skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The judge was not ruling on the substance of the overtime rule change, only whether the executive branch had the authority to make the rule change.

The judge determined that the overtime rule, which was created by the legislative branch, did not give the executive branch the authority to change the rule in the way the Labor dept. tried to.
I think the t-test is conceptually easier to understand, which is important since the target audience for this article is people who know next to nothing about statistics.

The t-test might not be the best test for every situation, but if the alternative is no test at all, I'll take it.
Google WiFi Beats Eero, Luma
Scholars Delve Deeper into the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Well, evaluation in these languages is more transparent. The syntax is basically the lambda calculus, so once you've actually learned the language it makes a huge difference. I'd try reading up on "referential transparency".
This is a common "troll" mentality.

Truly they just get a thrill from getting a rise out of someone (and/or there's an economic motive, as is the case here), but they're able to post-rationalize it as a helpful service to their victims. They're pointing out areas of weakness; or they're playing 'devil's advocate'; or they're demonstrating the folly in engaging with an unreasonable person.

One of the things I find most frightening about people is that, generally, we all think we're the good guy.
This sounds crazy... you have the left blaming 'fake news' and actually toying with the idea of censorship, in an era where Donald Trump and Bannon run the country. -- Open the gates for censorship and propaganda warfare on our own people isn't far behind. -- Do we seriously have politicians and people calling for censorship, going AGAINST freedom of speech, and a President who could start internment camps? -- How far are we away from becoming 1939 in Germany?
Its definitely a big deal.

Censorship of this issue is seriously bad news: Either we expose the pedophile rings in our governments, or we are subject to their will - and abuse of power - at every point.

So, yeah. This is a huge breach of trust, and I hope that this story gets out there so that people can be informed while deciding whether to contribute to the reddit empire.
I've been running Arch linux on my MacBook Air for the past week. Motivated by a strong desire to run StumpWM, I couldn't be happier with the results.
Because private industry clearly has managed to avoid any security breaches?

For the last ~5 years the only credit card that hasn't been reissued before the expiration date because of some large corporate data breach is the one I never use.
Through angel.co link, I realise that Sequoia Capital is major investor in them. I can't help but wonder how Sequoia Capital has a share in majority of exists/current "unicorn" companies.
Understanding startup option pools
> Are you gonna make every title a puzzle?

What's life without puzzles? That's why we are hackers right?
I am afraid the line

tail = x(2:)

in the implementation of the tail_xxx functions does allocate a new array.

I wrote a test program to use foldl to calculate the sum of an array, and it seems to have n^2 time complexity. Also a test program summing an array of length 10000 of 64bit integers uses 395816 kbytes of memory, which is close to 8 * 10000^2 / 2 / 1024 = 390625.
Exactly. Reddit has now completely lost credibility.
Can Trump actually dismantle the Iran deal? The deal was not just between the US and Iran. It was between the US, the UK, Russia, France, China, Germany, the EU and Iran.

If the US pulls out and reimposes sanctions, will those other countries go along? Or will they continue trading with Iran, and if they do, will that provide enough trade that US sanctions won't really have much of an impact on Iran?
> insane, out of control conspiracy minded screaming blubbering trolls

This attitude is WHY YOU LOST THE ELECTION.

> Who cares? Why is this a big deal? I am so unbelievably unimpressed with the seriousness of this,

It is deadly serious. /r/pizzagate was just shut down for posting personal information. No proof was given. Reddit has users like Bill Gates who post regularly, it has interviewed the POTUS and countless movie stars. Just as a pedophile scandal threatens to engulf both Twitter and very senior members of the Democratic Party, the founder of reddit reveals that he fucks around with people's posts. What's to prevent him going into a user's history and falsifying it? We've had the head of the FBI in front of Congress talking about a Reddit comment for crying out loud, because it was about national security.

His actions were extraordinarily poor judgement for an organisation that describes itself as a bastion of free speech.
Software bug caused $251m Mars lander crash
Yes, activity specific goggles have their strong points. My eyeglasses have the strong point that they're always there. Even when I'd forgotten the specific goggles.
"hurting people who take stuff other people are keeping from them"

You can spin it all kinds of ways, but the concept steal is not a fundamental one, but one that we invented and enforce through government, through coercive action.
Creating 100% secure software is not realistic. If you can't win, change the game.

I'm not saying you should give up or that audits are a waste. They are a good thing, though you should also work on other approaches to the problem besides "work harder on security bugs".
I'm from Europe so I don't know in detail how USA works. But I guess it is quite similar to Europe, the price of the phone will rise so much that it won't be a good product. In the best of the scenarios the price will rise 20$ or 30$ ... well maybe, but launching a product is not always the best of the scenarios.

