skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was in Uni I flunked Calculus II. The following year I switched Uni and - somewhat fortunately - I re-followed the same class.

I say fortunately because during my first round at Calculus II I couldn't fathom the slightest underlying motivation for all the statements and proofs that were regurgitated during class. I had no bearing - I nearly panicked with the Cauchy Problem - and was doubting whether or not I was cut for Engineering at all.

The following year the other Prof took a digression and for two weeks laid out Inf-dimentional spaces, Banach spaces, functionals, contractions, fixed points and so on. Then one morning, over the course of 2 hours he plugs in differential equations, the Cauchy problem and deals with it with such elegance, clarity and insight that I can still recollect the broad strokes.

I had first hand proof of the blessing and the curse of mathematics...
You would visit the relevant bullet board, then post a question and get a response like RTFM. Then spend the afternoon staring into space
Install Debian with testing repositories and unattended upgrades and you're done for good.

Or just stick to CentOS and with their 11 years support period.
Heh, it's kind of funny when you look at it like that. It's the opposite of the typical fleecing scheme, wherein a publicly owned company enriches the big guys at the little guys' expense (a la Enron). Uber is doing the opposite, since it isn't publicly traded and only has large rich investors: They're saving lots of little guys' money on car fares at the expense of the few big guy investors.
A shelter for anyone who isn't a man. How thoughtful of Amazon.
If you were born in '83, you're a (senior) millennial. While the definition of "Millenial" is fuzzy - you were a young adult (17 y.o.) when Y2K happened
This doesn't seem as bad as when the TSA published pictures of their master keys - it sounds like the codes have already been changed & the pilots still have to do visual confirmation even if a correct code was used.

The endless struggle between convenience and security continues. Considering the statistics I actually think the airline industry and its associated governing bodies have accomplished an incredible feat of balancing these two sides of the seesaw. It can be a hassle flying, but there are 895 million passenger trips per year in the US (stat from 2015) and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009!

I'd worry much more about new regulations pushing large quantities of Li-Ion batteries into airplane holds than about these cabin access codes being published.
I tried the same as a programmer. I used Prompt to SSH into a EC2 machine and did all my coding there. I loved the size but had problems with multi-tasking, debugging and especially spotty WiFi in cafes. Also tried the route of jailbreaking and using Prompt to connect to a local SSH server but that didn't work so well either because of missing software.

The thing that then really pissed me off was that iOS9 changed all of the keybindings so my bluetooth iPad keyboard with it's function keys all of a sudden became almost-useless. I still don't know how to switch the input language. Something with space? If I click the switch-language-key it just opens Spotlight.

Now I just degraded it to my media tablet that Airplays stuff to my TV, write scripts and documents and just organize my day-to-day. Though I wouldn't absolutely care if I wouldn't have it anymore. It's a 'extra' that makes certain things slightly more convenient but by no means do I think of it as a necessary tool.

I'm going to buy the next 12" MBP to replace it but I do hope for a better blend between iPad and Mac. If I could program on that thing more reliably I would.
As a member of both, no, they're really not. The information on SE is very useful but highly transient (and redundant, but at least we constantly try to rectify that). It'd be extremely more valuable if it could be condensed into a guide or textbook or what have you to teach idioms to beginners.

As for Wikipedia, I'm almost convinced most information on it is erroneous, unverifiable, or useless in the forms it is presented. I've stopped making contributions and try not to ever reference it at all.
So much for "write once, run everywhere". "Write once, run on Linux" doesn't sound as good :(
Can we give net netrality a clearer name?
People defer to authority in issues they do not understand. Knowing this, experts, politicians and most professions use complicated terms, symbols, and slangs to bamboozle people.

This is why the US government mandates that public facing documents are written in Plain Language.

If the empty name, 'net neutrality' persists, the anti-net, big pocketed corporations will win the disinformation war eventually.

So let's pick a new name that emphasizes the worst end result of losing net neutrality.

I suggest:

Net Partiality

Net Discrimination

Net Hostage

Net Ransom

A poll perhaps?
Can you tell us what processes you used to sell well / point us at resources? Especially re pre-sales, but also for how to make a good book sustainable like that?
I think Uber has released tons more open source sw than Lyft. https://github.com/uber
My first thought was "aren't these rotated often? even just generated for every flight?", but then I rapidly thought about who would need to set them, and I decided it strange that the flight attendant would know the password at all... if the goal is to protect against an attacker, giving the password to anyone outside of the cockpit just makes them a target and a weakness; but once you go that far, I wonder why they need access codes at all?... the pilots should just lock themselves into the cockpit and they need neither a key nor an access code at that point, right? Isn't this needless complexity to have these codes?
RTFM is why we have stackoverflow's people who answer. BUM!
Netflix allows downloading only on their mobile apps
It's not hard to to write or read. They feel disingenuous though. The truth is email's are not like letters. A letter of at least one half a page should be the minimum, but an email longer than two paragraphs better be seriously interesting. We've carried over the etiquette of letter writing into a medium where using that etiquette feels much more manufactured.
I have and enjoy a Switch.

I also have and enjoy the MFi GameVice for my iPad Mini 4. It works quite well.

And I use the Zagg Tough Book case with my iPad Mini 4 to essentially turn it into an iPad Mini ToughBook, which fits into the hip pockets of the 'business BDUs' I normally wear.
> StackOverflow mods are appointed to police content. The more content they remove, the more it looks like they're doing their jobs.

I can safely say you're wrong in this regard. Content removal is a big fraction of what the mods do because the contributors filter editing, closing, pointing out duplicates, migrating, etc. so that mods have to deal with only important stuff.
I would say there is a difference between having a bare-bones proof of concept and a fully developed malware.
Rumor: Spyro the Dragon Returns to Playstation 4
The commentary within the metasploit module for MS17-010 [1] should count for posting 'a reverse engineering' or at least some meaningful analysis of moving parts within EternalBlue SMB exploit.

The researchers involved are @zerosum0x0 and @JennaMagius on twitter. Their work has been impressive (including eliminating a 10 second delay in some of the exploit chain iirc) if you ask me.

Of course I don't disagree with the content of your post - it does appear that the release of a working exploit has driven the release of this malware, rather than the release of the MS patch, or a description of the vulnerability in general (such as within the CVE).

[1] https://github.com/RiskSense-Ops/MS17-010
There may be a situation where both pilots are unable to fly the plane and need help or first aid e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

> At 11:49, flight attendant Andreas Prodromou entered the cockpit and sat down in the captain's seat, having remained conscious by using a portable oxygen supply. Prodromou held a UK Commercial Pilot License, but was not qualified to fly the Boeing 737. Crash investigators concluded that Prodromou's experience was insufficient for him to gain control of the aircraft under the circumstances. Prodromou waved at the F16s very briefly, but almost as soon as he entered the cockpit, the left engine flamed out due to fuel exhaustion and the plane left the holding pattern and started to descend. Ten minutes after the loss of power from the left engine, the right engine also flamed out, and just before 12:04 the aircraft crashed into hills near Grammatiko. There were no survivors.
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I have tried to use Lyft, but the Uber's app design is much more user-friendly to me. I was confused by some of Lyft's ride selection options etc. Esp after the Uber redesign that happened a few months ago, it became much more easier and nicer to use.
Or Athlon Kabini if you don't need a GPU
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Philips CDE tool [1] looks like such a beautiful thing!

> "Prepend any set of Linux commands with the "cde" binary, and CDE will run them and automatically package up all files (e.g., executables, libraries, plug-ins, config/data files) accessed during execution."

Then, put this in a Docker if you want, but so awesome not be required to do that!

I think more orthogonality is needed, and less fluff and accidental complexity in all its forms, including "buzzword" tech stacks.

[1] http://pgbovine.net/cde.html
I agree.. Just a small payback for something I personally use.
> net neutrality is dead

I don't think so. You know why they don't talk about this on r/the_donald? Because their propaganda attempts to raise the issue have resulted in people speaking out against the FCC's proposed policy.

I'd argue that current techies haven't become conservative enough to consider removing net neutrality. In 10-20 years, when we have more competition among ISPs, perhaps this will come up again and we'll finally gut it. I don't look forward to that, but it's happened to all other forms of communication. Eventually, money works its way in deeper and deeper, finding new markets and new ways to sell what we already have.

Anyway, my point is, politicians don't have a job without our vote, and when people speak out en masse about an issue, they do hear you. Trump is as big a politician as anyone. He cares what other people think and doesn't want to be viewed as the bad guy. He wants to get re-elected.
The critical 4-word question every entrepreneur needs to ask
Hippo’s, Pirates and Happy Customer’s
How to Port Your iOS App to Android and Vice Versa?
The US government will attack Bitcoin - both technologically and politically instead of taking responsibility for this.
I remember differently, the release of digg v4 was the last nail in the digg coffing and the tipping point happened about a year before that with the famous ncomment 'Digg vs Reddit' webcomics. When this got to digg front page, well, let's say it was right on point.

Sorry, I know flickr sucks but it seems ncomment original website is now gone, the comics survived on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/25036088@N06/sets/721576159246...
Thanks. Interesting point. I found that I started a lot of hobby project, but haven't been finishing any of them lately. The one thing they have in common was that I told people about them.

The ones I did finish were the ones that I didn't tell anyone about, because they were useful only to me.
Arduinos cost more than a lot of Pis, though. And the network interface of a Pi enables some really interesting capabilities that don't exist, or are harder to obtain, with a device that doesn't have one.
Ask HN: Why auto-tunable systems/software isn't a thing? yet?
I don't understand why systems/software does not auto-tune for the current/best-guessed/avg workload these have. I see computers are pretty good at predicting or understanding, sometimes at real time, what's the best configuration for the work they doing. So Im really curious on why systems mostly don't configure themselves. Is there any research/work on this?
> Here's an example: consider this classical paper[1], "Vector Bundles Over An Elliptic Curve" by M. Atiyah. The author is a well known and regarded mathematician, and the paper itself has around 1000 citations.

Sir Michael Atiyah is an Abel prize and Fields medal winner. Apart from that, he has an excellent sense of humor. I had a chance to grab lunch with him last year and it was quite entertaining to say the least.
For a while I had a paid subscription to CIX (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIX), which was pretty handy at times.

It's worth noting that in the pre-web era the proliferation rate of new frameworks/languages/platforms was a lot lower, so once you had mastered a toolset you could stay relevant a lot longer than is the case today.
Awesome project! I know we don't like to take credit here in the Netherlands, but you should certainly add a small bio of the team members. Take pride in your work ;)

I read that you plan to study CS next year. If you are going to the TU Delft, send me a PM. I can introduce you to a couple of professors and their research groups.
You can get them on Amazon, too, and my impression is that buyer support is better there than on Aliexpress.
I think you are confusing the long term and short term outlook.

In the short term Waymo will have a very strong bargaining position because their technology is so advanced - Lyft cannot buy self driving tech from anyone else.

But in 10 years Lyft will be able to choose from a half dozen companies offering self driving tech. 'Ride sharing' will be a cut-throat commodity business like airlines, but Lyft won't be at a particular disadvantage compared to other companies in the industry.
I don't agree with this at all.

Since the iOS 9 update my iPad 2 is a miserable piece of trash: everything is sluggish beyond saving, and the rendering has been butchered on those low dpi devices (the old iOS designs looked crisper).

