skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The picture was never quite as black and white as you're suggesting, I think, though certainly there were plenty of the kind of people you mentioned around. For example, some people working in web world have always just built stuff directly in-browser rather than slicing Photoshop images. This wasn't a new idea when responsive sites came along, nor when SPAs started to become a serious business; those trends just provided more awareness to some people who hadn't thought of working that way before. Some people expanded from a programming background into making more interactive web sites rather than from a design background, and it probably would never have occurred to them not to at least consider building with the native technologies from day one.

It's true that as those front-end technologies develop, more substantial programming work is being done on the browser side, and so there has been a degree of specialisation in the roles involved, particularly in larger organisations. Even so, I'm not personally a fan of trying to maintain too strict a division between those roles. As with almost anything in a technical field, if you don't have at least a basic working knowledge of related skills and technologies, you're probably not going to be very good at whatever specialist task you're trying to do either. Similarly, if some key decisions and resources aren't managed by all of the relevant people collectively, problems will inevitably creep in for those who weren't as involved as they should have been.
Now try saving an email as a file
That kind of thing is often said by people who are merely lucky enough not to have fucked up so far, or to not have been fucked over. Individual success is not a proof.
>"We really need pro-competition legislation to stop this sort of predatory capitalism."

This conclusion refers to the idea of VCs(billionaires) subsidizing rides in order to remove the entrenched player(taxis.) How is that a non-sequitur?
>First, I hate having to have multiple apps to do the same thing

Don't worry, once there are enough apps someone will figure out how to scrape and aggregate the info. The same thing happened when airlines and hotels started putting booking info online except at the time it was websites instead of apps.
Anyone who hangs out on Facebook group e-commerce forums basically have seen the outrageous claims the authors of this paper alludes to.

Nice to see an analysis like this for a change.
Preparing for the rise of AI
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20600497/which-c-version...
The large electricity consumers, though, all are on spot prices; and in many countries you also have some split for residental users (e.g. two prices, peak/offpeak, for particular hours in the day) - adoption for this is mostly slowed down by the need to replace all the electricity meters with "smart meters" that can do the variable accounting instead of simply tracking a running total consumption.
I wonder if this is restraint of trade and illegal. It's as if they are telling retailers they can't sell to Walmart and Target.
Former iOS Chief Scott Forstall Discusses Creating the First iPhone
Yeah this is stupid. I'm not sure what I'm tipppng for anyway,"good driving" a "clean car"? These are the comments I can see being assigned to tips. Can I just, please, have a fixed priced service without frills to get me to and from places. It's not an experience I care enough about to optimize the time with my service operator, by bribing them to treat me better than others.

I'm glad it's summer, less taxis and more biking!
Brief: Chinese bike-sharing company shuts down after 90% of cycles go missing
I imagine a self driving car will drive there similarly to a human; slowly, because of the extreme risk. Potentially humans tend to take more risks than they should, so a self driving car in India might seem to drive differently than a human would. But the algorithm stays the same; drive at a speed matching the obstacle risk, and avoid hitting things. Perhaps the parking aspect would be the most different.
We're talking about the action of "believing" a colleague when they come to you with a complaint.

It would not be healthy for anyone involved to actively show skepticism towards them.

If you do not show some level of skepticism, you default to a state of belief. As in, you believe your colleague at face-value for the complaint brought to you.

We're _not_ talking about convicting someone of a crime. We're not talking about taking immediate action on that belief.
Non-paywalled article: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/21/wal-mart-to-v...
Cigarettes aren't banned. That doesn't mean everyone gets free cigarettes.
Street view on Mars, with rover: https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@19.098134,-33.250752...
Agreed. I loved listening to the startup school radio episode about how they got started and how they pivoted.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-radio-episode-2-...
Both actually, France Telecom (now Orange) was not ready for broadband, their infrastructure needed an overhaul. At the same time they had the minitel where they were the middle man with a 45% share of everything for them, and almost all internet was through PSTN which made them money too. All in all: a multi billions incentive not to develop broadband internet.

At the time Orange mostly worked to block competitors while overcharging their own services. Ultimately they got sued, lost after years and paid a record fine amounting to a fraction of their profits.

So they continued engaging in this practice to this day with now quite a record of record fines for abuse of dominant position and such. Recently there was a year they made an unexpected bump in yearly profit because they had secured money to pay the next big fine which didn't happen.

Right now Orange is in the process of securing a monopoly on french fiber on public funds.
I use to feel that way. I've come to realize that people use emoji, far more than most unicode. It is a fantastic tool to expose the complexities of Unicode to developers that were only handling BMP or didn't consider composite characters before.
Maybe people can also shower with saltwater followed by a quick rinse in drinkable water. That would reduce the usage drastically.

I couldn't find anything against showering with saltwater by skimming the results of a naive google search.
It's kind of cool clicking around on Mars, looking at the places I recognize from KSR'r Mars Trilogy.
I have one of those too. I picked it up at the MIT Swap Meet from an old man who sold it for me for $300 (which I thought was high at the time). That same old man was also selling another interesting piece of computing memorabilia -- a complete Enigma machine -- for about $500,000 or so. Now that's too rich for my blood!!
It's good to see an analysis, albeit most of this info was common knowledge, maybe except call to action buttons causing a decrease. I thought it was the opposite.

Sometimes factoring all variables when doing testing becomes impossible.
How do Apache and OpenSSH demonstrate that C code can be done right from a security perspective?
Yet even within the US there's an increasing number of (work)places where whites are no longer a majority or are at a disadvantage, as the article states.
You have two kinds of fuzzers:

1) out of process, like AFL:
The application is launched for each test, and there's no problem handling a crash, whatever the cause (asserts are ok). But for each test there's the application start-up (process creation, etc.) overhead.

2) in process, like libFuzzer:
The application is launched once only. Then inside the application context the library iterates over the tests. So no application start-up overhead (nice), but a brutal exit is a problem. That's where asserts becomes a problem.

I guess that's what's at play here.
100% on-point, but I'd caution about bringing judgement into these matters.

Believing a colleague when they come to you with ANY complaint does not mean you're going to pass judgement, or you even have to. It means listening and doing that in a way that does not discourage future complaints.
FWIW, in my country voicemail was probably dead on arrival. I'm yet to know someone who actually relied on them and treated them as anything more than an annoyance (if someone calls you and gets redirected to voicemail, they usually disconnect, but sometimes that leaves an "emtpy" message which you'll get later notified about). About the only use of voicemail I've ever experienced is that in American movies (protagonist listening to their voicemail backlog on their landline seems to be a common trope).
Regarding the problem that you want to read the costs per function: have you considered using resources tags? This could help a bit when evaluating your costs (though not directly on the bill). https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/aws-taggin...
The images are of quite a high resolution — they're even better than what you can get with celestia [0] and the (amazing) best surface and normal maps (by John van Vliet) [1]. Compare [2] and [3].

Celestia still has advantages — nicer zoomed out view (due to lack of "striping"), better navigation, arbitrary point of view, offline access. (Also, the lack of sufficiently detailed planetary maps adapted for Celestia isn't technically a flaw of the program itself.)

[0] https://celestiaproject.net/

[1] http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/mars.php

[2] https://i.imgur.com/0R70L1r.jpg

[3] https://i.imgur.com/VUPhwIw.jpg
Well that saved me reading a pointless article.
> We require 130 litres / person
> per day in Europe

We don't require 130 litres of potable water though, which is what this produces. Salt water's fine for washing, brushing teeth, flushing toilets, washing hands, and so on.
> Switching languages requires a full rewrite

Not true when those languages are ABI-compatible. E.g. I believe librsvg is introducing small amounts of Rust that can eventually become a gradual migration.

> it will introduce new bugs as the maturity of the software will plummet because of the rewrite.

Citation needed. I would expect a rewrite guided by an existing implementation (not the same thing as a rewrite aimed at achieving a from-scratch redesign) to result in fewer bugs as it would effectively be equivalent to a full code review, and that's before we take into account the difference-of-language effects.

> As such, new languages are unproven in the security area and there will be security bugs found there as well.

No. There are specific reasons C is so awful; it's not a question of maturity.

> Java and .NET don't have the same issues either but somehow nobody will ask about those :)

People are dumb. There's a popular myth that these languages are inherently slow, which combined with some genuine licensing issues means the OSS community doesn't use them, even though they'd be a perfect fit for OpenVPN-like processes.

> But then again, Rust introduces other bug types for which the future will tell whether they have a security impact or not: https://gankro.github.io/blah/only-in-rust/

No, read your link. Those issues happen only in unsafe code, and at absolute worst mean you're as badly off as you would be in C.

> software like Apache httpd and OpenSSH demonstrates clearly it can be done

Because those programs can go years at a time without a major security vulnerability? Oh wait, no they can't.

Switching languages is absolutely the answer, and the sooner we get over ourselves and get on with it the better.
Saying "I believe you" means "I believe what you said is true". There are no interpretations that are contrary to that.

Yes, you can modulate the strength of your belief but they're all beliefs that the statement is true. The great-grandparent comment (the one whose meaning this discussion was about) was implying something other than belief in the truth of the statement.
> Amazon's rise as the dominant player in renting on-demand, web-based computing power and storage has put some competitors, such as Netflix Inc., in the unlikely position of relying on a corporate rival as they move to the cloud.

Oh yeah, Netflix is on AWS. Amazon is doing pretty much everything, I expect/predict in another two years they will launch a music streaming site a la Google Music/Spotify.
can you recommend good groups?
Are you talking about local-loop unbundling ?
Patlu and His Ideas – Motu Patlu Compilation- Part 13- as Seen on Nickelodeon
I have never left a tip with an Uber driver, I've taken around 30 rides, 5 star rating.
They have good reasons if their data ends up being hosted on a competitor's systems.
As I understand it he disabled asserts in places which would certainly fail, like doing system stuff, modifying system state and such, but not actual relevant parts.
International yoga day
Also http://archive.is/vJa0u [archived copy of the WSJ article.]
Benefits of Data Science Prodegree
Three Dutch Creatives Launch THE FOLKS MAGAZINE
"Bildschirmtext" (BTX) is almost as old as Minitel and
technically very similar, but it was largely unsuccessful
because consumers had to buy expensive decoders to use it.
The German postal service held a monopoly on the decoders
that prevented competition and lower prices. Few people
bought the boxes, so there was little incentive for
companies to post content, which in turn did nothing to
further box sales. When the monopoly was loosened, it was
too late because PC-based online services had started to
appear.

http://www.liquisearch.com/minitel/minitel_in_other_countrie...
Ever rising valuations can't save the company, so I don't see how Kalanick's departure threatens its prospects for survival. "More of the same" isn't a winning strategy for a company that's not on the right track.
Long names require lots of keystrokes and more reading effort. Also you have to split your lines earlier. If I have long names, I won't remember what I called things, at which point I'm leaning on autocompletion. Hitting tab every few keystrokes really takes me out of my flow.

The other general issue is why have the redundancy? There's only one settings object here. If you need to pass something different in later, refactor! Remember the principle of You Ain't Gonna Need It.
> You can believe the victim while saying that the evidence doesn't meet whatever bar you set

That's not "belief". Believing X means thinking that X is true. What you're really talking about is taking an agnostic position.
Linus has a vested interest in taking credit for the most prolific mobile platform. I don't think there is any common sense in the 'Android is Linux' argument beyond that though.

As a software platform, it isn't even remotely similar.
We know of Elizabeth Holmes too!
There's nothing that says a company couldn't run their service on both AWS or another provider as long as they can guarantee that Wal-Mart's confidential data is not stored on AWS.

Honestly, it's not an unreasonable request from a corporate security standpoint.
Regarding your prediction of a music streaming service, Prime Music and Music Unlimited already exist!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/promotions/PrimeMusic
https://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/promotions/AmazonMusicUnlim...

Yup, Amazon kinda sucks at marketing so many services, but who does better ?
I don't know any reverse osmosis makers that are anywhere near 1:1. Current RO systems are 9.5:1. Over 90% of the saltwater is rejected as brine.
I expect/predict in a couple of years that Netflix will be able to run just fine on Azure.
You can get about the same effect by running the water to get wet, turning it off while washing and then back on for rinsing (the infamous "navy shower").

I imagine the biggest strike against showering with salt water is that you'd need treatment, supply and heating dedicated to the salt tap. And then the salt water is busy corroding all the infrastructure devoted to it.
... or if you're not comfortable with Ansible, I have a Bash script that does something similar: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
CPU layout and routing optimizations are global discrete optimization problems. Neural networks don't have much edge on these problems. Simulated annealing is the most used optimization method in routing and layout tools.

There are number of research papers that attempt to use neural networks for combination optimization, but no interesting results.
Eh hmm OpenSSL is infamously bad at security?

There have been numerous critical bugs, and numerous criticism of its codebase, and numerous rewrites and migrations away from it!

This is why the wikipedia page for OpenSSL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL lists notable vulnerabilities and even a list of forks away from it!
This is an unpopular sentiment around here, but needs to be said more. You're still a child playing with other people's money until you're actually self sufficient.

In some cases this lack of maturity is particularly striking.
Wow, some of the rationalizing here is priceless. I hope the folks dismissing this apply their logic evenly.

Here's some of what I've read so far:

Economic - There's no discrimination because they only want the cheapest labor possible.

Culture - They want a consistent culture so, of course, they mostly hire Indians "because they work harder"- paraphrasing from another comment.

Language - It's easier to have everyone speak the predominant language of the company. Never mind that it's not the same language as the country its operating in.

Now, if a predominately white company used these same reasons to explain their lack of minorities there would be an uproar. And rightfully so.
It's like what PayPal did to Elon
I am interested in Sailfish, but I expect to be able to buy a phone running an OS on my carrier, and it doesn't sound like that is coming with the Xperia X or anything else anytime soon.

If you have to flash the OS to use it, they've already lost, and I'd argue that was one of Ubuntu Phone's biggest problems too.
Of course, I can agree that.

Can you agree however, that you can say "a clearly poor methodology" without ever showing whats "clearly poor" about a methodology in any field? Is it possible that this might be such an instance?
There doesn't have to be a single global monopolist. There probably won't be.

People do move, and the convenience of one app to hail taxis everywhere is appealing. But then again, people don't move that often that installing the local taxi app is too much of an assle.
Even for non-emergency care, it's not feasible to shop around in the US healthcare market.

Doctors don't know prices. Typically, front-office staff won't know prices until they've talked to your insurance company. It's probably not possible to get prices from your insurance company except in the context of a very specific claim, which can only come from the doctor's office or hospital's office staff. A small difference in coding for the same issue/procedure can result in huge cost differences.

It might be possible to shop around for prices on particular surgical procedures (eg), but only after you've paid an unpredictable amount for diagnosis. And you may have to pay twice for diagnosis to make this possible.
Yes, it's a kernel deficiency which only allows taking over userspace processes and only if you are able to cause them to allocate the right memory and write the right data to it.
I don't follow your concerns on the headline. How is "a blanket ban on social media sites is unconstitutional" substantially different from "people can't be banned from the internet"?

Perhaps we're reading it differently, but to me, the headline says "you can't be banned from the internet as a whole", not "you can't be banned from a narrowly-tailored subset of the internet".
If you want to see pretty much all the most effective measures in action, go to a ticket reseller like Viagogo and follow something through to the basket. It is both impressive and amazing the amount of psychological steers there are on the site.
>Sweden has a population of 9.8 million yet it has produced Skype

Skype is Estonian.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/skype/skype-chapter-...
I forgot the Q6600 was dual-die, probably the best bang for buck CPU I've ever purchased (first popular quad-core & huge overclocking potential).

I think AMD reusing the same dies is quite elegant (everything* scales as you add more cores). The inter-die bandwidth/ latency shouldn't really be a problem, because if more than 8 cores are dependant on the same data - locking issues would make any additional cores useless anyway. If they can get NUMA tuned correctly things should work nicely.

*it's strange that they all have the same amount of L3 cache.

Does anybody have contacts with AMD's marketing/ engineering department who can provide test units?
>Amazon is doing pretty much everything, I expect/predict this in another two years they will launch a music streaming site a la Google Music/Spotify.

They've been selling music for almost a decade! They started selling DRM Free Mp3s in 2007 [1]. Now you get limited streaming music with your Prime membership and access to a full streaming library for about $10/mo.

[1] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Music
> They need to work for the position in society

And lose out to children whose parents don't believe this?
Goodbye innocent until proven guilty...
>> they usually don't get unsupervised calls

Does anyone? NSA and all ...
> The reason has to do with the construction of the healthcare industry. Lots of regulations. Lots of middlemen. Laws designed to destroy innovation. Very little transparency for costs and outcomes.

Or the reason has to do with the fact that the people that need these treatments are willing to pay any price for it because their life literally depends on it.

I don't see why regulations, and laws "designed to destroy innovation" (i.e. keep people safe from bogus drugs) are a bad thing. (Of course lack of transparency and middlemen are bad). Almost all of the regulations in the medical industry are for ensuring people are safe, and do not succumb to drugs that are no more effective than a placebo.

I think one of the main reasons why the price is artificially inflated is because of the patent laws in this area. Capitalism itself has various safeguards to ensure that the cost does not get too high for people to buy it, and to ensure that monopolies do not grow, but it seems that we have actually created laws (patent laws, mainly) that circumvent these safeguards.
He can now spend his time Masturbating over Ayn Rand books.
I actually think it was the attract customers.
I think it is only storing data with Google. So in this schema:

1st party: you, create the data

2nd party: Google, stores the data

3rd party: none.
It's nice to speak authoritatively but that's only one definition of racism and it isn't even common in dictionaries [1][2]. It might be better to have a different word for that concept, or at the very least to acknowledge that there are many definitions of the word.

[1] - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/racism

[2] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
> Believing a colleague when they come to you with ANY complaint does not mean you're going to pass judgement, or you even have to. It means listening and doing that in a way that does not discourage future complaints.

Your attitude towards them -- listening etc -- is a completely orthogonal matter to whether you believe in the truth of their claims.

There seems to be this wishy-washy notion of "belief" that's causing confusion in this thread, where "believing" is equated to "not being judgemental".