skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not how our system is set up. It's how our >marketplace< is set up.
I used to suggest this method of estimating at my previous job. People thought I was crazy. I was right every single time.
Yes. Google Alan Watts.
Enron's accounting fraud was only discovered because they're a public company and forced to disclose those records. Once someone actually looked at what Enron was up to, the shorts took over and hammered them until they folded. Only then did regulators actually take a look.

By being a public company, Enron couldn't hide its fraud. I have concerns about the lack of similar checks on unicorns.
Isn't this an American, or at least Anglosaxon thing? In my country noone advertises programming positions with hype phrases like "rockstar" etc.
High-Profile U.S. Hacker Deflects Attack on His Site by Redirecting It to Mossad
First one looks a little sketch, second one is more well known I think. Here's an open-source one: Android IMSI-Catcher Detector (https://cellularprivacy.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detec...)

Here's a list of apps to get cell data: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Data_sources

If you're using a CDMA phone and are still concerned, you can try modifying your own PRL and blocking carrier updates.
I agree that the answer is complicated, but I don't agree that we must appeal to mathematics to solve the problem. We need to have a discussion about what is a good compromise and how much security and privacy we have to sacrifice in order to ultimately strengthen them. We sacrifice some of our privacy and security by allowing government to break into our homes, yet we feel safer and more private because law enforcement and our justice system is on our side and works to thwart criminals. It isn't perfect, but I personally would feel less comfortable if our homes were impenetrable - think of the ramsomware cases with encryption. The fact that there's no way to unlock those encrypted machines without the key is a tragedy. You might say the answer is to stop the ramsomware nuts instead of undermining encryption, but that's like saying we should stop the pedophile from raping our kid in his impenetrable basement instead of making it so we can break in.

How do we solve this? It's hard to say, but there are solutions. foolshdropout's first Guardian link presents a good example with the TSA luggage lock standardization. That is essentially a backdoor and has led to many thefts. The flaw in that example, however, is that with enough force, a lock can be broken, and any luggage can be penetrated, making the need for master keys and standardized locks unnecessary. So, it's not a good analogy with encryption, which cannot realistically be broken into.

Giving the government master keys to standardized encryption methods is not a good way to do it. However, the FBI's method of getting Apple to disable the guess limit is a "lesser" backdoor, if you must call it that. That provides some compromise because it requires the government going to Apple for each warrant and having them on a case-by-case basis disable the limit. This adds a few hurdles to slow down the process, which is basically what encryption does in the first place, while allowing authorities to lawfully search and seize.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I know that if we stick to absolutes (total encryption, no encryption), we are only hurting ourselves.
Do those licenses really exist? Sounds interesting.
The No-Tipping Point (podcast)
The article said 'classic amiga' :-)
Why not? Some practices are totally abhorrent and have no place in any liberal society.
> A major problem is that amazon has a 2-month lag in payment

That's probably to dissuade people from ordering items then doing refunds/charge-backs after collecting commission on their orders.
A contract for Netflix/feign using jayway/JsonPath, 0.3 released
Here's the direct link to the briefing: https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/03/31/encryption_a_matt...

Restrictions are discussed in section 4, page 25.

Their recommendations are in part 5, page 31:

"any restrictions on encryption must be contained in laws that are precise and transparent, must be used only when necessary to achieve a legitimate aim and must not discriminate against specific individuals or groups. Critically, any measure interfering with encryption must be proportionate to achieving the legitimate aim for which it is imposed, and the benefits gained through the adoption of such measure must not be outweighed by the harm caused, including to individuals and network infrastructure and security."
3% of the country live in SF or NYC.
Room I am in is up to 4... YYYUUUGGGEEE!
For Halo... yes. I will accept it's a marketing ploy (and, pretty much the only reason I have an Xbox One)
I see this as a much harder argument to make than 10 years ago.

There are more iOS/Android devices than Windows/OSX devices.

With the huge amount of software that is a webapp now, OSX is a significantly more viable alternative to Windows for many consumers.
And you are essentially repeating the "wealth inequality does not exist" mantra. But it does not matter how many times people repeat, it does not become real.

Inequality exists. Those people fired will be out of places to go. Yes, overall people will become richer, those people are an exception.
Keeping things sacred slows you down. Slowing down is good because it forces efficiencies as you grind toward aesthetics. As Gregory Bateson said to a colleague, "Keep your systems simple". That is mindfulness.

I'm not a fan of the term Secular Buddhism for the simple reason Gautama Buddha warned on, which is taking the concept and twisting it into something that is used to advance or elevate one person's belief over another's. We're all in this together, ergo we are Buddha Nature. No sense in complicating things.

Complications are inefficiencies. Keep your systems simple.
OpenVBX – A Web-Based Open Source Phone System for Business by Twilio
In this case, the inventor gets rich, and everything still gets cheaper (just not as much as in the alternative).
Also, they don't deal with concurrency currently, either.
A good read from the inimitable What If: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Privacy violation in MagicKinder app targeting children
tldr: International organizations refuse to take responsibility for the failure of the measures they imposed, but in the fear of BREXIT in June postpone GREXIT after July. In the mean time every party blames the others, leaking information to the press.
Yeah it feels a bit overly emphatic and somewhat pleading -- better to argue your point through the library itself.
I'm missing something, I think. Walk with me through a hypothetical example. I load component todo-list. Dan used integers to mark each modification of virtual DOM, so lets define this as an revision of 42, saved-state-0, labelled with a reference "Populated todo-list", after {"quuz" "bar" "baz"} have been added as elements all bool, all incomplete.

OK, now you can save a ref to this state state, i.e., Component 'todo-list' is now rev 51 (on the vDOM) saved-state-1 (with a reference to rev 53) with a rendering label of : "Bar complete".
Check off the 2 remaining elements for component todo-list, we now have saved-state-2 (a reference to rev 53) with label : "Tasks completed".

I'm not saying that what you built isn't useful (I'm 100% certain it is!) but I don't see how it's any different from taking an append-only journal and adding bookmarks to save state, though I really could be missing something since I don't work front-end.
if you have to wire thousands of LEDs, it will take significantly longer to setup the problem, and I think that should factor into the time complexity
I'll take Bruce Lee over Lao Tzu and Confucius any day.
>That minimal approach has kept me out of trouble despite running more even than most other runners - consistently five or six days a week in every kind of weather.

Meh. I ran thirteen times a week for years, quit for years, started again overweight more than once to slim down again and have done many 5 hour + mountain runs on the wrong side of 30. I've generally done static stretching both before and after running when I have time. After tens of thousands of miles, I'm still at zero injuries of note.

IMO the biggest thing is to not do the same thing every day. Take easy days and easy weeks between the more intense ones. Also, try not to go too fast except on speed days or tempo runs. You'll actually be healthier and faster if you let your body recover (whatever it takes at your fitness level to do that).
You forgot some key info:

The sole survivor, Josh Ryen, had told a social worker in the emergency room that the murders were committed by 3 or 4 white men. Josh spelled his message by pointing at letters on a clipboard as he was unable to speak, but the social worker and medical staff observed that he was lucid and could spell his name and address correctly. Judge Fletcher wrote, "Deputies misrepresented his recollections and gradually shaped his testimony so that it was consistent with the prosecution's theory that there was only one killer." Jurors, however, said they disregarded Ryen's testimony because they believed he was confused and traumatized.

On June 9, a woman named Diana Roper called the Sheriff’s Department to tell them that her boyfriend, Lee Furrow, had come home in the early hours on the night of June 4. He arrived in an unfamiliar station wagon with some people who stayed in the car. He changed out of his overalls, which he left on the floor of a closet. He was not wearing a t-shirt that he had been wearing earlier in the day. He left the house after about five minutes and did not return. [Roper and her father] both concluded that the overalls were spattered with blood. Roper turned the overalls over to the Sheriff’s Department and told the deputy that she thought Furrow was involved in the murders. Roper later provided an affidavit stating that a bloody t-shirt found beside the road leading from the murder house had been Furrow’s. It was a Fruit-of-the-Loom t-shirt with a breast pocket. Roper stated that she recognized it because she had bought it for him. She also stated that a bloody hatchet found beside the road matched a hatchet that was now missing from her garage. [...] The Sheriff’s Department never tested the overalls for blood, never turned them over to Cooper or his lawyers, and threw them away in a dumpster on the day of Cooper’s arraignment."

Furrow had been released from state prison a year earlier. He had been part of a murderous gang, but had been given a short sentence in return for turning state’s evidence against the leader of the gang. The leader was sentenced to death. Furrow told friends that while he was part of the gang he killed a girl, cut up her body, and thrown her body parts into the Kern River."

We know you can implant false memories, especially in kids. If the cops decided Cooper was guilty it would have been easy to coach him into giving the testimony above.

I'm not saying he is innocent or guilty, just that there appears to be some doubt, much of it due to police sloppiness and misconduct.
If we’re dealing with numerical problems, “real numbers” are not directly computable. All we have are approximations and (in the case of unums) imprecise bins.

1 is an integer. It’s easy to make a computer representation for integers, especially integers with some finite bound. How about exp(1) or arccos(-1)... suddenly not precisely representable anymore.
The solution I'd like to see: Enact basic income AND change the fact that our culture views work ethic (narrowly defined in terms of market income) ~= value.
Ergo "multiplication is reasonable" rather than "very fast". 3 cycles doesn't seem like a ton to me (searching suggests it's actually 5, but that's still not a ton for a 64 bit multiply IMO).
The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool
I was under the impression that flea circuses were pure illusion—there were erratic, untrained fleas, or no fleas at all—and the entertainment was provided solely in the mind of the audience. The article seems to suggest otherwise. If it had been published a day later I'd swear it was a joke.

The author says that the real attraction of flea circuses included "seeing insects in costumes, pulling carriages, or racing each other." Is he seriously suggesting that fleas were somehow wrangled into miniature suits?

The article concludes with the head-patting remark that the Victorian credulity about flea circuses is "humorous, but not surprising." It's not clear to me that the joke isn't on moderns who believe in that type or degree of credulity from our comparatively recent ancestors.
Why do you think minimum wage laws exist? It's because at one point in our nation's history, businesses implicitly colluded to set wages low. They have more power in wage negotiations than workers do, because there are generally people who can afford to do unskilled labor for very small amounts. Businesses got greedy and took that too far, offering people wages far beyond a minimum standard of living. So in response, the people voted to set a minimum that would prevent corporations from being outright exploitative.

The same thing could happen today. Google engineers will always be paid a lot of money, but the average McDonalds workers could see their income fall way below the national average cost of living. Whether the minimum should be $5/$10/$15 is up for debate, but without businesses would have an unfair amount of bargaining power.
Am I the only one bothered by the implication that "prying your way into an unauthorized system" is a thing that "hackers" do? Call me sceptical, but I don't think that the author really understands hacker culture.
Cast (according to the C99 standard, section 6.3, linked at bottom): A construction formed by preceding an expression by a parenthesized type name, converting the value of the expression to the named type.

So in C, casting is a language syntax that provides and explicit way to specify type conversion (rather than the implicit conversion that happens in cases like promotion). Most type conversions

Section 6.2.5 contains the defined type conversions, but most of what I'd consider edge cases are "implementation-defined" or have "undefined behavior".

Does any of this bother me? No, not really. No more than it bothers me that there isn't a single, authoritative, and clear definition of what constitutes "strong typing" and which operations are a "violation" of it.

(Linked from Wikipedia as being the C99 standard "effectively available for free"):
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
I think that's roughly right. The big-picture trajectory of automation is also, from where I see things in AI, not that sensitive to minimum wage levels, at least if we're talking anything near the levels that have been proposed so far.

California, for example, is proposing to raise the minimum wage from $10 to $15 by 2022. That annualizes out to 7% a year, or probably around 5% in real terms, assuming current ~2% inflation rates persist. That's just fiddling at the margins with the economics of automation, not a revolutionary change. Tech improvements are looking for orders of magnitude cost and productivity improvements, not +/- 5%. A wage floor going up 5% a year will, at most, move up projects which were already a sure thing, making them economically feasible a few years earlier than they would have otherwise been. But it's not going to make things feasible that are currently an order of magnitude on the wrong side of economic feasibility, or that are currently too unreliable to deploy at all. And those are the kinds of changes that major progress in automation is driven by.
Pretty good resource on Confucius: http://www.thenoneo.com/
If you are interested in mitigating this take a look at Flynn [1]. It's analogous to Kubernetes but is actually much simpler in this case as it can do the Heroku style deployment but also ships HA database appliances with backups out of the box.

[1] https://flynn.io
Its funny that my first reaction to the title was: Ugh he comes from Oracle, he is a leach that will try to destroy everything that is good! Then I read the article and it actually looks like he is a Open Source supporter etc.
Dogs are the worst. As a former dog owner I know what it's like to love one, but they're still territorial animals and a considerable safety concern when not properly leashed or fenced. Older runners have even been mauled to death by dogs whose owners didn't see fit to restrain them.
This depends on the structure of control in the companies. Anyone familiar with Facebook and Google knows that Zuckerberg pulled some fantastic manipulation of board seats and Brin and Page created a new class of voting shares that are 10x more powerful than regular shares. In such set-ups, the co-founders have permanent control of their companies without having to hold too many shares.

I imagine that many of the co-founders of the "unicorns" were smart enough to replicate Zuckerberg and Brin/Page and are subservient to no one.
IEEE floats are exact. That there exist real numbers that aren't IEEE floats is why we say IEEE floats are a subset of real numbers, and why operations on IEEE floats have to round to a representable value.
Can anybody please share a tl;dr ?
The family almost always vents their anger at whoever the police tell them "did it", even if the police are wrong. Often they persist in that belief after DNA evidence or video evidence proves conclusively that the police were wrong.
> IE, a dumpster fire.

Indeed it is.
This article doesn't have many actual photographs. This BBC site has some.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2LF04Y9n5hJTHK1l6ff...

And the article doesn't mention "Mexican Dressed Fleas" - http://timcockerill.com/main/curiosities/mexican-dressed-fle...

> Mexican Dressed Fleas or Pulgas Vestidas are a form of Mexican folk art that existed as far back as the turn of the 20th century, but now no longer practised. These tiny curiosities were made by hand by Mexican women and consist of tiny fleas dressed in costumes, often as married couples and sometimes with an elaborate background scene.
The point of the unary / is not the programming language syntax per se.

If you want, in essentially every programming context where `-x` is meaningful, you can write `0-x` instead. It’s arguably less confusing.

The point he’s trying to emphasize is that in his proposed number system, every exactly represented number has an exact multiplicative inverse, which can be computed by flipping bits, analogous to computing the additive inverse with a floating point number or signed integer.
Maybe Joshua Ryen remembered a different guy who looked like Cooper. Also, from the discussion of DNA evidence, I suspect that samples were mishandled, and crude tests were used. There's evidence that commonly used DNA markers don't distinguish non-white people very well.
Hahaha. I don't think I've ever used a single web app where the UI got better over time. Perhaps hn is the only exception.
Daycare is a hard industry to pay decent wages since it's basically a replacement for an adult to stay home and the child to staff ratio is a factor (infants were 3 to 1 staff). Also, about 1/2 the population (males) are heavily discriminated against (85+% women). I did budgets for a group of daycares serving 45 families in the 90's and we did not pay well even for ND.
DLP Automotive Display HUD
That may be true in the UK, but here in the States it is overwhelmingly a left-vs-right debate.
Which can both be disabled.
Also, for a basic understanding of the physics at work, he could also try Kerbal Space Program. Its been one of the best tools to teach me of escape velocities, suborbit vs orbit, etc. Its not exact but very good at explaining the principal behind all the rules of physics.
Why would Microsoft be sued, what law specifically would they be breaking?
People who buy football equipment are aware that you can injure people playing football and generally don't play football in a midtown Manhattan office, for example.

People who buy BTS equipment are aware that they are creating a cell tower and it will affect people around them and the police and cell network providers will not be happy with them if that happens.
Floats are also a subset of the rational numbers. To be specific, they’re a particular subset of the dyadic rationals with a bounded number of significant figures and a bounded exponent.

I think it’s misleading / counterproductive to talk about IEEE floats as subsets of “real numbers”, because e.g. Math.PI is a clearly different thing than the “real number” π (whatever that might be).

Calling floats “exact” is also IMO problematic, since in practice every computation using floats involves rounding.

(I also think it’s problematic for Gustafson to call the numbers in his system “real numbers”, even if you could in principle build new hardware with the idea to perform arithmetic on any particular (decided before hardware design) small set of real numbers you want.)
To play Devil's advocate, most of other countries have an higher unemployment rate than the US.
My point is that the time it takes to correct a mistake in person's name is correlated to the popularity of the article times the popularity of the person.

If it takes a long time, one of those values is low, possibly both.
Collusion to suppress wages is already illegal. All you're saying is that you don't have any faith in the government to prevent collusion. Which is a whole separate issue.
Savor some sensible discussion while you're in a small chat... I felt some strange camaraderie with the original group of people I started with. Then got a bit sad when they got lost in the crowd and dropped out over time.
I think you misread the "humorous, but not surprising" remark. It wasn't about credulity in believing in flea circuses, but about the well-known Victorian tendency to apply human emotions to animals. What the author found "humorous, but not surprising" was that this tendency extended to insects. Also, costumes were little bits of tissue paper. I think a lot of the interpretation of what the fleas were doing came down to the showmanship of the guy running the flea circus.
You must be aware that "conservative" means something somewhat different in the US compared to the rest of the world. I agree that it's rather silly and exceptionalist of us, but the fact remains that Americans who identify as conservative are very likely to want to reduce public support.
Desktop/laptop and mobile/tablet are distinct markets. OS X's marketshare is minuscule in comparison to Windows's. Not in certain groups, yes, but overall.
Probably because the website is a 19th century academic sort of site that doesn't cover stuff past the reign of Queen Victoria.
Negative interest rates.
> they would potentially affect hundreds

Unlikely since the range of this device is about a single small / medium apartment building.
But that challenges the whole foundations of a civilized society, does it not? I suspect if prominent people are being caught on the wrong side of such procedural issues, ways would be found to tweak the law in a hurry.
>Don't think of Kubernetes as a replacement for Puppet. Think of it as distributed init/supervisord with service discovery, which you are clumsily building with Puppet.

It's a step up from puppet for sure but I don't really see the benefits of using it over ansible.