skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do as much bottom-up research as you can at this point. Go to every single bookstore in your area and talk to the potential customers. If you can get an owner to let you have a stand at a bookstore for a couple days - the personal interaction will help a lot. Definitely use the feedback to iterate (not only based on 1 user, but try to identify trends in what they tell you). Go out there and set a goal to have 30users by next week.
Which in my European ears is still a huge disgrace and racist (the term "white trash").

But because it's about poor "non-sophisticated" people, and there's no middle-class guilt about it, nobody cares...

(British have a similar term, "chav", for younger working class people).
I think Richard Stallman is (was?) aware of this. He famously condoned Ogg/Vorbis using a BSD license so that it would be more greatly adopted by developers/companies making music players and the like. This was in the face of the patent protected, extremely widely adopted, MP3 format however.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5461004
In few projects (when we know users from old office computers will use it), but mostly no, IE 9 is the minimum.
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>There's no meaningful contributions from a human.

Humans provided the training data. Humans wrote the source. Humans compiled and ran the program.
Because we are not rule-machines, and we enjoy breaking the rules, including "social decorum" and "taboo" from time to time?

That's also how comedy works, even without using any vulgar words.
It shares the same root, but it isn't the same word. "Negro" in spanish means the color black. It might or might not be used to refer to race, just like "black" might or might not be used to refer to race. To clarify, "black" usually translates as "negro". Meanwhile, "n-er" usually translates as "negro" followed by an offensive adjective.
Looks really interesting. I'll definitely request an invite.
s/guy/person
I was traveling abroad in Japan and was asked by a Japanese woman if I was lost or needed help.

I was looking at the station map looking for how many stops until the station I had to get off at. I'm fluent in Japanese though - and don't think I was giving off a "I'm lost" look. She simply assumed I was lost because I don't look Japanese and was staring at a map.

Instead of assuming she was racist, intentionally or unintentionally, I assumed she was trying to be nice and offer me help because she thought I looked lost.

But extending hospitality or a helping hand is now seen as a microaggresion against a person.

It's gotten to the point that I let doors slam into peoples' faces less I make them think I'm being sexist for holding the door for them. After all - if they want me to hold the door they can ask me to hold it for them. Otherwise they're fully capable of opening the door themselves.

Once-upon-a-time it was polite to keep a door held open for someone. Not anymore.
I don't think they're wilfully ignorant either, but they are woefully ignorant, and actually software is tightly woven into their lives so they need to be educated.

It's more serious than you might realise. People have found themselves charged with serious felons either because they or their prosecutors didn't understand what they were doing. And then there's the issue of state surveillance being used as a weapon against activists and campaigners who might embarrass those in positions of power.
Nothing new here. I was doing this back in the 80 to check on the alignment of 8" floppies and backup tapes.
How are you going to compete with insurance companies who have all of the data, existing relationships will their entire networks of providers and pre-existing negotiated rates with providers? Insurers are already creating local provider specific networks to serve this type of need and they have the largest incentive to drive procedure costs down - because it allows them to drive their rates down, increasing business or accounting for the losses they're suffering due to the ACA.

How will you protect your business when they decide to cut out the middle-man(you) and begin working with their networks directly to renogotiate procedure costs and kick-back discounts to employers for using these selective Cost+Quality networks? Truth is they're already doing this.

EDIT: My points may be moot - Are you only working with self-insured companies? That's the only thing that makes sense here given that you're splitting costs with the employer.
I never noticed it was open sourced a while ago. I guess they never emailed their KS backers, or something. I raised my objections to the founders after backing their Kickstarter, and then never bothered using their software after that because I wasn't confident in the long-term survival of it.

Today is literally the first time I've ever heard that this project was open sourced.
The problem is of course that your solution requires the rich nations building those dikes and levees for all the third world nations of the world. Do you think that won't be a sweeping social and economic change?
A balance between speed and smoothness. High blood pressure is bad in most systems.
Pragmatists, who know that "stable" and "unstable" branch are just tags, and what's important is the actual stability of the software in each as it relates to their use case.
> How different automakers responded to different security issues isn't related to this article or discussion.

It is related to the article when the article discusses those responses.

> The fact that automaker and lawmakers were convinced to take action by less dangerous demonstrations shows that this stunt was not necessary.

One automaker (even this is dubious; Chrysler seriously expects people to believe that the only way to patch a bug that allows total control over a car's transmission and brakes - let alone the rest of the car - is via a USB stick, and that over-the-air patching isn't an option? Please.) and two senators. There are dozens more automakers and 98 more senators to convince. Hopefully the demo helps make that a better situation.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Dodges and Chryslers are driving around America totally susceptible to UConnect bugs, and a very large number of new cars on the road don't even have the most basic safety precautions (like, you know, not connecting the brakes and transmission to the Internet willy-nilly).

The convincing so far has been negligible. Hopefully that'll change soon, before someone with less-benevolent motives follows in Miller's and Valasek's footsteps.
Hmm... is there any way to short coastal real estate that is less than 10 feet above sea level?
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The complexities there don't seem to have a correlary to the rivers.
Agreed, and now the headline reads more like "Hackers endanger people on public highways" instead of the more interesting (in its consequences) "Jeep cars can be taken over almost completely over an Internet connection while they are running". I'm sure this generates tons of traffic for Wired but this does not bring the necessary focus on the security issue.
I think he's suggesting creating a similar project to dokku, but instead of using Docker, use Bocker.
Sorry I should have asked for specific ideas rather than references to OWASP which seems to be "the answer to all security architecture questions".
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Presumably you are leaning on this paragraph when you say that their earlier attacks were ignored?

When they demonstrated a wired-in attack on those vehicles at the DefCon hacker conference in 2013, though, Toyota, Ford, and others in the automotive industry downplayed the significance of their work, pointing out that the hack had required physical access to the vehicles. Toyota, in particular, argued that its systems were “robust and secure” against wireless attacks. “We didn’t have the impact with the manufacturers that we wanted,” Miller says. To get their attention, they’d need to find a way to hack a vehicle remotely.

But you are apparently ignoring this paragraph, which discusses Chrysler responding to the hack, as I read it, prior to the events in the article:

Second, Miller and Valasek have been sharing their research with Chrysler for nearly nine months, enabling the company to quietly release a patch ahead of the Black Hat conference. On July 16, owners of vehicles with the Uconnect feature were notified of the patch in a post on Chrysler’s website that didn’t offer any details or acknowledge Miller and Valasek’s research. “[Fiat Chrysler Automobiles] has a program in place to continuously test vehicles systems to identify vulnerabilities and develop solutions,” reads a statement a Chrysler spokesperson sent to WIRED. “FCA is committed to providing customers with the latest software updates to secure vehicles against any potential vulnerability.”

The way I put the information in those two paragraphs together, it's the fact that the attack can be done without physical access to the car that got the attention of Chrysler, not the publication of a stunt in some web rag.
Use the stuff from that Mozilla wiki page and OpenSSH will be secure enough already. Unless more vulnerabilities are found that apply to such a configuration, or keys are compromised, port knocking in this case isn't going to stop anyone that OpenSSH wouldn't already stop on its own. It's effectively just a pointless layer of security that only adds more hassle to connect.

I'm not saying that port knocking doesn't have uses, just that it doesn't in this case. Unless you're trying to hide the service I guess, but I don't see why that would be necessary.
Gonna use this as the title for my autobiography! :)
I ran an OpenMOSIX cluster as a hobby. The alternative was Beowulf (the meme of the day was "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things").

It seems the mainstream server industry has moved to more isolation rather than more interconnectedness, which is probably better for most public-facing systems.
Oh? Then you don't really know a lot about the runes.

http://www.seekthemystery.com
I very much doubt the word's usage by "mainstream rap" begins even to breach the noise floor in its overall use, let alone takes it across the "primarily racist" threshold.
Only fearless if you're not using mocks/stubs/etc. With mocks and stubs in a dynamically typed language it's not quite as fearless.
Funders and Founders
Yes.

With a coastline, the closer you measure, the more length-increasing features you observe, causing the measured length to diverge.

Rivers have a finite width, so once the distance between your measurements is smaller than the width of the river, the measured length will converge to the true length.
No, staff and management work for the shareholders, essentially
It might be "a wash". Housing and education are more expensive, but food and entertainment costs are way lower. The cost of most things inside your home, like appliances and televisions is cheaper. Tools, hardware, and common home repairs are also cheaper.

It's very hard to get an exact 1:1 ratio, as many of us spend hundreds of dollars on cell phones that didn't exist back then, or thousands on computers, but naming two economic things that have gotten more expensive doesn't invalidate the myriad of things that have gotten commensurately cheaper.
UX is more than UI. Apple's UI design is still the best, but the judgment on consumer needs and product integration is gone with Steve Jobs. A brash and creative genius like Jobs has no chance climbing the corporate ladder. Has to start his own company. My guess is Apple will continue to be financially successful, but the best days are over.
Runes weren't independently invented. They were likely derived from Old Italic alphabets related to Latin. This is why many of the runic characters are graphically similar to their Latin equivalents.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark#Origins

