skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well to this I say 90% is way different than 99.99 when your life is on the line.

Also you'd feel less bad about making a car slow down if you assumed the occupants weren't paying attention and you're just annoying a machine, no?
Yes, I am too amazed by the consumerist culture that manufactures sense of need that we imagine we are fullfulling the higher levels of maslowian pyramid but instead are just responding to a conditioning.

If I had a timemachine I would take Mr. Maslow, take him to our time, and say: "You had a fantastic room. But behold! We've succeeded in turning the entire planet into a conditioning chamber with 'the internet' and the Facebook. Dogs? We use humans as our subjects. How many? Well, now we are in the low billions but eventually we will have them all.
(You have a great username for making this comment, haha.)

You make a very good point that the current ideal of "employment" is relatively new. Interestingly, history may be repeating itself. Freelancers who specialize in one field or sub-field occupy a similar niche to craftsmen from earlier centuries. For example in colonial New England, it was common for people to specialize in one craft (blacksmithing, cobbling, etc) and train younger generations through apprenticeships. Nobody called this "entrepreneurship" or "freelancing," but that's effectively what it was. Small businesses and enterprising individuals traded their labor to the local market in exchange for currency.

Human beings and societies can adapt to market changes much faster than regulation or measurement can catch up to them. Hopefully the US government begins to realize the efficacy and prevalence of these "alternative work arrangements" (I'm also not a fan of the term), and implements policies that consider them. Some things I'd like to see:

1) Better tax treatment (freelancers who setup an S-Corp may end up paying more tax than if they were an employee, since they need to pay corporate income tax, personal income tax, and in some cases payroll tax)

2) Better / more nuanced measurement of "unemployment" in the country. It's an open secret that the unemployment models are a complete joke for a number of reasons. One is that they do not accurately consider contractors, and another is that they consider someone who has "given up" on looking for a job to be "employed." The models are designed to make politicians look good, which is fine... except when the market starts moving based on the models. That is bad.

3) NOT funneling contractors into employment arrangements. There are many advantages to being a contractor (flexible hours being the major one), and if government regulation forces companies like Uber to treat their contractors as employees, these advantages will rapidly disappear.

4) Better treatment of 1099 workers / freelancers / small business owners when applying for loans or mortgages. Banks are generally very unwilling to lend money to a "freelancer" and often want to see more years of history than they would require from a salaried employee. This seems like laziness on the part of the banks, who are unwilling to develop risk models for freelancers.

5) More willingness from employers, government or otherwise, to consider ex-freelancers viable job candidates. Many firms will throw out resumes from freelancers under the assumption that they are a "bad employee" (too independent, can't follow instructions) or the freelancing was an exaggerated description of unemployment.

There's lots of problems with how this class of workers is treated, and addressing some of the above will hopefully go a long way toward welcoming them into society.
Library is a also a good choice for working.
Probably from his payment service? If the sole use of Bitcoin is buying illegal goods on the "dark Web" I think we can say that the various currencies of the world are not facing a serious threat.
Thanks :) This has been a really fun hobby :D
So, does every website need to build their own Javascript MSE player?

Why isn't this built into the browser?
There never was any safe return anywhere. It was all an illusion. Even US government bonds carry some risk once you account for black swan events across a sufficiently long period of time.
I used a Chromebook as my only laptop for my last 2 years at UC Berkeley. I did all my note-taking in Google's Docs stuff. For my CS course work, I used the excellent Chrome SSH app [1] to remote into department machines. Chrome SSH is so good that I now use it on all my Windows machines instead of PuTTY!

The only thing I couldn't use my Chromebook for was for design-related activities -- running Illustrator or Photoshop to make posters or t-shirts and the like. I ended up setting up Guacamole [2] on my home network, so I could remote to my desktop windows box to use Illustrator on-the-go.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
[2] http://guac-dev.org/
Jenkins 2.0 has been released (well last Wednesday)
Shove it in your .bashrc, or equivalent for your shell of choice.
No, I mean it's a much better method. I can start when I want (not Monday morning, 8 am), I can make a break when I want (if just to google something that I didn't understand), I can repeat stuff that I didn't understand at first, and I can continue with homework directly after the lecture (I don't have to switch rooms and thereby mental context).
You're not going to get Hollywood to publish online without EME.

This is the discussion about whether you want Hollywood movies to exist online or not, and they're perfectly happy to go without online streaming.
pls go ahead and read the first response:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117467/how-to-perman...
Required reading: http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff ("the on-board shuttle group produces grown-up software, and the way they do it is by being grown-ups.")
At first I think "wow, what a price for those jeans!"
Then I watch the documentary 'China blue', and then I think "wow, what a price for those jeans".
That's what ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or (whatever it is for your shell) is for.
From the same person:

- The unix chainsaw, how to use tiny tools[1] as lever upon themselves. No absurd wit as in wat. Simply brilliant.
https://youtu.be/sCZJblyT_XM

- Also listed above the wat page, https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks: boundaries, a whole new world. More abstract wishful thinking. Still brilliant.
Totally agree. I don't feel too comfortable bout google knowing everything about me... Should be opt in.
The code-driven art
If you look at the bottom of my blog you'll see that the captions and jokes are referencing http://funroll-loops.info/

I even took some of my favorites from there and modified them to reference Tesla, and that's what the captions are.
Google must have eventually hired him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102
Couldn't you just put it in your .bashrc?
Put it in ~/.profile ?
Not that your complaint is invalid, but it's pretty depressing that the top voted comment is what amounts to a style criticism of an blatant misuse of government power.
I was INCREDIBLY excited to be able to literally become the stereotype!
Shameless plug: I've implemented something similar in the past, but with the addition of client-side encryption. I've been using it for some time without problems.

At a first glance at the design docs here, the present project looks more sophisticated in terms of syncing. I'm just using local file operations and hoping for dropbox to do its stuff :)

https://github.com/lucas-clemente/git-cr
One advantage of a graph database implementation over a traditional wiki implementation is in regard to querying along edges as opposed to following links. Which is to say that the edges of a graph database will tend to have richer semantics than a wiki's generic hyperlinks [but it is not to say that a graph database is necessarily better].

To put it another way, at best a link from a wiki page gets implied importance based on it's position within a document. A graph database edge can have many properties including "weight" or "relevance". Of course these could be added to wiki markup as properties, but there is a point at which the right tool is better than layered make-do's.
ChromeOS originally was built upon Ubuntu, but Gentoo made more sense when starting to build for a rather diverse set of hardware, various flavours of ARM etc.
That's... the point.
If you understand how git works, you don't need a tool to do this, and especially not a python tool. Don't misunderstand me, I love no language more than Python. But putting a directory under Dropbox supervision is the easiest thing you can do. That doesn't change because it's name is ".git/".
After looking into this the only thing I can find is a reference to 4,000 mile capacity[0], way less than a TDI service interval. Maybe they mistuned it just so customers wouldn't have to pour a bottle of stuff into the tank, which would have been an awful idea. Or maybe the catalyst they used isn't sufficient to meet US NOx standards with the optimum fuel-air ratio, I guess we will have to wait and see.

[0]https://www3.epa.gov/otaq/documents/nonroad/420f14017.pdf
I remember some old document or preseident saying saying something about a "government for the people, by the people".

I suspect Google, Microsoft and most businesses involving the Internet and Money at the same time care. They probably want to know about flaws so they don't wind up losing their pants like the Bangladesh bank did recently.

There is huge money and real lives on the line here, this is not about appeasing message board hackers. Imagine if some big hack was learned to be known about in a 0-day the FBI withheld? I am fairly certain it was Target's mismanagement, but imagine if the a document was leaked and it showed the government knew about a 0-day that allowed the Target hack. That is small compared to what might actually happened when talking about browser or OS attack surface.
I agree that ShapeShift's account has holes in it and the CEO seemed a little too willing to take Rovion at his word, but this rebuttal swings too far in the other direction. Some comments:

> Red Flag #1. Bob is somehow able to connect with a hacker who has been hiding in their systems for some time.

Actually, in the original article Rovion says "We contacted Bob." Which makes total sense -- if Rovion eg. had access to the email account of a ShapeShift employee, he would have seen the drama with Bob unfold and been able to contact him easily.

> Red Flag #2. Rovion identifies Bob by his real life name "Bob," without a moment of hesitation.
> Why on earth would Bob run a criminal business under his real name?

If Rovion had access to some internal communications at ShapeShift, he would of course have "Bob"'s real name and no reason not to use it.

> Red Flag #3. Bob chooses to sell his backdoor access to Rovion instead of using it himself.
> Red Flag #4. Bob demands only 50 BTC for a backdoor.

There's a lot more risk in stealing something yourself vs just providing information that can be used for theft. Letting someone else do the dirty work could definitely be a rational decision. And anyway, the hot wallet at no point after the original hack had 315BTC again, so the expected value of the second/third hacks were a lot lower.

> Red Flag #6. Rovion is a moralistic individual who not only is a thief himself, but wants to see Bob, another thief from whom Rovion supposedly obtained credentials, severely punished

It's not surprising to me that someone could adopt a moral framework that let them steal from poorly-secured foreign companies while still considering it wrong to steal from your own employer.

> Orange Flag #9. Voorhees talks derisively about Bob's competence during the period of time when Bob was employed prior to the hack.

Many countries, possibly including Switzerland, do have a very high standard you have to meet to fire someone with cause. This process could be especially delicate if Bob is of an ethnic or racial minority.
While it is very reassuring that the car is able, the speedpoint chosen by Tesla – 50kmph — is not. I'd rather a car not be remote-controllable at anything more than a slow crawl, and 50kmph is quite capable of making such a heavy car dangerous.
haha, no... I haven't tried it in pure Node, I'm using Babel for transpiling.
Engineer Your Content for Acquisition: Our Framework for “Growth Content”
Does anybody known whether they disclosed how sensitive was the information that they the intruder could have gotten hold of -- especially the passwords, were they stored XOR'd or encrypted+salted?
Coding Interview Problem: Least Disruptive Subrange [video]
is it formulae or formula?
Personally, I prefer the style which the GNU Coding Standards describe:

----

Programmers tend to carry over the structure of the program as the
structure for its documentation. But this structure is not necessarily
good for explaining how to use the program; it may be irrelevant and
confusing for a user.

Instead, the right way to structure documentation is according to the
concepts and questions that a user will have in mind when reading it.
This principle applies at every level, from the lowest (ordering
sentences in a paragraph) to the highest (ordering of chapter topics
within the manual). Sometimes this structure of ideas matches the
structure of the implementation of the software being documented--but
often they are different. An important part of learning to write good
documentation is to learn to notice when you have unthinkingly
structured the documentation like the implementation, stop yourself,
and look for better alternatives.

[…]

In general, a GNU manual should serve both as tutorial and reference.
It should be set up for convenient access to each topic through Info,
and for reading straight through (appendixes aside). A GNU manual
should give a good introduction to a beginner reading through from the
start, and should also provide all the details that hackers want. […]

That is not as hard as it first sounds. Arrange each chapter as a
logical breakdown of its topic, but order the sections, and write their
text, so that reading the chapter straight through makes sense. Do
likewise when structuring the book into chapters, and when structuring a
section into paragraphs. The watchword is, at each point, address the
most fundamental and important issue raised by the preceding text.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manual...
In fairness, this is a guest post by Structr describing the ideas underlying their knowledge graph:

https://support.structr.com/knowledge-graph
Think about how much luckier we are that air is transparent!
The third option seems clearly the best. Too bad there's little appetite for the distribution of drugs by the state. Either illegality or commercialization seems to be the American way :(.
Except it's easier to just use uBlock Origin for everything. The grid approach is far more intuitive than the text list you get with NoScript (IMO).
Housing is one of the preferred assets for the US government placing the money it creates. It's this way here at Brazil too.

The cheap money policies are the entire cause of the recent housing price explosion in a big part of the world.
I took $20k in loans out as well for living, ended up using about $15k of that per year and paying the rest back. I had a cheap apartment shared with others, it was enough to live a very fun life for three years.
Finally something interesting I read here on HN from a girl in IT. She's the one other girls should be proud of and looking at as a role model, not the feminists.
IoT revenues up 15%; cloud computing a big driver
Ah, the infamous Goodyear Balloon Simulation mistake:

http://www.gkstill.com/CV/PhD/Chapter4.html

I go two ways on that one. As you point out, on the one hand it is hard to beat Mother Earth when it comes to massive climate impacts, up to and including two eras where the world was a complete snowball, and multiple wipe out of anything bigger than a rodent by asteroids. On the other, the Russians got up to 50Megatons before the test ban treaty kicked in - and while you may wish to argue that a few of those flying around wouldn't be the end of the world - I on the other hand would wonder what would happen if some evil bastard targeted the north pole/greenland with them, thereby changing the albedo of the entire planet. (Yes, I know you couldn't melt the entire glacier, but dump enough soot on it, and I wouldn't want to predict the short term consequences.)

I agree the Gulf War thing was entertaining for anybody paying attention. It is more than a little irritating that in so many areas of science, there's no follow-up on prophecies like that. Some kind of this day last year, X predicted Y, which didn't happen would make a fun end of the news item.
Yet another reason to ditch the antiquated Homebrew, and switch to the cross platform Nix:

http://nixos.org/nix

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

https://blog.errright.com/switching-from-homebrew-to-nix/
> You still have permanently increased insulin resistance and you must stay on your exercise and diet to prevent it getting worse.

Dr. Taylor's research, along with other research currently being done, is demonstrating that insulin resistance is not permanent as was once believed. The problem is, as ollysb noted below, getting people to make the lifestyle changes necessary and stick to them. Most people are not willing and able to make the changes required to keep the disease from progressing, let alone increase their insulin sensitivity again.
It is but not by much. They actually provide the $/GB for a Seagate 8TB Archival SMR hdd in their SMR section. It comes to .034 $/GB vs .036 $/GB for the 4TB drives they're currently using. They've done the math it looks like and decided that the small gain doesn't make up for the time lost on overwrites.
What happens when 200+ developers get to hack on one code base at a conference
Tech's favorite policy, universal basic income, is about to get its First big test
BYOT: Bring your own team
Limits of technical podcasting
How many U.S. homes will add smart tech over the next year?
In both models, there's an unobserved state that changes over time according to relatively simple rules, and you get indirect information about that state every so often.

In Kalman filters, you assume the unobserved state is Gaussian-ish and it moves continuously according to linear-ish dynamics (depending on which flavor of Kalman filter is being used).

In HMMs, you assume the hidden state is one of a few classes, and the movement among these states uses a discrete Markov chain.

In my experience, the algorithms are often pretty different for these two cases, but the underlying idea is very similar.
How to pass docker.sock to your containers while keeping security
This should be handled like we handle replacing the breaks in your car if you do it yourself.
I use SpamAssassin and a whitelist generated from my contacts. If I had a .eu in my contacts list, that mail would make its way to my inbox, but till now I've only received sneaky spam from it.
It's all about the users man. It doesn't matter if you're profitable, as long as the number of users is growing! It's all about revenue growth! You can always hack the expenses later. Profit is so 90's.
Would be somehow more ethical if they set up their own piwik instance to collect the same data?
"Only by the ignorant who couldn't define freedom to begin with."

Yeah, no. Having an unelected, compulsory board governing the area is not freedom.

"HOAs are nothing more than this, and everyone who lives in an HOA chose to be subject to the terms of the contract."

Often times not, as one cannot buy houses in an area without being a member of the HOA. Further, there's the whole "no voting on people running the HOA" thing.

"To claim you have less freedom under an HOA (something you voluntarily choose) than you would under a local government (something forced upon you) is ridiculous."

I get to vote on members of my local government. I don't get to vote on members of the HOA.
Why I Use Tape Instead of Mocha and So Should You (2015)
Of course it is the Vendor's responsibility. But if the NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service or any other government group gets in the way how much of the blame goes where when the shit hits the fan?

Most vendors will patch if they know about issues. Who is at fault when a hack happens and the the US government could have prevented it by divulging.
The "blockchain" is almost certainly a funding buzzword there.
America can do lots of things. Doesn't mean it will.
The prison-industrial complex will not allow falling incarceration rates to eat into its profits - too many executive bonuses depend just the opposite. And not just private prisons - there bloated police budgets and military gear that will otherwise - gasp - go to waste.

And don't get me started on the DA's who must always appear "tough on crime" to get re-elected by an ever-fearful populace that is convinced that various boogeymen are planning its demise 24/7/365.

But ultimately, it's about money. Always has been. And this country values profits above all else. And if a few more thousand innocent people need to get imprisoned and have their lives destroyed - well, that's a price that we, as a society, are willing to pay.

As long as WASP-y suburban white America doesn't feel the pinch. As soon as some unannounced no-knock raid by a SWAT team decked out like it's Fallujah circa '05 busts in and shoots up a bunch of 18-year-old "all-American" kids, prom queens and cheer-leaders and judges' daughters and sons and all. Then and only then will you see a real outcry.
My friend who lives in Manila says $1,000/month for call center manager, $2,000/month for programmer, $3,000/month for eng. manager. Any of those people can afford to buy an iPhone, car and house in a few years, and they use Uber and ecommerce like a digital native.
The art of Atari
The web's talents...
The Mathematician’s 90th-Birthday Party
Sparsely populated with beautiful yellow rectangles.
"[...] we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us [...]"

Isn't this a false dichotomy? Why can't other measures be used that don't require "resources" to do "detailed user studies" yet don't require on-by-default information capturing? Surely there are many open source projects that persist to make their users happy without this information, correct?
That's a narrow comment about a specific dataset, and is supported by evidence.
Or you could just say HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 and be done with it.
Working Backwards
The same is true of any locks you have on your home
I guess it's like if you replace the breaks yourself.
Really inspiring work. I have always loved working on cars, and the potential to marry that with my profession is exciting.

I'm really looking forward a future where I have ownership and control over my cars operating system to the same degree that I own the engine in my camaro.

Also, I apologize for automatically defaulting to you being a he-dude and not a she-dude.

Which is exactly equal in impressiveness.
With the paradox of choice, this many products often make us less satisfied and more unhappy.

https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_c...
What is the mechanism in which Homebrew inserts itself into every shell session anyway? I had expected it to be loaded somewhere in some shell initialization script, such as .bashrc or .bash_profile, but I couldn't find anything.
Just because you personally disagree with something the government is doing doesn't mean they aren't doing it "for the people". You have to compose a real argument.
That's the next major milestone for the docs. We've discussed it, but didn't want to delay the v2 release for it. We're planning on implementing a user showcase in addition to just a few core demos. We'd love your help if you're able to contribute!