skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The hustling life" and becoming "a more well-rounded person" don't typically seem to go together. I admire Ms. Baskin's creativity and industriousness. But I don't imagine constant hustling to be amenable to well-roundedness. Just from reading the article it would appear she's got everything together and is really enjoying what she's doing. If that's the case then I congratulate her because work satisfaction is increasingly difficult to find in the modern world. For every one Ms. Baskin there are thousands who wear multiple hats not because they enjoy it but because that's their only way to survive.
> the most rigorous safety regulations but Fukushima still slipped through

The Fukushima plant was overdue for a complete upgrade. The seawall was also supposed to be raised. It was an ancient 50 year old plant that got hit by not just one of the largest earthquakes Japan has ever seen, but also a massive, catastrophic tsunami. The fact that it took all those factors to knock the plant out gives me great confidence in nuclear power. Newer plants would not be susceptible to those kinds of issues. Short of a meteor crashing down on one (or an actual act of God), newer plants are completely safe. Safer, in fact, than any other.
> could have politely knocked on the door, informed the residents what was happening without ever drawing a weapon, or forcing anyone to the ground.

... but then they wouldn't get to stage a raid that justified their purchase of military surplus gear.
Better to know that by default ANYTHING is unsanitized than this: $a=$_GET["username"]; echo "Hello &amp; Welcome $a";

By tainting, the & in the &amp; would be double escaped as $a would carry its taint over to the output string. No thanks, I like to know what is escaped and where.
What a victim mentality here.

Freedom requires constant vigilance.

When you collectively fall asleep for three generations and allow the asshole class to subvert the rule of law, you deserve whatever you get.
I see that you mentioned Nim. Have you used it much? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on main features which makes D your favourite over Nim.
Not true. The people who run the Indian economy acknowledge the dangers of Coal. However, transitioning is hard and it takes time.. time which we unfortunately don't have. That is the reason India demanded the developed nations to acknowledge it's role in contributing to the problems of climate change and help the developing countries counter it via aid (100 billion USD per year) that will be used for R&D and building the necessary infrastructure to move away from coal as a primary source for energy production. Quoting the COP21 Agreement Section III, 54: "Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per
year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries" (Read more about it here:
http://www.wri.org/blog/2015/06/how-can-world-secure-100-bil...)

The Indian Prime Minister made it clear in COP21 summit that India is looking towards moving away from fossil fuels to clean energy. You can read his full speech here: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/12/01/narendra-modis...

I'll quote the relevant parts:

"Democratic India must grow rapidly to meet the aspirations of 1.25 billion people, 300 million of whom are without access to energy.

We are determined to do so, guided by our ancient belief that people and planet are inseparable; that human well being and Nature are indivisible.

So, we have set ambitious targets. By 2030, we will reduce emissions by 33 to 35% per cent of 2005 levels, and 40 per cent of our installed capacity will be from our non- fossil fuels.

We will achieve it by expanding renewable energy – for, example, by adding 175 Gigawatts of renewable generation by 2022. We will enlarge our forest cover to absorb at least 2.5 billion tonnes worth of carbon dioxide.

We are reducing dependence on fossil fuel through levies and reduction in subsidies; switching sources of fuel where possible; and, transforming cities and public transportation."
I wonder if at some point in the future this will seem like a reasonable request for IS to make?
You want a cite for what? China now has a law requiring encryption keys on demand. What does that mean, what does it refer to? It could refer to the symmetric key (DEK) for disk encryption, and if so Microsoft already escrows that and Apple used to offer to do it. Does it refer to either the private key from these companies used for establishing TLS connections to their services? Or the private key generated on device for services using end to end encryption? I'd say the device private key is a huge freaking deal but still plausible they'd want that and get it upon request, more plausible than Apple, Google, whoever, saying no to China. The company's private key? I'd say no way they'd do that, they'd sooner use a cert issued by China for this purpose.
I don't shave my legs. My wife does. I shave my face and my wife takes my extra razors to shave her legs.
T.S.A. Moves Closer to Rejecting Some State Driver’s Licenses for Travel
> Is there a mixins proposal for ES7 ?

What’s more likely to make it to ES.whenever:

1. “Here’s a mixins proposal, it would make the language better.”

2. “People are writing mixins and like them, but some syntactic sugar would helps standardize the way they’re written. Here’s a proposal to do that.”

:-)
This is just an all around terrible article.

The fact that they cite the claim that women are paid 79% of what men make (a statistic which is only true when you don't account for other important factors such as occupation, experience, and hours worked), tells you about all you need to know about how serious they take their statistics.

Beyond that, anyone who has ever worked in sales can tell you there are huge differences in buying behavior between men and women. Of course, I'm being overly general here, but men and women simply value different things. My wife looks for shampoo and carefully evaluates the scent, the brand, and any special additives that might make her hair more silky/shiny/etc. She's willing to pay a premium for the right combination of features she desires. I look for the cheapest price and could care less what the shampoo claims to do. Same thing with salons. My wife wants to be pampered, have a wonderful experience, and values working with the same stylist on a long-term basis. I don't mind being pampered, but if it costs me more than $30, I'd rather go watch ESPN while some new cosmetology grad cuts my hair for $19. My wife gets much more value out of salon services -- so they can charge her a premium.

They also seem to assume some gender neutral products are "male" products when it's unclear why that would be the case. Both boys and girls like the color red. Why is a red scooter a boy's scooter? Since many people like red, you can get your unit cost down with generic high volume products (though, I also believe Target when they say this was a glitch in their system). You start making modified products that clearly appeal to a more niche market and it's reasonable to assume you might pay a premium.

Lastly, if this was actually some big conspiracy against women, why does the ruthless financial industry seem to behave so much better than these alleged conspirators? My wife sure gets a much better deal on life and auto insurance than I do...
You seem to think that everyone hired by a company rather than a staffing agency under H1B is in category 1, but it isn't so. I won't bother to name names
Selection bias, many enthusiastic "Yes" replies here, but consider those who are offline/vacation aren't here to reply "No".

For your productivity and health, it's important to unplug and enjoy holidays - http://qz.com/485226/this-is-what-365-days-without-a-vacatio...

For those that replied "Yes" wonder if the majority are from the United States, being it's the only "Rich Country" that does not require employers to provide paid vacation time - http://cepr.net/publications/reports/no-vacation-nation-2013
A lonely road
>The reported issue is fixed. If it wasn't, Ormandy wouldn't have marked the bug as "Fixed", and said "I believe this issue is resolved now". Presumably, AVG has also promised to "...get a professional web audit of those whitelisted domains...".

The XSS is not fixed. Loading the link still executes arbitrary javascript. If the audit is agreed but not performed (which doesn't seem evident from the page) then they should wait until it's complete before publicizing this.

>.how else would AVG get the update into the hands of users? Email a copy to them?

I meant as they submitted the previous fix to the bug finder for approval. It sounds to me like the following happened:

1. Guy finds a bug, reports it

2. They build a fix, send it to him

3. He finds a problem with the fix

4. They submit the flawed fix to the webstore (unclear if this happened before or after 3)

5. Guy is happy and publishes bug, including details of wide-open hole, enabling exploitation of any AVG user with the extension.
But the bigger problem is that they started to use automatic license plate recognition with cameras around town and police cars to automatically log all license plates and their locations... (see this for example, in Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5Gy32aqdo&t=1m22s)
Fair point. But I'd say the dependency management in maven is actually more of a hassle than it's worth. For me, I understand jars in a lib directory well enough. Dependency management can become complicated pretty fast (e.g. version resolution).
As ConroyBumpus pointed out it's not unusual for companies to have per-state policies. That said, the differences are usually motivated by compliance with the law rather than serving the business and its goals.
Unfortunately there are more things making people jerks than status/wealth, and I'd like to think not all the rich act/think like jerks.

I think many times the inferiority complex makes for many of the players in this league. Same as some people reassure themselves by getting big cars, or expensive watches for the sake of showing off, even if they're poor, some individuals would act like jerks as a way to hide their own insecurities when they have the chance. I would even say that this is the problem behind many rich jerks: rather than just feeling superior to regular folks, they feel constantly inferior, worthless among their circles.
The bill proposed in the last paragraph would take a pretty big hammer to #2. I doubt it will actually pass (or even be voted on), but I think I will watch it to see what actually happens and who does what.
Seems like overkill -- couldn't the CIA just do a nice quiet blag bag operation, breaking into their apartment during the day while they were away at work?
The moss in Iceland is also pretty spectacular. While hiking the Falljokull glacier this past summer I learned about "glacier mice":
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/science/earth/glacier-m...
I suspect part of the problem may be it keeps getting submitted as a youtube link; It may be the case that people are loathe to follow video links without a clearer indication of what they are getting. (I know I personally am, both because I often use HN in a place where I don't want to use video -- or, more to the point, audio -- and also because I find video presentation to be generally more time investment for value than text; unless there is a compelling pitch, I'm loathe to check out video.)

I googled "Sesame Credit" and found and submitted a related story from a text source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804494
I'm all for the JVM but it's too powerful to run arbitrary code man. No JVM in my browser please.
Features Tell, but Benefits Sell
Apple Doomsayer Fired
Ayyy i'm the top 5%!
Two types of people read this post on HN:

1) Things like this couldn't possibly happen in the US, crazy Communists!

2) This development doesn't surprise me, and if I comment with thoughts on this story just for them to be downplayed by those in group #1, I may just finally end myself.
"How much tweaking went into that?"

Literally none. This is the default desktop. I installed Fedora 23 yesterday (and it looks very similar to Fedora 21, which I had before, which I think looks like default Gnome 3). The theme, background image, fonts, color scheme, calendar settings, everything is from the standard Fedora Workstation install. I'm lazy and rarely spend much time tweaking things (my terminal and my vim have some customization, but even that's minimal), particularly now that it's all very nice looking right out of the box.
A Short History of the BTree (2011)
Like I said, I don't disagree with you. But I was able to string that comment together in all of four minutes. While doing so, I wasn't wading in too deep: these were near top-level results, not things I found after tossing out a preponderance of conflicting research.

Unfortunately, I've found that these things are actually difficult to really research without knowing how to search for them. My wife's got the better documentation to the information, and much more increased access to full-text. For what it's worth, her advice is: "If you need a named diet to follow, make it the Mediterranean Diet. Otherwise, go light on the red meat, avoid food where sugar/honey/HFCS is one of the first five ingredients, and eat more plants."
New videos prove crows can make complex tools that only humans have made before
> Why is this on Hacker News?

Because someone thought it would be interesting to the community and posted it.

If you think that its inappropriate and out of line with the guidelines, that's what the "flag" link is for.
> You're saying public recording is fine when it's "expensive" -- costing a human salary, but not when it's a robot? I'm not following you.

You are following me. That's exactly what I'm saying.

Human scale surveillance is okay. Because the surveillance is carried out by a human on the scene, it requires the surveillers to decide who should be surveilled, and prevents or eliminates blanket surveillance.

> If police are going to record citizens, citizens should feel comfortable recording police.

100% agreed. Because of the extraordinary powers they are entrusted with, on-duty police [0] should be held to a much higher standard than regular folks.

Off-duty cops who aren't exercising police power? They're folks like any other and must be afforded the same rights and protections as every other regular citizen.

[0] Or off-duty police who are otherwise exercising their police powers.
Things That Are Not Superintelligences
>Exceptional people in any profession are in short supply. Isn't that a true statement?

It equivocates on whether by "exceptional" and "short" we mean absolute standards or relative ones. If we use relative terms, "exceptional" (say, the top 1%) people are by definition in short (only 1% of the total) supply.

Of course, 1% of a large population can still be quite substantial.
I have never followed this line of reasoning. I see no reason it should be arbitrarily limited or expensive to do things that technology can do for cheap. It makes no sense.

If the problem is that petty things are punished too harshly or are selectively enforced, then that is where attention should be directed. I don't think being caught and prosecuted for a crime should be a roll of the dice. If society decides something is illegal, I want that thing enforced. I don't want my tax money wasted on police sitting around watching for speeders. I want them doing the things that an expensive human is paid for.
From http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/news/article?news=p150128

Sesame Scores are indications of the users’ creditworthiness, which range from 350 to 950 points. Users will be able to check their Sesame Scores both in the Alipay Wallet mobile app and through merchant websites that accept Sesame Credit services. The higher the scores, the lower chance the user may default. The scores are calculated using five different factors, each with different weightings that can vary according to individual profiles:

Credit History reflects a user’s past payment history and indebtedness, for example credit card repayment and utility bill payments.

Behavior and Preference reveals a user’s online behavior on the websites they visit, the product categories they shop, etc.

Fulfillment Capacity shows a user’s ability to fulfill his/her contract obligations. Indicators include use of financial products and services and Alipay account balances.

Personal Characteristics examine the extent and accuracy of personal information, for example home address and length of time of residence, mobile phone numbers, etc.

Interpersonal Relationships reflect the online characteristics of a user’s friends and the interactions between the user and his/her friends

From another forum:
"TL:DR China will make this manditory in 2020 where they follow your social networking, give you a score, and give you benefits for being more in line with their ideals. Having friends with low scores will lower your score, and they tell you what everyone score is. Ostracizing people who do not agree with the government."
I still believe it's a wage suppression strategy. Here's why: I used to work for a major multinational based in Europe, but I lived here in the US. Many of the people I worked with were not US citizens, but lived and worked here on an E-1 (the European version of the H-1b Visa). They were essentially captive workers who were at the mercy of the whims of management; management that was largely absent from the day-to-day realities of how things worked in the US. I couldn't prove it completely but based on the compensation rates of a few I knew, I also felt certain they were almost categorically paid below market.
Not OP, but "capitalism" in China isn't like it is in the west. The government literally runs everything, and can demand literally anything they want from companies. If China's government wanted Lenavo to start making blow up dolls, that's exactly what they would do. China's government has absolute authority and total control. People like to compare the U.S government to China's, but these people are fedora wearing neckbeards who almost never leave their parents basement. As someone who has lived in China for a brief stint, expecting any device built, designed and manufactured in China not to have some sort of back door is like expecting the U.S not to spy. At this stage in the game, it's understood and expected.

