skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a major scammer on LinkedIn posing as an AI programmer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/intothecloud

I get connect requests from this guy all the time. He shows up in my inbox although not related anything I remotely do including people.

I see now that Microsoft wanted LinkedIn to enable advertisers to target you as if they are your 'friends' or friends of friends.
The Therapist in My Pocket
France becomes first major nation to ratify UN climate deal
Sure, I'm jao at geophile dot com.
Yea, I mentioned this because I just read it a couple of days ago :)
Yeah, maybe. Legalization has already begun to mess up the economics in Colorado.
Sounds like he wants someone to buy Dropbox.
Panamax ships are the absolute maximum size of ship the Panama Canal can handle (eg: PANAma canal MAXimum). [0]

Edit: Obviously, the canal is now larger. So Panamax in this case refers to ships that maxed out the old maximum size.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax
So you're saying that "people who want guns" have far more guns than they used to, and yet, gun crime has decreased?!?

That's not exactly a strong argument for increased gun control.

(FWIW The statistic that is useful isn't "gun ownership" across all cultures in the US, it's within specific sub-populations. There are huge discrepancies among violent crime across different sub-populations in the US, and without breaking them out, violent crime statistics make little sense, either individually or over time.)
I've been using Jekyll with GitHub Pages. I'm not a Web developer so it took me a while to customize a template to my needs. Pros of using Jekyll is
1. You get complete control over your blog
2. You blog like you are coding
3. Tons of free templates to choose from
4. Free hosting with the ability to use your own custom domain
A Long-Ago Plane Crash, the Lives It Ended, and the Lives It Began
I was looking at this stuff the other day after following links from the "hyperlog" npm package. Kudos for this really great inspiring work.
It's good to see.
Probably. Still figuring some of these parties out. All I know here is that many of the issues like healthcare, gun control, smoking regulations, etc. are mostly supported by both the left-leaning and right-leaning parties here. But support for any one of these issues would be enough to get you kicked out of the Republicans in the U.S.

The point being, you could likely make a party in the U.S. that kept most of the socially conservative stuff from the GOP and still picked up more of the economically "liberal" issues in the U.S., many of which are moderate in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, and make it work.
San Antonio man has engine that gets 100 mpg
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited
Python Kafka Client Benchmarking
Being indispensable can also severely impact any chance you have at progression within an organisation.

If they know they can't promote you or everything will fall over you're always going to get looked over compared to someone with a similar skill set but no 'baggage'.
Thanks--I thought that was pretty clear, but I guess not....
I am sorry, I don't. Actually I am not in the same country as you are and so any recommendation will be useless. Maybe, you can start a Ask HN with this specific question. Introverted as we techies maybe, I find that the people here are very supportive of those who need help, as we all have to pass that phase at one point of time or the other.
A string is just a multi-hop service/route, like Hong Kong -> Panama -> New York -> Norfolk -> Savannah -> Panama -> Hong Kong. Somewhat like a 'flight' for airlines.

From 'Dictionary of Shipping Terms' by Peter Brodie [1]:

String:

> Service offered by a shipping line involving several vessels performing outward and return voyages between ports in two distinct geographic or commercial areas. Also referred to as a 'service string' or 'string of vessels'

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=sRqk-NfgEY0C
My original calculation was that in audio you need to deliver 44000 values per second, in graphics you need 60 - 44000/60 roughly equals to 700. That's the difference factor :) (of course the data volume per delivery and it's techniques differ much, thats why i suggested that these are very different problems) It's very simple, maybe we got caught up into some misunderstanding.

For your concatenated blocks of precompiled code maybe you should have used simple function pointers, and one monolithic precompiled block to achieve the same result like i originally suggested.
David Mazières: “The Stellar Consensus Protocol” [video]
I still need to pull my finger out and play Psychonauts again. It's been sitting there for so long.
Show HN: Async Programming in Swift with AsyncTask
Well, the web technology is a pile of sh.t and in this case with the textarea you don't put your hands as deep in to is as you'd with the text input. That's how I interact with the web technology.
Autocomplete in chrome is one of its worst features. From a user and developer perspective.
Totally agree. Using pot is a poor decision. I feel like too many people are of the opinion that pot somehow makes them smarter or better or more creative or fights off cancer.
I'm very tempted to buy this, but I know it would just be another hobby that I don't have time for. Even if I could afford to be retired, I doubt I would have enough time to explore all the things that interest me.
How many times can you fold paper in half?
(Not an admin - that would probably be someone like dang)

Have you tried resubmitting the reply? It might've gotten eaten by a slow spam filter or something (I have no idea how HN works). You have contact info in your profile, so that works if there's a real issue.
It can actually work both ways.

Imagine 100 new scammers start posting whatever they want on the internet. The ones who post with perfect English get lots of people replying, but most of the victims realize it's a scam quickly. The ones who post with bad English get fewer people replying, but those who do are the most likely to fall for the scam.

You have a lovely Darwinian scenario here in which the highest return on investment comes from those with lower skill levels.
We provide 3rd party widgets to sites and originally built them all to leverage jQuery, which has been on 100% of them so far.

However, we prefer React components. Within a week, we were able to convert the jQuery widgets into React components and bundle with Preact.

What's funny is that it ended up being a smaller bundle due to complex logic it took to make jQuery render and update the DOM from existing state. (React's bread and butter)
On that note, I'm quite surprised this hasn't been yanked. Depending on externally-controlled services for info like this is a bit scary.

But then there are probably 100 backups of the page and info by now so...
You might get some interesting results if you aren't careful of history expansion...
If they'd be interested in sharing more about their usage of Rust, we'd love to have them represented on our page of corporate users at https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html .
How about "...consider _ excessive _ cannabis public evil in a way tobacco and excessive consumption of alcohol are public evil..."

I don't get your distinction between cannabis and alcohol for recreational vs excessive use.
I will reprise a comment from yesterday:

The only thing interesting about this story is that whoever did it "got caught". Sort of. Maybe.

Is there anyone here who really believes that every major campaign organization since, say, 2004 hasn't been completely owned up? What, you think the people that build the software and IT environments for campaigns --- sites that by design have millions of users with persistent accounts, and thousands of staff members at varying levels of privilege --- are the creme de la creme of software security talent?

Because, sure, I mean, everyone I know in software security and pentesting tells me "my first career choice is to go work in IT for the DNC and the GOP", but somehow along the way Google manages after a mighty struggle to outbid the 70k/year cost-center IT organizations offer for security talent.

If there was any interesting "oppo research" on McCain in the DNC servers during the '08 election, I will bet all the money in my pocket versus all the money in yours that the Chinese read all of it long before everyone on the official CC list did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903136
> Some years later, she somehow found out that they were using her as a reverse buyer -- since she had upper-crust taste, her reports were used as a guide about what NOT do buy for their stores.

That's genius.
I always thought "lock free" meant no hidden pauses in execution - a write is a write and a read is a read. The primitives described here will block. How is that different in effect from a lock, albeit one implemented down in the library rather than explicitly by the user? My lock free mechanisms never blocked. And they're used in thousands of emedded devices without failures.
This!

I have previously wasted so much time working around this browser behaviour.

The trick I use now is to add in a hidden (via CSS) pair on inputs earlier on the page, that do nothing. The browser fills those in, and leaves the real password admin fields empty.
Can someone who has actually bought this tell us whether this is as good as the print versions? Things like all the diagrams and photos being present, having good resolution, etc.

I've heard so many horror stories about how great technical books get mangled when they're made into ebook versions (frankly I'd be quite happy with a proper PDF version).
IMO, people often become "indispensable" in software when their responsibilities have grown over time to the point where they're actually doing something that should be two (or more) roles. But they've been doing it so long and are comfortable enough in the role that no one realizes it until they have to hire a replacement.
USDCHF Triggers Bear Pressure on Price Failure
Definitely check out https://matrix.org/ @tlrobinson!

It's all that and more. Not only does it have the basic features of XMPP+IRC (and others), but it also federates/bridges with those existing open standards! Plus supports WebRTC signalling and of course end-to-end 1:1 & group encryption (Olm/MegOlm).

There's a range of client, server and library options. Vector.IM (with web, iOS and Android clients) is a good place for many to start and you can try on an existing service. Then if you want, just fire up your own server and it'll federate with the rest.

If you only needed pure XMPP, Conversations.IM is superb too.
Not an expert here, but this seems to me to be stripping away one layer of security. Kind of like saying that you can leave a key to your house lying around as long as the pantry door is locked - if your database server gets owned, they now have some kind of login to your backup server as opposed to no kind of login.

Maybe the extra layer doesn't add much security, but if it's a simple config change and it does add something, wouldn't it be worth doing?
Why We Chose QueueFile for Reliable Request Batching on Android
Nor a battery-backed write cache.
I bought one of the previous Make Magazine bundles, and the PDF's were very high quality. Definitely recommended over the ebook versions, as there's a lot of formatting.
I wrote this extension a long time back:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/docomplete/onlplld...

It removes "autocomplete[off]" from all input elements.
Patients expect medical providers to modernize their use of technology
The author's point about "dogfooding" jumped out at me more than he probably intended, but that's probably because it's an aspect of Slackware's SlackBuilds repository (SBo) that I can't say enough about.

Quite often, SBos are maintained by folks who use (even depend) on the software they are responsible for. As such, well-tested and sanely configured software tends to be highly valued by maintainers, and package responsibilities will commonly change hands when a maintainer no longer uses what (s)he's responsible for.

The mechanics of an SBo are also dead simple, making package review and modification by the user straightforward. This means that rolling your own package is straightforward, enabling you to easily become a "dogfooding" maintainer yourself for any package not already in the repo. Few distributions allow ordinary users to close the official package loop with anywhere near the ease--both technically and bureaucratically--that SBos do.

SBos are not the Perfect Package model by any means. But in terms of "dogfooding", ISVs and big distributions (especially Canonical) could stand to learn a few things from a relatively unstructured community of volunteers with a taste for the KISS principle.
Forest Therapy: The Ultimate Stress Antidote That Costs Nothing
Some context (2014)
http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp...

The industry’s bleak economics

Transport is often seen as the harbinger of the broader economy. It certainly fulfilled that role in the recent economic crisis, as business fell off precipitously. However, shipping is now also a kind of lagging indicator: its performance is trailing the broader, somewhat erratic global recovery.

A big part of the problem is that the industry continues to add capacity. By 2015, the typical vessel delivered will handle about 10,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEU), five times more than ships built in the 1990s. Not surprisingly, pressure to fill this capacity and capture the efficiency benefits of larger vessels has led to hasty decisions by carriers. In turn, profits have become exceptionally volatile. Record losses in 2009 were followed by strong profits in 2010―and significant losses again in 2011.

The supply/demand imbalance, the larger vessels that will only make the imbalance worse, and the volatility of profits are significant problems. However we argue that they are in fact symptoms of these deeper challenges:

The market is saturated, and the industry is now in a race for market share. The quest to take share is squeezing out smaller players and has started another wave of price wars. Shipping companies are forsaking their guidelines on pricing, both in spot rates and general rate increases, and choosing not to enforce contracts with customers.

Companies are pricing at their marginal cost. That’s not necessarily bad; in fact, it’s the right decision for many. But for others it is irrational, and when everyone does it, the industry suffers. Many shipping companies have ineffective cost-management systems.
To be fair, that's either because the projectile wasn't capable of fragmentation--m193--due to velocity or other reasons and the lethality of the weapon depends on fragmentation.
My bad. Misinterpreted the "security forecast".
Just look at official Apple keynote video at 1 Hour 40 Minute mark. They clearly show Differential Privacy next to contextual typing suggestions.
This is a much better answer than, "If you're using fail2ban for that reason, you don't know what you're doing," as someone said to me recently, so thank you. :-) I'll explore replacing fail2ban with this mechanism.
Ask any grey hat or black hat hacker if they've ever stepped on another hacker's toes. Sometimes it gets comical. Sometimes they actually leave big new holes by mistake and you get in and then claim you owned it first. If a big juicy target can be owned once, chances are it'll be owned again.
You could potentially do this with a client side extension. RES lets you filter posts that have certain keywords or other criteria. You could perhaps add a bit of code to make it filter posts that are older than x hours/days, and then browse /top like normal, but see only new posts.

I'm more concerned about mixing posts from different subreddits. When I browse my reddit.com/top feed (sorted by past week), I see only posts from the largest subreddits I subscribe to, mainly default subreddits. I see zero posts from the smaller subreddit's I subscribe to. This is especially bad because I find the smaller subreddit's the most interesting!
Trump seemed to imply it on a recent interview, watch it here[0].

It is vague, granted, but I really can't imagine what other inference we (or Trump's supporters) are meant to make from that.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qvCYSK5wA
I was lucky enough to be in an astrophysics faculty (doing a research project) when the LIGO paper was published. Everyone was super excited and was printing off papers and discussing the experiment, results and future of astronomy. It was really something else to see that many clever minds so excited about a result that many scientists involved in the field of cosmology and relativity didn't live to see.
This part struck me as odd, too, especially when you consider the justification: That if you lose access to your sudo account/password, you must have some other way to get into the system.

Backups should include everything required to rebuild every server in the company. No server should be 'too critical' to wipe and start again if required. So maybe I'm being too much of an armchair warrior here, but the reason I don't like this one is less about the actual security implications, and more because of what it says about the fragility of the overall setup.
I'm trying to optimize growth rate and quality as functions of plasma power density, deposition gas composition, pressure and substrate temperature. I think there's a lot of process improvement yet to be found.

In the biz environment, you typically get to something that has "good enough" economics, and you start shipping. At that point, you're afraid to touch the deposition equipment for fear of screwing up deliverables. This tends to freeze production economics at far less than what's possible.

I'm poking around to find the next 10x reduction in deposition costs. Everybody should be able to afford diamond doorknobs, don't you think?
Wow, I didn't think it was possible to have three orbits that maintain an equilateral triangle like that. (I'm assuming the satellites only need to thrust against smaller influences like solar wind.)
I don't know how these guys get off saying stuff like that like the guy who said the Katrina hurricane victims deserved what they got for being sinners and the church that protests at funerals. Then when something is done or said to them it's all about the devils work. I'm pretty certain these behaviors are not condoned in any religion or belief system.
I bought the last couple of Make bundles and they come with a couple of ebook formats plus PDFs, with HQ PDFs for some titles. I definitely recommend the PDFs, but it's nice to have options.
Haha, I JUST installed that, E3 announcement of Psychonauts 2 got me all worked up.
They're not a problem at all. ffmpeg/x264/5 outsource all CPU-dependent code to a table of function pointers and call them constantly for small data, like 4x4 pixels.

Desktop CPUs can predict function pointer jumps too, you know.
I have no love for the TSA, but it seems ridiculous to believe that threats outside the US are somehow not relevant just because threats inside the US exist.
The reason being a boss sucked is because you are an empathetic person. Typical sociopathic management types have a "kill or be killed" mentality, and would not think twice about getting rid of people going through a "rough patch".

Not saying that keeping dead wood on is good for anyone either, just that most management wouldn't put the feelings of an employee even in the same ballpark as the interests of the company.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd rather work for you!
If a bit flips and the checksum is wrong, then the file is marked corrupted, and if you have redundancy or backups, the error is reported and you can recover. Too easy.
Just look at official Apple keynote video at 1 Hour 40 Minute mark. They clearly show Differential Privacy next to contextual typing suggestions and mention it. There is no magic its software and if Apple claims to have made some Differentially Private method to provide contextual typing suggestions they ought to open up the system for inspections so that users can verify amount of information being transferred. And this is not unprecedented since its exactly what Google did. Otherwise Apple should get off the high horse.

Can you imagine Apple claiming to implement a non NIST crypto and refusing to divulge details claiming security by obscurity. Everyone would cry bloody murder.

Apples behavior couldn't be further from theranos in this case. Apple is essentially selling kool-aid and you are drinking it.
There's a site in France which specializes in this kind of training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Revel
JumpCrisscross was talking about using 1 / n instead of talking about n directly.
So our choices in November are between a blowhard and the architect of much of this foreign policy clusterfuck. What interesting times we live in.
Yup... I have "The Art of Electronics" megatome sitting right next to this keyboard I'm typing on. Will I have time to open it up this month? Maybe to wistfully flip through it, right before I go to bed. Otherwise, probably not.
I didn't flag it and I am participating in it and I don't think it's a good Hacker News discussion. Gun control, assault rifles, the AR15, etc. are all topics covered by the US mainstream media. I've seen them regularly since Hinkley shot Reagan and James Brady became a high profile casualty. I'm too young to know much about how it was before that.

Maybe two weeks ago, it might have been a "better" story. Today, it's not unreasonable to read it as someone's reaction to the events in Orlando and to judge a love song to the firearm used there in poor taste. Even if that was not the author's intention.
It's causing a big stirr in Ecuador with many in-power officials involved, a couple under prosecution already.
The TSA is bad because its visible arms are all cost (government money, passenger time, etc.) and no benefit.

The TSA airport checkers are the worst. If you simply removed the checkers and let the airlines go back to handling security, things would be just fine.

Hijacking and other forms of on plane malfeasance are a solved problem not because of TSA but because passengers won't sit still for it anymore. Of course, reinforced cockpit doors now make hijacking by insiders much easier because the passengers can't fight back through it. Oops.

The problem is that the most effective security measures don't come with multi-billion dollar project budgets. Matching luggage to passengers to prevent non-suicide attacks. Cell phone waiting lots so someone circling an airport is now suspicious behavior. All of these things are relatively cheap but very effective--thus nobody cares because there is no money in it.
It is entirely likely that the hacker is Russian, but state sponsored is a huge stretch.

I don't think that this was a pro-Trump hack either. Opposition research isn't anything new/groundbreaking. It's merely a writeup for quick reference when planning new content, polling, or debate prep. In 2016, this sort of information would be better suited in a wiki-format, but alas a mega-doc will suffice. Leaking it doesn't put the DNC at a disadvantage since this is all public information.
You're just calculating how much kinetic energy the black holes had when they collided. This energy goes into the spin of the final black hole. The energy for the gravitational waves comes from loss of mass of the final black hole.
In my DBA days in the 90s/2000s, this sort of issue was usually a lousy DBA that had extent sizes set too small.

Windows can clearly handle big databases. The people getting paid to run the platform need to have a clue about the platforms they are running.
The movie plot has very little to do with the spanish prisoner scam. A good movie anyway, probably Mamet's best after Glengarry Glenn Ross and House of Games.