skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually part of a series of investigations she has been working. I think the article is overall a good read and take on the situation.

Take note of the fact that it's C0d0s0, former NSA Agents directly tasked with targeting threat groups, and even more interestingly this quote "Not all companies heed the warning. A security consultant for one victim, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of nondisclosure agreements, said that his client chose not to act on a tip from Area 1 last year out of concern that a scandal over a successful online attack against the company would jeopardize its recent acquisition. It figured its acquirer would not have been thrilled to learn that the start-up’s proprietary technology was now in Chinese hacker’s hands."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/technology/chinese-hackers...

There is a lot more to this story than has come out.
I suspect Wolfram also succeeds despite the nature of his people skills. I found this letter from Feynmann[1] to be an interesting and early read on his behavior.

[1]: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ord...
In general (wildly general), legal scholars say that you are entitled to use any name you wish, even when contracting, provided you are not doing something that's illegal (such as perpetuating a fraud, theft, or some other form of deceit). States have a statutory name change process so that your name can be deemed recognized but, otherwise, your use of a name is solely up to you and the willingness of others around you to accept it.

If you'd like to read a rather well done paper on it, check out this one from the UCLA Law Review: http://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/57-1-7.pdf

(By way of example, I was born "Firstname Middlename Lastname." I use an abbreviated form of my middle name in common usage, so let's say "Mid Lastname." A couple of my credit accounts have "Mid Lastname" on them, as does one of my utility bills, because they accepted my preference for using that name. Others have "Firstname Lastname" or "Firstname M. Lastname" because that was the policy of the business when I opened them. They are all equally valid and equally binding on me because I am the one who did those acts and I can demonstrate that I am. Why have I not done the statutory name change process in my state to formally adopt "Mid Lastname" as my recognized name? Eh, haven't felt like it.)
100percentinvisible, in a sense.
This is very interesting, but I can't use it unless you have a reference I can cite.

I'm also curious how many units there are in those 2000 blocks.
Thanks! Interesting to hear about your experience as well. By requests per seconds you mean packets? I was curious and with 330 players playing on DDNet right now[1] we get ~7400 packets/s incoming, ~8300 packets/s outgoing.

[1] https://ddnet.tw/status/
A New Way for the Wealthy to Shop for Citizenships
The problem is that the cheapest source of lighting for many poor communities is hazardous biomass fuels like kerosene. And unfortunately good alternatives like solar may not be a viable option for everybody.

Sure there are many parts of Africa with good infrastructure, but just because you are living in Africa in the 21st century does not mean you are now surrounded by power lines!

The nearest power socket might be a few dozen or even hundreds of miles away. How are you going to get there and back? If you don't succeed in charging your battery today because of floods or storms, will you go without lighting?

And there is also cost and access to credit to account for. The GravityLight is targeting $5 price point, whereas a basic solar charging pack in Uganda costs approximately $150 USD on finance [1].

Compared to batteries, GravityLight has no operating costs. It also does not degrade over time, lose charge when it is unused, or unexpectedly stop working when the battery runs out. This might be an important consideration for some.

As for whether the device can produce adequate lighting. A candle or simple kerosene wick lamp will produce around 8 lumens of light output [2] compared with the 16 lumens of the GravityLight. So this is pretty good.

Each community has different needs and circumstances. Providing people with more alternatives to kerosene fuel will allow them to choose the solution that is right for them.

[1] http://www.fenixintl.com/uganda/
[2] http://evanmills.lbl.gov/pubs/pdf/offgrid-lighting.pdf
You should put a finer point on it, and say why you think it is. I am 99.999% certain the author, as a writer, has heard the phrase "The grass is always greener...."
It's called measuring things. It's what we do, after all.
> Japan's most popular drink is a brand of canned coffee which is on sale everywhere and in the vending machines that line the streets. Coca Cola's brand of this coffee accounts for an outsize proportion of their global profits (something like 12%, only sold in Japan).

Yet another strange Japan-related fact. That is an insane amount of coffee.

For anyone curious, the Coca Cola beverage is called "Georgia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(coffee).
I personally just clean out my phone onto my computer once every few months and keep it there if I feel the urge to look at it. Once in a while I'll zip up anything I think I haven't backuped up (with generous overlap) and send it over to AWS Glacier. I've got 123 GB of data there and it cost me $0.84 a month. It'll be a bit of a pain to recover if I ever loose my local copies but I don't expect that to happen frequently.
For the curious, this is the patent for the tech -
http://www.google.com/patents/US8637428
Intel has plausible deniability. A backdoor in RDRAND would be some very minor statistical flaw. It could just be something tiny that makes private keys susceptible to some known or unknown attack.
Blind devs would be perfect for certain problem spaces, like security-sensitive work or expert-witness type research.
Personal finance software now more affordable
Would it be worth including a chapter(s) on writing Linux system utilities using Rust?

I hope you announce it on HN when the rewrite is finished.
I learned about it from an article here a few weeks back. I don't find that weird - not many people notice the brand of zippers on their pants.
This is most definitely part of a larger set of investigations she's working on.
This is my exact sentiment in many areas of life, being an adult who've seen many different ways of treatment of both myself and many others.

This exact HN discussion (and the original article) actually made me stay away from Clojure for good. I was curious, I wanted to learn the LISP way of doing things but I'm not gonna pretend that I am OK with people dismissing the possible irrelevance of their language by a death of 1000 paper cuts -- of which several were outlined the by the original article's author.

Same thing like the game Mortal Kombat X. Bought it for both myself and my girlfriend and we love it but it turns out Warner Brothers & Nether Realm Studios figured they'll support it only on the console almost immediately after it was released on PC.

I have enough money to buy 5 PS4 machines if I want to, and to buy one MKX copy for each. But I won't. I won't support people who treat their users/customers like that.

Same goes to Clojure. Same goes for Rails in the recent months when DHH actually has to write articles defending his strong opinions.
Quality of Nationality Index
That low salary figure must be based off of homing them on some non-SF/Seattle/Austin/NYC city. There are a lot of places in the US where making 60-70k individually puts you into the top 5-10% of the populace.
These "scarce" skills and requirements are trivially gamed on a regular basis. Large numbers of positions that are eventually filled by H-1Bs don't, in truth, require skills and experience that you simply can't find domestically.

Sure, every once in a while you need a nuclear engineer or some other domain expert in a very, very narrow domain, and you may have a genuine shortage of talent. But for general-purpose IT and commodity development, these skill are not in short supply domestically if you're willing to pay market salaries.
I used to work at Meraki (pre- and post-acquisition). Even internally, the message coming down was that we were being kept in San Francisco so that we would not get bogged down in, well, being Cisco. Even after couple of years of 100% year-on-year growth, the engineering team there was still smaller than the Cisco teams working on some individual product launches.
Seattle? Downtown maybe. The east side (across Lake Washington) is very suburban, and not particularly suited to car-free living. I lived there car-less for a couple of summers and got into alarmingly good shape biking up and down the eastside hills.
Placebo effects don't last 15 years.
Has anyone really faced trial for theft of a $1 candy bar? I'd imagine that turns out to be a ticket, a barring from that store, and on your way...
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This Machine Knows Shooting Better Than Steph Curry
> Even with that problem fixed, however, it was quickly noticed that moving the superpartners out of direct reach would still induce flavor changing neutral currents that, among other things, would lead to proton decay and so be in conflict with observation.

Dissonance strikes again!
As someone deeply involved with open data at the state level I kind of like the fact that the Feds have given us model legislation to use as a starting point in our own efforts.
ditching capital letters instead of punctuation would get rid of more redundant characters.
I think most programmers don't realize how much vision holds them back. I've been coding blindfolded for over a month and I'm never going back. If you are a touch typist what do you need to see? Not looking at things helps me to focus.

I do take the blindfold off while checking my work an during some parts of debugging.
I've seen a lot more foul language here go unnoticed, but I won't suffer from the building with the broken windows syndrome.

I apologize. I'll definitely remember the guidelines for the future. Thanks for pointing them out for me.

(BTW, I already can't edit the post. Ouch.)
Some time ago, I acquired a Staatsangehoerigkeitsausweis ("Certificate of Nationality") to prove German nationality. Boy, do not go searching for that word without some additional terms around it. That certificate seems to carry with it, at least by mention, a lot of baggage around "being declared a citizen of the Reich" and so on. I found a whole 20-page thread about how to hassle the BVA (Bundesverwaltungsamt, or "Federal Office of Administration") into issuing someone a certificate that didn't say "Im Auftrag" ("On behalf of") because having those words on it means it isn't "real."

Fortunately, the German Mission to the U.S. has risen in search results so the meaningless cruft is pushed down below the useful information.
That's pretty awesome. Interesting to see the entry level price is $199/month
I'm not a math guy, but I am a GNU guy who wants to learn more, and I'm curious what all the math geeks think about GNU Octave? How does it compare to matlab and mathematica? Any quitks or catches that make it unusuable for certain situations? Stuff like that...
Yes, but many school teams are welcoming to adult volunteers. I'd highly recommend it!
I love this. There's something unique about mixing a traditionally dry topic like history with the super playfulness of the narration. The choice of words, the ridiculous flashing text and little pictures and jingles... Couldn't stop watching.
I've got a theory that string theory is more of a sociological phenomena than real science. It started as a genuine attempt to model how the nucleus was held together and then continued because it's a good area to do maths and write papers rather than because it models reality.

One thing I don't get, which may be down to my own stupidity - take maybe the simplest interaction in physics - you have two electrons in space a few cm apart and the accelerate away from each other due to the charges repelling. I'm not sure how that is supposed to happen if everything is strings. Do they ping tiny strings at each other and how do they know which way to aim? Maybe some string person can enlighten me.
Demonstrating that tablet app for the Nissan Leaf perhaps isn't the best demonstration of great technology...

https://www.troyhunt.com/controlling-vehicle-features-of-nis...
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Hey, I don't actually know Clojure beyond basics and several intros showing the overall framework of the language, its paradigms and generic philosophy (I don't count that as knowing a language).

I'd love to help but as it is, the original article convinced me that I shouldn't. As a commercial project maintainer myself I am all too well familiar with how many things one can miss if he doesn't write everything down and constantly manage information -- that's why I have a huge private Trello board.

I am not gonna scorn fellow extremely busy devs. But I will point out that as language maintainers your responsibility is bigger than mine. You should do your best.

If I ever decide to become an active Clojure user I definitely won't be only criticizing. I'll do my best to help!
Such a contract would (almost surely) be barred by the 13th Amendment in the US.

The 13th Amendment language is much broader than the 1st.

"Shall [not] exist" coupled with "Congress shall have the power to enforce this article" is much broader than "Congress shall make no law..."
Try c-plus-plus-a
Note that if you're wondering, it was this video that had the comment about quitting Twitter (it's the first subject):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUBsueDMEAU
I certainly find my ergonomic keyboard (MS Nat Ergo 4000) much more comfortable to type on than a regular keyboard. Arms are much more relaxed, elbows out further from the body.

When I use a regular keyboard, I feel hunched up in the shoulders with elbows held tight to my abdomen, by comparison.
Absolutely, happens all the time. If a company security team catches you, it's up to the company to press charges, but they can and they do. It includes arrest and trial. Here's an NPR story on it I found with Google.

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/15/165218744/busted-what-happens-...
Ceteris paribus allowing anyone in the world to take a job if the employer wants them leads to better outcomes on average. That includes the situation where America is paying for global protection and other special negotiated treaties.

Even if you wanted to specially protect American workers, it would still be more beneficial to allow anyone to take the job then use the excess GDP to make up for the lost wages of Americans. The estimate by Borjas (the most anti-immigrant economist) is that wages would drop at most 5% (IIRC) if open borders happened.
I agree. I am a maintainer myself of a closed-source & commercial project. It's indeed extremely easy to miss out on a crucial piece of info.

I am not gonna teach anyone how to organize information. For the time being I am writing absolutely everything that comes to my mind (or is raised by customers and teammates) in a private Trello board. Even if I close everything in it 3 years from now, I would have some peace of mind knowing that I tried my damnest to never miss anything. And that's it's written down somewhere and that I am aware that it's waiting my input or work.

I was somewhat offensive simply because bugs 7 years old marked as "wontfix" without a tangible explanation is absolutely not OK for language maintaners. The jobs of the senior devs are usually very hairy because we're good in fixing messes and repairing things. I stand behind my opinion that you have to go back and fix your past mistakes every once in a while. You can't pretend you're 18-20 years old and only sprint ahead and be blinded by the glamour of the new and shiny features. Stuff periodically needs repairing, it's how it is.
No cookies, no article. Couldn't read.

Comments seem sufficient for me to realize I needn't have bothered.
How sure are we that it really has traction, and the business sense? I paid for my license, and I meet lots and lots of people using lots of editors including Sublime, and from this (smallish, and perhaps bad) sample only a tiny fraction of users have paid for it.
The article's author is making a point that the GP disagrees with, therefore the article's author must not be rational. It's a tired trope.[1]

1. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22knee+jerk%22+site:ne...
Anecdote, I've stayed at an AirBnB in the outskirts of Paris where the host was a father of a daughter. Daughter had some friends over and they seemed pretty chilled. They just ran around the house talking French and doing whatever kids do. Father was pretty relaxed about parenting.

This concept of structured playtime seems foreign to me. I grew up in Thailand where my parents would just let me run around the neighborhood with some friends. We would start fires and explore abandoned buildings.

Trying to plan out kids playtime just seems counterintuitive. Seems like helicopter parenting to me.
It's sadly too late now. I admit of being perplexed and somewhat angry after reading the original article and then making my own quick research on it. And I was temporarily a part of the problem I'd call "others use worse language so why should I care". That was obviously a mistake.

My apologies. It definitely won't ever happen again.
For me Medium, Product Hunt, Digital Ocean or even Twitch are not "toy sites".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
This is really great. I wish we could have a similar amount of trust in all countries but it seems rather unlikely.

In all the coffeeshops in Austin, Texas at least, I've seen baristas wake up customers who are napping. But I understand why they do that: there are many homeless people around and if anyone could just take naps...
USMC combat vet of OIF here, and very much this. I now have my "ptsd" under control and it is mild compared to many of my buddies, but if there is one thing I can impart is that "ptsd" is simply too broad a term. Combat vets have different kinds of trauma, from tbi to various psychological ones and more, and grouping them all up does them all a disservice.

I have done quite a bit of thinking on the subject, and I think many of the approaches for both treatment and diagnosis are wrong, but thats a thesis paper for another time.
Aesthetics. Ascetics are people who abstain from certain life pleasures.
I imagine an AI with internet access could manage to find a few credit card numbers...
As a maintainer of a major UI library for the web, I sympathize, but I also find that it also takes significant time to get accessibility done right as well. There is a lot of research involved for most people, precisely because they are not blind. I find that it is time consuming and doesn't offer as much bang for the effort, which is a shame & something I know I need to work on.

I wish there is a better solution here, but I don't know what it is. It does offer a good opportunity to make an impact though for any aspiring developers.
It's interesting that canned coffee is very popular in Asia (or that's my experience from SE Asia, Nestle seems to be the most popular there), but not in the western world.
Oh, I think I understand your question. This is a set literal, not a map literal:

{"a", "b", "c"}

This is a map:

{"name": "Fido", "age": 8}

Note the colons.

The point I was making is that Python doesn't make performance trade offs with these set APIs. Set union is in no way surprising. It either gives the correct intuitive result or raises an exception because of incorrect argument types.
Google's 'bench' program keeps executives at the company when not leading
"the trial was small and did not include a control group."
Octave is nice, and it compares well with matlab in my experience. However, I haven't used it in quite some time, as I switched from octave+gnuplot to the scientific python stack some years ago (and I prefer it immensely).
This article is full of crap like that.

Periodically, the wafer is washed using a form of water
so pure it isn’t found in nature. It’s so pure it’s
lethal. If you drank enough of it, it would pull
essential minerals out of your cells and kill you.

I guess this bit of silliness is our Western version of Korean fan death. It's a commonly-repeated myth that humans need minerals in their water, or that distilled water has meaningful biological effects that "normal" water doesn't. But...

Bohr’s solution, unveiled in 2007, was to coat parts of
the transistor with hafnium, a silvery metal not found
in nature

... somebody had to make that up completely at random.

Who did that, and why did they do it? What goes through a journalist's (or an editor's) head in the process of putting a statement like that in print?

The article is actually pretty interesting... but how much of it am I supposed to believe?
This is the old internet mindset, which apparently is not appreciated anymore. I agree with you, nobody that is helping strangers out of love and compassion, with no dollar signs attached to that role, should go out of their way to suffer fools. I guess the days of BBS's and forums with always-stickied "Search the site first" and "For Beginners" threads is in the past.
Hey great work!

Curious to hear what the client stack was? Did you use LibGDX by chance?
> Crimea is not Russia either.

Crimea was part of Russia longer than the US has existed. While its previous host, Ukraine, has only existed as a country for 20-some odd years.

Once the government of Ukraine was overthrown, the people of Crimea had every right to decide to stay or leave. And you will not find a single poll before-or-after not showing an overwhelming support for the latter.

> it was Ukraine snuggling up to the EU that provoked Russia into intervening...

A foreign-lead coup of a twice elected democratic government that put in a puppet regime for the sole purpose of creating problems for Russia is what lead things to the way they went.

Right now, what is happening in the eastern parts of Ukraine is a civil war - resulting from ethnic cleansing, neocon agenda, etc. And what is happening in the west of Ukraine is a total economic collapse from the so called free-trade deals with the EU.
you have to enroll in them and accept their honor rolls first. Does that work?
Article isn't about TCL.
Multiple occurrences of the To, Cc, and Bcc fields are permitted (though obsolete).

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-4.5.3
It is better than alternatives (faster, easier to use)

It is cheaper than alternatives (time, licence)

It was introduced in right time (surge in web boom)

It have easy to use API (Python vs Elisp)

It is cross-platform (*nix comeback)
ah yes. the thousands of moderators that thundered at you with "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION!!" while the first 10 result pages just yielded topics of people who got told they should use the search function.

merry days...