skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting, but it isn't listed on the their US store yet. I'll be interested to see hands-on tests - if it's as good in real-life as the specs indicate, it could wind up being a suitable replacement for my home MBA (doesn't get used for work).
That was 8-10 years ago. The industry now is more mature. With pipelines of projects and know how and economy of scale. Back then everything was invented on the fly/ad-hoc and so on.
You're right, it's not breaking news. I misread your quote. Nonetheless, it was a decently done, freely available analysis done on a semi-esoteric topic that really would not be covered by anyone else. If you solely rely on any source for "predictions", let alone ZH, I don't know what to say. No one is ever going to claim that ZH made them rich.
Just remember that "everyone" includes the infosec people themselves.
That is also not an break on an important story. Just some analysis again.

But yes, those leaked reports on ZH are interesting. Problem is they also publish lots of stuff from disputable sources. At the end you don't know what to take serious on this website, which results in an entropy of about zero.
Yeah we don't know what the actual costs will be apart from their claim that its 60% cheaper than pumped-hydro. However, having done some run-of-the-river hydro projects - even a small 1MW mini-hydro (which is basically roughly a pumped hydro in reverse) requires 2 years of civil engineering for the penstock and weir (the water channel). I would imagine that 1-10MW pumped hydro systems would cost and take a lot longer to engineer. Plus pumped hydro is very geography/topography specific.

I don't have hard data - but wouldn't engineering a rail system not be as hard, and need less civil engineering work?
Not about Disney, but about "Pillar Technology in Columbus, Ohio".
I can understand as a programmer Bing being used for the more interesting functions, such as tracking packages or finding business hours and that sort of thing (the tasks that never leave the Cortana window) but come on Microsoft, beyond that we both know all you're going is opening a Bing search in the browser and that's NOT complicated at all.

I'm fine with Bing integration for most Cortana functions, but let us choose our own damn browser and our own damn search engine.
Valuable advice, said individual has indeed already tried this approach with my immediate managers and my peers. Luckily I've been here long enough to have a reputation that can't easily be besmirched
Game of Torrents and Data leaks
worth reading, thanks.
This is actually common, at least in mathematics: Researchers simultaneously submit to a traditional journal and to the preprint server http://arxiv.org.

Usually I don't have any difficulties finding contemporary papers. It is papers from, say, thirty years ago, that are usually stuck behind paywalls.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11591274

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589110
> Pillar’s on-boarding processes includes watching a long series of training videos on their “Step-It-Up” program talking about who Pillar is, and why they do the things they do. They talk about things like Craftsmanship, Test-Driven-Development and consulting skills.

(...)

>Now, for a company that prides itself on Craftsmanship and TDD, surely there should be unit-tests somewhere, right? To my surprise, the project they landed me on had absolutely ZERO unit tests!

(...)

>So I did what any “Craftsman” at Pillar would do and I argued for us to start writing better tests. Unfortunately to my complete surprise, not only did I meet resistance with the client, I met resistance within Pillar itself!

That is a good example of the dissonance between the idealism and jingoism of the (internal) marketing and the reality in the field.

When the choice opposes

- doing things right, at the first attempt and building to last

to

- doing things fast and on the budget (undercut to catch up to the race to the bottom)

it always ends up like this. People (and companies) that know the right way but chooses the alternative.
We've Been Approaching the Internet of Things All Wrong
I mean, I think it would have been fine not to include a disclaimer at all; you'd have to be an idiot not to realize that. But what is wrong with this one? Or do you just want them to pretend nobody else exists?
The real case where it matters is where the "if (foo) { ... }" test happens in a function that's been inlined into the caller, but not all the callers do the foo->bar() dereference. So it's only being removed in some cases.
Not all aircraft overhead bins can fit $20M violins
The value does not need to increase for miners to profit. Mining difficulty scales with the total mining power in order to keep the block rate stable. Increased value only gives an incentive for competition, increasing mining power and THEN increasing difficulty.

It works in the other direction too. Lowered value lowers mining competition which LOWERS difficulty. It stabilizes itself automatically.
How much of your MRR is slipping away?
You could do this all day. Like an infinite loop. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Rules of War is like US bombing and droning everything is allowed everything else isn't ?
Not appropriate but I am absolutely stealing this thankyou :)
Type checker = static.
I wanted to write something similar, but was turned off by the way you have to compile LLVM projects: your project mixed with LLVM sources. Also, its not that easy to get started.
This totally highlight the problem with Imperial Units:

"ARES wants to lay a nearly 5.5 mile track up an 8 degree slope, gaining about 2,000 feet top to bottom. ARES would then put up to seven 8,600-ton trains on the track"

If the units were in SI[1], 1000 * 5.5[km] * 8/100 = 55 * 8 = 440m (no calculator/conversion needed)

And for the energy stored, just do 440m * ~10m/s2 (g) * 8,600,000kg

[1]no conversion, just an example
It's funny that one of the largest flag theory sites, sovereign man, refers to zerohedge almost exclusively for political and financial theories. I thought they were actually run by the same person(s) for a time.

When I came across zerohedge about 2 years ago, it looked like they were bearish all the time, and right less than half the time. I think people see what's right and don't pay attention to when it's wrong.
Or maybe you're just following cultural trends. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/health/16-pregnant-teens-child...
I think it is fully automated. See the demo video's here

https://vimeo.com/39364772

https://vimeo.com/46460725
Ah, I knew that HN would tell me what I should be reading! I've only been able to spend a few minutes reading this one, but it looks to me like the first focus there is on eliminating intermediate containing structures, with some interesting opportunities for optimization afterwards. Their stream definition of fold(l/r) is still recursive, so I don't think it would be able to pull, for example, the incr() outside the reduce in my first example of "reduce(max, map(incr, l))"
I think the approaches might be complimentary, actually; you might apply the higher level transformations I describe first and use a stream approach to implement the resulting chain of operations.
Going to need to do a deeper investigation later today, but, anything else I should be looking at?
"Don't forget on a Peer to Peer Network usually if you can see them, they can see you."

True, many seem to forget that.
Pretty much all financial news outlets receive research from all the sell-side banks. ZH stealing a chart from a GS report is nothing special.
>They call people

Do they adjust for the bias introduced by using a phone survey? I would hypothesize that job holders are more likely to have a stable phone connection than the unemployed.
"ZH focuses on facts". Seriously?

>They also report rumors ahead of everyone else, which seem implausible, but later turn out to be facts ...

Sure, if you spitting out rumors all day there will be one or two cases per year where you hit a nail.
Given the mass of the cars they're talking about, they'd need substantial engineering to get a good solid level grade that's not going to subside or slip, which isn't always going to be straightforward.

As you say, however, it's very geo/topo specific - so in places like North Wales, pumped hydro is still clearly the way to go, but in the Mojave, this rail based system could work well.

It reminds me of the defunct system we had in a house I used to live in - 8" or so diameter shaft in the basement floor with a weight, a cable, a winding, and a dynamo - you'd have the servants crank it up during the day so you could have electric light at night. Quite popular in the late nineteenth century among early adopters of electricity.
Yes and no I guess. People seem to forget Microsoft consists of 'departments' A/B/C/.../Z. So while A might still be all about proprietary software and B wants to embrace, there's also C open-sourcing tons of interesting stuff on github and sometimes even accepting PRs. C didn't exist a couple of years ago I think. So projecting sentences onto a single Microsoft entity is usually a false generalization. Same goes for a lot of other companies who are active in more than one field.
I am going to preface this with the a small piece of information, I work in corporate America.

From my perspective, I don't quite get a lot of the points. No unit-tests? Most code bases don't have them. Cucumber tests? You're already ten giant leaps ahead of most products out there.

Code in disarray? Used to it for every single project I have to come into. Factories/viewers at least there is some semblance of structure!

False corporate goals? It's a company, I expect nothing else from them.

Weird North Korea chants? That's just weird as hell.

Again, I don't work in SF or NY so it's hard to know what exists within startup culture, but to me all of this just sounds like the norm. There is much less importance placed on decent code then there is on just getting something out.
In my experience, for a while when oil was extremely volatile up over $100 per barrel, they were at the forefront of breaking any supply chain stories (ex: Suez Canal). I survey many different sites and I have seen ZH do some very timely and organized reporting. Also, they aggregate a lot of big names (Gross, Gundlach, etc) so I don't have to track down their latest missives. There is a very long and seemingly unending row of garbage barge stories and sensationalism to deal with though, I will never deny that.
Thanks! I have a link to code written in Maude at the very bottom; The code needs so much explanation though. Perhaps I'll highlight the code link at the top of the article?
Apparently they're using BitPay, so presumably they don't get any actual bitcoins.
Are they using HTML/CSS/JS for their interface?
Yup, and that is one of the selling points of bitcoin from the merchant's perspective.
I was specifically talking about funding confirmation times, to claim that CC processing is slower than bitcoin because it takes longer to settle is misleading.
...If this works - one of the apparent benefits is scale. Water-tower, and other water-pressure based systems are hard to engineer above 1-10MW (I think).... The benefit of this system is it seems to be able to scale to 100MW+ sizes. Which is what one needs to provide effective frequency regulation, smoothing and backup to a utility-scale solar/wind park. Of course, we don't know what the costs are yet...
Companies should also be named according to type, so publicly listed companies should use camel-case and private companies dashes, faceBook and face-book could co-exist. _FACEBOOK_ too, they're a gloabal insustry. /s
(a) it is trademark law

(b) trademarks are namespaced, both by business and geography. As a quick example, different Otto pizza chains ran peacefully in NYC and in Portland, ME. There only was an issue when they both tried to expand to Boston at the same time.

(c) missing vowels has nothing to do with collisions. I cannot create a company called flicker that hosts photos. I also cannot create a social network called facbook. Present or missing vowels do not make a difference. Missing vowels started with getting a web address, then became a fad.
I had to dig several pages in to the "how it works" page until I saw that Sqreen is a gem and inferred that it is for Ruby applications and perhaps Rails only.

My recommendation is to put the use case on the front page...better yet in the "Web application protection platform" level description. An added benefit would be to reduce the amount of "what Sqreen is not". It would help people determine "not for me" more quickly and helping people is what your company is trying to do.

Good luck.
This is a great point. I forgot about this. People who have no background in programming can find it easier to follow along if you just tell them you're gonna have this multiple different black boxes that does a specific thing (different function/methods/classes)
Methinks your comment is misplaced.

But I did have a moment of joy at the Monty Python-esque comedy it brought on :)
In both Google and Microsoft's case this could be considered anti-competitive behaviour. Especially for Microsoft, who control the entire PC market.
> Complaining that Cortana uses Bing is like complaining that Google Now uses Google.

Is it? Apple's Siri lets you choose your search engine.
Setting aside specific platforms...

Platforms typically run one of a few way

Generation: When someone falls into a segment.
Impression: The actual act of serving.
Session: A block of continuous time that defines a user session.

You'll find it much easier on yourself if you are dealing with the same kinds of data when doing comparisons. Otherwise you'll have to do conversions of that data to get it to be roughly in sync.

An example of this is trying to tolerate a session based system, with a generation based one. They may only generate during the first session, and get recorded once, where they could actually have multiple sessions recorded over a given time box.

Once you've identified the above - does the data need to be real time? If so what are the write / read requirements?

Will you be getting bulk feeds for import? What are the import times, etc, Can certain reports only be ran after those processes execute?

