skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually I would not recommend a podcast, however this podcast goes threw the Battle of Britan in extrem detail comparing gains and loses for every single day (!).

http://worldwariipodcast.net/

If you want a book, this is a good start: http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Britain-Roy-Conyers-Nesbit/dp/0...
I was skeptical, but it really works. It is going to help a lot of folks with content marketing.
>Real estate is utterly insane. I cannot even comprehend how it can possibly be so high. How can you have a market for real estate at these prices? Who's buying it and what parallel universe of limitless wealth do they come from?

From what I've read, the wealthy across the globe, especially from corrupt or unstable countries, are parking their money in stable Western real-estate. Some of it they proceed to rent out.

Anglo countries are particularly vulnerable since their real-estate taxation regimes hit buildings and improvements so heavily compared to raw land-value.
Well, they offer liquidity. I keep one for emergency living expenses; there's no real advantage over leaving it in checking, I guess, other than as a unit of organization, to explicitly mark it as "emergency funds".
How about a startup research incubator lab?
Ahh, I see. I misunderstood.
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This is what I was wondering. I assume they mean liquid savings. I rarely have any liquid savings but I have 40k in various retirement funds.
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I love the immediate feedback and the ease with which you can layout views in the IB, but it can be a nightmare for teams. Any time a storyboard is touched, the file is updated in some way. The diffs are large and unintuitive, and merging is tedious. If Apple wants to continue to push the IB, they need to make it more compatible with teams and source control.
Because Google does a horrible job when you need a business in a rural area. It gives businesses hundreds of miles away first. The yellow pages still have its uses.

Heck, Apple and Siri are worse. Whoever did the location part of maps missed a lot.
I love when you do a search for a service (like a Plumber) "in your area" and the first result is some bozo who paid extra for higher listings but is 100 miles away. And of course the ad doesn't tell you where he is, so you get to call and find out that they aren't going to drive that far to fix a leak.
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I aced my criminal procedure and criminal law courses in law school and defended a few dozen accused criminals in federal and state courts. To be blunt, I don't see how anyone could possibly learn the law of self-incrimination from this chart. It's way too confusing. Maybe a Tufte acolyte could redesign it.

If you want to learn the basics of self-incrimination law, check out these two lectures from FLETC (with transcripts!):
1. https://www.fletc.gov/audio/miranda-5th-amendment-mp3
2. https://www.fletc.gov/audio/miranda-waivers-and-invocations-...

Then, read the self-incrimination chapters in the book Examples and Explanations: Criminal Procedure (The Constitution and Police). http://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanation-Procedure-Constit...

Tada. You now know more about self-incrimination than 95% of practicing lawyers.

Separately, the lawyers at FLETC deserve real praise for their lectures. They're clear and succinct when so much legal education is muddled nonsense. Listening to their Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) lectures before my 1L Constitutional criminal procedure exam was revelatory. https://www.fletc.gov/4th-amendment-roadmap
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An interesting approach to framing the different avenues. I have experience with some Post Docs but limited exposure to the cohort of Data Scientists. Therefore, one of my questions regarding the spike in time spent on "analysis and learning" is with respect to the population within each sphere. As in, I wonder if in the Data Science position there are fewer Data Scientists "on task" than in Academia environment, where if there are more Experimental Neuroscientist Post Docs, then the "on task" time would be (naturally?) more stratified. Or, in simpler terms, being 1 of X versus 1 of Y might have a material impact?
Yes. If you are able to construct P1 such that SHA1(P1) = IV1 and P2 s.t. SHA1(P2) = IV2, then

SHA1(P1 + padding(P1) + M1) = SHA1(P2 + padding(P2) + M2) = f020486f071bf11053547a86f4a7153b3c950f4b

where padding(M) is the padding appended to message M as the first step of computing SHA1.

(edit: clarified padding)
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I don't see how "literary circles" should be criticized for choosing works that they believe have merit in their own field. Nobody was up in arms earlier about the chemistry award going to people who weren't "household names" - other than the Peace prize, the odds that anyone who wins a Nobel this year will have a bigger public profile than Alexievich are slim to none.
I'd be surprised if it's just savings percentage driving this.

As tech workers we're a bit more privileged in that we have access to salaries and opportunities that a lot of America doesn't have.

Less than 6 years ago I was very much in that 62% category as high cost of living was eating into our combined paycheck pretty heavily.
That's interesting. Any references about this? What about ARM CPUs?
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Thanks for answering.

So the movie I wanted to see is currently available in another country or has been available in mine but not now. The UI could be tweaked to explain that and not (negatively) surprise customers but it seems that you already know that. Probably you have plans to improve it.

