skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From some point of view it is awesome, but personally that bomb detector is a kind of fraud I seriously believe should be punished much harder than cold-blooded murder. The producer is making shit ton of money on knowingly exploiting countries and putting many people at risk. I wonder how many lives this device has already claimed.
Obama is enforcing the immigration laws much more than Bush, who was an open borders radical.

But neither has done much immigration enforcement.

The Mexican economy has done very well over the past 30 years. It started very backwards but finally passed the US economy for the first time in opportunities for many people in 2007. That was partly because of the US crisis. Mexico has continued to grow since then.
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Don't assume all, or even many, Republican voters believe this. Those of a more libertarian bent unequivocally do not.

Sure, many of the politicians seem to support outlawing encryption. But that's true of both parties is it not?
Leftists are the true Puritans. Got it.
I found this to be a very interesting article on ISIS with insights to their communications,

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-in...

When people left Bucca, they had written each other's names & numbers on the elastic of their underwear.

They also responded to Anonymous' threat toward ISIS by suggesting techniques to secure Comms and what to avoid.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/isis-anonymous-statement-2...

I would suggest that this cell did not use protection but I am confident the larger ISIS network is not so transparent. My suspicions would be that most Comms is via word of mouth.
I heard that minorities don't understand sarcasm.
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I wish I could find a better link for this, but Anker needs to build themselves a corporate blog to put their PR stuff on.
Great time to be a woman in tech!
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Right. They started being serious about security in 2003, it just took another 10-12 years for most people to get off of 2001's XP to actually start seeing the benefits. :)
This is anecdotal, sure, but I think worth noting. Of my youngest students that I teach, starting around 4 or 5, I've consistently noticed that the most developmentally advanced students in terms of language, patience, and focus are the ones that have very sarcastic and witty conversations with their parents and/or me. They are also always very pleasant to work with (sense of humor!). There are times where I am surprised the student even understands that what's being said isn't literal, but they do get it and will joke back.

I'm convinced this type of rhetoric forces an additional cognitive load on the child's brain that helps with context, perspective, and self-awareness which in my mind, are the absolute most powerful aspects of becoming an intelligent individual. This is sort of the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well and is the most important "gateway" concept when teaching anyone anything.
The reported poor performance of both red mercury nuclear devices and the ADE 651 are due to the integrators' failure to power them with the output of a properly-calibrated Turboencabulator.

Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
After divorcing Microsoft, IBM tried the same thing with Apple in project Taligent.
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Well they haven't got a good track record when it comes to unencrypted communication so...
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Stop spreading partisan crap. Read the first response to that comment.
It's not a given that a stock that just popped 15% trades the same as a stock that was offered at a 15% higher price in the first place.
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but when sarcasm ace meets sarcasm ace, holy cow it can be some funny material.

Also known as British Humor.

Maybe we should call this a Monty Python scenario.
"The SeatGeek app now allows you to send tickets to anyone else, right from your phone. Your friend will be able to get into the game with the app – no printing, no meeting..."

Um, maybe.

The venue has no obligation to accept phone scans, and a growing number of venues is refusing to allow people to just scan a PDF off their phones rather than have a printed instrument because it is a growing vector for fraud.
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"France is a democracy"

But that does not mean they're a victim, if you're a french citizen who elected a government that then went on to do ABC that does not mean that you as a citizen supported that.

"represents the people of France"

What does that mean though? does that mean that if a government that i elected goes on to do awful things, represent me?

Governments do horrific things their citizens don't support from time to time, i don't think that the US government represented all americans when they decided to drop atomic bombs in 1945.
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Interesting blog article how to structure logs for monolitic or service oriented application.
About half way through this one you can get a small glimpse into what the public generally thinks.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/modern-immigration-wav...
And, for lovers of Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/focus-by-caba...
It's going to be pretty bad.

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/02/i-need-an...

> If we can’t stop the infection, however, we can’t stop the sepsis. A world without effective antibiotics will mean that every one of the 100,000 people who develop sepsis each year in the UK - every one of the 18 million people with sepsis each year worldwide - could certainly die from simple infections like chest and water infections. A human could die from infection every second.

> When I started treating people with bacterial infections it was rare that I didn’t have tablet antibiotics that I could treat them with; rare that I needed to keep people in hospital to treat their infections. Now every week, I treat young women with last resort antibiotics for urinary tract infections. Rather than given them a simple 7-day tablet course, they have to stay in hospital for a week or more, or come to the hospital every day for an injection.

