skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for commenting on your experience as a user. Out of curiosity, must the apps "Iridium Mail & Web" or "Iridium GO!" be launched in order to have Internet access? I'm also confused because the official video [1] talks about the former as providing "mobile web access on supported sites". Cheers.

[1] https://youtu.be/hcrBE5hkuRU
Actually, the page section mentioned ("The Details") is on the czep.net page. http://czep.net/contact/ is empty.
M0 is an extraordinarily stripped-down core. While I agree that it would be nice to have CLZ, if you are really missing it on an M0, you'd probably be better off with M3 or M4f.
American Airlines rejects Gogo internet for its new fleet of planes
And how many "normal" people do you know that use a password manager? It's 0 for me. They don't even use post-it notes, which would be an improvement over "I'll just try to remember the password, and if I can't, I'll ask someone to help me ".
They were referring to the link in the comment to which they were replying, namely, this one:

http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

The address you provided here is correct, but is for the submitted article.
What "level of training" are you talking about? TypeScript is a JavaScript with opt-in types. Rename .js to .ts - it's a valid TypeScript file. You can gradually enrich the code base with type information, while still keeping old stuff intact.

One of the huge benefits is that you can start using "future" features (like sane variable scoping, for example) of JS now - TS will treat the code as "new", but downcompile it to what current browsers can understand.
ES6 classes and stateless components (aka arrow-components) are now standart things. You can continue use React.createClass, but may be this will be deprecated (however, I'm not sure about it)

For learning RN... they move fast, better is to create pet project from fresh RN generator (CLI: react-native) and go on.
Also note that your browser sends the referer-header even on HTTPS if you dont explicitly tell it to not do so.
> If you believe in the classic explanations of the theory of the firm, "companies" exist so they can be effectively communist on the inside in an attempt to lower transaction costs. If you have teams competing against each other directly for resources, time-to-market, etc. you don't really have a reason to be a single company anymore.

Sure you do. It allows someone at the top to flip the switch between market and central command. Ideal firm size and vertical consolidation varies between industries, and plausibly varies in different environments, different times, etc.
It's more like 5.50 EUR
"Security does not mean privacy."

I sometimes stumble when I try to explain how security and privacy are different and usually I'll just explain with examples. I like these examples here.

When browsing a website which uses HTTPS, anyone viewing your traffic will be able to tell not only which website you’re viewing, but for how long and how frequently. (NOT really private) Though the content between you and the website is encrypted, (and so secure) the fact that you’re connected to the website’s IP is to be considered public knowledge.
Because presumably it must be internally hosted as it will discuss commercial, proprietary software. Even if not, would we want to muddy Stack Overflow with the OP's customer support?
For me, there is an interesting difference. On the one hand you can say "everyone compete on the next iPhone antenna design". That is one component out of an over all strategy. But proposing incremental improvements at Google when I was there was death, you were accused of "not thinking big enough" and everything had to be a "moonshot".

So you couldn't propose just a new antenna, you had to propose using an entirely different spectrum with entirely different rules and an entirely different platform architecture where voice service was one of many options rather than the main option. You don't get to propose re-inventing the phone, you have to re-invent telecommunications. One of those that got out of the door when I was there was the Google "wave" project. Its vision was so big it missed the fact that people just wanted Slack[1].

Bottom line is that competition within a structure is good, its something that lots of organizations have applied successfully. Google's style, when I was there, was never structured enough to head toward anything. It always went all directions at once, leaving the organization with a net zero momentum in any direction.

[1] Yes they are nearly a decade different in time frame, but as a 'dogfood' wave user and then later outside of Google it was pretty clear the "win" was the IRC replacement, none of the vision stuff was getting much traction but it was the way to go if you're group wanted to figure out which cafe to go to lunch at that day.
I wish we spent more time studying why elephants [1] and bowhead whales [2] don't get cancer more often than they do. If we knew exactly why their cells are so resistant to cancer we would have some ideas of what we need to do to make ours the same.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26447685

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25565328
But no problems have happened and if there are problems the market will work it out, people will just stop buying Asus, no need to have laws for network security!
This "attack" could be semi-mitigated by using Authy or Google Authenticator instead of SMS. If users knew to never ever paste the generated codes anywhere but the site, this attack wouldn't exist at all.
> I have written tests in TypeScript, compiled to JavaScript, and then used Mocha, for example, to run tests. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

We use ts-node to run our mocha tests without ever compiling: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node
> There was no reason for a proprietary keyboard, either. Amiga's refusal to work with commodity hardware meant that it was doomed

I do not believe the concept of "commodity hardware" was well established when the Amiga was introduced in 1985, so faulting them for not using what eventually became commodity hardware is a little disingenuous.
Anyone know how to list just the data resources? Searching for "data" gives a whole lot of code resources and I don't know if it includes all of the data resources. The subtopic choice does not seem to include tag options and there is no mention of tags in the advanced search help.
A book even! I linked it below, as a level 1 comment.
Whoa. I hadn't realized this. So someone that knows my email address and has my phone has access to my entire life, because all password resets use my email address.

If it's come to this, to using "something you have", then we can all go back to using paper password notebooks. They offer the same security, surprisingly.
The cancer caused by HPV is not transmissible. The virus that causes it is.

Transmissible cancer is possible, but it's of almost negligible risk to humans [1, 2].

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228048/

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p1104-parasite-tumors...
Yes, I can write my own types, but typing isn't always easy. Especially with advanced techniques like parametric polymorphism etc.
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hey thanks for the response, I am sure it is quite well done to your target audience. Do you know of any higher level material that provides a good outline conceptually but only assumes a really general knowledge? This is a bit above my comfort zone :). I do really like, i think Joel Gruus, writing. His fizzbuzz with tensor flow was hilarious. I am unfortunately not particularly gifted in mathematics so libraries like that will likely be the furthest ill go into ML/DL, oh btw whats the difference ;). jk

cheers
>>done with convnets

No, a majority of the object recognition work I've seen, is done with 'expert' crafted features. Machine learning can for example boost the performance of these features. Another interesting thing is that the machine learning features often require more staff, so they receive a disproportional emphasis.
Hacker news is oddly obsessed with negative Nest press. Suspiciously so.
Nice article. Amazing report by Vanbex guys
It would be entirely possible to do that if we first remove government from the equation.

Private companies and co-ops can and do operate roads, electricity production, waste collection, etc. It's just a matter of government standing in the way of it being a more direct transaction.

I'm not necessarily saying one way or the other is a better solution, but to invalidate their argument on the grounds that "it's like this way already" or "I grew up this way" essentially is bullshit.
Are you suggesting that companies should not be able to hire the most qualified individuals who went through the same system as everybody else?

[EDIT (rephrasing): There is no particular training provided. The international students received the same education as US students at US institutions.]

International students generally have to pay for everything out of pocket (they are not eligible for any public/tax-payer based assistance, not even subsidized loans). This in effect often subsidizes the cost of tuition for the domestic students.
[EDIT: This is the case in the University of California system where the percentage of out of state and international students admissions increases to deal with budget problems.]

The companies in question here expect individuals to have worked on significant projects, demonstrated ambition and passion outside of their regular coursework. Those who can generally have no problem being hired.
That code returns 0 for all NaN inputs.
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Thanks, this explanation made a lot of sense to me.
Thats part of it, the other part is simple market economics. It is hard for the things that people want to do at night (clubs, art galleries, restaurants and bars) which are much lower margin businesses to compete with the large financial and governmental institutions that dominate places like the Chicago loop, lower Manhattan or downtown Dallas.

These leads to a pretty common pattern where just outside of the financial/governmental centers of US cities there exist neighborhoods that are mixes of residential, cafe's, nightlife, "creative businesses" or retail. For instance, the Chicago loop is literally surrounded by such places.

But the lack of activity in a financial district has very little correlation to the density of the city. Manhattan is obviously a walkable and dense place to live but lower manhattan (wall street) can feel down right empty after hours.

I have much less experience in European cities, but my experience in Dublin, Amsterdam and Frankfort are not much different than this.
Makes sense. The problem I see is that we already have a litigious society. The one plus to lawyers being selective is that while they may miss a few lawsuits, it reduces the number of frivolous lawsuits, which opens a liability to the attorney if they are found the be filing lawsuits just to file.

In a way the idea is kind of a spin-off of structured payment lending which is a proven market. Personally I wouldn't invest, the risk is to great and the investment could be tied up for years with a better than average chance of little to no return.

That said, it is an interesting concept, and part of me does see some benefit. I think the problem to solve would be to sell the platform to potential plaintiffs. There are probably numerous valid lawsuits that do not get brought because the plaintiff thinks it will cost them a fortune to even talk to an attorney in the first place. Put aside healthcare/accident related claims, but I am thinking more employer related lawsuits.
Regarding 4), the numbers reported are quarterly. You can see the annual chart here:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/sweden/gdp-growth-annual
"JavaScript, a cross-platform scripting technology for creating applications on the Internet and Intranets."

I like this description of JS
It's a good thing on HN that when "old farts" a.k.a. elders speak, the community tends to listen.

The differing subcommunities here have divergent opinions about what the front page should consist of. For example, we hear laments from other corners that the amount of business stuff has gone down (where you might think it has gone up, or at least stayed too high).

The obvious 'solution' would be to factor this site into silos, subreddit-style, but we're not going to do that, even though the result is that the front page is guaranteed to be optimal for nobody. By far the best way to influence it is to post stuff of the kind you personally consider highly interesting. And if it doesn't get noticed, fire us an email (hn@ycombinator.com) because we've built systems to give exceptionally good stuff multiple cracks at the bat here.
Apple's devices tend to be more difficult to repair or upgrade yourself, yes, but this is not malicious, even if it is somewhat hostile.

Also, I should point out that while Apple's phones don't let you install unapproved software, this isn't true of the Mac, which, unlike Microsoft-approved PCs[0], lets you install alternative operating systems (you can even boot to DOS!), disable its security features, etc.

[0] I know that MS do allow OEMs to allow disabling Secure Boot, but it's not required as of Windows 10. Meanwhile, Apple's computers don't have it in the first place!
How does needlessly soldering ram in make a device slimmer?
I think you are being overly optimistic on the "hard to wiretap".

Here:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachme...

And here:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/system/event_at...

You just need a handful of local stations to get good coverage, but then it's very trivial.
Replaceable RAM modules take up more space.
Also, very deep NN without residuals:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07648
Definitely the case for me. Most avenues of pursuing "real" contact readily available in my area and age group involve social situations that I have a great deal of difficulty navigating (which I increasingly think is some kind of neurological condition) and/or "common interests" that I lack interest in. Usually both.
You need to try CMUSphinx http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net. In keyword spotting mode it is very lightweight. Python example is here: https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/blob/master/swig/p...
And naked mole rats right?
Digital Editions: The Little Engine That Could of Magazine Publishing (2015)
I think he meant as opposed to informal (maybe petty, harmful) internal competition.
How much memory does the compiler use?
Cyberpunk Anime: A Comprehensive List of Everything
well, it seems pretty clear to me, but let's assume this in an honest question, and pardon me for my honesty - these are my own observations from living here:

- generally europe is christian. swiss are very traditionalists, and religion is very important here. they are extremely tolerant to other cultures (that's why UN is in Geneva for example), but only to the point where they don't feel their own culture threatened. Obviously, with islam, and islam only, based on plenty of bad experience in their neighbors (ie France, Germany) they decided as they did. Over time, they don't regret their decision. Personally, even as atheist, I tend to agree on this topic. Overall attitude in Europe is same right now and many wish they could have similar vote.

- would you go and build a church in Afghanistan, Iran or Saudi Arabia? (Actually I've visited old churches in Isfahan in Iran, with thriving christian community, humbling experience). Not many would even think about this. Personally I don't find it shocking that dominant religion is preferred somewhere. You can practice anything you want at home, just no official religious places are allowed to build. Bear in mind that those that were already built are still standing, this applies only to new construction. Very Swiss approach.

it's something around being tolerant to others only to the point where your own identity and core principles are not threatened. very mature and clever approach.
1) Avoid phone apps.

2) Install uBlock Origin on your browser.

3) Install Privacy Badger* on your browser.

* I used to use just uBlock origin, but things work so much better with privacy badger. There must be some kind of code to indicate "yeah, yeah, you're tracking me so well" because I don't get nearly as many broken sites. Third party comments don't work (like disqus), but HN is about the only place comments add value.

Fraud, malware, deceit unwanted intrusions are reasons to block all advertising. Facebook or otherwise, they are becoming the norm. We see this over and over again. It is past time to take a stand.

On a related note. Does anyone know whether or not there are advertising groups that provide single line, vetted ads (single line could be small non-intrusive ads) to be embedded into a site rather than injected from an ad network? There has to be SOME good actor providing single line unobtrusive ads like the old google ads.
It still has an ID (IMEI).
fewer of us are etymologists

But think how useful it would be in an emergency if we were.

https://xkcd.com/1012/
JS is very cool because of how readily available it is and the awesome ecosystem that has grown around it. That said - you don't have to be a CS professor to see that the language (especially in early incarnations) wasn't well designed, to put it nicely. A.H. knows this just like anyone with the skills to design languages and compilers.
Is it really that hard? Assuming you generate a public/private key, there's openssl RSA_sign and RSA_verify whose interfaces are pretty simple, clear and well documented. There's a difference between "I'm going to write a new way to do asymmetric encryption" which is really hard, and "I'm going to use RSA to verify/sign a binary" which is really easy. I'm seeing a tendency to say that crypto is hard for anything that has to do with crypto which is not the case. While erring on the side of caution is commendable, let's not push vigilance to the point where taking the hash of a file is considered hard crypto to get right.
Looks like we crashed the site
1978 General Electric portable TV modified to include a hidden Chromecast
Yeah I'm not sure whether to believe that part. If I found notes on my pillow, I'd nope the fuck out of there and either go back to the conference or the police station. In any case, that story would not have ended where it does now.
Yes, in the US, "fascist" is a general-purpose insult directed at whatever politicians or parties the speaker doesn't like. One of those terms that brings more heat than light.
No one cares if they build websites for the gov't (indeed it's exemplary citizenship), the concern is rather that their involvement will include influencing policy. They have many interests relating to existing or potential regulations (on self-driving cars or big-data mining, for instance.) Their interests aren't necessarily so obviously malign as oil or cigarette lobbyists, but we'd still like regulators to be theoretically acting purely for the sake of the public good.
that depends on your opinions regarding free software. people who support the GPL would probably call BSD/MIT less free, because the software is "free, for now," or "free, for me." that might not be good enough for actual freedom to be maintained, along the lines they're thinking about freedom.

i'm not going to argue about that though. surely you're familiar with the territory.

the point, though, is that the GNU ethos is the reason for the GNU tools, and the onus would be on you to show that that ethos was interchangeable with some other in order to get where we are today.

when you're explaining an event in history, you need to take the facts and look for "why did things happen this way after that particular event?" you can't just substitute a comparable event and say "everything would be the same." if we're talking about the legal basis of this or that for the GPL and BSD licenses, sure, you can interchange things and show that "here, in this case, you'd be regretting GPL, and in this case [etc etc etc]." but for the course of history, you actually have to be much more careful with your scope... it's unlikely that one change (one that the primary person involved, RMS, himself took to be the central point of all it) could have no effects, or no salient ones.

notice how these points are distinct. RMS wouldn't but have written the GPL. history worked out how it did. these are different than your or my opinions on the merits of varying degrees of permissiveness in licenses.
Perhaps it was just a case of misunderstanding, but your sentence read like you were implying that preventing users from updating the firmwares was a good thing.
Along the same lines, this paper is a great and slightly more comprehensive read on what TLS/HTTPS doesn't protect.

https://www.teamupturn.com/static/reports/2016/what-isps-can...
I don't understand this comment. Backing out of your apology? Perhaps you should have a gander at how long I've been here before you become HN cop.

Perhaps I misunderstand this comment. I use adblock on Facebook. I don't see all of the ads in your imgur pic. I seriously had no idea it was so advertisement-laden.
IoT is a perfect use for notifying you if the furnace fails and you are not home since IoT temperature sensors operate independently of the thermostat. I've put a Nest Thermostat in multiple houses now and been very happy with them - the remote control functionality, decent web UI for additional control/scheduling, and the app are simple enough for family members who are not in IT to use.
Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted advertising part #2. This and more is old hat in present day ad tech. How about tying together which user is the same person on a tablet, phone and a PC? And it doesn't need any kind of audio signal.
Did Meredith and Andrea actually share a story? I thought it was just a tweet.

I reread the thread in question and yes...that is exactly what people were saying. Basically: Let's hold judgement until we have more information.

Unlike two vague tweets Nick wrote a very detailed story with lots of background. To compare the reaction to those two instances is very disingenuous.
Yes, that's about it. Sometimes that really matters and sometimes it doesn't matter at all. It seems like a lot of the time for the sort of things people do in vvvv it's not so important. I certainly found it a limitation but it's hard to know how much that's an actual need and how much it's just me thinking in the languages I'm used to.
You sign at the source with a private key, and you verify on the target with the public key. The trick is only someone with the private key can create a signature that the public key can verify.
Ask HN: Recent college graduate (math) in need of tech career advice
Hey, HN.

5-year lurker here.

I just finished college and am trying to get a decent job as quickly as I can. My degree is in math, from a top 20 school, with a low (2.9ish) GPA. I have a few years of entry-level IT support experience, a few years of college math tutoring experience, a research project in applied math, and some basic programming and CS skills.

I’m willing to do…

* any kind of work,

* in any field,

* anywhere in the country with a reasonable cost of living,

that…

* pays at least a $50k salary and benefits,

* doesn’t require significant travel,

* has a consistent, 40-hour schedule,

* doesn’t require me to bring work home,

* isn’t a call center, and

* that I can start immediately with my existing qualifications.

Based on my background and goals, I’ve narrowed it down to programming, software QA/testing, business analyst, and IT support (in that order of preference). Which of these, if any, would you recommend that I focus on? Or is there another field I should be considering instead? Any insights on this would be massively appreciated.
I don't have anything useful to say about IoT, but I can think of three major changes newer than television: microwave ovens, personal computers, Internet. Mobile phones are also a major change that you might also put in this category.