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Italic_script
I'm slightly disturbed that I can't tell if that is satire or serious.
The name of the scientist in question leads the 2nd paragraph of the story. Your cheap shot was quite unnecessary.
The solution to "companies are evil and want to horde my code" is very different from the solution to "companies don't like the GPL; perhaps because they don't understand it, perhaps because they don't like the implicit patent license that may include any patents the company has a cross license to and doesn't have the ability to sublicense."
LXD 0.14 released
I'm in favor of this, but to play the devil's advocate - what happens to the 20% that remains after 80% of an industrial zone has been converted to residential?
That's great, but I like much more the content itself than the "app" functionalities.
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James Hansen is strongly pro-nuclear power.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-clima...
Thanks for checking, but I'm not sure you're correct. AFAICT setting the default to "no" is not due for official release until later this month[1]. Maybe some of the distros are patching the upstream default directly in their source (seems bad idea to me), but I at least checked the CentOS version you referenced and it appears to default to "yes" in the source (and the config excerpt you cited is commented out.)

I looked into OpenSSH's commit history ([2],[3],[4],[5]) and it looks like some waffling and/or release-process side-effects resulted in the man page in 6.9 saying the default is "no", but the actual code retaining "yes" (confirmed in the portable 6.9p1 tarball). I kind of hope I'm wrong somehow; this is a bit disturbing.

[1] http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.9
[2] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/88a7c598a...
[3] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/d921082ed...
[4] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/47aa7a0f8...
[5] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/7de4b03a6...
What matters is HTML5 compatibility which is lacking.
I recognize that this particular change is meant as a convenience. But I'm not the person who put the exclamation mark in the part that I quoted from the article. And it makes me laugh that one feature they specifically call out is the ability to do what programming languages could do in, say, 1958 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58 ).
The difference for me is largely flexibility. Windows tools tend to be monolithic, which is okay for certain things, but it's generally difficult to extend. As a developer, modularity is important to me. Even GCC I can't use to build any development tools since it's monolithic. LLVM is extremely modular though and even provides an intuitive API to interface with the AST, which makes building any new tools simpler (ycm is based on it).

I disagree on the well thought out IDE. A lot of people I know are more productive with them, but the functionality tends to actually slow me down. The interfaces are generally point and click oriented, which I prefer to avoid. Another issue is that non-typical functionality tends to be hidden behind deep, unintuitive menus. Doing simple things often means digging through documentation, searching the web, or even manually digging through menus which wastes a lot of time for me. For example, building a static LUT with 255 entries. With vim (nvim), all I need to do is...

qqILUT[<c-r>=i<cr>] = y;<cr><esc>:let i+=1<cr>q254@q.

I'd be skeptical there's a way to do that in an IDE.

I personally haven't had any issues using syntax based or explicit code folding in vim (nvim), but it's rare that I actually need it. Normally I can navigate by searching, code reference, generated documentation, or a code search and cross-reference tool though.
What is the definition of a suburb to you? There are no areas around nyc considered suburbs where a grocery store is 10 miles away.
What's the reasoning behind why this should be the case? Something to do with the curvature of the Earth?
Even Chrysler is ignoring the root problem that was demonstrated even with wired access: that should the outermost layer of security be compromised in a modern car, the whole car is likely compromised due to a lack of separation between the car's inner workings and the numerous attack surfaces. That's why the paragraph about Ford and Toyota is very relevant here; once that wireless exploit is found (and believe me, it will be found; this is a question of when, not if), drivers of Toyotas and Fords are hosed. Being anywhere on that list of "hackable" cars [0] should be recognized as a significant problem, but manufacturers are continuing to blow off the core problem and only react to specific breaches.

Basically, folks like Chrysler, Ford, and Toyota (and other mentioned manufacturers, too, like Cadillac) are relying on white hats and grey hats to be the ones finding the zero-day exploits in their wireless systems. And even when those exploits are found, they're being "addressed" with half-assed solutions like requiring an upgrade via USB (never mind that if a remote attacker can hijack the brakes and transmission, of all things, an OTA upgrade should at least be possible).

In other words, I'm not ignoring Chrysler's "response" at all. Rather, I'm noting that their response isn't actually indicative of the attitude shift that's actually necessary to prevent death and maiming of drivers.

[0]: http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-...
The reason big, old organizations tend to have a lot of bureaucracy and process is that they created it in response to bad outcomes from lot of ill-considered fast decisions.
Bootstrap.chm
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Agreed. I spent two years getting a piece of property split in an unusual way. It was totally legal, just weird enough that it encountered friction at every imaginable level. Everyone at the city, county level, even attorneys that should have understood reacted with "whoa, wait a minute" at each stage.

At the end it was worth it, a nice return for the time spent. But not easy, and certainly not clearly understood.
Make sure things are usable but never bother making them look totally right. IE9 is the minimum for that
Summarizing away a technical article makes for a not very useful summary.
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And, as it happens, "Hey, are you lost?" can be a polite way to tell a tourist that they've wandered in to an area that they aren't really supposed to be.
> Stupid simple mistake, but really hard to track down. There was no compiler error, the second tag failed silently, and the first tag worked, so it was really hard to find the bad code.

IMHO, this is why encoding meta-information into strings fail in every incarnation I've experienced. For a retro example, we need look no further than the various data base libraries which place the SQL in strings.

Bad things happen when the compiler is crippled by "tunneling" statements through strings.
I always heard that the one-button mouse was a Steve Jobs mandate. So users didn't have to think about which button to click. Of course the NeXT had a two-button mouse, so maybe not...
Be careful ... I would be surprised if you can get an H1B or GC with no college degree.
Tim Cook, on the call:

> On the Watch, our June sales were higher than April or May. I realize that’s very different than some of what’s being written, but June sales were the highest. The Watch had a more of a back-ended kind of skewing.
We're talking about the difference between the GPL and say the BSD license, not necessarily choosing whether or not to release the software at all. Yea, in the latter that definitely limits user freedoms.

But I think people who choose either of those licenses are already releasing their code. It's just that the BSD has a wider contributor base, as businesses could be more likely to contribute back.

What I mean is, if the code is available then the quantity of people benefiting from it is separate from the idea of user freedom. User freedom, in the GPL sense, is freedom to read, copy, modify and redistribute the code and to do the same for anyone else's modifications to that code.
If anyone wants to earn some huge brownie points with me (and who wouldn't), you could implement a PaaS on top of Joyent's Triton system[1]. Purely in terms of the cost structure you could offer with such a PaaS, this could be a Heroku killer. Huge bonus points if it's totally open source!

1. https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker
I'm not aware of a method to manage pools with systemd, also it requires processes to be daemonized which would make configuration a little messier. Also I'm simply more familiar with supervisord as systemd only recently became the default init system in debian.
Selenium tests are inherently slow, unreliable and flappy. They have been the bane of developers for every employer I've had. Do yourself a favor and write React and test your components without a browser driver in good ol' JS with the occasional JSDom shim. It removes almost the entire need for Selenium, which should be reserved for only the faintest of smoke tests. And please, if you have to use Selenium, use headless Firefox, because PhantomJS is very bad software.
> That's the conventional wisdom, but I don't buy it. Raising a family was always tough.

I'm not saying it wasn't tough, but housing prices were much lower relative to incomes in the 50s and 60s, even in a place like San Francisco. Several of my relatives own million dollar homes there, and none of them are college educated or had spectacular careers or anything. Their only advantage is they were part of previous generations. Not a single one of them could hope to buy their current homes if they were starting their career from scratch today. Relative to housing costs, they enjoyed incomes that today would be in the range of a $300k+ base salary.

We look back on their lives and don't see them as particularly posh because we're blinded by the astounding pace of technological growth. You could make a million dollars a year but you couldn't have a microwave oven before it was invented.

> Yes, commuting sucks. But it sucked in the 20th century as well.

Sure it did, but it's a lot worse today because traffic congestion has progressed to unprecedented levels. It's not just about time spent commuting -- it's also about how stressful the commute itself is. Whenever my dad visits here in Houston, who used to do a big city commute in the 70s and 80s in Dallas with no problem, he freaks out because of how bad the traffic is.
Book recommendation to go with the OODA loop idea: Tempo, by Venkatesh Rao
I don't know where you are, but in the US that's just about average --http://m.nreionline.com/office/once-again-office-vacancy-rat...
I don't think I've ever seen a top-level comment complaining about the top comment actually be referring to the comment that's at the top when I read it. In fact, the complaint is usually either downvoted to negative or above the comment it's complaining about.
From a pure science reporting point of view the news article screams "the claims in this news article are an outlier result that isn't actually likely to be true". The lack of peer review, the claims that things are actually 10 times worse than the consensus, the focus on the fact that it's a famous scientist all tend to correlate with really bad articles, and the article barely even mentions any of the actual science done here. (and the part it does mention the science claims that the article doesn't even say it will happen in the next century)
"Arrogance is spending twice the time perfecting a product that you come to find nobody uses."

Now compare that to the the number of products that fail because a competitor released a more stable and usable version. IMO that is far more common.

Not to mention there are many techniques to speed up the feedback loop. You don't have to do a full release to get feedback.
Put some numbers like $100k or 7% equity etc. in your ad. There are plenty of Unity or C++ game developers out there. Not all of them have 6 years of experience but they can still code.
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