skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search for intelligent aliens near bizarre dimming star has begun
I didn't miss the point. Of course I agree that it's wonderful to see a product that solves an actual problem. My point was that even in the case of a clearly useful and "marketable" product, it is not at all clear that it will ultimately be successful and change people's lives. The Segway itself is a great example of this: The product works, it does what it claims it will, but nobody owns one. Society is no better off because of it, unfortunately.

I used the rubric of "hacking" to demonstrate that there is a middle road--between inflated valuations/expectations and pure engineering prowess--that will ultimately create life-changing solutions to problems.

Think about Apple's successful products: They did nothing new compared to what was already on the market. But by creatively removing features they made their products more marketable and ended up changing the world.
What part of "secretly taken and deprived access to the outside world and denied their civil rights for days where the authorities refuse to admit the person is in custody" doesn't describe "disappeared"? I'll give you that in the past it's been used to describe death camps for dissidents in e.g. Latin America but the word is more general than that. We're still allowed to call e.g. waterboarding torture even if teeth are not ripped out and fingernails are not pulled off.
I just have never seen this - the NRA arguing that full automatic weapons should not be licensed. Do you have a citation? I'd be genuinely interested to read up on it.
If someone steals your chip+pin card and your pin you will probably be considered negligent by the bank. If they steal your credit card and fake your signature you will probably have zero liability.
Agrh, https://github.com/kylemanna/nanotest
Your question doesn't make much sense to me, but with what I've worked with _retailers_ do not send the electronic signature to the bank. It is for the retailers documents (ie to print on the receipt, or to store in a database with the transaction). In the case of a dispute they would then send the information.
MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second
Physicists can code
This was covered on NPR's Morning Edition too http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/17/44832391...
What you're talking about is literally the ad hominem fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

I understand that people perceive a connection between someone's character and the things they experience and perceive. That's the entire reason character assassination is used. Because it's effective. But it's wrong. It's proven wrong. It's a fallacy.
> it would be a huge psychological win to have able-bodied people looking with envy rather than sympathy at their means of locomotion

What kind of horrible person get a kick out of knowing other people are envious?
I was in the same boat, I just launched an alpha on my idea. I say just do it yourself and use sites like fiverr to help you with things that consume too much time
Eliminating the need for a usb stick
I guess in 99% of cases they see the transaction is not a fraud.

This is, by the way, the reason software development is hard - if you were to approach this problem the way typical software requirements are defined, you'd only piss the clerks off. In real life, people dynamically adjust their compliance with procedures to run the common case with minimum effort and improvise if something unexpected happens.
"There pro armor piercing bullets"

Assuming you mean "They're", nope, they signed off on the ban of AP ammo that can be shot from a handgun, which means all AP ammo short of, say, .50 BMG, which I'm pretty sure would pulverize anyone's hand, wrist and arm.

As for "the lack of anti-military hardware makes the second amendment almost pointless.", you suffer from a lack of imagination:

The small arms we're all allowed to own everywhere but NYC and D.C. are quite sufficient to procure the heavier stuff.

Being able to reach out and touch someone from 800 yards and more means something serious.

The US has never fought a war without a secure rear area.

There are many, many other things small arms make more achievable. Like making it too expensive to do a lot of things en masse; as Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it in The GULAG Archipelago:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria [Government limo] sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked.

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
I think this part nails it:

"Any new product they could introduce would be likely to cannibalize their existing products. After all, one reason for a man to want to use a reversible contraceptive is so his partner can stop taking the pill."

Little economical incentive to cannibalize its own market. That makes so much more sense than conspiracy theories preventing this from happening. I disregard real "scientific barriers" here because I believe capitalism would have driven science to where it wanted anyway -- hell, there's very little stuff in the world that won't see any meaningful progress after 50 years of research.
Hi! I really like your game. However, selling apartments will remove too much playerDebt. If I buy the first apartment in Athens and I sell it one year later, I get from 38k to 47.2k after just one year! There's a similar bug with cancelling mortgage, I think you made a mistake in computing the constant 2.22 in your code.
Intelligence "works" in the same sense that torture does: to further the unstated private interest of whoever hired the intelligence and torture agencies. If we're interested in the truth rather than The Truth, we can't trust non-public sources that have repeatedly failed in public ways.
I am wondering what will happen once private funding source diminishes. When it becomes way harder to raise money in private market, then over valued yet-not-profitable startups will have two choices: 1) go dead, or 2) try desperate hard to go public. Then, we can really start talking about the crush. Guess 2016 could be 1999 all over again?

