skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass terrorism was never a real fear, nor was a similar 9/11 style hijacking. In fact, 9/11 style hijackings were so easy to stop, they literally didn't remain effective for even 4 hours. (One of the planes was downed during the attack as it unfolded, because word of the attack had spread and it was that easy to stop. Had passengers not downed it, the military was en route to intercept.)

About the only meaningful and smart thing we did post-9/11 was make airplane cockpit doors stronger and have a better lock.

The rest? We should've just ignored it and gone on with our lives. Terrorism is meant to cause death to nations by auto-immune over-response, and the 9/11 attack was designed by CIA trained operatives to do exactly that.

The PATRIOT Act may as well have been a concession note to bin Laden.
The data that ISPs will be forced to record is just the domain and time of access, not the full URL. The devil is in the metadata.
I'm curious to see the "Facebook vs WeChat" battle..
While this is an accurate description of Google's process, and it seems like they intentionally designed it this way (willingness to reject false negatives), I'm not sure what the point is that you're making about it.
Interesting, I wonder why Facebook has this website blocked, preventing me from posting it on my wall.
Amazon makes good on its promise to delete “incentivized” reviews
So it was indeed an imperialist plot?
Google's interview process is bureaucratic because Google is bureaucratic. It's just another enterprise once you get past all the 'ping-pong tables and beanbag chairs.' Employees ride buses, eat in cafeterias, and are permitted to use only approved programming languages. Company's of Google's economic size pretty much have to be.

One of which is Go. A fine language that meets Google's purposes but lacking map/reduce etc. I can only imagine the difference in perception if Oracle mandated something like that. Anyway, Google's hiring process has to select for people who will not be unhappy [metaphorically] programming in Go. Everybody ain't cut out for corporate life, and talent that doesn't thrive in Google's cultural straightjackets [every company has them] is better for being filtered out.

Google has the data to know who is likely to work out and who is not. The hiring process reflects that.
At least this would make the problem with how many commandline tools are tracking you visible, and perhaps would start a discussion on the necessity of tracking for tools like brew, ls, cp, dd and so on.
But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in

That just confirms his/her point.

If you don't know what you'll be doing until after you've gotten through the recruitment process, it's blind placement.
so I searched, "stampede"

it seems too chaotic though

synonyms: crush, jam, trampling

hmm... "traffic jam" :)
3 Simple and Fun Life Hacks with Beverage Cans – Part 2
No dont take it the wrong way. But what are you fighting against? The entire web? You can but you have to understand that the scale is so massive that we can't do anything unless its becomes a massive movement throughout the world. But really? A movement for privacy? No chance. Its simply a first world problem. In my country we have around 22,000 people dying everyday in hunger. Privacy wont even be heard here. So its near impossible.
"As you can imagine (and see from these pictures), this equates to a whole bunch of ethernet cables. Cable management gets increasingly difficult to grasp each time a new box is added to the mix"

Eeeeeek. I'm not in IT and I got the sinking stomach feeling when looking at this.

Thankfully there is https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ to cure that.
Yes, but not if you don't want it to:

http://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-trackin...
I'm not familiar with Rust, but I assume the class contains a special cloning method

Yes, the Clone trait is implemented for HashMap. These are simplified examples to show the problem. I posted the example on which the example in the blog was based [0]. In the actual setting where I encountered this I wasn't copying a Hash{Map,Set}, as one would obviously use Clone. I was constructing a new HashMap that had the same keys as the original HashMap, but different values (both in value and type). Since this is quite a common scenario, quadratic complexity is bad.

[0]https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36481#issuecomment-...
Specialist – Application Security (Penetration Tester)
I made an infinite runner recently to try out Phaser.js, and I let me wife try it. She loves infinite runners, plays them all day. Her comment? "I hate it." Why do you hate it?

"I don't know." Well try to find one thing you don't like and tell me that.

"It's too hard."

What's hard about it? "I don't know."

If I made the player jump father when you tap the screen, would that help? "I don't know."

What about if you got more coins as you went along? "I don't know."

I showed it to a group of kids in the family, and they went nuts for it. And their feedback was much more useful! After I saw how they played it and heard their complaints and tips to each other, I changed it up and presented it to my wife again and she loved it.

Still couldn't quantify why though.
I'm from the UK, and I'm not signing that petition.

Maybe we do need an intrusive government? Maybe we, as a populace, believe that the data will save lives? That the cost of it existing is worth it compared to the cost of not having access to information on ~insert bad person here~. Maybe you value your privacy differently to us?

That's ok, btw, and I respect your point of view. Please, however, consider that alternative viewpoints are valid before telling everyone else what they must do to ensure their country is governed in a way that suits you.
Google launches its own festival to bring together music and technology
If Goggle, FB, etc. were serious about diversity, they'd address this. The fact is, they don't want diversity. They want assimulation. The hiring process setting that tone.

They, being blind to their own blindness, keep asking: How can we get more diverse? How can we get X, Y and Z to join us?

It's the wrong question.

The better question is to gaze into the mirror and ask: What are WE doing that makes us SOOOOOOOO unappealing to X, Y and Z?

Nuff said.
I am European. In Europe people have a strong work-life balance culture with the main focus on life :). I cannot imagine that any European would want to sacrifice holidays for a job interview. Normally people call in sick if they need to go to for an interview. And yes, Europeans have 25+ days annual leave, but the general feeling is that this is not enough. I think the priorities for the average European are as follows: Family > Friends > Hobbies > Holidays > Beer > Food > Cat > Dog > Neighbor's Cat > Something very unsignificant > Work
This reminds me of Nicky Case's Explorable Explanation of a 2D transformation matrix: http://ncase.me/matrix/
Certificate pinning anyone?

Also a few years ago DJB proposed to make a systems hostname the nonce of a key/signature and use secured DNS (DNSSEC or DNSCurve) as a means for establishing a web of trust; a CNAME would be used to for translating www.example.com into ${NONCE}.example.com.

Since DNSSEC (and DNSCurve) allow for signature verfication against a small number of root keys (ATM a single digit number) it'd be trivial to ensure an unbroken chain of trust for name resolution, which essentially completely mitigates a state level MitM attack on DNS.

So by combination of securing DNS and nonceing the hostname into TLS certificates you can throw quite a log into state level crypto circumvention. Of course the critical problem is rolling out all the necessary protocol changes and implementation. And of course DNSSEC is used only homeopathically ATM (and yes, I'm guilty of not having implemented for my stuff as well).
In such a situation though, shouldn't it raise an error? At least that way, the user could have a chance to recover.

Why should it make an arbitrary decision that unknowingly corrupts data for some users?
Between two identical experimenters, each having the same harmless test material, the one participating as a willing guinea pig is much more likely to realize subtle effects compared to the one that does not.

A carefully selected variety of Aloe is my only current gardening effort. The fresh gel of the living plant has benefits to the skin not possessed by lesser forms. Commercial formulations are (at the least) thousands of years less advanced than the natural plant.
Check out this series of videos "The Essence of Linear Algebra"[1] for a really powerful visual and intuitive explanation. It starts with vectors and builds to matrix multiplication and further to several other topics.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
In particular understanding that conjugation by another matrix is just a coordinate/frame transformation is crucial.

Relying to much on explicit coordinates many times obfuscates what's going on.
Zuckerberg created Facebook in bad faith (as a hateful hot-or-not site) and it has been run in the same vein ever since. We can criticize him till we're blue in the face, but the only thing that will make a difference is if each and every one of us log off and delete our accounts.
5 out of the 13 "impossible crises humanity will face" is people getting power because they were or might become democratically elected. What are you talking about?
I don't think we can assume that. My colleague sitting right next to me uses HN often and brew as well. He doesn't have an adblocker and watches youtube with ads. FFS!!
Fun chrome extension. Select your Next Book
Decimation in the original sense of the word?
Why?

Im honestly curious why you don't think that's a service the medical industry should provide. (In particular, to elderly or terminally-ill people.)
You know... not everyone is spying on you all the time. People do use data like this for non-nefarious purposes.
I've tried ReSharper on and off for 15 years and I was never able to justify its features for just how slow it made everything. But I'm a C# developer. I understand the default C++ experience in VS historically want as good as the default C# experience, ReSharper bright then to parity, and C++ devs generally found the experience to be a universal improvement, rather than trade offs.
I think it will be an uphill struggle to try and persuade people that they should buy less stuff today rather than more.
Right, as if the feds are coming to get me because they know I installed ImageMagick. Oh no.
None of this goes through POK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Kashmir), could you reference any? If you are thinking of Gilgit-Baltistan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan), it got independence from Dogra Raj in 1948 after a short war, then the tug-of-war b/w Pakistan and India and rest is history.
Yes. Twitter gets shit for borderline bans, but can you imagine if they went in and edited the person's tweets instead? There'd be a riot.

These platforms are not just a playground anymore. Politicians come on and make on-the-record statements on them, the news sources stories off them, etc. Integrity of the record is critical. Reddit jeopardizing that platform is very bad for them and erodes their credibility enormously. I can see major figures declining to perform AMAs anymore based on the uncertainty that someone at the company will get triggered, jump in, and change their stuff.
Ask HN: Is it possible to design and implement an “ethical analytics” tool?
The tool would not record identifiable information for a given client, but solely how they use a given piece of software. (Yes, this question comes in response to Homebrew using Google Analytics.)
>The Chinese market isn't going to be as lucrative in a few months when they get labeled as a currency manipulator. I've heard the free market value of Yuan to USD is about 24.8:1, while the current official exchange rate is 6.91:1

This seems a bit backwards. The currency manipulation argument is that they are artificially weakening their currency to make manufacturing and exported products more competitive, not strengthening it.

