skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A response to those that said there was no evidence of NSA disrupting security past contents of Snowden leaks. I had actually been critiquing their activities for a long time before that since they provably weakened security. I cited NSA's own security recommendations and practices to prove that. Dropping it here for anyone that hears the same crap and wants to counter it without just referencing Snowden leaks.

Also, a few claims come from this testimony from one of the pioneers in INFOSEC and high-assurance security:

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...
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The thing that pop-science stories about GUT always seem to fail to explain is- what does it mean for a symmetry to break at a certain point in time? In the present day physical symmetries (isotopy of space, say, or conservation laws) are just static laws of nature; what was going on in the first microseconds that could mess with the laws of physics itself?

...I'm sure my question contains within it at least several misconceptions, but let that just be an illustration of how confused this kind of article leaves laypeople.
Parent comment is 63 quadrillion Joules.
I could remember seeing some photo, cannot remember where.
> DB's Standard fare is far from their cheapest. I have a BahnCard 25 (so a 25% discount)

Well the price of the bahncard should be added to the price you pay per trip, so the question is, how much is that card? Then people can figure out for themselves how often they'd commute and whether they'd save anything.

And still, 25% off of €116 vs. €22 doesn't sound too appealing.

Not criticizing the rest of your post, e.g. I agree that competition is good and available discounts should surely be included in comparisons!
Looks like I had been pointing at the wrong bash exe the whole time... Thanks!
>I guess it is safe to assume on-board jobs don't have a bright future. Those are up for automation.

If neoliberals really believed the "magic robots are coming to steal everybody's job" story they're pushing they'd not have a problem with raising public spending. Automation is inherently deflationary and the more of a 'danger' it is to jobs the larger the deflationary impact it will have.

You'll notice that they're still scaremongering about inflation, recommending against increasing infrastructure spending and blaming the lack of jobs on magic robots rather than austerity.
There is a keep for pebble that was developed for a while [0]. The developer released the source code, so perhaps it can be modified to work with a custom note API. It still works for me on the original pebble with latest firmware and shopping is the primary reason I still use it.

There is also WatchNote [1] (no longer developed) and Infinite Notes [2].

[0] https://forums.pebble.com/t/android-root-keep-for-pebble-dis...
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.geekasmus.w...
[2] https://infnotes.hern.as/#/
The penetration test that would have reliably generated the same outcome as this bug bounty program would have cost ~1/6th as much as the bounty did.
Paying one engineer's worth of salary to bug bounties isn't overspending, it's freelancing
Same here, but in college. Got the Cyrillic alphabet in a couple weeks but it was by far the easiest part of a very difficult semester.

I switched to French.
You'd like Nix. It does just this. Each package declares dependencies on specific versions of other packages. That dependency is expressed as a hash of the inputs to the package, not a semver number. This means that multiple versions of a package can be installed at once, but only copy of each version is installed, unlike npm2.

Security patches are handled by automatically generating new packages that use the patch:

1. Package A relies on Dependency 1, version 1.0.0
2. Dependency 1 is found to have a security problem, so 1.0.1 is issued
3. We generate Package A', which depends on A, but replaces Dep 1 with version 1.0.1
4. Eventually a new version of Package A is released, which depends on Dep 1 at 1.0.1, or maybe a later version

If Package B is introduced with a dependency on the insecure Dependecy 1, only Package B is affected.

IED is at least partially inspired by Nix.
Very well put. I think this is an extremely insightful summary of the state of ClojureScript for the web today. I feel I'm still waiting for another leap forward.
Wow, pedantic much? It started out as a pure Scheme, then "took a practical turn" as the parent said. You can still make it act like a pure Scheme with a #lang directive.

It's also kind of funny that a handful of major, practical implementations is considered a low amount. Number of Python implementations? Between one and three, depending on definition. Number of Javas? 2 or 3 again. Number of Clojure implementations? One. Javascript? Half a dozen at most.

Seems to me like the problem is standardization between these implementations, not overall number.
The microarchitecture of a simple CPU
Amazon workers in Scotland sleeping in tents near warehouse to save money
No lie, I would watch this up and until any rape or murder happened and was not immediately punished, or became habitual. Is this not what we want to see? The participants are beyond willing (112k £ to enter), and consenting adults, so I see no problem with this. Curious if they ever actually get it made, looks like a legal nightmare, even with a pile of indemnity agreements and a tolerant russian government. I am not sure if they even have those things yet.
I think what 'xal is trying to say is that this bounty had more to do with security marketing than with accomplishing a particular tactical security goal. Their comment even concludes with a note that most or all the findings were accounted for with a sandboxing design they'd already planned.
A friend recently recommended the 7-week tuition-free Data Science intensive program at Insight Data Science (http://insightdatascience.com/).

The program is specifically for PhDs who are in your position, aka moving from academia to industry. I believe the course is available in Boston, New York and remotely (not 100% sure of the latter).

I'm in a similar boat. I studied Economics in undergrad, but I only have a Masters (in an unrelated field) so I didn't meet the critieria.
Which rules out Macs or Windows as "real computers" for you, then?
I agree you could harden a cryptocurrency, I was merely pointing out that Bitcoin is not. (And would require reaching consesus or having a fork to become one.)

Further, Im not sure that there's an anonymization network that could sustain being the consensus network backbone without also leaking the information to a pervasive, persistent adversary.

Things like TOR likely can already be penetrated by the US or China or Russia, and things like FreeNet are likely too slow to reach global consesus fast enough to prevent diverging chains.

Also, DoSing the network doesn't require you deanonymize them, merely that you can fill most of their anonymous routes with traffic (or that you can drop packets along them). This is problematic, because the network fundamentally must publish routes. The underlying architecture isn't meant to operate in truly adverse conditions.
hm.. why not install unity8? should work better on tablets
It's easy to turn an acyclic graph into a bunch of directories, or to turn a cyclic graph into a bunch of directories and symlinks.

If you allow side-by-side versions then the only remaining failure case is a dependency that doesn't exist.

Nothing to rethink there.
Because the bible says so. And, it has always been the taboo in biology where biologists are a tad more reverent to religions than in other science.

Bibles says so: else eating/using animals would be a sin, and a lot of human «non virtuous behaviour» could be acceptable and animalism would be almost acceptable.

If human beings where animals (and animals considered conscious) monotheism most important axiom would disappear and most of our social order.
Elon Musk is launching a tunnel digging company to reduce traffic in cities
Google studying ways to deal with offensive search suggestions and results
Depending on VM_OVERCOMMIT_MEMORY, Linux might give out address space well beyond the size of the pagefile, hoping many of those pages are never written to (e.g., most threads never get anywhere near the bottom of their default stacks).
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I strongly urge you to find security management people at existing startups to talk to before starting a bug bounty program at your own startup. There are things about them that are good, but those things can be counterintuitive.

I haven't had to manage one (yet), but because we'll no doubt be doing that for several startups this year I've been talking to friends about what their bounty programs have been like, and I've learned a lot of stuff. Frankly, bounties are something I might push back on for a lot of startups.
What about re-frame is "a mess"? Pretty tiny API surface, solely aimed at forcing the best practices of unidirectional data flow / single source of truth. Have you ever looked at what the same thing entails in JavaScript, ie Redux?
I think I was being sarcastic. Publishing this post has been a draining experience for me and I don't think I can be trusted to make coherent arguments about this issue for a while now. :-/ I didn't expect it to pick up the way it did since this was a re-post after a barely noticeable first attempt.
> mitfahrtgelegenheit

carpooling.

For the non-Germans on this site (I'm Dutch, the word is close enough that I understand it).
It violates assumption #4. With nix, you can have multiple versions of a package installed.
The year in the title should be 1979, not 2009. This was Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture in 1979.
Productivity wise it was mainly good at prioritizing incoming information and calendars.

You can set the pebble to only notify on emails from a particular filter/tag/sender which was great for alerting you to time sensitive emails in meetings and the lab when your hands are full.

Ditto for calendar alerts.

Customizable canned messages were great for this as well.
How many times do you need to repeat the pen test to catch new bugs in new releases?
Number of Clojure implementations? One.

At least three:

- Clojure on the JVM: https://github.com/clojure/clojure

- ClojureScript (JavaScript): https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

- Clojure on the CLR: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
Amazon is the new Walmart.
Have you looked at the Untangled framework? It seems to be exactly what you're looking for. https://untangled-web.github.io/untangled/
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Actually, his 4th assumption is somewhat broken. A package manager that does automatic upgrades can choose to upgrade all affected packages as a some sort of transaction always keeping a single version and all dependencies resolved without an NP problem.
I disagree. I hated C and found LISP's style weird when I used it for a BASIC-like 4GL. I used LISP since it made it trivial to do parsing, transformations, rapid prototyping, and extraction to C for portability. I still effectively coded in a structured & imperative style in BASIC. I only knew enough C... a subset of it... to convert the BASIC commands.

So, I could program super-fast in a high-level BASIC with C output. LISP was worth using to reduce effort as I have no idea how I'd do all of that in just BASIC or C with what little experience I had.
The outcome of the project altered the design of Shopify Scripts to moot most of the bug classes people reported. So: not that often.
https://d3js.org/
The symmetry breaking should be thought of as a phase transition that occurs as the temperature of the universe changes, like liquid freezing and becoming ice. The universe was initially very hot, but rapidly cooled down as it expanded and went through phase transitions when it passed the "freezing temperature", i.e the temperature at which the laws of physics prefer to spontaneously break the symmetry.
I have had this enabled for a few months (basically as soon as I discovered it). The problem is that it seems to be working off of a static list of bots that is updated at intervals. Kind of like the need to update virus definitions on your AV software way back in the day. The end result of this is that instead of seeing referrals from "share.button.to" and the like, I still see them, just under a different name.
> The tooling is in a completely different league

I keep hearing about Microsoft SQL's tooling. Can someone explain to me, at length even, what "tooling" is?

This is coming from someone who has written dozens of web applications for PostgreSQL. These are business applications with complex rules and complex SQL like window functions, recursive queries, PL/pgSQL functions, and so on. The only tools I had were vim and psql, and I've been completely happy.

Every time I have had to write an application that uses Microsoft SQL (because it was already set up for a related application) I cringe, because it is a hundred times harder.
My friend. I'm sad to say, that's not how science works.
Why would you donate money to a business that, you know, sells products?
A an even better plant would be for the issuer to give 2% to the Linux Foundation (or any other non-profit of choice or even a mix), without making the merchant pay for it. The issuers are awash in money.
That's a good point. Combining actions that you already execute with habits you would like to develop can be a powerful thing.

To take the gym example further, I realized that I needed to be doing more cardio (any cardio at all), but the treadmill was the most boring activity on earth. I could only spend a few minutes on it before getting bored. To combat this, I started listening to an audio language lesson in a foreign language that I'd been meaning to learn while walking on the treadmill.

Pretty soon, I ended up spending 20+ minute chunks of time on the treadmill while learning my target language, which amplified both of the habits that I wanted.
40% of college students are enrolled in places with fewer than 1,000 people
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Right, which existed to let people buy things they wanted, like pot. He didn't sell near schools, or fight turf wars, etc.

Our silly laws, and the greed of the blackmailer, created this situation. The person attempting to pull the trigger is nearly blameless.
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AFAIK it is not just Germany trains that are a mess (regarding fares), it is the same all over the world.

What I really hate is that every time I take a train (in Italy) I can be sure that:

1) the lady in front of me payed 30% less than me (OK, she is elderly and some discount may be fine)

2) the guy on my right payed 25% less than me (OK, he is a student, and has one of those cards)

3) 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)

4) the guy in businessman suit on the seat on the other side of the aisle has paid anyething between 50%, 80% or 100% less than me (OK, because he is an employee of the railway or of the government)

5) etc.

Simplified, I am the only one that is paying the full fare.
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Because every successful fraud makes the crime that much more attractive and turns it into a bigger problem. I may not be able to do much, but I have no desire to have my identity stolen and I'd rather put up with a small inconvenience than trust in a site I know to be utterly incompetent based on their setup alone.

If you won't allow characters like < and > in passwords and you have a maximum length, I thereby presume you're storing them in plain text in your DB and that you lack the competence to avoid XSS.

Having helped people from big companies address the findings in PCI audits they bring me, I know just how bad some of them are when they should know better. It should not take a highly paid consultant to tell people to disable export ciphers and they shouldn't have to tell anyone the same things on different ports two years in a row.

So yeah, I don't care if I'm liable for fraud or not, I don't want to make it easier and I don't want to be the guy whose identity gets stolen, nor to reward sites that make it easy for criminals to thrive.
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I dunno what "trains are half as good" is supposed to mean, but on the line from Berlin south we often have those old run down ICE 2, that really could use a makeover...
This reads like a Hells Angels book report, with a strained and tenuous connection to Trump. Sadly, had the author read more than a single book by the author, he would have grasped a much firmer connection to the hip association of HST and the rise of Trump.
Alternate version of the CSC258 course taught by Eric Hehner: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/258/
COBOL on Cogs[1].

[1]: http://www.coboloncogs.org/
Nix itself isn't suitable for many things, but the ideas those guys came up with are great and work well.
Delivery rate ~ one box every 2 or 3 minutes

> He starts each day with about 260 boxes, which he has to drop off at maybe 200 addresses across up to 80 miles in Southern California. Factoring in the time needed to load and gas up his white van, which sometimes sports a magnetized Amazon logo on the back door, Echeverria has to hit one home every two minutes, on average.

> Prime Now orders — an Amazon service launched in 2014 that allows customers to get a product within hours of clicking on it. She says Amazon gave her up to 72 packages to deliver in four hours, meaning she had to deposit one package roughly every three minutes.

Remote tracking via Android app:

> Amazon gives him an Android phone with an app that scans packages and determines his route. He says it is also used to track how much of a dent he’s made in his delivery load that day. He has learned not to stop for lunch because, he said, Amazon employees will call his dispatcher at any point in the day if they notice that he’s behind schedule.