Your approach is similar to TV, a list of programs to choose from but not the full catalog. Given these terms I'm not sure I'll ever be a customer but this business model seems to be serving you well so I can hardly criticize it.
I'm not familiar with the tool, but why not use Hyper-V and install your favorite *nix?

I'm certainly intrigued as you.
Have you ever considered talking to your neighbors?
We ran it on access points, switches, and a firewalls. We found it was pretty good to a certain extent, but was hard to scale with multiple cores.
Thanks. I do feel spurned, which is why I'm asking the question here -- to hear some non-partial perspectives.

There was an agreement by email though (the second email shown in the post).
Awesome job, it's inspired me to organize our own handbook similarly

There is some really great content in here; the concepts collected in "Transparency" are second nature to me, but I've come to realize need to be spelled out -- especially for folks coming from different employment background. Great job all around.
I've wondered about filing a criminal complaint against them, if I could find out who is doing the delivery.
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Never seen this library before but it looks very cool. Could be a great middle ground between laying out views with visual format and storyboards.
Also, the article title is very different than the actual survey question:

> How much money do you have saved your savings account?

That's a very specific question. A person with $5k in their checking account or a person with $100k in a retirement account might still answer that they have no savings.
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I wonder how hard it would be to build a nice diff tool for IB files. If you could (semi) visually view the changes in a meaningful way, maybe a lot of this would be helped. Conflicts would still be hard to merge, but maybe something could be done about that as well.
It is worth noting that these statistics never take into account people's retirement funds. The survey also does not ask how much people have saved, but rather how much they have in their Savings Account. Many people keep all of their money in a checking account. Hence 1 in 5 people saying they don't even have a savings account. This is a rather misleading statistic overall. But yes, most Americans do not save. They have absolutely no education when it comes to personal finance, and feel absolutely no responsibility to educate themselves. They honestly think they can figure out their budgets on their own. This is shown by a lot of other similar statistics as well as many books on personal finance. The reality is we live in a debt culture. Most people do not understand why savings is necessary not optional. When shit happens, they just think, "There's no way I could have prepared for that." But the reality is that shit always happens. That's the whole purpose of saving.
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I left because of all the down time. It was crushing. They didn't even try to make busy work - they just pretended everything was fine.
...module that relies on specific undefined behavior...

You call Perl 5's use of reference counting "undefined behavior"?

It has been documented behavior for as long as Perl 5 has existed. The resulting destruction mechanics have been relied on by the core module http://perldoc.perl.org/SelectSaver.html for the same time. Furthermore any interesting XS program is likely to make use of the relevant macros SVREFCNT_int and SVREFCNT_dec.

Therefore this is NOT something that can be changed in a point release. It is a fundamental part of how Perl 5 works. And the fact that it is a fundamental incompatibility with Perl 6 plans is something that people have been aware of for a decade.
Hey, just had a go at this for five minutes, and here's what I thought. I'm probably not your 'target customer', but here's my feedback anyway!

First impression: I'm not really sure what the site does.

The first thing I see is the logo, and I don't really know what 'Write better content' means. It's too vague.

I'm then asked to 'Enter three keywords for better content creation'. I still don't know what this means, or why I'm doing this, but I do it anyway, because I want to see what happens.

I searched for 'free online education', at which point it spent a bit of time loading, before coming up with ideas for blog posts (I think!). However, some of these were a bit nonsensical, e.g. 'Whose the inclusion of links to items do not reflect their importance', 'May students also search for courses by subject, language, and institution?', 'Did a few other universities offer online textbooks?'

Conclusion: I don't mind that the algorithm is a bit iffy at the moment, becuase some of the ideas for blog posts were fairly sensible. But the messaging on the site is unclear.

Just my opinion, of course -- and one that doesn't seem to be shared by others here!
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What if a crazed meth head is kicking in my front door and is holding a knife?

This isn't a hypothetical and happened to me 15 years ago. I yelled I had a gun and would shoot him if he came through. He kicked a few more times then ran away.

The cops didn't show up for 17 more minutes.
I would love to see Amazon working into the documentation and usability of their existing products instead of create new ones.
The BBC is funded by a government tax on TVs [1], and to an outsider this looks an awful lot like government funding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
I'll bet a lot of people have money elsewhere. However, I have a lot of friends who are poor (by that I mean that they qualify for food stamps), and it's amazing to see the way they spend money. When I was poor I bought the very cheapest shampoo ($1) and bought generic everything. The poor people I know now buy name-brand products and buy a ton of Christmas and birthday presents. My husband and I have savings but we don't do any of these things!
Presumably smart-device companies. I think the main offering here is the secure communications API. Companies who know how to build interesting hardware often aren't security experts.

Wifi connected televisions, for example, are often very poorly secured. Of course, it's not the end of the world if someone powers off your TV remotely or changes the channel.

But with internet connected devices becoming commonplace (the example they use on the page is a thermostat), security becomes more and more important. I would rather not have a hacker set my thermostat to 30C (85F) while I'm on a winter vacation. Or turn my stove on. Etc.
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A farmer who strives for self-sustainability will not need Internet access for comfortable life. But a poor person living in a city - trying to escape poverty by getting closer with society, not further from it - might find it pretty useful. Such people often spend big amounts of time dealing with government institutions, trying to enroll and stay enrolled in the local welfare and jobs programmes - in some countries having Internet access can significantly speed up/streamline this process.

In general, a lot of extremely poor people in urban areas suffer more from the lack of predictable time slots than lack of money. When doing multiple temporary jobs with flexible hours, adjusted at a moment's notice, you can't really plan anything ahead. You barely have enough time to do groceries, let alone pick a shop that has a given item cheaper, and forget about any service that requires an appointment. Internet access solves a lot of these issues by allowing you to do things a) at random hours, and b) without having to physicly go somewhere.

Also on-line ordering usually gives you cheaper everything; hell, even groceries may be worth getting delivered if it frees up a time slot during the day that could be better spent taking care of something else, or even playing with one's kid.

Then there are things like Craigslist and other benefits of instant, pretty much free long-distance communication. One could list on and on. But the main point is - in all but the few least developed countries, Internet access can give huge quality of life improvements to the poor.
As others are pointing out it is a totally meaningless survey. They asked, "How much money do you have saved in your savings account?".

Many people will only keep a small emergency fund in cash plus some money in a checking account and have everything else invested. Do those investment accounts and retirement accounts qualify as "savings accounts"? Probably not if people are reading the question literally.
Ken has a post about it as well:

https://popehat.com/2015/10/08/bad-reporting-on-matthew-keys...
Typical "follow, not lead" mentality from Mozilla. Anybody who remembers the very early days of the project, back when releases were named M1, M2 and so on, will remember the many fights over various aspects of the browser that ended with "We must do this because Internet Explorer does it" or "We can't do that because Internet Explorer doesn't do that."

Now, in 2015, it's more of the same, following Google Chrome instead of having a vision, sticking to it, and just implementing it.

Plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security incidents for Web users.

They're also a source of cutting-edge and/or specialized functionality that isn't part of the browser and may never be.

Websites and publishers which currently use plugins such as Silverlight or Java should accelerate their transition to Web technologies

I'm having a hard time coming up with a definition of "web technology" that doesn't include Java, outside of "things that are baked into the browser out the box" which is awfully narrow.

The Web platform is powerful and can usually do everything that a plugin can do. In the rare cases where a site needs to extend Web technologies, the recommended solution is to develop the additional features as a Firefox add-on.

Why should it be rare? Innovation will always outrace the ability (or willingness) of browser vendors to incorporate new technologies. I mean, there's a reason plugins exist and I don't see that anything has changed to negate that. They're a place to try out new stuff, or things that aren't widely used enough (or supported by a company with enough money) to get incorporated into the browsers.

OTOH, maybe this is a win. We need to get away from this whole "The browser is a poor man's operating system" model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then hand off to specialized programs when we want to do something outside that paradigm. In this regard, JWS is a great approach that should probably be more widely used.
Assume all demographics produce the same distribution of bridge quality. Under the historical discrimination regime, we've been taking all the majority-designed bridges simply because they were majority-designed, including the bad ones. Obviously this is bad, and should be rectified.

Parent and I argue that automatically taking a minority-designed bridge is equally bad, because it's equally likely to lead to a faulty bridge. Bridges should be evaluated according to their quality/safety independent of who designed them.
Well, I think it's relevant to consider that any type of investment vehicle outside of an insured savings account is subject to risk. Of course there are varying risk profiles, but in cold, hard terms an insured savings account (FDIC) is, conceptually, a secure store of funds. No downside risk and access without penalty to 100% of funds is something I don't think many investment vehicles can claim.
I don't know - the claim could be made the modern "bread and circuses" (TV, Internet, etc.) are causing the downfall of America.
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These past two days has been a crazy barrage of Amazon products. Way to ship, especially after all the hard work articles about them recently.
First: I agree that the police are, in too many ways, broken.

But you said, "Why would I approve of, say, the LAPD any more than I would approve of the MVSN?" My reply is that you would approve of the LAPD and not the MVSN, because despite the brokenness, the LAPD is still a net positive, and the MVSN were not.
An common architecture for IoT is to have sensors/actuators talking to a MQTT server (a message queue). Then processing it with some rules or exposing it as a REST API. This should enable all those things as SaaS. I guess the biggest change is the MQTT server and a rules engine
That you were being sarcastic seemed pretty likely, I continue not to be able to make much sense of it (if the comment is self serving, it is as political grandstanding, it is clearly not critical of the journalism).
Tried 'waterless car wash', and got some incoherent and grammatically erroneous results like:

- Which organization will make their car look?

- Did dry Wash help someone to clean their car without using water?

- Explore what sort of organization green Shine is?

- Explain how Eco Auto Clean is back at it Again Hey there waterless car wash fans.

I'm guessing its using NLP and some knowledge graph and picking top terms. But still needs work.
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One thing that really irritates me about the anti-gun-control crowd is that idea, "if you ban guns, criminals will ignore the ban, because they are criminals and criminals ignore laws."

People who break one law will still obey countless others. It's also totally reasonable to think that someone who engaged in some kind of petty larceny would readily obey gun-restriction laws--why wouldn't they?

This whole "gun control won't work because criminals ignore laws" thing always struck me as a nasty piece of nonsequitor logic and identity politics, a way to "other" a group of people (i.e. more people who live in some counterculture way than people who have actually broken some law) as wild or deranged Hollywood-esque marauders, or a way to invent a bogeyman threat that only guns (in the hands of the so-called "good guys") can stop.
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A lot of people get into the dangerous mentality that since the interest rates are not high that it somehow makes saving not a good idea, similar to many people in our industry who won't max out their 401k simply because the employer does not fully match.

With regards to savings and lack thereof, regardless of salary. Far too many people excuse themselves from budgeting because they believe they are stretched too far to benefit. Yet the primary benefit of a budget is to understand where all your money is going, from major bills to day to day expenses; which can be a simple as that morning coffee or a pack of gum.

Knowing where your money is going is the first step to getting yourself out of debt and a bad situation.
You can trade equity options and gain or lose far more than 30% in well under 90 days.

The problem with Bitcoin is liquidity and market depth. Even if you're a small-time trader, there are better trading markets to focus your time and energy on.

Regarding the random currencies I mentioned in jest: I was making the point that any obscure currency or security is just about as interesting as Bitcoin.
Here's an alternative that I've worked on:

https://neonto.com

Neonto Studio generates native iOS and Android code from visual layouts. You get full Xcode / Android Studio project files, ready to run.

It helps avoid IB-style merge conflicts because the visual layout is kept entirely separate from the Xcode project. Changes made by the designer won't mess with the main repo. When it's time to bring them together, you export from Neonto Studio and merge the generated classes with any changes in the mainline Xcode project. Since the Neonto-originated UI is code, git branches + git merge works well for this.
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Very good point, and you see America not paying attention to that today.
"This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason," - I'm not buying it. What would be their motive compared say to VW's motive? VW has a heck of a lot more motive for falsifying emissions than do "a couple of software engineers." Even if you were to argue the engineers were somehow fearful for their jobs that's still VW's problem because they're the ones who created that work environment instilling that fear.

I really expected VW to do better in handling this. Some business analysts are saying VW may be out of business within five years time. Based off this testimony I say good riddance.
That's not necessarily the aspect I was thinking of when I wrote my post. Surely, guns and encryption are different in their function... but who gets to use them is the more interesting point.

Try this on for size. In a post talking about our inability to analyze the potential abuse of deadly force by police, we're talking about surrendering the use of deadly force... ...to the police.
There's something to be said for having cash available - here and there, opportunities pop up for me that I can take advantage of. For example, recently I lent money at very high interest, short-term. If I suddenly get interested in prototyping electronics I won't even hesitate to buy an Arduino, sensors, and a few books. Little bits of cash is useful to "try things out."

Plus there's the "better sleep at night" factor.

People with little to no cash won't likely consider these things. Having that cash won't likely give you any good return, but there's the "freeing up your mind", "capitalizing on opportunities", and "sleeping better" things to consider.
Gun control laws are absolutely enforceable--there's no question about that. Look to the other Western countries for examples.
ECS CLI is written in Go, whereas Docker Compose is written in Python. Interesting that they chose to write it separately rather than try to expand upon Docker Compose, especially given that ECS CLI is compatible with docker-compose.yml files.