skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this data was apparently gathered by Survey Monkey Intelligence, which claims to be able to gather in-depth metrics about your competitors' apps, like weekly active users and session time.

How can Survey Monkey possibly know this information? Do they have an analogue of Alexa Toolbar spying on users to get data?
These are my main qualms with software these days: Logic went out of the window. Back in the days a good deal of software had great, albeit complex menus. The typical non-techy hated these interfaces because they didn't get results immediately and by not having an interest in technology most ruled out the idea of putting in some effort to learn the piece of software at hand. (no pain, no gain - duh!)

Next, companies "figured out" that usability is soo important and that it needs to get fixed because customers were having trouble. This was generally a wrong conclusion. Getting rid of complex menus doesn't necessarily increase usability. It irritates power users to no end and doesn't help casual users when they run into special cases. Heck, even the power users can't help the casual user anymore!

Every not completely trivial app(lication) should offer at least additionally a "complex" mode that offers a good old menu bar where deterministic, to some degree "atomic" functions (if you pardon the faulty analogy) are offered, grouped in a logically consistent way.
I think for that you'd probably need even more robust client authentication, like allowing clients to give you a CSR for their own CA, which can sign CSRs generated by each app installation and the chain can be traced from individual app, through the developer's CA, back to a trusted internal root certificate.

That lets developers maintain key confidentiality (devs keep their CA private keys) and maintain control over the app installations' access to signed certs (as well as cert lifetime).

Even if it's not a CA, OIDC has some brief words on signing JWT with a registered keypair, which gives a similar, though less robust, ability to keep the private key secret.

No matter what, any of these scenarios still involves figuring out a way to trust the installed app is authorized by the resource owner and the client developer to obtain a signed cert/token (thus shifting real financial liability onto them in OP's scenario). Which probably means requiring the end user to register for your service also, validating the user again rather than the app.

The fundamental fact remains that the human mind remains the only truly secret place, which is why passwords aren't going anywhere, and why DRM solutions have to rely on making it illegal to attempt to obtain the decryption key embedded in device, or making attempted recovery involve physical destruction of the key.
I've worked with 2 graduates from Dev Bootcamp who contributed a lot on the team. (~5-7 developers total) One of them came on as an intern (originally we weren't going to take him on, but we re-interviewed him. The second time around, he really prepared for the interview) and we converted him to fulltime. Another of our team members went to Dev Bootcamp later and recently landed a position as a backend dev.

Also worked with a HackReactor grad who did some good work on web and embedded stuff (which he learned on the job). One of the common traits of these bootcamp grads is that they were willing to build stuff and took time to learn (ask a lot of questions).

I think DBC also has hiring coaches and a good community for career help. Also, I think DBC alums often go back and mentor new developers in the program, which is nice.
I expressly disavowed family support for all Apple devices about 4 years ago. If my spouse has a problem with the iPhone, it goes straight to the Apple store without landing in my lap first. I'd rather be in the doghouse than use iTunes.

Tough love, people. Time to stop enabling.
Why can't two consenting adults enter into a contract with one another? I suspect the governments issue with prostitution has something to do with taxes.

If you film it... changes everything.
BASIC:

an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

Yep, I'd say that checks out.
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Migrating a Blogger site to HTTPS? Find https mixed content issues here
Well if you really want to talk to "state-of-the-art" the closest would be the principle of "12-factor application." So basically everything goes through stdout and stderr, and the dameon running the server (like monit or supervisord) just captures them and redirect to a stdout file and a stderr file.

Not hard, just so many people including myself is used to writing logger....
Well they did say the vitamin is present in milk; I doubt the dairy industry paid for this.
Sex work has nothing to do with children. At all. Birth control, IUDs, condoms, and abortions are all used to prevent births.

Now, if you're talking about paid surrogacy, that's a whole different area, and a whole different set of laws.
It's easy to die, though.
I was trying to guess what it would be as I clicked... I figured it would be drinking tea, but the other candidates were:

- Unspoken but rigidly-followed rules of decorum

- Comedy that's mostly about someone breaking said unspoken rules of decorum as the people around him sit stone-faced

- Eating boring food

- Extremely good rock and roll

- Classism
The majority of the abolitionists seem to be approaching the issue in an entirely one-sided manner: prostitution is male customers and female prostitutes. It completely ignores that women can desire purely sexual encounters (which Tinder and Chippendales are big examples of evidence against) or that sex can be a moral and healthy experience for both parties even if money is involved.

> "They’re sexual objects. What does that mean for how professional women are seen? And if women are sex toys you can buy, think about the impact on relationships between men and women, in marriage or otherwise."

They're really showing their hand here. First, they want you to believe that all women are accountable for all other women. They see every sexual depiction of a woman to be representative of all women, which to me is the real objectification of the gender.

Second, as it relates to "relationships between men and women", they want to exert control over personal relationships, which is just ludicrous. Do they honestly think men only have monogamous relationships for the sex?
Finger-Aware Shortcuts: Trigger commands with the same key and different fingers
This clears things out:

>On your original Mac, Apple Music will never delete songs without your knowledge. Your original library is scanned into iCloud, but your songs are yours, and Apple will not automatically delete them, or replace them with its own proprietary copies.

http://www.imore.com/no-apple-music-not-deleting-tracks-your...
Yes, there are a number of QBasic reimplementations and compatible languages. FreeBASIC is one that aims to be a (compatible) successor rather than just a reimplementation. I can't remember what the others are...
Show HN: A Turing Machine Simulator in SML
Almost all prostitution customers are (straight and gay) men. Women only go to prostitutes for very niche reasons. For example if they want something that requires special skills - after all, the "basic package" is easily and freely available in a much less socially stigmatized way. There's also work for male prostitutes servicing older wives whose husbands travel too much. But all of this is really niche. Women tend to want less partner variation. Single women with high sex drives just take someone home from the local nightlife.

There's no question that almost all prostitution customers are men.
I agree that the money should probably be refunded, but can you really say someone "wants to study" when they enroll in a university they know will hold no classes?
I don't think there would be any real repercussions. But this close to the end, it seems foolish to bet the last six years of my life on a mildly amusing act of civil disobedience.

While I have complete faith in my department not being staffed with idiots and zealots, I have no similar faith in our government. Being a state school, that's ultimately who we answer to. The whole Aaron Schwartz debacle evaporated any faith I might have had in our government's ability to deal with this sort of thing like grownups.
I could contend that the shortage of engineers qualified for that job is due to scarcity created by the US immigration policies. And then I'll ask you if you can't have your super high salary without exploiting the current system, your salary shouldn't exist.

Again, I'm not saying what they are doing is right or ethical or desirable. Just challenging the different point of views.
You can state that quicksort has run time O(n^2). The function you're describing with O(n^2) is f : S -> R, where S is the set of input values and R is the set of real numbers, and f(x) is the running time of running quicksort on input value x, and n : S -> N is the size of input value x. The notation O(g(n)) describes the function f in terms of the function n.

That f is in O(g(n)) means there exist constants C and N_0 such that for all x in S, provided that n(x) >= N_0, it is true that |f(x)| <= |C g(n(x))|.

And that f is in Omega(g(n)) means there exist C > 0 and N_0 such that for all x in S, provided that n(x) >= N_0, it is true that |f(x)| >= |C g(n(x))|.
> What makes sexual labor so horrid?

Religion, especially Christendom and it's various strains. Before that in many cultures, sex was seen a something positive, a pleasure in which you should indulge in.

You can see it on TV. Take DareDevils TVSeries, but I'm sure you'll find many examples, there are countless raw violence scenes for free, but 3 seasons in and DareDevil hasn't been with a woman with the exception of a kiss. It's okay to display violence, no one will argue, but displaying explicit sex scenes... Well that's a no-no :-)

We have more than a few remnants from the dark ages.

EDIT: There's this amazing song by an Italian cantautor called "Fabrizio De Andre". The story (lyrics) are spectacular, full of everyday life wisdom. You can read an English translation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysydBLMSbRs
Much of the charm of Periscope is the ability to watch different people doing and saying random stuff.

I haven't yet watched a Facebook live video. Possibly this is because none of my Facebook "friends" has ever made a live video, or perhaps I don't sit on my Facebook news feed enough to notice if one of them did. Periscope, by contrast, shows you live videos on its default screen, and _nothing else_.

A lot of Periscope content is very disposable. The value lies in the live-ness of the videos. Replays can be interesting, but they are secondary. Live video is more "real", because it can't be edited or faked (at least not very easily, and it's impossible to fake live responses to viewers' comments).

If I could choose just one improvement to make to Periscope, it would be to give the user some control over the parameters of the algorithm that determines visibility of new videos on the main list, for example to give priority to specified hashtags. The current algorithm, whatever it is, tends to favour youth over age, probably as a function of the normal human reaction to physical attractiveness (many viewers will continue to watch a new video simply because they like looking at the broadcaster's face, and this will affect the algorithm's decision to highlight that video in the main list for other users of the app).
>The simple fact is, it does not harm any adult who voluntarily engages in such activity and therefore has no reason to be illegal.

This is not accurate. There are many adults who voluntarily engage in prostitution and are harmed. They are assaulted, robbed, raped and have little legal recourse. The fact that sex workers are harmed regularly is precisely why it should be legal.
Client certs are still a bit of a pain. There is already an IETF spec in the works, called Token Binding, on how to bind tokens to key pairs that clients maintain, and create on demand.

https://github.com/TokenBinding/Internet-Drafts

http://www.browserauth.net/home

It's already implemented in Chrome.
Apple Now Selling Accessibility Accessories to Help Those with Disabilities
Or victorianism !
Austin Influencers on why they are voting FOR Prop 1
> "Climate change is a fact. The causes are just theories based on computer models."

That's not what you said in your now flagged statement. You specifically said "Climate change is a theory." Your statements are just not consistent. 97% climate scientists agree that climate warming in the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. Numerous conferences have similar conclusions of that. There is even a Wikipedia page for that.

> "To say that it's a fact and needs no further study is not only anti-intellectual, it’s criminal."

I never said no more further study. Do not put your words in me. I specifically said bring your own data, your own evidence, your experiments. Where is your data???

> "I worked in academia for over a decade."

So where is the data? Maybe you're just lazy with a crazy theory.

> "Thw entire system needs to be scrapped and started over."

Hahahahaha, good luck with that. Just like a 5 yo crying for the system not fair. It's just another inconsistent statement. First you said you're in academia, which is part the whole system, right? Then you said the entire system need to be scrapped, that includes you. You're still part of that system even you're a system-reject. You're simply anti-social.
I used one of those microwaves once. Best interface ever, and so much simpler than the high-tech beepy button matrix! Do microwave manufacturers just not realize that they're making their products worse by complicating them? I don't get it.
It downloads a regular Rust nightly build these days. It depends on the specific nightly date (because we use compiler plugins that link to unstable rustc internals), but at least we no longer have to build our own Servo-specific snapshots.
Calling in “SICK” to a job you don't have. (Prank Call)
The thing that concerns me is, there are all these companies now trying to build self-driving cars, but how much information sharing is there?

I would rather see one huge open-source project, that all these companies contribute to. I think we would get self-driving cars a lot sooner if everyone worked together, not separately.
Queuing, bad teeth are missing too I suppose.
It seems to be like people are being forced into STEM out of economic desperation lately, but the sentiment seems more like "how do we force more people into STEM".
I think regulation might be worse. With regulation comes licensing / certifications which of course costs money that most prostitutes don't have. Basically, it'll create a new legal class of pimps.
> - Eating boring food

Hey, don't you diss fish and chips! It's awesome.
Baptists and bootleggers.
> those who spend the most time judging a sites performance on its analytics are usually the ones who actually use the site the least

It's a weird part of human tribal/social dynamics. People who already generally like a thing are open-minded to new information that presents the thing in a positive light, and just generally ignore new information that presents the thing in a negative light. Likewise, people who already generally dislike a thing filter out the prosthelytizations of people who like the thing, but pay attention when they notice reasons to dislike the thing.

Basically, our brains' belief-evaluation machinery is really just a wrapper around a core "generate excuses to keep thinking what I'm thinking" algorithm.

We can exploit this—adversarial justice systems work much better than non-adversarial ones, because you've got two sides who each have paid attention to half the evidence, brought together in the same room to present it all. But if we aren't exploiting it, aren't even aware of it, it can become a real problem.
Who would request that?!? Oh, right.
Statistics on the effect/results would be most interesting.
What's compiling? - Python Dev
I've argued in the past that making prostitution illegal fuels human trafficking because it finances criminal enterprises by incentivizing the exploitation and enslavement women who have little protection from the law.

Personally speaking, I think it's a misogynistic policy that creates untold tragedy for exploited women everywhere.
Yes, they is!
Why You Can't Trust Yourself
The windows firewall is also tied into pretty much everything in the system, disabling that service messes with lots of stuff, like installing fonts:

http://superuser.com/questions/957907/unable-to-install-font...
Spark and Java – Yes, They Work Together
Are you saying the "code generation layer" of the CLR isn't itself written in c++?

All of this stuff trickles down without a doubt. I realize it isn't going to magically optimize the bytecode, however, the thing that runs the bytecode will be faster.
Well when those who have influence to block new higher density housing to be built inside of city limits and lower prices what other expected outcome could there be?

It is obvious there are some out there who would live in the city provided they could find a place they felt was worth the cost, provided the safety they require, and access to amenities they desire. However many cities have rule after rule to prevent such from being built or load on requires that blow the cost out by requiring specific number of low cost units forcing all other units up in price.
New Zealand actually decriminalized prostitution. Legalization is an entirely different system.
It's also relevant that rust can use multiple direct/indirect dependencies of different versions, due to the way that symbols are exported.
The Tragic Irony of Jane Jacobs's Greenwich Village
If it is going to be a crime, let the John or Jane be the penalized, i.e. the service user rather than the service provider, because, in the majority of cases, this industry is enabled by exploitation of the people in a weak economic state.

See France.
Fortran is still numero uno when it comes to finite element analysis and high performance computing industries: not only does the Formula TRanslator language lend itself particularly well to expressing physics and mathematical equations needed for doing finite element analysis, but intel and PGI ship ultramodern Fortran compilers which generate very fast machine code, faster than even optimizing C compilers. intel ships their Fortran compiler with support and optimizations for their latest processor features and instruction sets (for instance, AVX), and PGI pioneered a Fortran compiler which can compile Fortran directly into NVidia GPU code.
How dare you challenge an armchair city planner!
The whole point of the experiment is "how does this machinery operate?" not "does this machinery produce the same answers as I would expect?" There's a huge difference. Just because you reason through things one way and get one set of answers as a result doesn't mean that's how everyone should operate. Different priors can (and probably should) yield different results.

Different priors probably mean entirely different lines of reasoning, so you can't even say "well they should have thought about it the way I do" because it's not like the human brain is a single 10x10 neural net with no feedback, it's probably 1Mx1M and it is recurrent; the output from one time step feeds into the input at the next one.

You could get very, very different output for the same input from two neural nets that have been trained on different data. But that doesn't somehow make them not both neural nets; the meta-structure is the same even though all the weights from node to node are different.
I strongly believe that making prostitution illegal only creates problem by driving prostitution underground and favoring human traffic and abuse.

An open society should make prostitution legal but also regulate it, institute regular health checks for the workers, find a way to ensure that there are legal ways for both prostitutes and clients to do the transaction in a safe environment and be tough on any abuse that happens outside of the law.

Some countries like Sweden have started penalizing customers but that, while the government claim that it's been efficient and shows that there are less streetwalkers nowadays in Sweden, the opposition claims otherwise by saying that prostitution just moved to online venues and that there's been an increase in sexual tourism by Swedish Nationals.
> Birth control, IUDs, condoms, and abortions are all used to prevent births.

Sure used, but easily avoided, and it would be a social and political nightmare to deal with this as a society.
I'm Black and I do not carry hot-sauce around
> My interest is low, but that's normal in 2016. .5% to .9%

Normal in the EU and other place unfortunately. Oz is still at 3.5% in saving accounts.
As long as you need to be a citizen , I'm concerned about human trafficking.
This is going to read like super ultra inside baseball for most people on HN, but I can sum it up quickly for you:

Every year, Verizon publishes a report, called the DBIR, that aggregates the preceding years security incident data. It's a marketing thing for Verizon, which has a large security consultancy, but it has also become pretty important to Fortune 500 security teams. People make budgeting decisions based on it.

This year, Verizon teamed up with a company called Kenna to add an additional section about vulnerability prevalence. The section is supposed to tell Fortune 500 security teams which vulnerabilities were most likely to have been exploited last year.

Kenna's analysis is gravely flawed. You don't really even need to know the details to see that it is. That's because the "top 10" vulnerabilities they produced, ranked by "successful exploitations", included the TLS FREAK vulnerability.

FREAK is an important TLS research finding with public policy implications, but it is not important to enterprise security teams, because it is unlikely that it has ever been exploited on the public Internet. It's a MITM attack whose payoff is a reduced-strength RSA factoring problem that costs $75-100 per session to complete. Were Kenna's data accurate, it would impute to attackers over $330,000,000 in factoring CPU time costs. A more likely figure for the amount spent by attackers to solve RSA problems to capture the contents of individual TLS sessions after MITMing them is $0.

Remember that whatever your thoughts on FREAK's real-world applicability, the DBIR report claims FREAK is in the top ten of all exploited vulnerabilities on the Internet.

So the fascinating thing about this is that you have this super important result where it's clear that nobody who understands a key topic it reports on could possibly have checked the result.
In the year 2000 or so I got an old C64. That's what got me into computers. It was a lot of fun. I wish I still had it.
So would a sort of decentralized DNS be possible?
AFAIK Obnam doesn't use rolling hash for deduplication, but uses rather simple chunking method. As such, the space saving from Obnam deduplication is much worse than tarsnap and zbackup.
Make sex abundant by changing culture.

One proposal in Russian feminism movement in the beginning of XX century was "glass of water theory" (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Теория_стакана_воды , sadly there is no good English source) that stated that providing sex must be as easy as providing a glass of water to somebody who asks for one, and concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating (which were viewed as related to interpretation of marriage as a sort of slavery) must be deprecated for this.

Other interesting proposal made by Eliezer Yudkowsky in the "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape.