skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is repressive and has very low standards for human rights. If China becomes more powerful they may decide to conquer the US properly. This may be along way off but this is the fear that's behind not wanting China to surpass the US economically.
>Fiber providers live and die by their uptake rate.

When their sole source of income is selling broadband. Part of the profit for google fiber includes the ads served up. If you think they don't track ad serving to their own customers based on the IP addresses they're accessing google from, you're crazy.

While I don't think ANYONE outside of Google knows their end-game - it's entirely possible that the fiberhoods are just proving the business model out before further investment.
Where?

Assume you mean:

Chrome -> burger menu -> History and recent tabs.

Firefox -> History -> Recently closed tabs/windows.

Not the best or easiest method to get to that info. Nested menus are only useful for occasional functions. They are a bit of a faff.
As someone who supports strong Net Neutrality and a free internet, I'm obviously extremely against the way they are manipulating their network. Redirecting Google to Baidu, slowing them down, etc, not to mention the rest of the manipulations of the Great Firewall. I don't give them a free pass that they can "do whatever the heck they want." A free internet is a human rights issue. All citizens of the world deserve to be on a neutral network with no blocking, redirecting, throttling, or proxying.
Notice a common thread between those companies? It's not tech and it's not IP. It's brand.
I think you missed the first sentence of my earlier comment:

> That assumes decent real returns on investment, which I'm not convinced really exist any more without taking on more risk than many are comfortable with.

I can't see anything right now that isn't at bubble levels based on the expectation of zero interest rates continuing forever everywhere. Maybe they will, but I think at that point you're gambling rather than investing, and gambling doesn't appeal to everyone.
> stupid ageist algorithm games known as "technical programming interviews"

I think there are problems with the current model, but is ageism really one of them?
Showing total GDP, without accounting for population is disingenuous.

Don't you think that GDP per capita would be a better indicator, perhaps?

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=20...
so it's not just me. When I was transitioning out of the miltary this time last year, getting a new gig was difficult but manageable. I have been at it full-time (since I tabled my start-up after 6 months of work) and you described my current experience.

You have to come in guns hot.
What first comes to mind are various common memory structures and synchronization on them.
"Statements like this are used when people are trying to criticize Clinton."

Yes, absolutely. I would go even further and say that they're trying to smear Hillary Clinton, just as the rash of "Peter Thiel: Billionaire Vampire" stories we've seen in the past couple of days are trying to smear Thiel. Clinton apparently did defend a child rapist and later laugh about the case. Thiel apparently is interested in substances found the blood of young people. The objectionable behavior lies in a) not explaining that all criminals (even accused child rapists) have the right to defend themselves in court and b) not explaining that many existing treatments are derived from human blood. However, the base statement is true in both cases.

"Is it the job of places like Snopes to only review the literal interpretation of statements being reviewed,"

It is the job of places like Snopes to not mark things that are true as false.

If they wanted to introduce a "spun" category, I would certainly have no objection to that.
Political correctness is the plague of our time.
You mistake appetite for risk as irrational. This might be true in some cases but I don't think it is general the same.

I think more of the scorpion and the frog:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
The article is off-the-topic.

It states clearly, Uber hasn't got to the state that Chinese government would put the thumb on the scale, but go straight and use Google's example to picture what would happen if Uber ever close to domination, in order to resell pieces of his book about Google's exit from China.

He might be right. Chinese government is as shady as it has ever been. But since Uber hasn't ever got close to what Google has been in China(Google has been close to dominate the market back in 2009), and their completely different nature of business, Uber's failure in China resembles very little to what forces out Google.

I won't go in deep analysis why Uber decided to make the move. But bear in mind, China has its own internet ecosystem, because the infamous Great Firewall, to the point, the government publish pieces that the 'internet' will keep functioning even US decides to cut China off, showcasing how 'secure' and isolated it is. When it comes to internet, I cannot remember what foreign services cannot be replaced by local counterparts. Besides, those local companies are very successful, Tencent and Alibaba are both 100B worth company, they both invest huge money in Didi. And when it comes to internet, China is pretty much catches up to U.S. in terms of technology. If the situation is reversed, would you ever believe Didi can compete with Uber here in U.S.? I don't think so. And for Uber, China is something good to have, but for Didi it is that they couldn't afford to lose, the determination to battle to the ground is different.
Or can't pay...
Thanks for the answers.

I have clarifying questions:

How much of your machine learning is used for understanding the application (as Ivan said elsewhere, clustering login functionality together), and how much is actually used for fingerprinting vulnerability identification attempts on the part of user input?

To place this in a broader context, you do not need machine learning for identifying many cases of malicious user input, you can rely on simple heuristics. There is likely no reason for a user to submit `<script>alert(1);</script`, which is an obvious test for XSS low hanging fruit. Any good WAF will do this.

Given that, does Wallarm use mostly heuristics for identifying malicious user input, or does it also combine machine learning into this process at all to find non-obvious input patterns that could be indicative of penetration testing attempts?
If you think the US government or industry haven't then it's because you've never read any history.
Ask HN: Contract preparation – penalties section
I'd like to ask freelancers for sharing their knowledge and experiences with penalties sections in short-term contracts.

What are risks, traps and details to carefully consider and take extra care in contract preparation? Have you any experience worth to share? What would you do/formulate different way than you did it previously?

Story behind: I have first bigger contract and thinking what and how to formulate penalties section. One thing is text from lawyer. Another point of view is real world of software development. How to deal with uncertainty, hidden traps, risks which can affect estimated time-line?

Thank you indeed
Not relevant given that chiropractors are making money off said claims, and dentists are not. Dentists stand to make less money when their patients take care of their oral health with something that costs literally a penny per day.
new york times is bankster street times. for years they have deliberately ignored, covered for, and apologized and mischaracterized the malfeasance on wall street, in particular the behavior that led to the 2008 bailouts being made.

what has happened , as does happen routinely in history, is that history is rewritten and written again by the victors. not only that but general public lack of curiousity, forgetfull ness and ignorance prevails.

crimes are covered up as well as forgotten by the scars of time. and the world continues thoughtless steaming forward to the next crisis, unaware of the past history.

those who get cuaght up on the past too much can be driven insane by it.
> 6 months of your monthly burn is cutting it way too close. You should save until you have at least two years.

Tell that to the nearly 50% of Americans who live month to month and would not be able to produce an extra $400 in savings to cover an emergency. The average American consumer is a powerful spending workhorse that keeps our economy running, but it is dangerously close to running out of gas.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...
Yeah plus it seems like a bear to get set up. Plug in base stations. Turn on steamvr wait two minutes for it to detect everything. Move the controllers around so it detects them. Put on the mask. Adjust the straps just right. Wonder if ipd is really correct ...
For what it's worth I am not trying to put a spin on it for Uber, I am generally one to root against Uber (you can see this in my comment history). But I do respect their ability to almost always get what they want.

You're right they could have done better, but they did a great job at mitigating loss and backing out of China with a lot more than just money lost. They'll get a piece of the pie going forward.

My comment about Lyft was that by partnering with Didi just like Lyft did, Uber can now minimize the possibility that Lyft gets farther in China than Uber does. Everyone is relying on Didi, so Lyft and Uber will both get some of China but not the lions share and Uber will continue to beat Lyft in all other markets.
Above all it was a managerial bailout. The people who made the actual decisions that led to the crisis made it out fine, as long as their company was lucky enough to be bailed out.
If you're renting, in a downturn, wouldn't it be very easy to move to a cheaper apartment and reduce that expense significantly?
Try playing more than 30-45min with a VR headset, it's amazing for the first couple of times of short play sessions.
But once the initial awe fades away it's just cumbersome and actually is a disadvantage in many aspects.
I know a lot of people who live in Hong Kong. I visit there periodically. In vernacular parlance, they frequently say 'CCCP' when referring to the Chinese government. Or they just say 'Beijing'.
So, granted, it's hearsay, so I'm happy to start using a different and more acceptable epithet for the Chinese government. Any suggestions?
> Actually, why not just call us 'sex weirdos'? It's got the same meaning coming from straight people.

No, it doesn't (it has roughly the same meaning coming from heteronormative bigots, but that set is not coextensive with the set of straight people.)
> There are also a lot of projects in those languages that spit out a hundreds of warnings when they compile. Are those warnings bugs? Were they examined by someone to make sure they are acceptable? The older the project the less likely the above is true.

The amount of development time I save by allowing warnings temporarily when testing easily outweighs any benefit to the ecosystem derived from making that warning abort compilation. I was partially responsible for making this a warning instead of a hard error in Rust and this wasn't even close to a tough call. I would be surprised if a single project in the ecosystem has ever benefited from this: projects that care about software quality pay attention to warnings, and those that don't care about this minimum standard of quality are going to be full of so many other bugs that the unused variable/import warning will make no difference.

> Go eliminates an entire class of bugs with this feature. It doesn't just make them detectable and less likely. It eliminates them. If you don't care about eliminating them then Go's philosophy isn't for you.

Go's philosophy is not about eliminating bugs above all else. If it were, then for example zero values wouldn't exist, reading from a nil map would panic, constants would have stronger types, all fields would have to be supplied when initializing structs, init ordering wouldn't be undefined, overflow would trap, errors would be required to be handled, and that's just off the top of my head.
One way to determine if the "financial game" it's more regulated now it's to look for crazy investment.

-Oil surging like cray.... not
-Tech companies (cough twitter) valued in several hundred
millions with no clear business plan... not
-insert here next big thing to invest in
Update:
-medical services...
-risky operations where blame can be deferred for a long
time, e.g. Dupont and teflon or frackling
-crimes against environment (gas leak on california)
After Raw Data was released, I accidently smashed one of my controllers into a piece of furniture. Now it loses tracking after about 5 mins, which breaks immersion. I haven't played much since then.

Before that though, any free moment I got.
Kids: do you have them?
Why cut these services?!

Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
Looks like it [0]. The author had to use inline assembly, so compiler couldn't enforce it and failed to compile. They had to add an annotation to say that the code after the assembly was unreachable.

[0] http://os.phil-opp.com/better-exception-messages.html#intrin...
Yet to make one.
So spam?
He is spending it on himself by the sounds of it.
All those ad channels are substantially more expensive in almost all SaaS cases. Sending an unsolicited email is not spam. Sending mass numbers of automated unsolicited emails is spam. LeadGenius and the like simply provide email addresses.

I run large scale advertising campaigns. I wish that it was cheaper than hiring an SDR to cold email. It simply isn't. In the very early days, advertising is so expensive that it makes almost no sense to prefer it over cold emails. Cold emailing simply works, as much as it might irritate you
I don't see how Wall St will be "tamed" until the following criteria are met:

* No individual bank is "too big to fail". Today we have several banks which are all too big to actually let fail, which means we're likely to need to do structured bailouts for them again.

* Commercial banking and investment banking are split again. As it stands with commercial banks and investment banks housed in the same entity and sharing risks, there is the constant risk of contagion from bad IB bets jeapordizing commercial banking assets and operations. This not only creates further interdependence and correlation between IB activity and commercial banking, but also adds more pressure for bailouts of big, cross-breed banks.

* There are legitimate personal fines and even criminal penalties and a demonstrated will of enforcement for individuals who participate in fraudulent or negligent investments. We pursued (to a lighter degree than we probably should have) the banks themselves for these activities and received judgments and settlements, yet we didn't pursue many personal penalties nor criminal cases related to any of them. See: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wall... We need to reconcile this and even strengthen the laws governing bank investing, so as to disincent poor investment behavior at the most personal level, rather than simply being a financial calculus for the company itself, with no expected loss or penalty for the persons involved in the decision making.
I got an Oculus for supporting the kickstarter, and I'm actually looking to sell it. Beyond the fact that I'm one of the lucky folks who get nausea, a lot of the games I've tried are like exploring the world in an electric wheelchair. (Ironically I think I feel that way because it's a lot more convenient to look around with a thumbstick instead of my neck muscles.) I'm still holding out hope for augmented reality though.
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"It's pretty clearly a politically motivated attack on Snopes. "

Maybe if Snopes doesn't want to face politically-motivated attacks they shouldn't pursue a political agenda?
It is never too late to start stocking up.

Yes, the sooner you make the changes, the better off you will be. Just like getting healthier.

A huge part of it is mindset. If you are striving to build 24 months of savings, you'll have to think about income and expenses and figure out which ones matter, which ones can go away, and how to improve them in general. There may not be a single silver bullet but there can be a lot of little things that will help in the long run.
the best is the Holy See.
Hah hah! No.

But yeah, ED without the Vive is like B/W TV.
The poster specifically mentioned 14 years with these technologies. The fact that there are technologies 14+ years old is irrelevant to this point.
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Even on servers, I noticed that HP (now HPE) began locking access to server UEFI updates soon after http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/11/653 was posted.
Mining bitcoin before it's first big spike to about $30. I remember the most efficient 3d cards were selling at a 50% premium on ebay as they were very difficult to find.

This was followed shortly by my worst investment, keeping my bitcoin on mt gox.

Anyone involved in the law suit? Any estimates as to how much we can expect?
China's outperformance of Europe is undeniable. In the chart you shared China was at barely 1/20 of Europe's level a generation ago and now is over 1/3.

What will the comparison be in one more generation?
The Bazaar model only works for certain things. It has worked brilliantly for the plumbing. The stuff we build all of our services and applications on. But when it comes to actually user facing apps I'd say commercial versions wins hands down.

Likewise in the real world, the US hardly seems like the best receipt for how to run a society. As a Scandinavian I'd say our model for society has worked better. It is in no way perfect. It has its own set of problems, but those problems simply pale in comparison to the gaping problems found in American society.

Of course it depends on who you are building society for. Is it for the many or the few? I'd say it is pointless to build a society which excels at giving the best life for a small minority. That problem was already solved in medieval Europe :-D

Building a society which is good for the majority of people and for the least well of is quite hard.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898367/

Gist is that tongue cleaning yields less bacteria (that's one major cause of bad breath), but they still recommend both brushing and tongue cleaning since the reduction of tongue bacteria didn't reduce plaque. I never claimed that it did though.

Tongue scrapers are cheap and awesome. It's amazing what kind of disgusting stuff you'll scrape off that thing. I'll nearly guarantee you better breath unless you have some serious other problems, like periodontitis.

A second source on elderly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16677187

"These results suggest that tongue care is essential for preventing oral disease and needs to be part of any oral care programme in elderly people."
Not only that, but you've got a not-insignificant chance at multiples. My wife's cousin waited, had to try IVF, and wound up with triplets. One was initially undersized, and although nobody speaks about it, I suspect ran up some hefty medical bills as he had to stay in NICU well past the time his siblings went home.
It's one route to privatization. Cut funding, manage poorly until nobody believes the state can do the job, then sell to your allies.
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He forgets to mention intellectual properties issues. Working with a friend here is super dangerous if you don't define who owns what before starting. For those who are like I was sometimes ago, things can go super wrong : someone claiming copyright on some code you wrote (yes, he can do that even though he didn't write a single line of code; just because "he got the idea") can actually block you from using it for your own; that is your code is not yours anymore because you are afraid of your friend claiming (and winning) copyrights on it...
Same. Especially since Vive plays Rift games. I played all the way through Lucky's Tale on the Vive. Fantastic game.
WordPress now has a pretty good command line tool: wp-cli [1]

You can run `wp-cli core update` to update the core WP files. It can also update plugins.

[1] http://wp-cli.org/
I turned $1000 into $1800 in 15 min on an Apple WWDC options play. Not only did I make $800 I also learned to never mess with options again.

I turned $415k into $530k in 2 years from real estate from an insane booming market. Combine that with Brexit dropping interest rates to make for a rock-bottom refinance, and the mortgage is paid off via rent, so it's a passive income stream that has only expanded on it's profit margin since the refi.

I've also had a x10 startup exit but at small money ($3k -> $30k) but I'd consider that a net loss given how much time/reduced salary I put into it.

I think the key learning is diversification has won out - for every loss I've ever had, it was hedged against the multiple income/investment vehicles which have put me in the green over the last 7-8 years.
Can't help you if logic falls on deaf ears.
I don't think that list is on point. Just looking at the names, a lot of those look like small local banks. When people complain about bailouts and "too big to fail" banks, they're usually talking about the treatment of large national banks.
For some amusing context: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-Jul...
The higher long-term capital gains rate is a recent addition to the tax code starting in 2013.

During the dot-com bubble, long-term capital gains rates were essentially the same for most brackets (only the absolute lowest bracket had a lower rate)
Vive is the only thing you should be targeting. Everything else is just not up to that level.
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I am not a dentist, but based on my understanding (derived from reading commentaries by dentists) the "best" would be floss -> brush. Never mouth wash (except when recommended by your dentist for specific conditions).

That's derived from the idea that brushing is not about cleaning the teeth. It's about disrupting bio-films and depositing fluoride on the teeth. That's the reason why dentists recommend not rinsing your mouth after brushing. If brushing were about cleaning then clearly you would want to rinse to remove everything from your mouth. But since brushing is more about applying fluoride to your teeth, it makes more sense not to rinse as that would remove all the fluoride that you just worked to apply. (The recommendation is to brush, then take a teaspoon or two of water into your mouth to form a toothpaste slurry, swish around, then spit.)

I thus argue that flossing should come before brushing because flossing would remove the food from between your teeth, allowing fluoride to penetrate those areas.

And with regards to Listerine/mouth wash, the alcohol based stuff causes mouth cancer and hasn't shown any benefit to the reduction of cavities (I don't recall its effectiveness with respect to bad breath or gum disease). There is fluoride based mouthwash, which dentists do recommend to certain patients, but for most people there's no point since they're getting all the fluoride they need from the toothpaste. And of course there are mouth washes medicated for specific conditions, which again will be recommended by your dentist when needed.
It's pretty clear in context what it means. Also, email has become a noun that also means exactly what it's intended to here (hence it being commonplace for someone to ask for another person's email and omit "address"). There are numerous words that are nouns with multiple meanings.
Stop Ruining the WP Admin Area
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/before-os2-was-os2/

I assume that most users of S-100 systems were technical users who know for example how to modify the CP/M BIOS code, right?