skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
privately owned

I think that's also misleading; it's not a 'corporation'=='limited liability company with shares'. It's not a "capitalist" institution, it's a pre-capitalist feudal institution that predates the LLC by centuries. It's an elected local body with an unusual electorate.
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Yup. I was confused as to why Firesheep was resurfacing today.
They aren't outwardly evil. Put on a happy face and turn the screws where the customer can't see or control. Like all capitalist companies that want to maximize profit.
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Everything you say is true and it's clear that you understand these issues a lot better than Neil Young himself appears to.

That's not sarcasm. Superior components such as a better power supply, pre-amp, and DAC can make a big difference. Something like the Audioquest Dragonfly or some of Schiit's low-end gear can make a difference that can be amazing in some instances.

But in every interview I've ever seen, Neil Young focuses on the high resolution audio files which do not make a difference that human beings can hear. He has also, in general, been saying kooky things about digital audio for decades now, ever since CDs became popular.
There's value in this -- ping me if you want to discuss more.
Are we just here for the memories?
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even though this article seems to work out logically somewhat, one cannot shake the feeling that this is invariably propaganda nonsense, even if I cant put my finger on exactly why.

1/10 would not read again.
Entitlement, on display.
Dad here. I would save the kids, for several reasons:

1. They have more life-years ahead of them.
2. If I saved my wife, she would hate the choice I made and be plagued by survivor guilt or resentment. It's not clear that my marriage would survive this. But the kids are young enough that they would probably accept the choice, to the extent that they could comprehend it.
Well, the wiki my team needs is one that is used by tech-people only. IT security team. We had Dokuwiki, which worked alright (except inline images were a bit tedious).

Confluence is just tacky, too much whitespace, whizzywig editor is slow and buggy (less so than 2yr ago).

And the old fogeys on the team that hate documentation still write their notes in a notes.txt file on our team share. Having a "beginner friendly" wiki didn't help anything.

Oh, and our dokuwiki was HA on day one, with backup scripts zipping and SCPing a backup to an offsite server. Confluence took MONTHS to get HA as an enterprise solution.
Correct, but at the time of this release many websites (including GMail and Facebook I believe) did not and were vulnerable to Firesheep. The title of this post should be updated to reflect the 2010 posting.
Would you expect the same pattern to be prevalent in other international tech hubs such as Berlin vs. London or Tel Aviv, for example?
I used to think space elevators are practically impossible because of interactions with lower flying space objects. Now I'm less sure; perhaps we can have a technology of active avoidance.

Other problems - like an extremely capable cable material, ways to climb up and down etc - are getting gradually solved over last years, so I'm cautiously more optimistic than before.
I believe so.

I still remember being in the local uni's lab over wifi and firesheep had ~80 entries for facebook/gmail/etc. Click a profile and hijack their session.
Are you married to that idea?

Married and marriage have plenty of meanings in English...
In its original context, it probably applies to anyone that was in school (possibly including college) at a time such that their learning methods could have been substantially affected by the changes in media in the last decade of the 20th century; since then, its usually (fairly arbitrarily) been used to describe those born of 1980.

Insofar as its a substantive experience description and not just another term for Gen Y/Millenials, I'd say if you engaged in substantial online interaction and that it substantially affected the way you approach information, learning, and social interaction, during -- or, a fortiori, before -- high school, then you count.
Why'd GSK do that, I wonder?
It'd be impossible for a dentist to go rogue if the main lobbying group for the dentists wasn't allowing any new treatments to get government approval.

Also, I'd argue that capitalism is what causes the entrenchment of industries that get addicted to their profits and don't care about the customers.
Here'a s few tips.

1.) Reach out to the people you worked with at those old companies. You would often be surprised who remembers you.

2.) Reach out to your favorite professors. It's an assumption they don't remember you. They might remember you better than you think.

3.) Even if you don't feel comfortable asking someone for a reference right off the bat, you'll want to keep in touch with them at least sporadically, because you never know when they can help you in the future, or you can help them.

4.) Assume you won't get the job. The odds are typically stacked against you if you don't have an "in". Make sure the people you pick as references are close to you and don't use your boss or boss's boss.

5.) Your work and interests don't typically matter in a reference interview. If people like you, they'll answer all of the questions positively to help you get the job.

6.) Don't ask people for references who don't like you or when a work relationship ended in a bad way. This is really the only way to fail a reference check.
1) Something isn't a wiki because it's called such. Sharepoint is not a Wiki. It's a server of some kind that can sometimes hold data that users put on it. I didn't even classify it as a wiki in my "what's crappy" list.

