skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Xavier Niel committed millions to launch the school in Paris and it was an immense success which already benefits to the whole ecosystem

Liar. Sorry, but there is no other word and I am totally fed up with the bullshit propaganda people of 42 spread everywhere every-time. And now the lies go international.

We are in Spring of 2016. The school started in Autumn of 2013, which means that nobody has even completed the program (even the shortest one) at the expected pace. So we have a handful of students out from the short curriculum, not even a single full class, and zero from the long curriculum. Reaching any kind of conclusion is absolutely, factually impossible. Thus talking about "immense success" and "benefits to the whole ecosystem" is an "immense" steaming pile of horseshit.

For American readers: don't take anything you read about 42 at face value if it seems to originate from someone from 42. We have been enduring their bullshit for a while (a long while if you take into account the previous similar 2 schools were the same indoctrination was applied), so we are accustomed to it and we can spot the obvious lies; but Yanquis should beware :-)
I took another look at this. The $750 per house figure was actually for wiring the neighborhood without going into any homes, which costs an additional $600:

>In New York, Verizon said it costs about $750 per house to bring FiOS service to a neighborhood, plus an additional $600 to run the fiber into the home of a consumer who wants to purchase FiOS service.

Assuming 40% penetration (also in the article) and $600 on top, the cost is $2250, which is close to your $2500 calculation. I still think Verizon made that up over the course of 9 years. I just need to include the set top box rentals in the calculation. Assuming that my household paid $15 on average over 9 years more than the base tier price on average for the internet connection and each of the 3x $5 a month set top boxes that we had for 8 years cost Verizon $250 each, I get $2310. This is before considering that those should still be worth something and the principle that Verizon would not offer lower rates than their operating costs. That would be a great way to obtain negative margins.
Can you explain why?

It seems to me the big chunk of the problem is that my local hospital doesn't really have to compete with anyone and has rather free reign in setting prices.
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
Senators put forward new bill to halt expansion of gov’t hacking powers
It is good to see the streak go. To quote Jeff Atwood, “If I have learned anything from the Internet, it is this: be very, very careful when you put a number next to someone's name. Because people will do whatever it takes to make that number go up.” I hope this move helps focussing a bit more on quality over quantity.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental...
Indeed. High-speed rail would be cheaper when using the same cost estimates, if land was cheap like out in the country.

But then you have to build transit into dense cities, where a single building that you have to go through might cost $1 billion.

And then you realize why infrastructure is so expensive when you actually figure out the real costs.
They try hard in the FAQ to explain what they built but I'm sure most people will not actually understand what this is. This is not a Facebook feed, it is not what left or right leaning users actually see. These are stories pulled with Facebook's API and then filtered by WSJ to only show sources which were previously ranked in a study as being the most consistently right and left leaning sources that people liked. In other words, they are just showing the most slanted news sources they could find.

Talk about fanning the flames. When I first started reading I assumed what they had created was a bunch of dummy accounts that would like various posts based on political viewpoint and then showing actual feeds Facebook pushed to those accounts. That is not at all what is happening here.
Trust, but Verify: How CockroachDB Checks Replication
The correct study is one where some participants get an intervention to make them exercise more, and some are left alone. There's no ethical issue, but running such a study would be difficult and expensive.

Adjusting for BMI does not solve the problem, because there are many things besides BMI (unmeasured confounders) which affect both cancer risk and willingness to exercise.
>I think one key aspect that is missing is that boot camp graduates aren't straight off the barista lineup.

It seems like everyone is forgetting this.

Since coding is becoming important for a tech driven World, no matter what our backgrounds are. We come in with whatever skills we've gathered from our personal journeys and then learn to code.
Yeah, I suppose the victims have been lucky that, thus far, pretty much all of the attackers have been "honest".
How can you click on links for opposing viewpoints if they don't even display them?
I suspect it is also a cultural (American) thing. I'm 31 and these people are an embarrassment to my generation.
I have this hope that Servo will lend itself to modularity and building a usable web client with it.
Try writing YAML in combination with templating (such as in Salt). Because indentation means hierarchy, it's terrible. I'd much rather use JSON in such a context.
I love the pace of changes at GitHub after the "Dear GitHub" letter, it feels like they woke up from years-long hibernation.
the victims are their backers. thats how ransom works.
Right hand on mouse, left hand on WASD. The spacebar is always easy to hit your thumb, but you have to move your right hand away the mouse to hit Page Down. Plus it mixes well with Vimperator-like extensions, to the point that I can do 90% of my browsing with one hand.

EDIT: and before anyone points out that if I'm already using extensions I could easily add another, yes and I would if I had to, but it's not ideal, because 1. Extensions crash, fail to load, or aren't allowed by internal browser pages, and 2. You sometimes have to use other peoples' machines and it's annoying when basic functionality is locked away.
Please don't call names in arguments on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Especially please don't post comments that do nothing but call names.
Actually, I think noise is a red herring, and that worrying about noise (instead of worrying about unmeasured confounders and incorrect causal structures) is how epidemiology got into this mess in the first place.
Women Can Make Games,Too
The Secrets of Payment Processing
useful tool to check your emails https://haveibeenpwned.com

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites hasn't been updated yet with this yet because the list hasn't leaked entirely.

Also change your password: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/change-password
I often see both, may be because I click on both the "red" and "blue" topics in the "TRENDING" feed.
I haven't read the paper itself, but even if it didn't explicitly note these caveats, it would be assumed by any reader in its intended audience.

The problem is the press representation of the papers as something they're not.

These types of papers should be published, because they are necessary to decide which hypotheses to test with interventional studies.
Looks like an awesome piece of technology, but why, whenever I see headline xxxx followed by "(github.com)" do I get a slight feeling of despair - that feeling that this project has a high chance of being future abandonware. Is it that having a proper, dedicated, expensive-looking, website, away from github, is a signal of access to resources, willingness to do proper marketing and documentation, and therefore, by correlation, longevity?
There are also commit bots for other contribution graph hacks:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
Yeah, gotta pay to play but skateboarding is fairly cheap as far as hobbies go (if you can stay out of hospital !)
Decreasing the tire size increases the internal air pressure and ground pressure (a problem if you want to go over dirt), but modern tire construction is up to the task.

Also, grippier rubber is usually a trade-off between tread wear and friction. Though with the price of a Boosted board, I imagine their customers would prefer more grip and a few percent of their purchase price for new tire replacement every couple hundred miles.
I use a lot of JSON and YAML via libvariant [0], a set of C++ libraries. e.g. the core class Variant is a JSON-ish object implementation; there are pluggable Serializers & Deserializers, etc.

Libvariant includes a command line tool, varsh ("Variant shell"), that can schema-validate JSON and YAML documents.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/gallen/libvariant
Looks like they are using zxcvbn[1] to calculate the password entropy and converting it to a time with these parameters:

computers speed factor
------------------------------------------------
ZX Spectrum k: 1300 // 30 guesses per hour (?)
Mac Book Pro (2012) k: 1 // 10 guesses per second (?)
Conficker botnet k: 5e-5 // 20000 guesses per second (?)
Tianhe-2 Supercomputer, k: 3e-7 // 3000000 guesses per second (?)

The following line of code suggests that the speed factor is compared to 10 password guesses per second:

Passwrdr.crack_time = result['crack_times_seconds']['online_no_throttling_10_per_second'];

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
that's their "business model", don't expect they would want to ruin it ;)
>Why aren't Americans rioting in the streets about this?

It isn't something that your average middle class American has to worry about too often. Cops mostly target the poor and people of color so the issues around civil forfeiture are largely unknown outside those who have experienced abuse of civil forfeiture.

Just like how many white Americans think racism is a solved problem since they don't experience it personally.
We had a project[1] like that for Switzerland, but it was canned in 2009 (underground: too expensive).

Above ground tube is probably going to make it for flatter countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro
I know a local bank that limits password lengths to exactly 7, and the contents of the passwords to ONLY DIGITS. I can't imagine how many users are going to just use their phone number.
I mean, why would the supercomputer sometimes be 1,000,000 times faster and then for a different password be 3,000,000 times faster?
When you think about it as skills training vs. college I think it delivers on it's promise.

In college, most people don't declare a major until their Sophomore or Junior year, so the idea that competition is a 4 year degree is a bit misplaced. Code Schools don't teach music appreciation, though there are a lot of musicians. Bootcamps offer an intensive at 40+ hours a week vs. a two hour class two days a week.

Can you deliver skills based training in 10 weeks? The placement rates would say yes.
Do some schools focus on placement while others focus on taking tuition... That's true as well.

Look to find the school that has a placement track record.
Definitely a shitty thing to do, I can't imagine law enforcement won't investigate Chema after seeing that.

I don't understand the language though so there may be other relevant details I'm missing.
Thanks. Now instead of abrasiveness it's abrasiveness without context. Is your software just not capable of hiding things without "detaching" them, or is there reasoning behind this incomprehensible moderation policy?
The ratio is always 3000000 (I checked the Javascript Source). The discrepancy you see might have to do with the rounding that happens when they convert the time to a human-readable representation.
Is there a risk that people still want a very green profile? With private repos you can use a commit bot without getting caught. I think public information should be based on public commits.
Did they address anything in that letter?
>...but we're better off believing in it anyway.

So we have a choice?

All attacks on free will are forms of self-contradiction.
Thank you so much for reminding me of CMD+[ and CMD+]. I use backspace to navigate all the time and was initially really annoyed, but I remember learning that habit, and this is a usable alternative that I will learn in time as well. To boot, I don't think I ever used a shortcut to navigate forward, and now I have a new shiny.

We're humans, people, we can intentionally learn new things.
Not to mention it might be economically cheaper to pursue automated automobiles since we already have the roads built.
Jokes ruin forums
Senators introduce bill to block expansion of FBI hacking authority
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11732322 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, that’s right. And those typewriters cost several thousand dollars in 1970. The nicer keyboards from the 70s–80s would be $400+, adjusted for inflation, whereas the keyboard part of these Bloomberg keyboards probably have a marginal cost of <$10 (obviously they have some up front costs for injection molding tooling, etc).

It’s just kind of sad how they call these “professional” products when the core typing/keyboarding experience sucks, and they try to differentiate their product based on gimmicks instead.
What's Servo?
"bisect". Bisect becomes useless if not every commit compiles (or local equivalent). Bisect is a critical feature, even if I don't necessarily use it often, because when I need it, I need it.

As long as I can bisect, I don't much care about the details. But this is definitely not compatible with three dozen commits mostly consisting of "oops didn't compile" and "forgot comma" and "fix syntax erorr". You've gotta do something about that.

The way some people talk, the only acceptable history is an asciinema [1] recording of the development process with a microphone recording the developer's mutterings as it goes. The question isn't about what information you "lose" but about what you keep, because you must discard the vast bulk of it. We're arguing here about whether we chuck 99.97% or 99.99% of it.

[1]: https://asciinema.org/
Getting a patent with no real intent of building a product should not be possible.
Risks are often affected by your genetic makeup, eating and exercising habits, where you live, what type of work you do, and childhood exposure to harmful materials. There are other things that influence the risk level.

Personally, staying informed and listening to my body has been my best medicine, but I'm also aware of my family history with different diseases, which helps shape my choices.
Reasonable points, but just because technologies have failed in the past is not predictive of what will come in the future. It's often times hard for us to observe progress in technology development, particularly when exponential change is involved, but the pace of development keeps accelerating and all of the sudden you reach viable points in technologies that historically took a very long time to see any advances or progress.
I lived there for three years and loved the climate. Ocean views outside most windows and wherever I drove.

There was a castle in Malibu (not the ancient kind) but it burned down and there are some wineries. No cheeses that I am aware of.
Are you aware that the Dao was created by employees from slock.it and the Dao's first project is to fund a project from slock.it?

Anyone who did 20 minutes of due diligence would be scratching their head at this.
This is basically a warning to every single person going through bootcamps right now: Your skills are not special. You can be replaced with ease. Unless you differentiate yourself through what you learn either at your job or after the camp and demonstrate it through your work then your job will be kaput. That's basically what all of those Everyone Can Code advertisements were trying to achieve which is to make these skills a commodity.

Good luck.
Harman How to Listen (2011)
This is the most honest comparison I've read so far.

I dropped out of high school because I was making good money by 18... kept working, saw my own limitations, and did a BS degree in 3 years, graduating at 26. That was 5 years ago today, actually :)

I see this same distinction in practice, thanks Triplebyte for quantifying it. If I were staffing an engineering team, I'd absolutely take junior engineers from bootcamps and senior engineers with university backgrounds. I like the surgical model from The Mythical Man Month, and have seen elements of it working by hiring junior test engineers of varying technical backgrounds and training them.

I think a BS degree in CS makes a lot more sense when you're hitting the edge of your capability as an independent contributor--many may never need it, some will love going on a few year sabbatical and earning their 'piece of paper' (as I did).

Biggest factor that gave me an edge was I had lots and lots of context for all the content of classes, and I took notes every single day, Beginner's Mind style and didn't try to test past intro classes... even CS 101 with Scheme. I was also able to work on my mentoring/leadership skills with classmates.
I agree. Unfortunately I thought the same was with GitHub's "private repositories are paid" idea, until they switched to unlimited ones.

Anyway as a friend of mine says : "GitHub is Facebook for developers", so I guess the social features are still playing a role in the decisions.
Spinnaker: Global Continuous Delivery
Sure, I understand your argument, but this is what addons are for.

Users who want it can install an addon for it.

Chrome on the other hand has such weak addon APIs that they are often unable to achieve what's needed. Firefox seems to be moving in the same direction unfortunately.

I think it's worth it for those developers to at least maintain full addon APIs, even though there's a trade-off here it greatly increases the flexibility of the product.
Perhaps, but by all accounts Elon is a pretty smart engineer and has ready access to smarter engineers. Not to mention those actually working on it. It just seems unlikely to me that none of them accounted for something so obvious? Certainly they did and felt it was a solvable problem.

If nothing else, if it increases expectations people have about transit then that's good. The currently planned California "high-speed" rail is pretty underwhelming.
Disabling them probably makes you significantly more unique than those that don't just because the vast majority of people never will disable them.
Have you heard of CAR (computer assisted reporting)? The field of data journalism requires people who are good at storytelling combined with technical savvy to be able to pull out stories from lots of (usually messy) data - http://www.poynter.org/2005/a-guide-to-computer-assisted-rep...
Try this article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

Honestly, getting all three: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, all wired up is really straight forward. It's even easier if you use AWS's built in elasticsearch service.

I used ELK to analyze my nginx logs, and it worked really well, and now that logstash-forwarder is replaced by Beats, its even more reliable.
Two months. My first time programming .NET and learning on the job. I was creating an application to import data into SalesLogix using their API. It crashed whenever there was a single quote in a particular field. Not knowing much of anything at the time, I assumed it was my own code, so I hammered away at it. I raised the issue many times and never got help, so I just worked around it, knowing it would be a showstopper in production. One day, a co-worker casually mentions to me that I should use the latest version of their API. Sure enough, it worked.

Fuck SalesLogix, btw.
Kid has $40 worth of heroin in in his bedroom, parents' housed seized for being tied to a drug crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/philadelphia-drug-bust-hous...
Positive change in my book. This key was always overloaded, leading to unintentional usages. Using backspace as a "navigate back in history" shortcut never worked reliable for me in any of the browsers I've used extensively (Chrome, FF, and IE).
> They're just a tool to encourage you to contribute to FOSS every day.

The “every day” is a problem. Contributing to FOSS is a good thing, but encouraging people to write code every single day can lead to unhealthy habits.

> but it's not like streaks are competetive or anything

There are, just like your number of commits or your number of followers.
I'm finding uMatrix is useful, and have deployed it with ongoing support for non-technical users.

It's possible to whitelist (and blacklist) specific targets, including local site, and a set of specified third-party targets.

That said, overall, it's a bit of a complexity bunghole, and may not be for the general public. But then, computers in general aren't, in many ways, either.
That HP does look enticing and I know it seems small, but I really like the Pixel 2015 having the USB Type-C on each side of the laptop. I can always plug in the cord without having to double back to run it under the laptop based on where the port is. Sometimes the extra foot lets me reach the power socket. (And less stress on the connector).

(Though the lack of upstream kernel support means that I will probably go back to MBPs for my next personal device. I've reverted to just ChromeOS + mosh client for now)
I guess this eco-mobiilty all depends on the social structures and political environments. There is a Chinese proverb "富不過三代", or, fortune won't last three generations. The Chinese genealogy is relatively complete and you can actually trace Confucius' offspring to this date. But you'll be surprised to find big names today rarely also have some big name ancestors 500 years ago. One reason is that the Chinese social and political are constantly changing. In China the longest dynasty Ching lasted 268 yrs. Basically every 70-150 years there is a game-of-thrones type of revolutions going on, and the entire soc-pol systems flopped. Another reason is that a common used punishment by the emperor in the past is collective punishment, i.e. if someone is sentenced to death, all his/her relatives up to three upstream and three downstream, sometimes even all cousins, are also sentenced to death. If someone did escaped they would just change their surnames (and Chinese people change surnames relatively more frequently than we would think.) That's probably why a big-shot in the history book might have no offspring to be found nowadays.
Bloomberg developer accounts do not give you a BBG keyboard you just get the fingerprint thingy on it's own and use your own keyboard.
Let's hope that democracy works..
jdorn's (awesome) tool is a dynamic UI builder where the fields, headings, constraints are pulled from a json schema document (which is also a json document).

I believe the question was about good editors for json documents.
Users that may no longer have access to the email on that account would have a very difficult time regaining access. But overall definitely a better idea than letting a massive number of users get locked out by someone with the hacked credentials
I received none.
> Second: Whilst disposable Google accounts might seem like a good idea, there are any number of ways for Google to cross-correlate

In all fairness, the author does mention multiple times that a fake Google account is not meant to protect you from Google, but from the site you're signing up on.
I think the weight is due to having 4 much smaller diameter wheels, which means the torque moment of force and motor size is much smaller
Agreed. JSON is the new XML.

This isn't to say that I would prefer JSON over XML - I most definitely wouldn't - but it is just as abused lately. I hope we will see its demise soon and something coming out of the YAML line (e.g. TOML) getting more widespread.
LinkedIn has a solid security team today. That was probably not the case when this breach apparently happened, though. Just because the dump leaked today has SHA-1 hashes, doesn't mean that's what they're doing now.