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2014/11/18/10-reason...

> When we discuss antibiotic resistance we talk about a frightening future and rightly ask for action to stop the problem from getting worse. But this doesn't mean it's all just an issue for future generations. It’s estimated that 25,000 people already die every year in Europe because of infections resistant to antibiotics and in the USA the figure is 23,000 people, every year.

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/18/7-more-re...

> In 2013 there were 480,000 recorded cases of multi drug-resistant TB (TB that can’t be treated by our usual medicines). TB is a bacterial infection that can spread through the lymph nodes and blood stream to any organ in your body. It commonly affects the lungs and while a lot of people might not consider it to be an issue in the UK, or think it couldn’t affect them, this isn’t true. 37 million lives worldwide have been saved by antibiotic treatment for TB since 2000. In some countries, it is becoming increasingly difficult to treat MDR-TB. Treatment options are limited, recommended medicines are not always available, and patients experience many adverse effects from the drugs.
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this is excellent feedback, and is a great articulation of what i have been feeling, but perhaps lacking confidence to say to myself. thank you, you have probably saved me a month of useless development through this.
Hi,

Some time ago I wrote an article about Apache Spark: http://blog.brakmic.com/data-science-for-losers-part-3-scala...

However, I don't think that writing a comparison of such complex technologies within an introductory article would be of much value to readers. Of course, it would be easy to create some tabular structure containing "pro/contra" about Flink and Spark, but this would be way too simplistic, imho.

To be honest, I don't consider myself an expert on Flink and/or Spark so it would be unfair towards my readers to embed such a comparison within the article.

But a properly written comparison could be of value for those who have to decide what kind of processing (batch/streaming/machine learning etc.) they need to fulfill some specific (that is, "business") tasks.

Kind Regards,
Harris
Makes sense. I'm a woman with a BS degree already from a highly-ranked college, still considering applying to this school, however, because:

I don't have the upfront money to pay tuition for other private schools. Total cost of a college degrees to job is ~$100K which is way higher. I don't want to spend 4 more years and accumulate a ton of loans. Colleges also don't share the risk with me of getting a job. This makes me think this school has much more incentive to educate me well. My undergrad college took my tuition whether I got a great job out of it or not (which I didn't :P). The school is new though so I'm a bit weary of not seeing a track record. I'm going to do more careful research now before applying.
I searched both of those pages for "bachelor" and came up empty.

In any case, my larger point, about college being dumbed down over the past few decades, still stands.
That is serious coolness.

Could you wrap all this code to have something like <audio> tag playing XMs? Having same API/events as <audio>? In particular I would like to see playbackRate.

I was working on music game and tempo effect was considered. I was wondering at a time if usage of tracker modules would give advantage. Especially ease of changing tempo and maybe automatic conversion of beats to levels.

Now is there HTML5 Tracker?
What on earth makes you think Osama Bin Laden would start detailing everything he knew to his captors, assuming he allowed them to take him alive in the first place? I'm not seeing much benefit to keeping evidently successful propaganda channels alive either.
Simple math - more people will turn out to see a movie rated PG-13 instead of R. So that's what the studios tend to shoot for.
Local component state is the new two-way data binding.

Three years ago, two-way data binding was the gold standard for niceness. Then React came out, and there was buzz around unidirectional data flow, and a lot of (understandable!) skepticism came with it.

If you listen to people who have spent a lot of time with two-way data binding and unidirectional data flow, what you hear are a lot of unidirectional data flow converts and not a lot of people saying "yeah it wasn't awesome so I went back to two-way data binding."

We're watching the same thing play out with local component state versus a single state atom architectures like The Elm Architecture, Redux, etc. As with the React transition, there is understandable skepticism around new things claiming to be nice, but the writing is on the wall.

If you listen to people who have spent a lot of time with both systems, what you hear are a lot of single state atom converts and not a lot of people saying "yeah it wasn't awesome so I went back to local component state."
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I don't think this logic stands up. Does the presence of widespread illegal activity automatically imply that said illegal activity has the moral high ground?

Is it impossible to acknowledge that sometimes, people will have conflicts, but that one has the right to decide how they'll be resolved, and the other doesn't?
Still much better than the situation in Britain. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charlielyne/make-the-ce...
A recent example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-34...
And what were those western states before they were Mexican?

