skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can use "we have no deadlines" as an excuse to never do anything useful.

This is why one part of the Agile Manifesto that isn't talked about as much as it maybe should be is about how you need to build trust with your customer by constantly delivering value. Demanding that trust from strangers is hard sell, and it probably should be.

The big problem with deadlines is that it's impossible to predict how long something will take, so you end up in a game of lies and bluffs to create and take away buffers to account for the uncertainty, which leads to horrible relations between the dev team and it's customers. Also, it falls apart, when priorities change.
Heh. I took that bit out as perhaps a little overstimulated in its own right :)
> If you want to represent an integer >255 as fixed-width binary data

But Python 3 doesn't represent integers that way, because Python 3 doesn't put any size limit on integers. There's no way to represent integers of potentially unbounded size as fixed-width binary data.

This is one of the things I meant by "hardware agnostic"--I didn't mean "able to represent the different register sizes of different hardware"; I meant "having a representation that doesn't have any concept of register size at all".

(Python 2 does have a separate int type, which IIRC is either 32 or 64 bits wide depending on the platform. AFAIK this is just a wrapper around the underlying C int, so it isn't affected by any 8-bit byte restriction.)

> UTF-16 and UTF-32 data is specified as 16-bit and 32-bit bytes. This is why you need a BOM.

Um, no. UTF-16 and UTF-32 data is specified as 16-bit and 32-bit code points. You need a Byte Order Mark (BOM) to specify in which order the 8-bit bytes that make up a 16-bit or 32-bit code point appear.

From the Unicode FAQ[0]:

"Q: What is a UTF?

"A: A Unicode transformation format (UTF) is an algorithmic mapping from every Unicode code point (except surrogate code points) to a unique byte sequence. The ISO/IEC 10646 standard uses the term “UCS transformation format” for UTF; the two terms are merely synonyms for the same concept."

Further down, under the table listing the UTFs and their properties:

"In the table <BOM> indicates that the byte order is determined by a byte order mark"

And in the answer to the next question after that:

"UTF-16 and UTF-32 use code units that are two and four bytes long respectively."

[0]: http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html
I don't know if Donald Trump is a tactical genius or surrounded in a cloud of luck. Remember when he said he wouldn't accept the election results if he lost and the outcry at his comments? Now all the pundits who question these results have tweets from a couple of weeks ago saying things like "You have to accept the result, that's how democracy works!" effectively invalidating their arguments today. If on purpose that is some Lannister level statecraft.

You can down vote all you want. Game recognises game. You don't have to support someone for that.
To me it feels Signal just wants to become the new WhatsApp more than anything. Yes, I'm basing this on the gif support and that it requires a phone number. The security argument only worked as long as whatsapp and co. did not roll out e2ee. I could support a sincere attempt that want to do good which OWS seemed to be doing, but now that they are competing on the emoji front they have lost their edge for me*

*I don't really have a horse in this as I use none of them
Devil's advocate:

> People are free to choose with whom they do business with

... unless it happens to be a minority, in which case it's discrimination.
>Why should we turn a blind eye to a source that continually posts provably fake and completely contrived news stories?

I interpreted your statement here to mean you should group it along with other fake news distributors and which Facebook and Twitter are now beginning to block. If you didn't mean that, then I apologize.
There was https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ke... to help standardize a means of generating certs, but it's fallen by the wayside and never gained steam.
Hadn't heard of RamNode, thanks.

How's the network on DO? We've found it can be fairly slow.

Also, what sort of stack are you typically running?
In the United States you can work pretty much indefinitely as long as there aren't specific regulations against it like for truck drivers.

Part time NOC gets six to twelve hour shifts as needed, and you don't need them 24 hours, you only need them during non office hours.

Weekends are the only time they're there 24 hours, and usually one engineer, developer, devops, *admin, manager, etc rotates out a shift so they have to be familiar with how the system works in case someone gets sick or takes vacation.
Do you think the two might be related? One is modular and configurable and ends up in rabbit holes of tangles and the other is monolithic and controlling but keeps the trains running on time?
Maybe a real secure kernel, such as SeL4 or LynxOS.
Thanks for catching it
Looks really good. I'm going to start using it. To echo a previous comment, as far as price range, I'd say $5 a month per user, or $15 a month for teams of up to 5 is perfect. Just my opinion.
Yes, but I don't know how it will play out since I'll be recruiting under my own brand and not the company brand.
Great advice, grizzles. With all "remote work" trend those insights are becoming more and more important.

Question for you - have you met remote teams versus solo developers? Do you think there might be a team which had an experience in being remote and may save while we are doing our baby steps?
I feel like I'm more of a hacker now that I'll start reading his blog. Also, lovely sig: "robek.world is stupid hipster trash and is part of the problem."
Cellebrite is not that good at their job. They employ a few 0days for a few Android bootloaders, but in general most of their vulnerabilities used for extraction are either shitty or taken from the public which means if you have a fully patched Android device you're ok.

