skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware
Federal prison inmates make up less than 8% of all incarcerated persons in the US. The overwhelming majority of all prisoners in the US are in state prisons, and they aren't imprisoned for drug crimes. The Pfaff survey study shows that most of them haven't ever been imprisoned for a drug crime.
I think it means Apple considers their secure enclave "secure"
Quite, given that it plugs into Wordpress's hooks. In theory you could extract the code and repurpose, but alot of trouble.
... or, if something is popular, but (any of) the moderators don't like it for whatever reason, they'll just delete it and it will be as if it never existed.
Re: the attached album - I'd like to write a followup letter to that professor concerning his/her use of Avante Garde as a body font.
Are lab diamonds the same as earth mined diamonds?
A DIY self-tuning sonoluminescence generator
Discovery and co-creation platform for Conscious Entrepreneurship
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12057038

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056641

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051068
I feel your pain...
After nationalization Venezuela told all PDVSA workers that they either had to be loyal to Chavez or quit.

Many of the best left, knowing they could take positions with the supermajors or service contractors in other countries. PDVSA was left with a hodgepodge of lackeys and hacks who don't know what they're doing.

That problem is compounded by the fact that Venezuelan crude is a pain in the ass to deal with. Some of the nastiest on earth. Extremely heavy and sour (which is also why Venezuelan crude trades at a discount to the benchmarks).
Amazon software engineer interview
Wait, what do you mean black people are more likely to be pulled over, not because they're black, but because they're more likely to be young and hence more likely to speed? Which stat are you using, young black drivers as a proportion of all black drivers? Youn black drivers as a proportion of all drivers? And assuming we can assume all young drivers, regardless of race, are more likely to speed (unless you say otherwise), are the patterns of being pulled over amongst young black drivers similar to the patterns for young white/other race drivers?
My situation was possibly relevant, although atypical. I moved back to SF after decamping to NY after the dot.com crash. I started a company there which failed after five years, and then consulted for around three. Landed back in SF and had a terrible time finding employment in a very tight job market. The strikes against me were consulting, starting my own company and having a skill set that did not include several trendy buzzwords that were not in demand with the folks I had been working with. And, possibly, being honest about that[1]. A fuzzier but no less real problem was that the network of folks I knew in the Bay Area shrank a lot, and that's how I've gotten most of the work I've ever had.

I did finally get a position. It sucked in a lot of ways, and my commute really sucked. But after a year, I was coming from a recognizable, local name and that appeared to make all the difference. So now that I actually like my job, I filter head-hunter mail to a separate mailbox and write pro-forma 'no thanks' in batches.

[1] I am mostly honest in my work history. I suppose I lie by omission - I don't want to ever write Java again, so I've purged references to it from my resume. But it seems that a lot of folks find creative definitions for words like 'experience'. I know some whom I didn't hire did, and people I know are not terribly embarrassed by admitting it. It would be interesting to see some anonymous survey stats on the question.
I'm not so sure. Wouldn't leaving the bootloader/root filesystem unencrypted make the device more vulnerable to physical tampering by a non-Apple party that could compromise user data?

I'm assuming that these things were previously encrypted/signed with a key that only Apple controls. I could be wrong.
I find "sensitive" and "specific" to be very clear descriptors. If the test is not specific, it will detect things that are not specifically the drug. If the test is not sensitive enough, it might miss the drug.
Generating HDR Panoramas at scale
My suggestion would be to use a combination of Mixpanel (for detailed, granular data) and Facebook analytics (for the strongest demographic data).

Demographics is also something that you don't need a gigantic sample size like you would an AB test. So you can do something like present an incentivized (rewarded with in-app currency or an unlock or something) survey to some percentage of your users at random and you'll get a reasonable picture of your userbase.
Even if they remained flat, that would beat general wages, which in real terms have been falling for decades.

Besides those rare outliers at rare outlier companies, like that dude at Google that makes $300K who everyone on HN seems to know, are software development wages actually going up to the extent that would indicate a "shortage"? Are they even 10% (inflation adjusted) over where they were a decade ago?
Though I would love to agree with you, Java also promised to fully protect us from arbitrary code execution. In some ways even stronger than Rust. But as we all know Java has been riddled with code execution bugs.

Now I wouldn't dare accuse Rust developers to be as terrible at writing secure code as the average K&R worshipper, and unlike the JVM most (all?) of Rust is actually written in Rust I hear, but I wouldn't flat out claim there won't ever be an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in a Rust project.
Do you have any more information on this? I'm pretty out of the loop on the Venezuela situation and would like to know more, but don't even know where to begin.
Does this also help find new jailbreak opportunities?
It opens up parts of the system to scrutiny by security researchers and developers that previously were not. The idea is that they would be able to crowdsource security research, as well as slightly improve performance by not having the overhead of encrypting non-critical data. In no way does this affect user data.
> > "Dare we suggest that particulates are more important than CO2?"

> The question poses a false dichotomy.

Eh.. assessing relative importance does not present a dichotomy, false or otherwise.
Technique/form and experience definitely make a big difference in trail running. I usually do about 30 mpw on trails, and my gaze is 10-20 meters ahead, or yes, at my watch. Peripheral vision, I think, plays a large role. That's a reflex you have to train.

And single-track running shouldn't be that much different than cross country running: The races aren't meant to be held on golf courses!
Blacks are convicted of committing higher rates of murder, rape, and other violent crime. Considering that nearly 40% of homicides go unsolved, it's entirely possible that the actual rate is much different.
The best analysis I saw of the TPP pointed out how ironic it is that Democrats with elections coming up are against it, but Obama is for it.

The reason? Because if we don't implement TPP, the Chinese will likely create their own trade policy with the countries in question and we'll be left out. Sometimes in diplomacy and global economics it's not a zero sum game, but a game of compromises.
I believe you are making my point.

Venezuela's future will depend on and require foreign investments and expertise.

Burning that bridge (or not burning it) is a calculated risk.
Original article:

http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html
Sorry, CPython is much easier to hack on than PyPy. To start with, for every change you do recompilation takes 4GB of memory and half an hour to complete.

This is a rather slow feedback cycle.

Secondly, while the syntax of RPython may be clean the necessary incantations to actually achieve something aren't at all obvious.
In a working environment don't take anything (including personal failures) personally. Even direct insults can be compliments if you just say 'thank you.'

Also, go easy on ESL co-workers language mistakes in documentation and meetings.
> I should be able to turn them over to the authorities without having to worry that they will almost certainly be abused and returned in worse shape

Problem being that most people live in a fantasy world where those bad people would never return.
The government of Argentina voluntarily took the position that they would not settle with the outstanding debt holders. They could have settled 15 years ago and regained access to international debt markets right away.
The best antidote for Google love and trust is using Google products and tools.
Makes sense, we've been escaping through books for centuries.
Something I can buy in a store or have delivered to my house and isn't an order of magnitude more expensive because it's "design"
I using a self-hosted GitLab since 2012. It's easy to setup and maintain. Also there are many awesome features! It works fine for my small team.
A Ten-Year Plan Is Absurd
"Interestingly, we also found that Albritton had pleaded guilty to a 2008 misdemeanor, a D.U.I. conviction in Louisiana, despite breathalyzer results showing her blood-alcohol level at 0.0. When we asked her about this, she said that she had caused a collision by pulling onto the wrong side of a two-lane highway, and because she was guilty of that, she did not protest the other charges; she’s still unable to explain why she confessed to a crime there was no evidence she committed."

---

This. We place too much trust in confessions.
Some agencies more than others. I've recommended we move to hiring "in-training" positions to enable us to pick up sharp junior devs andd give them rapid advancement (within the very limiting structure we have, of course).

Some agencies hire exclusively junior devs and leave all the higher level architecture, etc, to contractors.

Our agency tries to hire almost exclusively senior devs, and has a real hard time of it. Getting junior devs is easier.

If you're interesting, go to careers.wa.gov and do some searchers. It will show all agencies and you can see salaries and requirements. Entry level developer position is generally ITS 3; ignore the "2 years experience" or whatever. We routinely hire ITS 3 positions with no formal experience, just with either some schoolwork or "learned on my own" programming, or both.
Do those making the decision to pay these bonds happen to hold any of these bonds themselves?
Yeah, I am sure a for-profit company really wants to maintain a compiler for a minimally used language.
Keep in mind this is strictly relevant to US jurisdiction. In Canada, I recall that you can be compelled by a court to give up a password, or be held in contempt. That being said, something like TouchID is irrelevant if the password is going to be forced out of you anyways.
Ask any well-compensated black person who drives a reasonably expensive car how often they've been pulled over. The answer won't surprise me, but it might surprise you.
Kenya's Government Wants All Techies to Be Regulated and Licensed
Since the U.S. does not collect any statistics on police shootings, it's hard to see how you could know that.
That shared account one. Yep.

Now make it two people, one account, multiple buugy IMAP 4 server interactions, and a compulsive tendency to delete old email "so it doesn't slow down the computer".

Plus, of course, an absolute inability to tell something to just one of them.

Multiple other confounding issues.
After my very first job, all my subsequent jobs have been to work with people I have worked with before.

Do you have any connections like that? People who you worked with, who know you are good, and want to work with you again?

It is a lot easier to find work when the people hiring know that you can do the job because they have seen you do it before.
>The unfortunate truth is that black people are more likely to commit violent crime in the US.

It doesn't make much sense to cite the proportion of black people convicted of a crime by US law enforcement as evidence refuting the claim that the US law enforcement's interaction with people changes according to their race. The proportion of black people convicted of [category] crimes could be high for many reasons, including actually higher incidence of such crimes among blacks, racial prejudices at various points along the legal path of alleged criminals, and any combination of those or other factors.
This is not the same ratio, the other 100 people are not guilty in this case.
Police uniforms are navy, not black.
AI is coming but you shouldn't be afraid
If you are terrified of ever interacting with the police, I would recommend that you go and meet some of them. The super majority of them are just normal people trying to do good for a community.

Your fear, I think, has far more to do with an availability bias of these relatively few stories getting plastered everywhere. You're much more likely to be killed in a gang or drug related shooting than you are by a cop.
Ah! I saw a very early version of that but never tried it, looks great! Thanks.
Why is a traffic violation even de facto probable cause [0] to search someone for completely orthogonal concerns? That has been a massive end-run around the fourth amendment!

Creating a class of disarmed traffic officers could be a great way to help restore the concept of privacy - make them powerless to enforce or provide testimony on anything besides traffic laws. This would have similar effects to deillegalizing personal possession of substances, including the non-politically-favored ones.

Then, prevent the armed group from doing any traffic enforcement - they're solely reserved for already-escalated situations. Furthermore, this could reduce the perverse incentive of a highly paid position doing overtime traffic duty.

(And furthermore while we're exploring this fantasy of defascizing automobile transport, let's change license plates to e-ink with a privacy-preserving blinded number that changes every hour)

[0] By mandating that the person stop, open their window, etc, with any non-compliance escalating to legal probable cause.
Mesa 12.0.0
Solr is operationally more complex to cluster (at least it was a few years ago) and the API is less intuitive in my opinion.

Elasticsearch is terribly broken in a lot of ways, but it's awfully easy to get up and running.

I'm not sure which I'm holding out for. That Solr will be easier to manage or that ElasticSearch will stop doing terrible things.
Is there one feature relevant to running enterprise apps that oracle jdk SE (straight out compiled from openjdk sources) has that the gpl edition does not?
It's right there:

> The next argument is something of a conspiracy theory born in part out of the opaque nature of the country’s finances. It posits that close associates of the administration are major holders of the country’s bonds and that the government fears it’d lose their much-needed support if the payments stopped coming in. Efforts to obtain comment from government press officials on this and other aspects of the story were unsuccessful.
Not sure what part of this is warrants down voting? There are valid points even if they might be a a little off the mark

Venezuela is very dependent on financing for its oil exploration and infrastructure. The reality is that they simply need to hold the fort until oil rebounds in a year or two. Otherwise a huge portion of their future oil extraction will go to financing as opposed to Venezuela. It is certainly a risk but to say the opposite is not a huge risk with serious consequences is pretty naive.
CodePen – Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator
Y Combinator’s Plan to Build a New City? Not Actually Crazy
Have you tried pulling a knife on an armed officer in Europe? I've lived in Europe and I would not feel safe doing that.
Doing so would not have made the situation much better.

To an outside investor, Argentina is a lot more risky now that they've proven they're willing to default when things get rough. That kind of risk isn't impossible to overcome, but it's very expensive. For a struggling nation without a strong economy, foreign investments can be lifeblood.
A couple weeks back one of the officers involved in catching (and ultimately killing) the San Bernardino shooters gave an extended interview on NPR.

AFAIK there was nothing about the incident that anyone's got a problem with, where the police are concerned. He defaulted to using language so biased that it amounted to lying anyway. Every single time an officer fired in his story, they "placed rounds downrange", while the shooters invariably "fired indiscriminately", even when that was plainly not true from his story (he proceeds in one case to name a target and state that he's certain they had opened fire, in that case, specifically to shoot a given officer, which is the opposite of indiscriminate).

It seems like he was so set on using a kind of template for biasing anyone listening against the accused that he couldn't turn it off, even when that language made what he was saying plainly incorrect. This is in a case where he wasn't trying to defend himself or any other officers against accusations of wrongdoing. If you pay attention this kind of thing is really common when cops discuss events. Biased language that can easily slip into outright lies is built into police culture, even when there's not (direct) pressure to lie.
I'm actually curious now – is it possible to deliberately introduce an RCE vulnerability into Rust code with `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]`? Has anyone done it?
The market right now is poor for a developer without a fancy CS degree, or one without the luck of a golden pedigree from a previous high profile company.

Or "pedigree" in the form of recent experience of certain high-value technologies or frameworks (as if most of these weren't trivially learnable).

I also have the sense that there's a "J-curve" of sorts with regard to demand: certain categories of developers are deemed "hot" and are in very high demand, for certain reasons; for others, it might as well be the mid-2000s, for you -- especially if your skillset reads like it would have been "hot" in that era.

