skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that they identified their issues and have something of a plan to address them. However, this company still has a lot of issues as far as the stock is concerned:

- Executive compensation is beyond extravagant. It is outrageous and borderline criminal. The CFO got 75 million in stock since last July?

- This leads to another issue - the float is too high. This company has given away hordes of stock internally which will continue to put pressure on EPS and make the company impossible to sell if they do in fact wish to go that route. You get the feeling it's a bunch of insiders looting the vault.

- The growth plans, although commendable, are not without extreme risk. How many users have used Twitter and are simply not interested in becoming MAU's? They say the platform is too hard for many users and the presentation needs reworking - but maybe it's the case it is too late? People tried and quit. I know plenty of people who think it's just spam and have found better places to spend their time. How does Twitter change their mind? Cultivated streams isn't a scalable business. I trust their research and analysis will help, but the "it's a long way off" comment certainly doesn't give much investor confidence. It's honest at least.

- Who else isn't suspicious that after a really great quarter the conference call was rather negative? Bring in new board members while tanking the stock so they can get new stock grants at a low price and then proceed to either sell the company well above the bid or benefit from the rise in stock price as a result of fixing the issues? This isn't an uncommon thing and for a company that has looted investors left and right I don't blame the Street for dumping this tonight.

I'm a buyer sub-20.
You don't need Docker to make a standard build environment. You don't need "chroot on steroids", you just need chroot.
DAX, which is already in new kernels, provides something like
this.

https://lwn.net/Articles/610174/
I can't make heads or tails of the first figure in the post.
Azure App Service (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/) is Azure's Heroku competitor. It's quite close in features and ease-of-use. Disclosure: I work for this team.
Aristotle's first mover theorem is is a number theory
Just sort of FYI, in 1969 I was promised a tourist space station I could visit in 25 years by NASA ... (well and their lapdogs the Scholastic Press :-)
Vendor Prefixes and Market Reality
I agree. It seemed more like an angel round deck. A startup asking for $10M series A should already product validation, meaningful traction, and starting their growth phase. This had none of that. The only thing they had going for them was YC and a strong brand of previous investors.
+1 thanks for that!

Does anyone have a link for something similar for Android phones?
1. Chemistry yes but the specific area of chemistry I'm not sure how many positive knowledge comes out of it. Granted there will be some but I don't think it's even close to being comparable to AI research. Chemical weapons need to, as efficiently as possible, break down areas of the body so I'm not sure a ton of positive applications come out of that (but again I'm sure at least some would).

2. Yeah but considering how many of those exist and how easy it is to even weaponize consumer drones I don't think any type of ban is even possible here even if it was universally agreed upon as a net positive action.

3. I'm not sure how we could target anyone working on this though. AI is going to be largely in software. Granted we don't understand how a really good AI will look and it's possible it'll need more specialized hardware to better support a neural net but I can't imagine that's going to be large enough to be able to track or even see even if it was necessary.

Developing software that can optionally control machines is just not possible to monitor and counter. Someone in their home may end up creating the most advanced AI and we'd have no idea until it's employed somewhere.
High Uniformity 405nm Violet Line Laser Module, Laser Line Genertor
Having been to many hackathons, I'd say that far and away the most likely reason for this is that Java is taught in most CS curriculums. Hence students can come in and make an Android app over the weekend, whereas building an iOS app would require learning a whole new language.

I bet if you looked at winning hacks the Android skew would be much less defined (as winning hacks are usually developed by people who learn outside of class and have prior experience with the platform).
Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship?
SpaceX has a current mission of reducing launch costs and providing low-cost launch services, with a long term goal of helping humanity settle other planets (mars being the first, perhaps only planet mentioned right now). Interplanetary is well within our realm. Interstellar, not currently.
To be fair, I've worked in places where all the devs were on the same OS, same version, and we still had problems.

But I agree, just use VirtualBox. I know Idea already supports deploying to VMs and you they just look like another machine, so no learning curve. All the benefits with none of the hassle.
I've recently been getting into binary formats and being a JavaScript developer it is very hard to think in binary.

This is the first time I see someone giving a good real world example of bitwise operators that I can understand.
How Racket Evaluates Modules
> They've got a lot of cards on this front that even now Apple and Google do not, games, for instance.

Supporting older hardware, too. The fact every Windows 8 Nokia is getting a Win 8 upgrade contrasts pretty well with the way my Android 5 device won't be getting a patch for a critical security vulnerability.
This is very good, but should have been submitted as a link directly to your site.

> each site sits in its own container, so if it is compromised, no harm comes to any other site or services running on the host system.

But what about the security shortcoming of running Docker containers? this does not seem to do anything to address it.
GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
Textinator – automate those every day texts
Hey everyone,
This is a little app I made for android which allows you to set up text message templates for those texts that you send often.

Let me know what you think. It's my first app created with Cordova so I would love any feedback.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.cordova.ric...
Also it's free. And has no ads.
CSRF to steal Bitcoins from Agora via email link
Shouldn't that be disclosed in this post?

If that's true, this deck is more an example of what not to do than what to do.
Correction: Sorry, Sarah Nir is the journalist, not Allen.

The one ad is now being used to confirm:

"Asian-language newspapers are rife with classified ads listing manicurist jobs paying so little the daily wage can at first glance appear to be a typo."

The existence of one ad shows that Bernstein wasn't thorough in his search. But the image does not show that papers are rife with such ads.

Either way, though, Nir is writing about vulnerable undocumented immigrants, and Bernstein's describing how the industry works for people who play by the rules and only hire licensed workers.

Since they're talking about different parts of the industry, everything both side argues could be true. I'm reading the twitter exchange, it sounds like they're just shouting past each other.
One question that I don't see discussed in the article, or in any of the previous ones it links to: why didn't the air traffic controller tell the F-16 to turn right? From the geometry as described, a right turn would seem to be better for avoidance. (The F-16 was northeast of the Cessna and heading west-southwest; the Cessna was heading east-southeast.)
Twitter would be easier to use if they reverted the recent "improvements" to the tweet threading UI.
I work exclusively in Fortune 500 size enterprises.

And the big EDW that you use to find powering everything has been broken over the years into unintegrated silos e.g. ERP, Web, Salesforce, Payroll etc. The big trend now is to reintegrate all this data and do analytics on it. To do this requires you to do (a) major ETL work between completely different schemas then (b) your data science/analytics work. In semi real time.

This article is referring to this type of workload since this is Spark's bread/butter. You land the data in HDFS, use Spark SQL to run ETL/Analytics jobs and then output the results in a single enterprise view for reporting, marketing etc. And yes this is identical to what Twitter's analytics team would be doing.

With cloud tools from Azure, IBM, Amazon this sort of analytics is going to be becoming much more common place. All using SQL the language but not SQL the database.
The process serving the website, Nginx and PHP-FPM, does not run as root. It's no less secure than running a non-root user like www-data to serve your site. If you can breakout to root within the container, you can potentially get to the host system. But that's absolutely no different than any other Linux system. If you break out of www-data on a normal setup to root, then you have root.

All that Docker is acting as is a chroot that's easier to deploy and configure with its own networking stack.

There is one weakness that I will be addressing soon, which is that Dockergen is running within the same container as as the Nginx proxy, and that's a bit dangerous -- not that dangerous because there is no user defined code that executes in the proxy's container and no way to upload anything to that container... but if there were a weakness in Nginx that would allow users to upload code to the proxy container and execute that then it might be problematic. For this reason Dockegen will be moved to a separate container that is not interacting with the web.
I've found docker to be "chroot with all your custom fs layouts and custom mount scripts combined" - in other words a much more convenient chroot.
I wouldn't say that.. as much as they disgust me, Oracle isn't going anywhere.. and neither are MS-SQL, mySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, DB2, and a bunch of others.

SQL allows for very generalized tools to be used to query data, aside from whatever application front ends get developed. This is simply harder with other database engines. Not to mention that it's a simple good enough tool in many use cases. Not everyone has twitter/facebook/google sized problems. Most applications can do just fine scaling up. And often too much importance is placed in hitting five nines of availability.

I really like NoSQL databases, flexible schemaless systems and horizontal scaling. That said, you can go a long way with SQL, it's just you can't solve some problems on multiple systems, and you can't solve some problems on a single system... depends on your needs.
Learning to make a font the hard way
Parent wasn't complaining about whether on/off topic, they were being critical of the writing style which sadly suffocates the reader. I may not agree with all their complaints, but the article is somewhat over elaborate in its exposition. I found myself skipping over tens of words and sentences to find out what actually happened to this unfortunate soul.
1) Get computer

2) Install Gentoo

3) Set up ssh / webserver / mail server / irc / etc...

4) Buy domain and point to your server

5) Successfully run your own site/blog/wiki for a while, have it do neat stuff, write about and share your experiences of learning to be a sysadmin

6) While under oath, swear by the SysAdmins creed.

7) ???

8) Profit.
LSU professor fired over F-word, P-word, off-color joke
There's one clear cut use case where AWS/Azure are incredibly cheap - Disaster Recovery. At my last job, we maintained a small DB instance and nothing else but an empty VPC. Within 15 minutes, we could spin up the entire DR stack including resizing the DB to support Production. There's no equivalent for this when you ONLY run your own hardware - you're stuck with a second site that sits there idle (unless you intend to do Active-Active which has its own share of problems).
Right, that forces you to reach two minutes, and also makes sure the bag will be removed promptly.

As far as I can tell most of the danger comes from the possibility of having someone hold you still while you panic, and that is not what I generally consider deadly.

Really not sure if I'm missing something...
From the outside, it's rather hard to tell the difference between someone getting problems that are "inherently simple" and someone spending time finding simpler solutions to problems.
I definitely am not suggesting they are disappearing. Only becoming less popular.

And I wouldn't group SQLite in that list. I am assuming it has already has come from nowhere to be the most popular in use today (courtesy of iOS/Android ?) and I believe is part of an emerging trend of microdatabases.

What is happening is that SQL is becoming more popular but over the top of NoSQL systems e.g. HDFS, Cassandra.
I certainly could (and actually hadn't thought of doing that; the hype was really getting to me)! Part of the difficulty is in fixing the setup process, though, as over the years this system seems to have accrued a fair amount of -- shall we say -- character. Jumping in and fixing it up to the point of making environment setup a short, portable and error-free process (such as (1) pull a vm image (2) feed it a commit hash to build, test and deploy) would optimistically take weeks. This drove my desire to short circuit the entire affair and stick it all into a VM. That's what I was alluding to vis. proper solutions :)
Where do they threaten to shut it down?

EDIT: The commit message is an imgur link of the original email: https://imgur.com/QC51FZz
You're welcome to criticize it. But comparisons to The Lord of the Rings, of all things, were tone deaf. This is not some epic fantasy for your amusement.
Awesome! When the great split first occurred, I was really concerned that the Illumos path would die on the vine. Especially after Nexenta started hiring up everyone they could and not really seeming to attempt to give code back. Having been a huge Sun fan when they finally opened Solaris, and then dreading the Oracle acquisition, it's awesome to see major features continuing to make it back into the open source version of ZFS.
Relevant image: https://imgur.com/QC51FZz

Took me a while to notice it.
I am perfectly alright with this.
Just so you know, trucks (F150, Silverado, RAM) have been consistently selling in the top 5 spots. The only 'car' sell at the top 5 is the Toyota Camry ;)
Fine with me. It's an offensive term and GitHub has every right to police their service and ban content like this.

Am I supposed to be concerned by this, and if so, why?
You have a point but the Al Qaeda and terrorist networks didn't do the Boston Bombing it was two brothers acting alone. The Islamic shooters were lone wolves. No ties to terrorist networks.

They weren't organized by terrorist networks but they were terrorism.
Can't say I am. People should be free to use the language they wish.

The words that were offensive 200 years ago are laughable today. It's just such a superficial thing, almost arbitrarily deciding which words are 'sensitive' and which ones aren't, I cannot stand behind efforts to censor the world.

Once upon a time 'idiot' was the more common word for the mentally disabled. Has GitHub banned 'idiot,' too? Good long while ago people would've been pretty offended by that.

I get that we're more concerned with what people are offended by TODAY rather than 200 years ago; my point is that we SHOULDN'T be concerned.
Edge sorting in gambling
How often does the BS include "going into production" and "sampling later this year"?
I don't see what's wrong here.
At least update your copyright at the same time!
Someone uploaded a repo with language Github found objectionable.

Github asked them to remove the offending words.

Person complied.

I don't see the issue.
I'm going to do the wait and see before I upgrade any of my PCs to Windows 10.

The bummer is that virtual machines like Virtual Box don't qualify for the Windows 10 upgrade. But I can run Windows 10 Tech Preview in Virtual Box. That is how I test operating systems in Virtual Box before putting them on bare iron.

Some people are scared of the AI and Cloud features of Windows 10 and compare it to Genisys in that Terminator: Genisys movie. I think that is made up and there is no threat of a Skynet network.
People are free to use the language they wish. They are not necessarily free to host said language on other people's websites. This isn't a legal ban or something, GitHub is a private company and they have the right to limit what content they want on their website.
Buy a $5 DO box and host it yourself.
Use any language that you desire.
Is there a list of objectionable words/language that one is not supposed to use? A quick search on the f-work gives thousands of hits on github.
Part of the beauty of new innovation and new features is that you don't know what people are going to do with it.

Many of the best things about the web are features that we didn't originally plan for but created using javascript and such, then we folded it back in to the specs.

When you add something new, most likely someone somewhere will do something very cool with it in ways we could not have envisioned.
Sorry Banks, the Fast Follower Model Is Dead Thanks to Big Bang Disruption
You are entitled to your opinions, but why do you see this as forced? The quotes you present show a piece of prose intended to evoke a mood and set a scene. None of it feels forced, or thick, or unnecessary.
Of course they have the right. I'm not saying they don't have the right.

I'm saying that their choice to enforce this right doesn't make sense to me, on multiple levels.
When more and more transport employ end-to-end authenticated encryption like TLS and SSH, this will be a non-issue. Message authentication code will resist even malicious tampering, let alone accidental corruption.
That looks quite nice in the few minutes I spent looking at it. The lack of Ruby support is a issue though, and we're also all on OSX and prefer CLI interfaces for most stuff.

Also, one of the killer features of Heroku (which few services seem to replicate) is log drains - I can easily add a http or syslog endpoint and have Heroku send the logs over. The other killer feature which isn't often replicated is One-off dynos, where we can spin up a new instance and get a console attached to it in one command - useful for running database migrations or using Ruby as a CLI to access data.

If we were on .NET that would probably be attractive, but it's still not really competing with Heroku.
It's in GitHub's TOS that they maintain the ability to remove content they find offensive. So they asked a user to remove something that GitHub found offensive.
That fits with the OP's opening sentence. Also, the WHOIS record for standardtreasury.com was updated 29 hours ago, which would make sense if it was being transferred as an acquisition asset and accounts for it being down.
Go and get another role, hopefully with better pay. It's not super unusual as a junior. No training is completely normal, it sounds like you know what your doing.
60 days sounds great.
[CyanogenMod] Fixes for the Android Stagefright Vulnerabilites
Getting upset about this puts you at the same level as the retards who requested this change. Also unknown who exactly at Github requested this, might have been some random dev with retarded children. Not a sign that the leadership at Github is retarded.
Need advice on common growth pitfalls
Long story short my company is busting at the seams and we can't hire quickly enough - while awesome - it brings with it a whole slew of additional problems. We need to define more concrete systems into place, hire additional support roles, etc. etc. all this is a given, but there doesn't seem to be too much literature out there that focuses on going from 5 to 20 in a year and to 60 the next, fundamentally managing that growth while avoiding common pitfalls.

With that - we are a bootstrapped services company, so revenue is directly tied to how much work we can churn out (human capital) and demand is through the roof.

Books, compliance, taxes, all that other fun stuff is in order.

Has anyone had this problem?
Can you provide a good book to read through?
What are things we should watch out for?
Cloud Migration Success Factor: Refocus Internal IT Staff
It's not as offensive as autistic.
I've read that the Kildall-went-flying story is apocryphal.
Yeah, when you host all your code with a 3rd party, and you run all your services with a 3rd party, and you depend on another 3rd party for significant chunks of your functionality, you will find that starting up is a lot easier, as long as you don't mind giving up a very significant chunk of your independence and freedom to do as you wish.

I don't understand the obsession with github, google, amazon and the like. Well, I understand it, but I don't understand why people fall for it. Hosting is dirt cheap these days, really very easy, and you can set up pretty much any environment you need in less than a day, for very little money.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how laying on your back to catch your breath is a bad idea. I thought everybody did that when swimming for extended periods of time.

The parent does mention swimming against a rip current, which would explain the need to swim at maximum physical exertion for an extended period of time. In that case I don't think he panicked.
I believe this is it:

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack-ide/tree/master/s...

I haven't had a chance to set it up yet sadly, there'll probably be a release before I get a chance to set it up anyway :P
I had one interview where this was mentioned as a bad thing and I didn't get the job, the next interview I got the job for exactly the same reason.

Both interviews were for the same kind of job.
The Myth of Software-as-a-Service
Let's compile a list of things it's not as offensive as.
The suggestion at the end to use zip compression to protect your files seems funny; when we're talking about extremely rare errors, CRC32 seems insufficient to really protect.
Interestingly, a search for "retard" in code on GitHub yields over 200,000 results:

https://github.com/search?q=retard&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Not sure what made this particular case different.
Isn't that pretty much what a Ramjet is doing?
> The words that were offensive 200 years ago are laughable today.

Even if we take this at face value, we are not living 200 years ago. We're here now, and your words can have impact beyond what you realize.

You're lucky that words don't affect you so. That's your good fortune. Some words evoke experiences and implications that can drive people to depression and suicide.

Basic. Civility. Is. Not. Unreasonable.

> my point is that we SHOULDN'T be concerned.

Then you won't be concerned when I tell you your basic set of inalienable rights you take for granted has, by and large, been won on the backs of slaves and economic disparity for thousands of years. You are at the tip of a pyramid of privilege that expands backwards in time. Have some good grace about it and stop using useless and hurtful words just because you technically can.
I assume this project is 90% for 4chan, 8chan, etc. posters, so the name is nothing out of the ordinary for its users.
Thanks for the advice. Do you have any suggestions on a drone platform that would be good for a beginner?

I notice that the first thing that pops up on google for 'programming drones' is http://www.nodecopter.com/ which seems right up my alley, but I think you have a good point about learning C/C++
ethernet >=1gb/s have workarounds for error detection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame#Error_detection
Those aren't typically derogatory descriptions of people, though. Profanity isn't necessarily an issue; derogatory language is. I'd expect Github to take down repositories containing slurs of any kind, while leaving up things like https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/