skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you aren't tracking conversions then buying fraudulent impressions is your fault. Regardless of how your site/business works you should attribute some valuable actions to your ads and optimize against that.
As a slight tangent, I find it very odd that the article refers to Magic as a kid's game multiple times.

As a kid I definitely played a lot of Magic, and much more than I do now.

But when I was trying to put together a playgroup, no one was interested in something so complex, and I went to multiple nerd schools. Pokemon was played, and later Yu-Gi-Oh, but very little Magic. Across three different schools I managed to put together a group of about six kids who cared at all about it.

Meanwhile, going to any comic book store, or Friday Night Magic, there were dozens of people in their 20s and 30s. Usually even a dozen older than that. As kids we were always outnumbered.
> The game itself was a great surprise, and the fact that it was a spin-off within the storyline of the Lord of the Rings universe was quite unusual and it’s something I enjoyed.

Hopefully it becomes less unusual. Works (whether they be literature or media) with well developed plots tend to make poor video games when they attempt to translate that plot. I suspect it's a combination of the type of movie that generally garners video game conversions (action-y) and the type of games those most often lead to (also action-y) being hard to deliver a plot like that.

A spinoff with a mostly new plot that can be tailored to what a video game can do best will generally result in a superior experience, IMO.
Clicks aren't sessions so you can't compare them and claim most of the missing sessions are fraud.
That was the problem at Yahoo. It's better to have one mass layoff and be done with it instead of having multiple small layoffs.
A warning that this link redirects through Facebook for me for some reason.
Well, there's two parts to your question, if there is a demand, why isn't there a supply, and is there really a demand?

For the first part, if the original company has gone out of business, and enough records and knowledge lost and scattered, then it'd actually potentially be very difficult for a new group to identify what the original customers were, much less identify what the potential size of market is today. That's quite a lot of risk to take on (in my mind anyways). Industrial automation is one of those things that people don't openly disclose in a way that makes it easy to canvas the market cheaply.
No, not the way that you're describing. They have no way to "accept only the most profitable rides". This is patently false.
This isn't software that you can just install and use. This type of software is tightly integrated with the hardware in the factory or distribution center. So, even if there were free software which did the same thing, it would cost a lot of time and money to replace the old, already-working system.

Moreover, for software that was put in place 20 years ago, it's likely that some of the functionality is unknown, i.e. the whole system works together, but exactly what is being done by each piece of software isn't fully understood by anyone still at the company. So it would require a bunch of work to even spec a replacement.

So it's totally rational to keep the existing, working system, even if you need a dedicated PC to administer it.

(Source: I was in a similar situation ~20 years ago.)
It's the friday before a holiday curse. I'm sorry for your loss.
D-Wave's computer is fundamentally different than other quantum computers. The D-Wave is a quantum annealling computer. And for a while, there was some question whether what it was doing could actually be described fully classically, though now I think the consensus is that there is some quantum effect. Although classical or quantum, there could still be a practical speed up over the typical conventional computers. The idea is to use them for optimization problems. But they aren't a straightforward mapping to the usual quantum computer, and so cannot be directly compared.

To me, it's like comparing an analogue and a digital computer.
> As for the length of time it's taken to release Grid, it looks like W3C has at least been aware of the problem for quite some time- the first "Advanced Layout" Working Draft was published in 2005, but it looks like it didn't stabilize into the current Grid layout until about 2015.

The current Grid layout is largely the same as that proposed by MS at the August 2010 F2F in Oslo.

Note that many of the early/mid-2000s specs essentially got paused while CSS 2.1 was finished (because it's hard to define new things clearly until you define the existing things clearly), and while waiting for more implementer interest.
That's a valid criticism. However self-selected group surveys can show important trends.

For instance, if they said that "as a whole, 25% of Silicon Valley believes that they are discriminated against," that could clearly be an invalid interpretation.

However, if they said, "150 people who identified as libertarians took this survey, and among them, 45% felt like their productivity was inhibited because of perceived viewpoint bias, whereas of the 100 self-identified liberals who took it, only 10% felt the same," that would be a very telling statement. [these numbers are made up for illustrative purposes only]
Couldn't agree more. The FAA-NTSB-NASA relationship doing the same thing works extremely well in the aerospace sector. The FAA creates the rules, NTSB investigates accidents and NASA handles "near miss" reporting, all working to eliminate conflict of interest. All of this creates a nice closed feedback loop.

