skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the going rate on recruiters these days though? 20% of first year salary? I'd rather use it for a 20% pay bump to get a particularly good candidate. Hell, real estate agents sell a HOUSE and only get 3%.

Recruiters make a series of phone calls and they're supposed to get 20-40k, while I go to work? It's a great business though, I would know, I've worked for/at/with a couple midsized recruiting firms, they make a lot of money.
This service has been around for a few years; why post a link to their home page now?
Paying for certification is what's required. Governments require various certifications to sell to them, and that certification costs money in consultancies. RHEL paid for the testing, they get a certification and access to the customer.

It looks like this is probably referring to EAL [1][2].

In a market with a large number of vendors interacting with a large number of relatively unknowledgeable buyers, an oversight team is going to try to find a certification to give guidance (and ass covering).

Yes, this is a barrier to entry, but it's also a learned behaviour as buyers get repeatedly burned.

I would argue that this is equivalent to requiring your plumbers and electricians to be licensed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level
[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-achie...
Glad you liked the post!

Yeah, Hough transform is definitely a time-tested algorithm that embodies both elegance and efficacy. I truly love that.

On the technical side, we wrote the detection library in C++, so that it can be easily ported cross-platformly. For iOS integration, we simply integrated with Obj-C++.
Even if FB were to try this, I don't think people would trust that their information is not being used for other (devious) purposes or that there wouldn't be some ads in the future even with the payments coming in. Trust has to be earned, and FB, in my opinion, has dug itself into a deep hole on that front.

The only reasons I see some people who're concerned about privacy using FB are because there is no better alternative and it's hard to move your network out, even if it's only for specific circles of people in your life.
> I've wondered if it's simply because I don't know it well enough

IMO, and emphatically not ripping on you: it's this one. DNS is a pretty simple protocol and at "you don't have ten thousand developers" scale managing it is pretty easy. It might take you a while the first time, for sure--but it won't the second, third, or twelfth time. =)

In particular, even setting aside explicit failover cases (which do require some outside monitoring and staging to make useful, i.e. when do you failover?), round-robin DNS actually does a lot to provide redundancy, internal to a single data center or deployment, when coupled with SRV records.
And yet, it completely circumvents any warrants.

No, it just means the warrant must target one of the ends.
Open source doesn't mean you'll never be able to sell it.

Your belief that you'd never be able to sell the things you make just means you aren't thinking creatively enough about how to sell it.
This is something Google could bring in instead of letting users report everything as SPAM. Sometimes it's easier to click SPAM than clicking on unsubscribe and then close an extra browser tab.

They have bundles now, but this is also a bundle bundler!
"DAO Hacker" and "getting away" are very loaded bits of language that point to an interpretation of events that differ, AFAICT, from reality.

The DAO contract was neither hacked nor broken. This individual used the features and functions of the contract in unexpected ways, but ways that were legitimate nonetheless.
In my opinion, the most likely answer is that the ruthless company will be more profitable, and most customers either don't care or don't understand (don't care to understand?) the implications of the ruthless policies.
I wish the law could be statically checked. In the US at least you are, at any given moment, likely breaking a law because for each and every law, there is one that contradicts it (at least partially).
"If FB decided to shut down some features to ad-blocking users, do you think that would be unfair?"..

Besides scrolling through your feed, is there much you do on FB? It's just a news aggregation site now.
I haven't been tracking this closely. Any chance the DAO "hacker" was influential in keeping the "classic" chain around?
Ask HN: Best blogging platform for mathematics?
Our group wants to develop a weekly blog for whatever we have learned so far in the week. However, We are short on time, and need a quick way to do it. Most of us are comfortable in LaTex. Is there a blogging platform where we can quickly write maths formulas and equations without spending too much time on it? Like plugins or extensions for wordpress.
If they do it - there might be a short term (1 or 2 Qs) benefit of buying their stocks, since their ad revenue will increase quite drastically.
Again - I am talking about the short term.
How about an intel nuc? I suppose that would also work right?
Edit: already saw the picture with the pc stick and mac.. awesome!
This the other kind of MiTM attack: Man in the Mail.
But what is the right solution? "Everything should be the same, everywhere" is, unfortunately, probably not a workable answer.

(And I might respectfully suggest that if your answer involves "the incompetence of [everyone else in] the UNIX industry", you may be part of the problem.)
Ok sorry :-)
Sausages are a ground mix of meats.

Is there an equivalent for a mix of vegetables, fruits, grains, meat, etc? It would make more sense as a complete cheap meal than a powder, except for being perishable.

It brings to mind the 'diet problem' http://www.neos-guide.org/content/diet-problem for which, if optimizing for price only, often suggests that you eat mainly potatoes.
LINQ method to see if two lists contain a match
I really like it, too. Reception is really good in my area, and I'm often connected to WiFi anyways.

I was a bit worried that the "pay for actual usage" bit would make me be a bit more frugal about my phone use, but it hasn't turned out that way.
Why ugh? They want to support the old chain for ideological reasons, what's the problem with that? Isn't that the whole point of these blockchain systems (i.e. that a centralized authority does not control the system)? I am a pretty big blockchain critic, but schadenfreude aside, I think the eth/etc split is a decent demonstration of the fact that these systems have legitimate resistance to centralized authority, even when ethereum's influential creator is the authority. It's not stable and eth's buggy contracts are not reliable, but as far as blockchain money goes it has lived up to the ideals of the enthusiasts.
Distributed K/V store library (Go) built with raft and SSH
distkv is a distributed K/V store library for Go powered by the raft consensus algorithm. Values are only changed when a majority of nodes in the cluster agree on the operation. Internal communication is secured and powered by the SSH protocol.

It ensures confidentiality and security by enforcing asymmetric authentication and encryption using the SSH protocol. A custom built interface leveraging the protocols features (TCP/IP forwarding and out-of-band requests) secures all raft and control communication.

SSH was chosen over TLS because it provides strong, battle tested security without needing centralized third-party trust authorities. This makes it a good fit for distributed systems like distkv.
We can reasonably assume it's nothing more complicated than what you can do using a combination of machine learning libraries and OpenCV (however if they have instead some new technique, I hope to find a paper from them in a few months :) ).

EDIT: Adding more details.

If you are looking for similar ideas, you should read papers in the area of object-class segmentation / classification[0][1][2], and generic supervised learning.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03727

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/object-...

[2] https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/papers/DAGM_NC2_2011_Schulz.pdf
> The BRIN index should be ideal for situations where there is a huge storage of data (TBs) inserted in sequential order and rarely queried - a BRIN index for such a thing would be only a few MB in size. I say should because when I tried it on 9.5.0, the query planner kept ignoring the index.

A BRIN index only keeps summary information for a range of pages. Because of this, a BRIN can only be used for a bitmap scan and cannot be used for a normal index scan. This makes the set of queries where the planner will use the BRIN index really small. It is also possible, since it is such a common mistake, that you forgot to run ANALYZE and so the planner had no clue the data was in sequential order.
>import os

>os.urandom(24)

'\x17\x96e\x94]\xa0\xb8\x1e\x8b\xee\xdd\xe9\x91^\x9c\xda\x94\t\xe8S\xa1Oe_'

>os.urandom(24).encode('hex')

'cd48e1c22de0961d5d1bfb14f8a66e006cfb1cfbf3f0c0f3'
I built a Machine Learning algorithm about a decade ago for doing this kind of feature extraction. It was targeted for finding samples on a tissue microarray, but it's basically the same problem (find approximately circular features on an approximate grid).

The research was never published and it was a kind of a hack (an EM-style algorithm that added a step to update grid parameters after the M-step of the centroid fitting).

It worked well enough, but would not be able to handle the heterogeneous circle sizes (1 mile + 1/2 mile) that are demonstrated in the post. Something like this is so well constrained (1 or 2 circle sizes) that running a hand-tuned mix of segmentation algorithms is a pretty good approach.
>it is a very hostile environment.

I've never thought of it this way, and you are right from both a technological and biological perspective.

Biologically we are wonderful containers of nutrients, but we have an army only the very sneaky or militant can overcome. Once that army stands down we are rapidly colonized - which is why we must be so careful with food/meat storage.
There is an interesting relationship between ETC and ETH community.

ETC reddit[0] and ETH reddit[1] can provide some information for those interested in the debate.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum
Indeed, this is a deceptively really hard problem that I think nobody perfectly solved yet. The main problem with the deep learning route is it being resource demanding (both computation and memory expensive). Hopefully these problems will automatically go away in a couple of years as the mobile devices become more powerful and the deep learning architecture gets more light-weighted.
> As someone who's completely burnt out, I think the whole idea of doing any job 40 hours a week for several decades of your life is super scary.

During university I honestly could never imagine myself working more than 20h a week. And this issue was really on my mind, it worried me, I really couldn't imagine how, but whenever I brought this up people always said "you'll get used to it".

Nearing the end of my study funding, I took a part-time job programming in an office. Two days, 16 hours per week for two months was enough to wreck me for nearly a decade now. I won't ever trust people that tell me I'll "get used to" anything ever again. I don't know how they do it, I guess I'm just a different species or something.
Well, two things:

1. I've always maintained that privacy is a political and social problem, not just a technological one. Nothing stops a more powerful actor from breaking encryption with a rubber hose if they really want to. Technological solutions are still needed since there's a variety of actors involved, only some of which will obey the political doctrine.

