skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like semantics, since MMS are synced by turning on "SMS Sync" in their app. I'm fairly technologically savvy, and I made the assumption anything going through the "SMS Sync" would be encrypted.

I got burnt by that and now all of the photos in my MMS, including some that the people who sent would prefer not ever be public, are unencrypted on a server somewhere... probably in perpetuity.

That's on me, I took the risk... just wanted to inform others.

I definitely won't be trying PB again.
Just above the commit count:
> Future Node.js releases will be from this repo. https://iojs.org

It is part of github's repo description.
Any contact to get gene therapy for muscular dystrophy? :-p
>This is by design.

Yes, but it's still stagnation.
Truth about Booking.com
This is the best commit message:

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give RELAY

https://github.com/facebook/relay/commit/2a86be3e71cdc6511fa...
It was node pre-Joyent
I have not heard of a documented case of erased/overwritten data recovered from a hard drive. I have read articles, like this one, debunking the idea: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html

This is not to say it's the same as recovering audio from analog tape.
Unhackable bitcoin payments plugin allowing merchants securely accept bitcoin payments without middleman involvement:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bitcoin-payments-for-woocommer...

http://bitcoinway.com/

Includes above domain.
If Watergate happened now (the parts of it that are public), I think the majority of Americans would not be upset. I think the president could literally say "when the president does it, it's not illegal" and the majority of Americans (okay, maybe only the majority of Americans of the same party as the president) wouldn't bat an eye.
I like particle filtering because it's easy to understand and implement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_localization - and it's correct even for non-gaussian uncertainty.

Is Kalman filtering computationally more efficient (obviously particle filtering is stochastic and so trades off accuracy for compute) or does it have some other advantage?
You joke, but trading on insider information means revealing that information. It gives people 2 incentives:

1. Trade on your insider information quickly, or someone will beat you to it
2. Keep your secrets safer.

It also makes the NSA vulnerable to false planted information. Trading on stolen information means trusting that information.
for the lazy: http://luckypeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1-NIymPARSs...
> My solution was extremely complicated, yet effective, and I will try my best to summarise it for you: Ask them to use smaller garbage bags.

Which means more frequent trips to the dumpster. Might not be a problem for short people, but might very well be a problem for elderly or disabled people.

The better solution here would not to have such tall dumpsters if possible/feasible. Not all dumpsters are garguantuan, after all. Maybe you'll need more of them, but I'm sure that's a worthwhile tradeoff.

> Since the overwhelming amount of litter is junk food in one form or another [...] Dumb people throw away dumb litter.

While being fully aware that people (like me) who eat fast food instead of buying organic free-range GMO-free gluten-free kale/quinoa/tofu salads at Whole Foods for quadruple the money might be just doing it because we're dumb, does the author at all suspect that maybe - just maybe - people eat junk food because they can't afford yuppie Whole Foods stuff?

Not to say that the littering is excusable. My objection is solely to the characterization of people who eat junk food as "dumb", or that they necessarily have a choice in the matter, rather that recognizing that poor people aren't fictional creatures and that not everyone has the luxury of a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or whatever newfangled healthy yuppie organic store is in vogue right now. That bit came across as ridiculously elitist, whether or not the author meant it to be.
Zirtual: What Happened and What’s Next
How Hackers Made $1M by Stealing One News Release
Is this really insider trading, if none of the alleged perpetrators were insiders, nor was there anyone breaching a duty to protect the information. It seems like they'll have a pretty strong defense on this point.
I like the filtering approach - quite unique criteria, compared to what "similar" job-catalogue websites are offering.

Well done, overall! :)
As a data point to support that college is indeed a very stressful environment and deserving of a lot of counseling resources.
> Anything that was a threat to the Nixon administration in their view was ipso facto a threat to the nation.

Isn't that now still (or perhaps more so) a well-accepted view in American politics? I have certainly heard arguments that classified evidence of government wrongdoing shouldn't be leaked, because it could strengthen or embolden our enemies. The Abu Ghraib abuse photos were a notable example. That's basically the explicit purpose of most appeals to "national security."
China Devalues: Currency Wars Explode
With the io.js fork, the io.js open governance model, and advancements in the project moved significantly faster than NodeJS under Joyent. Since then the Node Foundation was created with a technical committee based on, and pretty much consisting of the io.js members with a few changes...

Most of the technical advancements regarding the source are from the io.js branches. Node 0.12 included Intl support, one of the few features in Node that wasn't in io.js, with some contention about the size.

The organization and releases will definitely be "Node" from 4.0 not io.js, the best guess is the movement of the branch happened ahead of updating the README file.
Heck, Crypto AG is still in business. You can get thoroughly outed in the mainstream press and keep selling the same stuff. Amazing.
So I do a post on why people should not get mad at Beta numbering and I get 4 down votes Nice. Maybe it is because I missed a word "be" before any number. Just say why you don't like the post and don't just down vote. Let your voice be heard instead of being passive. Engage with differences.
If you bring Clojure to a work environment, be gracious and go slowly. The truth will not bring you laurels. When you land in your alien spaceship, and they're all riding horse and cart, they're more likely to stone you than hail you a saviour.

