skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there was a better FS out there that met all the requirements for SD cards don't you think it would've been adopted?

No, it would not. It is dependent on Microsoft's willingness to ship IFS with Windows. And why would they do that, to lose their leverage?

No, common user is not going install third-party IFS module. He might not even able to do so (work computers, etc).
https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQ?t=2m1s
Awhile ago I put together a list of big (100,000+ rows) and public datasets...not all of them are ideal for machine learning applications but you'll probably find a few worth sharing:

http://cjlab.stanford.edu/2015/09/30/lab-launch-and-data-set...
Cracking Go (2007)
I thought so too. I also thought it so too so I created this:
https://github.com/gshaw/security-checklist
> Is this an oversight of the AV software companies?

No, this is a principle limitation of any AV software that is based on blacklisting.

> Did no one come up with this before?

Of course other people came up with similar ideas before.

> Should I be shocked?

If and only if you had trust in your AV software before.
The man deficit is real, but Tinder is not the only answer (2015)
Slightly OT:
"I'm writing this on Linux Mint" must be the equivalent, in the personal computing world, of having a long beard and wearing hipster clothing.
So many are using it but they all think they are oh-so-not-mainstream.
Oh, and just like those skinny jeans, they are probably going to hate it sooner or later.

EDIT: I was referring to Linux Mint, not Linux in general. I would never call a Slackware user a hipster ;-)
Is there (or could there be) a quick, layperson-usable chemical test for the toxins? (If so, it could be applied to both the raw mushrooms and dishes like soups prepared from them.)
What's an example of a product that could be created with this technology that would be difficult otherwise?
Two years after the fact, in OpenSSLs case, after it became almost universally adopted.
Those are a lot cheaper than I was expecting - I'm seeing $3.60 for most units.
A VC’s survival guide to an economic downturn
If Sketch interests you, you may also be interested in joining the Lisp game development community at #lispgames on Freenode. We had our first Lisp game jam in January and will be having another one soon.
Yes, I only invest in gold mines in my own country, where there are more strict protocols with regards to the environment, where a 'environment cleanup' bond must be lodged with the government before mining begins. The area is rehabilitated when mining completes.

The down cycles and bubbles are pumped up by central banks. When the stock market isn't doing well central banks lower interest rates, encouraging people to take out loans, to buy houses and stocks, and if they didn't, the central bank would lower the interest rate until they did.

It is market intervention that is exacerbating the phenomenon you're talking about. A small down cycle is a healthy event that cleans up all the almost productive companies and reallocates their capital through liquidation. It is zombie companies propped up by government subsidies and central bank intervention that is causing the rot in America's economy. It is akin to a forest fire burning all the weeds so the forest can rejuvenate.
And average one, obviously. This isn't an objective measure, but there are similar concepts in jurisprudence.[1] Patent system was created in a different time, but at least to me in the present it only makes sense to use it to protect ideas that necessitated hundreds of man-years of investment by competent teams and not to be used for land grabs for trivial ideas that anyone can arrive at just by virtue of being a pioneer one's field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_man_on_the_Clapham_omnibus
You may be right, I'm just going by hearsay myself.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

A math exam in a grade school is not an end in itself. It's a tool to assess how much each student learned and how well the school system is functioning. Your choice 2 is not reasonable at all, and in fact many more parents will be angry if they're told "Your kid was marked incorrect because they didn't know something we won't teach for another two years." It will also be a very poor educational experience.
Seiko made a miniature Rube Goldberg machine with 1200 watch parts
Nothing here is really being "abused." You're actually just re-purposing a piece of software to perform another job outside of its intended design - that's fine! Just keep it stable and fast, and you're all good :-)

As a side note: I love Elastic. I would make it my daily, general purpose database if I could, but that truly is abusive (to everyone involved.)
Have you tasted Morels?
Yes of course. At that point any standard optimisation that can be applied to normal code is applicable.

