skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but in reality, most people don’t care much if someone’s monitoring their searches

Says who? Any reliable source to back this claim up?
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What about helping an asshole across the street?
You have a good point, thanks
HAHAHAHAA, checked comments just to see this
You could just intercept the syscalls responsible for writing to the filesystem or executing programs, which I believe is standard AV practice. That way you have two points were you can check a file for viruses, regardless of where it comes from: when it is first written to disk and when it's loaded into memory but hasn't started executing. No need to grab it at the network level at all.

It is more likely than the MiTM attack is being added in order to try to catch the traffic generated by an already installed piece of malware. Think a metamorphic trojan who talks to its command and control servers via HTTPS (maybe through a known social networking site). In such case, being able to decrypt the traffic might allow heuristic detection of a piece of malware that would normally avoid file-signature detection.
I think this is when a manager is supposed to add resources. I don't accept the idea that it should be normal for everyone to have to work ridiculous hours until the crunch is over.

It's the manager's job to make sure there is slack in production; that there are resources available for emergency situations, and that there is enough redundancy built into the production team that if somebody gets sick or somehow can't work a normal workload, somebody else can pick it up. If a crunch situation is unavoidable, as a manager, I would be deeply apologetic and appreciative of my employees' sacrifice, while frantically searching for a solution to ease the burden. If I can't bring in help, I need to adjust the scope or push back on the deadline. Plain and simple.
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> "where the fuck do you think you work, McDonald's?"

I'm stating the obvious here, but verbal abuse is not ok in a professional setting, never ever. There's nothing to justify it, not even "success" (a better cooked meal, more revenues coming in for the company etc).
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"Software updates" and "last a long time are not the same".

If anything, the former opposes the latter.
Do I understand this correctly? It's exposing the functionalites of IoT devices as advertised services (IoTaaS?), allowing them to be linked together (e.g. the timer from the microwave and the lightswitch), and provides an intuitive interface that, hopefully, end users might utilize.

Exposing the IoT functions as services seems brilliant to me (has it been discussed before?). What will we end up with? A overly redundent mess of IoT functions (e.g., how many devices have clocks)? Or maybe an IoT server on each home/office/car/phone (or more likely, in the cloud) that provides a central source for basic functions like timers, monitors, etc.?
I like the observation about the importance of concentration.

In addition to reading, I've noticed that studying mathematics is an opportunity to practice (or build) the ability to focus on frustratingly difficult material that requires a high attention to detail.
Impressive amount of information. Seems it might take a life-time just looking through it though.
Why I have such a strong negative reaction to #NoEstimates
It all sounded so good until the end of the header where it's described as a demo vfs. :-(
Browser extension APIs already provide a way to intercept and inspect network connections.

All they have to do is write an addon that communicates with the native part of the virus scanner.
Bad reviews for Taser documentary seem to come from Taser employees
I assume this is done with OpenType's ligature support, in the style of Bullshit Sans[1]?

[1]: http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
I think he's talking about C++ templates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming
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The inherent issue is that there's a huge performance benefit to be gained by batching updates. FS safety will always come at the cost of performance.

The article doesn't say but I suspect most of the issues it mentions can be mitigated by mounting with the "sync" and "dirsync" options, but that absolutely kills performance.

The APIs involved could definitely be friendlier, but the app developer is using an API that's explicitly performance oriented by default at the cost of safety, and needs to opt-in to get safer writes. Whether the default should be the other way around is one matter, but ultimately someone has to pick which one they want and live with the consequences.
Which version of the novel do you prefer ?
I would happily buy pre-made decks, but for decks I spend hours crafting myself, I want to know I have access them forever and not lose them if you get bought out or go bust.

Do you have export functionality?
Or...here's an idea: let me choose my security.

Maybe I have a different standard for a bank then a blog, or a router config page. Or maybe I don't. You don't have to choose for me, not in this case.
I just want to talk over Thai iced tea damn it! Screw this coffee and/or beer! Thai iced tea!
People that value reading differently than you?
That's interesting... my original comment wasn't actually meant as a criticism against Anki itself, more a criticism against college schedules. And that's because I was taking as gospel that the Anki/SuperMemo style of algorithm is basically what you need for long-term retention.

It sounds like you're not so much challenging that as you are offering more flexibility and control over what and when you'd like to retain?

(I wonder what college degree programs would look like if they actually were structured in a way to better reinforce long-term retention.)
That the comment as a whole is confusing doesn't matter.

The point is that you should use something human-scale to show off the strength of gravity.

So if you want a fridge-sized block that can hold things with gravity like a normal fridge holds a magnet, how heavy does it have to be? As heavy as an entire mountain.
It seems they wanted to get caught to show off and get publicity to further that.

It was a pretty impressive heist but the after-execution flopped like a plane made out of mercury.

They gambled on the courts not prosecuting old-timers for compassionate reasons.

Yet, the coolest thief/ves wouldn't have let themselves be caught and would be basking on a warm tropical island they own.
Because the entrenched incumbents were pushing piles of garbage for phones because they thought they had a walled garden due to Japanese language support.

iPhones came in and blew a hole in that.
Several abandonware websites host the manual but I am not sure if legally, so I won't link to them here. While Chris Crawford used to distribute the "classic" Mac OS version of the game as freeware he has since removed the freeware downloads from his website.
The anecdotes show inexperience on both sides. If you are taking interviews with so many bad startup founders that you are able to compile a list like this, maybe you should work on your own filtering mechanism to stop talking to people who will waste your time.
Because he's not taking the godawful software with him. That's staying.

It's also a problem for me because he's done his damage. I want to make high-quality software, on time, that does what the customers need. I want this out of both a sense of personal pride, and also because I need the company to keep making sales so they can keep giving me money.
Great. Shoot me an email if you need any help with that kind of stuff. I'm glad to help: marcus[at]karoumi[dot]com
When you guys have some api documentation I'd love to hear about it. I find myself relying more and more on 'life automation', dashboards and reminders that help to measure, as well as encourage productivity from work, to exercise, to independent study. The ability to tie in personal metrics as well as random samples of card sets would make the difference between binge using an app like memorang or light continuous use; integrated in day to day life.
I'm from India and I am not really sure on how CS is taught to primary/middle school students, but I really think creating a new subject in a system that already has too many subjects is just silly.

School students really need to just learn "programming". Students should instead to be taught about programming in a lot (maybe even all) of their classes.
Programming in maths and science classes is obvious, but students can be given the option to mess around with electronics to create different sounds in their music classes, or instead of being asked to submit papers/essays in history, they could create an interactive site. Basically, the idea here is they should be able to program for all and any of their classes and the idea of this programming should be to create something, and not solve mundane computer science problems, which they can be tested on at the end of the year.
People talk a lot about programming being similar to math, programming ability being similar to mathematics ability. I've always been a shitty symbol-pusher and a reasonable programmer, so I thought this was a bunch of bullshit. Then I actually took a post-calculus math course (Intro to Analysis and Linear Algebra). The material was irrelevant but the cognitive muscles exercised were very similar.
> Like that my long-time favorite, XFS, totally kicks ass in the
> comparisons.

I think you'll find this an interesting read then:
http://teh.entar.net/~nick/mail/why-reiserfs-is-teh-sukc

It's written in 2004 so I don't know how current it is, but it makes
the point that XFS makes certain performance & safety guarantees
essentially assuming that you're running on hardware that has a UPS
with the ability to interrupt the OS saying "oops, we're out of
power".
Is C++ template metaprogramming really the most desirable feature to add to the C# programming language? I really hope not.

I occasionally wish there were ways to get at the compiler features that add "yield return" and "async ... await" to the C# language and use them for your own extensions, but the hacks that make c++ templates turing-complete definitely don't seem to be a desirable way to do it.
Specifically for Medical vocabulary, I heard that MosaLingua recently released an app:
http://www.mosalingua.com/applications-apprendre/medical-eng...
Vuvuzela was discussed on the front page 11 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10668494

The first link on that page ("SOSP 2015 paper") points to a more detailed version of this paper.
The challenge of innovation is to see the possibilities. That's what makes it hard; anyone can see potential flaws - if that's what it took everyone would do it. I'd much prefer that we focus on the former.
The other thing to consider is the normal consequence of the 90:9:1 rule, which I'm not sure applies to the current mobile market. One of the reasons why that ratio is problematic is that one company is reaping the vast majority of the profits and can invest more heavily than competitors can. This leads to stagnation as the entrenched company invests just enough to keep their product superior to competitors and keeps the rest as profits.

But the mobile market is unique in that the revenue share is much more even. Apple's share of mobile profits is far more than the 14% of mobile users mentioned. This means that despite Google having a large lead in the overall number of users, both companies are able to invest similarly in their platform and the competition between the two is far more intense than almost any other 90:9:1 situation. The same holds true with the ecosystems around the mobile platforms...iOS users are much more valuable to app developers and the Android market is much more fragmented which means that both ecosystems have a thriving developer community.
I'm not sure if this comparison holds.

