skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Apple, it turns out, had 91 vulnerabilities of this [very severe] severity in 2015, a mere 14 percent of their total vulnerabilities. Microsoft, however, had 332 very severe vulnerabilities, at 58 percent of their total. Adobe leads both with a whopping 389 very severe vulnerabilities, almost 85 percent of their total.”

“This tells us more clearly about the severity of the vulnerabilities in the data, which is a more important metric than just how many total vulnerabilities there are.”
Yeah, that was my very first one. I have since started with vectorized implementations instead of that clumsy way I did it the first time. However I found vectorization a bit tricky at first.

I'm actually planning to try and learn convolutional nets soon, and will try to setup a small study group online (basically just a repo with materials and a Slack/Gitter chat room), where people can help each other with learning it. Do you think that would help you to learn it?
Sure, I would hire an egg if it would be a great fit for a specific role and a good addition to the team.
What's interesting to me is less the question of violent crime trending with lead exposure (or abortion), but more the holistic view of society getting more liberal.

As violent crime goes down, as dangerous chemicals/metals are removed from the environment, as the economy improves: all of these have an effect on the other (and I'm sure there are more). Clearly it would be difficult to create a study across all of those cohorts, but the point is that everything is improving, and with it the tendency for our society to be more accepting of differences.
I've always felt adding things like noatime or relatime was a bit too hacky. I'm not sure the actual consequences of access times not being properly recorded are well understood, and that scares me a lot; just exactly which software is actually affected (and how?). I don't use Mutt...but what about Samba? I have several folders shared in my LAN via Samba, with things like Access databases, Excel spreadsheets... could someone elaborate on this?
Flash doesn't work in most installations of desktop Safari, nor does it work on iPhones. Many others are fleeing it because of massive ongoing security problems with it. If you're content with the audience that remains then great, but it's far from "all."
We know people can have only 50% of a full brain and yet be conscious, and we also know that destruction of a few tiny pieces of the brain can result in a loss of consciousness in the sense we mean it here. The commonality is that neuron systems are required; individual neurons are not enough, nor is an entire intact animal brain without certain structures.

The line is arbitrary, but it doesn't matter so much. The factual reality is that neuron systems are what we can currently (currently! this may change) prove gives rise to consciousness, regardless of philosophical attempts at violence against the science.
Compare http://openborders.info/

Especially `Dont’ Restrict Immigration, Tax It' (http://openborders.info/driti/) is an interesting policy tool.
That's true, with standard readers.

Point is, one can still read those tags in 40 mph, by the side of the road or further away. All that is needed is creating the device to the task, instead of getting one pre-made from Alibaba. Yes, that'd be a hell of a device (digital post-processing of signal, directional antenna, powerful transmitter), still pretty much doable and not even hard to hide.

As they say at the thread. Pretty much everything has an rfid tag nowadays. Each tag alone is not enough to track a person, but one does not need many of them for an individual signature - 3, maybe 4. Maybe we should add portable high power microwave transmitters to our usual set of home supplies.
Google seems to be the adult who says, "Here kid, have some cash and go work out the kinks for us."

Not that I blame them.
Mass Shootings Are Bad for People, but Good for Toilet Paper Sales
Don't tell people how to feel about something. You don't have the right.
Yes please -- if you're able to share which institution you're with, I'd like to follow up on the BAA hassles. (We do regularly sign BAAs with institutions, but I know that, as with many things legal, simple things don't always stay simple.)

Disclaimer: I work on Google Genomics.
C is super slow when it comes to compiling, if you really want fast compiling take a look at Pascal, around 10 times faster the last time I checked. There is Free Pascal that is open source and also has a great IDE called Lazarus. Both much better as a language compared to C and C++ and still close to their speed.
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I think - if i didn't misunderstood it - the uBlock Origin author came up with something like a resource library for exactly that reason. Sadly I can't find a explainatory page on it right now; a possible resource file is located at:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/ublock/...
Also he's disputing a straw man. No one has claimed that all crime can be explained by a single variable. Only that a variable can have a big effect. Other "simple explanations" for crime could be poverty, broken homes, education, all the traditional explanations. All those are simple explanations and single variables.
hehe. It's funny, Nim's creator had a plan to do that actually.
China’s Obsolete Economic Strategy
CIA drone strikes in Pakistan fall to lowest level in 8 years
I think you're referencing this:

http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2016/program/rwc16-shacham...

