skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's ok if Samsung, Google, Apple or whoever else lock you out of the device? Or at least they're not doing it to protect their monopoly.

Also, we're talking about Microsoft ARM based devices so what monopoly are they trying to protect? The monopoly on landfill space they used to dump all the Windows RT devices they failed to sell?
You're supposed to answer with respect to August 9 - it's a snapshot of every person in Australia as of that night.
And now we're back to spending billions on security.
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Googled "100 hours participating scientific research land property taxes". Third result:

Timber Taxation: A General Guide for Forestland Owners
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/forests/finance/f...
Most digital "security" is theater. Enterprises waste billions on antivirus and vulnerability scanners that are practically worthless.
Ack, you're right! I installed it, added a symlink to the head of my path, but forgot to open a new terminal so continued using the old hashed path.

Edit 10 minutes later: Ok, it's installed now. And I've set this up in my .zshrc:

-alias vi=vim
+alias vi=emacs

Let's see how this goes.
So much fail from the Australian government technology wise recently. This is all despite supposedly having a "tech focused Prime Minister".

Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price and managing to slow down the rollout (copper is the future!). 25 mbit for everyone by 2016! No upgrade path! Actually make that 2020, and we don't care if you only get 25mit for 2 seconds at 3am and otherwise get 1kb that's good enough for us! (for the record, I believe FTTP would have been late and over budget as well, but at least you delivered FTTP's highway to FTTN's goat path)

An innovation push which cut funds to organisation's such as the CSIRO (invented usable WiFi etc...) and failed to mention the afore mentioned rollout at all, presumably because they know it is a waste of taxpayer money.

Followed by a promise that the Census website would not go down, which promptly crashed and burned instantly.

Then the blame game started with claims of a hack, followed by DDOS, followed by faulty hardware, followed by claims of all three. All the while, the Minister in charge, a security expert and the ABS all contradicting each other over what had happened. This for the low low price of 20+ million dollars https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cph9c4aUkAAyyuZ.jpg:large

In short the technology sector in Australia has been wrecked for the next 20 years along with the reputation of the ABS which was held in high regard by many. But its OK! We have a plan to dig more stuff out of the ground and sell it to China/Vietnam/Indonesia, and we promise next time it will work, especially when we move to online voting!
citation needed.

Which do you prefer, Webster's or OED?
While I can see your point, this isn't about either egoism nor egotism. It's more of a heuristic to ... create utility and a way to stay engaged.

I'm not 100% sure I can read ego as "identification with form". That's a bit Zen for me.
> Got mixed feelings on when to slam C or help its users out.

All the same coin to me. Decry C, laud the tools that make it safer, and sympathize with the poor bastards stuck with it all in one breath. I C++ for a living - you may pity me too. Games, you know.

> It might have effect of reducing number of people promoting safer C strategies.

It might have the effect of increasing the number of people promoting safer programming strategies. Maybe not contributing to the depressing statistics on buffer overflow CVEs by writing their startup's entire serverside stack in vanilla memory-unsafe C. Why, they could even use some kind of LISP variant...

(yes yes, here's some tinder, may any and all do with my strawman as they please...)
It's an obvious lie. Par for the course for the totally dysfunctional Coalition government, which hasn't even managed to pass a budget in three years.
Yeah I think since the fiasco they've suddenly been bandying about "Oh you have until August 23rd, there's no rush guy just chill okay" but that was after months of "If you don't fill it in on August 9th we'll fine you $180/day" to try and shut down people calling for boycotts after the changes they shoved through the week before Christmas that allows them to keep the data linked to everyone's name for 4 years.
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But that is not true; metabolism does not and cannot adapt in the manner you suggest.
After a recent argument with my wife's doctor, I decided to write a rationality style guide for new doctors. Feedback from practicing Doctors is hard to find. Please comment. Here's the link http://lesswrong.com/lw/ntq/advice_to_new_doctors_starting_p... .
In that case I like ‘their own’ best, but when it can be inferred from the name then there's no reason to complicate things. If someone's special enough to use their own pronouns then they can ask for it to be corrected.

And Nadya is hard—I would go for gender neutral on that one. :-) (It's not that I dislike singular ‘they’, but sometimes it can make sentences awkward.)
Probably because double precision floats are just as fast as single precisions if you don't vectorise. I bet you didn't.

This would also explain for instance why many programming languages drop single precision floats altogether: they don't plan to vectorize in the first place.
Dropbox Paper looks pretty cool if you're looking for an alternative. Beta, though.
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Well, if you love this kind of bug reports, please take a look at the one I filed a while ago :)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/11724

Thanks!
The "improved" blue noise random points at the start would probably be more efficiently generated with Poisson disc sampling.

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph07-pois...
This is news? It's just another ridiculous facet of living in the Bay Area. You're making 150k/yr at your software engineering gig, but you're 35 years old and still renting.
Git add/commit/push/pull is all you need to know for a typical blog. Doesn't get much simpler than that.
Installing an OS when Microsoft doesn't want you to is the exploit. The legitimate user is the "attacker," Microsoft (or their policy) is the "target."

(I'm not sure if that's what the Register was trying to say, because they're kind of screechy and incoherent at the best of times, but that's how I personally read it.)
Why not? are you saying the CLI isn't simple or git in particular?
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While the tidy-verse and data.table are definitely game changers for R, it's still worth learning the basics. Often the packages make irritating tasks easy, though they rarely touch the tasks that are easy in base R. I've seen some pretty convoluted dplyr from newcomers that could have been achieved in a single line without loading any packages.
Even as a child, I found Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth geographically implausible, in terms of river flows and mountain placement.
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> Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price

This claim is very misleading when you consider that FTTP NBN's price was never properly realized. In their last progress report they were over budget and behind schedule despite hiring contractors to work overtime in the months before the election.

When you also consider they already moved the goalposts back a few times, it would be ludicrous to believe that FTTP would have been completed without going well over budget.
Wow. I might need to spend some time making a clone of this but geared towards worldmaps like https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/
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So you liked odd numerators? Or unreducible fractions?
It ought to be common knowledge that Trump is unfit for the presidency of the US
I knew Brita wasn't great, but I didn't know they were so inferior. Thanks for the info!
`noms init`
Actually I agree with you, on the basis that all large government projects are over budget and late.

However, when you sell an election on 29+ billion, fully costed ready to go, everyone online with 25 mbit by 2016 and then once in power, adjust to 56+ billion by 2020 you should be hit with the same laws that apply to bait and switch advertising.

Updated my original comment to reflect this.
Another thorough review of water filters:
http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-water-filter-pitcher/
A Filesystem on Noms
It is the straightforward assumption that house ape was used to refer to the original posters son returned from adulthood and with a negative connotation. That is why the assumption was made. I cannot imagine what other use you could have imagined given such clear context.
Good grief. There is very little data this stuff is harmful. Certainly not going to wipe out a town in a weekend. Can't wait for millennials to age a few more years and hopefully get a little context. Being wedged between baby boomers and millennials gets more uncomfortable by the day.
If you download the zip, here's a bash one-liner (replace 48103 with zip of interest):

for pwsid in $(grep 48103 UCMR3_ZipCodes.txt | cut -f 1);do for fid in $(grep $pwsid UCMR3_All.txt | cut -f 4);do grep $fid UCMR3_DRT.txt | cut -f 6;done;done | sort | uniq
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/getonli...

"Get online on August 9"
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People in the Bay Area spend that much time driving 15 miles to work.
Coastal Southern California. There are numerous wells (including some using fracking) within 15-50 miles.
Water pipes are a natural monopoly anyway. It doesn't make any sense for FooWater and BarWater to build out two completely separate sets of water mains which all have to be maintained.

Whichever entity is running the water for a particular area, it's either going to be run by the state or contracted out by it. I don't know anywhere that isn't true, other than places where the water supply is so abysmal that people pay private firms to truck water around.
C++ wasn't particularly designed for compilers either. :-p
Saumil Shah released a framework for producing images using this technique to deploy browser exploits (but could potentially be used for anything).

Worth a look if you'd like to make your own! http://stegosploit.info/
Naturally.
Creating safe places: Defensible Me
BTC holders have been buying into ETC, while a lot of people who are long on ETH have been selling their ETC and plowing that back into ETH.

Once the DAO hacker or whitehats start selling the price of ETC is likely to fall off a cliff. Should bring the fork episode to a conclusion.

Both of these factors improve ETH's prospects in the short term.
> I'm convinced most programs easily waste 90% of their CPU time.

Hah, in my experience that's hopelessly optimistic. The C I write is probably 10-100x slower than it should be (leaving SSE and threading aside entirely), but the Python I write most days is a hundred times slower still.
tldr:

region=$(grep YOUR_ZIP_GOES_HERE UCMR3_ZipCodes.txt|awk '{print $1}')
grep $region.*= UCMR3_All.txt | awk 'FS = "\t" {print $14,$5,$18}'| sort

open page 7 in ucmr3-data-summary-april-2016.pdf, compare
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FTTP would have been cheaper long term, they bought millions of dollars worth of old copper from Telstra and Optus which needs replacing and has maintenance cost's far greater than anything fibre.

They also bought Optus's old HFC network (cable) to rebrand it as NBN ( Which Optus was previously sued for branding as NBN tech).
It's sending the "wrong" one --

$ curl -I http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 05:18:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:31:49 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 135938
Content-Type: text/html
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> and are fairly cheap

There's an even cheaper way, if you are willing.

Taste a drop of your urine. If it's sweet then worry.

In the past this was part of the job description of every Dr. Tasting your own urine, OK, I guess. But someone else's? Yich.
its implied by the home value of $2.7M. i dont think that $6200 is enough to rent a home of that value. as the author says, the mortgage would be $12K per month.
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Here is a map of the states where the kissing bugs that vector Chagas disease have been been reported in the US.

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/vectors/

This doesn't mean the bugs are common in these states, or even when bugs are present, that they have the parasite responsible for Chagas.
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So in this scenario ZKP is just a cipher and a key where the cipher anonymizes the document, but lets the format be validated to a varying degree depending on how much of the encrypted document you are willing to read and a key is given to de-anonymize the document.
As opposed to the previous, completely dysfunctional Labor/Green government, which turned a sizeable surplus into a huge deficit within the space of 5 years?
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Indeed. That and not installing packages on a whim!
ZeroWater changed their filters and now have a time release of a metallic element into the water after about 20-30 refills. Meaning, they make you change the filter unless you can stand the terrible taste. Super scammy. Their water tastes really good... until it doesn't. Then it's horrible.
I'm a little surprised they didn't push the whole census department into Lake Burley Griffin so they could invoke "on-water secrecy"...
What frustrates me about articles like this (even professional ones -- this simplifies for a general audience) is that they only look at one side of the equation. Low inflation is the opposite side, and it's interesting.

Yes, GDP$ per unit hour has not gone up much, but the flip side is that the economic value of the output has gone down. If you look in terms of PPP, workers are doing better: fewer labor hours go into buying dinner.

The corollary is that fewer hours are required to produce PPP equivalent product (e.g. a car) so fewer workers are needed (since the $ are not going up at the same rate it looks like productivity is not). That's why the LFPR is sinking.

A victorian era "smokestack" model isn't useful when looking at this world. This is why automation really is likely to cut employment this time (in fact it already is) and that's the real economic problem to be worrying about. Which some are (e.g. the small UBI experiments under way) but it's still not mainstream.
NOTE: previous failed kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designshift/orwl-the-fi...
Turnbull is now hanging it on IBM:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/11/censu...
'cause nobody (except whoever they end up pinning the blame for this on) ever got fired for buying IBM...
Reminder for the obvious: Javascript is now longer just for web browsers and GPG is not just for email. GPG is also used in B2B scenarios where files are being passed between between servers.

Also Javascript based client applications installed locally are becoming more common (think about Atom etc). Maybe we will soon also see Javascript based desktop IMAP client.
Have you tried suggesting that exact trick (using search rather than scanning) to your pair whenever they default to the Mark One Eyeball?

Having paired quite a bit, it's rather amazing how many programmers just don't know the full utility of their existing tooling. Not because they are stupid, but just because they never made that particular connection.

I have been on the receiving end of this dozens of times, and it is one of my favorite things about pairing as a programmer: where my pair shares a neat trick that saves me a notable amount of time and/or aggravation.
We just need a lot more of those skilled 457 visa IT workers that have been flooding the market because we don't have enough IT people and IT graduates. Oh, wait...
Beware of China's confected outrage on Ausgrid
When you get deep into these widespread public health issues you start to realize that there's always going to be at least one that you or your locale is at risk for. If it's not the water, it's the food. If it's not the food, it's the air. If it's not the air, it's the soil. If it's not the soil, it's your building. And so on...

The best you can do, in the end, is to avoid paranoia or panic and just aim for some systematic detection, mitigation and prevention processes in your household. With a little luck and a good system, you cheat death or disability, temporarily. You cannot create an ironclad guarantee of safety, but there are many things that you can do something about.
That was certainly one mistake. How they overlooked the fact that almost everyone was going to get home, eat, and then hit the Census site afterwards, beats me. It was a prevailing theme for everyone I know, sitting there refreshing and then making fun of it all on Twitter.
It looks great! I will read it over the next few days.
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Assuming you mean right/write, it would need to be a grammar checker, and a damned good one at that.
"5. Is the team using our software?"
What's the throughput of both, the outcome, and the per user cost?

Those are the metrics that should matter to the society as a whole.

The BMW showroom looks shiny, and they explicitly kick out and don't include in their metrics the customers they fail to serve. Great if you've got the money to pay for that. Bad if you want a measure of social utility or overall efficiency, or if you don't have the money...

Monopolies and businesses if great size have general issues also, regardless of being government or private...
It appears that Aussie law is similar but different (I'm learning new things!):

An actionable pre-contractual misrepresentation occurs where a party makes a 'false representation' (orally, in writing or by conduct), the representation is one of fact (rather than a statement of opinion of law or a prediction about the future), it must be made to the other contracting party and it must induce the contract. Where established the key remedy is rescission (generally damages are not available unless the misrepresentation constitutes a tort - that is, it is also fraudulent or negligent - in which case tortious (but not contractual) damages may be available). Even where misrepresentation is established there are some limits on rescission - most significantly, if restitution is not possible the right to rescind will be lost. [1]

So yes, in this case, if the DAO contract was induced by a mis-representation of fact about the contract, then it could be rescinded.

I guess this will be an interesting aspect to Ethereum and "smart contracts" - if there is a legal right to rescind them, how does that work? Can you unwind the blockchain transactions to rescind the contract?

[1] http://www.australiancontractlaw.com/law/avoidance-misleadin...
Maybe it's to make it obvious when the filter is no longer trustworthy rather than letting something harmful but flavorless get through?
That's not how markets work. The war-mongering companies would quickly disappear, as they wouldn't be able to deliver service to their paying customers. The providers willing to work together, and actually make it work, would win over the clients of these other aggressive companies.

Companies that spend time sabotaging each other, rather than focusing on delivering service to their clients, deserve to die. And, in any sane economy, they will.
Nothing new. The protagonist of the 1961 novel Revolutionary Road[1] by Richard Yates works a job that's mostly just figuring out ways to send stuff from his INBOX to other people with the right kind of notes on it to either delay its coming back for another day or two, or, ideally, result in someone else (many, many note-added forwards later) having to deal with it, and to look busy the rest of (most of) the time. Most of the people in his company apparently work this way. Much of the work itself seems to be generated by people trying to find something to do so they seem busy, rather than for any useful purpose. This doesn't come off as parody, either, but as depicting a situation very close to common reality for office workers at that time, with little or no exaggeration.

(incidentally, the novel is great, still reads fresh, and is not primarily about work life in the 1950s/60s)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Road
Oh, you're right.

Tested	Ref. Amt (MCL)	IRIS RfD (u g/kg/day)
chromium	0.67	50	3
vanadium	1.1	21	7
strontium	960	1,500
chromium-6	0.44	NA
chlorate	190	210
molybdenum	8.7	40	5

Some levels from:
https://www3.epa.gov/region9/water/drinking/files/dwsha_0607...
What went wrong with the Australian census
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And most of the bananas success is is due to the United Fruit Company(nee Chiquita) an American company. In fact the term "banana republic" comes from United Fruits conspiring and helping to overthrow governments in both Honduras and Guatemala that were unfriendly to its exploitive and questionable practices.

In a stroke of PR genius The United Fruit then appropriated a mascot - The Señorita Chiquita Banana based on Carmen Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat", from the Hollywood movie "The Gangs All here." Youtube it if you want some entertainment. This largely put an innocuous public image on their immoral business practices.

"The Banana Company" in Gabriel Garcia's "Hundred Years of Solitude" is also an allusion to the United Fruit Company.

I can recommend this read on the subject:
https://www.amazon.com/Bananas-United-Fruit-Company-Shaped/d...
Slightly off-topic but I've been having an argument with my friend around the security of census data. I wonder if anybody on HN might be able to shed some light...

I made the comment that, potentially, a data breach could result in a flat table containing names, addresses, household incomes, etc being released online. This has obvious potential for easy identity theft, stalking, etc. Mainly due to the existence of name and address (since without these fields an abuser cannot target individuals or individual addresses).

My friend insists that it is impossible for a breach to release all of the census information in a denormalised form, as the names and addresses are "unlinked" from the rest of the data and stored in a separate table in a separate system.

This does not make sense to me. Do the ABS seriously remove the address column from their data? Wouldn't this cripple their ability to do spatial analysis on anything more granular than a suburb level? Security concerns aside, do they seriously pay 300m for data and then throw it away?

I wish the ABS would be a little more clear about exactly what they do with the data...
Just like there are plenty of nontrivial C programs where we can be sure that the behavior is defined. That's exactly my point.
I'd bet good money that the NSA can outsource this to their friends/counterparts/lackeys in any of five eyes, nine eyes, and fourteen eyes countries - and through less official channels involving local or flown-in thugs, pretty much everywhere else. They probably can't easily get Huawei's or Baidu's private keys, but I bet there's tens or hundreds of thousands of Protonmail sized companies in China/Russia/everywhere else that they _can_ strongarm the owners or sysadmin staff into handing keys over.

Or maybe I'm just in a way too "the whole world is fucked" mood today...
We use a similar approach in my company and the key here is to borrow the parts that work for your organization from Scrum and blend them with a much simpler Kanban approach. Don't follow a methodology blindly just because someone wrote a book about it. Keep evaluating & tweaking the process until you think it's at a point where it's working well for your organization.