skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This doesn't work in a huge number of situations. It just reports failure.

What's a "huge number"? I'd say only a tiny minority of Windows users even try to downgrade. I tried to Google this ("windows downgrade failed") and couldn't find many examples.

Unless you work at Microsoft and have real data from users, I don't think you (or I) have the data to claim that few or many of these downgrades fail. There's just no way to really know.
ditaa?
Narrative can mean story as in "a spoken or written account of connected events", but in can also have further meaning as in "a representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values". So the governments recollection of how they killed Osama bin Laden is to some extent a story, but it's also part of the narrative of e.g. the "war on terror".

I'm not sure it's so much dumbing down as careless use of word. Before you teach something you often have to unlearn the things you learned as part of learning. Overuse of certain words or concepts are quite common in technology too. Though we also often make the somewhat different mistake of being too specific.
Tech Conversation with Serge Morzov, Founder of Helpcrunch
People work for all kinds of reasons. The more you can accommodate, the better.

Open source software still fascinates me, and it's interesting to see how people just build stuff just to have others use it for free.

This would not be possible at all in a "communist" country - you either work for the state or you don't.

Anything you do is either benefiting the state or it doesn't exist. Citizens don't even get to know about the stuff.

Absolutes are bad either way, but people need at least a bit of freedom to get informed about the latest developments and work on their ideas without someone watching over their shoulder and dictating their every move...
This looks really great. It seems just about as easy to use as R's built-in lm functionality.
We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
> simply installing all available updates is pretty much begging for trouble

I've done this since Windows 95. It hasn't caused me a problem since Windows XP SP2. I actually love Windows update and missed it when I was on Linux. Ubuntu's kernel upgrades would randomly break sleep, audio, special keys on my keyboard, or other weird stuff.
They were backed with more tanks back then ...
EA Denies Data Breach After List of Compromised Account Emails Pops Up Online
Ahhh the memories. Pravetz 8d (with a cassete tape storage), Pravetz 16. The black green monitors.

I still keep some around here for sentimental value.
I suppose there's no point in asking what some of the largest stars would look like from Earth, since many have a far larger diameter than the diameter of Earth's orbit. VY Canis Majoris would extend past the orbit of Jupiter.
The other database I really mistrust is medical DNA databases. First because of the reasons mentioned in this article. But also because coming from a family of doctors myself, I know they are computer illiterate, which gives me little trust in their ability to not leak the data in the wild.
Taking a sorting algorithm that cares about absolute vote displacement, and then using it on a site where more people are exposed to higher-ranked things, and more "voters" are online at particular times of day, is not a recipe for meritocracy.

Just putting it like that (while also in election season) gives me an idea, though: a site where members must either give a vote to everything that has touched the front/new page within the last 24 hours, or nothing. (Maybe even having them sort the page to provide IRV rankings rather than a sign vector.) Way fewer people would bother, but as long as it was still a representative sampling...
And a Redux version because why the hell not: https://gist.github.com/insin/2f9a4cf810eeed88da89
Wireshark routinely mislabels encrypted UDP packets as QUIC. My guess is that the protocol is actually OpenVPN on UDP.
As long as you worked within said system. Try anything outside it and you'll quickly find yourself in big trouble.

I guess it's the same everywhere, but at least a capitalist system gives you more leeway to do what you want, just enough to make it possible to grow big enough that the main system sees you as an equal (or at least a necessity) instead of a mortal enemy that needs to be shut down...
If you are on El Capitan, it is not needed to install a brewed openssh. OpenSSH pre-bundled with El Capitan is already pretty up-to-date and includes most of the new ciphersuites.
Simple search on LinkedIn for Theranos:
139 current employees.
239 past employees.
This company may technically be 10 years old, but lots of these churned employees listed Theranos as their last or second to last employer.
That is a terrible ratio for a company of that size and age.
Guess what, it IS possible to build MMO's with JavaScript
This is extraordinary. It means antifungal drugs like Fluconazole can possibly prevent AD.
How would DNA storage of rape kits help the Cosby case at all? The police can collect Cosby's DNA if he is a suspect in a case.
Have you heard the good word of Unity[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Unity
People say this - that being a founder isn't a the best path to being rich - and it's definitely true.

The popular culture, however, points to the tech area as the source of the new rich. If you want to be the new rich today, you found a tech company.

You're right, though, that there is also an element of success is more than about financial success today. Not just in the valley but in the privileged world that it is peppered with. We don't want to just be rich - we want respect.
Data Science Machine
Actually that is wrong. The search space of 1024 bit Diffie Hellman is about 2^80, of 3248 bit about 2^128. I failed to find a number for 2048 bit DHE.
If there was an Earth-like planet around Aldebaran, it'd have formed at an orbit far-enough out for it to be an Earth-like planet, no?

On the other hand, if our own star got replaced, instantaneously, with Aldebaran... we'd just fall in. :)
I kinda wish the FDA had some certification to the effect that "this contains what it says it contains and its contents are no more likely to kill you than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/compare.html
Here's a similar joke I found in Viktor Suvorov's faschinating Kuzkina Mat [1] :

A man is walking down the street carrying a 12-roll pack of toilet paper. People surround him, all excited: "Where'd you get that?" The man answers, "I just got it back from the dry cleaner's!"

[1] http://www.andrewnurnberg.com/books/kuzkina-mat/
Amazon Targets Web Freelancers Peddling Fake Customer Reviews
Ok, url changed from http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/131294850803.
You really should look at Armin's (same guy who wrote Flask and Jinja2) platter tool. It takes a few of the steps out and for an almost identical workflow as you, we are switching to it.

http://platter.pocoo.org/dev/

Really nice stuff
You can compare Soviet Ruble to Sterling Pound of the 60-ies. A nice cottage in St. Albans was £500 back then, now its £250000 more like.
The ruling - http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/fda8f124-b1e...
Larry Lessig: I'm All In
Speaking of things that the soviets reverse-engineered, I think the B-29 Superfortress is worth mentioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
This just looks like the virtual address space / paging in action to me. Try writing to it.
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-shift-weaning-age-hunting-induc..., which copies this but doesn't link to it.
Meet the Wackiest Millionaire Ever to Run for President
Cool. Next time I steal a TV from a shop I'll blame the shit government. Widespread corruption, you see.
yeah well, then given to a cop right ?
That's an alarmingly de-humanizing use of technology. He talks a good game about "helping", but for such a marginalized community of people, anything that makes them more suspicious of people paying attention to them is probably a dangerous thing.

I don't know what the right thing is, but treating homeless folks like landmarks to be photographed and tagged on the internet is gross.
What I Learned from Failing My First Code Review
БК family is missing, the bestselling Soviet computers. CISC architecture. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/БК_(семейство_компьютеров). I wrote my first programmes on that Bulgarian made ISKRA 1030, that was nice but very poor performing comparing to ЕС mainframe with PRIMUS OS.
Also ЕС desktops family is missing in this article. The latter sibling of that had a cast iron mouse, I kid you not.
Wow, is there nothing you won't blame on the "fucking bankers"?

Guess what? No banker forced Twitter to go public. In fact, I'm sure Twitter approached the bankers to represent them in an IPO. And when you go public, you have certain obligations to your shareholders by law. So why go public? Oh yeah, the early Twitter investors wanted to get filthy rich, before the "baking was done". And they did.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402071 and marked it off-topic.
That's right, the actual link - Understand proof, evidence: was the Jalalabad tape.

Hint: if you do understand arabic, just compare what you hear to the translation spread in the western medias ;)
> I wouldn't consider Bin Laden to be a Muslim and therefore not deserving of a proper Muslim burial.

Sorry but he was a Muslim. You may not like his interpretation of Islam, but he was one.

Now of course he didn't deserve proper Muslim burial provided by the US Gov. Because it is not a state's job to provide such. The state job is to treat everyone equally.
I failed to find any links in the article to these visual stories that the author talks about creating. Are they still online?
> even in the social sciences.

Was that jab really necessary?
You only delay non-idempotent actions.
Did you try pypy before rewriting?
What is the point of your comment? Your doing the same thing your telling people not to do. You're not even disagreeing with the previous post which essentially states the same things you do. The only thing your comment tells me is that which developers you work with are far more important than the language itself.
Made me wonder if putting a tiny <img> tag in a <noscript> block would provide some insight by tracking user-agents hitting that file only.
Expert Connect: Faith and Religion in Business
Money is quite misunderstood
Tokpod – World's first click-to-call API
That's well and good, but the reason that it is appropriate when using a pen on printed text is that the vast majority of people don't differentiate their penmanship when representing emphasized text.

Historically underlined content == actionable hyperlink; for content that is intended for public consumption (ie. not a note that you're writing for your own use) there are usability issues with typographic styles that represent emphasis with an underline.
Thanks for correction, I should say "occurs very often"
Do you have results for the different tests? I did not see any in the repo.
Both of you quoted lethal statistics, which are hardly representative of the majority of domestic violence. In fact, a lot of these studies conflict in data. For example, this study from 2007 suggest that 24% of relationships include some form of violence, and 70% of non-reciprocal violence was committed by women (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17395835). Even the term "violence" has different meaning in studies, causing further ambiguity among the studies. It's often twisted to support a premise.

Bottom line, statistics might not represent what you think they do, and just because someone drops different numbers doesn't mean they're malicious. Assuming malicious intent is actually a key behavior in many relationships with IPV, which signals that it's not healthy behavior. It's also a form of fear-mongering, which prevents rational dialogue.

More to the point, there was a far more recent review of studies and literature regarding domestic violence just 2 years ago (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10741752.htm?PID=4...). They mention some of the wide disparity in statistics supplied by different studies (http://domesticviolenceresearch.org/pages/12_page_findings.h...), showing that, for example, different studies have shown both men and women to be perpetrators of IPV between 1-69%, with the majority falling different ways depending on the study and the researchers involved.

More interesting is the fact that their review of these other studies showed that, overall, men and women (both straight and LBGT) have similar perpetration rates. There are some outlying differences in a few classifications (e.g. stalking has fairly similar perpetration rates in aggregate, but males tend to gravitate toward physical stalking). What we see is that the narrative that any one side has significantly more violent tendencies has very little supporting evidence. People who claim otherwise are usually in the middle of some sort of confirmation bias. Often this is based on pre-existing belief or on anecdotal experiences.

In essence, just like we're all equal, we've got a roughly equal distribution of violent abusers regardless of genital configuration. The fact that regardless of sex or sexual preference, the same percentage of people still abuse the people they "love" the most should be a miraculous starting point for a dialogue about equality, needs, relationship education, and violence prevention in general. However, it usually degenerates into finger-pointing like the above because people just can't accept that it's a human problem and not a gender problem.
> But it weakened the credibility of the campaign. Was I really trying to be president? Or was I just trying to make a point?

Obvious answer: he’s just trying to make a point, the whole thing is a publicity stunt, and his campaign has never had and still does not have any credibility whatsoever.

> But the result was almost no national media focused on a campaign that was actually more viable than that of at least two of the other Democratic candidates,

“More viable” meaning that when you add up the poll numbers for Lessig plus those other two candidates, the percentage rounds to zero. Likewise they have no budget, no endorsements, a tiny donor base, no institutional support from the Democratic party, no grass-roots campaign organization, etc. etc.

Lessig’s approach to politics is to shout “HEY EVERYBODY, LOOK AT ME! I don’t have any experience or support, and I haven’t tried to engage with the political system before, but vote for me because all those other guys are corrupt!” That works if you’re a billionaire with universal name-recognition like Trump, running in a primary with a bunch of weak other candidates, targeting primary voters responsive to knee-jerk racism and insults. Lessig isn’t Trump though.

In the 2014 midterm elections his PAC raised a moderate amount of money mostly from Silicon Valley VCs, threw it at a handful of congressional races, and had absolutely zero impact on anything.

Seems like it’s not working out this time either.
Digital technology-empovering african agriculture
what is strange is that everyone seems to be using Python 2.7 in some form. There is all this new work being done in Python 3 asyncio but there is nothing that is being used... and this is from a guy who pretty is a core developer in several python projects.

I look at Ruby or Go... or even Java and every new language feature has a much more rapider adoption curve.

is this a pretty solid statement that the entire Python 3 + asyncio path is a dead end ?
It comes down to the third-party doctrine[0], which is the same reason the text messages or emails you send are not subject to 4th Amendment protections. While in your home you have an expectation of privacy the courts have ruled that once you release something to a third-party this expectation is not valid.

[0] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43586.pdf
I meant, if 5 boxes run cron and one box blows up, only the jobs on that box are affected. If one box is running all jobs and it blows up, all jobs are affected.
The boom and bust of the CIA's secret torture sites
I'll throw in a vote for DMS. I use it at work to verify that our cron jobs ran successfully. Dead simple and very effective.
I am on board with your skepticism, but I don't believe your concerns are valid in the context of what Theranos is promising and what they have done ($400 million is nothing to scoff at in an industry where you have $0 revenue until a real breakthrough passes the FDA).

The global pharmavertical industry is about $900 billion a year and has a very wide variance in types of products so the normal idea of what what value a "celebrity" is worth is very different. If you're a biotech company whose most likely exit is an aquisition by Pfizer or Roche, you want industry insiders. If you're like Theranos, and your business depends on consumer spending at places like Walgreens, you're so far out of the normal pharmaceutical and diagnostic industry that all bets are off.

Several hundred million for an IPO biotech company on ZERO revenue post dotcom crash is common enough that $9 billion valuation (25 times revenue) is damn good. There are literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, of labs that can run an off site (for the consumer) screening for every one of Theranos' target markers. The idea that anyone would invest hundreds of millions into a diagnostic company without compelLing secret sauce is troubeling. I don't doubt that VC firms make mistakes as silly as the rest of us, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt assuming semi-competent due dilligence.

That said, no VC firm in their right mind would ever invest in a company like Theranos if it had only a few SKUs. It is practically impossible (with current technology) to come up with a generalized test that identifies anything more precise than "gram negative bacteria." Either Theranos is a pump and dump scam of epic proportions or they really do have some technological superiority that allows them to convert expensive lab tests into a consumer technology.

