skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing that came to mind is someone with bad intentions ordering a pencil (something super cheap) knowing it'll get shipped via UPS, then watching the truck all day circle neighborhoods and either holding up the driver for whatever is in the truck, or steeling it from the house / business as it was dropped off. Ie: huge huge huge security risk.
The PR effort in this case was being lead by Gwynne Shotwell who is the President & COO. He was apparently tweeting information that his COO wasn't prepared to comment on yet. That doesn't send a good message about leadership confidence to people in his organization regardless of how much of a "nerd's nerd" he's trying to present himself as
I am astounded that the French government is doing exactly what the violent Taxi protesters (rioters?) wanted. This sends a clear message to any other groups: burn enough cars and blockade an airport and you will get what you want.

I thought the Taxi drivers would be condemned by politicians and the French public.
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> it's obvious that the regulation is backwards

Not disagreeing here. However, fines are put in place as a deterrent. In this instance, their purpose is a punishment for breaking a law. Uber is treating them like a tax and the government appears to disagree with that interpretation. If this were a case of a chemical company continuing to improperly dispose of waste, i'm sure at some point you'd want the government to step in over continued violations (i.e., stop them when they are clearly not acting in 'good faith').
Thanks. That was very helpfull !
Good to see progress on HAMMER2. The removal of SCTP is a very interesting decision. reapctl(2) has since been renamed to procctl(2), I believe.

DragonFly BSD is an amazing OS that really pushes the limits of the Unix paradigm. For instance, things like process checkpointing as a single syscall with two flags of CKPT_FREEZE and CKPT_THAW, among many other things [1] [2]. Elegant simplicity and powerful functionality.

Any self-respecting Unix (particularly Linux) developer needs to check it out and preferably steal a feature or two. DF is a middle ground between Unix workstation and cluster OS. Anything you do on that ground is bound to be more interesting than Docker.

I've always wondered if someone could add some polish and marketing to make DragonFly a solid competitor to the likes of CoreOS and Mesosphere. It already has similar features neatly integrated with a low cognitive usage overhead, so it's mostly a matter of being a good salesperson.

[1] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/

[2] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/DragonFly_Techno...
Nikita Prokopov has presented a pretty cohesive vision for front-end programming in the cljs community. Even if you don't agree with all of his opinions, he's one of the only people assembling a big picture about how to write apps in this way. It's worth reading his blog:

http://tonsky.me/

An emphasis on low-level tooling and not enough discussion around high-level architecture/examples has hurt the react+cljs combo adoption from my point of view. It's the nature of Lisp to come up with your own abstractions around application architecture, but the community would be wise to talk more about solving common web patterns and how to cleanly break away from those patterns when necessary.
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The hardest thing in medical diagnosis/treatment for a computer to do is not running algorithms to determine diagnosis/treatment; it's taking the patient history. If you ask a patient if he has had any abdominal pain, a lot of patients think about it and decide they have had abdominal pain. It may just have been some slight discomfort from gas a couple of weeks ago, but doc asked so it must be important; wouldn't want to leave anything out. Other patients are stoic and wouldn't really call that raging appendicitis "pain", more like "discomfort". An experienced doc should be able to read the patient and tell these apart. Watson? Maybe someday. As with most tasks in medical analytics, the rate limiting factor is the data.
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Huh? They haven't even delivered Java 7 yet.
Sure licences could be helpful, but, expectations needs to be separated from reality.
Where there is power it will be abused.
SpaceX was criticized after its early failures for not being transparent enough, so Musk is probably still reacting to that.
that's why i used the term "usually"

Do you honestly think Uber can be compared to the civil rights movement?
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Some hex editors allow you to actually define an ad-hoc data format to parse, e.g. http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/templates.html – it doesn't have to be ed(1) for hex data. Besides, it could just have been a choice of words meant to convey that they have a bunch of incomplete/corrupted data that needs manual interpretation.
Here's what the project's executive director has to say on the matter[1]:

"One technical problem with Computational Law, familiar to many individual with legal training, is due to the open texture of laws. Consider a municipal regulation stating "No vehicles in the park". On first blush this is fine, but it is really quite problematic. Just what constitutes a vehicle? Is a bicycle a vehicle? What about a skateboard? How about roller skates? What about a baby stroller? A horse? A repair vehicle? For that matter, what is the park? At what altitude does it end? If a helicopter hovers at 10 feet, is that a violation? What if it flies over at 100 feet?

The resolution of this problem is to limit the application of Computational Law to those cases where such issues can be externalized or marginalized. We allow human users to make judgments about such open texture concepts in entering data or we avoid regulatory applications where such concepts abound.

A different sort of challenge to Computational Law stems from the fact that not all legal reasoning is deductive. Edwina Rissland [Rissland et al.] notes that, "Law is not a matter of simply applying rules to facts via modus ponens"; and, when regarding the broad application of AI techniques to law, this is certainly true. The rules that apply to a real-world situation, as well as even the facts themselves, may be open to interpretation, and many legal decisions are made through case-based reasoning, bypassing explicit reasoning about laws and statutes. The general problem of open texture when interpreting rules, along with the parallel problem of running out of rules to apply when resolving terms, presents significant obstacles to implementable automated rule-based reasoning."

[1] http://logic.stanford.edu/complaw/complaw.html
Yes, because providing unlicensed taxi service is the same thing as civil rights.
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>You have literally hundreds of systems working in concert and tied to more hundreds of physical components coming under extreme temperature and pressure conditions

This is exactly what computers are for: doing hard stuff we can't do on paper or just by real world prototype testing. I imagine this is a hard problem, but it may be so because from a time/budget perspective it may just make financial sense to let stuff blow up now and again, than build out such a system.

I kinda see this as the difference between writing typical code versus writing code that's deterministic. The former is cheaper/faster but the latter is safer but more expensive and slower. In growth industries or when you have a strict schedule on your back, the slower approach is often ignored.

>Quoth Feynman

Feynman died when the hottest CPU was the 386. We simply have the capabilities, at least in hardware, for non-trivial simulation that during Feynman's time would have required CPU resources ridiculous to even speculate about. Safe assumption in Feynman's world (1918-1988), at least in regards to technology and engineering, may not be safe assumptions in our world. The same way our assumptions today won't make too much sense for our grandchildren. They might be bewildered by the idea that rocket fails were constant and common, the same way I'm bewildered by things like hot-days causing vapor lock to shut down old cars or, say, occasionally tuning a carburetor. We have electric gas pumps and computer controlled fuel injectors now.

edit: to reply to jacquesm. That's a pretty bold claim about O-rings. We fully understand the materials they're made of, their typical decays, etc. They're not magic. If someone wanted to make a top-down simulation that included, well, everything, it certainly seems possible to me, and while certainly not perfect, if done right, should provide positive outcomes. The real question is, what's the incentive? Spend billions and years doing this for one system (which may be old or even obsolete by the time the simulation is complete) or just accept the occasional preventable loss. Seems the latter approach just makes more sense financially, but that doesn't mean the former approach must be impossible. Many things are possible that just aren't incentivized.
I'm Thinking of Releasing a TCP-Accelerated NGINX AMI on AWS. Thoughts?
Background: I'm one of the developers for SuperTCP (http://www.supertcp.com), a simple driver-based TCP accelerator. We've found it performs pretty well on AWS so we're thinking about releasing a base AMI that has NGINX + SuperTCP so you can get TCP-accelerated load balancing without buying an F5 or something like it.

Thoughts? Would that be useful? How about experience with other TCP accelerators?

Here is a blog post with more information about how we "accelerate" TCP: http://supertcp.com/the-fundamentals-of-a-killer-reliable-transport-protocol-for-the-internet/
Would you? Can't you get better education (though without the diploma) out of your smartphone than you could out of almost all universities in the sixties? Isn't wikipedia more correct than most textbooks from that day? Isn't pubmed better? Isn't it easy to find lots of scanned textbooks from helpful servers in Iran, Turkey, China, etc.? Much easier than finding good textbooks in a university library back in the day?
They pay the fines and the fines are cheaper than complying with laws designed to protect monopolistic interests. You can call it illegal, but when the economics works out such that the fines for something illegal are less than the competing regulated service something needs to change.
You'd probably not use this for everyday email and just for specific communication that must be kept secure.
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Maybe, maybe not, but the situation as-is is that you need a license to operate in that business, if you disagree with that fight to get it changed, but you can't purposefully decide not to follow the law including the fines as operating expenses when others keep abiding to the same laws, and then pretend the justice system is wrong when they apply the laws.
Why would they be expected to not participate in the economy?
There is no single "traditional class" in other languages. Pretty much every language has its own flavor of classes with different restrictions and internals.
Are you sure about that? https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/c...
It's called forethought.

I know that doesn't fit well with the whole "move fast, break stuff" attitude in SV, but then, tech people usually aren't the ones being broken.
... but you should be able to make outgoing calls from that number from time to time, too.
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While not a specific answer, "feels" is a valid response IMO. Like mentioned elsewhere, using reify seems to throw people off, which falls in to the "feels" category I think.
It's certainly not a watertight solution against targeted surveillance, but why wouldn't it be effective against mass surveillance?

If someone were to open all these one-time links (and manage to fill in the captcha's automatically), people would start to notice very soon when the intended recipients complain and the Own-Mailbox interface shows that the email-URLs were opened by some dodgy IP address.
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Maybe all the cargo shots should have these systems enabled to further exercise them. It would have been nice to demonstrate capsule survival in yesterday's event.
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This should go viral!
How are you going to figure out how to write that quick and dirty script without looking at the raw data in a hex editor to figure out how it's been corrupted?

Far from BS, pointing a hex editor at your data dump sounds like the very first thing you'd do when you get some data that your software can't immediately read.
I think that's why it's called react-koan
Yes, a MITM can do that.
Captchas aren't even effective against fraud.

I think you missed my sketch of how the attack against single-use URLs (or, for that matter, pages that show what the last IP address to access the account was) works.
They're rewarding violence, destruction and kid napping. Terrible.
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I'm French and astounded too. You are exactly right.

Petitions in support of Uber are being run very successfully at the moment, and most people around me (working in tech) have vowed to never ever take a taxi again after what happened, but I'm not sure the general public cares that much :(
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It's not something you merely "enable." These cargo missions are using Dragon 1 capsules, whereas the manned system is Dragon 2. The abort system in Dragon 2 is integral to the capsule (it doubles as the landing system used after a normal flight) and isn't something you can just retrofit to a different vehicle.
Has anyone ever attempted to correlate the claimed activity with actual human behavior? You'd essentially survey a sample of people's online habits, extrapolate to the larger population, and compare that with a similar sampling/extrapolation of reported clicks and impressions. My guess is that the fraud rate would actually be closer to 90%. But as others have pointed out, the market eventually catches up and discounts the watered-down traffic.
Are you really comparing Uber to MLK, Rosa Parks, and Ghandi?
When you're rushing to post snarky comments for internet points, reading past the first 10% of the page can severely hinder your speed!
It would not even be up to the author, Twitter would have the data and could provide this to authorities.
Google's defense for the copyright phase was that the APIs couldn't be copyrighted and that even if we entertained the idea that they could be, Google's use would be fair use. The District Court, having agreed with Google on the copyrightability aspect, came to no conclusion on the fair use issue. (Fair use is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement, which means it acknowledges infringement but requires no penalty/reward.)

When the Federal Circuit court overturned District Court's decision on the copyrightability of SSO, they remanded the issue of fair use back to the lower courts. After all, both Google and Oracle's goal through all this is not an academic exercise in establishing the general boundaries of copyright; their question is, "Are we/they going to have to pay in this case?".
Right, and that's not going to be changing in a hurry. Stop giving people data that you don't want others to have.

If anybody who understands this issue says anything other than "Stop giving people data that you don't want others to have" then I have to question their judgement. If you do decide that something is incredibly valuable then hand over the data; but make sure you consider the data 'sold'.
That's what we need, more people stick with an OS which is 15 years old and which runs only IE8 and doesn't even support SSL well (lacks SNI, several modern protocols, and requires websites to continue to support many insecure protocols which make them vulnerable to MitM downgrade attacks).
"In certain appellate situations, where the old form of petition for review is prescribed, the name of the petitioner -- the party seeking review -- goes first, whether the petitioner is plaintiff or defendant.

