skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BuildZoom is utterly incompetent. Take a look at this: http://imgur.com/a/X2ajc

Notice how Baltimore County, MD includes Baltimore + the county on Realtor.com (8,579 properties) and Baltimore County, MD on Zillow does not include the city itself? 4523 vs 8579 is indeed ~52.7%.

However when you include Baltimore, MD on Zillow too? An additioanl +4211 listings.

(4523 + 4211) = 8734 VS 8579.

Seriously BuildZoom. Get your shit together. You are still not comparing the same areas!
Drones are the new UFO.

If a pilot or passenger sees a bird, balloon, or odd reflection these days, it's a "drone". Be skeptical about the recent uptick in fear mongering about the number of drone sightings in the vicinity of airports and airplanes.

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in small, four-seater airplanes and also owns a popular quadcopter model, I always feel compelled to add some color to these threads about drones.

When I'm flying my quadcopter, it's extremely difficult to spot once I've lost continuous sight of it. Look away for a second, and you're staring at an empty sky. Even when it's just a couple hundred feet away and you know exactly where to look, the thing is nearly invisible in the air.

Sitting in the passenger seat of a Cirrus or Cessna, I've always been surprised by how difficult it is to spot nearby aircraft. Whole planes, orders of magnitude larger than a consumer drone, are much harder to spot than you'd expect. Even when ATC alerts us where the traffic is, you rarely pick it up visually until much later than you'd anticipate.

Maybe more importantly, many modern drones have geofencing that prevents them from flying into the restricted airspace around airports.

Combining my experience in both situations with the geofencing around restricted airspace, I find it incredibly hard to believe that folks are honestly spotting consumer quadcopters from airplanes in this quantity. It's just not credible at all if you've spent much time around either or both hobbies.
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I'm no expert, but -- am I missing something? Why can't they just (after all other due process is exhausted) just send the police to seize your servers from your data center in their territory?
USDA: We will not steer people away from meat to protect the environment
An Instant Classic: Rochet and Tirole, Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets [pdf]
Dell XPS 13, 2015 model. That's what my family (who have two Vaio's) moved to, at least, and they're very impressed with them. Of course, they were relatively expensive, but hey, you pay for quality regardless of vendor in my experience.
But from a social/human perspective: some semi-data-conscious people have been known to upload pictures with only the human readable print redacted, but with the barcode left intact.

Also oome people might tear the boarding pass into many pieces so that name, flight,... can't be associated. But the barcode is relatively small. It might still be readable in one piece.
I second that. F* language from MS with dependent types, and compiles to F# and OCaml. I finally gave MS Visual Studio CE a try, and I am blown away. I come from an Emacs/Slime/Lisp(SBCL) on Windows, not Linux, and now that MS has open sourced a lot of it, I am going to stick with it and see if I hit any blocks. Popularity or cool are not my guides. I do have Linux and Mac OS X at home too, but I am always on my Windows notebook.
Security engineering is a great book. I learned a lot about systems (as opposed to software) from the first edition. Definitely worth a read for getting the 'security mindset'. Techniques can be picked up according to the needs of the job (and should be!)
Measuring Open Science: The Open Science Index
Scalability but at what COST?
Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD made a comment in this line recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8&t=54
Sure. A number-pad that nearly no-one uses takes up a lot more space than keys that would leave empty space or necessitate a brand-new keyboard layout if they were removed. Very different.
How Empathy Makes People More Violent – The Atlantic
As Koreans Swarm into Mountains, Government Pleads ‘Slow Down’
Perhaps it's the situation rather than the person?

Ive worked in high pressure environments before and a little bit of venting is incredibly tame.

From the sounds of it whenever there is a crises he is the one expected to take care of it.

The easiest way to fix it is to take on a chunk of the responsibility yourself. At the very least it will give you a better understanding of the pressure he is under.

If I have to work through the weekend fixing critical problems caused by careless coworkers then I'll probably have a whinge. If you make me miss out on spending time with my wife and kids.... Of course I'll be a bit frustrated with you.
The Hilbert transform is a good choice when dealing with an amplitude modulated signal with a carrier frequency, but is useless for something without one (like a speech signal).
Processing 3 has arrived
Compile time checks are not a replacement for a good test suite.
Why on earth is it so hard to find video of the keynote? Here we have a genuinely exciting product announcement with a brilliant "one more thing" hook, and I can't find the video. Microsoft should have it plastered over every news outlet in the world.

I found the video below (with 97 views!?), which makes me really want a Surface Book...and then it cuts off RIGHT BEFORE the big reveal! Microsoft seems to have caught up to Apple in terms of hardware, but it seems they still have a ways to go in marketing and PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6ZLdJ1rkA
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman Predict Self-Driving Cars on the Road in Just a Few Years
Do+Free+Book+Promotions+Work?+(Part+I)
Virgin Australia prints the PNR and frequent flyer number in plaintext.

