skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread seems like an excellent opportunity to ask for some advice.

I'm a British software engineer based in London, while my girlfriend of 3 and a half years is an American working for a publishing company in NYC. We've been trying to work out whether we think the relationship will work out in the long term, but the only time we've ever been in the same city for more than 3 weeks was the 6 month stint we were at university together. She's very reluctant to move to London - apparently publishing jobs are hard to come by, and she's loathe to leave the current one. As a result, I've been tasked with finding a way that I can spend some time in New York. It wouldn't have to be long - 6 months would be plenty - but I would have to be able to earn money since she currently doesn't really make enough to support herself, let alone me.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could go about doing this?
Can someone explain to me Intel's continued fascination with being a consumer company?

I suspect that Intel is buying companies and products like this for the same reason that Microsoft bought Nokia -- they see some markets moving away from them, and rather than convincing other manufacturers and fighting competing inertia, they're going to try to make the market themselves.

That isn't to be dismissive of Intel at all -- they are a tremendous company, and their products are virtually always class leading (in capability and quality). But they were making so much money on the fat processor market they got lured into the classic fallacy of thinking that they were their own biggest competitor, and now the whole ARM ecosystem has turned into a remarkably capable foe.
Meetup.com is being DDoS'ed
2) Ukraine is not in position to join EU economically. Accepting them is another time-bomb. Which probably suits USA if they can push it.

4) Russia still have their Belarus.
England != UK.
Remember that anti-gay republican who was caught having sex with a male prostitute in an airport bathroom?

Haters gonna hate (themselves).
Wayfair get more space for move, but is company too conservative?
Will Tesla’s huge battery factory affect the power grid?
Most people that don't understand the work required to do what you do will underestimate the difficulty/hours involved. Pretty much any profession has this problem.
Smells like a set up.
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I think this is the way to go about it. And if earlier versions want those kinds of APIs they can implement them in packages.
I was wondering when people would start to realise how easy a target all these sites that store BTC would be. I mean, I trust the banks with my money because they are legally liable for it. Some random website, where you can't audit the code and there's no real legal process for recovery of assets? Yeah that's a great system.

The whole point of state-backed currency is to provide stability and make it so there's money you can trust - not some wild west cross-your-fingers system. Yes, countries have failed (e.g. hyperinflation), but at least there are extremely powerful institutions in place who's remit is to prevent that at all cost.
Rent is a day-to-day concern that does not matter in long term. Opportunities give you access to experience, connections and reputation that will stay will stack up and stay with you throughout your entire career.

To put it other way: resources sunk into cost of living add up linearly over time, the benefits of (exploited) opportunities get amplified and yield exponential results over the years. You want to go for the exponential curve.
Why? And replace it with what?
For the extra curious, here's a little Parser (untested, poor design, but generally the right idea)

newtype Parser a = Parser { unParser :: MaybeT (State String) a }
deriving ( Functor, Applicative, Alternative,
Monad, MonadPlus, MonadTrans,
MonadState String )
-- why write boilerplate when the
-- compiler will for you?

runParser :: Parser a -> String -> Maybe a
runParser input = flip evalStateT input . runMaybeT

-- | Parses a single character if it passes a predicate
satisfy :: (Char -> Bool) -> Parser Char
satisfy p = do
(c:cs) <- get
guard (p c)
put cs
return c

char :: Char -> Parser Char
char c = satisfy (== c)

-- | Parses a whole string
string :: String -> Parser String
string = mapM char

-- | Converts a parser to be surrounded by parentheses
parens :: Parser a -> Parser a
parens p = char '(' *> p <* char ')'
"look feckless".. so you agree with the idiot columnists?

If we were Russia, we would absolutely see it as a good idea to make sure we controlled Crimea. It's like 70% Russian-speaking, was part of the Russian empire until the 50s and indirectly Russian from then on, and Sevastopol is one of the most important military locations in the world to them, as well as a historic Russian city.

Of course they're going to make sure they keep Crimea. But that's all they're keeping, as opposed to the whole Ukrainian nation being under their influence. That's a loss for them, and people who don't track US domestic politics for a living can see that.

Russia's not a 'rogue state', they're just looking after their interests here. The US has used a lot more military force for a lot worse reasons, and recently.
You can at least mitigate this by copying long but unsent messages to the clipboard. I somehow picked up that habit years ago on desktop computers, probably because crashing and connection issues were common at the time.
Python's stdlib webserver is terrible and not to be used. You WILL hear Python people say this

I don't see why you decided to pick a fight about Python, though - Python seems to be a sore point for PHP defenders and I really don't know why
... without missing a beat, Patrick Rock went on record to say "As you can see, this filter is very effective, it even caught me. Kudos for a well implemented mechanism, I can only hope such sick, sick, basters like myself will be caught and put away promptly."
What Do Data Brokers Know About Me?
Let's not make this like reddit where there's scores of people who have nothing to do but complain about something they've already seen.

If it's interesting, it's interesting. If it's not worthy of being seen again, it won't be upvoted. By all means link to the previous discussion, but quit the whining.
I especially like the real-time broadcasting feature that I needed awhile back, but couldn't find it anywhere.

If anybody knows any other product with such a feature, I'd be glad if they shared it here.
I really need to explore LLVM in more detail at some point.
The most interesting thing about this to me is that shortly after the advisor was arrested, the rightwing Daily Mail started a smear campaign against senior members of the opposition, effectively accusing them of having supported paedophilia in the 1970s[1].

It dominated UK headlines for about a week, until the Ukraine crisis, at which point the (much more serious and concrete) allegations against the government advisor are revealed.

Nice work.

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/20/dail...
Having a built-in web server was a tremendous boon for Ruby on Rails. Anybody could run "rails new foo; cd foo; rails server" and run code without installing Apache and mod_whatever.

Regardless of what anybody thinks about Ruby developers, I've never heard or seen that "people launching production sites with servers intended mainly for Rails development use" is/was a widespread thing.
He doesn't need to. Yanukovych can retire to a country home in east Ukraine or Russia, and they simply need elections free from US and EU interference, and whoever the new Party of Regions candidate is will win.

UDAR, Fatherland, and Svoboda will split the pro-EU vote (as they did in the most recent elections), and the Party of Regions will wind up winning again.

Given free elections, Putin doesn't even need to rig anything, the PoR actually is the dominant political party in Ukraine (which is why the opposition overthrew them - they knew they couldn't win). Yanukovych came to power when the opposition controlled things, if anyone doesn't remember...
I've looked around, and the only free SSH tool for Windows that has a single HTTPS mirror is 'kitty': https://www.wuala.com/9bis.com/public/build/

There's binary OpenSSH releases for Windows, but they're all hosted on sites that don't do HTTPS. It seems like all Windows free software has a general lack of following security best practices when releasing or mirroring software.
Earning a lot of money is not necessarily 'privilege'. Earning a lot for doing very little certainly is, but arguably that's not the case for these interns - I would guess that they justify their salaries by providing considerable value to their employers. The fact someone is an intern is not a reason to pay them a low wage.
And then commit to the choice you've made: http://xkcd.com/310/
An interesting option for Americans looking to move to the Netherlands (or their territories) is the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_(treaty)
I could be wrong, but I think there's far less of a market for producing photos of brutal violence than there is for producing photos of illegal pornography - the law is really about trying to kill the market, rather than it actually mattering that they are looking at the photos (really the only reason to punish people for looking at them is that by stopping these people you can help take away the incentive for people to produce them in the first place).

Edit: In response to tomp's comment about how cartoon images can be illegal... yeah, I don't understand that. Maybe there's scientific evidence that paedophiles who look at cartoon images are more likely to become sex offenders than those who avoid all pornography? Even then, not sure it's the right approach... but who knows.
So... stop using a debugged and stable tool whose limitations and problems are well-known and understood and replace it with six bits of software duct-taped together, two of which aren't working yet (if they even exist), without any idea of how they interact when they hit edge cases.

I mean, "don't use X, use ShinyX instead" is one thing (and most of the time it's a bad thing but it does occasionally turn up good ideas), but this is just So Much Worse...
> although one of the ‘UFOs’ has been dismissed as an “out of focus picture of a seagull having a poo.”

This long term trend of UFO mockery is a very intelligent way to keep interest and investigation at bay. Take for example the Phoenix Lights incident where the Arizona Gov. got an aide to dress up as an alien as a good and far less subtle example:

http://www.ufosnw.com/news_items/govsymington03182007/govsym...
In a double dose of irony it was the Daily Mail who originally broke the story, the very same paper who are being petitioned to stop posting pictures that sexualise under age girls.

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/daily-mail-mailonline...
Even more worrying is the fact that it appears that he was tipped off about the police investigation by senior Downing Street figures.

He resigned from his post at the policy office several hours before the NCA came to arrest him at his flat, which meant that he could potentially have had the opportunity to destroy evidence.
Indeed, but for funded projects, their licensing is okay.
A few things:

- There's been several reports of SF landlords kicking out tenants from rent controlled apartments to lease out rooms on AirBnB. While I am against rent control (it's a terrible system that creates a few winners and fucks over most people who cannot get such a flat) it's obvious that this is an abuse of the system

- Until recently, AirBnB fought tooth and nail against paying hotel taxes.

I think safety regulations are mostly overkill, and I'd get rid of most of them in a heartbeat, but while those regulations exist, you cannot simply outcompete other players that are forced to follow regulations you avoid.
The Failed Deal in Ukraine and Russia's Military Intervention
I've joked around with this idea before, except I called it Püber.

In all seriousness, this is an issue I deal with frequently in NYC. I'm out and about in Manhattan all day, get struck by the need to pee, and then run around trying to find any place with a restroom. Paying a buck or two would be a negligible cost if it meant immediate relief.

If they expanded and got enough supply, I'd definitely use their service.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7473/intel-to-fab-altera-fpgas...

You're mostly right about it not being one of the big players. Altera is a big player in the FPGA market, but not the ARM market. The chips in question cost thousands of dollars; the ARM core is a very small portion of the chip.
See, I was going to say that Putin isn't far behind. After all, apparently the US is still learning these same lessons.

one of the really annoying things one starts seeing in the American press when being away from the country for a while is the tremendous inability to see the same patterns at home as abroad. It's quite amusing and also quite disturbing.
I imagine it would be somewhat trivial to entrap / SWAT somebody with this kind of imagery and then make an anonymous phone call, right? The tendency to rush to judgment on these issues is what makes those kinds of tactics much more powerful.

Not saying that is the case here, but it's something I try to keep in mind whenever headlines like this hit the news. It is rare that we ever see the follow-up verdict / judgment reach the same level of visibility.
We add/remove about 150 nodes every day to/from our monitoring system automatically via APIs. That use case has always sucked for me with Nagios. How would you do that?
It's hilarious just how badly you can pick them...

Immigration minister resigns after hiring illegal immigrant cleaner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/106261...

Communications director resigns after phone hacking scandal
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/21/andy-coulson-re...
'"look feckless".. so you agree with the idiot columnists?'

Oh, sorry, my mistake. The West has been a well-oiled machine in response to this, with clear goals and a strong, unified message that clearly indicated their preparation for this.

Could you refresh my memory on what that strong, unified message is again? Wading through the diplospeak pretty much seems to come out to "Uhhhhh.... whatever, dude."
Opera 20 launches on Windows and Mac with major emphasis on streamlined design
There's a distinct lack of images on that website. I for one would like to see how I would diagnose problems without opening 5 tabs. A "demo" mode would be even more helpful.
What's worse, it doesn't actually need to be child pornography. Even computer-generated/digitally modified images/videos where actors resemble children, and even drawings that can be interpreted as children having sex, are illegal!
No, it means that you divide transactions into "can be served from petty cash" and "requires a wait while we get some bitcoins out of the vault".

Then implement the vault as offline storage (encrypted files burned onto DVDs and physically stored in a vault for example).
Probably for the same reason most people don't store cash under their mattress and store it in a bank instead.

Of course, storing Bitcoins on your laptop is even more risky than storing cash under your mattress. Someone has to physically enter my house to steal the cash, but to steal my bitcoins? All they need is a virus, spyware, out of date OS, out of date router firmware, out of date NAS firmware, a zero day exploit, etc. and they can drain me of my coins from anywhere in the world.

Then of course there is the risk of simply losing the coins. An accidental deletion. A hard drive failure. Losing a laptop or having it stolen. You have to back everything up, you have to back it up offsite, and you have to trust the offsite backup. You have to keep your machines securely locked down.

All of this requires the user to be quite tech savvy. This will never change for storing coins locally... so if Bitcoin is going to be the "currency of the future" to be used by the masses then secure banks and exchanges have to be a thing. They also have to be a thing for lending and investing, anyway.
Is there a future for a social aggregator aimed at personal use?
Garble's my creation but I'm wondering, will this idea ever take off? Alternion seem to manage to stay afloat but nobody I know has even heard of it, let alone uses it. Threadsy tried and failed. There's NetVibes, but, again, nobody ever uses it for personal use as far as I know.

Technically Garble is possible. But can it ever take off? I think I've been wasting my time.
Even Seinfeld thought this was a great idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITluapajP4w
On American Scientists' Dismal Morale
And again:

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Ironically, one of those was when I tried to edit this comment to add another one.

And more:

Ray ID: 105f9639b63606ee
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[Scalyr founder here]

We take security very seriously, but let me turn this around into a question: what would it take for you to trust an external service to manage your logs? Some of the things we're doing:

1. SSL everywhere (including internal traffic between our backend servers).

2. We add a tag to the raw representation of every string value, so that we can verify that data never leaks across accounts. (This has never detected a problem -- except in tests, because yes, we do test it.)

3. Implementing in a "safe" language (Java), to rule out low-level buffer management bugs.

4. As Greg noted, we make it trivial for you to redact sensitive data before it leaves your server.

We are sometimes asked for an on-premises installable version of our service. We don't provide that because we're using economies of scale on the backend to completely change the log management experience: when you give us a query, every CPU and spindle in our entire cluster is briefly devoted to that query. This means that you aren't limited to graphing predefined metrics; you can do ad-hoc exploration of your entire log corpus in on the fly. E.g. display a histogram of response latencies for all requests for url XXX on server group YYY in the last 48 hours, and expect a near-instantaneous response.
It's even worse than that if you consider that bus or train stations tend to be the places where a lot of tourists transit. If I spend just a few hours in a country it does not make much sense to obtain local cash, especially coins which will be unusable as soon as I leave the country. On the other hand, the chances that I will need a restroom at least once in a few hours are quite high ...
I was actually debating whether to mention Belarus, and edited it out to preserve space and get my point about dumb US political writing across. Thanks for chipping that in :)

As far as joining the EU.. I think political concerns will rule the day as France/Germany/UK will have a compelling reason to consolidate the 'ukraine is not russia' fact on the ground. But who knows, I didn't get any guarantees with that crystal ball, it could be that concerns about a flood of ukrainian guest workers stop it from happening. Maybe they find a way to have a slower economic integration to lessen the shock, or maybe I had things flipped and Ukraine will join NATO before the EU. I'm reasonably sure, though, that the US/UK/FR/DE will be working together to marry Ukraine into the alliance some way or other.
>In Baltimore taxis routinely refuse to make pickups in various parts of town either because they are out of the way or because they are perceived to be "bad".

And Uber is solving this how? Bad neighbourhoods are bad neighbourhoods.

It sounds like one solution to this problem is to mandate that taxis cannot discriminate. That smells like regulation.
Consider for a moment a successful zero-day attack on a Windows workstation (say, an image vulnerability in Outlook because that actually happened):

* The attacker can immediately view the user's password or just look at the saltless hashes (if they want).

Now let's compare that to, say, a Linux desktop (where similar zero days are extremely rare):

* Attacker will have to install a keylogger (usually by messing with the user's .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, etc) and wait for the user to spawn a new shell process where they actually enter their password at some point. This could be a long, long time or never at all if the user doesn't use the shell much.
* Alternative: Because the shell option is unreliable (especially with more distros/businesses disabling LD_PRELOAD by default) the attacker will usually just run a program/script that prompts the user for their password. Unsophisticated users will probably just enter it but most IT professionals (the ones with privileged access) would immediately have a "WTF?" moment and that's very risky to an attacker.

I'd also like to mention that with things like SELinux and Apparmor it is very difficult for a userspace process to mess with the memory of another userspace process even when they're running as the same user. This makes it much more tricky to escalate privileges or obtain a user's password on a Linux desktop than Windows. Then there's the fact that on Linux there's a plethora of tools to detect and stop things like fiddling with LD_PRELOAD in user profiles.

...and if you don't like how it works you can actually change it! The source code for the kernel, the shells, the desktops, etc is there for you to do with as you please.
The price is absolutely insane and a non-starter.
Why is that irony?
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Whenever I hear "the new PHP" or "its not the old mess anymore", I say to myself, thats hardly the point. The key flaw I find with PHP is with its community and lack of any mature frameworks. Half of the PHP coders are hopeless script kiddies, thanks to low barrier entry it has, and I don't feel a single framework exists that can match Rails or Django. For the matter of fact, the framework with largest community, Codeigniter, only has inline test functions for any kind of testing and doesn't even come with a auth library.

Being a PHP developer myself, I can't refute that only selling point of PHP, albeit, a major one, is its so "easy" to get things done. I feel in the near future, with advent of tools to make mature frameworks more accessible, PHP would cease to be a tool for any serious web development.
We've been hacked = All your coin are belong to us
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You're really against Code Climate huh? Just what did it do to you to garner such hatred? I'm not personally a fan but I can see how it may help large companies in certain situations.

Anyways, when I asked about a "maximum" I was not asking in absolute terms. What do you see as a reasonable max for the majority of use cases?

At which point do you start feeling bad about your method?
Why is he underestimating England? At this point England is basically:

a) an English speaking financial center

b) an English speaking media source

Does it count for anything else? Both of those are only relevant now because of English becoming today's lingua franca, mostly due to the US. Even in Europe they're second fiddle to Germany/France.
Yes our viewpoints do diverge greatly. I believe that people should be free to choose which society to contribute towards not based on arbitrary geographical bounds. However, this will never be possible if there is no separation of government and society (which there is no concept in mainstream politics). To that end mainstream cryptocurrency adoption is the next step to this goal.