Thus in the familiar "certiorari" ... where the Court is responding to the request of the party seeking review."

Source:

https://books.google.com/books?id=lLHBCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT70&lpg=P...
I'm getting the error message "conection à la base de donnée impossible" when I try to subscribe to your page.
Interesting. I'm not sure if that is technically doable at this point, but I will look into it.
When government conspires with business to create a shortage it needs to be shaken up. The cost to entry for taxi services should not be the absurd numbers quoted in many cities, a number which only exists to benefit the existing companies and the politicians they support.

What likely annoys these people the most is that their little game is being called out. Regulation has its place, that is not stifling competition and restricting people from having jobs
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Taxi drivers ae a large, compact and numerous community.

Politicians will be queueing to show their support, hopefully to be remembered come election time.
Interpreting Musk's tweet about 'counter-intuitive' meaning BLEVE would make sense to me.
I think you are conflating the two because of the case of Soviet Union.

A) Soviet Union was not communism. Communism never happened. Communism/communist society is an ideal.

B) Soviet Union was a totalitarian state, yes.

C) One of the main concepts in communism is that there is/should be no state. Totalitarianism assumes that there is a state. This is in every definition of communism and totalitarianism. Here I'm going to quote it from the first line of each from Wikipedia:

"Totalitarianism is concept of a political system in which the state holds total control over the society"

"Communism ... absence of social classes, money, and the state."
> we would've had to achieve an insane growth to be worth anything to my co-founder and me due to the dilution of our shares.

Seems like that's the bigger lesson in this situation. Never give up so much equity that you cease to care about the outcome of the company.
Defending law violations only by arguing that they make "the economy" more efficient is not very convincing.

Especially in this case since the real innovations that Uber brings in terms of ride allocation are not incompatible with paying taxes and insurance. Rather, the technical innovations of Uber appear to in themselves not be enough to actually compete with existing taxis, hence why the second innovation of actually breaking the law under the guise of technology is so important.

Uber has clearly pivoted into a taxi service, and as such it must compete on price, but somehow the fact they have an app for hailing cabs means they can be a taxi company that doesn't employ their drivers? How does that argument really work?
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Parisian here, good job! This is awesome!
Compared to the old one it's an order of magnitude better!
No, the web is nothing like what I had in mind.
Every day markets shut down at 4pm except for very limited after hours trading. Every weekend down. 10+ days a year, down for market holidays.

We're talking on the order of zero liquidity for 30% of the days (weekends and market holidays) in a given year, and severely limited liquidity outside of market hours.

If liquidity was as important as we like to say, this just wouldn't be the case.
Well, they could only read the HTTPS link. If they were to open it, you'd have at least a record of that.
I completely agree with your sentiment.

Though the only comparison I think fits the most with Uber is prohibition (since alcohol can be considered as a luxury, while marriage is a legal right). Don't forget though, with prohibition there was a complex underground bootlegging market funding organized crime. Also there's the whole Great Depression thing which put the whole country in need of additional revenue streams...
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I wouldn't say less smart, it took me some time to get used to reify before feeling comfortable using it too. Think anonymous classes in Java for example, its almost the same thing.
Okay, so it's possible someone might accidentally publish their passwords with an unwise git commit, but has anyone actually done this? Can anyone point to a real life example?
Reagent presents a very simple api at the expense of a lot of complex/magical bookkeeping to link components and their update cycles to a framework-specific application atom. If you're really looking to demystify how clojurescript can wrap React, I can't recommend reading through the source code of Quiescent enough:

https://github.com/levand/quiescent/blob/release/src/quiesce...

That said, I've really enjoyed Reagent for prototyping, and the magic is the good kind of magic. It's just that Quiescent feels so much like a clojure library, trading ease for simplicity — and is often a better brick to build your own abstractions on top of.
The book The Martian, big-budget movie coming soon, has some pretty awesome fictional-yet-very-well-informed situations of things that were so unimaginable to have an impact on anything and still caused things to go terribly wrong. Highly recommended.