I scanned a recent VA boarding pass with a PDF417 scanner, and amongst all the other stuff is 16 characters without an obvious meaning. The boarding pass in the article had a similar region, and another longer one. It would have been interesting for the article to have pulled those apart.
learning Python 3 is easier than reading any Perl...
Kenton's House – a house optimized for LAN parties
900M phones hacked with one go
Are you talking about the 2.5% they split with you or are there other ways to save with Redfin?
For the people here who say that the drones can't take down an airliner or a small Cessna how many lives are you willing to bet on it? The live of two people typical of a Cessna 172, the lives of a few hundred passengers in a Boeing 777? What we are forgetting is the human factors here too. It is not just a collision that might damage an engine, a wing, or a tail section. It is also the distraction the pilot now has to deal with very close to the ground. Now instead of paying attention to the landing and other aircraft the pilot has to figure out what was that noise that just collided with it. Especially under instrument meteorological conditions. In fact, FAA has regulations for airlines to have a sterile cockpit (100% concentration on the landing and no outside distractions) due to accidents that have happened and loss of life while pilots were distracted with other things even higher than the 400 ft.
Regexes are really easy in Ruby as well (which cribbed a lot from Perl). There's an OO syntax, but also support for the Perl built-ins so this works fine in Ruby:

print "match" if something =~ /thing/i

Captures with $1 etc. are there as are named captures using the same syntax in the regex.
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As someone from EU, if it was only NSA I would be mostly okay, but I can't trust NSA/USG to be competent enough to safeguard the private key controlling possible BitLocker backdoor from the Chinese and other governments running massive industrial espionage campaigns.
mst might speak for himself at another time, but i have a personal reason to post, so i will say this:

Please do not take this conversation as an affront and throw away what has so far come of it. It has shown you, and Ruby at large, an API that has been proven to be good and useful, and the Ruby community has come up with a way to implement it in a generalized way. I hope to someday be able to learn Ruby and use its OO with similar ease and pleasure as i can use the OO system in Perl 5. So please, do not throw this away. It is a valuable chance to do the same thing Perl has done so many times: Recognize something useful and make it your own.
There is a lot of research into traditional medicine. It's just that when any form is found effective it becomes just medicine. Uneffective ones stay in the realm of traditional medicine.

There was a quite nice editorial on the subject in Nature a while back http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7150/full/448106a...
:-) Is that wrong too?
There was a very interesting submission to HN on why code formatting utilities aren't easy things to write, [0] called, The Hardest Program I've Ever Written [1]

The code of Perl Tidy at least looks pretty good! [2]. Perhaps there's a reason why PPI isn't used, that I'm not famliar with, other than - as you say, it predates it. Perl::Critic uses PPI, yes?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195091

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

[2] https://metacpan.org/source/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20150815/lib/...
the pics are even more interesting: http://imgur.com/a/hLhBq
If you learn both by learning from a well-written book, then they are equally easy, though Perl, by its depth, might require a slightly bigger time investment.
Film: le soldat à l’honneur dans Maryland et Ni le ciel ni la terre
People don't want self-driving cars. People want to roam
the open range--its the American way. I doubt self-driving cars will ever become mainstream.
I was never particularly sold on MacBooks, probably because I was used to always building my own machines and the costs of MacBooks never felt like they were justified in any way regardless of pollish.

The Surface Book looks like the first laptop I've ever seen that makes me think it might be worth it and it may be one of the first laptops to ever have an upgradeable internal GPU since the base could be switched out if Microsoft decides to support that.
Microsoft, always half-baked.
What's Perl?
Gilad Is Right (Confessions from a Recovering Typoholic) (2006)
Whoa, awesome! And it's online for free too.

I've looked at the first chapter so far and I'm hooked.

I'm adding this to https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec :D
You'll get over cameras in the bathroom?

You should be able to collect any data you want, and use it however you want?

Why not start a business face-recognizing people who show up at battered women's shelters and selling access online for $50?

Or how about completely legally standing a public street and making notes of the schedules of when people are and are not home, and selling access to that to probable burglars, should that also be legal?

The use of information can and should be regulated. Everything from insider trading to medical privacy.
A Markov-powered mashup of Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails
Quackery. Evaluating the claims of quacks is very difficult, so you're better off just trusting your initial red flag heuristic judgement on this sort of thing.
A Vice article on it:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/atlas-hoods-weapons-smuggling...

It is basically a Russian foothold closer to Western Europe. The only reason that regime exists is because the Russian army is there.

It is a hub of human, weapons and drug trafficking and a nice place to hide if you want deal in shady things like that. Moldovan police can't go there and Russian police doesn't care.