The US stole its original territory from England, who had stolen it from the previous inhabitants. The US continued that trend--taking sovereignty over territory via application of force--until hitting the Mississippi. Then, a rare purchase agreement between the US and Napoleon, who had taken land from Spain, who had taken it from rebels, who had taken it from Spain, who had taken it from a previous iteration of France, who had, of course, taken it from the previous inhabitants.

Southwest of Louisiana, that land was added to the US by frequent petitions to join the federation. Previously independent, taken by rebellion from Mexico, who had previously taken it by rebellion from Spain and France, who had taken it from the previous inhabitants.

Mexico took this badly, and in the ensuing war with the US, Alta California changed sovereignty to the US, with monetary compensation to Mexico. The land was previously held by rebels who objected to war with the US, who took it from Mexico, who took it from Spain, who, as usual, took it from the people who had already been living there.

So let's not argue too much about who stole what from whom. The elites like to redraw the maps, as the people on the actual land care little for the border invisibly whooshing over their heads.

And really, the US did pay Mexico $15M (in 1848-1853) for it, even though Mexico had already lost control of much of it to rebels and malcontents, just like what happened in Texas. A bit later, the US purchased Mesilla from Mexico, and there is the modern border.

I doubt Americans would care much about Mexican immigration if our politicians had not selected immigrants as a scapegoat group. They like to blame unemployment on worker competition instead of capital flight, because that makes it look less like their fault.
The second moment occurred soon after he turned twelve, when he
was given “a little book dealing with Euclidean plane
geometry.” The book’s “lucidity,” he wrote—the idea that a
mathematical assertion could “be proved with such certainty
that any doubt appeared to be out of the question”—provoked
“wonder of a totally different nature.”

Mathematical proofs, first really introduced in Geometry classes for most US students around 9th or 10th grade, are what really hooked me on math. I understood everything up to that point (and after), but it was a structural understanding (the rules and syntax, essentially). Once we arrived at logic, I (as a very bored precocious student) spent most of my class time proving everything from the axioms we were given (for algebra or geometry) that I could.

Giving students the tools to play and explore freely (we had proof assignments, of course, but I took it far beyond that) is what really hooks them on a subject. Mandate that they must read these books, they'll hate it. Require them to read a book and a few excerpts of others, and give them access to a large library, and they'll read forever. Same with every other subject. That's where many of the real geniuses[0] of a field come from.

[0] Whether technically geniuses by IQ or just acknowledged as such for their understanding and creations.
"China's manufacturing labor costs are now above Mexico's"

China's wages and taxes are both still lower, but Mexico is enormously less corrupt and your trade secrets won't get stolen. It's a whole lot easier and cheaper to start a business as an outsider and dispute resolution isn't quite so insanely biased.
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Only the official marketplace can validate the barcodes. For example, Ticketexchange for most pro sports other than baseball and StubHub for most major league baseball teams.

An individual can do an ad hoc validation of a given ticket by trying to create a listing on the official marketplace. You will be able to create a listing only if the ticket is valid and unencumbered (by an existing resale listing).
I'm referring to brogrammer/jock culture. Don't be so sensitive when people criticize sarcasm. A few women have written about the way some men communicate with each other can be alienating.
> It strikes a person who pays attention to such things as rather methodical.

There's a reason journalists are also referred to as vultures.

If you're interesting in how media spin works, I have found Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday eye opening. It focuses more on the marketing aspect, but it works for anything. He for instance described how you can spin controversy out of nothing in order to promote products.
Yet another bit of reality that conflicts with market fundamentalism -- some things that are not profitable are still good and necessary.
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this is some great insight, thanks!
Not really. I think one side has pretty thoroughly won. Look at the recent Barbie commercial with the boy in it -- that would have unleashed a firestorm a few years ago, but conservative groups remained utterly silent on it and the media is filled with nothing but heaps of praise for it.
But then how will I send you sixteen emails reminding you to complete your free trial?
(I'm a slacking OpenBSD developer and a unikernel hacker, so I guess I should respond :-)

Pledging is the most usable form of priv-dropping I've seen yet in any OS, since it was designed after looking at the "flow" of how a typical daemon interacts with the kernel, rather than a low-level syscall interface that the typical programmer would have no idea about. I've used many of the different privilege dropping interfaces in OpenBSD over the years, and to recall the journey:

- Separating out syslogd back in 2003 was a fun adventure in manual privsepping before it became mainstream; I think just sshd used in it base before that. This required building an automaton of how the privileged messages from syslog would work, and carefully coordinating the state machine and message passing around that. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=105967566808306&w=2

At this point we had two processes, but the root process couldn't do fine-grained dropping of privileges and just had to be carefully audited by lots of people.

- systrace came along, which allowed policies to be built about which syscalls could be called. The policy language was limited, so I got really excited by the possibilities and wrote a DSL to make it easier to build systrace policies; http://anil.recoil.org/papers/sam03-secpol.pdf. In the end I gave up on using systrace since it was so brittle to unrelated changes in libc or dependent libraries changing the order of system calls and causing apps to break all the time.

- Pledge is almost the opposite of systrace. You provide a series of human-readable strings, and the OS takes care of mapping those to groups of syscalls. This makes so much more sense, since the person making the change can also update the pledge, and applications don't break! If you look at OpenBSD current, over half of the base daemons are now pledging. At no point are there insanely complex policies like SELinux, nor are there the race conditions of systrace. In fact, the most similar approach to this I've found is MacOS X entitlements, which also let the application specify what functionality it would like (as opposed to what syscalls it needs)

So, what's the relation to unikernels? Well, they are completely the opposite approach. Instead of starting with a wide kernel interface and then restricting it, unikernels start with a very narrow interface (the hypervisor) and build up higher level abstractions as they are demanded by the application.

This happens via a series of libraries, and so the programmer can choose at compile time how to weave in privilege levels and the use of hardware enforcement (such as processes).

I can see both pledge and unikernels converging in the future, specifically by a linker that would be aware of the pledges that a library needs, and mapping the appropriate hardware enforcement into the resulting unikernel. I'm not aware of anyone actually working on this, but get in touch with me if you are interested... (anil@recoil.org)
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While I question the effectiveness of current practices, a number of people identified the ringleader but it was ignored.

I suspect he was identified because there was a person on the ground, talking and interacting with real people. Anyone that thinks this war will be won in an armchair using a PC or by dropping bombs is deluding themselves.
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I gave a talk going through this very conundrum. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0DXNB94NE
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Exactly.

Also, per tradition, let me post a handy reference on coordination problems:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Sarcasm failure
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kinda off topic question but : Why is this under the "ask hn" label? It doesn't seem to be a question. Is it because the title starts with the word "why"? (Are submissions put under the sections based on titles automatically?)
We're working with venues and have venue access control policies within our data model for every event. A substantial majority of venues support mobile entry. For a minority of events, you do indeed need to print tickets – in these cases we clearly indicate to the user that printing is necessary.
Magic numbers are bad, now that's a news flash.
I'm not sure if it was [0] or [1]..

[0]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elm-discuss/NJCZFIYxshE/di...

[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elm-discuss/ZJ6lkfPimW8/di...
"Employers say students don’t have the ability to … think critically, innovate, solve complex problems and work well in a team." otherwise known as "work place experience".
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Taking money from someone under intentionally false pretenses is fraud.
PlanGrid is doing really cool stuff. I hope the high-speed VC growth trajectory does not kill them. There's so much money in this space.
Liberals simultaneously believe they can outlaw guns but they can't outlaw drugs. Hypocrisy can be fun to notice in your hated enemy, but sometimes you have to dig into the details of each idea separately without analogies to similar surface level ideas.
I tried to sell my recliner, but I couldn't find a way to upload it.
> One edge case, while unfortunate, is not a very strong argument for why everyone sitting in Starbucks or McDonalds deserves to have their internet activity spied upon by anyone with a copy of Wireshark.

Who argued for that? Nobody has asked for SSL to be banned, or for SSL to not be available, or even that SSL shouldn't be the default.
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"Three of them likened the atmosphere at Rent the Runway to the 2004 film Mean Girls. Each one made that reference separately, without prodding."

"The former employee adds that there were “frequent screaming matches” in the office between top executives."

“You don’t feel it’s an environment where women support each other,” an ex-employee told the the magazine under condition of anonymity. “It felt like high school, it was very clique-y.”

With an executive team that's over 75% female, it's a shame to see it getting such bad press from former employees. In terms of gender representation, RTR was a rarity the tech space.
BTW, the book that was briefly mentioned in the article, Fractals, Chaos, and Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Schroeder (http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Power-Laws-Infinite/dp/...) is truly excellent, it is written in the form of short pieces collected into chapters investigating a very wide-ranging set of phenomena, ranging from Brownian Motion to self-similarity, Cantor sets and cellular automata. For $10-$15 on Amazon, it's a great bargain!