skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I disagree, and a large reason of that is the open source nature of Android coupled with the fact that Google services don't cost end users anything in most cases. Also, Google's goal in this is to commoditize an adjacent market (mobile hardware) - which is as good for consumers as it is for Google. There was an argument for antitrust when Google was making hardware under Motorola, and my hunch is that Google divested Motorola when they realized the EU was investigating them.

But without Motorola in the picture, it's an easy argument to make that if the EU wants to encourage a competitive handset market (Android) over a monolithic one (Apple), the core product feature set has to be centrally controlled. Too much fragmentation of the platform would lead to the emergence of a dominant vendor (likely Samsung) and actually decrease competition as their competitors will no longer be at sufficient scale to support a differentiated product in both hardware AND software.
My only claim to expertise is playing a lot of Kerbal Space Program, but I'm not sure this is practical. I don't think an air-breathing tow plane could fully replace a rocket first stage.

Even if it can lift a launch vehicle to the same altitude as a rocket first stage, velocity is the more important component of getting to orbit. A Falcon 9's first stage gets it to 11,000kph, about 3 times the top speed of an SR-71, the fastest jet aircraft.
Could you please tell the name of startup you applied for, and some more such startups?
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I thought that was actually true. Why are you calling it tired and old?
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It's not a freeway, it's a highway. I went to school in Gainesville, FL and that road is on the way to Jacksonville, FL and it was a huge pain in the ass.

There was only a mile or two of road that the city "owned" and there were ALWAYS cops out. The speed limit went from 65 down to 40 a mile before the one stop light and then a mile after the stop light, back to 65.

Florida actually enacted a law saying that a city may derive no more than 25% of its revenue from fines specifically because of this city. I'm sure they immediately broke the law and just cooked the books for years until recently there was a big scandal and the city nearly had its charter revoked. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/us/hampton-florida-corruption-...
Don't the PR folk usually end their pieces with a signoff?

But I agree, lessons won't be learnt, braindead ideas like in kernel http will persist, and windows users will continue to pay over and over (in terms of insecurity, as well as cash)
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Lucent still holds the copyright, regardless of which licenses they apply.
I think on the mysql front there are a few alternatives (I use postgres now - and if there was any way of going that route, I'd do that instead). I believe the pure python version is the popular choice these days [0].

I mentioned it because when I went through the process, I was looking for py3 support from my existing libraries and didn't consider swapping them out (as in, initially it didn't even occur to me).

In some cases I found far better libs that were more actively developed (eg I ended up using xlsxwriter for my excel stuff and it was way better than my previous solution).

[0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMySQL

ps I believe they like to call it "Wall of Superpowers" these days :)
I would say it is not equally possible.

This kind of major decision would have been made with the full agreement of the board. They have some very impressive investors, including DFJ, Union Square, and A16Z. The theory that all of these people, people who collectively happened to have $160m on the line, just happened to miss easy monetization opportunities is implausible.
Python is actually much better than almost all equivalent languages in this. Consider that custom package managers like rvm/bundler, nvm/npm, etc., are considered must-haves for any kind of serious development on Ruby or Node, whereas use of virtualenv is still kind of seen as a "bonus" feature. The fact that Python is good enough to allow that demonstrates its robustness.

Stop using Python 2. All of the justifications I'm seeing in this thread are complete non-starters. If you want to use a 3.3 feature, install Python 3.3. Are you seriously suggesting that we revert to the problems of 2.x, discarding all the effort that's been dumped into Py3 compat over the last 7 years, because you don't want to install a software package? It's really common to need to add extra sources to a package manager for new versions of things, and it's also common to need to build your own packages. It shouldn't be that hard. Be grateful that at least there's a possibility you can use the system Python, since Ruby communities don't really have that luxury.
Yep. I tried curl -v to get all the raw headers line by line and the payload is there, and I also tried in telnet, both return a 200 page.

I read the microsoft security bulletin and it says that your IIS server is protected if Kernal Caching is off, maybe that's why our servers are neither blocking the request nor crashing with the request.
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Ha. Hahaha. How many apps at that scale have you run? Foursquare is on AWS[0] and serves 40 million users. Their monthly spend there is probably at least in the 10-20k range. And this is before even considering that they had 135 employees at the time[1] and swank offices in a hip neighborhood in NY. Making all that back with "ads", especially when your platform is almost completely on mobile, is not a cakewalk.

0: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/foursquare/
1: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-exactly-do-foursquares-1...
From that very link, they use IIS (what this CVE is about), not a linux kernel-space http server.
I'll just buy the TLD ".rio", and have "b.rio" and "mercu.rio". I don't understand the big deal here.
What's sinister about it? If you ever make a design change to increase conversions, you are working to manipulate user behavior. Are landing pages, a/b tests, pretty designs, and pictures of human faces now "sinister"?
What prevents you from programming in Emacs out of the box? It has a superset of Notepad functionality straight away, and more complex functions are easily learned through built-in help.
+1. Also tried this on multiple web servers. Unable to reproduce under several different scenarios using curl
Thank you. I've learned a lot from this and have posted a response to my original comment.
Why do you have "investors" with a low-margin, low-cost business model?
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It's even worse than that - in the US, technically speaking, we don't elect our President's. The Electoral College elects the president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_%28United_Sta...
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Funny, I haven't checked it in SF and in NYC only while visiting for a short time.
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Interesting. In Ben Horowitz's book The Hard Thing about Hard Things, he recalled doing the opposite at Opsware/Loudcloud. He made sure that all his employees knew that they were in trouble.

For six months, Loudcloud employees worked long hours and were under constant stress, but were able to stay afloat on less money (keeping them alive longer). I think transparency trumps secrecy in most cases. Bad news spreads quickly and good news spreads slowly.
Cities in the United states have no authority not granted to them by the state. If the people of Florida felt strongly about it and organized, they could have the speeding zone removed.
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Historical rank of the Foursquare app in the App Store's "free apps" list, which ranks by download count: https://i.imgur.com/djd7gmr.png

Its present day rank is better than at the beginning of 2014.
Why drag C++ into this? The rest of your answer holds up even without the crack at C++.
There's nothing in that article about any kings.
I know you're being facetious and poking fun at the redundancy of the phrase "Internet podcast" but now you have me thinking about how cool an offline podcast might be.

Maybe it would be distributed via physical dead drops on USB sticks, or pirate wi-fi networks beamed from disposable drones flown by courageous freedom fighters, or maybe it would be distributed via IP over avian carrier: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

(In all seriousness, my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. It's possible that podcasts or spoken-word messages are traded this way as well...)
Compare Android with iOS. Android is open-source but if you want to ship any Google apps, the company making these apps makes you sign an agreement that forces you to ship a certain set of their apps. iOS is closed source, and you just plain can't use it on your hardware at all. How is Android worse?
A possible example is the people living in ~500 houses in Camden (London). The houses are to be demolished to make way for a new railway, and they're not happy with the level of compensation offered.
You're eliminating the first part of the flight, so the rocket just has to provide the delta-V for orbital insertion, not lift the fuel to do that from sea level.

The Tsiolkovsky equation suggests that's going to be a big saving:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

And yes, my only qualification is Kerbal as well ;-)
This is incorrect. For example, a criminal in a court proceeding might give evidence against another criminal, involved in the same crime. It is common for the criminal giving such evidence to be taken seriously.
I have tried this with kernel caching enabled. (kernel caching IS enabled by default from what I can see). Still unable to reproduce using curl.
why even bother with someone who claims they've never seen research that proves discrimination in tech? That there's no discrimination against blacks who want to open up small businesses? Or claims that no one wants to diversify nursing? Less than a minute on google and I've found research that concludes there is discrimination in tech, that blacks face discrimination from banks when starting small businesses, and a handful of articles about diversity in nursing just on the first page of google results for that topic.
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For the basics, I have had a lot of fun playing with the online circuit simulator at everycircuit.com.
I just received an email from them yesterday that they have an Android game Circuit Jam for electronics puzzles. I haven't tried it so I can't yet comment on how good it is, but I intend to check it out with my kids.
I agree that JavaScript will get better with ES7, etc. that said, I am half way throw the edX Typescript class and it offers a lot of what ES6 and future releases will offer today. I also really like ClojureScript but TypeScript is an incredibly well designed language.
I'm actually sort of glad that my national defense forces get a jump on this stuff. Especially if it's only a few days or a week to secure their systems and (for the clandestine services) to retool their exploits. I believe there are actual clandestine actions in the national interest happening and it would be nice to see those enabled. (e.g. Stuxnet/sabotaging foreign nuclear weapons development)
For .rio, you need an address in Rio. Often, this is rather strongly enforced, see .ie and .cat for other examples.
The app doesn't matter anymore. Twitter is the app now (and whomever else they license their points-of-interest service to). Consumers of their service likely feed back check-in-equivalent data to foursquare, which allows them to do trending and bolsters their database further.

I lament the loss of the app too. Checking in and becoming the mayor was the fun of the old app, and Swarm just doesn't do it for me. At this point I use it mostly as a log of new places I've been to so I can visit them again in the future, particularly while traveling.
Oh man, seeing that avocado sandwich brought back visceral memories of my childhood growing up in the hippy enclaves of Mt Shasta CA and Ashland OR.

Should you find yourself in San Francisco, as I do now, I strongly urge you to visit Darwin Cafe and try some of their sandwiches. They are always interesting, almost always good, and sometimes transcendent. (They only do like 4 sandwiches at a time, and mix them up every couple of weeks.)

Oh, and I agree with another commenter: to me, open-faced sandwiches are very very much sandwiches. How can a salmon tartine not be a sandwich? Or spanish tostas? Madness!
Deported at the request of the United States. A crucial bit of information left out on that fancy page there.
actually cplease is RIGHT and you are wrong

from your own link, here's the part that cplease is referring to (SPOUSES)

> Despite the general rule that people whose authorized stays have expired cannot use the adjustment of status procedure to get their green card, the following types of people may be able to stay in the United States and adjust status:

> Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, namely their spouses, parents, and unmarried minor children (under age 21). Immediate relatives may adjust status even with an expired visa – but not if they entered the United States illegally, without a visa or other authorized form of entry.

once Synroc marries, he becomes a spouse and _should_ become eligible for adjustment of status
> Frankly it's amazing that they have as much elegance and mathematical beauty as they do.

I'm not surprised; humans always keep searching for more elegant models. There seems to be something in the brain that associates positive emotion with models that compress information well.
Well, if you have few reviews the average is going to be skewed.

Now, Yelp is a marketing tool, it brings people in, if there's already an established customer base, it's irrelevant, same thing if it's a "Maltese Falcon specialist", the market between specialists and service buyers is so small that people don't even bother with a review.

And even that is skewed by the ones that reject everything, and the fake positive reviews (and people with no idea on what they're reviewing)
Much better links than the oriley one. Thanks.
But does it have a catchy name yet?

I suggest: Long-range
Just signed up. I like the product, although I don't know if I'd pay for it, or if I'd pay a lot. In my case (I'm at pre-launch), press is something I'm looking for, but I'm not entirely sure how well can an app like this be of help. So, what I'm saying is: let me try it and give you better feedback .

Cheers!
European Commission opens Google antitrust proceedings
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The reason the kernel is involved with http handling is a feature called "Kernel Caching"[1]:

> Enable kernel caching to effectively scale and improve Web server performance. Cached responses are served from the kernel. This greatly improves response times and increases the number of requests per second that IIS can serve because requests for cached content never enter IIS user mode.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731903(v=ws.10...
I grew up in the Southeast, lived in the Southwest, and currently live in the Southmiddle. I would say there are regional tastes in sandwiches but many things seem to be universal.

For instance, the sandwich you describe I've had in variations everywhere I've lived. It's just a roast beef sandwich. The only real differences I suspect are the use in locally obtained ingredients that have a huge potential to making the sandwich different from region to region. That may be why what is essentially a universal sandwich could be better in one place than another. I shall have to remember your recommendation if I ever find myself in the Boston area.

As for your question, growing up in the Southeast the best I can offer off the top of my head is the pulled pork sandwich. There are far more variations than you describe for your beef sandwich. I've seen the sandwich offered in the other areas I've lived, obviously, but not as prevalent as in the Southeast. My wife claims nothing matches pulled pork sandwiches from this one place from her childhood in small town Alabama. I can't say which sandwich for the Southwest as I lived in Vegas and that place is not based in reality. As for Southmiddle, gourmet hamburgers seems to be the current sandwich fad.
The average IQ of African-Americans is a standard deviation below that of whites, which in turn is a bit below that of Asians and Ashkenazi Jews [1].

Under the assumption that the tech industry has a higher average IQ than the population as a whole, then in a world free of any sort of discrimination, one would expect to see blacks underrepresented and Asians overrepresented.

This isn't a fun fact to discuss; I don't intend any sort of disrespect towards people like the author who are most likely smarter than me. But it's one that needs to be accounted for in discussions about race.

1. http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen3...
Don't get me wrong - I'm totally on board with Py3, I'm just saying for newcomers to the language, they hear, "Python 2, if you want to be compatible" and "Python 3, it's the future" - and sometimes, they just throw up their hands and say - "I have no idea what version I should use."

I think things will get better when operating systems start to default to Python3.
I once ordered a server from them, they took my money and then asked me to send a scan of my passport. I told them no and eventually got a refund. Seems weird that they're fighting for privacy now.

I can understand a hosting provider not wanting to host for just anyone (or at least charging a premium for unknown customers), but do people actually send scans of their passports? Seems like asking for identity theft to me.
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It takes some smarts and will to realize that fully optimizing for reusability isn't the right move, too. It's a constant refrain in these comment threads to ask, why don't they use parachutes? Why don't they use wings? Why not do all sorts of things that would make it easier to reuse, instead of trying a crazy vertical landing suicide burn onto a boat?

The paradox is that making reusability easier would make it harder, because you'd have to get it right from the start, and spend a lot more money developing it, and ensure you can reuse each vehicle many times to make up for the increased cost.

So instead of inventing something new, they started with something known to work, and then adapted it. Because it's cheap, you can keep tweaking it in live tests and not worry too much when you break the stuff.

People often compare this stuff to the Space Shuttle, since that's the one example of a reusable rocket that actually flew, and it was never cheaper than expendable launchers. Imagine what would have happened if the Shuttle had crashed on its first two landing attempts. The program would have been dead before it got anywhere. Now imagine what would have happened if the Shuttle had been so cheap that they could build and launch one for $60 million, instead of $2 billion per orbiter and $500 million per launch (and imagine that somehow they could be lost without killing anybody). It would have been an enormous success even if a bunch had crashed.
Windows Update patched this yesterday, right? At least I see KB 3042553 listed in my update history from yesterday.
Yes, nothing can possibligh go wrong.
I disagree - as a longtime Verizon Wireless customer & former Android user (~~6 users), I constantly have seen crapware pushed down on Android phones. Phones like the Nexus series are not available on Verizon, and I happen to be on a legacy family plan ($40/month/line, unlimited data), so the only option for (relatively) crapware-free phones is the iPhone.

Samsung phones have been degrading in quality as well - screens have become more fragile, Samsung has focused on copying Apple in many ways, and probably most damning, the market has responded negatively to these more recent changes.

Give me a more spartan device like the Nexus 5 over that crap any day. Google had it right, but unfortunately has been blocked from bringing that experience over wholesale.
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Still, I don't think bypassing any justice overwatch on this is a better solution.
But LT hasn't achieved either half. It's not an innovative research project. And it's not a polished consumer product.
The UI is mostly finished. How does the current version look?
If you don't have the kernel caching enabled, does this vulnerability still work?
It's surprising that this could even cause a crash, much less code execution, since if it really is an integer overflow I'd expect the range to wrap around (mod 2^n) and you'd just get a different part of the file you were requesting (e.g. with 32-bit maths, asking for bytes 0-4294967300 will return bytes 0-4 instead.) It looks more like a signed/unsigned confusion to me - the 1844...615 value is -1 if interpreted as a signed number, and even if this caused reading past the end of a buffer, the result would be more Heartbleed-like than code execution.

Just taking a guess here, but the code execution probably requires a POST request instead of GET. Nevertheless, it's still quite puzzling how something like this could occur.

Note: I have not tested this personally. Others here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380889 say they haven't been able to reproduce it.

Edit: apparently you need kernel caching of HTTP requests enabled, and at least one rule for caching, and the request has to satisfy that rule, in order to cause a crash.
There's no number high enough- at the end of the day people will just cry out "amagad but our homes!" and claim that that's priceless and forever want money and sympathy from everyone. A line must be drawn somewhere.
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I volunteer through the IRS-funded program to help low-income people file their taxes.[1] I see a few dozen returns per year, and I don't know how representative they are of the "typical" return.

I would say maybe 30% of them would be done correctly if they were filled out automatically based on what the IRS knows. The great majority involve one or more questions like:

- (Education credit) When did you actually pay the tuition that your school reported to the IRS as "billed"? What kind of degree program are you in?

- (Dependents) Did you provide most of your brother's support for the year?

- (Earned income credit) Is your child a full-time student?

- (Married filing separately) Is your spouse going to itemize deductions this year?

- (Self-employed) What business expenses did you have?

- (Obamacare) What months did you have health insurance for? Do you qualify for any of the exceptions for the individual mandate penalty?

- (Mortgage interest deduction) Was this a home equity loan?

- (Gambling income) Did you have any offsetting losses?

As I said, I don't know how representative my sample is, but based on my own anecdotal experience, I just don't buy that the vast majority of people could have their return correctly prepared by the IRS without a TurboTax-like questionnaire. I would like to see more evidence for that claim.

If we're talking about greatly simplifying the tax code, then that's one thing. Or if we're talking about the IRS developing their own version of TurboTax, fine. But the idea that "the government has everything they need and only lobbying from Intuit is preventing them from just doing your tax return for you" strikes me as highly suspect.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Free-Tax-Return-Preparation-f...