In this case you wouldn't expect any call at all: the switch statement is online in the caller and standard constant propagation can remove the switch itself.
The need for multi-platform npm packages
Grumpkin: simple CSS tests for React components
Apparently not true in the way this article suggests, according to the NPR ombudsman: https://t.co/6B3NKLPH6B.
There's a whole page of potential applications:

http://www.polymagnet.com/applications/
I wouldn't say they make the perfect editor, but they do make changes.

For example, I like the fact that almost every editor on my mac obeys the standard shortcut keys (at the minimum, apple+x,c,v for cut/copy/paste, apple+z undo, apple+s save, apple+q quit, apple+f find, apple+g find next, apple+a select all).

If you started vim or emacs today, would you choose on a mac to not follow the standard interface rules, when the editor was first started? I would (personally) hope not.
I had never heard of Gosling's Wave Glider, but I've commented below on how it probably works based on my memory of a 1949 Popular Mechanics article. I just realized that the PM article may invalidate some of Gosling's patents; IMNAL, but a cursory look at the first US one listed on the Wave Glider web site (US 7,371,136) looks like what is described in 1949. I didn't bother to look at the other 4 Wave Glider patents.

I'm sure the Wave Glider works while I'm not sure the design described in the 1949 Popular Mechanics article is the same thing or would be practical at all.
It's not just on their podcasts, WABE in Atlanta has advertisements on the air.
> Patents are like nuclear weapons - they stay dangerous for a very long time

That is not actually true about nuclear weapons; they require regular maintenance. And they are like any other military technology, they get outdated and their designs have to be constantly refreshed.

If a country doesn't maintain their nuclear arsenal, there's a very good chance that they might not work when they need it to. This happened to much of Russia's inventory. This, of course, gets factored into geopolitical strategy.
I think the "randomness" is Diablo games is what makes it really addictive. I remember playing Diablo 1 and I couldn't stop playing because I couldn't wait for the next item to drop.

Also, a low-end machine could run it!

Diablo II, still the same thing - it was basically a better Diablo I.

Diablo III on the other hand came out with an Auction House - which basically killed it. I played in the early parts of DIII, it was okay but not as fun as DI and DII. However, things are very different now. There have been lots of updates in Diablo III and Blizzard killed the Auction House - So can't say how it feels now. But I'm pretty sure the "randomness" is still there - which basically what drives the game.
Because the last thing I think all of those guys wanted is to pay MSFT royalty fees, however the alternative could've been even more expensive.

Those guys are SD card producers; they don't implement the FAT filesystem themselves, and therefore AFAIK don't have to pay the tax.
What the hell? First I was Gen X (parents are baby boomers), then suddenly I was Gen Y, and now they've renamed the '80-'00 group again?
Sounds very fascinating, I've skimmed through a couple of their pdfs but couldn't see, is there one that explains how they create them?
Right now we are indexing about 5,000 repos. We'll probably stop at 50,000 since we index an order of a magnitude more than GitHub does per repo. Our objective isn't really to index as many repos as possible, but rather we are focused on making it insanely easy for others to index what ever repos they want.
iirc, they're dropping support for SSLv3 which was used on older firmwares.

There's some discussion about this on the mobileread forums [0]. Thought that was discussed, but can't find the post so I might not be remembering correctly.

[0]: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150
You're not secure until you whitelist. And even that's not a guarantee; it's a necessary but sufficient condition. But systems which do not run signed, whitelisted code from boot time forward are as good as pwnt.
In Costa Rica, which follows a similar system, you can also buyout your notice period, which I think is fair for all sides.

Basically, if your notice period is 1 month, you can opt to pay the company 1 month's salary instead of having to work that time. If a company wants you gone, they pay you the equivalent wages for the notice period you were required to provide.

I think it's fair because both sides have agreed that $X amount is a fair exchange for the employees services. If those services cannot be replaced with $X then that's really the company's problem for taking advantage of the worker.

This buyout is in addition to any other severance package the worker might be receiving.

Anyways, I think it's pretty nifty as it allows the flexibility of leaving immediately, but also puts in some structure into the situation.
The New Fiction of Solitude
>> Are you using fail2ban to throttle ssh login attempts?

>> Have you disabled password-based login over ssh, and only allowed key-based login?

> The first really is of debatable value if the second is also used.

Actually, no. It makes perfect to block repeat offenders because they might get lucky; they might be exploiting an RCE you're not aware of that takes multiple steps; and they could be trying to DoS that server by filling the logs and thus your disk (and with most people using default 10GB disks on their VMs these days, this isn't too hard to imagine.)

Besides, the right answer is: use bastion hosts to proxy SSH connections, preventing them from the outside world, and also port knocking :-)
Yes, this shows that antivirus is trivial to bypass. However, antivirus is not the last word in endpoint protection. While this method can be used to get otherwise ordinary payloads past antivirus, behavior-based detection and application whitelisting can be used to prevent many of these attacks.
I'm very surprised these haven't taken off by now. They seem extremely useful and these guys have been pushing them for several months now if not longer.
Tesla Model S sales surpass BMW and Audi in Europe
Dying, with Nothing to Say
Immigrants and billion dollar startups [pdf]
As with a lot of "simple" math, the trick is to actually write it down and calculate it, because our intuition (at least for some of us) is often not the best when it comes to this kind of calculation.

In this case we write down the contingency table. Assuming that the test perfectly detects what we are looking for we find

True positives: 1

False positive: 5% of 1000 = 50

True negative: 949

False negative: 0

Chance of disease given positive results = 1/51 = 1.96%
I was under the initial impression he made more than me, based on the amount of money he spent on house/cars/furnishings when arriving in this country. In my opinion, he should be making quite a bit less. I have significantly more skill and reputation in the field where we work. I'm also the project lead. In reality, he's only slightly lower paid than I am (<5% difference).
An Economic Risk Calculator
That's interesting to me because I've often wondered if I fall on the autistic spectrum (very high functioning though), and I've had suicidal ideation in the past. Nothing I'd ever act on, of course.

I bet the primary cause of autistic people feeling suicidal is a lack of social awareness and how to act around others. They probably incur large social costs by not seeing social cues, saying the wrong things, and opportunity costs like feeling too anxious or inadequate to even be social.

I think what helped me the most is focusing on being more empathetic, using the golden rule, and thinking from other people's perspectives. It improved my relationships with people drastically and now I'm generally happier. I usually feel like my empathy isn't genuine and too intellectual, if that makes sense, but the change in my focus has helped a ton.

Even if I'm not on the autistic spectrum, trying to be more socially aware and provide value to others has been very worthwhile.
It is not reasonable at all, but it is what currently is the reality. The current school system is brokena nd unreasonable. And it wasn't chosen by the father, it was chosen by the school system. If many parents will indeed be angry, then they should, and they should be at the school system. Being angry at the father is just the short-sighted and ignorant "let's go for the closest target" knee-jerk reaction.
Encryption Should Not Trump Law Enforcement
I once wrote a kernel extension that intercepted any and all file open()'s on OS X. If the application in question was opening a file that it was not whitelisted to do so, it would bring up a modal dialog box asking whether or not this application should be allowed to open this file.

It was basically a firewall on the kernel level.

It worked splendidly, however, I was never able to gain any traction in marketing it. That was back at around OS X 10.4 now. I've been waiting for another company to come along with something similar - since it really does seem a comprehensive way of blocking viruses (albeit more suited to more advance uses). I'm still waiting for something like that.
Work seems to be the core issue here...
Both Map and Symbol already solve this in ES6.
As long as litigation is of a positive net present value (i.e. expected return is positive) then they have a duty to their shareholders to undertake it. It's just the way of the world, its not like the CEO is taking into account this when thinking of 'the way microsoft should be' its just the state of tech innovation at the moment.
How is it correct? If we follow her internal, idiosyncratic logic of using implicit operators, then tentration is a better fit answer.
> It's impossible to determine whether software is malicious or not (Rice's theorem).

Which is why proof-carrying code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying_code] is a good idea: the onus ought to be on the programmer to provide (machine-checkable) evidence that their program is safe to use, for whatever notion of “safe” might make sense in your system.
I know the majority decision is keys over passwords but every time I hear a security issue its over keys being stolen as typical malicious programs knows the standard go to place to grab them after getting you to sudo something evil. and the next response is you have time to change them before blah blah blah but attackers don't send you a email that says hey I have your keys! Wouldn't fail2ban with passwords be better for those who don't know how to manage every step of this ?
That woman is so clueless. Her ideas are easy to debunk. She thinks tech companies like Apple must have access to encrypted data since they sell targeted ads. She mentions this when she questions Lynch on the DOJ budget hearing [1]. She fails to see the difference between iPhone data on disk and Facebook posts.

Obama, meanwhile, doesn't have much better understanding of the tech world. He characterizes Facebook posts as "public" [2]. While I agree it is better that citizens think of online data as public, FB is most definitely not all public. It just isn't set up with the protections being put in place on the iPhone.

[1] http://www.c-span.org/video/?406201-1/attorney-general-loret... (seek to 51:00)

[2] http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1159970
in the youtube video below, they show shots of the hardware.

I don't know what the material is. My guess is they have a print head that will generate a real strong real small magnetic field, they walk the print head over the base material reversing the field in specific spots. that's what it looks like to me anyway.
Intermittent reinforcement is the basis for a lot of behavioural addiction. Random loot games are basically just pretty pokies.
It's not needed, it only takes an hour or so to teach a beginner the major genuses that contain poisonous species. In fact for the first year the rule is basically that if it looks like a mushroom then don't eat it.
I honestly don't know. I haven't done any assembly since the days of the 680x0.
It’s been a few years. I agree the technology is very clever and should be widely applicable.

I think not enough industrial designers / mechanical engineers have played with them yet to really explore possible uses, other than a few simple things like cabinet latches and magnets for hanging art on walls with iron-filing paint.

From what I understand, a bunch of their funding came from the Navy, who wanted to use them for transferring torque on ships without a solid (breakable) shaft.

Anyone in SF can sign up for a TechShop membership and go play with the CMR magnet printer they have there.
It's doable to make a single monolithic application out of Sketch as well, but I guess it hasn't been done yet (especially since most lispers use SLIME)
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Somewhere I read that if a mushroom has white gills then it could be poisonous, and that brown gills are safe to eat. Not that I'm going to pick mushrooms, but is that advice sound?
Excitement grows as Large Hadron Collider hints at new particle
That's not actually a thing. Corporate law gives officers great discretion in how to run the business.
Here in Norway we had this publicly funded mushroom control staff located strategically near the forest to allow people to get their mushroom-forage checked by an expert. They would literally go through all the mushrooms in your basket and throw out any mushrooms they couldn't positively identify as edible. Unfortunately the money "ran" out. I guess we'll take the hit as an increased spending on public healthcare instead.
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2015/08/10/money-ran-out-for-mus...
edit: here's a better link with pictures, but in norwegian: http://www.nrk.no/norge/savner-stotte-til-soppkontroll-1.119...
Thanks to everybody for all these explanations! I understand the logic of the syntax now.

A nice thing with Elixir is that it lures OO developers like me into the realm of functional languages with a familiar syntax. Int -> Int is not familiar to me. I could guess what it is but then I also see an Int, Int and feel a little puzzled. If one of the goals of this language is to "convert" OO developers maybe you should consider a syntax they are fully familiar with. You could make long time functional developers feel not at home though. Maybe it's a trade-off that's impossible to avoid. It's your call.
Can we get a [2011] in the title? Hank Asher died in 2013 so I doubt he still claims the field.
OK so now I've installed NPR One, thanks!

