skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit dismissive. Firefox was / is a browser that provides an alternative to IE / Chrome / NameYourFavoriteProprietaryBrowser. It is worrying that Mozilla seem to be forgetting why they are strong... But in my view thay still represent the better side. I would love if they didn't include Hello and similar, but I hope thay come around and make the right thing.
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There are plenty of workers 'freeloading' too ... browsing this site, reddit ... it would be better if instead of doing bullshit jobs they were freed and could do something useful if they choose, and if not, thats fine too (after all they aren't at the moment either).
I apologize. My comment was intended, then, to the author of the quote.
The discount is only downside protection, it does not change the odds. The changes that mattered were playing with a hand-shuffled six-deck shoe and the right to split and double down on up to four hands at once; and double a "soft 17". These changes essentially made the game 50/50. Still, an incredible amount of luck, though he was playing $100,000 a hand, so when you have an amazing split, split, double, double hand it adds up. The key factor here was once he was up, he basically could keep going, because statistically odds were even.
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twitter as a messaging platform. it's an interesting take, and there's certainly a gap in the market for it.
I'd say the spread of democracy.

Viewing it as superior to fundamentalism, or whateverism, and going to other nations, changing their way to be, maybe even just supporting the change... It's colonialism, revisited.

It could well be that putting an end to Pol Pot was evil in itself... Maybe his utopia would have succeeded, but we'll never know. I'm going to make people angry, but it's the way it is. Maybe it would have been more viable, long term, than our free capitalism. Maybe, for him, it was for the greater good.

Actually, I know little about the story, or politics, I'm just thinking out loud, and inciting people to think. His utopia reminds me of the Unabomber's manifesto. Anyway, I don't believe in utopias. It's all black and white, and it's all trade-offs.

All I know is that we're very careful not to contaminate Mars, when we send a robot, but when it comes to other nations, it seems we contaminate as much as we can.
>>Why have multiple threads tripping all over each other when a query is inherently one job?

Because these systems are limited by IO latency, this way the threads respond immediatly when data is available. You dont have the 'stepping' on each other problem unless they are actually running. Further, threads on the same CPU socket, even share resources like memory access, even they can step on each other. You shouldnt be worried about threads and cpu matching if your computation takes 10ms, but data access is 150ms.
Just what I meant. The problem for public schools is that there are a million grads with degrees in social work, poli sci, pyschology, sociology, grievance studies (womens studies, etc), and other fake sciences, many of them ready and willing to be teachers. People with degrees in history or the classics, by contrast, are almost as hard to find as math and science majors willing to work for public school salaries. (Unions being what they are, you can't offer math and science teachers twice what you offer the "social studies" teachers, despite the fact that they're worth it.)
Where I'm from (The Netherlands) they have corporations, not individual people from whom you rent. I think this was created somewhere after world war 2. In the old inner cities there might still be a "landlord" or two left of buildings that are in private hands but everything else is pretty much owned by a co-ops, they can own entire suburbs.

Rent is devised through a point system and therefore everyone who lives in similar housing pays the same rent (more or less, I think it also has to do with how long you've been living there).

Over here in Australia the rent is based on pretty much two things; a) the mortgage of the landlord and b) what they can get away with. Not to mention the 6 month "inspections" you'll submitted to, you know, just because.

Renting in Australia seems to have a lot of emotion involved in it. If something is broken in the house it can take ages to get fixed. Not all landlord are created equal and it's very difficult to police hundred of thousands of individuals, so they get away with it. Real-estate agents are pretty much glorified banks and there mostly the serve the landlords, I mean, it's more difficult to get a landlord on your books than it is to find a tenant. I.e. path of least resistance.

Disclaimer; I haven't lived in the Netherlands for over 10 years so they might have f'd up the system just as well. In that scenario, it "was" a pretty good system.
Sounds like the authoritarian/libertarian axis labels on the 2D political map concept: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

It's why Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich would occasionally team up on an issue - they're both in the bottom half of the graph.
Absolutely. This should also be on the list of questions you should ask before you go to work at a startup. You probably wouldn't ask these on a first interview, but as you get close to the offer stage asking questions about money in the bank, burn rate, cash out date and such are fair game.

If the company will not answer those questions, that in itself is useful data for guiding your decision making. :)
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Partly. They were using their own allocator (openssl_malloc()), but even then they would've been OK if it weren't for the OBO error elsewhere in the heartbeat implementation. If they were using an OS-supplied malloc() instead of openssl_malloc(), the bug would've still been exploitable on some operating systems, but not others.

Either way, "don't write your own allocator" is a good lesson to learn.

Unless, of course, you're doing it for fun. In which case, efficient heap management really is a neat exercise.
You will not be able to bring them up to speed. Recommend that an engineer write the job posting and then let the office managers handle the mechanics of getting it posted and collecting responses.

Also, the idea that you should be looking for talent instead of buzzwords (on the premise that you don't even know what tools your company will be using in six months) is a major philosophical divide and you should find out whether the whole hiring team even agrees with it.
If anything, the outrage should be directed at Global Crossing/L3. They shouldn't be allowing some little ISP to screw up their route tables like that. Because this means that the Malaysian government could secretly announce just a few blocks, route them back out so they still work, and easily do MITM.

OTOH, so much in telecom is hung together on the assumption of basically good actors everywhere.
It turns out that while Kansas is indeed flatter than a pancake, other US states are even flatter. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/scienc...
The description of the bug in surveil.txt in the source archive was a bit easier for me to understand, really nifty :)
> Who cares with how many other people I have what kind of relationship if everyone involved is okay with the situation?

Perhaps other people from who is taken opportunity to have a relationship (and perceptive to have a family)?
I can understand why. They specialize in a very niche product and their entire worth to the tech industry is based on the adoption of that product. I get it, but I dont like it.
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I'm referring to "soft sciences" like social work, psychology, sociology, [grievance] studies, poli sci, etc, as opposed to the humanities: history, mathematics, philosophy, classics, fine arts, etc.
Agreed! We need something that collects data from multiple pages as you browse through and use your site. At the end it gives you a table of all your classes that didn't match anything (with line number references to your css file).
I have different sources, claiming the opposite.

But of course it invalidates my argument, when I don't believe the "official" statements. I see it in my country: The official statements are always true and everybody else a liar. It is written in the Prawda.
I'm seeing some parallels to writing software here:

"you’re moved to write a poem because of some transcendent impulse... but as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. So the poem is always a record of failure. There’s an ‘undecidable conflict’ between the poet’s desire to make an alternative world and, as Grossman puts it, ‘resistance to alternative making inherent in the materials of which any world must be composed’"

Or, for that matter, the desire to transcend/reshape a current market we sometimes name as the entrepreneurial impulse. Though I think poetry is a much purer form.
This wasn't battle damage, this was operator error. Building a tank to survive a war and building it to work when driven in a ditch are not quite the same.
Should the complete cost of the accident include monetary losses from people who had no plans for dealing with unexpected delays?
Or to put it another way; Lets say you're driving across a bridge with your laptop in your car and you get hit causing you to drive through the rail and into the ocean. Should the 'complete cost of the accident' change based on whether or not you were smart enough to make backups?
Even worse, I've sometimes done things like

$(...).addClass("bg" + getSomeClassIdentifier(obj))

Linking some string hanging off some runtime object to its CSS class usage quickly runs into halting problem issues.

There are certainly some arguments to keeping class names as opaque magic strings, but given certain levels of dynamic complexity and the lack of tools like CSS class inheritance, naming policy is sometimes far cleaner and more manageable.

Also, there is a minor concern about false positives. If you have a class called "name" or something generic like that, the odds of that string appearing in non-CSS usage your source code is fairly high.
What made Jaws such a scary film?
I don't actually think it's an "attack" either. But guilty or not is binary, the actual sentence tends to be affected by details such as malice and intent.
Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. We don't just serve .wikipedia.org from our frontends, but also e.g. .wikisource.org etc.

So yes, we are using SNI but for wildcart certs :)
Johnson was very aggressive and belligerent at the table. He made the dealers and pit nervous and agitated. For example, he would sometimes half-way signal his intention and if the result was not to his liking, dispute that he had asked for a hit card. He would pound the table and shout. And the casinos were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because he was such a high-roller.
I've noticed the opposite thing. Most of the hardware around is built on the weakest specs that still let the thing run. Those various 10 cent savings on flash and μC tend to add up quickly when you go into mass production.

But the primary problem, which is not limited to but obviously visible in IoT, is that companies ask themselves "what sells?" instead of "what is good and useful?". All that crap that is being created, with useless "features" that introduce security holes foster the fragmentation of the ecosystem, is pushed because someone out there figures out that people will buy it. But almost no one understands the implications of all these "features" so the buying decision they make is usually wrong and stupid.

I wish someone cut out sales people from the design process. You should be able to get designers and engineers together, having them ask themselves what would be an optimal, actually useful smartwatch/smartfridge/smarttoilet/whatever and how to build it, and then tell sales people to figure out how to sell it. But no optimizing for better sellability.
"But that 2 percent, while small, is vital"

Sorry, no it's not.

