skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about that as well. I've known folks who were genuinely discouraged and exhausted from working with matlab, and are now happy toiling in python. I've not converted them to the Julia side yet, but I will!

Julia is definitely harder to learn than python, but it's far and away worth the effort, and its only ever going to get easier. There's merit in having to push your mind a bit when learning a new skill. Struggling has certainly helped me concrete my skillset. I remember my first time reading sicp, and it was very difficult and foreign to me at the time, but after sticking it out I realized what a huge effect it has had on my work, my ability to push myself to learn new things, and how I think about programming problems to an extent.

Julia feels like a modern, less academic scheme in a lot of ways, and I see all these people so much more intelligent than me that are making it into an even stronger language and I just get this sense of pride about it all.

So yeah, matlab sucks.
I've seen this from every country in school and job settings, the common thread is that people are interested in just what they're there for, no more. Travelers and "world stuarts" OTOH are there to do just the opposite, and embrace wherever they are. But most end up in other countries out of circumstance and would have prefered to stay in their own country.
"Due to increased DDOS attacks, the U.S. and European nations' governments felt their hand was forced. Swift and sweeping legislation was passed to 'keep you safe' online, including deep tracking and identification of every activity taken online. The number of personnel hires for citizen monitoring increased tenfold in the pursuit of catching hackers, in a new global program that governments are calling, 'no stone unturned'.

Private contractors were swift to step in with their offer, providing ever more efficient and penetrating tools to get this job done. Citizens never felt so safe!"
You must work in finance.
Nikto: Open Source web server scanner
Is that so? Well, feel free to raise an issue at github repo (https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues). That will prompt them to update the comparison.
Why Friday's Massive DDoS Attack Should Be Terrifying
And what is a good book on writing an OS using Rust?
May they be the second coming of AOL
This article doesn't make any novel claims and is just a rehash of the "rich = psycho" belief.
I'll dig 'em and out and see what I have.
So you're saying the term 'tree swing' is overengineered? ;)
I said essentially the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12771478

I most assuredly do not work in finance.
Yes, because an ISP has nothing better to do than waste money on contacting customers and telling them to unplug their refrigerators.

Not going to happen.
Zmodem was the first big leap forward. Interesting how efficiency is baked into the brains of so many folks who used to have to think about every byte they might transmit or receive.
DMV tracking whether you are driving drunk is not the same as the Chinese govt. tracking whether you praise the govt. on Facebook.

> The FBI and CIA I think also collect statistics and profile relevant individuals.

Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone).
It's kinda silly to make a dry run like that, because people in charge of the attacked systems will harden them and the attack is much less likely to work next time.
Well, this is bad because it's the Chinese government.

But companies like Airbnb have to use proxy metrics like number of Facebook friends. If I could be proven to be the trustworthy person I am, then a host wouldn't need to look at all that. If I'm known to have destroyed someone's home, then someone else on Turo knows better than to rent to me.

In practice, it's likely to turn into an eBay style "A++++ best person ever. Let me on the bus brilliantly! 5/5" but the idea isn't terrible on its own.
Is it similar to Spikes Security's Malware Isolation?
It's just like a short sentence written with no spaces. If you can understand short sentences, these words should be no trouble at all.

Even Mandarin Chinese has the same thing. Multiple syllable phrases for the names of technical things. So even in Chinese you have to learn odd chains of multiple symbols that have a specific meaning.

And don't try to tell me that print-letter-mechanism (literal name from Mandarin) is easier than learning typewriter or Schreibmaschine.
Relevant extra credits episode: https://youtu.be/lHcTKWiZ8sI
I would not be okay with my company rating me based on ML computed metrics of my performance based on everything that I do in (and out?) of the office
You don't get tv with internet in my region and I also can't get fibre. Slow DSL is all I can get.
The comments on that article are particularly interesting.
In my experience, it's simply too hard to separate the wheat from the chafe in off-shore hiring. The chance of ending up a with a complete dud is much higher when hiring someone remotely from a foreign country.

Of course, it might also be simple racism. Otherwise I do admit to having difficulty explaining why I, as an American engineer, can make >$100k/yr even when working from outside the US while others make a fraction of that.
Can confirm as well. GitHub was inaccessible until about 5PM, and I'm in the southwest. My provider peers with Level3, so it looks like nearly everything gets routed through Los Angeles.
I hope this isn't a harbinger.
>Well, this is bad because it's the Chinese government.

Follow up question: would this be good because it was by the US government?
From Webcam to Planetcam: Planetary Imaging on the Cheap
Not so on my Bunsenlabs installation, which is just plain Debian, systemd included, with a minimalist OpenBox theme. Ctrl+Alt+F1 from the desktop gives me a text login session, and Alt+F7 returns to the desktop. Alt+F(1-6) switches between six text sessions.
If there was no contract how and why did they receive the monies.they joined right,there entitled to what they receive from the recruiters legally and not have to pay it back. Make the recruiters pay out of pocket for there corruption and lies to the soldiers!!!!!!!!!!!
If your goal is to be precise, you should double check the definition of objectionable. It means that the common man would deem it offensive, not that a particular party would object to it for a reason like saving face.
I watched it last night and was struck by how much impact had been lost by Netflix transition. OK they were clearly going for humour, but even with bigger production, and good acting the longer running time diluted it so much. We didn't need the star rating explained every 2 mins for the first 20.

Though I think it was that one that's based on a Charlie Brooker story, rather than written by.

I actually paused after to decide if I was going to bother with the rest at all. 2nd episode (as far as I've got) was much better.
UBiome(YC S14) tests for hypothetical health conditions
uBiome (YCS14) unveils its new CLIA and CAP certified medical test. They claim it tests for a variety of conditions, including 'leaky gut syndrome.' Wikipedia describes leaky gut as 'a hypothetical, medically unrecognized condition.' How is it possible to have CLIA and CAP certification for this? I haven't seen any peer reviewed data from them period. Can anybody point me to a paper?
Transmission Between Archaic and Modern Human Ancestors During Evolution of HPV
Old man moment!

Kids these days don't appreciate having random addressable storage for archive/backup data!
Also note that Time Warner Cable no longer exists, it was bought by Charter Communications with the deal finalized this year.
So much junk seems to go into games to make sure people don't cheat. I wonder how much faster/responsive a network based game could be if it was just assumed no one is cheating. I'm sure more things could be done client side, like all player vs AI engagements.
Why not have both? The density of a train car can be much greater than a car in terms of people carried.

Also the last portion of light rail will be completed in 2039 with a large majority of it completed by 2031 [1]

[1] https://st32.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Document%20...
How do people find these "underground forums" and things like that? This fascinates me so much.
I'm halfway through "Weapons of Math Destruction", and this sort of thing is really, really scary. If the amount of damage done in the US already with big data models, with a much narrower focus, for smaller consequences, and ostensibly "good" purposes is any indication, this will be incredibly harmful.
Couldn't they create a completely separate IOT protocol, so only connections expecting to receive connections from that protocol would receive it--so essentially a IOC device could only ping specific IP's that use a different spec like 255.255.255.255.255 or something.. Essentially a separate internet that can't mess up networks on the main internet? It could still use the internet as a gateway, but would give ddos' protection more ability to block things.
Probably not in cases where the device is behind a NAT/router that happens to forward remote access ports that lead to the initial compromise. Then you'd be nmapping the customer's endpoint. Plus, it'd be too time consuming. Tens of millions of participating IPs spread across countless ISPs...
Note that the museum of computing didn't get any of that funding, and visitors to the main Bletchley park site are not told about it apart from a single sign in the lobby. Unless you know it's there you won't find it.

http://www.tnmoc.org/
TW is not a Telco. It's a content company.
why ain't princesses unionized.
I'm not sure I believe any politically convenient social science anymore.
Light rail and self-driving cars will operate in tandem. The backbone will be light rail and the "last mile" will be self driving cars.

A self-driving Uber car will pick up me in north Greenwood, then it will pick up another passenger, and we'll ride to Northgate Station. I'll take Light Rail to Downtown, and then walk the rest of the way to the office.
I don't work in finance but it's a common enough conclusion to draw. It's not hard to agree with your parent comment.
How I Became a Digital Nomad
How incredibly dystopian of you, China. This is also pretty funny considering it is exactly the premise the first episode of the new Black Mirror season.
Is that even possible to prove?
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Alert_System is happening.
The Boston Museum of science has a A terrific children's exhibit on math as well as nice more adult oriented math exhibit (sponsored by Mathematica as I recall).
Maintaining Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives & Hypercompetition
It's weird that the 2036 NTP problem isn't called out in the article, but is linked to in the categories at the bottom. I conjecture that, like the article, this will be overlooked and have bad consequences. Fortunately, I'll be retiring that year.
That seems to run browser sessions in VMs on network appliances, then it sends a processed (?) version to endpoints.

Cappsule is currently targeted at Linux desktops. It could theoretically be used on a Linux server to implement the isolation component of Spikes Security, but additional functionality would be needed to generate the "safe" version of content for endpoints, or to forward pixels to thin clients.
Also, part of Warner Bros is DC comics, owners of Batman and Superman and other DC intellectual property.
That's not a story of under-engineering, it's a story of letting management push you into ignoring good practice.

By change request 10, the prototype should have been extensively refactored and should look much more like a production system.
The sprints sound like a good way to get actionable items done -- this works for other communities. But what's the goal? To promulgate more APIs under the 'EE' brand?

The JCP is doing just fine; in my opinion some proposals have re-shaped the language more than the designers originally intended -- but given broad community acceptance, this is usually a good thing.

I've made this point before [1]: Further additions to the 'EE' suite just enforces a separation from SE with regard to the features an implementation can expect to be available -- it's just another profile. EE primarily benefits vendors of EE application servers, and consultancies who can promote EE as a distinct from SE, even though there are no technical hurdles preventing one to run EE APIs' concrete implementations in an SE setting, as has been commonly done since EE stagnated. In other words, everything is fine, we just don't call it EE anymore (and we don't need to, because we're not the ones who benefit from the separate branding).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054705#12057590
Sometimes you don't have a choice, as you so blithely put it. Many people join the military because they would otherwise have no other career, or because they need a leg up, or health insurance (pre-affordable care act). So if someone offered you an extra years salary that would allow you to put your kids through college for doing something that you feel serves the people of your country, wouldn't you take it? How about if your kid had cancer, and you and your wife after working 3 jobs couldn't make a dent in the 150K medical debt created through our medical industrial complex? Wouldn't you take a change at giving your family a better life if you had no other way to do so? Not sure where you're getting the idea of "combat tourism," but please be my guest and sign up...enjoy!
Wait Airbnb is gonna discriminate against me because I boycott Facebook?
How is a credit rating different from citizenship rating? Your buying patterns reveal an awful lot. Why is one ok and the other isn't?
There's http://intermezzos.github.io/
A centralized directory that hosts no content will be DMCAed or sued just as easily as one that does, so they will have to implement the same kind of result censorship. And decentralized directories are very vulnerable to spam.
Show HN: Distributed SAT solver in Elixir
Hi, I wrote a distributed SAT solver in Elixir to get a feel of the language, perhaps someone out there might find this interesting. I really don't know if this can be a economic approach to SAT solving.

https://github.com/roehst/elisat
Mr. Robot? Is that you?
The Open Steno Project
See 'Title case' at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Case_styles
I didn't say everyone but going by all the leaked documents on various surveilance programs what other citations do you need?
There's some gray area with Vanguard ETFs fees [1] for example:

> Vanguard mutual funds & ETFs (exchange-traded funds)

> There are no commissions when you buy and sell low-cost Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs.

> If you buy and sell the same Vanguard ETF® in a Vanguard Brokerage Account more than 25 times in a 12-month period, you may be restricted from purchasing that Vanguard ETF through your Vanguard Brokerage Account for 60 days.

That said, mimicking could entail more than 25 transactions per ETF per year. I don't know that we really have the ability to predict the number of trades that the robo-advisor will do from the outside though.

[1]: https://investor.vanguard.com/investing/trading-fees-commiss...
Because programmers tend to be intelligent -- the exact opposite of the requirement of unionization.
If A then B, but C, therefore D. Modus indisponens.
This article completely fails to mention how much of this initiative is mired in corruption and inefficiency.

A portion of ST3 is to pay for ST2 and ST1, which both went over budget. In those cases, union and industry donated massive amounts to work on the initiative to get even bigger contracts after.

It is projected that ST3 will carry less than 3% of the local traffic capacityou, at a huge cost.

We need VC thinking here, and more proposals with a clear eye on the ROI.

If my city dropped 5.4 billion on buses (a tenth of cost of ST3), we could have much more capacity that could be provisioned in a more dynamic way. That could be ready in a few years.

Instead we get rail in 25+ years at a massive cost now.

Having spent the last week in DC and been stuck on the Red Line for a trip that took 3x as long as normal, I am not convinced a rail line with it'so single points of failure is the best solution.

Transit is cool, but I am firmly of the opinion that this train wreck of an initiative is NOT the way forward and will vote NO.
It really does seem like, with so much distraction and so little necessity, we're nearing the end of the democratic stage of the cycle, where people use freedom chaotically.
I think you might want to read ST3s own website [1] where they refute the self driving car claim as well as some of their methodology for determining where stops should go (hint they asked people). In fact some of the money as part of ST3 funds studies to see how ST projects can further complement potential autonomous vehicles.

[1] http://soundtransit3.org/questions
Do we know who is behind this?
Friday's massive ddos attack barely registered on my day-to-day, the only annoyance was that Github was slightly slower than usual. It has been amusing though to see all the hundreds of news articles trying desperately to sensationalize the event.. and it simply didn't even matter.
Self-driving buses are coming, too. Combined with the congestion pricing that will be necessary to keep self-driving cars from circling for passengers, buses are clearly the right choice. I'd still vote yes if I lived in Seattle, but with hindsight, they're probably going to regret this investment.
No! Too much power and information in one place is always bad
Ask anyone involved in rolling out IPv6 how painful it is to get every middlebox on the public Internet to route a different protocol besides the original IPv4.
A lot of the passwords can't be changed. They're fixed from the factory. That's one of the really difficult things about dealing with this.

I bet that a greyhat will find a way to brick a lot of these cameras.
This article has a powerful and important point to make. But much of the strength of an argument rests on the author's evaluation of his own contributions which is almost unfailingly positive.

The article would be even more effective if accompanied by statement from one or more of the eight department members who voted against granting tenure.
I'm not in favour of this being administered by governments but I'd like it to be based on a government-issued identification number. Like if we split the identification and authentication roles of the SSN into two separate numbers. Then I'd like it to be based off the identifier portion.
moral agency? scrutiny? these Soldiers were likely lied to by recruiters desperate to increase recruiting numbers in the longest war the US has fought. I suspect the churn in personnel was enormous, and the pressure was on. Sure, likely the details were buried somewhere in 30 pages of paperwork that each Soldier signed...and likely would have been caught if there were a lawyer looking of it. But these Soldiers don't have lawyers when signing up typically. I guess re-enlistees could have consulted JAG, however this isn't the norm. Recruiters are usually trusted. Somebody in the recruiting chain of command should have been been monitoring the numbers. They're the ones who should be at fault, not the Soldiers who've already served in good faith based on promises that weren't supposed to have been made.
In the US, employers that overpay you can absolutely demand it back - it's also usually covered directly in your employment contract if you have one.

Now, a decade later may be too late (and looks terrible) but it's certainly possible for shorter time periods.
Glad to hear it. And I agree that we disagree on what creativity is. As to your points:

Dictionaries are written by humans. The human is always implied. One way to tell is by looking at synonyms:	inventiveness, imagination, innovation, innovativeness, originality, individuality. All very huuman words.

If the theory of relativity came from a black box, then sure, it would still be a good theory, and we'd still benefit from it. That does not make the black box creative.

Conscious machines could indeed be creative. We are, after all, conscious machines. But creativity involves a shift in understanding, and nonconscious machines don't understand.
A downvote for a legitimate question. NICE.
Not Airbnb. Your potential hosts. Airbnb allows you to provide multiple means of proving you're reasonable. Linking your FB profile is one way. Airbnb will then show the number of friends you have.

This may have changed since when I signed up years ago.

It's just like your GitHub is a reputation aid when applying for a job. It's not required but what you have on there can help.

EDIT: In case it isn't clear, I'm not claiming here that Airbnb is forming some sort of transcontinental people database.
I was actually a reservist :)
And I'm a she not he :D
>> I have to sit next to someone man-spreading.

If there were actual accountability, there would be bigger seats. Funny how the attitude changes when one thinks about a real business vs expectations of the government.

And if OP actually lived in Seattle, they would know that our virtue-signaling obsessed mayor+city council would give free passes to all homeless people and the trains would promptly smell of urine+sweat and you would have to watch for syringes rolling around on the floor.
It mattered for people on the East Coast. Where I am (New York), we couldn't access Github, Twitter, Paypal and many other services. To make matters worse, AWS us-east region was configured to use Dyn. Therefore, many applications that depended on it (and on Heroku) were down. At my workplace, we had to reconfigure DNS for our own applications even though we didn't directly use Dyn. It really was a big deal.
How to go on a trip around the world for under $1,000
Instead of hitting the soldiers who signed what they thought were reenlistment bonuses, why don't they pommel the commanding officers who presided over these "overpayments"?