skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done so myself and observed lots of people do it:

1. It's a way to (pointlessly) delay adulthood.

2. Fear of the job market.

3. Don't know what else to do.

4. Magical thinking (despite the numerous articles out there, like mine (http://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befor...) that attempt to dissuade it). I think this is the biggest issue. In addition, there seems to be a Lake Woebegone effect: Everyone thinks they're going to be above average.

EDIT: I forgot to add another important one: Grad school is pretty easy and fun! You get to hang out on campus, think about ideas, take a minimal number of classes, do a bit of teaching, and have copious free time. The problem is that, as time advances and your priorities start changing (want a real life / job, date people who don't date people whose lives aren't together, etc.), reality starts to intrude. Many grad students have an unacknowledged Peter Pan complex.
Do you think money is useful? How about digital money?
$2 billion in profits is a lot. 12K jobs cut is a lot. I can't help but find it a bit crazy that 12K people who helped make $2 billion in profits are suddenly extraneous. Are that many people really redundant within Intel?
PS3 Eye too, 4 microphones AFAIK. Those had a big discount on Amazon recently.

EDIT: Still are, 5 bucks.

http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-Eye-3/dp/B000VTQ3LU
haha, yes, that's what I meant. Your phrasing is better
> miners do more than just burning energy, and without this mechanism, the price can't be justified

The price is based on utility of the commodity and speculation about its future utility, not mining costs. Put another way: more hash power does not raise the value but more value may raise the hash power (by making it profitable for less efficient miners to mine).

> how a structure on top could be created to leverage bitcoin without mining.

There's lots of activity around alternatives to bitcon's proof-of-work based mining: proof of stake, proof of activity, etc. Just search "proof of work alternatives"
Early Tesla Model X Falcon Doors: An Overview of Articles Describing the Issues
This is a common sense safety feature... make sure your employees are who they say they are. How is this violating anyone's privacy?
I totally get that piece, but I feel like in some ways it is meant as an attempt to deflect conversation away from what is stated to be a factor:

"The oft-cited explanations—campaign contributions and the allure of private-sector jobs to low-paid government lawyers—have certainly played a role."

Emphasis on "have certainly played a role." The moment I hear that, I ask why the hell we aren't focusing the conversation there and keeping it there. Guarantee a lot of the "lack of balls" has to do with worrying about future security in the form of campaign contributions and private-sector jobs.

How about we solve for that problem first and see if they still lack balls when they are no longer worried about their financial future being directly tied to those they are supposed to police.
> Silbermann helmed the process, bringing his kids by the office on the weekends while he checked in on the team as they raced to transform Pinterest into a sleeker, faster service.

At least all the usual management anti-patterns were followed.
Where I live (Texas) the de facto norm really does appear to be that you're entitled to add 10 mph (~15 kph) to the posted speed limit, and that's roughly what the police enforce. People get really angry and start writing their politicians if police start frequently writing tickets for less than that, so they usually don't. Some police out in West Texas used to be notorious for setting up speed traps on the highways and enforcing the speed limit strictly (as a source of revenue), so the state legislature actually cracked down on them because people were so angry.
Trollius:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius

Or, better, gevent:

http://www.gevent.org

No compelling reason. That is why 8 years later 2.7 is still used by the majority.
I recently got a t540p and the keyboard feels like mushy crap, but it has a ten-key and trackpoint and it's backlit so at least I can find the weirdly spaced keys in the dark. Anyway the screen is fantastic and the rest of the build quality is nice so I'm not complaining, they're just not what they used to be.
Incredible Gaming Setup with a DXRacer Chair
So, Kahn Academy, eh?

But seriously, I think the biggest problem with this "future of education" proposal is that it STILL assumes that we consume education, and that all people need all the education.

With a digital tutor, fine-tuned to my learning styles, what if I still don't give a shit about understanding partial differentiation? At some point, education has to be about more than an accumulation of knowledge.

For my money, I see the future of education going back to apprenticeships and well-timed opportunities for growth rather than new ways to shovel the Knowledge into the brain holes of children.
That's a very interesting perspective. Haven't considered that before.
First time I made 230K+ was as a contractor at $120/hour. For several years my fees ranged $105-120/hour. My niche were rule engines (Drools, JRules, FICO Blaze) but I came out of the plain vanilla backend Java world and fortune 500s. In fact, that's where I discovered this need. These days I have moved into management and lead 3 dev teams in the Big Data space.
the engine software update, applied in the recall last year, by itself made the cars pass emission thresholds in other countries, which had a lower bar than US. I wonder if VW's plan will be to buy back the cars and resell them in Europe or Latin America.
I wonder how much they will be offering people? I own a 2011 Golf TDI, and NADA is showing suggested retail as like 11.5k, which is 2k less than I purchased it for used from a private seller about a year ago, and at the time, nada private sale was at like 14k. If VW wants to give people full retail as of the current market value (ie: after the emissions scandal came to light and value decreased), then this will be quite the ripoff. I would rather take the initial 5k offered to owners in the first proposal for compensation.
This is my default CSS 'framework' and time I put up a website:

body {
max-width: 40em;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
margin: 1em auto;
background-color: #EEE;
color: #444;
line-height:1.6;
font-size:120%;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
line-height: 1.2;
}

I think it results in a fairly nice looking site: https://mkii.org

Inspired by http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Fillip App: Task manager that gives you motivation
I don't want to be that guy but I would like to know if his faith, Jehovah's Witness, has anything to do with not treating his 'Flu'.
If he had a treatable condition it would be a shame if he died for somebody's idea of God.
Exactly. If this is JUST used on drivers, I'm cool with it, and would welcome it because it means my ride is safer.
From the gambling house's side it avoids regulation, plain and simple.

From the gambler's side: People already own skins (from playing normally) or want skins that would be expensive to buy outright. Gambling provides an exciting way of exchanging them. This kickstarts the gambling market. This initial activity then attracts more serious gamblers looking to make a profit in this low-regulation gambling environment populated by many inexperienced gamblers. Cue feedback loop as more and more serious gamblers get involved.
this guys career path
Your allegations miss a crucial detail, Monsanto sued farmers who planted seeds and then sprayed them with herbicide[1]. Ie the farmer knew what he was doing and used the patented trait. Why shouldn’t Monsanto sue over that? Like many things in GMO land the myth that they sue accidental contamination is wrong.

Monsanto has the worst PR team in history, which has made my company’s work much harder, but ‘Monsanto is Evil’ is a marketing slogan developed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth etc. These environmental groups are actually the true evil in the industry. Their campaigning has held back progress in the industry by many years. Smarter folks than me argue that their actions on Golden Rice meet all the criteria to be considered a crime against humanity[2]

[1] http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally...
[2] http://www.allowgoldenricenow.org/the-crime-against-humanity
FBI paid more than $1.3M to break into San Bernardino iPhone
This statement makes me sad... I mean, I adhere to it, but I am not exactly a person who should be emulated.
This is an awesome insight. In the past I've matched them up this way, coder = implementor, tech lead = solver, architect = finder. It has always been interesting to me to look at the skills that made people good in each of those roles, whether it is attention to detail in implementors, breadth of understanding in solvers, or skill diversity in finders.
The devices we (will) wear
What business is it of there's how I ended up with it? If I didn't sign a license agreement then I can do what I want with those seeds. That includes planting them, spraying them with roundup, then planting the survivors.

Their business model depends on farmers agreeing to licensing their seeds. Nothing says that those farmers have to agree to that. If those same seeds are available elsewhere, whether brought by the wind or just bought locally, a farmer who has NOT signed any sort of agreement can do whatever they'd like with them.
Perl 6 dispatches on multiple arguments based on runtime types, so it's full multiple dispatch.
Apple:

Running a business in a residential area.
Shipping electrical products that were not UL tested for fire hazard.
Paying owners in stock rather than taxable income.
No diversity in hiring practices.
Lead in products without a product recycling program in place.

The gist is that you generally have to cut corners somewhere to start up any business unless you already have lots of money.
I've switched to using "Only hire people who bring new things to the team" rather than "better than" because the latter assumes that talent is linear. So if your team already had expertise in one area, don't hire in that area - add people who will be coming to the problems you have from a different direction. It's hard to innovate when everyone's just a carbon copy.
This assumes he bases his judgement of Monsanto on the judges decision, which he can, but doesn't have to do.
The message shows be sent by levying fines, mandating community work and putting restrictions from operating drones for X years for anyone caught being a jerk.
Actually, someone recently filmed exactly that - a 10-hour film of paint drying, as a protest against film censorship. The British Board of Film Classification awarded it a "U" rating: universal/suitable for all.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/movie-news/paint-drying-bbfc...

It would have been funny to splice in a couple frames of porn throughout, Fight Club-style.
Not sure if humor or legitimate vengeance. In a group it's important to punish individuals infringing on your sense of entitlement ;)

Anyway, it's impressive that the bird managed to connect so many dots correctly and creatively play an inter-species conflict.
For those of you who haven't spent the past 10 years of your lives following this and want a quick TL/RD, the below link has a good recap of what Abacus is.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldmansachs-abacus-factbo...
I've never heard of those. Python on the other hand has been my primary professional language for years. i.e. people pay me to program in python.

See how PyPy might be a tinsy bit more relevant / meaningful to professional developers.
Me too, and I'm trying to figure now if its a matter of laziness or that the content wasn't juicy enough for me to lower my ad blocking defenses.
There's this: http://www.isi.edu/~yuri/dupx/dupx_man.html

Still uses gdb under the covers, but presents a front end close to what you are asking for.
Tss. After seeing how weakly regulators push exchanges like CME to prevent legitimate and proven spoofing, it's pretty clear that "backed up by their bosses" goes all the way up the chain.

Side comment: The GS head of technology recently left there to go to an at-best-mediocre options brokerage recently, which I recently left. Not gonna lie, that makes my suspicio-meter go off after seeing the shenanigans they did there.

Side note again: Another thing that pushes my supsicio-meter pretty far is seeing secret service, Harry Reid and a very well known name in HFT walk into an office and talk to each other for an hour.

I don't want to come to any direct conclusions, but "People are shitty" comes close.
> My phone has a voice processing chip, and it recognizes my speech pretty well, but I still can't figure out if it's completely disconnected from the cloud

Does it work when you are in airplane mode?
Graphene polymer battery makes electric cars more power and affordable
> I've never encountered any company, nor heard of one, that enacts the advice of that Jobs quote.

You should read our culture deck (especially the section about "context, not control", starting at slide 80): http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
Not (directly) related to the security, but I was wondering if you were inspired by any research from academia when creating this. I only ask because I just watched a talk from a Stanford professor from 2012 where he talks about anonymizing and aggregating everyone's code in the cloud to create better documentation, albeit as a one sentence aside at the end of an otherwise unrelated talk.
It's pretty simple: the Treasury head and many others in regulators are ex-Goldman. The word is subversion. The biggest violators have people embedded into the regulators to make sure they're not a problem.
I've long wondered how a Battleship MMO might work, a game with a huge world map and multiple factions/navies trying to bomb each other. :)
Depends on the use case. There are cases where I don't know how I'd live without arrays/associative arrays. Performant regex matching is also quite nice.
Appears to have been reported to Google, Reddit, and the Internet Archive for removal.
I'm a Sysadmin/ops guy these days, not strictly a dev, and I wouldn't put myself into the "best and brightest" category, so my experience might be different, but I have a constant barrage of calls and emails from recruiters for hedge funds, hft companies, and some other finance related companies (I generally stop reading the second I see that it's a finance company so I'm not sure what they actually do)
In al seriousness, I don't really use Facebook for anything and only keep an account to communicate with my daughter's teachers. But as ASIMUV grows people are always asking about it on Facebook. Now I'm planning on using it as part of the community outreach program. And I'm not even sure how it works anymore... D:
I'm a small breed of people that actually really like Unity. I used to use Awesome WM and tiling WMs for pretty much my whole Linux 'career' but now I quite like how my desktop looks like with Unity. It's my favorite DE at the moment.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/nvsf24E
Absolutely - if anything, the excuse of "ignorance" factor would be a lot less. Reducing the risk of liability is a reasonable avenue in my opinion. Also if "drone racing" and the like start to get more popular, having advertisements for regional facilities could be mutually beneficial.
Yep, for all the evidence this article presented the title could have been, "unemployed people realize how shitty the social safety net is and support more general wealth distribution".
Magit 2.6
I am running a VPN on my own server to access content, and the server is on the same timezone.

I stopped my Netflix subscription a month ago because they started blocking me.

I would say the IP checking against datacenter block is the most plausible, but I also remember seeing a link on HN showing how to detect VPN usage through MTU size, so that could be a possibly more involved solution ...
It would probably be way too much work to implement on top of their infrastructure though, when IP block checking must be good enough.
This sort of open communication is great way to start to build trust of users (both relating to security and otherwise). I was thrilled to see the devs responding to comments positively in both the HN and reddit threads.

I'm looking forward to seeing Kite expand their security support and I can't wait to try it out on Linux.
It's not a big fuck you to the US given the US already has plenty of places with legal weed and their logic is "we're not technically breaking the UN treaty because it's the states not the federal government allowing weed". US may be responsible for the treaty but they're not exactly its biggest supporter now.
I think it's too late to get rid of it anyway.
VW is going to use the value as of September 2015, before the scandal broke. That value is around $14k for a 2012 Golf TDI.

Yesterday, Jalopnik reported an additional $5k compensation on top of the buyback, but I can't find the source anymore; they may have retracted it after the actual details came out. But the NYT article does mention "additional substantial compensation" for those affected, so there will be something extra on top.

I bought a 2012 Golf TDI for $26k, and I think I'll take the buyback partially because I feel wronged, and because I just moved back to SF and owning a car here doesn't make sense. If this scandal hadn't happened, I'd be looking at 13 to 15k on craigslist, so getting more than that from VW itself will definitely satisfy me.
FBI paid at least $1.3M for zero-day to get into San Bernardino iPhone
When I hear "Midrange Computer" I think IBM iSeries. Was briefly confused by this article.
Monsanto is absolutely using legal avenues.

International shipping companies are subject to international law. Monsanto is threatening them with international law. That is fully within their bounds.

Argentina is operating outside of the international laws and norms here, and should reap the consequences.
It's their boss' (aka Congress) job to set a tone where it is not a livelihood risk to "do your duty".

If you're a peon, "doing your duty" is a great way to put a target on your back.
Yeah, that's the point. When the technology has been demonstrated to work (even if badly) in some areas it's suddenly mandated in other areas.

I'm not sure that seeing an actual implementation is required for politician to have harebrained ideas. Besides, as others have pointed out, geofencing has already been implemented by DJI, so we're past that phase anyway.
I would expect that partially defective chips are repaired during probe or (more likely) final test by blowing fuses.

The chip's yields, and therefore cost, will depend on the foundry's natural defect rate per area and the design quality.
Do it one better and realize even your own culture is biased and largely arbitrary and then you will really have a broadened POV.
>We don't need any more encouragement of device lockdown, treacherous computing, and the general erosion of ownership.

Actually, we do, at least in this case. The majority of users don't know/care about flying close to airports. (See my other comments in the thread).

From what I can tell, however, all the larger drones tend to have geofencing already, so perhaps the current de facto situation is adequate.
Let others help too! It's the spirit of open source :)
It hasn't, it's still in Alpha (release 2), based on past releases it could be months or the end of the year before it launches.
True. Which is why the swarms' IPs are being logged.
Since there is a very real cost increase in arranging care with six hour workday instead of ~8 hours -- you need to hire more people to do the work -- this is not just about ideological opposition; it's about economics, its about efficiency of the public sector.
Most of the world is already running that experiment, and the answer is clear. Research of this kind doesn't come from there.
...was formerly alive.
Not sure how I feel about this. I do want a higher have score
How on Earth did anyone get through that entire article without using the phrase "skin in the game"? I'm not sure whether to be impressed or disappointed.
I loved it, snowboarding was 50 minute drive for 9 weeks straight with powder each time this winter. Ooops, us locals aren't actually suppose to mention how good it is up here (in the 80's all week so far)...ooops, did it again.
Am I only the one that thinks the animation on that page of a woman having her face scanned and turning her head looks like something from a modern retelling of 1984? I don't like the idea of app developers getting people used to submitting to facial scans; it seems inevitable that public acceptance of the concept will eventually be abused when someone decides that it's necessary to verify your identity before you access the internet in order to prevent terrorism.

edit: Upon further reflection, I see no reason why my argument above couldn't be applied to fingerprint sensors on smartphones, which I personally use and don't have much of a problem with... I guess anything that gets even remotely close to the territory of mainstream video surveillance using phone cameras just creeps me out. I'm no longer sure of exactly where I stand on the facial scan issue.
Only $10000? What the hell do you have to find to qualify for that "million dollar bug"?
It's unlike it would be a Treason charge, though we are not required to be at war for that to apply. The reason would be the proof burden for Treason in court is very high, and set forth in Article III.

In truth it'd be likely to fall under federal statutes governing systems access, and probably I'd guess the 1917 Espionage Act.
Using spoofed wi-fi to attack mobile devices
My guess is that there will be large lookup charts with prices for every year/car/mileage combination designed to make people like yourself carefully consider weather they want the 5 grand or the buyout.
10x Your Revenue: Increasing Customer Lifetime Value
How to Create Gmail Tasks
It took me a good 15 seconds to read the subtitle with that background repeatedly stabbing me in the eyes. Bloomberg's design aesthetic is certainly unconventional.
Thing is, digital money already existed - when my employer pays me, he's not physically handing me an envelope of bills or even writing a check. It is, and has been for quite a few years, digital money.
This only helps if drones are not actually dangerous. If they are, and an Airbus is destroyed, then that's the problem.

Also, finding a drone operator is not necessarily easy.
What? Pretty sure you're wrong.

Yes, MD5 preimage resistance is not broken (to a reasonable degree).

If you have the Ubuntu 16.04 ISO (you do), and if you have its hash, the attack to craft a different ISO with the same hash is a collision attack.

A preimage attack is if you had some hash y where y=H(x) where x is some file/whatever, and trying to find out possible values of u that give rise to y when you do H(u), without the knowledge of x.
This story isn't about Valve but the author sure made it seem like it was. A third party site uses Valve's API to enable users to bet skins on esport competitions. This third party site uses Valve's API. Valve is in no way involved in betting. The only thing they haven't done is turn off access to the API for this third party company.

This is probably more because of Valve's management structure than it is about any policy. Valve is a flat company with no managers. People work on what they want to work on. Jobs like customer support and policing API use are akin to taking out the trash, nobody wants to do it but someone has to. It just isn't a priority.

Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together "illegal betting!" "valve" and failing.
Look where it started and what he helped manage:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...

A bit unique to say the least.