skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think just like a year or two ago PayPal wouldn't let me use a good generated password due to it being too long.

Edit: Just checked and the limit is still 20 characters :\
Been to Paris a few times. Second trip someone slammed me into a metro car door and stole my wallet. Each time I went there were more and more immigrants loitering in groups on the streets, facing off with more and more police. Felt like a powder keg.

Most of the people that I worked with in Paris used cars or motorcycles; they earned IT and professional wages and could afford to avoid the prevailing public transport, which they did. Later the company I was involved with moved to a 'suburb' (not sure that's the appropriate term...) of Lyon. Huge improvement in every way and no one at that site used any public transport; all cars.

This was the early 2000's. I imagine the bad parts have gotten worse since then; if you look like a tourist or foreign worker don't go near the metro outside of business hours.
Trained a couple of hundred human rights defenders in physical and digital security. Pushed out our app for the security of activists and journalists to a wider amount of people than before.
I've launched: Baqqer (Community for makers), Pule (Bots Platform), and Asteria (AI Companion Device).

I've built my first mobile device architecture for running apps, data processing, behavior modeling, and synchronization for a user-first centric device. I've met some great people doing it.

I've also just started writing a small publication called "Bot Theory: A Concise Introduction" https://github.com/dpgailey/bot-theory-book

Released an open source version of an in-house bot utility called Wolfpack: https://github.com/dpgailey/wolfpack

Been invited and given a lecture to Ubiquitous Computing design students at CCA here in SF about Collaborative/Predictive/Adaptive Intelligent Autonomous Systems and the technologies and platforms necessary to realize a fully autonomous ambient intelligent future.

We have hired our first three employees, and I've met a wonderful mentor who is a seasoned influencer that basically shaped tech as we know it. (He certainly wrote the book on it)

I also have made a pretty good friend and partner.

I've had people from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Linkedin want to join the projects we've started, which is exciting that big companies are taking notice. We've also made some great partnerships along the way.

I was also briefly worth ~42MM on paper as well.

I also have pissed off HN admins enough where my comments are weighed down so they sink to the bottom immediately, despite the points/karma. sad trombone
None of us (students) had credit cards and we frequently used PayPal to cover the scenarios you mentioned. As a group it just became easy to all use the one app for requesting/sending smaller amounts of money. You can do it through a phone number which makes it quite simple even if it's not the best way.
RealDonaldContext – Adds context to Trump's not-quite-accurate tweets
About me - working for one of the big tech companies. Managed to get the respect of my teammates. Bought a house. Lost a few dozen pounds.

Fallback - got most of the pounds back. The house is taking most of my free time - no time to code. Office politics is killing me - thinking that a small startup might be more engaging, but mortgage is now an issue to think about. Some days I'm thinking that having a cozy job and learning some gamedev on the side is not too bad. Could be worse.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194581 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, speculation is rampant, but the paper establishes that this is most likely what the NSA is doing, as opposed to breaking other crypto.
Still trying to get into a Software Engineering 2nd Bachelors program. Keeping it up.
> but also pause in-between. I've seen the jit yield >20% improvements in micro-benchmarks

Could you please expand on this one? what is the idea behind pause?

Did you mean to say the jitted code will be cached and for the same reason it will run faster next time?
Please don't. It's hard enough to have a substantive discussion about something divisive even when people stay on topic. Introducing adjacent generic flamewar material is not helpful.

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Well, for me, once I reach the payment screen and have the option of pulling out my wallet and typing in my card information vs simply entering my PayPal credentials, which I have memorized, it's any easy choice.
Thanks for the info.

Is there security benefit in running on a desktop with non-Intel (e.g. Broadcom) add-on NICs and nothing connected to the integrated Intel NIC?
+ Launched 2 open source libraries
+ Saved up enough money to go on 2 month long vacation in the US (I'm from India)
+ Read 20 books
+ Traveled to 2 new countries (USA and Singapore)
+ Overcame (to a large extent) my fear of public speaking

Up and onward to 2017
So you're trying to decide if you're better off with the A/C on or the windows down and you trust the short-term estimated MPG over the measurement you could do yourself? Fill up the car and turn on the A/C, drive an hour. Refill the car and record how much gas you put in. Turn off the A/C, roll down the windows, drive another hours. Refill and record. Now you can answer for yourself.

I get the logical appeal of the immediate feedback MPG meter, but I'm not clear how accurate these things are (vs meters on the gas pump, which are regulated to be within a tight spec). I'm also not clear how useful the MPG right now is vs the MPG over the past hour. I've seen only one car that let me reset the MPG meter and measure for an arbitrary period of time that I control, and I still have no idea how accurate it was. (Yes, I'm sure there is more than one car with this feature. I've only seen it once.)