As far as the other red flags, you'll usually find the same intrigue surrounding most successful biotech companies. When your operating at the cutting edge of the most difficult scientific field in the most stringent regulatory environment on the planet, you have to take more shortcuts than usual.
"market wages" is a pretty loaded term.

$130K plus 15% bonus plus $70K/yr in stock for a senior engineer isn't that out of the ordinary at big public companies. Total comp ends up around $220k. I don't see too many startups paying over $150k, so the average employee at an exceptional startup like Square makes around the same if not less than at a big company, even with a decent payout.
We used Python 2.7 for pypy compatibility. I really dig the new async/await primitives added to Python 3.5 and think the asyncio path is the best path forward. I hope the work to get all the latest asyncio stuff working on PyPy picks up some steam.
Microsoft Toolkit 2.5.6 Activator for Windows and Office
I used to do research at the local branch of some official government research library, and they were very strict about enforcing such limits; they kept track of who copied what, how much, and when. They did not lend, and if the limit was six pages and you wanted to copy seven pages you were out of luck... [there was some timeout, so you could come back some days later and copy the remaining pages, but man was it ever a pain...]

If you asked them why, they were decent enough to provide some sort of reasoned argument based on the actual copyright law to explain this policy, so I don't think they were just being jerks.

[This was in the UK, so I dunno if the laws were worse or better than in the U.S.]
After 10 seconds of inspection: no, not a good idea, don't think this solves a nice problem.

Speaking as a PL & s-exp guy, I don't really have a problem writing

(bullets
(item "pick up milk")
(item "drop off desk"))

... but at the end of the day, I see that I can convey the same structure in a clearer way using markdown. Markdown is lovely because it's the thinnest possible skin over the structure; you can immediately see what structure the syntax is attaching. (Yes, there's still some parsing nastiness around paragraphs). This thing, though, doesn't have that "brilliant solution to a simple but really important problem" feel to it. I don't see this catching on.

Of course, I said the same thing about the internet in the spring of 1993.
I use minunit, http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html, in my embedded projects. The tricky part when unit testing embedded stuff is separating stuff that works on "pure data" from stuff that has a dependency on the hardware. For example, if a function uses a hardware sensor input to calculate a value, you either have to encapsulate that input into a function you can mock, or pass it as a parameter and avoid mocking altogether. The good news is that forces you to use a more well-separated design, eg with separate .c modules to read discrete and analog values, so it ends up being more maintainable.
Note that the author is the head of Sequoia Capital. "Sequoia, notably, also counts the highest number of private, billion-dollar ‘unicorns’ of any investor today and consistently finds itself in the largest tech startup exits."[1] If the head of the VC firm financing the largest number of "unicorns" says publicly that many of the "unicorns" are subprime, it's time to pay attention.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/sequoia-capital-teardown/
Well, medical researchers aren't doctors (they can't proscribe medication or perform medical procedures).
> cold cases

That is the terrifying part. Does anybody known how much data these databases are actually storing about someone's DNA, after processing? I ask because in the case of some forensic DNA matching techniques, the set of possible results is small enough to have birthday paradox problems.

Matching an unknown sample against a handful of suspects is probably fine, but fishing in an entire database of for hits on a set of cold cases? I suspect the probability of finding a false positive grows quickly when the number of possible matches increases.
> This change now sharpens the difference between our campaign and the others. Now the strongest contrast in substance is the priority that I give to democratic reform. This difference should then press an obvious question for every other candidate: How do you expect to achieve what you are promising without this reform? And if you believe this reform is necessary, then why isn’t it your first priority?

But in all these words he never gets around to explaining how as President he would actually make the reform happen, other than saying it'd be his "first priority" and (twice) that he would "work with Congress."

Oh, is that all it's going to take to completely upend the deeply entrenched systemic power of elites who are richer than Croesus, Larry? We just need a President who wants it bad enough, and is willing to ask Congress for it nicely? Huh.

I bet Barack Obama wishes he'd thought of that. All this time he could have just gone down to Capitol Hill, clicked his heels three times and made the Koch brothers disappear! Who knew?

Lessig is such a paradox to me. His heart's in the right place, he's clearly earnest, and he's managed to accomplish some remarkable things, like Creative Commons. But every time he wades into electoral politics he does so in ways that are so desperately naïve that they'd be funny, if the stakes weren't so high. It's Mr. Bean Goes To Washington.
E-3 to green card is OK if you put in your application from outside the US.

H-1B is dual-intent (i.e. not non-permanent) & better known to banks (3k vs. 120k granted per year).
It's a shame that this only works with volatiles. A blood glucose breathalyzer would be awesome, not to mention a $B/year market.