skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with access to data on 50 million patients and having studied aggregation of medical data for last 5 years I can assure you that its not easy as it sounds.

The amount of noise that "theoretically guarantees" privacy protection in terms of epsilon renders any reasonable analysis impossible. E.g. How about CDC telling you that there are 0 - 2000 cases of Ebola in Massachusetts.

There are theoretical guarantees provided by Differential privacy and then there are actual requirements of conducting public health or biostatistical reaseach with certain evidence value. The gap between the noise added by the former and tolerated by the latter is enormous.
To the police, as soon as possible after the incident occurs.
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I submitted this because it's intensely relevant to the HN community. This type of dynamic is pervasive, particularly in self-organizing groups (such as many open source initiatives) and understanding and addressing these issues is key to the tech community growing more inclusive and productive.

No positive comments will come from this post.

Well it's a good thing that HN isn't just a place for happy, fun joy that you get to experience while people elsewhere are being abused and exploited.
Also, sama didn't even say he was quitting forever.
The judge himself acknowledged that the evidence in this case raising a reasonable doubt is not the same as saying these events did not take place. This is where the law fails. Under intense scrutiny and a barrage of questions of details that happened many years ago, anyone can "lie" or have "inconsistencies". A victim can try to befriend the assailant in an attempt to reclaim or recontextualise what happened to her. The law is ill-equipped to handle this situation.
Of all sites, I have found all the disparate sbnation sites to have the best live, threaded discussion model. They do it threaded like reddit or HN, but new updates show live and unread and there are various shortcuts to jump to next unread, mark all as read, etc. The key to live, threaded discussion is unread message support.
How do we know that these waves they're detecting are from collisions of black holes? How do they locate these black holes and how do they make these conclusions that what they detect is coming from black hole Alpha & Beta colliding?
Relative to its peers in the public eye, especially Facebook, it's not.
We're getting so detailed that I'll mention the following applying specifically to Finland.

It's possible to have temporary/fixed-time contracts too, and lots of people do. It's however illegal for the employer to chain temporary contracts one after another instead of offering a permanent contract if there's a continuous need.

If this happens, the employee may sue on grounds of it being de facto permanent employment. If successful, they will get all the associated benefits, including things such as compensation for wrongful contract termination and withheld bonus payments only available for permanent employees. Suing is pretty easy/risk-free if the wronged person is in an union, and the unionization of workforce is around 60%-70%.
that would be a rapidly scheduled disassembly. "yeah, we totally planned that in half a second".
Data and audio files relevant to this event are available to the public at https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW151226/

There are also Jupyter tutorials on processing GW signals at https://losc.ligo.org/tutorials/
If they can get something big enough to be a backup engine on an otherwise Electric car....
> Or assigning the employee no tasks at all, just an empty room with a desk and chair, and a requirement to be there during normal working hours.

Note that this is legally Constructive Dismissal and is likely to wind you up in front of a tribunal.
Call me old fashioned (I'm old) but in my day a man and a woman who were each attracted to the opposite sex and were not related were advised not to sleep in the same bed. I am not defending Jake and believe the victims, but just wanted to make the point that some of the older conventions were there for a reason.
> It's a risk adversity issue, as if something happens to a single cofounder, the startup is 100% dead.

I think a keyperson insurance policy would be much simpler to arrange, though only maybe less costly.
I can't see any benefit, what am I missing? Put SSH on a port that's not 22 and done, no more mass scanning. The only thing SSHGuard has ever done for me is to lock me out when I was accidentally using the wrong key.
No problem - I completely agree. And thanks for the feedback!
Say their are two companies. 'Georges Growers' and 'Dave's Dilly Daddlers'.

I give 'Dave's Dilly Daddlers' $100,000 for 10% of the company. But with the condition that if it's valuation ever falls below 1 millions dollars I get 20% equity, and if the company goes bust I get paid back before any other investors, and I get the title to the founders house.

I also give 'Georges Growers' a $100,000 for 10%. But with no conditions, I'm just buying a portion of the company.

Are both of these companies worth 1 million dollars? In some sense yes, but in a much more meaningful sense no. And many recent deals have been closer to the former than the latter.
Not any more subjective than elsewhere (which is why this was good advice in the first place).

No, the difference is in the speed of action. Other workplaces have some realization that hiring is hard, and thus if they have a problem with me they'll first try to see if we can work it out. If I'm actually performing well, it should be doable to make that obvious. Seems like Netflix would be faster on the "fire" button.

Plus, knowing this (or thinking it, if it was untrue), means I'd work with the knowledge that I need to constantly ensure they understand my value, surrounded by others doing the same. Not exactly stack ranking, but it sounds unappealing.
While travelling, the first time he came to the city I
lived in, I invited him to stay at my house. As politely
as I could, I explained, “You can have the floor, and
I’ll take my bed, or the other way around. If you’re
comfortable with it, we can share my bed, as friends.
Meaning no physical contact.” We both slept in my bed.
That turned out (mostly) fine. (Except, of course, being
propositioned again, this time for a threesome with Jake
and one of my roommates.) In fact, Jake and I proceeded
to share beds in a friendly manner over the years, and
nothing bad ever happened.

I... uh, ...

Never mind.
For this particular event, see https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW151226/, near the bottom of the page
>2048 bit RSA keys

Github recommends 4096 now, for what it's worth. [1]

>Pushing database backups offsite

This is a really bad idea and a good way to get owned. Database backups must be PULLED from the server, not pushed from it. Separately, you also need to test that you can restore from your backups periodically.

There were a couple other things I disagree with, but they're in the realm of personal preference. It's also interesting that this guide uses Linode which is a hosting company known to have had quite egregious security issues in the past. [2]

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-an...

[2] https://www.google.com/#q=linode+hack
And I'm quitting the gym.
I'm a chronic under-estimator. So, whenever we're in grooming or sprint planning, I make it a habit to ask the other members of the team if the size/hours make sense, or are straight out of "Al's world".

In those occasions where I'm asked to provide a WAG to an executive or salesperson, I always multiply my first thought by 150-200%. Maybe even 300% if there's an external stakeholder (3rd party integration, something for a specific client, etc).
Contrast as in "here is a different opinion by people who also know him better than most of us". Truth will be found (hopefully) by a criminal investigation, not by by the court of public opinion.

You are right, victim blaming is horrible. That's why I didn't say "they should have said something immediately, now they have lost credibility"

I understand why they might not go immediately and don't blame them for it. I still think the right thing is immediate prosecution. If they don't feel like they will be helped by the authoritiesthat is a problem, which needs to be addressed both on the sides of the authorities (with proper training and procedures) and education (teaching people to prosecute immediately instead of shutting up)
Yep and this doesn't demonstrate anything about security. Showing brute force scanners trying out "root/letmein123" doesn't teach anyone the importance of good security, just the importance of not using super-common user/passes.

I cannot figure out why anyone would care or find anything useful in these logs. Change the port, call it a day. Getting worked up about random SSH attempts (or random HTTP "exploit" attempts) seems to be for admins with too much free time.
In the original paper (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908821) it is impplemented in Scala.
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Isn't it also that power decreases over the cube of the distance to the event? A truly gargantuan amount of power (1 solar mass equivalent) distributed across a 3-dimensional shell dozens or hundreds of light years across should be minuscule at any Earth-sized point along that shell.
* Ownership - being able to handle increasingly large tasks on your own with little to no involvement from your manager or lead.

* Search IQ - Nobody knows how to do everything in software development off the top of their head, but a major difference between a junior dev and a senior one is knowing what questions to ask and how to find the answers. I didn't used to have a name for this until one of my former mentees told me it's called "search IQ" in China.

* Understanding the big picture - At a junior level, you are generally able to understand your small task in the context of what behavior it should be producing. Senior devs should be able to grok development tasks in the context of the business use cases and within the wider system.
Among the many other issues with trying to report sexual assault to the authorities, many of the individuals involved are anarchists or libertarians and don't want to involve state powers that they view as equally abusive.
Sounds like there's a market for a browser extension for this.
> NOTE: FPC connector which attaches the panel to adapter board is VERY fragile. User must be very careful lifting up the connector tab and pushing it back into place.

There's value in not having to fiddle with such a thing. Also, there's http://dp2retina.rozsnyo.com/ which is more expensive but probably better. They also have a driver for the Retina MacBook http://dp2mbpr.rozsnyo.com/
I have personal experience with RC electric motors and dynos and they are correct.
The type of person who will thrive at Netflix doesn't see an issue here. Either they have no issues whatsoever about having work always on their mind, or they are just simply so good at their jobs that they can still be one of the best engineers around only working 40 hours a week.

The problem with this whole thing is that people view working at a company of this caliber as some type of competition, they want to be the one working at the company with the best and brightest so others see them as the best and brightest.

The truth is that if you aren't really up there, you won't thrive in such an environment, and the vast majority of people will both advance the most, and be happiest working at a place where they are able to be the big fish.
Apple have designed/implemented several quite successful crypto and security systems too.
When did $1 cinemas come into existence (might just be local, but I'm thinking mid-90s)? That could potentially drive down the average (in the referenced data, there is a small dip in the early 90's).
So what should you do? Not apply scrutiny? Remember, in dubio pro reo
It wasn't an accusation, it was an example of how there's zero accountability. However, here is some information:

Katie Dowd: Previously a director at CF, now a director for HRC's campaign

Cheryl Mills: On the board of CF, said by several sources to be working on HRC campaign

Dennis Cheng: Previously served as chief development officer at the Clinton Foundation, is now campaign finance director

BRUCE R LINDSEY: The campaign director for Bill Clinton, now the Chairman of the Board for Clinton Foundation.

And obviously Cheslea, who works both with the CF and HRC's campaign.

The list goes on. Feel free look at a list of officers etc on page 34 here: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/sites/default/files/clinto... and continue doing more searching to see how people working, or have previously worked, at the CF are now doing campaign work for HRC.

This is obviously not proof that someone sitting in the Clinton Foundation office is doing campaign work during their 40 hours/week, but common sense would tell us, even from the very limited data above, that it is very probable to have happened at some point.

Also interesting to note: In 2014, the foundation spent nearly $20 million travel while having only $80 million in salaries. That's a shit load of travel expense. They spent more in travel than they did actually providing direct assistance.
Euclidian use-based zoning has been the law of essentially every city in the US beginning about a hundred years ago until the rise of form-based codes like the SmartCode mandates that uses be separated: housing into subdivisions, retail into strip centers & shopping malls, and offices into office parks. This means that you have to drive pretty much anywhere. So if you look at the gross density, just the space required for larger streets, collectors, arterials, and expressways guarantees a substantially less compact city. This is exacerbated by the large setbacks required by those ordinances.

This was celebrated by the architects; Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City celebrated the ideal of every home sitting on an acre of land. Contrast that with the Tuscan town of Pienza, Italy, which sits on a bit over 11 acres of land and which contains over 2,000 residents. Just looking at the numbers, Americans would think it must be some horrible slum. But it's such a fabulous place that it attracts close to a million visitors a year, if I recall correctly. It would be completely illegal to build Pienza in countless American towns and cities, and on many counts. In reality, Pienza would probably violate close to 90% of the conditions in a conventional Euclidian code.
Regulated out of existence.
more osm routing services:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_service...
Are you hiring remote folks?
Definitely not pedantic! Believe it or not, JOSE was still a draft when this blog post was released into the wild.
Get your own work done. Be able to task yourself. Be able to task others. Fill in the blanks with vague requirements. Develop an intuition to satisfy stakeholders. Communicate transparently and with tact.
I promise you, men and women can sleep in the same bed without either one of them committing sexual assault. Saying that this is inherently dangerous implies that men can't control themselves, which is ridiculous and absolves rapists of responsibility.
Is PGP/MIME planned? I find it less intrusive and IIUC it can encrypt more of the message.
I know this is purely anecdotal, but nobody around me with an iOS device uses Messages. Everyone is using Whatsapp, or Telegram.
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Your path leads to lots of problems. Humans are social; our entire adaptability revolves around being able, in times of discomfort or disaster, to use the tools others have spent their time and resources creating. Someone thinking it's possible to make it on his/her own just shows that cooperation is so ubiquitous that we don't even notice it.

The development patterns of the last 75 years, with their spreading out of people, have caused huge problems here, causing people to be physically distant from one another, eroding a very natural support network.

Additionally, we've lost powerful charitable forces over the recent decades: religion and unpaid women. Wealthy wives, being expected to stay home with the kids, were hugely important in social work. Now that church influence is in decline and women are paid for their work, we have to pivot to other institutions for support structures. In the US, we've not quite gotten that next generation of support figured out.
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When you say hiring is never a problem? Does that mean you're hiring remote as well?
The effects are exactly as significant either way: corrupt data is written to disk. Whether the corrupt data is written one time or several times is immaterial.
Yes! There are 2 now, so they can give a very coarse estimate of the direction with a precision of 'somewhere in this swath of the sky' (using the relative location, the wave propagation speed [light speed], and the arrival times relative to each detector).

As more detectors come online they will be able to triangulate more accurately. The next one is supposed to come online in 2018 iirc.
The variation about Nigerian astronaut[1] listed in references is awesome.

[1] http://www.anorak.co.uk/428124/money/nigerian-astronaut-lost...
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I totally agree. Companies price is directly related to future expected cashflows. Its perfectly rational to discount future cash flows by the interest rate. If no one in the economy wants to spend money, its not as expensive to borrow it.
The waveforms are predicted by our knowledge of general relativity; specifically what the gravitational wave profile would be for two objects of certain masses spiraling into each other.

A semi-hand-wavy way we know that the objects in this particular inspired are black holes is that for them to be orbiting each other this fast, they must be very close. For them to be this close, they must be very small. Together, this implied the objects have a certain size which is smaller than their Schwarzschild radius, which means they are probably black holes.
Why must they be PULLED?
So why not say something immediately at least?

Also, and this is where I probably sound like an as:

If you are an anarchist and don't believe in law enforcement OR in the ability of your community to replace them then tough shit if something happens and you have nobody to turn to. That is kinda the whole purpose od ordered society to provide a way to deal with that
Why would you not believe that? Bystanders allow heinous things to happen all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Richmond_High_School_gang...
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That's the idea! I seem to remember that there are plans to build another detector in India. I'm not sure what its status is.

http://gw-indigo.org/tiki-index.php?page=LIGO-India
I have some additional genuine questions:

* How would scoped modules' (@scope/name) typings be named in this convention?

* How do the version of these new typings modules correlate to versions of the underlying modules? In other words, how can I access the typings for the previous major of lodash from which breaking changes emerged?
They are both exactly as bad as each other in this application but at least it's always possible to avoid a segfault.
Question for Contractors: How are you paid?
I'm working as an independent consultant/contractor. I've worked with a few clients. They always have their own system in place (e.g. Zenefits). I'm starting to work for some smaller clients (startup size) who have never paid a contractor before.

What service do you recommend I point them to?
Or do you just give them bank account information and ask for a transfer?

PS. My clients and I are in the US.
The problem with the OP is that it can be summed up as "writer doesn't want to work on legacy systems." Good for him! But the amount of greenfield development is a minuscule slice of SLOC out there in the world.

Context matters. I've seen "derpy enterprise shops" build lambda architectures on Azure, startups cargo-culting their way through MEAN-stack apps, and, yes, LoB apps that were still Java-through-CGI (shudder). You can be a great developer in virtually any language, in virtually any environment. Or, I suppose, you can bitch about it on your blog.
We're pretty sure they come from black holes because the signals are uncannily similar to what theory says signals from black holes looks like. So either they're black holds or the theory is wrong or there's something else that acts very much like a black hole.
Finally I'll be able to focus on my painting.
I would see it as you aren't working for anyone but yourself. You working for your own meaning, your own purpose, with your own drive and abilities. You completely own your success or failure. Work would become it's own reward and would be similar to volunteering.
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It's good to have someone there to push you, and vice versa. But definitely don't putz around wasting time looking, when you could be spending that time building. Bringing your idea to the light, getting critique from peers and users, is much more valuable starting out. If I waited to work with someone for every idea I had, I'd never get anything done. Worry about all that other business related nonsense when something actually gets traction.
You're right - it's addressed at the bottom too

"The last part of the quote above, that you need colleagues to cheer you up when things go wrong, hits home for me. When I started developing eBay software, PayPal’s recurring payment system had a bug that was skimping my payouts more and more each month. It took me three months to get them to fix it, and although they ended up reimbursing me, it was stressful watching my revenues erode while my user count increased. In addition to crises, it’s also hard just staying motivated sometimes. The best way to cope is to maintain low expectations and stay busy working on things you can control."

For the emotional aspects of business, you DO need people. I posted this on HN because of the incredible stimulation I get around the discussion from all you.
Having a conditional "they hope to" makes that information worthless. I hope be to be a billionaire for sitting on my ass, it doesn't mean it's likely or that I'm even working towards it.
You're forgetting that Dropbox came into existence when all of those competing products already existed. They got turned down by a lot of VCs because the feel was that the space was already too crowded. But the founder had a vision and delivered a product that was actually superior enough that it attracted customers in flocks.
I disagree. Low-performers can make mistakes and cause a lot of damage, which then has to be cleaned up by someone. They are also bad for morale all around, especially if you have a team of high-performers.
Great service!
Good work
but
What is that backgound? HUrts my eyes in kind of funny way
Sure, but that's not cross device.
"Need a Mandrill account"

You may want to rethink this one as Mandrill screwed their customers big time recently. So I hope there is a way to add other services like sendgrid, mailgun etc.
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Here's the bit where they "landed": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNmtUEvI5A&t=36m18s

Looks to me like they may have stuck the "landing" but it was hard, broke something and the vehicle was on fire. Listen to the crowd and I think you can hear when the RUD went down.
Most Americans' common encounter with the "institutions" would be the following:

DMV (motor vehicle bureau/department)
Post Office
Police/Courts
Local schools
Social Security

Our government is not monolithic. It's vast (ranging from SS, military, FAA, FDA, NASA, etc etc) and on the state level as well.

But seems many Americans' experience are mostly with these front line departments and quite often it is not quite positive.

But many of us do not see beyond this and want to tear down everything regardless of how essential many of these agencies/services are.