skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And with the blockchain permanently recording this stage of those coin's provenance - I'm wondering whether owning them is going to solve or cause problems for someone later... "That's a Silk Road bitcoin!!!" (I wonder if "Real Satoshi Bitcoins" will one day be worth many times their "face value" like Confederate Half Dollars?)
In fact, if we did know why it should be kept secret, then it wouldn't really be secret anymore!
The problem is not "I want a robot to clean my house", the problem is "Design a home that cleans itself".
> Today, more than 90% of Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support things like page analytics. This kind of Flash slows you down, and starting this September, Chrome 53 will begin to block it.

Slightly off topic: I always found the term "block" to be a bit odd in the web browser context. The browser is the ultimate authority on what gets rendered and shown to the user; there's no need to block anything, because it can just not attempt to show it in the first place.

The term goes back at least as far as popup blockers. I wonder if it's because early popup blockers were browser plugins, rather than built in features, so they did have to actively intervene in the user experience.
It does? Well at least as long as you don't mention threads. Or try the cross host debugging "experience".
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No, we didn't have better alternatives.

For video, HTML5 video was simplistic before DASH, which became a standard in 2012. Further, with Flash your choice of codecs was easy (Sorensen Spark, and later H.264); with HTML5, you have to stream in whichever combination of audio and video codec and container the browser supports.

For rich interactivity other than video, we're just now, in 2016, at a point where we can claim the Web Platform [1] finally is on par with Flash, but sites like CanIUse still exist [2], because not every browser supports every new API. Flash gets a (rightfully) bad rep for its security vulnerabilities, but it was a single platform to target, and it's been replaced with alternatives that are no less subject to vendor pressures, despite being 'open' and 'neutral'.

[1] https://docs.webplatform.org/

[2] http://caniuse.com/
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Just have a spine and leave at the normal time. What happens, happens. Its insidiously nerdy and meek to be in an office full of people who are all afraid of the "usual time to leave"
I think "full stack" is actually most harmful in start-ups, and that it's one of the primary inhibitors of growth because it fundamentally doesn't scale and doesn't, even conceptually, make sense once a project becomes large enough to have fractured sub-teams with competing and highly specialized needs. I can understand, but still with some skepticism, having 'full-stack' when you're just a team of 5-10 people still in "garage" mode. But anything at all larger, and especially if you're delivering to real clients and seeking to scale distribution, and it just falls down. Even all of the places that clamor about full-stack and have these big scale distribution problems don't actually do it that way. It's much more of a hiring buzzword / hoop to jump through, and then doesn't correspond to the way the work is actually partitioned or completed, except through lip service and verbal insistence.

When hiring for a web position, hire a web developer or a person whose engineering skill leads you to believe they will solve the web development problems. That's my whole point. Web developer != "full stack". Hire someone else for the database side, and have them work together. The two specialists, say, are worth much more than someone you venerate as "full stack" and make do both things.
Maybe because there is no country called "Palestine". There is the "Palestinian Authority" that rules over the Westbank and used to rule over the Gaza Strip before Hamas took control over it.
The correct solution is to display it to the user on an HTTPS page.
> Indeed, if I'm not mistaken the period is called "the dark ages" and "the middle ages" to signify the lack of any advancement in science - or at least that's how I've always perceived that period.

and that is how most people perceive it, but it's a lie :)
Basically, they are called the dark ages, because the people who came just after them (i.e. renaissance) wanted to show themselves as "better than the old guys".

The middle ages in europe saw the adoption of spectacles, arabic numbers, mechanical clocks, universities, paper and a bunch of other stuff.
The muslim word, arguably more religious, had it's golden age during this period too and vast advancements in a ton of scientific fields.
I suspect a few folks that studied p-adic numbers extensively would disagree. And in general topologists and algebraists that study non-euclidean things in general.
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well there are lots of book out there but the one that help me most and that I think it will be of help to you if you like reading because it voluminous "software engineering practician approach "4th edition & 8th edition.
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Imran, I already loved your idea. Hunted it on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fnsh It's a beautiful app! :)
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for-...

The telco industry tells the banking industry not to consider SMS secure...
I'd love to switch to PyPy, but Theano doesn't seem to be supported, Tensorflow is an unknown.

Does anyone know what is the limiting factor for supporting deep learning frameworks on PyPy?
This seems really interesting! Is there a way to learn more before applying? :)
If that is the case, why don't Palestinians have representatives in the Knesset?

Why do Israelis claim Israel is the "only democracy in the Middle East" if only Jews living in the West Bank can vote?

Israel can't claim it has autonomy over the West Bank and that Israel is also a democracy as well. It is one or the other.
Well, in the case of my friend who bought the iMac for $300, my advice was "don't buy that computer its not worth $300”. It was solid advice. He just hadn't gotten over the beautiful allure of the thing to see through to its desperate software and hardware situation.

The expectation of effortlessness is all tied up in the marketing. The marketing promises a kind of magic, which I feel is bullshit, a fantasy world where you don't have to think about the clothes, they just appear on your shelf, when in reality, they're actually made by a person, whether that person is your Amish grandmother, a friend, a kid in an Indonesian factory, or you yourself. And someone is going to have to wash them when they're dirty, and fix them when they have holes or do the work of recycling them...

Computers require effort and attention and energy to maintain no matter what, even Macs (especially macs...). If not up front, then somewhere down the line. It's fascinating to live in a time when it's arguably easier to install Linux on a given computer than Mac OS or even Windows. This is new. My advice to people is that learning some user friendly Linux is a good investment of technical energy. It's like buying a used car instead of a brand new one. You could spend $10000 rebuilding that used car before you made a dent in the cost of a new one. For a lot of people, the time it takes to keep a used car working well is worth the trade-off..

BTW, I've had a lot of success hooking people up with old (2011) i5 Thinkpads running Linux and/or Windows. They run great and people really like them. Mine has 16GB of ram in it goes real smooth. I use lots of tabs. Too many tabs. And Bitwig. Bitwig works great on an old thinkpad with Arch!
This should send a strong message to the scientists who are more passionate about elegant and beauty of mathematics and think that nature is written in mathematics and using mathematics only they can figure out natures secret. I know this has worked couple of times in past where a mathematical theory predicted existence of some entity or phenomena and then it was found to be true through experiments BUT that doesn't mean this trick will always work coz we try to understand nature using the tool of mathematics and nature doesn't give a crap about what we use to understand it.
> "it’s hard to know for sure how more than 250 people moving between Google and the federal government since 2009 compares to other corporations, but “it sounds like it’s a very significant number.”"

Considering we're talking about a time span of 7 years and Google has over 50,000 employees (took a rough average from the crazy range of source I saw) I'm surprised it's not more. The quote above seems to be someone guessing without any type of information to back up their assertions.

I'd love to see the numbers for other companies but this article is somewhat lackluster and seems to be trying to point to a possible conflict of interest

> Amey said he’s not as concerned about programmers moving over – and quite a few data engineers who worked on Obama’s re-election campaign have ended up in White House jobs – but top level executives changing jobs can raise “red flags.”

I can understand this a bit more. Not sure there is any direct evidence of conflicts of interest but like the investigation I could see it easily appearing so regardless of the truth. Hard to avoid though. After working in the government space they need lots of help.
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Fermilab was not shut down in 2011. I believe the tevatron was shutdown in 2011, but research on site continues, and the "Proton Improvement Plan", which involves upgrading the accelerators, started in 2011 and is ongoing.
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So build redundancy across all three major cloud providers. If AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all go down at the same time, odds are there are bigger problems in the world.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of those desirable customers are also the ones using ad blockers.
If your goal is be employed by a large company with a "Google-esque" interview model, your time will be much better spent working on your interviewing than on learning a broad base of CS knowledge, because that's not what they're going to be testing you on.

Cracking the coding interview is pretty good, but you'll go crazy if you just try to work through it straight without any other content to broaden your perspective.

I'd suggest doing challenges on Topcoder, Hackerrank, etc. to help reinforce the concepts. These questions are very similar in format (if not content) to those you'll see in your interviews, so it's helpful to get thinking in these kinds of modes.

If you're not already comfortable coding on a white board, or talking and coding at the same time, you'll want to work on those as well. Even some simple rubber duck programming will be useful.

Note that the above is probably not going to be anything new to you - you've probably already read this in a bunch of other blogs you found while googling. I repeat it only to reinforce its accuracy.
I would imagine that silo'ing all these projects in outsourced contracts and agencies really exacerbates this whole mess. It would be far better to centralize the IT infrastructure of the federal government, perhaps even into its own agency. For compliance, cross-integration, security, and just efficiency, doing it in house would make far more sense.

I've seen the distributed approach done at a university and it was a total bureaucratic don't step on my toes mess - when they centralized, things got organized very quickly.
"They" are in this case is one prolific lady called Julia Evans.
As far as I understood, the rumours were blown up. Chrome will show a prompt asking you whether you would like to allow Flash (similar to the one asking you to give permission to access your location) if it's used on the website you just opened.

The only exemption those top 10 Flash sites will get is they will have this permission by default, but you should still be able to both permanently add other websites to the whitelist and remove those default ones ones from it. Which, in my book, isn't nearly as bad as Apple's hardcoded support for FairPlay + DASH in Safari only on netflix.com.

I could be wrong though, there could be more stages where it gets harsher and what I described is only the first step.
The interesting thing is how much TV _hasn't_ changed as a format. The resolution has increased, the aspect ratio has changed, but these are simply parameters. Fundamentally, we're still sending signals that get decoded to form a linear stream of data, line by line, with the same blanking and synchronization signals as would drive a CRT monitor. The color encoding and compression is very different, as is the horizontal scan rate (and subsequently the number of lines).

As a paradigm, it's not too far off from what we had before. I think the web has taken a much larger step away from its original requirements and implementation details.
I do not want to discourage you but these companies hardly solve "real problems". Yes they might be challenging and more prestigious but you will probably end up just working on better ads targeting.

I mean I do not want to underestimate your skills and intellect but look at what happened to Geohot and I believe he is above your average MIT/Stanford graduate
No idea what the hell this is for, but it's strangely relaxing.
Thanks for linking to them. I found their code challenges and they are interesting (I do them as a hobby).
Courses are good but not enough. Definately read cracking the coding interview as you wrote and the most important is to solve hundreds of problems on hackerrank, topcoder and similar sites. I think it takes maybe half year to get there, still be prepared to survive for at least a year (optionally move to a country with cheap cost of living). I don't know any tutors as I always prepared alone (and employed by one of these companies)
What has that to do with the question regarding Google?
I don't think that number is really meaningful. Chrome is at 1315. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...

A better comparison could be for CVSS scores over 9: Flash 742, Chrome 209.
Would this study hold for ancient societies thought? There is very, very little we know of pre-historic societies.

Early farmers did not have pesticides, or advanced machinery. They were working with crops only recently domesticated, and with little knowledge of best practises. There was no social order, so bands of thieves may have been more common.

This would suggest that much time would have been spent weeding and protecting crops from pests and thieves, although there can be only speculation on this part. However, I would be cautious of accepting that ancient societies had it as good as the people in the study. Once societies formed it probably got worse, eg. the life of a farmer in ancient Egypt.
I'm not a regular Google maps user, so I'll ask: does someone have screenshots of what Google maps used to display for occupied Palestine? I'd love to see a side-by-side.
Thanks for sharing that. Really interesting. You're right, I'm sure for every De La Soul there were a thousand Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam imitators that made you hardened.

I remember watching this a few years back and loving it, and I'd say you'll get a good hit off it given the personal connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2_GOPGKBs
What does your answer to the question have to do with Google?
They are: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/facebook-clickbait/
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At least google maps has a dotted line between west bank and rest of Israel. Similarly for Gaza and Western Sahara. But interestingly I don't see any word labeling the West Bank region of Palestine.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palestine/
I agree that your number is better, and I was admittedly being lazy when filtering this data.
Mathematics has also been used extensively to correctly model experimental observations. But what would you propose instead of mathematics?
Apparently it isn't that easy to answer.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
Gotta say I disagree with this. I'd say what it means Is recognize that DNS security is important and treat it as such.

The reason I disagree is that if you use something like gmail or outlook.com for logins/ password resets there Is a nasty potential problem which Is if the provider locks you out of your account you could be completely stuffed.

There have been cases of people losing access to their accounts because of ToS breaches in the past. If that account is your login account for other systems you could also lose access to those.
There's more information available now.[1] Apparently part of their system switched to backups, but not all of it. A Delta rep says "We are actually fully operational, it's just that we're not able to use that newer interface." Unclear what that means.

In an airline system, there's quite a bit of equipment at each location, and much of it is specialized. There are interfaces to baggage systems and bar code readers. There are interfaces to airport systems and incoming information from air traffic control. The aircraft themselves transmit information and need flight plan uploads. There's probably more machine to machine communication than user interfaces. They may be having troubles resynchronizing everything with the backup systems in the data center.

[1] http://www.dallasnews.com/business/airline-industry/20160809...
TFA mentions ex-Googlers in the FCC, the FTC and the DOD, which are different branches of government from the USDS. TFA also says "there have been at least 15 moves between Google and its lobbying firms and those commissions." The "lobbying firms" probably had people doing less, um, technical things.

"Amey said he’s not as concerned about programmers moving over – and quite a few data engineers who worked on Obama’s re-election campaign have ended up in White House jobs – but top level executives changing jobs can raise “red flags.”"
[1]

> As of 14 September 2015, 136 (70.5%) of the 193 member states of the United Nations and two non-member states have recognised the State of Palestine. Many of the countries that do not recognise the State of Palestine nevertheless recognise the PLO as the "representative of the Palestinian people". On 29 November 2012, the UN General Assembly passed a motion changing Palestine's "entity" status to "non-member observer state" by a vote of 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions.

> On 23 September 2011, President Mahmoud Abbas on behalf of the PLO submitted an application for membership of Palestine in the United Nations. On 29 November 2012, the General Assembly granted Palestine non-member observer state status in United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19.

The issue is controversial, but the majority opinion is that Palestine is a State. Removing it from the maps means siding exclusively with Israeli interests. We can assume there has been a lot of pressure on Google to do this, or that Israeli interests are over-represented within Google.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t...
They didn't.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2016/08/09/Onl...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is an excellent paper:

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...

Also these quotes are interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
on the left side of screen has:

"Quick facts
The State of Palestine, also known simply as Palestine, is a de jure sovereign state in the Middle East that is recognized by 136 UN members and since 2012 has a status of a non-member observer state ...Wikipedia
President:Mahmoud Abbas
Capital:Ramallah
Prime minister:Rami Hamdallah"

The map is centered around East Jerusalem. No label of "Palestine" on the actual map. But there is a label for "Israel" and "Gaza". And there are dotted lines between Israel proper and the West Bank & Gaza.
There is package, mlrMBO, created by the great guys who created mlr (absolutely awesome for building pipelines, you will ditch caret in a second!). Not on Spark obviously, but thought some might find it useful.

https://github.com/mlr-org/mlrMBO
I don't think banks are blocking Apple pay. But are asking access to the NFC chip so they can have their own NFC apps. I think they are in the right in this.
Of course it is, but note that my comment did not make any statement about NSA backdoors and anyone mentioning those is just trying to muddy my argument by acting as if it did.
"Perhaps but it's far easier to imagine it's the result of knee jerk over classification which is well understood to be a terrible problem through the organs of the body politic."

It's the NSA. It's espionage.

These things tend to be classified by default.

So, I'm not suspicious it's some arbitrary thing, like the type of ham sandwiches agent Boy Scout was eating.
Thanks, those 5 minutes were really uncomfortable. Apparently some people are really into sad UIs.
"Estimate", "likelihood", "viable long enough", "realize that value", "risk", "adjusted calculation", "isn't a guarantee". These words and phrases do not inspire confidence.

Also, your analogy if full of it. You make it sound like options will pay out 5/6ths of the time. Adjust your analogy to rolling a 100,000-sided die with a couple of numbers that pay out, and we might be closer to the reality. With those adjusted numbers, no you cannot have my $0.50.
I'm doing silat. Many of our trainings are kinda "clocked", meaning you do the movements in a certain pace, so you don't have time to get distracted in the first place.
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They will soon be doing it on Safari on desktop too. https://webkit.org/blog/6589/next-steps-for-legacy-plug-ins/
Unfortunately, I am afraid that AMD is to far behind Intel technologically in the moment. What is so powerful in this deal, is that Nervana will be able to leverage Intel's capabilities and expertise in chip making, and they are definitely a leader in this area.
normally on HN I don't like humble-bragging and therefore discount it. this comment is one of the few cases where I think it was done so well and massively worth it on the net. +1
The marketing stack that got us to first 5 paying customers
While you're correct you won't gain adoption nearly as fast with opt-in. If the OP wants this to take off without major changes then it's going to be opt-out.

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted; it's true. If someone has to opt into using your product you're starting out with friction from the gate which is difficult to overcome.
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Exactly and in the UK military (or military like structure), it's easy to get in if you have relatives in.

Also, just because the originator may be dead, it doesn't mean the work won't have knock on effects.

And finding a hole in security for old material may trigger a search through all newer ciphers - something I'm sure they don't want.

There are plenty of reasons, correct or not, why they may wish to keep this a secret.
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