skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If NSA contractors were brazen enough to look up the private information of spouses and "ex-lovers" [1] I don't see why the IT departments of education systems won't evolve to be susceptible to the same thing.

"Oh hey look, snapchat traffic!"

[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog-...
I wish we could move towards a world where those of us who aren't billionaires or Stanford grads can disclose our mental health issues.

During a particularly bad episode of depression I wrote "Pedagogy of the Depressed"[1] for Boing Boing.

I'd have loved to have written more, but we don't live in a society that's supportive of people with depression or anxiety. Gates himself says that he often monitored how long people were at work - the exact sort of behavior that can exacerbate someone's mental illness.

Silicon Valley needs to learn the value of working smart over working hard, and that it's perfectly valid for someone to want to work to live, instead of the other way around.

Anyone can say something when they have a safety net, but more and more often the people in this country whose voices we need to hear most are silenced, not by censorship, but by economics.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.htm...
Worth noting: subresource integrity doesn't currently change the mixed-content algorithm at all. An HTTPS site can't load an HTTP + SRI script.

It's useful for increasing the status quo on HTTP pages, or for defense-in-depth on HTTPS pages, but it doesn't actually enable you to do anything you couldn't before.
Could you give them root access in a VM?
Thanks for posting that, it's pretty cool to watch!
I don't know precisely, but if FERPA works the way HIPAA does, there's a carve-out for arrangements like this provided that the vendor has an agreement in place (a BAA in HIPAA-speak) and agrees to abide by certain security standards. Note that, in practice, it goes like this:

VENDOR: We promise that we are doing all of the stuff that the law says we're supposed to do to protect the covered data that you're sending us. Look, see the pretty pictures of a fancy data center in our marketing materials?

CUSTOMER: OK, that's good enough for us! (checks off box on list)
I can do that with boxen alright: create a project manifest, define where the source is (git repo), what the dependencies are (node version, database server), nginx configuration for the local environment (a foo.dev domain which automatically proxies to the project's web server) etc.

I doubt the upper management can set up these things, they can say that they want to start a new project X, but how exactly the dev environment will look should be, IMO, in the hands of engineers. Lots of technical decisions to be made there.

I do like the UI though.
You've heard of us!? No kidding!? That's awesome to hear. :)

We use a lot of ajax when the actual page builder is in use, but we do our best to ensure that page load times for published pages are low as possible.

Outputting lean and efficient auto-generated markup (relative to what was out there) was one of our big goals from the start.

We have a free version of the software in the WordPress repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/

You can demo the tool, peek at the markup, and see how it well it plays with your WP theme/install with the free version.
The hard part is delivering the initial page with those hashes. If you can deliver it over HTTPS, why can't you deliver everything over HTTPS? (There are good answers to that question, to be fair.) And if you can't, what use are the hashes?
Maybe I am jaded, living in Santa Cruz, I had a housemate years back on disability and getting money because she couldn't handle scents and some other stuff. She had a handicap placard in her car yet still was able to bike around town for some miles including some slight (50-100') hills. I don't think things are as out of whack as the "Cadillac Welfare Queens" trumpeted up during the years of Reagan, but there are people, maybe only in certain communities, that play up the whole I'm a victim, I'm can't work, you owe me mentality.

Hell, one of the ones locally, managed to get a PhD from the local university some years back but has not had a steady job in over two decades.

The idea of a basic income is interesting, but it would need to be couples with cleaning up some of the able bodied "self proclaimed" victims.
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No it does not. I don't understand why people beliefe this to be true.

If you shift consumtion from some luxery goods to more low end goods there might be a slight increase in the price of some of the lower end goods but because of the price elasticity it will only be a very small amount.

The avg price level should remain about the same, some relativ price would be effected but not to any overly large degree.

We have to remember that this is not a overly radical proposal most people will still have about the same amount that they have now. Some people on the lower end will somewhat increase their income but not enougth to change prices significantly.
The real problem with a proposal by the government to guarantee income is that governments cannot guarantee that they will always have enough money.

What happens if a recession hits and there's 25% unemployment What happens if 25% of the people really decide to stay home and not work? What if unemployment is only 10% but the other 90% become less productive?

Yes, capitalism and "every man for himself" has it's own drawbacks but the positives outweigh the negatives.
You underestimate the widespreadness of "creative accounting". If you try to follow all the rules by the book, you will be broke in no time. Same goes for law. So, in fact, these two professions will be one of the last to disappear.
https://goto.docker.com/try-universal-control-plane.html
America’s Smart Kids Left Behind
That's the one. The database is like kind of like a giant arbitrarily deep hash table of strings and numbers. At some point they added objects to the programming language and made a way load and save them to the database. Voila, object database.
Please list a self-contradiction.
They intercept people using SMTP to connect to non-campus email systems, too.
Sure, but the fact that you have to search these commands on a wiki inspires less confidence that if you have a clean documentation with an imperative “type that to install”. That should be fairly easy to implement though.

I’m also not certain about the canonical way to update Docker containers. I feel like we miss a standard “pod” (ie set of containers) orchestration tool (as docker-compose doesn’t really matches production requirements).
This is cool, I'm eager to try out and take some ideas.

As a New Year's resolution I tried to improve my dev environment and in January, I created a big yeoman generator for making most of my time consuming tasks trivial, like :

1. Creating a remote repo ;

2. Configuring CI ;

3. Generating project boilerplate files ;

4. etc ...

Doing this with yeoman has it's limits and seems hardly maintainable.
> For 200 years people have been repeating 'all the jobs will go away' because of automation. It has never actually happened.

This looks like a good example of the Normalcy bias logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

That it hasn't happened in 200 years doesn't mean it won't happen now.
I'm good friends with a swiss person. Time to move to Switzerland.
Reinforcement learning involves low-information objective signals. Hence, it sounds "universal" but doesn't actually work very well.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKBnD5y2M8NbWN6XzM5UXkwNDA...
Lots of people just don't get it :).
Basically he thinks it's the authors of this paper http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/216

Discussion on bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1345468.0
Related (and with a little more background): http://firstround.com/review/why-firing-brilliant-assholes-i...

Excellent point in any case.
I don't doubt that these people exist. I've known a few. But I doubt there's enough of them to make a difference.

Also, if they're willing to be unethical and dishonest now, why would a guaranteed basic income change their mindset? They already have that.
Let's assume for the moment that you're right and there are some people who can work, but chose not to, and use disability as their reason to avoid work, and claim disability benefits.

We can either just give them money, and not care if they label themselves as disabled; or we can make them jump through expensive hoops with complex bureaucracy and end up just giving them the money anyway.
Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle- Feynman (1986)
It's worth noting that the Data Protection Directive will be replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation[0] soon, probably in 2018.[1]

This Regulation (which will apply automatically across the EU, unlike the previous Directive which had to be manually ported ('transposed') into national law by the member states) will toughen up the rules on consent, data portability, liability and enforcement.

One of the biggest headlines is that companies can be fined up to 4% of their _global_ turnover for breaches of the GDPR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

[1] http://www.scmagazineuk.com/european-parliament-informally-a...
The more i code over the full stack, the more i realize many technics on the backend are similar to the ones you find on Single Page Application or native apps.

The flow is this : an event comes in, you need to answer to it very quickly by doing synchronous tasks, and sometimes you also need to trigger asynchronous tasks in parallel, wait for their result, and assemble it before sending the result ( / upadte the gui).

Basically, synchronous algorithls are solved by any language. The core issue that remains both on the client and the server is handling shared state and parallelism.
I'm Canadian, so there's that. The Swiss are pragmatic conservatives, so this might pass if you can convince the bulk of them it makes sense financially, i.e. it will reduce overall costs of aid and social assistance programmes.
Yes and no.

Yes in the sense that all employees except the management hate the current regime because they're having their budgets and teams cut and workloads increase, so me and my peers would fully agree with you. Less cost cutting, less profit, but a more sensible workload.

No in the sense that the prices to the customer aren't coming down to cost-price. The reason for this is that we deliver ridiculous value (i.e., with $250k of annual legal work, which is puny, you can generate millions in cost savings). You'd think then, that competing business would quickly arise and drive prices down, but the industry is so cyclical (and doomed to die as lots of things get automated etc), that it's not a great industry for new entrants to compete with the incumbents (which have consolidated with lots of mergers the past 20 years become quite massive firms with strong brand names that drive tons of inbound leads, besides if you're a small new entrant you tend to get bought out anyway)

Hell these firms are all in private hands and have been for a long time, the shareholders appoint a board to squeeze as much profit... which is why I concur with the OP, a lot of the business is driven by cheap juniors under the guise of a strong brand name, where senior staff spend the majority of their time on sales rather than actual work, and are called 'vice presidents' for that reason.

On the other hand, it's not all that crazy. The funny thing is, all the juniors are 100x more educated than the seniors. You've got 23 year olds with a double master's in econometrics and tax law, while you'll find some senior VPs who got into the business in the 70s or 80s who may or may not have a bachelor's in something. Sure the seniors have the experience and the kids are often clueless when they just start out, but they're also usually sharp, hard-working, well-read (in subject material), have quantitative skills and broad competencies. So it's not all that crazy.
An accessible, 30-minute video on how the economy works by Ray Dalio
Persistent aircraft noise is horrible. I don't have experience of NYC, but the flight path to London Heathrow descends over a swath of west London, and I imagine persistent helicopter noise to be worse.

When I worked in London, my office was very close to the flightpath for LHR. Aircraft were at 580m overhead (according to FlightRadar24.com) about every 90 seconds all day. If the noise stopped (wind in the "wrong" direction) it felt like a huge stress just disappearing. Pretty much the same effect as an unexpected sunny day in winter :-)

https://www.flightradar24.com/51.5,-0.31/12 (note that LHR's night flight restrictions are from 23:30-06:00 UTC, but replaying from earlier in the day doesn't work for me: https://www.flightradar24.com/2016-01-31/09:00/12x/51.5,-0.3... )
I hate this weird condescending attitude about New York City. "NYC's a loud filthy crime trap. Everyone knows it. How dare people try to improve things."

Generally speaking NYC is loud because of things people do. If we can reduce the amount of noisy shit happening in the city, then yes, it'll be quieter and a better place to live.

People in large cities are allowed to demand a decent quality-of-life.
It was more like someone saying, "Foo is not bar," someone else saying, "How is foo not bar? Bar is bar," and then me saying, "Because bar has a different meaning, colloquially, at certain companies."
The AMPLab is great. Glad to hear you are working there and wish you the best of luck pushing the boundaries of computer science.
Police kill a man’s daughter and blame him for it
Many of these decisions would be done through a Beta if I had released it. I did however put a lot of thought into it but after seeing some interesting sign ups from specific companies I decided that a beta would be the way to go.

However, the project was terminated due to the lack of time / financials.
> In reality you are the one that is broken

wow.

> pseudo-scientific

It's a young scientific field that has been hurt by cultural distrust and misinformation. It hasn't helped that people like you have been spreading FUD. The efficacy for SSRI's treating OCD is about 50%. There is on going research for better second line treatments. I'm lucky in that it's been very effective for me.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181958/

EDIT: You lost all legitimacy when you called me "broken". You're disgusting and I'm done responding to you.
A plague of hyperbole ruined journalism decades ago but people keep putting up with it.
The SGX launch has been one of the worst launches of a major CPU feature I've ever seen coming from Intel; it would be really interesting to learn what went wrong and why.

It's years later than people anticipated (and won't be in the E5 xeons for a couple more cycles, so 2017/2018/2019).

Not quite NetBurst level, but pretty horrible from a generally execution-excellent company.
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I built a Heathkit scope a lifetime ago, this has convinced me to do it again.

Wonder how long it took to assemble? I got the impression from the article it got built in a few hours.
The technology to make quiet helicopters has been around for a long time.[0] Unfortunately its military utility seems to have prevented it from being apllied in commercial aviation until recently. That said, the commercial sector is making progress.[1]

If NYC implemented some sort of noise reduction regime and/or retrofit program it would help. Whatever they have now probably isn't aggressive enough.

>Each day, hundreds of tourists are recruited off the street, whisked past a light security “wanding,” with no X-ray machine or background check, and loaded onto an idling helicopter with no barrier between passenger and pilot.

The author must have taken that scene in The Dictator to heart.[2]

Seriously though, doing some invasive TSA-style searches won't help; all bad actors need in that situation is their bodies. The best defense in this case is the instincts of the pilots.

[0] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-built-a-special-hel...

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/02/eurocopter-moves-one-step-close...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JnszgkE3O8g
SSL interception/MIM is a thing if the OS images (eg. on campus hardware) are prepared with the browser certs to enable it.
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Same with Governors Island. You can't use the entire eastern side to relax because the helicopters are going nonstop. It's infuriating!
Nice! I remember using it some years ago. I'll check it out again.
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And there are still some very quiet areas in Manhattan. Financial District is one of them at night.
Would Amazon circa-1994 been accepted to Y Combinator?
This is important and largely true. There is, occasionally, a real terrorist threat. I personally am maybe too cynical and tune most shit like this out as utter bullshit. So we are creating a boy who cried wolf problem in addition to anti-factual fear mongering.
Oral sex advantage. Also as a general pleasure appendage. When your hands, elbows, mouth, and even chest are all usefully employed simultaneously, the chin may be the only thing you have left to use. Drag the chin up and down the legs or chest with a sequence of short kisses for great effect.
Do you have any evidence for your 'society is going to collapse' theory? Because the rate of automation was much higher when all the farming jobs were replaced. Since then, many times over jobs were created and destroyed.

I could take a article from a birish newspapers, 200 years ago, replace 'maschines' with 'robots' publish it in the NYT and most us Progressives would not notice it.

The arugment is the exact same, and it has been for 200 years.

Why is it different 'this time'? The computer has existed for a long time, it has replaced many jobs already and society did not collapse.

The pridiction that IT will be crushed is also not knew, I remember the 'all the jobs will move to India' crap. No to mention all the ink spilled on 'runable specifications'.
There's a no way of knowing the answer to your question, but ultimately, it shouldn't really matter.

There are people who say that Snowden leaks are a CIA operation against the NSA, born out of patriotism. There are others who say that he acted on direct orders from Obama, who had found it impossible to rein the intelligence agencies in, and needed to foment public support. We can judge by how the political actors have been behaving since the leaks. Our children will be able to read about it once internal documents are declassified.

It is never good to idolize a person, and to put them on a pedestal. We all have flaws. Snowden has done us all a tremendous service, at a great personal peril, and it seems he will live to tell the story. We should all be so lucky. But he is a flawed man, just like we all are. People are quick to create cults around heroes, and then they are disappointed when their idol doesn't live up to their standards. It is sad, really. If you want to know who Snowden is, go to Moscow and buy him a cup of coffee; that's as close to the truth as you're ever gonna get.

In the end, the ideas Snowden stands for are important and valid regardless of who brought them to the fore.

EDIT: Ron Fournier made the same point slightly more eloquently, back in 2013: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/why-i-dont-...
Web UI programming is complex compared to anything, I mean any GUI toolkit from the late 90s (my favorite is Qt).

The problem is that the people who design JS frameworks insist that you have to be able to use JS, HTML, CSS. This leads to bad API, you reuse something that was designed for documents for applications, and no one really knows how to map these different things properly.

GWT could have been a viable route, but it sadly didn't catch on that much.
The quality of these "unmaskings" has been getting lower over time.

The paper he cites from 2007 describes a system nothing like Bitcoin. Digital cash papers have been coming out every year for decades, it's always been a hot topic of research in the field of cryptography, since the days of Chaum. You could pick almost any time in any year and find some e-cash paper like that one.

The attempt to link the Satoshi Nakamoto name with random fragments of random authors in random citations of an essentially randomly chosen paper is ... especially entertaining.

The reasons Bitcoin took off despite a billion other crypto papers that also tried to crack the problem of digital cash are:

• Bitcoin was simple enough for non-cryptographers to understand: no advanced maths, almost certainly because Satoshi himself was not a professional or academically trained cryptographer.

• The unique monetary policy and coin distribution scheme that incentivised people to take part early on, and engaged people who weren't technologists but cared about monetary policy.

• Most importantly of all, Satoshi actually implemented his scheme in a downloadable app that was fairly easy to use. So people could try it out and get excited about it.

• Actually, truly P2P. Many e-cash schemes descended from Chaum's (and the 2007 paper is no different) assume a "central bank". Bitcoin was one of the only schemes that had literally no special nodes.
I think that this is interesting question.

It has been already pointed out, that cooking/eating at home is not just a way to provide fuel for your body. There are many other reasons, like:
- pure fun
- social activity
- adjusting the meal to your taste
- not having to go outside (especially when the weather is bad or you're sick)
- a way to save money (but you've proposed an alternative for this)
- eating healthy (it's very hard to eat the right amount of good quality food outside)

On the other hand, I've recently heard about a new marketing campaign by IKEA in Poland, where they opened a "social kitchen", where you could book some time and hang out together with your friends.
> But this is specifically marketed toward developers and designers.

"Developers and designers" encompasses quite a range of skills. Many designers don't know how to code or don't want to deal with it, or would rather do it in a visual editor rather than in a text editor.

On the other side, there are developers who aren't proficient in modern HTML, CSS, web technologies, and the obnoxious-to-set-up modern web tool chain. A GUI like this could be a handy way of bypassing some of these problems so they can get that website built quickly without it looking like it belongs on the 1990s web. (I admit this case is more rare.)

> would it be better to drop the Bootstrap focus and focus on the small business owners and content creators?

I agree with you there, and that's actually what I'm working on. In my application the web developer/designer can create custom "components" with HTML and CSS and some rules on how these components can fit together, and the site owner / small business person / content creator can manipulate their site in a completely visual, drag-and-drop, edit-in-place environment. There are no mandatory tie-ins with any frameworks or libraries, and the system doesn't alter your markup or insert additional junk. Any valid HTML and CSS the developer puts in will work and will come out essentially as entered.
The think I've been thinking a bit about lately, is that aren't we writing the same structure again and again? Is your browserify that much different to mine? Oh wait, it is now because I'm using webpack. Ok, what about sass vs. less? Damn, more differences in set-up.

I've been wondering if it just makes more sense to have a module on github with these things set-up already. Maybe a few modules. Just grab the one that is 'most similar' to the tooling you want to use, and get up and running quickly.

Then you can customize if you want, but I would hope we could settle on 5 or 6 variations. Does every app really need a different structure for where they put their static assets vs. compiled?