skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great, fun write-up by Ratliff. I'm surprised by by a number of things which I'll comment on in a disorganized way. :) One is how often Israeli commandos turn up in these organizations. In parallel, there's their well-known effectiveness plus the risk of Mossad connections that can burn you. Mexican cartels, Colombian, Paul Le Roux... they all buy them up. Cheap, too. I'd like to hear their logic on that.

That he was still producing 200kilos out of thin air was interesting. Operations are still going somewhere with possibly millions moving. Either his that are still running autonomously or others with him just having 3rd parties that can pull a huge transaction at once.

His OPSEC sucks. I mean, I'm amazed that he didn't get caught earlier in some unrelated investigation using his real name and emails on all kinds of shady stuff. Many I know are too paranoid to do that thinking someone would connect dots. He did it and nobody connected dots until piles of high risk crimes added up with benefit of easy tracing. Even police said a little more obfuscation would've thrown them. This means we've overestimated the police's ability to connect dots on suspicious items. Just don't know how much.

Spamhaus says a quarter of stuff came from this company. I read much in INFOSEC but never heard them connect it to something like this. Another "under the radar" aspect that's amazing. Plus, owning a registrar for spam cover is excellent example of subversion at protocol level.

$200-400 million a year could buy tons of INFOSEC and OPSEC. He could've rebranded under a new company to move his name further from the transactions. He could've potentially paid his Israelis to straight up break in and steal/alter records. He could've dropped a few mil strategically in Brazil on key people to spot legal and financial risks along with strats people use to dodge or buy cops. Before he went there. Far as Liberian deal, he should've sent one of his well-paid, experienced people to negotiate that. At his level, he should never leave protection or associate himself with something that's tainted. And when busted, getting immunity to flip is a rational option in his situation but admitting to murders was just stupid.

How about "An arrogant way of living?" Haha.
I feel the same way. Like many people who would agree, I use a highly configurable tiling window manager. I have convenient hotkeys for switching and re-arranging windows. I don't want to have to switch into my browser, and then switch mental modes to a different set of controls for switching and re-arranging tabs.

I have not tried any tabless setups yet, though. For a browser I use iceweasel/firefox with pentadactyl, so I can hit `b` and switch tabs by number or search by tab title.
>who says this has to involve decreasing IT security?

Which type of system would you feel safer guarding all of your most personal information in? Keep in mind that the system doesn't care if you're a "bad guy" or a "good guy":

1. A system which was designed to be "unbreakable"

2. A system which was designed to be breakable

Without encryption there is no IT security (if there even was such a thing).

Love me some AOE btw.
I certainly don't "constantly query", but somehow there's always a feedback of what is a successful economic model.

I have so many examples of this. For instance due to terrible public schools - private schools cost roughly what it would cost you to move to a good neighborhood with good public school.

Day care - costs around what the government contributes as day care assistance.

Etc...
your point is well taken. software engineers are often subject to the whims of PMs and execs, and aren't always able to pursue the level of excellence they (the engineers) might prefer.
Can link to / provide additional detail on the Windows 7 issues? How weird that an OS simply doesn't work on a processor!
"Inability to control himself"? Sorry, I'm in the US, and I consider a free press to be a right, not something that you're supposed to "control yourself" to avoid "misusing" somehow.

I'll insult whom I please, in public. If I have a job in the media, and that isn't part of my job, I may get fired for it (free speech does not mean that my employer has to give me a platform). Also, others may view me negatively. Other than that, I'll say what I please without fear of consequences.
I mean from a system level perspective. The trouble is that they have policies that are optimized for people shopping on a site with a money back guarantee not for hosting critical infrastructure.
Absolutely, but the bill does nothing to prevent users from installing hardware or software that has been built without a backdoor. You will still be able to use Veracrypt, if you'd like, without backdoors. I do not see in this bill provisions which prevent vendors building equipment that can run arbitrary code, use arbitrary devices, or arbitrary mechanisms. (However, I'll look again)

The assumption of liability is on vendors. Vendors are expected to sell you broken goods. Developers of VeraCrypt in the above example would be expected to provide a backdoor. If they're foreign, then it will be largely unenforceable, although those developers will likely face difficulties visiting the USA.

Where users are restricted is wherein they become vendors or providers of software or services. Running a Tor server may require being prepared to provide keys or offer a backdoor, for instance. I think the bill as written could have trouble with distributing VM and container images as well, although a case may be made that they are not operating as "software manufacturers" and are simply distributors, with the liabilities reaching back to Canonical, RedHat, Microsoft, etc.
Just around my home I could easily hire a few people to do various jobs at any given time, but it is not cheap enough for me to justify doing that. Automation comes at a cost, and often humans laborers can do the job cheaper. The thing that will be pushing people out of a job is minimum wage, not the automation which often results in reaction to minimum wage.
That does not nearly have the same security level. Signing a tag in git is like signing a commit. A commit is nothing else than a reference to a tree SHA1 (and parent, message and author). That tree SHA1 contains SHA1 of the files and trees in the directory.

Even assuming your client checks all the SHA1 and does not just trust the server (which is not the default), and that you are verifying the git tag signature correctly (which is harder than just checking a tarball), SHA1 collisions are considered practical.
Funnily enough, I've never used auto-completion. I've even gone through the trouble of deactivating it in Atom, but disdain is a strong word.

Also, it just occurred to me that Kite is basically a keylogger. Every keystroke is sent to their servers. That requires a lot of trust.
Swiftkey has this, and it really changed the game for me because it baked emoji discovery directly into my typing flow.
I work on juju (https://github.com/juju/juju), which all told is about 1M LOC. In my almost 3 years on the project, I have not been bothered by lack of generics, basically at all (and I worked for 10 years in C# on projects that used a lot of generics, so it's not like I don't know what I'm missing).

Do we have 67 implementations of sort.Interface? Sure. Is that, by any stretch of the imagination, a significantly difficult part of my job? No.

Juju is a distributed application that supports running across thousands of machines on all the major clouds, on OSes including CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, and OSX, on architectures including amd64, x86, PPC64EL, s390x... and stores data in a replicated mongoDB and uses RPC over websockets to talk between machines.

The difficult problems are all either intrinsic to the solution space (e.g. supporting different storage back ends for each cloud), or problems we brought on ourselves (what do you mean the unit tests have to spin up a full mongodb instance?).

Generics would not make our codebase significantly better, more maintainable, or easier to understand.
Housing is, to a certain extent, a positional good. People want to live in safe, friendly neighborhoods, surrounded by well educated, middle to upper class people. Even if everyone got more money, it's not easy for more people to live in desirable neighborhoods (at least without changing the character of those neighborhoods).
Weight of 342 bars of gold would be 4255-kg (9381-lb)...

...find it hard to believe the carrying capacity of an average taxi would support this.
I'd rather have my PC turn into an Xbox.
Apples to apples shot percentage is a great stat.

My biggest complaint with Kobe is that he scored a lot of points because he took a lot of shots. Last night for example, he took ~60% of shots from the field for his team which accounted for ~55% (ignoring FTs). In other words, the expected return on his shot was lower than the rest of his team. Now, FTs change that story a bit, but even in the best case scenario he breaks even with his team.

Kobe was a great leader on the court, which is what allowed him to get away with shooting more shots than the rest of his team combined on a regular basis. He also had this "The Lakers are built around Kobe" team structure that made that the expectation.
He's also using Windows. I find Sketch pretty stable on OSX
How about offering an on-site solution, where the client can deploy the Kite service on their own machines?
As long as it doesn't clash with something in the same field. The problem isn't lack of good names, it's people wanting 3 letter names for all of their projects.
Agreed. Yes the housing situation is basically a must to move away from expensive housing near work.
The systems we have today are the compromise results of such a "progressive system" where system income depends on need (age [Social Security, Medicare], circumstance [Unemployment, Social Security Disability, SNAP, Welfare], etc) and based on "commensurate effort" (previous wages, complicated forms, layers and layers of proofs, ...).

Have you had to file for Unemployment "Insurance" yet, in your lifetime? It's a complicated circus to get back money that you "paid in". You have to prove, and then re-prove, your past earnings and tax amounts that had paid into the programs (plural if working across state boundaries); you have to "be actively seeking work" and prove, every single week, that fact with somewhat embarrassing forms to fill out to get the money that you already set aside for this already embarrassing situation...

These systems treat you as "guilty-by-default" and we've let the worry of possible fraud, however unlikely, turn these systems into giant theaters of "fraud reduction" and complicated terror on the individuals dealing with the system.

Basic Income, by expecting to be unqualified and guaranteed to all regardless of need or effort, is intentionally about simplicity and about avoiding the giant red tape spaghetti that is our current "entitlement" systems. If everyone gets it, equally, then you don't need to worry about "fraud" and you don't need to worry about "proof".
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His point is that the government asks for this information, maybe as a requirement in order to procure official documents needed for everyday life and business. There's not much to do when the government of your country makes your giving of certain information a requirement. Sure, you could fight it in court but it's very likely that that will not get you very far or produce the official documents you may need. Not all governments were founded with the same libertarian strain as the US.
Thanks for sharing. I do have some questions, probably ones coming out of almost unfathomable ignorance, but hope you can answer.

Any plans for supporting Swift output? Or is that question completely missing the point of this tool (like, maybe with Swift its support for immutable value objects is already so good you don't need this?)

What is a .ts file?

Could this have been done instead with a new mogenerator template, or what is the limitation of mogenerator that would have prevented that?

Could this help with creating code for attributes with the Transformable data type?

I see there is a tiny bit in the readme about the workflow, but nothing about how that fits in to the usual Xcode workflow for working with models and their associated classes (in Xcode the word model refers to the xcmodel file(s) I believe, not the code, but you're using it in a more general way). What would be the Xcode workflow for using this, starting from an empty project with no xcmodel file, and proceeding until it's done?
You mean like a Knox Box[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Box
It has always bothered me that the JSON standard does not allow for comments. Especially when you want to annotate some sample response/request.
Experts Exchange (or ExpertSexChange - poor URL choice) had their lunch eaten by Stack Overflow. I'd argue the login requirement wasn't as much of a problem as their payment requirement...
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This is negotiation. It's an adversarial system. The proponents of this bill know they are not going to get everything they ask for. The point is to stake out a position very far toward what they want so as to force opponents of this bill to just whittle it down.

If they proposed something saner and lost, they'd lose completely. But propose something insane and lose and you still might win something.
> He worked for the company for 1 month, without compensation.

> That would automatically entitle him to equity in the company.

This seems like a non-sequitur.
> but there will also be a lot of people who won't do anything productive and just live off their basic income.

Won't do anything productive like spend money on food, housing, and entertainment? They will just sit inside and stare at the walls all day.
Perhaps self-focused might be a better term? Normal people aren't deciding to not feel others' emotions like I do—they just, don't.

Indeed, I am still able to make rational decisions, but it would be a lot easier if I didn't feel their pain wouldn't it?

See, being on the other end of the spectrum isn't a choice. I will feel everyone else's emotions, whether I want to or not. I might even think they're completely insane, or immature, but I still can't help but feel empathy. Doing so can be extremely exhausting.

Autistic people don't choose to not care, and I didn't particular choose to care (or more accurately, feel), it's just the way I am.
My home office setup (where I try to spend most of my working time):

Desk: StandDesk adjustable standing desk with bamboo top

Chair: Standard leather office chair from BigBox store

Monitor: Dual 1080p 5 year old Acers. This is next on my upgrade list

Keyboard: CODE Keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches

Hours: 9/10am -> Until ~8+ Hours worked

Bonus: Box full of baby chickens and heat lamp. They moved in a few weeks back and I'm waiting for them to grow big enough to be moved outside. Them being around has prompted me to go into my work-office and/or work from another room these past 2 weeks. They're cute but it'll be good when they move out! The cheeping isn't so bad but the heat lamp and the temperatures they require do not align with my preferences.
Related, "Forecast Font" takes an interesting approach to this, using a webfont: http://forecastfont.iconvau.lt/

Because it uses css to overlay elements, the woff font itself can be just the required pieces, rather than all the combinations. The woff font is 4.6kb. Not as tiny as ascii art, but still pretty small.
I tried Fish a while back, and liked it very much. Trouble is, I can't roll Fish out across a work server estate.

Well, I could. But then I probably wouldn't be at work much longer. ;-)
nil in Go doesn't work that way. Most types cannot be nil.
just a status quo bias.

What does this even mean?
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Did you look at the actual retraction? It explains what the original data demonstrated and references further work by him, his student, and other researchers that helps show what the test can and can't show.

Here's the retraction: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/papers/camel_hu...
I have an Xbox One and it's a mess. The UI is strange, it has a tendency to do strange things (e.g. This week it's decided that selecting apps won't work anymore despite hitting A) if powered on too long, there are games that freeze, searching the store for games returns irrelevant results, the games are huge and with a local install required me to buy an external drive just to keep a collection of games available for play and the standby power option gave me so many issues I had to disable it so now I deal with crazy long boot times.

That said I hate the PlayStation remote, it's basically designed for super small hands and I have very large hands, so I'm not switching. I'm also fond of Halo.

Seems like the best thing Microsoft could do would be to deliver a remote gaming experience over the net. That way the console cost can be negligible and not require replacement as frequently. They could charge more for Xbox live because it's actually doing the compute and it'd be available on the go even from cell phones. That'd move lots of young people to the windows phone ecosystem.

Kind of how music moved folks to Apple back in the day.

Unfortunately that won't happen. Microsoft is too focused on corporate clients to move the needle in the consumer market.
It was collected by interns and other cheap help, and it still is by everybody except STATS (who owns SportVU).
I found this article from Microsoft a while ago that I thought was particularly interesting.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512578.aspx
This is still the initial draft of the law, and it's common for laws to get marked up with changes that benefit those in power.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483934
Can you explain a bit more about how these people can raise their standard of living by moving?

Money is just an abstraction for real goods and services produced by the economy. Presumably we need people to live in Philly since that's where our industry is. If people moved away to some remote place, wouldn't our economy take a hit? Not to mention the transportation costs of servicing a more remote, less dense area.
Given the frequency with which I have to cold restart my Xbone, I'd say Microsoft is well on its way to turning it into a PC.

Snark aside, this is probably one of crappiest articles I've ever read (EDIT:) on Ars Technica (or rather, skimmed; didn't deem it worth reading word-for-word). "Microsoft should make a do-it-all box for $200 that has cutting-edge GPU and CPU, and they should fragment their hardware lineup. Oh, and put a pony in every box." I'm sure this article is being passed around the E&D executive suite as I type.
I have extensively researched on Madgigs and have to admit that it's a great platform for both the Candidates and the Recruiters. From finding a quality candidate till maintaining time sheets, all records at one place. MG can be named as an end to end recruitment tool.
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If you're using a text editor, your IDE is likely the CLI.
I've only read three fantasy series besides ASOIAF but all of the have similar character development.

I think the difference in ASOIAF is that there isn't a clear set of protagonists and antagonists. Or maybe the story so far only talked about the protagonists and the antagonists are yet to be revealed.
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> If we could devise a lock that keeps out nearly all demons and lets in most angels, would that satisfy both sides of the debate?

How to have confidence angels will remain angelic and not be susceptible to demonic blackmail and bribery?
Here's a direct link to the bitly report for the link:

http://atav.st/1SNUadd+

^^ which redirects to:

https://bitly.com/1SNUadd+

(In case some don't know, just add "+" to the end of a bitly link to see the report.)
Perhaps they want to run a single node?
>On Android 5, most Nexus devices dropped all SMS apps for Hangouts.

Just install Messenger (supports Android 4.1+): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

It's actually much nicer than hangouts for SMS and has features hangouts doesn't support (search, group messaging) and is updated regularly by Google (with no tie-in to G+ or Play Services) so it's not like it's an abandoned app.

>I'm currently using the AOSP Launcher3, and it doesn't even properly align icons in a grid, because it's missing the autoscaling of Google Now Launcher.

Get a different launcher? For eg, Nova Launcher (paid, but does not have any dependancy on Play Services) is basically Launcher3 (in terms of looks/functionality) with a ton of extra features.

Is your complaint that Google is letting AOSP apps languish? In which case I'd agree, but it's not like you're short on alternatives (and as time goes on Google seem to be opening more parts of Android to be replaced by third party apps -- in fact, the main components left are just the settings app and the notifications menu that you're stuck with whatever comes with your phone. Everything else is replacable by the end user)
> How about "An arrogant way of living?" Haha.

Yeah, it is amazing how much his arrogance and pride seemed to play into his behavior. He could have exited this whole situation in Brazil [Retiring] a wealthy man and would have been largely immune since they didn't have the ability to get their hands on him.

> His OPSEC sucks. I mean, I'm amazed that he didn't get caught earlier in some unrelated investigation using his real name and emails on all kinds of shady stuff. Many I know are too paranoid to do that thinking someone would connect dots. He did it and nobody connected dots until piles of high risk crimes added up with benefit of easy tracing. Even police said a little more obfuscation would've thrown them. This means we've overestimated the police's ability to connect dots on suspicious items. Just don't know how much.

I found that amazing as well but I think it has to do with the fact he was basically a black market profiteer dealing in low level stuff.

> Le Roux couldn’t have known that this new venture had made him a narco-terrorist in the eyes of the U.S. government. Until he had fled for Brazil, his case had been the province of the DOJ’s Consumer Protection Division, the federal prosecutors that handle pill-mill cases, and the Minnesota investigation team anchored by Kim Brill.

The Consumer Protection Division likely doesn't have the resources to break even a criminal with essentially no OPSEC based on this.

My guess is if he stayed out of hard drugs, arms, etc. he might have also stayed completely safe because it sounds like they simply couldn't handle him until it got kicked to the FBI/DEA/etc.
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> aside: manufacture software? facepalm

This is likely to make it less obviously a 1st-amendment issue.

Saying "authors of software" makes it a fairly obvious restraint of speech.
Your extended experience is valid only for you because it represents your biases for the way your mind works. It is not valid for the larger population.

To my knowledge, no such scientific statistical tests exist with a large enough sample size.
We really did think a lot about this. It turns out that there is no clean separation between "index code" and "query for results". E.g. In Python if you see x.foo() you may need to know a _lot_ about the universe of Python libraries to do the type inference required to figure out what foo is in that particular expression.
Interesting. How are you connecting Dash and Alfred to arrive at something similar?
Experts Exchange: Alexa Rank 5,634

Stackoverflow: Alexa Rank 52

Both have high-quality answers to numerous topics. One is both free and ahead of the other. Results speak for themselves, eh?
If you factor in that he made those shots against many other highly paid and highly skilled players defending against him, those numbers are great.