skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've happened upon one of the main criticisms of democracy, addressed notably in Zakaria's The Future of Freedom. But I don't say that it's invalid for the people's representatives to unjustly oppress the lawbreakers we're discussing here. I only say that they shouldn't! You can dress it up in irrelevant appeals to democracy, but we're still locking up more people than any other society that has ever existed in history, and that's wrong.

...can't require safety inspections for aircraft, gotta wait for a bunch of people to fall out of the sky first!

Don't tell any enterprising nonprofit interest-group enthusiasts, but we have "special" and "experimental" airworthiness certificates, which amount to basically that. Of course, those certificates don't cover aircraft which are naturally subject to the regulation of the state.

Oh yes, that well funded concerned mother lobby.

In fiscal year 2012-3, they spent $34,327,399, of which they spent 64.4% on actual programs. Nationally, 9 out of 10 charities spend a higher percentage. [0]

Fucking it up for sociopathic assholes since 1980.

As I have observed every one of the five or six days I've spent in various courthouses over the last five years (and as any practicing lawyer with a conscience surely has observed much more often), these laws do far more to harm the poor than they do to make the roads safe. Perhaps you've heard about protests in Ferguson, MO? Predatory policing and prosecution was one of the main focuses of that.

[0] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
The phone in the San Bernardino case is an iPhone 5C which does not have a Secure Enclave.

The Secure Enclave (in the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6) has a hardware enforced rate limiter that cannot be overridden by a firmware update.
I've played with Teller and it's nothing short of incredible. The developer on boarding is super slick.
The thing with regulation is that you have to fund the agencies that enforce them. If you keep with the Republican, "free market! Anti-regulation" thing of defunding these regulatory agencies, then of course they're going to be flaunted.
Hey, original author here.

In regards to your last question, here are my subjective ways of thinking about this. Firstly, I don't think there are many pre-defined or general rules with software development. I've been lucky to work on a pretty diverse set of projects in my career, and I can tell you success or failure almost always boils down to fundamentals not tools - how well do you understand the space you're working in (for web development - how well do you understand databases, caching, concurrency, scaling strategies) and how well do you understand the abstraction tools provided by your language? If your decision making is grounded in these fundamentals, then the tools you choose are not going to make that big an impact. From this point, tool choice is really about economizing the work you'll have to do and managing risk. If you're gonna be building a bunch of CRUD stuff and non-technical users need to view and modify data - then Django and its admin system makes a ton of sense. If, on the other hand, you're developing JSON APIs that you'll be deploying into high-volume conditions that you'll have to react quickly to, you don't want to pin your ability to scale and move quickly on fundamental decisions made in a large underlying library with many unknowns, in this scenario Flask makes a lot of sense because it's not overly prescriptive and plays nicely with almost everything. For this particular project none of us were very familiar with Django, so there were far too many unknowns for us to be comfortable staking a lot on it.
We don't have standard pricing, yet. Right now, it is priced on a case-by-case basis after discussing requirements with the customer.

Our objective is to enable operators (whether the operators are at the software vendor or at third parties) to maintain applications across many environments, effectively.

Once the application is ported, operations becomes much more efficient and increases the odds of success if a third party is operating it.
Emperor Norton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

(In case it's not clear, I'm being serious(-ish.))
Depending on the technical abilities of the person using the solution, I would recommend one of the below two systems:

- Chartio: A good tool for someone who isn't very technical to discover insights. Drag-and-drop interface.

- Periscope: A good tool for someone who is able to write SQL to build visualizations from their queries.
If a MMO has execution time of 4, I worry about a 10
Yeah! That's why you can't even jailbreak every single one of their phones!
It's hard to theorize based on such infrequent events, but the vast majority of these happen in official "gun free" zones (only recent exception is the Congresswoman shooting), and the killer kills himself at the first sign of lethal resistance.

Of course, if this just results in displacement to other "gun free" zones, then at net there will be just as many mass shootings.
Paul Ekman talks about the "Desdemona Problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_error), which is always an issue with face-reading of emotions. Many facial expressions (especially those that express on the top half of the face) correlate very well with emotions. But you don't know the context of those emotions or what the person is thinking.

Hence the Desdemona Problem. She is fearful when accused by Othello, not because of infidelity, but because she's being accused. You see that already with the surprising finding that fear and disgust actually correlate with positive financial performance. Yet you see those same emotions in suicidal patients and they're undoubtedly negative.
Agreed, this is an exciting api but the pricing puts it out of reach for a lot of applications
>but any music you compose probably also has an element of originality in it

Is deep dream original in your opinion?
It's how you define 'qualified'.

Here's from her blog:

"Professionals i admire were calling my work impressive, but the person interviewing me was saying he couldn’t contextualize my experience because i “hadn’t worked at facebook or google or studied at stanford”."

Here's another:

"despite my 10 years of marketing and social media experience and despite the reach of my latest campaign, i was told i wouldn’t be that person."

This lady is clearly qualified. She's just not a good 'culture fit'.

I get that a fair bit myself - there's an apparent shortage of iOS developers and I happen to be one looking for work currently. Do you know how many companies explicitly say 'do you have a bachelor of computer science? no? ok bye'?

A lot! A college graduate being able to do iOS should be a 'wait, he/she must be good, that's unusual', instead it is straight to the garbage bin.

I could of course just start straight up lying on my resume and get better results but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Which means the hoardes of shameless liars who will say anything to get the job, get ahead. So it goes...
Assuming you are referring to the San Bernardino case, that is an iPhone 5c which features an A6 series CPU. The Secure Enclave feature was introduced with the A7 [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf (page 5)
> This should not be a Google product

This is an added feature for Google Express, which is an established Google offering.

Google Express was an outgrowth of Google Shopping (originally, it was "Google Shopping Express"), which was an established Google offering.

Google Shopping was an outgrowth of Google Search, which is the most core Google offering there is.

Why, again, should this not be a Google product?

> Problem with any of these Google side projects is that they come in with a huge cash reserve so they are not playing on a level field with other companies that would like to do something similar.

Um. Too bad? (And, really, that's not all that different to VC backed startups position. So, if your complaint is that VC backed startups shouldn't be allowed to compete with, e.g., bootstrapped small businesses, well, at least that would consistently applying the principal that is implied in your complaint. But I still think that's a bit silly, even then.)
I hope to play with this also tomorrow, as I want to see if it can extract numbers from pictures of a street. The docs say

"TEXT_DETECTION	1024 x 768	OCR requires more resolution to detect characters"

How big were the images you used?
this +1000

The python users I've encountered fall generally into two camps:

1) The engineer/scientist/researcher/hacker type that has python installed on their snowflake machine, and has a whole bunch of packages installed to make their flavor of snowcones. These users just want python to work, find joy in the syntax, and in general get their work done.

2) the developer that is trying to deploy the same thing to many machines. This is a pain. Often you end up with users from camp 1 trying to do this and you end up with a global python install with batteries and the kitchen sink included that is a dependency for a whole bunch of "server" apps. you update a package (because "my special snowcone needs it") and you break something else that you didn't know to test. This is a nightmare. With pip and venv it is easier to manage this, but I still see that relocatable venv is "experimental" when you read the help. IMHO, the python 3 community needs to make it very, very easy to distribute and deploy my special snowcone maker and all its dependencies to a system without python already installed, and not stomp on anybody elses snowcone maker in the process.
American tech companies didn't fail to dominate China because of naïveté, they failed because the Chinese Communist Party refuses to let any global tech company establish a sizable foothold when they can create their own Chinese version, especially when the Chinese version helps cement the Great Firewall and control the populace. This is not a contemporary trend, this is the consistent history of China.

Baidu over Google; Alibaba over Amazon; Renren over Facebook and Twitter (both blocked in China).

Only exception is Apple, but they mostly sell products instead of info (and is fashionable among the Chinese elite). But then, there's always Xiaomi...
At the center of this 'scandal' is a program that prevents auto log-out during license training.

Being licensed: Sitting at a computer for 52 hours and clicking on it before passing an exam.

What a waste of time. Pretty much an entire week and a half of full time staring at a screen to get a license to sell insurance. They were just skating bureaucracy, plenty of companies do this.
How I Turned a Side Gig into a Startup (Then Did It All Over Again)
To clarify, by "upload files" they mean adding and committing new files to a git repository. At first I thought there was some other way to add files to a project.
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It's up to you to decide how/what you want to link, just like in C. I've prepared simple example at https://github.com/tumdum/go_libs that you can use to see how exactly it's all working.
Thanks! I also note that the API pages each state "This is a Beta release of Google Cloud Vision. This API is not covered by any SLA"
> Yeah but groceries are a very thin margin business half percent to two percent profits.

Including groceries makes the existing, more general Google Express shopping service more valuable, and negates an advantage that Amazon's competing service, which already has grocery delivery, has over Google's service.

Analyzing the grocery delivery bit as if it were a standalone business is an error.
That's awesome. Any additional info on this topic?
python 2 is not ubiquitous, it is not installed by default on Windows
Apple's choice to drop ZFS may have been influenced by the lawsuit Sun was dealing with at the time.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2539287/data-center/app...

I'd wager they wouldn't want to adopt ZFS without an explicit license and legal indemnity from Oracle.
Original post author here. This 100 times, few python programmers realize this, but this is exactly where that bullet point advice comes from.
Want to share some of those ideas? :)
In Scandinavia, salt used to be one of the main ways of preserving food. Salted fish with too little little salt resulted in the discovery of surströmming, one of the culinary delights of humanity.

Even today, salt candy is popular (yes, salt); it is one of the things I miss as an expatriate.

So I should have the genes to handle salt -- just need a way to import my salt liquorice...
Anyone tried using the API to solve captchas?
I admit to being so cynical that this was the first thought that passed through my head, too — and I dismissed it as being paranoid... yeah but... some things just rub you up the wrong way, don't they?
Adding that to our to do list. good idea.
What a war it was indeed. Aerial bombardment of a walled city. A rocket launched from Gaza injures a few people in Israel; a bomb (no need to mention phosphorous wink wink) dropped from a state-of-the-art fighter jet destroys an entire city block.

And when Israel finally decided that it was time for the "mighty" IDF ground forces to enter the stage... nothing really happened. The rockets just continued to be launched from Gaza for a whole month. It was a really amusing "war" to watch in my opinion :D
For execution time, a higher score would mean a shorter timeline (the task list is a 10)
Intentions matter.
I don't think frisson is that unusual, or that it means the same thing as "gives me the chills" -- the latter implies that you're frightened, IMO.
Thanks. We've had an overwhelming response even from just the tech community submitting articles on all sorts of things ranging from hypopharangeal cancer and beyond.
Essentially we get individuals with medical expertise to make an abstract that is readable by every day people. Some of these you'll read "the common carotid artery" but in laymen's terms is "blood vessel in the neck", we make this new research more accessible to the every day person
> I just can't see the Chinese internet giants letting an American company dominate this space

Letting an American company know who in your country is travelling where and meeting with whom for how long would be a risky national-security move even without the FBI and pals advertising their bulldog mentality.
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> CEOs whose faces during a media interview showed disgust [...] were associated with a 9.3% boost in overall profits in the following quarter.

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say "Regression to the mean" yet.

Suppose the CEO gets obviously-scowly whenever their last quarter was abnormally bad... Well, the next quarter will naturally tend to be better, purely because it's a return to a "normal" state of affairs.

In other words, perhaps they've simply found a way to detect the PAST performance by looking at the CEO's face, which is... rather less-useful.
This article answers most technical questions and goes into great details

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with...
I don't see a very high social cost from licensed insurance salespeople who passed the exam selling insurance. Do you? If so, what is it?

Again, note that we are discussing spending 52 hours clicking through a powerpoint before you are allowed to take the test to get the license.
Some of the ways that GitHub sexism study misconstrued GitHub norms
My company Open mHealth designed this tool because we could not find one definitive place to help people decide on which devices to buy, which measures they support, and how they connect. Hope you guys find this useful.
- David
New Conference Paper: “From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration”
This is off-topic, but I just stumbled upon this Ask HN you've submitted 26 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10958687.

I am currently tinkering with betavoltaic cells as well. If you'd like to chat, my E-Mail address can be found in my profile.
> A Man-in-the-Middle attack is possible, however.

Which is exactly what I'm talking about.

> a device that is entirely separate from your computer

I'm speaking about the first authenticator type in the spec, which are embedded authenticators. As we've been talking, I didn't realize (until now) that the U2F you were talking about was a physical device (rather than just a standard). The kind of computer lay people we're trying to protect won't actually carry these things around (think back to RSA - most of my programmer peers were reluctant o deal with one of these things). My understanding is that this will be primarily used as an embedded service.

> I don't think you understand what a challenge even is, if you think "listening" to it helps at all.

My mistake. I assumed this was similar to the password protecting my private key. If private keys (in the embedded authenticator) are not password protected, then we've just introduce yet another security flaw.
Yes and no. Some incoherent thoughts below:

For plain fire and forget you are correct that async pub/sub is decoupled and in fact while our monolithic app is monolithic it actually is fairly decoupled because of this (e.g. it often is the receiver of its own messages it published).

However there are async request/reply scenarios. Basically a client requesting for a stream asynchronously (this is different than normal request/reply) or even plain request/reply over a messaging protocol (which is done often for better or worse).

For our case it isn't so much that the monolithic app is poor architecture wise (in fact its sort of convenient to have a homogenous fleet of servers) its that the monolithic server makes prototyping a pain (ie some nodejs developer doesn't want to have to boot up the massive Java app).
I think a mirror tool would be useful for this.

I think Hoverfly like thing could be built as a RabbitMQ plugin or I guess you could publish messages to multiple exchanges has one way of recording/mirroring.
Why is the Linux Foundation interested in supporting a non-Linux operating system?
It is a security feature that your TouchID is disabled when the phone detects a non-official/verified sensor but it wasn't intended to brick the phone, just disabled TouchID. There was a bug that ONLY affected people who update using iTunes (this is rarer than you might think) as it's a diagnostics tool they use in factories where they WANT to get the error 53, they didn't intend that to get out to customers.
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At the centre of this scandal is a company selling insurance with unlicensed brokers.

That means people advising others on what insurance to buy where their health is concerned who didn't know what the hell they were doing.

The software made to skirt the licencing requirements is only a subset of the overall issue.

Frankly, I'm getting a little tired with the group of commentators on here that think its a-ok for a company like zenefits to tell people "Sure, you're covered for that in this policy" when they frankly have no idea if that is the case.

Selling insurance advice without a license is exactly like selling financial services advice without a license. And both actions are illegal for very good reasons.
The U.S. taxes citizens on worldwide income, so becoming a Russian resident is not likely to help. There is also a significant expatriation tax for those wishing to renounce their citizenship. I suppose you could move to Puerto Rico or expatriate well in advance of any expected earnings.

However you're absolutely correct that there are unfathomable unseen costs and effects.
iPhone 7: Apple 'to introduce charging from 15ft'
The blog post talks about the ideas for what Linkerd does, but offers little for how and why it actually does it. So I'll take a shot at it.

Linkerd runs a proxy on localhost that all local services speak to, as is being done right now commonly with HAProxy. Linkerd proxy handles all the routing. Service discovery is handled by Zookeeper (or Consul or Kubernetes or Marathon). Based on load and latency statistics, It does client side load balancing to these services, similar to Netflix's Hystrix -- which makes me wonder about how it handles routing to 3rd party services on the clearnet, and what it does for circuit breaking on local or remote services.

Linkerd+Finagle are written in Scala, so running one of these on every app server means running a jvm on every server. Is anyone running this in production and can speak to how heavy the linkerd process is? One of the main HAProxy advantages is its efficiency.
The point is, it was speculated that if the phone had a Secure Enclave it would be impossible for Apple to meet the FBI's request, but it appears that even Secure Enclave phones are vulnerable.
Conjoint Analysis Open Source Tools for Offline Contexts
Why does Uber need to be in China again? Why can't they be happy growing their service and providing better services (like better driver auditing and education) for the North American market?

If they spent $1 Billion improving their service it's better than trying to outspend a natively innovating company in China backed by local people running under different rules.
It seems like many people don't get the concept of evidence preservation.

Apple put in a feature, which they may circumvent, that will effectively brick the device if it is tampered in certain ways. The lowest risk option for retrieving the data is to get the people who designed the device to implement their circumvention method. That is exactly what the FBI asked for and what the judge agreed to.

Why should the FBI have to waste resources reverse engineering Apple's product (and risk destruction of evidence) when Apple is wholly capable of helping out?
That's for the container package management system, not the host storage system.
Reading a book about productivity would be... counterproductive. Looking through a categorized bullet list would be more helpful.
The Reiser guys were talking about this too. I think they needed defrag and were trying to get DARPA money to implement it, but it never happened.
> Physics has not changed much

What time frame are we talking here? We're constantly learning about how more stuff works. Physics has had plenty of changes[1] but perhaps you're only speaking to very specific theories that have not changed such as relativity? In which case yeah it hasn't changed much but there is also a disconnect between relativity and quantum mechanics and it seems a pretty large majority of scientists think there is a unified way to make them one theory so obviously our understand of both is not entirely accurate (though our observations with relativity are pretty spot on).

> Where do you go from there?

Hard to say since I'm not a physicist or hardware engineer but I've seen lots of interesting talks about scaling down more and more when we didn't think we could before. Ultimately there may be a size in which we can't get any smaller with conventional processor architecture but that doesn't mean we can't build new ones. Optical based processors, built in a 3D way, allows for far more overlap than transistors since light passing through each other doesn't interfere with one another[2] so that looks really interesting.

Quantum computing also promises great speed increases which perhaps could eventually be scaled down to closer to quantum sizes than traditional computing.

I think everything is getting much harder than the breakthrough before it but we seem to keep going and I would be surprised if we end up completely stopped due to hitting some physics block. We'll find a workaround!

[1] http://quantumfrontiers.com/2013/10/23/the-10-biggest-breakt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing
I don't understand. Why not just focus on the rest of the world? It is, after all a big effin world. China has always been a different market. What's with this need to monopolize every corner of the world and lose a shiz ton of $ in the process?
SLA is not the same as T&C. No SLA means there is no uptime guarantee.
Update is only for bricked phones, so no.