skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a deliberate move by Apple, since they could've put the secure component ("TPM") on the mainboard, where it won't be as easily damaged, instead of the fingerprint reader. It's like an organism whose brain is in one of its appendages instead of its head...

Either way, if the skills of the Chinese (and other far-East) reverse-engineers continue to be what they are, I think workarounds will be found soon enough - from what I've seen, the repair people in particular are very resourceful and clever, and come up with "tricks" to fix things that the original manufacturer never even thought about. It's their core business; you can bet they'll spend a ton of effort on figuring out how. Apple's proprietary cable authentication chips have been cloned. The infamous Thinkpad BIOS password has been circumvented. Replacements for ink cartridge authentication chips (seriously) have appeared. There is always a crack.

I continue to find it amazing how effective the "security" excuse is; it seems you can get the majority to give up anything if you can turn it into some sort of argument about how it'll make things safer. Who doesn't want to feel safe, even if it ultimately results in society where every little thing you do is controlled by some huge bureaucracy? The old quote on security vs. freedom is so relevant today, but related to what I think will happen, here's a variant on that theme: "I wish for the insecurity that gives us freedom."
Sorry, I meant at a pub or a bar.
Democratic super-robot programming voting. I'ma go contact a screen writer now.
ISP Packet shaping. They do it even though they say the don't. When you go via VPN they don't know your connecting to Netflix and don't mess with your traffic.
'Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women'
Watson will agree with whatever training corpus you feed into it, so like most candidates it can't tell you anything new or novel. However, unlike actual political candidates, Watson would be able to directly answer questions.

The problem is that Watson has been talked up as almost a strong AI, when it's actually a really good classifier, annotator and summarizer. While there's a great role for Watson-style systems in policy development and practice, they are only one in a battery of ML and analytic techniques, none of which can stand alone without a fully human point of view.
I think there are a lot of people who are for an abstract idea of the working class but don't have much empathy for real human beings who have to make tough decisions in order to put food on the table.

"I could destroy any one of your arguments in just a couple of seconds. Do you realize you are talking to someone with a degree in political science who has probably written more about politics than everyone in your office put together?"

Oookay.

Also, nice Godwin.
Had been on OSX for desktop pretty much exclusively for the last 15 years up until recently. Have jumped to Windows due to my current focus on VR.

I used OSX for the first time in a few months yesterday, having installed Windows 10 on my Macbook a few months back.

For about 5 minutes I started to think that I missed it, it looks so nice, but within 10 minutes I'd had two fundamental networking issues crop up that slowed and then stopped me from doing my work without a reboot.

I own a fully pimped out top of the line 2014 15" Retina Pro ($4k to buy at the time). For at least a year it had a WiFi bug that required me to enter a command at the terminal in order to disable some aspect of networking so that I get full WiFi speed. If I don't my WiFI is limited to 10Mbps, once the command is run I get nearly triple that (i.e same as when I plugin ethernet). Why was I having to manually type commands at the command line in order to get my $4k laptop to connect properly to WiFi? 229 pages of people's issues here in just one thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/29742198?tstart=0#2974...

Also google "slow wifi MacBook pro"

It's possible this has been resolved in more recent updates and/or El Capitan.

Final issues yesterday was network access to my NAS, just random connectivity. Sometimes I can get access sometimes I can't. If I try to connect with an incorrect account password then access hangs and I'm not prompted to login again, so I have to reboot to get a network login window. It's just so frustrating, because I would love to stick with Apple. I've had none of these issues with Windows 10, or even Manjaro when I tried it again recently. But I do really miss lots of 3rd party software that I can only get on OSX.
Oh no, I did. Anyone seeing prior posts would spot the contrast. ;)
http://htmldog.com - Hands down the best way to learn HTML and CSS. It's free!

http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/gettingstarted/

He will get context on what HTML is, and how it interacts with the browser. It's much easier to internalize knowledge with this website than it is elsewhere.
Did you read the article? They looked at the last names on the titles and if they were Mainland Chinese names they assumed they were foreigners, which is utterly ridiculous in the city of Vancouver where the population is almost 50% Asian, with most being multi-generational immigrants.

That's like doing the same study in Boston and claiming foreigner buyers from Ireland own 50% of Boston homes!
Well, a lot of what Bernie is saying around Clinton's speeches to big banks is sort of push innuendo as well, since he has no proof that this was anything but what it looks like. tl;dr: politics is dirty.

Also, if you are looking for an anti-pattern for how to influence people, this is a great example. The author makes it about the poorly paid worker instead of about the tactic, which makes you more sympathize with the worker being battered by this know it all.
1: Risk, just like reward, is an umbrella term. It doesn't specify one particular thing. Take reward for work, some of it is monetary, some in terms of learning experiences, some in terms of friends from work, some reward is in working close to home or at home etc. Risk is similar. The variance you mentions measures volatility, but value-at-risk does not, it's also a risk but it measures the most you could lose at some high degree of probability. For different perspectives and measurements you have different models.

2: My biggest concern here is that the data isn't really reliable in extremely long-term investments, MPT mostly runs on historical data, if you're wanting to pick stocks to invest in 10 years from now on today's data, it's like investing in today's stocks on data from 1996-2006, which is pretty silly. Such very long-term models are just not very feasible. The weather is a great example, I think. We're pretty good at calculating patterns an hour or a day into the future, two weeks into the future is extremely hard. There's just too many small things that can explode into significant changes.

You mentioned Berkshire as an example, they're pretty much the opposite of modern portfolio theory. They look first and foremost at fundamental business analysis, i.e., is it a good business, is there a solid management etc... MPT disregards virtually all of that.

Every model has assumptions, MPT relies pretty heavily on the notion that 'all knowledge is priced in', so that analysing businesses and building portfolios like Berkshire is not going to get you anywhere. Rather, you're left with looking at historical data and building a portfolio like that, assuming that this data includes all information in the market, because it's price data and everything is priced in, so it gives the most accurate reflection of the market. Lots of counterexamples show this isn't the case, it's still a nice theory but it does better in the short (or medium) than the long term imo, and not because it's computationally expensive.
How startups can create a culture of inclusiveness
Good question...my answer is not always...

But, the non-profits I typically support function as "safety nets", providing niche goods or services that would otherwise be unavailable to their patrons...quite often those are quite basic--food, clothing, healthcare...
The author should have asked to speak with the supervisor or Clinton herself.
Highly motivated ethnic or religious people are bloc voters who turn out and can wield a disproportionate influence.

It's not really a Christian thing, it's any bloc. I don't know much about Australian politics, but I can think of several political machines in the past driven by Irish Catholic turnout, and a few current ones driven by ultra-conservative Christian and Jewish groups.
Some routes are more congested than others. Routes can be faster even though they use more hops, IPv4/6 can also make a difference.
I stopped after the first sentence starting with a conjunction.
Why did you need to write an implementation of Mersenne Twister?
If its mandatory, then every fertile human is walking around with the "right" to produce more burden for the state. That would make reproduction a liability... which turns into birth licenses.
Great, thank you for the link.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/web
Actually, there are three more parts to it, dicussing movies, computers, etc.
This is integral to any system, not just business. The incentives you set will dictate how the system works. This can have great effects when used correctly and disastrous effects when people who have no idea how to create a properly functioning system are the ones making the rules.

One example is that in Mexico, people don't have to pay property taxes until a building is complete, so there are many buildings with a false unfinished second floor so they can always be marked as incomplete.
Nature paper on Google's DeepMind
For non-technical, head first html/css is great: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-Elisabeth-Robson/dp/05...

It's not always the case but for html/css, learning by doing is amazing.
what is the limiting factor with Cardboard VR? Is it possible to improve frame rates of Cardboard to 90fps(like Occulus) with better hardware alone?
"No open source code."
The Pirate Bay Turns into the World’s Biggest Streaming Site
Understanding why you want to "update" yourself is the key to finding something that will resonate deeply enough to support a long term commitment. Then again, there's nothing wrong with trying out interesting tech for a time and later deciding it's not for you.

For me, the important distinction has become: Is my interest in X as a professional or as a hobbyist? Treating X as a hobby takes the pressure off...and lets me make sense of why the overhead of something like Android development creates enough friction that it doesn't feel sustainable. YMMV.

Good luck.
I love this idea. One question is how will we accommodate the large spectrum of ideologies within the parties: Ron Paul libertarians vs neo-conservatives like Marco Rubio for example. Or the nuanced distinction between Bernie Sanders' notion of 'progressive' and Hillary Clinton's.

Pragmatically speaking, I think we could capture the political spectrum in 4 to 5 parties. Watson-left-liberalist mode (for the Sanders crowd), Watson-authoritarian-right (for Trump supporters) etc.

Edit: Sanders correction based on comment below.
SCO ORDER Granting IBM'S Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [pdf]
Take a look at Bento. https://www.bento.io/

https://www.bento.io/tracks/front-end - front end track

https://www.bento.io/grid/ - all their tutorial recommendations

They hand-pick some of the best free tutorials for each of the technologies you might need (including the other ones mentioned here) and even have curated tracks for front end.
Thanks for taking time to try out the site. We're picking up topics from popular web and app search trends. For each topic we spend time to locate useful resources rather than top search results.

The plan is to initially drive the curation based on our own human (read opinionated) ranking and gradually open it up to community based collections once we have enough critical mass in terms of users.

