skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can one not see how much bullshit that is?

The very same program in European Union is called "Innovative Economy Programme" (website of it's Poland implementation):

http://www.poig.2007-2013.gov.pl/english/Strony/Introduction...

It was just one huge fraud-fest. You apply for a grant, making something completely useless, but with enough bullshit, that government minion can't tell. You make it "online" (a website), so it's "innovative". Bullshiting the grant is the hardest part - takes time, and creativity to write a good bullshit story. But! there are whole companies that do it for your, with a lot of experience how to bullshit government. Typical examples of projects are: social website for cat owners, something for e-commerce. Essentially just simple PHP websites with fancy names, and jargon to confuse the government.

You get free money ($50k and more), you buy yourself TV, new PC, HD projector, and all the stuff you want. You put it into company expenses, but use to play games in your free time. You hire a CS student to make the actual website for like $1000. You pay yourself a nice salary for "maintenance" and fake statistics of usage. After 5 years, when the government is off your back, you close the "company".

Or you have your normal company, you open a "fake one" with a grant, and suck all the resources into your normal company, keeping the fake company afloat for just couple of years to close it eventually due to lack of profitability.

It's not even hard to cheat like this, as government does not care. They want the stats to look good, so they can pretend like they're "helping the economy". Last thing they want is the stupidity of such program to be exposed. There are other programs: for mothers returning to workforce, for people with disabilities, etc. etc. And there are all just one big transfer of public money to fraudsters.

So yeah, I'm sure in Nigeria it was sooo much different... and it really boosted the economy. Now, back to email conversation with Nigerian prince that wants to share some inheritance with me...
To me it's not a question of CPU power, but form factor and user experience. Hybrids have for me two big drawbacks --- and it's really subjective:

- I like small tablets and larger laptops (13.3 min, 14 prefered). So an hybrid is either a too big tablet or a too little PC, often both;

- hybrids are top-heavy, and I don't like having an hinge. I really want a LAP-top, and a ultrabook is perfect for this. An hybrid, not so much (I've heard about "lapability", not convinced ;).

Both are intrinsic trade-offs of hybrids. So I stick to small tablets + 14" ultrabook, and just don't bother with hybrids. But to each its own.
Heh, I think reusing old parts to make new phones is quite ingenious. Good for the environment, too :-)
The design reminds me of my 2005 plastic iBook for some reason. And I totally mean this as a compliment. Probably the best device I've ever owned (adjusting for contemporary tech).
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The server can store the salt and parameters, although it gets really hairy if you decide that MD5 is too weak and now you want to upgrade to SHA-1 or SHA-256.
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It astonishes me how much people are resistant to the fact that chronic pain is caused by lifestyles and can often be cured quite quickly by simple methods.

For instance, McKenzie found that about 80% of back pain can be cured by simply putting the back into extension instead of flexion. Unfortunately if you go see a doc for back pain your odds are less than 40% that you will get this treatment.

Similarly a lot of neck pain is caused by overuse of the neck muscles because your posture is screwed up and you are continuously working the muscles to keep the head position. Any kind of strengthening and stretching exercises will make things worse (McKenzie advocates these and they don't work)

Do some exercises on the back and hips for two weeks that will realign your posture so that you keep your neck up without effort and the pain will usually diminish in one or two weeks.

Unfortunately Harvard or other doctors don't get funded to study things like this and get them to the people, instead they get funding for something like this which will launch a $5B research program, than a very expensive drug you will see advertised on TV and then in a few months you will see TV ads from ambulance chasing lawyers.
Mars may sound not very fun, but I'll argue it's better than big parts of Russia or Canada.
And those are habitable. Not many people live there, but they do.

Mars has no air. That's downside.

But there's no snow to block your roads and no rain to turn them to mud. Then there's no permafrost to make ground undiggable. That's tremendous upside for e.g. mining operations.

There's no rivers, lakes or forests. There's probably some rough terrain and canyons, but you may build bridges that'll last long.

Whatever you build on Mars, stays on Mars. Whatever you build in the far north, detoriates rapidly.
I have first hand experience of raising a child with Autism and with ABA therapy.

The myth element dealing with ABA is a bit strange. The first statement seems focused on the prohibitive nature due to the commitment. Then it points out the implementation as being a form of abuse and lastly hints of discrediting the practice on the whole. Not sure what part is myth here...

I am not an expert but I know how it's worked for my kid and several other families. It's my understanding that Lovaas and early practitioners of ABA were much more strict in their approach. Children were made to sit for long periods through repetition and there was an element of "correcting" that could include a slap or stern language. From my understanding and experience this is just not the case anymore. ABA has adopted a lot of the methodology of other treatments such as floortime where the session is a play environment. There are discrete trials and it's still very data driven but it's structured into activities that the child (or adult) are motivated by. If ever my child was not enjoying their time or was being "abused" in any fashion we would be the first to stop the therapy.

We've encountered a number of older adults who work with children who are horrified that we chose to go with ABA as treatment. Their views are largely based on decades old information of the implementation. We've had those same people sit in on sessions and by the end they are taking notes and asking questions about ABA.

We do 20+ hours a week. It's intense but the intensity level is governed by my child's enthusiasm and willingness. If you have an ABA provider who is punishing, pushing or not creating a fun and loving atmosphere for your child then please speak with someone else (though I know this is not the case for vast majority of people).
Is that also what Amazon uses for CloudFront?
Can you get out of that role?

You said "Lack of a real challenge". Can you go to your supervisor/manager/boss and say, "Look, I'm ready for more of a challenge. Got anything harder I could work on?"
Looks like it's a Wordpress blog: http://upvoted.com/wp-admin
You really thank Hank was that petty, knowing what was at stake?
Well the keyboard is in the stand, part of the battery is probably in the stand, all of the ports are in the stand, the dedicated GPU is in the stand, plus the stand actually lays flat while the screen is mostly upright so in any normal position the stand could only be a fraction of the screen and still not cause it to topple right? I guess the combination of all of that and perhaps a little extra counterweight if necessary makes it work out okay.

A quick comparison, Microsoft cites 1.6 pounds as the weight. I'm assuming it's the screen only as the Surface 4 Pro (the tablet computer) alone is 1.73 pounds, and the Macbook Pro is 3.48 pounds. If the stand held the GPU, a battery pack, keyboard (and possible counterweights) and weighed as much as the screen, it'd be 3.2 pounds and still a fair bit lighter than the MBP.
> At my org we've been trying to move towards an oss style pull request flow for tools and infrastructure projects but meeting a little resistance because "not enterprise."

I'd love to know what 'because "not enterprise"' means in your case. Resistance to a model without exclusive locks? Resistance to a non-centralized model? Support questions?
generally with standard drivers you should be able to configure the click mode. I don't know about HP in particular though.
From the defensive side, WAFs can be quite helpful for alerting. It's detection, typically not prevention (against a dedicated attacker at least), but it helps.
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I know it's the huffingtonpost but this article speaks to that pretty well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-zampino/is-autism-the-r...
With some background: http://avc.com/2015/10/aid-refugees/
> Surface Book looks neat but is it an admission that the Surface Pro and its flexible keyboard, kickstand, etc. perhaps aren't the best design?

Seems to me its an expression of the basic fact known to everyone (well, except Apple for a while, but even they've mostly come around to it) that there is no one "best design" for all users and uses, and that different users (and even the same user for different uses) have different needs and preferences resulting in different "best designs".
> $5 per web ACL per month.

Really?

> Limits:

> Web ACLs per AWS account: 10

> Rules per AWS account: 50

> Conditions per AWS account: 50

> IP address ranges (in CIDR notation) per IP match condition: 1000

Huh? Is this really intended for production, with such low arbitrary limits?
You missed the part about sponsorship being part of the curation.
Hmmm while I broadly agree with your sentiment I could argue your point on Darwinian principles (-:
Email itself is salt (or rather public part of passphrase). So from email+passphrase encryptionKey is derived using scrypt. So it's actually sha(scrypt(email+passphrase))
Yep, a flyover of populated areas is avoided with an offshore lz/barge.
I drooled when I saw it but I don't think I can justify a nearly $2k price tag. 128 GB isn't enough and I'd like the detachable GPU, which puts it at:

- 256GB/i5/8GB/dGPU: $1899
1. no, he likes this guy
2. no, your mgr will be upset going over his head
3. definitely not, you'll be the bad guy
4. no, stick it out
5. yes, try to expect this behavior out of him maybe it won't bother you so much, not the best team player but sounds like he can't change even when counseled by your mgr. Maybe try to take more of a lead congratulating other team members when things go well and helping them learn from mistakes when things do not. Maybe he'll see this and follow your leadership.
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Thank god. There are too many third party WAFs that drop SSL connections and Amazon does not support those.
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Data encryption on the client side is one of the 5 features. See https://github.com/rahvee/CBcrypt and the "Tech Details Video".

"Users are able to login to servers, and encrypt all their data, without ever exposing their password or encryption keys to the server."

"And if the user's data on the compromised server is encrypted using the user's keypair, then even the users' data is still protected."
One thing I wish he'd stressed more: there's almost always a big gap between the research that's published (and any software used to produce it) and being useful in a team's real-world environments. For software engineering tools, for example, researchers tend not to put a lot of time into instalability, integration into teams' toolchains and processes, usability, or clarity of error messages ... to say nothing of performance and scalability -- you don't need any of those things to publish the paper.

Of course there are exceptions, and I don't mean this as a criticism of the researchers. It's just that there's a lot of work involved in "tech transfer", and it's often hard to justify the investment -- especially for a relatively-small team. Microsoft and Google and Facebook all have plenty of people doing various forms of "applied research" to bridging that gap; but they've got the resources to do it.
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Looks like a "No".

It also doesn't instill confidence when somebody talks about "encrypting" passwords rather than hashing them.
Yeah that sounds comparatively exorbitant to me. It's not exactly "only pay for what you use" in the sense they normally apply it. I was expecting $0.0000x per request or something...
This sounds like ModSecurity - AWS style. The problem with WAF has always been ensuring you have a good ruleset. You need to be extremely careful with aggressive rules or you can break your application in area's you don't expect. It takes lots and lots of trial and error writing out a safe ruleset that doesn't break stuff. I wonder what the cycle would look like trying to get this right on AWS?

One area I can see this being used for my purposes right now is to limit URL patterns down to IP restrictions for /admin type area's on a web app.
This means this can be done A) Outside of app source code and B) without having to do any fancy reverse proxy work and setup of subdomains.
People like Box have done a lot toward streamlining it - part of the stuff can be done electronically. Not all, but much of the pre-closing stuff. It's progress, but there's still more to do.
> Also, it seems like a BuzzFeed clone, which Redditors despise.

I'll stipulate that some redditors despise buzzfeed, but the population of users is too big for you to be that assertive. I bet you despise it, though, and decided that you are the protoredditor. Am I right?
I was hoping you could bend the screen all the way back but I guess that'd make the tablet too heavy?
Wow, downvotes? What happened to this place?
Don't be. You can just use the intel driver and use the NVIDIA GPU for compute purposes only. All of this can be achieved WITHOUT hybrid graphics on Linux.
Interesting. The general consensus I get when talking to people, especially devs, is that it's about apple's quality of hardware.
You can put you entire application in front of Cloudfront.
Instead of releasing things every month, they should start supporting all regions especially the EU should have more support like all services inside EU Frankfurt since with the court order of the european's it would greatly help to satisfy everybody.
You can just invert the screen and bend it over the stand. I'm guessing the problem would have been making the hinge solid and rigid enough more than a weight problem.
Isn't this basically what Kerberos does?
With AWS WAF you pay only for what you use. AWS WAF pricing is based on how many rules you deploy and how many web requests your web application receives. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.

Does this mean the amount would increase exponentially during a DDOS attack? Could I sink my theoretical competitor into bankruptcy if I know they are an AWS WAF client simply by DDOSing them?
And before SRP there was EKE. I thought the main reason it never saw wider use was because it was patented. Although according to Wikipedia, those patents expired in 2011 and 2013.
It's $0.60 per 1M requests in addition to the $5 arbitrary pricing.
How keyczar could be compared with the Bouncy Castle we JVM guys stuck for years? Was it reviewed by credible cryptographers?
Git blame will often get the guy who fixed a spelling mistake in a variable, not the guy before him who wrote the code.
At my previous company I remember some devs got fed up with things and jumped ship for Amazon. After about 6 months only one was still there.
There was New Yorker article about.

I think this one:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/21/eight-days
You're right, the leagues aren't huge fans of sportsbooks, but that's only the official gambling that is going on. There's at least twice as much happening offshore and unofficially.
Wait, even as a non-citizen you have to report and pay taxes on income earned outside the US if you earn any income in the US?
More like slightly more difficult and not likely to happen by accident. Which is still an improvement.
You're still ignoring the role of money here. Yes, there are a lot of elections, and in every election, the amount of money a candidate is able to spend is a huge influencing factor on whether they can beat their opponents. This is also true in primaries, and in state legislature elections, and governor's races, and everywhere else. If you can't buy advertising to get in front of people, you can't get name recognition, which means you don't poll well, which means the media won't cover you, and nobody will think of you when it comes time for them to vote. It's all very straightforward.
Also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-s-greenspan/autism-concep...
What you got to what a set up for why that view ("seems") was wrong.

You wrote "Ads have been around forever"

A few paragraph later, which you didn't get to, the author says:

> This is both a new crisis and an old one. When television began, it was a live medium. Replicating radio, it was not merely supported by admen; it was run by them. In TV’s early years, there were no showrunners: the person with ultimate authority was the product representative, the guy from Lysol or Lucky Strike. Beneath that man (always a man) was a network exec. ...

> Advertisements shaped everything about early television programs, including their length and structure, with clear acts to provide logical inlets for ads to appear."

ending up with:

> This sponsor-down model held until the late fifties, around the time that the quiz-show scandals traumatized viewers: producers, in their quest to please ad reps, had cheated. Both economic pressures and the public mood contributed to increased creative control by networks, as the old one-sponsor model dissolved.

You write: "Subscription revenue has been around for at least twenty years."

The author's starting point is from before pay cable. ("Then came pay cable, the VCR, the DVD, the DVR, and the Internet".) As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United... point out, that was nominally the late 1940s, but 'Original programming over cable came in 1972 with deregulation of the industry.'
Thanks for sharing your experience! Genuinely curious (since I know a bit about them) why you went/stayed with ABA if the main positives and advances were adopted from DIR Floortime, etc. Why not go with Floortime?
THAT is what I've been waiting for, on all fronts. On top of everything else, run Ubuntu VM's on the phone (if and when possible), Surface 4 and Surface Book and you now have the best of both worlds.

We run various Windows-native engineering tools (CAD, CAM, EDA, FEA, etc.) yet do a lot of software development under Linux (by running VM's on all of our Windows desktops and laptops).

I can imagine popping an SD card into a phone and plugging it into a projector at a client's office to review a SolidWorks design. I know that's not possible today due to the SnapDragon processor but it isn't too far fetched to suggest companies like DS might very well consider at the very least having viewers and other tools available for the phones in the future. It makes total sense.

Microsoft is taking this in exactly the right direction. From user-accessible non-proprietary I/O to file system access on the phone and multi-user capabilities on the Surface devices. Everything is just right.

Sorry Apple. If reviews are good we are dumping our iPhones for MS Phones by the end of the year. Not upgrading to any of your new closed hardware and OS's. We are done. Bye bye.

I really like the energy I am seeing coming out of Microsoft.

There's only one thing missing from that presentation: Microsoft TV. You know that's got to be in the works.
An HR hack is very serious because it shows who to spearphish/blackmail/hack to gain further access.
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It might not be the only country, but such taxation practice is definitely not the norm.

Unfortunately, there's little chance of normalizing the laws with international custom, since I can already see the attack ads about tax breaks for the wealthy.
that's only prevention.
If you need more they will raise it to a lot. currently AWS SMS has a really low email sending limit too, like 5mails/s however if you ask for a raise they raise that too something like 100.000mails/s.
"""holographic computing"""

Pretty sure they don't use any holographic technology and it's "just standard AR".
US only...meh. There also doesn't seem to be any university licensing program. Could be done quite a bit better.
I understand the issues very, very well. I have student loans and grew up in the current generation. I'd benefit substantially. I don't like the idea of it (unless it came with compensation for those who did pay theirs off, even if it's less compensation - maybe some kind of tax credit?), but I agree that we're getting closer and closer to the point where the issues with forgiveness are simply overwhelmed.
A site on AWS is already paying per-request or per-GB for instance count, load balancing, data transfer, etc. Adding the WAF would reduce the cost of a DDOS by discarding requests at the edge, before they can generate additional compute, IO and data transfer costs for your backend.
> Yes, it's a concern that the Internet won't be global anymore, but it never really was.

So we're willing to throw all this interconnection away, the one thing that made the internet the place it is? The interconnected nature of the internet is what made me the person I am today. I have more friends from other countries than I have friends from my own and from my friendship circles I know I'm not the only one.
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I think its a chicken and egg problem: very few services use it, so no browser vendor cares to improve the UX; and the UX sucks, so very few services choose to use it.

It probably won't ever change unless one of the browser vendors that is also an vendor of popular online services decides that it would be good to enable it in its own services, and picks up the cost of upgrading its own UX to support that (creating pressure on other browser vendors, while also lowering the barrier for other online services.)

The problem is that all of the browser vendors that could do it are pushing their own, online authentications schemes, and have no interest in client-based authentication.
The comparison table ( https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle#comparison-t... ) includes a bunch of common, but under powered platforms (Arduino, RPi, BBB). It should really be compared against higher-powered FPGA-based platforms like the Numato Opsis.
Yeah... I really want the i7 with 16GB RAM but there's no way I can pay for it.
Microsoft doesn't need an cult of personality or any of the shallow smoke and mirrors sales tactics that Apple utilizes. They made it to greatness without that bullshit.
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I don't know when you last worked with Tcl, but it's got lists (as always), dictionaries, and integrated first-class object system (after years of various extensions). Also, if it's an option, punting structures to C can be nice to organize data.

Re: abandoned applets - some see that as dodging a bullet. If it became a Big Deal in the browser, it arguably could have cemented itself into the form it had at that time, because of maintaining compatibility for that audience. It's a thought exercise I haven't completely thought through, to be honest, which just occurred to me because Tcl has done a tremendous job being true to itself anyway, and has a great amount of compatibility with historic versions of itself.

Anyway, now I'm off to look at slide rules ;)