"California’s agriculture business might be, at this point, too big to fail."

How can people say crap like that with a straight face?

PS: If you actually look at a chart of rainfall over the last 100 years this is really fairly close to normal rainfall levels over the last 10 years. But, most charts only go back to an unusual peak and make it seem like that's normal. Nope, this is fairly normal, this it's really just a case of getting used to unsustainable well usage. Which indirectly subsidized a lot of water use when well water runoff ended up in streams.
My thoughts exactly. This should be a chrome plugin.
Scala (the programming language) and Scala (the Amiga video software) are two different things. :)
For Japanese, you can also check out rikaichan for Firefox. I guess rikaikun is the port for Chrome.
If you find that this is a regular part of your workflow, then you should consider trying Stacked Git:

http://procode.org/stgit/

(That page is actually out of date; it's actually somewhat better maintained than it appears there.) It seems to have fallen out of favour somewhat as Git's own native porcelain has improved over the years, but I know there are still some kernel developers using (and maintaining) it.

Personally, I find it allows me to do things trivially and routinely that others find difficult or impossible. I still prefer it even though I know how to accomplish the same thing using native Git commands (like rebase -i).

One of the things I like most is the lack of global (as opposed to per-branch) state of the kind that Git rebase relies on. So if I want to go switch to another branch in the middle of a rebase, I can. If I have unapplied patches that I haven't deleted, they'll still be there in a month or a year. I never have to worry about whether I am in Git's weird rebase mode or not, or decide whether I have to use "git commit --amend" or "git rebase --continue" (it depends on whether you specifically asked to edit the patch or there was an error applying it, and if you forget and guess badly Git does the Wrong Thing) because the commands are always the same, and the list of applied and unapplied patches is always right there to see.
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Why don't we have evacuated or argon chamber 3d weld printing? Too much electricity? That feels like a $5k/month project. Does this already exist? Or should we build it? :)
"So trade, in practice, is a transfer from those less well-off to those more well-off."

You can't possibly actually believe this.
Niche: embedded systems
Working on - "at work:" a large medical instrument; "at home:" an industrial monitoring platform with a web interface.

I really like my niche. I've believed that merging embedded control systems and "the web" was long overdue, and finally industry is catching up with that belief.
Flask or Django for RESTful Api?
As icebraining wrote, it's technically possible with X.509, but nobody within the public CA industry will do it for business reasons.

You could approach the problem by creating your own root CA for the domain and then issue subordinate CA certs, but obviously for clients to validate them they would need to import your root into their trusted store (in a corporate IT scenario you would push out the root as part of the domain policy).
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How is this not gambling / illegal?
Or you can multiplex on a file descriptor to asynchronously handle events? Not sure what exactly you intended to say, or if there's any corner cases in job processing.
In practice, of course, memset actually works, because it's a function and the compiler's usage tracing is nowhere near able to spot that you don't reference those zeros that you write.

(IoT security is doom for other reasons though, mostly UI, updatability and cloud services)
1) If I had to switch from current stack (Java/Play Framework/Spring) I'd look at one of those, they all seem super healthy and a lot of remote work uses one of the 3 (I'm a fan of working remotely).

2) Whichever language you enjoy working with and be productive in (I've heard good things about Laravel), don't always think the grass is greener. I'd say try out the Play Framework https://playframework.com/ You can code in either Scala or Java and it'd make a change from dynamic languages for you.

3) I switched from Java to Ruby and back again and found the sweet spot of both, I think I've improved more since I stopped worrying if I was missing out and just concentrated on being productive at work and solving problems I enjoy outside of work.
> before cheap, reliable internet access was widely available

Cheap and reliable Internet access is still not widely available. You don't want to have your HVAC stop working because ISP botched something up. Frankly, IMO there should be zero reason for any of the HVAC control loop to extend beyond the building. Sending data from your controller to your device next to it through half the world and back is insane, and yet it is what's happening with IoT right now.
Don Johnson did exactly what he said he did. And more.
I feel that any one who is using nginx would benefit if he learnt a bit of openresty (http://openresty.org/)
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I would definitely invest in a better landing page, especially one with some screenshots of the software. I googled 'landlord software' and found a fair few - http://www.landlordvision.co.uk/ seems to be the most popular and their landing page looks pretty decent.

I am, admittedly, surprised by the lack of SaaS landlord sites. There are a fair few but most look very dated and uninviting.
Thanks for the comment. I think our point didn't come across.

