skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tablets aren't really a problem when it comes to education. It's only a shift in how we do computing vs what we do it in.

They've built tablets. We (developers) need to build the software that does more than consume our time, but allow us to create the content for others. Sadly, it's not there yet, but in time it will be. I don't doubt the computing capacity is there for a company to create a 3D modeling program for a tablet that's either touch driven, or a combo that includes a mouse and/or keyboard. There are already suites out there for image manipulation, music and video creation etc.

If I could purchase a tablet and then a full (3D) CAD or other modeling software for it, I'd drop the money in a heartbeat.
I'll be blunt and say there's no way you're gonna get 200k with no network and avoiding finance.

Finance is the only place I can think of that you'd be able to pull 200k and that would only be with a lot of contacts.
I doubt pg was off when he wrote that about Javascript in 2009. If it had been obviously untrue, he would have known it from moderating HN.

It doesn't much matter, though, because the important point holds: arguments about JS became more like religious arguments when people started to identify for and/or against being a JS programmer. The same could become true about baking; there's nothing stopping people from identifying with anything.
This explains a lot. Going into the match, Sedol thought he could beat DeepMind but thought it might only be a couple of years until the technology outpaced him. We knew Fan Hui and other Go professionals were helping the team, but a massive speedup is always nice too.

It's a bit underhanded, however. IMHO, the player should be able to study recent games before the match. But this is pretty typical, there were similar late-stage improvements with Chinook (checkers) and Deep Blue (chess).
And here I was hoping to see gists count towards streaks...
Why your should be using Instagram in Real Estate
It's good that you believe in the product, but it sounds like you don't believe in the management. Which means that even if you get your funding the chances of success are slim. It doesn't matter how good your product is, the business determines your profitability. Great businesses are not run by lousy people (at least, not for long).

Have you considered helping your employers sell the company/technology?
> If you’re not sure how strong your password is, test sample passwords with our password checker here.

That is irrelevant in the face of leaked passwords; what matters most in that situation is that your password is something other than your leaked one.

If the passwords were leaked due to being stored in plain-text, no amount of complexity would protect them, obviously.

Don't use the same password on multiple sites. If your LinkedIn password is leaked, you don't want that same password to grant access to your bank account. That just as important than how strong the password is, if not more.

If some site has suffered a password leak, and you're a user of that site, you must change the password on that site, and also on all other sites where you happened to use the same password. Do it as quickly as possible without worrying how strong the new passwords are. Then change later to stronger ones.

A password's strength is inversely proportional to how often you change it. For instance, if you happen to change a password every week (for the sake of argument---few people likely do), and it takes a month to crack on the best available hardware cluster, then you're probably okay. If you change only once a year, you're much less okay; a surreptitious password breach could happen, and two months of cracking later, the attackers have your password. Meanwhile, you're still months away from changing it, not knowing there had been a breach.

By the time users learn about a breach---if ever---they should assume that their passwords have been cracked, because some unknown amount of time has passed between the actual break and the discovery. The discovery will likely stem from the fact that some of the "lower hanging" passwords have been cracked and accounts start being misused. The site admins can then only guess from various circumstantial information (logs or whatever other breadcrumbs left bind) about when the leak might have occurred.
Malaysian Parliament Suppresses Debate on Anti-Blogger Amendments
Backspace on Windows Explorer goes up one directory, not back in your history.

In a not-at-all shocking turn of events, it turns out Alt-Left and Alt-Right are in fact the hotkeys for navigating backward and forward through history, so Chrome aligns perfectly with Windows Explorer in this regard.
it's a chrome app, you can launch it independently of chrome. At this point I don't know why they didn't go the Electron route.
New ways to keep data flowing between your apps and ours
Call it $10 per thousand cubic feet.

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010us3m.htm

So 150 million units. Switching to the numbers I'm seeing quoted for pipelines, 150 billion cubic feet.

This pdf lists many pipelines pushing 1 billion cubic feet or more a day:

http://www.ferc.gov/CalendarFiles/20120830220205-primer.pdf

So at most a couple months of normal usage.
Inquiry into Facebook’s Editorial Decisions Runs Afoul of the First Amendment
Thankfully there are sites like php.net[1] that tell the truth: "null doesn't exist."

[1]: http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=null
I'm really not too keen on being the only person sat in the office (or out of it) with no real direction on what I should be doing. I didn't join to work solo on somebody else's project, I joined to work with and learn from the interesting people that were there when I started.

I guess it just seems like the lesser of two uncertainties, and so more comfortable as a choice to have on the table.
P.S., if you're in San Francisco:

>On Thursday morning, a San Francisco police sergeant shot and killed a woman who was driving a suspected stolen car near the Bayview neighborhood, officials said. There was no immediate indication that the 27-year-old woman had a weapon or was trying to run down the sergeant before the shooting, police said.

There's a vigil tonight at 8:30 at Shafter Ave and Elmira Street in San Francisco, and if you're nearby and you're reading this, you should be there.
Surveillance Chills Speech–As New Studies Show–And Free Association Suffers
A useful HaveIBeenPwned feature would be a list of pwned passwords connected to my email address.

Yes, I know - don't reuse and use a password manager. But not everyone follows best practice. Knowing which password motifs to absolutely not reuse would be helpful.
EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning’s Conviction for Violating Hacking Law
The person at that company who I heard about if from claimed they were able to verify it.
Like everything in IT security, it's about your use case, threat matrix, and risk assessment.
An Open Letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley
Trade Commission Report Reveals Few Benefits from the TPP and Ignores Its Costs
Link is down?
sorry, was discussing tuition only. source: table on top of this query

https://www.google.com/search?q=minnesota+tuition&oq=minneso...

also, I read the 3rd row instead of the second; 3rd (room and board) says $10k, 2nd row says $14k in-state tuition. Sorry to get your hopes up =P
Oops,I have to break my code streaks up.It make me realize that quality is important, not quantity.
Does Memory Reconsolidation Exist?
Hi, I'm Troy McLure. You may remember me from such articles as "Beans: The Forgotten Fruit" and "Making your Millions on Mt. Gox".
And ransomware mimicking other ransomware. The mimicry doesn't even have to be perfect, if it's good enough to provide the impression that "CryptoVault 3.2" only decrypts your data occasionally, after you pay.
> Seems like controlling for overall project size is an important missing component of this analysis.

That would bias the numbers against more concise languages.
"Identity" in most psychological context generally refers to how a person perceives themselves. It's personal; there is no threshold. You can identify as The Greatest JavaScript Master of All Time and no one can do anything but disagree.

The way I read it, that's precisely the danger this essay is warning about.

When you start identifying as a "JavaScript Developer" you are making JavaScript development a part of who you are. Anything about JavaScript becomes personal. You expose yourself to attacks that aren't even being directed at you. The bigger you inflate your identity the more get hit, until eventually you can't hold a conversation without getting offended about something.

If you can keep these things out of your identity it is much easier to shrug off other opinions about them. You can stay objective and have meaningful conversations about the benefits and consequences of it. Because it's just a thing, it does its thing and gives you something to think about when it doesn't.

Identity is personal: Identity is what you choose to care about. Some things should become part of your identity. Studies find that in most successful relationships partners see each other as part of their own identity. But most things probably don't belong there.
APL is considered by many a write-only language.
I have a doctorate in music from one of the top conservatories, but excellence in music (or anything else) is only about putting the hours in. There's nothing I learned in school that isn't widely available in books, or attainable by transcribing records and studying scores. A good teacher is pretty important but doesn't require the formality of school enrollment.

I'm quite sure the same is true in programming. So what if a bootcamp grad can only make CRUD apps a few months into their dev career? What can they do five years after that? At a certain point individual dedication and passion is what matters. There are a million books about algorithms and many bootcamp grads have library cards.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but this looks like a business with massive downside risk and very little upside.

It's bundling a bunch of bad debt (nobody who manages their money well is going to pay 20% interest if they have better options) and hoping that the aggregate is less risky. I have a feeling we've seen that sort of wishful thinking about debt before.

So what am I missing that makes Tally so good at managing the risk that people just run up huge debts on multiple cards and leave Tally holding the baby?
Rubygems.org: Simplifying our stack
I found this explained a lot about the anti-trust case that I didn't understand. I'm not making a comment either way on the validity of the case, but it was an interesting read.
I'd say that's pretty needless. I run ghostery and ABP simultaneously and they do a great job catching these trackers.

The downside of having no JS compared to accidentally a getting fingerprinted is a no brainer for me. Modern web is pretty useless without JS for me.
ffs this is stupid. backspace has always been "back" in browsers and it really vexes me when some versions of firefox on some linux distro's do this.
two hands have to be used to action this because the right alt key is either not mapped ( on some os'es ) or is alt-gr.
backspace works well when moving quickly too - one finger from home row and bam.

Rather then this be the fix they should probably look at the bug thats causing the user to go back when the form element is focused.

Whats next ? take away space bar for moving through the page ?

A about:config thing needs to be present for this to allow the user to switch between what they want. Sure extentions are possible to fix this too but i dont really want a 3rd party extention to re-enable whats a tried and tested keyboard shortcut. Additionally what happens if that dev's account gets hacked and the extention modded for malace ?
Or if the dev pulls the thing in a way similar to the node.js module issue a month or so ago.

This part is worrying though:

We have UseCounters showing that 0.04% of page views navigate back via the backspace button and 0.005% of page views are after a form interaction.

Where is that data being gathered from and how?

Additionally what is classed as a form interaction ?
http://thehivemind.online/?hugs
“Tally solves problems that customers have managing multiple credit cards, incurring charges or fees, and not knowing which one to pay first,” Flynn said. “Theirs is an elegant solution that can apply to a lot of people.”

“The investment community has gotten comfortable with non-bank entities originating loan assets,” Brown said.

Institutional investors were pulling back from buying marketplace lender debt even before the Lending Club nonsense. IMO only dumb money is going to be interested in loaning money at less than credit card rates to consumers who will use the funds to pay off their credit card debt. Maybe a year ago....
Support for parallel ECDSA / RSA certificates
I don't think it's so much about identity as it is about (in)security.

Regarding politics, I completely follow his argument: I don't identify with any party and like to think I'm evaluating each policy on its on merits and according to my personal beliefs. Which leads me to the other one.

I happen to be Catholic and strongly believe in the mental and societal framework put forth by that theology. However, I'm more than happy to discuss objectively with fellows of other faiths (including atheism) and will happily point out the common threads in seemingly opposite belief systems. Yet if others make arguments that I'm not in position to counter, I'm happy to let it go. My identity is deeply rooted as a Catholic, yet my security is not in being right.

There is a temptation on my part to put forth the argument that some religions foster greater amounts of insecurity, but I don't think that is fair to say. Pretty much every belief system has a version of the Golden Rule.

To take Paul Graham's argument just a little further, I would say that religion and politics can be misused as convenient mental shortcuts behind which to hide one's insecurities.
Tally appears to do no underwriting it simply offers you a lower rate than your current cards offer and allows you to pay all the bills at once? Or does Tally have a proprietary method to tell which borrowers are worthy of a lower rate, the story is not really clear on this point.
I don't really do much CAD but have lots of friends who do. Wouldn't you end up needing a keyboard and a mouse to be productive CADing on the tablet? Which would defeat the form factor of the tablet. There does seem to be a market for CADing on tablets as seen in Onshape. But I have never seen any of my friends use it (Mechanical engineering students and industry tends to favor SOLIDWORKS and sometimes CREO)
"Good enough" backups can include incremental backups, where changes are tracked at a sub-file level. You end up only actually backing up the parts of your computer that change (after an initial full backup of the system).

Everything but the requirement to have your backup media connected frequently is a long-solved problem in corporate-level software, we just need to start seeing it at the consumer level.
We are using "Custom" authentication where we issue tokens based on a stored application secret. Is this still supported? I cannot find it in the documentation.
At least PowerShell has an ls alias for dir...
That's not really true. The selection of computational geometry problems on the ICPC tends to be limited because testing and implementing numerical algorithms is really difficult in a competition environment. When you do see geometry algorithms they tend to be "trick" problems or else don't use any really deep or hard results.
Gitlab to remove Project's programming language because it's slow
No one mentioned JCR (JSON Content Rules)?

There's https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159, co-constraints https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cordell-jcr-co-co..., compact syntax
I don't really have any issue with most of what you are saying, except "The lack of a publishing gateway, even a minimal one which enforces markup correctness to the Web is a problem.", and my issue with that really depends on how what you mean by "problem". Sure, a publishing gateway would enforce some conformity, and some level of conformity is beneficial (I'll even allow that more conformity than we currently have would be beneficial), but too much conformity is not. Too much conformity breeds stagnation. So i'll re-frame my stance: How do you enforce or encourage conformity without going to far? How do you keep the entity or entities you've entrusted this task to from going to far?

> You're also going back to ignoring points raised earlier in this conversation about security, privacy, and usability.

I was just working off your points, which all seemed to be about usability. I've been treating this discussion as somewhat distinct from that one. I can definitely make arguments about conformity having it's own negative aspects with regard to security.
Greek experiment: The puppet show continues
Evaluating the political chess board
Is "identity fluid" the same as "precious bodily fluids" [1] ?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
Awesome Reachability 3rd party support IPV6 Try this~
BoringSSL adds support for new post-quantum key exchange (CECPQ1)
I wonder if they are really worried about the second person, or are more concerned about losing repeat business with their first "customer"?
Yes but good luck competing with the big VC funded companies for publicity!
https://www.meettally.com/faq

Currently Tally is limited to customers who get approved for a Tally Credit Line. The approval is based on typical criteria such as your FICO score, debt and income. As of April 2016, our minimum FICO score is 660.

They're playing a game of credit arbitrage.
Ada is the name of a character in Fallout 4: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ada
Completely broken in FF46 (Win 10).

http://thehivemind.online/?poop for great laughs
How Israel is turning part of the Negev Desert into a cyber-city
Well, ART not JRE.
Article also explains how to use the key to decrypt your drive.
In this case yes it should be, but I was getting at a larger problem - try to do this with something like Tree Style Tabs, DownThemAll, etc.
It's ok Mr Rhino.

I come here primarily for the rants :-)

You learn interesting things and it sparks ideas.

Rant on Mr Rhino!
It's a very good question. I think they're equally important, but there is one curiosity I'd like to raise: even on very little sleep, you can operate on a physical level, even through endurance. Also, the more exercise you're getting will improve your overall health, which reduces your need for sleep oddly. Therefore it might follow that exercise is more important because that's how you can reduce your dependency on sleep.
Even after self-driving cars conquer the planet, how do you think they'll figure out that they're in a construction zone, if not road signs?

More seriously, Street View as lint for road signs would be a superb idea! It's probably not something that anyone short of Google would have the processing power to do, but it would help a great deal.

(Assuming municipalities want help, that is. There are plenty of small towns that operate as speed traps, looking to shake down drivers by posting few speed-limit signs and many traffic cops. But lint-for-road-signs could reveal when an area has unresolved road-sign issues, and warn drivers to take another route.)
I agree here. Be a good steward of your commits, and let `rebase -i` be your tool for that. A bunch of "err, try this instead" should be washed away, but it doesn't help to commit "Add Huge Feature" +10,000/-2,000 because "I should squash my feature"
Your project's RCS history affects ease of contribution (or: don't squash PRs)
This is the weakest pg essay I've come across. I can think of so many counter-examples. "Stand for nothing and you'll fall for anything." It's very convenient to have a small identity with few convictions because convictions are costly. Sophie Scholl identified with anti-Nazi politics and it cost her her life. We have a word for people like her: hero.
Unfortunately for every predatory business that prays on the poor, a another will fill its place somehow. The poor are never ending, and capitalism will unfortunately find a way to exploit them.
Why not just define your schema using Protocol Buffers and use the [proto3 JSON mapping](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#j...)?

On a similar note, text protos actually work very well as configuration files and are used by SyntaxNet/Parsey McParseface [1] and Bazel's CROSSTOOL config [2].

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/syntaxnet/s...

[2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/tools/cpp/CR...
https://arxiv.org/help/rss
Yes, not seeing the business model here. They're basically issuing a credit card of their own.

Somehow, I suspect this will morph into a "consolidate your bills" scheme, or the low rate is only an introductory rate, or there will be big fees, or they try to sell you on a home equity loan, like LowerMyBills.com.
Yes - it may be more 'playful' than insulting. But I definitely sense a general tone that it's ok to insult white / straight people while prostrating oneself in front of any kind of ethnic or sexual minority. This is a perfect example of this.

Is there any purpose to calling members of the developed world 'weird'? To me it's pure propagation of 'victimhood' culture - where being not white or not straight gives one 'victim points'.

I consider this racist and I'm calling it out.
Tally underwrites.

from https://www.meettally.com/how

you will need to qualify for and get the Tally Credit Line. Depending on
your credit history, your APR (which is the same as your interest rate) will
be between 7.9% - 19.9% per year. And similar to credit card APRs, it will
vary with the market based on the Prime Rate.

This looks like it could be helpful, but those rates are no better than your local CU offers.

As mentioned elsewhere, this seems like a hard business -- smart people use their credit cards as charge cards and pif every month. You probably aren't carrying a balance at 20% plus if you have the cash elsewhere. But good luck to them; the more competition banks have the better.
Steel City’s New Wheels
What do you do about WebSocket connections or hanging GETs? Do you lie to the page about whether its still being rendered visibly? Etc etc.

This all seems terribly expensive relative to removing a hotkey used by fewer than 1% of users.
If you learn to "run off" the board, you'll never get hurt. The reason people get hurt while longboarding (electric or not) is not because of poor balance or environmental hazards, but their inexperience with simply continuing to run in the direction they are traveling if the board comes out from under their feet. This is by no means an affront to those who have been injured longboarding, as I myself have been situationally unaware and injured myself.

You can practice running off the board by riding into a garden hose (this will also prevent damage to the board or trucks). You can make the hose more or less taut to make the stopping intensity higher or lower. What you are trying to do is maintain your momentum in the direction you are traveling, and your goal is to make this such a natural reaction that your body will automatically do it when something unexpected knocks the board out from under your feet.
It is, but just like your local neighbourhood cafe knows they will not be an 8-figure company, so should a lot of tech companies.
The Curse of the Gifted: Are You Infected?
There's another option (which I used when I did calligraphy)---turn the paper 90 degrees clockwise. You end up writing sideways down the paper.
Google AI project writes poetry which could make a Vogon proud
'op' = over powered, in gamer speak. So, is the character Ada over powered in the game Fallout 4? is the question people are searching.
New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All of the Cameras