skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Mr. Conrad had overseen a company that had become derelict in its culture and ethics

Zoolander much?
Design your database for flexibility
Yes, it sort of makes me think of the infamous Espresso machine on kickstarter a few years back (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-control...). They raised a ton of money for a "hackable" PID-contolled espresso machine starting from 5+ years ago, then delay after delay after delay....

The thing is, kitchen appliances are HARD. Appliance designers spend careers doing the stuff and have manufacturing know-how and are backed by serious resources. A dude installing linux in a microwave is going to have a good time and perhaps get other folks excited and I am all for that (and have done ghetto-retrofits myself).

But there are good microwaves out there, they just cost more than others. If you just want a good microwave and want to encourage better designs, fork over the money and buy them! On the other hand, it is just a microwave. There are better ways to cook food... don't overthink it!
Meet Linux’s little brother: Zephyr, a tiny open-source IoT RTOS
That sentence should be written someplace where everyone can see it everytime a project starts.
I can confirm on the screen, I was impatient and did not seek out an ips screen on my x230 - it has awful viewing angles.

My wife has an X1 2nd gen and the split backspace is something I must have repressed, good call there. Total shit.

I would also make sure not to think of a used, "does enough" thinkpad as a replacement for a new Macbook Pro any more than picking up an early 2000s Acura would be a replacement for a new Mercedes. It's an alternative, with its own trade-offs that may suit some people, but by no means a direct replacement.
Lame but not unexpected comments from a company living off their users' data - it's quasi by definition that privacy isn't something GOOG is particularly interested in at all as the lack of it is at the very core of their own creepy business model.

Each of us info-tech "professionals" downplaying this reality by falling for GOOG marketing are not merely cattle but sheep. Cool open-source projects count as successful opinion manipulation ("marketing") as well btw (Angular, Kubernetes, etc).

I admit it, I'm a sheep meeeeeehmeeeeeehmeehmeh but it might be about time to finally change that meehmeehmeh.
I've never been caught with my DE razor blades either. I intentionally bring them.

It's surprisingly easy to disguise them in a bag of electronics and wires. They actually get pissy about my small screwdriver set, but ignore my razor blades.
I dont think that Draftkings blatantly broke laws. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 specifically excluded fantasy sports in the definition of gambling.

The issue is people allege that daily fantasy sports is more akin to the illegal type of gambling because it doesn't require enough skill whereas the law was intended to cover the traditional type of fantasy sports which require more than 1 day commitment and smaller sums of money.
Russia's new ballistic missiles to be tested on asteroids
Are we talking about the same thing? That is the most full-throated defense of orphan instances I've ever heard. The reaction to such things is generally... less positive... to put it lightly.
> So you're in favor then of psychological profiling...

Reasonable people are in favor of police and intelligence work that identifies people with both the genuine motive and actual means to seriously endanger the lives and/or property of others and provides reasonable assurance that those people will fail to harm others. This sort of policing is nothing new and has worked spectacularly well for many, many, many decades.

So, if that's what you mean by "psychological profiling", then yes. If -however- you're referring to TSA's SPOT teams and similar low-to-no-effort quackery, then no.
The cheap keys support way less features. The are simple U2F tokens and cant do anything else.

The others support tons of other features. You can use them for classic 2FA with OTP (TOPT/HOTP/YubiCloud OTP). They support using your Yubikey as a Smartcard, you can put your 4k GPG key setup into your Yubikey. They also support the PIV interface and you can use it for lots of different operations, like code signing, certificate authority, windows authentication and more.

Some of the sticks support NFC. This means you can use Smartcard, PIV and U2F over NFC.

Sadly at the moment they have no key that supports 4k GPG Keys AND NFC. However they will update this soonish.

See: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/

There are also older models that you can still buy that don't support U2F at all.

> Are there other keys than from Yubico recommended?

Their are others, just search for U2F on amazon, seems their are at least 4 companies implementing them. Nitrokey is a pretty cool company with a interesting option that are somewhat different from Yubikey.
The good, the bad, and the ugly side of equity crowdfunding
It's not, really. I guess delivery is a long standing way of receiving pizza, but not for groceries. It feels more menial, somehow. I'm not saying it's a particularly rational feeling, it just tickles some middle-class guilt impulse somewhere for me.
The Sweet, Strange World of Cereal Box Collectors
How Apple will fight the DOJ in iPhone backdoor crypto case
You can link a Go program completely statically, but it's not the default.
Modest amounts of wasted time? Oh no.

I suppose one way to estimate how onerous this requirement is (I agree that to the extent it is arbitrary that it is dumb) would be to compare how much compensation the insurance license makes available to how much compensation spending the equivalent time learning a skill like welding makes available.