Shame there is no recording (and no paper).
Maybe I'm naive, but this doesn't seem a very big deal in today's world. So this would theoretically - if you have enough time and power to equip all intersections with hidden RFID readers mounted below the road - allow you to collect a sort of poor-man's location history of cars. However, it's restricted to the things that happen in the area you bugged, it doesn't tell you anything about who is driving the car and if all routes are done by the same person and it captures nothing that takes place outside the car.

Compare that to the almost complete, 100% personalized location history you get when you manage to get your "flashlight" app installed on an android phone...
I agree the API is at this point is rather limited and it is difficult to use it in a way that would conveniently or efficiently replace any part of a genomic pipeline.

But I think google is onto something. If they manage to deconstruct BAM files and store them in "format-free" way that will allow search, aggregation, and computation/reasoning across hundreds of thousands of patients/samples it may accommodate the next big wave of personal genomics data.
Most C++ projects I have worked with, regardless of their size, had re-compilation times that routinely exceeded 20, sometimes 30 seconds. There are various reasons for this, among which uncontrolled use of templates and nested header inclusions where a forward declaration would have sufficed.

C, with its simpler grammar and the absence of template, tend to re-compile under 5seconds even for sizeable projects.
SOA and Versioning
Understanding atime, ctime and mtime from commandline [screencast]
Tire Manufacturers Roll Forward with RFID (2013)
Larry Page has been talking about this for a while. Interesting to see what alphabet does
I'm not sure how you can watch the parent's youtube link and still compare the two. They are in different leagues altogether, in my opinion, so I'm finding it hard to relate to your comment. I think it's also pretty hard to define "social/public morals" in a way that is agreeable to most people. Would not linking to tiananmen square, or discussing China's stock market slide be a public good? Are you really comfortable with that kind of censorship?
Yeah, this doesn't mean "free energy", but it's a way to potentially recapture CO2 emitted from a power plant or other major source and put it back into the energy cycle.
Javascript, like Flash, doesn't do anything for the user, only for the developer or sponsor. Never did.
I think that's the best possible outcome here. I'd be a little worried about having too many options, causing readership of any one to be low, but at the same time, a quality best of HN will most likely float to the top, and if it doesn't, at least there will be choices.
I listened to an audiotape of Searle's chinese room lecture some years ago. It was excruciating. The obvious retort is the room speaks Chinese (the "Systems Reply"), which Searle rejects with a weak aesthetic argument. Searle doesn't like the idea, but that doesn't make it invalid.

If a strong AI ever emerges, I expect that future generations will look on this argument the way we today look at phrenology and the ugly history of attempts to justify slavery as some sort of natural order. ST:TNG's Mr. Data, who spends every other episode agonizing over wanting to be human, is equally offensive. How arrogant are we as a species to assume that every thinking thing in the universe would want to be us?
We've found that different users want different levels of wrapping -- some (like you) are experts on the low-level tools, and choose to use our low-level compute, storage, and analysis services directly -- I'm biased, but I believe Google Cloud's low-level services have features, like preemptible VMs and nearline storage, that are a great fit for working with genomic data. Others want gateways into bioinformatics-friendly environments like R Studio and iPython; others want wrapped packaged services; others want point-and-click UIs ,etc.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Genomics.
Number of discrete vulnerabilities is not a useful metric.
Oh, God.

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Agreed. This topic has always felt to me like bikeshedding at its worst.
Yes. In fact I have.

I have also tried to program like the blind[1] because I have often worried what would happen if I went blind.

The reason a manager might not want to hire a blind person is if they do not think they have good verbal communication, e.g. they want to diagram and whiteboard and are worried you won't be able to keep up.

However I think strong verbal communication is essential for software engineer management, so you probably don't want to work for anyone who cares whether you're blind or not for more than just the obvious reason.

You might also consider remote work and/or contracting because you can rely more on your written communication instead of face-to-face.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284567
From a community building standpoint, a more extensive explanation such as a multi-paragraph readme would be helpful. A link to a repository such as Github would also allow people to read the code without downloading it.

It is probably more work to share something because other people need information that lives inside the programmer's head.

Good luck.
Maybe, I don't know. This is just me trying to minimize the unnecessary pain and suffering while waiting for a better language to arrive. In that context arguing which bad solution is less worse seems somewhat pointless, and also depends on personal taste. I'll have to see this project through to know better.
But that is a low-margin business.

So I have tons of images associated with accounts. So, why can't I do a 'google' and image mine too? Aaaand, I can sell the results to whatever data company?

