skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think processing any data like that (ethnicity, political viewpoints, union memberships) is completely illegal in the Netherlands (and I assume in the EU) [1] (dutch).

I would personally be very disturbed and angry if data like that about me would exist, let alone leak to the internet. No matter who has it, that data should not exist. Do people in the US really not feel that way?

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/dem/watify/selli...
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Decyphering the business card ray tracer
> malloc() who manages the heap as no idea of where the stack currently ends, and thus can allocate memory at an adress that is also claimed by the stack

The other way around. The kernel has already mapped pages for the stack, and would never hand such pages to malloc unless there's a serious bug in the vm subsystem.

However, code that uses the stack has no idea where the stack ends. And reaching out of the stack is only detected via page faults. If that access happens to land on a mapped page with the right permissions, there is no fault and the code can effectively grow the stack into heap region.
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This sounds awesome. I've never heard of you.

I commute internationally for work, but I've bookmarked you then to try out the next time I hit an unfamiliar airport.
Not sure I understand your response. I wouldn't describe Facebook's security processes as "careless", nor would I describe their vast and complete data collection as "for funsies"
It's surprising to me how in the 1970s, if someone needed a processor for something (even a video game or CNC controller), it was normal for them to invent a new instruction set and put together a processor from TTL chips. The barrier to entry was very low.
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I travel a lot, always economy class, I hate queues...
Im not sure about this, is it legal to speed up immigration process? Like how can non airport staff even get access to help you speed up internal airport stuff? I understand prebooking a taxi and helping you carry luggage? But anything else?
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As for fast track immigrations/customs in the US, we're only able to help in some cases at JFK and MIA. Basically no company has access to meet travelers at their gate in the US. We're working to make this happen though, and there are pilot programs at a few airports coming later this year!
Oh justices are absolutely biased, it's impossible to have a human being who isn't. The point is that the justices have to defend their decision with some sort of rational argument, while congressman simply vote yay or nay on a bill without qualifiers or precedent being set.
Interesting. In my experience this wasn't common, but I was part of geekier VWO. Scooters were slightly more common at HAVO and very popular with VMBO. And while there might be a connection with education level, scooters were also stereotypically owned by Turkish/Moroccan kids.

I always felt a bit sad that it wasn't more normal for 'my crowd' to have scooters. I would've loved a scooter.
We've been having reasonable discussions on these topics for many years. Discussions that never lead to decisions and actions are a sideshow.

I'm calling for action - strong user-centric privacy protections with strict liability and significant personal and organization penalties for negligence, similar to the French model.
Sometimes it seems to me that histories like this put the weight of leaving poverty in the individuals himselves rather than the government social services, enforcing the myth that poor people is people that chooses to.
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I have an office with no windows and was wondering if there are ways to re-create a natural light feel? I get a headache at the end of the day.
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I think you missed the point being made. TSA Precheck has not made things helpful. It has merely allowed people of means to return to the status quo ante before TSA existed. It has come at the cost of less freedom and a lowering if expectations on how government should treat people without means.
Sigh. Soft keyboard keeps duping and misregistering ketstrokes.

That dimension is the setting of boundaries. E.g., "I don't wan't you to know, or share, or seek, or ask of some X." Or if it's acquired, not to share it except as specifically specified -- only with notice, on request, within a given grroup, for (or not for) a specific time, etc., etc.
Would their trademark have been the full name spelled out or is it literally "N.W.A.?" I'd imagine that would have previously made a big difference.
It wasnt meant to be prescriptive, just hopeful. I'm glad to have read about how one man's ingenuity completely changed his situation.
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I think data that has to do with voting records, or suspected voting records, would be very reasonable to be under the purview of being treated as sensitive data that, if breached, should have consequences to a company.
Answers.

Or possibly just better questions.
For the uninformed: The reason .htaccess is not desirable is that the server has to check each directory in the request path for an .htaccess file and read its content.
Wow, this is genius. Makes so much sense.
I remember their demos. Their secret sauce was in the algorithm, which somehow would spend little time on the featureless parts.
Not the answer you can expect but Pro Python is a good book to start, have you read it?
> Eh, what's the worst that could happen

This actually sounds more plausible than sci-fi - but the worst that could happen would be that this tick-borne allergy becomes something where the fact you're a mammal (and "made of meat") brings on the symptoms, to the n-th degree...
+1 for Ryzen but if people are having cooling issues they might want to check out underclocking.
Awesome feedback! We're launching a new version of our platform in a week or so and we're fixing a fair amount of the autocomplete and airport/airline search issues.
So that'll include Windows Server licences in AWS, and GCE too wouldn't it?
Ah and I am so lucky I never switched to Galileo while I was tempted during its release. For some reason I thought it wouldn't work out. Something felt off for some reason and I could kind of get by with Raspberry Pi.

Reading hackaday comments it's probably from the documentation and Intel's doing, not for the technology on itself. I am guessing that open source OR community > closed source or company (as in Raspberry Pi with a great community vs Galileo or Arduino vs anything else) for these kind of things.
On a similar note, it's always nice to see the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" stories involving homeless people, but we (meaning the U.S) need to place higher value on assisting those who can't assist themselves.

Mental illness is the root of the problem. From homelessness to suicide rates to general well being, we need a better mental health care system in place.

I've been reading "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" by Sebastian Junger and it draws a pretty clear connection between what we consider a "successful person" and unhappiness. In essence, people were happier when they lived simpler lives in tribes, and as society grew to place value on financial/personal independence and move away from the tribe system of survival - people became more unhappy and mental illness/suicide rates rose.

The more we segregated people by wealth/social status, the more isolated people feel and mental illness rates creep higher and higher.

This article just reinforces the idea that only lazy/dumb people are homeless, and only those who "put in the work" deserve recognition.
How do they deal with the tension of having bars/clubs in residential areas? Or do these areas just not exist in Japan?
You can certainly find snippets that are simpler in Ruby than in Python; they're just not the majority. Consider a slightly more complicated case where you need to print out items in a range with some modification. Idiomatic Ruby:

(0 ... 5).each do |x|
print (x + 1)
end

Idiomatic Python:

for x in range(0, 5):
print (x + 1)

To understand Ruby, you need to know what || does, and the overall sequencing of the words as you read that construct is somewhat unnatural for English. Python is comparatively easier to parse with no prior background.

It is definitely possible to write Ruby in a way that's still highly readable. But from what I've seen of real world Ruby code, that's not the way it tends to be written - idiomatic Ruby values expressiveness and DRY, so you see blocks and various terse syntactic sugar used all over the place; lots of "clever" code in general. There's nothing wrong with that - I generally prefer expressiveness over readability myself - but many people do not.
Interesting platform; it never would've occurred to me something like a turn-based strategy game for writing stories.
This time there's ARM, which was there before, but wasn't anywhere near Intel in performance stakes. ARM based chips will probably end up in the lower end products and take money away from both AMD and Intel. Servers are where Intel makes money, and if Epyc is looking as good as it promises, they are going to have a tough time there as well.
I have implemented quite a few algorithms and data structures for fun here [1]. It's not authoritarive by any means, and not everything is in Go (there's also some Rust, Swift, TS and JS), but maybe a few things could turn up useful.

[1] https://github.com/peferron/algo
If it's raining or snowing too hard to be able to ride a bicycle (with appropriate clothing, i.e. the appropriate clothing to be outside in that weather anyway), it's probably also worth reconsidering operating the 3000lb wheelchair.
The set of concurring opinions already gives me a headache.

> ALITO, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and III–A, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and KENNEDY, GINSBURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined, and in which THOMAS, J., joined except for Part II, and an opinion with respect to Parts III–B, III–C, and IV, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and THOMAS and BREYER, JJ., joined. KENNEDY, J., filed
an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which GINSBURG, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. GORSUCH, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
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Depends on your definition of "really" expensive, but as a Dutch citizen I can tell you that:

- On average new cars are about twice as expensive compared to the USA, mostly due to tax. (A Mustang GT starts at 119.500 EUR, about 133k USD).

- Insurance is mandatory

- For each car you own you pay a monthly road tax (between 30-100 euro per month, depending on the car)

- fuel prices are also quite high (~6,5USD per US gallon)

- parking can also be very expensive in some regions (I pay 115 euro/month for my parking space)

Despite all that, most Dutch people still own a car, for practical and status purpose. However, due to the cost involved (fuel and parking) many Dutchies will prefer a bike if the trip is not that far.
Sorry for the late reply.

If you consider Android to be a GNU/Linux distro, then Android 4.x+ could be a reference for this.
a password manager that is designed holistically

Honest question: what does 'holistically' mean in this context?
There are more than two layers to society.
We've basically partnered with the best suppliers at each airport. There are often 2-3 companies at each airport that do this and 2 of them are terrible and 1 is really good. We've worked really hard to vet ever single supplier to make sure there is consistency and reliability on every service.
You don't think personal change represents any elevation from poverty? I think we certainly agree it can play a major role into poverty descent.
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If you ride a racing bike (which is more common in the US), all of that stuff actually is necessary. Also, in the US, a bike is seen either as a kids' toy or as sports equipment, not as an appliance.
This exact problem led to my current behavior that I now use in all email apps: I delete/never fill in the "to" fields leaving that for last. Can't accidentally send an email to nowhere...
I have to second this. I am a long-time Linux user, having run Debian since the late 90s and Slackware since 1993 but systemd put me over the edge. Things that worked and were easy to figure out in the previous init system just stopped working under systemd. It is a brutally complicated init that didn't add anything to my experience and pushed me out of Debian and into FreeBSD where things still have sane defaults. I like to get my work done instead of messing around with an init system that refuses to let me do even the most basic things.

Not all new things are great and I think Debian made a mistake not supporting a traditional init system alongside systemd or at least until the kinks could be worked out.
2422 books here all of the above ought to be small though as noted. I think it would be interesting to profile and figure out which part is slow. Is it equally slow if you run calibredb add in the terminal?
Intel's problem with SSDs is that their cycles are really long. They come up with a great drive, then let it languish for 2+ years. This is fine in the datacenter market, but it means they're always getting leapfrogged in the faster-paced consumer market. They've tried to compensate by using third-party controllers and even third-party NAND to fill in the gaps, but those efforts have had mixed success.
> other than you believing that you have a strong enough pull in the industry that you could badmouth me into not getting a job if I rejected your offer and told you it was because your interview was terrible. Of course, that is not the case.

It is obvious our different experiences give us different views of the world. I would just add that I have seen this happen, mostly in business settings. A lot of people take things personally.

I don't particularly take things personally myself; it's all business or math to me. But when I was younger, I used to give brutally honest feedback about everything, and there were a couple of investment opportunities that it cost me (and I cannot say that it created others). I learned to play the politics game as I matured. I hate the game, yes, but I needed to start playing to break a glass ceiling.

> Yeah, no, that wouldn't have been deduced from that interview;

No, it would have surfaced immediately. I try to hire people whose attitude is more of the "yes, I can do anything that's needed. But why?" rather than "I laugh in your general direction since I think you are wrong".

> with you specifically;

Me and google. And facebook. And hundreds of other companies. You are entitled to your opinion that e.g. Google's culture is the problem.

Which is not to say my company is as successful as google. Just that I share the idea that culture fit is important. I recommend reading "Peopleware" if you haven't yet -- they have some empirical anecdata for that.

Also, I'm amused at how my "I prefer to ignore noisy data" comment (which is all my comment said, explained several times) was taken to mean "I think everyone's a sycophant or crybaby". I think it reflects on the readers' ability to consider that I'm calibrating my stats differently than they expect, or rather lack of it. And I calibrate it that way based on decades of interviewing -- I didn't start that way.
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Coinbase is horrible. Their customer service is none existent. I waited 6 weeks to get my bank account verified so that I could make withdrawals to my bank. They say send at least 6 EUR to their Estonia account. I sent 10 EUR and it never got verified. I e-mailed numerous times, tweeted their support account, and tweeted the CEO. No response from an actual person at all.

Moved my ETH and LTC elsewhere and sold to a private buyer.
This seems incredibly pricey, especially for the services you seem to be promising (which, for all the airports I spot-checked, amounted to Meet and Greet, Custom Assistance, and Transport Assistance). Fast tracking was not covered in the base price for any of the airports I checked. Connecting flight service is $745 per person!!!

Your example pricing was for 2 people, but I checked and it looks like the price for 1 is the same—SFO is $375 (for both 1 and 2 passengers), likewise for BOM ($340 for 1). Given how much you are pushing the business traveler angle, I think it'll be more honest to talk about price per passenger, as business travelers rarely travel in pairs.

Business travelers typically travel light, and might not need as much baggage assistance or custom assistance. Likewise, you only claim to provide assistance booking transportation (the passenger pays for the actual transport), which means that unless someone is traveling to a very very 'foreign' land (where no one speaks English, the signage is very confusing, you are very likely to be cheated, etc. etc.) I don't see too much value coming out of the service for most travelers.

I understand it's a discretionary spend, and that you can charge whatever you want, and that three or four hundred bucks is throwaway money for many business travelers (or their companies) but I was personally quite disappointed to see the pricing, because I was hoping to use it to get, say, an aging parent through all the airport hassle. For 50-100 bucks, worth considering. For 400, not so much.
You understate the issue-- the GPIO pins had a default throughput of 230 Hz [https://communities.intel.com/message/207904#207904]
They reference IBM labs. The Beauty of Fractal Images talks about an IBM 4361-5 with extended precision, and an IBM 4250 printer for one of the monochrome plates near the end of the book.

The Science of Fractal Images lists, as credits for the colour plates, these people and institutions: http://imgur.com/a/KSnDZ
The downsides you speak of are not caused by being empathetic.

They are caused by not having developed skills in setting boundaries.

Being worried about upsetting people isn't a feature of empathy. It's a feature of a lack of perspective.
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Looking at that link I don't think it was implemented. The footers on stack overflow pages still indicate cc-by-sa.
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FWIW, anyone shipping single books from the US to Europe will have roughly the same shipping price; for sure you won't find any under $20, unless some European web store has ordered a few hundred copies for redistribution.
I'm not saying this shouldn't have consequences. What I'm saying is this is far too nuanced to just say "lock up the CEO"
I had watched about a million Dutch cycling videos before I went to the Netherlands, but it's even better than the videos make it out. Cycling in the Netherlands is safe, easy, and fun. I rode around with a four-year-old and an almost-two-year-old in a cargo bike and not for a second felt any stress or fear (and my kids absolutely loved it as well, fresh air and no carseats). I can't go half a mile in Seattle without worrying about getting run over. I basically gave up on cycling in America because I can't handle the adrenaline hangover anymore.

One more thing, as great as cycling is in Amsterdam, from what I can tell, it might be the least best place to cycle in the Netherlands, so if you only cycle in Amsterdam you're not even getting the best experience.
Seems like you have a career, unlike me, as I'm a student but I'll give it a go.

-Doing and making something great via Human Computer Interaction

-Being hired as an intern at a technology company

-Generating money with a side project ie ramen profitable
That depends on the person and their capabilities. It's more a probability distribution.
> everything's so damned spread out that bicycling is very impractical.

The solution: e-bike.

Where i live in the Netherlands many people use them (not just elderly.) Just this week i saw a 15 year old kid drive back home from school on an e-bike. If you have to drive a long distance, an e-bike eases makes it much easier/faster...
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Yes. Another point is that even when you lock your bike, thiefs often carry the bike in its entirety or just screw off one of the wheels. Just don't buy a new bike when you're frequently in a hot spot.
>Bike infrastructure in most countries is generally very bad compared to car infrastructure...

My city just created a law that motorists who don't leave a 1m gap between their vehicle and bike will be fined.

The problem is the "bike lane" is just a picture of a bike on what used to be the paved shoulder, the 30cm wide paved shoulder. And the biked lane can narrow down to nothing in some places. And it often includes vehicle parking in the same bike lane.

The roads here are very narrow here too so much that you have to drive into the other lane to get that 1m gap. If there is traffic coming the other way you as a driver of a vehicle have no choice but to crawl along behind a bike, even worse if it's two bikes side-by-side.

I am a bike rider and a vehicle owner but I can't agree with the law there is just no room. It absolves the bicyclist of everything and blames vehicle drivers for everything.
> Information Wants To Be Free

As a legit inquiry, can someone explain this phrase to me? I've heard it mentioned tons over the years and have seen a bunch of different inconsistent interpretations people have applied. Which meaning of 'free' is being used? How is it's meaning reached from the phrase? I legit don't understand it.
Snapd is actually part of Debian 9 (Stretch), which means that Snap packages are also supported on Debian, as well as Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, CentOS, Gentoo, Yocto, Arch, etc.

Flatpak exists for one and only one reason -- because Red Hat, Inc. refuses to work with technology of any kind led by Canonical, period.
You DO realize that acquisitions aren't the best indicator.

Microsoft famously acquired Danger Mobile and then crushed it destroying the first widely adopted smartphone tech for consumers.

If Microsoft could be so short sighted that they ceded their market to Apple and Google I think it's safe to say that Intel is incompetent enough to bungle these acquisitions.
Using the distro's build of Apache is actually preferred for production servers. The distro build commonly has useful patches and will receive very fast security updates, not to mention being tested much more than a one-off build. You just wouldn't use a stock configuration, for a multitude of reasons. The only reason you might compile it yourself for a performance boost is to strip out all the features, but then you have to ask yourself if you even need Apache.

We used different mpms for different purposes even 10 years ago. A cluster of boxes could still serve over a hundred thousand mod_perl responses per second, at which point with a decent-sized set of perl apps your bottlenecks are application CPU and memory, not connection processing.

Prefork is simply the most compatible mpm for every module that exists, so of course you'd ship that as the default for a distro. Server software being "fast out of the box" is like saying a phone's battery comes "fully charged out of the box". It's convenient, but I can also just take an hour and get it there myself.
NYC is really bike-friendly.

I think the contributing factor is delivery people who use their bikes a lot, now another problem is that they are completely ignorant of any traffic rules, but can't have it all I guess