2) Agreed on the maintenance part. There needs to be a yearly audit/testing of procedures to make sure the docs hold up to new versions of software, new releases, etc.
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> I got an HOTAS for Elite Dangerous. <satire>Let me say that it wasn't at all a wasted purchase for SC because I never intended it for that game - the support is currently terrible.</satire> You are wasting your time if you are playing with anything but a mouse and keyboard. I unplugged the joystick after little more than 30min. In addition, "2.0" has mouse-driven UIs in the ship, driving further nails into the idea of competent joystick control[1].
Don't feel bad about not having a joystick/HOTAS - they are second-class citizens in SC. This is not a bad thing, the HOTAS definitely gives me an unfair advantage in ED.

... what?
> The reality of life is that completely transparent, open negotiations are very difficult and close

And closed ones are prone to corruption. I prefer hard to finalize agreements to those which serve various crooks.

It's not like TPP is even needed to begin with. Trade is already pretty much free. TPP is designed to make it less free in practice.
Because this fixes a cavity; it doesn't prevent it. Even with treatments like this, we'll still be going to the dentist.

And further, I'll go to a dentist that offers this treatment before I'll go to one that doesn't.
Not in the same way. Because the datomic database is immutable queries can take as long as they want and the results will never be inconsistent.
Well, he did say if the function is smooth and you have a reasonably small interval to start from.
In the Quran, it states "We have made you into nations and tribes, so that you may know one another [... not that you may despise one another]."

We can only see ourselves once we see someone who is different.
I believe the whole road is maintained by the city. If it's a private road the residents should pay for it.

At the top of the hill before the bend there is adequate space to turn around if that is where the gate should be.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wolfback+Ridge+Rd,+Sausali...

The road at the top is also a loop.
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Not OP.

Unlike Github's mostly developer centric issue mechanism, Jira is more suited for organizations the would have a QA department, a security review, a more complicated release process (multiple phases of validation and testing) or that that just need a custom issue state machine.

It just so happens that those companies also have money to buy Jira licenses and Atlassian is brilliant for letting OSS project use it as well. So they get a foot in the door at multiple places in the industry.

If startup developers don't like it, oh well, there is enough money for them to be made in the Enterprise market.

(Also, I noticed that there is an interesting plugin market for it as well, once you have audience that paid so much to use it, they'll be willing to shell out a a few hundred more for say Slack integration or other such plugins).
I'm really confused by your comment - isn't it general knowledge that poor diet causes cavities? I remember being taught this in public school as early as kindergarten, and having my dentists reinforce it my entire life.

However, I do believe that genetics also plays a large role in predisposition to cavities, with or without a healthy diet.
Astonishing to think about the lack of encryption in big services like Facebook 5 years ago.
My "disappointment" was that they didn't do something really tricky.. It's clever, but also very simple.
IMO the most important characteristic that digital lacks is the "shoulder" of negative films. Once you exceed the target exposure of the film by several stops, it starts to take exponentially more light to further expose those areas. This translates into the ability to capture more detail in the highlights. It's not ideal - the tones of the film are certainly "blocked up", and color film may start to show color shifts (usually to yellow). It's better to hit the exposure properly. But with proper scanning or wet-printing technique (particularly split-filter printing) you can recover quite a lot of detail.

On digital - when the pixel goes to 255 light intensity, it's just gone. There's no way to recover data that isn't there. The Magic Lantern firmware has the ability to scan out lines alternating between high and low ISOs to capture blown-out areas, but it's not perfect either.

"Modern" films tend to be very well-behaved with regards to these kind of characteristics, actually. Acros 100 has virtually no reciprocity failure - for exposures between 2 minutes and 10 minutes you need to add 1/2 stop of light. I've recovered pictures off negatives with virtually no visible exposure. The tonality is great and the grain is virtually invisible even with Rodinal. The new Portra 400 is also extremely forgiving - you can get something workable up to about ISO 1600 or 3200 with standard processing, and if you push process (develop longer) it's even better.
A quiet revolution in Venezuela’s regime
Interesting! I wrote in a draft post back in late 2013 [1], that asked:

"What if one could have a fully declarative “matrix language” in which all data transformations ever needed could be declaratively defined in a way that is very easy to comprehend?"

I'm now pondering whether TensorFlow isn't quite an answer to this question?

[1] Posted the draft now for reference: http://bionics.it/posts/matrix-transformation-as-model-for-d...
It seems his plan of operation is to expand into as many possibly nouveau/profitable industries as possible. If successful, he might end up with something akin to a Samsung conglomeration of diverse product lines. Interested in how the established tech giants like Alibaba will respond to this. He certainly has an uphill battle
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Didn't C++ get support for user-defined literals?
It'd be possible for public to mount enough pressure on government to allow for that.

Given a few assumptions, of course - enough information, attentive enough government, enough energy in the society etc.
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The idea that landlords have risk free income is nonsense. Ever owned rental property? You have to maintain and repair it, peridocially update it, market it, insure it, compete with other similar properties for tenants, and hope that the tenants actually pay the rent and don't damage it beyond the value of their deposit. You have to hope that your neighbor landlords and owners do the same so that overall property values in the area don't decline. And that supply of housing doesn't grow to the point that you cannot maintain your investment with the rent you are able to charge. If you can't find a new tennant when the previous one leaves, you still have to cover all your taxes, insurance, and loan payments. Yes, the supply of land in any area is limited. This is like almost any other "free market" product. The fact that land supply is finite does not in any sense mean land ownership is a monopoly. The only monopoly owner of land is the government (emminent domain).
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That's such as simplified analysis. Perhaps there's no shortage (unlikely given Texas' power needs), perhaps there's transportation bottlenecks creating local oversupply? That price has to lower to send the price signal that the arb is there and firms can make money building that transmission, at which point, just like the other energy products in West Texas (crude), the relative price will begin to rise again relative to the benchmark. (See: West Texas / Midland grades of crude being priced at steep discounts that are now shrinking due to increased pipeline capacity coming online.) It's not that Midland crudes were "oversupplied" it's that demand was being "artificially" lowered by transportation bottlenecks. (Economists / econometricians may argue definitions with me on that, but from the energy trader perspective, that's how I would approach it.)
I'm not very knowledgeable in this topic, but I think it's changed a lot. The way food is processed changes the way we're absorbing it.

Today's bread, milk, cheese, veggies, fruits are a bit different than 50 years ago - they last longer, taste different, probably because of how they're processed.

That lack of bacteria that makes things go bad faster should have a different effect on our bodies, no?
Possible that it's not considered "fair chase"? In North America, a lot of conservation ethics are hard-codified into law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_chase
3% net margin on an established software company such as Atlassian? Sounds very low.
Evite sells your info (and your friends info)
For the same reason a real estate agent does not try to sell you the first house they show you: their motives would be way too obviously transparent if they did that and people would see through it.
Working in the UK for the last 7 years, for both US-based and British companies, and Oz before that for the previous 9.

Australia's wealth is from its natural resources. Originally farming, then gold, coal, oil, and uranium. Britain has some natural resources in the North sea, but London has been a centre of intellectual wealth for hundreds of years: before there were startups, there were the Rothschild's, banks, and every other kind of trader. Man Group started the first hedge fund in the world in London 200 years ago based on storms affecting the sugercane crop for their Royal Navy rum contract. Australia is still at the selling sugarcane stage.

So while the UK is a little more cynical than the US, it still appreciates the value can be created intellectually because it has that history. Australia doesn't, because money is made by digging things up and selling them. I met and worked with some incredibly talented technical people in Oz - Damien from BSD/ipfw, Skud from Perl, lots of SA folk from Usenix - but the general business community is very wary of tech.
I'll link to the famous poem ( http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html ) and let people decide whether English pronunciation has rules...
same thing happens at the beaches in malibu (all beaches are public land in california).
The headline is gimmicky wordplay, like most headlines.

"trivial" is mathematical. The headline makes "trivial" sound non-mathematical. Profundity is nowhere to be be found; the article is about triviality.
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I think the fact that he started businesses in those fields is somewhat self explanatory. What's so special about paypal, other than it was there for the rise of Internet 2.0 / ebay or whatever? Getting into coal and mobile phones before the past decade when both of these have exploded in growth is the same kind of thing.
I agree that population density is the key point. The South inarguably has lower population density overall, but my point is there are plenty of urban areas dense enough to have healthy tech sectors with "good tech jobs".

I live in Virginia. I lived in Alabama for a long time. I have friends who are good, solid developers living throughout the Southeast using technologies like Ruby on Rails, Go, Clojure, Node.js, Elastic Search, Cassandra/Spark, etc. Sure, some are consulting gigs, but plenty are startups. And none are for ideologically-questionable industries, unless you include NASA in defense.

My "anecdata" does not disprove what you're saying, but your statement doesn't mean much to me when you add qualifiers like "outside areas with strong tech sector presence." Sure, you're going to have fewer options for jobs in rural areas, but isn't that true everywhere?

In other words, the South has lower population density overall, but it still has areas of high population density, i.e., cities. And in my experience, the jobs in the Southern cities are no worse than jobs in other cities. You can find smart people using new exciting technology to solve interesting problems all over the South.
François Chollet, the author of keras, made the following tweet this morning: "For those wondering about Keras and TensorFlow: I hope to start working on porting Keras to TensorFlow soon (Theano support will continue)."
No, it wouldn't. As you extend the not inconsiderable mass of the cable towards the earth, your centre of gravity will move inward with it. Assuming your ship massed nothing compared to the cable, then the centre of gravity will be at the midpoint of the cable.

