skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeking a birdsong researcher (or someone who knows audio signal processing)
A Winter 2015 YC start-up is hiring a software engineer with experience in audio signal processing, preferably in the context of birdsong research. Please contact darwinrlo -AT- gmail.com if you are interested.

We are working on what will be an important new medical diagnostic and need an extra hand to finish it off.
You are replying to the author of lynis, might as well thank him for writing it :)
I imagine that's a bridge for now. Once Tesla starts pumping out 500k vehicles per year they should be able to leverage that for large future expenditures.
Love the skills grading scale, totally Ivy League material:

A+++

A+

A

B

(There are no A++ players)
Russian internet trolls were being hired to pose as pro-Trump Americans
I would pay a surprising amount of money for that kind of interview. I interview quite a lot, having my ear to the rails pretty much all the time, and to keep my interview skills up to par. I interview perhaps once or twice every couple of months, or less if I don't have the spare time, since it is expensive to do this much interviewing. I have yet to interview at any tech company -- literally any tech company -- that has made good on their promise to tell me why I was rejected when it happens. Not a single one that has ever rejected me has ever gotten back to me. I should say that I'm rejected probably a couple of times a year. It happens more regularly than you would think. I should say that I don't mean I want to pay one of those interview boot camps. I want the kind of interview you've just described.
The alternative is worse(H.264)
Could be a sign that they're doing so well it's not possible to invest it all effectively. Could also be a sign that they are transitioning to a mature company, where hoarding money means having a long runway to respond to market changes without going under (or begging investors for capital to keep you afloat).
>He won’t reveal how he shipped in a generic box; he calls it a trade secret.

Does anybody know how this was done and what the secret was?
A dirty secret is that most people that are altruistic are doing it because they like something about being altruistic (whether that's warm fuzzies, bragging rights, or something else). At the end of the day we're all self-interested, just hopefully constructively so.

I do suspect "what the hell, may as well push it to github" probably starts more open-source projects than any other thought.
We just bought a place in Pacifica for similar reasons
Last time I checked, the Kardashians got famous because of Kim's sex tape. Before that, I hardly think many people who know Kim, remember her far more famous dad Robert who was an attorney on the OJ case.
The 360° video embedded on the top is amazing and Bloomberg is one of the few media companies who uses some serious visualizations.

I guess it's very difficult for FB to own VR since Vive is giving big time competition. Even as a platform, its tough to survive once Sony releases the PS VR platform. On the other hand, Google/Apple can extend their playstore/appstore to support VR content and release headsets which support the phones and get a great market share easily.
Passwordless login with Phoenix
It's good to keep in mind that "software engineering employers who pay well" don't necessarily pay everyone that well, or even most of their employees. My guess is that very few Googlers get that mystical $200K (although no doubt someone will reply here with an example to "prove" me wrong). Always comparing your salary (or as a business owner, what you offer your employees) to what Google pays the top 0.1% of their talent is bound to leave you disappointed.
> They'll eventually buy the next big thing.

Unless the next big thing refuses to do so.
Yahoo in News Due to Latest Verizon Acquisition
TBH it just looks like a YAWUB (yet another windows ultrabook) at this point. Metal rectangle windows ultrabooks are pretty standard and the category inventor has been out since 2008.
> None of the contemporary things you mention are examples of unchecked power.

That's easy to say, it's proven by putting a whole lot of war criminals at least on trial. By actually having done that.

> The fact that you can mention them in public without fear of being whisked away tonight by secret police illustrates this.

How so? This just illustrates that you can say this because nobody cares all that much, because it will not do anything. It doesn't put power in check, it's just someone saying something on HN. Power remains unchecked, and the hundreds of thousands or even millions of people who got murdered and the families they left behind continue to get no justice.
London has had the Congestion Charge since 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge
Glad to see so many Asian authors represented ... Oh... wait, I don't care!
I use air-quotes on inspired because while it's obvious in hind-sight the way the Braun styling was adapted, distilling the design language of a blender or a pocket calculator made in the 1960s into a cutting edge product launched in the mid 2000s is not exactly a straight-forward exercise.

If you look at the mock-ups people made of the hypothetical and long-rumored "iPod phone" that Apple was working on you'll see how many of the design decisions Apple took were completely unexpected: https://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/how-early-iphone-predict...

Apple didn't invent everything under the sun, and they didn't even "invent" everything they use. What they do is try hard to come up with a striking, simple design that they know will differentiate their products. They also get very upset when people steal their design without even trying to make it their own.

Notice how Apple's been quiet about the Microsoft Surface device, and even though it directly competes with the iPad, they're still partnering with Microsoft to build Office apps. I think they respect Microsoft here because re-inventing the tablet and making a compelling notebook product of that sort takes a lot of bold engineering.

Apple's appropriation of the keyboard cover (http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/9/9297805/apple-ipad-pro-micr...) is one of those things that's inevitable. I'm not sure what else they could have done here, they were boxed in, so it ends up being 'theft' by some definition of that term. Microsoft doesn't seem to have raised this as an issue, so I'm sure there was some communication here between the two parties to make sure it didn't poison the waters.
That depends, to be honest. 60% accuracy, depending on the task, is far better than guessing at random. Secondly, depending on the task, human performance may not be that great either. Combined with controls, heuristics and validation, these "weak" models can still be of great use in commercial settings.
So the only way to detect exploits is to scan the server regularly and log the mtime and the file size, and look for changed files that shouldn't have changed?

Re the command history, is there any way around them wiping it - e.g. piping all .bash_history entries to an append-only store?
> I hope WikiLeaks moral high ground and/or credibilty are never huge factors.

I think they are hugely important factors. Information is power and they have a huge amount of influence because of the trust people have placed in them.

Like it or not, wikileaks will influence all of our lives. To say that they are a mere conduit and have no obligation to vet or squelch the information they've been given is to also assume that they will never get their hands on information (factual, or otherwise) which may have a direct, negative impact to you personally.

Useful information is rarely neutral. There are nearly always winners and losers when it is disclosed.
Interesting to note the major differences between IEEE's and TIOBE's lists. Apache Groovy is in TIOBE's top 20, but nowhere in IEEE's top 48. Arduino is in IEEE's top 20, but nowhere in TIOBE's top 50.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programm...

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/tiobe_index
Forgot to mention, our conversion was kinda low too. So eventually we gave up ads on facebook. My friends who do mobile game publishing love facebook though. Kinda varies by verticles.
PHP framework Laravel selects Vue.js as default JavaScript framework
Probably because he led with "That's slightly annoying." At a quick glance, it looks like he's annoyed that Facebook is doing well (which would just be petty and deserving of a downvote) as opposed to annoyed with himself for holding an incorrect belief so strongly.
Protecting Android with more Linux kernel defenses
To be fair, some major Linux distros also distribute using http e.g. go to https://www.debian.org/ and check the Download link at the top of the page: it is http.
Because the Go assembler doesn't have those instructions built in most likely.

That sort of thing is quite common in Go assembler. The assemblers are a little primitive and they force the assembly language for each processor into a common pattern, so when you are writing ARM assembler for instance, everything is backwards.

I imagine having rationalised the assemblers between processors somewhat it makes the core developers lives easier though who have to lightly touch lots of different processor assembler.
They do click on the ad, and then they buy something. The parent is saying they don't care how many people click, they only care how many people buy (a subset of those that click).
Maybe it's an anarchist thing? "Tribalists" being anyone who believes in the estabishment hierarchies Wikileaks wants to undermine?

I searched Reddit and found it used as a perjorative for capitalists/statists a few times.
"good artists copy, great artists steal"

This quote is meant to make you think about the differences between stealing and copying ideas. It isn't literal. It doesn't even make sense literally. Stealing means you make it yours. It is no longer theirs. How do you do that with an idea? You make it so much better that people forget about the previous idea you took.
In a nutshell, yes. The fact that it came in Bloomberg(all major investors/traders heavily read) also kind of supports your observation.
I was wondering.....

If someone in the datacenter can image the VM and mount it some place in their own machine, reset the ssh rsa key, etc.

Is it good enough to "produce" the proof of the hack?

If so, than no amount of "clean up" can fix the issue, right?
Apple celebrates one billion iPhones
AMP Access is funny anyway, as it just sets a display: none on the content.

There're already extensions circumventing it.
I see the paywall on WSJ's AMP:

http://imgur.com/tg7PqBu

Got this from this page:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebook...

(You can't view it from desktop as they're doing browser detection and forward you to the WSJ page.)
Current estimate of the population of China is 1.37 billion, and India 1.26 billion.

So does that mean Facebook is now the largest affiliated group of human beings ever?
Stephenson REALLY likes showing his work. He also likes to use myth as metaphor. So Cryptonomicon is full of Crypto, WWII and modern, philosophy, math, and computing, and involves a startup, treasure hunts, at least one conspiracy, a metaphor involving greek mythology, reflections on long-term relationships, sorta-kinda mocking liberal arts academia, and a full on erotic novella about furniture and stocking fetishes, which sets up a major plotpoint (yes, really).

If these things don't sound appeling to you, steer clear. You may just not like Stephenson. But if you're intrigued by some of the things I mentioned, give it a go.
Well yes, Snapchat refused and is the only non FB mobile app in top 5 social i guess.
Use this link instead: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/facebook-posts-strong-profi...
>Just look around at most javascript "performance tips". Most of them talk about how you should avoid try/catch in performant code, even though it's only one engine that doesn't optimize it, and they have talked about how they want to fix it, but just haven't

Well, if that engine is dominant or even just a 20%+ player (like V8 is), the advice still holds, whether there are 2 or 5 other engines.
Shutting down a failing startup
That might cause even more of them to make a return.
You would be surprised. That strategy worked for IBM-PC clones.
So your argument centers around looking at non scientific data and coming to a different conclusion.
The more WeChat-like they become, the bigger their world will become. FB is well aware of that and headed in that direction. Good for them.
Set of all Christians?
For a flexible enough definition of "affiliation", sure.
Their huge ad scale provides a very flexible revenue machine. I think when FB misses a quarter it will be a big miss. Otherwise they can scale up ad units and make millions in incremental revenue if they need to pad a quarter.
I'm surprised they didn't mention Scrotum Self Repair.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/stapled.asp
I thought Ready Player One was Cyberpunk-lite. For actual brain-bending, dystopian-but-vaugely-plausible futurism I would highly recommend the latest William Gibson novel "The Peripheral".

He's always had a fascinating ability to meld technology and spirituality with a barnstorming plot thrown in for good measure. This latest novel is nicely impenetrable in places too - giving you just enough outline to be curious without serving it all up on a plate.
Yeah, you are totally right.
I don't know what you mean by this. I understand that
SHA2 is poor for some things, but I'm not sure how this
illustrates that.

You want password hashes to be very slow, (and to use a lot of RAM) to make brute force attacks difficult. SHA2 is fast, and having hardware support makes it even faster. This makes it a bad choice for a password hash.
Will do, which email?
> I also like how magically his entire inventory became "reserved" for a month.

In fact I watched that happen. I'd put a Ripple Rug in my Amazon cart but didn't check out. As I recall it was just under $20 with Prime shipping.

When I came back to the cart a day or two later it was unavailable.

I checked the cart from time to time, and finally it came back at around $26. (It wasn't a full month, but it was a while.)

Went ahead and ordered it. It is a little tricky to form tunnels with it and keep them from collapsing, but if your cat is a natural tunneler he will probably make his own tunnels.

It turns out our tortoiseshell kitty is more of a jumper and climber, so she mostly just uses it as a lumpy rug for a nap when the sun hits it. We have one of those crinkly hoop tunnels too and she barely uses it. But give her a chance to climb on top of anything and she's there!

I thought about returning the rug but figured nah, it wasn't worth the effort and it didn't seem right to stick the seller with a return when there was nothing wrong with it but it was just not quite kitty's thing.

Now I just checked today and it's priced at $44 on Amazon shipped from the seller, or $40 direct from the seller for the new model with the round corners. Yikes, that's quite an increase, but probably still worth it if your cat is a tunneler.

BTW if you like cute cat photos, their website has some fun ones (even if you have no interest in the rug): http://ripplerug.com/
Considering Panasonic is funding quite a bit of the factory that would be an unexpected a turn of events. I'm sure it's contracted for the foreseeable future.
It only increases.
The point is that you're not looking at CTRs because FB surfaces conversion costs, which is a much more revenue-aligned metric. You can of course still look at CTRs to do micro-optimizations and copy tests with ads if you want, but the FB ad platform pushes you not to make that the focus. An ad for free money may have a high CTR but if the landing page is not actually delivering the value prop, the conversion cost will still be high. Likewise, an ad for, say, real estate services will have a much lower CTR (even if the service gives away "free money" :), but if the page is compelling and the clicks are real you can still have good cost per acquisition.
> I assume it's because LastPass sends you the multi factor auth request before accessing your passwords

This would seem like a logical assumption, but I have found that it works differently (at least on the firefox plugin). If I have auto-fill enabled, the password for a site I am looking at is filled in before the MFA prompt pops up. I can even ignore the MFA pop-up and click login and get into the website.
> But lots of voters are too lazy to read or listen to full sentences and paragraphs, so we are locked into these simplifications.

I would say you could take it for granted that a large majority of people are like that most of the time. And I think it's very likely that this phenomenon was consciously and cynically exploited, and therefore facilitated the lowering of standards and the rise of bullshit in American politics in the last 20 years or so.
I don't know about this specific point, but you might want to take a look at the greasemonkey security pitfalls page [0]. There's been a lot of effort put into how all of these parts work together to make sure that malicious Javascript on the page can't interfere with what the plugin or userscript is trying to do.

[0] http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/network/2005/11/01/avoid-co...
Wind noise.
What Is Zero? Getting Something from Nothing – With Hannah Fry
Selling the Product: Connecting to Stakeholder Value
No doubt. I'm would not expect that most devs at Google are getting paid $200k. I would expect that the top-of-the-top (i.e. the '5s' here) are getting paid $200k and more, though. Basically, I feel like the entry-level pay here looks reasonably competitive, but the senior pay looks low relative to my experience and what I know of others' salaries and salary ranges. This is of course largely anecdotal, so maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
Just a nit. That's not a video, it's a real-time rendered WebGL scene (using three.js).
So it is as I suspected. That may work for some people, but I won't personally donate to any "for a cure" causes. My money's better spent elsewhere.
The article compares the term "fascism" to the term "game" in that it names a family of things that may not share any given trait.

