skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably about only about 75% as efficient on a laptop as I am with a proper keyboard and large screen. I don't trust developers who work full time on a laptop...
These are fantastic news. Right now, PyPy is probable the biggest reason why many users don't migrate to Python 3 yet. Python 3 comes with a lot of very nice language features, but even when CPython 3 is already faster than 2.x in most cases, these speed increments are very small compared with the speedups of PyPy, which in my experience brings Python's speed to NodeJS level. I'm looking forward for their first release!
U.S. Fencer Attacks and Parries. Then, Whoa, What Was That?
> And that was the beginning of his fuckups, with the final one by paying for an assassination attempt.

That's my point. At some point he needed to leave the digital world and live in the real world. There is no perfect false identity, not one that does anyone any good. Whether you are looking to overthrow a regime, sell drugs, or just keep your recent pregnancy on the down low, at some point that leaves the digital space and enters meat space. It's at that point that powerful actors can get what they want from you.

Encryption might help you evade detection, but it is not a guarantee of privacy, even for a regular person.

Believe it or not, I expect we agree in the end. The existence of encryption is precisely why dragnetting doesn't work for catching actual bad guys. What brought down Silk Road was old fashioned police work. Get people on the inside, record some chats, get some warrants and so on. They seized him after he had decrypted his laptop, even. It's also precisely why I think political solutions are going to be the most effective in the end. The expectation of privacy we have established outside the digital space (say, no wiretapping, no illegal searches or arrests) still gives tools for protecting the public. Perhaps we need to somewhat tweak those tools for the digital world, but that doesn't mean we need to give the government the keys to our house.
It may not hide anything from FB, but it will hide from anyone using FB to observe you, which seems like what the OP wants.
Depends on how outgoing one is. The shallow end of the pool would be going to meetups. The deep end would be going to bars or other places where people meet. Either way, you have to talk to strangers for it to work, but it is significantly easier to do so when you have some established commonality.
Right, I get maybe two recruiters contacting me via email per year. Even then it's occasionally asking me if I have any leads for them...
Interesting. I never quite grokked rainbow holograms, so perhaps there's something in that.

But it's unfair to say all white-light holograms aren't holograms. A normal Denisyuk reflection hologram made with lasers and everything will replay perfectly well under a halogen lamp.
2 Fast 2 Accurate
Weird how suddenly everyone seems to have coalesced around 3.5. I myself have experienced this just recently -- the new async stuff is too nice to pass up. Really looking forward to new formatted string literals in 3.6 as well! One of those ideas that's so obvious in hindsight, you can't believe it took us this long to come up with it.
That will be a very interesting read.
Oh yeah, that's a good point. Apparently something similar happened in Northern Ireland; the IRA stole enough money that the bank just printed new versions of the affected denominations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Bank_robbery
Write programs which accept ASCII input from other programs, for that is a universal interface

Can we maybe update that to UTF-8?
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The relevant part of the GPL applies only when a derivative work is created. The determination of what constitutes a derivative work is the domain of copyright law. If a piece of software is not legally a copy of or a derivative work of a GPL-covered work, the GPL simply doesn't apply.
FaceSlim currently works great as a Tinfoil replacement until they work around redirect.
It's not clear that FB is required to delete your content if you ask them to, especially if it says in your terms that you explicitly give up this right (and I haven't actually read it, but I'd not be surprised if this was the case). I suspect you could claim someone stole your account and posted things that libeled you, and FB would be a party to the harm. But that's not quite the situation for the OP.
YouTube also put the byte range in the URL rather than using a range request header.

Perhaps it mitigates against proxies stripping the headers, or it simplifies caching.
Great example of engineering as marketing.
> Let me ask you, what if you and I enter a contract where I will pay you $10 to pull a string of my choice and you agree. After you enter the contract I show you the string and it is tied off to a trigger on a gun pointed to someones head

I think this analogy is very flawed, because I could inspect the DAO code before investing in it. The string doesn't lead off-stage.
This thread presents a great opportunity for someone to sweep in and present a foolproof path to persuade enthusiastic newbies to jump in and help...
Teachers make less to start as a result of the unions. The people running the union are later in their careers so the increased wages tend to accumulate to more senior positions. At least, that's how it's going for my friend who is a teacher.

Once you put in the time it pretty much turns into one of the most comfortable jobs you can get between decent compensation, lots of time off, good benefits.
I'm largely using LTE these days for network access instead of wired and I have not yet encountered significant latency problems. You have a higher latency out of the box but it seems very stable. However LTE does QoS on a per device situation and it might be that the tower downgrades you if your link is not good enough.
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OTOH, legal systems consider humans and their motivations to be first-class entities.

The same is not true for a cryptocurrency system.
a law may be not completely enforceable in normal situation, yet it would still provide at least two things: 1. scaring away a bunch of would-be players and 2. once somebody got law enforcement attention even for non-related things the law may provide for additional charge and thus higher pressure and higher chances that something would finally stick.
> It'd still be easy to selectively apply traffic shaping to streaming but not to the speedtest traffic.

That presumes they aren't fully emulating streaming traffic to test speed. Not only is this the correct thing to do from a video streaming company that wants to test connection speed for their services (the quantity and size of packets can affect the delivery through different mediums and devices), but it also makes it obvious when your ISP is quietly throttling your video streaming traffic.

Since it's a win-win in this respect, I would be surprised if this isn't exactly what they are doing.
Thanks, but I should stress that my example here didn't do much that was really advanced. There was a little ftrace and BPF, gdb reverse stepping and the TUI, but the other gdb commands are routine. I guess what's useful is explaining everything, including caveats that you can hit even with the basic stuff.
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One of the coolest days I've had at work was when we hit a nasty deadlock deep in the bowels of gstreamer on one of our shared "immersion room" computers. We pinged our resident gstreamer expert and I convinced him to run his gdb session (from a core dump, over ssh, halfway around the world) inside tmux so we could watch him as he debugged.

There's nothing quite like watching someone who's an expert both in gdb and the problem domain as they do their thing.
You wouldn't even even need that. Just a methods for identifying content and aggregating users 'votes' on them. Reach critical mass and start hiding it.
I find it amazing that the law prohibits a judge from saying, "The statute of limitations period means that this cannot be valid," and throw the case out, but rather requires one of the lawyers to do so.
Your Smartphone is Lying to You (and it’s not such a bad thing)
I don't see numerical speeds there, just a graph of how much SD and HD video is used across various ISPs in my neighborhood. Are you getting actual numbers like "100Mbps" from that report?
Labor productivity is looking distinctly unhealthy
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I've had to remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton

Variant: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
Mr. Camp has written about this topic before, see

More Encryption Is Not the Solution (2013)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/escaping-the-dr...

"The recent exposure of the dragnet-style surveillance of Internet traffic has provoked a number of responses that are variations of the general formula, ‘More encryption is the solution.' This is not the case. In fact, more encryption will probably only make the privacy crisis worse than it already is."

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep...
Re: Mandatory encryption is theater

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Correct, but if you make encrypt mandatory, they will have to break
_all_ encryption, that's what the law tells them to.

As long as encryption only affects a minority of traffic and they can
easier go around (ie: FaceBook, Google etc. delivering the goods)
they don't need to render _all_ encryption transparent.
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I guess, you use any database of your choice with a layer of abstraction.
Are you going to deliver, unlike most hardware Kickstarter projects?
This is cool; just ran it, but I couldn't tell that it was doing anything. Maybe adding some soft of indicator/throbber that lets you know it's processing.

fast | cat
860 Mbps
This is not wireless like 4g/5g or any cellular company you think of. This is point to point wireless they are talking about. Which can transmit incredibly high speeds and bandwidth.

Here's the idea, and is actually the current setup I have with a private company:

A p2p transmitter can broadcast to a lower tower that sits next to multiple neighborhoods. Then from that tower, lines can be run to individual houses and/or other small receivers like on people's rooftops.

With this system, they can literally cover vast areas, with just as fast speeds, in a fraction of the costs and time.

I have this setup right now, pointing my p2p device right at the top of a building downtown (not in San Jose.). It is crazy fast and even during heavy storms, there is no disruption.

San Jose, I wouldn't complain just yet, you might actually get your 1 Gbps + speeds faster than you thought despite this "construction delay".
>if they didn't put 1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside in it.

Some people prefer it over (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol (IUPAC name for sucrose aka table sugar).

There isn't really any purpose in using full chemical names in informal discussion. Most organic chemicals are pretty complicated, so using the full names just makes it seem like you are trying to scare people who don't know any better.
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> There are things you cannot put into words

I am a very bad example though, for one because English is just my second language. Sure there is thinking before words are learned. Language is a complicated problem to talk about, just like self awareness. Consciousness is a very nebulous term to me. Still, you'd have to prove that language is theoretically unfit. Any such logic might be incomplete if you suppose you cannot put it into words. A complete first order logic is expressible however, following Goedels completeness theorem.
>If the other investor wasn't an insider you wouldn't have a case against them. There's nothing unjust...

3rd party beneficiaries of contracts get sued all the time. Just to put it into perspective, you and I enter a contract where you give me $x to invest in Y, instead of investing in Y, I just give the money to a 3rd party who may not even be mentioned in the contract, the law would most certainly allow you to go after both the third party and myself.

Unjust enrichment is a legal term or art and a cause of action, not your or my definition of unjust. Here are the elements of unjust enrichment:

(1) a benefit conferred upon a defendant by the plaintiff,

(2) the defendant’s appreciation of the benefit, and

(3) the defendant’s acceptance and retention of the benefit under circumstances that make it inequitable for the defendant to retain it without paying the value of the benefit.

In other words when the 3rd party assumes your investment funds, all elements would be satisfied, whether or not they are a party to the contract.
WEMO and Apple HomeKit integration – A long overdue update
> Right now, PyPy is probable the biggest reason why many users don't migrate to Python 3 yet.

Does PyPy have that many users?
>filling USB ports with epoxy

This seems apocryphal. Its trivial to disable USB for a mass storage (or all devices) via things like group policy or other security controls. Or disable the controller. Those USB ports aren't perfect boxes, the epoxy would just run out all over the place. More than likely you'd have an OS-level security policy and bios block, which is trivial to do in a managed environment.

I hear this type of story from time to time and frankly its the sysadmin version of "he hacked us with a visual basic gui!"

>$400 device from China vs $40k from US.

I'd rather trust my network with a warrantied Cisco with same-day replacement than a $400 Abibaba sourced ROUTER PLUS SHENZEN SPECIAL with two weeks delivery. I suspect you've never managed a non-trivial network before, let alone one with real security policy if you'd consider running that and thinking you're secure.
One of the arguments against switching to Python 3 has always been that you just don't gain enough to justify the hassle, so maybe 3.5 finally hit that critical mass of things people really want.
I have to tell you 'Yea totally' is probably a better name for your company than 'Andromium', which sounds like fake ``natural'' Viagra.
Well he's incorrect in that we always had absolute privacy of thought. Its true we're no different from our predecessors who used cyphers, satire and concealment to communicate. It is also depressingly true that we are approaching a turning point in technology where our thoughts - from a purely technical aspect, may not remain private or even be fully our own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_identification

http://www.nature.com/news/brain-decoding-reading-minds-1.13...

I would argue this is the reason a bias toward privacy must exist, modeled after the same international conventions that outlaw use of WMD and torture.
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If I include and run a script from example.com, doesn't that already happen? How else would using a CDN for, say, jQuery work?
> people install adblockers typically because they find the ads are intrusive (full-screen graphic overlays, etc), or their machine gets infected with ad network-delivered malware. If you presented ads that were respectful to the visitor (i.e. weren't offensive) I expect the blocker escalation war would cease.

This is absolutely incorrect. Users may install them because they find some amount of ads to be abusive, but damn near nobody (relative to all ad blocker usage) starts out on a white list basis, and the idea that they're diligent about unblocking sites that have "good" ads that get past their blocker is just absurd.
A new data breach. This time is Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
(Your) time is (in)valuable
>Ads are a donation box, not a price tag

Well, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion. But realistically, we all consume content that is ad-supported that we might be paying for otherwise. The fact that so many ad-or-pay services exist is proof of this (Youtube with ads, Hulu with ads, etc.) The are both business models.

If you don't like the service at the price, don't buy it. Honestly, no one is forcing you and tons of people get on perfectly fine without Facebook (some people would even say they are better off without it).
De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo
They bought slow.com too.
Apple vs. Service Workers
I think I'd approach the problem from the other end, find a way to write laws such that they are checkable with assertions, properties, and constraints.
Wasn't there a large research project just done on twitter abuse that showed 1/2 of online harassers are women?
> "what typically happens is..."

This is a very broad conclusion about what is typical. From where are you drawing this statement?

Also, why shouldn't the office manager be put in charge of important things? They're a paid employee with specific skills.
My best guess is that production of use value is growing fast but our ability to monetize that value is falling. Thus productivity measured by monetary value is falling.

But as far as I know we have no way to measure use value in general, so we can't even collect consistent data about it. Economists seem to prefer to ignore use value and even the sources of productivity, treating it as "exogenous" (i.e. "not my job").
Even if it is flawed, the contract never said I couldn't untie or cut the string before pulling it (or move the head away from the gun). So I remove the string from the trigger, pull it, and walk away with $10.

This illustrates the difficulty with rigid computer-enforced contracts. Clearly, both parties violated the intent of the contract by strict, bloody-minded adherence to its literal terms.

The cleverest, most obfuscated contract writer thus wins against everybody but the cleverest, most analytic contract disassembler.
Which makes your whole argument sound like:

"I'm such a coward! Please take my private data, just don't hurt me!"

Belive it or not, but some people actually have balls to fight evil governments.
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I always tell myself that if I were in this position, I'd go to the interview and tell the company that they're being ripped off by the recruiter.
Reminds me of a quote I once heard, for which I can't find the source:

The cheapest way to make a brain is still the old way.
Zip disks?
Yes it is about the end user. They don't care about your backend code. They want it to work and for it to perform. Your cleaner code means nothing to the user.

Sometimes you have to put more time into frontend and you're up against a tight deadline. I'd opt for the UX in most circumstances.

You're assuming that there are colleagues to work on it and that it will live indefinitely.

Many projects, esp. those related to marketing, have a definite lifetime.

You also mention prototypes as another use-case.

Cleaner code as directed by the article is not always necessary.
Likely by that time we will have overcome this problem.
Thank you for your suggestions. I actually adopted your last one, see http://tombartel.de/2016/07/05/recalibrate-your-productivity...
Yes, it sounds strange.

I've just looked up in a legal commentary, and it isn't as clear-cut as my acquaintance told it to me.

Baumbach/Lauterbach/Hartmann say that the judge may broach the issue if the defense has expressed doubts about the time-line of actions, but that it must not reach the level of advice.

Other commentaries say that the judge must not broach the issue.

And there is even a cool minority opinion in NJW (Schneider), saying that the declining quality of jurists' training may lead to the judge having to protect the client from his own lawyer. ;-)
My parents recently had 100mbps fibre installed, I told them to visit fast.com to test their speed and they were pleased at how easy it is to use and hassle free

Good work by Netflix.
Well, it weights in favor of Python 2, and considering that until recently the incencitives for Python 3 were still light...
It's not really about having users, but having the possibility of switching from CPython to PyPy if you face performance issues.
you can also send a link that way (e.g. via email/Slack.) No way to send a link with an http header
You are right, that sentence was hard to parse. I changed it. Thanks for mentioning it.
It's learning the meaning of words, and the relationships between them.

Word2vec is definitely an impressive algorithm. But at the end of the day, it's just a tool that cranks out a fine-grained clustering of words based on (a proxy measure for) contextual similarity (or rather: an embedding in a high-dimensional space, which implicitly allows the words to be more easily clustered). And yes, some additive relations between words, when the signal is strong enough.

But to say that it's "learning" the "meaning" of these words is really quite a stretch.
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Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items
Its trivial to do with WSUS and off-line updates. But yeah, if its a shit run environment, it will get owned by someone eventually.
> One of those ideas that's so obvious in hindsight, you can't believe it took us this long to come up with it.

If by "come up with" you mean finally acquiesced after decades and decided that string interpolation wasn't such a bad idea... sure.
More people than bots?
I did this once for fun. At the time I used Sikuli (it just controls your mouse / keyboard and find things on screen). easy to code it, takes quite a while to run and makes your computer useless to do other things.
Yeah, it's always felt weird to me that there's so much hand-wringing about this stuff when it's clearly the work, in large part, of children being edge-lords. Maybe it's just my perspective from playing WoW a lot back in the day (an amazing number of children played that game), but I just can't bring myself to take this stuff seriously. I think there's a tendency to make basic assumption that the anonymous person you're talking to is roughly your age or older and sane. I can't imagine anything further from the truth.
I see this as a tool for netflix to immediately raise concerns about ISP neutrality. The link to another speed test (using some minor server) is there not by chance. If speed test is far better than netflix fast.com the ISP is clearly limiting the customer.
15 Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer?
Love the idea behind ZeroDB - kudos to you guys, and cheers from a fellow Tar Heel!

What's your expansion strategy for Oracle/DB2/MySQL?
Lol k

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For those who may know, how does ZeroDB stack up against an incumbent like MarkLogic in the 'Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud'?
I'm trying this right now and it appears to be working. Although it looks like it will break once the timeline scroll gets too large. Maybe a page refresh will fix it.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9106-facebook-timeline-cle...
Several years ago I used this wonderful tool. http://software.internet2.edu/ndt/.

It provides the ability to do lots of troubleshooting in a private network.
Salesforce Acquires Quip
Setting User-Agent Field? (1996)
Obviously it is a convolutional neural net. Here you can find source code for one of the latest work:

https://github.com/s9xie/hed
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