skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but people would know the child was there. If someone fall down unconscious in the middle of the supermarket nobody knows which car they arrived in, or even for sure that they arrived in a car, and nobody knows about the unattended child. That's a different kind of risk.

On the other hand, for the person in the parking lot to film the child in the car and call police, but not make any contact with the child or wait by the car, borders on malice. Police and prosecutors should investigate but heavily discount such pseudo-testimony because it is deliberately presented without context.
Consumer liability limits are mandated for both. See regulation E for more details.
A ~300 page post mortem of a company that is still alive? This isn't Blackberry we're talking about. IBM has (as the author duly notes) huge financial reserves and can easily stay relevant for another decade IMHO.

It seems like markets and investors have been accustomed to the huge, meteoric rises of a small handful of star companies, forgetting perhaps that plenty of businesses don't need to become household names overnight to succeed.
I see no difference. This error is displayed in my console.

ReferenceError: hljs is not defined

On line 123. Hope this helps, good luck.
Reverse Proxy Services with Varnish (Part One)
Great, so instead of worrying about someone peeking over my shoulder, I now have to worry about the person 30 feet away, with the size of that font.
Also fun if the last digit would be autofilled based on Luhn algorithm :)
It worked fine for me on my Amex tests. 4-digit security code showed up in the right place, numbers were grouped correctly.
Does i3 support each monitor showing an independent workspace like XMonad does? I can't say I'm the world's biggest fan of XMonad, which tends to be a pain to configure, but I just can't live without being able to have each monitor acting as independent entity any more!
Did you try it? It gets the 4+6+5 and CVC on the front just right!
that would be a neat feature.. kinda hard to do the CVV thing though.. unless you have a "flip me" link somewhere...
I noticed that too. It looks like their is a further specialization into linemen and "skill" players. Linemen need all of the weight they can get where "skill" players want to be bigger and stronger to some extent but still need to be agile.
Thoughts on that hurricane study
It is worth "reading the whole thing" for the anecdote about how a single well intentioned but ignorant employee almost killed Intel, along with the point he makes that technical companies are less ... solid that previous ones (my word, not his). Normally only a few people at the top of a Fortune 500 company can quickly kill it; in technical companies there are a lot more.
In Swift this could also be written as

> case .NoAction(_, let v): return v

Putting it at the beginning makes it apply to all the variables in the parens (although in this case they are ignoring the first one by using the underscore).

Using "let" makes it immutable; you can also use "var" there to make it a variable you can modify in the case body.
I hope the reason that this story is popular is that we as a society agree it's absurd.

Leaving a child in a locked car in the situation described is perfectly acceptable. The police getting involved is ridiculous, which makes it a great story. Hopefully the correct lesson is learned.
Isn't that part of an SQL standard (1999?).
I didn't go over well.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-restaurant-baby...
Separation between light and fast players/roles and heavy and powerful players/roles.
ZombieTweet looking for testers
You don't make a quick buck on a story of the fall of a company. Business books, as a genre, are utterly dominated by success stories, because the people who buy them want to be inspired or to learn things they can imitate from winners.

Yes, that is flawed logic. But it's what people tend to want. So if you're trying to make a quick buck that's what you latch on.

If, on the other hand, you're following your intrinsic curiotsity you want to study fallen giants to see what can be learned from past mistakes. Now, none of that is sexy. "Fallen," "past" and "mistakes" are not words you tend to see on business book jackets. But some writers will do such a book anyway.

I'm not saying Cringely is automatically to be trusted here, but it's not accurate to say books like this are often written to make a quick buck. If you want a quick buck you write something glowing and positive and no one will complain.
If it increases credit card signups at all, it's worth it.
2012 Olympics – Athlete Height and Weight by Sport
He also did a miniseries on PBS called "Plane Crazy" in which he tries to build an airplane in 30 days.

It actually has some good start-up lessons in there!

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1998/pulpit_19980724_0005...
I'll be keeping an eye on logs and AWS expenditure to see if this becomes a problem. :)

I'm not one to jump to the nuclear option of banning clients outright - if I notice behaviour that's harmful and needs to be corrected, I'll email the individuals concerned and talk them through how to use the service more efficiently, while also improving my own documentation on the website (which I admit isn't as thorough as I'd like).
This is stupid and wastes every ones time... He was stupid for doing it (should know the climate) Atlassian was stupid. This article was stupid and I am stupid for STILL letting my humanism be exploited for click bait.

The whole kerfuffle is embarrassingly skewed...
Chances of the magical electrolyte that removes the corundum being mercury based?
As a guy on the margins, I can't say I agree with you.
x86-64 could repurpose the Adjust flag (bit 4 of EFLAGS) for this. It is not longer used, since BCD instructions were deprecated in the x86->x86-64 transition. There is also precedent in the last few years for new instructions that change flag semantics: ADCX and ADOX.
The original statement about rounding errors, which you compared votes to, was:

'Dollars, on the other hand - Bill G has quite a few orders of magnitude more than you. So many infact, that your "dollar votes" end up being a rounding error either way - with him or against him.'

Dollars Bill Gates has (or rather, net worth) divided by the net worth of the median individual is not terribly far from the voting population over one.

This is not a terribly meaningful comparison, I just thought it interesting that they wound up in the same ballpark.

The important point was that your vote matters a ton more on local things than things further away, though your dollar can go further there as well to be sure.
Also if you habitually neglect nutrition and weight lifting, as a 6 foot male it's not too hard to exceed 200 pounds.
Yep, I can relate. I was born in '78 and grew up on a farm.

Please, have kids and raise them reasonably according to your own standards, not the nanny-state's. If we don't defend personal freedom, who will?
x86 processors already have overflow and carry bits in their flags register to tell when overflow has occurred.

It makes more sense to me to have compiler writers check the flags if they care about overflow, and avoid the slow down if they don't.
These conspiracy theories are getting so ridiculous I can no longer decipher which are jokes.
They already had evidence of the facts at hand, if not evidence of wrongdoing.

> a bystander had noticed me leaving my son in the car, had recorded the incident using a phone’s camera, and had then contacted the police.
Drop the snark. I doubt that it does a sufficient enough job to write a critique of a language that the OP admits they have they haven't tried! This article is nothing but here-say and as such is worthless.
Amazon announcement on June 18
This is really awesome.

I'm really interested to see how the 'no cut' ideology helps circumvent the stupidly strict USA gambling laws.
If you're looking at this and not seeing any difference between the "before" and "after" versions, it's because HTTPS Everywhere is redirecting all github urls to their SSL version, so http://jessepollak.github.io/card/ redirects to https://jessepollak.github.io/card/ then can't load any of it's javascript dependencies due to the http/https mismatch.

Bonus points for the form still working right through all of that.
I don't know about people unfamiliar with technology, but as someone very familiar with technology, my first thought is that this could easily be a vector for copying the card information!

All you need is to load some encoded image off of a third server to leak card info via a side channel, if your code is underhanded.

I would trust "one line of code" if it's a solution from Google or something, but for something this small I don't see how going with a small third-party solution is secure.

- OP: why not sell this solution to a larger payment processor as a complete solution, so they don't have to develop it themselves?
I haven't read Cringely before. Is he a trustworthy reporter, or a sensationalist?

It's kind of hard to say. I've been following his stuff since sometime in the 90's, and he's definitely brash and opinionated (at times anyway), but I don't know if I'd exactly say he's "sensationalistic". I'd probably take his work with a small grain of salt, but I don't see him as somebody who just "makes shit up" out of the air.
What happened in the article was just plain crazy. I'm from Finland and being five minutes somewhere outside the car -- nobody would blink an eye.

But things would also escalate gradually, depending on the situation. People would gather and start looking at the clock, seeing how the baby is doing and how long he's been there.

I'm sure there are laws you eventually do break if you leave your baby in the car for a long period of time (half an hour and up?), or in a hot parking lot and windows too closed.

Somebody would call the authorities and the police/firemen would break the window and save the baby and stay waiting for the parent: this would certainly warrant at least hectic reporting. The social workers would probably be notified and there would be a couple of meetings to figure out what's the deal.

But somebody being away for a few minutes... No way it would ever be a criminal case or brought to the judge or courts. While Finland does love rules and regulations more than sanefully necessary, you still have to mess up pretty bad to actually get charged for anything.
Well, the article states that it wasn't illegal wherever that took place either. Somehow 'not illegal' is considered 'a grey area' though.. Which makes it even scarier. Excerpt for the people that just see your comment below (I = mother, He = lawyer):

“I don’t get it,” I said to the lawyer. “Contributing to the delinquency of a minor? That makes no sense. It sounds like I was buying him beer.”

He laughed. He told me he understood my confusion about the charge, but that it wasn’t that unusual. A few years before, the state had tried to pass an ordinance that would make it a misdemeanor to leave a child under 6 alone in a vehicle if the conditions within the vehicle or in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle presented a risk to the health or safety of the child. The penalty for a first offense would be a $100 civil penalty, in other words, a ticket. But the legislation didn’t pass, and so instead, the act of leaving a kid in a car would continue to fall into a legal gray area. The lawyer explained that the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor included “rendering a minor in need of services.” So, for example, he said, “If you’d left him there and not come back, someone from social services would have needed to come, bring him in, make sure he was safe and such.”
its natural selection
And that's just what I did with https://github.com/kopf/dyndns-autologin . A few months later, they discontinued the free service altogether.

Somewhat sadly, it was my github project that seemed at times to garner the most interest from outside, even though it was just a shoddy python script thrown together in a 10 minute cigarette break at work.
I'm on a Steelcase Leap I paid $200 for. It's way better than my old chair but you can probably get better if you were planning on paying full price.

Next chair I'll probably go for something with a headrest.
Doesn't so much feel like a battery than a new kind of chemical reactor that oxidizes aluminum plates. More like a "Shipstone" from Robert Heinlein's science fiction stories. You can't charge it at home, you just get it from the factory and use it up, except that it holds over an order of magnitude more power for the weight. 3000 mile range? I hope it doesn't have an easily reached state where it can release all of that energy at once.
As a German and father of a 22 month old child, I can't understand how unbelievable dumb this story is. I couldn't even finish reading it, because all this stuff is so cringeworthy.

While I understand that bad things can happen if you leave a child for a long time alone in a car, I can't understand the bystander was calling the police but couldn't open his mouth to actually say anything to the mom. And how come somebody is criminalized when there was no victim at all?

Also, while I understand children loves their electronics, please try to read a book to your kids once in a while.
(Mill team)

With apologies to those tired of hearing about the new Mill CPU let me explain how the Mill traps on integer overflow:

For overflow-able arithmetic operations, we support four modes:

* truncate

* except

* saturate

* double-width

With excepting overflow, the result is marked as invalid (we term it "Not-a-Result (NaR)").

As these invalid results are used in further computation, the NaR propagates.

When you finally use the result in non-speculatively e.g. store it or branch on it then the hardware faults.

NaRs have lots of other uses.

This is described in the Metadata talk http://millcomputing.com/topic/metadata/

And http://millcomputing.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-... for a broader overview.
Looks nice, perhaps you can implement the Luhn algorithm to ensure the CC is not known-invalid (to prevent data entry error)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
Dilbert on work automation
Actually, as the article explained there is NOT a law against leaving your kids in the car. Such a law was proposed and the legislature refused to pass it.

Instead, the prosecutor decided to charge her with "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" which is a broad catch-all category for doing things that might harm a child. She was not found guilty of this crime either. Instead, her lawyer advised her to agree to punishment for the crime because if it went to trial there was a CHANCE that she would lose custody of her children.

The problem here is not in the law nor in the outcome of a court case. The problem lies in the structure of the legal system. Prosecutors wield enormous power by virtue of their ability to decide whom to charge and for what. The penalties for losing are so great that nearly all (around 95%) cases are settled rather than contested before a judge or jury.
As a recent ex-IBMer, I can say that Cringely is absolutely telling the truth about what's going on at IBM.
You’re Not Mark Zuckerberg
Tech leaders strike back over Techweek Chicago images of women
Most of the card dumps discussed in this article come from compromised merchants (retail stores, restaurants, etc.) not ATMs. They are credit card numbers after all, not debit cards.
Pretty nice, pretty similar to JS Skeuocard (http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/)
In which chair do you code?

Ha.
Right! If the intention were to protect the child, and the child were in actual danger, the bystander would be right there next to the car in case anything went wrong.

If anything, the bystander should be prosecuted for the same crime.
> IBM has (as the author duly notes) huge financial reserves and can easily stay relevant for another decade IMHO.

Could we not have said the same thing about RIM in 2009?
Yes IBM is still alive and will be for quite some time but they have truly sold their soul to achieve short term goals. They are definitely not the same company they were even ten years ago.
Hire a Greek
Approaching a young child who has been left alone in a car is foolish in today's paranoic society.

Also, the returning parent is unlikely to be grateful to the comments of "I was just making sure your left alone child was not dying".
Well there is this one which flips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6143604

And this one which doesn't
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6692075
It's a little amusing that x86 has the INTO instruction, a single byte opcode at position CEh, that was designed specifically for this purpose and was there since the 8086, but when AMD designed their 64-bit extensions, it turned into an invalid instruction (and Intel was forced to go along, presumably for compatibility.) A rather shortsighted move, I think; instead of having a possibly useful (but not previously often-used) instruction, that single-byte opcode becomes wasted in 64-bit mode. With it, adding overflow-trapping arithemtic support to a compiler would be trivial and only add 1 extra byte to each arithmetic operation that needs it.

Ditto for BOUND, which is useful for automatic array bounds-checking - it performs both lower and upper bounds checks.

Also, I don't really get why integers wrapping around should be "unexpected". It is only to those who don't understand how integers work. The saying "know your limit, play within it" comes to mind.
Unless I sign in using social media I can only upload files up to 10MB in size. Frankly, that's terrible
This can happen when you're home alone with your children too. Should we require night chaperones? What's the acceptable level of present adult redundancy?
I've read a ton about bitcoin and own some and have mined some... and this is the first I've heard of it.

Keep in mind, there are a few different types of people interested in bitcoin:

1.) Get Rich Quick types
2.) Techies
3.) Crazy Extremist Libertarians

I'll let you be the judge who is who.
"relevant for another decade" =~ dead.

One could write a similar article for Microsoft, really. I think they screwed the pooch with Windows 8 and Surface. They tried to protect both the Windows and Office monopolies simultaneously in the face of radical change, and lost both.

IBM has been the biggest player in enterprise IT since it was done with typewriters and adding machines. For them to become irrelevant, even if it takes a decade, is a huge deal.
> Well, the article states that it wasn't illegal wherever that took place either. Somehow 'not illegal' is considered 'a grey area' though

It's my observation that anything that is "not illegal" in the US now means "We'll find a creative way to stop you doing it".
JS NICE: Statistical renaming, Type inference and Deobfuscation
This is interesting, especially given the developer questions:

> Are you interested in developing apps that utilize a novel type of sensor?

> Do you have machine learning experience? Please describe.

> Describe an innovative way in which you have used
gyroscopes, accelerometers, compass, or other sensors in your app development

Those all involve positioning.
Technical Interviews – An Instrument of Exclusion and Discrimination
That wasn't snark; it was an answer. The fact that you have some unexplained "doubt" about whether it is correct does not make it snark.

But let's delve in. Why is it impossible to analyze a language from a programming language theory perspective without having used it? Obviously having used it will give a fuller perspective, but I don't see what you think is so deficient about the extensive documentation Apple has put out that it's impossible to comment from a theoretical standpoint on that basis.

To put it another way, I think you should drop the snark. If you have an actual problem with the critique or with the Swift documentation, you can bring it up. A snarky dismissal like "Question; why post this then?" does not add anything.
Parent is driving the car and has a heart attack/stroke/etc. Car crashes and child dies. I guess we better make it illegal for parents to drive cars with kids in them.
I know, many debuggers supported it.
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Can we live forever in a "many worlds" universe?
How hostile society is to parenting? Did I read that right? Parents have free reign to brainwash their kids into some religious cult. Then theres the whole homeschooling thing - yes, enlightened HN readers will protest that they are able to give their kids a better education than the crappy public school system could, but lets face it, home schooling is as much a cover for the many nutjobs out there that don't want the scientific method taught in school. Lets not start on vaccines.

Basically, until you are 18, you belong to your parents and have zero rights, treated as a child by society. It's funny how we all forget this once we turn into adults.
My assembler is very rusty, couldn't compilers check the carry flag on i386 after a math operation that could potentially overflow, and handle the trapping in software?
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What practical features do you feel are lacking from the current Ubuntu implementation?
I wonder how often it'd be possible to deduce that an overflow is not possible from the context. (For example, if we've just checked that INT_MAX/a > b before doing a*b.)
Very poorly-written post. I'm not usually one to troll, but since the article has such a direct, condescending tone, I'll offer some advice of my own.

If you are going to make an assertion like the following:

"At any rate, for a company, I’d say hands-down you’re getting more out of an online hit than a print piece. So stop riding your publicist’s ass about not getting you in the print edition of TIME and thank her or him for the mentions in various Time.com blogs. You may not get a photo of yourself in TIME to frame for your office, but chances are those blog posts will be read more and pay back more over time than that one print hit will."

It might make sense to cite some sources or have some basis for making that statement. Otherwise it is just your own perception which, please take no offense, I have little worry about.

In fact that brings me to my next point- people have no respect for online publications because a vanishingly small number actually do any research or care two shits about producing factual information. No, they want ad revenue, and sadly ad revenue does not have a direct correlation to fact-checking. In fact, it's precisely because reporters have to produce "three times as much content in half the time and for half the pay" that you should doubt the validity of your claims about the value of online vs print media. Blogs and online news outlets are factories of eyeball-catching bullshit that don't care about accuracy.

This post does nothing to solidify my confidence in the direction of online media.
The argument still sucks. Given a reasonable choice in the beginning ("The weather's cool, the kid strapped in, car is secured, will be right back") the kid would - what? Complain and cry after a while? It's a four year old boy with a tendency (if you read between the lines) to throw fits. Maybe all boys are like that..

If the mother (to stay with the original article) would've fallen unconscious or dead in the supermarket, nevermind that both options would have some consequences for the family, the kid would've been fine.

Calling the cops was fine. Creepy the way it was described, but okay.

Cops arriving was fine. That's their job.

"Huh? The "abandoned" kid is gone already? Let's trace the car and take out our frustration on .. the mother?" wasn't fine. That was just braindead. The correct movie quote variation would've been "Nothing happened, move along".

Theoretical "But here's how the kid could've died" arguments are .. weird. And countless.
> Mulitple monitor features are not great across a wide range of open source OSs

What exactly do you mean by that? I never had any issues with multiple monitor setups (or noticed any lack of features..)