Space-time is the environment that matter moves through. Curvatures in spacetime affects how matter moves.

What is the electromagnetic gauge field? Why does it only affect charged particles? Why does it affect particles differently depending on the type of charge they hold (positive/negative)?

It doesn't seem to be the same thing as spacetime.
> It is also worth noting that certificate pinning in Chrome was deliberately weakened to accept a self signed CA certificate in order to maintain compatibility with the aforementioned corporate web filters.

All major browsers (including firefox) allow MitM for a user installed CA. This is not Chrome-specific.
Can you say which company this is? I feel like I should try to work there
> In particular, this article reports that Avast will accept revoked SSL certificates, which is a problem.

It should be noted that Chrome itself has this problem. Android does as well. Rather odd given Google's generally proactive work on SSL.
Good to see this on HN. I know Guardian Project and F-Droid lean on it, as it's great for trying to sort out issue with deterministic builds

I also used it once to add log output into the resulting smali code (which was obfuscated and I couldn't walk through easily), and repackaging that back into an apk helped me understand the obfuscated code in the app

https://github.com/intrepidusgroup/IGLogger
Great questions. I can't answer as detailed as I would like to do.

But, I can't be 100% sure that these watches will be of the same quality, but I'm 99% sure. I've dealed with these manufacturers for a while and we have a tight partnership.

I don't want to misinterpret and give you wrong info, so what do you mean with ballpark? Not sure what you mean :)
Does Elon Musk want to sanitise artificial intelligence?
Clearly OP needs to read more books.
I'd be very interested to know what that benchmark is, because you're either doing something very wrong, or it isn't relevant to the systems programming topic being discussed. A 1000x perf difference should be easy to show.
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Well, warmer in the north means longer growing seasons than at present, so that makes the land capable of growing better crops. Plus, there is less sunlight in the winter, but a lot more sunlight in the summer, which happens to coincide with the growing season.

What is the cost of swapping to non-CO2 energy? I don't think that number exists. Also, I'm not entirely convinced that switching to completely non-CO2 energy is even practical at present. Could we provide our energy needs with full solar / wind, even if we were willing to pay the price, given current efficiency and availability of supply? What do we do when it is dark or not windy?

I totally don't understand your point about the red line on the map. I was already familiar with the location of the equator, which is what it seems to emphasize. The reason most people don't live at the equator is that most land is not at the equator. A lot of the land there is desert, but that is not the equator's fault. The people that are in the watered parts get all sorts of diverse plants and animals to live in, and yummy tropical fruits. I'll take more of that up north, thanks!
"What am I doing with my life?"

Finding a more suitable reference point, I hope. If everyone who isn't Leslie Lamport is a failure, you're not an imposter - you're playing the role of a failure like the rest of us.
Riot.js - React + polymer. But better.
Good discussion. I don't know anything about a many posts here (not a programmer by trade, and barely a hobbyist) and I don't work in startups. But there are a lot of interesting things that are posted here and the intelligent discussion keeps me coming back.
Volunteering is one thing, and very cool to do to take some of the stress off of people with children. But asking an employee is quite another (IMO). It's a form of soft discrimination, though not intended as such I'm sure.

(Though, thinking about it, I was told once "Yeah, well, you don't have kids, so this [the holiday] isn't that important for you." that wasn't a startup, however, that was a F100)
Agreed.

But why didn't journalist investigate this further? That's what I find most disturbing about the article.
The challenge with community college is that you really need to push ahead of the average student, skip intro classes to accelerate yourself, etc. community college, due to the population that attends, has two sets of courses: (1) specific courses that feed into specific jobs, like dental hygenish, and (2) remedial gen ed space-filling courses to round out the degree.

If you are looking for the equivalent of reputable liberal-arts degree (the closest you can get to a "liberal sciences" or engineering degree), you need to find the most advanced gen ed classes and skip over the remedial/basics... and then after 2-3 years transfer to another college for your BA/BS; hopefully with an academic scholarship backed by your poverty and stellar grades so far.
This is a good point. Depending on the stage of the company and the type of people working there it is very possible to have productive working relationships that would never extend to events outside the office.

But that doesn't mean a first meeting outside the office over beer or coffee isn't a good idea. It isn't necessarily part of "bro culture" either.