EDIT: Fix iOS version, whichever one ditched skeumorphism.
I wouldnt want Uber to die. They were one who created the ride-sharing market and the industry fighting against all outdated regulations. They may have done "sabotaging" their competition once several years ago -- there's no record of them having done it in the last 2-3 years. Btw, Lyft also has done similar stuff.
After getting tired of RPis corrupting SD cards I just took my old Mac mini 2006, swapped the CPU for a Core 2 Duo (was Core Duo), flashed firmware from the 2007 model, installed an SSD (yea sure SATA 1 limits bandwidth but latency is sooo much better) and installed HardenedBSD. (For which I had to compile GRUB 2 for 32-bit EFI, because well the machine has a 32-bit EFI, and fuck no I'm not using CSM. GRUB 2 worked very well.)

Unfortunately there is an issue with the Ethernet: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206567 so right now my home server is on Wi-Fi :D Which has been perfectly reliable so far, thanks to the good old Atheros card.
Pros and Cons of Vue.js framework
Kubernetes on BOSH
I believe its more like "write once, run everywhere except for mac". Microsoft is working on running linux containers natively on Windows.
> Net Neutrality isn't partisan. Or rather, it doesn't need to be. There are reasons for both Democrats & Republicans to support it.

I completely agree. Most techies who support Trump see that removing net neutrality could worsen partisan media. The issue hasn't been raised on r/the_donald because they can't get enough people to support Ajit Pai's proposed "Internet Freedom" policy.

The only people who seem to support it are die-hard free-market folks who don't understand the internet, or, who are already invested in a business that would benefit from such a change.

Killing net neutrality will never benefit the consumer, only the big players.
> Yeah, he took a lot of liberties to support the title statement. The fact that many thousands of pro-NN are variations on the same sentences, because the template was provided by J. Oliver, also means implies that part of the anti-NN bulk could have been registered by humans working off a template as well.

I agree that it's possible, but seeing as the anti-NN template was used 440k times, and the top pro-NN template was used 26k times, I think it's fair to say that it's highly unlikely.

Think about how viral that John Oliver clip/story got, and it doesn't even contain a template (IIRC), and then try to think of an anti-NN template that somehow got 17 times more viral/engagement.

It's also relevant to consider who benefits from what side.
Sometimes allowing pilots to close them self inside a cockpit could end up badly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
iPad 2 never received iOS 10.
Is it actually the law though, not just lazy officials? We had that problem in Estonia too, but some procurement officials have actually begun to write scoring systems for proposals and so being the lowest bidder is sometimes actually negatively scored.
Mostly books from the library (or buying them, but that was fairly rare when a teen + broke), experimenting yourself and also being very fortunate to befriend some established programmers who were willing to take me under their wing.

I'm very glad that learning programming is much easier these days (especially at my job where I can just google most issues now :)).
"Sandboxing is fine. It should be up to the user what we decide to sandbox and what not."

True - but isn't the latter exactly the problem we're facing? That we increasingly don't get to decide whether we want that sandbox or not?
>I've configured it to boot off of the Hard Drive. You don't even need an SD card in it to boot.

Woah, that's awesome! I had no idea the pi 3 could do that.

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 B and a 3 B at home. I host my website using the 2 B with cloudflare in front of it [1], as well as use it as a login server, but every couple of months the SD card gets corrupted. The last time that happened was a couple of weeks ago and since I'm currently away from home there's nothing I can do to fix it until I get back so now my website is down and additionally I can't send data to my desktop computer for backup, though fortunately I have two external drives with me so I can have multiple copies of my data still just not at different physical locations.

Totally going to put the 3 B in charge of my website and have it boot from a USB stick instead of from SD.

Searched and found a post with more details about this from the Raspberry Pi guys: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-i-usb-mas...

[1]: https://github.com/eriknstr/interweb
If you are starting then go for Python 3.
I recently realised that my articles in Pocket and the number of tabs in my browser was piling up. This was a big cause of anxiety for me. In the end I worked around the issue by just saving the links in Evernote, arranged by topic.

I now have the comfort that those articles are still there if I ever need to research that topic again, but they are out of sight and don't bother me.
I agree completely. People can blame MS for their insecure OS, or users who don't know any better for running outdated systems (or even for running Windows at all), but the stark reality is that all OSes have vulnerabilities because they are huge and complex and it is impossible to make them 100% secure.

