skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every political -ism gets watered down with time, but liberalism not more than anything else. Drawn from the latin word for freedom, it means a belief in free markets and private ownership (after Locke et al). As far as I know only the US has a political discourse so strong on conservatism that anything else sort of gets lumped together.
Germany is a smaller country than the US, has a pacifistic streak a mile wide and hasn't been hit hard by islamic terror yet.

You bet we aren't outspending the US.
It requires Linux-specific kernel APIs like cgroups and udev, not POSIX.

Most *BSD systems are mostly or fully POSIX compliant.
I can log into my bank (Santander PB) and fill out a form. They use human inspection along with other security to avoid the thieves.
Deliberate Practice and Performance: A Meta-Analysis
That's a major advantage to WFH. Just don't use company equipment when you do it.
I'm afraid you're mistaken, please don't spread misinformation:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jour...
The article didn't discredit anything. The title is "How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will" not "How Google Map Hackers Destroyed Serbian Crown".
As a German I'm really glad about that. Germany is still not capable to act on its own. We're lucky the US are willing to hold us up while taking all the PR flak.
I'm no expert on the rules for this offense. (Care to point me to the rules you are referring to?) But, as a general matter, it is in the court's discretion to impose consecutive or concurrent sentences. The guidelines may recommend concurrent sentences (if that's what you're referring to) but the court may disregard that recommendation so long as it indicates that it has considered the guideline and the usual factors that must be considered before departing from the guidelines.

For example:

> [A] district court retains discretion under 18 U.S.C. § 3584(a) and the sentencing guidelines to order that sentences be served consecutively notwithstanding the dictates of U.S.S.G. § 5G1.2. This discretion, however, is not sui generis; it is simply another manifestation of the district courts' departure power. Because this is so, a district court can only impose consecutive sentences in derogation of U.S.S.G. § 5G1.2 if it follows the accepted protocol for guideline departures.

United States v. Quinones, 26 F.3d 213, 217 (1st Cir. 1994)
It's how it worked in the 16th century when the Italian merchants began issuing Bills of Exchange which meant you no longer had to transport large chests of coins across dangerous territory. The Dutch later picked up on the idea and ran with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_history_of_the_Dutch_...
Let me stress again: you do NOT need ANY robotics experience. I had ZERO robotics experience when I started here, and I'm not the only one.

If you like software, and would like to learn about robotics, please send me an email I'll be be happy to talk with you! Thanks!
Google study: Typos are the top reason your code won’t compile
Regarding remote-controlled part. Do you think author stresses the differences and really mean that full automation vs. remote control? It's usually convenient to rely on some support from Earth for complex missions - doesn't make sense to make spacecraft fully autonomous - and I haven't heard Orion designers explicitly mentioning that self-sufficient approach.
This is a design problem with img elements, but it looks mostly fixable to me. If browsers sent an "I'm expecting this to be an image" header, possibly even just Accept: image/*, and servers took advantage of this information to avoid leaking info to 3rd parties, then flaws like this would only exist for image resources.
systemctl: I don't think anyone cares about a change of command name / syntax, it's the removal of flexible, small, readable, plain text files that is the problem. That the underlying init system of linux no longer follows the linux philosophy boggles the mind.
Things I wish someone had told me when I was learning to code
Good luck to 'em. But I don't know that I would have picked several never-flown techniques as the basis for my least-cost rocket. I count at least four: aerospike nozzle, methane fuel, autogenous pressurization (whatever they mean by that), and all-composite structure. That would seem to be a path to spending lots of time and money on research.

To be fair, composites and aerospikes are well-tested, and methane has some good qualities and no obvious problems as a rocket fuel. (I don't know what they intend for pressurization; perhaps they want to boil both fuel and oxidizer to create pressure? Seem like a non-standard technique anyway.) And it's not like you can buy rocket hardware OTS, so everything you do is a development project. But none has flown on a real vehicle. Picking one would be ambitious. Four just seems like compounded risk.

Scaled Composites has had plenty of trouble with their seemingly-simple hybrid engine. You may think a technology is researched enough or simple enough to use without much danger, but rocketry is an extreme environment and can hold lots of surprises at scale and in the margins.

SpaceX, on the other hand, has only done one really revolutionary thing: cost discipline. Mostly through simplicity. Which is a pretty important contribution to the world of rocketry. Much more important than any particular nozzle or engine improvement.