A startup is a journey. It starts somewhere, an idea, and goes through stages. Entrepreneurs wanting to start a venture often have two options. They can either put together a team that shares the same commitment, drive and willingness with skills that complement each other or they can spend a significant amount of time and money seeking advice from a startup coach, reading and learning from others, hiring a developer, a designer, a lawyer, a project manager, etc.

We’re the team behind that entrepreneur. Though we do invest every now and then, we do not guarantee an investment (at the moment) but what we do guarantee is to support the entrepreneur throughout the way by not just coaching, developing, designing, valuating, and providing tech law advice, but also seeking an investment from potential investors. Our compensation does not occur until the entrepreneur gets financed. From now until then, we receive a very minimal monthly fee for the amount of work and commitment we put in every company.

Our promise is to be a team that would care as much as entrepreneurs would about their startups and help them start, launch, grow, get funded and connected with likeminded individuals.
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The essential reason his original comment was sexist was that the only way it makes sense is if one assumes the default state of a lab is men only.

Basically, if your thought process is that women are an optional addition to a fairly normal human activity (scientific research in this case), you're going to be accused of bias. I mean, people said almost exactly the same things about women in offices, women in factories, women in the military, gays in the military, gays in the NFL, etc.

edit: clarity
Mate isn't just a hacker thing it's more from the clubbing scene and doesn't derive from yerba mate whatsoever. mate and all the other copy cats are just part of a wider german taste for dry soft drinks.

When clubbing the low sugar content 20Cal/100ml means it doesn't give you cotton mouth when you're on speed or MDMA.

It's so engrained into berlin clubbing culture you perform this ritual when you order a "vodka mate" or a "whisky mate" from a bar: they hand you the 500ml bottle (the 330ml is lame) then you take a big swig and hand it back, the bartender then free pours the spirit in topping it up, charging you depending how much you swigged and if you've tipped before.

Fun fact! club mate is made in south germany so it's technically schwabisch and Schwabians are eternally made scapegoats for berlins gentrification... and so makes it all the more ironic when it's exclaimed "it's so berlin!"
So we're all in agreement that it's a Korean company? The mothership is in Seoul. The rant about American companies is misplaced here.
The perception of the valuations is likewise divorced from the risks associated with the investment. That $150 million for 10% that made the $1.5 billion valuation comes with a liquidation preference, and if the company liquidates for $300 million, the first $150 million (50%) goes to that investor with only 10%. That's not suggesting that 0% return is a success, but it's a lot better than losing $150 million.

From a VC standpoint, liquidation preference lowers the downside risks and while the high valuation makes a 100x homerun return less likely, that's not really the goal of a series D. A potential 10x with a good chance of catching any downside in the liquidation preference is not a dumb investment.
Why? So you can use modern, friendly UIs to control it instead of scary there-be-dragons only-one-guy-in-facilities-is-allowed-to-touch-it Win32 apps.
We need a good book or ten on legislative game theory/tropes, which can be cited in newspaper coverage.

Dear citizen, you are facing ___ because ___ years ago, bill ___ was drafted by lobbyists ___, legitimized by playbook moves ___ and approved by ___ votes. Opposing votes were reversed after playbook moves ___, also used in ___ preceding bills.
Cuban council's moodstats[1] is an app that I wish was still available. 90's pixelpushing in the extreme but still pretty nonetheless. It allowed you to track several subjective metrics over time.

With these mood tracking apps however the outcomes are probably simple aren't they? If you're not happy at work whatcha gonna do? Get a new job or have an argument with your boss.

[1] http://www.cubancouncil.com/work/project/moodstats
Wonder how this algo compares to Scheirer's approach.
( http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/coursework/MUMT_614/sche... )
I wouldn't and couldn't prevent them from talking to one of my women and convincing her that it would be a better choice to leave me and enter a relationship with them. And you could of course make the same argument for a monogamous relationship, you are still removing one potential partner for everyone else from the pool of potential partners - but you are of course not really doing this, at best temporarily. And what a single person thinks or feels never really matters anyway because a relationship is a mutual thing between at least two people.
There would be public review before voting to accept or reject. Congress would have months to process it before voting.

The trade agreement would be public; only the negotiations that produced the agreement would remain confidential (so that countries can bargain and compromise more readily).

What President Obama is asking for right now is not approval of the trade deal, but the ability to make the deal. This power (trade promotion authority, or "fast track") is not new, but rather the renewal of a piece of legislation that dates back to 1974 and is standard for such trade agreements, having been in effect for most years since then.