skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obviously won't change your opinions, but here are some facts that may be relevant.

Ukrainian Jews seek urgent help from Israel Director-general of European
Jewish Association urges Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Moshe Ya'alon to send security forces to Jewish communities
in Ukraine due to 'growing wave of anti-Semitic attacks.'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4492710,00.html

http://www.totpi.com/2014/02/25/ukraines-jews-to-israel-help...

Plenty of Jewish activists hate Putin enough to complain that such appeals 'help Russian propaganda'.

But there is another way to look at it, and it is that Russian views are correct from the outset:

The Ukrainian coup that deposed a legitimately elected president has been spearheaded by neo-nazi paramilitaries.

They now control key positions in the government, intimidate their political opponents, including what has remained of the Ukrainian parliament.
You are relying on disk io for each update, which can easily be slower than a web request. Either that, or you aren't flushing to disk, which could mean data loss. Modern databases use a write-ahead log to store data that hasn't been flushed to disk yet. If you aren't doing that, you don't have a database, you have a cache.
pprune.org is another one
C++ suffers from the too many cooks in the kitchen syndrome. They sometimes miss the basics.
I can feel the safety already! I imagine residents of UK live in a futuristic heavenly utopia!

But I'm quite happy here with my unregulated Internet, 900 ISPs all over the country and 100/100 Mbps unlimited fiber connection with a 42 Mbps 3G fallback (there's also Gigabit fiber but it's just too fast :-)).
I really really wish Dropbox could up their capacity as well.

I want to use Dropbox but it is too expensive.

But i am not sure even at half the storage space of Google is economically sustainable.
Get out of your bubble.
Don't be frustrated or mad. The more music there is, the less people are willing to pay per song. I listen to Pandora for free and I still feel like the value is limited.

More music = less value per track. Artists shouldn't take it personally, its just a saturated market.
Scientists create artificial "hell"
U.S. To Give Up Key Internet Governance Role
I use MaxCDN

http://www.maxcdn.com/

They cater for everything you asked for in your post. APIs, Video streaming, Analytics, etc.
Seems like bash (or insert your favorite shell here) would be THE lowest barrier of entry on any Linux, BSD, whatever host--perfect for this project! :-)
‘Rice’ Is The New Way To Trade Stuff
One is posted here.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines...
I'm not saying Kerberos isn't good, and obviously it's going to be better than any "new" system -- after all any new system hasn't seen any real-world testing. All the fluff around the various (http-centric) SSO-solutions is partly from wrapping them around SSL/X.509 -- just as IMNHO one of the problems with setting up (a secure and easily maintained) kerberos deployment isn't kerberos but LDAP.

As mentioned up-thread MS AD does a great job of enabling in-house CA and management -- and it's mostly that I want. I want to use certs for auth most places, and I want it easy! Openssh have shown that public key auth doesn't have to be hard -- but also doesn't have a very compelling story around managing access. The new cert-system might be an improvement -- but it absolutely needs some infrastructure around it to be easy to deploy (and verify).
The article also says

>Until just a few years ago, the satellite communication system used by jetliners didn't include data on an aircraft's location in the pings, the electronic equivalent of handshakes used to establish initial contact.
How does that explain the four hours of satellite pings after the transponders cut out?
This has been normal practice on airline computers for decades. The 757 used dual systems (the third being the pilot). Each channel:

1. used a different CPU architecture and brand
2. used different circuits
3. used different algorithms
4. used different languages
5. were developed by independent teams
6. with a third independent team to verify there were no inadvertent similarities

If the two channels disagreed, they were automatically electrically isolated, and the pilot was notified and was expected to take over.
>Ada is proven in this area and generates fast, efficient code that is suitable for embedded systems.

So does coding in assembly. The idea is to create fast, efficient code that is also simple and easy to understand.

>I would most certainly not trust Haskell over Ada in embedded system work.

If the system does not have hard realtime requirements and has a decent resources, why wouldn't you trust Haskell?
If this writer is so convinced that we need a new way of interacting with computers, why isn't he building it, instead of just writing about it?
No. The latest evidence shows that it flew on for hours afterwards and continued responding to satellite pings. If it exploded at the point where the transponder went offline, debris would have been found in that area by now.
I've played with Go and I like it well enough, but it doesn't offer anything interesting in the way of immutability. In fact, it doesn't so much offer it at all from what I've seen. Also, I'd like whatever language I land in to support named parameters.
watch this is gud hw wld u remote 2
Or someone trying to be Zed Shaw.
Believing that piracy is solely a Service problem is pretty naive or downright ignorant. Yes, some people pirate because other means of purchasing the content in question are inferior but lets face it: People will always prefer the free option
Maybe in 4 or 5 years, if things go well. There hasn't even been a 1.0 release yet. That's the bare minimum necessary for a lot of existing C++ users to even consider Rust as a potentially viable option.

Assuming Rust 1.0 is released sometime this year, it'll still take a number of years before Rust even begins to offer the very wide range of libraries/frameworks that are available to C++ developers.

Interfacing with these existing C++ libraries/frameworks may speed things up, but at that point its disputable whether it's really Rust being used.

Rust may be among the most promising alternatives, but it's just not there yet, and won't be for some time.
Signing in with a badge does't prevent you from smuggling data out on a USB stick.
> The truth is, car dealerships, which are mostly locally owned, are a way for a state to boost revenue capture and generate jobs. In New Jersey, not being able to pump your own gas is the same deal.

That can be said to be true about everything. Why allow online software sales, or Amazon purchases? Force them to have local BNM shops.
am I missing something? using safari. All I see is a blank white screen, with a few things that might be "buttons", none of which do anything. It doesn't respond to keypresses. No messages appear saying that my browser might not be compatible.

what am I expected to do here?
not ubuntu particularly, but i use rdiff-backup with a cron job (and rotate a couple of external drives, one kept elsewhere).

[i am just pulling things back after failing to convert raid 1 to 5 and losing my raid in the process!]
Isn't that what Redhat's kickstart (and it's equivalents in other distros) is for? Give you the minimum base you've decided your org wants systems installed with? It's trivial to add users, keys, initial firewall config, etc.

If you deploy more than a few systems a year and don't have a PXE boot environment (or at least the equivalent of a network accessible kickstart config to be manually selected) or a golden image to deploy from, then I can see how CM tools may seem a pain, because you haven't tackled the initial manual pain point yet, the actual install.

I haven't really used any CM tools, so maybe I'm getting the point where kickstart would traditionally leave off and ansible or chef would take over slightly wrong, but I can't see it being all that complex to automate configuring one after install.
> Have to say I'm a bit puzzled by the claim of Ansible being "blow your brains out" difficult.

Well not blow your brains out difficult but "learn a new syntax, behavior, rules, depend on a new package" difficult if a few shell commands is all you want to do.

I can see where they are coming from. I can go a long way just using shell script to configure (and yes, you can make them idempotent too).

From your site:

> You already have a religious passion for a particular CM tool

Aren't you doing the same against Chef and Puppet then? It sounds like. Oh "comparison" -- yeah just use Ansible.
Homer: Well, today's the day for Homer J. I know I'm
gonna win this time.

Lenny: Yeah? How come?

Homer: Union Rule 26: "Every employee must win Worker of
the Week at least once regardless of gross
incompetence, obesity or rank odor."

Mr. Burns: Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the
freedom fighters before the start of the rainy
season. And remember, a shiny new donkey for
whoever brings me the head of Colonel
Montoya... Hmm? What? Oh! ...and by that I
mean, of course, it's time for the Worker of
the Week Award. I can't believe we've
overlooked this week's winner for so very,
very long. We simply could not function
without his tireless efforts. So, a round of
applause for this inanimate [steel] rod.
I've noticed it primarily in SF and Seattle. I've seen it to a limited extent in Philadelphia, but it's been my observation that most tech jobs on the East Coast have sufficiently strict dress codes to make lifestyles/hobbies relatively non-apparent at first glance. (the limited extent that I witnessed it in Philadelphia was at a startup that I interviewed with. One of my "geek" friends warned me that the startup was filled with "brogrammers").

Although the term "brogrammer" was not invented yet, I also witnessed it in university on the East Coast, where CS kids in fraternities were frequently given a hard time by other CS students.

It definitely is "geeks" doing most of the name calling, though the twitter/SJW sphere has certainly adopted and perpetuated it as well.
What information is your opinion based on?
Because software actually is kind of hard, and to get anywhere you need to convince a somewhat larger group than one to all work towards the same goal.

And how do you know he is not?
a lot about julia, jenkins (and ci in general) and docker (partly i think, and inspired by anti-fragile (below), because i've decided it's ok to be wrong more often).

on the non-technical front, i've learnt i have a problem communicating in the culture i live in (chile) and that this has become critical (because it's affecting my health care). i'm not sure what the fix is yet. though.

also, reading anti-fragile has helped solidify some ideas i've had for a while, but which seemed unconnected.

and today i just learnt that you can't convert raid 1 to 5 and expect the volume group you had layered on top to survive. but i also learnt that my backups worked, so there's that ;o)
I seriously don't see it. I don't know why that deeply offends.
Laws change.
Some states have laws that restrict use of left lanes for passing. Many states have laws requiring drivers who are moving slower than the rest of the traffic, regardless of the speed limit, to keep right.

Most of the time if somebody is going the speed limit for any length of time in the left lane, there often is legitimately is an issue that they can be ticketed for.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
Potcoin, A New Cryptocurrency To Help Ease The War On Drugs
i don't get how you can loan bitcoins in any other way other than full reserve - unless you somehow put trust into the bank (which you have to for fiat money, but for bitcoins, you can verify and so don't have to trust credit/notes offered by the lender).
For Boarding Schools, an Evolving Financial Aid Philosophy
>> If the system does not have hard realtime requirements and has a decent resources, why wouldn't you trust Haskell?

Because that doesn't describe cars, a jet, space shuttles, or ... well anything I'd trust my life to. Hell, Haas CNCs still run DOS 8.0
You don't need an expert if there's a fire in the cockpit:

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=44078aa7&opt=0

Answers are in the past.
Not only is there different theories to the law, but many laws are also very hard to find.

In Sweden for example, the law is not just the law as it is written in the official book. Any work material related to the creation of law also count as law. In the case of the Pirate Bay trial, this is what the prosecutor had to dug out in order to find something that they could accuse the crew of (The working material described an intent to make it illegal to run a service if it is being primary used for illegal purposes). For example, running a pool bar primary used by a biker gang would make the bar illegal to run.

When it comes to highly political sensitive crimes, it not enough to simply buy a book about the law of the land and read it. Somewhere else, there will be a vague sentence that count as law.
going by that post it seems that for some reason she thinks it is appropriate to use the word "Fuck" on stage and inappropriate for people to complain about it.

That seems a little backwards to me.
harassment is a pretty strong word in my opinion, so I hope she proceeds with blogging as to what constituted that harassment and why she endured it for so long.

On other hand if she was so bad as the Secret screenshot claims, why wasnt she fired. Of course this whole incident could be a result of a slow firing process where the employer has to collect enough documentation in order to protect itself from any discrimination lawsuit.

Of course truth be told we simply may never find out what really happened since each party will try to protect its image.
Would it better if, instead of $340M/year in royalties, they got $0? Because that's what they'll get if they raise the royalties to the point Pandora and other streaming radio goes out of business. Pandora operated at a net loss in 2013. And in 2012. And in 2011.

People are willing to pay a certain amount for radio, whether it's in subscription fees or putting up with a certain amount of ads per hour before tuning out. If that amount is less than the song writers demand, then they get nothing, because the exchange just won't happen. Pandora is fighting to pay what the market will bear so that this exchange does continue to happen and those writers continue to be paid for the music we all love.
Roughly speaking, partial functions are functions that might crash -- or that might throw exceptions, if you prefer. So even if it always terminates, it might to do so at the cost of not returning a value of the expected type.

A bit more precisely, a partial function is a function that is not defined for some values of its domain (its input). A well-known instance is the division operator, which is not defined when the divisor is zero. Other common examples are head and last:

-- this promises to receive a list of elements of some
type t and return the first element
head :: [t] -> t
head (first:rest) = first
head [] = error "that list has no head, yo!"

Where error is analogous to throwing an unchecked Throwable (eg RuntimeException) in Java.

One solution is to use a safer version that returns Maybe a instead of a. This is analogous to using checked exceptions.

safeHead :: [a] -> Maybe a
safeHead (first:rest) = Just first
safeHead [] = Nothing

The solution above is common and idiomatic.

Another option is to accept only arguments of a different list type that's guaranteed to be non-empty.
Occam's razor only applies to theories that actually explain all the available evidence. That theory does not.
perhaps it was meant in a different sense- I thought he meant that a "socket" resource shouldn't have the programmer specifying the physical hardware and port number while other programs have the ability of monopolising that resource.
meh. op is just a generic, post-hoc, bitter whine because someone pissed them off. you could replace the whole thing with "stinky brad with a stupid beard" and it would be as useful.

also, read anti-fragile and fail more often.
Charlie Stross wrote a blog post mentioning it a few days ago: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/03/a-hypoth...
Well the photons are 1000s of years old...
Or it might have just malfunctioned because of other fatal malfunctions leading up to the Crash.
This comment is a load of shit, and so since you're happy to dismiss an entire essay without any back up, evidence or argument, I can just as easily dismiss your comment. Hitchen's razor.
Yeah, Spanish is pretty easy for Anglophones. Afrikaans is super easy for Anglophones to learn also. The syntax and pragmatics of Afrikaans are nearly the same as English. There are some new words, sounds, and orthography to pick up, but honestly the orthography is the hardest part. There aren't nearly as many resources to learn Afrikaans as Spanish, though.

Edited to add: Most Afrikaans speakers will tell you that Afrikaans is a dying language. That didn't stop me -- it's not much different from a programmer picking up Modula-3 just for the fun of it.
As I've said before, Copyright is an obsolete concept that no longer benefits society, and needs to be abolished entirely.

The whole concept that Piracy is somehow stealing is utterly ridiculous. The kind of bullshit only senior citizens can be hoodwinked into believing, and even that only with considerable effort.

Hollywood is a cesspool of greedy pigs who are bitching up a storm because their industry is finally being disrupted by technology -- something very long overdue.

If someone enjoys a show, or book, or movie, or other creative work, they are free to donate to the appropriate parties -- but to force such payment, specially before the content is even evaluated, is fucking insane. Why the hell has society put of with this asinine nonsense for so long? HOW THE FUCK did the copyright system even ever get started in the first place!?

When Kim Dotcom released his first album a few months ago, I choose to pay for it, only after listening to it all day and deciding that it was worth my money. This "voting with the pocketbook" is what makes the most sense. I expect that, before my lifetime is over, people will look back on this era as a dark-age. I imagine grandparents explaining to children how College Textbooks used to cost money and how people had to pay for a movie before they even saw it.

FUCK COPYRIGHT. Burn it to the fucking ground. The Copyright system is a lot like debt-collectors, it only continues to operate because people keep paying. The sooner we all stop paying for content, the quicker the system will go away.

If you value free information and open-source theology, please stop paying for content. If we all stopped paying for content tomorrow, then the debate would be over a hell of a lot quicker.

I'm sure Kurt Sutter would make plenty of money if he would collect donations from people instead of spew hatred towards Google, the single greatest company the world has ever seen. Google has done more for the world than a million Kurt Sutter's could ever do.
"makes me suspect they might have some credible leads"

Um, yes. Multiple radar base stations and immarsat pings.
would the way we use computers be completely unrecognisable without those things?
"The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of “protection”, this is obviously untrue."

This is weird. Really weird. It's raw and exaggerated...almost a cartoon. I'd believe this is raw Elon Musk, but why is someone letting raw Elon Musk define this campaign? Remember raw Bill Gates? Did we learn nothing from that? Or maybe we learned a lot. And "we" have developed an affinity--a need--for the brash genius.

I'm probabilistically wrong--Tesla's doing well. But something about this appeal, the wording, makes me react atavistically, "Go fuck yourself. Nothing is obvious."

I had an argument here, but it didn't seem important, so whatever. Dogecoin and such. Also hyperloop. But really, hyperloop. But remember, I was right about New Jersey. Poor New Jersey.
Yeah, and where is the plane? Even in a million pieces, some of them should be somewhere.
Who actually lobbies for it? I can't imagine that gas station attendants themselves have much sway, and I don't see why station owners would want to keep it that way.

Is it just regular old people in Portland who honestly believe it is best, even without any lobbying or propaganda?
I know what I'll be shorting this summer.
I speak Spanish/French/German and to be completely honest, the majority of their usage to me is chatting up girls from those countries I happen to meet.

I've never met a programmer who didn't speak English better than I spoke their language.

That being said, the ability to chat up girls, and the fact that I just love languages, makes the endeavor entirely worth it to me...
As backwards as it may sound, I'd really like to see an image for use with Azure... I get a bit of credits with the MSDN account work pays for, wouldn't mind making more use of it, but haven't had the motivation to build my own VHD for it.
btw, she seems like a very driven and talented lady: she made a move from a marketing intern in 2010 to a marketing manager to a designer and finally(not represented in her LinkedIn profile) to a developer at Github.

I have no doubt of her abilities since Im assuming Github is pretty good at their interviews. Its too bad something got broken professionally or personally that resulted in this outcry
Don't be a drama queen. Just because you "think" something doesn't work doesn't mean it doesn't at all.
That's just statistics. Some percentage of customers who view an ad -- generally a very large percentage -- will never be swayed by it. But they don't have to be. You don't have to convince very many customers to buy your car instead of the next guy's car, or to switch to your brand of shampoo for the rest of their lives, and you're ahead. Even if 95% of the other people you've paid to put ads in front of never give you a penny.
That post is more about audiences who, when men and women talk and cuss the same, are shocked, wilting like flowers. They expect the women to be sweet, dainty and lady-like.

The whole of: When men cuss on stage, they're commanding. When women cuss on stage, they're unprofessional.
Windows 8 is fine if you take away Metro. First app I installed was a "Start menu" app. I use Start8 from Stardoc.

I don't blame Mozilla for not supporting Metro. And just to point out, Firefox runs fine on the Windows 8 Desktop.
I've just given up listening to large commercial music, and only listen to music that's uploaded to YouTube by smaller artists (often with free downloads).

I still have more to choose from than I could ever listen to, and haven't noticed any serious decrease in quality.
> Luckily, some were sensible enough to run it in a virtual machine.

or, that virtual machines should be more common - mum and dad's computers should have vm software installed, so that they can then be free from having to worry bout things they download. The mantra could be " run in the vm, and you'll be safe".
We've been using Slack, which seems like maybe it's a cross between Team & chat. And I can't imagine life without it. So useful. I get close to zero emails from anyone I work with.
Not to mention that 911s look like smooshed Beetles anyway. I kid, I kid...