skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay, but I didn't get it, because I'm still not sure what it was...

Manipulate compound values directly!

> Do you mean ADTs? because if not, I'm not sure what you mean.

A compound value is built from simpler values. Examples of compound values include lists, trees, graphs, etc. To clarify, by “list”, I mean the actual sequence of elements, not object identity of the first cons cell.
I wish Apple would just fix the myriad ordinary bugs, let alone focus on security.
I suspect for large companies most bug bounty programs are net economic positives, especially weighed against cost of probable breaches or the comparable spend required on in-house engineering to find all the bugs otherwise cheaply and quickly identified by the bounty. The problem is social/political for senior executives to accept that discussion of flaws in the open is a good thing.
There is a message to that effect when non-subscribers read a sublinked article like this. Sometimes with a trial offer. The occasional (occasional!) posting of subscriber links is, I think, one of the best marketing tools we have.
SO I guess you can only track within a range of 5 meters? Any way to daisy chain the base stations to have higher coverage? This is an awesome tech, soooo many applications!
To me, the correct way to interpret “It's possible. Just do this thing that breaks pretty much all existing code.” is “It's not possible.” And your solution still doesn't fix the lack of compound values.

Oh, it just breaks stuff that uses eq. Which you didn't want anyway, right?

>I said Racket for a reason.

Last I checked, that's totally valid Racket. And it has the same effect as using set-car!.
I did something similar with LANtastic and some serial crossover cables. It was slow, but functional enough for simple things.
As a fun test of this in action, post a tweet and use the hash tags #startups #growth #marketing etc and watch all the Bots favourite your tweets.
Pretty sure the lead in solder is not a huge concern for occasional random use. Wash your hands and don't breath the fumes...
Are you 'aving a laugh?
If you're hearing the biography so you can attack the ideology, you're missing the point.

Ideology is nearly pointless to discuss. Instead, the author suggests talking about topics that are more personal. By talking about experiences, you can expose the nuance that's so easily blown away by swapping talking points.

Perhaps the author and the woman both agree that people should be less cavalier with pregnancy, and there's a productive way forward. Perhaps they both agree it's a heartbreaking issues and more people need support to deal with it. Even abortion is not so black and white, and arguing about it abstractly is a much less fruitful way to find common ground.
The thing is, even if you take as a given that someone's idea is inherently bad, criticizing them for it will accomplish less than nothing. This is perhaps more clear than ever in the world today. Only by actually listening to a person, and treating them as a person worthy of respect, can you have any chance of having a meaningful dialogue, and perhaps, in some cases, allowing them to change their opinion. (Also of course in some cases you may find yourself reconsidering your own opinion, or recognizing some new nuance you had previously disregarded, or similar.)

I actually had a conversation kind of like this with my Dad recently. We tend to agree on most things, but we were discussing a question from the political compass[1] - one of the few we disagreed strongly on. It asked, essentially, whether a person should be required to work, if able, in order to receive support from society. Our initial positions were pretty strongly opposite, and we were both surprised by the other's thoughts. We each sort of explained our thinking, and listened to the other's. I understood where he was coming from, but still disagreed with his conclusions, and that's where we left it. The next day he called me up and said that he'd been thinking a lot about what I'd said, and that he'd come to change his opinion nearly 180 degrees. What's funny was that I'd been thinking about the conversation too, and had actually moderated my opinion a bit too (although not as much), and came to agree with a couple of his points. It was really cool, because neither of us changed the other's mind; we changed our own minds after the fact. Now sure, we have a good relationship to begin with, and were having a good-natured discussion. It's going to be more difficult when you vehemently disagree with someone about nearly everything. But at least by listening it's possible that you'll accomplish something.

[1] https://www.politicalcompass.org/
NASA, by Any Chance, Are You Missing a Space Capsule?
"In the event of an emergency, the first twenty people off the aircraft will receive $100 cash."

Of course then you'll have people deploying the escape slides without permission during non-evacuations...
What's wrong with lead in solder? I wash my hands after soldering every time and I can't imagine how I'm really exposed otherwise. Professionals who solder long periods every day are far more likely to have adverse health outcomes from inadequately vented flux fumes.
Pretty sure metallic mercury isn't that toxic unless you inhale the vapors. Mercury salts or organomercury compounds are MUCH more toxic.

Pretty sure DOT4 brake fluid isn't that toxic.
The article does smell a bit of "If you can just shut up and listen, you may find out that the people you disagree with aren't stupid, they're actually traumatized or mentally ill. Maybe they don't need to be attacked or imprisoned; instead, they could be medicated, or counseled. Maybe when you listen, you're the counselor..."

That's the least generous interpretation, though. I think he was doing a personal art project and fishing for an experience that would confirm the truism that the problem in politics is that angry people should just calm down and listen to each other. This is what he got, so this is what he had to use in that narrative.
Taste is difficult to measure but perception, yes. Look for the blind pepsi campaign from the 80s.
Amazing Saint Martin's Journey by Ship – Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
> Last I checked, that's totally valid Racket. And it has the same effect as using set-car!.

No. There's an important difference. This is valid Scheme and Racket:

(define x (list "hello" "world"))
(define y x)
(set! x (list "goodbye" "world")) ;; y is still (list "hello" "world")

But this isn't valid Racket:

(define x (list "hello" "world"))
(define y x)
(set-car! x "goodbye") ;; now y is (list "goodbye" "world") too

Racket has a separate (dynamic) type of mutable cons cells, together with `set-mcar!` and `set-mcdr!` operations. In Racket, cons cells are bona fide compound values, but the object identity of an mcons cells is a primitive value.
Apple's finally invented the bug bounty!
This ... I ...
Totally agree with ...
Apple has bugs?
... this sentiment.
Wonder if they'll include their servers too; appears they're only doing the most recently released OS and hardware.
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It's also pretty irrelevant. The vertical integration isn't for producing cars, it's for producing sustainable energy products. And we all remember why vertical integration is famous... the unprecedented success of the steel industry e.g. Carnegie and the other steel barons. The article seems premised on a false equivalency fallacy.
The question is will they pay $1,000,000 for an exploit that unlocks an iphone?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-idUSKCN0X...
From the article:

>However, Apple won’t turn away new researchers if they provide useful disclosures, and plans to slowly expand the program.

I'm reading this as: if you find a serious bug and report it, you'll get the money.
> The misleading marketing (trumpeting health benefits or - like our parent post - less animal cruelty)

If the product truly is free of animal products, then it is most certainly reducing animal cruelty compared with mass-farmed chicken egg mayo. Ethics aside, that is an objective fact.
A large chunk - maybe 25% - of data leaks are inside jobs, not remote hacking or sloppiness on the user's part. Let's say your bank has your phone number. It won't release that... officially, but if an employee has a chance to copy 400k phone numbers and sell them and pocket some real cash for almost no effort, they may well do exactly that. I don't know what the confidentiality half-life of information held by legit companies who mean well is, but I know it's decreasing. Once the number is sold, it will be resold, a lot.
That is Comcast's reasoning, not Apple's. As the article notes, it's the opposite problem: Apple's internal team is running out of vulns to find.
$200k appears to be the maximum payout.
Thanks for these.

I have realised that I am perfectly average at recognising faces getting 79% on the bbk test and 10 out of 14 on greenwich, however I don't recognise people that well. I hadn't realised there is a difference.

Anybody come across this?
Seems like they should be writing some shaders / rendering mod that did all this in realtime... I thought that was what their solution was going to be, but they're still doing it semi-manually per image with that annotation tool.
I love the mindset of this founder for utilizing this tactic. I'm okay with it as long as the LTV exists.

Reddit faked comments in the early days.
SocialCam juiced user invites before Apple banned the practice.

I see this as no different. I do however believe they should have outsourced the calls more efficiently utilizing something like upcall.com.

This founder believes he has the vaccine of sorts to a ton of waste and if the result is a product that will reduce consumption because it's environmentally friendly, I'm okay with him being a bit vicious with it.

Also for QC, you usually buy a statistically small number of units.

You can't do this type of fake demand tactic though without letting the investors know. I think that's murky territory.

Homejoy did something similar buying fake reviews and juicing yelp reviews.

So there's always a fine line, really it's important to make sure you have lifetime value on the product.
Engineers just created a programmable quantum computer
The most affected by lead are the kids, also the relationship to IQ decrease happens on infancy.
A friend at a mobile gaming company once had to run an analysis on the cost/benefit of spending her company's money in one of their game to drive it up the top grossing charts. The question was whether high placement on the top grossing charts could drive a lower CaC (the cost being the 30% of spend that goes to apple) than buying similar amount of users through FB ads.
This is definitely coming, and truckers need to be aware. Upskilling now is imperative.

At the same time, it isn't just the truck drivers. Logistics is also changing and becoming automated, then you've got delivery drivers (I'll assume they are also considered in the same bucket as truck drivers), bus drivers etc.

Self-driving cars also have a huge impact. It isn't just taxis/uber-drivers that are being replaced, there is the change to infrastructure. How do parking needs change? How about traffic police?

I was thinking about this yesterday, and how do we think far enough ahead to prepare as a society, and benefit from these changes?

On a side-note, I seriously question the stats from NPR's most common occupation. How can you have states where the most common job is Secretary? Is Software Engineer really the most common profession in any state?
> merely using emotion in their logic.

Truth often goes deeper than facts and logic.
Thoughts on Apple’s Bug Bounty Program
Have had jobs let me pick a pile of parts,build a PC, install OS of my choice. Had jobs where I got a company issued windows Dell and no choices.

You should give devs freedom. Make them happy.
Aluminum on cookware? A lot of cookware is aluminum in most professional kitchens..
But is VR all that relevant, compared to an interactive 3D rendering on a regular screen?
>While sometimes viewed as lazy or boorish, swearing actually requires substantial verbal facility and skill. When used correctly, in other words, profanity is expressively complicated

I'm glad they pointed this out -- as I always say, swearing is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker. However, this article missed out on one of the more important beneficial aspects of swearing, namely pain relief [1] (I could have linked a study or two, but they can be found in the wiki article for once, and this is more concise). Of course, as interested parties will learn, its analgesic effect is most prominent in those who rarely swear, so, not that personally useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
That's an argumentation anti-pattern called "distorted active listening" (search page)

[1] http://vandruff.com/art_converse.html
SteamVR Tracking HDK FAQ

https://steamcommunity.com/app/507090/discussions/0/36067124...
In the office building I work in the smoke detectors van be a bit sensitive. After burnt microwave popcorn setting the alarm off several times "policy" was changed that if a false alarm was triggered by a sensor in a tenants area that was preventable that tenant would have to pay a $500 fine. False alarms have almost ended since then... seems people and businesses don't care for $502 popcorn.
Australian Census Privacy Fail
This comment, necessarily, has coarse language.

When i first started programming i worked with a guy who retired about a year later, Jon. He swore constantly, and was extremely colorful in his mastery of that particular skill.

One day I asked Jon about it, he told me a story from when he was much younger. He was leaving the house for work, with the suit and briefcase and everything, his son was 5 or 6 and had slept in. Jon is at the car door, his son comes running out to say goodbye to his daddy. So it's this perfect late 60's early 70's scene, practically a rockwell painting. Dad in a suit, mom in an apron, son in pajamas. Jon's off to continue the space age, with computers.

Jon's son stands on the porch and hollers "Goodbye cocksucker!"

I know i don't do justice to that story, i was practically in tears when he told me. Anyway, he spoke a bit about humor in the face of stress, how it can bring joy in the darkest situations.

He absolutely would not be tolerated these days, but i liked the guy. He was genuinely funny. His swearing was so shocking it cut through your defenses, and more or less forced a laugh. Anyway, i'd encourage you to flavor your swears with ridiculous overly specific additions. That guy's not a shit, he's a steaming hairy flaming pile of whale shit. I don't have Jon's gift. But you get the idea. Chevy Chase in christmas vacation is a great example.
I know its not related to the Asyncio - for Django; you should follow this - http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Ready makes programming more like Jazz than Classical music
Indeed, it appears there's a viable argument for "retail sales" as the most common job in 42 states. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
The article already addresses this:

While $200,000 is certainly a sizable reward — one of the
highest offered in corporate bug bounty programs — it won’t
beat the payouts researchers can earn from law enforcement or
the black market. The FBI reportedly paid nearly $1 million
for the exploit it used to break into an iPhone used by Syed
Farook, one of the individuals involved in the San Bernardino
shooting last December.

Interestingly, for altruistic / independently wealthy researchers there's an incentive to report to Apple:

In an unusual twist, Apple plans to encourage researchers to
donate their earnings to charity. If Apple approves of a
researcher’s selected institution, it will match their donation —
so a $200,000 reward could turn into a $400,000 donation.
pre the Alice decision and post-Alice are different things.
Agreed, I kind of wish that MS could come up with a way to get rebase/squash and pull --rebase working in the editor, having a 3-way merge in VS Code would be awesome... unfortunately it doesn't work well as a system editor choice for git cli.

Been very happy with VS Code, though I wish I could revert to pre-tabs file behavior, I'd like the space back... it took getting used to, but the list switcher was a better UX imho.
Indeed, swearing may literally be good for your health -- as an outlet for stress. In Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky writes:

We humans also deal better with stressors when we have outlets for frustration--punch a wall, take a run, find solace in a hobby...

A variant of Weiss's experiment uncovers a special feature of the outlet-for-frustration reaction. This time, when the rat gets the identical series of electric shocks and is upset, it can run across the cage, sit next to another rat and... bite the hell out of it. Stress-induced displacement of aggression: the practice works wonders at minimizing the stressfulness of a stressor. It's a real primate specialty as well. A male baboon loses a fight. Frustrated, he spins around and attacks a subordinate male who was minding his own business. An extremely high percentage of primate aggression represent frustration displaced onto innocent bystanders.

In that light, swearing might be seen as a more civilized form of displacing stress-induced aggression.

Edit: Also, what (the aptly monikered) @justratsinacoat said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12229408
You mean [autocomplete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete)?
Am i the only one who finds it more fun to try to get all the squares the same color, rather than into a chessboard?

Neat game.
Sampling bias, or rather, experience/observer bias, is another aspect of this.

In 2015 I explored the question of how much user activity there was on Google+. My initial approach was to look at the public posting activity (which is most visible), but a criticism was that there might be some massive amount of private sharing going on (apparently by accounts which had never posted publicly). I did a follow-up analysis looking at the listed followers ("friends" in FB parlance) of publicly inactive and publicly active profiles.

The most overwhelming impression was how many profiles -- publicly active or otherwise, had a shockingly small number of followers.

The median for publicly inactive profiles: 2. For publicly active ones: 5.

The 95%ile: 33.5 for inactives, 69 for actives.

This jarred with the experiences of those I was hearing criticism from simply because they were, virtually by definition, extreme outliers.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq

Public vs. non-publicly posting profiles summary data

Publicly Inactive

Followers:

n: 88, sum: 561, min: 1, max: 53, mean: 6.375000, median: 2, sd: 10.953730

%-ile: 5: 1, 10: 1, 15: 1, 20: 1, 25: 1, 30: 1, 35: 1, 40: 2, 45: 2, 55: 2, 60: 3, 65: 4, 70: 4.5, 75: 6.5, 80: 7, 85: 10, 90: 19.5, 95: 33.5

Views:

n: 88, sum: 638656, min: 265, max: 119442, mean: 7257.454545, median: 1012.5, sd: 17720.702361

%-ile: 5: 298.5, 10: 335, 15: 368.5, 20: 408.5, 25: 477.5, 30: 503, 35: 570.5, 40: 689, 45: 912, 55: 1211, 60: 1340, 65: 2027.5, 70: 2824.5, 75: 5245, 80: 7893.5, 85: 12777.5, 90: 21663, 95: 48144.5

Publicly Active

Followers:

n: 1890, sum: 125539, min: 1, max: 67855, mean: 66.422751, median: 5, sd: 1579.404405

%-ile: 5: 1, 10: 1, 15: 1, 20: 1, 25: 2, 30: 2, 35: 2, 40: 3, 45: 4, 55: 6, 60: 7, 65: 8, 70: 10, 75: 13, 80: 18, 85: 24, 90: 34, 95: 69

Views:

n: 1890, sum: 66647773, min: 252, max: 21088213, mean: 35263.371958, median: 3419.5, sd: 522757.797486

%-ile: 5: 576.5, 10: 855.5, 15: 1076, 20: 1311, 25: 1566.5, 30: 1847.5, 35: 2153.5, 40: 2518, 45: 2947, 55: 4045, 60: 4890, 65: 5982.5, 70: 7645, 75: 10157, 80: 13468, 85: 18576, 90: 27814.5, 95: 54290

More: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/RhnK...
God brought the world into being in 4004 BC. This article has a tablet from 5000 BC, so it looks like Kushim is indeed older than Adam'n'Eve :)
130, Marissa is missing the point of life. Yes, work is important but If she's working that many hours then she needs to know that we work to live a nice life but if all of life is taken over by work then what's the point.

Also, her job as head of the company is to determine strategy and get the right people in place to execute the vision and guide the ship as needed. Micro managing can never work at a company with 1000's of people. If she worked that many hours, I suspect that was her problem. She lost the forest for the trees. Shame because it would have been great, if she could have made Yahoo the power house it once was.
Cool. Do you have links to the torrents? I can't find them.
Not the SEC's jurisdiction. Probably the DOJ.
ThemeSong.js
Two things about this article registered on my bogometer:

1. In the image of the hands on the cave wall, some of the images are positive and some are negative. The negatives were plausibly made by the technique described in the article (put hand on wall, blow dust at wall) but the positive images could not possibly have been made that way.

2. The translations of the tablets seem implausibly precise. How could we possibly know that a particular bit of ancient Sumerian (or whatever it is) translates as the Anglicized name "Gal Sal" or "Sukkalgir" or (most implausibly) "En-pap X"?

Seems just a tad odd.
That's funny, I don't know that it's been referred to as an IDE so much as a more advanced code editor.. which is about all I use it for... I generally have my rightmost screen with iTerm and 3 windows split, one tall, the other two quarter screen... next to the left is VSCode for the project/directory I'm in, left again for browser, left for lync/outlook etc.

As a code editor, I've really liked VS Code.. I haven't ever setup any integrated debugging, or used the tasks options... so I can't comment for that, but for my use it's been very stable.

If you want a full blown IDE with integrated debugging, etc, then you're right, it's less than ideal... having to edit json config files is cumbersome, and I'm guessing they'll get a GUI over that once it's more feature complete... as it stands, the core works well...

Though I do wish I could get pre-tabs behavior back, once I got used to it, I preferred the switcher ui on the left.