skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but isn't part of it that one thinks that on the $9 album, the marketing and media company folks gets $8.50 of $9.00

But there is also artistry in creating a coffee or dining experience, and hopefully that money spent on the meal and coffee goes more to the chef artist who prepared the meal, the architect artist who designed the space, and the line cook, waitress and dishwasher.
So it appears that a combination of (1) removing instant feedback (not alerting fraudsters as to the success/failure of their charge) and (2) giving a grace period to review and cancel charges has given Candy Japan some breathing room.

Though it does seem that this requires a manual step (2) before sending charges through, does anyone have experience using a fraud detection API, like Maxmind's minFraud [1] or any other, in an attempt to avoid having to review each charge?

[1] https://www.maxmind.com/en/minfraud-services
Our brains do this very well so there must be some algorithm out there for this.
That's a good point. For some reason, I never use 'change' in vim, and I was just following muscle memory.
Them? The Seattle PD? They're not a spy agency, they're rent-a-cops.
you don't know how e2e security works, do you? without the source, it is not verifiable. it could be making a copy and sending it in an encrypted side-channel for example to their overlords.
This is a negative result :) (the method doesn't work)
So no more boxes of ads, just integrated content and subscriptions? Obviously, this seems like a deliberate choice. It cuts out many publishers though who mostly depend on advertising for revenue
This idea isn't unique to Urbit; it dates back to at least S/Key.
I did not realize that Trend Micro was held to such a high standard. My (uninformed) opinion of them was that they were nowhere close to best of breed.

But more importantly, it seems like there is a difference between the way things are and the way you think things ought to be. Look at all of the AV industry bugs from google's project zero:

Avast (9): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

Comodo (9): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

ESET (3): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

FireEye (2): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

Kaspersky [you will love the archive unpacking vulns] (15): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

malwarebytes (1): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=71...

All in one list: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...
I suggest getting 2 electrically assisted bicycles for that use case (if you are able to park them in a secure place).
Yeah, but how does he check that on a walkaround?
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I literally just finished reading an article on Hubspot by Dan Lyons: My Year In Startup Hell

" Another reason to hire young people is that they’re cheap. HubSpot runs at a loss, but it is labor-intensive. How can you get hundreds of people to work in sales and marketing for the lowest possible wages? One way is to hire people who are right out of college and make work seem fun. You give them free beer and foosball tables. You decorate the place like a cross between a kindergarten and a frat house. You throw parties. Do that, and you can find an endless supply of bros who will toil away in the spider monkey room for $35,000 a year. "

http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...
The Renault Twizy is the one with a really expensive upfront price, plus a really expensive fixed-term battery rental on top that has both a monthly and mileage component, right?
What were the protesting about though? Did he do something wrong?
It seems to me the risk is almost entirely on the police in this scenario, meddling with running equipment is far from forensically sound and potentially leaves ample room for doubt in court. Volunteering to comply with the police request would also seem to exemplify the searchee's own presumption of innocence

(IANAL!)
Two quotes here that are really good:

A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.

No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn't convenient
It's interesting that Seattle's rent has raised 38 percent, but I am left wondering if some of that is related to their ~37% minimum wage increase in the last year.
You can totally use Jekyll plugins since you can define any command in .gitlab-ci.yml. It's like running Jekyll locally.

And custom domain are supported as well. See the bottom of https://pages.gitlab.io
What the article fails to mention:

1) I would assume Facebook still gets unencrypted access to my address book for use with their shadow profiles

2) We have zero control over what key the client encrypts the messages for. Is it only the other peer's phone? Or is it for the peer's phone plus Facebook for analysis of the messages?

Especially 2) is of some concern to me (against 1 I can't protect myself anyways because if people add me to their address books I'm screwed anyways). From that perspective, I'm still inclined to trust apple's iMessage a bit more especially after recent events.

The only safe solution right now is to compile your own signal client and use that, of course at the cost of reach because nobody else is on Signal.

WhatsApp might be a good compromise at least for only semi-important messages: The probability that any of your contacts has WhatsApp is much, much higher than the probability of them having Signal running. On the other hand, whatever you're sending over WhatsApp is likely going to be used by FB (and then possibly handed out to governments and/or stolen by attackers).
I agree with you... Why not dig a deep well and run a solar pump? Around Tucson... I have friends that have +400ft. deep wells that cost $60k to install. Seems expensive... but we are talking +35gpm all day long/

Once the well is dug, cased, and the pump is installed there are very little operating costs especially with solar-powered electric pumps.

The math for a comparison between a well and this gizmo would be interesting.
Sounds like Charlotte needs to start some kind of war with the state government. Maybe they should secede and start a new state.
You don't need the source, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier.
I know, but it's a tough call between feeding a troll and applying sunlight as a disinfectant.

Thank you, I'm glad I can help share how awful (even moreso, the more you dig into what it does and how it was passed) this bill is.
Where Are All the Americans in the Panama Papers?
Very angry open source advocate, I understand how frustrating it must be that the current safest mainstream messaging protocol is not open source, but once again: that's not how computer software works. WhatsApp isn't even obfuscated. There are tens of thousands of people who read "closed source" software as a hobby.

Later:

Also? That's not what the term "side channel" means.
Seems like the majority of the data comes from the Census...which is not a bad thing as Census data is under-used though the official U.S. Census site and FactFinder is highly...unintuitive to use. DataUSA has a Github repo and wiki which lists its data sources (available through its API): https://github.com/DataUSA/datausa-api/wiki

FWIW, the Census has also started building out its own API: http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html
In CockroachDB using SSI isolation if a Writer encounters a more recently read key the writer transaction restart.
This guarantee that Write Skew cannot happen.

In percolator design only allow for SI isolation unless lock are taken while reading.
Tech isn't creative and artistic? Why is an "album" worth more than a graphics engine, drawing app or game?

If anything music is overvalued. I'm surprised we haven't automated Skrillex and all that house crap yet. ;-)
US citizen who worked in New Caledonia for 2+ years. The scariest part is that I don't have any official documentation for what I earned. I had access to our payroll system that records the amount I earned in the local payroll system -- I didn't generally have a need to convert that to USD every pay period and record it. I was paid "in kind" for housing. And at the end of it all I got an unofficial letter stating what that amount was.
All they need to do to supplant Telegram (at the very least for my use-case) is to have a decent desktop app, preferably native. Their current web interface (is that still active?) is a UX nightmare. Of course it's "for the sake of encryption" but it comes at the cost of adoption.
Only if builds are fully reproducible, which is rarely true. Otherwise, the source can make it harder, by lying to you.
It this just available for iPhones? Or do you have a web app as well?
If you just want a very simple and opensource one, I use GitX: https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
Taking the example of Skype, the hardening/on-the-fly decryption techniques used in the binary made the reverse engineering very difficult [0]. Difficult to reliably audit such software.
Don't know about Whatsapp though.

[0] http://www.oklabs.net/skype-reverse-engineering-the-long-jou...
There's no guarantee you would use your own node. It's entirely possible that the police could find actionable evidence on his systems even if the initiating evidence wasn't actually because of him. Sort of like a police office seeing what looks like a beer bottle in a drivers hand and pulling him over, only to find it's a rootbeer bottle, but the driver actually is drunk.
Jason Calcanis has always been a Tesla fan. I know this because when he used to run Mahalo (in Santa Monica), he managed to open the door of his Roadster and scratch up the paint on my not near as cool Scion tC parked right beside him. In typical form, he didn't care at all when I mentioned it to him at the Django meetup, in the Mahalo office. Small world :)

This was maybe 6 or 7 years ago.
> 12 words seems so much more friendly, at least to English speakers

I have a feeling that English speakers are the minority of WhatsApp users.

> if you don't speak a common language with your chat partner then the app is useless anyway

They do speak a common language, it's usually just not English.
do you know even with source, backdoors can be hidden? open source is a must to even begin to work to verify any claims of security.
If society is indeed the one granting that monopoly then society can also withdraw it, right?
Blood feuds were never the preferred method. The Sagas go on and on about people who were good lawyers and on how important it was to know the law (while being able to chop a head off with a single swing of your axe). Iceland's parliament is the oldest in the world in continuous operation.
Ask HN: How to find an “entry level” job?
I will graduate engineering very soon and I'm starting to look for an entry level job.

The problem is, every job with titles like "Graduate, Junior, etc.." end up with 3 to 5 years of experience in the requirements.

Am I doing something wrong?
Thats a good point! I did not see it that way.
Those sound like totally transferable skills - and if you've experience on the security side of things, it's worth knowing that the industry is desperate for anyone who is willing to have "information security" as a core part of their role.

Chin up though, as glib as it sounds - being dead never solved anything for anybody, and sometimes it takes finding yourself in a really shitty, despairing place to see the way forwards. You'll make it, no matter how grim it looks today.
Being racist against white people isn't countering racism it's just regular racism.

Neither is going so far to the end of the spectrum i.e. "too PC" isn't the opposite of racism either. Hired just because you're not white? Not really a self-esteem boost.

Being inclusive is what Github should be doing to counter racism without the racist sexist bigoted attitude.
What about the plaintext backup to Google Drive that is built into the Android client? Doesn't that compromise the end-to-end encryption?
> Seems like so far the articles have gone after fairly easy targets.

They're being careful. There are legitimate reasons for running these shell corps and (accidental) libel will throw all their accusations in to question.

> When asked about the lack of Americans in the original release, the German newspaper’s editor responded mysteriously: "Just wait for what is coming next."

I am patiently waiting with a bucket of popcorn.
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So consider a nice, quaint neighborhood. Person A lives there. Person B wants to live there too, because it is so nice.

Ok, let's say we double supply.

All the houses are now either twice as high, or half as big, or maybe the trees were cut down and the bushes ripped out to make room. There's twice as many people & everything therein. Is it still the same nice neighborhood?
But it does give a judge something to point at and be like, "Why couldn't you do it here (in a different situation) like you did over there (this situation)?"

Not much, admittedly, but it's something.
Somebody's busy setting up another housing bubble.
But they had evidence... They had evidence of child pornography that traced back to his computer network.
He was found guilty of only the least charge:

“But he was found guilty of not holding cabinet meetings when things turned critical. The lesser charge carried no prison sentence or fine. ”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17256626

My opinion: He was complicit in his government’s regulatory capture.
> General Motors first unveiled the Chevy Bolt as a concept car in January 2015...

> As Pam Fletcher, GM’s executive chief engineer for electric vehicles, recently put it to me with a confident grin: “Who wants to be second?”

Yah but... it's a GM.

I own the finest luxury automobile GM makes, the Cadillac Escalade. It is a chrome lined bucket of bolts. If they can't do this right how can they do a $25k car right? As I type this my GM is in the shop RN with a hard to reproduce transmission issue. Oh and it cost as much as a Model S. o_O

OTOH the Model S is the most well manufactured anything I've ever sat in. It boggles my mind why anyone would buy a second GM. They've had enough time to get it right. Instead they've a consistent track record of mediocrity with an epic failure about every decade.

Tesla tho...

All I can say is, the people baffled by Tesla's success can't have spent much time behind the wheel of a Model S. I didn't realize how much cars suck, even luxury cars, till I spent a day driving an S up and down the PCH.
Congratulations, you're now on an FBI watch list.

In honestly though, you're not wrong. Richard Stallman has his controversial stance on child porn as well and I tend to agree with him. It is really really bizarre that modern western society doesn't seem to have a problem with video of soldiers shooting up little kids in Baghdad, yet a picture of a teenager showing her breasts to her boyfriend via text is instant grounds for being locked up (in Australia there is a zero tolerance police and teenagers have gone to jail and are on sex offender registries for just that; although their sex offender databases are confidential and not as fucked up as America's).

However, sexual assault on children is a heinous crime. It's sad and destroys the lives of kids who parents hope to keep from getting tainted by the world as long as possible. It's not unjustified to hate this crime to the degree which it is, but it's also kinda bizarre we don't treat videos of kids getting shot the same way. People get off on that stuff too; sexually.

What's even more interesting about this case is that the police knew CP was downloaded from his IP address. That might because the United States has mandatory ISP reporting, or potentially his IP was found on a raided website:

http://chartsbin.com/view/q4y

I'm more interested in how that information was obtained, and whether that process involved violating the rights of individuals of people not associated at all with any crimes.
Tower (https://www.git-tower.com/)
I use my Fiat 500e as a daily commuter to the BART rail station. That's a distance of 5 mi one way, and it's absolutely perfect for that.
I don't think is like that at all. The primary qualification is to be able to look citizen voters in the eye and know exactly what they want to hear said, and then say it sincerely without ever pausing to consider "the truth" at all.

They don't "lie", that would entail thinking about the truth and then speaking differently. What might be true or false never crosses their minds.
The city is tiny as hell and a majority of the country lives there.

So completely different scale
Quality of life is probably similar but the cost of living is much lower.
My friend runs a similar candy subscription box called https://boxfromjapan.com/ and reported having a good experience with Signifyd. I might try integrating something like that next.
Dear folks interested in Oregon,
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> above board and in plain sight

At least he got the second one, though not willingly.
Can't you MITM yourself fairly easily to decrypt the https and see what's being passed? Assuming you have full control of your device.
In the context of the larger society, those lower-end programming jobs pretty obviously are the middle
Still western-focused, but Oren Tirosh's
mnemonic encoding [1] project is pretty close as well.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com...
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The many "standards" of Markdown also now include CommonMark [1]. There is also some interesting history as to why it is not named "Standard Markdown".

[1] http://commonmark.org/
[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...
Was it the same neighborhood when you moved there?

Things change, especially in the US.

"The immaculate conception theory of your neighborhood’s origins": http://cityobservatory.org/the-immaculate-conception-theory-...

And: if prices are going up that much, and you really want out, you can sell and move, to, say, Lakeview, Oregon.
Well, the people of NC are getting exactly what they deserve. They voted for this.

And spare me the whining about gerrymandering. The Governor is elected by everyone in the state; gerrymandering has no effect on that election. If this were really an issue of gerrymandering, we would have seen a crappy bill passed by the Legislature, and sent to the governor, and promptly vetoed because the governor more closely represents the average people in the state. That didn't happen.
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Interesting.

With 32.2C ambient, 14% RH, 1.35C DWP, the absolute humidity is 4.78 g/m^3
With 24.4C ambient, 14% RH, -4.80C DWP, the absolute humidity is 3.12 g/m^3

Absolute humidity here is specified as grams of water per cubic meter of air.

This is similar to the AH at BRC. Our current model assumes a DWP of -10C — 10C, so we can predict similar performance. We're not taking into account volumetric capacity and the thermal interface of the heat exchangers. If you know anyone able to help point us in the right direction with those calculations, it would be much appreciated!

Our current understanding is the enthalpy of vaporization + fusion for water is (2257 + 333.55) = 2590.55 J/g we want to pull out of the air. This is assuming we can process enough air, since the dew point is below freezing a fair amount of the time.

This is by using this equation specified in the NASA technical note [0]:

=((0.21668*((TMPC+273)^-1))*((DWPC+273)^-4.9283)*(10^(23.5518+(-2937.4/(DWPC+273)))))*1000

[0]: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/87878main_H-937.pdf

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>I hardly can imagine a company that had invested only in Go and will need fat Go gramework. Seriously.

I don't know how to reply to this because I really don't see what's hard to imagine, but ok.

> And startups will hardly chose Go as their starting point for obvious reasons.

Well that's obviously false, or you haven't been paying attention to HN, or job listings :P

> How so? In comparison to Python, for example.

Static typing. In the case where you'd like to counter that point, I'm sincerely sorry, I'm tired of arguing over that point. I'd prefer if we left it at that and say "we agree to disagree".

> Hey, I'm not saying people shouldn't write fat Go framework, or stop doing if they've started already. If stars are lit - it means there is someone who needs it. I just don't get why would you use something like Go for this.

Fair enough. Sometimes I just like to elicit responses in order to gain new perspective/POV etc.

Cheers
In fact, you don't even need to use Jekyll. You can use literally anything you want.
> I did not realize that Trend Micro was held to such a high standard

nope. Not Trend Micro. All of them. And as long as they are failing as spectacularly as you're pointing out here, my recommendation is to not use AV software and instead use whitelisting of allowed applications.
They should have just had the Code of Conduct from day 1 and not waited until they had an incident to overreact to. I've worked for many places with Codes of Conduct and diversity programs and they are usually run pretty well and are not heavy-handed or staffed with exuberant amateurs. There are proven benefits and established best practices to get it done.
With cash? Dunno about that...
> I don't think the OP, or many of the posters on this board, realize just how good you have it.

Agreed. Being an in-demand software engineer is a gift, and I am grateful every day that I stumbled into this career.

On the flip side, maybe you don't realize how bad you have it :) .
The cost is really mostly for range and safety features.
Electric bikes are road legal and cheap, but not that safe. On a private trail without cars you can use two cheap options.

You can get an electric golf cart new for as low as 4k, with 5-10k being the average.

At the ultra low end you can buy an electric gokart for under 1k. Which is not that safe, sit's one person, and requires you to get really low to the ground.

PS: I think an unexplored option for a gated community is to include a custom track for electric cars to a community pool, restaurants, metro stop, etc. You would need tunnels / bridges to get around the car issue, but I think it would be cheaper than most Personal Rapid transit approaches.
Lithium Ion battery prices have come down 40% since 2010 (see third graph[1]), and that is /caused/ by the increasing demand (it's called a manufacturing learning curve[2] of which Moore's law is just an example).

Tesla's strategy is to drive volumes with gradually more affordable cars to bring down battery costs until there is a crossover where gasoline cars are impractical. That also explains the Gigafactory and the wall battery. So far, it's working.

[1] http://rameznaam.com/2013/09/25/energy-storage-gets-exponent...

[2] http://www.strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/learning_curve...