Do you need a dashboard? Do you need Data Viz tools? Do you need very granular data as far back as you can go? Is summarizing that data OK after a span of time?

Do you feel you need to run the data collection internally, are 3rd party storage areas on the table?

is the data transaction based? What happens when you roll back the transaction - does the correct data get deleted?

Do you need to filter data based on internal vs external sources?

Answering a lot of those questions would help you identify your specific use cases, and let you make a buy/build decision.
Wait, was this series actually Atavast's work proper, or the work of someone using Atavast's platform? I'd assumed the latter, as Atavast seemed to only be a platform, not a journalistic endeavor itself.
Wait, 8,600 TON trains?!

How big are these things?

8600 tons of lead would be 680 cubic meters - so ten or so standard sized shipping containers.

Two locos, four cars... I still don't see how that fits.

Unless these are HUGE trains, or they're using exotic matter, I don't see how that's possible.
Where did we all go wrong? And why doesn't anyone remember?
But when you do a split-brain operation, a complete transection of the corpus callosum, you get clear evidence of two separate consciousnesses.

Is there any evidence supporting that claim?
It's a pretty big deal. When everything starts at urgent and gets worse from there, people will just rescale the noise to be more understandable. It's just like the joke about sitting down and assigning points to a task and finding out everything is 100 or all bugs are critical or all tasks are top priority.

The meta joke here is that is some ways every security issue is critical, but if everyone is immune to the fear then escalation will feel like the only choice. Either you slowly discharge that stress immunity by being sensibly mellow, or you start packing heat to 'convince' everyone to reboot NOW. (There's probably room for some amount of finesse between these two extremes.)

EDIT: There's two terrible responses that seem to come out of this. Either no one gives a damn, or no one gives a damn and just does whatever you say. The first is bad because nothing gets fixed, and the second is bad for `red_admiral's reasons (users treat anything that looks like a security rant as a EULA and just do whatever it says).
Bitpay tells Steam it was paid right away. Steam gives you access. Bitpay tells Steam when it get confirmed, and then pays out.

If it gets doublespent, they tell Steam that, and Steam simply revokes the sale, because it is digital and linked to the account.
Building a Brighter Future at Wild Fox Farm
World Bank Contract Awards (2013)
Because Apple doesn't make its own search engine.
And here's to hoping they are able to push for the same thing for getUserMedia and the device motion/accelerometer APIs as well!
> "Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish."

I think they put the wrong app name in there. Given that sentence, they are identical apps.
Thank you for your kindness.

As for your game-play issue, try off-setting your finger on the screen, away from the actual ship. That is to say, I made it so that you can actually have your finger anywhere on the screen to control the ship (i.e., you don't have to have your finger directly on the ship to control it). That will help you as you're trying to navigate through the asteroid field (and the other levels as well)!

Thanks again!
In the exact same way, you can change the app you use for searches on Windows to Google Now, even disable Cortana completely.
How would this even be possible unless company X replaced Google in which case company X knows all your secrets the same as Google does? There's a reason Google can remind you that your flight is in 3 hours; they parse your emails for that information. Another company would have to do that same thing.
Jenkins CCJPE Tutorial Video – Source Control Management :D
It depends on the venue. In computer science, it is often possible, but there are often weird restrictions: embargo delay, only the preprint, must include a link to the publisher version, only on a personal webpage or on certain kinds of repositories, copyright assignment has been signed as well, etc. So you don't always feel comfortable doing it.

Further, we academics are incentivized, in terms of career, to publish in prestigious venues managed by official publishers. We aren't incentivized to publish in open access repositories as well. So, even though most of us want our articles to be disseminated widely, not all of us can find the time to make sure that the paper is also available on an open repository. This is a factor that explains why many articles are not available for free online even in cases where it would be legal for researchers to upload them.
Does it? I don't think changing the search engine for Safari affects Siri, but I could be wrong. I don't see a setting for Siri.
I'm not a professional Python coder, so maybe I'm missing things, but I can't tell if this is really subtle sarcasm or not:

> What they did have was a frightening-looking hodge-podge of cucumber-esque feature tests. I say cucumber-esque because A) It wasn’t cucumber, and B) The feature files weren’t even Gherkin compliant. It was Lettuce. The scourge of Python software testers everywhere!

So they had tests, but they weren't the tests you like?

> What followed was probably the most stressful week of attacks and counter-defense I’ve ever encountered in my career for a few hundred line code change.

A "few hundred line code change"? Could this refactor been split-up over more, smaller changes perhaps? The last time I was forced to make a change of hundreds of lines, it took days to work-out the justification with all involved. You'll find the effort much more efficient if you are able to split up the code reviews.

I stopped there. I just can't tell if he's actually serious or not.
All their coverage of hft when nobody was talking about it
Yeah that comment jumped out at me as sketchy the second I saw that...

"15 years" in operations and isn't even aware of this basic fact.
Ocean currents – Visualized
The (un)funny thing is, most developers would love to have the time to make sure their code is secure and well tested. Very often they lack a voice to product stakeholders, to get the time off feature development, and make sure their software is up to date with patches.

> Practice active kindness. Go out of your way to do kind things for people, especially people who may not deserve it. If you wait for them to make the first move, you’ll be waiting a while — but extend a hand to someone who expects a kick in the teeth and watch as you gain a new friend. Smile.

I really like this quote. A security engineer and a developer teaming up together as colleagues, are more likely to being taken seriously by stakeholders. Both teams working together have a much better chance of being given the time needed to make sure their software is stable and secure.
Speculation like this is fun, but I think it's little more than intellectual masturbation until we crack fusion energy. Until we understand the energy economy with such technology, and the most efficient way to leverage it, we're not going to understand the most significant factors that we should be considering. And even then, we'll only be starting to get the slightest clue of how Type II and III civilisations might work.
HTML components
If Apple did, that wouldn't excuse them. If they can integrate other search engines now, they can still do so if they had their own.
If I was launching a $10 billion dollar satellite ULA's very impressive track record would make me strongly consider going with them. SpaceX's reliability going forward is probably going to be better than their reliability up to this point but there's essentially no way they won't lose a single satellite over their next 100 launches.

But these GPS satellites are only in the $100m dollar range according to the internet so it just doesn't make sense to pay an extra $50m to go from 97% reliability to 99.7%.
If you chose to make them irreversible - multisignature transactions with mutually trusted arbitrators behaves pretty much just like credit cards.
About "The Design of Everyday Things", there is also a course on Udacity based on the book: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-the-design-of-everyd...
This sounds like a job for Frida. Should be able to replace this pretty easily.

http://www.frida.re/
You don't really have to do that just setup something like sonarr. Select the shows you want the episodes are downloaded as released and you don't have to visit spammy sites etc. It will check and download all the correct files and rename them to a naming convention of your choice etc.
Setting up an app like that once is a lot easier than going through the hassle of drm or georestrictions.
Netflix used to boast that with them entering the market piracy went down but now with georestrictions they will go back up.
That's because helium hard drives are not yet commonplace.
Mine too!
eBooks and physical books are taxed differently in the UK, so the prices will be much closer together.
I'd never heard of the STAR answering format mention in the article. It looks really useful and I'll definitely give it go next time.

Does anyone have any real world experience using these kind of techniques?
>I think that the authors have no problem with authoritarianism

Like any conspiracy site, it's going to attract people who share a view of the world in which everything must be orchestrated, controlled - a reason for all things. Randomness has no place in the mind of a conspiracy theorist. The order provided by conspiracies comfort the conspiracy theorist: paradoxically making the world feel safer, more ordered while simultaneously believing that evil people have devoted their lives to ruining yours.

If you think about it, such a psychology is naturally authoritarian-leaning. Such a mind yearns for stability, order and control.