skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine someone compromises your system and downloads the PIA of all of your customers. Does it really matter where the exploited vulnerability was in your stack? The business effect is the same: your customers are still pissed at you.
Well, since pseudo-privatising we decided to stop subsidising the DB while the autobahn is still very heavily subsidised.
Just kidding! You had nice fun mate, except you spent for her also, the coffee thing yeah it's always guys who pay the tax and girls have the fun that's what i meant. (I know for iceland both of you shared, the dinner/stay was included in that $1200, since i didn't know the price of the coffee you had, so i said like that.) I have not been to Montreal but i have seen and traveled on Metro trains. So what all other places you have seen before?
I am guessing he is referring to Amazon Prime Now where you are expected to tip. But generally I do not tip because I think Amazon should pay their drivers. And most of the time they didn't even come to my door, so they don't deserve any tip. Though, I don't use that service as much.

Though thinking back, I did leave $1 or $2 tips here and there, depending on their service.
> there just wasn't a compelling reason to keep it over es6

- hiccup syntax / sexps are trees analogous to the HTML you're constantly generating, and first-class supported data structures supported by the language which need no pre-compilation/transformation step, unlike JSX

- syntax is a good 20-30% less verbose than JS (yes, even ES6), especially when the core lib is taken into account (things like partition, zipmap, threading macros)

- one extremely battle-tested dependency resolution story, not named NPM - it just works

- incredible development tooling innovation, best of class for frontend web development

- the sequence abstraction and dozens of functions that operate on it, rather than Object.assign, Array.map, etc

- best-of-breed dead code elimination via Google Closure Compiler, meaning much of third party libraries and development-specific code ends up weighing less / nothing in production builds

- sets and set operations built in, along with tree walking, diffing and string utility libraries, included with the distribution

- no more defensive copying, thanks to immutability everywhere
Rich Hickey: Implementation Details of Core.async Channels
> I don't understand why people here try to explain very basic things that just don't work out in the real world as they would in a 9th grade math textbook.

Then please explain to us, what they taught you in 9th grade. Also, why are you hiding behind a throwaway if you are so sure of your points?
Please let people work where they're good at: Communicating with people. No need for smart-anything here.
You could just reinstall Windows every year instead of buying new hardware.
Ask HN: Can I sue this contracting company?
As a consulting company, we are working for a big bank in US. There are few other consulting companies working for this client at their campus. There is one particular consulting company whose employees are creating lot of problems. As they are working for about 5 years so they got good hold on lot of things. If you ask them something via email then they rarely reply. If you schedule a meeting then they also rarely show up. When you figure out everything by yourself and check-in your code then they complain about lot of things like code structure is different, this is not right, etc. They include lot of employees from client side in those emails. In the essence, they are on-purpose trying to degrade everyone else.

I finished 3 items during a sprint but they complained to management that I only worked on a small item. I met one of the seniors managers and told him everything but when I was exiting from that meeting I saw that manager was using a diary from their company so I do not expect much action from him.

I have seen pictures of this consulting company's employees at linkedin and glassdoor. One thing that struck me is that all of their employees are of one particular race. If the parent is unethical then you can't expect much from their kids.

Given these circumstances, what do you suggest - can I sue them for being so difficult, making a hostile and stressful environment at work and also making my job so difficult? Also, for being unethical.

Thank you.
Anyone upset with this could just cancel their prime membership and stop doing business with Amazon. It is easier now than ever because they no longer compete on price. It is almost always the case that I find the same things cheaper on eBay, Newegg or jet.com. Their decision to drop price zombie from their affiliate program would seem to confirm that they no longer intend to compete on price. I assume that is how they fund Prime Video.
Thanks for the info. I'm looking at this from the perspective of designing a backend datastore and query engine for a knowledge system. The idea is to encode a spatial data structure (similar to Google's S2 Geometry Library [0]) that enables content-based addressing of non-spatial data types for data fusion.

One idea is to make a lattice of unicode characters that builds up to combination of words a la Formal Concept Analysis [1] -- on one level, the characters compose into words that represent properties (key/value pairs), and then the KV pairs compose into higher-level objects. Each property and higher-level object is encoded with an integer derived from its constituent objects/properties, and each object is encoded in such a way that its constituent objects/properties can be determined algorithmically from the integer without having to traverse the structure [2] -- ANS encoding [3] embedded into a space with a VI metric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_of_information) [4] might make this work. Have you played with this type of design?

[0] http://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/googles-s2-geometry-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuxm929tIRY

[2] http://www09.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0506/p47-articl...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Numeral_Systems

[4] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X06...
> OK, she is elderly and some discount may be fine

And who reimburses the rail company for those discounts?

> the girl on my left has payed 45% less than me (OK, she has a special discount as a woman and booked the ticket in large advance)

"she has a special discount as a woman" - What? I call BS.

"booked the ticket in large advance" - better. And what's stopping you from doing the same?

> (OK, because he is an employee of the railway or of the government)

And how many of those there are?

> Simplified, I am the only one that is paying the full fare.

Simplified, you are someone who exaggerates to use as an excuse for whinging about non existent unfairness.
Appearing to genuinely care is a good pose for someone who has to collect interviews. I'm sure journalists have to fake concern to get the information they want. These HR people have to be empathetic so they succeed at getting the interviews. It doesn't have to go farther than that.

I agree that when events occur, people should make their own records.
> I don't know when you read my comment, but I edited it (I think) some ~15 minutes before you posted your comment to clarify that I wasn't referring to stacking arbitrary hashes. Read it again. I was referring to stacking hashes that are already thought to be cryptographically secure.

It still doesn't make a difference in my argument. My point is that you gain no added strength via a stacked hash implementation because it's as weak as the first hash in the sequence, and that it is potentially worse because you can also attack it via attacks on later hashes in the sequence.

A stacked hash is as weak as the first hash in the sequence--this should be obvious. A collision in the first hash function will obviously cascade into all later ones, so your stacked hash function is as weak, or strong, as the first hash function. That means you gain no strength.

What I was showing via an obvious/contrived example (to keep the math easy) was that it is also possible to attack a stacked hash via weaknesses in later hashes in the sequence. I wasn't (I thought obviously) implying that you'd intentionally choose a hash that was weak for a middle one--but there are all sorts of hashes we once thought were secure that we don't think are secure anymore.

> I feel like you should already realize this (in which case I don't get why you're posting the comment), but while that's a cute mathematical existence proof, it's totally irrelevant as it's not something that can just happen out of the blue.

Fundamentally, all modern crypto relies heavily on math. I made a "cute mathematical existence proof" to make it obvious how stacking ciphers can weaken an encryption system. The reality is that exactly how ciphers interact is a subtle and hard to measure point, but it isn't safe to assume that composing cryptosystems will be as secure as either cryptosystem on its own, because features of the two systems could interact to weaken the overall security of the cryptosystem.
The key take-away for me after watching this video is to not prematurely jump to conclusions. I stopped right after the team photo praising the teamwork first time around. While impressed by the teamwork and skills of manual labor, I was unimpressed by the roughness of the forged product. Only after reading some of the comments here did I realize that was not the end of the story. More stills at the end of the video show that the end product after further milling is indeed high quality to tight spec.

I feel like this experience of making a premature judgement may have some relevance to understanding China stories in general. The crudeness of some of the implements fit with my pre-conceived bias that the product was not going to be high quality, even though the skills of the labor involved should have alerted me that there should be sufficient value-add to justify the investment in said skills. I even thought this was some weird craftsmanship demo.
the ticketing system is completely decentralised and the alliances did for to improve customer service and ease of use. Without them you would have to buy a different tickets for tramway, underground and regional trains, since they are probably completely different operators.

EDIT: it's really complicated. One ticket for all is not that easy because there are massive pricing differences depending on the needed infrastructure and subsidies.
From experience, I can say that even if it isn't cheaper than flying, it's definitely less convenient. Amsterdam and Paris are close and popular so the trains run well, but try Echt (NL) and Meckenheim (GER) by public transport. Or Echt to Modane (FR). As soon as you cross borders it's a nightmare.

The German trains website (db.de) does a surprisingly good job (after recently having a terrible experience with Belgian and, three years ago, French public transport websites) of piecing together connections, but that also means it'll happily tell you go take a bus, e.g.: bus-train-train-bus-train-train.
Side note:

> I often find myself in the browser console, exploring data scraped off webpages (often from Wikipedia tables)

Are you aware of Wikidata? I don't have a lot of familiarity with it, only that some (a lot?) of the programmer types who were drawn to Wikipedia in its infancy have shifted their focus to Wikidata nowadays. As I understand it, Wikidata is meant to be the data source behind those tables that you're scraping.

(Forgive me if you're already involved with Wikidata and one of your primary uses for scraping is in pursuit of migrating content to Wikidata.)
>> ﻿ We parents tell our children that when you know you’ve lost an argument or a race, the right thing to do is to be a good sport and to “get ’em next time.” But if there is no next time, or you know that every next time you are going to be in the loser’s lane again, what’s the use of being a good sport? It would make you look even more ignorant, and more like a loser, to pretend like you think you have a chance. The game has been rigged against you. Why not piss on the field before you storm off? Why not stick up your finger at the whole goddamned game?
>Management theories are organised around four basic ideas, repeated ad nauseam in every business book you read or business conference you attend, that bear almost no relation to reality.

This a weak premise whose scant evidence is primarily composed of pop business airport books. And the idea that the vast, diverse, and nebulous world of management can be distilled to four ideas is a joke.
>Burning people out is a sign of organizational... corruption.

Well yes, but there are many ownership models that indeed impose top-down orders on the management to implement totally stupid labor decisions.
Founders do write bad pitch decks a lot, not putting their best foot forward. Of course, deck writing is a smaller part in overall success - but any structured info on this is welcome.
The problem lies in business schools and degrees like the MBA.

Check out the faculty list at Harvard Business school [link below]. I randomly looked at profiles of 14 of them and not a single one had real world business experience. If there are any who do have real world experience, it's often superficial.

To carry on this article's analogy, business schools are the Catholic church of 1500: incestuous, detached, and self-serving.

Harvard Busisness school faculty: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/browse.aspx
Evernote reverses privacy policy that allows employees to read users' notes
Nothing new. Let me up the challenge for you. All of the stuff you've said here and more can be better represented at http://bibviz.com/

There are great answers to your questions above and more, but in my experience those questions are usually not asked in earnest because once I've given an answer more questions are thrown at me.

Let me pick out the last question I asked in earnest before becoming a Christian. There were many before it, but this was the last one I had:

http://bibviz.com/how-did-judas-die-sab.html

This is what's called a paradox. It appears to be a contradiction. A reasonable explanation that resolves the paradox is Judas hung himself and died. The body decomposed, fell on the rocks and his bowels gushed out. This is reasonable because in the following verse it explains why the property is called "The field of Blood".

So what do you think? Is that reasonable? If I fork that website, I would turn the red line indicating a contradiction to blue, meaning that there is a reasonable explanation.

Virtually every argument I've even been thrown I've been able to find an answer, but most people don't even know the questions little alone the answers.
Cheapest option AMS - PAR - AMS 4th jan - 11th jan
Thalys: 156 euro
Transavia: 80 euro

Cheapest option AMS - PAR - AMS 15th mar - 22nd mar
Thalys: 64 euro
Transavia: 68 euro

I'm actually positively surprised about the second price for Thalys! I always got smacked with the very high prices like the first one and chose a plane every time.
UPDATE: It looks like eBay refunded him because of the reaction here on HN

http://matthewsag.com/?p=1649
>pedantic much?

Not at all.

>It started out as a pure Scheme, then "took a practical turn" as the parent said.

False.

PLT Scheme, like all serious schemes, started out as Scheme extended for practical use.

Racket, what PLT Scheme became, isn't an extended Scheme: it is a different language with its own semantics. That's not good, bad, or pedantic, but it is true.

>You can still make it act like a pure Scheme with a #lang directive.

No, you can make it use RnRS. The difference is that in actual Schemes, the language you write in is extended RnRS, not an entirely different language.

At the end of the day, calling Racket a Scheme is like calling Java a C: they look similar, but they are radically different under the surface.
Well, cloud provider has the decryption key
Right. I was just making a point that the money supply can be reigned in without much manpower.

The real idea is not to stop making money, it's to put a lid on the production speed. An armed guard that only allows 5% more production each month than the previous month.

This gives the government an enormous budget that never runs out, and at the same time money will continue to hold its value on a week-to-week basis.

Now tell me: Is this plan doomed because of some economic fact I'm unaware of, or is it doomed because of corruption and politicking?
If you're looking for an iPad mount, I recommend the Levo brand tablet floor stand. Very stable, very flexible, and can hold a 12.9" iPad Pro inside a rugged case no problem.
It's so easy for humans to anthropomorphize animals and believe that they have thoughts, feelings and inner lives similar to that of humans. We do it every day when looking at cute cat videos on the internet and imagining that the cats are laughing, or smiling or crying based on superficial similarities with human emotions. I think it's so tempting for our species to project our inner words onto the animal kingdom.

I think that's why so few biologists are willing to consider this area, it looks like they are projecting their biases and ways of thinking onto their subjects of study, which wouldn't be conductive to their research.
The U.S. needs an explicit constitutional right to privacy.
Could have sworn that the evidence towards non-locality have been piling up over the years.
The ARM port presently boots all the way to the startup screen, but then it halts because it has no way of reading the boot medium, because the USB stack hasn't been ported to ARM. Patches accepted! :)
how about stop hiring people who require managers?

you're all idiots.
How India's Demonetization Is Affecting Its Startups
Or did the privatised rail system allow people to more reasonably travel long distances for work, allowing people to move further out, allowing cities to grow and require more workers and thus raising house prices further out with increased demand?

