skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being ambitious and willing to work to get As and get into a top program is different than being so obsessed with it that you punish yourself if you get a B on a paper (even if you get an A in the class).
Ex Machina.
Ah, the era where 64K and 256K DRAM prices fell ten fold in a year (from 1984 to 1985). Micron suffered years of losses until just before the DRAM shortage in 1988.
The strongest evidence I have seen is that the developer was arrested by the DEA on unrelated charges.[0]

The full story about him is fascinating and well worth the read.[1]

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-strange-origins-...

[1] https://mastermind.atavist.com/
Ah I get what you meant now, I agree. If some entity already had their eye on TrueCrypt and had shut it down, you wouldn't expect them to let a copycat pop up unless it was less secure.
Did the NYTimes actually do any research for that piece? H1Bs are required to have a higher salary than average precisely to avoid that from happening
I don't want her to do anything.

She is already playing dirty, why stop at convincing a group of women to lie some more for the cause?
I guess we must all love getting abusive ads with our content then... lesson learned
Zooming in with satellite view shows that all three sites seem to not only have identically sized/shaped buildings, but they're also oriented the same way (long axis running east/west). Any theories on why? Something to do with cooling perhaps?
Thanks for the link, it was a good read.
They're not mutually exclusive (monetary and ideological motivations), and they're actually both true. Not all the time, not unceasingly, but both still present.

If they were motivated purely by money, they'd all be promoting Trump. He has driven a shocking amount of traffic / wealth to all journalist outlets. Stories they write on him are massively more popular, and he's demonstrated he'll cut off access for their lying. So if it was just money, pussy grabbing would be a good thing.
Just recently I've been starting to rely on 'a' and 'A'. Maybe I could switch to ijkl
Can I ask you why you're near homeless? It's because you find hard to find a job?, or you've accumulated debt you're struggling to exinct?

I'm from Italy too but I'm a student and I'm curious: what are the troubles a hacker has in Italy? — assuming you worked in tech.

I know it's rude to ask, I understand if you don't mind to answer. :)
Crimea was hardly invaded

Right -- the several thousand army and special forces troops that Putin has since openly acknowledged sending there to size buildings and other strategic checkpoints were just out on vacation.
Lots of jobs for Scala? I'm not sure about that. Scala is a bit like Rails, at least here in the UK, where about 80% of the available jobs are in London. Step outside the capital and it's almost non-existent. Search Indeed.co.uk by job title and you'll find Java:Scala is 5:1 in London and 24:1 in the rest of the UK.

Java:Scala job ratios in other countries are even worse:

USA 29:1,
Netherlands 19:1,
Canada 33:1,
Germany 46:1,
France: 93:1,
India 113:1,
China 1639:1,

So I think it's fair to say that, with the exception of the London financial sector, Scala hasn't really made a difference to the dominance of Java in industry.
Part of the proposal is the presentation, and thus the person's ability to present.
Aha, but does he need to pay taxes on that $104 million? =)
Use Raft. Rather than speculating, learn, do, and guarantee you're doing the correct thing by electing once, distributing, achieving quorum and continuing. This is spitshine on a turd - PAXOS is a great protocol, but not a speedy one. It's an important building block, not something to be running constantly.
When I first read this I chuckled at what I thought was the absurdity.

I am now laughing manically with you...
I wonder what that'd end up being like?

A machined steel iPhone, perhaps with all the exterior dimensions 0.5 or 1mm bigger - would it be "cool"? Or would it just be the jacked-up-Hummer of the phone world?
Right, but if that gooey puke colored special snowflake was the only source of a power coupling compatible with a laser amplifier that could work with your rare Blatovian power generator that only has the 0.025 inertial penalty and enables your new fighter's super hit and run tactic, then you would totally give a bunch of !@$%&#.

EDIT: That sounds snide but I'm actually being sincere. I'm planning on including items in my game from a procedurally generated tech tree with location-dependent item availability.
I remembered another thing that Java users already know but surprised me in Scala in a bad way: null. I read a lot about Scala's type system in the week between I was hired to write Scala and when I actually started writing code. Most of it was about how great Scala's type system was and how much safety it provided; the company even called itself Typesafe then. I read many paeans to the virtues of Scala's type system that would turn runtime errors into compile time errors, but they didn't highlight that it can't prevent that most common and annoying of Java runtime errors, the NullPointerException. Due to a lack of prominent mentions in the Scala docs and tutorials I read, I thought that Scala authors either didn't have to think about Java's Billion Dollar Mistake or that the compiler would guide them to safety before the code could blow up at runtime.

Maybe manually dealing with nulls is supposed to just be assumed by anyone using the JVM... But I'd used Jython a little in the past and I didn't have to explicitly deal with null-checking then. Jython converts null to None. In the absence of prominent warnings to the contrary I had thought that Scala would provide at least as much automatic safety as Python-on-JVM does.
I'm not so sure about that. Most people I've met who actually got into PhD programs weren't particularly ambitious, and didn't have a precise idea what they wanted to do with their prospective research careers. They'd just been raised as academic perfectionists and gone onto the "obvious" next step in academic perfectionism.
> Usually, students don't really need IDEs or source control in order to learn the basics. They write short programs that require more thinking than typing/editing.

Only at the very beginning where answers are less than 10 lines.

After that, it's surprisingly useful.

> It's only for bigger projects that they start to be useful, and when students reach that stage, they don't have any problem to use them.

Oh, your naivety is touching. In my senior level class, I expected that the program would end up being about 2000 lines of code by the end. I still needed to give the IDE lecture as people were struggling with editing (foolishly, I didn't give it immediately because I thought like you did).

> Actually, IDEs can be problematic for beginners as they may hide things you'd like the students to learn (e.g. compiling from the command line).

So wrong. The command line is the LAST place I want a beginner. I don't even want most intermediate students at the command line. The "UNIX lectures" were one of the most hated things in the CS department.

In fact, quite a few of the students never compiled anything themselves. They submitted it to my automated tester via source control which would compile and test it immediately.

Would I have liked them to compile and test themselves? Absolutely. However, I'm not there to teach infrastructure so I'll take whatever works and lets me get on with teaching the actual information from class.
It's calculated of some predefined averages that are way lower than actual market rates. Most H1B's I know are making pretty much market rate or within 5-10% of market rate though. How do they find people to work for about half I have no clue.
It's in the SDKs. e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby/blob/master/aws-sdk-core...

Icky and totally unsupported alternative: scrape the console. Look for meta name="awsc-mezz-data" in the response.
If you believe that Clinton has a greater propensity to start or inflame wars, and that wars are a greater evil than racism or sexism, then it may well be unethical to support her. It may even be an ethical duty to support Trump.
$20B – and a relaunch of Seed-DB
Seems to be one:

$ aws ec2 describe-regions
REGIONS	ec2.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com	ap-south-1
REGIONS	ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com	eu-west-1
REGIONS	ec2.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com ap-northeast-2
REGIONS	ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com	ap-northeast-1
REGIONS	ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com	sa-east-1
REGIONS	ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com	ap-southeast-1
REGIONS	ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com	ap-southeast-2
REGIONS	ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com	eu-central-1
REGIONS	ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com	us-east-1
REGIONS	ec2.us-east-2.amazonaws.com	us-east-2
REGIONS	ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com	us-west-1
REGIONS	ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com	us-west-2
Actually, it is (they're using an EV certificate from DigiCert).

The problem here is that their servers are misconfigured-- they're not sending the whole certificate chain (missing DigiCert's EV server intermediate CA). This caps their score on SSL Labs and apparently breaks the Comodo analyzer.

Doesn't seem to be anything else wrong, or anything that (AFAIK) impacts security. Just a performance problem (the browser has to download the missing intermediate if it's not already present in its cache).
Those are the worst yet, and from the FBI!

I like the idea of a faction of the FBI standing up to Comey.
>I guess balance in single player is about difficulty?

In a sense balance is always about difficulty. But it's also about not ruining all the depth your game offers. If one of the easiest paths becomes objectively the best to achieve a goal, there's no reason for the player to explore or use any of the other paths.

This appears in all kinds of systems: if there's one class that's just the best, your class system is unbalanced and most players will barely play the other classes. If there's this "one simple trick" to earn lots of money (e.g. mine that one very common ore, like in No Man's Sky), an interesting economy becomes a boring timesink due to being unbalanced. If one of the early weapons is the best, everyone will use it and all the time you spent designing other weapons was just a waste.
I believe it is based on the average for the country, which is much lower than the average in certain areas, like California.... But I may be wrong.
Interesting concept but relies on multicast. SDN might help solve the inherent multicast drawbacks by creating topologies, distribution trees, etc.. ahead of time. But practically, how often do you see multicast deployed and enabled in modern datacenters ?
To get philosophical, when are we really free?

We seem to be learning, at various levels, that the very people we elect to represent us --our employees-- have distorted the contract they have with us to the point where they think it is OK to deprive us freedoms as they see fit.

This isn't good. It has the makings of something very ugly going forward. It's the proverbial slippery slope.
My game is just as vast, practically speaking, and it has 70 client multiplayer, worst case. (That is, all directly interacting in the same spot. If 1000 clients were in the same star-system instance, but not interacting, that would be fine.)
Can't disagree with that. I guess I should have nuanced my own position a bit, how about: we shouldn't blacklist people based on their political beliefs if those beliefs are shared by nearly half the population and are in no way genocidal? I'd extend the same logic to religion because they both tend to be completely inconsequential at work.
I have since, but not before the incident I was referring to.
You wrote a good post and I apologize in advance if my reply doesn't do it justice. I'm on mobile.

> I can assure you the things in those emails between the press and the Clinton campaign are shameful on a journalistic ethics front.

And programmers get taught to write documentation and not make things work with hacks or produce spaghetti code. The way the sausage gets made not comporting with professional standards is neither unheard of nor is it isolated to journalism.

They're being shameful, yes. But they're doing it because it's a living, not because they have an agenda.

> if you want to buy into the philosophy behind the press and why it's given so much leeway in American law, then their fundamental role is to serve as the fourth estate

Off-topic, but I don't. I view all media -- explicitly biased and ostensibly not alike -- as fully protected under the umbrella of free speech, for which I am an irrationally ardent proponent.

We can make objective claims about our present media not doing a very good job at informing society without getting into that, though. Our principal disagreement seems to be about why that's happening. You seem to want to ascribe agency to it. I think that's a mistake, in the aggregate. Maybe I'm just being a cynic, but I don't think so.

> the bulk of the press has decided to burn their credibility in promoting Clinton

I'm not a fan of Clinton by any stretch of the imagination. I see how Clinton scandals get significantly less airtime than Trump scandals, but I have a hard time believing that isn't being driven by ratings. Trump has been graded on a heck of a curve at times, in ways that can't be considered "objective."

And it was seven coin tosses ;-)
I may one day end my life out of exasperation at the culture I live in bearing down with demands for a certain conduct that I cannot sincerely present, but this future isn’t real to me either, just like no future is real, because I don’t currently feel compelled to commit suicide. I do, however, feel that my frustration will progress. Often it seems like what is expected of us in the industrialized world is akin to joining a traveling sideshow and lumbering around in clumsy costumes, doing a song and dance for the simple delight of some abstract, blurred-out crowd. None of my friends or anyone I know are real either. They are all becoming the same person. Isolated hand crafted social networks. No particular philosophy or ideology to bind them except the mindless packed egalitarianism that the media sold to them in a nice little bundle.

Clothing. Beats. Startups. Money. Let's get fucked up bro. You thinking DORSiA tonight bro? It's all pseudo. Even the people who are 'into shit' are usually into it just deep enough where they can virtue signal others of the same depth, then jerk each other off about how fucking amazing they are for being the x% of the population into $y hobby. It doesn't matter what club. The attitude comes in all themes - classical music, startups, etc. Most of it is an illusion, I've only met maybe 2 people in my entire life who've dissolved their ego's (no I am not one of them).

We've abstracted human connection and communication to such a disgusting degree we're most likely never turning back.

And please spare me the mental health responses.
Had to think for a bit about the sign or direction of "or lower". A and B are less than C in my everyday existence.
But then the phrase just becomes generic advice everyone gives and provides an easy scapegoat to save face. Don't change it. Or if you must, you could at least dress it up a bit like Feynman http://www.basicfeynman.com/read_letters.html ("If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.") You can weasel your way out of failure with "well that's as good as I can be", it's harder to weasel out with "well I went at this at full force but failed anyway." The latter can also provide some satisfaction that you went as hard as you did, whereas the former just provides resignation.

(It's similar to Facebook's "Move fast and break things." It's a great phrase precisely because it's not the same generic advice everyone gives. There are times where it doesn't apply, that's more important than the times it does. Universal for all time advice sucks and is bland.)
He also believes that Asians and Jews are on average the intellectual superiors of "white" people, so it's not clear to me how that's "white" supremacy. He's very clear that he separates the scientific question from the moral one. The belief that intelligence is largely genetic is fairly mainstream and supported by a large body of evidence. If he is committed to treating all groups of people with equal respect, that satisfies me.

>>He isn't fooling anybody with ...

What prevents you from taking him at his word about what he believes? Why would you distrust his own explanation of his own opinions? I don't think we're doing civilization any favors by speculating about people's "true" beliefs in order to ostracize them.

Moldbug has said many absurd antidemocratic things, but you don't need to misrepresent them to convey that.

If you want to debate someone seriously, do it like this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa...
we are reaching new levels of stupid
> they're not sending the whole certificate chain (missing DigiCert's EV server intermediate CA)

This is probably the most common issue I see when people configure their https. It happens all the time and unless you test all the browser/system combinations, you won't even know that.

(Or unless you use ssllabs - they do a good job of showing the issue)
This seems to be due to an incomplete certificate chain, which is probably also the reason why Comodo's SSL Analyzer says the certificate isn't trusted. Only browsers that have previously cached the intermediate certificate (or those that automatically fetch them) would trust this certificate.

Without the chain issue, this would be an A or A+, unless I'm missing something.
Hmm, combine that with a USB stick-like device and you could probably implement a brute-forcer that doesn't actually attempt most passwords, since key based editing of the original password would probably work.

This of course assumes the entered password is still on the screen.
Bootleg Hooch, Bite-Sized TV and Creating Authentic Female Characters
FTA
"H-1B immigrants work for less than American tech workers, Professor Hira said at a hearing in March of the Senate Judiciary Committee, because of weaknesses in wage regulations. The savings have been 25 percent to 49 percent in recent cases, he told lawmakers."
More precisely even H1Bs are also required not to replace domestic workers, but somehow I must have missed seeing Disney execs being charged?
Looks like they found a way to generate nanoparticles that don't damage
host cells, but target bacteria more or less exclusively:

These star nanoparticles were termed ‘structurally nanoengineered
antimicrobial peptide polymers’ (SNAPPs). Unlike existing selfassembled
antimicrobial macromolecules, which will dissociate to
unimers below their critical micelle concentration, SNAPPs
are stable unimolecular architectures up to infinite dilution. We
demonstrate that SNAPPs exhibit superior antibacterial activity
against a range of clinically important Gram-negative bacteria,
possess high therapeutic indices and display selectivity towards
pathogens over mammalian cells.

More on biocompatibility with humans:

As a test of biocompatibility, the haemolytic activities of SNAPPs
were investigated by incubating them with red blood cells at different
nanoparticle concentrations. Both S16 and S32 had negligible
haemolytic activity. Even at a very high concentration of >100 × MBC,
the extent of haemolysis was well below 30%. Subsequently, we
investigated the viability of two types of mammalian cells (human
embryonic kidney cells and rat hepatoma cells) in response to SNAPPs.
The therapeutic indices (TI) of SNAPPs ranged from 52 to 171 ,
generally higher than the TI of colistin, which is currently being
used as the last therapeutic option for MDR Gram-negative pathogens

Very promising stuff. Even though this was built as a treatment for
gram-negative bacteria, it seems to show an effect for gram-positive
bacteria, too. Equally promising is how uniformly effective SNAPPs
seemed to be across several types of gram-negative bacteria.
> why this is an issue

The fact that this comes from Disney does not help, too.
"There is a rational case to make for someone being both fully culpable for wrongdoing while still remaining entitled to bounties they've satisfied."

Not really. Throwing them in jail sends the message that whistleblowing is looked down upon, and thus fewer people will do it. If the whistleblower doesn't have immunity from prosecution, the only way for them really to blow the whistle is to confess to a crime.
To be equally candid, I find people silly who proclaim that every time someone say a negative about something they are promoting something else.

Through I must say, it does making viewing news more interesting. Someone say a negative about a product, I wonder which competitor paid them? Someone released a security vulnerability, I wonder what competing product they are trying to sell.

It basically makes all negative statements into a conspiracy, which honestly is silly, but fun thought experiment.
To the First Lady, with Love
Intent is the big differentiator. In most jurisdictions, tax evasion is fraud. Fraud gets you in jail. Say you siphon off $1m by doing a deal somewhere, and you don't declare taxes on it. That's evasion.

Avoidance is making sure the proceeds of that deal, for example, end up in a foreign corporate entity with a lower tax rate, while not breaking any laws. Even if you end up paying (close to) nothing, the first will (possibly) land you in jail, the second won't.

The intent to defraud the government is very clear and easy to prove in the first example. In the second, you didn't actually break any laws, and even if the avoidance mechanism wouldn't hold up in court, you didn't actually defraud anyone -> you pay the normal tax rate / maybe some small penalty and some interest / you won't end up in jail.

tldr: don't break the law.. but you can have creative interpretations.
What Happens to American Myth When You Take the Driver Out of It?
If you check out the graph in the article, the sales drop was sharp, abrupt, and coincided with the outbreaks: https://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagec...

Anecdotally, I definitely heard the outbreak discussed frequently here in NY -- probably because I regularly eat there, and so did my friends (up until the outbreak anyway). Maybe you didn't since your friend circle stopped eating there before the outbreak?
Pretty sure the labor certification and prevailing wage requirement is on a county / city basis (i.e. somewhat related to the actual local wages), see also https://www.dol.gov/whd/immigration/h1b.htm
I'm not. Most people won't be in the position to get that kind of deal.
Progression rate mainly. Simple Minecraft example (imagine it had more game bolted on, because I can't think of many proc-gen worlds off the top of my head)... Diamond is only available below X depth and at Y rarity. The depth is a hard limit, because it would screw with the intended progression of player crafting if a diamond vein had spawned a block or two under the surface. (Although this example is slightly flawed because you need to craft better equipment to mine diamond, blah blah blah)
302s are just field reports.

There's not any FBI agents creating an insurgency or anything. They are just doing their jobs.

The field reports disclosed that the State Department put a lot of pressure on the FBI - in at least one case (even offering benefits in direct exchange) - to alter the classification of Clinton documents during the investigation.

In this specific case ultimately the classification of the document in question was not changed.

Definitely more corruption out of the State Department. But really doesn't speak anything of fractionalization of FBI.