(I think most people wouldn't be very good at welding after 50 hours of training and practice)
The secret lives of the Tumblr teens
yeah it's clearly fake, judging by the upvotes and fake comments.
The public order category includes drunk driving and weapons offenses (mostly, felon-in-possession). Those are not inventions of the state. The public is entitled to control the possession and operation of dangerous instrumentalities that create risk of harm to others.
I think what it means, relative to the OP claim, is that the TSA stepped up its game and is now reporting the guns it itself is trying to smuggle past itself as the subject guns that are being detected at airports.

If you know how the government works, that is the only plausible explanation.
A pilot licensed to fly smaller aircraft wasn't able to save this plane:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
but he kicks ass
You are: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

But many (most?) are willing to accept that trade-off.

I haven't researched this at all, but if you can use your own software on your own computer (e.g. IntelliJ) for the debugging UI, then you retain control over at least _part_ of your computing.
Breaking through the storage barrier: 5D disc with 360 TB capacity
Upvoting for bravery!
Indeed, DratKings and Fanduel realized you could create a new type of fantasy sports competition that was still explicitly legal but also allowed for regular, compulsive gambling. It was actually quite clever. The fantasy sports gambling exemption was conceived for year long fantasy sports contests where typical participants bet small sums annually rather than casino like contests that allowed people to bet repetitively.
Regarding unicorns (> U$1 billion valuation), the U.S should implement certain regulations.

These startups have market caps that are larger than thousands of public companies that go through several laws and openly disclosure their financial information.

Not only does this lack information hurt shareholders that are not "part of the club", but also stakeholders that rely on the company in other matters.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2674420

"Regulation of unicorns should recognize that outsized power."
I wouldn't say any of those companies have won. Irrespective of the legal challenges, none have a moat, essentially selling a commodity.
> "I'm talking about the messy process of building and installing it."

If you're using Python for scientific computing, you can use the Anaconda distribution of Python, it makes it painless to work with those packages.

https://www.continuum.io

> "Also it seems that "inside Scipy' it is a different world, and that to really "talk to the outside world" there seems to be a data-translation step needed."

Python has excellent ORMs, I'm not sure what you're getting at.
I realize this article is much more in-depth than the view of this author, but.. Yeah, it's amazing how the approach to this has shifted. Imagine if the Allies in WW2 had just complained about the Nazi cryptopgraphy and 'outlawed it for everyone' instead of actually worked around it..
Exactly, but I'd phrase it a bit differently: when it comes to taxis and apartments, regulations are bad for you, the consumer, and good for the people in your community (taxi drivers, neighbors), while in insurance, regulations directly protect the consumer.

Because people (especially in the US) couldn't care less about other people, regulation that annoys consumers is "bad", and the consumers then defend the companies breaking those particular laws. Those companies exploit the fact that in every industry, consumers always outnumber providers (or conversely, every person consumes from many more industries than those where they provide), and so the disregard for this kind of regulation will always work. Every new company will get consumers to gang up on the far fewer incumbent providers until they break the regulation that protects them, and so on, industry by industry.

It's a little like the robber barons, who used every new wave of immigrants to beat up the previous generation of immigrants who tried to unionize, and then hired the new ones in their place... that is, until the next wave of immigrants. Except the new way of doing this is far more effective, because it's always easy to obtain a majority that supports you and feel like they're doing the right thing at the same time.
When I went to Venezuela years ago, gas was cheaper than water. Now at least they will have desincentives to use their cars. That's good for the environment.
This could have been improved by clustering using a d3-like force layout - The current node layout obfuscates the graph terribly!
People with higher education, largely left-leaning, make that trade every day. They have a strong desire to bend others to their will in a manner eerily similar to that of religious fundamentalists. They don't mind advocating for tax increases, regulation, or a cashless society so long as they believe it will have a greater negative impact on X undesirables (e.g. the wealthy, multinational corporations, bankers). However as you've mentioned, these same wealthy institutions are the most immune (see: regulatory capture, Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich). They've just advocated for their own downfall in the process and are oblivious to it all.
Even vitamins cause cancer[1]. My personal guess is that it is far more harmful to you to worry too much about what you eat, than eating a little bit too much of something "bad", see Nocebo-effect[2] and other psychosomatic factors.

[1] https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vitamins-and-cancer-ris...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
Why Tim Cook Is Wrong
>Thus from my own point of view, the Python 3 ecosystem is just complete now.

We're mostly seeing the same thing, but there is a few libraries where we maintain forks, because the original author didn't test Python 3 support, but just claimed that it would work. However all but one of these libraries are by commercial companies an solely for integrating their service. For the third one the original author seems to have evaporated (I believe one of my colleague are planning a fork with some of the other users of the library).
What IS relevant for the FBI is establishing legal precedent under the Writs act for compelling them to do so.
There already is a usability focused Debian. It's called "Ubuntu".

