skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there's no way to only allow a backdoor to be used when/after someone commits a crime.

Outside of the encryption debate, this concept rings true of most evidence. In other words in the streets nothing really prohibits an officer from illegally searching/seizing evidence of a crime and a prosecutor bringing charges, but the 4th Amendment is our protection only after the fact where illegally obtained evidence is subject to being suppressed from use at trial. Example, police illegally raid a house without a warrant, break open a safe and seize cocaine...all evidence of crimes including the illegally seized cocaine could be suppressed.

Is there a way to determine when the backdoor was accessed? If so, then the defendant is actually more protected because there would be digital record of the illegal search/seizure vs the street example above where officers can lie about the factual events regarding illegal searches and seizures (i.e. testimony the defendant was outside the house in plain view holding the cocaine, so a warrant wasn't required). If not and it can't be determined when LEO accessed the backdoor it is still similar to any other illegally obtained evidence.

>but they are acting like it's the reason the recent attacks went undetected - when it actually had nothing to do with it.

I thought they tried to limit their position to need for the follow up investigation, but if they framed it to the public the way you describe, I agree that is disingenuous.
>>> bear in mind that you actually get less done in a 60-hour week than a 40-hour one

On aggregate, sure (and for a lot of people in a lot of scenarios, the actual threshold is probably lower still). But there are outliers here -- particularly when we're talking about highly-driven people doing things they really want to do -- and I'd be nervous about legislating here.
It's the same thing with Maltron keyboards, which have a similar 3D sculpted layout for some of their models. They are individually hand-wired.

On the other hand, when you look at the cost of RSI they are well worth the cost when you consider the alternative. I tried out the Maltron and it didn't help me (it's not carpal tunnel), but I get along well with the Kinesis Freestyle 2. Worth every penny, I got one for home as well, and it helps greatly. When the alternative is finding another career, it's pretty inexpensive all considered.
Real Work
Static method calls in Java code is a nightmare when testing.
What does corporate donation to political parties imply?

No, fuck that. Corporations should be banned from giving money to political parties. Our politicians are supposed to represent our interests as citizens, not our interests as corporations and their employees.

I'm open to changing my mind on this matter if anyone can provide many strong examples of where corporate donation to political parties has lead to demonstrably better outcomes for people at citizens.
It's staggering how quickly things can change. In 2014, Venezuelans were some of the happiest people in the world, and according to Pew happier than the average American [1]

Now it easily tops the Bloomberg misery index for the second year in a row [2]

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-marke...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-04/these-are-...
There is no 2-port usb hub on the back. I'm thinking that this caused other issues with compatibility. In theory you could move them to another location yourself if your into the whole modding thing. I've seen people in Geekhack do some pretty crazy things with them.
Learning a graphical software interface is wasted lifetime, it's like having to learn a new spoken language everytime you want to talk to someone. If however you are married to that person, it might be ok to waste some time to learn that persons interface. Like a photographer that needs to learn how to talk to Photoshop so it can make the pictures prettier.

However most software resembles more the person that you randomly ask for directions in the city. Nobody wants to learn a new language just to exchange 2 sentences.

But building interfaces that require no learning at all is as hard as writing a program without any bugs or undefined behaviour. In practise it might be even harder since talking to the machine gives more predictable precise results, compared to talking to a human.

Most interfaces are therefore quite bad, because development time would go through the roof if any imaginable erratic user behaviour would be taken care of totally invisible. The bigger and more complex the program, the messier it's interface will be.

So yes, users might be trying to make developers angry by pointing out their lazyness.
Those kids are rocking some killer up cuts, funny how fashion comes full circle.
There was tons of guff. Do you not remember the "crypto wars" of the '90s? Export-grade ciphers? Server-gated crypto? The Clipper chip? Entire projects carefully developed only outside the US to avoid export restrictions?
> India: you have bigger problems than the efficient milking of the population - you need to feed the cow first.

Absolutely disagree. Some data-points in this regard:
- Rural FMCG share is already greater than Urban.
- While rural markets grew by 16%, urban did 12%.
- For many like Dabur India, 50 per cent of their domestic sales comes from rural markets.

> No India is not going to beat China economically, nor will Africa.

I wonder why you'd think that monetisation via Internet is the only thing that adds value to a society. In developing nations, Internet trickles democracy down like nothing else. The kind of equality and voice that the Internet gives, is especially required for people who don't have a high SEC category.

Another important pillar of long term economic growth to a nation is- productivity growth. Internet inclusion drives that.

http://www.ibef.org/industry/indian-rural-market.aspx
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/with-urba...
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/fmcg-firm...
There is an entire blog dedicated to the topic of tech at Airbnb: http://nerds.airbnb.com/. Perhaps you will still feel the same after reading this?