But the NSA are - by definition - supposed to be security experts, so what are they doing letting themselves get hacked? They have effectively given away the nuclear football.

I'm shocked we're not seeing more blame in their direction on this one.
XP was supported for 12 years. It's now over 15 years since it was released.
It's broken. I am also getting 404.
If you or your IT dept is not installing updates, especially security patches, over 2 months after they come out, somethings horribly wrong.
This really brings back memories. During my first year of programming there were occasions when I was absolutely desperate for help. A friend introduced me to some programming channels on IRC, and I was amazed at how knowledgeable and helpful those guys were.

Stackoverflow definitely saves a lot of time, but it doesn't compare to the personalized help from those gurus on IRC. Unfortunately, much harder to find these days.
You are so wrong I don't know where to start.

You're talking about a situation where a politician resigns to avoid being impeached or otherwise deposed.

That has basically zero to do with Uber and Lyft leaving Austin. We know exactly what laws Austin has (laws are not secret). And it's not like it's remotely unclear what happened: Uber and Lyft left in protest of the law requiring background checks for them. You could speculate that they were trying to strong-arm Austin into repealing that law, but it didn't work.

But there's zero reason to believe that they were secretly forced out, unlike the case with the politician, where the incentives are obvious.
I think you should look at point 3., slightly different from 1: everytime Google acts on something like this, they show that they can act.

If the damage it causes them, both in profit and image, is not very large then it might very well not be worth it to risk setting a precedent than Google is responsible for policing their ads. It is exactly the scenario they were caught in with YouTube, and becoming the police there didn't help them at all compared to the previous status quo.

Of course that's the good scenario, the bad one would be that Google, being of a size and importance that can be called a monopoly in the Internet ad space, would be violating these "fraudsters" rights since technically what they do may not be breaking any laws, which would lead to this becoming a precedent and all the others who currently try to keep themselves mostly clean in their ads would be vindicated to go evil too.

I'm not saying these are the real reasons, but again if the damage and risk they represent is insignificantly small relative to the whole, why would Google risk opening that can of worms.
I find it hilarious that on a page about cross-platform design the left menu hides part of the article text on the ohh-so-common 1920x1080 displays.

I guess to some people cross-platform means "works on my imac 5K and my MBP retina"...
Pilots get up to use the lavatory, and are brought food. The code is an authenticated knock, and replaces the speakeasy-style "secret" knocking patterns that were used before 9/11. Someone in the cockpit views the person who entered the code on a CCTV monitor and decides whether or not to buzz the door open. This is a control against someone who knows the code but is under duress. If the pilot inside doesn't explicitly deny the request to enter after some number of seconds, it's automatically granted (useful if the pilot is unconscious, say).

This all came up in the Germanwings pilot suicide. The suicidal pilot waited till the other pilot was outside the cockpit, then repeatedly denied acccess to the cockpit when he entered the code to get back in.
You might wanna take a look at Qubes OS, which tries to provide such workflow in a nicely packaged distribution: https://www.qubes-os.org/
I've wondered before whether something similar could be implemented to help foster focus & "flow", for those of us working at computers.

By which I mean less measuring actual drowsiness, but more "lack of focus" as detected by your facial expression (perhaps also mouse movements + current open app?). This likely wouldn't be a binary thing but rather a more fluid "guide" which notices you're beginning to lose focus and guides you back to your "best next action".

Obviously intrinsic motivation is far more beneficial than external, but still it seems that something like this could be helpful (to me at least).
The Shadow Brokers VEP: NSA Has Had at Least 96 Days to Warn Microsoft
Zynq. Yes, their SoC products have embedded ARM cores: https://www.altera.com/products/soc/overview.html

These's a bunch of affordable Cyclone V SoC development boards: http://www.terasic.com.tw/attachment/archive/836/image/compa...