I've found that it's a good way to have a conversation with someone to get a feel for what they like to think about, and hopefully learn a little bit about what kind of decision maker someone is.
> The only way to really be sure is to check your files after
> writing them that they match.

This is assuming that the underlying block device would forcibly flush
those queued writes to disk and then re-read them again rather than
just serve them up directly from the pending write queue directly
without flushing them first.

You generally can't make that assumption about a black box, so reading
back your writes guarantees nothing.

Unless you're intimately familiar with your underlying block device
you really can't guarantee anything about writes going to physical
hardware. All you can do is read its documentation and hope for the
best.

If you need a general hack to that's pretty much guaranteed to flush
your writes to a physical disk it would be something like:

After your write, append X random bytes to a file where X is
greater than your block device's advertised internal memory, then
call fsync().

Even then you have no guarantees that those writes wouldn't be flushed to the medium while leaving the writes you care about in the block device's internal memory.
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A simple screenshot on the landing page would make this a lot easier to immediately understand.
Defence analyst who helped develop F-16 claims Turkey ambushed Russian Su-24
Because amex has higher fees to compensate for thier more generous rewards program.
This desperately needs someone who can write in plain English to actually explain it without the MIT imagineering jargon. The video helps somewhat, but I suspect if someone described this in plain English it'd seem a lot less exciting than they want it to be.
OT but is anyone else seeing a Zalgo font? Looks really broken.
And this right here is one of the biggest reasons why I decided to go back to college.
I've heard of organic semiconductors but I had no idea they had advanced to the point where they could be used for an SoC. Is 2 microns small enough for an ARM core ?

This sounds like it could become very important. Do you know of any sites that do a better job of explaining this technology ?
Interesting but considering how cities exist today, specially large cities that are basically concrete/steel jungles, I guess it would take decades for wooden buildings to reach, say, a 20-25% share.
I'm speculating that they earned money without reporting it and then used that money to purchase those assets. The gov't doesn't tax the asset you own but it would be interested in knowing if you reported the income that you used to purchase the asset.
That is the whopping total of thirteen incidents/news stories in one week. None involving the loss of a single life and few involving physical injury in a nation of over 300 million people with between five and eight million Muslims where about 300 people are murdered every week and many more the victims of violence or threats of violence each week for many different reasons. This at most tiny upsurge against the backdrop of a terrorist attack in France and an apparent terrorist attack costing fourteen lives in San Bernardino, CA likely to inflame passions. I would say good will and tolerance are winning hands down here. Let's keep it that way.
It reminds me of this article: http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300072551/microsofts-enterpris...
Sounds good. We'll probably make a post in our blog (http://blog.memorangapp.com) so stay tuned. To that note, each individual study set has some decent metrics on where you stand in relation to everyone studying the same thing as well as general performance/improvement, it's not perfect but it's a start. Check it out for one of our most popular sets https://www.memorangapp.com/flashcards/117/Exotic+Cats+%28ex... click on the "Study stats" tab and you'll see. This is all data we want to make available over the API.
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This needs to be split up into cases. For-profit schools are certainly a cesspool. Students should not attend. they attend because they are desperate and can't get into public or non-profit schools (because public schools are underfunded by govt, and non-profit schools are... too few? why aren't more non-profit schools appearing, with reasonable tuition?)

Is there still a loan problem at public schools and expensive non-profit schools like GWU? Why?
dual n-back is questionable in terms of improving iq / working memory, but if you want to try something much more concentration intensive than possibly anything else, give it a shot

brainworkshop seems to be the most popular tool
This is mostly due to the fact that iPhones are ridiculously expensive in Poland (over 50% premium over Galaxy S6 Edge, for instance). Most of the Polish people who can afford buying an iPhone are those who emigrated to UK or Germany :)
Windows doesn't allow you to "just intercept syscalls" and hasn't for about eight years.
Why wouldn't the government hire shortist-term employees for road projects, same as the contractors do? contractors aren't out building private highways for the rest of the time everywhere.
> I'm really not an equal opportunity employer.

I'm always surprised when people open themselves up for legal liability like this.
"Eliminating mosquitoes is more likely to alter ecosystems compared with approaches that equip the insects with malaria resistance, Esvelt says."

Since we don't know what effects wiping out this entire species of mosquito might have on the other species further up the food chain whose lives may depend on it, couldn't taking this kind of drastic action be potentially disastrous?
The majority of housing in the US isn't even built to last 100 years (shingle roofs need replacing after ~25 years and a typical wood building will quickly deteriorate once the roof fails).