skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 10 to start running Edge in a VM for added security
Good luck with that. There ain't no way rust is getting a misra complaint setup anytime soon. Not to mention, the current vendors are entrenched in their ways to ridiculous levels. Companies like keil for example don't bother to have a Linux complaint tool chain.
One issue with data centers in a box and scaling is physical security. It's possible to pack these data centers into containers, but physical access controls and site security is something in which there are cost benefits to grouping lots of them together. Also there are big benefits to locating these things next to cheap power. So it ends up being more economical for a variety of reasons to have these things a bit less tiny and geographically distributed using today's technologies.
I'm not sure what you mean by not having a constructive algorithm to produce primes. The Sieve of Eratosthenes will output any given prime, with the primes coming out in order, given enough time. There may not be an efficient algorithm, but for most definitions of "information" that won't matter. The sequence of all primes is both so richly structured we've probably only scratched the surface and almost entirely bereft of information.
Makes me wonder if some sort of adopt-a-block approach for tagged endangered species could work.

The cost to tourism is likely staggering compared to the profit a poacher makes. Perhaps state and environmental campaigns can fund protection of the animals. One part prestige and one part economic? For-hire endangered species body guards?
As someone who might apply once I get my PhD, what does basic CS knowledge mean for you? Like what a tree is or fizzbuzz? Hopefully it isn't that terrible...how someone can make it through any amount of CS related schooling and not know the basics?

Somewhat related anecdote, I do computational physics. I once attended "training seminar[0]" put on by the funders for using DOD supercomputers, and there was this soon-to-be-minted computer science PhD student who was also an intern. Most of the systems have pbs[1], a batch system that prioritizes jobs from users based by amount of requested time, number of nodes, etc. The seminar leader (and I have before) referred to it loosely as a queue, because it sort of is, and the CS guy kept interrupting the talk (may be two or so times) to point out that PBS really wasn't a "queue" because it didn't respect FIFO in a strict sense... I mean, sure, he did know what a queue was, but I'm pretty sure that isn't the most interesting problem you could have.

[0] there was one fact I found useful, which was where to find their docs online. Other than that, it was the sort of stuff you can find by just reading man pages and such. Waste of time but checked off a box for the internship which made the funders happy, I suppose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Batch_System
borrowing idea from Qubes OS.
No One Knows Why Trump Is Winning. Here’s What Cognitive Science Says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunter_(2011_Australian_fi...
Are you seriously contending that collective punishment (I mean punishing a group based on judgments against one of its members; and the corollary collective reward) is moral, efficacious, or both?

So all the lemmings who dropped (or just said they would drop) Firefox while I was CEO were obligated to rush back on board once I left? What about the various right-wingers who #nozilla'ed and otherwise boycotted after I left?

How about using the best browser in the market, built by people of diverse opinions and high ability who come together to do excellent work?

There's a good idea that seems to appeal to many people, of whatever various and diverse beliefs.

Try https://brave.com/.
Have you tried learning an ML variant? SML and OCaml are great, and Haskell isn't too bad, either.
The the telescope isn’t working as planned
>I do not expect my images to be turing complete.

An image of type "image/svg+xml" is as powerful as a text of type "text/html". In both cases their mime-type could be considered a misnomer.

In general I find it more helpful to think of SVG as a xhtml-like format with tags for arbitrary shapes. It has full support for interaction, state, javascript, css and almost anything else you expect from a html document.
I met Mr. X who earns over $10K in cash each month. Job ? Answer interviews on other people's behalf. The setup is sophisticated. Screens shared, Headphones with two inputs and what not.

Visas are faked, resumes are complete rubbish and it is my suspicion that the hiring managers/committees are bribed directly or indirectly.

I know people with 0 years of experience drawing salary of $110K from a large company by showing fake 8 years of experience.

Sadly all people involved are from my home country India. It really saddens me that we arrive here as economic refugees and destroy the very system that is so welcoming to us.
I would imagine the creator would find usage stats interesting.
This sounds like you are diagnosing yourself with something that may not exist.
Computer science programs, even at very prestigious schools, don't really require you to know anything about programming or practicality using computers. The amount of real hands-on work I did for classes in my entire undergrad career is less than I do in a good week at work.
This is for internships ... does Palantir have interns working on highly sensitive data? I don't know but I doubt it.

Then again they might as from what I've read about the company it is more like a glorified ETL shop. Granted upwards of 80% of a data scientist's job can be cleaning data.
Don’t Overlook Online Immersive Bootcamps and Here’s Why
“Papers I Have Loved” by Casey Muratori [video]
Right, because GitHub is obviously the only tool I, or any of my contributors, use that has a git history. (Yes, I know about whatever command line flags you're suddenly feeling the urge to tell me about)

Edit: And for fucks sake can't I be happy GitHub implemented an outstanding feature request I've personally been asking for years? The cynicism from some of the people on this site really gets to me sometimes. Stop.
Yes, this always seemed like a really easy to solve problem to me as well. I hear the poachers are very well armed. However, it seems like a few (military-?)drones that circle the area 24/7 could solve this problem once and for all. I think a sibling post hits the nail on the head though by explaining that in Kenya the problem is really political.
SVG? Wasn'it the new tech (10 Years after ARM) in 2000 that was supposed to be so wonderful it would be very easily adopted?

