skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see anything in that post to give me the feeling that code is being executed automatically. While I would concede that requiring the user to click on something inside the "payload" document isn't a high bar to achieve it is different than automatic code execution upon opening the document.
There's a spec for SCTP over UDP and libraries that implement it, so what's stopping anybody now?
I don't see the problem with this reading.

1. It's POSSIBLE to be unhappy about this, IF it is your money being used, and you have certain criticisms.

but

2. If it's not your money, I can't see how anyone could possibly have an issue with the experiment.

Which part do you disagree with? I'm not saying that anyone whose money is involved here HAS to be upset about it. I'm just saying, if they have skin in the game, they at least may have REASON to quibble. And if they don't, I don't see what complaint a person could possibly have with research (that, incidentally, benefits people).
Netflix has a DVD processing plant, but it's in the suburbs (Carol Stream) near the USPS processing facility.
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You mean web components? I'm not sure it's possible to pass in anything other then strings as values via their attribute changed callback. They simply aren't as well designed and powerful as React components.
I find more and more uses for C#'s reflection all the time. I have a project that is built almost 100% on it. Tagging things with attributes, reflecting over them, slicing and dicing all of the available data in all kinds of different ways.

I can't imagine trying to do such a thing in JS, which provides so little information about exactly what I'm reflecting over. And it's so clunky. Some things you can typeof, some you have to instanceOf, such that you basically end up doing both all the time.

With JS, I know that I have a bag full of things named something. I have to do my own work from there to find out if they are methods or properties or fields. In C#, I can just ask it to give me all of the properties. Oh, but stick to just the public ones. Or skip any that have an attribute named "Exclude" tagged to them.

Yeah, I have no idea what people are talking about that JS is better for reflection. That's just bonkers.
Assigning blame for individual actions to members of an amorphous group may feel wonderful vengeful, but it's ethically shitty.
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As per their support model for 6.x, but, in the description:

RedHat themselves only support Docker on RHEL7 (as stated by https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1378023, and confirmed by several people)
I don't know how much it shares w/ OLE compound documents, but OLE for Process Control (OPC, now retroactively renamed to "Open Platform Communications") is very common in multi-vendor SCADA environments.
> it's also still true that defectors have admitted to lying

It's also true that every human lies, and people in every sphere of life have admitted to it. As I posted elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821740) it's interesting that so many posts are trying to cast doubt on defectors, all using the same arguments.
I think I understand. Function, which could be used independently should free all used resources.

If a function is very project-specific and has no purpose to being used independently it may be worth considering declaring it static, right?
The basic idea was great - copy some cells out of Excel and paste them into Word. You can put your sales statistics into your end-of-quarter report.

Then they added linking, so when the spreadsheet was updated, your report would update too. So you could make the report early, let Accounting update the spreadsheet, then just let the report auto-update.

I'm pretty sure Outlook uses the Word rendering engine. And dragging documents into Outlook is one of the ways to attach/embed a file into the email. So I'm pretty sure this still leverages that code.

I'm actually guessing this is almost everywhere. Maybe it didn't get put into Vista (where a number of security enhancements like the 2-level model aka UAC elevation got made) but it's still all over Office. I wonder if IE is impacted.
Raising property and income taxes seems like a more traditional approach having a government share in the wealth of its citizens.

If they want disproportionately higher taxes for internet users, maybe try taxing ISPs more?
Here's Chicago's CATV franchise agreement with RCN Cable:

http://www.buskegroup.com/Chicago_Franchise_Agreement_(RCN_2...

The City gets 5% of RCN's gross revenue as a franchisee fee. It seems they're very responsive to the changing times by realizing that cashflow will be disappearing faster and faster as people cut the cable.
It'd be interesting to see that tested in court. I know there have been cases that struck down regulations on inter-state commerce, in particular when there's no nexus in the state. It doesn't suffice to claim you're taxing citizens rather than transactions; courts do look at intent and net effect when evaluating a law.

A tax on the internet connection itself would sadly be within the taxing authority of a state; however, a tax on an Internet service provided outside the state would be in effect a tax on "imports" across state lines (or country lines in the case of international services), and only the federal government can levy those.
Yup, I'm well aware of how the disability system is being used. But we all know increasing social services has been pretty much a toxic idea since at least the early 90s.
https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has...

The secret popcorn groups have some more details, but it'd be interesting to see what actually happened.

EDIT: I'm interested because people here were saying that AMA was going to be the only thing to save Reddit, and that Reddit would start selling AMA opportunities.
It does, but companies that are not located here cannot be compelled to collect the tax. Instead, citizens are supposed to voluntarily pay a "use tax". No one does.
It seems like Reddit keeps creating news for all the wrong reasons.
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"A new way of understanding allergies"? When I was growing up, my mother and father were constantly saying that kids who didn't play in the dirt were the kids who got allergies and got sick all the time. They encouraged us to play with bugs, play in the mud, and run around the neighborhood getting into things that would cause a 'concerned neighbor' to call CPS today. My grandparents on both sides had the same philosophy, and I don't think they're alone on this... pretty sure this was once considered common sense, before the super helicopter parenting + antibacterial everything trend caught on. I get that common sense isn't science, and it's great that someone is compiling the evidence, but that title just comes off as so arrogant. Somewhere out there, there's a book called "water is wet: a new way of understanding liquids".
Aspirin alleviates headaches but is not a treatment for headaches. Be very careful with terminology like alleviating and treating and what they imply.

"In other words" they are saying it's a temporary fix to a broader problem and does not suffice as treatment. Crossdressing can also alleviate gender dysphoria, but it isn't a treatment.

I'm curious, what are you viewpoints of people who suffer from BIID?
This is my rule too. I actually use the stronger rule which is anything attributed to anyone famous was not ever said by them.
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The UI looks like it came straight out of the 90's, is it not a popular feature?

Additionally wouldn't it make sense for them to get into the instant messenger (for business) game?
Looking at populations of people who have gone from being very poor to being very rich overnight does not support that statement. Most of the time the money is more of a curse than anything else. I believe the same goes for people who go from very poor to receiving an annuity from things like legal settlements, but I am only guessing at that

That's a bad comparison, there have been studies that show a small no-strings-attached monthly allowance made people's lives easier and overall better. They did not spend the money on crap like most lottery winners do.

I assume the reason is that those people realize they're still poor, but got a bit of help. Lottery winners get more money than they can handle, start assuming they're rich and that messes up their spending habits.
I can't agree with this article more. It's like the author read my mind. I have programmed in perl, C, C++ in linux, VC++ & COM, python, JAVA, JS, VB, assembly language, Prolog, Lex, Yacc. I am sure I missed a few in this list. I think of problems in abstractions and when I think of syntax/semantics its almost a vague haze a mix of libraries of various languages. Dont get me wrong, once I start programming in a particular language, I am in the "zone" so to speak. But I think I need Google too often.
There is nothing crazy about it. Most research is funded by tax money and researchers have a moral and in some countries legal obligation to make their results accessible to the public. The traditional publishing model failed to achieve this. Open access journals are a simple and clean solution.

You say "It used to be that the reader was the customer" but you don't explain why it should be this way.
Yeah, the APF was mentioned in the Medium article, and I'm familiar with it as I have family both who live in Alaska, and who have worked in the oil industry. Also, I've been to deadhorse myself, but I'm not sure that qualifies me for anything other than glancing at the pipeline now and again for hours and hours and hours on the Dalton.
Just become an employee of a consulting firm, they'll take care of these problems so you don't have to.
This... a thousand times this!!!

I think it is very reasonable to answer "you know, I don't know the answer but I can find it quickly using [google|man|stackoverflow|a book|etc]" to a technical interview question for which one does not have the exact answer.

Of course, being able to find it isn't everything - you also need to be able to understand, evaluate and apply what you find. But it is a step in the right direction, and given the wide scope of what developers/engineers must understand these days, I think a totally reasonable consideration.
This is a great point. The advantage I see to using pubkey is integration with, for example, a cryptocard (https://trmm.net/Yubikey). Still, I wonder if the default should be to use gpg --symmetric instead.
The way this law is written, if you're visiting Chicago and decide to stream a movie, stream music, or check your brokerage account (on devices you own with accounts established outside of Chicago), "the provider should then collect tax on the charges apportioned to use inside Chicago." [1]

So basically Chicago thinks they deserve a 9% tax on all information and media consumption that occurs within their city limits. I guess I simply won't bother to visit Chicago ever again.

I wonder what the tech company exodus is going to look like. This could actually be a huge boon for Kansas City who is doing everything they can to attract tech companies.

[1] http://www.hmblaw.com/media/109579/lease_tax_ruling__12_6-9-...
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Companies like McKInsey or BCG (claim they) do that.
This is also reasonable; but an example of how schema get created and discovered by a client would be a nice extension to the spec. :)
> While there have been highly credible reports of concentration camps ...

I'd say that at this point there are a lot more than reports, there are actual concentration camps, as well as brutal oppression, starvation at times, and many more horrors.
After re-reading your parent's statement a few times, I think (s)he thought I was saying you must dislike it if you're paying for it, but if you're not paying for it, you can't dislike it.

I merely was saying I can't see a valid criticism for those of us who aren't paying for it. There may be some valid criticisms of the idea, but I'd rather see how this goes.

I can't think of a single (valid) reason to oppose basic research on solving poverty, when that research has no negative impact on the person who might be opposing it. Can you? The only one I can think of is "I want to ensure poor people are kept poor."
> The DLL file hasn't been kept up to date. For example, you can use .PS1
(PowerShell) embeds without any security warning. There's a lot of file
types now you can execute code with without warning, basically.

That's a poor example. Powershell scripts won't execute by default at all, and a lot of enterprise customers will only execute scripts signed by the internal CA.

Off the top of my head I cannot think of too many new ways of running executable code. Microsoft has only been removing them, not adding news ones. Powershell is one of the few new ones and is designed from the ground up expressly not to allow this type of thing.
So you're effectively substituting one form of synchronization for another that's already well established. After all, we already go to the trouble of using DST as a way to better synchronize within a timezone. (Which not everyone likes but I appreciate as a resident very far east in a timezone.)
One thing I appreciate about good autocomplete like Intellisense is that for problems like the length example, I can guess and confirm with the autocomplete even faster than going to another window and googling it. Even lets you know if it's a function or member.
All this raises an interesting question: what tools does Google offer it's developers ,to search for help and code ? is it better than what we've got ?

Also ,the same goes for tools for patents and engineering knowledge search.
In what ways are major modern functional languages different from each other?
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Docker isn't part of RHEL, it's only available on RHEL6 as part of EPEL. The EPEL package maintainers will, in theory, keep supporting the rather old version of Docker (1.5) in EPEL for another 5 years.
Apparently AWS does not support the minimal Scratch image this is based on.
Food stamps are a decent example. It's not perfect yes, but it basically becomes undesirable to trade the cash of the WANT economy for the goods of the NEEDs economy.
Right but this is odd considering they used to support it and only quietly updated their support document in May. If a fellow issue commenter on github hadn't linked to it I (and everyone else) would have missed it.
Recently in my projects I've gone to AGPL with a linking exception for unmodified versions. For me I think it's the right balance between freedom for users and freedom for developers (while they may be making proprietary software based on libre software, they're encouraged by the license terms to help sustain the the main project).

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I have often wanted something similar for comments. Before I write a new function I write the comment of what it is supposed to do and what it returns. For fun I sometimes copy and paste the comment into Google to see what other people have written. It would be great to have a side window showing all the Google matches to your comment as you are writing it.
> This hasn't been kept up to date, powershell scripts are automatically executed

Powershell won't execute AT ALL by default. You have to enable execution. And it certainly won't execute automatically, the user has to click to run.
good choice of examples: purchase a purse that costs as much as a used car or save a daughter (not a son).

I am seriously impressed: you've hit all the proper buttons to evoke the proper emotions in people reading your comment to take your side. How can anyone argue that a purse provides more value than someone's daughter? they can't, and so you've provided no room for any one to disagree with you.

congratulations! you are fluent in propaganda and argument framing!

how about using a different example, since the money would be taken from everyone, not just the rich:

3,433 is about 6 months rent for me. that does provide me a lot of utility.

or its about 8 months rent for someone else. that also provides them a lot of utility.

so why should I pay for them to be sheltered for 8 months instead of sheltering myself for 6? especially considering that the inefficiency of the government bureaucracy means that they will likely only be sheltered for 6 months: the exact same utility as if I had just kept my money for my own rent.
> So, other than derision, accusations of naked emperors, and a variation of "didn't used to be like that", what actually is your problem with that model?

The fact that the interest of the journal is now naturally aligned with that of the writer, instead of with that of the reader.
This makes it very useful for the writer, which pays[0], publishes and so gets to live another year having his grant renewed; it also makes it quite useless for the reader, which cannot count on a seriously curated publication.

[0] "Pays" meaning "diverts part of his funding allowance"
Resolution could be higher...
Did you read the parent comment? Mine wasn't directed at him but reiterating his sentiment.
It works, it's just clumsy.
Extending an inadequate legacy system rather than starting from scratch is a perfect example of the incompetence in management that I'm talking about.

Not sure why you're talking about engineers when I'm clearly talking about management. Also, today's management is not the management that built the companies or their wealth, so it's specious to suggest that that has any relevance on the evaluation of the current management. And finally, Tesla hiring the few competent managers is not a sign that those that remain at the current car companies are, as a whole, competent. While there are certainly individual managers that are competent in GM or Ford, the structure as a whole does not make good decisions, in my opinion.
No fair!
I'm not so sure about that. When Amazon challenged New York State over sales tax it wasn't over whether NYS could charge a "use" tax for goods purchased online, it was over whether customers had to submit the tax themselves or whether Amazon was obligated to withhold it.
To quote a great hacker, Joe Armstrong, ``The reason we write code is because we can't find it on Google.''
For me, searching Usenet groups came before Google. There was a transfer period of a few years, when your behavior changed when you had a problem.

In the beginning I began with thinking/testing. If I still couldn't solve my problem, I read manuals/books/papers for edge cases/esoterics. Finally I searched/asked.

A year later I thought, then searched -- and finally I read.

And after another year I searched before thinking! This is where we still are now.

(This was a few years before and up to the Millennium, for me.)

I heard that chemists have a saying -- "with a few dedicated weeks of hard work in the lab, you can save hours in the library!" Thank you Google, et al.

(And yes I'm Hellbanned.)
Because the customer defines the role of the journal.

"If you're not paying, you're the product" is endlessly repeated on the internet. I think it applies to academic journals as well.
I don't even bother committing some easy stuff to memory. Living in a polyglot environment, there's just too much going on to worry about the little details that Google and StackExchange can give me in a moment.
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That these tools exist doesn't mean pg couldn't be streamlined. Also, we're moving to containers and may drop some of the extra tools.
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Typically local taxes only affect those who have a physical presence in that jurisdiction. It seems easier for a store in Chicago to nudge the tax collection from, say, "5% for state, 2.1% for city" to "5% for state, 2.2% for city"

Now, of course, if the COUNTY decides to implement a new tax, that's a whole new set of paperwork that has to be done. But it still only affects the businesses in that locale.

To tax EVERY company that does any kind of business with any customer located in the city means that now tens of thousands (?) of companies have to price this tax in.

Where do we end up when every streaming company has to separately track and pay taxes in hundreds of thousands of municipalities, counties, states across the country?
OK, I can see that. Seems like a bit of a stretch though. Are you aware of any companies threatening to relocate?
I suspect the jobs being 'killed' are the ones that will be moving away from Chicago to avoid paying the tax, such as any business that would use AWS.

edit: Also the ones that sell the services can't be compelled to collect the tax and as such, moving offices away from Chicago saves the cost of tax collection implementation[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822009
This would seem to me to be a meaningful rebuttal if Ulbricht hadn't been charged with an inchoate crime. But he was charged with conspiracy, a parameterized charge, and so the overt acts listed in the indictment do in fact matter. See, for instance, model jury instructions for the crime of "Conspiracy" with "overt acts".

You're hung up on whether he's charged with murder, conspiracy, hacking, or whatever. I'm not. I don't care. The only thing I'm here to rebut is the pervasive meme that the Ulbricht murder-for-hire scheme was introduced informally by the prosecution in order to taint the jury and the judge. As you can plainly see, it wasn't: it was introduced in one of the most formal ways possible, in a manner that meant that its rebuttal at trial would have harmed the prosecution's case.