skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time, my basic experience with databases had been for normal developer CRUD type operations. I was just getting into BI analytics and stuff. MySql was kind of the defacto choice for a "free" database and it was kind of thrown at me. I didn't mind since I had used it for years and was familiar with setting it up. But no, assuming the thing with "SQL" in its name didn't actually support SQL was not on my checklist sadly.
My after-default rate with LC for >1,000 loans is 6.7%. After default.
Your link is grey for me, so I've seen it before. If it's been on HN you must have seen more than 3.5 downloads, what are your actual counts?
Stand up against whom?
Honestly, this was the best place for this to happen. Better it tip onto the floor than something fail on lift-off or while in orbit. A sat in the garage is worth 1/4 of one in orbit.
More things about Ansible vault that are a shame:

- no file encryption, only YML

- no separate values, only entire file

- OMG it's s...l...o...w...

- password based instead of certs

- only one password

- password cannot even stored in an env var

More: http://jpmens.net/2014/02/22/my-thoughts-on-ansible-s-vault/
hi, I'm one of the mcsema authors and the original author who was responsible for mcsema using the LLVM instruction decoder and it was a mistake. if I had a choice between going back in time and assassinating Hitler, or convincing myself to use XED instead of mcinst...
Just read the comments that show up (hopefully) below.
"We've put our automated checklist for site deployment on the internal mediawiki page at https://site.goes.here , problem is that Bob was trying to rack the 85 pound, 4U server containing the hypervisor that runs the wiki instance, and he dropped it on the floor from a 6' height"
This is really interesting, but I'd want autonomous cars to be better than humans at driving, not to emulate them.
They are looking at it from the point of view of giving the normal man a personal assistant like the millionaires. But a normal person has to optimize how they use their money. They can't abstract away purchase decisions because they are a combination of financial and personal. I may need a hotel but I don't necessarily want the best one (ex. the most expensive) or the cheapest (ex. the grungy one). I usually research where in the city I want to spend time and find a hotel within my budget.
>Your eyes adapt, though.

Not to the point where one would feel as safe on the right as they do to the left.

>the right is more consistent overall

That's because of the fixtures--there's a reason they are causing lens flares while the left side isn't.
Agree, also check out credstash[0], a very good and secure solution if you are running on AWS. Credstash is an small utility that encrypt with KMS and store the ciphertext of the datakey and secret on Dynamodb.

I configure my application roles to be able to decrypt with the master key and I restrict what ciphertext they can read from Dynamodb.

[0] https://github.com/fugue/credstash
Portrait mode :-/
Yes.

Illegal is somewhat subjective.

Wrong is entirely subjective.
“The Code Lumberjacks” – a simple analogy about how effective programmers think
The article says a few lines down, "The optimization #1 appears to give huge benefit on big Intel servers as well, while optimization #2 is Power-specific. After long rounds of optimization, cleaning and testing #1 was finally committed by Andres Freund."

Also, the chart indicates that the benchmarks shown were run on Xeon chips.
Or humanity assimilates itself in to it and evolution of "mankind" just goes on.
I'm not seeing what point you are trying to make.

What other option do these researchers have? Try to sell the vuln on the black market (illegal) or to a state actor (unethical and likely illegal)? Keep quiet about what they found and not get any money/recognition?

Companies are under no obligation to pay and researchers are under no obligation (except ethics, I guess) to turn over their findings. By having some non-trivial payment the companies are encouraging people to provide cheap sec audits for them.
The thing that everyone seems to be missing is that this will lead to parallelism and miniturisation. One day we will get to the point where pinpoint sized cameras and auto suturers will be able to stitch up incisions without scars. And maybe a few decades after that we will get surgery at the cellular level. Imagine a robotic surgical tool that only cuts tumour and can avoid non cancerous cells and membranes.

"Intel Inside"
> thanks to CompSci ...

Dumb question: Do you mean the field of computer science in general, or some specific tech or organization that uses that name? The former doesn't exactly make sense, but I've not heard of the latter and would be interested ...
A platform to connect and help entrepreneurs
So, I've been building this site "Empreenda Junto" in Brazil last 3 months, we reached 1,5K users with 0 marketing, and a friend told me that would be interesting to see if people from other countries would be interested in see it.

The idea is simple: We are a platform to connect entrepreneurs to share and build their business ideas.

So, do you have a great idea but need some help? Just log in, share your idea, and people may give you feedback or contact you to know more.

Is free, and I'm keeping it as part of a side project to better understand the entrepreneurial ecossytem in Brazil, and now trying to launch it to the world with the name "eStartupy".

What do you guys think? Oh, the link: http://en.empreendajunto.com
It would be really helpful to tattoo the current year on my arm each NYE!
The quarterly report states that the investigation found this was an isolated event that affected only $3M of the $22M in the sale.

"The board also hired an outside expert firm to review all other loans facilitated in the first quarter of 2016 and the firm did not find changes to data in these or other Q1 loans."

From the quarterly report: http://ir.lendingclub.com/QuarterlyResults.aspx?iid=4213397
No average 15-year old can “work hard” and simply “earn” the enormous gobs of money this kind of collection costs. Someone older who can be assumed to have worked their whole life and slowly accumulated a large collection, such a person have demonstrated dedication and sacrifice, which signifies genuine interest and love for the subject. But someone 15 years old? They must have simply bought it all, over a comparitively short period of time, for ungodly amounts of money. And when neither time, effort or sacrifice is involved, it’s very hard to trust the person to be genuinly interested.

Sure, they could still very well be genuinely interested and dedicated to the subject. But, while we normally can make the reasonable assumption that a person who owns a large collection necessarily is genuinely interested in the subject (per the above reasoning), in this case this reasoning is not valid. They still might be genuinely interested, but we have no way of knowing that.
My wife has been teaching herself to program for the last year - one of her big challenges has been understanding when to hack on a problem until it's solved versus when to go looking for sharper tools.

She found this analogy quite helpful, and I hope others in the same boat will find it helpful as well.
Locality depends on many factors. True, the fields for a given object are spread out; however, they are much smaller. If you're iterating through a consecutive sequence of items in your compressed tables, you end up using the cache quite efficiently.
For one, he not only committed insurance fraud by creating a macro & circumventing state insurance regulations, he enabled others to commit fraud as well. The reputational risk to the company could be tremendous. Secondly, by knowing about this then participating in a $10mm sale may constitute securities fraud for witholding material information of the company. This may ultimately lower the valuation of your stock and options. Further, the company may have been valued based on bad information (unlicensed & unqualified brokers) that doesn't accurately reflect the viability of the company.

Insofar as other founders who dumped stock prior to bad news coming out, I can think of Mark Pincus of Zynga off the top of my head.
For those of you who might not be familiar with the media in China, just be aware that Xinhua is pretty much the official mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party. It doesn't mean it's not telling the truth but it's good to be aware of who it ultimately answer to. The CCP has an interest in tightening control of the Internet in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
Ruby on Rails 5.0 RC1 Released
How does snowplow solve this problem? By writing to disk?
Something as simple as software to prevent extended firings of a thruster for any reason would have worked. In a LEO satellite it's constantly being exposed to night/day cycles and isn't in danger of draining the batteries in safe mode, no matter what orientation it is. LEO satellites have low-bandwidth TT&C (tracking telemetry and control) omnidirectional antennas and radio systems in the L and S bands that don't particularly care about the orientation of the satellite. Code as simple as "if thruster tries to fire for greater than period of time, call exception, place satellite in safe mode" would have worked. Using ground based TT&C systems it's possible to manually reorient a satellite in safe mode, or query what its star tracker sees.
I'm sure the suburb you live in is much nicer than the suburbs pictured in the article. My friends' neighborhood certainly is. I think the US standard of living, if you're privileged enough to be able to afford it, is very high.

Still, if your house is on an acre of area, that must have consequences. It makes infrastructure more expensive and increases distances. Do the roads in your neighborhood have walkways? How many college/middle schools can your kids choose from? Is there community life / sports clubs / shopping / restaurants other than pizza and burgers reachable without car?

I mentioned the bus/snow situation because my friend told me the school had closed for something like 20 days last year and had to extend classes into summer to make up the time. And both of us have fond memories biking to school for 10km in -admittedly Dutch- snowstorms, having fun. The US attitude towards risk still feels silly to me.
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The say all we have to worry from the sun is skin cancer. That Solar flares don't cause other cancers. Remember this is the same science community and government that recommended margarine was safer than butter. That salt was dangerous and to be avoided which isn't believe to be be 100% accurate. They also created a food pyramid. We were told to eat lots of breads and pasta and fruit which contains sugars. People drank lots of juice. We were told to avoid foods with fat. Diabetes greatly increased ever since and now we are hearing it's the carbs and sugars that are more of a concern than fat.

We are told that mostly UV and electromagnetic radiation reach the earth and Sunlight is danger of skin cancer. Have we all read the peer reviewed studies and do we really know how often the sun potential sends a surge of Gamma radiation through your body? Isn't a great concern of long term solar system exploration about astronauts getting all sorts of cancer? How sure are we that the earth's atmosphere is protecting us from the same gamma radiation and that it isn't causing more than just skin cancer? Science evolves and surprises often occur. I personally am not so convinced that the Sun couldn't cause much more dangerous types of radiation myself but, I admit this isn't an area of research for me.
So, what institutions are those that enable extrajudicial killings of your own citizens by drone? Or is Obama too, a rogue leader?

Guantanamo? Is there an institution that allows that, or was it a "rogue leader" that enabled that?

Iraq? Afghanistan? Bosnia? I don't even remember what war Regan was involved in and the guy before him and the guy before that guy. It seems like every US president in living memory, has made it a point to either start or continue an invasion of a sovereign nation against international law, reason and morality alike.

(apologies for the harsh tone; please feel free to reciprocate)
The thing is, though, the roads already exist. And we know we're using them suboptimally now.
> For quite a bit of software these days, the correct program and the description of the correct program are pretty similar artifacts.

My brain was going mental mobius strip when I was originally responding and thinking of something along these lines. Maybe what I was getting at is that the an idea like the Halting problem doesn't apply as viciously to hardware?
I find this useless advice.

I didn't write or are aware of much of the code I'm part of.

Or remember some of the code I did write.

Or even understand the ramifications of what the change log means.

All assuming it's a well written change log.

You need external process to ensure upgrades don't break things.

Not a 'read the change log' policy so someone can blame you post breakage cause then it'll be easy to find issues in the change log.
Here is the blog post on the topic
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org
Yeah, I can attest to that. Found a github page with ssh keys, home directories, infrastructure scripts, configs, etc for Comcast that could've been used to do just about anything within their infrastructure. I raised the issue as ethically as I could, particularly since someone with an "infosec background" already forked it a bit before I found it. The engineers who I got in contact with were hugely appreciative, got the issue fixed almost immediately (seriously, kudos again), and brought up the possibility of starting a bug bounty program with me as a pilot of sorts. Cool, right?

Well, after talking to their CISO, it sounds like no such thing will happen. Her reason was, "It's not actually a 'bug', so it's not going to be included in a bug bounty program". So there goes that idea.

I really don't get it. I could have just as easily sold everything in there for big monies, or could have personally done havoc of my own. There's a certain point where "thanks" just doesn't feel enough, especially after the bug bounty comment.
What altitude was the satellite at when it broke up? Will the debris pose a problem for other satellites, or was it low enough that the pieces will reenter the atmosphere quickly?
When you hire a mechanic, do you make them tell you everything they did step by step? It's your car, shouldn't you know about what changes were made to it and how it is maintained? Maybe, but you probably don't. You probably trust your mechanic do to a good and legal job.

It's the same here, they trusted the lawyers to do a good job.
For me the most exciting thing about Swift is the recent rumour that Google are looking at adopting it as a first class language for Android.

If that happened, you'd finally have an open, fast, expressive, modern language that you could use on the server and on the fronted for iOS and Android. Couple that with Typescript & Aurelia for the web frontend and I'd be in programming nirvana.
Lending Club, Leading Online Lender, Says Its Chief Has Resigned
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
To add, all the segmentation data in the world won't help you unless you have the volume of personalized content to use that data for providing relevant communications. If you have one writer that can barely keep up with the current demand, telling them you need five versions of a newsletter with very different content is a moot point.

That said, having the data available to enable this level of personalization down the line is better than not having it from a marketing perspective. The house email list is often a company's most valuable marketing asset. The better segmented it is, the more valuable that data asset becomes.
zero-based indexing giving you an 'off by one' problem?
That's great, people can observe the contents. And now they just need to interpret it, which requires research. What's this "HFCS", and is it good or bad for you?

It's like asking a nonprogrammer to read the source code. Sure, it's right there in front of them, but that doesn't make it useful. The obvious solution - let's require everyone to become a programmer! /s
I was looking at his Wikipedia page earlier just this morning and I didn't realize he passed away in February. Synchronicity.
With some types of people, I've just stopped trying to get them to back up and describe the underlying pain point they are trying to relieve. Because as far as I can tell, some people just can not do that. Instead, I let them describe their implementation and listen/ask/listen/ask/listen to understand what they're actually trying to fix.

And then once we have the problem figured out, we as a dev/design team go back and work forward again to design a proposed solution. And then we present that. Often enough, they're happy to accept it. The trick is that some egomaniacs just get fixated on their own proposed solution, and won't let go. And then you just give them their Homermobile: http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/the-homer-in...
Yeah, I had the same reaction. I've got quite a bit of ink and the permanence is a huge part of what makes it meaningful to me. They aren't just pretty pictures; they tell a story.
> I always wonder how different the translation is from the original, and how different it would be from other possible translations. I remember looking at different translations of Lysistrata and feeling like they were almost completely different plays.

There's a great Radiolab episode that covers exactly that: http://www.radiolab.org/story/translation/

I'm reading Foucault's Pendulum right now, and even though I'm absolutely loving it, part of me feels like I'm missing out by reading a translation. The other part of me wonders whether those who read the original work missed out by not reading this translation.
I was in Vancouver last weekend and, as is my habit, checked out the prices near the place I was staying. Houses that I would expect to cost $600k in Seattle were listed at $2 million. I'm still struggling to comprehend that.
Are you saying you'd rather they didn't go to bat for civil liberties?
Are the MySQL or MariaDB communities publishing interesting stuff like this? That's a genuine question - i'm no longer a MySQL user, so i don't pay any attention to what's going on myself.
Trump is not an evangelical. His popularity is more about frustration with career politicians than policy.
Except it isn't all the world's music. I have literally thousands of recordings that you can't stream, because they aren't available.

Now, it is quite likely that you have no interest in at least the vast bulk of those, because they're obscure bands from my youth, live recordings of acts you don't care about, experimental music from the 80s, etc.

But rental access to the RIAA machine is a far, far cry from "all the world's music".

As for access, well. To each their own. I subscribe to the cliche that if you don't own the substrate, you don't own the data, and it can go away against your wishes. Now, Spotify an friends don't seem to play games like the studios do with Netflix, but that's almost certainly a matter of a business environment that doesn't encourage it, not "dedication to serving music lovers" or whatever.

It isn't that I need to "own" music. I don't know what exactly that's even supposed to mean in a world of bullshit IP laws that make less sense daily. It is that bits on your own platter is the only way to ensure your own continued access. And again, maybe you don't care - maybe the menu is more important for you than the particular flavors on it. But I know I'm not the only one who likes listening to things that are utterly unavailable on any service, for streaming or "purchase".
> deep knowledge of the Italian language and its nuisances

Did you mean nuances? If so, this is the second humorous freudian slip I've seen on HN today....
cache line size is 64 B on recent intel CPUs.
Well it is "pennies" + public recognition. I am also of the opinion that small bounties are much better than no bounty (cough apple cough)
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even longer. Linux (and to a lesser degree, BSD) seem to have a very firm lock on the market, from quite small devices on up to very large ones. Certainly, there's still room at the very bottom (devices smaller than RPi) and at the very top (what little big iron remains) that isn't owned completely by free and Open Source systems...but, it's looking like a pretty tight squeeze, to me, for a system that targets the small end of Linux' market, and does so without some dramatic differentiation (the mentioned 5MB size is entirely do-able with Linux, even modern Linux...old Linux kernel versions could fit on a floppy with room to spare for utilities).

It's not that I don't like seeing new kernels and new ideas. I'm just not seeing a path to profitability for something like this (but I thought Dropbox was a bad idea, so I may be stupid).

So, what's the market niche for this that isn't better served by an Open Source platform?
Postgres is widely regarded to be a good example of an open-source project – technically excellent, with a good codebase and community. MySQL has a history of being less technically sound – although it's certainly improved, I imagine it's left a bit of a legacy. In addition, the purchase of MySQL by Oracle probably makes many developers more skeptical of using it.

IME there isn't really a compelling case to use MySQL over Postgres, unless there's a specific environmental constraint.
Nightclubs have been ruined. Bright LEDs replace the old lines one for one, and instead of being dark, with bits of light it is almost like daylight.
Look at it this way, you could also have been "rewarded" with a 30-year jail sentence. Please don't mess with big corps.
> But someone 15 years old? They must have simply bought it all, over a comparitively short period of time, for ungodly amounts of money. And when neither time, effort or sacrifice is involved, it’s very hard to trust the person to be genuinly interested.

If they bought it for "ungodly amounts of money", doesn't that imply some sacrifice? I mean, presumably, they gave up whatever else they could have instead used those "ungodly amounts of money" for.
> What other option do these researchers have? Try to sell the vuln on the black market (illegal)

That's probably what GP is alluding to. They do have this option and I can imagine they could get much more money this way, with little or no way to trace the source of a 0day back to them.

> Companies are under no obligation to pay and researchers are under no obligation (except ethics, I guess) to turn over their findings. By having some non-trivial payment the companies are encouraging people to provide cheap sec audits for them.

Well, of course. The question is, whether the amount companies chose to pay is enough to get most people to report vulnerabilities instead of selling them elsewhere, or if those companies are just putting a lot of trust in the strong morals of security researchers?
> In the software world I'd consider anything less than BSD/MIT licensed source code limited.

Or GPL. Any free license would be acceptable.
My copy of Foucault's Pendulum doesn't even name the translator, I had similar thoughts to you on reading the first comment and had a look.

A contrast is with the works of Stanislaw Lem, all the English translations were done by the same person.
yeah but things can be more complex than that. If ordering flowers for my girlfriend I will never buy the cheapest one or the most expensive. Hotels are even more complex. Location matters as well as the specific room type and a lot of other things. No one wants to stay at a crummy motel. How do you handle, "I am willing to pay up to 30 a night more if I'm closer to the beach... etc"