skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been some unofficial recent discussion on certain Slack channels about MDG introducing their own versions of key packages. I hope that happens - I think it would go a long way towards addressing concerns like yours, which I share.
No, but depending on the size of your code base and your available budget, it can get prohibitively expensive really quickly.

Static typing eliminates entire classes of bugs. The cost of the up-front inconvenience to the programmer is tiny compared to the ongoing maintenance costs of possibly-incorrect, we-won't-know-for-sure-until-that-code-path-executes-in-production dynamically-typed code.

This is dependent on many variables but a good rule of thumb is that for any project bigger than a doddle, it's a safe bet to just fucking use a statically typed language.
How do they know that those segfaults aren't exploitable for arbitrary code execution?
My understanding is YC only has so many they accept. If they only accept 30, there will always be someone sitting as #31, with little objective difference between #30 and #31.
The use of outlandish thought experiments is fraught with problems, not the least of which is philosophers' predilection to accept intuition and common sense in supposing what the outcome would be. This is particularly clearly demonstrated in Searle's Chinese Room argument, which is really just an attempt to disguise a personal opinion as a rational conclusion.

The fundamental problem here is that, unlike in science, philosophical thought experiments are not constrained by reality, so they tend to ultimately become self-referential arguments over which axioms to accept, but with no objective basis for deciding between them.
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> Also, it seems silly to have two different threads just because one URL has https in the first place.

They're both https, but the reason for the duplication is equally as dumb: this one doesn't have a www sub-domain where as the other one does.
I notice an almost accidental reference to the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cyberne...
while Uber is useful, let's not kid ourselves. they are just new middlemen replacing the old ones.

I just can't bear Uber arrogance as they think they can just violate local laws because they are "useful".There is no justification for that.

While there may be a specific mindset regarding the law in US, most European countries do not work that way at all. French regulators will come very hard on Uber if they think they can just ignore laws.
I want the linux tools I am familiar with. This means a useful cmd, different FS layout and a gcc/icc style interface for MSVC.
How does it weaken the argument? No one has put forth the idea that it is ok to talk to good cops. Don't talk to cops good, bad, or indifferent in nature.
To be precise, when you dataset is large, you fetch about log(index_size)
Should that service become popular, You may very well start to see recently arrived immigrants ( or even illegal ones) being exploited by mob-like networks to operate as cab drivers.

But at the moment, i highly doubt that's the main scenario, by far.
I don't mind the smart algorithms that maximize profit for facebook/twitter/etc, but I would love a choice. Simply the choice to be buried in posts instead of everything being curated.
Serious question: What exactly are the safety concerns? Both driver and customer are easily identifiable since they both connect using the Uber app, so it would be really stupid for either of them to commit a crime during the ride. If you mean non-professional drivers having accidents in traffic, I think that shouldn't be that much of a concern since everyone with a drivers license should be able to get through traffic safely.
I don't think that's a good analogy. In your example, we still end up with a perfect "copy" of all the data and behavior.

When it comes to subjective perception, there's simply no way of even "copying" the information by simply writing it down. * (caveat follows below)

So, in the Mary example, no matter how much she "reads" about the color red, she really would not "know all there is to know" about it.

* Now it might be possible to encode a neural state on paper, and if you have a machine that can "apply" that state to your brain, then you can read that paper, enter codes in the machine, and let the machine "fix" some neural state in your brain so you can experience the same "thing".

At least it seems like this should be possible in principle. Although it might not be practical .. depending on how perception is "implemented" in the brain.
Yahoo abandons China?
I think the ban on self-service fueling is a great idea and I wish more states (beyond Oregon) would do it.
LibreSSL sync: https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/commit/7cd43a39...
What ever it is, CISA isn't cybersecurity
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There was a bit of a kerfuffle around Healthcare.gov sending data to analytics services (despite that being industry standard practice), so I'm curious if there's any push to ditch Google Analytics, etc., for .gov, and move analytics services in-house.
Looked at charitably these could be mitigated with good contracts and governance. E.g:

* Well defined procedures for choosing what to work on and for how long
* Agreement on what metrics to to base go/no-go decisions for continuing with an idea past the initial stages
* Contracts to specify how spinoff equity is assigned. One interesting proposal I've heard involves a calculation based on developer hours worked over the initial development period.

Might be interesting outside of major tech markets where where VC funding is unlikely anyway, which could be an added benefit to the traveling idea factory/accelerator.

I appreciate that this is hard (if possible) to do in practice, and that lack of vision might be a fundamental problem. It also feels like it could be an excuse to treat developers poorly -- which was one of my concerns when I had the opportunity and seems to have happened in this case.
Who determines who professional and not professional? Likely a government regulation. Is this regulation to onerous that it unfairly impedes entry into the market?

I do not know European regulations very well, but in America far too many jobs are bound to regulation and certification requirements than is reasonable
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> To have an abundance of unlicensed and uninsured motorists?

You need a specific insurance if you drive people for profits.
Maybe if you only have 4GB it could become an issue, though my dads MBA runs just fine with it
I agree with you, but this only applies for a maximum of a single electoral term. Are the replacements equally immune to a power grab?
Because you don't own any of those things. If you own your own plane and have a pilot's license, you are more than welcome to fly it yourself and to disengage the autopilot should the situation demand it.

I wouldn't mind an autonomous car-share service. Just saying that Musk's futurist vision of mandatory self-driving vehicles is incompatible with personal control of personal technology, and practically, politically infeasible in the US anytime soon.
How much do you want to bet if I stole a driver's phone the app would stay logged in and I could pretend to be them? A phone is much easier to take than a car.

Even with a picture, I could just wear stuff that obscures my hair, etc. so they wouldn't get a good look to the difference.
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There is a new installer available for windows version of Minecraft which has a private version of JRE and does not require standard system-wide version of Java installed.

https://minecraft.net/download

Minecraft for Windows
Download and run Minecraft.msi. This will install Minecraft and create a shortcut in your start menu. If you'd like a version without an installer, you may use Minecraft.exe instead. You do not need Java installed to run either of these.
I think you're under the wrong impression. Meteor is somewhere between a platform like Node (which it runs on top off) and a full-fledged framework like Rails or Django.

So I feel your criticisms are a bit unfair. Meteor doesn't provide a solution for forms and internationalisation out of the box because it's not supposed to. That's where packages come in.

Now whether or not it should become a framework is another matter.
That's horrible, but not suprising coming from Obama. He thinks if he can force the people to vote, they'll vote Democrat. And who cares if "other countries do it". We're not other countries.
You may be right... but "Siri" itself is a riff on "SRI", as in "Stanford Research Institute" or "SRI International".

Apple could use their money to try to take down an open source university project, which would certainly foster goodwill for them, and it would probably draw attention to Siri's DARPA roots, which would also be some doubleplusgood publicity for them.

They might be better off just not spending the money and buying back more of their stock.
That's a lovely example of torpedoing your own argument with truly shitty citations.
What's the turnover rate at your co-working space? If people aren't working there for any significant period of time, you might not be able to develop the same type of meaningful interactions you'd hope for in an office.
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If you ask for a lawyer and don't have one, (I THINK) they're obligated to either get you one (public defenders are free) or wait for your lawyer to arrive before interrogating you. You can refuse to answer police questions, and theoretically nothing bad happens to you (though they get to keep holding you until the lawyer arrives).
Right, an autonomous ride-share car service would be ideal in its capacity to reduce the need for personal car ownership. But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circumstances, and human intervention will always be needed as a recourse.
AWS statement about it: http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/openssl-se...
See also:

http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/

http://hackaday.com/2015/03/12/arduino-v-arduino-part-ii/

Note that the arduino.cc store is out of stock of pretty much everything, which makes sense if Arduino Srl is no longer manufacturing anything for them: http://store.arduino.cc/category/11

Additionally, tinkerkit.com (Arduino LLC's line of branded sensors for Arduino boards) has been down for at least a year now, which sucks, since that's where all the example code and datasheets are kept. We've seen sales for those drop through the floor.

The legal battle seems to have significantly impacted operations at Ardunio LLC, to the point that they're not really a functioning company anymore.
Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort putting themselves in the this position (closed source, ignoring and even shunning open source, OEM agreements that border on predatory, and so on...)

Unfortunately I believe the only thing that will change opinions are a considerable amount of time and effort in the other direction.
No, that's not the normal definition. Wikipedia, for example:

> Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating

Enforcing barriers to entry is a huge aspect of regulatory capture. A regulation that creates $1 million/year of compliance costs nominally "restricts" all players (and certainly doesn't "empower" them), but that money is often a pittance for large companies while effectively squashing new entrants, greatly to the large companies' benefit.
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Would've been great to see this happen five years, seems like it's largely irrelevant now with the prevalence of HTML5 video compression for short clips.
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Referendums don't directly happen for issues like that, but they do happen indirectly through the parties we vote for. Say there was a party running for city council called the "Get Rid of the Bikes Party", where that was their main platform. Would you still encourage everyone to vote for what helps themselves personally?

If everyone voted for just the things that helped them and against everything else - whether in referendums, elections, whatever - minorities would pretty much always be repressed.
The Left has no less cranks, they just know better when to shut up.
Should be fixed momentarily, if it's not already. Thanks for pointing that out!
Unfortunately, it's impossible to reliably reproduce this problem. If you Google a bit though, you can easily find lots of results for files that magically disappear[0], and not just during upgrades. We were able to pinpoint OwnCloud after making a private folder for one of our guest laptops (which we normally use for interviews and visiting clients, that sort of thing), and then leaving the laptop disconnected for a few weeks. This was a folder no one had access to, and files disappeared and then later this state was synced to the client. It is definitely a problem with OwnCloud.

[0] https://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=19138
If they don't care about costs, they won't outsource... If you are not in the same country (face to face), you'll always be somewhat valued on price...

Charge less the first time, charge some more the next time (if their happy)
I've been working from home for almost a year now. I agree with most of the article. My checklist of things I do for sanity goes something like this:

1. Set up regular lunch get togethers with friends.

2. Use Video Conferencing liberally. Don't keep trying to hash something out via email or chat for too long. At some point the higher bandwidth of face to face communication even over a VC will be much more efficient.

3. Keep a persistent group chat for you team open. IRC, Slack, Anything that is always on and provides a sense of presence for you. Don't be afraid to joke around and make small talk there. Out team even plays the occasional verbal logic puzzle there.

4. Stock some variety in your kitchen. You get bored of Bologne and PB&J after a while. You are going to want to provide some variety for lunches.

5. Be responsive but only during regular working hours. It helps your team to know when they can contact you and get a response. After 5pm I don't respond to txts or emails unless they are emergencies. But before then I make sure people get a quick response from me even if it's just that I'll have to get back to them later.

6. And lastly join a Gym. I swim regularly but you might run or play some basketball or lift weights. When your place of work is your home it can be hard to disengage. A gym is a good way to leave the work behind and reset the mental clock as well as meet other people.
I'm always afraid to come across as pedant or judgmental, but I enjoy being corrected to improve my English so I posted it anyways :) Glad it helped.
Any tips for us hobbyist VPS owners running Debian 7? Latest version on a brand new digitalocean instantance is 1.0.1e! No sign of f,g,h,i or today's k.
Lolz - seriously, my guess is that IBM is disappointed by the lack of use of their Watson service.
Awesome feedback and thank you. It's nice to see this isn't as big of a deal as I was expecting :)

Always good to hear other people's experiences. Thanks again!
While I agree in principle, I think it's fair to point out that glueing various libraries together takes a lot more work than using an all-in-one solution like Meteor.

If you can do it, more power to you, but I'm pretty sure there's a large population of developers who just want something that works out of the box (I know I'm one of them).
You would still need their car, as the passenger side identifies the vehicle with license plate.
To my limited knowledge most (maybe all) of the software in Tesla model S can be updated over the air, using cars cellular internet connection.
Ask HN: What's the startup that has an API for visual design?
I'm beginning to think I dreamt it up, but I think it was an API that you could literally make POST requests to and they'd make design assets for you. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
is a trade-off, I worked from home for a year, and although I missed the casual interactions you get in the office, I was able at any moment to take a 5 minute break to play with my kids, go pick them up from school, help them with homework, and that's priceless
Debian patches: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2015/msg00...

Don't forget to manually restart affected services, check with "checkrestart -v" from the "debian-goodies" package if necessary.
This is not only javascript related, but just good web page speed practices in general. Though it is old, most of it still fair game. http://yslow.org/
http://i.imgur.com/H3E8NMh.png

They can't get a number sorting algorithm right? :/
So 4 out of 14 needed fixing in -current, while the rest were either already fixed or not relevant to libressl. It would be interesting to know who fixed the ones that were fixed already, and when.
Can there be a clear statement in a group whose members are different enough that it clearly doesn't have a common one?

Electronic democracy solves precisely nothing in practice because democracy is not about technology and mathematics, it's about the people.

What if you have a 50%+1 majority on your vote, and the other 50%-1 of the people are so actively against it and bitter that there is no way they will accept the result of the vote, let even cooperate? And by "50%+1" I don't mean 11 votes vs 10 votes in your library group, I mean like 100,000 votes for one side and 99,999 votes for the other. Can you seriously consider that the first side won the vote? Can you seriously do anything practical with 50%-1 members opposing you?

That is what was (and I think still is) happening in PP parties.

And on top of that there's all the usual issue of large-ish scale politics, with blocks forming, with small but screamingly loud minorities, etc. etc. which now, because of the digital medium each require attention. Do you wish to participate in a forum where you MUST, by the way of the forum's statutes, listen even to the most vitriolic, uneducated, screaming lunatic trolls, and be expected that you deal with those situations politely with "Thank you for your input. if 50% of the members agree with your idea to make tin-foil-hats mandatory, and declare war on Kazakhstan, we will."? Even if you are, a couple of years of that happening every single day will probably erode that attitude. Hence, no "sane" members, hence no votes.
Interesting question. The AMA (model airplane hobby organization) has invited members of the model airplane community to submit comments to the FAA seeking clarification on precisely that issue.

See: http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2015/03/18/ama-respo...

If you are interested, you should submit one.
Oh goodness. With retina displays becoming commonplace, the need for a modernized lossy + alpha standard like JPEG2000, JPEG XR or even WebP is stronger than ever. I can't believe they're wasting resources on… better meme cartoons…
I've been working from home for almost eight years now. At first, it was just me and my dogs while my wife went to work. That was definitely hard at first, to stay focused and productive. Every day Alicia would come home and I'd be desperate to get out of the house, she'd usually want to stay in and chill, though, having just had a full day interacting with people at work. I eventually learned that walking down to the library or coffee shop a couple times a week helped some. But coffee shops aren't ideal workspaces in that they don't provide reliable internet, space, often too noisy and sometimes feel like you're not welcome to stay for a long time.

The past few years my wife started staying home and we have two kiddos now. Being able to work from home while raising a young family is a huge advantage logistically speaking and I am thankful every time I get to have lunch with my kids or take a 15 minute break to play in the backyard. But there's also a lot of distractions that are sometimes hard to ignore and the problems of professional isolation and like and reduced networking opportunities.

To this end I started working with a couple friends on a project last year called SpareChair (https://sparechair.me) to build a community of people who work remotely and so we can get connected and provide easy access to a lot of places to work together. We're mostly active in Brooklyn/Manhattan right now to gather feedback and learn how to make this work. Would definitely love to hear any thoughts you all might have on SpareChair, too.
For more, http://fusion.net/story/57515/darpa-thinks-it-has-a-solution...

Premise is fair, though more details are needed to discuss the validity of any particular approach.
> It's not a lossy format like WebP

WebP can hold both lossless and lossy animations. AFAIK it can even have mixed lossless and lossy frames in the same animation.
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Yes, but they would then know, that they are stubborn. Actually, there are so many individual people in the pirate party because they think the pirate party is doing what the individual does. Teaching them otherwise makes a difference. But this requires lots of communication and since we all have digital dementia and are quick to bore, we better do this quick and often.

Fast communication is actually just a feature for the outer world to tell them, what we work for, in time. Too often it isn't clear what we stand for to a fresh topic. The media is complaining and the reader starts to think badly about us.
Look slightly to the right and you'll see why.
First off: what's an entertainment startup? Do you mean something like games, or something like Vine? Or something like Maker Studios?

Like with any startup, you should consider if it's actually a startup: could this get huge? Could this grow and grow and grow? That's what makes a startup a startup: seeking out a business model that makes that sort of growth possible and real.
Wow. This is about the 20th time I've seen this posted. :/
Most of the DoS vulnerabilities appear to be null pointer dereferences, those are not exploitable simply because the attacker has no control over the pointer, it's always just null and it always crashes 'cleanly'. The same goes for the DoS-by-assert, those just kill the program, no direct chance for exploitation there.

The memory corruptions and use-after-frees are a bit more worrying, but they look pretty hard to trigger in real life.

Of course you should still upgrade asap, if that's the reason you're asking.
Indeed, I had a separate room for my office, and tried to work a strict 8am->5pm schedule Mon-Fri.

However, that all fell apart during a major crunch time where we were trying to ship a chronically late product, and for that period of time, my work life balance was essentially destroyed.
> But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circumstances, and human intervention will always be needed as a recourse.

I disagree. The basic assumption for banning human drivers on public road is that the technology will reach the level of being strictly superior in terms of driving safely. At this point letting humans drive is just very stupid.
It is obviously sorted by % use.
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Oh yes, I'm aware that it also supports lossless. I mentioned lossy because that's what matters for the case of video specifically.
That's just the first of two high severity, right? The other sounds like Freakattack, but upgraded in severity. Perhaps others could correct me.
So don't work for this company? Sometimes people live and breathe the work they do, and are looking for others who will as well. It's up to you to decide whether you want to participate in what they're doing.