If I say the stock market is a game, I have some hope people will understand I'm saying there are winners or losers. If I say commenting on HN is a game I have some hope people will understand I'm saying it's more for amusement than for any other purpose.

With the term "fascism" I have no such hope. Nobody understands if I say "Trump is fascist" or "Hillary is fascist" unless we're already thinking along the same lines, in which case I'm not communicating anything new.

My conclusion is that "fascism" is not a useful term for discussion.
LastPass: design flaw in communication to privileged components
All advertisers want to maximize ROI. Ad displayers want to maximize CPM. It's a mistake to focus on one specific metric, because they all multiply to form the actual metric you care about.
> "Microsoft has changed their stance" don't seem to be in touch with reality

I would say that porting MSSQL to Linux, open-sourcing .NET and ChakraCore (amongst other things) is definitely a change from the "Linux / OpenSource is a cancer" days, no?

Microsoft is in no way going to become the next Red Hat in running a service-only model onto of Open Source products. It doesn't make sense for them to do that. But the fact that they have accepted Open Source as a possibility for some of their products, and put that into action is a step in the right direction.
Oh, I agree 100%. I read the previous comment as "that article is too old". But yes, it's precisely how old it is that makes it relevant now.
actually, another solution is the roads.

there were some experiments years ago that don't seem to have gone anywhere because of costs, where old tires were ground up and added into the asphalt for new roads - at a HUGE difference.

I think no one has really been making an effort in this area lately, but doesn't make it impossible.
From a bird's eye view, adjust the compiler until it outputs the assembly you would have written. Hopefully this is done in such a way that such adjustments can be cross-beneficial across platforms, and can be easily created.
I don't want my white boss to talk to me about race on the job
> The original point is about fear of intruders from outside the nation

It doesn't have to mean physical intruders though, that certainly wasn't what the Nazis were mainly concerned about.

> We're talking about actual fascism.

Which is, I would argue, on a spectrum. Groupthink isn't really benign IMHO.
What a neat visualization, but falls on its face by implying mean score correlates to poor hygiene. Certainly one would want to avoid low-scoring restaurants, but if a region has a high mean score it could mean lax enforcement and lower regional mean could indicate stricter enforcement.
That's just because today mentioning them in public doesn't have much (if any) effect.

Back in the day when there were powerful alternative fractions for the power (e.g. socialists, communists in Europe etc), mentioning such staff in public against the established powers brought support to them, and advanced their cause.

Now people know all about them and still elect e.g. Bush Jr. a second term, Obama 2 terms, now Trump etc. It's not like there's any credible threat to anything.

And when there's not, freedom of speech is free, because it's almost worthless.

TL;DR; Modern-day unchecked power can permit criticism just fine: when the waters due to media pollution are so muddle that the signal is lost in the noise, and/or when few people care about it anyway.
RootKit Hunter [0] works pretty well on most distros to check hashes on files and other potential problems.

You can also use a global bash configuration that would log all commands [1] entered into any bash shell to a central log, which could be shipped off-server simultaneously.

[0]: http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net

[1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/93566/how-to-log-all-bash-com...
That's literally true of every profitable company then.

Seems like great advocacy for communism if I've ever seen one.
It will happen. Facebook is not forever. Nor is Google. Nor is Apple.
Honking in non-emergency situations is already banned in most countries. The laws just aren't enforced.
World's First Hyperloop Factory Opens for Business
Well played, Microsoft. You had me so excited about Bash on Windows and the Linux subsystem that I was almost willing to trust you again. Then you sneak this in so close to the launch date of that update that you might have gotten away with it.
SF TV shows that deserve a revival right now (but with better special effects)
I haven't read much on gradient boosting, so questions:

1. Where is the gradient? This explanation makes it sound like a straight Generalized Additive Model.

2. In fact, the explanation makes it sounds worse than random forests. Wouldn't it quickly overfit? Where does the boosting come into play?
Not really. The Chrome extension has kind of catapulted the idea of "(((name))) == jew" into internet nomenclature. But since isn't quite into popular culture yet, it holds this juxtaposition of being unambiguous, but with plausible deniability.

"I didn't know this dog whistle made a sound."
> While I hate using android I'd probably learn to deal with it's nuisances for a difference of $200.

Give it a shot. I tried Android for 3 years going through 4 different phones because each one sucked (except the Z3 Compact which was incredible but I accidentally broke) and gave up. Back to iPhone now.