skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what sites have had their passwords dumped? If I'm not on any of those businesses/domains then I am not too worried about this but I'd like to see a list.
Google Wins Trial Against Oracle, Saves $9B
> Objectively, blacks need to display lower competency in relevant skills to achieve identical resumes as whites.

The scientific consensus is that the opposite is true, that black people need to display higher competency in relevant skills to achieve identical resumes as whites, which is precisely why affirmative action is hoped to be valuable. See "Social Justice for the Highly-Demanding of Rigor" for a meta-analysis of over a dozen separate scientific studies: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/20/social-justice-for-the-...
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> I think that hinges a lot on how excited the word "higher" gets you vis-a-vis expressing your programs.

You are the best Gankro. <3

What's nice about coherence is that there's little risk in modifying the constraint solving algorithm to optimize for the common use cases (because it can't be backward incompatible). What's nice about crater is that it's comparatively easy to test that optimization.
So, how much of my internet will break if I distrust the Symantec cert on my machine?
Why Do Websites Need Our Passwords Again?
<SF could double it's current housing density tomorrow and still have less than half of manhatten's density. That's not a serious concern.>

Count how many bridges and tubes connect Manhattan to the mainland vs. how many bridges and freeways connect SF to the rest of the world, and revisit that concept again.
I'd be interested to see whether taxing US citizens globally has something to do with it. For example, most Europeans can move to Monaco and live mostly tax free relatively easily. How would that affect that rate?
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He emphasizes video in several places, e.g., "Add a conference call/video meeting to every meeting, no exceptions" and "Use video if at all possible". However, a very significant drawback to video (over written chat) is that it is much, much harder for other people to see or refer back to later.
Google: Yubico ; the NFC-enabled version has a Google Authenticator-like app (Yubico Authenticator)
I can only speak for myself here.

I have no problem with snapchat the app. I think it is dumb, and don't enjoy using it, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't exist.

What I do have a problem with is Snapchat being put on a pedestal, and perpetuating the SV cash grab business model. Get a bunch of users with a trendy app, data mine the shit out of them, and serve them ads until the app folds. There is no lasting value, and it is just the kind of rampant speculation that collapsed our industry in the past.
They have a cloud services platform, perhaps it's for that? Symantec would get destroyed if they issued a CA cert that was misused, right?

Edit: This product says it does real-time traffic analysis for user transactions. It's understandable they want to make this as easy for customers as possible, just like CloudFlare. https://www.elastica.net/cloudsoc/-- or maybe I'm misunderstanding what it does?
FirstnameLastname.com was taken so I registered firstname-lastname.com ($8 back then). Though, I'd waited for 3 years for FirstnameLastname.com to expire and when it happened I grabbed it.
It's mixed. You can spin a fast loop in a PIC @ 1,2, 4 or 8 MSPS, and that eats into FPGA territory.

USB is uniformly terrible; multi-PHY CAN offerings are disappearing. SPI can be good if you have the right interface chip ( which you may or may not actually know until you're running against a prototype ).

LVDS looks interesting, but it seems to have been a lot supplanted by SPI/I2C and Ethernet.

I dunno; it's just different. Phones have warped the market in puzzling ways.
Your examples aren't a front end application though... The tooling alone has a lot of options... same for desktop apps... are you going to go GTK, QT, Win32, some toolkit on top, what tooling do you need to construct your app, will you use an XML to language process? What about build constructs or third party libraries?

Front end applications of any kind of complexity are NOT simple... treating them as toys, and expecting them to grow in complexity doesn't work.
> Health officials said the case in Pennsylvania, by itself, is not cause for panic. The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics.

Thanks for completely ignoring that advice with a headline and three paragraphs of misleading information designed specifically to cause panic.
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US nuclear program still stores data on floppy disks (2016)
Wow that's it? I was imagining a crumpled ball of steel from a 70MPH impact and potentially deaths.
Over seven years Iraq had 1003 suicide bomb attacks. That's far from zero, but hardly and endless tide. When you consider 9/11 where preceded by an early 'failed' attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot Which included a test bomb that killed one person but failed to down the aircraft. And out of 26 people that attempted 9/11 only 19 where part of the attack you find they actually got somewhat lucky even before heightened security.

The absolute threat is just not that high.
Dyna-might: dynamic programming on iOS and Mac
Wave around a piece of legal paper with your name on it, if you file it with the copyright office.

And that's about it.
Bingo. The numbers just don't add up.

You would think people would be a little more skeptical after watching the twitter downward spiral.
Media Savvy, Part 2: Sometimes the Paranoid Survive
I've dealt with many technology stacks. If this is the future, we're F#$$%.

Seriously, how can people be blasting older technology like Flash and Flex (which was GREAT), out of the water for not using web standards and then this Frankenstein of a "stack" is going so mainstream.

Sure, there is the VM problem, but the language was good and so was the framework. This looks horrendous and scary. Imagine maintaining this for the next 10 years when "the standards" will have moved on to you "next gen" javascript "framework".

My only way to write web apps has been using micro frameworks, jquery, and small libs that do one thing and one thing only. I can handle serving pages with Go thanks, and I don't need a routing system that looks like a vintage joke. Sorry if I sound jaded, I've been doing this for 15 years.
This is what happens when you raise livestock on antibiotics as the de facto standard. You are what you eat.
Very cool!
I'm wondering if it will work on Nashorn. I actually have a need to be able to debug JavaScript code running inside Nashorn without touching the JVM debugger.
This is how I start off a React app:

$ npm install --save react react-dom
$ npm install --save-dev webpack webpack-dev-server babel-core babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react react-addons-test-utils

/webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
entry: 'src/index.js',
output: 'dist/bundle.js',
module: {
loaders: [{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel',
query: {
presets: ['es2015', 'react']
}
}]
}
}

/src/index.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const MyRootComponent = (props) => {
return <div>Hello World</div>
};

ReactDOM.render(MyRootComponent, document.getElementById('react-app'));

/static/index.html

...
<body>
<div id="react-app"></div>
<script src="bundle.js"></script>
<body>
...

start the web server

$ webpack-dev-server --content-base static/

There is nothing forcing you to use all the extra dependencies. You can build a full app without them.
Or lack thereof.
I played a little bit around with Go currently, and thereby ported a part of an older application for which I already have C++, C#, Java and other implementations and benchmarks to compare them.

My current results is that Go performance can be really good (C++ level) if I try to avoid allocations as much as possible. With a more sloppy implementation that e.g. did not reuse buffer objects ([]byte) between multiple network packets the performance dropped significantly to about 1/3 of the C++ implementation, and the GC time dominated.

Fortunatly it's quite easy to avoid garbage in Go, as we have value types there and the synchronous programming style means lots of stuff can be put on the stack and there's not so much gargabe due to captured objects in closures and similar stuff. All in all I'm quite confident that with a mediocre amount of optimization Go can be suitable for lots of application types. Although I would not necessarily try to use it for low-latency audio processing if something else (that produces garbage) is running in the same process.
They're great. You might also like the board I made, which is even smaller:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/tiny-ESP8266-breakout
The cover story for this past week's Economist was about antibiotic resistance: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21699115-evolution-pa...

And from that story, it talked about Colistin (the drug this patient's E. coli is resistant to):
"Some of the antibiotics farmers use are those that doctors hold in reserve for the most difficult cases. Colistin is not much used in people because it can damage their kidneys, but it is a vital last line of defence against Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella and Enterobacter, two of which are specifically mentioned on the CDC watch list. Last year bacteria with plasmids bearing colistin-resistant genes were discovered, to general horror, in hospital patients in China. Agricultural use of colistin is thought to be the culprit."

Considering the same article says that "In America 70% of [antibiotics] sold end up in beasts and fowl" it seems that an easy thing to do would be to stop giving antibiotics to animals
Not directly. I think it is part of the Playstation SDK (but I'm not a game developer). There are libraries that are based on the same concept (many execution contexts per thread):

* https://github.com/RichieSams/FiberTaskingLib
* https://swtch.com/libtask/
* https://github.com/halayli/lthread
* https://github.com/stevedekorte/coroutine

RethinkDB are using something like this:
http://rethinkdb.com/blog/improving-a-large-c-project-with-c...
http://rethinkdb.com/blog/making-coroutines-fast/
Yes, it should show all the domains you used in Safari separately.
That's not a sufficient answer.

The claim assumes that copyright and patents are proven to be beneficial, measurably better than the prior situation. Are they? If so, how?

Not to mention, is there any proof there's no better solution?
21 Surprising Facts About Digital Advertising
Those desires are not orthogonal.

Most homes with a front lawn were middle-class when they were built and for many years thereafter. Upper class types wouldn't live in tract neighborhoods, for the most part.
There are pneumonia vaccines[1], but they mostly cover the main bacterial strains that cause it. A lot of diseases like pneumonia can be caused by multiple strains of bacteria. It's hard to vaccinate against all of them.

[1]http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/default.htm
Building a school in a far off country without any prior experience in doing so can be good in the short term, but disastrous in the long run. These sorts of initiatives feel good and do what they're supposed to do, but just because it feels good and has a short term gain, doesn't mean it's a good answer and especially not the best answer.

Replace "women" with "medicated schizophrenics" (no subtext there..) and you'll find that the problems are very similar. A solution that addresses workplace gender issues could potentially be used to address workplace mental health issues. Yet, instead of addressing the problem with a wide and possibly empathy based solution, we're stuck with incredibly specific solutions and enormous gaps where solutions should exist.

I'm convinced that the whole issue stems from a lack of empathy in the workplace, and studies like [0] seem to hint towards the same.

[0] http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/7724-empathy-college-studen...

Edit: another point to add - I once went to HR to talk about my mental health issues. The HR head who had a degree in psychology didn't know what bipolar was, outside of the fact that it's a thing that exists. The number of things wrong with that talk was mind boggling, especially after literally zero came from it. This was at a relatively large company, too.
I had to take 8 hours (two classes) of a science class with a lab. I could have done physics, biology, chemistry, etc. Astronomy was the easiest option so it's what I chose. I think most, or at least many, business schools have a requirement for this in the US.
I think embedded software engineers will need significant... "reeducation" to be facile in FPGA. Like close to starting over. "They" don't want the external support and IP ecosystem; their behavior looks like they're still using closed-ness as an accounting virtue.

FPGA tools have been so bad for so long that I just don't think there's enough executive bandwidth to truly embrace software. The economics of being an FPGA designer pretty much requires lockin. It is a lot to ask of a team.
I wonder just how many certs I'd notice failing if I pulled Symantec's root out of my keystore - and if I'd get any mileage contacting the sites that end up broken and explaining why.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to have the "CA death penalty" seriously considered against Symantec - but I fear they're going to be judged "too big to fail". A grass roots campaign of contacting sites (especially sites I've got paid accounts with) saying "Sorry, I can't use your site anymore because I've had to disable Symantec's root keys (see this link for reasons), can I please cancel my billing." might be the only thing I can do.

(Oh, and joy! https://www.apple.com is secured by a Symantec cert for me right now. How much would you bet against all my Mac OS X and iOS software updates also being "secured" that way?)
Yes, the article has been up for a while
> However, a very significant drawback to video (over written chat) is that it is much, much harder for other people to see or refer back to later.

And for some people (such as myself) there's something about the spoken word that just takes longer to process, especially if there's even a slight amount of background noise.
The modern Sierra Club's motives are political, not environmental. That's why they'll have rallies in SF against oil development in the Dakotas while remaining completely silent on groundwater poisoning right here in CA and the fact that (unlike the red oil states), CA has no oil extraction tax.
Linux supports POSIX ACLs, which I would classify as "default Unix" since it's POSIX, and also supports some extended non-portable ACLs:

http://linux.die.net/man/5/acl

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/POSIX_ACL_on_Linux.html
This is a misunderstanding of where shareholder value comes from.

The valuation (market cap) of a company is a reflection of the value of the assets that the company owns. That includes IP, trademarks, brand assets (somewhat perversely, this also includes user habits), business relationships & contracts, any resellable physical goods or cash that the company owns, and all future cash flows that will accrue to the company. Basically, the stuff that an employee, supplier, or customer could not take with them if they chose to do business with someone else.

Now, there's also the concept of economic value, which is the value that customers of a company (or industry) are willing to spend on its product. This can be reasonably proxied by the total revenue of the industry - for your GM + Ford + Honda example, that's about $150B each, or $450B (and leaves out the 800 lb. gorilla, Toyota). That's a lot larger than the total $60-80B market for all brand advertising.

But building cars has a long & large value chain. GM + Ford + Honda can't do it all on their own. They each employ roughly 200,000 people, many of whom are relatively highly paid thanks to union agreements. They have literally thousands of suppliers that they buy parts from. These suppliers themselves need to buy parts and supplies from labor-intensive industries like mining. As a result, the company captures comparatively little of the profit from all of this work. Facebook, for example, makes about $6B in net income off $20B in revenue, while GM makes $10B in profit off $150B in revenue. This also implies that further growth will benefit companies like Facebook or SnapChat much more than it would companies like GM: if margins stay the same, Facebook gets to $10B in profits with $30B in revenue, while GM would have to get to $300B in revenue (probably not happening) to get to $20B in profits.

It's a plus, from a shareholder value perspective, that SnapChat only employs 200 or so people, and their largest expense is paying Google for AppEngine bills. It means that whatever value SnapChat creates, the shareholders will capture almost all of it. Indeed, based on how often car commercials appear on TV, it's likely that a good portion of GM & Ford's revenue will become SnapChat's profit, just like how a good portion of SnapChat's revenue becomes Google's profit.
If your threat model contains nation-states, you shouldn't be trusting any CAs in the first place.

With a nation-state adversary, you really need to be manually verifying certificate hashes that have been securely communicated to you out of band.
I wouldn't put lodash or immutible-js right away, and may gear towards axios as a client communication library.

The reason there's so much to do, is there are so many options... core parts of the tooling for modern js are fairly consistent... node is pretty much required, which brings npm.. understanding CJS and ES6 module syntax also required... a translator (babel|typescript|traceur) are pretty much required, as is a bundler (webpack|jspm+system|browserify). That'ss 1 x 3 x 3 potential configuration vectors without starting the application. Each has advantages and disadvantages... I'm webpack + babel myself.

From there you have React, you need an orchestration layer, which has started to settle on Redux for all but the most complex applications. If you need async workflows, you're probably going to need redux-thunk and a communication library (fetch or axios). Beyond that, it depends on your needs specific to the application. If you need more than one route, then react-router and binding to redux.

Everything beyond that depends on the specifics of your app and needs. There isn't a one size fits all.
AFAIK, the main issue is that we don't know how to cultivate very many kinds of bacteria (relative to the number of species there are.) Since antibiotics are a by-product of bacteria, the number of antibiotics we can effectively produce are limited to the antibiotics produced by species of bacteria that we can effectively cultivate.
Thank you!

Yes, localhost special case would be a nice enhancement. Domains from different browsers probably will be grouped later by default.
Yes absolutely! We will update the docs asap! You can find the video on the home page as well as on youtube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8pnYd6jPQ).

We were actually able to get everything started in under 5 minutes!
I don't think anyone is debating the popularity of Snapchat.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "I think there is legitimate reason to be doubtful about the appeal of these products because they have nothing to do with chatting with friends".

In my opinion, when Snapchat is truly forced to monetize (such as twitter/fb after ipo) it will dillute the core product to the point that people will search for alternatives.

At that point a competitor will get some VC funding after grabbing some users and start the cycle again.

I view this behavior by SV to be just as damaging to the state of the tech industry as housing derivatives were to the housing industry.
A New Improved Ant
Australia is a mix between the two
From what I have read, the problem is that antibiotic development is not profitable. If a new antibiotic gets developed then it will be out on the shelf as a last-resort antibiotic, preventing the developing company from extracting a lot of revenue. And it is more profitable to develop drugs for chronic diseases. So pharmaceutic companies don't bother with antibiotics.
"Snapchat does not have a clear monetization strategy and the content they have is ephemeral. If a snapchat clone came out tomorrow, snapchat wouldn't be as sticky. Snapchat looks like twitter, the poster child for massive high engagement with disposable content and horrible biz fundamentals. In fact, twitter or facebook could clone snapchat probably super easy and enjoy crazy leverage and synergy. The only reason a 3rd unknown party can't is network penetration."

This is fundamentally wrong. I'm an advertiser and I have seen so many Snapchat campaigns work tremendously well for brand advertisers. All for large established brands who are spending solid amounts with the platform.

Much of the hard work is ahead for the platform in terms of measurement and clear steps to defining and achieving ROI metrics such as awareness, brand uplift all the way through to DR elements such as traffic, leads, mobile installs and conversions.

The company makes huge strides very often updating media packs, incorporating measurement (Nielsen) etc. I expect very smart acquisitions in terms of continuing to drive user growth on the consumer side and build out of measurement / ads API to cater to the agency world in the next 12-18 months.

An IPO for snapchat is some time away but it is building a very real commercial organisation amongst brands, advertisers, agencies, the TV community (look at the viacom deal recently).

Also to your point here:

"FB raised 16B in a horribly botched IPO."

You can't say a company raised $16bn and had a horrible IPO. This really doesn't make any sense irrespective of all the ratchets and clawback clauses (none of which will keep any FB exec up at night let alone the CEO). Look at FB today, you should be kicking yourself if you had the chance or even thought about buying the stock at $17 when it was being shorted like crazy by Wall Street.
Minimizing the length of regular expressions, in practice
Coinbase hacked!?
It's used for a lot of food products like chips too.
I love the "too busy doing important things" argument for why nobody should spend any time thinking about diversity. Of course, deciding what is important in life is an entirely subjective matter. But just to aid in my understanding of this argument, I would be interested to hear some examples of which companies and activities constitute actual important shit.
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I thought the main issue was that it wasn't profitable enough.
They store all the photos internally. This was confirmed to me by several snapchat employees while interviewing.
This is a decent list of recommended times for various actions requiring different mental and physical resources that wax and wan through out the day. But I think anyone paying attention to their productivity has found a similar pattern. The only one I disagree with is working out in the evening. I've found, especially as I get older, the 6pm work-out often doesn't happen. I am just too tired so I have shifted it to first thing in the AM because exercise is too important to short shrift. I mull over the priorities for my day when I am exercising so its not a waste of my early morning powers. I also start to wind down around 9pm by dimming my lights and wearing my blue-blocking glasses to improve my sleep.
Why no mouse input?
This is where affirmative action is a step backwards. The unconscious assumption goes from "they're an X in this field, they have to be good" to "they're an X in this field, they're probably just here to fill a quota" and makes matters worse for everybody.
Agreed, but brand doesn't put food on the table!