The Firefly Alpha should be a nifty rocket if they can get it flying without spending too much money--but the history of rocket development doesn't suggest that'll be easy.
I like that, too. Too bad it's only for Chrome.
Ah, that's just the default. I see. I was wondering what they were smoking there that makes a lot more sense. It's a very peculiar choice, EXT4 is pretty good for most use cases, when you need XFS there are few alternatives but the performance issues make it a love/hate relationship and I really would not want that on my machines by default.

One problem with colocation is that a lot of the hosting providers I work with simply do a default re-image which will use whatever the OS comes with as standard. So chances are those will default to XFS and good luck getting rid of it then. (No phyical access to the machines.)
A search for "paypal mexico" yielded this result on the first page:

> I opened a bank account easily with Banco Azteca and they gave a me a debit card. It has been impossible to verify. Paypal says I need the bank to authorize international transactions. Yesterday another bank clerk told me that Mexican cards cannot be used as debit and credit cards, that I´m going to have the same issue with any bank.
That sounds a lot like my workflow actually.
You can still actually use tmux with it, with one session per workflow ('^b $' can name the session from inside it).

I found it useful, especially with Clojure and vim.
The splits are nice everywhere, and it's way better to be in the habit of opening a tmux/screen when sshing.

That workflow is also why I hate OSX updates that force a reboot, which piles all the terminal and Chrome windows in one desktop. And then it's just an update for RAW camera files or something that I don't care about, but it nags me every day. /rant
I don't know if there is commercial incentive to explore space, but there is enormous commercial incentive to make spaceflight cheaper. Gather everyone on hacker news into a warehouse and throw a water balloon into the air. Chances are very high that when it lands it will splash multiple people who'd be willing to pay to fall around the earth at 200 miles high a few times.
Is Rust supposed to have a similar goals to D? Seems like a lot of (relatively) new languages are setting out to achieve c/c++ performance while having easier to understand/more expressive syntax.
My cash has never been stolen. I have never been mugged.

I've had my card cancelled multiple times though due to fraud and now have credit monitoring.

My card is far more likely to be skimmed or be stolen/copied in a massive database like Target than for my cash to be stolen.

If credit cards are used for risk mitigation, they are failing for the vast majority of transactions. A $10K transaction? Sure. But for a $3 coffee? It's not worth the risk.
London Heathrow issues advice issued for air gadget carriers
Try to imagine a larger project, an entire site running client side with just API end points on the server. Each framework you mentioned has a different approach, but they all try and tackle the task of organizing the heavy client side setup. If you did that project without those frameworks, you would end up writing most of a framework of your own.
It honestly isn't. The documentation is really good if you know how to use google.
I agree, Marriott is one of the more beautiful high-rises in the city. Maybe he meant Marriott Union Square. Or Hyatt.
Type is pretty much used by most programmers to mean "type" as it is stated in the dictionary; so dynamic type checking is not a misnomer to them. Only type theorists are diligent about the colloquial definition, but they can only really use it like that when talking to other type theorists.
You move on to something else, forget your tab was open, and go through at the end of the week and clean them all out.

No, that's what you do, and have extrapolated it to be what everyone does.

I use tree style tabs and mtputty, I leave open the things I use a lot and/or am focused on today. I find that I return to already open things enough that it's works for me. Re-opening programs and re-navigating to the same things I always use them for isn't a grand inconvenience or anything, but I do it for our software that uses floating licenses and it is annoying in my workflow.
If I were Google, Yelp, or Facebook, I'd give serious consideration to selling local businesses pre-created, theme-able web sites on a subscription basis. They already have essentially all the content such sites would need, and better designers than most small businesses would have access to.

I regularly run into local places that use their Facebook page as their de facto virtual storefront, but that format could be much better customized for individual business varieties' needs, even putting aside the limitations of living in Facebook's garden.
Frankly I imagine at least I'd find it more pleasant. I'm actually really tired of the bundling of content and presentation. It'd be nice if HTML were more of a set of formatting hints, and we could theme our browsing experience for all sites. It sucks when a site has good content but is poorly designed. There's no particular reason those two functions need to be tied together, but people have distorted text formatting into web design in such a way that it breaks reflow and you're forced to view the content the way they've decided it should be viewed. Alas.
Comment sections in major newspapers? These are dominated by a strange mixture of right-wing conservatives. They are heavily moderated to exclude hate-speech (enough of it makes it through so, and so does the latent attitude of things "Turks are an underrace"), and display a shocking replication of Russian fairy tales.

I would stubbornly refuse to call this a representative cross section of German opinion.
The author recently wrote more about Amazon, in an essay titled "Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?", at
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/05/amazon-m...:

> They have a publishing subsidiary and allow me—if I want to self-publish—to use them as a sales channel, and will even pay quite well if I accept extremely onerous terms. But they don't do much else for me and in particular if I were to self-publish through Amazon I would be vulnerable to exactly the same pressure that Hachette is currently on the receiving end of, but with less recourse.

> Amazon's strategy (as I noted in 2012) is to squat on the distribution channel, artificially subsidize the price of ebooks ("dumping" or predatory pricing) to get consumers hooked, rely on DRM on the walled garden of the Kindle store to lock consumers onto their platform, and then to use their monopsony buying power to grab the publishers' share of the profits.

Is it better to not deal with the mess, or to jump into the maw of the beast? ;)

Also, Stross is not starting out.
I have manage to get it to run on a Linux machine by installing Google Chrome, because they have Flash embedded in the browser. In my opinion this is a terrible option, but I thought I would share it never the less.
Lecture video (starts at 03:40):

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

Interview mentioned at introduction:

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/106399498...
Or they could scale up once they prove their ability to fly... just like SpaceX did with the Falcon 1. Which, granted, had more payload capacity that the Firefly Alpha is designed for. But they could follow a similar plan.

There may be some money in the small launch market. But physics is not kind to small rockets.
I think the reason it took a while in the UK and has not happened in the US is that there is no incentive for the banking system to introduce such a system - as a business why would you want to provide a free instant service when you could provide an expensive one? The change has to be forced by the government at it was in the UK.
It would be really nice if we were about to get the future as seen from 1965 (space-wise), but I think that's still unlikely. Even if there are as many as TEN "low cost" orbital rocket companies doing launches by 2024[1], I'm skeptical that the US will have the legal and organizational flexibility to allow the level of launches that would make this non-niche. The main obstacles to the growth of space travel are not technical or economic, but governmental.

I suppose one odd result of 9/11, though, was showing everyone that the thousands of plane flights every day already have essentially the same potential issues as allowing unlimited orbital rocket launches.

[1] ...and right now there's, uh, one, doing a few launches per year, I think.
Until its your network gatewayb appliance that is down and then you're fucked...

NEVER rely on Google for documentation or GNU info as that's probably not installed on your server.

This sort of scenario is where *BSD win every time.
Yeah as people mentioned since I wrote about it back in Jan http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/using-content-security-p... there was a massive discussion how to mitigate it. They decided to allow paths which come as result of 302 redirect. Good enough.

Dude don't kill this bug, this is only reliable detection to use in other exploits
They need to change their highlight color. It is impossible to read text that is highlighted.
I used to work with a guy from Belgium that was building a house. He said it was affordable because it came with a 50 year mortgage. The common length in the US is 30 years.
Similarly to CSP, onload and onerror are not the only ways to pull it off. The effect of successfully or unsuccessfully loading images or scripts can be usually inferred without that; for example, images have dimensions that, even if you take away the ability to read them directly, can be inferred from the changes to the layout of the nearby elements.
Hey if you're looking for a community that will encourage you while working through SICP, drop by #symbolics on Freenode. A few of us are working through the book, including myself, and many have worked through most of it before.

Ping me @ DrDuck
That's not a dystopian future.

I appreciate the honesty. I've spoke with my developers faced with the same situation. The common theme is that they have better things to do. That's fine too. Not everyone is interested in digging into combinatorial algorithms and why should they be? We all have varying levels of interest in the field. It only seems reasonable that you should be able to use what you need of it to get your tasks done.

You certainly don't need the plethora of front-end frameworks and tools to make a good site today. Those tools are great when you need them for large, modular user interface applications. It's still as easy today as it was ten years ago to set up a dynamic web site. PHP is still around if that's your game and there's no shame in using it. Use what works and get it done.

Nobody is going to take away your license.

I'm 32. I still love programming. I go through morose periods where I lament the lack of innovation and ingenuity that the industry had in spades while I was growing up. Settling into a world of incremental improvements and watching the end of Moore's law approaching is disturbing. However I can't stop. It's what I do. But instead of focusing on new frameworks or languages I have moved more towards pure mathematics and finding applications or links to computer science. Knuth's work has been taking on new dimensions for me in recent years. I've obsessively digested everything that Sussman, Friedman and Felleisen have written. I've meditated on the ANSI C specification and the CLHS. I enjoy talks on the nature of computing and speculation about the future. It's an exciting field for me that is just ripe with fruit.

That said it's also healthy to encourage an interest in other things as well. My daughter. Literature. Music. Chemistry. Electronics... these are my digressions. I always come back to programming though.
Yes they reinvented some text files as the NT event log...

TBH the first thing I do is ship the logs off the box so journald seems a waste of space.
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Until cybernetics becomes more mature and cost-effective i'm pretty sure we all have a limited lifespan.

What's funny is you see this article as a kind of threat, while the author is voicing his concern for the threat of the advance of technology for technology's sake in contrast to his shrinking interest in learning additional skills over time.

If you think about it, it's kind of depressing. Like a cobbler having to learn how to repair a newly invented shoe every couple years, constantly purchasing new tools and learning how they work, only to have the business change a few quarters later. A constant churn of a technological wheel that doesn't get the cobbler anywhere other than the exact same place. You'd think the world would be happy with the old, long-lasting, easily-repaired leather oxfords. But that isn't the case with technology, and I share the author's lament for less unnecessary complication.
well, it's a blank page, which means either...
I don't see how that would help. The threat model here, the reason to use Tor is that they could be compromised and forced to log, and through Tor they would not know the leaker's IP.

You only need the two "leak at time X, IP Y loaded this page at time X-5" datapoints to break this.

An embedded page is not fetched by someone else.
Alabama quadcopter hits 3000 feet next to airport
The correct timezone comes from the user's device. Mobile or desktop. There's almost never a good reason for the API service to know the user's timezone.

Besides the unnecessary code complication and extra compute cycles on the server side, why destroy your opportunities for caching the data?
Proofs are not just about knowing whether something is true or not. Any good proof will reveal techniques that can be applied in other situations even when the assumptions don't quite hold. If you think those techniques might be applicable to your work then you should study the proof. No one else can make this distinction other than you.
I'm not seeing the problem here. People are willing to trade money to avoid the time it takes to make a reservation themselves; sounds fine to me.
Ha, I do pretty much the same!

After a lot of tinkering I settled on switching between two 'modes' that in combination make me feel good not just about my days, but also about my weeks and months (not sure about years yet - we'll see!). Took me a while to get there.

One mode is the 'many tabs open, free association' mode. It's the time when I print articles that I want to annotate on any one of the many (disparate) topics that I am deeply interested in. It's the time when I read a book, go to specific or general events. It's the time where I read tons of articles that tickle my fancy (and that's a lot, and not all useful). I've organically developed a process for filtering this overload of information. Much of it goes into an 'information gathering' program, some of it I process manually, and some of it I hang on walls or leave, printed out, around the house, and might percolate in some central document or database.

I call this my 'information gathering' mode.

The other mode consists of working and obsessively tinkering with something. Often this is a framework, particular script or little app. It's a lot of coding, reading and 'comprehending' to the point mild headaches, late nights, lots of coffee, and forgetfulness (no leaving the house, or no shaving, sometimes). A few weeks, for example, I simultaneously dove into Koa.js (without even being very well versed in node.js), React.js, and agonized over the ideal server-side/client-size approach for React. I also tried a bunch of other 'reactive' approaches and somehow found myself reading up on Haskell beyond the random HN article I would find.

I call this my 'obsessive tinkering' mode, although tinkering doesn't always do it justice. It's always immensely useful, even if I never use whatever stack/framework/language/topic I dive into.

I find that over time I tend to be in one mode predominantly, and switch to the other mode intermittently. If I ever get stuck in one mode, bad things eventually happen.

In a way I try to model myself after the (possibly highly romanticized) image of the 'renaissance man' who seems to just have a great amount of curiosity and knowledge, and then translates this to obsessive projects, and occasionally applies this just to make money. This approach seems workable, for now, in this tech world I inhabit, and I've never been so happy (but YMMV).
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I do believe so. 'Full automation' has been mentioned related to Orion as early as 2010 (http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/21boeing/ : "Boeing's spacecraft design could accommodate missions with any number of crew members, even fully automated unmanned flights. "). Regular remote control would not be as interesting or noteworthy, ofcourse.
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