Peter Thiel's Zero To One described four pillars that were necessary for a monopoly. It appears Airbnb has most if not all of these.

1. Network effects - this is usually more important than proprietary tech. They have this - global network effect. This is not a "retail company" any more than Amazon's 3rd party marketplace or Alibaba's is.

2. Tech - read blog and decide for yourself. It's easy to imagine at sub-scale also being able to build Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Most of the challenges come at scale (and are protected by #1 above).

3. Brand - the commenters seem to agree they have this.

4. Economies of scale - they have this.
> I can't even make my car go that slow without tapping the break.

That's an issue with your car, not with the speed limit.
Yes, the Unilevers and the P&Gs of the world did a great job at understanding India and customizing their products. (And then Baba Ramdev came along with Patanjali!)

Incidentally was on a call with the CEO of Scripbox today who mentioned that he had to innovate his KYC/documentation process for the Indian market as people wanted the convenience of having it picked up vs. couriering it themselves.

However, getting back to the point - very few companies other than the FMCG space cater to non-English speaking/ local language users in India. Localization is key to India, but for some reason largely overlooked as of now.
bad cert?
In US law, treason is punishable by death. Abusing a government role undermines the legitimacy of gover and so is arguably treason (it isn't under current law, but some like GP believe it should be)
Collectivos are awesome (used them every day in Mexico). It blows my mind that countries we consider 'third-world' have such superior public transportation options.
Quick answer: get a better auditor.

Long answer: it's a risk game, you may get away by showing that you have processes in place to manage this risk for open source projects:
* internal backup of the source tree.
* in-house skills to perform basic patching of the software if the development get discontinued.
* alternative solution and roll-out plan in case the development of your current solution gets discontinued.
* ...

Finally, risks can be accepted and someone ("the business") can sign-off on them. You don't have to remediate everything. It's just an awareness exercise for "the business".
To me, it seems like making efforts to streamline shipping will reduce their environmental impact.
Microdistrict
Can you please explain why the author uses that name?
CKAN and the OKF might be worth a look: http://ckan.org
It does in the sense that they tend to live in different communities with different cultures.
This is one of the many reasons why there shouldn't be any cars in a city.
I think the successor Robot Odyssey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey) was much more impressive. Same digital logic was used to control robots and solve physical puzzles.
Can you send a screenshot to hello@fraudguard.io and I'll take a look now?
Is that relevant to the hardware implementation though?
I don't know why the mill architecture has not gone into production yet. That technology has been in development for 13 years. It brings forth some interesting ideas. What is holding them back?
The firmware with the ability to update it and do a lot more crazy stuff with the macros etc.. I'm not a heavy macro person but do a decent amount of remapping and liked that. Also the stuck shift/modifier keys has been fixed.

If you currently have one, are happy with your setup and don't really use the f keys it might not make as much sense to do an upgrade. If you need another unit, have killed your current unit, or want to make the switch I would recommend this over the previous models.
This is an exceptionally important concept when building web services. I had tacitly understood this but the lead engineer at Blekko really helped me internalize what it meant. My first test question now to someone who asserts they understand the performance of their web based product is what is the 99% quantile latency. Answers start with "huh?" (ok this person hasn't thought to hard about the problem), "the average is ..." (this person measures latency but doesn't really understand that you can't infer very much useful information from the average), "the median is ..." (this person at least gets that latency can be all over the map and so they are trying to identify the midpoint), and "its xx mS". Which is someone who realizes that by starting at the 99th percentile value they can reason about what how the service is working in its entirety.
Bitfinex updates on its status: customers lose 36%
There's a difference between the "honors" classes with the kid/parent drama and "normal" students. In can see where not being wrapped up with the super achiever people would be a benefit.

In my specific case, it was a poor rural district with four 20-25 student sections. Mixing up the barely literate and disruptive kids made things harder. In my senior year my project partner in Civics was a fellow senior who basically couldn't write.

The only escape was AP classes -- but we only had AP English, US History and Calc.

As part of "raising standards" they started requiring advanced math. We were unable to compete the material, and I learned a lot of math while cramming for the annual exam -- which in my state was standardized and a key to college admissions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707
I also moved from metro Detroit to the Bay Area, and no way I'd move back. The people there don't believe they can make any changes in their lives or the world, so they don't. I have a ton of friends with sad stories out there now. I've helped a few of them get out to California and they'd never go back either. It's a place that crushes all of your dreams. Everyone there tries to tell you that you're stupid, that your idea is stupid, and that you should just give up.

On the plus side, Ann Arbor is tolerable, but small. There are no real cities in Michigan. The closest is Chicago, and while I'd love to live there, the terrible winters (sub-zero temps with 40mph winds in the city corridors due to the Great Lakes and walls of skyscrapers), lack of mountains, and lack of sunshine would make it hard.

Rent and food are cheap, but you're in the middle of nowhere with not many interesting + motivated people to talk with, and there's not much actual good food (people there can't afford $50pp meals). The young people are mostly leaving (or they want to). There are a lot of crazy / malicious business people out there as well (I experienced many of them doing basically computer consulting). Mountain biking out there is great (look up MMBA if you're interested) but the mosquitos will eat you alive if you stop, even for 30 seconds. The lakes are nice and cottages (usually smaller homes on lakes, usually "up north") there are well within reach of the middle-class.

I'm done with nasty people with nasty attitudes. They can keep their murder mitten.
> Thus, Franklin's implication seems to be: do not trade temporary security in exchange for long-term liberty.

The key difference between what he meant in the quote and how the quote is used is that liberty refers not to individual liberty but the liberty of the state to impose on the individual to further collective security.

Usually, the quote is used to further the position that we shouldn't trade individual liberty for collective security. But under your reading, it's more about not trading long-term security for short-term security.
So many people in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with developing the next killer application; meanwhile, there are tens of millions of poor Americans, white and otherwise, whose potential goes to waste due to social, cultural, geographic, educational, technological, economic, and other constraints. Within their world, they don't see opportunity; they see economic and social decay; and they despair. It's a huge waste of human capital.

Talk about BIG challenges: how could this be fixed, assuming it can be fixed?
Why does retributive justice require prisoners not making chitchat?
The major providers do this:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges....
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=416...
I just looked up a flight on Delta's site. I entered the flight number, or what most people would consider the flight number. "DL133" Delta darius it was an invalid number. Turns out they just wanted "123" how hard would it have been for them to strip the leading "DL"? Apparently to hard
That wasn't the question.
If you have no savings now, a 25% raise isn't going to help you. You'll just figure out new ways to spend the money. You need to make a budget and get your expenses under control.
Are your error messages readable and obviously relevant?
It does not fail, mention the nordics and someone is bound to pull the Jante card...
This is the problem with using averages to compare people. You can't take all the poor whites, all the middle class whites, and all the rich whites and dump their incomes into a spreadsheet and average it out and say "White Privilege" like the media has done for 7 years now. All the major new outlets from BBC, ABC, CNN, to MSNBC, CBS, and PBS have run stories that basically ask us to look away from "The Poor" and only look towards "The Minority Poor". The same way "black lives matter" asked us to look away from all the people killed by militant police and only pay attention to blacks killed by police. I find the same people preaching "unity" are the ones that are separating and dividing.

When you analyze ethnic or racial groups you need to split up the members of that group into sub-groups to really know what's going on. We need to focus on real social science and not extremist media narratives.
Use and misuse of business case studies
Poor white people have an interesting issue - society tells them that they're have especially failed (for lack of a better term) as they have white privilege.
curl is your friend
The main issue is education. its unbelievable that you spend like 8 hours a day for 12 years doing something and in the end you can't really do anything well. The advent of the Internet has really changed things up but we are still wasting people's lives away.
> But generally speaking, most of the folks who speak these languages but don't speak Hindi also don't have much money and may not even have internet.

About a 100M people in India know English out of a population of 1.3 Billion. It is only the MNC service sector wherein know-english-have-money holds true. The larger chunk of India's income is generated by people who do not know English or Hindi(~800 Million people fall into this bucket).
SmartCities’s Cyber Security Role and Ethical Challenges
Add to the list Garrett Lisi's E8 Lie theory. I would hope some of his predictions are testable at some point.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770
The whole point of UI design is to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Ah, yes, I was projecting my own ignorance out to the general audience when I said that it was "unclear what the nightmare scenario was", as I think a lot of people really didn't follow LHC news well enough to know what the nightmare scenario would be. This is the source of the confusion, and I should have been more clear.

The rest I believe you and I are in agreement over. :)
A good guideline for writing user-facing software:

When you get asked a question once, it might be just a question.

When you get asked the same question by two different users, treat it as a bug report and see if you can fix the interface to make that question not arise.
The V1's don't age that well, though. My F-keys were starting to fail within a couple of years. They are rubber dome keys with a little conduction graphite layer on them, like remote control keys.

Granted, the new version _should_ not have this problem.
> I really want to add that I detest uber and the like for attempting to kill local businesses replacing them with lower quality cheaper services.

Uber in no way replaces local businesses with lower quality cheaper services. In most markets it is replacing corrupt monopolies with a higher quality product. In the other markets it is just a higher quality product.
LHCb Starterkit
Thing is, Silicon Valley isn't really going to fix those problems. In fact, we're only really going to make it worse through automation and job destruction. Ultimately, making menial labor obsolete is a good thing, but the transition is tough.

And entrepreneurship isn't going to soften the tumble. It requires intervention of a different kind.
I agree with 1 and 3. 2 and especially 4 don't resonate. Would love to know how you describe 'economies of scale' at Airbnb
Here’s Just How Much Men Are Stronger Than Females
Although they are probably heading that way if Maduro can get away with it. I still think the food shortages are incompetence rather than design though.
Back in the day, they were called tabloid headlines.
It has been added to Trello
I think they misspelled Ang Cui's name in this article.
Finding information on this appears to be kinda hard, but it looks like the best estimate for the 'kill radius' of a supernova (i.e. will cause mass extinctions) is 30 light years. So this is about two orders of magnitudes away, which means the effect will be two orders of magnitude lesser.

Eta Corina is a double star containing at least one hypergiant that's going to go supernova any epoch now, so it gets studied a lot. It's 7500 light years away and I believe it's judged not to be a threat, although there may be ozone layer damage and it's probably not healthy to be an unshielded astronaut.

However supernovae appear to emit gamma ray bursts along their axes. These can travel very large distances. Eta Corina's isn't point our way, but Tabby's Star? Who knows. 1500 light years is basically point blank range for a GRB, so if one is coming our way that would be very bad news. Like, worse than mass extinction grade bad news.
Apple buys machine learning startup Turi
The two most insightful quotes are:

"The barely veiled implication, whichever version [for the explanation of the fall in economic fortunes what the article calls 'less privileged white Americans'] of you consider, is that the people undergoing these travails deserve relatively little sympathy—that they maybe, kinda had this reckoning coming. Either they are layabouts drenched in self-pity or they are sad cases consumed with racial status anxiety and animus toward the nonwhites passing them on the ladder. Both interpretations are, in their own ways, strikingly ungenerous toward a huge number of fellow Americans."

and:

"But far more striking is the general aura of decline that hangs over towns in which medical-supply stores and pawn shops dominate decrepit main streets, and Victorians stand crumbling, unoccupied. Talk with those still sticking it out, the body-shop worker and the dollar-store clerk and the unemployed miner, and the fatalism is clear: Things were much better in an earlier time, and no future awaits in places that have been left behind by polished people in gleaming cities. The most painful comparison is not with supposedly ascendant minorities—it's with the fortunes of one's own parents or, by now, grandparents. The demoralizing effect of decay enveloping the place you live cannot be underestimated."

Together, these factors form an unfortunate situation.
Black holes are uniformly sized?
Surface Pro/Book is 3:2.
Granted that India has structural issues. Which country doesn't?
A good look at the American presidential election 2016 tells us all.
That's actually a reasonably balanced article. Genetic testing in thoroughbred horses is just another tool amongst the many other ways of looking at the breeding equation.

However, the Equinome test is starting to make an impact in British and Irish racing. It is well known that the British 2000 Guineas winner this year, Galileo Gold, was not entered for the longer Epsom Derby because he tested as CC, rather than the CT thought to be omptimum for the distance. This is perhaps the first published occasion a genetic test has resulted in a trainer not entering his horse for a specific race, and a classic at that.

We work closely with Byron from Performance Genetics, mentioned in the article, when buying yearlings. Byron uses a very wide range of tests, not just of the genetic variety, but also analytical data analysis, when making a determination of a horse's potential ability. Nonetheless, we have a number of other criteria to initially narrow the pool of horses we want to test. We also place value on the visual physical attributes of the horse.

Lastly, it is worth keeping in mind which horses are most valuable in a commercial sense. Even after all the testing, it is no guarantee the horse will perform at the highest level. Rather the testing is about creating an edge over other buyers. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind which horses will continue to have residual value in the market. It is better to take a risk on a popular sire, than an unfashionable one, unless of course the initial purchase price is also just as unfashionable.
If you want to experience living "like a baller" for a low amount of money (for the US), there are many great places to go that are much safer than Venezuela.
How to step through a coding interview
That is a question worth answering. But now we have reasonable ground to make statements one way or the other.

I personally think yes, they'll saturate their market fairly quickly from here on out. Also, I expect they'll start attracting competitors soon.
Right but Airbnb doesn't exclusively manage. Hyatt exclusively manages, the hotel can't change to a holiday inn or a Hilton on a whim.