We are in 2016 ... ARM are still promising and SVG is still the new promising thing. Well, SVG has not taken a wrinkle, nor grown up a lot. It is still overpromising and complex.

Let me watch my backyard cristal balls for new innovations..

DCOM and RPC maybe? Oh, crumbs, it is called the cloud. All FW problems solved by using HTTP with cookies that are so safe.

I can't wait for the next new thing... GUI, Universal Display format (aka display postscript from NeXT), Xanadoo, XUL, sprites, linear framebuffers with blitters?
In terms of tax dollars, I'm disappointed that I had to pay for this to begin with. It's a waste of money.

I highly doubt Palantir did any kind discrimination based on race.

The initial demographics of the founders and the early team has a large impact on the rest of the hires in my experience at previous startups. Main reason being that the early people are more prone to hire from referrals in their network of people they know.

Some things to consider:

P(qualified | referral) > P(qualified | all applicants)

P(same race | referral) > P(different race | referral)

and thus:

P(hire | referral applicant) > P(hire | all applicants)

I don't see any evidence of malicious or specific racial discrimination.
I doubt if it ever happened. Washing feet is a ritual that is considered a great honor and mostly reserved for super special occasions. For a brahmin during certain types of Puja, Groom during marriage, Bride when entering the new home etc.
Good question. Detecting just one class (in this case, cats) will require negative examples. Finding good negatives is somewhat of challenging task because they should be pretty comprehensive, but if you create an account on image-net (http://image-net.org/), then you can download thousands of images.

Any questions, feel free to pm me.
I just use `notify-send` every 30 minutes... https://github.com/dcousens/dotfiles/blob/master/.xinitstatu....
Geez, I thought it was because I'm using a beta of iOS. I figured apple had goofed something in the gesture recognition in this build. Glad you posted something, I was debating filing a bug.
As the Kenyan citizen mentioned above, the government itself is doing this. These are the countries where poachers would put a hammer in your head in-front of entire village and throw your body to rot and nothing will happen. I doubt if any campaign can make a difference. Bringing those animals to safe places is a much better idea.
Facebook Messenger is competing directly with Android and iOS
What's the storage backend being used on Windows? With even an 800MiB base, let alone 10GiB, I'm curious what happens when creating 100 containers from that base? On Linux, whether the backend is device mapper (thin), overlayfs, or Btrfs, the snapshots are fast and the cost is only the change from the base.
> "He underestimated how much we wanted stuff vs leisure."

I'd argue this isn't necessarily a reflection on our personal desires. Whilst I'm sure there are plenty of people who want 'stuff' over leisure, I think there are plenty of other people who would choose a different balance to the one they have now.

I'd say the biggest issue blocking this second group is our current work arrangements. If I could I'd choose to work part time or on some form of flexitime (assuming I could earn enough to live on), instead I need to work full time because that's what is on offer and I'm not in a position to push for changes just yet.

If people could choose their work hours based on what they needed/wanted, and could afford to work less, I think you'd see a many more people expanding their leisure time than you do now.
D is garbage collected, which rules it out for embedded systems.
A simple neural network with Python and Keras
Swift Meetup in Toronto
Come listen to 3 talks on Swift programming language on Oct 26th, followed by drinks, appetizers, and some great conversation! We're excited to share what we've learned while making the switch to Swift, and to talk about how you can get the most out of it. Here is the facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/636943246484438/) and the eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hitech-meetup-to-swift-n-beyond-tickets-28170168733).

Hope to see you there
I've found the Intel Linux driver to be generally slower than the Windows counterpart, and on post-Haswell machines there are still numerous bugs in the Intel driver, so I'm not surprised. It's sad too, given that Intel tries to position themselves as friendly to the Linux community, yet they keep losing Linux devs[1].

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chad-Ver...
Cynicism? It's not cynicism. It's the fact that a lot of people, including me, think rebase-before-merge is an antipattern and should be discouraged.
RottenPotato – Local privilege escalation from service account to System
I think the "compleat" programmer can move freely between the two extremes. I have one piece of code -- in Common Lisp! -- that I've been working on for a couple of months of weekends and still haven't tried to run (except for an occasional one-line experiment to check that I have the correct syntax for a macro).

But I can also adopt a much more interactive, experimental approach in situations where experiments are cheap and easy.

It all depends on the nature of the task.
Bro,
How much time does it need to replicate a project like V86? I have close to 6 years in C++. I work for intel/amd but not on emulation, I do HW design. I want to know if this can be completed in 4-6 months doing work on the night only..

TIA.
"mechanical compatibility" is the answer for USB3.

Simply swapping the micro-usb connector would have broken that (because it's larger).
1. It's not about luxury stuff. Our homes aren't bigger because we want bigger homes (except for those wealthy enough to hire architects and design their own homes). We have to pay for whatever the developers have built in the area we need at the time we need it. Smaller homes are less available, older, less efficient, and often need a lot of work.

Things like computers and televisions aren't expensive luxuries, they are durable commodities with negligible and decreasing costs. You can get a decent computer that will last for years at an average cost of $75 per year (less if you don't need a high-end one). That's a fraction of one workweek per year, even at minimum wage. The real issue is that the cost of living hasn't scaled with those occasional consumer goods purchases. Housing, healthcare, utilities, transportation, food, education, etc. are constant necessity expenses, and costs are increasing in those areas.

2. This is somewhat true, but primarily in light of the fact that we see it as a tradeoff - that more time at home / with family hurts our careers/earning; or more extreme, we're too busy working so we have to hire people to raise our kids and clean our houses. If we didn't see it in terms of costs (or opportunity costs), then spending time with family and tidying up our homes would just be things that we did, rather than work.

If anything, he was overly optimistic in thinking that we could go 100 years without wars or civil dissensions, and without the powerful few increasing the cost of living and draining wealth from the masses.
It's things like this that make me think "Yeah, things aren't that great in [insert Western democracy], but damn they could be a hell of a lot worse."
Most of this kind of stuff is done for intellectual gratification. It's playing; the tools are just more sophisticated, and it takes more brainpower than usual.
That would be a good motivational poster :)
I wonder to what extent by "Asian" they really mean Indian.
Governments are not businesses, and should not be run as such.

There are a lot of things that a government does that can't be measured as a direct monetary benefit.
Oh but this is the free market, where finders keepers losers weepers, and all resources are yours just by taking them. One of the worst things I ever heard was from a sushi chef who said he would be proud to serve the last Bluefin tuna on the planet, as food.
How is that a scam? They don't have a monopoly and it's not an essential item - so they should be able to charge whatever they want, and if people feel that the BeagleBone's features are worth the price then they will buy it. What's the problem?
You can use Signal on android.
Yay. Here's mine:
http://xcvfd.com/pomodoro
We want to add video recording support. It's on our list but probably a few months out.
Fantasy Football with My Wife – What Should I Do?
Let's say I take your reasoning and run with it.

There are plenty of people of Chinese ancestry (or Asian ancestry in general) who have no family (within a few generations), friends, or relations to China, and never stepped foot there.

If the objection is to naturalized US citizens from China who have still have ties to China (I am one of those people), fair enough, but then there are three problems:

1. You should be filtering for foreign connections in general, not for ethnicity. That test already happens in the process of getting security clearance.

2. You can leverage people in plenty of other ways that do not involve threatening friends or relatives. Both the US and China have teams in government agencies that do that for a living.

3. Oh man this is a huge can of worms when it comes to civil rights, equality, and constitutional issues in general.

That makes for a not-very-accurate filter that is ethically suspect that is also not hard to bypass for the seemingly valuable intel underneath. Seems like bad ROI.

Perhaps I really am naive as you say, but on the second order of analysis it seems to me like an ineffective policy if it were actually a policy.
Most companies in Silicon Valley will train you in Devops if you're a DBA, as long as you already can write a Perl or Python script.
I'm not sure what you mean by #1, the builds are as reproducible as the build system being used.

For #2, SourceClear doesn't build the software under test, it's hooked into the build via various methods. For Maven and Gradle, those are plugins. For NPM and Bundler, the existing build files contain the complete dependency graphs as determined by the build system. The analysis is quite accurate, I daresay more so than any other tool. Yes, it requires implementation work for each build stack, but that's the price you pay for accuracy.

In response to your #3, SourceClear doesn't report only vulnerabilities verified by call paths, it reports on all components will known vulnerabilities and denotes if a call path was found.

Disclaimer, I'm a Co-Founder and have spent a great deal of time writing scanning code.
Well, I'm not really qualified to talk about the BoM costs relative to the sale price because I don't do manufacturing, but the Beaglebone Black team claims they charge at margin based on the BoM: "Currently there is $0 margin on these boards [...]" [0]. I normally compare the BeagleBone Black to the Raspberry Pi in terms of cost: the initial Raspberry Pi cost $35, but came with no internal flash. So with 4GB of internal flash the BBB seemed like a reasonable deal at $50. If you're willing to go without HDMI, the Beaglebone Green is $39 [1]

The Allwinner CPUs are always extremely cheap, but I don't support the company because of what jerks they are to the open source community [2]

[0] http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Revision_C_.28...

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/seeed-technology-co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner#Linux_controversies
According to [1], the SPARC v9 and later ISAs are proprietary. I think you implicitly get a license for any patents via (L)GPL if you derive from OpenSPARC or LEON, but not if you create your own implementation.

[1] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-...
hey Steve, would it be possible to retain scroll position of the nav menu after navigation. I'm finding the auto-scroll of the clicked section to top a bit disorienting.
It usually helps me refocus. A quiet alarm isn't enough for me to lose track of what I'm doing, but working myself to exhaustion usually does.
"Engineers repurposed spare parts from previous satellites to construct ScatSat, according to the Indian Space Research Organization"

This only happens in India. I am saying this in a good way.

Source: https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/26/india-declares-success...
Now if only Indians can figure out how to clean the cities. Seriously its probably the most technologically advanced filthiest country in the world.
I hope plantair wins this sort of lawsuit could really hurt women and diversity efforts to get into tech jobs if companies are forced to hire based on qualified candidate pools.
The 2017 Acura NSX: A Hybrid Supercar
Witnessed it firsthand in grad school on a few occasions. Instructor momentarily leaves during an exam and the Indians start asking one another the answers, thinking nothing of it. WTF! This was not all of them, there were many straight-up smart ones, but cheating wasn't uncommon.
My Mom Runs Linux
I don't see how that's relevant, unless the goal is to invalidate his(?) dislike of them by claiming the political views that dislike is based on are wrong and stupid.
If that is the case, and the records show that, then the company is probably ok. But you have to show that all of the people you hired could pass FizzBuzz right? Google gave one of the best hiring training lectures I've ever attended on eliminating personal bias from interviewing questions. A lot of it was thinking about the question and the response and putting it in the context of someone you knew, what would you think then? Would you still consider it so highly? Or as such a deficit? They said, although I didn't experience it directly, that they did data analytics on interviewer write ups to identify bias. That could have been to sort of encourage due diligence but given how data driven that company was when I was there I would not put it past them to do exactly that.
I guess a deeper problem than homeless people being "scary" is that they remind the engineers that all their work driving ad impressions doesn't really improve the world.
Met Ryan in 2013 at Startup School.. could already feel he was going to hit it big when he was telling me what Flexport was doing!
Yes, it would cost money, and require manpower and material support. We can take some of the billions we'll use to pointlessly fight the war on drugs and divert it, or pretend there's oil or REE's there...
U.S. Accuses Tech Firm of Bias Against Asian Software Engineers
And for the record, finding the god within doesn't have any connotation of worshipping ones self, for me personally, the idea that it might I think is a vestige for those that see a value or need to worship a god without.
Well, yes, which was why I thought of unintentional "culture fit" bias as the reason, because that's certainly the case in many other situations.

But for a company Palantir's size, I would expect the law of large numbers to push hiring preferences towards being more or less representative of the industry, after controlling for things like security clearances and other domain specific issues.

The missing piece of information to me is whether there really is something wrong with their company culture that would cause hiring preferences to deviate away from "generally average in the aggregate."
You know what, We'd get by without most of those things (obviously no Internet would be painful).

However, due to both me and my wife working, we can't afford to properly raise our own kids, grow a veggie garden (plot size is too small) or sew/mend our clothes.

We have 1400 sqft, don't have air conditioning, don't have cable, and if only one of us had to work, heck, we could do with only one car (bikes were a thing back then and we aimed for a good wike/balk score when purchasing).

I think a lot of the "upgrades to life" are simply the consequence of busier lives, not exactly better ones.
Unfortunately there really isn't the time to spend on waiting for reforms either... we either stand by and do nothing and let an intelligent species be killed off, or protect them with violence.
Yeah, I'm going to wrangle up some nerds and see if we can make a day of it.
Why do you have to be something different, the next thing after? Other highly coordinated organisms like ants, bees and termites have evolved morphologically distinct developmental paths. Couldn't autistics just be in a sense extreme examples of a subtype of human that serves the purpose of disrupting group-think and introducing new ideas into the culture?
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The real issue is that the cost of living hasn't scaled with those occasional consumer goods purchases. Housing, healthcare, utilities, transportation, food, education, etc. are constant necessity expenses, and costs are increasing in those areas.

How peculiar, where is the state most involved?? Is it a coincidence?
I'd rather make up my own mind than have the cultural mandarins tell me what I should think. Honestly, if us plebs can think for ourselves, maybe we shouldn't be allowed to vote. Personally I'm wondering if Hillary can stand up for 90 mins straight since she obviously has a debilitating neurological issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtIzH9HoC8
Developer here - it doesnt auto-start the break timer.

Interesting that you would want to start the break countdown but not the next work timer.