Apple already told in the past, that the main reason to keep the manufacture in China are the last minute changes. USA or Europe cannot deal with that kind of changes and the labor laws that we have doesn't help ... just my IMHO. Labor laws and labor conditions in China or India are cruel, but works for capitalist markets.
Speake(a)r attack allows to spy on users through typical headphones
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.
> Anybody can go through the comment history of any redditor and know their dark secrets.

And since now we know that the CEO (at least?) has edited comments, users' comment history should be considered suspect..
> the fake news was created by the left to discredit the alt-right

I would have a hard time taking a guy who's the "godfather of fake news" at his word. Who's to say he isn't making this all up?
I develop Mac software and support my software via email. The problem I always had with "OS X" is that users who don't know what an "OS" is, didn't seem to parse "OS X" at all (they would reply back as though it didn't appear in the sentence). They certainly didn't associate it with their Mac – apparently thinking it was just some weird sigil that the geek in the internet computer machine had included for no reason. I always had to say "Mac OS X Lion" (or whatever the big cat name of the year was) to get any level of understanding.

"macOS", for all its initial lowercase goofiness is at least understood by most users.
Yeah, a page with a list of downloadable tarballs can hardly be called Open Source.

BTW, how useful is this code? Obviously you can't build anything with this. It's useful for auditing, maybe?
You're not supposed to cite Wikipedia because it's an encyclopedia! You're supposed to cite the sources that it cites.
This could be very very useful for embedded devices. You'd be better off linking to repos where possible - some vendor dumps are gigabytes in size.

Happy to chat more. Details are in profile.
Thx. We will fix all the typos before going live.
Should be back up now.
The ASMO USB charger wastes no energy; turns off when not in use
I seem to recall news video of Muslims firing guns into the air and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center actually being video of Muslims celebrating a sporting match victory, about 15 years ago.
maverick_iceman has talked to many moms
Agreed. We will clear all this our before December 5th. We are very serious about what we are doing.
You can probably buy an eye for much less than a billion dollars. So if I was given that offer, I would take it.
I'm curious to know if this was done after the new eero update that was just pushed out.

Supposedly it doubled the transfer rated in mesh network s.

There's also Ubiquiti to calculate in at they can do mesh networking as well.

More data!
If there's a python question, he doesn't fail to reply within 5 minutes.
How much battery life do you get from this configuration? macOS is optimized for power. FreeBSD not so much, I believe.
It is a big deal, but it's not like it's anything new in modern society. Graphic images of war have been censored since Vietnam. So in other words, the mainstream media has been doing it for decades, how is reddit suppose to be better then the media?
We dont save any personal data on our servers. So even if they come to us we simply have nothing to give. Plus there is no way to map a given message to a given user
> While an abuse of power, I'm not sure I see the outrage.

This is one of the most bizarre statements I have ever read. You don't understand why people are outraged over abuse of power? Seriously?

> It's Reddit. It's an Internet forum run by a private corporation.

A forum used by users who are pretty much famous for taking a strong dislike to censorship.

> You have zero recourse if Reddit edits your comments.

Zero legal recourse. Plenty of recourse to make a big deal out of it online and damage Reddit's reputation and make others aware when the CEO makes it clear there are additional risks that people didn't expect with using their platform.
Me either. I've also got a habit of adding '-rf' as the last argument to 'rm' so I can safely tab complete things in my home directory without a mistaken "enter" press nuking everything.
Thx :). Whats wrong with the name ? :)
% honestly don't know how you would really enforce something like this

Probably like with automotive code - they don't have code audits but have mandated test scenarios. The problem is that you need large organizations to work these out

i guess Schneier has a point, if consumers do not demand secure systems then it can only be done through regulation.

that would be a very German approach - they have strong consumer advocacy organisations like Stiftung Warentest and the Adac, these then push for more consumer protecting regulation. [1]

Once upon a time these requirements were also used as protectionist barriers. In our days that would mean: you did not bother to update your toolchain and have no firmware updates for this smart light bulb of yours? gone is your import license.

[1] http://americastradepolicy.com/german-customer-protection-or...
Hack language aside, wasn't he asking if the article had an falsehoods in it?

How do you expect reporters to have access to "sources inside the X campaign" without making an effort to build relationships and trust?
Syria and the statistics of war
VC's don't just provide funding, they also gain control.
I don't know. What if he actually buckled under prolonged stress and frustration? What could he have said differently to make that reason more .. reasonable?
Government is useful to solve the tragedy of the commons. Insecure devices are a negative externality. The government should tax insecurity (or fine device manufacturers that allow an attack) and use the revenue to subsidize software security efforts.
I have a MBP as my primary machine, and I do all of my development work in a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu. MacOS seems a lot more stable without 40gb of development stuff installed.
I haven't seen this.. It definitely changes how I look at Reddit.
Yes. Works something like that. Thanks a lot :) :)
European Mars Lander Crash Caused by 1-Second Glitch: ESA
Wikipedia won't have an entry on every specific problem, but it can come in handy if there's a general idea of what to search for. A quick investigation on "language" reveals "Formal Language" and "Model Theory" are relevant topics.
Here's a better advice. Never apologize, never surrender. If you apologize the attacks don't relent. Instead they use your apology as an admission of wrongdoing and defeat and try to hang your wrong doings over your head so you succumb to their wishes for irrelevant moral bullshit.

You tell them to roundly go fuck themselves and appeal to the people that agree with you, the opposition's feelings be damned.
> it's that the field is young

The opposite. When the field was in its infancy, one was able to keep whole stacks in his head.

How complicated were CPUs in the 1960s?

How many lines of assembler was in the LM?

How many lines is Linux or FreeBSD kernel? Now add libc.

Now you have a 1970s C compiler.

Now take into account all the optimizations any modern C compiler does. Now make sure there's no bugs _there_.

Now add a Python stack.

Now you can have decent, "safe" code. Most hacks don't target this part. The low hanging fruit is lower.

You need a math library. OK, import that. You need some other library. OK, import that.

Oops, there's a bug in one module. Or the admin setup wasn't done right. Or something blew.

Bam. You have the keys to the kingdom.

And this is all deterministic. Someone _could_ verify that there are no bugs here.

But what about Neural Networks? The whole point of training is that the programmers _can't_ write a deterministic algorithm to self drive, and have to have a huge NN do the heavy lifting.

And that's not verifiable.

_This_ is what's going to be running your self-driving car.

That's why I compared software engineering to biology, where we "test" a lot, hope for the best, and have it blow up in our face a generation later.
https://voat.co is one such alternative.
At least it wasn't because they got confused about what units they were using.

https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repo...
Ask HN: How to Apply to use Facebook's Open Graph Music
I'd like to integrate a service with Facebook's Open Graph Music (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/music)

Has anyone applied for this program before and can shed some light on what's involved in being a partner?

If any FB employees are reading this and can help me out, my email is in my profile.

Thanks =)
But the point is, the_donald is obviously biased - it's literally in their name. On the other hand, r/pol is supposed to be politics in general, ideally free of bias, so censorship there is much more deplorable. I wouldn't care if r/leftwing_pol had a bias, but r/pol should be bias-free.
This is why iris was removed from awesome-go
> Just as a pedophile scandal threatens to engulf both Twitter and very senior members of the Democratic Party

Ah.
Im just sharing what Im seeing ... older demographic are not tech/Internet savvy and voting data shows that demographic's majority voted for Trump (no matter what I think of him and or Clinton .. i didnt vote for either).
It seems like with the wholesale compromise of US Government personnel from virtually every branch of government at this point, it is relative child's play for the new owner(s) of this information to massively influence US policy and action, almost to the point of control. It might take a few years to filter through the data and find the weak links, but the damage is basically inevitable.

Am I missing something here? A statistically relevant subset of people have important secrets, and a statistically relevant subset of those (perhaps most) are relatively easy to control when you know them. If the US has similar information on other governments' personnel, we might even fall into the caricature of the US guiding their actions while they guide those of the US, since those controlling and those being controlled will (largely) not be the same members of their respective governments.

The entire situation seems quite messy.
Alternately, if economies are "like nature", they occur on a very different level than the raw cycle of predator and prey, and something closer to mating dances and dominance games. Behaviour that arises within a species for itself.
The solution you propose is problematic as you'll have random redirection problems even if your script updates your DNS every 15 seconds.
They'd be wasting their money in Michigan. The director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections said nothing is connected to the Internet. That's because Michigan is entirely a paper and optical scan state.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/michigan...
I just got my eyes done about 5 months ago at the office of the best doctor in San Francisco. My vision is 20/15 and I think the operation was a complete success. I had PRK done, but that is irrelevant in the discussion.

Interesting that I couldn't find any mentions of the actual laser used. The newer EX500 laser doesn't have this issue. According to my doctor, the problem with the older lasers is that they would flatten out the cornea. The flat edge is what causes the glare/halos. The newer laser actually rounds the edges so no more issues.

https://www.myalcon.com/products/surgical/wavelight-refracti...
Who gets to decide what's racist and what constitutes harassment? Isn't that a matter of opinion?
What do you think of the current competitors like Tuniu.com and Qunar.com?
I disagree. The beauty of reddit is that it has subcommunities. That way, like-minded prople can flock together and even enforce strict censorship rules that make their community better, and reddit as a whole can still be a bastion of free speech (because they allow such diverse communities). Too bad that's not how it actually is...
Can we remove undefined features? We can get rid of the GCC optimizations which rely on the premise of undefined behavior to break code to win a speed prize or something, but undefined behavior exists for a reason:

It depends on the CPU.

The problem is that C was designed to be as close as possible to hardware, and some places (RTOS? Kernel?) speed is critical.
It would fix the problem by making commenting require insane amounts of computation, thus making it require transaction fees, thus making nobody comment, thus making there be no comments to edit, right?
The continuation of it could be explained purely by the financial insentives from advertising on the sites. It doesn't sound like he would have any morale qualms with the whole situation.

Sounds pretty entrepreneurial to me.
Forums censor their comments as a standard practice against trolling. But on the other hand, reddit is fully open and such attempts are easily found out by comparing older version to current version.

So, people were saying "fuck /u/spez" (CEO's username), and he edited that.
Hang on a second here: many people comment that murderers seem like really nice people when they met them briefly. You don't really know anything about someone just because you met him for a bit a few years ago. He can be both unprofessional and seem like a calm and nice person, while being neither if you had gotten to know him better.

You comment that he's made just one mistake on a bad day. Perhaps this is just his most visible mistake, and he's been making these kinds of bad mistakes for the past month. It didn't take him 10 seconds to do this - he had to log in with full access to the reddit database and run unprotected queries against the live running copy. That's both shocking security, operations and basic common practice. For a childish insult.

And finally, he did not actually apologize for any of this. "I fucked up" is not the same as "I'm sorry".
I am not discounting how difficult and stressful his situation might be, and I am not saying I would have acted any better...

But, This is exactly my point. His reason doesn't matter. Reasons aren't relevant to apologies.

When you are apologizing, you are admitting wrongdoing...defending yourself in the same breadth is essentially saying you didn't do anything wrong in the first place.

Every time I have to apologize I am tempted to throw in a reason/excuse and everytime I remind myself of that quote and stick with just "I'm sorry" I end up with a better result than when I tag on a reason...

That being said, if you read his post...he actually doesn't apologize at all. He even goes so far as to say he wont do it again (only) because it upset the community team, not because it was wrong to do. He also claims he fixed it. He might of changed back the comments...but he certainly didn't fix anything.
> blockchain only works as a currency.

Except it has not worked... Not as a currency.

Instead, you're most likely to see it used as a fungible commodity that appreciates and encourages hoarding.
In the short term, sure, there's easy money. But as the other commenter points out, with money goes control. You are selling control of your society's greatest asset, you, to a foreign, communist, government. These are not nice people. They are interested in your product, but they are also interested in depriving the US of you.
UK tax-take hit by 'gig economy'
Yeah, the choreography was impressive for what it was. Claiming that it was "real" when there are clearly multiple aspects of the clip that are, at the very least, time shifted relative to each other in the same frame, cheapens it a bit to me.

The first few seconds are legit, then the flipbook synchs up and you have that "oh wow" moment that sadly I am coming more and more to associate with "no wait, it's bogus."

Great song and great video clip, though, even if it's not "real".
This is not similar to stalking.
Leaked Reddit admin Slack chat
One reason it's worth doing a startup if you know something other people don't. For example, you've been working in an industry, have some knowledge of that industry's inefficiencies, and can efficiently tackle those inefficiencies with technology.
That's what I ended up doing for a lot of my laptops as well. These things have become so small you barely see them taking up a USB port.
That doesn't matter. I could just put a full stop at the end of the string and call it a complex password. The point of it was for sites that require symbols. The complex password doesn't add a meaningful amount of entropy to a sufficiently long normal password; a 32 character normal password already has log2(16^32) = 128 bits of entropy.

We rely on the seed for security, the seed being the hash that scrypt spits out
You are correct. From the background notes [1] on the band's page:

"It is not all one speed, but each section is at a constant rate, meaning that time does not “ramp” (accelerate or decelerate). We just toggle from one speed to another. When the guitars explode, we are 200x slower than reality (6,000 frames per second), but Tim and Andy’s short bursts of lip sync (Tim twice and Andy once) are only 3x slower than real life (90 frames per second). The watermelons are around 150x, and the spray paint cans are a little over 60x."

[1] http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
From the behind the scenes video [0] it looks like safety was taken into consideration (though the final edited product doesn't make this obvious).

[0] http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/the-one-moment-bts/
Let's assume you are right. So what? Why did you feel compelled to share this here? To me it signals I should avoid hiring you or working with you, because you get hung up on pedantic, irrelevant, details.
>hypothetical nuclear waste.

Chernobyl isn't hypothetical. And neither is Fukushima. And those weren't as bad as they could have been.

And we still don't know what to do with all the waste we have.
Haha "Lonic". I don't want to make fun of anyone but this is too fun not to point out.
I tend to use Hipmunk for both domestic and international flights; I haven't seen anything that comes close to Hipmunk's UI for presenting flights. What's the main advantage of Skyscanner?
Which are the must-watch movies for everyone?