skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On an average, this kind of metadata occupies 16% of size
of the JPEG file.

Ho ho. You think that's bad? Back in 2011, Tumblr didn't strip metadata from avatar images. That results in some funny files, like this one: http://28.media.tumblr.com/avatar_c5ee131b70d0_40.png

That PNG has a 3325 byte IDAT chunk, and a 106022 iCCP chunk. The metadata is 3188% bigger than the image itself.

Personally, I think websites should strip metadata from thumbnails and resized images, but should also let you download the original, unmodified image, complete with original filename. Why?

Instagram and others always recompress and strip metadata when you submit an image. This results in shitpics-- images so mangled by recompression that they look like visual gravel: https://theawl.com/the-triumphant-rise-of-the-shitpic-e25d8e... This is a complete own goal, there's no technical reason this has to happen. Digital files aren't supposed to decay!

And, of course, stripping authorship tags would make the dream of automated attribution impossible: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/08/15/attribution-on-the-web/
Yesterday, my power went out and it took me less than a minute to switch my internet session over from my cable ISP to tethered from my cell phone.

Lately, I've tried to stop myself and appreciate the progress since the days of downloading at 9600 baud over dialup and loading applications from 15 floppies and going to Office Depot to obtain software.

Calls on the other line, a bad disk, and regular business hours broke the technology.

Good look.
I have no problem with people exercising free will, now if they expect someone else to pay for the consequences thats a different topic. It is a choice none forces anyone to not do a basic google search before dropping huge amount of money on something.
NoScript allows you to turn it off/on by domain.
Research on space plasma hurricanes could lead to new sources of energy
CAA is just a DNS record that can be changed at any time, so there's no vendor lock-in.

CAs that implement CAA request that record and check whether they're permitted to issue the certificate; if they're not, they should refuse issuance.
> Federal student loans shouldn't be available to any non-accredited institution.

ITT was accredited by an accreditor recognized by the government (though, among their many other problems, that accreditor has, this year, been formally recommended to be removed from that list of recognized accreditors; and even if they weren't removed, they had notified ITT that ITT's accreditation was in jeopardy -- that jeopardy was, in fact, the main direct basis of the recent DOE actions against ITT [the other direct basis is the risk associated with the fraud lawsuits against ITT, which are also the basis for the accreditation risk].)

> If your credit hours won't transfer then it isn't a real College or University.

Transferrability is a different issue than accreditation, and often differs strongly from receiving school to receiving school.
"Culture fit" doesn't mean "open-mindedness, inclusion, and confidence in leadership" (and if meant the third of those you'd be being taken for a ride--leadership doesn't deserve confidence, results must be substantiated and all "confidence" does is let a company's leadership abuse you). In my experience, what "culture fit" really means is merely "are they like me." It is a filter to remove women and (most) minorities because those people are harder for most (often white, usually young, overwhelmingly male) startup people to relate to. And this makes them uncomfortable, and discomfort is to be avoided because otherwise one might engage in introspection. Pass; no hire.

I'm very good at passing such tests because I know how the kinds of people who think this is a good idea operate and what to feed them--by avoiding discomfort and self-introspection I think it's a lot easier to end up in a mental cul-de-sac that leads to being easily played. But knowing the game makes playing it even more gross, so I don't. (Things are better here on the East Coast than the Bay Area, but they're not good.)
Just so that people don't have to do digging in that article. In about:config, set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true and check about:support for Multiprocess Windows (might need to restart).

For now though you'll have to disable any plugins for it to work which can be a bit of a handicap. But... almost there :).
Affordable laser engraver machine
I agree, that is why another area of interest is figuring out a way to discourage or eliminate mining pools.

Both this and bootstrapping are discussed at length in this free book from Princeton:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/02/09/the-princeton-bitco...
A really good reason not to use them is that they are expensive to maintain and operate and they don't really need them.
Religion may play part, but one of main reasons is economic independence. If a couple of decades ago people had to cooperate to just survive, at least where I live, now many are financially independent and can survive perfectly without outside assistance. This reduces the need for social interaction and even seeking partner.

Another big reason I'd say is vast availability of solitary entertainment through TV and Internet that further reduced need for interaction.
I have had success for those I have helped. My dad picked up quite a few jobs (he is a plumber by education) that way and we only spent around 100USD.

But I am sure there are things where it doesn't work or areas were it wont work.

With regards to asking network yes, thats the first thing I always ask them to do.

In fact I don't understand why larger corporations do not have some social media incentive program for their employers so they can help spread the word and perhaps get leads.
Replying to myself

I may have misread the post I was replying to, but the poster seemed to be implicating the developer(s) as being culpable or at-fault for PCI non-compliance if some of these other things happened, which just didn't seem reasonable. That's what I was questioning, and yes, of course PCI compliance (as with other sorts of legal issues and whatnot) really are 'entire-company' issues. Devs can't/shouldn't be blamed if someone violates corp policies.
It seems that there is some communication back to Mozilla, since they claim that they can increase or decrease the number of users in each group over a week; that seems unlikely to come in the form of a new binary.
One thing that firefox does well is suspend pages you are not using and likely saving the state of the appllication to the disk. Another thing can be for when multiple pages use the same or similar javascript/css/external respurce files, they only need to be loaded once into memory. Another thing canbe that certain javascript globals would only be loaded when the getter asks for them. Something like AudioContext and RTCPeerConnection are not widely used, by changing the name in the global space to a getter that loads the libraries instead of providing them on start may reduce load.

There are many things that can be done
And they're still at it, too:
https://areweslimyet.com/
Sure, Google is defended, as are some other big sites. However, this isn't a scalable solution. Are you really going to argue that the sites small enough not to be statically pinned don't deserve to be safe from state-level attacks?
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For what it's worth, you can turn off autoplay in about:config.
Ask HN: How would you stay updated with all the engineering blogs?
I follow engineering blogs of various products and organization. But it is difficult to track all the engineering blogs at one place. How do you guys manage to stay updated with the engineering blogs?
Researchers use hardware to accelerate core-to-core on-chip communication
Page 7: https://info.publicintelligence.net/Gamma-GSM.pdf
Pretty much. It seems more like someone complaining that their VC driven, get rich quick, startup scheme petered out before they could cash in. And is looking for external scapegoats rather than asking if the scheme really had a chance in the first place.
I would hold off on the hating on antidepressants.

Benzodiazepines, popular for anxiety, impair cognition, learning and memory and get in the way of the natural process of learning how to deal with life better and thus feel better.

Antidepressants do not. Antidepressants have an additive effect with psychotherapy, exercise, meditation, stress reduction, etc.

Also in cases of chronic pain where somebody is taking an NSAID or acetaminoprophen daily, many of those people would be better off taking an SNRI like Effexor.
It's an acronym in the sense of D.A.E.S.H.

No, each letter of the acronym is it's own word.
I just looked at JPEG files for this..should look at PNG files too..hopefully things are much better than that image you posted haha
Employee #1: Amazon
That doesn't really work on pay-per-click type models. You need to be acquiring 100+ customers before you can really measure properly.
Asking that white men respect others is not hurting "everyone else." White men are the small group here. Norms of tolerance and mutual respect only ask that white men welcome everyone else to the table.
> with CAA and you can change your configuration it any time

so too could an attacker. If an attacker is able to set HPKP, then they could just as easily reconfigure CAA to a CA that issues them a cert for your domain.
A lot of these suggestion things are nifty - another one is a machine learning code helper (spots errors, identifies errors, etc).

Not sure if this even has an api.. but i want it to. Despite that, my problem with them is that there's no way i'm going to send every failed command or all my code to some random 3rd party. It just isn't happening.

I'd love for this thing to be a local install, and then i can pipe any command failures i have to it locally, and feel semi-secure about them.

Really, i think i just need to bite the bullet and improve my understanding of the math behind ML (i'm terrible at math), and take a course or two on ML. I feel like there are so many opportunities for ML in your local life, that you would never ship off to a 3rd party. Hard to profit from, but seems great for open source projects.

(Note, i didn't mean to imply that this site used ML at all.. the other code suggester service does.. and the two, from a UX perspective, feel similar to me)
Volvo, Autoliv to form autonomous-driving joint venture
Working remotely to me is not as much as work in office vs. work at home but being more accountable for you work and, as a result, being more productive.

The notion of working remotely forces us to rethink how we measure productivity and I feel the most push back comes from people who just realized they have little or nothing to contribute in this new environment and become fearful for their position.