We'll definitely be sharing more information about the sites background and keep our ranking process as open as possible. Its currently in early beta stage, where we are looking for quick round of feedback before we move towards a more public beta.
Nope. Your ISP just let their handoffs with whatever transit provider Netflix get overloaded which kills throughput. When Netflix pays the ransom to upgrade the links, your videos will stream nice again. Netflix paid ransom to the ISP I use, so my Netflix works well. It has nothing to do with active throttling.
Best book for non-technical persons: John Ducket, Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery Set. http://www.amazon.com/Web-Design-HTML-JavaScript-jQuery/dp/1...

Best online resource: http://learn.shayhowe.com/
To add to that, those are tools optimised for specific tasks, with an up-front cost that only becomes worth it if said task starts to become a significant part of the job. And with those tasks, they do so much of the work that you could almost say that humans only happen to wield them (I mean, I'm oversimplifying but it's kind of a matter of aiming and pushing a button).

Meanwhile, hammers, even in their various shapes and sizes, are more general purpose tools that "enhance" the skills and abilities of the human that wields it. Knowing how to use it also requires knowledge of the material you are working with.

Similarly, I'd say that stethoscopes are a general enhancement of a human sense (hearing), whereas other imaging techniques mentioned are more expensive, time-consuming, and specialised.
Personally I think CodeAcademy is just a bad meme. They offer cheap tutorials such as:

"To save your name type:"

var name = "Sergio";

"Good job! Now you know what a variable is. What? I have yet to see one person learn something useful using CodeAcademy except paste what the terminal is telling them to paste. I would stay away from this site.
Also, I didn't get the impression that he was congratulating himself, just being a bit dramatic, and clearly pretty emotionally worked up over the fact the Clinton campaign was resorting to such an underhanded and dirty tactic. But, he definitely did go more than a little overboard. He probably could have been much more effective in getting more info or changing the caller's mind if he had been calmer. Now the caller will just remember being yelled at by some angry person, and not the message he was trying to get across.

[Edited because I'm clearly still half asleep and probably shouldn't be commenting HN until after I get out of bed and have some coffee.]
A) Any historybook ever. There was never a point in history in which purple didn't try to slaughter green for green being green.

B) Everything. Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin. Me and my cousin against the world. Likeness could be anything that a person deems important. Race, religion, football teams, harry potter vs lotr, dota vs lol.
Can a mod please kill this parody account?
3 Ways to Secure Your Website for Free
Good advice...I tend to focus on "local" needs, as well...you can often gauge their effectiveness quite easily because you can see efforts and results first-hand...

I've volunteered and served on boards, too...a great opportunity to connect with your "community" and gain a deeper understanding of the issues affecting it...
"This order addresses SCO’s unfair competition
claim, granting summary judgment on that claim in favor of IBM."
Ha, no, not that London. She's love to have a job there- they pay teachers well.
I think it's easier to get Alpine to fix the issue than Oracle. Until then the issue remains

https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/11
Public Offering
I agree with you that the tone of the article distracts from the allegation that is being made.
I wonder if one could propose that "any sufficiently complicated static website compiler contains an ad-hoc, informally specificed, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of PHP..."
Gilbert and George
LOL, given how those organizations work they wouldn't do the "repair" they would ask Apple to install it for them.

I'm sure they already did that assuming they don't have better ways.
I speak quite a few languages, and most of them badly, good enough for communications needs but not precise enough to win me any literary prizes. If we were having this discussion in Dutch I would definitely not pick on you for using words that may not be precise enough or that might be offensive to you simply because I'd assume that you must have learned your Dutch from other people speaking it and using it in your vicinity, coupled with media such as movies, books and so on.

I've seen the word 'retarded' used in the exact way I used it above in many places and I've checked the dictionary and it has a simply secondary definition ('Dumb, foolish') which is roughly what I intended to convey.

Since giving offense is not one of my pet hobbies I edited my comment but had the situation been reversed I would have definitely afforded you more leeway.

To me 'retarded' did not seem rude or derogatory until you pointed it out, judging by the number of other people that are actually native speakers that use it in that exact same way it seems to me that you have your work cut out for you.
Oh dude, I can't believe the forbade Jägerbombs. I thought you were going to say Everclear plus genuine Absynthe...
It's not against the law to bypass geoblocking in the US either, and in both AU and US, you can (and probably have) executed contracts that prohibit you from doing that regardless of local statutes.
Additionally the disclaimer that the author is working on the Sanders campaign should have come up front.
It could even be C with something like the tiny c compiler. It can compile C at such ridiculous speeds it makes compile times practically irrelevant. I've never even been able to throw enough at it to know how fast it actually runs on a modern computer. SQLite and Lua both print a timing of 0.001 seconds (and that is both compiling and linking I think).
More reasons for not to be in Apple ecosystem.
In all fairness, that's probably not Netflix' decision, but a requirement of the content publishers and licensing deals.

Concerning the Time Warner issue - I can't say that I ever noticed being the victim of traffic shaping and throttling in similar fashion, but that's just outrageous; How can that be legal?
I did not read that in the article at all. It's about the "poll" questions, and their leading innuendos.
To be fair, neither do most employees. It's a hard problem.
Don't forget that the median rent is determined by the very small slice of rentals that are changing hands.

I'd love to know what the median rent across all rentals is in SF! ~70% are rent controlled. I'd guess the median rent is maybe half? Around $2000? Just a guess.
It will be on the same list, if you are filtering VPN's and other "anonymizers" you usually end up blocking all IP's that are not assigned to commercial/residential ISP's.
IP blocks which belong to data center's, cloud providers, VPN providers etc. are quite well known and easily identifiable with a simple lookup.

So you can easily find some no-name VPS provider or get a VPS on AWS/DigitalOcean/Azure/Racksapce but if the site is actively restricting access from VPN's/Proxies it won't help you much in most cases.
The culture changed.

Tech now mostly attracts (post)collegiate millennials chasing the startup wave (don't blame them, it's where there's chance of an actual job). You only have to look at the dwindling state of open-source right now to see proof of this. Add to that the post-Snowden cynicism that killed off what was left of cyber-utopianism and the free web, and it's that pretty clear that the hackers of yore grew up and weren't replaced by the next generation.
He did. The supervisor never called back.
I would buy a printed book of all these stories. I am also compelled to redesign their website for free.
The problem is... the office of President is a political position, not an unchecked dictatorship. Arriving at some absolute and canonically most efficient "decision" won't help in a system for which compromising your principles artfully with a hostile and greedy government is the typical way to execute policy.
I use gist.github.com
Third-party repair shops have never been able to correctly replace the TouchID sensor.
I think what we're seeing is institutional money moving around. Mutual funds, pension plans, and other such entities need to retain a certain ROI to ensure their primary objectives get completed--i.e. making pension payments every month. We need to look at the downturn on the public markets in the context of the public markets and who is doing the selling. If institutions are selling across the board, that's going to depress everything. A lot of it depends on the valuation model and how the companies generate revenue. The problem with tech companies, especially ones that aren't "essential" is that in an economic contraction the value they provide is negligible. If LinkedIn disappeared tomorrow, the job market would go on much like it always has. The only people who would have a more difficult job are recruiters and even then platforms like ZipRecruiter and Indeed.com make it possible for them to do their jobs. On the other hand, if FB / Google disappears tomorrow, there'd be a gaping hole in the internet. The primary social media platform vanishes, all the cat pictures disappear, and we go back to mailing(!!!) grandma pictures of the kids. Similarly, if Google dies, a lot of people's concepts of search go with it. Google has become a verb. Ergo, I think investors know this and move the money accordingly. In boom times, people are flush with cash and can spend it on "non-essential" goods and services. When contractions start, things that aren't essential begin getting reprioritized and the company revenues start falling - and investors will move their money to places more likely to survive an extended downturn.

With regards to VCs and Unicorn investing, we really only saw institutional money get serious about investing in tech startups after 07/08 when the markets shifted and traditional asset classes didn't return as much as they used to. It's easy to look at startups, see the ones that survive and their high ROI and think it's a great place to invest without seeing all the other ones that morph into lifestyle businesses and don't go anywhere or flame out. Throwing near limitless amounts of institutional money into a very noisy market leads to the rise of cheap capital and the ability for anyone to get funding regardless of the extent of their business plan. I think we will see a retraction of available capital which will lead to an increase in bootstrapping and an increase in vetting by serious VCs who need to improve the hit/miss ratio since capital will be tighter.

I need to drum up more capital to invest. Best time to buy and hold is in a major downswing. You get durable assets for cheap!
Some of these files probably shoudln't have leaked into archive.org
Lot of the content is unclassified though there is stuff which could be interesting from a journalistic pov. Also a lot of the files disappeared from state.gov after the Snowden leaks. Anyway all is in the public domain since some years already.

#!/bin/bash
snapshots="20120713050942 20121013154343 20121010165822 20120921054221 20130413152313 20130113162428"
# orig source http://state.gov/robots.txt but also on pastebin in case they delete it:
wget --output-document=robots.txt http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RE2tpyR3
for x in `echo $snapshots`
do
for i in `cat ./robots.txt|cut -d ' ' -f2 | tr -d '\15\32'`
do
if [ -e `basename $i` ]; then
echo "$i already fetched"
else
wget https://web.archive.org/web/$x/http://www.state.gov/documents/$i;
fi
done
done
That reminds me of the classic where a callee guy pretended to be a cop investigating a murder scene, and started interrogating the telemarketer.