skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not stupid at all! A cheaper, lesser networking offering is a common request, so you're not alone.

Can you describe more about the "data hosted at another provider"? Would one of our interconnect options (https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/) help? If it's at AWS would a pair of interconnect options help (DirectConnect to Equinix in VA, then Carrier Interconnect to us).
That's basically it. SubSonic hasn't seen much major work in years while MadSonic seems to be an active project adding features and support.
You did not say roles were increasing at 50% per year as an example - that was your stated fact.

I'm saying unless they had 10 employees in 2000 (wrong) or only started the 50% hiring last year (so we have no longitudinal data to go on), there is no number where that level of exponential growth of employees wouldn't result in either a) a company that was bigger than Walmart in employees in just a few years or b) MASSIVE firings. Maybe that's what you're saying? They hire that many people and remove them from the company that fast? I know the removal from the company is certainly correct.

As far as the increase in costs of RSUs, there is a perfectly alternative solutions to your proposal: their stock has increased by 10x in 10 years. So in that way, they're EXACTLY keeping track (https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=amzn+Interactive#{"range...), and not increasing people collecting RSUs at all. You'll note that you list amount of money required for the RSUs, not number of shares. (This is, by the way, another way that Amazon misleads their employees - your yearly cash bonus actually goes down when the value of the stock increases).

So by that logic, they have, in fact, not kept pace with the rise of their stock. New employees are receiving substantially less new grants than older ones (bordering on zero, which can't be true), or they're being removed before they vest.

Further, the 24k in Washington also include many thousands of non-tech roles (Amazon Fresh warehouse in Redmond, Customer Support in Bellingham, some portion of the more than 2500 sales people for AWS, etc etc), so your math does not add up for adding new 25k tech roles, even if we multiply by 40% as a reduction. Doing some approximations using LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?keywords=amazon&f_CC=1586...) they do appear to have ~24k employees in Washington, but only ~8k in engineering (they appear to add another 4k engineers in India).

Again, these are all public numbers, so they are inaccurate, but they should be good enough to substantially disprove your point. So, without question, your statement about increasing hiring by 50% y/y has no facts to back it up.

As far as active hiring, that is absolutely correct. They are extremely active in hiring - but they have to be because people leave so fast that unless they do, they'd be out of people.
How would this system colorize this image?: http://imgur.com/RBEht9H
Government will identify citizens anyway. It's not choice between ID and no ID, but between simple ID and ad-hoc scheme (Name/Surname/Birthdate/Residence composite, or issuing separate id for each institution).

While IDs do have negative consequences, I see zero downside in replacing VATIN, passport number (linked list of "previous document" in worst case, down to birth certificate), army id number, employment record book number and "$surname $name $patronymic, born $birth_date at $birth_place, registered $registration_place" official title with single citizen ID.
Collision attacks matter if you don't (want to) trust the Ubuntu release team.
Website has the wrong license. Source itself all seems to be 3-clause BSD.
And most people do, but that's not fun or interesting. It's OK to do useless things because they're fun or interesting.
You're perfectly right, thanks for clarifying!
I posted it a bunch. I usually post it, Burroughs B5000, and capability-systems (includes AS/400 predecessor) links [1] together. Intel's i432 was an amazing attempt to clean-slate the machine of future. Safe, manageable, and consistent from the ground up. Just overdid it in terms of hardware requirements and certain components should've been firmware for easier improvements.

The i960/BiiN system improved on that by greatly reducing complexity of the hardware. It was a fast RISC system, had all kinds of error detection, supported HA configuration, and had 432's object-descriptor protections. Object- and page-oriented system. I expect our computer security and reliability situation on Wintel might have turned out differently given what highly-secure systems did with x86's shitty segment/paging/ring combo and HA with lock-step.

Note: A Slashdot article on legacy systems once knocked the F-35 for using old i960 CPU's. Thought that was stupid idea. I think designer was probably thinking too many steps ahead with the market ruining it for him/her.

[1] http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/index.html

[2] http://craigchamberlain.com/library/blackhat-2007/Moyer/Extr...
One of the problems tmux and friends don't solve that a "smarter" underlying system might add is the ability to make the choice to detach a process or redirect its output after it's already begun running.

For example, I specifically have had on many occasions started something and then later wished I'd previously started screen. While, "gain the knowledge to better configure your environment to start" is a valid response, equally valid is a desire for a more flexible default environment in general.
Related paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06067v1.pdf

Cuckoo hashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_hashing

Another paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf
If you want these things to happen, you will need to advocate and fight for them. I speak from experience.
FanLyfe launch new video sharing app for sports fans on iTunes
It blocks Tor users because of vandalism. You can however request exemption if your account if in good standing or have an account created for you. [0]

Also this "personal attack" business you see is because Wikipedia really cares about neutrality [1], doubly so for biographies of living people. [2] You can make an edit in good faith but it doesn't mean the edit won't be challenged; it's merely a comment on the intention of the edit. Of course getting reverted ignites passions which leads to those "entertaining pages".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_users_usin...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...
I doubt that PhDs from Boeing or FFRDCs are going to real strangers to "real-world research problems."
Sure. That's exactly what happened in e.g. Egypt /s it didn't.

We have to face the reality here; if the "religious sect" is so powerful that it can challenge the absulotist monarch, then it's definitely powerful enough to play divide-and-conquer with different democratic parties.
I agree, it's been a really engaging chunk of work and truly and utterly fascinating.
In the meantime if you want to play with a small solution there are solutions like the Mbientlab MetaWear that give you a nice small package and are approachable as a maker.

https://mbientlab.com/metawear/
Yep, yep, the other important one. Of course, one could read this along with the i960 and System/38 papers to see if any good ideas pop up.
In a "completely unrelated" discussion? No. But bringing up past German government failures in a discussion about a German government tightening up blanket surveillance of all their citizens is not "completely unrelated".
Well, unless you replace furnaces with bitcoin mining hardware.

But then again, I'd rather replace a furnace with a more productive set of hardware anyway.
>Seems stupid the (possibly) most groundbreaking advance in propulsion ever made, can't get a million or two when we collectively gamble more than that each day at casinos lotteries and horses races.

Perhaps they need to set up a crowdfunding campaign to get those people betting on their experiment, gambling on a science experiment rather than a game of chance.
I remember interviewing for an engineering gig at WildTangent at a time when my latest gig in the valley paid $120K plus 0.5% of the startup.

WildTangent offered me $35K, less than I had made as a post-doc before leaving for industry.

#$%& you Alex...
This is a great write-up. I know little about pen testing, yet I was able to follow along easily.
Everything old is new again - distros targeted at running inside docker containers (like Alpine) are shipping without bash. Not taking bash for granted is still a good plan.
I last tried my own code which uses multiprocessing a few weeks ago. If anything, it gets slower with each release.
I assure you I'm not trying to hold you hostage. I just thought it would be more useful this way. Guess I'll change it soon, given the feedback I'm receiving.
This family has been the cause of so much destruction and pain in the region and beyond. What do they do? Export Wahabism to a lot of Muslim countries, and that is the mother of Taliban, ISIS and many other terror groups.
They did but back then it was still a bit unclear who was going to emerge as the de-facto standard. They made the wrong choice, and now they're correcting it. Good on them for not sticking to their guns.
Please do tell me what points of reference I need to gather about my own home country.
Thanks for the tips and link. :)
The difficulty mechanism has proven to be the Achilles Heel in bitcoin's design and is responsible for the blocksize impasse as well as the waste of infinite CPU-millennia. I'm sure that more interesting negative effects will be observed before the project concludes.
Generally the difference is that programmers make the prototype, designers make the mockup, and no one makes wireframes.
Completely unrelated? A German government legislates the use of technology to make identifying and tracking its citizens easier, and you can't see how people draw the comparison?

As for your invidious attempt to distract from said comparison by slinging mud, I'll just point out that you're severely underplaying your hand here - a goodly fraction of what went into Hitlerism, not least the theory and practice of eugenics, originated with Progressive Era luminaries of the United States. Indeed, our nation might've gone much the same way as yours, were it not for the benefit of Germany's salutary, if horrible, example.
Here's what she's rebelling against: http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/download/Recruiting%20Giants.pd...

RULE 1: You don’t recruit and retain male engineers
you recruit and retain Wives and Girlfriends

* If the wife or GF is unhappy the engineer is gone
* If the relationship breaks down the engineer is gone
* The paycheck goes to HER
* Why does SHE want her husband or BF to work for you?
WhatsApp’s Introduction of End-To-End Encryption Means Little for Data Privacy
These "imaginary points" have very useful properties that cannot be achieved any other way.

Bitcoin mining is still vastly more efficient and sustainable than gold mining.

Edit: dear downvoters, rebuttals are welcome
Yeah Faisal was relatively "progressive" compared to his peers in the royal family but his successor Khaled was relatively weak and Juhayman Al-Otaibi[1] incident in 1979 freaked the hell out of House of Saud and forced them to run back into the arms of the Wahabis for the fear of losing legitimacy and rule to those then ascending Islamic radicals with their more "puritanical" rhetoric.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure
The purpose of disclosing technology before release is so that the UK Gov't can plan and assess attack/intrusion measures before it becomes a mainstream/wide-spread product.

Don't be so naive to think this is just an 'administrative procedure'. This is the UK Gov't - and its Customers - putting in the procedure for subverting any technology it wants.
I'm struggling to find any information on this command (it's not an easy name to search for!) Do you have any links you could share please?
Hilarious! Now all I need is a bot that reads my messenger feed and executes commands. Never having to leave Facebook. 0_o
Return-Oriented Programming (ROP)
If you don't trust the Ubuntu release team, why are you downloading Ubuntu to begin with? Your threat model makes no sense.
This doesn't work for me, because of this issue: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/6871
This whole saga has been uncomfortable from the beginning--and now I'm cringing harder ever than ever. Not because I disagree with much of what Amilia has written, but just because it's painful to be, in some way, a witness to the rift that this piece makes evident.

In any case, Amilia is right to highlight this quote:

> Why do young white males tend to be the ones who pick up computers, teach themselves to code, start
businesses in their basements with their friends and get rich? It’s an obvious opportunity to everybody isn’t it? If you are a different race, gender, or religion… what’s your excuse? I know of very very few successful bootstrapped tech companies founded by women or blacks.

This, folks, is a racial (and gender) pathology claim. Unless we interpret Alex as inquiring about the social circumstances that prevent women and 'blacks' from seizing these 'opportunities' (and I don't see how that's a plausible interpretation here), then what Alex is suggesting is that there is something wrong with women and black people, a physiological symptom of their gender or race, that prevents them from seeing or taking these opportunities when presented with them. I find that, if you pay attention, you also see this way of thinking at work behind the scenes in more reasonable-sounding claims about racial and gender politics. Sometimes its overt, but more often its buried in points about, e.g., the corroded norms of "black communities."
There are major bug fixes and compatibility and performance improvements in this release. They're also asking for a large amount of money to start a push to add Py 3 support. And NumPy support is still improving - they'll gain a lot of users as that becomes complete. None of this seems like "maturity phase", especially in terms of userbase or funding.
>Google, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Stackoverflow (a lot more niche though) are all making money with advertising.

Having spoken with some people who work at stack exchange in NYC, my understanding is that it's the jobs site that is their biggest revenue bet, not advertising.
You can make custom services and characteristics.

The nice thing about standard services is that 3rd party apps that know how to interact with those services can work out of the box.
You should think about this in terms of collision resistance. Canonical doesn't write most of the packages that go into a release.
At least TJ's allows Apple Pay and other contactless methods. Stupid places like Home Depot and others that intentionally block Apple Pay and require the super slow chip really annoy me.
A Beginner’s Guide to Addressing Concurrency Issues
Yes the target budget is max 10€/month (so a little bit more than $USD)
It's a Java8 Play Framework application currently the App Engine doesn't support that and I had problems setting up the new Engine since my project uses sbt and I didn't had "enough" time to invest.
actually the application won't need that much network. it
needs 'nearly infinitiv' storage (non durable) and sometimes use preemtive vms to convert them (this could go over budget, but thats ok).

it's just that I need at least one vm that serves the web, this will upload the images to the object storage then it will fire premeetive vms and converts them, this will put the images in the real object storage and calls the always on vm to insert something in the database (i.e. image path)
actually the one vm needs to contain a small database (we are talking about mb so memory isn't an issue) and a java app. so as said micro is too small and small is too big for that always on vm.

my current planned setup is ovh instance -> gcloud object storage -> preemtive vm (if there is one) -> gcloud object storage - ovh instance

btw. I made some calculations and with the 3.4 € from ovh and somtimes preemtive vms and something like 30g/10g object storage (which hopefully will raise, but than again no problem on the costs) will cost us less than 7€ + Domain (which is billed per year) btw. the preemtive vms runs something like 48 hours per month (mostly less since the most images will started between november < - > february)

Edit: btw i wanted to use the datastore (database) aswell, but I couldn't activate it in a project without a app engine.
New Release JDK 8u91 and JDK 8u92
Switzerland had success with the heroin problem. They've made it legal and free, but to get it free, you need to visit a hospital for your daily injection, where they also can give you psychological help.

The program seems to have been a success, destroying the market for illegal heroin, and also reducing demand because it gives the drug a perception of being for losers.
You miss my point. Of course, for every example I give, it's possible to build a workaround to handle the spaces. My point is, it's the very fact that you need a workaround that makes it so irritating.
Thanks for your input and GitHub stars! You are all very welcome to open GitHub issues with your suggestions.

I'm looking for developers to join the project. There is a lot of work to do :)

Ilya Sher, the author.
I think it's a worse crime to say that because you have access to a stable, relatively apolitical currency, that no one else needs one.

Bitcoin could be hugely beneficial for fledgling financial systems, and robust financial systems can be hugely beneficial for billions of people.

Our energy crisis was not created by, and will not be solved by, Bitcoin. Numerous monetary crises could be addressed in serious ways by it, though.
About journalists asking why shouldn't Saudi Arabia have a democracy, this is an interesting interview:

https://amp.twimg.com/v/f72f7279-f0e4-4953-9549-d2243b49a20b
The name on the credit card is a much weaker data point than an actual photo ID. Assuming terrorists have access to guns and explosives, but not to stolen/registered to a fake name cards is not very reasonable. Even with the photo ID requirement, it's shouldn't be that hard to buy a stolen phone with a prepaid SIM that the owner didn't bother blocking.
Then how do you feel about Stackoverflow?
It's because so far I am only considering replacing the nodes slowly, one at a time, mostly in order not to hit any soft limits that may be defined on the account(like total number of instances), but also in order to give the user the chance to stop it in case things go south for whatever reason during the evaluation, since as I warned, this thing is likely full of bugs at this point.
I agree, in that I enjoy the experience, and that it offers something Stack Exchange doesn't. Stack exchange does its level best to eliminate questions whose answers are matters of personal opinion. Quora's whole product is personal opinion.
You (and Boing Boing) are mischaracterizing what OTA said about the Star Wars program.

They never claimed it would be impossible to shoot down a missile or that any of the technologies involved could not be made to work. Instead, OTA found it was unlikely a program that would be effective against a large scale Soviet first stike could be deployed within the desired timeline.

History has proven them correct.

You can read the actual reports here:

http://fas.org/spp/starwars/ota/

There's a reflexive tendency on HN to dismiss government-directed technology efforts. But a quick look at the advisory panel on the September 1985 OTA ABM report should convince anyone the report authors really did consult with experts in the field:

Guyford Steve, Chairman
President, Universities Research Associates

Solomon Buchsbaum
Executive Vice President
AT&T Bell Labs

Ashton Carter
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Robert Clem
Director of Systems Sciences
Sandia National Laboratories

Sidney D. Drell
Deputy Director
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Daniel J. Fink
President
D. J. Fink Associates, Inc.

Richard Garwin
IBM Fellow
Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Noel Gayler, Admiral, USN (Ret.)
American Committee on East-West Accord

Colin Gray
President
National Institute for Public Policy

George Jeffs
President
North American Space Operations,
Rockwell International

General David Jones, USAF (Ret.)
Former Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff

Robert S. McNamara
Former President of the World Bank

Michael M. May
Associate Director-at-Large
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H. Alan Pike
Program Manager, Space Stations
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.

Frederick Seitz
President Emeritus
The Rockefeller University

Robert Selden
Associate Director for Theoretical and
Computational Physics
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Marshall D. Shulman
Director
Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of
the Soviet Union

Columbia University
Ambassador Gerard C. Smith
President
Consultants International Group, Inc.

Sayre Stevens
Vice President
System Planning Corp.
Maj. General John Toomay, USAF (Ret.)
Consultant

Seymour Zeiberg
Vice President
Research and Engineering Operations
Martin Marietta Aerospace
Project SpiderNode
Looking forward to trying Python 3.5, it's in the repo.
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What's a good course (Udemy, etc?) to learn about AI/Deep Learning/Basics? (Please don't pounce on me on things like "AI is not Deep Learning!")

I'm not even sure where to begin with understanding this stuff, although it's just fascinating.
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This. It really helped me to create a good looking prototype built with flask and duct tape and convince management that it is a tool we could build and use in the future.
> The house of Saud invests a great deal of money in misleading the US population

So do the US power structures, and at a much larger scale. As a Canadian, Saudi foreign policy looks like a cute little puppy compared to the fire-breathing dragon that is US's.
In tech, "newest" often trumps "best".
They did not tested if the animals were intelligent or not, that was a known fact. They seem to have tested the intelligence relative to different species (instead of testing the intelligence absolute limit) and it wasn't an easy task at all because even primates like gorillas failed more at it!
oh, sandals https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Se...
Police believe Google and Apple should censor encryption apps
Coldwell Banker Unveils a Timeless New Estate Offered for $150M
> Debit? Credit? WTF, can't you tell?!

No, they can't tell when the same card can be processed in both ways. Just for fun, check out your bank's debit card fraud protection details - odds are you're much better protected if you run your debit card as a credit card (i.e. no PIN, but a signature), that way visa/MC takes on the fraud risk.
Programming for Persistent Memory Takes Persistence
Aren't those folks more "enterprise" oriented than "quality of life" oriented?
asians are massivaley over represented in tech. europeans are actually under represented.

But let's not let facts get in the way of argumentation shall we?
I didn't know about that one, indeed, it seems pretty similar.
Nice work, very detailed.
However this is hack of Accellion’s Secure File Transfer.
How should Facebook, or anyone for that matter, protect themselves in these cases?
I mean other then some obvious ones like not running as root, limiting file access, limiting network access to other servers...
$10m nut heist is window into the lucrative world of large-scale food theft
yes, I know it is a bit OT, but there were other Intel related discussions, saw no harm in asking.