skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it - but "secure" is a very broad term without context. Without knowing the type of data being sent, and whether the overall collection over time could be insecure, you also have the underlying operating environment. Most sensors utilize a version of linux, Bluetooth low energy, or wi-fi, all of which have security risks. Also, if you have any accessible ports [usb, network] they are prone to physical attacks. Hope it helps.
This is the kind of AI that matters to me as a gamer, not yet another chat bot :)
And a family plan, so I can pay for higher tiers and share them between my wife and I.
I thought it was innterconnect loss and heat dissipation that is keeping processor clocks slow, not intrinsic transistor speed.
Your sources are misleading at best.
From the first article:

> We know intuitively that diversity matters.

I know nothing of the sort. And that is the lead sentence, which implies the conclusion is already made.

> Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.

Isn't that somewhat expected? Anybody in any quartile for something has a 50% chance of being above national industry medians. If anything, this would cause people to believe that diverse companies underperform.

From the second article:

> Of 366 public companies analyzed, those in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to have financial returns above national industry medians.

Seems like a regurgitation of the first article, and she presents absolutely nothing to back up those claims. The article quickly devolves into a list of todo items for your company.

From the third article:

> By correlating diversity in leadership with market outcomes as reported by respondents, we learned that companies with 2-D diversity out-innovate and out-perform others. Employees at these companies are 45% likelier to report that their firm’s market share grew over the previous year.

Isn't there a 50% chance that your firm's market share that your market share will grow over the last year? What other variables are you controlling for? And we all know how accurate self reporting is.
But if wasn't for Russia they wouldn't have been incentivized to leak the recent dumps and hacks like that wouldn't have happened otherwise. /s

Assange may be flawed but no one can accuse him of not being ideologically consistent here.
This is why I don't really want to get back into management, even though sometimes I think at some point it will be the only thing I'll have the patience and mental capacity to do. I saw the best and worst of myself when I was a manager- the worst is what scared me. But moreover, I learned after I stopped being a manager that I didn't deserve the accolades I got. If you were to take the best manager in the world, give him/her a shitty team, a hell of shitty code, shitily designed application and infrastructure, a shitty relationship with the customers/users, shitty support team, and shitty project/product/upper management, and you don't let that manager work to fix these things, they'll quit or fail, guaranteed. If you give them the best of all of these things, they will succeed, guaranteed. Being a good manager- knowing how to manage well and doing it, can be critical. However, it is nothing on its own.
I decided that it's not worth the hassle to keep track of so many accounts, so I fork over $2/month to get 100 GB on Google Drive. I was going to get OneDrive, but I have no need for the whole Office 365 shenanigans.
This is not related in any way to whistleblowing. In fact what he wants to do is to hold media accountable for maliciously twisting information in order to manipulate public opinion and the elections.

Can you honestly say that you feel he is treated in a fair way by the media and they are not trying their best to prevent a Trump presidency even if that includes outright lying?

If he wanted to force them to lie for him it would be a completely different thing. But since he wants media to report more truthfully I see more alignment between Trump and Assange than seeing them at odds with each others.
Bakersfield to Oakland is a 4 hour drive by any reasonable measure, and it would be cheaper to boot.

The Cali bull*^% train isn't competing against rail - it's competing against cars and airplanes.
The key issue for me is that I don't currently need 1 TB, which is why I use Google Drive's 100 GB option. If Dropbox added a 250 GB option or something, I'd switch immediately.
No, I'm not forgetting them. Part of the lower speeds projected are due to shared rail, and noise/safety concerns traveling through populated areas.
Perfectly well-defined software is completed software. The act of defining the requirements completely and absolutely is writing the code.

This is what distinguishes software development from other disciplines. If you want to build a bridge, you create the plans and derive your estimate from the plan. But software development is the creation of a plan. Do engineers know exactly how long that planning process takes? Probably not. It's insignificant compared to actual construction. But for software development, that is everything.
Usually the trick is to add in something like "...at Facebook's discretion...".
Software shouldn't be compared to building construction, more appropriately compared to building design. Building construction is analogous to software deployment: a largely solved problem that is predictable.
Thanks, had never seen the Links at the bottom of the page before.
Is there a niche for a closed information system that doesn't allow easy dumps? Like, Lotus Notes, except run through a bitmap video stream to a secure server?
I've always thought Assange was a bit of a twit. This actually makes sense, though.

I wish there were someone willing to leak the secrets of lots of other organizations, but I won't name them because I don't want to be killed for saying that.
Ask HN: What do you do with mismatching braces in c style languages?
I'm kind of ashamed by asking this. But it has been on my mind for a long time. While writing code in c-style languages, many times I find myself lost among mismatching braces! For example look at this:
(function(){
// from JavaScript the good parts
var add_the_handlers = function (notes) {
var i;
for ( i = 0; i < nodes.length; i += 1) {
nodes[i].onclick = function (e) {
alert(i);
};
};
};

}());

My editor is complaining about a mismatch in braces or prans. How do you find your way out of these situations? :)
Because it would be politically impossible? (I would also argue that the DEA's goal is not safety.)
Can I ask what does it cost for a resident that is not a dependent?
Mathematics and computer science are slowly taking over every other field. I would hazard a guess that it's just a matter of time before psychology meets the same fate. The goal would be to develop predictive models that can solve personal problems — depression, addiction, anxiety, etc. Eventually, machine learning will be able to do this better than people (exactly how much time until this occurs is hotly contested though).
Yes, I can honestly say that the one who lies the most in the current media landscape is Trump himself. If anything, media has gone way too easy on Trump fact checking, perhaps because they make more money if the race is close!
GitHub censored my research data
The basic idea of of the gag order and not being able to reveal the details has pretty sound roots in not tipping off the people being investigated. The issue is they're incredibly broad so companies receiving them can't usually even reveal the exact number received.
> But since he wants media to report more truthfully I see more alignment between Trump and Assange than seeing them at odds with each others.

Does he? He seems pretty upset when media calls him on his lies. Or is that first "he" Assange?
Yes, it's a bit dated (check out those screenshots!)... but the fundamental concepts are still valid. He's trying to explain that you should make programs behave as the user would expect them to -- but it's up to you as the developer to use your judgement to know what the common expectations of the time and platform are.
The "invisible hand" from Adam Smith works if rational actors make decisions based on perfect information.
Currently, a large part of the US rejects rationality, and our governments and corporations give us nothing like perfect information.
So, not surprising that the market fails to serve the people at large well.
What later came out was that apparently Russian soldiers were killed because they were present at the position where the US bombed and that about 30 US/French soldiers were killed in the bunker Russia struck in retaliation.

Where did this 'come out'? Either of these, as you describe them, would have been a major international incident.
what are you talking about? your first paragraph is completely unintelligible. you realize Russia gave them the documents to leak right? no one is saying they gave them an incentive. they are just pawns and will release anything they get.
Tried it out for the heck of it. Unfortunately Dun & Bradstreet has old address information for my company and their account creation system is broken (error 'CEPDEV101' when creating an account). So the "3 hour" validation will take a lot longer, through no fault of CertSimple's.
> You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month.

Can you give an example of such a place, where the total cost of rent, food and utilities (water, electricity) amounts to less than 50 USD per month?
Thank you.

There are no ports. There's only a serial bootloader, but in operation there's nothing plugged in.

The device does connect to the internet via WiFi, but only once every 12 hours for about 3 seconds and then it shuts down.
> Women have the same access to birth control than men do ...

As it stands the opinions of people who have zero involvement in a woman's reproductive cycle easily exert legislative and legal control over the options available to women.

Can you provide even a single instance of male reproductive regulation subjected to similar legislative control?

> In fact, as it stands now, the options available to women are vastly superior

You think of abortion as a form of birth control because your involvement in the process is essentially binary. Either you want a child or you don't. Either you wear a condom or you don't. For women exercising control over their reproductive rights isn't restricted to the timespan of a sexual encounter. An association between birth control and abortion in the greater context of reproductive rights seems to me indicative of a singular and fairly rigid perspective.

> The fact that only women can bear children does not make the regulation of abortion "discrimination".

Perhaps you should study the definition of discrimination. My OED lists two definitions to include: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex" and "recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another". In its most neutral definition, that is in the sense of differentiating two things, discrimination is rendered necessary by laws regulating abortion specifically as a direct result of the fact that women are the only ones who can become pregnant. The definition with more negative connotations makes reference to prejudice. The Wizards of Ox define prejudice as "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience", or alternatively "harm or injury that results or may result from some action or judgment". Give that anti-abortion laws are passed, in part, by men whom by definition have no actual experience with the subject of legislation, it doesn't seem much of a leap to interpret such behavior as being prejudicial and thus discriminatory.

> Do you think that abortion on the day before birth should be legal?

In some cases, absolutely. Consider a premature baby born five months before it should be with no hope to survive, or the case of last minute complications that threaten a woman's life, or last minute discovery of terminal congenital defects.
Getting rid of all organizational secrecy seems like a pretty bad goal—it makes negotiation impossible.
> but you never see any of those besmirchers actually come up with pragmatic solutions to the problems biologists face.

You may be interested to know that all statistical methods originate in pure math.

The "mathematicians don't do anything real" meme is even more inane than the accusation that biological science can't be rigorous.
Yup! That was actually what I used at home back then-- you too? But Wycove Forth was relatively amateurish and iirc called on built-in ROM routines for OS operations like reading a disk.
Other professions base their estimates on the blueprints or the plan. You plan out a bridge and then you base on the estimates on that.

Software development is construction of the plan. And all industries also estimate how long planning will take but it's a vastly more significant for software as that's the entire thing.
Hmmmm... So the designation/title matters in the long run. Understood, Thank You! :)

BTW, i think it is one of these positions she is being interviewed for...

https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/445219/sr.-industrial-engin...

https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/442313/operations-industria...

Any personal experiences specific to these locations/jobs? I checked out these Amazon jobs on Glassdoor but found only salary ranges, but no review comments.

Are there women in this field? Any unwritten expectations at the job she needs to be aware of?...
One thing i'm a big fan of is the 'eta till the eta'. So many developers/managers often shoot from the hip with estimates - usually with the rationale that if it's all made up anyway might as well seem smart.

Yet if you spend just like 20 minutes to try and break down the tasks and do some research you can usually reduce the margin of error significantly. Our brains are good at ignoring complexity and our egos are good at telling ourselves we understand things we don't. Break it down and do you research. Stuff like poking through github repos of libraries you might be adopting. Lots of forks? lacking documentation/tests? What kinds of issues? Who is using it and why? You still can certainly still run into unexpected complexity but you get good at recognizing where it's likely to pop up. It's hard, and you won't get it right always, but it doesn't mean that shit is 'impossible'.
Large Limits to Software Estimation: http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf

Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation: Supplementary Material: http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html
I got started with programming by hacking for infinite lives on the Sinclair Spectrum. Very satisfying.

Later I used the +fravia site for hacking protection systems in much the same fashion - disassemble, convert the checks to NOPs, and patch the binary.

I've recently tried to go back into reversing, but one problem is that there are very few Linux binaries which even prompt for serial numbers!
I've always thought, if you can, with reasonable accuracy, predict how long it will take to build a piece of software, then it's probably already done, and you should just apt-get it or whatever.

However, if it's something truly novel, then kind of by definition, it's impossible to predict how long it will take, because it's never been done before.

Of course, there's a million shades of gray in between, but it's not like bridge building. Bridges are pretty unchanged in 1000's of years. Most software you write, should be brand new, otherwise, why do it?
I almost think it's far easier to estimate the output of 4000 engineers than the output of 10. It's also far easier to cut things to fit a deadline 3 years out.
infowars probably
I wear a cool shirt even for sprint races (30 minutes) - it can be 110 degrees at the track and the nomex fire suit gets hot.
There is no actual evidence it came from Russia. Even the "official statement" from DHS is ridiculously vague to the point of meaninglessness. Assange implied heavily the DNC leaks came from a staffer who was subsequently murdered...
The Sublime text editor underlines the opening and matching closing bracket that's currently under the cursor. Easy to miss, I noticed it only after months of using the editor.
> I'd rather die a bit earlier than lose my mind.

That's a bit ambiguous. I assume you reject extra years that entirely consist of dementia. But what if you can have extra years, and only some of them will have dementia?

> Frankly I don't care for the notion of an autopsy either since my body is not anyone else's property

I don't understand what you mean by this at all. Doctors have looked and poked inside my body many times, and that never made me feel like property.
Ry’s Git Tutorial
One big difference is that a good manager can take an average team and build a good team over time. If you can't do that, you aren't a good manager.

A manager that can't tell who on their team is good will (in the long run) take an average team and turn it into a bad team.
Palantir says it didn’t racially discriminate against Asian people
If you have done it before it's easy to estimate how much it's going to take. Some things are actually really hard to estimate, like estimating how much root causing and fixing a bug will take.

Now, if you want to estimate properly... ask for a min time estimate, max time estimate, and confidence level.

To say "I am not sure", is actually fine. That can be the start of a conversation where you can have the opportunity to improve that estimate. Whereas a closed answer like "4 hours" won't.
CLRS is even great to skim. I always find it tremendously helpful to skim through when preparing for interviews. It provides a great survey of commonly encountered problems, so you can use it to diagnose your problem areas.
It makes it seem like the "journalist" doesn't believe his own "reporting".
I don't understand. No privacy for organizations or no privacy for everyone? And who decides what an organization is? Two people? Three?
rsync isn't enough. Bidirectional sync with nodes that can drop offline is a pain to handle.
Seems like a recipe for confusion and fragmentation. It certainly hasn't helped Linux.

Although my suggestion sounds like two different operating systems, it's really just about how it's marketed. Fundamentally the technology doesn't have to be any different.

Of course, if your OS is flexible enough things like tiling can be done as add on:
http://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap
How did you transition from a Maths/Programming undergrad to doing medicine? I'm doing Computer engineering and plan to do go into medicine later, any tips?
Given that this involves memory allocation and the fact that it has to be triggered with a specific sequence of HTTP requests, does it mean that the possibilty of this happening is extremely rare? Any system on which this attempt is done probably needs to be having not many others processes running which might trigger memory allocations and thus break this specific set of steps to exploit the issue?

Not trying to belittle the issue or the efforts spent to report it, but trying to understand how frequently it could be exploited.
You're not grokking the scope of "software engineering". Software itself is pure, arbitrary logic. Advances in microprocessors, networks, and storage has blown up the scope of what software can accomplishment to unfathomable scales. It's as if the humble hobbyist carpenter building a doghouse on the weekend had to know the intimate details of quarks, atoms, molecules, all the way up to the interaction of planets, star systems and galaxies, except without the immutable laws of physics, just layer upon layer of human-invented abstraction with no guarantee of universality.

The blessing and the curse that makes software unique is that you get to make the rules, all of them. Let that sink in for a minute because if you look at all other engineering practices they are all based on the rigorous and immutable constraints they have to deal with.

Any set of automated practices for producing software will only make sense for a tiny slice of software for which a set of constraints can be reasonably agreed upon.
The Barnacle means no more boots on your wheel
It was reported in Austria by ORF which is our national broadcasting channel. What they report is at least from our governments perspective uncontroversial.

Also Israeli media reported this.
I wonder if some of the people downvoting this would explain why, as I don't see anything clearly objectionable about it and the personal opinions expressed certainly seem relevant to the topic.
But I doubt they want you calling to verify on an insecure line.
If you liked this post and want to know the full details to this change in ops, please read the SRE book[0]. It's a great read for both devs and ops and can immediately help you make changes to company policy for the better.

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How about CTFs? You can get lots of Linux binaries which you'll need to understand or corrupt in some way.
I'm tired of seeing this kind of paranoid attitude on HN, so here it goes:

I'd love it if Wikileaks released tons of documents exposing the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, DoD, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, Peter Thiel's vampire cult and everything that happened in Bohemian Grove.

From my HN username, you can link to my Twitter handle, and then my website, which has my real name. Do your worst, I'm here to teach the controversy.
> All UI's are graphs at their heart

A bit of an overstatement, considering /bin/rm, Amazon Echo, NFC (e.g. Apple Pay), car pedals, shake gestures (e.g. camera activation on Moto X), and keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Win-L to lock the computer).

I know, you were probably talking about GUIs specifically, but how you interact with a GUI is not really covered by Tufte. I second the recommendation for The Humane Interface for that.
No.

1) Addictive as in, one "normal" dose causes high physical addiction.

2) Lethal, more specifically that it is easy to overdose, or that the difference between "normal" and LD50 is low.

You don't get hooked on caffeine after one coke, and it's hard to kill yourself drinking too much coffee.
Isn't pastebin the correct site to post lists like this?
Asians have been shown repeatedly to be penalized in college admissions (http://observer.com/2015/06/asian-americans-are-indeed-getti...) and in some cases are given handicaps in SAT/ACT scores. Asians have been shown to be the highest earnings among minority groups in America, and perhaps there's a concerted effort by other groups to redistribute the wealth in a way that favors them over Asians.

http://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2015/05/08/this-u...

Men are certainly the beneficiaries of the least amount of "Learn to code" largesse, STEM hiring initiatives, quotas for board members (especially before going public), etc. There are numerous social, governmental and academic programs targeted towards women so while we can't say men are discriminated against, we can say the aid programs that are available for women are nonexistent for men.
It already is! Cognitive psychology (currently the largest field in psychology) has strong connections with Neuroscience and in many cases Computational Neuroscience, which is just engineering and mathematical modelling of the brain.
Maybe he made the same promise you did back in the day?
I use vim showmatch. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Moving_to_matching_braces