Personally, I'm not really in favour of the franchise system - a concession system a la London Overground would work better in many places (inc Scotland) IMO - but I don't think it's as simple as "the franchises are doing exactly what British Rail would've done".
It ought to
Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
Not yet, unless they tell the drivers to sign up for welfare benefits on top of their job to make ends meet.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
This is why I enjoyed reading The Economist. I might not have agreed with their editorial slant, but I loved how they didn't care much for human interest stories (or at least marginalised them) and did report on things slowly getting better all around the world.

(Stopped reading not because I was discontent, rather because of a lack of time.)
A Tour of Nix
Merely allowing normal currency free currency trading rather than the strange mess they have at the moment and dropping price controls would fix a lot of the problems. Also allowing largely free trade and freedom of doing business and charging a normal market price for gas would help.

They could also apologize to the likes of Maria Lourdes Afiuni and try to reinstate rule of law and return some of the confiscated businesses to their owners.

Venezuela used to be the richest country in South America and has possibly the worlds largest oil reserves. It's taken some impressively bad governance to get it to its present state.
It scores at least 0.7 points though. That said, it loses points elsewhere (as do all languages).
Thank you for responding. The parent comment has to be one of the worst HN comments I have ever read.

It is important that people who exaggerate and lie are held accountable for their words.
The article can be summarized by this line:

"Japan is considering building a $1 billion detector called Hyper-Kamiokande, which would be between eight and 17 times bigger than Super-K and would be sensitive to proton lifetimes of 10^35 years after two decades."

All this to possibly detect a single proton decay in 20 years. Now that's some serious commitment!
Ask HN: Why all websites are not statically generated?
I want to know the different reasons as to why you may still use dynamic page generators as opposes to static web generators like Jekyll, Hugo and Lektor?

Don't statically generated sites save a lot of computational resources?
So, synthesizing several of the threads here...

While it's true that a language which has genuine interest and activity will be represented on the list, languages which require much boilerplate, or which are confusing, will skew upward in the list.

Data is tough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558740

(The actual PDF link won't load at the moment)

E.g. - I'm pretty sure the study above attributed errors in V8 to "Javascript", even though V8 is the interpreter written in C++ or C.

Still, if you throw an appropriate uncertainty range on the results, it's much better than no information about where the action is.
This is not sustainable. This is why pizza delivery no longer advertises specific delivery guarantees; all it does is create inattentive drivers who cause accidents.
Sounds like you're a sane person :) Respectful, honest disagreements I like. Drop me a line at immortal@coderpath.com.
Why would they do that?

Maybe they just want to get out of the house and do something useful?

Otherwise if it was for $$$s, and they aren't poor without a safety net, seems like they'd be better off learning higher value skills and getting a better job.
Because a substantial portion of these fathers are incarcerated due to issues with our criminal justice system?

If the right were indeed looking more broadly I would expect them to be advocates for justice system reform instead of "law and order."
As someone who has used hackerone on both sides (managing and reporting bugs) I'd suggest starting a private program first. Select a small group of researches known to provide good reports and wait for them to start rolling in. Use this as a pilot, if you see value in what's being reported keep it open.

Keep in mind you're going to see a lot of reports in the beginning, it will level off as you apply fixes. You'll need to prioritize these bug fixes in your organization, if you do not fix them within a time period the researcher has the ability to disclose the bug publicly.

I recommend you review your program guidelines with a lawyer before starting it.
UBI won't get rid of the rest of the welfare state, so it just ends up being another transfer program.

SF is not going to give up their $250M / year in "homeless services", and no government department is going to give up their special snowflake limited-eligibility programs when that is the source of all of their employment and power.

For context, in SF alone for one sector (homeless services), "Eight city departments oversee at least 400 contracts to 76 private organizations, most of them nonprofits, that deal with homelessness." I would be unsurprised if employment from administering these services was higher than the number of homeless "clients".

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...
The page won't load for me, it said, because my browser, Opera Mini 4.x, is not supported. "But I'm browsing on a Nokia feature phone," I vehemently object. "No exploits will run. Even ads don't."
The Linux kernel might not be “very UNIX-ish” but the GNU/Linux integrated system clearly adheres to the basic UNIX philosophy (multi-user, everything-is-a-file, userland shell, non-mandatory non-privileged GUI).

Not all OSes have these same foundational pillars. What I meant to express is that Linux does whereas others (as disjoint as Genera, Windows NT, BeOS Amiga) don't.
This makes me think of the terra project ! http://terralang.org

Terra looks nicer to me, mostly because of syntax, but I can see those two projects having about the same power