Owning a brand new IPhone 7 with SEP and encryption on would make them useless, for now.

A while ago there was a "leakage" which also included a few things which weren't supposed to be in the regular interwebs, while the files were quickly removed from their servers, a few people have managed to get what is needed.

On the other hand, remember that cellphones nowadays are quite fragile and should be used with caution regarding any sensitive information, if you have something important better keep it somewhere else, not on your cellphone.

This article is just a lame effort of their new "research", (more like PR), group manager to promote them, which he does in a perfect way, if only he had a proper job.
who has empowered the Government to actively manage economic cycles

The people who alternately vote on and/or protest existing economic conditions and demand representation for their views. It sounds very much as if you are limiting tyour reading to authors who will reinforc the views you already hold. It must have required considerable effort on your part to filter out any awareness of labor movements through history and related demands for economic security, regardless of whether individual policies were well- or ill-founded.

Market forces can be massively disruptive to people's lives and when people's lives are disrupted by forces beyond their control (whether by natural or economic disasters) people generally petition their government to Do Something About It. I'm having a hard time believing that you're ignorant of really basic historical trends like governments losing legitimacy and being overthrown due to famine or similar adverse economic conditions.
Someone under shadow ban mentioned the inefficiency of electrolysis. Which is also around 60% at best.

That is an important consideration, but on a national level it may still be useful as redundant capacity. If your hydrogen tanks are fill up over months when production is vastly above demand, and only used in very rare situations then it might still be viable. At that point it's more a question of economics then thermodynamics.

However, the standby generators which use this hydrogen are a more direct comparison in cost and efficiency terms.
I really want a wiki for OSX processes & apple urls, integrated with little snitch & other app/network analyzers too.

That way we can find out what is gamed, or passd, or what the hell is pancake.apple.com for.
I hadn't heard about this. Can you point me to a source? Are you talking about this year's election?
That's a legit criticism, and likely shows a bias, though the paper did seem to acknowledge error, and the tone of the article was contrite, and lets face it, we're looking at a report of the paper's error in the paper itself.
Out of closed BETA: Shapespark: WebGL-based architectural visualizations
Just got an email about the relase...
https://www.shapespark.com
2 previous articles:
780 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8412846
839 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147508
How is this "by definition" white nationalism?! They barely mention race, and when they do, it's in a completely neutral context. There are even scientific studies supporting their position, i.e. that more homogenous culture makes for more trustworthy communities [1]. Of course, I'm the first person to doubt sociological research, but even if it's false, I see no reason to force people to live with others they don't like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
It not a "future" warship. Its an existing warship that keeps breaking down, despite the fact that its new and cost $4.4 billion to make. It just broke down again in the Panama Canal. That's a picture of the actual, existing-in-the-present ship.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/22/new-zumwalt-br...

>However, the justification (OK, a justification) for that action, as part of the war on terror (I believe this is your implication, based on the 'caves' reference) would be that the insured costs of 9/11 were around USD 40 billion [1] (ignoring the unknown intangible additional cost in human life) so spending USD 800000 to kill a terrorist who is planning to perform a similar event is something of a bargain.

Except for the fact that that justification is false. We've spent over $5 Trillion fighting the fictional "war on terror" in the 15 years since 9/11 and by every measurable metric there are more "terrorists" (people who would like to attack us) today then there were on 9/11.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/09/13/report-nearly-...

This dwarfs by many orders of magnitudes the total science funding spent by the government since the government was formed. Its absurd to discuss "waste" or "inefficiency" in any context, let alone a tiny expenditure for investigating the EM drive, while ignoring the elephant in the room. The phrase "penny wise pound foolish" applies to that line of thought.
1. I completely agree.

2. I think you're right but I don't know what the better answer is -- I don't like the idea of raspbian being the only answer. Maybe they'll motivate Debian to improve in this regard?

3. This is a strange comparison. The PocketCHIP is a bit of a unique offering -- I'm not aware of a self-contained anything based on the pi zero that I can order off the shelf and use out of the box. I'd be delighted to see a counterexample!

4. There are linux-based tools to flash the firmware. I've never actually used the Chrome approach. Here: http://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#flash-chip-firmware

5. Please report these problems! If not to debbugs, at least make a blog post or a gist or something. Get the information out there!

I agree with most of your conclusions, with the caveat that the Pocket CHIP is a unique device, in a world of years-long any-day-now products. It is very refreshing to see someone accomplish what they set out to do, warts and all.
The one, the only, photograph of Earth (2001)
If anyone listened to or listens to "The History of Rome" podcast, or is otherwise familiar with Roman history, you'll note that the violation of "It just isn't done" precipitated a lot of stuff in Roman history -- much of it directly leading to totalitarianism.
I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 and pushing the site to a server as static files.

Unfortunately, Dreamweaver 8's static SFTP doesn't work any more, due to some Microsoft-forced change in Windows 7.
POWER already did by sucking vast amounts of electricity and dumping heat. Getting a high IPC isn't easy and leads to lots of thermal dissapation. Odd arches might make a comeback but don't help much.
PyCharm 2016.3 Released
Perhaps you and your sibling poster should have read the rest of the grandparent post before commenting, since the question was rhetorical in nature.
It outright is misogyny, particularly since his claim about the washing machine being bad in any way is entirely unsupported and completely false.

Further complete idiocy:

Yes, he gets his claim of "women unhappy" from an actual study, but either ignores or misrepresents the results of said study, which concludes largely that women consider themselves to have better lives, and have better lives, but feel unhappy because they now compare themselves to a larger scope of possible achievements.

And while he's correct that the pill is shit and does a lot of harm in women, it's utterly disgusting to turn that around into "the church is right". No, the conclusion here is that men need to "man the fuck up" and get their tubes tied, and their rubbers on. (And the refusal of many here probably also is a good source for the unhappiness above.)

I could go further, but to properly address how much of that article is vile lies would require a post bigger than the article itself.

At the end of the day he is absolutely posting with a fucking agenda, and that is misogyny. Trying to deny that is utterly incomprehensible and reprehensible.
I think in the real world there are two scenarios, someone is using one of PBKDF2/Bcrypt/Scrypt - in which case all of this is moot, set an appropriate work factor/#of iterations, and you are secure with even a moderate sanity check against the password. Interesting note - said sanity check, ironically, could be a simple as a lookup - the top 4 billion passwords can be stored in a packed 24 gigabyte lookup table on disk which can be searched in < 100 milliseconds).

The other scenario is when you doing a single pass of a hash, in which case the salt is irrelevant for the security of that password.

Everyone here understands that you need to salt when your dictionary takes a long time to build (Say, more than 1 millisecond/password, which equals 2.5 billion passwords/month) - not everyone appreciates that salting a fast password (more than 2.5 billion passwords/second) - adds no security to that particular password.

The scenario where there is moderate "stretching" (by which I presume you mean running multiple iterations of a hash), with no randomized salt, is a bit of a straw man - who would bother to go the effort of "stretching" and not stick a randomized salt in while they are at it?
> though it's basically the same thing.

How is it the same thing? If it's the system I'm familiar with (the QRCode is basically a OTP for your phone), then they're no where near "basically" or even any at all the same.
Those are good ideas. Better than asking "So how agile are you?".

I was hoping for a way to look at a job posting without going in and ask people, but I guess that's not really that feasible.

Maybe I just need to devote a few weeks to chat with a lot of companies when I'm ready to go back to work.
Touch screens in Maryland give a receipt that you voted. But the votes themselves are not included on the receipt. The purpose behind this is to mitigate people paying for votes in a very close district. Having a reliable method of determining someone's vote compromises this mitigation.

Is one threat greater than the other? I actually think the threat of vote payment is lower due to the the high risk of the illegal act being exposed. But this is strictly intuition and I have no actual knowledge of the matter.

Edit: in the article, they describe a receipt method that matches your description. But the voter doesn't retain it.
Vue feels very light, and you can use as much or as little as you need. With Angular 2 you really need to dive in, understanding modules, DI, Typescript, components, the various decorators properties, observables, etc. I like Angular 2 personally, but it really is quite heavy.
When that happens, turn up the work factor on the hash.

And 64 is a pretty low limit if you want to use a passphrase.

"He who fights monsters will have to look into fighting scammers too" is both a decently difficult password to guess, pretty easy to remember and too long.
It's unreasonable to hold Mark personally responsible for what ads Facebook's algorithm chose to display next to his post.

What the article shows is not hypocrisy, but ironic juxtaposition.
The "other people" are just people in your company. They aren't on call, but since they own the thing that's broken they get called, it's standard escalation.

Two people on shift per weekday, three on weekends, and a non-NOC staff member works a shift on a weekend so they can cover sick time and vacation people. It's not that hard.
Watch out This iPhone-freezing video will CRASH any iPhone
> he advocated a monarchical republic, a monarchy? today?)

The US has become a "de facto" monarchical republic: the powers of Congress have been much diminished compared to what the Founding Fathers presumably had in mind, the Supreme Court actually acts like a monarch's Privy council (it's a non-elected entity and its members depend on the good-will of the so-called "president" to reach its ranks).

If Hillary had been elected the US would have continued the hereditary tradition which had started with the Bushes (or with Bob Kennedy, had he not been shot). There are lots of people on the Democratic-side of things who have lately suggested for Michelle Obama to run for presidency in 4 years' time. So I'd say Constant is still spot-on on lots of things (I've read a collection of Hannah Arendt's essays this summer and on lots of things she has just copied Constant's discourse. I'd say Hannah Arendt is pretty much part of today's conversation). So is Bentham, so is Burke, so is Thomas Paine.
I checked a few articles, the word "nigger" is either in the comments or in quotes. It's true, however, that they don't abbreviate it as "n-word" like most MSM. But we all know what "n-word" means, so I find that practice kind-of pointless anyways.
Intel: Fighting with Nvidia a Wrong Strategy
I kind of don't understand why we can't vote through a web app. You can deposit checks and buy stocks through your phone. Why can't you vote?
Job interview for IT pro: Small guide for HR managers
I really miss 1.0's inline way of writing javascript anywhere inside the dom (attributes) via {{ execute_raw_js_code() }} as well as the ability to run filters on it. Is there anyway to get them back on Vue 2? I have to admit, this was a major step back for me when upgrading to Vue 2 from Vue 1.

I also really loved the Vue 1's way of handling transitions. Now having them inside it's own wrapper really diminishes the elegance I felt from Vue 1.

Wish there was some ways to get them back instead of having to downgrade.
Show HN: How the US voted
It's an interactive election map, with full results from every county in the US.

No frameworks, no server, just a FusionTable database and 216 lines of gloriously vanilla JS.

Credit to mkearney for the election data:
https://github.com/mkearney/presidential_election_county_res...
Would TLS-SRP provide the same type benefits as a cert (mutual auth and no secrets on the server), but with a password (less entropy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS-SRP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
Humble Book Bundle: Unix
Is your "interior" just the mental model we have of the world (including ourselves)? If so, it's not surprising that evolution selected for it. It's advantageous to be able to make predictions about the world (including ourselves), and to make predictions about a thing you need a model of the thing.
I always point to David Chalmers when someone wants to understand the problem of consciousness. I like how casual he is about possible solutions and gives credibility to all the options (unlike eg. Daniel Dennett, who seems almost religious about how revolutionary his "there's no problem at all" approach is).

I really recommend this podcast in which Sam Harris talks with Chalmers about all the options currently in the game: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-light-of-the-mind

One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality, the other side of the coin (matter being the first one). Which leads to the conclusions, that consciousness is everywhere, but not as 'condensed' as in the brain. Seems crazy at first, but the more you think about it the more plausible it seems.

Here's a nice paper about it: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1668/2014...

Within this paradigm it starts to make sense to call the reality "The Mind", as some Buddhist schools do. There's also the crazy part, about how under some conditions it could potentially lead to experiencing other peoples' minds.

For the more adventurous, here's a talk by Culadasa, very experienced meditator and a neuroscience professor, in which he shares some thoughts about the problem and also some of these crazy experiences he had: http://s3.amazonaws.com/dharmatreasure/150430-tcmc--culadasa...
If I get the grabbing cursor when I press the mouse, I expect the dragging logic. That actually would be good way to make it unambiguous but here it's used wrong.
Seems harder to exploit manual counting of paper ballots than the firmware of some closed source system that's poorly understood by those deploying it.

The larger the election, the more manual counters you will have. Which means the more people you would have to influence in order to rig an election.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people either think that this kind of legislation is fine - to catch terrorists/pedos, nothing to hide etc... or just don't know/care.

If that wasn't the case, then legislation like this wouldn't get passed - and people wouldn't vote for the kind of politicians who promise to pass it.

Statistically, ~0% of the population even knows what SSH is, let alone using SSH tunneling for everything. Thinking otherwise is, sadly, just a comforting fantasy.
Finally something a bit more concrete. Not unlike how most other journalists report on scientific studies though...
I figured as such...I just use Github Pages with my own domain, develop on one branch and push changes to gh_pages...and done. Simple and fast.
How Not to Be Killed by Cultural Integration
RV32IM with interruptions capability. Sure, we will add this at the CS site.
I feel like I'd probably parse that message as non-information, since I know I can send them an email if I want to (but I probably won't).

What has led me to submit feedback most often is having a fairly prominent "send feedback" button somewhere on every page. It means as soon as I notice a problem or think of a useful feature, I'm immediately able to press a button and write even just a one sentence suggestion.
That's fair enough, though I don't see anything quite as "extreme" as the examples of breitbart articles (which as far as I'm aware they are standing by).

Everyone has bias, and everyone lies, and sometimes people just make mistakes, but there is a scale to this that I personally see breitbart being further along than the NYT from the limited evidence I've seen overall.
It would have been interesting to see how the QuickTransit[1] tech would have evolved, had IBM not bought and basically killed it.

Apple used it (as "Rosetta") to run PPC binaries on x86, but it supported other CPU architectures, both as emulated platform and native targets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit