skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are streetlights shining up anyways? I see these curved glass installations everywhere. The light shines way above street level. At a minimum, this seems like a waste of energy, let alone the annoyance. In residential areas particularly, they should be very tightly constrained. And output adjusted to aid in night vision, not attempting to provide full lighting.
If you visit a web site the operators of that site will know that someone at your IP address visited the site, which pages you viewed, how long you lingered, which buttons you clicked, etc. If you want to prevent that your only option is to browse via things like proxies or Tor.
http://www.hawkix.net/pgsql-for-wordpress/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress/
Probably wouldn't have happened during launch, though, as the mechanism attaching it to the rotational base would've been replaced with a special pyro platform rigged with explosive bolts to separate the satellite from the final carrier stage. Hopefully the people who rig the explosive bolts are a bit more thorough with their checklist.

https://psemc.com/products/cartridge-actuated-devices-cads/e...
Ruby again shines in language popularity
looks like this guy figured out how to turn raster fonts into TTF/OTF

http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-...
> Respecting the rule of law is a moral principle.

> Morally speaking, the law should be honored

Emphatically no; law and morality are two different things, that hopefully correlate, but law does not ever define morality. (If anything it should be the other way around, but far too often it isn't.)

> and if it is not a good law, it should be altered through the means provided by the political system.

I already explicitly observed one reason why that's not always feasible. Often it takes a fair bit of momentum to get a law changed; momentum needs interested people, and people get a lot more interested when you have a practical demonstration that the law prevents them from getting something they want.

Nobody is going to go fight to change regulations to enable a business that doesn't exist yet; sometimes they'll fight against it because the incumbent has a better media machine and told them to. Regulations can kill a new business before it ever forms.

> Pragmatically speaking, implementing that moral ideal is becoming increasingly difficult, as governments reach farther and farther into daily commerce, become increasingly impenetrable to anyone of ordinary means, and fail to cope with the rapid social changes driven by new technologies.

Exactly. So perhaps you should start by not giving it the benefit of the doubt, not thinking of it as a "moral ideal", and instead just treating it as something that happens to exist and has various consequences associated with it.

There's a good reason why most regulations don't have particularly severe consequences: half the reason we can deal with the ones we already have is that they aren't actually enforced. Selective enforcement is also a problem, but the solution isn't universal enforcement, it's repeal.

(Also a good lesson for prospective implementers of a system that happens to encode procedures and regulations: if your system doesn't have some means for a knowledgeable human to bypass it, it's broken, and people will need to find ways to work around it.)
Ugh, this. Have you had luck escaping that hell?
The rationale is that a bad hire is very expensive. Not just salary, but emotional and temporal investment. Let's say you need to hire a salesperson and hire the wrong one. You fire them after two months and now have to context switch into hiring again.

For small startups, firings have an effect on the entire company. Absolutely make the right choice and let someone go if you have to, but it still has an amplified cost across the team.

I personally take responsibility for the emotional cost on the candidate. Asking someone to invest themselves in your company and then letting them go is a rough experience for the employee. It is the manager's responsibility to not churn and burn through people.
From the article:

> High energy particles may have disrupted the onboard electronics.

If this is a problem Humanity has a bigger problem.

Humor aside I agree defects in devices that can rapidly become two ton death machines must be taken seriously. There must be safe guards at every level.
Urgh, when did PHP become Java? https://github.com/PHPixie/ORM/blob/master/src/PHPixie/ORM/B...
> OpenBSD is a great example of the value of competition, and the necessity to maintain market rules that encourage it.

The market doesn't work here. The OpenBSD people aren't responding to market incentives; they aren't earning much (AFAICT). They appear to be responding to internal incentives. The market's incentive for talented developers is to work on something else and get paid more.

That is, they appear to be doing this despite the marketplace, not because of it.
>32 bit integers for file offsets, so the largest possible mnesia table (for now) is 4Gb

Do they mean 4GB? Surely 0.5GB/4Gb is a bit small even for 32bit?
Some false equivalency in this article:
"Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and famed geneticist who has led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health. And if you’re saying that conservatives may be tolerable, but evangelical Christians aren’t — well, are you really saying you would have discriminated against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
"
MLK Jr ≠ Francis Collins. Collins argues that DNA is the language of god which there's no empirical evidence to which. Plus, he's respected despite this, in his field. That seems like acceptance.

Also the article lists:
"But that doesn’t explain why there are conservative math professors but not many right-wing anthropologists."
I imagine that say, in the extreme cases of say: evangelical young earth creationists or a evangelical mormon believing that humans are 5000 years old or that Native Americans are the lost tribe of Israel is counterproductive.
If bpchaps would mess with Comcast directly then maybe; if he sold the knowledge somewhere else than not really. I don't recall hearing of any case where a hack was traced all the way back to the third party that found and sold the vulnerability.
No, though I understand the confusion.

Actually because of name confusion (not just with Zenefits) ZenPayroll rebranded to Gusto.
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Yeah,make sense.
But this is the first example I've seen where the network is trained only with driver's input. Has anyone seen this kind of approach before?
a lot of people in the US. are christian but pretty moderate. they don't really think about it much or let it affect their behavior. And they believe in stuff like evolution. Evangelicals are fundamentalists. For a lot of evangelicals, religion is a central part of their life and motivates almost all their beliefs.
precisely. Capitalism has no moral compass.
$35K is what a decent developer in India would make. So, your UK seems too low.
From what I can tell the mainline Linux kernel has code developed by Oracle, so you don't trust any developers that ever rely on Linux?
But small corps are OK?
I've been using https://github.com/ahoward/sekrets in private repos for years. Great tool.

I definitely agree this should be used with heavy caution and only in private repos.
Hi Munin,

What you did with McSema was really impressive and I’m glad discussing with one of the authors! I get the point you regret using LLVM, it seemed to me to be the best choice since LLVM has wide instruction semantics implementations, that more basic tools such as Xed do not offer.
If I get it correctly… you would rather re-implement such semantic yourself? Or have you got any other tool / idea I’m not aware of?
Good points but the same can be said about the stock market. How can you ascertain what news, speculation or any other factor will do (or did) to an equity at any given time?

Nobody knows interest rate trajectory. The value doesn't drop as much as you would think. If interest rates rise and the bond price drops, the yield increases and you or others will buy more. There aren't a lot of safe options right now and people are nervous with the election and the market.

I agree on doing bond funds and diversification. I put a good chunk in muni bonds and cash. I max out a 401k but that's it for the market because I think it's highly overvalued and I don't like putting most of my money where I have no control. The rest goes into my own companies and real estate.
There are real potential advantages to training networks using human behaviors. For example, the person-to-person communication that takes place while driving might be better understood by machines this way.

- Was that an obscene gesture or a thank you wave?

- Did the other driver suggest I go forward or tell me to stop?

- etc
Don't forget that the world does not only consist of rich Silicon Valley engineers.

How on earth should someone from Bangladesh use Reddit? They can't even access PayPal.
> Trump is not an evangelical.

GP didn't say (or imply) that Trump is an evangelical; there was an implication in that post that lack of critical reasoning, which is a trait GP also ascribes to evangelicals, among the Republican electorate was a factor in Trump's success, though.
I used to put .gpg files in my repos that stored sensitive information like database passwords and such.

I don't do that anymore. The main problem as I saw it was that you basically liberate your security to an environment you can't monitor or send rejections to (if someone downloads your gpg file). Compare this to an ssh server which affords both those abilities.
Eco would probably point out that even a work in its native language is a translation of a deeper language inaccessible to all but the writer.
Exactly what we need to help stop overpopulation! Hooray!
You can't choose your skin color or where you were born, but you can choose your political beliefs. For that reason alone, I think statements like

"My Facebook followers have incredible compassion for war victims in South Sudan, for kids who have been trafficked, even for abused chickens, but no obvious empathy for conservative scholars facing discrimination."

miss the mark. Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them. The feelings of the author (and me, and a lot of others besides) is that staunch liberals in academia might be flawed in excluding conservatives. But not because it's akin to racism, it's a different (and less objectionable) type of discrimination.
> Do they mean 4GB [rather than 4Gb]?

"No one" measures sizes that aren't network throughput numbers in bits. "Everyone" uses bytes. :)

And I mean -honestly- if you were shooting for the Pedant badge, you should have also quibbled about GB vs GiB. ;)
If you think college faculty are liberal, it’s only because American politics has twisted your perspective: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/05/09/if-you-th...
To paraphrase:

Speaking freely is essential to democracy. The more restricted your conversations, the more careful you are about what you say. And being careful leads to less candor, less criticism, and less innovation. Thought and free speech are the breeding ground for new, sometimes controversial ideas. They are how we prototype, think new ideas through, refine them, and get them ready for wider distribution and discussion.

The actions of many 21st century activists seem to be diametrically opposed to this ethos and designed create a social landscape of civic censorship and extra-legal punishment for "thoughtcrime." I think a society with laws supporting free speech on the books, but largely made of authoritarian and censorial organizations is no more democratic in spirit than the Jim Crow south was inclusive with its "technically" enfranchised non-white population. (It doesn't so much matter what laws are on the books, if society at large thinks something opposed.)

For democracy to work, there needs to be freedom to dissent. I think many young people who grew up with web forums were exposed to so much draconian censorship, they've come to unconsciously feel that censorship is a key means of expressing power and "justice." I just hope that enough of them work out how intellectually bankrupt such a society would be.
How do you feel Convox deals with the Hybrid approach? Of wanting to use a PaaS App container service, but keep the app dependencies like Cache, ElasticSearch DB hosted by AWS.

Does Convox continue to use hosted AWS services?

I like the idea of the App being containerised and that workflow, but I cannot convince myself that running DB/Cache in something like Convox is a good idea (vs Hosted in AWS).

Can you give your thoughts?
Another nice quote:

> Over the years, I have realized that I am 1000% guilty of this. Life is too short to work with assholes, and if you are an asshole, my brain will concoct all sorts of reasons you are probably not the best person for the job. Conversely, if you are kind-hearted and emotionally intelligent, I will go out of my way to help you succeed in almost any situation.
These days, I haven't seen a good reason to take stock options at all.

Startups rarely succeed.
Stock options are an excuse to pay you less.
Startups rarely IPO.
You only really make money in an IPO.
> Problem is, the engineers and managers working in these teams belong to an industry that has a completely different mindset. A mindset that translates itself into all parts of the software stack, which these engineers are then forced to rely on. A mindset that will creep into everyone's minds, by osmosis, no matter how much they try to fight it. A mindset that works fine 99% of the time, but every now and then, leads to events exactly like this.

The famous Worse is Better, aka. 80% solution that isn't even correct (it's fine as long as it doesn't segfault in that 80% of cases) today is better than a proper solution next week.
This should not even be used in private repos unless the only person who will ever access the repo is you.
I'm interested in hearing more. Are you allowed to tell us more about the company? Number of employees? It sounded like you got hired to do TCL without knowing TCL. Why was it a secret weapon? Was it productivity?
I've done my own analytics since before there were hosted services.

Still use an old-school, proprietary tool called Sawmill[1]. One very nice aspect (out of many) about it is that it handles hundreds of other log formats out of the box, so it can report sensibly on switches, email, firewall logs... just about anything with very little effort.

No connection, other than being a long-time happy customer.

[1] http://sawmill.net/
Well considering it's Comcast, I'd be more then happy to "accidentally" disclose those vulnerabilities.
OK. What about a Swedish dictatorship? With Sweden as the only world superpower and the US, like everyone else, its vassal? Would you accept that?

If you're not American, substitute your country for "US". My point is that it's easy for you to say you'd take the US over Russia, China etc any day because it's already your country. To everyone else though it's just a foreign power threatening them with military might.
I accept the author's thesis as correct, but this quote still made me laugh:

“Why stop there [hiring conservatives]?” asked Steven. “How about we make faculties more diverse by hiring idiots?”
You're not wrong, but conventions are more than a media show, even when they're uncontested. It's where the nominee for Vice President is chosen and the party platform for that year is drafted. The party usually defers to the presidential nominee for the former and vice versa for the latter, but Trump and the party are so at odds on so many things that those two things may not be a cut and dried as they usually are.
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That's both true and not. Yes, it's true that the point is akin to saying that even though we have the equations to understand fluid dynamics we don't understand the weather more than in a rough general way and aren't able to make predictions ahead of a few measly days. But it's also true that even the theory behind it isn't "true" in the absolute sense. We don't have a renormalizable quantum field theory of gravity. Therefore our current understanding is most certainly incomplete, much in the same way Newtonian physics alone wasn't complete in its description of phenomena.
Yeah, it's one of those companies that are really asking for it. In some cases it's hard to do the ethical thing :).
Reminds me of Arnold, the Governator.
I added vblank_mode=3 to my .bashrc, and then removed my xorg.conf (which was configured for fglrx, I assume from when it had the Catalyst drivers). ~/.drirc didn't exist on my system. No change. :(
No. If that were the case, there would be no purpose to rotating keys. The problem is that despite rotating keys, your old crypto keys have permanent access to secrets, because the old ciphertexts are by default retained in the git history.

It's a bad idea to store secrets in any form in your source code repository.
good point. you can replace conservative with any other set of beliefs and see how absurd that statement is. I am not equating conservatives to the following groups but imagine if it said "....holocaust denying scholars.." instead.

the saddest part is how it equates war victims and trafficked children to conservative scholars.
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Thanks for checking it out. We're bot builders ourselves and are building tools we wanted to exist.

We'll be writing about our learnings from building and using Virgil very soon.
I knew enough to keep myself away from those projects.
The following essay sums it up pretty well:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...

Long story short, Christians are "red tribe", and most other religions can be thought of as "blue tribe".
Viv's model of seller interaction seems to be the same as for the pre-Apple version of Siri. Viv cuts a deal with sellers to get an API so they can talk to the seller in some coherent way. They don't try to work through apps intended for humans.
Completely agree. Though I think the issue here is bigger than that. Journalism by its nature is subjective. So it may be bias, and that's still crummy, but at least the people consuming it know what they're getting.

Facebook, on the other hand, portrays its "trending" news as being determined objectively based on what people are sharing. That goes beyond bias to manipulative. It would be the same if Google were filtering conservative news sites out of its results.
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> If you are one of those things, you are much more likely to believe in creationism, or conspiracy theories, or so-called ‘scientific racism’, or any of a number of other destructive and thoroughly debunked ideas

I notice no citation, nor what "much more likely" means.
That relies on you wanting to watch things that tend to get fansubs, though. As a mostly-deaf foreigner living in Japan, I tend to watch/want to watch a lot of things that don't get fansubbed, like news, foreign shows/movies, variety shows, cooking shows, and tons of domestic-only movies/shows that don't get much international attention.
Considering that the goal of comprehensive JS web frameworks like React and Angular is precisely to move beyond naive--in the opinion of those frameworks, anyway--manual DOM manipulation as a means of instrumenting UIs and into higher-level MVC, this is a bewildering statement.
I already understand that you neither want to pay these publishers or see ads.
If you only need it for NYE, you can just stick with those temporary tattoos from party favor stores.
Nvidia is one of the main reasons my computers, I do not want this true of my cars as well.

Edit - Is a joke really worth this many downvotes? I mean who hasn't had occasional trouble with Nvidia drivers and games?
"that the law states should be taxed"

"though legal, is immoral"

There is the problem... the law is an expression of what is acceptable. If we start saying "though legal, immoral", then things become far too discretionary.

Instead of something obvious, like tuition, let's say I deduct donations to a registered charity that gets accused of financing terrorism. Should I be prosecuted for avoiding tax in a legal though immoral way? Some people would say giving all one's money to a church, and deducting those donations, is an immoral avoidance of tax.

All we have to go on is the expression of the community's moral taste through the law.
"Encrypted Internet Traffic", combined with the construction of the largest data storage facility in the history of mankind does tend to suggest it's not just Snapchat photos.
Ironically, the secondary payload that launched with Hitomi was a micro-sat which monitors space debris.

https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusa...
The funny thing is is that the trend for analyzing data is going from doing things in SQL databases backed data warehouses with queries to running that stuff on clusters with Spark or Hadoop based solutions.
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The code architecture "win" is always to dodge the big manual rewrite. The "lose" is to have to do the big manual rewrite. People make it into a game of ideological purism, but really, it's as simple and pragmatic as just that.

They who dodge the manual rewrite -- those are the real gurus.
> You can't choose your skin color or where you were born, but you can choose your political beliefs.

Can one? My political beliefs aren't my tastes: they are things that I believe. I can't choose what I believe to be true. Can you?
No datacenter is that quiet. And it was way too well lit.
They have a Redis-based solution to sit in front of mySQL (seems to be a "Pro" feature though):

https://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_19738/
Ok, but what dies that mean in practice? Does this mean I will receive a worse education from an evangelical professor? Should we check our surgeon's faith and political party preference because there is a higher chance of complication from being operated upon by a conservative evangelic surgeon as opposed to an agnostic liberal one?

If the orientation or race of these people is irrelevant to them performing their duties, why is faith or political leaning relevant?
"What you described is mostly descriptive while I argued purely normative"

A normative claim that the world "should" have one government when there's no way to make it work is just fantasy. Nonexistent options don't figure into the moral calculus. If the EU can't be made to work it certainly can't be extended to the entire world. You think the stress of the EU is going to be lessened when it is outvoted on every issue by Asia?

Every major centralization of power right now is under huge stress and in serious danger of flying apart at the seams in the next couple of decades. There's no current "world government" option.
Maybe the postings have become more specific- Instead of a general Software Engineer, They're posting "Front End Developer" or something even more specific than that.
The craziest part is when you go outside of Vancouver to places like Abbotsford or Victoria. Both have housing prices nearing the $1m mark fast, and it's not uncommon for property owners to get realtors knocking on their doors daily asking them to sell to their overseas client.
Cool trivia: the building is in Holmdel, NJ and is really nice but sat abandoned for years. Companies can rent coworking space now, they're rebranding as "Bell Works" (http://bell.works)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex