skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
speaking for myself it's not ever the offense I take issue with it's the ubiquity of popular offense. that every space must be a space wherein offensive speech is permitted including spaces created to cater to other genuine concerns such as recovery from debilitating trauma. churches have been a safe space for certain kinds of thought for centuries, some churches even creating a safe space within their safe space where a person can confess to any sin without suffering the adverse social affects.

it's on this point that I think people lose their minds. the vulnerable see a world completely set against them and have no ability to create an island for themselves so they over react and become militant with time as popular social movements continually fail to understand them. I see wrong on both ends for different reasons but in a hyper connected world where everything is happening all the time, the marginalized by definition must lose out. the freedom to offend is not the only attribute worth protecting, despite how very serious our history teaches us otherwise. the world isn't just becoming smaller, it's becoming flat, and that is another dimension worth pushing against.

there are no easy positions to take here. there are no obvious answers. defending free speech is obvious and good and I'm in favor of erring on the side of caution but the longer people take a principled stand on offense and dismiss the motivations of the people pushing against it, the further this situation will deteriorate.
Closed source custom Java ME and ThreadX blob probably maintained by interns, running all the time with unfettered access to every resource in the system even when the machine is turned off, integrated into almost every enterprise computer network in the world.

What could possibly go wrong.
Probably not? Most of the "insecure Java" bugs you hear about are due to exploiting the runtime loader by feeding it fun binaries (jars or whatever). The rest of the problems are things that can occur in any framework and Java is probably safer due to being a memory safe language. The exceptions are when they do things unsafe for speed, like font/image processing, but again, that can happen in any lib.

I'd be surprised to hear that using a Java, say, socket or HTTP lib, exposed you to more risk in general than using any other language/runtime/lib.
Psychiatry is such an embarrassment, in the US and UK at least. So many otherwise reasonably intelligent people believe in the concrete reality of "diagnoses" that are merely descriptive at best, and delusional at worst. The number of parents who are led to believe that their child "has" "dyslexia" or "ADHD" is astonishing; and the ramifications in terms of extra time in exams, free laptops etc are absurd. One form of evidence for these assertions is the lack of cultural replication: I don't have citations, but I understand that many of these concepts do not have parallels in other languages/cultures where one would would expect replication if these really were biological phenomena. I guess people will always see shapes in clouds, but when it comes to serious matters like education, the rational, scientific side of our society needs to be kind but firm in stamping this stuff out. But when will it finally happen -- perhaps not until we've also got over the idiocy of religion, and the idiocy of the "postmodernism"-influenced humanities?
Also, chickens are birds. Not wild birds, but birds. If the concern for birds is some kind of animal rights perspective, chickens are up into the billions per year. If people want to prevent needless bird deaths, that seems like the place to start.
SpaceX's rockets are small enough that they can move by road.
Really? I've only heard "viertel neun" to mean 8:45.
The Hidden Ecologies blog collects kite aerial photography of the salt ponds.
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/hiddenecologies/

More info about the project:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/hiddenecologies/?page_id=41
It's open 20 hours a day, so you're going to need at least 3 shifts. It's open 7 days a week, so you're going to need at least two sets of employees per shift, and there are two stations for the extension. When you start considering ticket agents, janitorial staff, security, etc, having 13-14 people on site per shift seems pretty reasonable.
how have I never heard of this!
The comments on this article are fascinating and why I love reading the HackerNews. Point vs point debates about interesting scientific theory but in a way that average person like me can understand. I used to read about this kind of conversation happening in the late 19th Century in the bars of Royal Science institutions in Europe - it feels a little bit like that. :)
Many people think that most developers don't actually need CS (and much less math) fundamentals in their every-day work life. That's why coding interviews like big tech companies tend to do are controversial ("Why would an iOS developer need to able to balance a binary tree?").

Can you give some examples where you hid road blocks because of your lack of education?
This feature is only active if you set it up and configure it for your company/management system. Random Lenovo customers aren't at risk. The only people at risk are companies that set AMT up, and then they should be looking for security issues with all the vendors they use.
Take PRISM for example, or imagine a Muslim registry - or any other scenario where government requires companies to comply with a scheme and the company's appropriate ethical response would be refusal.

(1) Why should we not welcome civil disobedience then or call it anything other than "civil disobedience"?

(2) In a judicial context, what specifically do you believe would stop the same sentencing considerations from applying to corporations? Sentencing guidelines? Judicial precedent?

Criminal procedure is not my field, so there's a possibility I am making some basic mistaken assumption - please correct me if so.
To be fair though, a good fraction of the Minecraft modding community is rotten; especially with mod authors trying to make money from their mods by relying on a reverse engineered Minecraft.

In an effort to make money, they have put clickthroughs to ads that people have to go through to download the mod. Keep in mind that Minecraft is rated 'E' for everyone, the modders are deliberately ignoring the fact that they put children in a spot where advertisers can abuse them.

I am specifically going to point out the 'Feed the Beast' team on promoting this behaviour, and them promoting that modders are the ultimate authority. It's pretty bad that permission has to be obtained from each mod author to include it in a modpack, even if it is just for a private server. It's pretty hypocritical of them, I'm pretty sure they didn't ask Mojang for permission to use the Minecraft game for their mods.

Note that I am not criticising all the Minecraft modders, just the ones who created the current toxic culture that pervades the Minecraft modding community. If you look at other modding communities, say for Skyrim, you will see it is completely different and someone coming from that community to the Minecraft modding scene will be shocked at the awfulness that pervades the culture there.
I don't know where your "50 mile ride" comes from when we're talking about a ten mile extension. I put my bike on Bart all the time.

Given ~95% of households in the locality own cars, I assume this extension is addressing congestion or pollution; it's hardly a $2.3 billion investment so 77k people don't have to drive as far to the next Bart stop. I wasn't suggesting taking cars away from people, I was trying to make the existing roads work better, not just in the locality but throughout the area.

[] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-v...
> it doesn't have any military and intelligence institutions at all.

Better let INTCEN, SIAC, SitCen, EUFOR and EUNAVFOR know that.

The EU is absolutely far, far more than a trade block.
Oh my. What a fun read. Sort of like reading about a horrific car accident. You read it and you think "Oh thank God… That can't possibly be real…"

And then you realize that it is.
When a large body of water is the primary geographical obstacle, investing in boats seems the logical choice.
I'm speaking particularly of the purely-decorative ones; or the ones added to up the "jewel count" to some nice round figure for sales. I doubt that those have any positive impact on the functioning of the device.
If you're not a business customer you won't have AMT provisioned, so this hack won't work remotely. Apparently a local attacker could provision AMT and then perform the attack, but that's substantially less bad.
Microsoft HoloLens Is Playing Doctor on Spines
I'm not the post author, unfortunately, so I really have no knowledge of the specifics of what is going on.

It seems like the libstdc++ maintainers are aware of the issue at least, so that's a start. It'd be nice if some of the mentioned discussions/complaints were linked, though, so we could see what has already been said/done.
I run a code bootcamp, and I honestly think it's a very good thing that the GI bill doesn't apply to code schools. At least, not until we're controlling for outcomes somehow.

Here's why:

As soon as GI bills (or any federal funding) enter the education space the product and outcomes no longer matter to the most ambitious (/greedy) companies; all you have to do is capture those dollars before someone else. The product doesn't actually matter in a financial sense because you have person A spending person B's money.

I think there's a solution, and the person this article was written about needs to be given a chance, but there needs to be some serious curation. Some online code bootcamps have graduation rates (that's graduation, not even hiring rates) of ~30%. And that's of people who paid $8,000 of their own money. Think what they would be if they were just soaking up GI bill money. Candidly the space is full of garbage schools that don't teach very much already.

Look at for-profit education lead gen for accredited universities and you'll see how quickly the race to the bottom happens. ITT Tech is the most recent example, but there's something messed up about the fact that you can sell a hot swap of a potential student on the phone for $500+. It's just an influx of money that needs to be captured from not-too-discerning spenders, and with no connection to outcome. That's bad for all involved.

Want to hear something else messed up? One of the most lucrative ways to drive those education leads is from "jobs." Post a fake job, turn someone down, then, "Oh it looks like you don't qualify for job x (that may or may not have existed), but you can attend y for free because there are grants/loans available so do that instead." Farm out those leads to a overseas call center that's paid based on how fast they can get people the biggest loans, and profit. It's a federally funded scam and a wasteland of money the poor and uneducated (or taxpayer) are on the hook for, while the companies best at marketing make a killing. I can't even type because I get so mad thinking about it.

So I think GI bills should apply to code schools, but if and only if they meet outcomes x y z. And we're not there yet.

As an aside, if there's a vet (or anyone that can't afford it) that wants to learn to code please reach out to me. We're going to be launching a six month online computer science degree soon that's free up front and a percentage of income only after you get a high-paying job. If you don't get there we fail and we get nothing. It's a lot of "credit" risk for us, and you'll have to pay a percentage back, but it's the best we can do, and it's only fair to align incentives. Email in bio.
Is there any data out there on how successful code schools are in terms of job placement and more importantly longer term success in hands-on coding (non-managerial)?

I've always had a perception (perhaps wrongly) that people who code are somewhat natural at it and don't need to be taught. Honestly I've never met anyone that was any good that was taught to code in school or by a book.
Of those, I would only classify the plague and the wars as some sort of crisis for humanity.

For example, the fall of Rome did not involve a decrease of average living standards. Rather it is the opposite that is the case as it happened at roughly the same time as the abolition of slavery in Europe.

You should not conflate crises that affect only the ruling classes with crises for humanity.
My original response is not about it being a valid hobby or not. I'm simply saying that there's nothing about mechanical watches which should seem particularly attractive to a software developer, which was the original assertion of lunaru.
There still seems to be much confusion about the relationship between PSP and DASH (AMD's version of AMT).
You know it's a platform when, if you step off, it really hurts.
There's an extent to which the proliferation of emojis reflects people's inability or unwillingness to put in the effort of using words to express things, as you state. But the written expression is vital from a legal perspective.

For example, contracts are a necessary part of our economic system. And there is an importance (and often a necessity) for contracts to be in writing. As people begin more and more to rely on emojis to express ideas, in lieu of words, there is no reason to believe that we are far away from emojis making their way into contracts.

So, as absurd as it may seem right now to give such deference to emojis as to write legal articles about this, perhaps it's really necessary...
Experience > Education?

It always blows my mind to see QA or DBA or Sysadmins with great degrees. Maybe that's the job they want OR they got siloed because of their first job.
i thought tower defense came from starcraft custom maps?
There's a date_sunrise() that found its way to the core too... There must be a datetime geek in the core devs
Man slashes painting nearly worth $3M at an art gallery
This is a topic I am very very worried about. Especially in Europe.

Myself and some friends where thinking about writing a basic guide for small, democratic (in the global meaning of the term) parties, without big infrastructure resources, to be able to use if they want to have basic information security. I'm kind of swamped with my human rights work but if there is any one on here interested in contributing, shoot me a mail (you can find me in the profile) and we can see what we can do.
Related, but not mentioned in the article, is that the start of BART service in Milpitas will trigger a large reorganization of the VTA bus network. The existing BART stations with VTA service, and the surrounding region north of Santa Clara county, will lose VTA service as those routes move to target Milpitas.

Also, to be clear, the "Next Network" affects more than the lines connecting to BART, but the opening of the new stations is one of the main reasons for the reorg (another is a change to the coverage/ridership ratio).

More info here: http://nextnetwork.vta.org
The Republican Congress is blocking a Republican administration from cracking down on states' rights. This is something only Jeff Sessions wants.
"There are a lot of factors that have gone into that drop"

Exactly. Complex systems are complex.

"trying to isolate an answer"

Wait, did you just contradict yourself? If there are a lot of factors, and they all contribute, why would you even try to isolate one? It's all of them.
A vindictive employer could sue you for defamation. I really don't see why you'd take that risk.

Does the company have Glassdoor reviews? Are those reflective of your experience? If so, then there's a warning to new hires out there already, at least.
Its basically the same thing, though right?
How to Buy a Mattress
Never said browser exploits are easy to make. I just pointed out that many times phishing is about just clicking on the link, not getting people to actually type in their passwords.
It's worth noting that, at least during weekdays, you can "cut" the bottom of the bay off of your loop using the Dumbarton Express, which goes from Union City BART to Palo Alto Caltrain (ending at Stanford). It runs from ~5:30 or 6 AM to 7 or 8 PM.

More info here: https://dumbartonexpress.com

EDIT: To head off one complaint: Yes, it's an expensive trip ($4.20 one-way). But, if/when Dumbarton rail gets off the ground, I would expect it to cost the same or more.
Nowadays, there is very little functional purpose. But historically, they were used widely and the robustness of the watch mattered a lot. There's a very good reason the Omega Speedmaster was sent to space.

Today's mechanical watches are a celebration of that tradition. You have to have an appreciation for that as well as the historical significance in timekeeping as part of civilization's endeavors into transoceanic navigation, extreme mountaineering and ultimately into space as a prerequisite for truly appreciating mechanical watches.

The best manufactures today, like Rolex, uphold that tradition in their professional line. You can read about the history of the GMT, the Explorer and the Subminariner (in particular the Milsub) to get a glimpse of the historical significance.

In some way, a mechanical watch is a miniature museum and houses some very significant advancements. Modern watchmakers continue to push mechanical and material boundaries. This is to be appreciated if only as an art, even if outdated.
This is why reasonable, rational people are losing and will continue to keep losing. Because we accept calling Trump unscrupulous and incompetent as a partisan opinion when it is actually clearly a statement of fact based on ample amounts of evidence.
with node-webkit you can just point nw.exe at a package.json allowing the user to just have a single node-webkit install and can run multiple apps.
https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/
Talking about about “overdiagnosis” without addressing underdiagnosis is, frankly, scientific and clinical malpractice. Untreated ADHD, which is underdiagnosed in adults (especially in women) can be a debilitating condition and there's ample evidence about this from peer-reviewed medical journals (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195639/, among others). Self-medication with effective medication isn’t even really possible because amphetamines aren't regular prescription drugs -- they're controlled substances, so diagnosis tends to be a necessary condition to get access to effective meds.

The “overdiagnosis” moral panic leads to parents not being OK with the idea of their children being diagnosed with ADHD or shudder be on effective medication like adderall or ritalin, or people (of all ages) thinking/internalizing the idea that they can’t ~~really~~ have ADHD and that they’re just “lazy” or “flaky” or “apathetic” or whatever other shitty terms are used for people with executive dysfunction. It also makes doctors more suspicious of people seeking treatment ("if it’s overdiagnosed it must be rare, so some of the people I see as a doctor have to be be faking it, by pigeonhole principle"), which actually causes harm to people who need access to medical care -- finding a doctor who’s OK prescribing is such a pain when you’re ADHD and have run out of meds.

I've had enough bad experiences with psychiatrists for a lifetime and I've absolutely no inclination to defend psychiatrists, their clinical practice, or their DSM. There indeed are people who are diagnosed with ADHD who don’t have it / don’t benefit from medication. However, the “overdiagnosis” meme (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/17709814/) and other forms of ADHD denialism cause real harm to people who actually end up needing critical access to controlled substances which are impossible to legally get without the appropriate diagnosis. Regardless of how psychiatrists draw the lines of diagnosis, there's plenty of evidence that there actually do exist plenty of people with chronic and debilitating attention / executive function dysfunction that do experience amelioration when they take a regular dose of stimulants.

Furthermore, this isn't a straightforward discussion about the effectiveness of some given pharmaceutical -- this is a moral panic that explicitly seeks to use the criminal law to curtail access to medication, regardless if it has been shown safe and effective:

> The Drug Enforcement Agency is doing its best to contain the epidemic
Yeah, coal is obviously WAY worse than solar vis a vis carbon dioxide. I'm not disputing that. But compared to other renewables, it doesn't do as well as you'd expect:

- wind: 11 g / kWh [1]

- nuclear: 12 g / kWh [2]

- solar PV: 45 g / kWh [3]

- gas: 450 g / kWh [4]

Of course, 12 g vs 45 g is NOTHING compared to 45 g vs 450 g (and coal is another 2x atop gas!), so I'm making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.

[1] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sustain_lca_wind.html

[2] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sustain_lca_nuclear.html

[3] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sustain_lca_pv.html

[4] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sustain_lca_ngas.html
> I don't find it that difficult to fix once the location is known but figuring that much out can be seriously annoying.

To be clear, I agree with this. Easy to fix once you know where it is, if you're competent in the language. Occasionally very hard to know that.
The thing is, it's not that there aren't a lot of blog posts. There are! There's usually at least one blog post about any library I care to use. But it's only a blog post—it's something someone wrote at some point—and so it's not corrected for misapprehensions the author (who is usually not the author of the library) had about the idiomatic way to use the library, nor is it kept up to date with changes in the library like soft docs would be.

I don't think there's a dearth of people willing to write blog posts. There's just a dearth of people willing to do the equivalent job to what Wikipedia editors do for general-purpose articles: collating those "primary sources" into a single, coherent, up-to-date overview.
Take a look at:
https://typesetinthefuture.com/
You are right that it is the rapid feedback that really helps with teaching. I don't think you need a graphical language though, just an IDE oriented toward rapid feedback. Putting a 3rd grader in Eclipse and having to compile and build a jar to see the effects of a line of code would be horrible. But IDEs like Processing Development Environment or Dr.Racket have great tight feedback loops.
I myself ran across this same scenario many years ago with a similar amount of hair pulling and eventually concluding that the GNU libstdc++ allocator wasn't reusing memory properly. Unfortunately, I was never able to pare down the application to the point that I had a reproducible test case to report upstream.

GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW was the solution for the near term and since I was deploying on Solaris boxes I eventually switched to the Sun Forte C++ compiler.

It really bugs me that this problem still exists. :-/
As someone involved in hiring, I'm trying to get an idea of what you know and what you can do, not where you got the knowledge.
Actually it is C's malloc and free that is "broken". malloc() takes a size parameter, but free() doesn't. This imbalance means it can never be maximally efficient. Whatever GNU stdlibc++ is doing is probably, on balance, a net win for most programs.

It's not exactly roses in C++ either of course. You can do better than the standard library facilities. Andrei Alexandrescu gave a great, entertaining, and technically elegant talk on memory allocation in C and C++ at Cppcon 2015 that is well worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U