Smart founders may already see this. They might already have started to control burn rate, working hard on get real profits. At the end of the day, the survivors will shine.
You're correct, but in the interest of:

We’ll discuss these topics only briefly here, pushing most details off to later chapters, since the primary goal right now is to give you an idea of what Go looks like...

it's probably clearer to use the default random source.
I imagine its for performance reasons, every obj-c call uses it and adding extra instructions would massively hurt performance.
Where are your brains, in your ass?

It's stupid, man, it's universally stupid.
The explosion of payment/transfer options in US online banking is basically because there is a vast menu of combined authentication and pricing schemes. So we end up with dozens of awkwardly branded, difficult to use, expensive products, some of which you can only use between accounts at the same bank.

Now that most banks offer mobile deposits, personal checks are the best money transfer product.
Since Go is statically-typed and compiled, it's much easier to refactor a function compared to Python. Change it and fix everywhere the compiler complains.
I've been hearing that it will be available "sometime soon" for the last 20 years.
Interesting article, but why would one assume all Hungarian warriors were accomplished archers based on one unit/batallion?

It's like saying English warriors were accomplished archers because they found a group of longbowmen (who also started training from childhood).

Archers were a staple of any medieval army, and obviously they had the best men grouped together and sent to battle...
it's just an odd situation, the Chip cards have to remain inserted while the entire transactions completes, but the signature is on the card.. how do you verify until after the fact?
perhaps he just emailed those docs to himself? I do that a fair amount, so I can pick them up later.
A yeah group functionality yeah! Define granular permissions for your deployment
> CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance

Stories like these make me shudder thinking about the times I may have, at some point, included a document with personal information in an email, such as to a prospective landlord for verification. Even if I were able to keep my email account reasonably secure...I'm pretty sure all the recipients of my email aren't as wary, or regularly delete old received emails with attachments that they've collected over the _decade_.

Although in Mr. Brennan's case, he doesn't have that same excuse. It may have been reasonably safe (for a layperson in IT) to send his application file over aol.com's servers, but not to keep a copy of it in his Sent box. Even a novice at cybersecurity should realize the problem of keeping digital files around on an online server...it's not much different than keeping files in a file cabinet and expecting that file cabinet never to be compromised.
Isn't it funny how C has so many ways to accomplish the same thing. Why did you use a typedef with a tag?

typedef struct {
int a;
int b;
} Foo;

Foo f = { .a = 1 };
The key point for me is even if we assume that security blunders like this or say keeping a private email server are ignorance rather than malice ignorance is unacceptable at this level of government. Where's the security officer at advising these officials and helping them do it right? That has to be someone's job right?
The lesson from your story is that "See ID" doesn't work. Indeed, these are the merchant guidelines from Visa:

> In the US, some customers write “See ID” or “Ask for ID” in the signature panel,
thinking that this is a deterrent against fraud or forgery; that is, if their signature
is not on the card, a fraudster will not be able to forge it. In reality, criminals
often don’t take the time to practice signatures. They use cards as quickly as possible after a theft and prior to the accounts being blocked. They are actually counting on you not to look at the back of the card and compare signatures; they may even have access to counterfeit identification with a signature in their own handwriting. In this situation, follow recommended steps listed above under Unsigned Cards.

It makes even more sense given this guideline, from the same handbook:

> When should you ask a cardholder for an official government ID? [M]erchants cannot make an ID a condition of acceptance. Therefore, merchants cannot as part of their regular
card acceptance procedures refuse to complete a purchase transaction because a cardholder refuses to provide ID.

(Source, PDF: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/VBS-06-APR-...)
He probably just sent them to himself so he can read the stuff at home or away from his work computers.
The more famous an analyst is, the more likely he is to be confident in his abilities, and the less likely to second-guess himself, to analyze his analysis. Those analysts who must defend their work to superiors do a better job.

The same thing seems to happen in other lines of work - when an engineer is accountable to code review, he might do better. When an author is subject to the will of an editor, his work is ultimately achieved faster, and with better quality; witness George RR Martin's speed on the first three books in A Song of Ice and Fire versus the glacial pace of the last two.
Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
They could encrypt each letter on it's own...
It's very anecdotal but at Spreedly (my company) we are integrated to around 90 different payment gateways globally and are payments infrastructure. So we have a lot of startup interest. In Europe Spain is second only to the UK in terms of prospects and customers. Sadly I've been told this is may partially because youth unemployment is so high that you might as well start something vs wait around. But either way a headline like this doesn't surprise me as we've clearly seen a large amount of entrepreneurial activity out of Spain.
Anecdotally, it seems common to me, but I don't have any real data from which to make serious inferences.
Depending on how the liability is defined, I might consider purposefully burning out my chip-and-pin so it falls back to signature authorization. I'm not interested in allowing the credit industry pulling a bait-and-switch on me by promising a new secure system that also shifts liability to me, when the new system is horribly insecure. Luckily, since I live in the US, it looks like they are requiring online auth, so I just need to make sure this includes online pin auth.
> I know one smoker who switched to vaping before going back to smoking because he found it hard to limit his vaping (because number of cigarettes is easier to measure)

This was my problem. Went to vaping to quit and ended up making the addiction worse because it is really easy to mindless puff away. I've seen newer models with USB that you can limit the number a draws on though so that might be a good option.
Except the person working the cash register isn't the merchant -- they are an employee, who isn't really worried about their job because they've only been there for a few months, and replaced a previous employee that was there for less than a year.
Don't forget these functional alternatives to OpenSSL:

1. OCaml-TLS (https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls) [1]

2. miTLS (http://www.mitls.org/wsgi/home)

3. s2n (https://github.com/awslabs/s2n)

[1] Home of the epic Bitcoin Pinata! http://ownme.ipredator.se/
I would encourage you to read the article. While I am inclined to agree with your sentiment, the article presents a study that actually deals with the concrete effectiveness of intelligence analysts.
> And why not? The platforms often get paid fees. The platforms often get free carry. And what many people don’t realize is that most syndicates get what is known as “deal-by-deal” carry

This is really such a huge point. A popular syndicate on AngelList might invest 25k of their money and get another 300k going along with them. So in this example they are essentially getting 70k worth of upside (25k + (15% carry * 300k)) for 25k. On top of that, they might be investing 25k of their funds money (IE, other people's money they get a small carry from) but getting the AngelList carry for themselves.

If you had a deal like this, why not pump every company you can imagine? It is just transferring money from your followers to yourself in a roundabout way. Of course, what if the deals are good and everybody makes money? Well, that is certainly possible, but economically speaking "deal-by-deal" carry doesn't encourage that behavior. The biggest incentive lies in the syndicate leader making as many deals as possible in hopes of finding a winner, because losers barely hurt them at all. Your incentives are not aligned if you invest in every deal. And if you are just picking and choosing your deals, then you are essentially giving away 20% carry even though you are doing all the filtering.

Also speaking for YC companies, none of the "hot" companies coming out of demo day raised money on AngelList, because they didn't need to. So there is also a selection bias where the "hot" companies wont ever go on AngelList. Now, the "hot" companies may or may not be the companies with the best return, but based on their valuations the market thinks they are.

Now not to be too negative to AngelList, because I think as a platform to allow investors to invest directly in companies it is great. But the syndicate stuff is a little hairy. Of course you never hear anything negative about it because it is a great way for SV "influencers" to turn their followers into money.
The signature panel is not permanent either, on at least one of my cards it has rubbed off to reveal a strip of "void void void" underneath.
>I bet he got a shock to see Amazon reveal his fraudulent activity in a medium post! You think Amazon would make such a claim if it weren't true?

So your stance is "it must be true, because it would be really stupid of them if it wasen't?"

I think its equally valid to say they are acting stupidly, and counting on dollars and cents to keep any trouble off their door.

The truth is, they have just claimed the above. They pressed no charges, and have provided no documentation to sustain it. Right now, they have no more proof then him, and have a strong reason (redeeming their reputation though mudslinging) to say that he was a bad man, so his opinion doesn't matter. Of course,as the NYT responds, they interviewed way more people than just the ones Amazon cherry picked to respond too, and those people all disagree with the new Amazon spin.
I doubt that's actually true for most use cases, though. I think for most people it offers security for the male only. People always want to keep their own sexual health under their own control. I would be hesitant to say that most sex happens in relationships between two long-term exclusive partners. Therefore, there would be many people still interested in taking the daily pill or other birth control options for their own protection, instead of taking their sexual partner at their word.

Also, if you find the fact that economics or whatever has prevented male birth control, consider donating to the Parsemus Foundation who is actively working on the Vasalgel product.

http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/
It's not even about things moving. Some are completely unable to reason about interfaces. I had this conversation with my mother recently:
Her: "There's an error on my screen, what do I do?"
Me: "What does the error say?"
Her: "The file name you entered is too long. What do I do?"
Me: "Make the file name shorter"
Her: "It worked!"

facepalm
I agree with much of the article. I think social media really damaged my view on Millennials. I learned that when it came to social media people didn’t want discuss their ideas. They don’t want a connection. They want to shout out their beliefs and get a pat on the back. Criticism, even the least caustic, is generally rolled into trolling. Don’t get me wrong there’s actual trolling and real hate. I think there are people who can’t really discern between them well enough.

He’s right about shoddy work presented as a final product. I’ve seen terrible ‘art’ pawned off as brilliance. I see people making themselves into authorities without any exceptional works. There are people that want to be gatekeepers/authorities to ideas and properties without ever paying their dues. I remember growing up and thinking “How fortunate are we to live in a time in which credentials could become meaningless?” Information is free. You can learn to do anything. The problem is that there are people that bypass the learning phase and somehow gain an army of support based on very little knowledge of a subject (the food babe).

The thing that bothers me the most is that these people are surprised that they are being criticized so much. They are wildly popular; they say something that contradicts reality (often dangerously); they think that should go unpunished. Honestly I’m not sure if it’s really a trait of this generation or if it’s so apparent because social media is a huge part of our lives.
Perhaps, the others don't want to cover it for ulterior motives, such as how could this be going down in your backyard and you know nothing about it?
Pointless? Every war the US has fought since Vietnam has essentially been a matchup of the full might of the US military against rocks and sticks, and the rocks and sticks always win.

Millions of like minded American citizens could certainly make things difficult for the US military in a guerrilla war.
That's a very good point about the NRA: it's a single issue organization, all things related to guns. It did, of course, support Citizens United (http://www.cuvfec.com/documents/case-08-205/Supplemental_Que...), since McCain-Feingold presented an existential threat in getting it's word out (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403936 for specific actual examples), but that was just a means to the end of "all things guns". Marksmanship, safety, and of course being allowed to practice the former, which events and a '77 membership revolt forced them into.

We have "no enemies to the Left" or Right, political party, sexual orientation (http://www.pinkpistols.org/), you name it, as long as you're not plotting to violently overthrow the government.
> As an aside, I am bewildered by the the idea of a CS PhD holder who literally cannot code in any language. But short of seeing their CV, who knows. Maybe they specialized in the more theoretical math- or EE-like areas of CS, and their undergrad data structures course was a distant memory?

One mostly did neural network research and said his coding was rusty so he has having issues. The other I honestly can't remember. But yeah I'd assuming coding was pretty important but I kinda got the impression from both of them that maybe they had underlings do the grunt work or something. But not entirely sure.
Sometimes, you just run into jerks. Consider yourself lucky you didn't get the job; if an employee is allowed to be a jerk to candidates, that's a pretty good indicator that their management sucks. An interview is also an opportunity to represent your firm to a complete stranger, and even if you don't hire someone you want to be in a position where they might refer a friend, or provide positive feedback out on the 'net, or whatever.
This band tries to get the public humming
I know this article is targeting Black Cabs, but in the U.S, all my complaints and compliments have been handled in great fashion by Uber.

“Customer complaints are not dealt with by Uber, their T&Cs state all complaints must be taken up with the driver.”
As true or not true as this may be, it's worth pointing out:

The users are highly likely to continue to measure things the
wrong way, and come up with the wrong answers, until you change the way you display numbers.

Regardless of the good or bad reasons[1], telling users to stop reading the numbers and comparing them never works in practice.

[1]they say: "PURR- and SPURR- based processor utilization were introduced. This helps better in the CAPEX planning and actual performance expectation in the SMT8 mode when compared to the single-threaded mode.". I'm not sure i would ever use these numbers directly for capex planning, but okay .....
My understanding is that the online forums for this work quite a bit on reputation (for sellers at least). I can imagine people that use these hacks remove themselves from the ecosystem when they get caught. I also imagine the selling of this hack, if it happened, was probably brokered as a unique sale where the seller would not resell the hack, similar to how I imagine a lot of high-end zero-day exploits are sold. This, of course, is where the seller reputation would come into play.
Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend