skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PSVita: Welcome Park Decrypted by Mr.Gas
There are plenty of services that do exactly that. They're pretty cheap.
You mean raped and robbed, like the Brooklyn woman who entered a licensed NYC cab in February? Or raped and kidnapped, like the victim of licensed NYC cab driver Gurmeet Singh? Or maybe sexually assaulted while sleeping, like the passenger of licensed Chicago taxi driver Tajamul Syed?
What's with that URL?
Sorry for making you feel old, but Wikipedia was well-established 10 years ago.
If you have an amazing wife, you are more than "just an animal". Is it you God?
How the hallucinations of an eccentric KGB psychic influence Russia today
> it has a lot of activity around it

This is not remotely true, and it sort of gives away an ignorance of either project. (I'm actually fairly ignorant of Hurd myself, but I'm familiar enough with MINIX to know that the comments about it are pretty far off target...)

I also find it odd that you specifically mention MINIX's documentation, because it's arguably the weakest point of the whole project. Even as for the book, if someone thinks they're going to be able to pick up the latest edition of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation in search of documentation for either MINIX-the-project or MINIX-the-software, they will be sorely disappointed. The fact that the book is now about a decade out of date is one reason for the latter. There are a number of reasons for the former.

I've written some (recent) comments that go pretty in-depth on the subject. E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736214

Again, I can't imagine that anyone with a current, even-cursory-level understanding of MINIX would hold the requisite opinions to make the comments that you've left here.
The history was cab drivers striking and destroying other people's property over the increased competition during the Great Depression.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894899
I'll take Nationalism + Badass space exploration over Kim Kardashian + Autotune any day of the millennium.

I just wish we'd have dropped a US flag onto Pluto. Nothing like envy to make someone else achieve something great!
From the bleacherreport.com source:

<!-- "breaking_news_1" background cached 07/16/2015 at 12:44 AM -->

So much for that theory.
Financial card fraud; Most of the time someone just hops on a SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy, doesn't have a VPN behind that. We can grab the user's IP.

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949953
Have there been blinded tests done to gauge audience impact? I hobbied a bit with sound and when I see, for instance, the result of "professional mastering" side by side, I've often thought the pre-mastering version was better. No doubt this isn't always the case, but it makes me wonder. Especially given how much myth and superstition seems to happen in audio, even coming from pros.

Not to come across as rude - I'm just ignorant and curious.
Sysdig talks about the state of the container market [podcast]
I remember when Instagram had to shard their database to keep up with demand, and the article was so popular among developers. "Check it out, they split up the databases! Whoa!" I'm not trying to dismiss their work, but it was a relatively ordinary engineering feat.
>Because I've ridden in non-regulated gypsy cabs before. The driver was terrible, the cab was in worse shape, and there was absolutely no systemic set of metering, just a negotiation of what the both of us felt was fair after the fact. The whole reason the medallion system was created was because prior to the medallions, taxis were a real risk to the general public

So do Uber rides have terrible drivers, cars in bad shape, no consistent metering, or ride negotiation?

If not, then it seems like the regulation intended to accomplish the above is either obsolete or irrelevant to this case.
Night Trap in a browser
I sent a friend xanderjanz's TL;DR and a link, and he replied:

> I have to admit I don't know much about stocks, but the grammar of those sentences hints that this was a C++ problem of misusing pointers :)

My response below, with a warning that if you're not a low level programming geek you should probably not even try to read it:

Actually, it's more like a C# problem of misusing non-pinned-pointers, where the generational garbage collector isn't aware that some invoked C library holds a pointer to something and happily moves it around in memory, and then the C library segfaults.

This is the full story:

Some laws were written under the assumption that owning stock is like calling VirtualAlloc(), but in the 70s there was a paperwork crisis (too many calls to allocate and free pages, the system grinded to a halt) and the US government wrote an stdlib malloc(), which everyone's been using.

There are legacy libraries (laws) written under the assumption that "owning memory" means that the OS page table marks this page as yours, but it's silly because now all pages are marked as malloc()'s. There is case law (bugfix patches) to try and make some sense of it, but in this case malloc() had to free() most of a large allocation but keep some of it allocated and a legacy library that remembers and compares page region base pointers (changed, because most of the large region was free()d) and doesn't look at the malloc() allocation lists (where there was no change in ownership) decided that this memory no longer refers to the same stuff and declined to provide services to it (specifically, a service called "appealing appraisal" that would net the owner of that memory a lot of money).

The CPU (the judge) said he knows this code is buggy and it's not what the user OR the programmer wanted, but he's only the CPU and all he can do is execute the buggy code, and someone please call a programmer (Congress) to fix this code.
Homicide Monitor
Doesn't sound particularly revolutionary; more like a neat addition to the algorithmic toolkit.
#PrimeDayFail
We (at IG) aren't claiming to be doing revolutionary things on infrastructure--but one thing I found super valuable when scaling Instagram in the early days was having access to stories from other companies on how they've scaled. That's the spirit in which I encourage our engineers to blog about our DB scaling, our search infra, etc--I think the more open we are (as a company, but more broadly as an industry) about technical approaches + solutions, the better off we'll be.
I agree completely. The other side of this is: I, or my kid, is doomed anyway, so what have I got to lose? I guess the answer is: individually, maybe not a lot. (One of my favorite Futurama jokes: "Look, do you want false hope or not?")

But collectively, we all lose with shoddy medicine and bad science. Relax standards far enough and you're back to the era of shamans, leeches, or patent tonic charlatans. Which, if you read something like Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, it feels like we aren't too far from right now.
I can't help it. I tear up and I get all emotional every time I see NASA pictures of a new planetary surface.

To think a bunch of apes can look at and appreciate mountains 6 billion kilometers away... it's awe inspiring!
Except Uber wants those laws on the books, because they consider disregarding the law a competitive advantage. Otherwise they'd be lobbying for the laws to be changed. Instead, they're just flaunting the law everywhere, and crying when they get called out on it.
This Increases THC% Almost Ten Fold to Cannabis to Help Obliterate Cancer Cells
How Zuckerberg's Confusing “Real Names” Policy Hurts More Than It Helps
No, you absolutely cannot.
As a classroom teacher I always saw these as just a minor nuisance. Interesting seeing some of the business side of things.
Do Marines serve aboard Naval vessels?

I do understand that the Marine Corps was created because the Navy wasn't having a whole lot of luck with attacking the Barbary Pirates on land, so the Navy delivered the Marines to Tunisia or Morocco or what have you then the Marines dealt with the pirates after going ashore in a Ground Effect Vehicle.

I have only been aboard just one of my father's boats, the USS Springfield in Gaeta, Italy in 1970 and '71. I clearly remember this huge battleship but when I visited in 1997 what I expect was the same kind of ship looked more like a canoe.

I think the Springfield was either a Light Cruiser or a Missile Cruiser but Dad never made a whole lot of sense when he tried to explain things verbally.

Anyway I don't recall ever seeing any Marines there in Gaeta.

I do understand that in These Modern Times the United States Marine Corps jets around aboard Virgin Air.
I still remember my reaction to Windows 95.

"So finally Amiga-like long file names and plug and play like with Amiga Zorro bus. But why it doesn't still let me to rename volumes as something else than single drive letters C, D, E... etc.?"

My 1995 self would have been so disappointed to hear Windows is still stuck to drive letters in 2015.
From my perspective it's not that all GMO foods are bad. I think the problem is that a lot of staff is being engineered into food that is not good for us. And we don't know which is which. It's a much finer-grained point than GMO vs non-GMO. However, if we can't even LABEL the GMO food "GMO", what do you think will be in it? When corporations are fighting the GMO label so furiously, this can't be a good sign.
"These regulations pre-dated the internet. "

That means absolutely nothing. People were capable of making decisions before the internet, you know.

"They existed in a time before information was easily shared and available. If I wanted to know how "Yellow Taxi Co" vetted its drivers in 1980, I would have needed to write letters and wait weeks for a response. That's not practical when I desperately need to get somewhere stat."

And even with the internet, verifying all of that, and making sure that it's accurate, up to date, and not just astroturfing isn't practical either.
Bitcoins have value, but it's safe to say that nobody is going to jail if they can't get their hands on it in lieu of other currencies. Because of this, BTC will be subordinate to those currencies where this is the case.

This may or may not be a problem for any particular BTC application.
Are you trolling? This is one of the most wrong things I've ever read on HN. To take the most obvious point - how are you supposed to rewrite the code if you don't understand what it does?
The community on reddit isn't fantastic, it is just large.

Successful subscription models have been employed in the past. A lightweight paywall intended for a large user base covers operational costs, weeds out users who are just there to spam or troll, and reduces policing. It also cuts down or legitimises multiple accounts handled by the same user.

Popular reddit accounts sell on ebay so it isn't like nobody out there has money. Go ahead and downvote me. I feel the same way about it as I do when I try to explain the failings of Bitcoin. There are people passionate out there about whatever.
API Gateway and AWS Lambda allow you to never use servers again – live stream
Anyone got info on the software/hardware specs and how they approach prioritizing and storage management? We waited a long time for the Apollo code to make it to Github--what better way to rope in the interest of one segment of humanity than getting more eyes on the code?

I imagine that there wasn't time or power to do patches...but if there was, even the mechanics of that would be fascinating.

Has anyone ran across a good discussion around the computational aspects of New Horizons?
A unique Viking sword goes on display for the first time since its discovery
Cancer Breathalyser (detect cancer by simply breathing)
I'm well aware of this, which is why I indicate that it's for failed commercial gain. IIRC, they're making some modest money in a support and administration role (with things like Landscape and what not), but I've yet to see a big Ubuntu-based project actually be successful by any measure.
Good question, thanks.

Right now, there are many young Iranians who are neutral or slightly pro-USA (they are too young to remember that we helped overthrown their democratically elected premier in the 1950s and installed the Shaw of Iran - we rememebr how that turned out for the Iranian people).

So, yes some risk, but for the USA I think the risk is very worthwhile.
Yeah, I ran into a site a while back that was clever enough to spot that I wasn't using a browser.

So I did, Selenium allows you to automate a real browser and capture the responses, hell if need be you can create a fake profile with Chrome and make it completely indistinguishable.

EDIT: explanation, it was a video tutorial site for one of the technologies I use, each video had a download link but it had no way to batch downloads for offline use, scraping it with normal tools didn't work since it was doing UA and other sniffing so I whipped up a python script to control chrome to authenticate, sign in get the cookie and then pulled the unique to that session download link for each video, since I'm not a dirtbag I set the time between downloads to 30 minutes (average video is 15 minutes) and left it running for 24 hours to get the ones I wanted.
Oh, how much I wish my remarks were hyperbole. If anything, I'm understating it.
Thanks – I really like to see NASA.gov all over the homepage.
I've read Black Swan and heard Antifragile was quite good as well think I'll pick that up instead. Liking these recommendations a lot. Here are a few that are "similar" since I asked you for some recommendations.

I really enjoyed The 48 Laws of Power and a few other titles by Greene. Some of Malcolm Gladwell's books are interesting although they are a tad popsci. Recently finished Zero to One which was good, but if you listen to Thiel often there wasn't much new material. Lords of Finance is a NYTBS that is really well done and reminiscent of Taleb so you might like that.

Thanks.
I really hate to link to the Daily Mail but I have to admit that this seems to be the most detailed article available. And if anything it's actually (arguably) less clickbait-y than the rather eccentric press release put out by the University of Oslo:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=154673&Cult...

Edit: if anyone can find a better source on this, please don't hesitate to post it!
It is not "Vim's Ctrl-S"; it's the terminal emulator's ctrl-s. Same thing happens in less, for example.
"Why do you believe there is a need for this? Vetting of drivers, saftey etc can all be done under private insurance and/or review systems"

Not really, considering none of them have worked very well so far.

"This idea that the government should protect everyone from everything is very dangerous."

This idea that companies should be able to do whatever they want because profit is even more dangerous.

"Further I have never really felt safe in government approved taxi's so the idea that the government today is providing proper safety inspections and vetting of driver is laughably naive, Taxi regulations is a money scheme for government and has 0 to do with safety"

Because your anecdote trumps reality?
Oh my that cover brings back childhood memories. It seeded my desire to program computers that is still with me 30 years later. (C64 for years till I saved enough for a used A1000).
IMO, it's a good thing that no individual's vote "matters" in this kind of stuff. If it did, voting would be pointless and everybody would just go around doing whatever they wanted.

As it stands, society has decided that we don't want people and companies doing whatever they want, and we want them to follow certain rules. We tried the laissez-faire system and in almost every case the end result was giant corporations screwing people over in some way.
CA regulators to Uber: Pay $7.3M fine or cease operations
In the example where you cache the todo list and use an array of the todo item ids plus the max updated time, why is that approach better than just updating the list updated_at time whenever a child record is changed? With your approach, each todo item needs to be pulled from the db which should be slower than just checking the parent's updated at time for a cache hit.
> For those who haven't seen it, Whiplash is my favorite movie of the past several years. The "third act" is probably the most intense finale I've seen in quite some time as well.

Totally agree. I watched it during a flight totally randomly. I didn't expect much but it was a great surprise. The finale was so intense I had to watch it a second time.
Keeping in mind that I don't know anything about Charon's orbit or gravitational effects, I think it's possible. It also doesn't have to be early in Pluto's formation, either; it can be a slow, continuous, ongoing process. Salt diapirs on Earth move up through the brittle crust and 'erupt' on the surface.
Why are they entitled to profit?
I had a Well account in the mid and late 90s and it was great. Honestly I haven't found any online community that matches what it was back then.
The keys they used were only 128 bits, whereas RC4 actually supports up to 2048 bits. I wonder how much that affects their results. (AFAIK the 128 bits is an export restriction thing, upgraded from the previous trivially-breakable 40 bits.)

Also, 16 characters seems awfully short for a cookie, especially one meant for authentication purposes.
"You know a $40 billion company wouldn't be a scam."

How much was Bernie Madoff's fund worth when he was arrested?
What perspective am I lacking. Please Enlighten me.
You mean like this? https://archive.org/download/dnmarchives
huge fan of the tintin comics :)
This is why I love the internet. This article has given me a fascinating glimpse into a world I have no idea about.

Author: thank you so much for taking the time to document this.
Yeah! I still have mine. Volume 1 was the plastic blue breadboards (well they were plastic when I started - I think the earlier models weren't), and volumes 2 and 3 were PCBs (so I bought the Dick Smith orange soldering iron).
Great point (love the fallacy of multiple endpoints).

But there also may be some "algorithmic" smarts here in terms of Dixon's interpolation/extrapolation of what cold planetary bodies look like, even with what was known in 1979. Think of an image-generator bot that took some parameters of what was known (distance from Sun, whether it was a gas planet, atmospheric conditions, position relative to the asteroid belt, how size affects features) and kicked out plausible planets. This might be close to what you'd come up with if you made the mistake of forecasting more meteoric impact than actually occurred.
Lack of resources.
Back in the day one of JFK's more-insightful aids was pictured in Time (or maybe Life) magazine while holding a handbag that contained a document whose "TOP SECRET ULTRA" stamp was clearly visible.

The United States Congress swiftly outlawed the expression "TOP SECRET ULTRA" then replaced it with something but I will never know because that classification is itself TOP SECRET something-or-other.

After the dust settled from the document-stamping party the Director of the NSA dropped a dime to JFK's insightful aid to thank him for setting The American Taxpayer back a quarter-million dollars.

New rubber stamps, see.

Just now I looked up the United States Marine Corps Forces Cyber Command only to find that it's know known as the United States Marine Core Forces Cyberspace. Each branch seems to have its own take on how to take on America's enemies by dropping too many documents on Mom's iMac thereby running it completely out of "gigabytes".

Mom and I failed to have a meeting of the minds until she came up with "gigabytes". It is of no use to point out that she really means "storage" so I just say "gigabytes" when I talk shop with my mother.

Doubtlessly widespread unemployment would result in the Congressional Districts where rubber stamp factories may be found were our Joint Forces not to adopt new names every time three sane men simultaneously saw the very first crescent moon after the new moon.
`git blame Documentation/CodingStyle`
Hai means neither true, yes, or no. It only means "I have heard you". This trips up many westerners.
The Well was always one of the fabulous things I read about on Wired. Some kind of nexus of creativity and tech, it seemed a bit like an intellectual promised land of sorts for young me - a modern salon where people openly talked about revolution. I think it's kind of great that we keep bringing it back up to remind ourselves of some of the pioneering talking spaces for the new digital world we're building.

I never got to be part of it, but I sometimes like to pretend that HN is kind of a Well 2.0.
The best flash FPGA that would fit your goal is probably on 65nm. if that's the case , you're better of verifying on FPGA,selling low volumes on 90nm easic -which will be far more efficient than 65 nm fpga ,expect very expensive prices at low volume , but than you could scale.

BTW if security is what you sell, isn't any option to do it at the software only level and reach bulletproof security?
"I think it's important to ask if the laws are necessary or helpful."

I think it would have been important for UBER to ask this, and then lobby to change the law.

I absolutely do not think that is relevant when talking about a company that has decided to disregard the law, simply because it's one you happen to not like.
"Well the USA is not a free nation"

Nope. Not true.
I work at Bleacher Report. We use caching. Everywhere. As much as possible. We can probably do more.

Just because we end up using that cached content to create a unique mix for each user doesn't mean that we don't cache. I think you misunderstand the process.
My startup recently moved out of a WeWork location. The biggest problem I had with WeWork is that they treated their tenants a lot like Facebook treats it users: you are their product, not their customer. Some annoyances:

* A new "community manager" every 2 months. Either they move people around on purpose, or they had a lot of turnover, but either way it was confusing. Community managers ranged widely from "stickler for the rules" to "happy hour several times a week" to "invisible".

* Relentlessly flogging the mobile app, despite the fact that it the Android version crashed immediately on most phones.

* Daily spam of "top comments" from their wannabe social networking site, because I what I really want every day is to read about how the printer on the 3rd floor of the New York office is out of paper when I'm located in Boston.

* Hipster artwork that's funny the first time you see it and dull and juvenile the 50th time you walk pass it.

* Hipster furniture that's incredibly uncomfortable (because plush conference room chairs can't possible compete with a mismatched set of "retro" chairs apparently found in a junk shop.)

* Insufficient conference rooms, telephone booths and bathroom stalls

Of course, our location may be especially poorly planned/designed/operated, but the general target market seems to be the 20-something male unattached hipster entrepreneur with a "lifestyle startup"; if you're trying to get real work done you don't need all the petty distractions, so I'm not sure how durable the appeal of WeWork actually is.
GitHub: https://github.com/chrissanders/flowbat
There's a plenty of service providers that sell APIs to captcha solving services at reasonable prices.
the choice is obvious. $7.3 M a rounding error of its valuation
Your links lead to the article again ...
These ones lead to the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147008
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015160
I think you're discounting the fact that the software with the bugs was written in C precisely because C was a better fit than the other languages which offered greater protection.

I'm not saying (and have never said) that C is better than other languages for every problem. I'm just saying that I read too many articles about the "problems" with C that Stupid C Programmers must not realize since we keep using it where the author of the article hasn't bothered to understand why programs are written in C in the first place.