If they're requiring backdoors on technology imported into the country (source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/05/obama_criticises_chi... ), why wouldn't they require them on their own technology that they build themselves? It doesn't make sense from a purely logical standpoint. Of course they're not going to come out and admit it, but we're also starting to see evidence of it:

Example 1: http://www.zdnet.com/article/former-pentagon-analyst-china-h...

Example 2: http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agencies-shun-lenovo-finding-b...

Example 3: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2860742/chinese-android...

Is it really so hard to believe? Especially when the indirect evidence and logic is so overwhelming? I'm no tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy nut, but come on here... It's China.
To be honest, I wish the FDA was tougher. They're so many drugs, we are currently taking, that are just slightly better than placebo--and that's with fuzzy statistics, and a bunch of questionable studies.

I took so many pointless medications over the years. When I was younger, I just figured if the drug/devise was FDA approved; it must be efficient? I was wrong!
Portland State University[1], with a major in electrical engineering. PSU is, in general, not a very interesting college, with the exception of TheCAT[2]. TheCAT is, essentially, a small bastion for hackers of all types to gather together and work on various projects (incidentally providing IT support services for the MCECS college), and has been by far the most interesting part of PSU for me.

[1]: http://www.pdx.edu/
[2]: https://cat.pdx.edu/thecat.html
Like others said, this can be done as a library type in D: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Recursive-Sum-Type-with-mat...

edit: not that it proves anything, just that "it can eventually be done".
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
Mhmm… nothing like a good old fashion "crypto c̶i̶r̶c̶u̶s̶ war"[0]:

"Kill metadata and other crypto-issue-overdone diversions.

Metadata and other crypto-workarounds resulted from the crypto wars of the 1990s which were bragged to be won rather than faked out.

The fake-out was orchestrated by some of the very same crypto warriors claiming to be against gov-controlled crypto.

A way to identify them is to note who rose to prominence and wealth in crypto com-edu-org. Still at it, ratcheting up the need for ever more crypto, acknowledging the workarounds but, but, but: Let's Encrypt, HTTPS-HTS everywhere, secure drops, freedom of the press and courage foundations, Snowden talks and tweets, FISC amicus curiea, POTUS and TLA advisories, industry lobbyists, dual hats riding the crypto gravy train and more likely, the subway out of sight.

The money and prestige to be gained by working all sides of the crypto phony war is, as Greenwald crows of Omidyar's $250M bribe, irresistable."

[0] https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-December/01125...
$250k is not the same in, for example, California and Iowa. If your family income is $250k in cities like San Francisco or New York, that definitely doesn't put you in 95-percentile.
>If there is aversion to risk involvedon, its not the company being risk-averse, its the individuals being risk-averse

So would you be happy if instead of "risk averse company culture" I said "pervasive personal risk aversion driven by a company culture designed to punish failure and reward safe decision making"?
"CoeLux currently costs £40,000 (~$61,000) to buy and up to £5,000 (~$7,600) for installation."
I've never seen any use of the word "privilege" that didn't map directly to "shut up," and sadly this comment is no different.

If you disagree with the parent comment, make an argument, don't just throw out a buzzword that's only meaningful to a tiny political fringe and think that's going to convince anyone of anything.
We should banish the term "class" when discussing tax rates. It's got too much connotational baggage. Even if someone making $250k considers themselves "middle class", unless they lack all perspective, they don't consider themselves "middle income".
> It's almost indistinguishable from a native Android app. If I put a little more effort into the animations it would be even closer.

The key phrases here are "almost" and "If I put a little more effort". The almost-but-not-quite-native webapps are the mobile ecosystem's equivalent of the uncanny valley. It sort of looks like an app, but then it suddenly 404s a button, or starts lagging, or doesn't do the default for native controls, but rarely used function. It's enough to break user's trust in what the app is and what it's doing. It feels like Java's Swing all over again.
Well, middle class used to mean the family lived on one income, the mother stayed home/kids/charity, the house in the suburbs was owned and you would have a car.

Would $55k get you this today? I don't think so. Would $250k get you this today? Maybe.

edit: typo
Maybe related: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2015-Septemb...
Would be great if it were possible to keep Android TV on there, AND run Docker containers at the same time...
What evidence would you have had to bring Nadella over as an O-1?

20 years later sure, he's the CEO of Microsoft.
Myrddin has an online playground http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/

If you haven't heard of myrddin (from the site):

Myrddin is designed to be a simple language that runs close to the metal, giving the programmer predictable and transparent behavior and mental model. It also does strong type checking, generics, type inference, closures, and traits.