skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplest solution is not to pay the ransom, which is a lot easier when it's a drone than a ship with crew. That eliminates the possibility that actually hunting for them becomes a viable business model unless you've got a high-value black market for any of the on-board tech, and I doubt they'll send many near the coast of Somalia or Mindanao where there's a relatively high density of pirates that might steal them out of sheer opportunism.
They live longer because you need money to live in Manhattan, and socioeconomic status is correlated with life expectancy!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12402700
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I think a probabilistic argument makes sense. You don't have to pursue 100% of bike thefts to discourage them.
"Why are you wanting to learn mathematics?"

The author is called Michael Halls-Moore. Why would a person called Michael Halls-Moore write a sentence like this? I'm genuinely curious, coz I'd assume this is a native English speaker.
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The previous article, about a lost password for a NAS, is hilarious and well worth a read as well:

https://blog.filippo.io/so-i-lost-the-password-of-my-nas/
Hm, a big render-blocking bundle in <head> seems like such an obvious anti-pattern. “If that bothers you” makes it seem like I’m nitpicking, but this is a huge issue, I think.
Having the director of a law enforcement agency wading so far in to public policy (and in a lot of ways far beyond) seems odd to me, is this typical of the position, historically?
This partially explains Reddit's staying power. A popular subreddit that hits the point of degeneracy spawns new subreddits that aim to return to it's roots. No-one leaves the platform and the cycle continues.
"Microsoft's software makes using an old timeshareing [sic] operating system on a PC look really great in comparison."

Amen.

I would like an APL using ASCII characters written in Forth.
If you are plotting using a canvas - not building a SVG or on the dom - then even 50000 points is fine, no need to filter even on mobile devices.

A 100,000 data point file would be about 500kb transfered to the client. This is still a tiny amount of data to play around with in JS. It is possible to build an array of image tiles, and zoom around like google maps. But keeping the image tiles in memory could be worse than just replotting if the plot function is fast and optimized enough.
Virtual particles actually exist for less than a planck unit of time. I'm not a physicist and I'm having trouble finding a good clear reference, but this page mentions it (cmd-f 'less than') - http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec17.html
You're looking down this telescope from the wrong end. It's not that living in Manhattan itself somehow extends your life, it's that only very wealthy people can afford to live in Manhattan -- especially in retirement, when most people are living on a fixed income. And in American society, having great wealth means you also have access to things like high-quality food, great medical care, assistive technologies, all of which are things that really can extend your life.

So if Manhattan suddenly became affordable and hordes of ordinary retirees moved in there, you wouldn't see all those ordinary retirees suddenly start living longer, you'd see the average life expectancy for retired Manhattanites drop as the crappy food and medical care the proles get drag the numbers down.
Faith in federal institutions is at historic lows. Who wants to help an institution perceived as corrupt?

Plus they drug test and put your fingerprints into a database.
I was pretty depressed about leaving Manhattan and at the thought that if I ever came back, I wouldn't be as young as I was or have as many friends (many have also left to start families elsewhere). Reading this essay reminded me of all the days I could walk around for hours by myself, not knowing a single person or expecting to meet anyone I made eye contact with ever again, but still enjoying myself just the same. If I'm at that age where most of my close friends and family have passed and I have the money, I would definitely love to live my last days in Manhattan.

edit: Another characteristic of New York is the rate of change. Construction is never finished. I still keep in touch with my roommate on FB and she's constantly posting photos of decades-old restaurants and businesses closing shop, and she's been in the apartment for almost 30 years. I'd have that same disappointment/outrage when my favorite places shut down but -- as long as they aren't replaced by sterile condos -- I've loved the variety of new stuff that came in their stead. Living in NY definitely makes you realize that nothing is forever and just about everything can be forgotten or replaced, and you learn to be at peace with it.
I think everything you want from EP is available in social psychology textbooks like "The Social Animal" by Pratkanis. Unlike EP practitioners the authors actually start out with falsifiable hypothesis and then conduct actual experiments to derive their theories. A lot of people take the results of actual social psychological research and rediscover it with a non-falsifiable EP justification. That's not science, that's just taking scientific observations and reinterpreting them as the will of God or "Evolution" in this case.
Why people expect anything different from Facebook & Twitter utterly eludes me, it takes all of 15 minutes to spin up your own server and host whatever content you fancy.

Locking most of the discourse on the web into two or three private platforms severely limits the kinds of discussion that will be tolerated.
Loved the show as a teenager in the UK (a repeat; I'm not old enough to have caught the original broadcast).

There's a great write up of an Apple II computer game of 1980 that was based on the show here:

http://www.filfre.net/2011/11/the-prisoner-part-1/
http://www.filfre.net/2011/11/the-prisoner-part-2/

- which makes a good claim for it being a very effective, early "art game" in that its primitive obtuseness all but forces you to hack into the game's code (in BASIC) in order to beat it - a subterfuge well in keeping with the spirit of the TV show.

Great stuff, and being an American game on a computer which didn't get much take up where I lived, a game that I had absolutely no idea existed until reading those articles.
It's called Licence professionnelle in Ingénierie des Systèmes Embarqués in French. It's sort of a vocational education degree but delivered by a university and on a highly technical subject (supposedly, not meant as an offense).

Edit: Licence is an intermediary level between bachelor and master/doctor.
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Your recommender seems to be trying to predict (from logs) which video the user will watch next/soon, and how much watch time it will lead to.

If you used to have a bad recommendation system, and then you switch over to this system, then it will still be trained with data generated by users who saw the old recommendations, leading it to have a bias towards the same bad predictions.

Is there any way around that?
This is awesome. A few days ago I posted this question at the Qualys SSLLabs forum:

"Is there a reason for still having TLSv1.1 enabled?"
https://community.qualys.com/thread/16565

Considering SSLv3 has been "dead" for a while now, and it still completes more handshakes than TLSv1.1, there's really no reason to keep TLSv1.1 around for most sites without very particular concerns. (But we're still holding on to TLSv1.0 until it's in the few-percent range.)
I don't understand how value oriented vs object oriented matter considering the allocations in question was functions. Functions are hard to optimize away due to the nature of functions being closures with pointers to the defining scope. Can you please elaborate what you mean?
This explanation feels much more plausible to me. Either that or it's just a cock-up. If it was a command from on high then it's the dumbest thing ever as it was obviously going to be noticed.
Yes, but browser vendors can choose whether they optimize it, so don't count on it!
As much as we all may loathe Trump - they do this to him every day, all day.

I recently had to do some video editing related technology work - we used Trump speeches as samples.

Watching a bunch of Trump speeches, none of which I have ever seen in full (because I generally don't care about him) - I found that his rhetoric was pretty normal actually. He wasn't bombastic or crazy. Neither were his positions.

But reading the CNN headlines every day - you'd think the guy was Hitler. They took a lot of things out of context.

Now - maybe Trump is 'too dangerous' or whatever to be President - I don't know - I'm not American and I don't have that much of an opinion on it politically, other than he does say some things that are a little scary ...

That said - the means by which information is edited is just as powerful as creating the script oneself.

You don't need to put words in someone's mouth - all you need to do is selectively show the words you want to create a narrative.

And of course - this happens all across the spectrum, not just with more extreme candidates.
Yea definitely the company can do that on their end. Harder for you to do as an applicant though.
Your biases are showing themselves to be painfully blinding. The site itself says it's published by the ICFI in its header on every page. And the ICFI is a Trotskyist organization. This is all easily found with 1 click from anywhere on the site, as well as by using your eyes to read the subheading of the main header.

Also, the NKVD, KGB, and Stasi are no more brought to us by Marxist philosophy than the NSA, CIA, and FBI are brought to us by liberal democratic philosophy.

Surely you can do better than take cheap shots with incorrect philosophical attribution, while still making the point that good journalism ought to include source attribution.
Isn't Licence just like a B.S? (3 years of University).
Another chat app with mostly arbitrary ways to communicate? No thanks. I understand this is for HN community, but with XMPP, ICQ derivatives, IRC, etc I already have too many spaces to keep up with.

Its nice though, I like the profile key integration.
You seem to be doing all the right things in this paper, yet user sentiment seems to still be negative. Do you think that's because maximizing watch time and impressing users are conflicting goals, or are there perfect recommendations out there which both impress users and maximize watch time, yet they haven't yet been found?
My experience is indeed more on the embedded and mobile side of things, where hardware acceleration and animations are indeed a major selling point.

I'd let others with more experience on desktop QML vs. widgets to judge their respective strengths, my comment was more about Qt vs. non-Qt frameworks. That makes QML the topic as it's currently the main UI development story for Qt.
All he is doing is helping the "stack" win. With weaker encryption and weaker security it puts the very thing he is trying to protect at further risk.

"Victory at the expense of the innocent, is no victory at all."

-- King T'Chaka of Wakanda
That's not their role, though. Someone has to be actively tracking and apprehending hacker groups operating within the US.

Sure, they can find and help fix holes, but the US needs a government organization tracking cyber threats, and stopping them when they can.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246
"You/You're the man" is a phrase that's complimentary.

That reading would also fit into the conversation as a sort of commiseration. "But...you the man dad, who wouldn't want to work with you?"
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True, it was heavily inspired by the book 'The Grammar of Graphics', which is a truly worthwhile read.
You could just take your job hunting seriously and do a bit of studying. Though the details of a red-black tree are a bit much to ask anyone.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. I am SO TIRED of seeing pre-optimizations from people who should know better.

These optimizations are a neat FYI. But they do not belong anywhere near the business logic of a production app. If you have a massive app (doubtful) with bottlenecks that warrant these optimizations (doubtful), extract them into a library that is isolated, documented, and tested. Business logic should describe the needs of the business in the clearest and simplest terms.
And taking over the torch of tax evasion/financial privacy (two sides of the same coin?) is Bitcoin etc.

Who needs a bank in Switzerland when you can just have a 50 character long private key?
As a long time fan of The Prisoner I bought the entire series on blu-ray a few years ago and was astonished at the picture quality -- fully 1080 and 16x9. Turns out the show was filmed in full 35mm cinematic quality. Apparently McGoohan had sufficient clout and ambition to master the show with an eye to making it a work for the ages.

Today it looks better than most films. Thrilling.
Fireaway is a tool for auditing and exfiltrating data against layer 7/AppID
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There is no such thing "national interest." There is only the interest of individuals. Sometimes they align with the majority of people, sometimes they do not.
thanks bra. hustler's gotta hustle
Yeah, and now US banks and Delaware-based entities are in the same business … cui bono?
Sad thing is that majority of facebook and twitter users don't care. As this progresses there wouldn't even be a need to censor that much because ppl generally quite good at self censorship - at least on facebook where we have "real name policy".
Even though your idea is worth consideration - I highly, highly doubt this is the case.

Firstly - because FB is not having '3rd parties' do this kind of stuff. They are a smart company.

Second - because FB just had a big PR error over this - and it boiled down to 'humans making decisions' about which 'trends' were important. The whistleblowers who actually did this type of work even indicated that it was not an FB policy - it was just the whims of the whoever happened to be doing it at the time. FB has since fired them all, and replaced them with algorithms, which hopefully are not as biased, but of course that's a difficult thing.

FB as a company - and it's staff - are probably a little bit politically in one direction vis-a-vis the other, but I significantly doubt they are doing anything active, and also there just is not a lot of opportunity for 'Manchuican Candidates' to have such impact.

In some cases, national leaders and security personnel will ask Facebook to 'do something' - Angela Merkel wanted FB to clamp down on 'racist messaging' for example, and I'll be action was taken.

But this case is admittedly surprising. I don't see why they would block an account over a reasonable concern about PBS 'editing standards'.
Now, how does it compare to Emacs+org-mode?

Been using org-mode for a few years.
A point i didn't see mentioned is that the talk about "having the balls" is all about the fear-of-monads being overblown and unjustified, and in this context making unfunny jokes about overblown and unjustified bravado conveys a point -- and does so in a way that no amount of explaining that "it's not so bad really" would. I actually think saying he was being exclusionary in this instance is downright bad faith.
I don't believe the leaked document indicated government agents or personnel planned to kill leaders via suppressed sniper fire. You're talking about page 61 of this document I assume? http://www.justiceonline.org/fbi_files_ows
You're just misunderstanding the parent post. He mentioned that the Tesla is tax beneficial because it's electric and the Mercedes selling at around the same price isn't because of its weight.

These two statements are not mutually exclusive.

In The Netherlands cars are taxed on multiple factors[1] including CO^2 emission, type, and very significantly on weight.

In Tesla's case the weight is being heavily offset by the lack of CO^2 emissions, whereas the Mercedes gets all the taxes of a normal gasoline car and the weight tax on top of that.

1. http://www.expatax.nl/kb/article/how-much-road-tax-will-i-ha...
I'm guessing this wasn't in the FBI's Approach to Cyber Threats speech
Could you have set a breakpoint on the function and traced it while it created the new encrypted test image until you could dump the salt from memory?
See also - swaths of conservative Facebook groups disappearing, Twitter pulling hashtags critical of Clinton, Reddit taking action to limit the presence of Pro-Trump posts. Regardless of my political affiliation, I am infuriated that both sides of the aisle are being silenced for speaking against the corporate-supported establishment.
The WSWS is published/funded by the ICFI, and appears to solicit and accept public donations. Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the ICFI:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_t...
Nice, but http://r.dakko.us/ is still the winner in my book.
I've read a different definition :)
> The Sony attack was an attack aimed at free expression. It was the act of a bully looking to silence speech in the United States, and around the world, by intimidation and harassment, in that case, of Sony Pictures.

What? Can anyone provide me some concrete evidence that that's what the Sony attack was about? In the Wikipedia article on the event, I found this sentence:

> This followed a message that several Sony Pictures executives had received via email on the previous Friday, November 21; the message, coming from a group called "God'sApstls" [sic], demanded "monetary compensation" or otherwise, "Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole". [1]

The key phrase I see here is monetary compensation, not silence of speech in the United States. To me, Comey and the FBI (and of course the NSA, CIA, etc.) have a history of stripping the rights of citizens to protect America. Everything in this speech leads me to believe that that is continuing to happen.

I just hope that the strategic footholds we gain are worth the costs we pay as citizens.

1. Seal, Mark (February 4, 2015). "An Exclusive Look at Sony's Hacking Saga". Vanity Fair. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
> http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.....

What an absolutely fascinating article. I wonder how useful Forth would be for implementing another language atop a VM (e.g. the JVM, CLR or Lua's VM — or WebAssembly).
You're thinking of tha man. This is The Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
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I'm quite surprised to hear that! Thanks for sharing.
Haha definitely a work in progress. Will fix this all soon.
Voilà: http://cosy.com/language/
Anonymous government officials claim that mistrust in the government is a Kremlin plot.

The Washington Post is an amazing piece of propaganda. Never change.
We looked into it after they open sourced it; AFAIK, it is still designed to connect to their streaming servers with an API key (or run locally in an ipython notebook or similar "offline"). If you want to make your own private dashboards for your own system you still need https://plot.ly/product/enterprise/#plotly-on-premise

See
https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/16

Maybe there is a way of rolling your own, but there isn't any documentation...

We ended up using (Django-)NVD3 instead, which worked fine.
Is this true? I've never seen this mentioned anywhere, and some googling doesn't show me any mention of this. Do you have a reference to something that verifies this and/or explains it?

I can totally understand how CSS expressions would be re-evaluated due to a repaint (resizing the window, manipulating DOM elements with javascript, etc)... but it doesn't make any sense that simply moving your mouse would cause this.
They outsource to IBM, IBM outsources to India.
Given that this comes from a highly questionable source (bitcoin.com, run by Roger Ver, a guy convicted for sending explosives in the mail, a bitcoin investor, and libertarian who revoked his U.S citizenship so he wouldn't have to pay taxes, and is highly biased against the government), this should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

If this were even slightly true, there would be reputable news sites all over this story by now.

Edit: http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/294341-fbi-denies-s...

> In February 2015, the FBI seized control of the site and operated it for two weeks so that the agency could distribute malware to users with the intention of identifying suspects.

> The Department of Justice (DOJ) denies that charge, writing in case documents, “The Government Played No Role in Creating the Crime for Which Chase is Being Prosecuted or Otherwise Encouraged His Criminal Conduct. Chase created the Playpen website, not the government.”

> The FBI has also denied claims that during their operation of Playpen, agents improved the site’s performance, helping it run faster.

> “Chase claims absent actual factual support that the government enhanced or improved the website’s functionality,” the DOJ said.

> Even if the FBI did upgrade Playpen’s performance, criminal defense attorney Norman Pattis says, it would have little impact on the case.

> “I don’t think there would be much implication at all,” Pattis said. “I think the defense is misapplying entrapment.”

> “Speeding up access doesn’t create the desire to do it,” he added. “The fact that people come to the market looking for it already doesn’t make it entrapment.”

> The DOJ justified the FBI’s actions in continuing to operate Playpen after arresting Chase. They wrote that shutting down Playpen immediately “might have answered the immediate issue of child pornography trafficking on Playpen, it would have done nothing to address the larger problem.”
The writer (Sangeet Paul Choudary) doesn't mention Clay Shirky but as far as I can tell, Clay has written the most essays about web communities and scaling problems:

http://shirky.com/writings/community_scale.html

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/herecomese...

https://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organ...
I've written out my favorite Valis quotes some time ago, it's really something special imo

https://danieljakobian.com/logs/log0003.html
I've been trying to watch this since my cousins introduced it to me (on bootleg Beta tapes!) in the mid '80s. I have the complete run, I've just never made it past episode 4 or 5.

EDIT: yeah, and if you're like me, don't read anything after the last photo in TFA, if you're still planning on watching it.
It refers to a waterlock, as explained in the linked Tim Brown blog post: http://blog.typekit.com/2016/08/17/flexible-typography-with-...
I have a relative that was severely injured in an auto accident by a Brit driving on the wrong side. Don't know how often this sort of things happen. It was in mountains and isolated. They guy was fatigued.
>If this were even slightly true, there would be reputable news sites all over this story by now.

The FBI has openly admitted to running the server
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-websit...
Wow, that is a stretch and reads like an advocacy of Bible skip code or Nostradamus predictions. So the best case scenario is that he doesn't understand conversational context? Well I stand corrected: he is either a liar, suffers from a mental disorder, or isn't a native English speaker.
> If this were even slightly true, there would be reputable news sites all over this story by now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-websit...

https://www.rt.com/usa/356896-fbi-kiddie-porn-playpen/

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/23/fbi-improved-dark-web-ch...

http://gizmodo.com/traffic-surged-to-a-child-porn-ring-after...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160614/19243034713/judge...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbis-unprecedented-hack...
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