Suddenly, higher margins and fulfills corporate charter.
Continous Integration on Android with Travis CI
this would be the outcome of meaningful education. before acting on some impulse, people should learn to stop and think for a second
I don't have first experience in genetics. However, some professors I met who work with Gene's complained about the high cost of running AWS services. I don't know how much of a market there is for this, but there is some.
Try and implement http://jonathanwhiting.com/games/knossu/ with Unity.

My guess is, the author would have taken more time learning Unity than implementing this game.
My naive question would probably be "Don't plants already do this for us?", but I'm probably not understanding the problem that they hope to solve with this technology.
You have the issue. I didn't pay for it, just bringing up a discussion point. Talk about my point, not me.
I am curious why everyone believes that self driving cars are coming so soon. They have been talked about for decades.

Aircraft have been close to self piloting for years as well (as far as my understanding goes), but you never hear anyone claim that pilots will be gone any time soon.
> They just need to wait, lobby the hell out of it, and keep raising money at higher and higher valuation. As much as I don't like Uber, so far their strategy has paid out.

I'll bet you a fine scotch that Uber isn't able to raise any additional rounds at their current or higher valuations.
I strongly agree with the idea of deconstructing legacy files (BAM, VCF, etc.) and moving to an API-centric (vs. file-format-centric) world. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH.org) is working on that, with good early success -- for example, IGV (genome browser) can now work with either files or standard APIs, as can Picard (one of the popular suites of genome analysis tools). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8EvXtz2uiA for details on the Picard support.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Genomics, and on the GA4GH APIs.
I'd love to do more with Google at my university but we couldn't get Google to even start talking about signing our BAA or other agreements. It was a non-starter for our legal department.

We ended up moving towards AWS because they were willing to sign. It sucked from my perspective because we already had such a tie in with Google with our email/ collab platform.

In the couple years since then our agreements have only gotten stronger.

The best way for Google to address this is to sign something with Internet2 and then the institutions can use that contract instead of negotiating separately.
> What microcontrollers you have in mind? He mentioned Arduino in the post. It's not like we need Dart for extremely low spec-ed mCs

The article mentions the Arduino, which in its original incarnation is an extremely tiny AVR. Maybe the author has a more powerful Arduino variant in mind, but I'm pretty sure you cannot run a GC runtime on the AVR Arduino. The only language that runs on such tiny devices is probably eLua.

> , and we could run GC just fine in higher level mCs for ages...

Yes, RPi/BBB won't have a problem.
This is the reason why I've always gravitated towards friends who were aware of their own weaknesses, open about them, and open to leaning on others for support when they needed it.

In practice these were often people who suffered from some kind of disability, mental or physical, or were in some kind of minority (gay, ethnic minority, etc.). They had to swallow their pride, they had to stop pretending that they had all their shit together, and they had to learn to give others a break as well.

These friends showed empathy and understanding, while my 'normal' friends, at best, could only produce sympathy (which is still good, but not the same). And in some cases the response was pity, or worse, and thankfully very rarely, condescension.

One of the nice things I've been learning as I'm getting older and as I'm becoming less attached to 'status' and ego, is that I'm realizing how true it is that there's strength in weakness. When I get to know new people, I often force myself to be open about my particular weakness or struggles (without complaint generally), and almost every time this provides an opening for them to share theirs. Regularly, at the end of a long conversation, they'll tell me that they feel unburdened and that they've never or rarely told anyone about their struggles.

And for me, that makes it easier to deal with what I'm dealing with, because it feels like it's not pointless.

(btw, I noticed your username popping up quite often in relation to a comment that is, at the very least, thoughtful and interesting. I just wanted to mention that :))
I'm not sure I buy that having a terms page and me viewing some other page on their site constitutes an agreement that absolves Forbes.com from liability or protects them from you suing them.
Would that Juniper had access to "git blame."
This is just for jailbroken devices, should work for any iOS version that speaks usbmuxd, which is the same thing that iTunes uses...which means all of them. I use this with iPhone 4, 4s, iPad 2, iPhone 5.
Create Themes for IntelliJ, Textmate, Atom and Emacs
There was a time when subscriptions formed a much greater proportion of journalistic income.

There are also publications which rely less on advertising and more on subscriptions (or other income, like, say, Al Jazeera).
Because a car can pull over and stop if something goes wrong.

Google is covering tens of thousands of miles in autonomous mode every month [1], and Tesla is refining their algorithms and mapping data with every mile Tesla Model S owners drive (whether they've paid for Autopilot or not, the vehicle just needs to have the hardware).

Hockey stick and all that jazz.

[1] https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/
So whose first thought was "So this is how google is going to accelerate there own internal genetics research".
Agreed. I'm more interested in the cheap semi-quick data storage ($0.01 / GB / month) than any of the workflows they offer. I'm also not interested in learning a new syntax to replace what I can do with UNIX / python / R (ggplot2) already.
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How do you address the inherent unsafeness of hardware? Even "pure" functional languages are hacking around this...

By proving the hardware correct. Then if you're running proven memory safe Rust on formally verified hardware, you're guaranteed by construction that the Rust you're writing is memory safe (for the formally-specified notion of "correct" and "memory-safe" in use, which will probably issues like manufacturing problems and compiler bugs).

A Google search for [hardware formal verification] can get you started, if you're interested. There's been a good deal of work in this area.
Absolutely amazing games on the webpage, especially Knossu, a "A non-euclidean horror game." Crisp and trippy graphics and sounds. Good gameplay, no "installation" required.

But running a closed-source binary can be a bit sketchy; whereas you don't have to trust a publisher to the same degree running a game in the browser.
Correct me if I am wrong but no advertiser pays for just showing ads on a website anymore.

They pay you for clicks.

If someone is blocking ads, they certainly are not going to click just because you ask them to allow them to be shown or find a way to force them being shown.
By default, I use comprehensive ad blockers on my client machines. I also suggest and assist installing them as well on anyone's machine without cost (normally billable).

A great deal of problems are solved full stop by doing that simple step. And it also sends the message of , "Not interested". I go to a website to read content, not to be swayed on what shit to buy immediately or later.

Oh, and punishment for allowing ads are "broken or slow machine clogged with malware". I'll pass.
Rust 1.5 src has 2121 instances of "unsafe {". Didn't expect it to be so high.
I really think the resistance to switching is political. America does a lot of things differently than the rest of the world, and the people in power want it to stay that way.

They see some advantages to keeping the general populace on the imperial measurement system.

1. They are afraid of problems which might surface during a conversion from imperial to metric due to the large population.

2. They want to make it harder for the populace to compare things in the US to the rest of the world.

3. They are lobbied to keep a non-decimal measurement system in place to make it harder for customers to compare product sizes vs. price.
Lol. This news always comes at end of business friday. NSA, CIA, RSA, Juniper ... if they thought this was in any way good news they were releasing, they would announce it on monday not friday.
I have been WAITING for ride-sharing pickups to be available from LAX for what feels like ages. They've actually implemented a pretty sane system - ride sharing services have marked areas that they can pickup from but they can drop off anywhere. You request a car and the ask what marked area you are near, then they show up there, it doesn't get much easier.

Taxis still aren't focused on the customer in LA and I don't think they will ever be.
To me, this article reads as an excuse for the company to behave in a sociopathic way, and then turn around and try to pin the blame on some employee when they (perhaps rightfully) stand up for themselves.

I've been in situations where people performed blatant religious discrimination towards me, and also threatened to reduce my wage due to discussing pay with a coworker (threatening any form of retaliation for discussing pay is blatantly illegal).

The company easily could have raised some of these same complaints towards me just to try to leverage their comparably greater resources to pin blame on the worker rather than own up to the all too common sociopathic tendencies that develop inside bureaucracies.

In the end, both this comment and the parent article are just anecdotes. But I say it's a better prior to be more skeptical of managers/higher-ups/bureaucrats who are willing to drop the "psychopath" nuke on behavior they don't like, than the toxic employee.
Part of the problem of mixed system is lack of intuitions.
I grew up in the metric system, so I still struggle with intuitions from imperial systems. (It's very hard for me to "feel" 10 feet, while I have an instant feel what 3 meters is like.)

Most cases, this won't cause issued beyond missed perceptions, but it can hamper the ability to detect anomalies -- perhaps part of the reason what caused some of the incidents described in the article as well.

Long ago, I once overheard someone's conversation, this was an architect in the process of designing a home for foreign market, and he was designing closets in some room too small, again, because he had to work with obscure units (for Japan, they use "Tsubo," about 3.306 square meters / 35.58 square feet -- and yeah, this is one of the few places that Japanese people are still stuck with customary units...)
Presumably the post above was referring to HTTP-based services, which of course don't face issues of cross-language ABI compatibility. In this case Go is often much faster than Ruby, Python, JS, etc., while still allowing relatively quick development compared to even faster, yet lower level, languages such as C/C++.
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Isn't the "Tier 1 Investor Visa" exactly that - a tax on immigration?