skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works very well for me. It's rental vehicles, but the drivers are much more engaged than other companies. They usually even call me if I'm not home to ask where to leave the package.

I guess it's always down to the driver. On average, they won't be better or worse than UPS/Royal Mail/Interlink...
Say you have a degree in maths. What jobs could you apply for? Just "Mathematician"?

I think you could do a whole range of things. Anything from quantitative trading to traffic management. Or something that doesn't even require math, like project management.

The advantage of broadness is you have a wider choice about what you do. If one kind of work turns out not to appeal to you, you aren't stuck. That has some economic value as well. If you have the watch industry collapse, you don't have a bunch of watchmakers sitting around on benefits who could be doing something different.
If "it" is "producing lemons" then yes, you would need a market for lemons in order to guage the production process' quality. Well done, have a cookie. Or a lemon.
It just came out, so I don't trust it yet. I'm waiting to see what security flaws arise, how the developers respond, etc.

And yes, you do start out with anti-trust if you're replacing something I trust, because you then have to be at least that trustworthy to replace it.
This is kind of tangential, but a couple of jobs ago I decided to actively purge all job titles from my CV/resumé. Officially, I'm currently a senior and have been in the past, but there have also been jobs in between where there was no "Senior" prefix in the title.

My main problem with thinking about developer roles in this way is that there's obviously no standard for what constitutes seniority. It varies between and sometimes within organisations. Advertising it, glorifying it, striving to achieve it, all take the focus away from far more interesting things that you can say about yourself and aim for.

Are you working on interesting projects? Are you learning new stuff? Are you being challenged technically? Are the other people on your team good developers? Do you enjoy what you do?

Seniority as an end in itself seems like a hollow objective to me. And making a big deal about it in a recruitment context takes the focus away from more meaningful topics.
Dash is very dodgy, I wouldn't trust it. The solutions "supernodes" etc sound like the people running it don't really know what they are doing. Monero sounds much more solid to me with the ring signature system. I personally use neither, but I can see the appeal to those who seek high level of privacy.

However this is about 5th article I see about zcash, and the thing hasn't even launched yet. Maybe they should stop marketing and instead try to actually deliver something.
By weight, Coke is 10% sugar, 4% sodium, 2% potassium and the rest water (with trace amounts of fat and proteins). To a close approximation, Coke's calories are 100% sugars.
I'm guessing many of those people have a 'real' internet connection at home and at work which they'll be using most of the time.
My guess is that the lack of part-time testers is because there is no clear deliverable. You pay for time spent testing, not for an outcome, so why settle for less than full time once you've vetted a good tester?
Most of those people either worked with MACLisp, or dynamically typed Scheme.
Forests create their own microclimate that stabilises temperatures during the day and night - meaning it doesn't cool down as quickly as an open field. So I would expect trees to also make a city more pleasant during nighttime.
Well commented source code of Pacman in JS
Nice. I'm sure the NSA wants in on this partnership as well!
Nice. I'm sure the NSA wants in on this partnership as well!!
> But there's a question of why the lactose tolerant mutation spread so widely... was there a starvation event? An outcompeting, or invasion by stronger, milk-fed warriors?

It seems calorical contribution was the main factor in sub-saharan africa but in europe (the other main source of the mutation) it is mostly linked to vitamin D deficiency (the mutation spread from areas with less sun, especially inland areas with limited access to fish).
Ah, that kind. No idea, you should definitely message the owner ( @rosiesherry ) if you haven't already.
I don't know anything about scholarships, but Wikipedia definitely partners with universities to help train people to edit Wikipedia and improve the rate of Scholars contributing, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinbu...
The stali source includes, among other things:

* a full checkout of libressl: http://git.sta.li/src/tree/lib/libressl

* a full checkout of expat: http://git.sta.li/src/tree/lib/expat

* two full /bins: http://git.sta.li/rootfs-x86_64/tree/bin http://git.sta.li/rootfs-pi/tree/bin
You can see some other uses of the satellite data on its website: http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery.php
we all know that this report is a joke.
I haven't used any of them, but I would expect the same.

There seem to be a lot of "router" or "middleware" benchmarks nowadays, but from my experience that performance difference is negligible compared to what a different protocol or IO stack implementation can do, e.g. using blocking IO vs. using async IO, buffering and write strategies, etc. If both use net/http I wouldn't expect any difference that really matters in real applications. fasthttp seems to make a difference, but as far as I can read from the documentation it isn't used in Echo v3.
I don't think the speed is the problem here. Plenty of sci stuff is done in Python. Go's poor type system is a bigger issue.
Very much so. Early on in our Prime experience about 2 years ago one of the delivery men, after dropping off the package, went back to the van, whipped it out and started peeing in the street. All while our neighbors kids were playing in the front yard. I thought twitter would be a good place to contact Amazon's support, and they didn't seem to care. That guy never delivered again, but no real response to my concerns was a bit creepy to say the least.

Otherwise packages come from all makes and models of cars over the last 6 months. Still pretty cool to get most things same day delivery cheaper than me driving to Fry's for a piece of hardware. I don't see how they make money though and compete in the long run after VC runs out.
Good Genes Come at a High Price
Partially because some people don't want to spend that much money on something they'll rarely use (cheapest I found from a quick search on amazon UK for any of the Eco-Tank series was £185)
European Commission will launch initiative against data localisation
Now compare with the tooling, packages, libraries in C++ or Python.
This doesn't seem as bad as a lot of tools touting that as a benefit. Always have to cringe when I see collaborative design tools pitched where you upload your work for the whole team to start sticking their oars in as if that is ever a good workflow.
However app quality in the Apple Store is significantly higher than on Android, because of their review process
Why do these fucking quasi-products never actually say what the fuck they DO? "<this> replaces sshd, possibly the most critical piece of software your server runs, with a magic black box".

There's nothing in the rather meagre list of suggestions at the top of the readme that can't be done already and 0 detail on how they intend to achieve it and why their dubious methods require wholesale replacement of your, did I say it's critical?, ssh daemon.

SSH is definitely not a tool I'll be replacing any time soon with the latest fly-by-night product from CADT BikeShedders Inc.
Not all quantum computers use superconducting qubits:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/dt10-quantum-computing...
I don't know what parent was thinking of... but titles, to me, are dangerous because titles are not used the same between one organization and another, and expectations and assumptions as to the proficiency of individuals may not be met solely based on title alone. Titles can also be dangerous because people who are undeserving of them think they know everything... when in reality they don't know shit. Especially when someone is given a higher title in lieu of higher compensation, when the title may not even be deserved. I've seen "senior software engineers" that can't even write consistently styled code, full of off-by-one bugs, and other noob shit. And I've seen "junior developers" run circles around them. It's all subjective... Titles are bullshit, basically...
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.1.7 released
Functional Programming in Java 8, Kotlin and Scala (relative to Haskell)
"the network is completely insecure - the entire network has no password on the WPA2 SSIDs at all so your traffic is unencrypted and ripe for the taking for anyone that wants it, it's not only bad practise - it's down right irresponsible and misleading."

Agree, pretty insecure. VPN ~ http://au.pcmag.com/networking/4558/feature/free-vpn-service...

What would be a better solution?
Currently it's easier to find apps BY NAME on Google. There are tons of improvements. Filter out paid apps, in-app purchase ones. Filter by category, ratings. Do not destroy ratings after each update.
It's kind of hard to do that, because it really depends. You could also go down to city levels, which again would change a lot of things. For really big cities you could probably even see the district level.

Yes, there are slightly different laws and politicians, but also different infrastructure in different districts.

The are multiple political, cultural and so on levels. Countries and states inside countries often don't work the same and the hierarchical structures might be different.

Taking only EU and US already shows the huge difference. Take really banal things. The countries in the EU are also all part of the Council of Europe, which doesn't have a lot to do with the EU other than the geographic location. But they create certain rules, such as a common view against capital punishment (they actually caused that in some countries). On the other hand in the US you have very different views.

It's not easy to compare complex political, cultural structures and economic competitiveness in itself is kind of a weird thing to measure, cause there are so many layers of that term itself. Now while it is clear that this isn't meant think about all kinds of movements, be it for money less societies, be it people that want gold or resources. Describing economies can include only the monetary part, but might include goods, infrastructure, even health. And for such a report one can come up with kind of arbitrary ways of measuring things, giving them a value.

Now, I think many here know how hard it can be to measure non-complex things, how hard it can be to get the KPIs right and for how a startup those can be different and how those KPIs can change from one day to another (and that might or might not make sense).

Now comparing countries and economies is a wholly different thing.

Also I am not saying that what was done is bad or whatever. It certainly is not. I just think that people often interpret too much in those things. Taking different, equally qualified people to create such a report could result in rather big differences, because what makes sense to put in there is rather subjective and for example influenced by culture.
In Germany this isn't a thing, but when applying for a few jobs in the UK most employers considered me senior after that interview. Still didn't get the jobs, because I failed their programming tests.

Since I started programming my work-behaviour changed from asking people all the time when I don't know what's happening to reading their code.

I think developers are considered senior if they can work on their own.

Like, if you get all the engineering practices of designing, implementing and maintenance done without much help.
Today's Newspaper Headlines [29 September, 2016]
I prefer to stick to something published on pubmed.
Same goes with Amsterdam (or Netherlands overall). Cannabis isn't "legal", the policy is just non-enforcement. Possession with 5 grams is not prosecuted. Possession of 5 plants is usually not prosecuted if renounced by cultivator.

With "hard" drugs, things are different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
A New Window to Understanding the Brain
Sure, it would have happened eventually, but not in the 1–2 year timeframe you mentioned. Not even close, judging by the lack of progress from other vendors.

3G wasn't the deciding factor, the first iPhone didn't have it but responsive sites started popping up right away. There's also no point in 3G for web browsing unless you have a decent rendering engine – WML and XHTML Basic sites were hardly data hogs.
4G LTE nowadays is often faster than the average non-NBN broadband at home or work though.
Bah and humbug. It reports a study that the The Camping and Caravanning Club commissioned by Liverpool John Moores University, available at http://www.mountainsafety.org.nz/Files/Research-Real-Rich-Li... . It is not peer reviewed.

In it, an "online questionnaire was sent to
1,000 adult campers over the age of 18 via The Camping and Caravanning Club's member database and 1,000 adult non-campers over the age of 18."

Thus, it's hard to distinguish between "campers" and "club members." Perhaps it's club membership which drives happiness? Or perhaps it's that happier people are more likely to join a club.

There's no mention of a demographic comparison between the two sample groups. If the club members tend to be richer than the non-club members, then perhaps that's the reason for the difference. Other demographics differ as well. For example, "Holidays under canvas just don't seem to appeal to Brits from ethnic minorities" https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jul/09/black-people-... .
1) dl.sta.li is not on my site, and probably not on yours.

2) That's still suboptimal. You're giving each host on your LAN the ability to interfere with any newly-provisioned server. This is a perfect and hard-to-detect way for an attacker to pivot from "RCE on some random webapp" to "advanced persistent threat".
D'oh, I totally should have thought of that.

Provided you have a decent power source that's easy: the hardest part is getting your raw material into the chamber and disposing of the debris afterwards. Humans driving flat-pack bulldozers, most likely.

Would work on the Moon, too.
"Will Australian police need warrants to query this network for location data?"

would the data be held by the ISP and inspected under the existing legislation?
Grid layout is a much needed step-change for CSS
This headline lacks the words "getting" and "caught".
Nope: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/5927/why-does-wpa-...

If you're in PSK mode, it's assumed you're trusted. Perfect forward secrecy wasn't a target of PSK mode.

Also, if you're going to do a DH exchange and give the key out to everyone, there is no point in having the key in the first place, just do a plain old DH exchange.
My first inkjet printer was a HP Deskjet 500. It was fantastic (for its day and my requirements), robust and seemingly lasted forever. I eventually upgraded to something that did colour, but no printer I've had since, HP or otherwise has ever been as reliable as that old printer.

It is sad that I'm now in a position where I won't buy another HP printer while the cloud of them restricting my ink choices lingers.
>What does "world class" even mean in this context?

It has access to the content on the "world" internet.
Not really. Echo can use net/http or fasthttp. When using net/http, there is no significant performance gain. All the performance benefit comes from replacing net/http by fasthttp.

Source: https://github.com/labstack/echo/tree/v3
The power of lazy programming
non-NBN?

I get 85mbps pretty consistently from my cable provider, which is faster than I get on LTE.
Happy Galactic Tick Day You Just Moved Around the Milky Way
Got a Canon ink jet and a third party tank. Win win. Never ever will go with HP again, after buying the biggest POS HP inkjet printer. First printer shipped broken. Second wouldn't feed paper after a year. Not to mention the color ink drying out. Brother Laser is amazing. I am a small business owner, Civil Engineering firm, that prints plans constantly. Epson may have the future locked up for those who print large scale plans. Otherwise Canon and Brother all the way.
Or just ditch node and write your server in Go. There is no reason to use node server side today, unless that task is specifically javascript related. There is 0 advantage in using nodejs.
It's somewhat difficult to get a wireless card that will let you spoof the MAC.

Also:

>"The model works by providing free access in exchange for users’ personal and behavioral data, which are then used to target ads to them."

I suspect they are jamming cookies in your browser so you would need to clear them out as well in case they track based on that.
ASA Investigating No Man’s Sky’s Steam Advertising
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-in-2017-new-aws-regi...
Mark Zuckerberg reveals secrets
Video call?
(VIDEO) IoT – Internet of Tracks – Shift of Paradigm in the Rail Sector
Just one word: clouds.

Satellites can't see through them.

There’re satellite images of the launch site taken on 16 of July 2014, and on 21 of July, but unfortunately, not on the 17 of July.
> It is also bad for indie developers since they won't be able to compete with big businesses.

Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller address these obvious concerns in this candid post-WWDC talk:

http://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2016/06/17/ep-158
The moment I saw the headline, I noticed Apple missing from the list, and it felt right! Facebook, Amazon, Google...Microsoft...IBM...all coming together to promote (sell) AI? This sounds like the coming together of the evil powers.

Apple, however successful it may continue to be financially, needs to focus on a wider penetration of its devices and services if there is to be any meaningful dent on the privacy front around the world. Being a market leader in one country (or a few) doesn't help much when billions of people around the world use Android phones where the default is "ask for any permission and it shall be given." For this to change, I believe Apple must go lower on the price front, even if that means lower margins. It also needs to push forward quicker on things that other companies don't consider, like differential privacy, and look for markedly different ways of doing things compared to the personal data hungry parasites like the ones in the title.
For a time it was touch and go between qmail and all the other non-sendmail servers available at the time. qmail lost entirely because, I'm convinved, of its ridiculous licensing requirements.

DJB's code is good and would do the world good but he's a nut, which only hurts himself, his software and the computer ecosystem which lacks the lessons it would have taught.
Adelaidian here (another Australian capital). Our city has had free Wifi provided by a competing ISP, since 2014 [1]. For many years now (as long as I can remember) they have also provide free Wifi at the Adelaide airport.

I'm very happy to hear something similar has been launched in Melbourne. I visit there regularly and as most of my social arrangements are via data (messaging or email) it is always great to have access to Wifi. The trade-off between security and utility is one I'm comfortable with, as more layers of security can always be added.

I'd be happy if the splash pages weren't quite so intrusive - but I guess either there isn't a good way around this, and/or it is the necessary price for something that is otherwise free.

As an aside, the customer service of Melbourne's Wifi provider is indeed famously bad, while Adelaide's is famously good. Who knows what the future holds though.

[1] https://hotspot.internode.on.net/partners/adelaidefree/
Last time I tried to get a gig in Switzerland as a freelancer, they told me there is no such thing as a freelancer there, every one must be hired.

State mandates that. However, the tax is so low, that is doesn't really matter.

On the other side, the cost of living is so high (Zuerich area) so that it really worth it if you plan to _move_ there for the rest of your live.
Python with Numpy/Scipy. The Python there is just calling high performance fortran libraries.
Configure aws-cli using the Bundled Installer
Open standards default at Slovenia supreme court
This is great. I operate a French website targeted to French customers, this will improve latency compared to Ireland.

This might also allow for mixing critical server roles hosted in other Paris data centers with AWS.

I'm thinking about connecting a web server (in AWS) with a DB server (in another Paris DC) while keeping the latency at a low level.
TensorFlow Deep MNIST Advanced Tutorial
Wow, yes, there are a LOT less accidents in the U.S. According to other statistics, there are 5 million accidents, for a population of 300 million. In Uruguay there are 50.000 accidents for a population of 3 million, and with a LOT lower average mileage per driver.

That's something we've discussed a lot here - there's NO way self-driving cars can go around South American streets - unless they learn to be very aggressive, beep the horn, cross streets whenever they can, shout and otherwise interact with other drivers.

And we mostly don't have highways. Americans drive a lot in highways, that must skew the per mile accidents.

I don't know how often accidents like fender-benders go unreported in the U.S. though.
There was one very interesting feature, recording of sessions.

There is an increasing demand in large organisations to manage server sessions better.

That is to have accountability and manage access centrally.

So far I've only reviewed one solution, Cyberark, they promised to manage all our server sessions centrally with 2FA, recording ssh and rdp, and more. But in the end we weren't motivated enough to pick them.

I haven't seen any open source offering to do this.

Of course this product would be outside of your normal SSH server, as an additional proxying layer and not a replacement for ssh. Just saying that there was one very interesting point in that repo, I wouldn't replace OpenSSH ligthly either.
> Because if it's the latter then the rep that you talked to needs to be retrained.

This is kinda the point though. We can cook up the most elaborate security scheme in the world, but ultimately the keys to our accounts lie with under trained, minimum-wage call center employees.

(EDIT: and hey, I've done some grinding minimum-wage bullshit jobs, I completely understand)
Ask HN: Bridge whatsapp to e-mail or IRC?
I've been able to keep Whatsapp out of my life for a long time, but I now find I'm no able to keep up socially staying 'offline' - Playing in a band with non-geeks who think e-mail is cumbersome and don't want to switch to Signal because of their existing network.

I've installed whatsapp on an old phone which stays in a drawer all day, and check messages using the Whatsapp web interface every now and then. Works just fine for me, although I'd like to be notified when a new message arrived, preferably using mail or IRC. Are there any solutions for this?

How do others handle Whatsapp in their digital lives?
You know TPG own Internode, right? ;)

EDIT: To be fair, it's only recent.
They look pretty good with the right lighting, but objects must never be clipped by the papers edge. So you have to keep your 3d inside an imaginary pyramid on top of the medium.
JSON (with comments), YAML, and TOML configs can all be read in a standardized format by Ozzo-Config: https://github.com/go-ozzo/ozzo-config

It also supports including multiple config files that merge into one big config. Globbing config files in a directory would be easy.

As an asise, the author of Ozzo-Config is Qiang Xue. He founded the Yii and Yii2 PHP frameworks. Golang code quality in his Ozzo libraries is very good.
this really sounds like bullshit. a freelancer is nothing else but a company made up by a single individual.

are they alien to the concept of service companies?