2. I often wonder if encryption will make us think of privacy a bit like we think about rule breaking in sports. Since there's an official, we assume that you can break the rules if you don't get caught, at least on the field. There's no ethical pressure to "do the right thing" because we've offloaded that burden to the officiating crew. Has technology become a bit like the official in this case? Our physical spaces have strong and protected rights, at least in the US, but our digital ones do not, and that may be because we are protecting them in other ways.
Partially incorrect.

While Google's calendar does have a "Birthdays" calendar, it only includes birthdays from your Google+ contacts, and there's absolutely no way of adding a custom birthday into it. So, you would have to have a Google+ account and add every single person you want to include birthdays in as your Google+ contact.

Outlook's calendar has an option of connecting to Facebook and collecting birthday info from your friend list if you wish to. I know that Russian Mail.ru calendar also has this option (+ optional email alerts for birthdays). Pretty handy if you keep your Facebook friend list nice and short. You don't have to add all of them manually.
It is possible. So, if we want to completely get out of FB, we need to ditch our other online persona like email, phone number? In any case, recommending the people from old account does not make sense. What if that mobile number was now owned by different person?
As far as reverse debugging goes, you really should look into http://rr-project.org/
Setup a foolproof CI with Scrutinizer as a step
APL symbols are slighly more suggestive than J symbols, sometimes they vaguely resemble mathematical counterparts with similar meanings, but they remain entirely separate programming symbols with their own meanings. The idea of using other, more common characters instead remains an excellent idea. Afflicting J with lovecraftian adjectives and scat doesn't help.
It's my understanding, from an ex-gf in college who was going through the teaching credential program at the time and had a mother that was a teacher, that there's a lot of work loaded on teachers inthe beginning, as they need to develop lesson plans for everything from scratch (where "develop" may mean find and adapt in some cases). Then, after a couple years it's settles into a normal churn of updating or replacing a much smaller portion of lesson plans as you go, and the rest of the time is the normal grading work.

That said, I'm not sure I've ever met a teacher who takes off at 3:20 every day. I imagine it probably averages out to around an hour before and after school, so 7 AM to 4 PM? But there's often grading that happens at home throughout the week. I wouldn't be surprised to see veteran teachers averaging 44-50 hours a week of actual work for the year (with lulls and spikes for midterms/finalls, etc).
The piece of paper they give you at the DMV will work in a traffic stop, and maybe for voting (not doing so is a civil rights lawsuit waiting to happen) but is unlikely to be accepted anywhere else.

Most organizations would rather see your slightly expired card, demand a second factor, or just refuse service rather than trust a piece of printer paper. You're definitely not getting into a bar with a temporary ID if you look plausibly underage, or the kids would be doing that already.
> You mentioned Common Lisp - it's a great example of a cathedral.

Sure, but I didn't say Common Lisp was a bazaar, either. I said it didn't make sense to say "Lisp" was a cathedral, because there are many Lisps, and some of them are bazaars.
The reason they don't pick on men for being men is because they're male themselves. So they do care that she's female because it's something they aren't, and they can pick on her without picking on themselves.

This is true for all bullies and the people they bully, though, and not just women.

There are certainly women who look down on men and bully them for being men as well, but it doesn't seem to ever rise to this level of cruelty.
> I think we have to realize that some transparency into private lives is needed to have a proper society, and the anarcho-capitalists want full privacy from the get go

This is almost a non-sequitor. If your private life is transparent then it ceases to be private. You're in fact advocating no private life. I strongly disagree that this position would be good for society.

It's funny how you'd think you have to be an 'anarcho-capitalist' to want privacy.

The rest of your comment is a strawman, whatever your feelings about 'anarcho-capitalism' is irrelevant to having a right to privacy.
Yeah, with my Japanese locale it shows up as 2010/01/06
Isn't it simply an energy bar?
OpenCV doesn't have any ML algorithms builtin that I know of, but the article is pretty vague there eh? Either way, document-scanning from a phone camera is no picnic.

I tried a little while ago. Memory is kind of hazy, but depending on how well you do the image transformation (automatically[ish] skew to rectangle, etc), image quality might get poor. Then you have to do the actual OCR. Now the only complete OSS solution is Tesseract and it's not a state-of-the-art one. There's also ocrpy, but it's more of a toolkit and it's model needs to be trained (one single-line text when I last checked). So yeah, it's fairly hard to do.
Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction
I'd honestly expect something this ridiculous and intellectually insulting to have been said by an NSA official during an interview.

There no possible political engagement at this point. Agencies of major governments can quite secretly and even illegally engage in mass surveillance, as they documentably have. They can even spy on each others' citizens. The only way you can force issues out into the open where they can be politically engaged is by making secret surveillance impossible.

"Make sure the other side has an easier way out than destroying you."

That only works when the other guy isn't already dedicated to destroying every vestige of your privacy.
How can the hacker get away with moving any ETC out of his account, if everyone can see?
There was no real voting. A tiny tiny percentage of owners voted for or against the fork, mostly because there was no official voting system publicised.
Once again, Soylent's team is relatively behind the curve in terms of supplementation, quality, and "dietary trends" (some of us just call them fads).

But one thing they sure get right is how to market to a niche: all you guys and readers of tech news sites.

It'll be successful, but let's not make it out to be something pioneering, because it's most definitely not.

Anyone who's doing full-Soylent really needs to read this massive meta-analysis:

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4490
My Cousin's son is borderline-autistic and antisocial. He loves Anime and I see him and his friends regularly posting sexist, bullying, and other horrible comments on Facebook (including many 4chan Memes).

Many people use this as proof that the tech industry and men are sexist. In reality, it's mostly the work of teenagers with too much time on their hand and mentally ill individuals.

I wish we could stop lumping in an entire industry and gender for the actions of a few that may not even be in the industry at all.
You can take the outside view on the company. There are N companies in a comparable situation, and of those companies M of them failed. M/N is approximately what you should believe the failure risk to be.
I last saw this story when the fork looked like it was going to succeed. Did enough people really dig in their heels for the immutable chain that they're going to let the guy get away with robbery? Oh man.

Ah, hardcore libertarians. You're all completely mad, but I won't deny you're consistent.
Why you are not testing independence of errors? http://people.duke.edu/~rnau/testing.htm
I actually created a custom adblock filter to block the whole news section. They already show "news" about stuff like prime day sales, so it might as well be advertising.
Research has shown that the most powerful cognition and memory enhancing drug we have available to us as a specie is caffeine.
Before crypto, basically all guarantees where conditional on a judge's say so

Tell that to J. Edgar Hoover.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think we're talking past each other.

Regression is a statistical term. If it's going to be used for an application involving data and real decisions, not understanding the statistical issues is irresponsible. That's not at odds with viewing it as a procedure to minimize square errors.

To clarify: There are probabilistic models (involving Gaussians and stuff) where some interpretations suggest least-squares estimation. That wasn't the distinction I was trying to make. Statisticians who hate probabilistic models will still say that it's important to think about what you put in X and y before you do X\y, and to be careful about what you can conclude from the result.
Textual interfaces enforce decoupling. In a lispy system, with richer interfaces, you can couple your apps and functions as tightly as you want. In Unix, the textual interchange limits you.

However, if you have more complex data to send, text may be problematic. And if you're going to send structured data via text, you need a standard, easily parsable format so that people can easily parse your data without having to roll their own, incredibly buggy, parser. JSON and DSV are both easy to parse, and so those are the formats people use, like it or not. And no, it's not inconsistant. It wouldn't be so easy to parse if it was.

Also, I have never seen a tool with -m. Maybe it's because I'm running Linux.
I think they like the idea of it, but don't really understand the implications. Based on the top free apps, it does not seem to be a "real" requirement...

Pokemon Go, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram
Have you looked into wine / crossover? They already have the Windows version of Steam and playable games running on x86 android.
Illegal Use of Pressure Horns Causing Noise Pollution in Lahore
> And if you're doing something all day long and you can't talk about it, what do you talk about?

Music, sports, reality tv, literature, friends, etc. Basically anything else.
If what you are looking is a general book (not necessarily just for Postgres) I can't recommend the "Use The Index, Luke"[1] tutorial, and the accompanying book "SQL Performance Explained" by Markus Winand, enough.

It doesn't go into a lot of relational theory, but it does provide a somewhat low-level description on how indices and database data are stored, and why you want to use different kind of indices in different scenarios.

[1] http://use-the-index-luke.com
Verizon Takes Heat Over Neglected DSL Lines in New Jersey
I totally disagree. Political and social solutions prevailed in our physical space during the 60s and 70s with the expansion of rights related to search and seizure and the statement of rights to those who are unaware of them. There is precedent for social engagement here.

And remember, all encryption is susceptible to rubber hose cryptography. There needs to be a two pronged approach here.
This[1] is what I recall I had (number 6). See the difference?

http://my-meccano.co.uk/SETS.html
What Is Knot Theory? Why Is It in Mathematics? [pdf]
How would one prove the opposite? That a human actually understands anything about the game and isn't reacting to the state of the game to suggest the next move? I'm not saying AI as it exists today understands, I'm just saying this "understanding" metric isn't a good metric unless it works in reverse.
Knowing Zuck, he'll probably lobby to make it illegal to use ad blocking because Ads Make The World A Better Place (tm)