To me, it's completely in line with the new economy where just having one skill is not enough anymore. If you want to be good at something, you need to constantly be entering new areas in order to bring enough value for companies to provide you a paycheck. For a very long time, just showing up to your job was good enough and I think it's a great thing this mentality has started to shift.
You appear to disagree that it is valid to vet a candidate for cultural fit:

"'> It's valid, I believe, for the company to vet candidates for culture fit'
I don't really agree..."

You go on to say it is "counterproductive" and "dishonest."

Maybe if you reduce it to a specific, binary instance ("hiring a technically-competent Midwesterner or waiting six months") you can shoehorn your point in to the conversation, but that fails to refute the validity or relevance of cultural fit.
>No more counselors - just use the online tools!

N=1 here, but I got no apparent utility from the existence of counselors in high school or college.

In retrospect they handled some registering paperwork for me, but they also planned my coursework for me as if I were the median student. In high school I had to press the counselor to let me take more AP courses than she thought was wise.

In college, it was more of a rubber stamp thing, where the counselor just approved my choices because they lined up with degree requirements.

Other than officially validating that my classes met the degree requirements, there was no value add. I'm glad to see someone at the helm realized a computer can do that just as well or better.
>No more counselors - just use the online tools!

N=1 here, but I had 0 use for the counselors in high school or college.

In retrospect they handled some registering paperwork for me, but they also planned my coursework for me as if I were the median student.

In high school I had to press the counselor to make more AP courses than she thought was wise. In college, it was more of a rubber stamp thing, where the counselor just approved my choices because they lined up with degree requirements.
Simple trick Kevin Mitnick used to crack FBI crypto comms in the 90s
None would argue with second part. I would say not doing a google search before spending 10k+ is closer to stupid action .
FWIW: I went to a "real" university (University of Minnesota) and hung-over professors / TAs in large lecture classes or their related lab sessions wasn't a surprising occurrence-- at least in the general classes that everyone was required to take.

I had a math professor freshman year that explicitly canceled a lecture due to him having a hangover. Honestly this seems like a relatively minor nit to pick, as there are far greater issues to be concerned with at all levels of higher education-- for profit or otherwise.

None of my professors for technology related classes ever did this, but they also had about 6 months of legitimate industry experience between them so caveat emptor with anybody who wants you to take out a loan to pay for their "education".

(Having said all of this, the slip of paper has still been worth more than it's weight in gold, for me.)
> If that were the case anyone who figures out what they want to do and starts doing it in high-school would test out of a year or so worth of classes right off the bat

Which is bad for the bottom line, but would be the disruption that higher ed needs. Face it, universities' USP is now being credentialing machines, learning can be done quicker and better from internet moocs/OCW/video lectures/tutorials.
It's as if people have to work their way up through the ranks...
Most iPhone 4s had tiny phillips screws; the pentalobe ones were introduced towards the end of its run.
I think that is maybe where my uncomfortable feeling comes from: community college seems like an "extension" of the grand idea of higher education (which is awesome for people that want that!)- become a more well-rounded person, read the classics, learn history and art appreciation, etc. etc. - it's what I did, and I enjoyed it... but I know I'm not everyone. I grew up in a very poor place where it might just serve people better to "learn the things you need to know to pass for XYZ 9-5 job" and from what I read ITT (sort of) fit the bill. I worry that we're saying "You can't do that - you have to go try and be a well-rounded renaissance man/woman"... now I know that with federal money, maybe we have the right to say it, but still...
dude i have no clue, ill ask my friend in law school and see if she knows anything about it.. perhaps its because they are working as agents of the state, which allows them to break the rules for some odd reason / state wont prosecute them for it.
I normally like Nautilus but this is a pretty poor article. For example:

> In every case, these environmental stimuli exist in analog form and are converted into digital form by the receptor cells and the neural circuits connected to them.

"Digital" means information processing using ones and zeroes. There is no evidence that human neurons use ones and zeroes to process information. The evidence that we do have hints at the opposite: that neurons use a wide variety of signals to accomplish analog computation.

It's also questionable to use "circuits" to describe active collections of neurons. While there are electrical signals involved, it's not a circuit like in your iPhone.

