skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's certainly not my intent, and I hope that's not what this is being taken for.

I know, and I don't take it that way. =) Like I said, you make good points.

> I apologize if I've given that impression!

To be clear, you haven't. However, I've always been impressed with how people can twist intent.
Indeed, LXC rocks for this.

Drawbacks are that it's nontrivial to set up and requires some rigid formalism in developer output that sometimes demands training and/or cultural change. But it's definitely something everyone should consider.

In my (currently internal, heavily LXC-utilizing but) infrastructure and OS neutral project, I am looking at specifically this sort of automation but for complex topologies of interdependent services, HA clustering layers, complex emulated network topologies (bonded links, multiple VLANs), etc. Plans are to include failure testing at the communications level (slow links, lossy links, cable snaps, switch failures, etc.) in addition to resource levels (disk, memory, etc.).

Outputs of a successful automated testing environment can include amazingly detailed information for capacity planning, automatically generated security policies (both for container-side, host-side and infrastructure-side deployment).

It's a fascinating area and one that is ripe for great change. Many people have needs here, the question is how to meet them at the intersection of current infrastructure and codebases, existing teams, business level concerns, varying hardware availability, etc. Both pre-commit and post-commit hooks are useful for different types of automation. IMHO LXC's blazing speed broadens significantly what can be tested with pre-commit.
/u/biot's analogy is apt. But I don't understand why it isn't a defence that the HTTP protocol starts with a REQUEST . The server is the one who actually serves up the information.

If I _request_ something from you ("hey, can I borrow your car?"), and you give it to me, then what's the problem here?
>It's silly until your plane skids sideways on the runway,

Um, so we're to believe it's the headphones that caused this? Most likely if the plane is skidding all over and there's a major emergency, the headphones aren't going to prevent someone from noticing. I'd be far more worried about sleepy passengers or something. In fact, in your scenarios, you wouldn't even be in an exit row, as you'd be apparently too disconnected from reality to verbally say OK to their request for assistance if needed prior to takeoff.
Sadly this will probably be shut down by morning since it didn't come from Apple. What Apple should, but won't do, is buy it and release it for free themselves. But then Apple would have to admit that there just might be another AppStore in the universe and their reality distortion field might show a small dent.
Sometimes a jump in diagnoses just means we had previously been misdiagnosing or under diagnosing. Don't just call an increase an over diagnosis. If we suddenly had an increase in obesity or cancer we wouldn't say "i call bullshit, doctors are cashing in on this". Maybe there is something else going on but automatically calling over diagnosis is just as bullshit as anything else.
It's really only isolating in Latin American countries if you don't speak the language or are a curmudgeon. Culturally there is more than enough in common with US lifestyles with respect to social activities, cultural customs and food that you won't feel nearly as isolated there as you would in Southeast Asia.
Thanks. I always take any kind words I can get on HN. What do you mean by trolling? It's meant to be good-humored, but there are definitely some crazy annoying "sayings" on the list.
Does this screw up the ordering of messages just like iMessages? Does it make you apart of the same conversation multiple times, so that when you send a message, you get your own reply?
China to lift ban on Facebook, Twitter, NYT within Shanghai free-trade zone
Well, if he were from Syria, he'd be even better off. He'd have a dictator and a bunch of terrorists recreate the worst day of his life every day for him. Also, his privacy would be protected, he'd never have to fear getting on the BBC website with his name and a picture.
Is it just me or does it cover only 3/4 of the screen in full screen mode?

http://imgur.com/iYpNrfX

I use Chrome on Linux Mint.
If you want to compare a commercial aircraft with 2-3 independent radios and electrical systems to a light aircraft, I can as well, and I'm happy to tell you that it's trivial to get a cell phone or tablet to cause annoying interference in the headset. I have to turn some of them off during flights, but always keep at least one of them on and away from the instrument panel, in case of an emergency or radio failure (which has actually happened to me once).
Does it actually register as an iMessage? I wonder how they pulled it off.
This is going to get shut down so fast from Apple, which is kind of sad given the amount of work that must have gone into this!
Sounds great, but I’m still worried because this App might hijack the Apple ID and password. If I remember it correctly, Apple does not publish their Apple ID API outside of iOS SDK.
What happens in the scenario where the librarian is instead a low IQ worker helping out?

You: Can I have this book?
Worker: No, sorry, not allowed.
You: It's ok, the boss said so.
Worker: I don't think so.
You: We're friends, right? You don't say no to your friends, do you?
Worker: Well, ok, I guess you can have it.

Hey, the worker said it was ok, I guess you were authorized after all!
I have been professionally diagnosed as having Asperger's, and I downvoted it because it was a shitty, uninformed, insulting comment. Exactly the same reason I've downvoted your comments.
It is the server's problem. A misconfigured server is not a client's problem.

Set aside the SQL injection. Suppose there's a bug in Apache's path parsing such that using "\" instead of "/" causes it to interpret it as an escaped string, which somehow (bear with me) causes it to run exec("/bin/rm -r /"). Now some n00b comes along and uses "\" in the path, because he's used to paths on MSDOS; crashing the server.
Whose problem is it? The client's, for sending a malformed request? How do you expect the client to know that the "\" will trigger a catastrophe?
Or what if the client made a mistake, and while he thought it was "some query string" in his cut buffer, it turned out to be "; drop table *" (or something like that). Now whose problem is it?

If the server willy-nilly takes any input and doesn't check it, it is the server's fault.
I would love to know how they pulled this off.
I'm not really sure what to make of this response.

> The Bayesian says, "Uncertainty exists in the map, not in the territory. In the real world, the coin has either come up heads, or come up tails. Any talk of 'probability' must refer to the information that I have about the coin—my state of partial ignorance and partial knowledge—not just the coin itself.

See, QM doesn't actually work like this. There is no hidden variable. This has been proven[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Why emulate prod running on dev's own boxes

It is a good way to have faith in your ability to execute your stuff on new/unfamiliar/heterogenous environments, which can be valuable. People may be geographically distributed. People may wish to work offline. People may want a degree of control not available or even feasible on shared hardware resources.
Just FYI the PS4 low-level library is called GNM, and their higher-level wrapper is GNMX.

(source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-how-the-cre...)
The way Chuck Lorre writes, the scripts could be transposed onto just about any combination of stereotypes you can imagine. Stereotypes are his game, and BBT could just as easily be shot with the Happy Days characters with the Fonz in the Penny role.
Does anyone remember their acquisition of TimesTen? I've used it in production (HF trading) but it didn't seem to gain that much broad traction. Is this just TimesTen in a SPARC-packaged bundle? Perhaps IBM's plan to sell / phase out its POWER server business has something to do with the re-branding of TimesTen to this. [1]

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/timesten/overview...
Isn't this mainly an FCC restriction? [1]

I thought the main idea was to prevent phones from constantly jumping between towers... does the FAA have much to do with this in reality?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft
Some years ago I was about to switch my home PC from the terrible Windows Vista to Linux, and the only thing that prevented me from doing so was Team Fortress 2.

Now TF2 runs on Linux, and the perspectives for Linux gaming are very good in general, but I no longer want to switch because I am happy with Windows 7, I hate Unity and Gnome 3 and their dumbed-down UIs that make me want to bang my head against the wall, XFCE is OK but feels like going ten years back in time, and KDE 4... well, that one is not too bad, but I still prefer Windows 7.

It's a pity that all this Linux gaming surge didn't happen back in 2008 or so, when Windows was in its lowest moments with Vista and most Linux distros hadn't yet been ruined by overbearing UI visionaries. I'm sure that desktop Linux market share would have soared in that case.
We love every sport
http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp
UC Berkeley

UC Los Angeles

UC San Diego

UC Santa Barbara

Couldn't find a single one...
""That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy" <--This is the title.
"How boys communicate and socialize" <--This is one of the subheadings."

As I mentioned, it's entirely possible, if not highly likely, that both the title and the subtitles were chosen by editors at Salon and not by the author himself.

For example: I've rarely been able to write my own headline whenever I've been published. I've also been heavily edited, and occasionally even pigeonholed in a certain direction, by my editors. It depends on the publication, the editor's chosen focus, etc. (Curiously enough, in fact, I didn't even write this link's headline for HN; I submitted this article under a different headline).

"Or...you know...a girl. Who just so happens to have strange interests, be introverted, and struggle socially."

But discussing a particular aspect of masculine behavior that's misunderstood does not necessarily imply that only masculine behavior is at issue, nor does it imply that only boys exhibit such behaviors.

It may well be the case that boys are more often disciplined or misdiagnosed for these issues in classrooms. I don't know. There are any number of reasons why he could have chosen this focus -- and while that focus is a limitation, I am choosing to give him some benefit of the doubt until reading further.

If indeed his focus in the book is purely on boys, then that's a very serious limitation. And it would be a very unfortunate one. I have not read the book, so I cannot say for certain whether his book itself is only about boys. I hope it's not.
Remember this is Play Store not App Store. Apple can not pull anything out of the Play Store.

What they can do is to shut off the backend because they probably don't have rights to use it anyway.
Depending on what you find and where you find it, actually, you may have a legal obligation to attempt to return it to the owner. The law is not quite as simple as finders, keepers.
What about the return flight?
Not necessarily. There is many Airplay apps that are working for ages. Maybe they have to rename their app.
Among the popular plugins that have been temporarily whitelisted along with plugins like Flash and Silverlight are Google Talk and Google Earth are among the plugins that will be barred. Thus this looks like a fair and logically consistent move.

I only hope that we can keep DRM out of the open web as long as possible and have it die when plugins die.
Scala collections library covers pretty much everything you can think of, usually in a concise manner a la Ruby, Python, etc.

scala> Random.shuffle(List(1,2,3))
res7: List[Int] = List(2, 3, 1)

Scala-Android google group may be of interest:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scala-on-android

Obviously I've been converted to the static side, only client-side remains dynamic for me at present, and that's only because there's not yet a statically typed Coffeescript-like language available.
Energy is probably the largest industry in the world - our civilization runs on abundant energy.

The world energy industry needs to be very substantially reworked otherwise there's a high chance that many (most) of us (or subsequent generations) will die.

There are massive fossil incumbents who will be displaced.

I'd say energy.
Checkout documentation on http://docs.vessel.io , hope you will find it useful. Let us know if you need anything else.
You can kill yourself with almost anything, including water.

Did you read the article? The whole point of it is that the dose of acetaminophen found in many pills in the US is dangerously close to the level at which liver damage occurs.

The same can't be said for other painkllers.
>Neither civilized areas nor technology (except in China) changed much during that period.

The extremely sudden rise of Islam seems like a pretty big change to me. You had Western Roman influence in North Africa, a big functioning Eastern Roman Empire, and a thriving Sassanid Persian empire, which all got swept away.

This political/military upheaval led quickly to a golden era of learning and inquiry that the world hadn't seen in half a millenium...which then itself was swept away by the Mongol invasion (and sacking of Baghdad in 1258).

If a simulation could predict extremely important upheavals of that sort I'd be pretty damn impressed.
If he figures it out, though.. What that must be like to live in a fictional world with reality seeping through!
Regardless of whether it'll disappear from the Play store quickly or not this is kinda cool. Hopefully it means there'll be a FOSS implementation of this at some point and we can get other Linuxy stuff talking to iDevices.

(If there already is one I'd love to be pointed at it, I've done some searching previously trying to get a nice solution for getting scripts at home communicating with me - I eventually settled on using push notifications with Prowl http://www.prowlapp.com/)
This is actually talking directly to the iMessage service. It's hitting https://service.ess.apple.com:443 (and https://service2.ess.apple.com:443 when authenticating) and not being proxied through any third-party servers. That being said, it does look like the app reports basic analytics but nothing sensitive.

This is truly impressive!
It's worth noting that Sinclair invented his stories of "very unsanitary conditions of food production". They had very little basis in reality. Rather, Sinclair took any disgusting story or allegation he could find, assumed them true and typical, exaggerated for dramatic effect and invented new additional allegations. It was a work of fiction, not a report. It is true that new federal inspection laws were passed in response, but Upton himself opposed the new law, recognizing it as the boondoggle it was. (The meatpackers wanted it as a way to get federal taxpayers to fund inspection/certification that the packing companies otherwise had had to pay for themselves.)

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/ideas-and-consequences...
Steve McConnell makes some good points regarding 10x SW engineers in "10x Productivity Myths: Where’s the 10x Difference in Compensation?" http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/10x_Product...
so if I'm reading this correct, he hates linked in because they spam him with email?
Gosh, its my resume. And recruiters call me. And I have all my recommendations in one place. sorry, but I'd like to hold on to my account if you dont mind.
nice! a/b testing without needing to redeploy.
> As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner.

Could you elaborate on why you think that "PhDs have an inability to think"? If anything, I would have thought that a PhD will be extremely methodology and think through every step (after all, that is what you are supposed to do in a PhD).
I thought airplane mode was used for the entire flight. Does anyone turn their iphone completely off for takeoff?? or their macbook for that matter?
> ubiquitous surveillance is much closer to following everybody than noticing everybody

The issue is still that you're likening surveillance to harassment more than you're likening it to an intrusion of privacy. Based on this argument alone, I'm less inclined to agree with your position, because surveillance isn't harassment.

> People's instincts haven't caught up with the reality that is presented by ubiquitous surveillance, so IMO the right way in this case to decide whether surveillance is acceptable is by analogizing to the closest available cultural and instinctive concept that is still fully functional.

You realize you're not saying anything more than, "I think it's wrong, so I'm going to go searching for a rationalization," right?

I don't disagree that the surveillance we can safely suspect is being done by governmental organizations is probably immoral and should be illegal, but what I'm not hearing is a solid, justified argument for your position other than, "It's icky." You don't even have the fallback of "everyone thinks it's icky" since by your own admission, people don't.

I'm not interested in doing that hard philosophical work, personally, so I'll leave you with a suggestion. Privacy, at its root, is really about dignity: its most ancient manifestation is the capacity to relax without tainting one's public image, whatever that image may be. It is from this foundation that all other arguments about privacy are really built. So I'd challenge you to show that ubiquitous surveillance necessarily violates everyone's dignity.

I think you'll find that more difficult than you expect, but I don't think it's impossible to come up with a reasonably sound proof.
Half-Life 3 on Steam: Available Fall 2013
Flat Icon Concept
In the US, laws against assassination and extrajudicial killing make no distinction between American citizens and others: Foreigners have the exact same protections as citizens. This goes for the Bill of Rights as well. (Aside, this explains why the NSA is only "supposed" to spy outside of the US. Wether the target is a citizen or not is technically irrelevant on this particular point)

If you accept that the US is in a war with Al Qaeda, then it is in no way surprising that the US government would then attempt to kill members of that organization. And, again, whether the members are American or not is quite literally irrelevant.

However, if the targeted individual is physically located within the US, then the US government is generally supposed to arrest them instead of assassinate them - and again this protects foreigners and US citizens alike.
That works if it's a factory. It doesn't work that well in a mobile device manufacturer. Anyone selling wireless devices is subject to ongoing changes in the regulatory environment, plus security threats. If they don't have a team better than what you get by paying "just enough", bitrot will set in within a year.
Indeed! I wonder if Apple will be able to patch this app out while retaining access for their own devices.
It's not common for me to do that, but it's also not common for me to try breaking into iPhones.

But if I were trying to break into an iPhone, perhaps the finger prints are on the phone. Or some other item I also got as part of the same theft. Or I found the phone in the owner's house when I robbed it and have my pick of surfaces. Or I have the owner's prints in a database because they went were convicted of a crime(I admit I have no idea what resolution those are taken at). I don't think there's a shortage possibilities. You leave prints on almost everything you touch.

To be extra clear, I'm not saying the finger print reader isn't good enough for most iPhone users; I'm not arguing the nth-grandparent's point about that. My point is that it's not highly secure, and Apple shouldn't be marketing it that way. Similarly, the lock on my front door is plenty good for my house, but no one would ever describe my house as highly secure.
Booking.com App UI concept
That's crazy. The protocol for iMessage is so complicated that I gave up very quickly after getting IP banned many, many times, it's an incredibly sensitive service to things like this. At the time I just wanted to be able to check if an email address was iMessage-supported, but it required piles of signatures and other authorisation.

It will get banned on Apple's end so quickly, but not before it's used to send mountains of spam.
Now I am curious. Why would such literature never make it onto HN? (And eh... didn't you just make it onto HN?!)

Thank you for the link anyway.
Or maybe because it's a huge, intensely competitive market where multiple top-tier companies are trying to draw users from each other: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo. You can't stand still and expect your user base to keep growing. You might make your current users unhappy sometimes, but the goal is to keep getting new users, not just hold onto the ones you have.
To [HN] the all new free ticketing system for fan and event presenter. [video]
P'shaw, we all know Noah's Ark is up on Mt. Ararat on Armenian land politically owned by Turkey.
What does the ratio look like on a "neutrally controversial" comment look like? That is, a comment that isn't toxic, but merely dividing the community.
If only there were some way to determine what was meant. Barring that, maybe it's best not go around saying such things if you can't even convince one out of twelve people that you weren't serious.

Regardless of whether you truly intend to carry out the threat, the threat itself is a form of violence. It imposes your will on an unwilling subject.

If you rob a bank with an unloaded gun, you can't claim afterwards, "oh, they were perfectly safe and didn't actually have to give me the money, so therefore it wasn't a crime."
Easily done, log out of Medium and the popup on selection will go away.

I'm not quite sure what is so terrible about it as you can still do all of your normal selection actions with no modification and the whole purpose of the selection+popup is to facilitate further discussion of specific phrases within an article.

And, while I know it's easy to hate on social media like Twitter, Medium is the new project by the founder of Twitter and you _have_ to have a Twitter account to sign up for it in any case.
Well said. Without objective evidence, we should be open to the possibility of this being true or false.

However, as various people commented here, and I can attest as well, there are engineers who are orders of magnitude better than others. It's plainly obvious when you meet them and work with them for enough time to see.

So the interesting thing is why some people disbelieve their existence. If they haven't met such engineers, that is fine - they should be skeptical until they see evidence. But it is irrational for them to discount the eyewitness evidence of others.

So the really interesting issue here is why some people, like the article, want to deny the existence of such engineers. Are they threatened by them or something along those lines? I'm not sure.

(And of course "10x" is meaningless literally, etc. etc. But programming is a human activity, and we can measure our fellow humans despite how complex we are; for example we can say that some authors of fiction are hugely better than the average, such a thing is not even debatable.)
With Nvidia drivers you can use OpenGL 4.3 (the most recent version). It's only the Intel drivers which are limited to OpenGL 3...
I absolutely agree. This is really impressive if it works, but there's no way I'm giving this my Apple ID.
It would definitely seem less shady if the dev didn't copy iOS UI and icons. Still I downloaded it and hope to test it.
It'll likely just boot straight into Big Picture.