skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is taking the total calories used (actually its not that clear). It should be comparing the extra calories burned by cycling minus the calories burned sitting. Driving the car, you will still be burning most of those calories as well as burning the gasoline.
The sibling comments snark to you is unwarranted, at the very least the escrow service flippa provides adds significant value to the process of selling a site.

I recently found a site on flippa, after the auction had closed, with no sale. I've been unable to contact the owner. I'd really like to make an offer, unfortunate for me! Any tips on that situation?
libStorage: a portable and remotable storage plugin framework
Perhaps because they post a lot of interesting stuff.

This article isn't stuff I didn't already know in some form, but now it's made me want to write a debugger! :)
Yes, it has suffered major improvements, but it still doesn't run everything. Also, online games with frequent updates, break often.

Just my personal experience.
Stakes is High ends with Pony Ride, Stakes is High, and Sunshine. Put that together with Itzsoweezee, Dinninit, Supa Emcees, Brakes... I think it's their best album.
Short answer:

Understand all of Cracking the Coding Interview. Surround yourself with other developers who know the material well.

Long answer:

The big 4 hire thousands of engineers a year.

They have an interview process that brings in developers who can "get the job done".
What I mean by this is that 99% of those thousands of developers won't be building anything groundbreaking.

Before you decide you want to work for these guys ask yourself why you want to work for a big company.

Is it:

- To get away from contracting - do you feel trapped?

- You're not learning any more or getting anything out of contracting?

- You just want to try something different?

- You want to work on a specific team in a specific company because their problem is interesting and unique?

Another thing that's interesting - you say the interview process terrifies you.

You need to ask yourself why it scares you.

A lot of the time when something terrifies you it means that you need to expose yourself to it.

Ask yourself:

- What's the worst that could happen? (you fail the interview and you're in the same place as you were today, just with more experience)

- What do I lose by going into one of these interviews without being prepared (you can't interview again with this company for a year)

- What do I gain by going into one of these interviews without being prepared (you get a feel for how the interview process works)

Don't be afraid of failure - it's the key to success.
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Ask HN: From finance to data science, what strategy to adopt?
I noticed Data Science is a quite frequent subject around here, so my situation might be familiar to some of you.

I have been working in the banking industry for few years now, with various positions from developer to trader. For several strong reasons, I am seriously considering moving to 'data science' (or put your favorite name here), and preferably in a non-financial company.

On university side, M.S. in the US and UK does not seem to be designed for professionals. They are asking for top tier GPA scores, very high GRE, lots of recommendation, etc. I am not sure how working experience is valued here. I did not consider online learning yet though, as I don't know how much credit companies give to it.
On job side, without any working experience in the field and/or a relevant BS/MS, application on data science offers looks quite unrealistic.

Does anyone has been stuck here before and successfully manage the transition?
Text analysis of Trump's tweets: he writes only the (angrier) Android half
An Approach to Waterfall Model
The Price Tag Has Lost It’s Shine in Cyberspace
Everyone is quitting
So maybe I've we'd had native applications instead of this flash crud, OS developers would have been forced to sandbox applications properly earlier!
on RT, you don't need another exploit at all :)
It allows you to run the command prompt as admin by default
Something like react-armor can make cryptographically unpredictable class name, tree structure and tag name obfuscation. But it won't be enough if the ad itself is not written with the same toolkit.

https://github.com/elierotenberg/react-armor

https://youtu.be/n63XXHY4A7I
RE: http://xkcd.com/1717/
Or they can already do dom obfuscation like react-armor, it can make cryptographically unpredictable class name, tree structure and tag name obfuscation.

https://github.com/elierotenberg/react-armor

https://youtu.be/n63XXHY4A7I
Typical example of poor graphics at work. You only have data once every 4 years yet they draw curves between each dot as if there was actual data in between. This is extremely misleading.

Plus, I don't understand the necessity to put "Nazi Germany" after 1933. Based on all facts it was still a single, unified country at the time, no matter who was ruling it.

The "Other countries in Europe" represent a huge chunk of medals and should be separated at least by major countries, leaving only smaller amounts unseparated.
I have an nvidia card because I naively thought having a proper graphics card would be an advantage. I have to run Steam from the shell with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH env to make it work at all.

A recent steam update for no apparent reason moved the steam folder so I had to manually move my steamapps (i.e. installed games) to the new location. Then I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam wouldn't work anymore at all, so I had to reinstall it using steamcmd (because the regular installer did nothing).

Oh, and some games still cause trouble: Wasteland 2 won't launch if I have Google Chrome open. It's a known issue although it sounds completely made up.

It's less painful but it's certainly not foolproof at any level comparable to the experience on Windows.
I'm still working on enabling HTTPS support, but it will take some time to have it up and running.
Actually, in the field of medicine, in the Western world, really nothing good happened at the times between the Christians came to the power and until the Italian Renaissance, check any good history of medicine. And it was really only because of the dogmatic approach that Christians had.

Also, for professional historians, "dark ages" don't mean something "bad" but is a term used to refer to some historical period of some observed area where there's significantly less information on which history can rely to. It's not judgemental, it reflects the facts. And yes, there were periods when the most cities or the infrastructure of some region broke completely.

Here's one look at the fact that for almost 200 years there were no coins in England:

http://www.numsoc.net/darkages.html

And of course it's a local effect, the Eastern Roman Empire at the same time functioned as a real state and produced new money. And some periods can "go dark" for us not because of something occurring during some time but because something later destroyed most of the evidence.
One Path to Power in China Is Closed
The key here is that games on Windows don't target the NT Kernel, they target Windows 7, or Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, which are full distributions.

To have any reasonable chance that this will work, you have to target Ubuntu 16.04, or CentOS 7, not just any random Linux distribution.
Maybe so; but I didn't want to implement too many effects. :)
A good example is Unreal Tournament (1999). I don't think it's even possible to get the Linux version to run on a modern install of Ubuntu even if you track down all the 32 bit versions of all the libraries it uses. But using WINE the Windows version just works out of the box.

EDIT: Dropped "Classic". Not sure where that came from.
After short time, this whole idea seems pointless.

Maybe if there is something that you see in here but fail to describe, please try again.

The commenting is not even anonymous, so... no...value..
Twitter has gotten trapped in San Francisco's latest bubble
For me, Apple Pay has two advantages over a contactless card:

- it's only active after explicit user interaction. There is no way for somebody with an rogue device to steal money from me.

- conversely, there's no limit after which a transaction requires pin entry. Here in Switzerland, the limit for contactless cards is CHF 50 after which you have to still type in your pin. With Apple Pay, there is no limit.

Both of these make Apple Pay very valuable to me.

There's one more thing: I also have a contactless debit card (which I would love to be available on Apple Pay, but that's probably never going to happen) and the moment a reader detects more than one card, it refuses contacless operation.

By having the credit card on the watch, they are separated far enough from each other, so I can always pay contactless. This is a problem that would be fixable with better UX on the readers.
Talks from Spolsky, Godin, Ries, DHH, Fried, and Loads More
I'd prefer to have a lawn with native meadow grasses in it, but the blackberry bushes and other invasive plants ruin everything. The only way to keep those at bay is to mow them down regularly.

(The blackberries kill everything.)
demostration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ns5wla9DY

paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
Google Chrome Officially Is Killing Flash from September 2016
The Power of Mobile Technologies for Real Estate Business
What does your software say about you?
Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
And then we'd have Windows or iOS or Android only applications.

I'm not sure I'd call that "better". Running, albeit a bit worse, is better than not running at all.
What kind of system are you working on?? That is ridiculous. Flash has never made any computer that I have ever owned reset.
German title is "Severe Doubts about Rape Allegations".

Isn't it weird that all these data privacy/whistleblower activists are being targeted by rape allegations that are more than dubious?
>It gives you freedom, as you never leave your home without your phone even while running.

I understand that I might be a special case, but given the option, I would ALWAYS leave my phone at home. I hate that freaking thing.
An Efficient Non-Moving Garbage Collector for Functional Languages (2011) [pdf]
Sometimes I find it interesting and honestly other times I don't think its in depth enough to be either interesting or discussion worthy. If I found every single post of theirs interesting I would just subscribe to their blog.
OMG that is AMAZING. What. You worked on both 3 feet high and rising and All Hail the Queen. WOW. Sorry about the not very informational post, don't fully follow the HN recommendations. BUT I AM LOOSING IT. WOW.
Can't this post be used against you in court to prove you complicit in copyright infringement?
Try the latest update of Genius Scan, it's more like 80% :)
That is extremely difficult but that is, indeed, the goal. The main business of algebraic topology is doing exactly that.
> It is not enough to use some strong passwords for the things you think are sensitive. Every weak password is a weak link in your total identity chain.

I get what you're saying here, but this is patently false. My HN account is not a weak link in my "total identity chain" in any way that matters.

Yes, obviously defaulting to strong passwords everywhere is a better default because you can make mistakes when judging how important a specific site is, but that doesn't mean that every site is critical.
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Invariants are useful because they allow you to distinguish equivalent knots, which is otherwise really hard to do. If two knots have different invariants, then they are surely different.

Dually, you would want the following: if two knots have identical dinvariants, then they are surely the same. Since "if the knots are equivalent, the assigned values might not be equal", dinvariants cannot accomplish this function, and that makes them mostly useless.

(full disclosure: lawyer who did his undergraduate degree in math, not a topologist)
Isn’t it also “Great Britain & Northern Ireland” as far as the Olympics goes?
Thanks for your feedback. I've updated the code to be more flexible: You can now specify an IMAP search (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.5). You can also create multiple "views" that use different searches for the same IMAP folder. So your example should be doable now.
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It's definitely not trivial to do this in a secure way. Every bit of additional code is code that could contain security flaws.

Also, looking at how the banks are doing over here ("your password can't be longer than 16 characters and can't contain the following symbols: " ' %"), I'm trusting apple more than the banks.
Didn't realise there were also adverts on the site. I was more talking about the feed sponsorship

http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
>the only lawn they have is the mandated patch

There's a law that says they have to have a patch of grass?
Yup, this! I like to have one GUI editor on my machine (I open it once month, because I live in iTerm with tmux and vim) and people on reddit convinced me to give Atom a shot. It has some really neat ideas, but in the end it is such a hog, so I deleted it. I cannot recommend electron as platform to anybody at this right moment. Some elctron apps used more resources and energy than IntelliJ Idea, which is ridiculous considering usage and specter of things that those programs are covering.
But the thing is that a game targeting Windows XP or even Windows 98 still has a good chance of running on Windows 10. On the Linux side, good luck getting binaries made for Ubuntu 14.04 run on Ubuntu 16.04.
TOTP is overall more secure, but if Kenneth had used TOTP in this case, he would not have found out about the attack.
How is that a problem for me to solve? They have to find a way which is morally ok and still pays enough without pissing off people.
Out of office email handling
Hey guys - I guess many of you notice the manual efforts involved in setting up OOF replies, and in responding to them once you get back, especially if you are a frequent traveler. You have to remember to set the OOF every time you are gonna be away from email. Once you get back, depending on how long you were away it's a royal pain to go through all the emails and respond to them. I checked to see if there are any tools/bots out there to help me out with these issues but haven't found any so far. Is there any such tool/bot that can do these two things:

1. Scan your latest emails, find out when you are traveling or gonna be on vacation and set an OOF automatically. The OOF message should be more humane than just a template and that message should change depending on your travel context. Perhaps even respond to emails with some smartness, depending on the sender.

2. When you are away, this bot automatically collects and prioritises incoming emails for you to process them once you get back. Sort of like an improved Gmail filter that can add another tab "OOF" and sort the emails in that tab according to importance, than by the date they arrived.

Much appreciate all your help.
I tell you, that thing is a bona fide ZEBRA, or a tale of being utterly stupid
Let's not look into our heads for clear terms, but rather operate on actual FB's Terms and Conditions document, which does not include anything about me watching their ads or not blocking them:

http://facebook.com/terms

Also, index page of Facebook says in huge letters that "It's free and always will be.", so not sure why you are so eager to prove I am to pay for it somehow.
It's not just "poof it's gone" here.

In Australia, if you dispute a credit card transaction, it still counts against your limit and your required repayments until the dispute is resolved. This can take months and be more than inconvenient.
Wine is great, but I hate having both native and Wine version of Steam just to access Windows versions of games I have in my library. I wish Steam platform check could be overridden.

I guess that's just one more reason to choose alternatives like GoG, Desura and Itch.io.
Actually most "classified" documents generated by such agencies are pretty mundane they aren't any different than the tons of BAU paper work produced by any any other corporate/office entity.

We had a joke that each birthday card has to either go to the security office and the personnel office to get stamped [secret] or straight into the shredder. And that's simply because by the time it goes around and everyone sings it you get a list of individuals, any list of individuals according to the regulation counts as a roster, and all rosters are classified.

The cost of classifying documents isn't in keeping them secret as the only cost of that is your storage space, the cost is in the man hours required to go over each line and paragraph and determine if it exposes any classified material, source or method and then classify it accordingly, beyond that you also have the added cost of tracking the dissemination of classified material as distribution and access lists have to be maintained and approved, copies tracked (most importantly tracked down for EOL/recovery) and you also have to do an impact analysis every time you change the classification or declassify it.

So to simplify things you shred everything you don't want to keep and give the highest baseline classification you/your department is operating under to any other document you might want/need to keep for the future regardless if it's an actual intelligence product or a group lunch order.
Off-Path TCP Exploits: Global Rate Limit Considered Dangerous [pdf]
Contro spreco alimentare c'è anche un'app
...And it puts in a disportionately huge amount of money into it (citation needed)

Rather than other countries that spend money on stuff like science and things.
This quantum computer is the end of cryptography
Y'know... I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to UT99 as UT Classic.
The problem here is our banks are very good, they have always been very good. Fees are lower than almost any other developed country, tech is way ahead of most, apps are generally good if you like that sort of thing etc.

Apple has basically said to the banks that though the iPhone includes hardware to do contactless payments -only- Apple can utilize that hardware. The banks are counter-offering that they will consider integrating with Apple Pay if that hardware is opened up to them, otherwise there is no benefit to Apple Pay for the banks at all.

Consumers in Australia aren't going to force the banks to implement Apple Pay because the tech we have is already just as good, it just doesn't work with iPhone. Hell, we already have contactless payments on most Android phones with NFC.

Apple needs to be realistic. If they want to enter into the Australian market they need to play fair and open up the hardware so that banks can offer a unified experience over both Android and iPhone without iPhone being a special little snowflake.
Demosaicing on Fujifilm X-Trans Sensors
These results are from Ubuntu, which afaik is pretty close to best-case scenario for gaming. It'd be interesting to see similar test done on e.g. Fedora or Arch. It also will be interesting to see how well these games will continue to run in future. My guess is that they will eventually bit-rot and we'll end up using ancient versions of Ubuntu in containers to run the games.

I hope that Snappy/Flatpak/etc would make the situation better once the landscape settles down a bit. The idea behind them seems good enough, and I think this post validates their raison d'être which I have seen people question.
Check out the Ubiquiti Wifi antennas [1] for 25km+ connections using 2.4 and 5 Ghz. However, it is recommended to use the 5Ghz, especially if you have line of sight. What you need to find is someone on the other end who can put up an antenna as well and you can have a ~50MBit (depends on a lot of factors, this is an average based on experience if Barcelona and Guifi.net) connection for around $150.

[1] https://www.ubnt.com/
Show HN: Zero installation SVG in Python to teach programming to children
That isn't a "does the author like this game" column. It's a "should you try playing this game on Linux natively" column.
At least now you can hope that popular torrents with positive comments are maybe okay. With this the author could simply add the malware after it has become popular.
Australia doesn't have the excessive merchant fees, the interchange fees in Australia are regulated under banking laws.

This is a key part of the problem. The interchange fee is only between 0.5-1.5%. The banks already make very little on payments so there isn't much profit left to go around.
For reference:

#rightCol{
display:none;
}
#contentArea{
width: 700px !important;
}
You can always (ab)use the linker! [0]

[0]: (shameless plug) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8923097/compile-a-binary-...
TIL there was a (kind of) Olympic Games in 1906.
4 months is a decent chunk of an MS. Just saying.
that was known as model-driven-development.... been thru that....
Fighting the clones: Bristol developer calls time on chain cafes
Ask HN: Is there any degradation in performances for Parse?
I am just curios to know if anyone experienced any degradation in performances, like slow delivery of notifications or similar since Parse had announced the definitive shutdown in January 2017.
"7 Habits of Highly Effective People" [1] - I listened to the audio book and it was really an eye-opener. It changed my perspective on people and personality a lot. Highly recommended.
Same with the book "How To Win Friends And Influence People" [2]. It's written decades ago and still holds the principles true.
Another gem I found recently was : "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by the same author of [2]. It's really good if you are stressed with your lifestyle. Really gives practical advice.
Ask yourself: would we have spent 24 Billion to 'confirm Higgs'?

Yes. The Higgs field/boson is a fundamental feature of our best theory at the quantum scale and we needed to know whether we are right. Now we have another crucial bound for the theory that will supplant the standard model except now we can waste less time and money with theories that can't explain our results.

We spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a large metal can flying at an altitude of 400km essentially to do microgravity research; I think we can afford to spend a tenth of that on a particle accelerator to probe the frontier of high energy physics.
At a certain point if they're going out of their way to mess with the connection I'm paying for I'll stop paying for it and go elsewhere.
I can make the same argument for 2FA: social engineering can defeat it, or I can turn to some other attack vector.

This isn't to say that 2FA doesn't add security. The point is rather twofold:

1. with a little extra attention, I can secure my system without 2FA and achieve comparable security

2. it's absolutely scandalous that the proverbial well has been poisoned and we are, by virtue of the fact that extra attention is required and that most people won't put in the work, in a less secure state. Again, this is due to the irresponsible data-policy of the overwhelming majority of service providers.

So again: 2FA is a valid security layer, but I'll pass. :/
This is pure trolling and has nothing to do with the article.

It purely was looking at the cost in fuel of go a mile compare to other transport.

Be it across a current city, desert or large dessert.
Funny, that. Doesn't tend to increase anyone's credibility when they have the scarlet R hung on them, even if it eventually gets crossed out.
There's been a few TCP sequence related vulnerabilities over the years, but this is slightly different - it's actually a problem with how ACKs are processed, making it far easier than it should be to conduct a well-known attack type (blind in-window).

EDIT: it's of course still sequence related, but a new vuln, not a restarting of an older, fixed one.
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