And I don't mean that metaphorically. Ubuntu literally is Debian with usability enhancements.
WaPo titles are sounding more like Buzzfeed or Quartz.
> It seems the landscape for functional alternatives are mainly Scala and Clojure

Cannot talk about functional alternatives without mentioning Haskell. OCaml (when abstaining from the "O", as many OCaml'ers do; similarly Scala'ers often abstain from the "O" in Scala) is also an interesting option.

Finally there's Rust, which is besides being a bit more functional also more low-level than Go.

While being fairly young, Frege[1] also deserves a mention. Very similar to Haskell, but on the JVM.

1: https://github.com/Frege/frege
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Two days ago I took a proof-of-concept project written in Python, using the GMPY2 library (Gnu Multiple Precision library), and ported it to C.

My C code was very complicated in order to be fast. Lots of pointer swapping, bit-shifting, etc.

The code was about 4% faster in C, which was more lines of code, much harder to read (and write), compiled with every imaginable flag that could offer a speedup. Switching operating systems, this code was about 8% faster in C on Linux than Python in Windows 10. C in Linux would take about 9.5 days to complete, Python in Windows 10 would be about 10.5 days.

In addition, Python has the "pickle" module so that I can easily make the algorithm save state to pause and restore it any time I want. What's more, I can probably use mmap to share memory easily without making copies and switch to multiprocessing for an even greater speedup (my first attempt using Pool was a little slower despite using 3 cores, but that's the slowest way to multithread).
Same here. I recently cut sugar and bread products and I experienced random dizziness. I was eating plenty of fruit and I was eating natural sugars. I decided to experiment one day; had 4 donuts, bread and butter, and my body felt better.

Now the plan is to avoid processed, avoid preservatives, and move towards more natural and organic. I went to the doctor and they said don't wait more than 3-4 hours between meals.
Maduro is an idiot, and his crony socialism is destroying a once-great and proud country.

None of these stop-gap measures are going to save things down there, and while Maduro and his fellow party leaders will ride off into the sunset as billionaires (if his people don't kill him first), the poor Venezuelian people will suffer for many years to come.
Welding isn't some mystical craft. Most people would be competent for many welding tasks after that much actual time spent welding. If the "training" consisted mostly of clicking "Next", however...
The Unicode support alone justify transitioning for us.
Going to the farmland example and assuming it is a closed system.

The default process isn't painless as losses have to be allocated between the banks investors, farmer, suppliers and construction workers. While the question of who takes the loss is worked out there is considerable uncertainty. Who's going to make large purchase decisions when they aren't sure how much purchasing power that they have?

The result is that while losses are being allocated the velocity of money slows which lowers GDP and as those effects ripple through the economy it creates deflation.
I don't know if this is a factor, but isn't parking a big problem in big UK cities? If you wanted to make a grocery store run, you'd have to fret about parking and traffic.

Most American cities don't really have this problem
... and note the absence of the word "threaten".
Wouldn't he be directed to attempt a CAT IIIA (or B) ILS autolanding?

Edit: see sample video of the procedure here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIaMALJjOEc

Edit II: see the same guy "remotely" guiding a random person to land using the autoland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WMQUDGDD4
Alternative title: "Zenefits Scandal Highlights Perils of Excessive Occupational Licensure". What exactly is the purpose of requiring a license for selling insurance? If consumers desire some assurance of quality in their insurance brokers, then certification, not licensure, would be sufficient. The only justification for licensure over certification is a paternalistic one: consumers are simply too ignorant to choose their own insurance brokers, even if some are certified and some are not. As Milton Friedman said in Chap 9 of Capitalism and Freedom, this argument "amounts to saying that we in our capacity as voters must protect ourselves in our capacity as consumers against our own ignorance."

This isn't to say that Zenefits hasn't made a huge misstep for seemingly little benefit (bypassing a 56 hour course?), but I wish there was some discussion of the absurdity of the law that was broken alongside the bashing of Zenefits for breaking it.
> When different code needs different JVMs

With the JVM you can use HotSpot, Dalvik, WebSphere, or OpenJDK. The JVM is just a spec. With Go, you've only got one runtime to choose from. That said, if you code to the JVM spec, then you don't care what implementation you run on.
Once they've clicked "next" sufficiently many times...

Sounds like a job for Homer's typing bird!
Why do you think you know that?

Since the answer is basically either A: "no good reason" or B: "I believe I have science on my side", this really isn't a good response to an article about how controversial the science is. Which science do you think you have? Why is it better than the other half of the science?

This is a generic reply to everybody jumping up to explain what the truth really is.
All you propose measuring is the individual benefit to sitting through training. That's a terrible way to measure the social cost of a bad regulation.

The social cost is 52 hours of productive output from moderately skilled employees. (Or moderately less - if learning the material takes 20 hours, then the waste is 32 hours assuming people can simultaneously learn the material and click.)