Complaint threshold of 0.2%:

> Amazon does not want any individual driver to exceed a ratio of two complaints for every 1,000 packages they’re tasked with delivering. But he said that Amazon does not instruct LMS to fire drivers who have had a trend of high complaints. LMS independently starts a disciplinary process, he said, starting with retraining, if a driver has a high number of citations for two consecutive weeks.
UPS drivers have a union contract that caps the amount of hours a week they can work. Last I heard, that was 60 hours/wk.

Once they time out, UPS needs another driver. From what I hear in my area, they're way understaffed.
It's not Free Software, but Frink is my goto "calculator on steroids". Not sure if it's suited to what you have in mind.

https://frinklang.org/
I think what he is getting at is while being an 'Engineer' definitely is (a profession), a 'Google Engineer' is not.
As far as I'm aware MS are still operating their Linux patents extortion racket. What on earth were the Linux Foundation thinking when they allowed MS to become a member? It seems the Linux Foundation is little more than a corporate jamboree.
Check out Rum: https://github.com/tonsky/rum
>>If you consider stationary/envelopes...

And moving envelopes are even more expensive
Java became the language of the web?
Where's this apology?
At least the routes on Amtrak that I take in the US don't seem to have huge variances based on booking ahead. Fares do vary and the prime slots for business travel tend to be pricier. (And the Acela carries a significant premium.)

But it doesn't seem to be like what I've both observed and been told is the case in the UK where last minute/flexible/etc. fares can easily be triple what they are if you book a month or even a couple of weeks ahead of time.
This is an question I've always had about proton decay: if virtual particles can spontaneously appear anywhere at anytime, why couldn't some virtual quark appear in the midst of the three that make up the proton causing it to fall apart? What keeps
The constituent components of a proton immune from this behavior?
It does look like there are a lot of entrepreneurial and also some employment positions which are not suitable for average people, I agree.
But that's what the typical Java developer indeed would write :-(

"Just in case"
That's because it's a direct re-publish of an answer from Quora (note the "contributor"). The decrease in quality may be that the Forbes you knew was sold [1] in late 2014, and the current state of the company seems chaotic at best.

[1]: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/your-money/in-forbes-me...
Interesting approach to marketing, I'll give them that. Will be interesting to see how it works out for them in the medium-long term.
From the article: "Twenty-six volunteers (13 male, 13 female) with an average age of 25 participated in the study"

That's a very small sample size, so I wouldn't put too much confidence in the results before more robust research is done.
one problem in germany is that we have many high-speed trains but not many high speed tracks. High speed trains are really competitive even when you want to travel from berlin to munich (Just look at the travelling times when VDE8 will be finished). Since pseudo-privatising we neglected our rail infrastructure quite a bit (just look at the frequent complete halts to VD8), the upside was that the DB was forced to run really efficient, but not sustainable.
Why would you post something so blatantly false and easy to refute?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
Developing using a remote computer is not developing in the iPad itself.
The four dead ideas according to the article:
1) Business is more competitive that ever.
2) We live in an age of entrepreneurialism.
3) Business is getting faster.
4) Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
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More Orwellian censorship perhaps.

I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it?

This reminds me of the time Google manipulated their SERP to hide holocaust revisionist information.
Traveled for the first time.

Lived alone for the first time.

Experimented a lot and found a magic diet.

33% bump in pay.

Learned a bunch of important shit.

Fallback: Need to be more consistent with sleep. Biggest goal next year is to finish everything on the first try, without falling in and out of interest/commitment. No more half-finished books or projects.
There's a start for this in Julia[0], where custom string literals mean that you can actually write APL in native Julia:

julia> apl"ι5"
1:5

julia> apl"+/ι5"
15

You can even just get the function that represents the `+/` operation and apply it to any Julia object:

julia> apl"+/"(rand(100))
52.17866879741195

0. https://github.com/shashi/APL.jl
I'd happily forfeit all my Christmas presents this year if internet people would all stop noising up discussions of consciousness with protests that it's ill-defined. One meaning is the opposite of unconscious. Another perfectly fine meaning is having subjective experience. Just like every other word with shades of meaning, we can tell from context - e.g. if the one using the word is a philosopher, or an anesthesiologist. Neither necessarily implies self-awareness. That's a third thing. Poorly understood, yes. Ill-defined - I just don't see it.
> But he said that Amazon does not instruct LMS to fire drivers who have had a trend of high complaints. LMS independently starts a disciplinary process, he said, starting with retraining, if a driver has a high number of citations for two consecutive weeks.

Of course they don't get fired. But after several months of "disciplinary process starting with retraining" they quit voluntarily, perhaps...
This appears to be a youtube channel that reposts other videos to get the ad revenue.

As far as I can tell this is the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NXH4Nmbvk