The article is full of imprecise and vague language like this. Very unsatisfying and I'm having trouble understanding why it was written.
Those aren't stalemates, technically speaking. Such a game would end either when the players both realized it's pointless and agreed to a draw, or when it's gone on long enough for the same position to repeat three times, and one player claims a draw. The second case may well be computationally infeasible too, since it would involve keeping and searching the entire history of the game.
It was generally only noticeable in areas of marginal signal, IME. I found it possible to make it happen deliberately if signal wasn't great, but never did it accidentally.
> In the Army I learned culture can be taught.

This requires effort. The obsession with "leanness" translates into skimping on many things; instilling a rigorous culture is one of them. It takes too long and costs too much and it's easier to just emoji-shrug.

> That smells to me like a leadership vacuum.

Oh, you noticed.
I see more of a case against going to a four year college for a lot of people instead of just going to a much cheaper 2 year college for the first two years and transferring to get a 4 year degree. Most state four year colleges have a transfer program.
Alternatively, let the case flex slightly and have the board float in a gap attaching to the center as apposed to the edges. You still need to connect the buttons to the main board, but that's not a major issue. basically: [---|--|---] with [ ] as edge, -- as board and | as attachment points.

This is not going to be as flat as possible, but it let's you play with some flex vs thin and completely stiff.
Just to let you know that the data backs your doctor up. Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)
This post is the text writeup on restoring YCombinator's Alto; the video of this was discussed on HN a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427341
Right, mining pools are an issue. If the hash power isn't sufficiently distributed then your guarantees go away. That is why some people are doing research in that area to discourage or eliminate mining pools. I read about most of this from the following draft textbook from Princeton

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/02/09/the-princeton-bitco...
> If the US government orders a CA to mint a bogus certificate for Google Mail, they will get the certificate, and then the CA will get put out of business, one way or the other.

Probably, but in the year (or more considering that startSSL is still trusted) until the CA's trust is removed, that certificate still works.

Besides, if you accept that governments manipulate DNS, why do you deny they manipulate DNS to get domain validated certificates? Cause if not, we are back at trusting verisign for all websites that aren't statically pinned. (with that added 'bonus' that those statically pinned sites can be wrecked by their pin at any time)
I scrolled down to the bottom of the page, and there's a little ad to subscribe to Scientific American 'Mind' magazine. One of the issues has 'How to Raise a Happy Child' across its front page, 'The essential guide to improving kid behaviour and resilience'.

That pretty much sums up the impression I get from American attitudes to parenting and early childhood. Behave, be resilient, and when the time comes, take your measly week of parental leave to teach your baby to behave and be resilient too.

Prevention is better than cure: the traumas of early childhood sow the seeds for a lifetime of anxiety and unhappiness. I don't really believe there is a long term solution to widespread mental health issues without concentrating on that fact, and enabling parents to provide the love, bonding and security their children require. But instead, in the US and here in the UK, we make parents' lives harder and harder (especially those in low paid jobs or out of work) and assume that an online course of CBT in a few decades will mop up any problems.
Where is a good place (or what is a good book) to learn what all of the terminology in these comments and in the article mean?
I'm just pointing out that this is basically a comfortable way of looking at depression. I WANT to believe that most people on anti-depressants are just going through some shit rather than having something that needs medication for treatment. I WANT that, but I have no actual reason to believe it.

Sounds like you don't have any real evidence either.
How can this can be achieved this for mobile apps?
I definitely use the "would I enjoy getting drinks" bar and I feel it's perfectly valid though - I'll admit - poorly worded. It really has nothing to do with actually wanting to get drinks with the person (I'd at least like to pretend I have a social life outside of work) but rather being perfectly comfortable talking with the person regardless of the social situation.

Yeah, if you can do your work with minimal supervision that's gravy and stuff... but if I don't enjoy talking to you that's a huge communication red flag for me. And perhaps that's a communication flaw with me not being able to flawlessly interface with all human beings - but I'd much rather be working with the people I can level with regardless of the topic.

Fortunately, most of my roles are of the "engineer" and individual contributor variety so my opinions on potential hires are often supplemental anecdotes rather than actual decisions.
Is it cheaper than a Tesla Powerwall? Pricing here seems to suggest it is more expensive: https://faq.zcell.com/content/2/10/en-us/what-will-it-cost-a...
Similarly, antibiotics languished until WW2 because it a right pain to mass produce. But with the war came effectively bottomless budgets, and so the needed R&D for mass production was bootstrapped.