Another article:

http://www.investigatii.md/eng/index.php?art=221
> The idea is treat it like a taxonomic model..

You are aware of Mitre's Common Weakness Enumeration, right?

https://cwe.mitre.org/
What is the one thing that could reverse an entrenched system, and how could you build a prototype in the least amount of time. Preferably, something people think is too much work, while it actually takes two days.
From your link calling me closed minded about my meal planning:

"people fall into a few habitual meals"

"choose the meals based on what you have"

Goes without saying that you're pretty much dead wrong.
on a mac.

SVG for sure, eg: http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html

I'm pretty sure other things as well including text and updating text in a text input element, though I haven't debugged the performance issues fully yet.
>...How about raising taxes for once? The US got out of its last major debt (ie: World War 2) by raising taxes on the highest bracket to 91%, and holding it there from 1940s through 1964.

This is misleading. The effective tax rates were roughly the same then as now - very, very few people paid those high rates. Instead a lot of effort went into hiding income, getting tax deductions made into law, getting compensation in forms other than taxable income, etc . (For example, this is why employer paid for health insurance came about.) There were people who weren't able to avoid the high rates, but it was a tiny percentage of revenue. These high rates distorted economic activity (and surely stopped some economic activity that would have happened).

The reason the US got out of WW II debt is that federal spending dropped dramatically after WW II and the US had the advantage of being the major industrialized country that wasn't attacked in WW II.

An intro to the topic:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ib_19.htm#.VhShIIShb...
This is probably the most interesting link in this entire thread.

The "react" keyword is just a channel subscription, and inside it has a pattern matcher. Channels are first-class citizens, and you're encouraged to chain channels rather than falling into callback hell. It's like Go and Ruby had a child.

If anything piqued my interest in Perl 6, it was this.
I think the concern here is what happens if someone finds your paper boarding pass and scans it.

That's less likely to happen with a boarding pass on your phone.

(though in general, the problem of airlines requiring very little information -- all of which is on the boarding pass -- to be able to access an itinerary and make changes or cancel it is somewhat well-known among frequent flyers)
I find asynchronous programming in Python (especially 3) tons of fun. Before 3, Tornado wasn't half bad either!
I'm weird and use the bluetooth version of the thinkpad keyboard with a trackpoint.. it's actually pretty nice
I'm not in systems so I can't really make claims to that. (Obviously you're right about my getting the containers history wrong.)

That said, spanner seems like it does what it needs to do far better than any academic system. For example. And there are many, many other academic pursuits that are totally ignored by industry.

This can't be just narrow mindedness -- if there was any utility in, say, most of the type theory that's directly pumped from academia into Haskell, startups would be using it. But they aren't. They're not using that, they're not using academic database concepts, they're not using anything from academia. And virtually everything academic is open sourced at some point, so it's not like that's an excuse.

(Are Plan 9 or Solaris academic systems? They're both the result of industrial R&D groups...)
Using State Machines to Build an Orderpath
Give us a flowchart of that process then!
We actually just posted a piece on monitoring vs. remediating about StackStorm, check it out guys, i think you may find it interesting and relevant. http://devops.com/2015/10/07/enough-monitoring-act/
Considering that France recently voted a law to make retroactively legal existing practices, I'd say this legal control is most often a farce (and it's not like the new law introduces strong judicial supervision, either).
Depends on the airline.

US-based airlines tend to require an actual password to access the account and see future flights, spend miles on redemptions, and so on (I have accounts, currently, with four different US-based carriers, and all of them require a password for account access).

The confirmation code and passenger name are enough to make changes to that reservation, though; if you know someone's code + name you can cancel the return segment of their journey, for example.

I'm wondering if the person being quoted was confused by seeing the return segments of a multi-segment trip (which are part of a single reservation, and would come up with just the information on the boarding pass), and thought it was actually full account access.
Diagrams, other visual and high level declarative programming are all readily grasped by non programmers. The full impact of their "program's" behaviour may not be. But since when has there never been a junior dev position who's work couldn't be made better by knowing more. The very notion of junior dev implies they have more to learn.
Probably the snark
Except that every single site with the tools to help businesses comply says it applies to all cookies.

Fun fact, the EU excluded "third-party social plug-in content-sharing", which are used for more tracking than any of the other cookies.
This would probably be useful.

http://oeis.org/
I hate to indulge this thread, but feel obligated to note that Half-Life 3 is still naught but a name.
"there are more women with college degrees than men"

Why does it matter if they have a college degree?
Wow. This is revolutionary.
At $3000 I expect a dedicated graphics option...
This is so very Perl. I guess this is Perls answer to list comprehensions.
Thanks for the links.

As the current de-facto maintainer of PPI, the answer is rather simple:

P::T predates PPI by almost two years: https://metacpan.org/source/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20021130/CHAN... https://metacpan.org/source/ADAMK/PPI-0.1/Changes

and:

For the longest time Perl was considered unparsable, primarily due to the two features of function parens being optional, and the argument-slurpiness of function calls being unknowable without introspecting the function reference that ends up being the final one, at runtime. In the most famous example this can lead to a / after a function call being considered either the division operator or the start of a regex; with both interpretations resulting in valid Perl code. It took a while for anyone to come up with a schema in which Perl could be parsed while also being round-trippable. It took PPI a while to get there and be stable, and meanwhile P::T had already become stable itself.
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Hm. Well, that renders instantly for me on intel hd 5000 + firefox 41.. compared to chrome on linux and it was identical to my eyes, but I haven't measured yet.
I was reading a whiskey connoisseurs' magazine of some sort at a friend's house. And they basically outlined how due to the popularity and profits involved. A lot of the "smaller" ("craft") distilleries are often trademarks bought by bigger companies from older distilleries that are long out of business. The booze is bought in large batches, relabeled, and resold.

Here is another article on it I found:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-...

I like this quote:

Breaker bourbon, the “first bourbon produced in Southern California since Prohibition.” [...] company behind the brand, Ascendant Spirits, wasn’t started until 2013. Yet, they brag their “ultra small batch bourbon” is aged 5 years. So how do you open a distillery one year and have 5- or 15-year-old whiskey to sell the next? Not by making it.

Reminds me of when recruiters ask for 5 years experience in a language or framework that has been out for less than 3 years.
I've heard rumors that they'll release some sorta spacer that will allow the pro 4 to work with the old docks.
Ruby and Python as "edgy"?

I wrote "slightly edgy", which obviously changes the meaning, or else you wouldn't have deleted a word. And yes, Python and Ruby are slightly edgy compared to, say, Java or C++.
I normally wouldn't do this: this comment needs more visibility. The avg. person just doesn't know this.
When virtually every dev not in gaming is using a Mac, which is the future, and which is the past?
Someone requires that all information be codified for his digestion in particular and gets crabby.

You probably cannot express your hatred because that'd require the writing skills you deride.
Wut? I just complimented the code you posted, and changed my mind from "the unconstructive guy upthread said trivial, which it isn't, but steve's been kind enough to give me enough information to see it's trivial if I write a port of CMM, and said port is basically identical rather than requiring the crappy alias approach".

I've genuinely no idea why you think I was being condescending.
Russian's have been doing this for years because fraudulent insurance claims, simple extortion and roadside robbery were too common.

People would literally jump in front of your car (usually in more or less a safe manner) even if it was in the middle of a red light slam on your hood and pretend that you hit them.

Then they will either threaten to sue and try to extort you or if you are dumb enough to get out under the wrong circumstances simply rob you.

But having a front and even back facing cameras isn't a bad idea, it makes insurance claims much easier - GL explaining that the idiot backed out into you and you didn't rear end them.

Wouldn't surprise me if insurance companies would start giving discounts on premiums for drivers with camera setup, and in a few years mandate a tamper proof always on camera for you to actually get insurance.
Fair point. Wayland promises to make this possible, but it's definitely not completely ready yet.
No idea why this is near the top of hackernews, but I've been there. One time when I was there, there was a huge billboard in front of the old ministry of culture with the (then) presidents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria smiling together. The local gag at the time was that this was the "Commonwealth of Unrecognized States" - meanwhile Putin was meeting the Commonwealth of Independent States in Chisnau. [1]

Far be it from me to attempt to summarize a nation in a few sentences, but one would be remiss without following up that article by saying the obvious.... Transnistria is a place run by gangsters. The hammer and sickle are printed on their money to appeal to the old folks who long for the days of Soviet protection, meanwhile everything is for sale - including people. This is a hub for the trafficking of everything.

I don't say this out of love for the state it broke away from, Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, the last communist country in Europe, which has all of the same problems at a different scale.

p.s. no need for endless paperwork - fifteen euros to the border guards will secure your entry no matter where you come from.

[1] http://imgur.com/8wf688Y

edited to change: I wrote "fifty" euros when I meant "fifteen" - I probably overpaid, but not by that much!!
It sounds like pretty much everyone working on these thinks it's commercially viable tech in less than 5 years.

So massive disruption in 5-8 years? It's the kind of technology that will move very quickly once it works and the initial social/legal factors are dealt with. The benefits are too strong for it not to.
Yeah, I know someone who had a consulting job for some obscure IBM mainframe "thing" and she basically got to do whatever she wanted with an amazing salary because she was one of 3 people in the world who knew anything about it.
That source is nowhere near as informative.
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