skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or GitLab? I really don't understand why anyone would misuse Dropbox as a Git server...
I was just about to comment on the same section. This kind of poorly thought out assertion throws a lot of shade on the rest of the article.
I began the JHU Data Scientist Specialization on Coursera and worked through the Data Scientists Toolbox and R Programming classes, but found them a bit lackluster in their presentation.

The course content (videos, slides) presents some basics with a large emphasis on having a "hacker ethos" to do more work and digging on your own to be successful. The quizzes and projects in the R course demanded the use of techniques that were outside of the content provided in the lecture. I am not against having a hacker ethos and personally am happy to research and learn on my own, but I fail to see the logic in charging money to tell people to Google. I expect a curriculum to be a self-contained unit of learning, or else I wouldn't bother with curriculum.

Contrast this to Coursera's excellent (and free) Rice University Interactive Python Programming classes that are really superb. The Rice University team put together an online Python interpreter complete with graphics capability so that students could test each other's code. The R class left peer review of students' code as "do not run the code, eyeball it and see if it looks right". I understand why they did it (execution of potentially harmful code), but Rice's solution was elegant.
I am not saying it is the only way... but it is the best way to prevent/cure T2 diabetes without causing other issues. If you have T2 diabetes and don't want to adopt a diet that will expose you to high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, kidney issues, gallbladder removal, etc.. a very low fat diet is the solution. Just do it you will be happy you did.

The fact is: fat tastes good. Nobody want's to give up bacon and cheese so we keep looking for ways to say it is "OK". Big Pharma really wants you to keep eating your fats too. They make billions of dollars a year selling people drugs to offset their lack of will power.
>We know from lots of research that merely yelling "GO FOR A JOG FATTY" does nothing to help fat people lose weight

Sources? That'd be some weird research.

Regardless, it isn't my job to "fix" overweight people. They are welcome to their indulgences. I just do want to pay for the ill effects of bad habits. I have a feeling if they were on the hook for related costs, we'd have a different looking society.
Can we please update this wildly sensational title? BoJ is a top 10 holder in 90% of Nikkei 225 stocks. That is 90% of 226 stocks [1], or, 203 in total.

The article states this clearly before the opening paragraph.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225#Components
Looking through the history of financial crisis, the end-game is pretty obvious. Short-term, its a win for 401k holders and retirees so politically its an easy sell.

However, sooner or later, all the dollars and yen that the government simply prints to "buy" these securities will cause an inflationary spiral that will lower the standard of living for the working classes, although the bankers and politicians who created the programs will easily dodge those effects due to their wealth and influence.

An interesting article on quantitative easing...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/031b49ec-c415-11e4-9019-00144feab7...
It sort of does, if it worked more disinterestedly, however the way it works grossly mismanages resources and is rife with corruption and you end up with the concretization and tetrapodization of the shorelines and community centers in the middle of nowhere. They could use these monies much more smartly.
'Conjuring tricks' performed by a 'conjuror', are unambiguously impressive deceit, not actual magic. 'Prestidigitation' is another term, if you like your language flowery. But yes, 'magic' and (to a lesser extent) 'wizardry' are ambiguous.
Then they're not researchers, right? I feel like "researchers" should be synonymous with white hats, and disclose to the company when they find something. People who find something and don't disclose are black hats, or at least grey hats, but definitely shouldn't be considered researchers.
I can only speak for the NYT but they have a toll free number in my country, though the line was pretty bad (cut off twice).

Next time, I'll try to execute my right to cancel by the same means I subscribed, though. I don't think they will argue with you and if they did, I'd just fill a chargeback with my CCC.
Why not go to the source then and stop taxpayer subsidy of sugary, addicting foods?

It's like we live in a world where all of the inner aisles of the grocery store are stuffed with $3 liters of Vodka and the outer aisles $20 20oz bottles of water and then blame and ridicule people for boozing...
And the FCC hands out $10,000+ fines like candy for violations. Criminal proceedings are unlikely.
I put in for an invite. Would love to review this for the writing technology podcast TypeHammer.com
Or even GitLab

Edit: Apparently I was beat to the punch ;)
AngularJS Authentication Screencast Series – Part 4
What bothers me more than anything outside of the conflation of "assets" such as stocks and bonds as indicators of actual economic "growth" is that they are placing an inter-generational bet:

They are using money today which must be paid back tomorrow. The people who stand most to benefit are adults today. The people who stand most to lose are their children's children.
I don't disagree, but a lot of people don't understand that the term "lobbying" in fact does not just refer to evil corporations bribing politicians, and thus should not be categorically made illegal.
We've been using the old version on kwiksurveys.com for a year or so now. Like many we used to use Highcharts but it had some serious performance compatibility issue with AngularJS 1.x (I'm sure they've fixed it now.)

The big problem with ChartJS was the lack of horizontal bar charts. From memory there was a 3rd party plugin for this but the author himself admitted it was a bit of a bodge.

Disappointed to see that this wasn't added to the new version. I hope this is something the team considers in the future.

I look forward to getting this up and running on our site though.
Frankly if you're hitting people just because they aren't in a crosswalk while you're driving, you have no business driving now, let alone in the future. As the controller of the 2.5 ton metal machine, you are responsible for making sure you don't hit things or people.

With the saturation of safety gear on newer cars you really have no excuse anyhow, the newer ones even slam on the brakes FOR you when they detect an obstacle.
I've never tried it, but couldn't you theoretically make another github account using your email (assuming you use gmail) with a "+whatever" in it, and use that to create an infinite number of new github accounts? I believe gmail redirects you+something@gmail.com to you@gmail.com.

Of course, just using Gitlab is the more sensible option :)

[EDIT] - as lfowles pointed out, github doesn't private repos on free-tier accounts, so this is pointless.
Los radares estan diezmando los mares de Coral y las tortugas de Kauai
> "No dude, you are ignoring the fact that these people did not have ample fat stores."

I don't think I am ignoring it. You seem to be asserting that their issues with calorie restriction were lack of body fat. There is no evidence for that I am aware of. A simple rejoinder based on anyone's experience, do fat people get hungry? If they do, why? They have all that energy available. But I don't need to rely on arguments like that, since in the vast corpus of research on this at this point, it's pretty well established that calorie restriction by itself (even with exercise) does not work long-term. The failure rate is astronomical and it is in part due to what plain old calorie restriction as we've been told to do it does to metabolic energy and also due to the psychology of hunger. Also, and this is very important, a full fast does not have these effects according to the evidence. People can totally abstain from food for very long periods of time (depending on body fat), with very little hunger. It is smaller scale calorie reductions, without breaks (like the breaks intermittent fasting provides) and without much dietary fat since fat is highly satiating, that cause these reactions to calorie restriction.

> "This is basically unrelated to your statements about insulin though, so don't conflate the two."

Again, I'm not. I was responding to the request for a source on the idea of energy output reduction in response to lower calories. I'm not claiming there is a link between energy output reduction and insulin.

Fat people can get energy from fat stores, just not in the way we are typically told. If it was impossible to get energy from fat no one would ever lose weight, which is trivially and obviously not true.
Why I'm Learning to Type All Over Again
Either we adjust or we are self selected in the first place. Maybe both.

Taking many short flights for work practically forced me to learn to sleep sitting up even during the day if I was not fully rested. Many of my colleagues and frequently flying friends can do it too. But some people seem unable to do it. I found that once I understood I could do it, there was no further practice needed. Like riding a bicycle that half your friends always fall off.

In the past year I have slept in approximately 200 different beds. About once a month I do wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling that something is very wrong. Sometimes I don't understand why there is no wall next to the bed, or why there is a window there. This feeling is acutely unpleasant, even alarming. But it goes away and I go back to sleep. It doesn't seem to drag my sleep quality down.
The comments were not identical. He starts the repost with:

"Aaah, feels like a good time for me to recycle an oldie but goodie from #245 here: ...."

If I was listening to the radio and I heard Milli Vanilli say something about dusting off a blast from the past my reaction would probably be to change the channel, not turn up the volume.
Are Google, Apple and Facebook are threatened by blockchains?
Did the author actually ask the makers of self-driving cars whether these are real problems? Many of the problems listed in the article seemed relatively easy to solve (compared to the difficulty of building a self-driving car).
Which brings up a caveat that I didn't mention. If you want to hit the Philippines market, you probably don't need to go much further than Manila and Cebu. Manila could be among the top 5 largest cities in the world soon. Couriers could work in this case, assuming they could get through the insane traffic. But with wages so low here, you could employ an army of them.
You can use hardware security modules in datacenter space you physically control to store the private keys used to encrypt your data at "CloudCo". Amazon even offers this service and calls it Cloud HSM.

There's always the in-memory vulnerability, which is harder to mitigate, but requires an attacker with physical access to the hypervisor, so it's much more difficult to execute (as most meat-space hacks are).
There are lots of successful aggregators: NerdWallet and Credit Karma for credit cards and financial products, all the different car shopping sites, also Trulia/Zillow for real estate.

All of those companies have a clear value proposition for buyers (one place where you can get information instead of lots of scattered websites that might or might not be helpful). They also tend to have strategically strong customer acquisition channels that give them some degree of leverage with sellers (i.e. they can say, do what we want or else we'll stop passing buyers through to you).
Looks amazing! We've been using it for almost a year now, we'll most likely updgrade to the v2 as soon as we can!
QE and the banks buying stocks is the same thing: QE helps banks loan money extremely cheap which they can use to long the stock market.
This is from 3 years ago.
I think the original poster's point is that people will just run into the street with greater abandon than they do currently.
Why would enforcement attempts fail? They don't work right now because nobody really cares, jaywalking is almost never a real problem. If it starts seriously affecting transportation, laws will change and enforcement will increase.
former globe employee here.

i think "dark patterns" is a little strong. most of what the globe's doing here is just standard on-boarding marketing stuff IMHO. not stating on the article page itself that the 99c price is temporary hardly seems like a major sin when that fact is clearly communicated on the landing page.

Looking carefully through all the things the blogger is claiming, I think the strongest point he makes is that the globe doesn't make it clear that the "real" price doubles after 1 year.

I am already a subscriber so I couldn't make it through the flow to see exactly how it's communicated, but if that's not clear, obviously it should be and that's not a minor point.

I emailed the globe's editor, brian mcgrory, who is definitely a no-BS kind of guy, telling him lots of boston people are checking this out this morning (since it's on the HP) and he should respond :)
Hey @dmeagor, I'm one of the Chart.js maintainers. Horizontal bar charts are on our radar to implement. Most of the work has been done. The scales already fit nicely. The only thing that needs to be implemented is a controller for it all.
"Researchers" here is a term of art in the field; for the most part, vulnerability researchers are not researchers in the academic sense, but rather in the newsgathering sense.
I actually had a long discussion about this with an Uber driver the other day. Given that this article predates that discussion, I would imagine he was sourcing a lot of his arguments from this article.

My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic.

Self driving cars are going to have a much tougher row to hoe in Europe and Asia, where city infrastructure predates the automobile by centuries/millenia
hehe i also don't know C.
The same thing.
That sounds like an amazing improvement. It could be the best effect of autonomous vehicles.
I believe it means no IR filter, since that is how you get IR camera, by not having IR filter in front of sensor.
World of Tanks Blitz (7 on 7 tank battles) is really good.

It's not P2W, but there is a "Pay 2 have an marginal edge" factor (you can buy better components and ammo with in-game money, and you don't earn enough in-game money through regular play to use all the better ammo all the time).

The devs are pretty good about maintaining a good in-game economy - they actually just upped the amount of in-game you earn in response to some new features that were costing to much.
Interestingly enough, I recall Thrun mentioning some failures with a university partnership on This Week in Startups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHkbKXhihLk
And for their first trick, getting this through both houses and signed into law by the president. That would be the illusion of functioning government...
Interesting, but sort of whiny, until he veers off into "Capitalism Bad!" Socialism Good! Wait it didn't work the last 10 times? "No true scotsman! no true scotsman!"
Moving from a Fixed to a Growth Mindset
It's not at all true that researchers on the whole do what they do to prevent exploits. Many of the best researchers do the opposite!
Some places are like this already but people manage, in Brighton in the UK people walk in the road all the time... in London, if you try this, well - don't try it.
People who find vulnerabilities purely for the bounty seem to fit the classical definition of Bounty Hunters or Mercenaries. Certainly not researches. They're not in it for the academic benefit or advancing the state of the art. They're in it for the cash.
Until the USG want something from you.

They have the resources to be the man-in-the-middle and a potentially large library of 0-days, can you keep them out?

Are you a republican, a democrat, or vocal on any issue? What if someone abused this power to stifle or harm you for your view? Have you heard of LoveInt?
I do, happily. I subscribe to the Economist too. In the scheme of things $350/year isn't much when you can spend that much in a weekend on gardening supplies.

But the globe has also never charged my that much. They've been charging me roughly $200/year for the last 3 years for a digital subscription.
Or GitBucket hosted on your own hardware.
Yeah, that tends to be the downside of a management structure that almost universally favors seniority over merit.
0.5% of the GDP of US ($17 trillion) is $85 billion, not 1 trillion.

And I don't know many westerners that would say that $951M is not a lot of money :)
I think we know (i.e. 90% of the time) that people will stop for us if we walk out in front of them with ample notice and conditions... It's more from a norms / politeness perspective that we don't; it's simply not accepted that you can just walk into the road when you want to get across because (most of us) we don't want to be judged by others for behaving recklessly, either by the driver we're forcing to stop or the other pedestrians.

There will most often than not still be people in these driverless cars that we will irritate, and pedestrians that we fear will scorn us. However, I think you make a good point about non-passenger vehicles. Perhaps we will be more likely to walk out in front of an unoccupied Uber that we know will stop for us on an empty street where no one will judge us — but this won't affect the busy streets / scenarios where it's most important that I mention above.

Interesting prediction, nonetheless...
I am using metrichgraphics[1], it's based on D3.js
I was looking at charts.js but it didn't had enough options.

[1] http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/examples.htm
As a computer scientist, it is embarrassing to admit this, but I have given up on wireless printing. My wife and I now physically walk to the printer and plug in via a USB cable.
We do, it's prestidigitation but no one really uses it.
Vegetarianism/veganism may help with diabetes, but it's probably not because of reducing fat intake.

"Less fat" has been the dominant message since the late 70's, and it's coincided with the explosion in the rate of consumption of sugar, overweight people and diabetics. The epidemiology suggests you're mistaken.
It's not an issue at all and all the articles saying otherwise are FUD. http://edinburghhacklab.com/2012/11/when-git-on-dropbox-conf...

Edit: Wow I got downvoted and I actually ran the experiments myself. Has anyone got experiments showing otherwise?
I would personally prefer gogits - since its simpler than GitLab.

But since I am a ghetto peasant without a static IP address I prefer to keep everything in what the cool kids call "The Cloud".
Ah yes, another law with good intentions being exploited by loopholes. Companies that “communicate” with their customers in this way are so very obviously trying to screw you over but hey, they “obeyed” the law and “told you” the real price so it’s all good, right?

Also, this crap isn’t limited to web pages. Happens in the mail too. Yet these remain “legal” because every one of them “tells you” exactly what they are: in tiniest print, in the grayest of colors, in the unlikeliest of places and in the most convoluted of words.

These laws have to be cleaned up. In the meantime I am perfectly fine with publicly shaming companies that pull these tricks. We need a lot more articles like this one.
The list of countries where you can get it seems quite extensive:

https://bartongeorge.net/2016/03/31/live-in-europe-next-gen-...
I use the web versions of Office 365 on my Chromebook, and that is sufficient for my occasional needs to work with Word or Excel files.
I deployed Gogs at home and am loving it for things I don't want anyone else to have access to (mostly hobby projects with some secret keys in them), and Gitlab is just so fantastic nowadays that I'm adding projects to it instead of Github.

I wish they would fix their Github syncing (they can currently do it, but don't tell you their public SSH key so you can add it to Github as a pushing/pulling key).
Exactly! So why would you ever consider this to be a safe application, with or without the vulnerabilities? Wireshark should be used in a closed environment (VM) as should all tools that handle potentially malicious data.
I think it's interesting you mention real estate and cars, neither of which are impulse buys.

Aggregation makes sense in markets where the buyer knows that they have to buy, but don't know what/which/where to buy, but seems to do worse in markets where purchasing is done on impulse.
I don't think it does. Sure, a car would know that a stop sign was there the last time it drove through that intersection, but you can always order the car to go someplace new. And I don't believe the dream that "oh, automatic cars will just have 100% accurate street data for every road in the civilized world". First of all because we don't have this data, and even if we did, I can't imagine a car hauling several terabytes of data with it(and how would you even update it, given that our internet connections seem to be getting worse, not better every year, with new data and speed caps being introduced?). It has to be able to decide autonomously, and since it has to be programmed to do something, it's a really hard problem. A human can just "use best judgement", but a computer can't - it either follows the rules or it doesn't. And roads are not a computer simulation - they are dynamic, they change, they require the sort of input that computers are horrible at, visual recognition is dreadful, our best, cream of the top software can't tell a difference between a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print, and yet most people just wave their hand at the problems facing automatic cars saying "oh, we will just use a machine learning algorithm to watch how humans drive and then follow that". Sure. But it doesn't magically solve the problems of responsibility where a computer does something it shouldn't have.
As far as I'm concerned, they had it coming. Completely their fault for having such terrible security, and frankly, they deserve it.
Huge fan of Gogs here: https://gogs.io/ easilly run on any low powered machine/vps, super great for personal projects.
Docker Containers for SQL Server 2005
In the interests of transparency..

That sounds like the low-end base salary for ~entry level. It probably gets topped up with ~100k bonus. There are a couple places that hire many but don't pay well.

At what I think is the high end, I see about an offer per quarter of $500-900k base with $1-2M bonus (usually guaranteed for the first year) for pure technology role. Add more front office work and the bonus potential shoots up (but it's a tough gig at the moment at least).

For context, non-kdb principal level roles I've seen on west coast top out at around $1M, mostly in RSUs, from a say a $250k base at the usual names.

I've seen offers in the $1-10M range on the east coast to build competitive technology. Amusingly, on the west coast, I've only seen the stereotypical "be my technical cofounder and get screwed on comp" offers to do so.
Would you test mobile app as professional photographer?
I don't have any hard numbers but I tried using Dropbox as a git remote a few years ago. Everything worked great until it didn't.

A HN discussion from a few years ago suggests that Dropbox + GIT is a mixed bag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558822
My experience backs yours. While living in the Bay, my wife bought most of the clothes through Macy's online interface, and we brought them back to the stores (we kept more than 60%).

Moved out of the US, and we do miss the convenience of that kind of shopping, and would love to use similar services, even with premium.
That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

FB and Microsoft's excitement about chatbots makes a lot more sense now.