Recently I've enjoyed the "NPR News App". TFA didn't mention it, but it is really well done. That sort of app could easily be a neglected afterthought. (Example: pretty much any other app with an "old media" brand.) It's obvious that skilled people care for this app. It looks good, it's not complicated, it has a large variety, and you get to the audio content quickly.
Neat, but most people will just click "yes."

See Windows Vista.
Interestingly, there is a discussion in comments of this paper claiming the authors got it wrong.

But as you said, under the assumption that the test perfectly detects, the results are correct.
People like to dismiss Model S an an expensive toy, but in the luxury segment BMW 7 series starts at MSRP $82,295 in basic, BMW 6 series is at $80,495, and Mercedes S starts at $105,175 in base configuration, according to TrueCar.

Model S cheapest 70D rear-wheel basic configuration is $63,200 before any tax incentives.

Of course, few buyers in that segment shoot for the barebone base configuration, and Tesla's options are less numerous (a lot of what's considered luxury add-ons) and overall cheaper than packages with similar functionality.

This is before we get into the the cost of service (good luck servicing a Mercedes or a Jaguar anywhere other than the dealer if you hope to have a good resale value down the road) and TCO associated with electric motors.
I hadn't dared to speculate that it was possible to make Medium more clickbaity.
Did anyone else learn how to compute probabilities by drilling through the algebra? Like, if asked how to convert a plain English probabilistic query (e.g. "what is the chance of picking two red candies from a mixed bowl") into a formula, I would focus on the 'and', mentally recite something to the effect of 'conjunctions multiply probabilities', then write p(red)*p(red). There's no intuition or understanding, just rote memorization.

I've been trying to recognize and account for this deficiency by drawing mental decision trees enumerating probabilities instead ... anyone else doing anything similar?
> the "rockputer" can't change its behavior based on its inputs in a way that improves its chances of survival

Yes it can. Some natural events, for example a flood or an earthquake, can destroy parts of the rockputer. It is therefore important for it to store the various parts of itself strategically. It shouldn't put its vital parts near the coast, or a tsunami may kill it. It should store its own consciousness in a robust way, so that it can recover from an earthquake. It's probably too slow to actually see either of them coming, but it can certainly prepare itself.

Or imagine you build two rockputers, one with black stones, another with white stones, and you have rules to remove stones when both rockputers try to expand into the same territory, a bit like in the game of Go. Then one can kill the other.

Star systems interact with each other through gravity, so you could conceive of them as some kind of gargantuan atoms, capable of making complex structures, including conscious ones. Granted, there doesn't seem to be an equivalent of the other forces at that scale, so probably it wouldn't work, but you see what I mean.
They all do, but for the most part they're much better-timed and less crass than ads on commercial radio. Usually just a simple, "programming this hour is brought to you with help from our listeners and from the fine folks at Bob's Bicycle Barn."
what kind of pre-done setup one needs these days?

I'm building a new lisp. It's not ready to show yet, but we're aiming for "Someone running Windows using notepad.exe can still have a good dev experience." We've been calling this "devex" (developer experience) and set out to specifically focus on this area. Mostly out of curiosity, but also to see whether it's a fruitful approach in general.

It uses npm as a package manager, so the setup instructions to install any library are the same: "npm install foo --save". You can then open a REPL, type (require 'foo) and begin using that library. There's also a Homebrew formula for setting it up, for those who don't have npm, so library authors could take the same approach and offer a way to "brew install" their library. I imagine we'll provide a mechanism to make this easy.

It took about six months of focused effort to achieve that, and no one should feel obliged to go through the trouble. But it was doable, and it's pretty exciting to see it work.

Performance was the other objective, which also turned out to be achievable. It comes with several example programs, one of which is a software rasterizer that pushes 7 million pixels/sec. It's 200 lines of code, entirely Lisp. Seeing a smooth 60fps without spending any effort at all on optimization was very interesting.