion, mainly big assholes who just wanted to bully people. I can say that had I not been pretty wealthy and able to afford lawyers I am pretty sure they would have fucked me over. Once something like that happens to you, you start to sort of understand how someone less fortunate can really get screwed over pretty easily.
What is the problem that MOOCS are solving here that other solutions aren't? There's really no way to have a discussion about why it's not happening or why it may or may not work without actual discussion of the benefits of a MOOC vs alternatives.

Also many many veterans, during their service, avail themselves of old school MOOCs before they exited. They're called correspondance courses or sattelite courses and most of them are from traditional colleges and even allow you to finish up your degree at said college. What does a MOOC offer over this? If enough vets aren't using these why is a MOOC going to be the magic bullet?
Interesting please follow up here in a few months with how she worked out. Not being snarky, I'm genuinely interested.
I think the left is winning. A biological man recently won a woman's weightlifting contest. That would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.

For 50 years the left has been saying they're losing, while every decade has a larger share of economic activity made illegal, and a larger percentage of GDP spent on social welfare.

And it doesn't matter if it's Democrats in power or Republicans. The new Republican healthcare bill for example makes US healthcare more centrally managed and redistributive than it was 10 years ago. And despite the GOP passing a healthcare bill that the GOP of 10 years ago would have denounced as socialism, these are the kinds of headlines appearing in the media:

"Yes, House Republicans, the heartless health-care vote will define you"

..from the Washington Post.

The ideological tenets of socialism are being steadily more entrenched as mainstream values.

All someone has to do is look at the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto to see how many ideas that were once radically left have become normalized:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...
> How do two separate components access the one store, singletons?

You can use <Provider> and @inject to put a store onto the component tree and pull it off whenever you need it. It's just a quick wrapper around the React context API.

> If two components observe the same store but render different attributes of it are they both updated when the store is updated?

Yes, this is just how Mobx works. Observations are set up implicitly. You can observe any @observable value or @computed function just by referencing it within an @observer.

> Are you limited to modifying your store only in your component?

Nope, this works with just plain JavaScript. The main library doesn't offer any React-specific bindings (like Redux), so it can be used with anything.
Not quite. You can generally leave but must returned when summoned. You may have a interpol notice sent to your country if you refuse to come voluntarily.
Where the lack of a degree hurts you is down the road, many companies will use you lacking the relevant degree as ammo to pay you less.
Well... I agree with you in principle, but in practice I find developers often to forget that code fails the way it is supposed to fail, when it is supposed to fail. In the authentication case, everyone remembers to check that when you're supposed to be logged in, you can access what you should be able to access. But it's really common to not think to test that when you're not logged in you shouldn't be able to access what you should be able to access (when logged in), or that when logged in as user X you shouldn't be able to access user Y's stuff.
Dictionary of Roadie Slang
I've always wondered about the "don't send cash through the mail" thing. How do corrupt postal workers detect cash inside a birthday card?
Wild guessing: maybe it contained much less then the xx grams of (pure) aspirin? The rest could have been filler as the tech wasn't as precise as today.
This seems a little premature as the model 3 is not in production yet.

The article claims that the model 3 sales projections are optimistic, I disagree. The model 3 is a fully electric car for $ 35 000, my brother just bought a Camry recently for more than that.

An electric car with tesla quality at that price range is a game changer than can transition the average middle class American to electric. In fact, in my mind, the model 3 seems like the make or break model for tesla.

In my mind a lot of these doom and gloom articles about tesla started when goldman sachs and consumer reports downgraded Tesla stock. But the only reason for the downgrade was continued (and admittedly long) delays for the model 3. And while the delays have been long, when you're on the bleeding edge of tech doing something new, delays are a part of the process.
To enable peak load, one can do pumped hydro (PHES) or molten salt storage when demand is low and the sun is shining or wind is blowing. Only short term storage is needed for peak load. Water can be stored indefinitely but you're probably getting back 70 to 80% of what you used to pump it.
You got me excited then eye rolling with the NISC reference. The author showing up would've been interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_instruction_set_computing
> The problem with self-teaching is that you don't know what you don't know, so you don't realise where the gaps in your knowledge are.

The benefit of self-teaching is that you do not have to try and learn everything in four straight years and then set forth into the world with what you were able to take in during that time. In practice, the gaps become quite apparent when the gaps become problematic and one can quickly fill in the gaps on the fly thanks to no dependence on the schedule of others to fill those gaps.
Code as text is a problem
I'm a bit confused here.

>> Most operators in C++, including its memory allocation and deletion operators, can be overloaded. Indeed this one was.

Okay, well, firstly - the issue here seems to be a problem with the implementation of std::allocator, rather than anything to do with overloading global operator new or delete. Specifically, it sounds like the blog author is talking about one of the GNU libstdc++ extension allocators, like "mt_allocator", which uses thread-local power-of-2 memory pools.[1] These extension allocators are basically drop-in extension implementations of plain std::allocator, and should only really effect the allocation behavior for the STL containers that take Allocator template parameters.

Essentially, libstdc++ tries to provide some flexibility in terms of setting up an allocation strategy for use with STL containers.[2] Basically, in the actual implementation, std::allocator inherits from allocator_base, (a non-standard GNU base class), which can be configured during compilation of libstdc++ to alias one of the extension allocators (like the "mt_allocator" pool allocator, which does not explicitly release memory to the OS, but rather keeps it in a user-space pool until program exit).

However, according to the GNU docs, the default implementation of std::allocator used by libstdc++ is new_allocator [3] - a simple class that the GNU libstdc++ implementation uses to wrap raw calls to global operator new and delete (presumably with no memory pooling.) This allocator is of course often slower than a memory pool, but obviously more predictable in terms of releasing memory back to the OS.

Note also that "mt_allocator" will check if the environment variable GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW (not GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW as the author mentions) is set, and if it is, bypass the memory pool and directly use raw ::operator new.

So, it looks like the blog author somehow was getting mt_allocator (or some other multi-threaded pool allocator) as the implementation used by std::allocator, rather than plain old new_allocator. This could have happened if libstdc++ was compiled with the --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt flag.

However, apart from explicitly using the mt_allocator as the Allocator parameter with an STL container, or compiling libstdc++ to use it by default, I'm not sure how the blog author is getting a multi-threaded pool allocator implementation of std::allocator by default.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.4/libstdc++/manual/ma...

[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.4/libstdc++/manual/ma...

[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.4/libstdc++/manual/ma...
I encourage you to take a look at those "offended" people in the yahoo story.

The first one has a twitter background that reads, "make liberalism ridiculous again" and a long list of very "right" leaning tweets.

The second is full of the same concern trolling towards other media figures with their statements taken out of context - the exact thing you're expressing frustration with in the other thread. Also a republican.

The third's twitter avatar is literally "I <3 TRUMP"

The fourth, to his credit, admits in other tweets that he is a republican, wasn't actually offended, but was just making a point (you know, the thing you're doing now).

The fifth has an avatar of Pepe the Frog, and a background of Trump stylized like Duke Nukem, holding a gun in front of the American Flag, and a pinned tweet about the "alt-left being pedophiles".

I'll summarize the rest: I checked, and every single one of them are very outspoken republicans. I think I have you dead to rights here. If there is a non-republican somewhere in this country who was offended, you definitely didn't link to a yahoo article referencing any of them. The only thing you did was validate my point.

Anyway, I know what you're doing. Your point is that the other side is constantly doing this same type of thing to Trump. I agree, and I think it's out of control. The Washington Post has become as bad as Fox News. I used to see this from the lunatic-right and wonder how certain headlines alone were not setting off their skepticism alarms. Now I'm being flooded by the same type of thing from the lunatic-left. It does not leave much room for optimism.
I wonder if these differences are inherent in languages or if its just how each language is popularly used, and that say, Italian and English could both be used to mean , exactly, the same things, but to say the same thing in English speaking it in Italian it would be, while correct Italian, sound really weird to Italian speakers who are both, FUCKING RETARDED, and only used to hearing pop Italian.
Research literature (ACM and IEEE subscriptions; Sci-Hub fills remaining gaps), 1-3 hours every evening, depending on how well the topic keeps interest. There's never any shortage of material: citations in a single paper almost always lead down deep rabbit holes.
I live in a small town but have been pulled over in the neighboring states and numerous towns in the last few months.

Never thought I'd say this; but as someone who has had problems w/ cops in the past; they seem to be MUCH more courteous. I think it is a combo of things; I am older, have been out of trouble a few years; etc. I am white (which helps) but having 5+ positive experiences-- 1 of which could've been serious; cops have been great!

Idk if there has been a push to retrain them or policy changes but I have been impressed.

It's weird never having a positive experience until recently; and I am still very on guard; but not all police are the enemy. Prosecutors like that; bad cops-- they exist and I would never be complacent around them-- but there are people working in a broken system who are good and helpful. My $0.02