Again, I just generally don't buy that instant (actually averaged over some amount of time that you don't control, with some accuracy that is likely not guaranteed) MPG estimates are all that useful. Are you dedicated enough to efficiency that you'll drive without A/C in the summer to see if it's better but you somehow don't care enough to bother recording actual gas usage? Who are these people willing to drive without A/C to save a MPG but too lazy to confirm that it really works? Or realistically is this one of those things where you turn off the A/C, glance at the MPG estimate and see it went up from 20 to 22, and assume that you've got a definitive answer despite not knowing anything about the margin of error for the MPG estimate?
yeah, i guess it is.
The short answer is being as close as possible to the equator and able to launch over an unpopulated area (like an ocean) is more important than altitude.

There might be some benefit to launching off of a really tall mountain, since it would make your first stage engine more efficient, but not enough to justify the extra logistics.
> I hope you don't use AWS then

wait, how'd you know??
That doesn't make his point moot though.
Graduated college and finally broke into the software industry. Now I have a manager who respects what I bring to the team and lets me build whatever I want. I thought it would take me a few more years to land a job like this. I feel very fortunate.
Google Gboard brings search and share to Android keyboard
> It's not often I associate a thesis with cool

You should start to do that or, at least, remove the negative bias.

A lot of the cool stuff out there comes from research, whether in academia or commerce, and only reaches the "real world" a long time later.
If you think a quick Google search proves anything then you might be on the wrong website. maybe facebook would be more appropriate?

substance abuse increases the risk of violence in ALL people, it's not isolated to schizophrenics. if you're a woman and your suffering from substance abuse problems your nearly 7x as likely to attempt suicide. And almost 75% of people who seak treatment for substance abuse have admitted to committing violent acts while under the influence. [1]

Another study finds that while violence and schizophrenia specifically are often perceived to be correlated, "the proportion of violent crime in society attributable to schizophrenia consistently falls below 10%." [2]

So really, your company could be investing those funds into providing healthcare for people who need it rather than catering to delicate snowflakes who don't want to participate in society.

[1] http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/substance-use-disorder/link-...

[2] http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/6/490
Google makes Gboard for Android official
1) This is the entire industry, but much less so today than in 2007..
2) Microsoft is listed as the highest level of foundation support for the Linux foundation and a member of patent ocmmons.
3) true.. but people seemingly don't care that everyone does this.. have a chrome book? you're being snooped, use a mobile device and mobile apps? you're being snooped..
4) That was said 21 years ago.. see #2
everyone with substance abuse problems are more violent. correlation is not causation.
I don't know many other tcl hackers, and I'm really interested in what the community looks like right now. I put that there to drum up conversation with a tcl hacker.
I used to have Clear internet. Sad that it failed. I had great wireless for a time and suddenly had to cancel becUse I just stopped getting signal.
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194185
App Onboarding: Don't Just Inform Users, Engage Them Too
I didn't mean to draw attention to the typo, but rather to point out that there's a word which means "2nd to last." Like "defenestrate", it's a shame not to use it when the situation calls for it. :-)
Achievements:

- Dropped out of college and accepted a full time offer

- Became the new lead for the security interest group at work

- Attended AWS re:Invent for the first time

- Moved into my own place for the first time

- Started playing around with the stock market

- Visited Abu Dhabi, London, and Iceland for the first time

- Turned 21 years old a few weeks ago, I can finally go to bars and clubs now

- Finally finished and pushed my re-designed personal website (an endeavor that I started last Fall)

- Entered into my first relationship

- Sub-achievement: 2 Chainz has a song called 100 Joints with the line

> You need your passport for our second date

I decided to beat him at his own game and for our first date I flew us to Montréal for the weekend which I'd also consider an achievement

Fallbacks:

- Last year I vowed to read more this year - I picked up and finished a book in the Spring, but haven't read much more since that

- I used to constantly work on new side projects, I just haven't had a lot of time for them recently

- After living with friends from college for the last ~3 years, living alone is a little lonely. I do enjoy the time alone, but I've also moved to a new city where I don't have much of a social network

Edit:

- Achievements:

-- I love to fly. Last year I did something like 39 flights. This year I'll do 41 flights. A new record for me, if not a significant one. Note that these are flights, not reservations. So if my trip includes a layover, it counts as two. I love flying to the extent that given a direct trip and a trip with a < 1 hr layover, I'll pick the latter. I love each flight. Taking off. Landing. Cruising at 35,000 ft. Turbulence, the more the better. I want more cumulative time in the air.

- Fallbacks

-- From August to December (and extending into January 2017), I've only been at home 1-2 weeks a month which has caused a bit of strain on my relationship.

Edit:

To whoever left and then deleted a comment asking if I considered the date an achievement because of the cost and suggested that I may have missed that's needed to form a relationship:

I'm not entirely sure why I consider it an achievemnt. It's most likely related to the cost yes. I think it's because whereas previously (as a student) I would need to think about finances, I now have the money where I can do things like this and not worry about going hungry for the next month.

As far as the relationship aspect, prior to the date we spent 10 days traveling in Iceland as friends after meeting in person a total of three times. The purpose of the date wasn't specifically to build on the relationship, but more to do something ridiculous and romantic.
Uber is like the "brah" of all Silicon Valley startups. They just don't care about anything because they're too sloshed from all the beer pong.
I don't doubt that you have reason to say this based on experience, but if you want to comment on HN, please give us the reason and experience part, not the rant. Comments here should improve the level of discussion, not degrade it further.
IIRC, it's completely cosmetic--you can purchase other characters from the console game to play as, but they're mechanically identical. There may also be something to unlock later levels without playing through earlier levels first, but I 100%ed the game without buying a thing and it never felt unsatisfying or grindy.
> However it's the lack of network transparency which stops me from using Wayland in the foreseeable future.

X is not network transparent, and hasn't been for a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQoQE_HDG8g
You don't have to believe it - check out the comments in Jeff Atwood's post, where many people assert they can't believe people can't solve FizzBuzz, look they've solved it right here, and post their incorrect solutions.
Nothing spectacular by objective measures, but subjectively (I spent the last few years working as a remote freelancer so..)

* Worked on more interesting projects

* Had a lot of (intentional, not working) free time

* Earned more

* Developed other hobbies / spent extra time with the existing ones

* Saw more of the world
> More importantly, flawless security trumps hacking. If there is nothing to exploit there is no way in, which means a lone AI is much more powerful than lot's of AI's with different goals.

No security is flawless in the face of a sufficiently determined attacker. No system has nothing to exploit.
That'd feel pretty pushy to me, offering to fly my date out of the country the first time we go out together. Like, did you get separate hotel rooms, or...?

First date is "I don't even know you yet" territory, I would be a little hesitant to go international.
29 years old in exactly one week. I began self-teaching computer science about 5 years ago off and on. Became more passionate about it within the last 3. Landed my first Software Engineering job for an agency about 6 months ago that does product development for start-ups.

Fallback is design for which I also went to art school but never finished that either. Also have lots of friends and family support and a small savings to keep me focused.
About me - I got hired as the founding engineer of a startup, designed and built 80% of an entire consumer facing app by myself, learning a ton along the way. I'm very proud of what I accomplished and think that it is a very solid app with plenty of potential to scale. I met a beautiful girl who I fell in love with and got to spend 3 weeks hiking and camping through Iceland with.

Fallback - My job was outsourced to a team of Eastern European devs, because it was "taking too long" for me to build everything by myself. My girlfriend left me a few weeks later.
The GPaste clipboard manager works with Wayland.
My salary increased. Yay! (I think this was due to new legislation, not anything I did.)
Oh, that's right. I'd forgotten about that.

Thanks.
+: Started a new job with stunning colleagues and interesting problems. Co-chaired a panel at ICSE. Started learning Java/intellij. Made progress at the hobby of woodworking.

-: Didn't write any Rust.
Uber defies California, keeps self-driving cars rolling
I have a fond memory of taking an advanced (graduate) seminar class with taught by one of the oldest professors at my university -- and attended by another. The lecturer was describing something to do with manifolds and various obscure formulations of classical field theories and he mentions that he was at a lecture once where someone had related this theory to Bohmian mechanics -- the other professor cut him off

"It's wrong"

A student held up his hand and asked what Bohmian mechanics was. Before the lecturer could answer

"Don't worry, it's wrong"

It was difficult to contain myself.
One of my teammates had a phone screen with a guy who didn't know what prime numbers were...
Fortunately, with the internet the knowledge about all of these subjects are known. I'm not saying people won't make mistakes even with 100% knowledge of a given subject. I'm just saying it should be the people themselves to make the mistakes, not a select few.
Why? He's being honest about what he wants. He's not demanding it, just expressing a preference. He's also expressing that the public transit system is a complete mess. I'm in Japan at the moment, and I can't help but agree - it's clean, fast, the trains come exactly when they say they will, and everything connects to everything else. It's wonderful, and I wish we had a system like this for ourselves in the US.
You need to understand marketing to know what blockchain means. Then you'll know it's a vague meaningless word to describe bitcoin like technology and scams
No but you probably voted for someone who helped put those rules in place. (Or maybe you didn't, but the point is that we "hire" others by voting, to sweat the details)
What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble
I read somewhere that ARM was growing fast because it hadn't been as thoroughly developed as x86 in the past. So right now ARM manufacturers were catching the lowest hanging fruit, so to speak.

Is ARM going to hit a limit soon like x86 has?

Also in the comments of the article someone says that the x86 architecture is outdated vs SOC architecture.