And while I would tend to agree that the the reality at this point is in fact the reverse, your argument on the basis of "I've heard that the free market value..." is not particularly robust.

The NDF futures market, which is free to trade wherever the free market sees the pair going, is perhaps a better place to look. For reference, the current Dec 2019 future is 7.44:1 [1]

[1] http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/emerging-market/chinese-r...
> _All_ this data is stored for one year.

Which refers to the result of the analysis. If CERN would retain all the data that crosses their network, or just the metadata they'd have to roll in truckloads of HDDs each day.
Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
I don't think anyone in the financial or international communities is going to take any notice of Trump labeling anyone anything.

The 'currency manipulator' theory is that China is keeping the value of the Yuan low to fuel exports. In reality it's the US growing debt and low interests rates that are far more of a factor in the imbalance. This is easy to see if you compare the Yuan against other currencies apart from the dollar - do that and the 'currency manipulator' theory falls apart. It's not the Yuan that's being kept weak against the dollar, but rather the dollar strengthening against everybody.
...Or being wanged.
I don't ask doctors to do it for me, but I'd love my government to have enough humanity to allow me to die without pain.
Citation needed for those claims. As far as I can tell they come from a guy on twitter who refuses to share the data or explain his methodology. Parroting unverified and most likely false claims like this only serves to legitimize the fake "news sites" that publish this stuff without fact checking.
Yeah, both of the big Midwestern HCM shops have that reputation, though one considerably more than the other (one also being a bit more forward-thinking with things like SMART on FHIR, so there are places you can still do interesting development, I would imagine).

On the other hand, they're a bit like any ERP system -- if you can stomach spending years inside the horror show of their systems, you can do quite well as an independent consultant for health systems just making the products work. But if you have a particular love for computer science qua computer science, yeah, not the right place to land.
What do you mean?

Finance allows companies to do IPO's, raising money to fund growth and employing people.
I wish GTA Online had their dollars based on this idea.
Good sign that it's time to leave Facebook. Really
Lol. How true. They have more or less one cash cow product (ads) that prints them money. The rest are just self-indulgent hobbies subsidized by that cash cow.

And that's grounds for self proclaimed greatness? Sure, Google does some cool stuff. But their (self-proclaimed?) greatness is overrated. To. A. Fault.
some market players are allowed to trade at sub-pennies, others are not. when one party can trade inside while leaning on the guy taking the risk to make the market, something is very very wrong with the "system". over time, the guys taking the risk are gone, and the whole market is weakened.
Some of the interesting startups we met at the Web Summit
Internet is ability of everyone to send any packet to any part of the world. Thats what matters. What someone builds on top of it and/or how open/close, It still does not negate that characterstics of Internet.

Inviting governments to regulate Internet is unnecessery risk.
It's an interesting point. If they are ignorant (perhaps without the wilful), then perhaps when you present them with facts and information, they might change their mind. If they are malicious, they won't change their mind in the face of any facts or information, because their motivations are underhand and cannot be reasoned with.

I suspect in cases like this it's probably a bit of both (and perhaps in the case of this particular MP, she might just be toeing the party line).
> when in fact the real discussion should be about whether or not it was correct to change the colour wheel to satisfy his wife

You're not married are you ...?
Yeah, I ran for political office earlier this year and took my blog down. I will probably post to Medium.
As others have mentioned, many introductions to linear algebra / matrix multiplication only gives the student a formula, but not why the formula looks like it does.

Why is matrix multiplication not pointwise, was something I had a hard time understanding.

Better explained has a good article on this, that really made it click for me

https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/
At least a couple of the Dyn datacenters had dialup for out-of-band access back in 2013, think its all Ethernet now.
Mushroom AI: Twitter bot which can recognize different mushroom species by photo
The _legality_ isn't clear. The technical methodology is quite clear.
> What would that be?

Fresh meat, potatoes, vegetables? Perfectly doable. You don't count the bag you take yourself, otherways it's absurd (and gross:) ).

> I can't go hunting

You don't have these shops where they cut pieces of meat from refrigerator and give it to you?

Anyway, I would just say outright - buy all raw ingredients and cook yourself, packaging or fiber is just a heuristic.
I took that point too, and there's also another point... there's software that's on my list for a while (JetBrains and Hazel come to mind, in particular), but since the exchange rate for me is bad, a sale might tip me over the edge.
I haven't played unfair bots. Graduated to humans after hard bots.

I'd play against bots, probably, if they exhibited much more human-like behaviour. I don't really care what's on the backend.

Having said that, I enjoy PvP, so I'm not sure what the selling point for "Better Bots" would be.
Ask HN: What would it take to convince a tech cofounder to join your startup?
Actually, it's only about 20% of geocities. Much of it has been lost
> Setup on the iPhone took 2 minutes, setting it up on my OpenWRT router tonight will take longer I suspect...

I think you'll be disappointed: https://community.f-secure.com/t5/F-Secure/i-want-to-use-fre...
It just needs to be rephrased in terms of dick-pics and sexting.
That already exists. Just try posting a photo of a female nipple.
I don't have pro-nationalistic views, that's a purely economic issue to me - its result is a long-lasting drain of capital. I did feel somewhat weird after posting that though, and @lossolo caught me.
I'm a potential customer. Both my kids go to school. My oldest complains he's bored. I expect my youngest will do the same in a few years.

Things I noted:

There isn't much detail of what I get for the £s. What kind of materials? What does the curriculum cover? Do I need to purchase additional materials, or print stuff out, or what?

There isn't much background on how the materials are developed, or about who has developed them. As someone with a mild interest in pedagogy I want to know what "the latest advancements in education" means. Also, say who you are. Give a nice background story about how you were frustrated with whatever it was that drove you to create this. A personal connection is a good thing for this sort of business at this stage.

Be careful how much you emphasise the home schooled crowd. They're quite small and largely considered kooky by the mainstream.

BTW, I love the photo on the home page.
As a gamedev who uses matrices all the time, I don't find this animation useful at all for practical work. Instead I think of matrix multiplication as creating a list of ordered operations (scale x translate x rotate etc) which is just encoded efficiently in a table, to then be sent to other parts of the program for use. You can even remove items from the list by multiplying by their inverse.
You're describing a fear of civilisation becoming "unconscious"?

That's not a possibility that ever struck me before, so thanks, you've just fuelled my nightmares for months to come now :-s
The only way for C* to know that it should raise an error is if it would implicitly protect all writes with LWT and this is not what most users want.

Following the parent's example, if you don't protect memory access with a lock, you can't know that somebody else locked it.
I have been wanting to make a LED strip design for Christmas ever since I saw the Johnson Family Christmas 2015 video. What does the hardware look like on your setup?
I hear comments like that from a lot of people who aren't "computer nerds." I mean, you did just call a whole class of millions of people "special," and I am pretty sure you didn't mean it positively.
I think what you are asking for is impossible. Sounds like you are saying that you want the easy way out but not to feel bad you took the easy way out.

Don't mean to sound harsh, but that is what I read.
The article goes into some detail as to why this may not result in an improvement in sustainability.
I tend to share your view. However, consider that if the end does come, it will be a one time thing. The view just before the end will be indistinguishable from the view you'd get in a world where there is no end.
SL doesn't just allow RMT, it all but necessitates it. There is a very small list of things you can do without any L$, heres a few included in that list:

Be called a noob because you use a whole free avatar or free avatar components.

Be instantly blocked by just about everyone you try to talk to

Be unable to access adult-rated sims and regions

Spend 4 hours attached to a dancing poseball that pays you L$1 an hour
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/propindex/all.htm has been around since the beginning
IRC clients already exist that can do most of these things, like https://thelounge.github.io

/Shameless plug
"The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimetres a year"

I'm no engineer - but to me "a few cm a year" seems very significant, and would be easily detectable by current surveying technology? You would probably even visually be able to see it at the entrance to the building after 1-2 years?

Why was a satellitie needed here to confirm it?
Why is he coding in a Color Picker anyway?

HTML5 has the input type of 'color' which uses the OS's default color picker dialog.

Edit: Oops, it's dated 2010 isn't it.
Sometimes it's good to have a sincere feedback from a user that won't refrain to use the exact words that crosses his/her/their mind when a problem arises, and you can trust that the normal user from your app would use the same words and then look for another app. (Or site, for what it matters).

Otherwise, how would you know that n users dropped off without telling you why?
Happy wife == happy life.

I think the author handled it brilliantly. He only changes the saturation component to 1.0 only if it was zero and the user clicked on the outer wheel. His reasoning is that clicking on the outer wheel is a leading indicator that the user will end up changing the saturation in order to see the effective color.

This way he anticipates the needs of users. I think it is a nice usability tweak with minimal negative effects.
Each section has it's speed, but in each of those section the speed is not manipulated.
Like, the explosions at the beginning and water balloon at the end are really synced with the music and not edited to appear in sync.
Maybe it's some offshoot of APL, hence the ASCII quote?
The definition of p-value is the same independent of method, as far as I can tell the only real difference is that by Neyman–Pearson you just look at whether the p-value is below a threshold, and Fisher looks at p-value as "strength of evidence" valuable in itself. It's still not the probability that your result was due to chance, it's the probability that under the null hypothesis (and you will definitely need one) you would get that value (or more extreme) by chance.