skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is happening in the US and in plain sight--yet its citizens don't seem to care.

Eg. Gerrymandering, drastically reducing voting stations (see AZ), goofy voter registration law changes. These issues don't occur in other mature democracies.
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The leaking random machine ID is pretty bad. The other things seem rather harmless, or you can turn them off.
I just spit-taked my mint, thank you.
"abandon all hope": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+ho...
Search with quotes looks for exact match. Searching without quotes [1] yields 3 million results.

[1] - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+pro...
as soon as i can see the specs and trim prices... probably
TBH I can't remember the last time I saw non-normalized correlations in a study and the paper lost some credibility.. who does that, and why? What does a correlation of 25.76 mean? Relative to what? That's why you bound it 0 to 1.
First, the vast majority of people who survive in the wild take tools and clothing with them. And second, it's not enough to just survive. You have to reproduce. And it's not enough to just make a baby, you have to raise it to the point where it is capable of independent survival.
Explanation:

Younger people tend to be late sleepers. Older people tend to rise earlier. Normally, businesses are run by older people. They get to choose, and obviously they choose what they like.

The same goes for the thermostat. Older people put on weight and wear suits.
OCaml has higher-kinded types in the guise of modules, and so does SML with common extensions. I'm not completely sure what you're implying, but type classes aren't required for higher kinds.

OCaml has a powerful module system, labeled and optional function parameters, row polymorphism, equirecursive types, and GADTs. Most of these features would be fairly difficult to add to Rust.

OCaml also has a better track record with soundness issues than Rust, and more interesting fragments of the language have been formalized.
The README.md actually lists all the part names and numbers. This is something that can be built.

Everyone in here is joking about this being an "April Fool Joke", but this an actual device that can be created by anyone with the tools. This hardly classifies as a joke.

Adafruit has the joystick modules for cheaper for USA customers.
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This makes sense. Ads have been personalized for a long time so why not pages? Some work is needed to create these but for people trying to squeeze every conversion they can out of visitors is may be worth the trouble. It also might help prevent fast bounces.
Even assuming maximum cynicism, they should care about losing trust (and therefore future business) when it's shown they've spread fake news.
I wonder why some of the exact matches are not highlighted in yellow?
And event hubs? Based on https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/tree/maste... I assume it's also coming soon?
Latest Opera is excellent. I keep trying all other browsers periodically, since Opera Software - the company is in a bad shape. But I always keep coming back to Opera.

Despite their company doing badly technically they are still doing a great job. The UI is as fluid as ever, and the rendering is rock-solid. I wish they survive and continue building this browser.
I think the problem is that you continue referring to it as an interview tool just because it is a thing that can be used for interviewing.

Making candidates stand on one leg and recite the alphabet backwards would also be an "interviewing tool" but it's not legitimate, just as short, timed, standardized coding tests are also not legitimate. Playing semantic games about whether it's an "interview tool" is not worthwhile. The question has nothing to do with whether it's logically possible to be used as part of an interview. The point is that it cannot provide the kinds of evidence that people claim it provides, and so continued usage of it for interviews can only be explained by other reasons, which is when it begins to be evidence of dysfunction.
This is commonly known as a Joe Job - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

Steps to mitigate.

1. Setup SPF immediately. You can validate your records here- http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

You'll have to know who you send email through and their SPF record, but a quick googling of "provider name SPF" should get you what you need.

Depending on your DNS provider the results may be instant.

2. Filter those bounces keep them out of your inbox - it's going to take while until this clears up.

3. Make sure that YOU are not hacked, check the headers of the bounce back messages here - http://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx

Ensure that your IP or hostname is not listed there. (This includes web servers that your domain is hosted on, apps that send on your behalf etc)

4. You can check to see if your domain is black listed - http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx probably not...but worth a check.

TL;DR - I run one of the largest spam filtering companies in the world. Happens all day to clients...it's one of the reasons people switch to us.
> how about cheap-mium instead? keep the lights on with breakeven service.

It can be done, but you'll be growth limited, so its a lifestyle business (I say this in a positive sense, a business you can casually run and you enjoy running is far superior to the pressure of a VC-backed growth-at-all-costs firm).

Someone just needs to care enough to do it.
Heh, those are two rarer phrases:

1. "I am going to hell for this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+...

2. "Beat me over the head with a shovel": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+t...

Was an image of a shovel emailed to the committer? :)
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The media are often... how should I say it... a tad behind the times in regards to how the internet works and how it can be exploited. For example, note all the media coverage a year or two ago about 'fake reviews' on sites like Amazon and Yelp. These have been widespread since both sites begun, yet were pretty well ignored by the media for most of that.

Or the comments and articles about Reddit's launch. Apparently, the idea that someone could use fake users to start a community shocked a few unwary people (and journalists). Despite this being a forum building tactic since the internet begun, and a business tactic (to some degree) for decades or centuries.

Or heck, the 'trolling' and harassment stuff about Twitter and social networks. Old tactics and behaviour, but seemingly not known by the mainstream media till it affected sites their journalists used.

Really, the media is unprepared for a lot of stuff, since they're about two decades behind when it comes to knowing how technology and culture works.

As for when sophisticated Twitter sockpuppetry would start having an impact? It might well already be having one. I mean, similar stuff is endemic on Russian language forums and sites, and hey, governments have access to these techniques and useful software to help carry them out...
Yes! Whenever you spin up one of our AMIs, there is a README that will guide you through a couple of simple examples. We are about to publish performance results on the monster machines in a few days, so watch out for it. Scaling depends on the compute density of the GPU workload, but in general we've seen pretty good results with 1) Deep learning (caffe) scaling to 16 GPUs (near native scaling with local GPUs, especially deep nets), 2) Raytracing of photo-realistic and complex scenes - near linear scaling with increasing GPUs, and 3) Physical modeling and simulation does very well too.
Ewwww, that renewCerts.sh is pretty crappy. Who the hell is going to check the /var/log/letsencrypt/renew.log everyday to see if renewing failed?

Could not they do something nicer with systemd and email?
That's adorable. Thanks for sharing.
The release notes point to a switch to "Salsa" for JS intellisense. Salsa is based on the TS intellisense service (it is run by the TS intellisense service) and the same one used these days by VS Code. At least what I've seen in VS Code, Salsa seems fine with ES2015 import syntax and intellisense. (That said, almost all of my code is TS, so I'm not sure I've hit any specific use cases you are particularly looking for support in.)
Why Unity wasn't just able to take LGPLv2-licensed Mono and use it? LGPL doesn't impose any requirements on the linked code (be it Unity libraries or third-party code or anything), it's basically "link with anything you wish but keep this particular library free, please". What was the issue here?
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It's only disingenuous if it isn't meant.
They're mostly demos, as expected. Is anyone surprised?
There are quite a few typos, "enrol" on the home page.
actual company site: www.juicero.com
We'll be providing short user training videos very soon.
I wonder how they create the 3D models when the artwork is already destroyed. Do they figure it out from existing photos?
This concept isn't Rust specific, it's a general PLT thing. Rust is the same as C in this regard. Almost every language is pass by value these days. IIRC Fortran is pass by reference, an exception.
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Schneier has tended toward more high-level and pragmatic assessments over time. Maybe because of his "security evangelism" efforts he's trained to think more like the pragmatic layperson.

Obviously all phones technically have the same vulnerability both before and after the FBI decision. But now there is a larger pragmatic chance of it being exploited. That is the point AFAIK.
Hey! I run marketing for Periscope Data, a data explorer/dashboard product. We have a lot of customers using postgres and get compared to Looker a lot. We focus on optimizing for the analyst whereas tools like Looker focus on business users. We have a lot of features for business users, but chart creation is all SQL based.

Our site is here: https://www.periscopedata.com/ and if you have any questions, shoot me an email at jon@periscopedata.com.
Actually, we do have some actual data:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/naked-and-afraid/

It's not a well controlled experiment, but it's data. Even in that minimalist scenario they have some tools. Because it's just obvious that if you had no tools your odds of survival are pretty frickin' low. People die in the wilderness all the time even with tools.
Well I don't look at Olympiad performance as credential per se -- not in the traditional sense (like admission to an elite school, say). It's only a special kind of a geek that gets drawn to these competitions during their formative years; typically the kind that doesn't give a shit about "credentials" in the usual sense.

In other words, exactly the "bright and humble" type you're looking for.
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A few reasons I can think of:

1) Hacking voting machines to a significant extent would require a team of people, not just one guy, which dramatically increases the risk of exposure.

2) The reported vote count is usually very close to the predicted vote count, and always very close to exit polling results. The hacked results would need to be very close to the real results, or be combined with control over a huge number of people in the polling industry. Campaigns also run internal polls, so opponent campaigns might become suspicious if their own polls were not matching the results.

3) Recounts are possible and somewhat common. Therefore hacking could not be used to create a very close result that could trigger a recount, or it would need to be combined with actual ballot theft, or control over the officials doing the recount.

These are not theoretical concerns. See Bush v. Gore in Florida for what might happen if someone tried to hack a close election.

It seems to me that hacking an election would only be feasible in an already close race, would require the cooperation of a number of people with huge risks of exposure, and could still be caught by one of the many safeguards that exist.

Obviously I am only talking about hacking voting machines. It would not surprise me if the tactics in this article were common; using Twitter bots, spying on other campaigns, etc.
Ok, that's why I was confused; by the time I got to the thread, that person had been upvoted back in the black (perhaps due to your votes). Anyway, I love some good discourse. Thanks for contributing to the conversation.
That sounds fun. Can i play it on linux?
While there is certainly a market incentives problem, accomodating large quantities of rooftop solar does require infrastructure upgrades and an associated massive capital investment. It may not be practical for a relatively small island utility to do this on their own, even if it had a more clear ROI. Ultimately, some government support may be required here, since a fee on solar installations wouldn't be popular.
F# doesn't fit into the rest of your comment. There are type providers and Entity Framework, both of which are very good options for DB access.
I remember getting this message myself back in those days, on my brand-spanking new DEC Alpha, which shipped with a 'pre-beta' compiler to those of us who were avid recipients of DEC's first batch of Alpha workstations in anticipation of a strong porting effort to get away from the "MIPS situation" at the time .. heady days indeed!
> I think the biggest issue with OCaml for mainstream adoption is the syntax, honestly.

Indeed, a barrier in itself, after working through RWO I was impressed with the language, clearly very powerful, but some aspects of the language are syntactically unpleasant.

Yes, yes, semantics, not syntax, but new comers will come in all forms, including those who will just say no based on the general "look" of the language. IMO, if OCaml had the same power but looked more like SML it would have much greater adoption.

Anyway, modular implicits and multi-core will certainly help OCaml to grain traction, syntax notwithstanding.
You should have milked it for all it's worth and submitted separate posts for all these links!
Off-topic, but knowing that Nat and you met (from what I recall) while interviewing for a position in Redmond and then went off to create GNU's COM (GNUNetworkObjectModelEnvironment) which became a desktop, what is it like landing at Microsoft after all those years? Final destination?
Piwik is more of a Google Analytics replacement. It's a package that contains a data visualization platform, a data storage engine, and a data emitter (website tag) all in one.

This is just a data visualization platform. You need to bring your own data store and data.
>>Without civil forfeiture, any time the police take something from you, it's theft

Anytime the police take something from you it is theft... Period

With Civil Forfeiture it might be legal theft, but it is still theft.

>> For example, CF is used to return stolen good to the owner.

Citation.. I know of no instances where this is the case.

>> It's also used to keep criminals from using the fruits of their crime prior to conviction.

That is part of the problem with CF, I do not see that as a Good thing. You are denying a person a right to a fair criminal hearing if you take all of their assets before conviction.

>>For example, if drug dealers

I believe all drugs should be legal.... using Drug Dealers as and example of why we need CF is a fail for me
I wouldnt say common but there are several startups in mexico doing that, one is called kueski
Why? The license problem is only related to the oracle java implementation. The OpenJDK implementation has not any related problem, and, honestly, performs already far better than the oracle one (and I think it will improve even faster now that Google will use it for Android).
As a former long time Opera user, I'm a little sad to say I don't trust Opera to block ads for me. uBlock Origin does the job just fine, and my gut feeling is Opera will have a whitelist or not block everything. Ever since they switched to being a Chromium skin, I just don't trust them.

I'm also curious how this compares against uBlock Origin. I know uBlock uses a lot less memory and seems a lot faster than ABP for me, and it's curiously missing from their comparison.
How can we expect that tropical countries stop cutting rainforests if USA, Australia, Denmark and others want to continue exporting meat?

Brazil is meeting the demand for soybean by cutting the rainforest and selling it to USA.

The problem is global, not local. The main exporters are the main problem. It might be that Brazil has a huge footprint regarding forest cuts but it is not doing that for themselves but for others.

So yes, USA needs to stop producing that much of livestock. Not to mention that 50 billion chickens yearly thrive mostly on soybean.
• In 2008, for the first time in history, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF) held more than $1 billion in net assets—that is, money forfeited from property owners and now available for federal law enforcement activities after deducting various expenses. A similar fund at the U.S. Treasury Department held more than $400 million in net assets in 2008. By contrast, in 1986, the year after the AFF was created, it took in just $93.7 million in deposits.
"• State data reveal that state and local law enforcement also use forfeiture extensively: From 2001 to 2002, currency forfeitures alone in just nine states totaled more than $70 million. This measure excludes cars and other forfeited property, as well as forfeitures from many states that did not make data available for those years, and so likely represents just the tip of the forfeiture iceberg.

• Equitable sharing payments to states have nearly doubled from 2000 to 2008, from a little more than $200 million to $400 million.

Source: Williams, Marian R.; Holcomb, Jefferson H.; Kovandzic, Tomislav V; and Bullock, Scott, "Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture," The Institute for Justice (Arlington, VA: March 2010), p. 7.

http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/other_pubs/assetforfeitu...

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I'm not saying that there are not legitimate reasons to seize assets during criminal investigations, or in clear cases of contraband.

The problem is clearly that LE agencies are heavily incentivized to purse civil forfeiture as a means, in best case, to bolster budgets and support - in Generous Forfeiture states, public school budgets etc, and worst case, as slush funds. See Maricopa Country Sherriff's office. And Local PDs and Sheriff's depts nationwide.

The legality of these seizures needs a comprehensive overhaul. For every Madoff or HSBC or shipping container filled with coke or knockoff prada bags, there are a thousand people like the family in the OP.
It's weird that it lies about the number of lines. It says 200 when the actual count is about a dozen.
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Does anyone know if this will allow me to run GBD in tui mode on Windows?
It's the theory that if you write enough laws then everybody is a criminal

That's already true, as pointed out in Three Felonies a Day: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/.... Everyone is already a criminal if someone wants to look carefully enough.
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First kind of hack: You've effectively blacklisted every ad network.
Maybe they're not all that opinionated in real life. They just get nervous in interviews, and unconsciously feel the need to show their individuals in ways that they otherwise (under less confrontational circumstances) do not.
Not to sound arrogant. However I think Go (golang) is still in the hype wagon / cargo cult phase.

It's popular as in the "popular latest javascript UI/UX" sense. Not to diminish Go _extraordinary_ achievements, however it's still to early to say.

E.g. Ruby - used to be _mega_ popular, everything was Ruby at some point. Hype is over and it doesn't look too promising. Niche is taken and it stays there.
>You never stop to think that you can be pro workers right and still against unions? I don't want whole businesses pretending they're for workers right. The cost of union is resources that could be spent on workers themselves.

Most of the stuff you take for granted in your work, including children of 10 years old not working in factories, you had it because of unions...

>The cost of union is resources that could be spent on workers themselves.

Only without unions, nobody cares about the workers. It's then just the measly bargaining power/influence you have as an individual against some huge company, or a whole industry (or all industries combined, when speaking of basic labor laws).

Now, if you want to say some unions are corrupt, union leaders make side deals, etc, some fight for BS, yes. But that's a sign that unions are broken, not that they are bad in themselves. Historically their role for the improvement of labor conditions was tremendous.
If there's a competition to how long it took to recognize the joke, I believed it up until the chocolate bar. Then again, I don't know any of these kind of syllabic languages.
Good for you!

But that's not standard for lower ranked ABET accredited CS degrees. On the other hand, just now, looking at UC Berkeley which is an EECS department, they require perhaps more math than MIT, multivariable calculus and linear algebra+differential equations courses on top of single variable calculus and of course the mandatory discrete math. And 3 science courses (a third in addition to mechanics and E&M; see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/Notes/section2.shtml).
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>>That would be an interesting point in the argument if true. Can you substantiate that?

http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
My personal favorite that I've used on occasion: "I am a horrible monster and I pray for death".

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+a+horribl...
It's free in your MSDN if you're subscribed. I downloaded them all :-)

So if you're a VS user already, it's likely bundled with an MSDN subscription. Just link it to your Xamarin account and you're done.
IFF you are using Microsoft SQL Server, sure. Any other RDBMS is a crapshoot, I've been using FsSql which works but I have to devolve into manually manipulating SQL Query strings to do anything sufficiently advanced.

Technically there is SQLProvider, but it's ugly as sin (I also don't care for type providers in general, I don't need automatic code generation, I have no problem specifying my schema and not needing access to a database server just to compile my code).
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>swings in demand when a cloud rolls through town

Reminded me of this article about abrupt power swings during commercial breaks in the UK:

http://www.geek.com/news/tea-time-in-britain-causes-predicta...

They solved it with partly with on-demand power generated from dams.
As someone who is the core audience for this tool can I say that I strongly prefer clear documentation over videos? Videos are way too hard to maintain and end up being stale the minute after you post them in fast-moving projects. I can't text-search a video and I can't be linked directly to an answer in a StackOverflow response.

Written documentation is vastly superior to videos in my opinion.
Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Kings_II
They do happen in late stage capitalist oligarchies though.

We'll get Elysium, not utopia.
The Government Did Cause the Housing Crisis (2011)
The default behaviour of cron is to email the user if a job finishes with a non-zero exit code, which seems to apply here in case of renewal failure.
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Last time I saw those kind of buttons in software in the Gambit REPL app for iOS. They are gimmicky but kinda useful.

http://i.imgur.com/5sVU3z1.png