skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One minor nit about the projects use of autoconf / automake. Projects should please check the generated files into git. Sure, they're auto-generated. But 90% of the time when they're not in git, I discover that I have a different version of autoconf, and I can't even build "configure" in order to build the project.

The cost of a few more bytes in git is more than outweighed by the benefits of allowing people to use your software.
> This is a slightly different situation since it's within the realm of possibility for companies to implement security measures which make it difficult (or impossible) for interception of data by LEO.

I don't understand why people imagine this to be a novel situation. LEOs can't get documents if the suspect always destroys them immediately after reading them. If you keep your secrets in a box in a hole in the middle of the desert, a warrant isn't going to find it or even prove it exists.

That has never been an excuse to ban paper shredders or track everyone's movements 24/7 in case they ever went to a secret place to do a secret thing.
If we're thinking about the same thing - that 'island of plastic' turned out to be incredibly diffuse - something like a few particles of plastic per cubic meter.
Design for Testability
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It's really only the online part of it that's trouble; many hotels will make a note of your passport or similar at the front desk when you register. I think it may even be required by law in some places in Europe.

There's a great difference between a photocopy in a safe and a photo of ID on the internet. The one in the safe is much harder to steal in bulk.
Unconditional+Love+Or+Nothing+At+All
Oh, what a hoopy frood.
Does it? I get the impression many AirBnB renters are doing so with just regular home insurance, which may ban subletting.
I thoguht the article was very positive:

> Americans who went to college and graduate school did well. They scored above their peers with similar degrees in other developed countries.

The problem is that the bottom half does badly. I think this is largely due to poverty, culture and low expectations rather than poorly resourced schools. Maybe its also that its so easy to get a job in America that working classes really dont need to study hard.
Aren't the cleaning fees set by the host?
You're completely right. But you know what? I kind of preferred the Internet back when most of the 'content' was being produced by people who loved it, for the fun of it and not for money. It's the difference between an amateur and a professional, and I was fine with that.
This is the thing that I will never understand. I know a lot of teachers, several of whom I was friends with in college.

They complain about the work environment constantly and every single complaint is one that would be resolved by school choice. Every. Single. One. Yet they're all completely opposed to it.

Usually the entire reason for that opposition is fears of religious schools...which doesn't make sense. If there is that much opposition to religious schools that would mean that there's plenty of parents who would choose the non-religious options so again...a system which works itself out.

I have ONE friend who doesn't complain and that's because his teacher career has been at two of the best schools in the entire state.
Online Electronic Gadget Retailer in Lithuania Accepts Bitcoin
Maybe they publish the report as early as possible and the "fix" is not in place yet?
I always wish these reports would break out the average vs. the distribution. America, more than any other developed country, tolerates a high level of poverty. And poor kids just don't have the resources to do well in school, and bring the average down. The single largest predictor of how well kids will do in school is not any in-school factor, but rather the socioeconomic status of their parents.
GM Acquires YC Alum Cruise Automation
Yes, I initially thought this was a part of the pen-testing linux distribution[0] also named Kali.

[0] https://www.kali.org/
You are understating the need so solve the mystery. The black box is out there somewhere. If enough debris is found maybe it will help investigators calculate the origin of the crash.

That thing where you're trying to shame people because they have interest in one thing while there's some horrible problem in the world needs to be solved, is a bit of an old troll. "We're curing erectile dysfunction while people are dying of other diseases. What's wrong with you people?"

We should give this troll a name.
The spirit of charity led to me to notice that if the reviewer is referring to some very specific element of it that might be clear in the context of the paper, it could make sense. If, for instance, "the evolutionary theory" in question is "group selection" [1], the statement actually makes perfect sense. Stops being funny, of course.

A number of the reviews might actually make a lot more sense in context. But that still leaves a number of them that there is simply no context that makes them make sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
> one of my favorite parts of Go is the quick build times

One of my favourite parts of Go was the quick build times. It used to feel like 'go build' was as fast as 'python'; sadly, that's no longer the case.
What would have happened if, instead of raising it on lobsters, Bayne had emailed the address in the manual? (And if he doesn't own a BMW (or a written offer in accordance with the license), he's not in any position to be asking for the source code). Most likely he'd've received the source and there would've been no issue. The outrage-storm was extremely premature.
Airbnb offering / culture differs from city to city. I was just scanning Berlin yesterday and the city has crazy good Airbnb offerings.
I find it interesting that for most people the problem with ads is the tracking part. For me it's the ads themselves - I don't like seeing them, because I don't really want to buy stuff and think that a large part of the first world's problems (obesity, depression) are caused in part by ads.

In the world of ads, I'm constantly reminded that I don't have the perfect body and that my blender does not look as good as the latest model - I really don't want that, because my blender works fine and looks ok.

So yeah, I block ads and I don't really see why I should feel bad about that, the non-tracking feature is a nice bonus.

So the web will go back to sites that either require payment to enter or are run by people who post stuff out of enthusiasm. Sounds like a nice place to me.
Not only that, privacy is integral to physical security. If you have no privacy then attackers know exactly when and where you're vulnerable to physical attack.
Data for our future
It's been a very long time, but I guess this 1979 Judge Dredd story made an impression on me as a kid because it was immediately what came to mind: http://dreddalert.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/judge-dredd-great-p...
It's March :)
Cheaper is one angle. But did anyone mention the location problem? Simply put, there are way way more places where people live than hotels are. I have visited Tel Hazor and Tel Megiddo both and I challenge you to find a hotel near either (note: I don't drive).
Good work; I suggest you apply for the Newcastle job pronto.
(reference: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/you-were-of-course-outs... )
I completely agree, but this attitude gets you in trouble unless you're the boss.
I don't think OP actually read the NYPost article he's complaining about. http://nypost.com/2015/09/20/the-8-key-that-can-open-new-yor...

The keys are being sold so cheaply that it is easier to just buy them online than to turn the published key image into your own copy: "UltimateSecurityDevices offers 1620 keys at $7.40 each for up to nine, and $6.66 each for 10 or more. Any order over $249 comes with a 10 percent discount."

EDIT: My point is that the cat is way, way, way out of the bag. Publishing the key image reduces the security of this key from 0.2% to 0.1%. It's already utterly destroyed.
Silicon Valley Pushes Class Warfare in Rear View
Also consider pi-hole [1], notrack [2], uMatrix [3], dnsgate [4] and hostsblock [5]

[1] https://pi-hole.net/ [2] https://github.com/quidsup/notrack [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix [4] https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate [5] https://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/
Stats!

See the details on race/social rank and performance of high schoolers that went on to college vs the ones that stopped after hs to fully understand the data.

the US has layers, you have a first world country, a second world country and a third world country intermixed, skewing all these data sets. well-off whites perform as well in the US as everywhere else. Asians too. no need for homeschooling or other panic modes.

if you're poor, you're fucked. just like anywhere else.
For me, depends on the length of stay.

If you book Airbnb for a month, it's usually around the same price as a 2 week stay, and the nightly rate cannot be touched by hotels, particularly for the size and location.
Reminds me of how someone embedded the chip from their Oyster card (London travel card) in a magic wand :)
A Go app likely wouldn't rely on the native processing power of the smartphone.
An AlphaGo app could be created today for a smartphone. The bottleneck isn't the phone it's the cost of the cloud computing resources behind it.
Perhaps a combination of Moore's law and economy of scale would make it affordable sooner than we think.
The Xbox One, for example, already subcontracts difficult problems out to Azure.
So what do you prefer? Hunting them down and beating them up with your own fists? Hire some tough guys? Is that really easier?

But i was really referencing AirBnB insurance....
prepare to be arrested for various violations as a punishment for pointing out these obvious and dangerous flaws.
It's the best language you can get currently.

There are a few "copy-cats", but it shows that the creators lacked the experience and time to really think about how to achieve coherence of language constructs and how different parts play together.

In addition to that, Scala has a huge head-start and is quite stable and mature. The language is expressive enough that I can't envision many features which couldn't be expressed with the existing language.
For example, Scala.js didn't require any language extensions at all.
> She told me several weeks later she'd been able to solve a bunch of (to me) tiny problems and how proud she was.

My mother does this sometimes too, it's really nice. She'll call me and tell me how she needed to add an additional email to her iPad. "Wait, needed? Past tense?" "Yes, I figured it out. I went into settings, then Mail, then..."

PCs never stuck with her. I still to this day have to explain the difference between left-click, right-click, and double-click. Why you need to double click on the desktop, or in a folder, but only single click from the Start Menu or quick-launch bar. Etc... But since getting her an iPad, she plays with it, and explores it the way I remember doing when we got our first computer with Windows 3.1.
MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Design and Science Is a New Kind of Publication
Dieter Rams: Principles for good design
The Scala school course has not been updated for a long time. I am not sure its a good resource anymore.
Check the Mozilla campain "The Hidden Business of the Internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc
This could be solved with the eID feature of German identity cards, I guess.

Problem is many disable it, do not have a card reader and many smartphones are not compatible.
$200 is pretty steep but it's not that unusual for vacation-type properties (whether booked through AirBnB or someone else) that don't offer daily maid service to have a nightly fee plus a one-time cleaning fee. I imagine that this is partly to encourage longer-term rentals and partly it just reflects their costs.

And, yeah, Vegas is notorious for tacking on mandatory resort fees.
> Setting yourself up in that manner would mean more challenges and making it difficult for the UK govt to win in court.

But would it, really? This fails the same logical test as the warrant canary - it sounds comforting, but is absolutely useless in the real world.

You still have the same choices - you can follow the request, or ignore it. You can tell the world, or keep it secret.

In every scenario I can think of, this idea of "affirming you have not been compelled" provides absolutely no protection.

Are you able to provide an example that demonstrates how this off-shore/contractor setup would protect you from the UK equivalent of a NSL with a non-disclosure clause?
So a few things to help make this clearer.

1) The title is pretty misleading, the identity is known to regulators. Most funds will use a sell side bank who has access to the market to put their orders out.
Especially for a country like Turkey where it doesn't make much sense to buy your own pipe.

Its just the rest of the market who doesn't know the identity of the firm. This is common in all countries.

2) Developing countries markets almost always have very little liquidity so its not surprising for a firm to come in with a global macro view and move hte market when trying to put their position on.

In fact its the one place where people still act like the opening scene, atleast I think it was the opening scene, from Liar's Poker (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B003E20ZRY/) where the trader tries to bully the market by deciding bonds should go up so he buys a whack of them and then when the market fails to move he doubles down on his bet and buys more causing the rest of the market to go along with him.

You can't really strong arm developed world markets but you still can bully developing countries markets in this way. You are essentially playing chicken.

The problem is always how do you close your position. If buying so much moves the markets then its obvious that selling will also do the same. usually you are forced to sell your position to a big sell side firm who can take the exposure.
Insurance may not pay if the homeowner has invited the guest in.

Many home insurance claims in the UK are not paid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35401104

There are plenty of cases of people in the UK being robbed by eg cleaners and insurance doesn't pay.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qvn36

> Last week Money Box heard from a listener who was surprised to find that her home contents insurance did not cover her for theft by a cleaner. Money Box listeners have told us that insurers seem confused about whether you are covered if carers and home helps steal from you. An insurance expert tells Money Box how you can find out.

(They misuse the word "carer" here, which should only be used about people who provide unpaid care. They mean something like "care worker".)
Put a haproxy in front that does the rate-limiting and connection tracking.
Aviation industry accident investigation practices were adopted from the railway industry. Back in the mid-to-late 19th century, train accidents killed about as many travellers per capita as road traffic accidents in the 1950s. So the industry adopted a set of principles: no-blame impartial accident enquiries managed by an independent board who would deliver a report on the causes of the accident along with recommendations for best practice to avoid it recurring. Upshot: rail passenger travel is now by far the safest form of land travel.

Bear in mind that a Boeing 777 like the one that went missing on flight MH370 costs on the order of $200M. You then have potential liability for the passengers (if the airline made culpable/criminal mistakes) of maybe $2-4M per head, for up to 400 pax on a 777 -- they're big (MH370 had only 239 people on board) and you're looking at a billion dollar accident. The airlines and manufacturers thus have a huge incentive not to let this happen again.

(Compare to a car accident: 90% or thereabouts are down to human error, and the vast majority of fatal ones "only" involve a couple of deaths, capping the potential liability two orders of magnitude lower.)
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In small towns and pre-industrialization, stores had a tracking regime that puts Silicon Valley to shame: the shopkeepers knew you.

They didn't need credit cards or scores because they could identify your store credit account by your face, and your creditworthiness by your family's reputation.

If you were buying something out of the ordinary, you better believe your parents/spouse/church/friends/entire town would hear about it from the shopkeeper, who knew them all as well as he knew you.

A juicy conversation on a party line telephone shared with neighbors, interesting metadata on the postal mail also handled by people who know you and your business, a sighting in public with someone not your spouse, a visitor at an odd time of night, a strange car in your driveway - all these things could quickly become a public affair.

Technology is not bringing us a particularly new invasion, but it is helping at least that side of the "tight-knit communities" of old scale to modern population size and density. I think this is a horrific development, and it's certainly quantitatively unprecedented, but not qualitatively.
GM Buys YC W14 Cruise Automation
See this one [1] from mozilla

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc
GoJS 1.6 – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams
Promotional coverage of something much better covered here previously.
> There is a reason the acceptance rate at Stanford is ~27% for homeschoolers vs. 5% for those who went to school.

Is it selection bias?
I'm also a bit tired about hearing about how great Finland & Japan's schools are.

How many illegal immigrants do these countries have in their school system? How many with minorities who dont speak the main language at home? How many kids in Japan/Finland dont eat properly because their families can't afford food? Of course the American's student's results are going to be worse on average.
I feel like I'm missing out on a huge bulk of money simply because when I have ideas of "Internet of Things", I cant get over the security obstacles and cancel the ideas. If only I just didn't care (or didnt know) and just implemented whatever the heck brought in money from oblivious customers.
Angular2 starter kit – production ready universal web app boilerplate
Denmark's online id system, called NemID (EasyID) requires

* A username
* A password
* A one-time verification code, either from a card which is posted to your registered address, or using some kind of USB thing (as far as I know, the USB option is mostly used by companies).

The system is run by the government.

I don't know what information a business using this system for authorization gets — I'd guess name, address and perhaps date of birth — but they at least don't have the password or single use verification code, so they can't authorize themselves in my name.

https://www.nemid.nu/dk-en/
Weaponized, 1967-88: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

Which used a fast fission (!!!) reactor (i.e. not quite a nuclear kaboom operating mode).

More generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_radar
This is the unfortunate outcome of a bunch of factors.

OEMs moving to XXX over TCP protocols which have zero security by default and documenting this in the datasheets.

VAR installers switching to the newer products because CAT5 cable is cheaper and easier to pull than what they used to use.

The previous solution was just as insecure but harder to hack because you needed more specialised equipment.

I'm not sure how we are going to fix this without getting the OEM industry and the industry bodies behind xxx over TCP to understand that they need to bake a security model in.
It would be weird if it was exactly half. Mean isn't median after all.
If the government bureaucrats responsible for education in other nations had performed as poorly as their American counterparts, they would have been fired decades ago. (In China and similar polities, the firing might have been done by a squad.) When people decry government control in the USA context, the focus of the complaint is the complete lack of accountability by government personnel for the results of their actions and decisions.
Turning lights on at 3 a.m. is a nuisance. Knowing when lights go on and off can tell you when the people are not in their room - which could help if you wanted to break in and steal their stuff. Overall quite disconcerting how lax they are with security.
Absolutely - if I could reliably write correct code first time then Python might well be a better option. Reduced debugging time is my biggest reason for preferring Scala. In particular the ability to refactor with confidence is exponentially helpful (you can keep your APIs clean and clear, which feeds back in and helps prevent mistakes). Having the safety of a typed language without having to sacrifice any of the clarity of Python was a real revelation.
If you want to read a good book on studying in-store shopper behavior, you should checkout "Why We Buy" by Paco Underhill. He runs a firm that studies shoppers by secretly following people around in a store and writing down everything they do.
I can easily imagine that coming up in the social sciences.
When trying to re-read Ringworld, I mis-remembered it as DiscWorld, and then entered the bizarre mind of Terry Pratchett. Best mistake I ever made.
How about a stop (hand palm) [1] instead of -1?

[1] http://emojipedia.org/raised-hand/
A similar effort has been done long time ago in the french project Weboob (Web out of browser) in the project Boobank (you get the idea)

http://weboob.org/applications/boobank

«Boobank is a console application able to list your bank accounts balances on supported websites and to see the expenses details, transfer money, etc.»

The page exposes the banks supported.
A large enough degree of quantity difference has it's own qualitative difference. This has been observed many times in other fields.
This article could have been a tweet
People will find increasingly clever ways to work around the lack of clustering, as they always did. This could mean only the top-tier users will be paying, which must be a very small portion of the pie.

Even though this announcement is sold as something that will empower InfluxData to add even more cool features to the open source version, I'm actually worried that it won't be around as an open source product for very long. Let me explain.

InfluxDB is a very fine product but I don't think it has all the momentum it needs to keep going in the long term yet. That means it's still building that critical mass of supporters in an open source ecosystem. With this announcement, InfluxData is eroding the trust that small to medium-sized users had in it so the momentum slows down. If InfluxDB was a no-brainer for anyone starting a time-series project, it is not anymore. All the other alternatives need to be carefully analyzed and, even if InfluxDB is chosen, there is that voice in the back of your head saying you'll be in trouble if you exceed a single node's capacity. Eventually people will jump to the next TSDB solution that offers clustering as soon as it becomes avaiable. Then where are all those paying customers going? It'll then be easier and cheaper for InfluxDB to become a proprietary software company.

While there are some comparisons being made to what Nginx does with its Nginx Plus offering, I think it's the opposite situation. IIRC, since the early days, Nginx has offered a paid product with more features. And recently they have started to add those features to the open source version, so people got happier. InfluxDB has always promised clustering (it was a major selling point, go watch any presentation about it from 2 years ago), shipped the code (even if it's half-working as of now) and now announced it's removing the functionality. Suddenly any InfluxDB node you have (even if it's running just fine without clustering) looks like a lemon.

It's all such bad PR. And it's 2016, haven't hundreds of OSS companies been through this already? Oh well.
Dog or mop: funny image recognition system tests