skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I immediately guessed what it was going to be, just from reading the name. I would not have had the same reaction (I don't think) to your suggestions.

So I like it. I think the mentions about it triggering an association to car-pool are spot on.
Let's word it differently: the API doesn't support a simple way to emit an arbitrary GROUP BY clause.

The aggregate/annotate APIs do not cover all legitimate uses of GROUP BY besides very simple cases (sum, avg, etc).
Cross between ad hominum and straw man. He compared my argument to cars growing on trees the said ha! Look how silly you are. Cars don't grow on trees!

Hmmm you don't say. Can we get back to the argument now?
Where did pstuart say anything about "appropriat[ing] other[s'] resources"? What really motivates your obvious visceral disdain for alcohol?
Would be nice to differentiate banking permissions not only by read/write, but with a full Oauth solution for the entire online banking suite.

Actually, it would be nice if a service built an API that interfaced with multiple banks, and provided this Oauth natively. Of course, then you have the same problem -- that service has all your passwords. Unless there's some clever end to end encryption that can be done, then sadly we are reliant on all the banks upgrading their systems individually.
wow. yeah i totally missed this the first time i skimmed this. Very Cool.
What do you want to know?

Culturally, I think it's important to notice that VS is really a bunch of smaller teams put together, and not all of them have the same development strategies or systems.

So the biggest motivator here seemed to be a few pioneering teams who thought they had a better way to develop software, and had support from leadership.

So the pioneering teams pushed forward and started to put up measurable results. I think after that culture is bound to follow.
That's completely unworkable. Too many loopholes.

Right now copyright, in theory, has a fixed term. That is a fixed term no matter the owner: corporation, individual, estate. It can be sold (technically licensed exclusively, but same thing) and yet the term continues to be fixed.

What you're suggesting SOUNDS good but in reality it would just encourage authors to claim they wrote the work under licence for a non-living entity (e.g. their own business) and then transfer the business to their descendants.

Plus under your scheme you have one rule for humans and another rule for corporations with the corporations coming out MASSIVELY ahead. If Warner Studios has a movie made it might get 115 years of copyright (or whatever it is now), but if joe shmoe produces a short film they only get whatever their natural lifespan in copyright protection (which I can assure you won't be 115 years).

Bad idea. Sounds good, but that's because you guys haven't given it even the most modest amount of actual thought.

The only real issue with copyright is that they keep extending it. 100 years was a nice round number that would allow most individuals to profit for their whole natural lives and for a little to roll onto their descendants. Now with the way things keep getting extending, it wouldn't shock me if for all intents and purposes a lot of works NEVER fell into the public domain, they'll just keep slapping on another 10 years here, 5 years there...
I had to walk ~1/5 of a mile to get to the nearest one.

Which is what, a 4 minute walk? That seems pretty minimal to me.
The title is eye-catching and the writer has a good writing style, but I see a lot of problems with the headline as well as the content

- Microsoft's private offices were an innovation in the 80s/90s, cramming large numbers of worker bees into a single large office is a retrogressive step, not a 21st century innovation

- The writers focus is on Visual Studio, but a number of other teams had switched to agile much earlier. I worked in Windows Live Mobile in when we switched to "agile" in 2004. This wasn't being dragged into anything, it was a relatively early adoption

- Software projects do often get delayed, but not always. I was one of the dev-leads who worked on Office XP in the 90s and though we had a long ~3year, ship cycle, we did ship on the original planned shipped date (RTM 3/2/1) Steven Sinofsky deserved a lot of credit for that.
Long distance is harder. It'd work for popular commuter patterns, but you'd want a more structured service for that.

For a general near-real-time hailing system, limiting it to a smaller area means that even if your best match would add a relatively high distance penalty (say 50%), in absolute terms that's still tolerable (a few extra minutes). So that increases the probability of finding a match right now where the economics work out.
Hm I think you are right. The Guava code is apparently the simpler version of the algorithm that takes linear time (but still no memory). (Apologies, it appeared to be different at first and I downvoted you; wish I could undo it).

It seems likely that the new part is the optimizations. Still, it is pretty interesting as I didn't think Guava overlapped with this area and these authors much within Google (I work there). It's usually inaccurate to speak of Google as one entity with specific reasons for doing things a certain way; there are many people working on many different and overlapping things :)
that sounds less possible than free certificates.
Opportunistic encryption of all sessions doesn't require any certificates. All that's needed is a key exchange algorithm and browser support. The UI would make it clear when a certificate was presented and validated, but no cert is needed for unauthenticated encrypted connections.

The next step up from that would be unsigned public keys with pinning (like ssh) to reduce MITM, and finally above that would be identity verification on the level of https.
How can you (or an 'average user' whoever that might be) carefully evaluate untrusted certificates? Wouldn't i need some kind of detached information like the certificates hash signed by an already known gpg key?

The CA idea is broken but not too easy to replace. http://convergence.io/ could be a few steps forward.
Everyone is bringing up the case of providing royalties to the descendants of the author. I wonder how common that is, and whether it ever motivates an author to create work they otherwise would not (which is the purpose of the copyright, to incentivize people to create).

Do royalties add up to something meaningful for the estate of authors in 1% of the case? 0.1% 0.01%?

And, just as importantly (perhaps more so), do authors take this into account when they are creating?
It makes you wonder what exactly was said or done, doesn't it.
Yes, as of 2012 when I could have used such a service. $10 / hour is a fine price for short-term car rental... but since I wanted to use the car to go places, as opposed to just driving around in the parking lot, it worked out to more like $50-100 per hour (of driving).

Bicycle rentals don't work like that -- you get on a bike at one stand and leave it at the stand closest to where you want to end up. I don't know why the car model is so badly broken.
How exactly does smoking marijuana send you to the emergency room? Oh it must be one of those super common overdoses we hear about.
This seems pretty off-topic. Lock-in software can be developed in a variety of different ways, so development strategy really isn't relevant.
Tools is so huge! It is one of those sort of "intangible" assets of a large company, what is the quality (and projected future quality) of their tools...

Poor tools decisions or tool apathy (for example, not enough funding to the tools teams) can shackle entire divisions of the company.
An Open Letter to my kid’s teachers
> He doesn't realize that you can't decide if something is a phone number or an email account until you have already taken a look at it.

I think they understand they are just pushing an alternate view of reality (and interpretation of surveillance, search and so on terms). The idea they run with is unless a human looks at the data, it is not a search or seizure so Constitutional protections don't take effect.

The agency(ies) / DOJ developed a strategy to explain away the Constitutional protections. They can even store the data! and they do that, and it still doesn't count as "anti-Constitutional".

Maybe later you do something suspicious, like participate in some protest -- then you are labeled a terrorist, i.e. person of interest. They get a warrant even (to be legit and all) and do a search for everything you ever did online since, well forever. Maybe you watched some bomb making video on youtube when you were in college. Aha so there you go, "terrorist with interests in building weapons of mass destruction". Congratulations, you've leveled up in the terrorist watch list. And so on. You get the idea.

Notice this:

> AND THAT THE FIRST STEP JUST DOESN'T MATTER OR DOESN'T COUNT OR SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY STANDING.

Government lawyers are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing. They are deliberately talking past the others' point. They don't want the other side to focus on what "shouldn't be focused on" -- the idea that bulk collection constitutes search. If it is, then billions of dollars of training, equipment, promotions, programs, etc etc disappear in a cloud of smoke. Bulk surveillance and sucking up of information (and definitely storage) must persist unchallenged at all costs -- that is their position.
Your link is not particularly believable considering that their last point is "Improve Your Blood Viscosity by Grounding Yourself to the Earth". You'll forgive me if I just completely discount everything on that website.
ARM would very aggressively go after any open source implementation of the ARM ISA. For the longest time you couldn't find any ARM documentation on the net because it was all behind a license agreement that read, "won't be used to make an open source version of our schwag"
This particular devil needs no advocate; the risks of coffee shop MITM and dragnet surveillance are too great to ignore.
no no no no.

They just started letting us use devices during takeoff. No more alarmist headlines please.
In case you want to try old z-machine games - there are several javascript interpreters.

I wrote one a while (as in - years) ago - http://z-machine.lilawelt.de/
I would attempt a nibble based compact instruction representation to reduce external memory bandwidth. Fixed width instructions kinda suck now that memory is such a bottleneck.
I have not been blessed with a private office yet, but fortunately cubes are still dramatically better than open-plan (IMO).
20 years would be culturally terrible. That would make it so just around the time your kids are old enough for you to introduce them to the great comics, cartoons, movies, music, and books of your childhood it would enter the public domain and become widely used in advertising and low budget productions. You are not going to be able to share the magic of, say, Calvin & Hobbes, with your kids if your kids have already been saturated by those characters as TV pitchmen for toys and junk food.
You need to xray the die and confirm the designs are the same, but it doesn't guarantee that extra or bad transistors aren't inserted that leak data.

You never really know.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Trojan
I said the most accurate, not accurate :)

In general science reporting is appalling bad, while non-science reporting is total fiction with a malign bias.
The Moon and Mars in 3D in Google Maps
Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads
Certificates are absolutely not required to have useful opportunistic encryption.
There is a lisp like syntax for ocaml provided by camlp4:
http://docs.camlcity.org/docs/godisrc/camlp5-6.07.tgz/camlp5...
Right!

Though:
Heads and tails recycling of the mash is more complicated than simply 'discarding' the heads to avoid methanol.

Bootleggers usually weren't using a fractional still, and thus would have needed precise temperature and timing to even attempt to measure methanol concentrations.

Furthermore their supply of grain, being an illegal operation, was (probably) sub-par; any rot or mold on grain to be distilled greatly increases the chances of producing methanol.

Again, I think only ~10% of the alcohol by bootleggers was contaminated. Distilling has been around for a long time, but the effects of driving it underground greatly reduced quality and increased the chances of going blind or dying due methanol poisoning.
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/NEDS&NIS-DRM9/NEDS&NI...

This says it's about a 10th of the cost of what you said.

While I regardless agree with you that alcoholism is a problem, your solutions are not only draconian, they are demonstrably ineffective. We've tried them before. They don't work. This isn't about morality, it's about what works.
Try convincing the Baby Boomers that, aside from not having a retirement any time soon, and aside from having their kids moving back home, they will be moving back with their significant other and get their own families started on Boomer's dime.

It's like that pop-psi tale about the guy who never knew what chicken breast tasted like. When being a child, his mother reserved the breast for the father because "he's the one who keeps us fed and clothed". Later when he was a grown up, his wife reserved the breast for the children because "they deserve the very best".
Currently on the front page is an article[1] about Russian malware pen testing for SQL injection. Your attack surface increases dramatically when you have valid session cookies.

A good example of this is reddit, that is not https for logged in users with write ability (and thus PostgreSQL write ability). If you have malware that sniffs public wifi traffic for reddit session cookies, you can easily start to test all those write calls for exploits.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-sa...
I noticed that too. I can't imagine either company would be happy about that.

It would have been funnier had they used the Aston Martin logo, since the Fusion grill design is a rip off of the iconic Aston Martin shape. In Ford's defense, they did own Aston Martin until 2007.
Well, given the nature of the thing requested, it is actually impossible to find historic examples of it until now (when the request was denied)
33 gbps? Those units seem quite unlikely.
So you would say this isn't a low risc proposition?
Bicycles cost ~50x less but can be rented at similar rates. Also it's relatively easy for a bike-sharing company to redistribute bicycles on a truck if the supply bunches up somewhere.

An hour of Divvy is surprisingly close in cost to an hour of ZipCar, which is astonishing considering how much more it must cost to operate ZipCar.
My First 220V Public Charging Experience
There is an idea among some medical professionals that cancer is a natural mutation, survival of the fittest at the cellular level. In other words, if we figured out a way to "cure" aging and live forever, everyone would still die of cancer eventually.
> I'm sure there is some text somewhere describing the processes

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/27/part-19/subpart-O

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/27/part-20

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/27/part-21
Should I not bike in my free time, because I might hit a pothole, endo, and break my arm? That would march "[my] sorry butt" into "[your] emergency room" pretty darn quick.

The answer is: that's absurd. Every single thing humans do can result in injury. (Even sitting in a chair injures you!) Cycling probably sends more people to the emergency room than smoking pot does, in fact.

(I don't use marijuana BTW, but I do support its legalization. Sounds like a legitimate recreational activity. I personally prefer coffee.)
So presumably they have multitouch trackpads with no good drivers available.
Most interesting part, IMO -

"All the cancers in which aspirin has a beneficial effect have some lifestyle causes – from smoking in lung cancer to alcohol in oesophageal cancer and obesity in all of them. Taking aspirin, said Cuzick, "should not be seen as a reason for not improving your lifestyle". The drug, however, would reduce the cancer risk even in people who have a healthy lifestyle, he said."

Now I left in the last part to be fair, but it seems like perhaps the risks (bleeding etc) may not outweigh the benefits for people with a healthy lifestyle.
>unless you run in an isolated heap

Yes, Haskell already has per-OS-thread heaps, and there's not really any need for isolation since everything is immutable and GCed anyway.

>many years battle tested VM system

The VM is an implementation detail, not a feature. But yes, the GHC RTS is basically a VM.

>libraries built for concurrency and fault tolerance

Yes, Haskell has those. Specifically, libraries work no matter how they're being executed (concurrently or otherwise), and they're fault tolerant in the sense that error conditions are encapsulated in the type system and the libraries do not generally crash.

>It is a fork-join or just a plain thread+queue.

Well, not necessarily. I can express an actor however I want. Haskell forks aren't like regular C forks; they're much more flexible. It's basically the same thing as Actors in Erlang. The thread only gets picked up when something happens to a resource it's waiting on (like actors in Erlang).

>The winner in concurrency is system that has most fault tolerance tooling built in.

Well, Haskell has excellent fault tolerance support, but the recommended programming style is just to never crash, which is an entirely reasonable request when you're writing in Haskell.

>"Millions of concurrent" threads are useless if the crash of one brings down the rest.

There's no particular reason it would. See the `catch`, `handle`, etc. combinators for how to deal with errors in Haskell (although again, it's recommended just to write programs that don't crash).
A first step towards more global email
Hardware “Security” and a DMCA Takedown Notice
I am disappointed that The Daily Mail has not yet found an inanimate object starting with Z that can cause or prevent cancer. How could they have missed this on Zinc Oxide [1]!

Edit. I spoke too soon. Thee sleuths at the DM have picked this up [2].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/09/suncream-skin-can...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2141257/Suncream-i...
I think I'm railing against It takes a good amount of skill and refinement to remove all traces of methanol from alcohol to make it ready for human consumption - a step that the legal distillers had no reason at the time to take (and would have in fact had them closed down for bootlegging).

The legal distillers (or distributors, whatever) were actively adding significant amounts of methanol, not just avoiding some process for removing it.
No. That would be discriminatory.

Here's why: life expectancy matters.

An author exploits their copyright by assigning rights and options under it. The price is based on the discounted future cashflows possible from the licensing project in question. If the scope of "future" is limited solely to the lifetime of the author, then the socioeconomic inequities that cause, say, race to be a significant factor in life expectancy will be directly responsible for enforcing that distinction further.

Or more simply, it causes the same novel written by a rich young white man to receive a better licensing deal than if it were written by a poor old black man.

This may of course already be the case, but any such rule would exacerbate matters. Today, that extra 70 year buffer helps at least to throw the present-value discounting beyond the foreseeable future.
In Seattle, a car2go trip that costs $15 would be 36 minutes long. Car2Go has no mileage fee for trips under 150 miles.

The same UberX trip would be $13 before taking mileage into account. If it took you 36 minutes, I assume you went at least 3 miles. So that makes the trip cost at least 17 bucks.

I've found that Car2Go is quite a bit cheaper than using either Lyft or UberX. I usually use them together though. I'll take a Car2Go to the bar, then take a rideshare home after drinking too much to drive.
Seems like you can split the fare with everyone that's riding.

https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/201836586-Can-I-s...
The math is well known, and many libraries exist. I bet you could replace the OS X and Mac hardware with more cost effective hardware and software with an engineering effort in the low man years, if not less. Which would presumably pay back pretty quickly.
What do you mean it isn't stored? How do we know that?
I'm in the same boat, I didn't figure out my identity was stolen until I was asked what color some car I owned was ( I'm a public transit owner in a large city) when doing a security screen the entire credit rating system is fucked
Uh, we already base personal copyrights on dates of death.
No one should be using mercola.com as a source for information on anything. It's one of the most well-known dens of harmful and dangerous pseudoscience on the internet (see: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/joe-mercola-quackery-pay... for one of many articles the excellent folks over at Science Based Medicine have written about the site).
That does seems wrong. First, did Osama (or Al Qaeda) really have any experience with hacking computer systems in this way?

Second, why would you rely on "static routing tables" and "certificates" for defending against an attacker in the worst case when you could just use an air gap?
Infographic: Absolute zero to 'absolute hot' (2013)
There's already a double standard for humans and corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta...
This is brilliant. There's no better way to incentivize people to do the right thing than pay them cash for it, and if you prevent the spread of HIV to children that begins to stem the tide.
Bitcoin isn't supposed to be an asset though, it's meant to be used as a currency. Unless it's no longer a currency, and the bitcoiners have all changed their tune.
> there is a $0.25 fare split fee for each participant.

We just use Venmo :)
Same on desktop chromium browser + ubuntu 14.04
So, is being addressed not has been addressed? Is REAT the future of Salt? The most relevant I could find wasn't very clear:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-users/nh8MqRiHV...

As far as I can tell RAET is still optional/Beta?:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.0...

I tried finding out if CVEs had been assigned to the AES/RSA issues, but as far as I can tell there weren't any CVEs assigned:

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-12943...

Mail suggesting CVE for RSA exponent:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/1

But the CVE is only reserved, not assigned?:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2228

With the history of some very serious issues with the salt crypto, I'm a little concerned that there doesn't seem to exist any good documentation on the past and current state of the protocol security from the salt project?

As I said up-thread -- perhaps I'm not being fair, perhaps I'm just not aware of where to look -- but I've yet to see anything that puts me entirely at ease: have new members been added to the team? Has there been a successful audit? Did the attacks turn out to not be practical?

While I might not have the same confidence in paramiko as I do in openssh -- at least it works with a well-tested protocol -- and more importantly -- with a rather well-known protocol -- it's easier to evaluate. If someone can get root access via ssh that is bad. If the risk is limited to someone stealing a private key, then that is at least something to plan around (and make decisions around).
How come Investment Banks are never fined for this ?

People have died working overtime in the past: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-22/bank-of-america-sta...
The FreeCulture wiki page on NonCommercial licenses lays out the arguments much better than I could.

http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC