skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I flagged it before you posted the comment (I just unflagged it so I could respond to you), so yes, it was flagged. One person does not automatically kill a post; it takes a critical mass of users before people cease to be able to respond (and possibly moderator action - it used to be that 'flag' was just a signal for a moderator to look at the post and manually kill it, but I think HN now auto-kills submissions with a certain number of flags). And subcritical numbers of flags do impact rank - that's a known factor, so it's likely what may drag it down in the ratings.

BTW, I flagged it for title editorializing. With the original title and conclusions it could be a valid discussion target, but as submitted, it's just flamebait.
It feels like a buzzword to me in this context and I don't think this exact term has to be used to be useful. I'd agree that it would be helpful to talk about the distinctive goal of trustlessness/letting people who don't trust each other reach consensus/not having to rely on a central arbiter/reaching consensus under conditions of not knowing who the other participants are/etc.
Man Uses “Trump: The Game” to Fact-Check Whether the People in China Love Trump
Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later:

http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#...

Windows

Close VS Code.
Open the command prompt.
Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app
Type notepad product.json
Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false.
Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.

OS X / Linux

Close VS Code.
Open the terminal
For:
Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app
Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app
Type vi product.json
Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false
Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
Across a lot of products...it almost seems like a ban on ideas was lifted and there's suddenly a decade of pent up creativity and enthusiasm being released by Microsoft.
Thank you. I have the gist of what's being said from Google translate, but do you know if they perhaps have an English translation they supply that I'm missing (I understand it's unlikely)? Whatever specific details might be conveyed by the language seem to be obscured by bad translation software.

Edit: Found http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/, so nevermind (unless you think that's not an accurate portrayal of the German article).
An open letter to our community from our CEO
IIRC, not all states require unused vacation time to be paid out.
Things are thin and light enough now - both in laptops and phones (and maybe tablets) - that other features like battery life from bigger thicker batteries provide more marginal utility and value than slightly thinner and lighter do. Witness the Google Nexus 5 -> Nexus 5X, whereas the latter is thicker than its predecessor and with better battery life as a result. Huge usability improvement. Time for manufacturers to realize they've solved the thin and light problem, and now other problems need to take precedence.
You seem to deliberately ignoring the fact that Facebook is a publicly traded company.

You can't go up to the lottery winner and offer to buy part of their winning ticket. You can buy shares of Facebook today (in fact, at a nice discount currently).
Congratulations! Sounds like you have an awesome investor. Support at that level is huge. But also consider that just because other investors may not fund a woman founder because they are pregnant doesn't automatically mean they are "freaking out" or make them "assholes". At the end of the day it's a business decision and it's someone else's money.
Google offers 18 weeks of maternity leave, and (according to the article at least) they still aren't doing any better than the industry as a whole. I also wonder how much of this perception is the result of a society that tells some groups that everyone is out to get them. Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/TiADiscussion/comments/5arevk/new_t...
Amp is amazing. Without amp it's pages full of full screen popovers that take 30 seconds to re see.
Cool, now we can actually light stuff on fire by overloading the conductive ink
>which is why most CDNs don't cache 404s in the first place.

That definitely isn't technically true. There are other mechanisms usually involved in these cases, and should be for any publicly available resource. Otherwise you're begging for someone to bypass a good bit of your publicly available resource's security.
> Data is not a commodity, it needs to be transformed into a product before it's valuable.

Commodities need to be transformed into a product before it's valuable.
The web interface does show some of these things, but I think with Wikileaks you can always get a torrent of the raw files they've obtained. At least, that was usually the case. The DKIM information is verifiable, and if Wikileaks was overtly fabricating something, people would love to be able to attest to that fact. Hillary Clinton could say that Wikileaks is overtly lying, but doesn't, because there are multiple ways of verifying this particular leak and it would be nonsensical to try to outright deny it. Instead, she tries to Putin her way out of any discussion involving this. Do you think she would do that if she could just deny?
Traveling Taipei: Important Landmarks Worth Visiting
For those interested, this[1] appears to be info regarding this article, but in English.

1: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/
They added videos
No, I dislike Facebook and this is enough for me to voice my opinion in a discussion, isn't? I'm not the kind that complain about free speech, but shouldn't you disagree and say why, if you want to, and not ask me to say more and only then your highness will evaluate? Come on, move to another comment if it bothers you but not enough to say something useful.
Previous -

Ask HN: Are open vacation policies a scam?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12334926
Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes.

Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
Hey, at least this election year isn't boring!
With a Cubs-Indians World Series on top of this crazy election, I'm more and more ready to believe that the end of the world is nigh...
Politics of debt explains everything if you only care about the short term business cycle.

In terms of the business cycle, the author has a point. The bond mark has been deemed "too big too fail" and so creditors will always get bailed out. This is a problem.

But austerity is primarily aimed at the long term problem of living within one's means. This is independent of the business cycle. If your debt is increasing constantly, something has got to give. Even if you do default, you still need to figure out how to balance the budget in the future.
NDR is a part of ARD responsible for northern Germany. I think it is unlikely, that they have an English version. Deutsche Welle (international) [0] and Arte (French-German) [1] are their only foreign language services that come to mind.

[0] https://www.dw.com

[1] https://www.arte.tv
Because orgs are amoral.
Well, presumably their confidence to the US government helped the US in some way, or the their relationship would be pretty brief.
Contractually, yes, but I doubt he delivered that level of service to the riders. BARTs carelessness is funded by American tax payers who get nothing in return
The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it.

I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.
He's not different, and he openly acknowledges that a lot of his linguistic research was funded by the Pentagon.

Edit: He also thought that his activism would get him fired, and so his wife started going back to school.
Judges are hard to vote on.. I usually can't find much on the internet on them.

In Colorado, for the past 30-or-so years, there's a "State Commission on Judicial Performance" and they review the judges and it's added to the voter booklet. They put it online:
http://www.coloradojudicialperformance.gov/review.cfm?year=2...

And an example of one of their reviews:
http://www.coloradojudicialperformance.gov/retention.cfm?ret...

It's not perfect.. they recommend all of the judges be retained. No matter how bad they are. So you have to ignore that, and read the review which seems more informative (IMO at least).
Why is their experience more valid than mine? I'll go with my own observations before that of an HN commenter. Yes, I know that's what I am too.
Talk about burying the headline.
Do those even show up in the API?

I think you also need to close your API if you want to fully milk your streams.
Like literally 100% of all humans -- billions of people -- have attested to the experience of consciousness. Directly. Constantly. Not in a vague, "sometimes I think I feel something" way, but literally everyone feels it.

The claim that it must not exist [1] despite that overwhelming experience, is the extraordinary claim. I don't know what consciousness is or does, and perhaps it doesn't actually exist, but the belief that it must not exist because if it did exist that would make reductive statements about the brain a little harder, is a religious belief. It's "I can't explain this and it's inconvenient to what I want to believe, so it must not exist."

[1] Or de facto not exist, as in the hand-wavey claim that consciousness is some kind of byproduct of any sufficiently complicated system that arises from a totally unclear mechanism to no purpose or result.
The people who can work towards diversified hiring aren't the same people who can work towards diversified founding teams. They're both necessary, I think.
> Those other blue-collar traditionally masculine jobs have a hard dependency on brute strength that most women can't satisfy.

We were discussing construction in the broader context of blue-collar, masculine jobs. But it doesn't matter really, because if these physically-permissive jobs are still disproportionately male, then there is no reason to believe that the physical demands of construction are what keep women away.
Thanks. I figured it was unlikely, but this seems interesting enough that it was worth asking. I did find what appears to be a fair summary in English though (added above).
That's not what side channel means. The word you're looking for is heuristic.
Is there any way to read the article without logging in?
Not sure where you live, but it helps to live somewhere where the female / male ratio is high. For example, much of CA has a lot of males to females. I would probably never be able to get a date there, especially with all of the overly motivated men. But, the north east US is much the opposite. For example, I live in DC, and it's way easier to get a date here - almost too easy. Plus, women here are highly educated and appreciate smart men.

As far as how to find them, don't use dating services. It's way too hard for 'normal' guys to compete. Women get so much attention on those services that it boosts their expectations, and they become more selective. Instead, you have to go to the places that they go.

As for looks, put it in context. Unless you're in one of the high male areas (where competition naturally forces men to up their game), most men are pretty average looking. If you look around, I'm guessing you'll see lots of men who are in the middle. That's your baseline. And, if you can get 5-10% better, then it's remarkably more effective.
The largest scale FPGA we "have" is probably UltraScale VU440, which you can't really buy yet. It has 4.4M logic units. Again, that's 6 decimal orders of magnitude on the number of neurons alone. Not sure about connectivity architecture.

That's maybe enough to simulate the cockroach brain.

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neuro...

Don't get me wrong, I really really really want this to happen. I just doubt it will happen in the next 3-5 years.

There are other challenges, main one being creating the right connections. It took a long time for the evolution to create and perfect our brain. And it was a highly parallel process too.
Presumably he meant enforcement, and he was likely thinking more about residential construction.
https://www.bikeflights.com does exactly that negotiating rates for these linearly oversized packages, though it's pretty much only FedEx bidding on them

They're $40-60 domestically, and looks like San Francisco to Toronto is $125
I've been working for my company* for nine years, last two remote. My move was absolutely for lifestyle reasons, and was supported thoroughly by my managers of the day, and my current manager still.

What has been interesting to watch though is the culture clash that happened when my employer was acquired by a similar company without a remote workforce, where we'd always had some.

My original company has essentially gone away as the office was closed, keeping only remote employees. A few from that city were kept, and too are now remote from the head office thousands of km away. I had the advantage of already being remote, and kept because I provide value. I don't know how likely it is though that new remote employees will get hired. As an ironic twist, the HR director is one of the newly-remote employees without an office base.
> I like porting my software to other platforms because it helps catch bugs (bugs that, for w'eve reason, stay hidden when running on Linux)

I wish more people subscribed to this - I've banged on about this at previous jobs with little success (even though I've demonstrably caught "mistaken assumption" and other bugs through the exercise.)
For those that didn't see Finding Dory in theatres, this is the short that ran before the movie.
Exactly, anyone sitting down at a desk would prefer to plug in one cable that include power, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, and external display. These thunderbolt cables are the dream, it's just going to take a couple years for the peripheral market to catch up (surprisingly the iPhone is included in this).
Scared and White and Trump All Over
That's a great example for ideology > material interest, but in both the Middle East and the world as a whole it's an exception to the general rule. It's amusing that Chomsky resorts to epicycles rather than simply making an exception...
You're right that I didn't mean to use side channel, but I didn't mean heuristic. I meant it more as an additional channel of information, like tone with regard to speech.
Incorrect: The plural of anecdote is Gladwell.
I came to know about Microsoft teams only by this post. I see better value proposition with whole office 365 offering.
Article implies that the pipeline isn't the main problem. However flawed interviewing is lack of diversity in tech is 99% a pipeline problem. It's really easy to see why.

All you need to do is look at the number of minorities with Tech degrees. Boom problem solved.

(Keep in mind that tech encompasses many things and is not exclusively localized to the software world. While in software many people can get a job without a degree, in general, all tech jobs require a degree. )
An honest question. If I can make really good money helping businesses make sense of out "smallish" data in Excel, why would I subject myself to the miasma that is "data science"? Will I be able to charge lawyer-like rates?
Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
This. If they give this salary to recruiters or do anything to hint at what a candidate's range might be, they will lose whatever trust they might still have.

In fact, I'd love to know what they can offer in the way of assurances against this.
"It’s part of our thinking about where to take the notebook next. Others are trying to turn the notebook into the tablet. The new MacBook Pro is a product that celebrates that it is a notebook, this shape that has been with us for the last 25 years is probably going to be with us for another 25 years because there’s something eternal about the basic notebook form factor."

This is interesting. I would hope that sometime before 25yrs from now we have reliable enough voice recognition to get rid of the physical keyboard, good enough VR/AR to make a 3D UI (along with a popup VR keyboard for the occasional word that needs to be manually typed out or for when working in libraries). House it all in a pair of AR glasses attached to a battery/CPU/RAM/SDD in a backpack (replacing the laptop in the backpack of today). Seems something like that should be the holy grail of personal computing, achievable within 10-20yrs, and really Apple's wheelhouse more than any other.
Many oceanic fish also have non trivial amounts potable fluid along their spines.
In other news, it is less likely that an SSL key was generated using IIS if the platform it is running on is AIX.

I mean, it's a useful tip when targeting a relatively dark target, but at the same time it isn't an absolute indicator of anything other than what generated the key (which nobody was really surprised at before, since everything from the prng to implementation differences could result in unique signatures for keys).

This will be useful when someone finds an implementation-specific hole in a key gen and someone wants to sweep the internet for servers with bad keys.
Didn't we do Boom last week?
I have not read the entire article, but claiming that the process is nondeterministic is not the same as claiming that the process is discriminating unfairly by gender.

If everyone plays the lottery, then some people will win randomly. Certainly if a hiring causes people to "win randomly", then it's not a good hiring process -- but neither is it a process that discriminates on gender. The article goes on to explain that, although people's interview performance is subject to variance from interview to interview, it does seem that interview performance is clustered around a person's average.
The sarcasm detectors seem faulty today. I got it at least. ;)
Thank you for this post. I had technical interaction with him in the past, and read many of his technical posts. But I did not know this. I will no longer interact with him.
Hello,

Main plasma mobile developer here, I wanted to reply some questions that surfaced in comments and give a bit of overview on current state and where we need help. We initially based it on Ubuntu Touch, and later on started using our own stack based on Cyanogenmod, more information on it at : http://blog.bshah.in/2016/05/02/plasma-mobile-new-base-syste...

So basically currently Plasma Mobile is made of,

- KDE Frameworks
- kwin_wayland
- Plasma workspace
- Plasma phone shell
- Various Applications

And to run Plasma Mobile stack on mobile devices, we have

- Minimal Cyanongenmod base
- LXC userspace tools for android
- Neon rootfs with Plasma Mobile

Q: Why not use Mer and/or Ubuntu Touch
A: This question is mostly answered in the blog post I linked above, Mer is using RPM .spec based packaging and we don't have resources and as well people who have expertise in RPM packaging, about Ubuntu Touch, we initially based our stack on top of Ubuntu Touch, however later we ended up diverging on various levels, for example libhybris, Qt etc. and it was impossible to keep using Ubuntu Touch stack

Q: Why we are using libhybris and not freedreno?

A: Short answer: In theory, we can use freedreno.

Long answer: kwin_wayland supports DRM backend, and freedreno provides the DRM on android devices, however we don't have access to device which supports freedreno easily. For instance I attempted to get mainline kernel working on Nexus 5 device and also submitted some device tree source files to Linux kernel tree, and will be available in kernel 4.9 release.. But sadly I was not able to finish this project

Q: Why not other devices?

A: Currently we don't have access to multiple devices, however we will be happy to help the community members to "port" or in other words, make Plasma mobile run on their devices.

Q: Where we need help?

A: You can help on pretty much everything.. Some things that come to mind, are

- Porting to other devices
- Various Plasma on Wayland todo items
- More applications for Plasma mobile
- Work on base system

That said, if you have any questions feel free to reach me at bshah@kde.org, or to Plasma team at plasma-devel@kde.org mailing list.

Edit: edited for line breaks
What indicates "diversity in tech" is broken? Are there notable examples of wildly successful companies that credibly attribute their success to "diversity", in the same way they attribute it to low overhead, technological innovation, economies of scale, etc?

There have been historical examples of companies that became successful by tapping into cheaper sources of labor (notably in the agricultural sector). Is this what is meant by "diversity"?
It's mind boggling, even given Duverger's Law and the rigged debates scheme, that Gary Johnson isn't running away with this election. Trump and Clinton... really, America, that's the best we can do? Give me a break...
Did you check out the Openmoko Forerunner GTA04? Golden delicious just started early production!
If you think it's not necessary for the job but it's necessary for the interview, then at least we can agree the interview process isn't so great.

Of course, knowing how to play the system is part of getting a job, but we can still point out that the system is broken. After all, these are systems we set up ourselves.
"Q: So what did you do?

A: Figured out that RSA public key is leaking info about a library which created it. So we can tell which library you used for your key - based on public key only.

Q: Is single key enough to identify source library?

A: Sometimes yes, but mostly no. If you have 5 keys from the same source, it will be quite accurate. Just press Classify button above.

Q: Can I mutually distinguish all libraries?

A: Not always. Source libraries introducing exactly same bias to the value of generated public moduli will be undistinguishable.

Q: Can I identify also the version of used library?

A: Sometimes. The new version of a library that did not change source code of key generation method will not be distinguishable from the older one. E.g., OpenSSL 1.0.2f is not distinguishable from OpenSSL 1.0.2g, but OpenSSL 1.0.2g is distinguishable from OpenSSL 2.0.12 FIPS.

Q: Have you tested all libraries of the world?

A: No. We test a lot of them, but not all. We also did not test all possible version of given library. We are also missing hardware sources like SSL accelerators (contact us please, if you have one and like to contribute).

Q: How quickly will be the information leakage vulnerability you found fixed?

A: Probably not soon. The fix would require changing code of key generation method for the most libraries. And developers don't like to mess with that part of crypto too often. Even if fixed in the new version, lot of old legacy libraries will use for a long time.

Q: So how can I protect my key(s)?

A: If you need just one key, it is easy - just generate 5 keys instead of one, let all to be classified by our tool (http://crcs.cz/rsapp/) and then keep the one which is classified with the least accuracy. If you need more keys to keep, it is slightly more tricky, but still can be done (with more keys generated and discarded).

Q: Are data you gathered and used publicly available?

A: Definitely! Download everything in datasets section and try own analysis. Please don't forget to cite us."

Apologies for the really long post, but this really should have been the entire article.
SEA Rule 17a-4(b)(4):

> Every member, broker and dealer [...] shall preserve for a period of not less than three years, [...] Originals of all communications received and copies of all communications sent [...] (including inter-office memoranda and communications) [...]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.17a-4