skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how mass media works. 10,010,000 mildly interested people beats 10,000,000 highly interested people. If you care about the sport you're going to watch even if the coverage I crap, thus people who care are ignorable if they can get an extra 0.01% of viewers or just save some money.

So yes there are dumb people in the US and NBC wants them to tune in. But, that says little about the rest of the US population.
I think mods should add (2013) into title.

12 hours a day is not uncommon. Even in EU and public sector, for example doctors in some eastern countries have to work this way.

Anyway, my point is: this study should not be miss represented.
> I strongly support the idea that anything incorporated by reference into the law should be public domain. But the article is a very misleading take on what the ABA did and even what the ABA has the power to do.

So in your view, would you say this action is making the former more or less likely to happen in the future?
For those on mac:

⌘ + Left (go back)

⌘ + W (closes the window)
OK, but you still have to tell me how you are going to pay the technical experts who write the rules.

Note that my intent in writing the original comment was not to engage in this debate, but rather simply to point out that there is a legitimate debate here with defensible arguments on both sides.
Now you can message President Obama on Facebook
I'm not an expert on squirrels, but that could be a ground squirrel[1] of some sort. Some varieties of ground squirrel look a lot like chipmunks.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_squirrel
I pretty much disagree, and I think you would if you spent more time in NYC - there are definitely some crazy things that happen in NYC (having lived there for a while), but i think its too general and somewhat unhelpful to simply chalk this up as just an incident of 'crazy people yelling at others. that is all this is.' based on only having 'spent a few months there'.
Uberisation and the dangers of neo-serfdom
Except the "no encryption at all" crowd gets a louder voice.
From another article, 410 individuals with black skin were controlled more than 10 times in 5 years, while no other color of skin was controlled more than 12 times. In 26 out of 27 cases, it didn't lead to any further investigation.
Yes you are totally right. I mistyped a word. Where it says supertype I actually meant subtype. I corrected the article.
Yeah, the jumping text is terrible for readability.

Then again, the content is still plain text. You can paste it somewhere else, and easily read it without any distractions. So it's actually still more accessible than your average web page these days.
But it is part of the C standard: It's explicitly undefined behavior.

There are varieties of type punning that are legal C, so I agree it's confusing to present this UB implementation artifact as "Type Punning ... in C".

Still a neat magic trick, and an interesting explanation of how it works.
The Little Manual of API Design (Trolltech/Nokia):
http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~jblanche/api-design.pdf

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters (Josh Bloch):
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
So, basically like every other medium- and large-sized company. Get into the small, privileged "in" crowd and you're smooth sailing, up the hierarchy and up the pay scale. Otherwise, get on the treadmill--you're going to have as much value as possible burnt out of you until you quit or get replaced with another "resource".
I appreciate the technical trickery in this version, but has it not been possible to do this since at least 1996[1] by having the server serve different files based on the "Accept" http header?

[1] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Accept
Might be a way to bypass malicious script detectors that see the JPEG header and stop trying to process the file.

It will be stopped dead by metadata filters though. Stripping out the comment would be step #1 for those devices.
Linux is the only OS that fully implements the RFC, and thus the only one that's vulnerable. OSX, Windows and FBSD either don't implement it or partially implement it, making them not vulnerable.
"Extremely rapid deceleration" ? Title's a bit off, but it's a nice article about a guy making the world a better place.
You really should meet my relatives.
Can we link to the original blog post please? http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/ Not only is it nicer to the author, it's far better formatted as well.
So in theory, can analytics platforms be compromised so that JPEG tracking pixels could turn into full-fledged sites interfering with the parent page at, say, a bank website? Firing off credentials in the background?
If there is an innate language structure in the brain then we know that it's possible to develop such a structure by statistical optimization, since this is exactly what evolution did, no?
Well, I disagree with your last statement. Party officials should act to protect the raison d'être for this party's existence in the first place. As I said above, if you are a socialist, by all means, register a socialist party, get on the ballot in every state, raise enough money for advertising, etc. to be competitive - nothing is stopping you from doing this. That does not mean that non socialist party officials should just roll over whenever a socialist runs in their primaries.

As an example, say what you want, Donald Trump is clearly not a conservative in any meaningful sense of conservatism. What is the long run result of his candidacy? there is a high probability that the long run result is irreversible damage to Republican party. Surely, party officials can act to prevent something like this, and not simply act as disinterested administrators. A political party in the US is essentially a private non for profit organization - that can run its affairs as the leadership of that party sees fit
If somebody's beaming their photons at me, it should be their problem.
>Not enough drama for you? How about the fact that gymnasts risk their health every time they step onto the mat?

So do most athletes, honestly - especially those at the Olympics. Weight lifters hauling up double their weight above their head? Swimmers who have muscles strong enough to dislocate their own joints? Pole vaulters hefting themselves two stories in the air? Cyclists going 40+mph down roads with minimal protective gear?

The capabilities of even the worst olympic contenders boggles my mind. They should all get air time.
SyncTrayzor (windows client implementing synching) is pretty nice. It runs as a tray icon but when you click it, it loads like a native app even though it's a web app (similar to electron)
I remember HTML parser was standarized in WHATWG. I guess it never gives up and keeps trying to find valid HTML tags
And for yet more context:

- Australia already has widespread NFC payment terminals and has for years. My anecdotal estimate would put the terminals in Melbourne at ~95% accepting NFC. Everything from a McDonald's to a department store to a coffee shop accepts it.

- NFC is a frequently used feature of many Australian credit cards (as in you wave the card itself at the terminal).

- Many of the Australian banks already offer NFC payment apps on Android devices that cost nothing extra to the merchant or the consumer.

And for some opinion:

This has nothing to do with security. The banks want access to the iPhone for their apps. Apple wants access to the banks' users. The impression I got was that the banks may be willing to give Apple access to their users if Apple gives the banks access to their phones.

Apple however doesn't just want to be a competitor in a free payments market on the iPhone, it wants to monopolise it like it always has.
> If you don't understand how to employ false smiles as needed, you won't get very far in life.

How do we measure how far we've come in life? Relative to what is this distance measured?
I wish people would stop using the phrase "zero knowledge" willy nilly. It has a specific meaning within cryptography.
No, because if parsed as a JPEG, arbitrary code wont be run. If the jpeg was somehow parsed as JS, then possibly yes.
The tldr on most laws about telephoto/private property/etc is "reasonable expectation of privacy".

For example: If you stand on the sidewalk and take a picture of someone sunbathing nude on their front lawn, 10 feet away. Assuming there is no fence, you're perfectly in the right.

Flip side someone sunbathing nude in their backyard with 10 foot fences, if you took a picture of them say using a drone... then they can go after you because they had a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

Same thing with famous people in their backyard and the paparazzi who get out the 800mm lenses and take pictures from the next mountain over. The famous person could reasonably expect some privacy in their backyard.
So, here's the problem with "standing up to the bullies", explorable with one question:

How did you feel about the shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge of officers?
Just a warning, parts of that page may be disturbing and or distressing to some. The references to animal testing are particularly gruesome (to me anyway).
Reamde was the book if any are interested.

A cool part was one of the engineers complaining when a powerful user cast a spell that deformed the landscape. The whole world was a huge finite element simulation so that one spell cause CPU usage to spike as whole world had to be updated.

The book was fun, sort of a thriller, but I felt Stephenson could have done more exploring the world of the MMO game. A rare complaint for him.
> I wonder what are the security implications of that.

At least any terminal escape sequence can be executed if you run `file` on a JPEG, it seems, since this:

curl -s 'http://www.imagemagick.org/image/fuzzy-magick.png' | convert - -set comment "$(printf 'asdf\x1b[1;31mTest?\x1b[0m hmm')" test2.jpg
file test2.jpg

Results in red text on my terminal for me.

(It also results in file writing a 0xff 0xdb to the terminal, which the terminal turns into the unicode fallback character since it's not valid text…)
Let me clarify - I fully recognize the issue at hand at not just a crazy person. But this guy is letting the security guard control the dynamic, when he doesn't have to. I'm not suggesting this is the same as the random homeless dude yelling at me that he wanted to poison all the hot dogs in the city. But I am suggesting that your reaction doesn't really need to differ.
Looked different to me. Those usually don't have comments and other links under the title. Just amount of time since post appeared. Sounds like two of you are doing spot judgments on threads that ignore important info. Your filters are title only instead of title + peripheral info. Prevents the problem you're having.
That subreddit seems to only care about getting hired by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. It's funny because there is so much interesting work being done at smaller startups. If you are a new grad and get hired by one of the above companies, you usually aren't going to be doing the most interesting work.

Source: I work for one of those companies.
What device would have metadata filters installed though? Not a modern browser, by default.
>What are the attributes of a crappy manager?

The director in charge of Fire TV was part of a sex trafficking ring that victimized Korean slaves in Bellevue, WA. This person is under indictment in King County courts. The women were slaves who were forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses in Asia. No doubt this person still has lots of friends that are still in management at Amazon.

So, for context of "how bad can it really be?" read the above and let that sink in a little bit. This is not being forced to work on the weekend kind of shit. No woman should be setting foot on Amazon campus for their own personal safety.
If an interviewer is just testing your memory of an algorithm, it's a bad interview.
-O3 unlocks a number of optimizations that are kind of the opposite of power efficient... at least, depending on the CPU that executes them.
Codeship: Demystifying Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment
"Google-like working environment"
You mean colleagues full of themselves, colorful furniture and lousy work/life balance?
I think you are a bit prejudiced against non-software house companies. It's not that bad (according to my experience). Neither are software houses full of dream jobs (SW game industry anyone?)
What a fascinating story. I hope they go ahead with it (since all parties are consenting) because it'll be very interesting to read about how the procedure turns out. But I'd put money on "not well" so maybe my curiosity is cruel.
Australian banks have been releasing NFC payment apps for Android phones for years now and there haven't been any major attacks.

I'm reasonably confident they can handle this well. I don't trust Apple nearly as much as I trust my bank.
I didn't know what he was talking about until I tried this:

data:text/html, <html><img src="http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/"></html>

Put that in the url of the browser.
No, the JPEG header is at the start of the file, unlike the PNG which is at the bottom.
I did something similar and in retrospect I wish I had developed a solid routine and stuck to it from the outset. When you're suddenly in direct control of most of your time, it can get easy to get lost in the weeds.
The image reference tag is for an image. As stated previously, if you look at the JPEG itself, it starts off with a JPEG comment, which embeds the entire html block, then starts a comment block for the remainder of the JPEG data. Browsers are very liberal in what they accept, so that initial 20-byte header is ignored, although you can see it if you inspect the page's elements.
A $99 Trezor Could Have Prevented the $70M Bitfinex Theft
There certainly could be differences in US and Australian law in this regard.

>I'm not sure I see the point of having words in a contract if it can be voided because someone said something different once...

It is not a simple as a one time statement being inconsistent with the contract, though the could be enough. Also there are many different theories of law I could pursue, but just one example:

Fraud in the Inducement[1]:

1. The defendant made an intentional action, statement, or omission

2. The misrepresentation was material to the decision to enter into a contract

3. The plaintiff reasonably relied on such misrepresentation, and

4. The plaintiff suffered some degree of injury, usually economic harm

And don't get me wrong I understand all the counter arguments as it relates to this single theory of law (but trust me there are more) which including: reliance on the marketing materials/solicitations were not reasonable because the included disclaimers to the effect the marketing materials were not accurate and the contract/code is controlling. In this case I don't think it would matter, because there is no doubt investors relied on these representations from the creators of the DAO including, the DAO was "100% safe", investments were subject to voting, there were safe guards allowing investors to "pull the plug" and get their investments back...not of that was true, was likely the reason investors invested and resulted in damages when it turned out they weren't true.

[1] http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/fraudulent-ind...
This.

- People don't have as many kids as in decades past

- The "stranger danger" mentality -- which the parent post aptly described as "tragic paranoia [1] and hostility even though it is safer than ever" -- means kids aren't as free to roam the neighborhood.

- Increased amounts of homework, organized activities and indoor entertainment means kids spend less time outside and have other ways to socialize

[1] Children's services can take kids away from parents with minimal due process. Whether this is, on the whole, good or bad is a debate I'm not going to get into here. But I will note that sometimes the system screws up and targets well-meaning parents who give their kids too much freedom. Which leads to a chilling effect where even parents who recognize that giving the children more freedom is the rational thing for us to do as a society, it's irrational for individual parents because some idiots think otherwise, and the system sometimes listens to them, and it's just not worth the risk of having the authorities break up your family.
Thank you for speaking my mind. I have been saying this wherever I see these karma-mechanisms being employed (likes, hearts, click buttons). I have not seen any website disclose to explain what exactly these button-clicks do to help anyone? These are basically waste of time and useless. I would not have helped you a bit if I had just clicked the up arrow on your comment (nor would I have helped the HN owners with the same action). But I hope this comment of mine would give you some food for thoughts (or neuron activities). The problem is, platform like HN (and many others) do not have any technology in place to derive the real "value" out of single person's comment(s). Forget the aggregate subjective value, they don't even have anything objective to show either. So if I have millions of karma points, I am supposed to be better in value? And useless if I have zero or karma in negatives? According to whose criteria? That's a failure of social media in general. None of these Likes, Retweets, hearts, or whatever, helps anyone in any substantive manner. These scoring points values do not help anyone in any substantive manner.
I have one of those Fujis too--they're great. One time I was walking through downtown Boston with it, passed a family of tourists, and I hear the kid say "Dad! Did you see that guy's camera!" Yeah, most of the time, people are cool with it. Just, you know, people are people and some have to be difficult. And it's a common problem for photographers--some really have had dangerous run-ins with cops, physical threats, and so on.
You're not making that sound appealing.
A quick search for "striped ground squirrel" turned up only one variety, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. The animal in the photo has stripes like a chipmunk.
FIP radio if you want great mix of music. No talk though
Great, now construct a jpeg image that's valid HTML and a valid uncorrupted picture as well.
One of my early software jobs was at a shop and we built conference registration 'pages' (a big form with a bunch of perl stuff behind it).

Each project was... a lot of hand-customization, and usually took 8-12 hours, and we did a few dozen per year (IIRC) and that number was growing. But each one was... a pain.

I spent some time putting a lot of configurable stuff in a a config file, and some runtime checking of the configs, and dynamic behaviour, and... we had something that would make setup of the form and most 'custom' requests down to about 1-2 hours max.

I wasn't filling out my timesheet, and someone said "you have to put what project you were working on"... so I filled in 42 hours (over 2 weeks - part time here and there) for "project X" and... holy crap I got a verbal beating. We're going to lose this client - we're overbilling, we're gouging, etc.

I tried to very little avail to demonstrate that... we can keep charging 12 hours ($2500? IIRC) for the pages in future, but now they'll only take an hour or so. Apparently I was talking to the wrong people because they thought I was advocating fraud, and I probably almost got fired over that. My code was erased, everything was put back the way it was, they 'ate' the overage to the client (read... I just had 42 less billable hours for 2 weeks) and ... I was sort of 'demoted'.

Had only been there a month or so, and I think had I been able to explain to the owner (a tech guy, and decent business guy) what I'd done, he might have understood. My cube was only 30 feet from the guy. In my eyes at the time, though, I thought this wrath was coming from him through someone else. Looking back now, I doubt he was even aware of it.
rolls-eyes

This is a terrible, whiny perspective and the author could use a heaping dose of economic thinking. Sure, there's lots of 'terrible' software and it would be great if it were better or there was less of it! Except there are real costs to improving software or to preventing 'terrible' software from being released, or used, or disseminated.

I am so happy the author is not a position to make decisions about this stuff for everyone else.

All software is to some degree a hack or kludge.
Who was it who said the culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate? Bad behavior always comes from (or is enabled by) the top.
I too, like the author, often was more interested in the topography and maps of fantasy stories. This is awesome!
I'm more interested in blocking their cookie; apparently Ghostery blocks them by default.
My impression is that the banks want the access to be bidirectional. If they give access to Apple Pay, Apple should give them access to the NFC module.

That seems fair to me. Apple should have to compete instead of monopolising its platform.
> you get the performance you would have had with plain old mutability

And muuuch better type safety. You can only mutate data in-place if either no one else has access to it, or it's wrapped in a mutex and you've taken a lock.
That's for the initial resource itself, not subsequent asset requests. For instance, an asset request is a separate request on a different domain, such as one for a customer service analytics tag, which is requested without any accept resource type request filter.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the loss of the ESC key. I use Vim and touch that key all day long. Replacing that with a touch button sounds like a terrible idea for usability. Clearly nobody in charge at Apple is also a vi user.

Beyond not removing the ESC key, I want 32-64 GB RAM, a 2TB drive option (or more), and no more weight.
Yeah, I'd feel a lot safer aboard an aircraft that's designed to come apart.
You probably refer to low cost airlines. Things are much different in normal airlines I think.
Has that improved lately? I stopped reading it ages ago, when it was turning into /r/PhotosOfSplotchyWallpaper - lots and lots of low-effort pareidolia with no filtering (downvotes disabled IIRC).

And don't get me started on the rivers...
here's my facebook filters. I don't really do this systematically, I just use the ublock element picker until I'm happy. I think you probably want the trending topics one.

! 7/5/2016, 11:08:51 AM https://www.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com###pagelet_trending_tags_and_topics > ._5mym > ._5spf._2sns

! 7/5/2016, 11:09:01 AM https://www.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com###u_jsonp_3_0

! 7/5/2016, 11:09:09 AM https://www.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com###u_jsonp_3_1

! 7/5/2016, 11:09:13 AM https://www.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com###rightCol > ._5v6d._5rzs > ._64a > div:nth-of-type(2)

! 7/5/2016, 11:09:23 AM https://www.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com###rightCol
Better (non-capslocked) title would be the subtitle on this page: "Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world"
Actually the browser isn't ignoring the first bytes of the JPEG before the <html> tag - it's there on the page, just hidden with CSS.
> Someone please, try to construct an argument in favor of this.

The ABA is lobbying to for the government to mandate at least public read access to what are now, private, for-pay standards incorporated into laws and regulations.

The argument for this is you shouldn't have to pay to read the law (there is certainly an argument [which I agree with] -- as in the source article -- that this isn't enough access, and that ideally we should have more. But that's an argument that the ABA position doesn't go far enough to correct the problem in the status quo, rather than an argument that it is in the wrong direction.)

> How can citizens obey laws they have no way of reading?

That's exactly the problem that the ABA proposal addresses -- in the status quo, there are rules you have no way of reading. With the ABA proposal, that would no longer be the case.