skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like the parts that have to be secret should be small and easily changed (passwords, keys, etc.) rather than your protocols (which are going to be very hard to change).

There's no harm in a layer of obscurity over a secure system, but there's a social problem where it's more often used to obscure the workings of insecure systems than anything else. So all things being equal, one would prefer the cipher that's been well-studied by academics without being broken vs. the mystery cipher that claims to use all the most secure cryptographic constructs without giving anyone the details.
Don't we already have laws to go after criminals? Calling them a terrorist doesn't make them more or less criminal. And do we have so many of these boogeymen?
Not just shipping working cars, but consistently growing production by 40%+ per year.
There are housing developments around the world which intentionally plan for social integration. So, as you said, the fortunate better understand the less fortunate, and the battlers understand how others educate and motivate themselves, etc. If you're always around those doing it tough, I imagine it can be hard to break habits and improve your lot.

I've previously worked with one group called Common Ground:

"The tenancy mix reflects an urban living community where half of the residents are people who have experienced homelessness and the rest being low income earners. This creates the opportunity for friendship, integration and the breakdown of social barriers."

More: http://www.commongroundadelaide.org.au/what-we-do/creating-a...

They have some case studies as examples of what they can achieve:

http://www.commongroundadelaide.org.au/stories/karens-story/
Sounds like Apollo can connect to both MySQL and Postgres (as well as other data stores): http://docs.apollostack.com/apollo-server/guide.html#Connect...
This is a brilliant answer! Responses like this are exactly why I come to Hacker News comments when I really want to understand an issue.

Follow up questions:

1. Why is Wells Fargo doing this if it poses such a threat to their penalty-based-fees revenue stream?

2. Are there services currently doing the type of account alerting using screen scraping tech? If not, why not?
Almost as good as "think of the children"
MacBook Air

LAST REFRESH:March 2015

LAST REDESIGN:October 2010

I have been wondering about the Air, the 13 inch feels so clunky compared to many newer 13-inch ultrabooks that were inspired by it. Is Apple going to abandon the 13 inch entry level unit? Surely not.
> You also can't lower taxes without hurting employment and nobody wants higher unemployment.

This is counter to virtually everything I've seen asserted about economics, as well as the raw world data on hours worked compared to tax rates.

There is a "leisure effect" whereby getting more money for the same amount of work (the effect of lowering taxes) means that people choose additional leisure over additional work, because they don't need the extra money from additional work as badly. It is much less strong than the effect whereby raising the returns on work leads people to do more of it, because they're getting more out of the extra work than they used to.

What are you thinking of when you make this claim?
Um .. why do they need a weapon to "disrupt" GPS? It's their birds. They can turn it on/off selectively whenever and wherever they deem necessary. Or is this meant as a test of something to disrupt the Russian/Chinese systems?

And why southern california? Alaska, the pacific... northern Canada ... there are lots of lower-traffic areas. We aren't getting the full story.
WHO THE FUCK IS FLAGGING THIS. YC PROTECTING THEIR SHADY FRIEND? WTF?!
He Said, They Said – First-Person Account of Jacob Appelbaum's Sexual Misconduct
I didn't realize that internet only surpassed newspapers last year. Although this is a great visual.
Methods: We identified searchers in logs of online search activity who issued special queries that are suggestive of a recent diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. We then went back many months before these landmark queries were made, to examine patterns of symptoms, which were expressed as searches about concerning symptoms. We built statistical classifiers that predicted the future appearance of the landmark queries based on patterns of signals seen in search logs.

Results: We found that signals about patterns of queries in search logs can predict the future appearance of queries that are highly suggestive of a diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. We showed specifically that we can identify 5% to 15% of cases, while preserving extremely low false-positive rates (0.00001 to 0.0001).
https://www.livecoding.tv/pastebin/xfzo for original document
What I learned at our last company that I'm applying to our 4-person company:

1) Set up performance reviews and tie them to salary reviews every 6 months. It sounds very corporate-y, but it sets a cadence. People know when their compensation is up for review.

2) Talk about salary/title/equity expectations before performance reviews. Then, during performance reviews, if your grant differs from the expectations, it's a time to set objective for how to achieve those goals during the next round of raises.
I believe and stand with Leigh.

Thinking of mutual colleagues of mine and how long this apparently has been happening (and to be clear, not about this or other victims) reminded me of something Larry Lessig wrote about his own abuse:

"The real evil isn’t the Hitler. The evil is the good German. The evil is all those people who could’ve just picked up the goddamn telephone and stopped it."[0]

[0]http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/12061/index7.html
Wonderful to hear!
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It's a fantastic concept, I search for medical symptoms all the time.

But it's funny, I was thinking the same thing the whole time I was reading the article... what are the search queries?!?
There are Palestinians that work for Israeli companies. They mostly live in the West Bank.

If you live in Gaza, it's very difficult to travel out of it. The southern border to Egypt is closed. The northern border (which is the one we went through) is open but you need permits to enter Israel. The military takes its time with the permits and it's not always guaranteed you will get one. This makes a commuting sort of setup impossible.

The women there were treated and educated the same. Some of them outshined the guys.

I saw modern laptops and screens where ever I went. Definitely more Android than iPhone. There is difficulty around bringing in 3D printers.

I did not meet any Gazans who worked for local companies. Most seemed to work for the gulf or were working on startups aimed for deployment in the gulf.
I worked on a team that was set up exactly like this. Like you said, it was really effective for some ad-hoc discussion about tricky problems. The knowledge sharing was fantastic and I learned a ton.

The major downside was the chaos. If you were the team expert in some domain, you usually had someone asking questions about that domain every 20 minutes. Sometimes programming takes 4 hours of uninterrupted concentration. That work was very difficult to accomplish.

A small group of us ended up bringing in laptops and separating from the group multiple (sometimes 5) days a week. We found ourselves having to choose between finishing our own work, or helping other people finish their work.
Derek Yu drew the cover for Vol 13, Issue 2

http://squelched.com/issue/volume-13-issue-2-flaming-poo-bag...
Apple could easily make a laptop with better battery - it would just be bigger, heavier and more expensive.

Elon Musk claims the same thing about Tesla - that he could easily increase the range on Tesla's cars if they wanted to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsixsRI-Sz4 . But with a range of ~300 miles he thinks they're fine.
http://orlincultureshop.com/blog/2015/2/2/opera
From the discussion in this thread it seems likely that the source of the disruption is something that will be broadcast from ground level. Your position relative to that transmitter (bearing in mind the curvature of the earth) will likely matter far more than your elevation relative to the ocean.

If you are on the ground you will presumably be sheltered by intervening obstacles (building, hills, the earth) while a plane in the air (or anyone else significantly above ground level) may have line of sight to the source of whatever is going on.
Origins and migration of Soccer's elite – data visualization and app
That's a good point. If they were open on how they measure page rank though, it would force them to more rapidly improve their algorithm. Right now, it seems people slowly figure out how to game it and Google have to change the rules again (e.g. hidden content, follow/nofollow links, guest blogging).
I'd point out that modern SSDs are getting within the an order of magnitude of RAM in terms of speed. If your dataset is larger than what can fit in RAM, you can probably come up with some kind of on-disk storage mechanism, at the cost of speed. Buy a few and RAID them and you can probably get even closer.

Still not 1000 machines, but one cost in this scenario is that you also won't have to pay for the humans to run the network the 1000 machines live on, or the power for 999 machines, or the cooling, or the floorspace, etc.

"RAM is for the stack and SSDs are for heap" is a phrase I'm starting to hear.
A little blinkenlight among the masses is easy to miss. Having your controls physically fight you because the other pilot is doing something is impossible to miss.
Google involved with Clinton campaign, controls information flow – Assange
I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side.

I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex:

1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, so if you really want me to switch, give me some kind of key I can use at a time of my choosing.

2. Fix the schizophrenic UI where various Windows settings are missing or sometimes hidden away.

3. Stop lying about updates and hiding trojan code in them.

4. No sneaking ads onto MY computer.

5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.

6. Allow power-users firm control over when patching occurs, because data-loss is not acceptable.
Yes, in a hypothetical platonic code-only way you can separate Yarvin from his work to some degree. But you're underestimating the impact of the word "personal" here- some people avoid communities like this not as a boycott, but for their personal safety or emotional well-being. That's the point where they go from the excluder to the one being excluded.
>All the techniques that I learned can be applied to cultivate any kind of mushroom...

If only this were true. Sterile culture techniques only work for the subset of species that aren't obligately mycorrhizal (forming mutualisms with plants), parasitic, or that have other complex ecological requirements. Thus there are all kinds of delicious and interesting species we can't grow so easily, or at all.

But I have a lot of respect for home cultivators like this guy, who go beyond the grow kit stage. It's straightforward to culture and fruit many mushroom species in a properly equipped microbiology lab. But when you're in your kitchen, making do with "gloveboxes"[1] instead of HEPA laminar flow hoods, stovetop pressure cookers instead of autoclaves, and fridges and terrariums instead of programmable incubator units, things can get really challenging.

[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/Glove-bag-for-Mushroom-Growi...
Actually Joyent's manta is quite similar in concept to what we've been doing for years (before manta came out). The idea is to build very capable systems and aggregate them. Not a bunch of fairly low end units (like typical AWS/etc). Our argument is that if you are going to build a high performance computing infrastructure, you ought to build it in an architecturally useful manner. The cost to do so is marginally more than "cheap n deep", while the savings (fewer systems needed for very large analytics) is substantial.

My company is Scalable Informatics (http://scalableinformatics.com)
Hmm, wait a moment.

59% of white kids moved up.

43% of white kids moved down.

Even accounting for rounding, there's no way to get those numbers. It's even worse in other places:

25% of black kids had parents who grew up in the bottom two levels and moved up at least one.

78% of black kids had parents who grew up in the top three levels and moved down at least one.

Those two groups should sum to less than 100%, certainly not 103%.

Also, except for the "Moving to Opportunity" experiment, most of this seems to ignore the distinction between correlation and causation.

This reminds me of the recent finding that 50% of papers in reputable psych journals reported mathematically impossible data. https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for... The more people start to dig in, the more the "social sciences" look unscientific.
Now the question is whether or not they will reactive the terminals they purposely bricked and allow Google Wallet (or whatever it's called now) and Apple Pay to work again?
The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It
A blog post and link to an interactive data science app that plots the origins of Copa America players and the paths that led most to Europe.
Sol Price on Becoming Your Customer’s Best Friend
After reading over their landing page a few times, I think that this is writing assistant "service". You start writing out your proposal and some automated "asssistant, not a bot" is supposed to analyze your writing and provide suggestions to make it more memorizable and easy to understand (group this into 3 phrases instead of sentences. Remove this adverb. Change this sentence from passive to active). I assume once you write it up, it gives you the ability to share your masterpiece as a link, possibly export to word/pdf/stone tablet.

Much like Microsoft's Clippy, the idea is pretty sound, but a bad implementation will make it more of an annoyance than a feature. Given the confused meandering of their landing page, I don't have much hope for their product.
No, but I disagree that running sshd on an alternate port is an arbitrary layer. It is PROVEN that it prevents the automated mass scanners from even attempting to login. This you admit yourself when you mention the reduction in log noise.

You are correct that a properly configured sshd has nothing to worry about with respect to these mass scanners. However, can we guarantee that we'll never make a configuration error? You're also correct that a pre-auth sshd vuln would be a HUGE deal. But can we guarantee one will never happen? Do you disagree that if a misconfiguration or a world-changing vulnerability were to happen, that a little time more to deal with it would be helpful?

If I run something that is in any way vulnerable (whether via bug or misconfiguration) on port 22, it will be found within minutes (based on how often I see that port getting scanned today). Unless I'm being specifically targeted, an sshd running on an arbitrary port isn't going to get hit until/unless someone is running full port scans across the internet looking for it. I don't understand how you can argue that this is worthless. A measure that isn't useful against a determined and targeted attacker can still be useful. The adversaries that most of us face in the real world are looking for the path of least resistance, not access to our specific systems.
The higher the crime rate the higher the cap rate. You could outsource to a property management company but you get raped of your profits via collusion with contractors. If you can replace rotted subfloors, toilet wax rings, broken windows, and can shoot 3 inch groups at 10 yards then you might be successful.
I usually think of scaling in 3 methods: horizontal (add more machines), vertical (get a bigger machine) and inward (improve your algorithms).

The largest performance gains I've seen are most often of the inward type -- like multi-thousands of percent, just by rethinking the code or the approach.

Bonus, improving inward scaling multiplies investments in horizontal and vertical scaling.
For what it's worth, false morels are only considered edible in certain areas. E.g. in New England they're considered deadly poisonous, but they're considered a delicacy in Cincinnati. There are a lot of different species, and also possibly gene transfer across species, so it's not really clear what's going on.
> but AFAIK a lot of "Googlers" don't really like it and don't use it

Where on earth did you hear that? It's simply not true.

(googler)
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

THE MACHINE STOPS
As the author of a recently-linked post about mushroom growing pointed out, home-grown drugs have encouraged a level of experimentation and ingenuity that is rarely found among most gardeners. This is partly due to risk/reward: if you've spent $100 on seeds, you want to make damn sure they crop. People go to great lengths to figure out how to get the best yield from their weed plants, how to precisely control the growing conditions and so on. There's also a strong culture of sharing advice between growers which helps.

However, probably a better solution for something like weed would be this: http://openag.media.mit.edu/
I wonder if they formed a coalition for this to ensure No Separate Peace.
Looks like a blogging platform, like Medium.
You can try "Expect Syetem"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
someone pointed me to a site that sells mushroom pellets that you stick into logs to grow. ill try it soon.

something like this:

http://www.shii-take.de/irw_lang.454e47.list.4b41543333.html

or this

https://www.mushroomadventures.com/
> Which then means that Article 15 that doesn't specify an actor when talking about "right to nationality" calls on anyone to provide that nationality. If a stateless person washes up on shore of America, and if the USA refuses to provide citizenship, nsheppard or me (or anyone) gives him that citizenship.

This is inane. You're inventing a rule for mutilating the statements of the UDHR that I never claimed exists. "Everyone has the right to a nationality" in standard english says that everyone has the right to a nationality. There's no actor to fill in, it doesn't call on anyone to do anything.

The document as a whole is an agreement among member states to (try to) enforce the rights asserted to exist within.

> If so, there is no need to refer to the UDHR in an attempt to back up your argument.

The article asserts (factually / morally) the existence of certain "human" rights, which is exactly what I am talking about.
You actually don't need especially sterile conditions to grow oyster mushrooms. I've done this tek, it works pretty well:

https://courses.biology.washington.edu/biol440-spr16/folders...

Also the mycelium has a pleasant almond smell, so that's a nice whenever you go downstairs to check on them. The hardest part is figuring out what to tell the Petco employees when they ask what kind of cat you have.
Tesla is going to be a gigantic company one day.

Disclaimer: I own one (Model S P85+, about 2 years old). And everyone I let drive it (yes, I am crazy enough to do that... As a fan who pushes the bleeding edge, it's important to share the experience in order to change minds... Anyway, my insurance covers me even when I'm a passenger!) cannot stop talking about it afterwards. I actually think Tesla's market is limited right now not only by the people who can't afford one, but by the people who haven't even had the opportunity to drive one yet and have thus not yet had their eyes opened...

Driving is believing. If you have any opportunity at all to experience driving one... Do not hesitate. It makes everything else feel like a noisy clunker.

The older guys I let drive it, like the real car guys of old... they have the best reactions. The look of shock and disbelief on their faces... The stories they start telling about their first muscle cars... The whooping and "OH MY GOD"'s and whatnot... It's totally awesome
Law Firm Salaries Jump for the First Time in Nearly a Decade
For the sake of argument, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, HP, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba are among the manufacturers that have managed to release a ~13" laptops with Skylake processors, and Apple still may not next week. They also haven't made any meaningful updates to the workstation Mac Pro since 2013.
PagerDuty should fit the bill, it's their core competency. You won't need fire drills, since you can see if folks are acking and resolving alerts. Disclaimer: I work there.
Interesting, which got me thinking.. Where does it limit jurisdiction to unincorporated areas? After digging in the ordinance[1], it seems to apply to any "County department with a recognized County budget unit", which should include both cities and unincorporated areas [2], as the fiscal budget appropriates money to these populated areas.

If it's limited to unincorporated areas, then it would only enforceable in 8% of populated areas (primarily farmland), as 92% of the 1.8 million population lives in cities [3].

[1] http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=4&ID=1493...
[2] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sccphd/en-us/Partners/Data/Page...
[3] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/pages/about-the-county.aspx
Gun registration and/or licensing does not inevitably lead to confiscation of all guns. It may lead to confiscation of some of them (as with semi-autos in Australia), but just looking at various countries which have some form of mandatory gun registration - which is most of them outside of US - they have extreme variability in other gun control measures; from legal ownership of "assault weapons" & normal-capacity magazines and concealed carry in Czech Republic, to near-blanket bans in some Asian countries.
This reminds me of a the dash-plus system for note taking: http://patrickrhone.com/dashplus/
Perhaps people think it's a parody worth upvoting?
By the way, this is the same reason I lock my door even though there’s a glass sidelight right next to it. Any burglar who wants to get into my house can do it in about 5 seconds by breaking that sidelight. But that doesn’t mean there’s no value in keeping out the mischievous neighbor kids who are just rattling doorknobs and looking for a place to steal booze from.
The big problem lies still in the fact that most electricity is generated from coal and nuclear. Every Tesla on the road today is effectively a coal powered car with the potential to be converted to green energy. Solar panels likely being the equilibrium. But the decline in battery cost is good, means it won't be long before they stop losing 1k on every car sold
Three Takeaways from the Richest Man in Babylon
Excellent write-up and well done for doing this!

Were there any female instructors? If there had been some could they have led a female-only session in the evening?
Sorry, do you mean that they are considered edible or inedible in these regions due to varying conceptions of "edible", or do you mean that the false morels of some regions are poisonous while those in others are not?
>He remarked that I wouldn't find the same type of sense of community in slums in Muslim parts of India, because their beliefs about their poverty and their lot in life was different.

Keep in mind he's probably biased in some way here.
Have there actually been studies that prove Uber is significantly cheaper than cab?

Anecdotally speaking, I've taken Uber quite often in Austin, as well as various cabs, and they always seemed comparable to me. In fact, if you take into account Uber's surge pricing (which cabs don't have, afaik), Uber came out more expensive on average.
Looks interesting. If you can decipher your own handwriting that is. (Which I can't).