And as usual, should you have the misfortunate to be unemployed for whatever reason, for any lengthy of time -- you're fucked, of course.
I don't understand why, when they do shoot, it's often five or more times. Why not just once or twice, then get out of the way?
Per capita is a far more useful measure. I'm tired of seeing the media pushing the total number for various issues and ignoring the fact that the US has 320 million residents.
You're right...it's still doable. I could if I wanted, but the cost/benefit analysis of my time vs the payoff of using Lazarus just doesn't make it worth the time.

Interestingly, here's a new link on HackerNews for the new haskell website: https://haskell-lang.org/

Now that's what I'm talking about...
Ethereum Reaches Unanimous Agreement to Hardfork
Depends how good of a filter the police are using. Even if they are only targeting people who are 10 times as likely to be users as the general population in the above example, that only brings the accuracy to about 84%. And I'd wager their filtering isn't that good. What exactly are they using to determine who is a likely user? Are those people really more likely at all, and if so, how much?

I expect it would be highly optimistic to even assume a person targeted by police is even three times as likely as the general population to be in possession of drugs, which would only be about 60%
Finite time blowup for Lagrangian mods of the three-dimensional Euler equation
Where do they get new queens in spring? And where do the new queens get workers?
It's really a pretty good deal for them -- buy the debt for 50 cents on the dollar, and then make the decision to not default, guaranteeing a payout.
I would have thought a rooted Android or Ubuntu phone would more secure (done right).
Close.io (YC W11) Is Hiring Senior UI/JavaScript Front End Engineers
Too much free time and money on hands, eh? Good for you mate.
Exactly. And this is why defaulting is so dangerous. To lose access to that foreign investment in the future would be disastrous for that plan.
"I drink water out of the tap in NYC. I find it silly that people don't do that in Flint"[0]

When you switch lanes on the Autobahn, people behind you slow down to let you go. If that happened on US highways, I'd agree that a temporary traffic light would be a better solution. "We can do it, so can you!" is rarely a useful approach, given that nearly everything is different in day-to-day life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Great read! "Thanks" for all the Wikipedia links - I ended up wasting a few hours reading more details
> but I wouldn't flat out claim there won't ever be an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in a Rust project.

If you note the OP, he expressed it in terms of "high confidence" not a "claim there won't ever be an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in a Rust project". Which would be absurd. And it's also as good as it gets: you can't avoid vulnerabilities.
Iceland didn't default. They let their commercial banks die without intervention from the government. Also known as what the US Treasury should have done in 2008. If something is too big to fail - it must be killed immediately.
I use anacron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron), it's like a cron on file changes.
I have a few friends, who can't seem to find any developers on the east coast too.
Within the article theres a QuickTake explainer [0] on Vzlas economy

[0] - http://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/venezuela-price-revolutio...
It is absolutely spreading FUD to convince new users that simple problems they have are "cabal hell" and are best solved by switching to stack. And being open source does not make anything I said "name calling".
Just read this CityJournal post by Heather MacDonald this morning on the way to work. Search the article for the word "percent" and you'll hit all sorts of provocative stats not commonly heard in the media about shootings and race and police.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/chicago-brink-14605.html
What does your post have to do with anything I said?
I'm not sure how you would get that "don't sell faulty medical devices as legit ones" would be pg's "rules that don't matter".

Now, they were certainly exposed and shut down by regulators who are (often) more concerned about the rules that don't matter, but it's really uncharitable to imply he things that accuracy of medical devices is something that "doesn't matter".

>Had zenefits managed to grow even more or hire some key lobbyists and get the law changed in time, their CEO would be hailed as a visionary genius that cut through pointless red tape.

Not sure that's the best example to make your point -- I think that the Zenefits fiasco exposed something I didn't realize before, that we make brokers go through pointless training that doesn't teach them anything, and doesn't make them better at navigating ethical dilemmas, all because we tolerated fraudulent salesmen giving the defense that, "but no one gave me a training video that told me not to defraud customers!"
While most of my interactions with police have been fine, I have been subject to, and been witness to, several that were less-than-professional.

- I've been hassled and cursed at by an officer.

- I've watched a friend who was doing nothing wrong be roughed up by an officer.

- I've had police give false evidence against me on a traffic citation.

- As a child being physically bullied, a friend and I went to a cop for help. When we told the cop that these other kids were trying to beat us up, the reply was "you'd better watch out, they'll probably hit you again".

So while it's true that not all cops are bad, my personal experience shows me that the bad seeds aren't all that rare.
Just stay indoors.
I have X-10 at two of my homes to operate a couple of lights, no real problems to report.
North Carolina Shrugs as Lawmakers Define Bitcoin