Is this true? Does this mean we'll see SOC on desktop in the near future?
If what they say in the memo is true, and by the domain name (an email marketing service, and not their official site?), it seems like an individual email, and not a general public message. Maybe they're just running customer's emails through a service like haveibeenpwned, and emailing the ones that return results. Apparently several major UK services have had account leaks recently, and I bet Domino's is an easy target for fraud.

I don't know anything about the company/CEO's policy, but I worked as a driver for them beginning around ~2011, and I'd have to say, they really had their s--t together on the tech front. For example, the "Pizza Tracker" is entirely real and accurate (which always amazes my friends), it's actually just a side effect of the system they have to track inventory and paying employees (an employee has to enter their ID at each station and select and order. So maybe Henry isn't actually the person doing the "quality check", but he's the person who punched in his ID and approved it). I worked at a few less experienced delivery places afterwards and the experience was just awful comparatively.
This entire article is bullshit clickbait designed to appeal to select baseless biases.

It offers no meaningful content except for this single sentence:

"The Register has learned of one customer in retail with 80,000 PCs which was informed by Oracle it was in breach on Java."

There are no further details about why this customer was "targeted" or the nature of their licensing deal with Oracle.

I would think after all these years people would know that (a) the Register is a well-known source of fake news/clickbait/misleading headlines (b) Java is open-source (full-stop) and wholly free software and (c) products like "Java SE Advanced Suite" have nothing to do with the Java language or the JDK. (Though I can see why (c) would be confusing, though Sun started this product of calling everything Java XXX (tm).)

It's a shame that such an article gets written to feed advertisers useless clicks but it's really disappointing to see it on the hacker news front page.
>Walk around Berlin right now

Transit policy can't create the Berlin transit system.

Germany got it by building the constellation of welfare, social services, healthcare, eduction, labor laws, and tenant protection that keeps people's lives on track (or puts them back) long before they've fallen to the point of shitting into subway escalators.

The American electorate is quite far from even wanting these things. It's going to be a long climb to get them implemented and working. We will not be preventing destitution anytime soon, and the shit on the streets of temperate, tolerant cities like SF is going to get far, far worse before it gets better.
So for a little back story. We met on Tinder while we were in different cities and talked relatively frequently. In January I moved to her city (not for her, I've previously lived here). Between January and May we met a total of three times. She's currently over here for school, but when she left for summer break, she invited me to visit her at her family's place. I suggested that instead of doing that, we travel somewhere else - we ended up going to Iceland for 10 days as friends. Two weeks later we went on our first date. So we definitely knew each other - at this point we'd spent 10 days traveling in a foreign country (albeit after only meeting three times). I don't know if I'd say we knew each other _well_ - but we trusted each other.

Edit:

And nah, one room. I'd have been happy to get another one, but we'd also split hotel rooms while traveling in Iceland, so she was fine with it.
Presented an ignite talk at a local DevOpsDays event, then co-presented at this year's SQL Summit. This month submitted a session to the new GroupBy conference and just got an email today that it was accepted for January!

We also went on our honeymoon (Turks and Caicos, highly recommended) and vacations in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Florida.
I don't see any way that this comment can be called civil, and you are not welcome to break the HN guidelines when commenting here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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> I'm not sure why it should make any difference.

It doesn't (modulo theoretical prejudices against bosons). I was just picking something concrete and popular so I could talk about how it's behavior becomes uncertain on small scales.
I thought 0xCCCCCCCD was a very nice number so I asked myself why it would come out like that. I wondered whether

0.CCCCCCCC.... = 4/5 had anything to do with it.

Using hexadecimal we have

5 * 3 = 10 - 1, so
5 * C = 40 - 4 so
5 * (1 + C + C0 + C00 + C000...) = 5 - 4 + 40 - 40 + 400... where the last term is = 0 mod 2^32
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This relates to

0.CCCCCC.... = 4 / 5

Because in order for that to come out right, multiplying 0.CCCC... with 5 has to have all intermediate terms cancel, leaving only a 4.

So why would it take its digit from 4 / 5 and not 1 / 5? Because it takes x=4 to make the 5-x subtraction in 5 - x + x0 - x0 + x00 to come out to 1.

So this gives us a general rule for inversion (for numbers less than 16). Take the hexadecimal expansion of (n-1) / n, truncate to get enough hex chars, add 1 to the least significant hex digit.

I.e. the inversion of 3 would be 0xAAAAAAAB
A future mathematical weakness in RSA/DSA could have been a concern, but 2 larger reasons to use EC in BTC are that a) signature computation is much faster, b) almost every 256-bit value is a valid key, allowing fast key generation that supports the (often ignored) recommendation to use a new key for each transaction.
"This project has been deprecated and is no longer being actively developed. We strongly suggest migrating to llvmlite.
"

try http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/ explanation why http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/intro/index.html