skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I called Schwab once because a LastPass misstep locked me out of my account. The CSR told me it was great that I was using a password manager and that she wished more people used them.

I guess it keeps her employed ;) But on a more serious note, banks are not as stupid and anti-technology as the average HN reader wants to believe. Their programmers are no doubt here too.

(Now why Schwab limits me to an 8 character password... I don't even want to know. But I do have a _good_ 8 character password ;)
Which is exactly why I've given up on desktop Unix. With Windows, instead of having to wait for the maintainers to declare a package worthy of their distribution, I can just run the vendor's installer, without any fuss or hassle. FreeBSD, IMO, gets packaging the most correct with separating user packages from the core distribution, but there are still times when they'll have an old version as well. Relying on a single app provider, be it apple or debian, is just silly.
Yes. Though there's no reason you have to smoke your tobacco or cannabis.
The focus is offline, but the underlying techniques work just as well across the public internet. For example, you could use https://www.npmjs.com/package/webrtc-swarm to sync the hyperlogs:

var wswarm = require('webrtc-swarm')
var signalhub = require('signalhub')
var swarm = wswarm(signalhub('p2p-map', ['https://signalhub.mafintosh.com'])

var osm = require('osm-p2p')()
swarm.on('peer', function (peer, id) {
peer.pipe(osm.log.replicate()).pipe(peer)
})
Attention dang: an appropriate replacement?
They opened up the feature that they claimed used "differential privacy".
The illustrations were done by Sir Quentin Blake, who was knighted in 2013 for his work in children's lit. Pretty powerful one-two punch, Dahl and Blake.
Nice breakdown of how ME works, but nothing new here.

Still, I'm glad I hold on to a ton of older, pre Core i-series Intel machines, AMD machines, and ARM boards. If ME is ever truly compromised at least I have a fallback or three.
I have met some good bootcamp devs, and many bad ones, but I can say for sure that good ones do exist. That being said, I wouldn't give a fresh MIT grad a dime for a new startup. Some people will (I've met them) but it's just too risky. You need to learn from senior devs, I learned the most from grey beards.
Starbucks sells flat whites, bringing culture to those Americans who have never visited Australia or New Zealand.
There are some people who hunt using mink (a type of mustelid). eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_wuVD1eHc
Obvious headline is obvious. That said, I went to school with kids who were very much overscheduled - nearly every moment of their lives seemed to be planned out by over enthusiastic but well meaning parents, who thought that well rounded meant 'do everything'. I was left alone - I found my way to technology, and many of my peers are still wandering alone in the metaphorical desert trying to find their spark or purpose in life.
It's for both. Anyone who graduated from Fullstack or Grace Hopper Academy (our tuition-deferred, all-female school) can apply.

Each startup has to have at least one Fullstack/Grace Hopper grad on their founding team.

We're also opening it up to alumni from Starter League in Chicago (which we acquired earlier this year) and our YC partner school, the Recurse Center.
There are plenty of ways to enjoy cannabis without smoking, including vaporising or ingestion.
Now reading his book "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" which is a short story collection. It has got the short story by the book title name. Written in 1954, the story revolves around a machine which automatically writes articles. Reading in 2016 this story gives an interesting read. BTW this is the first Roald Dahl book I am reading
Would maybe consider "The effects of PHP's bad reputation" as a better title.
What if the purpose is leaking documents relatively benign on Trump and secret DoS documents that shouldn't ever be on a CNC server that demonstrate Hillary did not safeguard those documents responsibly? What if they want to dissociate the hack from any state-sponsored group?

The hack was discovered and the access was cut. Any documents of strategic value has long been read. Why not leak?
I've bought mine at a brick-and-mortar Microcenter, and I ended up paying less than $35 for it ($35 with a $5-off coupon plus tax). So for RPi at least, the cost is not disguised as shipping.
buy it anyway. it's for a good cause
hey Mark! how transparent do you want Fullstack to be? do you plan on disclosing graduation rates/standards and placement information?
I have heard variations of this argument many times, but it isn't clear how this represents US history since WW II. By any measure (% of GDP, etc). government spending is much larger than it was in the post WWII era. By any measure, government regulations and control over the economy is much larger than it ever was in the post WW II era.

>...On the one side you have "starving the beast" (think Grover Norquist, Tax Pledge), defunding critical programs to the point of dysfunction.

With overall taxes paid as a percentage of GDP about the same as they were in the post WW II era it isn't clear how there has been much "starving the beast"
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FYFRGDA188S

What has changed since after the WW II era, is that the spending on the safety net is many times larger than it was earlier. Even with overall spending going up, this has resulted in less spending on federal R&D, infrastructure, NASA, etc.

>...anti-government free market fundamentalism ...

Offhand, I don't know of any economist or politician who has said they believe in "free market fundamentalism" - as such I don't think the term is useful as it just becomes a label used to poison the well and prevent meaningful discussion.
I agree that calling it "public evil" was over the top. My understanding is that most of cannabis is consumed through smoke inhalation which is about the worst possible form of delivery with all that tar in the lungs and carcinogenic effects.
What the page doesn't tell me is: What is their definition of an "affected" account?

Obviously one where an attempt was made, and succeeded, would count as affected.

But would an account where an attempt was made, and failed, also count?

What if the userid and password are correct, but 2FA stopped the attack on an account. Is that account affected, in their view?
I hadn't noticed that Github started supporting U2F. Nice to finally use my keys for something other than Google accounts.
The 2nd amendment allows gun control. Scalia didn't
Not a use case, but Chrome bugs out when an input gets moved with CSS translate() and the autocomplete is open. The autocomplete stays in place unchanged while the input zooms off.

Even if that wasn't the case, a well design form element that animates (transition in a game) looks very different to a deafault-autocomplete I can't turn off.

This is taking away choice. No more.
Did they just out Jim Simmons of Renaissance technologies as donating $5,000,000 to the democrats?

Robert Mercer won't be happy:)

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/06/a-hedge-fund-house-...

David Shaw of D.E. Shaw fame is there as well.
Cool, this is made by substack (the author of browserify) using internal protocol-modules of the dat project. Glad to see it launch.

https://twitter.com/substack

https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperlog

http://dat-data.com/
> they have no clue what effective foreign policy looks like.

We've a new rulebook. Does anyone, anywhere, know that?
"We immediately began investigating, and found that the attacker had been able to log in to a number of GitHub accounts."
The City of Lost Things: Rediscovering Pessoa’s ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (2015)
That's written tongue in cheek, and it basically means something totally different to what you understood.

The license doesn't forbid anything. At all. It simply states that it doesn't guarantee any use at all either.

Therefore, you can use it to do whatever you want to do, but because there was no guarantee, you can't sue the software creator.

I will paste the text here, for others to read it:

"The Software is not generally available software. It has not undergone testing and may contain errors. The Software was not designed to operate after December 31, 1999. It may be incomplete and it may not function properly. No support or maintenance is provided with this Software. Do not install or distribute the Software if you are not accustomed to using or distributing experimental software. Do not use this software for life critical applications, or applications that could cause significant harm or property damage."

Now my explanation: Don't use DMD it in a peacemaker. Or use it, if you thing the technology is suitable. But if you do use it in a peacemaker, and it fails, it will be your fault and not the fault of the creator of the DMD compiler. It's pretty much a standard disclaimer and all licenses have one.

The equivalent disclaimer text of the GPL license (used by gdc and lots of other software) is this (the original text is in caps):

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Anyway, the best part of D is that I think the confusing text will be discussed in their forums by their great community and something will be done about it.
You'd anchor out in the basin and ferry to it on a pilot boat or tug.
It gets more complicated, because there are various `strengths' of efficient market hypotheses around. The weaker ones are obviously true, but the stronger ones are more suspect.
Indeed, there was another recent HN thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880935
Flash. Cookies. Location. Autocomplete?

It's good to have a choice, but having to click my way through a dozen of these popups and fixed toolbars before having the content on my screen I desire is not the future I want.
So this is the moment where everyone with a sufficient device / install marketshare decides they need to buy cloud expertise?

"Samsung will immediately benefit from having direct access to Joyent’s technology, leadership and talent. Likewise, Joyent will be able to take advantage of Samsung’s scale of business, global footprint, financial muscle and its brand power."
I don't want to switch to ubuntu-devel or sid just to get a new version of VLC.

I just did a `snap install vlc` and got a recent version of vlc without having to upgrade my entire operating system.
XFS is subject to fragmentation as well. Allegedly you can minimize it with some careful planning and mount options, but it seems easier just to enable the scheduled tsk that can be preempted.
1TB is between $90 and $250 on AWS. Azure and GCP are even worse. However, I don't think that this is a huge issue, as attacks generating large amounts of outbound traffic charges can usually be mitigated with some effort.
Serious question: are AMD chips a viable alternative (from a security standpoint)? I hear their new Zen chips are coming soon.
I want to say "duh"...

Copyrighting/patenting Life is for me the penultimate example of corporate greed. Luckily we won the first round here in the US [0] but we all know a loss is merely a setback in the constant march of unchecked Capitalism.

Locking life behind lock and key serves only to slow innovations and relief from suffering.

[0] http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/13/supreme-court-no-you-may-n...
How similar is this to how CouchDB handles conflicts?
Personally, I find it not at all obvious that artists "deserve" to be paid for any use of their "intellectual property".

Hell, I don't even find the concept of physical property to be straightforward. Almost every single physical object we have in our lives today is built off the work and ideas of countless millions and billions of people before us. So the objects in our lives that we "own" and have "earned", in reality, were earned and produced by large swaths of humanity over thousands of years.

Now, how do we reconcile this with the fact that I'm still standing here, holding the object in my hand, and "no, I definitely would not like to give it to you, thank you very much". That seems incredibly tricky. And then of course there is the fact the concept of property ownership does incentive huge amounts of innovation and productivity. So we don't want to ruin that. I'll have to continue thinking about this another day...
So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!
Sure, we changed to that from http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/06/15/man-builds-100mpg-.... It has an annoying autoplay video, but if the article is better that's enough.
AMD PSP don't have access to the network (as far as I know).
Anecdote: I use an email account and a relatively simple password (3 relatively common words together) on LinkedIn. I don't use that email account much, but it was affected by the Linkedin hack. Today I get an email saying my Twitter account was accessed suspiciously (same credentials).

Power of the network effect that I won't leave Linkedin, and wouldn't think twice before spending money on the platform if I needed to recruit someone or do b2b sales. But screw Linkedin for not taking proper precautions.
Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not under Joyent control.
Thought this said Joylent. Was confused.
I remember reading some of the kid's books and I think it was BFG with so many made-up words that I was thinking "here's a start up name, and another one, and for sure no one has bought this domain. Good times :)
Or, it's all they can admit publicly to having. (which makes sense in a play book)
Is this the same company that sponsored the development of Node JS?
In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve!

[1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...
Leo and I find the future
> Deal with Iran that cements the Islamic revolution,

Knowing what I know about the MiddleEast, I can assure you that Iran is a much better option than the Saudis. The Saudis basically owned the USG over the last couple of decades. Case in point: after 9/11, when all flights were grounded, a couple of special flights were allowed to fly zig-zag across the country, picking up Saudis so they could get out of the US before the FBI came knocking. And Saudis are the biggest exporters and funders of extremist Wahhabi version of Islam.

Iran, on the other hand, has a much more moderate version of Islam. There are still Jews in Iran who practice freely, for instance. I challenge you to find one Jew in Saudi Arabia who practices freely.
Okay, this article is pretty off target.

To begin, it's a patent dispute, not copyright. It's a dispute over the process of using mRNA targeting with Cas9 proteins, not the Cas9 genetic sequence itself (which is what copyright would be).

Secondly, their assumption "Copyrights [or Patents] are intended for artistic works." is only partly true - their main purpose is to promote the progress of science and useful arts, e.g. knowledge.

Whenever you have a technique that provides value like this, there is typically an amount of work that is invested into ensuring that the process works. Expensive work. Lots of highly trained people with expensive tools and expensive supplies that you don't see unless you're in the industry.

The groups are disputing over who came up with the process first because they've invested a ton of resources into it already, and they want to distribute that cost to people who are using this new, novel process today. A better article would have been about the new first-to-patent rule, which is what the court case is really about.
Not really: http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s...
Why didn't he test his script on a dev server before blasting every server in production?!
Congrats Bryan! :D
Congrats my friend. :)
Sure but it is in no way comparable to what Apple is doing or claiming.

Apple makes some bold claims about how they respect user privacy and don't create profiles across their whole system.

Could there be bugs in that causing it to be imperfect? Sure.

Could they just be deceiving their customers? Very unlikely given the number of employees who would need to collide in such a fraud.

Asking Apple to open their systems to enable this to be audited is as reasonable as asking Google to open-source the search algorithm so it can be audited for political bias.

Are you calling for that too?

And just to be clear - Google doesn't make any claims about not creating a detailed identifiable profile on each user, incorporating all the data across all their services as they see fit.

If you are going to accuse Apple of lying, the burden of proof is on you.
I am not sure what Samsung being Asian has to do with anything :)

This is good news for node.js since what this means is more money gets poured into node.js development.

For example Microsoft pouring money into JS seems to have lead directly to Typescript.
Working on a similar idea that uses underused spaces throughout cities. Starting with yoga/meditation classes abd letting space be bookable as well. Check out pre- launch site at 2b-infinite.com and drop me a line at connorgarrity108@gmail.com... Would love to talk some things I have been finding out related to your idea..
20 Years of Memories Tucked Away in Personal Finance Data
Thanks for all your work on Node.js!
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Here's what I can see in the files:

* The first few documents (1.doc through 3.doc) have metadata which says they were written by Warren Flood. However, the "last saved by" claims is was by Феликс Эдмундович. It also claims that it was created earlier today.

* The 4.doc file said the author was "Blake" and the company was "Grizli777" and it was last saved by "user" and created today.

* 5.doc claims to have been written by "jbs836" at the company "University of Texas at Austin". Again, last saved by "Феликс Эдмундович" and again, created earlier today.

* None of the excel files had anything interesting, except that their creation dates also all said today.

Research:

* There is a Warren Flood associated with the DNC (according to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenflood).

* Google translates "Феликс Эдмундович" as "Felix", Bing and Prompt as "Felix Dzerzhinsky". Googleing "Felix Dzerzhinsky" turns up Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the former Director of Cheka... an Russian internal security service. He's been dead 90 years, so I doubt it was really him though.

* Googling "Grizli777" seems to suggest that the user's copy was pirated. Nothing really to go on there.

* Googling "jbs836" finds people (talking about this subject) suggesting that it's James B. Steinberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Steinberg) a Democratic politician who formerly worked for the University of Texas at Austin.

My Take:

* The files are either genuine or someone bothered to find some Democrats names to attach to them. I'm leaning toward genuine since they didn't clean up any other metadata.

* The files have at least passed through the hands of a Russian or someone who likes using former Russian spies as a pseudonym.

* There's no evidence that these files came from a DNC server and not, say, Warren Flood's laptop.

* There's no evidence that the individual who wrote this acted alone or that he is not working for a state.
I always thought Microsoft/Google or the likes would acquire Joyent as it is good product fit. Microsoft chose linkedin instead :)
For Samsung this is all about IoT .Samsung wants to own both the devices and backend. A good move IMHO
Avoid “easy” things
I wonder how much for.
I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)
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How can they be detected? Just visually? Radio link?
I do like it. However I am very wary of using the advanced features (beyond the de-fragmentation/scrubbing/balance kind) without a /good/ backup of the data on the system and a good retention policy.

It has been my experience with using BTRFS for my own personal data that it's the less tested code paths which had / might have the issues you're describing. Things like sparse files (I got bit by this bug), snapshots (regular scrubbing and backups are things you're doing already right), and other features that are less frequently used.

A small production cluster where I work uses XFS over BTRFS though, because of the very FUD that's mentioned and the type of storage happening on it matching the sparse pattern (even though that bug should be fixed).
Congratulations! Good to see a strong platform combined with my favorite Android company.
I don't think they mean you get the IP. I think they mean they get the IP you generate while conducting research on the engine; though I seriously doubt much will be created with a clause that says you can't reverse-engineer it!
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Aah, fair point, it is pretty niche. Still, merely going off of their comparative contribution graphs [1] [2] and issue trackers [3] [4], it seems like Frege has a fair bit more throughput: for better or for worse, it seems like more _things_ are happening. Although I'll be the first to admit it's a misleading metric for determining the maturity of a project, it's still something. Imagine finding a bug in Frege: it seems like they merge even small patches from contributors, whereas ocamljava is essentially a one man show. Adopting ocamljava would probably mean forking and maintaining it too, whereas there's a possibility of just contributing to Frege.

That's all just my opinion, of course, and I hardly have enough industry experience to back up its validity! 'Just sanity checking my reasoning :)

[1]: https://github.com/Frege/frege/graphs/contributors

[2]: https://github.com/xclerc/ocamljava/graphs/contributors

[3]: https://github.com/Frege/frege/issues

[4]: https://github.com/xclerc/ocamljava/issues
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Thanks. I may end up doing that, but I code for work and I code for fun and I blog about coding so I would really like to have something that 'just works'.

I should probably just upgrade to the pro version of Wordpress. It's just that $100/year seems like a lot for a blog nobody reads ;)
Exactly, we all know Russians use LiveJournal
They're definitely doing research for efficient JS on low end devices:

- AOT compilation for a subset of JS: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13...

- "A JavaScript engine for Internet of Things": http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/