skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A much simpler way of de-anonymizing the results would be to "match" (lol) the stats to real players. For example, which player who first appeared in 2005 and has played 15 matches, faced off against another player who first appeared in 2007 and has played 5 matches?
CVE-2015-5090 – Adobe Reader/Acrobat Pro Privilege Escalation
Oh good, now the 7/11's will be able to detect who I am by my face through their security cameras and will do some targeted advertising to me as I walk the aisles.
epilogue: the domain was not lost.

all conjecture contained herein was for naught.
I guess because it is more or less wrong. Relativity establishes that time is observer dependent, i.e. observers moving relative to each other will in general not agree on which events occurred at the same time. But there is no uncertainty because of the finite speed of light and nothing that prevents synchronizing clocks although it is admittedly not easy because relative motions and gravitational fields influence the speed at which clocks tick. There is also still a causal structure in spacetime defined by the light cones of events so that different observers agree on the ordering of events that may have a causal relationship. It's all pretty complicated and way more nuanced than popular science usually presents it.
Data, technologies and security – part 2 – Data exposed and Redis hacked
I think the most important factor should not be whether you can do it or not, but if you can perform better in ketosis than those who are not in ketosis.
I think you have to think about how those people died. Heat exhaustion? An underlying heart condition? I don't think they died of not having enough nutrients, or not eating soon enough before running.
How is this any different than 360 videos on YouTube?
> "Also Spotify is a major partner of Spotify"

It reads like text generated by a computer
You can't really expect to find people that look like gym rats doing these types of races.
Tracking protection in Wi-Fi networks coming to NetworkManager
>So, the Saudi Regime does a lot of absolutely abhorrent shit, and so do it's people. But without the regime we'd probably be in a worse-off place.

I think the SA regime is the single biggest reason why the population is still stuck in the middle ages (but what do you expect of a regime that treats woman like second class citizen). The money from oil might hide this fact a bit but SA has virtually no cultural or civilizing accomplishments

>The civil war is being fuelled by Iran's support for the Assad regime, both directly and by it's proxy, Hezbollah.

Iran and Russia have supported Assad way before the civil war started. 6 years ago I was in Damascus and Deir ez-Zor and there was no signs of a civil war.
Don't get me wrong, the Assad regime is restrictive and brutal but if those radical jihadists supported by SA, Katar and Turkey win, it will be much much worse. Just take the groups hat were invited to the "opposition talks" in Riad (Jaysh al-Islam, etc). If you watch the videos on liveleak you see all those groups running around with TOWs and modern weapons.

> definitely wouldn't say that the execution of Nimr was an attempt to sabotage the nuclear deal.

What else was it ? Killing a important shiite cleric is nothing but fueling the secterian conflict and the reaction was the descruction of the SA embassy in Teheran. Luckily the Iranian government (especially the moderate ones like Rohani,Zarif) decided not to escalate further. But this was a clear attempt to provocate a stupid reaction from the iranian side. Nimr was no threat to SA and if you really think that a cleric is thread to a regime like SA, then it's probably better if this regime vanishes rather earlier than later.

> I just think they're less despicable than Iran

If you really think that, then you don't know much about Iran or its history. Apart from the fact that Iran is one of the oldest cultures in the world, the population and especially woman are highly educated. In SA until recently woman couldn't even drive or vote or go out without a male accompanying them. 2009 millions of young iranians went to the streets to protest against voter fraud and before the revolution, Iran was a quite free and progressive. So even tough the regimes might be both religious fanatics, Iran is still light years ahead of SA in terms of civil society and culture.
Hey etrautmann! Author here, thanks for reading! I agree with you, most payments do seem to be for legitimate purposes (sorry if it seemed like I implied otherwise). But I believe that some types of payments--e.g. industry paying for research--creates incentives with potential negative effects--e.g. on the quality of research; whether these incentives actually do result in negative effects is another question that others have done research on.
Do you know what technology your site runs on? PHP? WordPress? MySQL?
Also electrons experience time, in the sense that they will jiggle around over time.
this requires interpretation and analysis of an analogy, something most people are terrible at (back when i took the SAT this section was a source of frustration among my peers - i suspect all high scorers had a knack for it).
As a counterpoint to your claim that being a food source for humans guarantees survival, the orange roughy is a good example. It is a fish that was discovered as tasty and then fished to 10% of its original numbers within 50 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_roughy#Threats
But for a stream engine the processing logic is configuration.

There aren't many examples of when code is a configuration parameter for
service (generic RPC server for sysadmins being another example I've
encountered), but there are some.
I'm the cofounder of an online coding bootcamp called Bloc, I actually agree with the gist of what you're saying but it's a little more nuanced than that.

Even in medicine, you have many different types of degrees and certifications of varying depth and expertise. On the low end of the spectrum, you have medical assistants that can and do get certifications in less than a year and are seemingly qualified to do things like administer medicine. On the other end, you have MDs that require nearly a decade of training and are qualified to prescribe medication and do surgery. In between, you have roles like RNs and PAs.[1]

I don't think any coding bootcamp is claiming you can learn just as much as a CS grad in 12 weeks [2], but you can learn enough to be a junior web developer building modestly complex CRUD apps. Speaking as a CS grad myself, there's a surprisingly large amount of inefficiency in traditional CS curriculum and you'd be surprised how much you can learn in a short period of time. You're not going to work on Google's search algorithm or Stripe's ACH gateway after 12 weeks no matter how efficient the curriculum is, but for a lot of employers a junior dev is more than enough.

In software, the analogy to nurses and doctors is that there are: web admins that mostly set up Wordpress or another CMS for small businesses, web developers that can build modest to advanced CRUD apps, and software engineers that can work on architectural software problems like GitHub's RPC filesystem or Heroku's app router. Again, different employers have different needs and not everyone needs to be working on architectural problems: there are plenty of jobs for people who can hack Wordpress and build Rails apps, the employers who hire bootcamp grads for those needs are usually pretty happy based on our research.

Bloc is online so it's a little easier for us to experiment with different program lengths than an in-person bootcamp, we have three different programs that are 18, 36, and 72 weeks respectively and roughly line up with the role definitions I'm proposing here. We just launched the longest program, called the Software Engineering Track, exactly because we thought there was an opportunity to build something with the pragmatism of a bootcamp but the robustness of a CS degree. But, we still think there's a place for the shorter programs even if they're not a substitute for a CS degree.

[1] http://www.thepalife.com/physician-assistant-vs-nurse-practi...

[2] I haven't heard of any coding bootcamps that are 6 weeks long, I think most of the in-person programs are closer to 12 weeks.
The AI would invent a non-corruptible disk, obviously.
Agree, there is definitely a long way down the road to get to more realistic VR experience for video, especially for streaming. That's currently a starting point.

Have you seen that you can change the rendering modes of the player to also use it on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard?
This is a good point. If these are each used by 2 people, it's not very interesting. It's sort of implied by the attention these stories get that the problem is much bigger than that, but I agree the story is incomplete without the magnitudes. And for the rest of us, we should care about the _trend_ of the % population using common passwords. In order to be safe, you probably need to stay above some constant level that is "good enough" for any hacker trying patterns or brute forcing. As the bottom gets more secure after reading articles like this or adopting password managers, we all need to step up our game. The first to go will be people who do things like:

- put a capital letter first and only first when a capital letter is required

- put a special character last and only last when a special character is required

- put a number next to last and only next to last when a number and a special character are both required

These will be the next patterns tried after the most common passwords, dictionary attacks, etc. -- and if you stay ahead of _these_ people then you'll be good for a while.
He has gathered more data than had he not done it, or not blogged about it. You're right that it doesn't meet any scientific criteria for 'fact' yet, but it is data of a sort, and may be a helpful step on the road to the furtherance of science.
Thanks! I added one just now, but I'll do a better job of explaining the features with screenshots in the near future.
Can a human write a hit musical? Almost always no
The 4-year CS degree isn't much better as a predictor of successful outcomes in software development.

In fact: the bootcamps themselves might be awful, but if they select for people who are sincerely driven by a desire to do software dvelopment, the bootcamps could be a better predictor than CS programs, which are selected off a menu by 18-19 year olds just arrived at a college that they were raised to expect to have to attend.
Do you, by any chance, often use the word "SJW" and not in an ironic way?
Yet helping crackpots (along with every other motivated people) find each other is unavoidably part of what the Internet does. I believe the good coming out of it outweighs the bad, but you're definitely not the only one being afraid.

It seems that many of those scared are those who've learned in a time of knowledge scarcity (it was difficult to find any information at all on any subject. It took at least a trip to a library and some ability to search the index). Today the challenge is to critically navigate in an overdose of information, a lot of it complete rubbish. The hard part is about filtering out, not finding material.

Now what scares me is that, at least in my country, many teachers haven't realised that the times of knowledge scarcity are gone. They tell student that using Wikipedia is cheating, instead of teaching them how to understand and navigate its (wonderful) citation system, to properly assess information quality.

(note: I suspect your comment to be tongue-in-cheek, but I felt like interpreting it 1st degree anyway)
Great perspective from someone on the ground, thanks for sharing!
What's stopping any visitor to the site to use the embedded Slack token to wreck havoc on your Slack organisation?
Could all the people without medical knowledge please stop saying that their lack-of-medical-knowledge make them smarter than the guy that actually did this? Your requests for various random chemical levels are stupid. We have done science for thousands of years before blood tests were invented.
Ask HN: $50 challenge
I set myself a challenge this year. It's to make $50 out of nothing, that is not working for it in a traditional way. I am an experienced developer (15+ years, backend, C/C++, Java, Python) so sure I could just work/contract and make that amount easily but I would somehow like to create value on my own.
Do you guys have any suggestions on where to start? Project ideas, resources, advise?
This is really cool, but still lacks IOS-support, right?

I was developing the app for differentperspectiv.es, and quickly realized that the easiest way for me to get 360-degree video support on multi platforms was to build an Unity app and project movies on sphere-shaped textures.

This project seems cool, but would love to see the HTML5 player being open-sourced.
Hacking your own body can lead to health issues obviously. But...

This may be the way everybody runs in the future.

A bit like Cliff Young[1], a potato farmer that won the Sydney-Melbourne ultra-marathon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
A couple points:

* He ran 50 KM in 7 hours and 45 minutes, which amounts to fast walking. In real terms, he probably ran some but probably walked most of it.

* If you're going to do something like this, please do it under the supervision of a medical doctor. A 50km isn't a big deal, virtually anyone who can run a marathon can run a 50k, but people do die during this events. Respect the distance.

Edit: Here is his Strava entry for the event: https://www.strava.com/activities/morning-run-436423654?utm_...

From my sloppy napkin math, it looks like he ran the distance (slowly) and probably stopped a lot and had his device configured to pause the time when he stopped.

I don't mean to sound down on the guy, he got out there and did 50km. And he specifically mentions he's no athlete. I am glad he documented his experience. But please don't use this as part of any "Couch to 50K" kind of scheme. Ketosis doesn't work like creatine.

Edit 2: A metric/imperial conversion pace chart here: https://www.globe-runners.com/sites/default/program_builder_...

Edit 3: pneumatics' comment, below corrects me: "The time spent moving was 5:49. His pace, excluding the time stopped, was 11:12 min/mi.

With the elevation gain, this is most definitely running." This is a pretty good performance for a newbie, IMHO.

For those saying it's slow, you've either never ran an ultra on rough terrain, or you've been on the cover of running magazines.
Yep. Came here to say this. OneNote is still good on OSX, but the lack of drawing features is a bit painful
I think that what was portrayed in Dream Catcher was meant as a metaphor for the guy's mind, suited to film, rather than an actual memory palace the guy 'built'. The book (as I recall) did not have a memory palace, just dialogue between the guy and this voice in his head. It's been a while, so I might have some of that wrong, but I am sure he did not have a memory palace.
With this you can host your own 360° videos, and don't need YouTube. This is in particular interesting if you want to monetize by your own, e.g., through ads or subscription. It's basically the infrastructure you need to build Netflix-like services.
1. Parent comment's dismissal is based upon details revealed in the article, or rather details that weren't revealed. He suspects that, since the victim escalated immediately, the victim may not have wanted a peaceful resolution. We don't have the full picture, but what we have suggests that there were other ways to handle it.

2. Yes, I expect you to say that you're upset by the situation. I cannot read your mind; most people can't read your mind either, and many of them don't know the line between a 'joke' and harassment. Telling someone you don't like what they're doing is a crucial step, because otherwise they may assume nothing is wrong. We want the boss to learn that his joke is not funny, and to do that sometimes you have to say it to his face.

3. Neither side is communicating well, which is indeed why HR exists. It's also possible that the boss would've continued after being told explicitly to stop. This does not mean you reach for HR's hotline the moment something goes wrong. You don't respond to a slap by pulling a knife, and you don't respond to a knife with a nuke--at least, not without examining other options.
I think you're just trolling. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift
Graph ML Is for Graph Marked Lanuage, Which Is Similar with Facebook's GraphQL
How Elon Musk Stole My Car
Trans fats are way more prevalent in hydrogenated vegetable oils that try to look like animal fat replacements. They are simply much cheaper to manufacture.

Example: margarine 15g v.s. real butter 3.3g for each 100g of product.
> but not where the general public is likely to see it and misunderstand it.

So nowhere. It's on the public internet which is where 'the general public' is likely to see it so suggesting that you don't use some phrase where 'the public' can't see it in practically means you can't use it anywhere.

I know the last thing I want to do is self censor myself everywhere because someone somewhere might get offended.
Mass is also an emergent property.
Where does correcthorsebatterystaple rank?
Actual announcement from Microsoft discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930194
Thee Unicode Consortium's Adopt a Character Campaign
Thanks!

We are working on the iOS support, this will be added soon. It's pretty simple, we just have to use HLS instead of DASH, as Safari on iOS does not support the HTML5 MSE.
Better link that describes the other concerns about GPS that were brought up and describes in more detail how the system works: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/01/army-testing-ro...
Why the Customer Success Manager Is the Product Manager’s New BFF
Well, the exploit doesn't seem to work on my kernel 4.1.0 system, so that's good.
I bet a sv employees buying homes in the Vally who will be paying a large % of their salary on a huge mortgage feel poor.
Actually seen firsthand, or read about it having happened? (These are very different, because they imply much different prevalence.)

The author of the article records a short clip describing how he's feeling at each waypoint, and doesn't seem to have pushed himself terribly hard.
Do you have any books or posts that you'd recommend looking at? There's a huge mountain of information I'm looking at right now. Any specific leads? I'm genuinely asking because I agree with you but didn't know about any link.
Make evil monkey nag you back to work – Simplicity
It's possible. I have trouble with it.

Which is, incidentally, why I try to avoid dirty jokes until I know my present company likes dirty jokes. This manager may not have figured that out.
I've been thinking about this a lot; the problem I keep coming up against is abstraction. If you do allow abstraction, then the temptation is to make everything doable with a pinky finger. If you don't allow abstraction...

On the other hand, we do have two good examples: emacs and paredit. We don't abstract away text because we haven't really figured out how (some in this thread are trying, but the exceptions prove the rule), and parentheses we just abstract into fewer parentheses.

The point being: the medium must remain the same for the pleasant feeling of muscle memory to occur.

One interesting point is programming paradigms; a paradigm is (among other things) a relatively constrained set of actions one takes. Were programming changed to a more physical activity, one could imagine watching a developer and discerning, "ah, the object-oriented style," much as popular imagination imagines a martial artist watching another fight and discerning his style.

The last idea I'm having as I write this: I have also worried about "be careful what you wish for." Do we really want to repeat the same gross movements not as comfort demand, but as the code requires?

So one idea I have is: what if you tied certain operations/manipulations not to body movements, but to aspects of that movement. Short, staccato movements of any kind might correspond to indents or whatever: what's important is that one can do short staccato movements while walking, or golfing around with a pen, or reaching for a snack.

Weird stuff, just throwing it out there.
Right but his point is that those things are problems because they suck in absolute terms, not relative ones. Turning the whole world into a Syria-esque battlefield should not be considered a success, despite the fact that it would lower inequality. Similar, if the mechanisms that eliminate guinea-worm come so at the cost of improving other people's lives even more than the Guineans, we should not oppose that even though it increases inequality. What matters is our absolute quality of life rather than our relative one, and as such inequality is not the metric we should use to identify problems.
Linux apps that run anywhere
Weird. In a model of post-apocalyptical life, the only people out and cleaning up are the constables. Erasing graffiti, clearing rubble, tending to bodies found in culverts. And this is supposed to be anti-police? Not what I took away from it. I guess I'm missing some cultural assumptions. Which makes it just sad.
"Telling people that a 6 week bootcamp is the same as a 4 year CS degree is absurd and offensive."

Absolutely true, and I don't know any that do that. At the same time, I've interviewed many people with CS degrees who were severely lacking in any practical web experience, and didn't even know how to use version control. They both are incredibly different and yield different results/skills. If you've got the 4 years and money, the CS degree is a great idea. Yet, for many people in their mid-20's and 30's, going back to undergrad isn't really an option. I don't think everyone should be stuck with the decisions they made when they were 17/18 as their only career choices.

We do have the concept of "medic training". In the US Army, medics undergo 16 to 68 weeks of training (after basic). Are they doctors after that? Nope, but they've also saved thousands of lives. Same as a doctor? Nope, but still incredibly useful. Civilian EMT programs are ~6 months long if I'm not mistaken.

Do I need someone with a CS degree to do the CSS on the company's homepage? Absolutely not.

I don't have a CS degree. I work for a pretty great startup. I taught myself everything I know over about 2-3 years while transitioning from a business/marketing-centric position to developer at another startup. In many ways, I wish I'd had a bootcamp program (they didn't really exist at the time) to speed me through some of the things. Does it teach you everything? Nope, but it's a pretty damn good start, and would have easily shaved 18 months off that learning curve.
Since when is HR the same as corporate legal?
Wanted to add that we'll put the custom landing page and logo in Community Edition based on the conversation in this HN post, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489