The right thing to do is simply make people take the test, and if the test isn't accurately measuring people's insurance selling ability, fix the test.
STM isn't magic. Transactions can and will silently fail and you lose your parallelism. You need additional tools to identify and debug failed transactions and you'll need to learn how to structure your code to avoid failed transactions.

This might turn out to be quite difficult for non-trivial Python applications.

STM is exciting but I think it's important to keep in mind that it's an experiment that while promising might still fail in practice.
A year of code
Just to put things in perspective, filling up a gas tank here is still cheaper than buying a two liter coke bottle.

30 liters of gas will cost Bs. 30 or Bs. 180 depending on the type you use. A 2 liter coke costs Bs.500. A McDonalds meal costs around Bs.1000 (Add Bs. 500 if you want fries fries. Fries are imported for some reason. I might be off on the price, I haven't been there in a while.)

And this will not stop the smuggling of gasoline to Colombia and Brazil, since the price differential is still so big. It reduces profits a bit, but it's still worth it for those that can do it (mostly military mafias that control the border).

EDIT: just to expand a bit on the subject, the price has been fixed since 1996 I think. The govt subsidies on gas are ridiculous. The country was losing around US$12500 million a year through the subsidy. Add to that, Chavez started PetroCaribe as a way to "sell" cheap oil to caribbean nations (in exchange for loyalty) that was never paid , or paid with beans,etc.

Now that the oil prices are so low, we have no income.Most of the money that came in to the country was stolen by govt officials (composed mostly of military men) and we have a huge debt obligations and low international reserves. Now it's time to tighten our belts.

Lines to buy food are enormous. You can only buy certain things twice a week if you can find them (according to the last number of your national ID). Medicines are dissapearing.

Maduro is looking everywhere he can to find some money, but there's not much he can do really.
Non-pilots think all the pilot training is learning to fly.

Pilots know flying is very easy, all the training is learning how to survive uncountable emergencies and failures. And economics and judgment and experience and doing it smoothly and a few other things.

Landing a large jet is very easy in a simulator. A random untrained person saving a plane that's out of fuel is impossible.
The number of gun owners has been rising for a while now.
Any framework has their own. Yii implements active record, I've been working with that for a few years now and I really love the paradigm.
> Proof: the polynomial of degree n going through n+1 points is unique.

Suppose you have nine points lined up in an exact 3x3 grid. What, according to your proposed definition, is the unique degree 8 polynomial going through them?

There are two obvious cubic polynomials I can think of: One, cover the nine points by three horizontal lines and multiply the equations of the lines. Two, do the same with the vertical lines.

I can't really think of any reasonable way to distinguish any one of these (or another) polynomial over other candidates.

In contrast, with the definition that a cubic polynomial requires its coefficients to be of degree 3, you get things like Bezout's theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bézout%27s_theorem
Well, he was fighting hypoxia and one engine flamed out as he entered the cabin, the other 10 min later. There's no way to know if he could have landed with ATC support if oxygen and fuel were nominal. A brave guy in any case.
>indicates the transition of a maturing industry from the founders/builders to the executives/gate keepers.

Is that what you think? It certainly gave me pause; "startups" are some of the worst offenders when it comes to spewing jargon.

>as opposed to the value creation process of founders who build new things and call them simply.

Oh brother...
I have to admit I'm jealous you had such a diverse exposure to programming paradigms.

I agree it's a problem. I've always found it odd that the AP test is in Java for example. I would imagine pseudo code would be a better choice for a conceptual test.
That is strange.

I use the 'Yubico Authenticator' (like Google Authenticator but you have to connect to the Yubikey via NFC for it to reveal your login codes) if I need OATH-TOTP, this has nothing to do with U2F.

However the docs in your second link does indicate that their is some new interoperation between Google Authenticator and U2F. It seams that they use Google Authenticator as a stopgap until browser support the system directly. Pretty strange. This in turn has nothing to do with U2F.

I can not test this stuff very well because I use a Yubikey NEO that is to old for the U2F NFC and a Yubikey 4 that has no NFC. I really hope release a Yubikey 4 with NFC soon.
I hear credit unions are not regulated as well as banks, so even if there are laws for banks, the credit unions don't necessarily have to comply. Credit union security will probably always lag behind banks. :(
The probability of any given event happening is negligible. However, something is going to happen. When that something happens, its probability will have been negligible too, yet, here we are.

You can consider this concretely a bit by imagining a lottery in which every human being in the world is given one ticket. The probability of any given winner is negligible, but somebody is going to win, in what for them is an against-all-odds outcome.

The a priori probability of this particular string of words ever being combined together into a post on Hacker News was negligible. Yet, here we are.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I just made a similar comment before seeing yours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125679

Clicking "next" for 52 hours is clearly absurd, though I would take it farther and argue that no exam should be required to be an insurance broker at all.