For the space elevator to work, the centre of gravity must be precisely in geostationary orbit (otherwise the entire elevator will drift relative to the ground).

You could achieve this by having a massy ship, and then carefully moving the ship outwards as you unreel the cable. But it's easier to have two cables. It also solves some other engineering problems, such as reaction effects as you control the speed at which the cable unreels.
>so that people would get a warning before being prosecuted under it

What about free speech? This law strikes me as fundamentally "unamerican."
Are waiting for patents to expire to use a cellphone?
is this compatible with pypy (or plan to be). Pypy is such an awesome project, done on such a small budget that it needs some well deserved love !
Collisions are when two different inputs hash to the same value, which breaks the security of the hash function.

If a hash function is cryptographically secure, it has the property where finding collisions is infeasable, which makes it suitable for evaluating equality.

This is why cryptographic hash functions are used as a proxy for passwords in order to avoid storing the plaintext.
As a percent of revenue the R&D increase doesn't look as crazy.

R&D as % of Revenue by year:

2013 39%

2014 37%

2015 44%

The marketing and sales expense goes from 13% to 21% of revenue in 2015

The growth in these line items really compress their margins in 2015.
It's not the content of the book that this person is talking about, but rather their disdain for some constructed "people" for not reading. Not sure where the ire is coming from, but it's more of a "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole" comment.

But, here I am writing this and here you are reading it.
I tested myself using my MacBook Pro's speakers. 7/10 correct.

I'm a musician and have a large CD, vinyl record, and digital audio collection. Honestly the knots some people twist themselves into over formats amuse me. I tend to focus on the music and the rhythm rather than the recording quality, at least above a minimum quality level. I prefer vinyl just because I do. :-)

[edit] the test page suggested my results were close to random, and I agree. I couldn't really tell a difference through the laptop speakers. It felt like I was guessing for each sample.
If you learn that x = y, then there isn't any "anything else".
I know the card reader says $1,000 when you check the value of the card, but when I actually go to spend it will it still be $1,000?
Legality is a major factor in what's interesting as a teen.

No surprise there.

Cigarettes are cheaper than vape gear, per pack of cigarettes that is, so it's a far easier product to get hold of if you can't get it legally.

The somewhat lesser evil here would be to help vape companies produce cheaper one-time use items that have comparable prices to cigarette packets. Which would most likely drive teens to use e-cigarettes before regular ones and by that at the very least somewhat reduce the damage they'll cause to themselves.

At the end of the day we can't stop teens from being teens. And they will drink and smoke.

What we CAN do is ease access to the least harmful items in favor of the more harmful ones.
I believe that study shows that the correct diet will actually heal cavities, not just prevent them. I don't know if it has been shown to be true though.
We should be thankful for Firesheep.

It was brilliantly simple, spread fast, and forced the major players to adopt HTTPS rather quickly.
Where is that rate coming from? Has Snapchat published any stats recently?
From my experience 4chan users are the trolls. Of course they have to recognize them so they don't get trolled by their fellow "anons."
I love zero knowledge proofs. My professor in college explained the idea in what I thought was an especially clear way:

Say that you and a friend are reading a Where's Waldo book, and you want to prove that you have found Waldo, but you don't want to tell your friend where Waldo is. This seems impossible. However, you could take a large piece of cardboard, cut out a Waldo-shaped hole, and place it over the book. Now you have proven that you can find Waldo.

"But wait!" cries your friend. "How do I know the book is even under there? Let me see." But you can't do that, since he knows roughly the spot Waldo would be if you lifted the cardboard.

So, you get a second piece of cardboard and put it on top of the first. Now, you play a game. You ask your friend whether you should lift one piece of cardboard (to verify the picture of Waldo) or two pieces (to verify that the book is beneath the second piece). You can play this game as many times as required for your partner to gain a reasonable confidence that you're not cheating.

And that's a zero knowledge proof.
That's not capitalism, that's market economics. Often (arguably universally at this point in history, but watch this space) found together but not at all the same.

Your point stands, nevertheless.
I spent the summer in Provo, UT (45 mins south of Salt Lake) and what I saw impressed me. Lots of development, lots of tech companies, low housing costs, low crime, low density. Also of the few cities in the world that have Google fiber, Provo is one of them.

Some drawbacks: only a little public transit infrastructcure, community has high percentage of mormons, strict laws on drinking.

Overall though there's a lot to like about it. If I had the money to invest in real estate, I would be looking in that area first, since I suspect that the place will boom within the next decade.