skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, thats not at all how his apology translates.

This is his statement in full:

Obviously, I am deeply disturbed by these allegations. While significant context is missing from the incidents reported by The Information, I deeply regret ever causing anyone to feel uncomfortable. The fact is that I have been privileged to have worked with female entrepreneurs throughout my career and I sincerely apologize to anyone who I made uncomfortable by my actions. There’s no denying this is an issue in the venture community, and I hate that my behavior has contributed to it.

How do you get "I think they're full of shit" out of that? This reads to me like a tacit admission that if anything else, his behavior is inappropriate and sketchy by any conventional sense. Appropriate and professional behavior does not need "significant context" to back it up.
Doesn't work for me:

# traceroute -I -q 1 trh.milek7.pl

connect: Network is unreachable
I don't know where you formed your impression of what Vue is like, but what you're describing is really not anything like it.
Sayonara Todd
In addition, I suspect, given that every time you walk into a Starbucks your phone is probably connecting to the network "Google Starbucks", that they probably know how you feel about coffee.
> Ad companies aren't interested in deanonymizing people anyway.

Seems to me that there is a huge monetary aspect to matching online activity with real identity.

"deanonymizing" is trivial but ad tech is poison to any level of "privacy", filter bubbles and fake news propagation.
There's also http://ec2instances.info which has RDS pricing as well.
Fascinating piece.
Gary Kasparov Interviewed by Demis Hassabis
The article had some numbers leaked from Uber. It should surprise you when some information isn't public these days, considering the volume of leaks from that company.
Retaliation isn't always obvious. If half of VCs used to return your calls and now none of them do, which ones are retaliating against you and which ones are part of the half that wouldn't have returned your call anyway?
The Rules
> The document, dated April 11, 2016, references “Pre-Signing Bad Acts,” which covers behavior including fraud and trade-secrets theft, as well as “Post-Signing Specified Bad Acts.” Misconduct in the latter time period wouldn’t be indemnified, “with the exception of retaining confidential information solely in the memory of an employee.”

I dunno, sounds like they were indemnifying him for anything he stole pre-aquisition. The "in memory" clause just means that they won't defend him for anything he went on to steal after signing the contract. Still looks pretty suspicious for Uber.
Not the person above, but I do, yes.

Heartbleed, side channel attacks, etc.

Implementation in the real world matters.
To all emigrants who left close family behind...
> If you want to contribute to and extend any of those projects you'll usually have to learn

Which is exactly why I don't use software written in java, haskell, nodejs and prefer things written in python or go.

Given the choice between PostgREST or pREST I would chose pREST every time simply because if it breaks or ends up unmaintained I would have a chance in fixing it myself.

I'm sure there are many people who have the exact opposite stance, and that's fine too. This shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
Uh, no. Preferences spread is higher among games then among paintings.
>We're getting better at reducing our impact environmentally.

We are getting better at reducing our environmental impact from tech that have been in use for decades. And that too after decades of negligence and denial.

But we are still mostly blind about how todays new tech will impact environment if it becomes widespread. For example, most people who consider electric cars as something that will undo the environmental damage from fossil fuels, fail to consider what new kinds of impact these automobiles have on the environment. For ex. The batteries. If all of todays cars started going electric, that is a lot of batteries, right? How does the environmental impact look like after 30 years of growing use of these batteries? Just an example.

The point is, the problem is our boundless affinity for new and better things. If it is cars, then we want suvs and we will have three of them if we can afford it. We throwaway old stuff and buy new stuff without a second thought. Most of the industries of the world are producing stuff that is planned to break in a couple of years. "Planned obsolesce", they call it. All of these tendencies are the dangerous ones. Not the use of a single thing like burning of fossil fuels or coal or using fertilizers.

So I think it is the tendency of our current system to maximize consumption, the real danger, and I think there is very little hope that will change, and that will be our undoing...
A somewhat good idea, but you can disable macros through domain group policy.

https://superuser.com/questions/1073060/disable-all-microsof...
And why isn't productivity increasing if capital required to develop enhancements is available? And a related question if capital and access to it is at an all time high, then why do we have stagnant economic growth?
An Interview with Chris Hansen, ACLU Lawyer Who Litigated ACLU v. Reno
Hacker News Books http://hackernewsbooks.com is profitable from Amazon referrals, $200-300/month. I am planning to look for some sponsorship but have not had the time. ~1500 tech-savvy readers in the newsletter + several thousand on the web.
I wish there was a simple option to right click on a square you know that makes it read only while you figure out the rest.
That's actually a very good point. Globalization has been great for developing countries and terrible for developed countries. People from developing countries have a much better life outlook as a result.

As a westerner, I am much worse off than my parents were and so my perception of life is very cynical. The lifestyle that I had in my childhood and the idea of life which my parents projected onto me was so much better than today's reality. It's quite a depressing feeling.
Oh, I totally agree with you -- I'm an Angular refugee myself. I'm genuinely surprised by how many people in this discussion seem to have such wildly incorrect impressions of what Vue is like.
Firefox reading mode (⌥⌘R) to the rescue!

I find myself increasingly using it even on decently designed websites when I need to read a lot of text.
You can always delete the nytimes.com cookies or use another browser.
I'm in the completely opposite camp. Many small files are easier to maintain with large teams. The one caveat is the files need to be very well organized. I'm personally a fan of having a folder for each component with separate js/html/css/test files living side by side.

In general, mixing html/js/css in a single file feels really dirty to me, but that might just be PTSD from a past life where I did a bunch of work on PHP spaghetti code with no separation of concerns.
If history is any example, it often takes things getting way worse in order to even build a foundation for better things to come.
I wish we treated all people that harass others and make other people feel uncomfortable or unsafe this way.

Sexual harassment is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of behaviors that need correcting. Especially in men.
Seeing these advances in feature size always makes me wonder: is there a guide anywhere for making your own, maybe mm-scale, dies? Would the physics work at that large scale? It could be a cool way to demonstrate the concepts.

Like, you can make your own capacitors by rolling up two interleaved sheets of baking paper and aluminum foil. Because of the large scale of the gap between the conductive layers, you'll have trouble breaking a few nF of capacitance. It will likely withstand tens of kilovolts, however, because the parchment barrier is thick and hardy compared to what is used in your average electrolytic capacitor.
"hacked" is definitely subjective. For anyone interested checkout the"attackers" legal threat right before the fork. https://pastebin.com/CcGUBgDG

Here is the HN discussion about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927891
Yea. The real problem was fightng against a technology that is more expensive yhan cleaner options, has massive NIMBY problems that are not yet resolved, gets more expensive as time goes on, has led to massive cpncentrated disasters and still is unable to find a solution to its long term problems.

A technology whose proponents's best answer even today is "wait until the next breakthrough".

Nuclear: The one trick the evil environmentalists won't tell you about that will solve all your energy problems.
The sad part to me is that this is just the part of the iceberg that is visible above the surface.

I've heard stories from several female founders/VC's (not naming names or specific details to protect anonymity) who have experienced repeated unwelcome advances even after it was made clear they had a significant other. That's not as egregious as groping (one of the accusations in this article), but that's still sexual harassment by the letter of the law and slimy as hell every other way.

Another common theme I noticed is when the man in question stays in the gray area where individual incidents aren't clearly over the line and might not qualify legally as sexual harassment, but in context and in aggregate it's clear why a woman would feel very uncomfortable. How do you confront something like that when they can just question your perception of reality?

In all but one case, the women decided against confrontation because the man was in a much more powerful position (such as a general partner of a VC fund), and the women were afraid of retribution and risking killing their careers by taking a principled stand. They all wished they could do more, but decided they didn't want to be martyrs. That's a bad position to be in.

I think it's damning of the industry that these women have accepted silence on the matter as part of the burden of being a woman and pursuing this line of work. Granted I'm looking at this with N < 10, but everyone I've talked to shares the sentiment that it's a pattern, not a coincidence.

I'm hopeful that everything going on around Uber will move the needle enough that more people are willing to come forward.
One might call them women...
Trying to encourage kind behaviour and inclusiveness?
isn't a dollar or euro merely a deflationary currency that follows the velocity of money principle albeit controlled by the government and when the velocity is slow they print more?
Windows 10 Vulnerable to Rootkits via Intel's Processor Trace Functionality
No particular reason, I just knew fastmail from many years ago and liked them.
Are you sure that you have IPv6?. I don't have 60k addresses to do it on IPv4 :)
China's HUMINT operations against defense contractors in full swing
Did you try graphing how runtime scales as a function of puzzle size? (Assuming there are puzzles available of large sizes.) It would also be cool if your program could be used to generate new puzzles?
You really need to back up your assertions with concrete examples. Or you'll just be ignored.
"Reasonable difficulty level" is not something objective. It depends greatly on who plays the game. Whether the game looks good is as subjective add judging painting, whether it sounds good as judging music. One can dislike game look and it can spoil his experience the same way painting style can.
I totally agree. I think the root of the disagreement is subjective word "scariest." Apparently, a nuclear disaster happening in a random place is the scariest thing for the rest of you. For me and possibly majority of Americans, the scariest thing is what might happen to us. Especially if the odds are high with us seeing reminders in the media.

Rogue, nuclear weapon doesn't scare me. Increasingly automated cars, unpatched cellphones, legal ID's hard go fix when stolen, or bank/medical/government/databases compromised all worry me more since they can impact me and happen a lot. SCADA, too, if non-nuclear given it might be my power plant or utility.
Yes, really. Otherwise, you must take extra care not to reflect any input data back in any response to the user, whether it's in the HTML body or not. See: HTTP response splitting.
You can't get addicted to dopamine; dopamine mediates one vector of addiction. It conveys something like reward prediction-error or precision of action-based prediction errors. Without it, you can't concentrate; with too much, you're forced to concentrate without control over what you concentrate on.
Due to my training in automata theory, this hurricane may trigger state changes without consuming input symbols.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure this is just how capitalism works. Sorry :(
>At the same time, we do need some kind of defense mechanism to make sure people are secure.

Well, how about the law?

>We can't just let everything slide because we're perpetually waiting for more evidence.

But it's not 'sliding', it's going to court.

And it doesn't concern us anyway -- it's not like we witnessed it in real life and didn't speak out.
Government run industries have a far worse track record.
The famous philosopher of science Karl Popper disagrees, and few disagree with him - science can definitively disprove, but not definitively prove anything.

PS FWIW Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle isn't understood now as it was then - that principle as it was has been overturned.
Deeplearning.ai by Andrew Ng
I have been running PostgREST in production for about a year with zero issues. ProTip: One neat PostgREST feature is that it will output swagger specs for your db.

I know nothing about Haskell and that has not been an problem. I am always happy to see more open source software, though.
Show HN: Web app to find first commit of GitHub repository
Post gave off bad vibes. Bad vibes make people unhappy. Unhappy people make the internet have more bad vibes ..
Not a fair comparison, you have the same risks even when you pay for digital goods sold via conventional channels. Having the files encrypted in IPFS and then sell the decryption key is not that different.

Also don't forget that digital goods include stuff like "subscriptions"...
OVH does have their vRack stuff these days, but it's iffy and clearly intended for dedicated hardware. They have no block storage that I'm aware of.
This thread might have been more interesting if it had of read Connecticut deli meth sign.
I am amazed/fascinated by this! I would love to hear more for all the non-experts here about how the BGP Nyancat came to be :)
Uber Drivers Don’t Think Kalanick’s Departure Will Improve Their Work Conditions
I immediately thought of the test flight patterns that pilots draw across the US with their flight plans.

Here is a boeing test flight that drew out the boeing logo across the united states:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/787-dreamliner-draw...
Will robots make job training (and workers) obsolete?
From what I have seen, this is more about who has power. Men tend to have more power than women. When the roles are reversed, women will sexually harass men.

We need to work on coming up with ways to create a world in which power is less likely to lead to this type of abuse. I think that starts with generally having healthier attitudes surrounding sexuality.
>facial recognition

Is there some sort of Gmail camera thing I'm not aware of?
>There are two ways to view the problem: it is either a women's problem, or a people problem that disproportionately affects women.

Well, it's the latter to a huge degree. Which means that by framing it as a "people's problem" in general (without the qualification) it is misrepresented.
Speaking of one group is not ignoring the other. Nobody said that sexual harassment against men is okay. It's okay to recognize that social norms affect the genders asymmetrically and structure language around that.
Advertising spend should be taxed at 100% (or 500%, whatever), just for the damage it does.

Of course it is not. We're ruled by advertisers.
Yeah it's not clear if they actually indemnify pre-signing bad acts though? What would be their incentive for indemnifying him for bad things he did at Google?

I do agree I wouldn't have called it "bad acts" if I was drafting, "Pre-Signing Actions" sounds much better :)
That one's a lot closer to being finalized. Object Rest/Spread is currently at Stage 3, and is already implemented in Chrome/V8.

For reference on proposal status and details, see https://github.com/tc39/proposals .
Empathy Is Becoming a Joke – Intellectual Takeout
Why would I be seeing ads either way? I generally don't see them at all.
I thought so too, but unfortunately this doesn't work either.

The reason it won't work is the same reason scratches on your eyeglasses don't appear sharp. Your focus is in the distance, so you won't see whatever dimming has been applied Not unless you use it to darken e.g. an entire quadrant of your lenses.

Interestingly, this problem applies to text rendering too. It seems unlikely that you'll be able to project clearly readable text over anything when it's an inch away from your eye.
This project blew me away. I always thought Scheme was just interpreters and toy programs. Hope this succeeds in making scheme popular. Scheme and Lisps in general way too underrated.
Use Uber, call a radio taxi, use an app that is used by a local radio taxi or when you are actually at Ezeiza just go to one of the many stands that are right after the scanners before you go out into the main hall.

I am really careful at the points where you will find a lot of tourists like Ezeiza and the central bus station. We've got screwed by a "tapper" once, paid much more for the ride than was actually supposed because he rigged the meter. This happened just outside the bus station where they're waiting for victims from out of town that don't know the tariffs, distances etcetera.

Hailing on the street never went wrong.
Surveillance Without Borders: The “Traffic Shaping” Loophole and Why It Matters
There are several international lists too, here's a couple:

https://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways...

https://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx
and there are ... so many obscure and strange problems that are caused by a hiccup or simply misconfigured DNS... not saying you shouldn't use it, just ... don't claim it's the ultimate cool-aid that resolves everything.
Sans Bullshit Sans – An interesting look into font hacking
Ask HN: Declining the job offer after accepting
I recently interviewed with major tech company and accepted their offer. Company has already started visa transfer. I like the company, compensation and perks. However just few days back a friend of mine pitched an startup idea to me and I feel strong inclination to join his startup. Now I have to decline offer which I already accepted. I know it is unprofessional but is there a right way to do it ?
It's not NFS, it's a block storage mechanism. NFS presents a file-based interface, EBS is a block/device-based interface. The underlying implementation isn't widely publicized, but if you think about how a block device works on a Unix and the AWS bigger-is-faster model for non-PIOPS EBS, you can probably draw some reasonable inferences.
> AR is posing to really take off.

Even if that turns out to be true, the pattern of 1-2 Minecraft-like winners and 99.9% losers is likely to hold. Existing platforms are already accessible to indies.

Though if your goal is to make it a hobby instead of a living, "losing" on income may not bother you.
So from the article, it sounds like DoublePulsar is already patched, but due to computers lacking the patch, it still got in. Have I got that right? Also, what is the attack vector here? Because if, like wannacry, it was an email, then surely the defence is the same as before, be careful what you download?
This would be some sort of "constraint satisfaction" algorithm (ie, the same basic approach as used in Computer Algebra Systems(CAS) ). There are various approaches to these kinds of problems: someone above mentioned a backtracking algorithm.
Thank you for your unbased, anonymous accusations.
You might be interested in bidding systems for enrolling in courses. The National University of Singapore has one http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/events/module-enrolment.html

"All students are given an equal amount of points per semester to bid for modules... The allocation of modules is based on the lowest successful bid points against the last available quota for the module at the end of each bidding round. If supply (module quota) exceeds demand (number of bidders) for a module for any bidding round, the lowest successful bid will be 1 bid point. If there is a tie in the lowest successful bid points, the outcome will be based on first-come-first-served. Unsuccessful bidders will be fully refunded. Any unused bid points after each round will be carried over to the next bidding round or to the next semester at the end of the registration exercise."
> The Warlordism problem is not a contradiction, it is a result.

It is not instant, but it is the nearly inevitable consequence of a situation where laws do not govern/ regulate violent or economic interactions.

> Critical mass of power -- of course the amount is variable, depending on a variety of factors.

It is the result that counts -- some critical mass will be reached, and the concentration of wealth/power becomes self-reinforcing, and grows.

> The only way I've seen in history that works is to mitigate this by creating a system of laws that force the distribution of power/wealth, and avoid excess concentrations of power/wealth.

Yes, these legal systems do make us less free. If you really want complete freedom, you can go today to Somalia, South Sudan, remote Afghanistan, or a number of other places. Effectively no laws and complete freedom. Also an almost complete lack of hope of advancement for each individual and the society.

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I agree that trying to prevent takeover of the political system by the rich/powerful is very difficult, nearly impossible.

I also agree that we need to keep money out of elections as much as possible. The Citizens United decision was one of the worst in modern history.

I also like the Athenian model, especially the part where the leaders were picked from a pool at random. I actually think that we could be doing better by that sort of method. Once you've achieved a certain level of skills/credentials (academic degree, military rank, corporate experience, you should become eligipble, like jury duty. You might simpy be randomly called to the House, Senate. Maybe a vote of confidence for a 2nd term, and pick the POTUS randomly from those who win that.

But yes, while my political philosophy starts with the basis that Freedom is the first good unto itself, it is also not absolute, as having complete freedom results in extreme concentrations of power, reducing the total freedom -- the wealthy/powerful become very free, and the vast majority become dramatically less free. So, to maximize freedom, we need to limit concentrations of wealth/power. Yes that makes some less free, but it makes the greatest freedom for all.
> if that's the angle you want to take

I don't think its some "angle" out of left field. Its a valid point.
So do you have a solution in mind, or are you asking for one? If the latter, then it's simple: narrower lanes. If you make the lanes 9ft wide in each direction, I promise that you will never again be delayed by the speed of bikers, though the bikers may find themselves upset about motor vehicle speeds being too low.
On April 1st 2015 I tried to create new poems by remixing an existing body of work through reverse DNS: https://bandaancha.eu/foros/april-fools-ntt-1717230 - the original was better perhaps ;-)
I understand, and being ignored is okay. If someone affected by them sees this, they may feel empowered to step forward. I'd feel wrong putting names, situations, etc. out there, but the fact of the matter is, this isn't the end of this drama.
The choice of words might be unfortunate, but the point is that you don't have to change it any more the PostgreSQL/Nginx in order to use and develop apis with it.