It's not without it's flaws but the fact that you can hurl yourself through the stratosphere in an aluminum tube and essentially be statistically assured survival is nothing short of miraculous, especially when compared to the early days of aviation.
This exploit is interesting, but if you are doing container security correctly it’s actually not a big deal. In particular if you are setting per-container usernamespaces, like you ought to be, then this exploit doesn’t do anything. In fact you can actively give a usernamespaced container any CAPs you want, because they are isolated to that container’s uid:gid offset.

Obviously, giving containers unecessary CAP privileges in unwise, but if you are practicing sound security best practices then there would be multiple layers of defense between you and this CVE. I think a strong AppArmor profile and SecComp profile would also make this CVE moot.

Edit:
Also, this exploit relies on you being able to fork up to a certain pid value. You can and should take advantage of Linux’s per cgroup ulimit functionality. No container needs more than 255 threads (even if they do you can make special exceptions for such applications).

Edit2:
Additionally this CVE relies on the getuid syscall being available, there is no reason to give a container this syscall, you should block it, ala this guide:
https://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/10/17/secure-your-container...

I have to say I’m more than a little dissapointed in Twistlock for not pointing out what countermeasures you can employ against this and other CVEs.
Here’s Something I Like (Not That Anyone Asked): Bialetti Moka Pot
> Of course one could argue that he's just acting in accordance with his principles, and that it's just a crazy coincidence that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon -- the prime SLS contractors -- are among his top 20 campaign contributors

That sounds a lot less scandalous when you realize that those top 20 campaign contributors listed aren't the companies themselves - the contributors are all employees of those companies. Companies are prohibited from making campaign contributions; all of those contributions are from the employees themselves, using after-tax money, and the only reason employer information is collected is to prove that companies aren't funneling money to campaigns under their employees' names.

It's not surprising that employees of Lockheed Martin - the largest government contractor in the country - would support the candidacy of a politician who advocates awarding government contracts. What do you expect them to do - vote for a candidate who wants to eliminate government contracts?

The idea that a politician takes actions in order to appease the people who voted for them (or persuade those who might vote for them) isn't scandalous; it's exactly what we'd expect in a healthy democracy. New York isn't a healthy democracy, which is why this doesn't happen in New York at all.

So get back to the problem at hand, the issue with New York government specifically isn't that we have too much of this process - it's that New York politicians aren't accountable to voters at all in the first place, as I've explained throughout this thread, and as been documented by the New York Times in this and other articles.
Why does this myth keep getting pushed - by tech people no less? Bill Gates emphatically denied ever saying it and no one has ever come forward with a scrap of evidence he actually said it.
'Worst job' in Silicon Valley is also a low-paying one with little job security
"Whataboutism" is absolutely relevant, though. In order for the idea of mass killings under communism to be an intellectually honest one, the mass killings have to be at least correlated with communism, if not caused by it. If there's one other ideology that's committed atrocities, sure, I understand that that doesn't absolve communism. But if every ideology has, saying "We're only talking about this one" is actively misleading.

And the very article you link to acknowledges that, by comparing killings under communist regimes to killings under the Inquisition, to the Holocaust, and so forth, and by comparing deaths under famine in Communist countries to deaths under famine in the British empire.

Otherwise you might as well say "Look at this list of atrocities committed by men, I'm aware that women have committed atrocities too but that's not what we're discussing in this thread."
Calling the Bolsheviks "an apocalyptic sect" is wrong, because they were full of what we might call "the social optimism". They tried to build a "new, happier" society on the ruins of the imperial Russia which was rotten to the core. Too bad they chose the "Red Terror" as the means to that end.
> Having one OS in a "vm" on a phone sounds horrible UX wise

I believe most android people are doing this with users.

Since Android is now up to the task of docker (kernel 3.10+), it would be very nice to see apps sandboxed with permissions exposed via networked APIs.

Then it is impossible for an app (sans exploit) to access private data, and simple for the OS to route certain apps to certain data sets (ie, fake contacts for apps that shouldn't need your damn contact to begin with).

CyanogenMod accomplished some of this through various methods, but they were detectable. If you build it this way, it should be entirely undetectable.
>The downside in the new arrangement is that you're expected to do more of your own promotion. However, as your visibility grows you can hire someone to do that.

The real downside is that with no gatekeepers there and so many acts (orders of magnitudes more) you can make and release albums that nobody hears at all.

Whereas in the past, if you made it to have an album out, you had a small following almost guaranteed.

At least back when you couldn't even make the album without being picked by a record company, you could blame your failure to those A&R guys that failed to appreciate you, or get your lack of contract as a sign that you're not good enough to begin with.

Now that you can easily make an album, everybody both feels more entitled to success, but also gets to see firsthand how the audience just doesn't care.
Sometimes I am wondering what Google employees think when they read headlines like this one. I mean they probably have no problem giving the personal data to Google, but at the same time many of them are probably open source proponents and would support a world where the Google services would be entirely optional to Android.

A few days ago I was thinking about a new smartphone and because my main problem with my current android is the outdated kernel and driver setup, I was searching for smartphone with open source drivers. Wikipedia tells us since the start of the Smartphone era about 22 phones had open source drivers (with the exception of the proprietary baseband firmware):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...

Doesn't look like something where you can select the hardware specifications you prefer. So I feel a little lost.

In general, I like Android but for my taste the Google services are too intrusive. Uploading my data before I had a chance to deactivate it is just unacceptable. Asking me every day to add photos to Maps sucks too. I can accept giving some of my information to Google to improve the product, but lately Google feels like the data mooch on my smartphone...
That is not the provenance (origin) of copperhead, it is another meaning of the word though.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copperhead

The first known use of the word "copperhead" was in 1775, well before the US civil war.
You might be interested in BareMetal[1]!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BareMetal
Part of what this fights against is the daemonization fallacy. At initialization, before it even looks at its command-line arguments, the program closes almost all of its open file descriptors. Then it tries to use the /dev/fd/N name passed in as an argument by the shell's process substitution, which is of course now closed.

The waiting and killing in the shell script is fighting the daemonization fallacy, too. Luckily, that part of the program can be turned off with --daemonize=no. Even the pulseaudio people themselves do this.

* https://github.com/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/blob/24928d6b6fa1cd...
Believe Josh Levine's The Island ECN (one of the first trading networks) ran on DOS. He released the source code years ago:

http://www.josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_ECN
I doubt bandwidth is their concern. They already wasted bandwidth by showing the anti-ad block wall.
"me too"

I run LineageOS v13 now (Galaxy Nexus), and before that Cyanogenmod back to v7 (maybe v6 not sure) and have never had Gapps installed, its been F-Droid all the way. I guess that means I can't appreciate the improved battery life or speed..
Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system, so my interpretation here was that you shouldn't take on work that was generated by organizational disorder. An example I have in mind is when someone on the product side asks for a new feature that you know wouldn't take much time at all. Even though you could knock it out quickly, the correct action is to have them go through proper feature request channels.
Is this very different from the tendency in the US to say "the problem isn't capitalism, the problem is 'crony capitalism', if we were living under real capitalism things would be okay"?
> Incompetence is fiercely gregarious while knowledge is often fractious; the reason for this is that raw ideas transfer more easily through untrained minds than refined ideas transfer through trained minds.

This resonated with me and definitely gave me food for thought. Raw ideas with uninformed opinions can easily percolate throughout organizations and even across the industry. Feels like something we as a society need to more actively guard against.
This is a decent article on a true problem, but there are two things I would mention that add context to the situation:

Genetics do matter. Adult intelligence appears to be somewhere between 50 and 80% determined by genetics. Thus we should expect over time in a meritocracy for smart kids to come from the same families. This is compounded by assortative mating by IQ, which has become far more widespread in the last forty years. So things are going to look nepotistic (and they always will be to some extent, see my second point below) when, in fact, this is a natural phenomena.

So, what? Just let the people who lose the genetic lottery rot? No. Instead, we might want to focus on having a more balanced economy where, rather than everyone striving to become part of the elite, a working class person can have a perfectly reasonable life. Jordan Peterson discusses this problem in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0

Secondly, it is not immoral for parents to make large investments in their own children's lives. This behavior is no doubt somewhat driven by genetics (nearly everything appears to be at least 40% genetic) but it is also a learned behavior. Government programs that replace parental investment have been catastrophic for minorities in the united states: for example 73% of non-hispanic blacks are born out of wedlock. So delegating parental investment in children to the state, in the name of ending nepotism, may have some very detrimental effects that are difficult to predict.

All of this is to add context and suggest a different solution: making middle class non-elite life paths more attractive, not to deny that there is a problem.
That is.. bad, particularly since the presumed context here is about fire emergencies where speed is of the essence. Any extra steps will add delays and/or opportunities for potentially disastrous mistakes.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvzb5/the-time-n...
The problem is that the band still has to compete for the instant gratification that those (now locked) cell phones offered their fans all day around.
Most impressive feature:

> We have an integrated terminal emulator supporting ecma-48. You can run vim or anything else within openage. This is neat to interactively edit scripts.

it runs vim!
Edm is still extremely social and face to face.

Keep in mind that dance music is fundamentally music for a club and designed to be experienced on a loud system in a dance floor full of people.

The process of making and distributing the music may be digital and remote, but the intended way to experience it is as social as it gets.

If you want your music to get attention one of the best ways to do it is to go to a lot of clubs, and meet promoters and DJ’d face to face and to DJ yourself.
This really is an exceptionally good article, written by a pragmatic and insightful student of working life.

I have often experienced the following but could never have described it as elegantly:

> Incompetence is fiercely gregarious while knowledge is often fractious; the reason for this is that raw ideas transfer more easily through untrained minds than refined ideas transfer through trained minds. There’s a reason why large organisations focus so much on simple messages, pity that difficult problems often have simple solutions that don’t work.
Ads provide wealth redistribution. Resources are given to poor people subsidized by rich people.

Don’t kid yourself. If the major platforms could exclude those who aren’t in their advertisers demographics they wouldn’t waste a single server on them.
Oh cheers! I had no idea. Thanks for the pointer :D
> the IRB should make whatever rule changes are neccessary to encourage more running-rugby

Turn it into rugby leage?
OpenBSD has randomized pids since the dawn of time. Why has Linux not taken this basic step to improve security?
I'm interested what this deep G buffer for the order-independent transparency would entail.
> Pirates can actually download games directly from Nintendo's official store and load them onto a hard drive to play.

I hear its the same with PS3 those days. Pirate app you install on your cracked console that allows you to browse, download and run games from Sony's servers without paying for anything.
>> Being overworked is not a good reason to hire. Instead, hire to be ready to catch opportunities, not to survive the current battles.

> I disagree - if you have overworked people, that is usually a red flag.

Overworked people is a red flag indeed, but it is usually a symptom of a deeper problem that is unlikely to be solved with more hires. I think the author hits the nail on the head here -- first and foremost hire for future opportunities.
And it stayed under locked even when running on a/c power.
25 days of Clojure
Child porn law goes nuts: 14-year-old girl charged for nude selfie
> So it’s not a wrong analysis. Helth care costs distort entire markets in the US.

It's a completely wrong analysis. It's not even an analysis - it's just quoting a talking point straight from the MTA justifying their high payroll.

And, as the article demonstrates, it's completely off-base. If you look at the numbers from the article, it still doesn't add up, even assuming that every employee is given the most generous healthcare plan available, the kind that venture-backed Silicon Valley startups might give to their employees.
The grid is perhaps 5% of what Bootstrap does, and as a whole it's a lot more convenient than starting from scratch every time.
> No one is loaning anyone money with the expectation that they're going to lose money on it. The expected value of a loan from the issuer's point of view is always positive.

Well put. But I also find wisdom in the expression "Banks will always be there for you when they need you. They will never be there for you when you need them."

The psychology of loss aversion dominates the behavior of lenders big and small. I've seen people I otherwise consider quite smart expect that they can convince holders of capital in various forms (from credit unions and community banks to the giants) to lend to solid small businesses unable to grow due to cash flow constraints.

As you point out, the VC world will place bets on expansion, but only with the prospect of exponential growth and exit. Banks increasingly seem uninterested in business lending at all, when they used to lend with the expectation of a reasonable but not extravagant return. I guess payment processing and retail fees are more lucrative and carry less downside risk - until the retail customers dry up and blow away because all the small businesses that used to use credit are gone. But I'll be retired by then, so who cares, right?
That ship has sailed. Catch the next one.
>Imagine someone getting killed for something ridiculous like inadvertently holding an adversarial example.

This would never be the case with humans, right? No.
And there's a well-known surgeon in my hometown that slipped at the hospital, fell, and damaged his hands. He sued and won for 10's of millions. His kids are hardcore awful people and that lawsuit enabled them to be worse AND gave a very rich surgeon even more money from the seemingly unlimited pit of healthcare funding.

Doctors are patients too.
Think of it this way: what if the author had titled it "Escaping Ubuntu containers" ?
I'm not surprised.

To have a random drop box means you need to make sure it is at least as secure as an ATM - maybe more so. After all, businesses are losing their deposits, sometimes more than one if they only get it weekly. If it gets stolen, then what? Take the businesses' word for the deposit and give it to them or let the police handle it? For a small business, that could be catastrophic.

On top of that, the boxes will need collected at some point, which means an armored car trip out to some small country town.

By the time you are dealing with the theft thing and you are having an armored car daily or weekly anyway, it might be a little easier to just send the armored car to the businesses and let them take care of the security the other part of the day. As a bonus, some of the regional or national chains already have such systems in place in some stores (gas stations, pharmacies, fast food, and so on) so they will be pretty prepared already. The rest could have a drop safe installed on-site, probably renting it from the bank.