Recently I experienced this by proposing a talk at a conference for a more popular Object Oriented language. The talk was on using functional techniques and Phil Bagwell's persistent data structures to improve programming in that language. I got strong rejections from every reviewer and some comments that made me realise that some people may feel threatened by this "new kid on the block".

This is OK. It's not for everyone. Some programmers are never going to try it, as a matter of principal! Seek out those excited by the language, and work with them. I've had success introducing it, both in and out of work, by going slowly and carefully, finding those developers who are interested and using it with them, and introducing it where it fits the best and solves a big problem more elegantly.

Keep coding in Clojure. It's a beautiful thing.
Project VRM: Vendor Relationship Management
GraphQL is very new at this point, so there aren't many backends/databases that support it. If it catches on I imagine that will change very rapidly.
Unless you know this for fact, I'm doubtful. At my last company, we released both earnings & press releases after market close, with earnings reports being released on the same day as our earnings call (so, press release at 4pm ET, earnings call at 5pm ET).
You can make a very strong argument for fair use in this case. Oracle knows this; if anything, their lawyers are not idiots.
ELI5...why would you sell shares that you know will increase in value? Or does this have something to do with options.
Just compare a heavily unionized US car manufacturer with one that isn't (GM vs. Honda plants in the US). GM is so utterly saddled with pension and healthcare obligations that it's practically doomed.
Another [very valid!] reason not to run Windows IMHO. This kind of thing is totally unacceptable.
> There's a difference between silencing a point of view and refusing to repeatedly have the same argument.

If you're attempting to bring people around to your point of view, you're going to repeatedly have the same argument, because you're constantly going to be encountering new people who need to be convinced. If you don't want to do that, perhaps political activism isn't for you.

> the vast majority of arguments in that area have been had already. That's some of the primary value provided by their wiki: a repository of past arguments and refutations, to avoid having to revisit them every time.

To be more accurate, it's a repository of refutations that GeekFeminism asserts answer the argument. The Discovery Institute also has a repository of what it asserts are refutations of evolution, but (assuming you're not a creationist) I doubt you'd rush out and read them all just on my say-so. Same deal here.
And yet Oracle insists that users wanting to protect themselves against bugs in Oracle products are misguided because "well we wrote the software so it's our job to fix things".
Obsolete Microkernel Dooms Mac OS X to Lag Linux in Performance (2002)
I used to write games on RiscOS in ARM assembly. Sooo much nicer than any other the others I'd used before or since. One thing I vaguely remember (my memory is pretty poor) was being able to load 64 bytes worth of data into the registers with one instruction (and store them with another). This meant writing sprite blit routes was a joy and super fast. The conditional instructions also were lovely.

A few years later when I was writing R3000 assembly on the PS1 I remember thinking how poor it felt compared to writing ARM assembly (the R3000 was the only other RISC assembly language I'd used other than ARM at that point).

It was the only assembly language I genuinely enjoyed writing code in rather than what usually felt like a fight with most other assemblers. I give Sophie Wilson the credit for that, and probably the credit for my entire career, because of BBC BASIC on the BBC Micro before that!
s/coy/cute?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coy
Official Trailer for Billions
Bad compilers would be my guess. And not only would it make sense for Intel to push OpenCL for Deep Learning, but it would make sense (IMO of course) for them to push OpenCL as a much better abstraction for accessing the vector units in all their CPUs in a multicore fashion across the board.
> Ads served via a centralized vendor can be blocked trivially, and people are choosing to block them. You can make a whole lot of arguments about ethics, or you can just admit that it's a broken business model.

Uhm, no, you could say that about a million things to dismiss it as unimportant and "just do it".
As a college freshman, my physics professor took me aside and said that I'd never pass the course unless I could read my own handwriting. He pointed to several mistakes in my work that were obvious transcription errors from one line to the next.

He sent me to the college bookstore with a shopping list that included a pad of engineering paper and some mechanical pencils.

I'm sure that the psychological motivation was as important as the actual hardware, but my handwriting and my grades did improve after that.
I'm opposed to the estate tax because at some point in time the money is mine. If I've paid all my taxes, why should I have to give up more just because I've died?

And unless an estate tax is 100%, you're not going to change how wealth is passed down. Bill Gates could pay a 50% estate tax when he dies and still leave every offspring a "sheltered brat" as you put it.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042404
Kind of hard when VPS hosters configure their systems with root access. I'm not really sure I want to start mucking with the way they have it configured too much. When I self-hosted VMs I did configure them with root disabled.

I'm experienced enough to the point where if I was going to do something stupid - typing in sudo won't stop me from doing it (I'm not saying I'm an expert - I'm saying that sudo has become muscle memory so it doesn't register in my mind).

The added benefit to the message is a notification in the event that the system is compromised.
Incidentally, universal healthcare is the sort of thing that lowers overall costs for society by treating people before they spread disease and end up in emergency rooms…

Not really. Check out the Oregon Medicaid study. Higher costs with universal coverage, but no better outcome.
Show HN: Unfollow all on Twitter
Well yeah, the bigger the tracking pixel, the more you can track, right?
Warner Bros. Obtains Injunction Against 16 Torrent Sites
I can see gene therapy making significant progress in the next decade on diseases for which gene therapy can be effective, but there are some serious problems. you still have to get the therapy to the cells that need it; the delivery problem is hard. Further, it's not certain that you can easily identify which "patch" (to the extent the idea of patching the genome is actually a valid one) is going to work in an individual.

I woudl say that we will see the end of some genetic diseases, similar ot the way that vaccines reduced the incidence of some diseases. Other diseases, especially complex, multifactorial ones, we simply don't have the theory to understand their mechanism, and in general, you need to have some amount of mechanistic understanding to come up with therapies.
he is talking about canceling a pending sale of stock. When you are an executive or board member of a company you are not allowed to just buy and sell large amount of stock on a whim you must setup buying and selling plans to spread the trades out over weeks or months.

So in this case you had a sell order planned over the next few months but now you know the shares will increase in value after the date of the scheduled sale so you cancel the sell plan. This is considered legal because you did not use your insider information to actually trade stock only to refuse to trade stock
How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News’ Audience, Over Megyn Kelly
Don't forget all of the undocumented API's which you are not to use unless you're a really big vendor then you get special documentation and/or special API's built just for you.
Are microservices brewing trouble in the land of DevOps?
You have a pretty rosy view of professors. I don't think being a professor means you've won any academic games.

You don't get to take sabbaticals when you want. Professors have a lot of people to answer to- granting agencies, deans, students, and more.
I'm surprised at that comment because his writings had given me a different impression. PG's view basically means that people with different opinions and minority views would be punished heavily by the community effectively leading to strip them out of all karma. This guideline would encourage people for groupthink and make them hesistant to offer any perspective that might be remotely perceived as controversial. I truly hope pg's above view was transient and has evolved.
This blog post[1] should clear up a lot of the confusion... Most of this is just the transition of the organizational structure from io.js to the Node Foundation.

https://medium.com/@nodesource/essential-steps-long-term-sup...
Yeah seriously he's incredibly smart and funny.
Try running computers on boats where you have VSAT/Fleet connections and every KB counts
Absolutely not. As he's said, he's a one-issue candidate: anything else would be up to whoever the democrats pick for VP.
Firstly, Kalman filtering is optimal, that is, it produces exactly the correct posterior distribution. As you mention, particle filters cannot achieve this.

It's a rough heuristic that to achieve a certain accuracy for a linear/Gaussian system with a particle filter, you need a number of particles exponential in the number of dimensions of the system. I feel like this could probably be stated more formally and shown, but I don't think I've seen anything in that vein. The Kalman filter, being simply matrix operations, should scale as the number of dimensions cubed.

So yes, Kalman filtering is computationally more efficient, and (obviously) more accurate.

I also wouldn't discount the fact that the Kalman filter is, in a sense, simpler than the particle filter for a linear/Gaussian system; you don't need to worry about resampling or setting a good number of particles, and you don't need to compute estimates of the mean/covariance statistics (which are sufficient since the posterior should be a Gaussian).
Ellen Pao Appealing Order to Pay Kleiner Perkins Trial Costs
I believe people are A LOT tougher than groups like Geekfeminism give them credit for. Telling them to "get good at coding then come back and contribute" is actually better for people than "come on in, we focus on being super inclusive" or even worse "you don't code at all, but please chime in on our project". People need internal drive to excel, no external welcoming will make that happen.

Coding well is damn hard, by its very nature it's not a very inclusive thing. Very few have the capacity to do it well. I prefer to focus on them than on the masses that will never be great coders. I don't think pretending like everyone can and should be involved is useful.

I'm a minority from a poor background. No one encouraged me to code, I couldn't even afford the tools I needed. I would read computer magazines in the supermarket and write psudeo-code on paper at home. I'm now a very successful software engineer. Regardless of how unimportant you think my own experience is, it IS quite possible to succeed if you're talented and from an under represented group, no "safe spaces" needed. Just tenacity, an interest in the subject matter and self-drive.
That quote doesn't appear in the linked article. Did you intend to link to a different source?
One thing I think is a poor design choice on the part of the implementer of this example:

Note: Not a design choice of Relay

Is that each Mutation file is redundant. Each Mutation file corresponds one - one with a component file. I think it does a big disservice to React itself (specifically JSX), which advocates for collocating View and Template because of cohesion.

Maybe its subjective.. and I can surely see the reasons for separating them, but I hope yungsters is reading this and collocates the mutations.
I think they go back further than that. There's some pretty popular ones here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_a...
Are there not stages of compression that are highly parallelizable, though? Like basic transformations that operate locally on the image (maybe DCT, per-block motion vector calculation)?
at amazon virtually everyone is considered an insider because almost everyone has access to the sales graphs that are used to track the health of the website and you can see detailed graphs of the revenue which only become public during the quarterly announcements. Basically anyone who had a company computer had access to this info so you were only allowed to trade amazon stock for like 15 days after each quarterly announcement. HR would send out emails saying when the allowed trading periods began and ended
You need to make $22 a day after taxes (or $31 mon-fri).

Maybe get a second job? Does your company offer overtime pay?
Snobal: We give you tools to build 3D virtual eCommerce experiences
Yes that is the title of this thread now. It is in some sense the converse of the original title that I quoted above.
“I’m smart but I just don’t try” a sixteen year old's thoughts
That's not true. Unsigned wrap is well-defined and wraps around to 0. Signed wrap is undefined.
> Burn is that tricky thing that isn’t discussed much in the Silicon Valley community because access to capital, in good times, seems so easy.

Huh?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-capitalist-sounds-alarm-...

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/09/28/what-is-the-ri...

http://avc.com/2014/09/burn-baby-burn/

http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-email-startup-burn...

> And at the end of the day… “burn” is what happened to Zirtual.

This is, for lack of a better word, lame. Burn didn't happen to Zirtual, like it's some sort of disease that lurks in the exposed brick walls of overpriced SoMa startup offices, secretly coming out to infect innocent startups when employees leave for happy hour.

Burn is something people manage and are responsible for. Clearly, Zirtual was run by people who couldn't competently manage the company's burn. To put it another way, incompetent management happened to Zirtual.

> The reason we couldn’t give more notice was that up until the 11th hour, I did everything I could to raise more money and right the ship.

Based on the description of Zirtual's finances (more money going out than coming in) raising more money would not have righted the ship. Unless Zirtual found a way to operate profitably, an infusion of cash would have only delayed the inevitable.

I think a good number of early-stage startups in Silicon Valley are operating with less runway than many of their employees would believe, but waiting until the 11th hour to do right by your employees in the hopes that investors will essentially bail you out to make payroll is in my opinion inexcusable.
Breaking and entering would be viewed as "okay" by the majority of Americans? I seriously doubt that would be the case. The reason: it's something that normal people are put into jail for. Now, going to war on false pretenses? They get away with that, for sure, because it's not something in the experience of anyone but a POTUS. People can't relate. B&E people relate.
"Pao argued she should pay nothing because it would send the wrong message to employees trying to fight bias at the workplace."

Considering the jury found she wasn't in fact fighting bias, wouldn't paying costs send exactly the right message to people who cry wolf about bias?
Natural (physical) laws are presumed to exist. Natural (social, moral) laws don't. (At least not in a readily usable form.)
Or, you know, compile to mono and thus keep 100% control over your lower stack.
Searchers+find+body+of+missing+5-year-old+boy+in+Arizona+-+Toshiba
Vance is truly a scumbag (I hope there's an exception to HN's name-calling rules relating to people like him).

You mention Aleynikov. Here's what Vance is doing[1]:

An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer who
twice won reversal of guilty verdicts for taking
the firm’s high-frequency trading code when he
left for another job isn’t yet in the clear as
prosecutors press an appeal.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will
challenge the dismissal of charges against Sergey
Aleynikov, whose saga helped inspire Michael
Lewis’s “Flash Boys,” Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman
for prosecutors, said Monday.

Whatever anyone's opinion on the original merits of that case, the sheer vindictiveness of the prosecutor is appalling. A more likely explanation is that he's in thrall to Goldman Sachs.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/aleynikov-...
I imagine me! is a multi-arity function which updates and returns his current state given some input.

He's simply saying that even without external influences, he's amazed by clojure.
http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/

This one looked very interesting, and surprisingly cheap and easy to to build.
Startups.co to Acquire Zirtual, Service to Resume
I couldn't find that quote in that article. Was it from elsewhere?
A large swath of people where I worked a couple of jobs back were considered "covered portfolio persons" who had to pre-clear trades in all but a few classes of securities (basically open-ended mutual funds, and small trades in very large-cap equities) and report almost everything. We had to instruct any brokerage firms to send quarterly reports to our compliance department.

I don't know if everybody was covered, but everybody in my group was.
> Investigating suspicious claims when people arrive at immigration control is perfectly reasonable

Not knowing how to Google isn't.