skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers didn't have time to move, that was the point of the late release, and why the polls were off, they didn't have time to adjust to the new information.

> Nobody gets to rerun the election in a Comey-less alternate universe and see if he changed it all. Pretending you can is self delusion.

I'm not pretending anything, you pretending that news didn't change the outcome of a close election is you being delusional.
So this won't work with emails coming from Gmail (and probably other providers) since these services cache these images on their server as soon as they receive them (and not when recipients open them) precisely to defeat this kind of tracking.

And of course, a lot of email clients only open such images on demand anyway.
LOC differ not only by the language or technical difficulty of the task, but by business requirement difficulty as well.

If, for example, they're in banking and finance, and those LOC deal with fine details of tax code... Oh boy.
Unfortunately I get what you are saying and its bleak, I try to avoid the trap with the media by reading lots of different ones and finding their sources, other stuff helps like listening to a politicians speech directly rather than opinions on that speech (YouTube * 1.5 speed is useful).

I still question whether my worldview is an accurate inference from the evidence prevented but that slaps bang into philosophy and navel gazing.
I've always felt that the damage done by technical debt was abysmal and frequently underestimated.

- opportunity cost for the product since you aren't fast enough to chase new revenue channels, this cost is almost invisible,

- the product can become plainly unable to run on newer platforms because of debt,

- unpleasantness of the codebase that will lead to loosing engineers.

It's a slow and excruciating process.
If he really pushed it, how much of a swing could he generate by biasing Facebook to increase his likability?
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Cloud Security Monitoring at Auth0 – Part II
You're correct. I read the principal incorrectly. The Peter principal requires that a person is competent before being promoted. The Dilbert principle doesn't apply either as management has too much power. There must be a principle where politically the most incompetent person you promote owes you the biggest favors.
CEO is still the same. Presto developers have been laid off.

I don't know, its hard to describe how much Opera-when-they-still-made-their-rendering-engine-inhouse is or is not Opera-using-webkit-and-bought-by-Chinese.
I'm pretty sure the number of individual web devs is vastly lower than the number of consumers.
Security isn't either a scale or a binary; from one point of view a large number of binary values.

Either your security will or won't be compromised by a given threat model. This is binary, but there's lots of different threat models one could have.

e.g. If you care about the Russian government impersonating you, it's a different threat model than if you care about the US government reading your communication, which is a different threat model than if you care about a private actor encrypting all your data and holding it ransom.

This is then complicated by the fact that we can't see into the future (sufficiently complicated code is likely to have bugs, we need to predict if those bugs will be exploited before they are fixed; large government attackers may or may not know about math that the public crypto community doesn't; which governments will successfully compel a third party to do various things or reveal various secrets &c.) so each binary value for the security becomes probabilistic.
I remember when ST came out I immediately switched to it simply because of the aesthetics. I spend most of my time staring at code, it better look good.
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Indeed, about every couple century in history we come up with some new form of government. It's only ever so incremental (hence why 'revolutions' are few and major in scope), and often has to do with adapting to new conditions (technological and social change mostly).
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I am not familiar with the history of art, so I wonder what is the first recorded occurrence of "this is not art because it breaks the very definition of arts"
This assumes that people are currently being used to maximum effect. Most products and services are not so perfect that they couldn’t be improved in some obvious way.

The shortage I see is in the number of organizations willing to pay for extra people right now, regardless of job threats. (And by extension, the number of customers willing to pay much more, to ensure that companies can easily afford more workers.)

Imagine what companies could do RIGHT NOW to improve society, if only they were willing:

— Make things faster (e.g. serve lunch in less time; make people wait less for “representatives” on the phone; etc.).

— Make things higher quality (e.g. more testers; more “polish” in products; more customization options).

— Make work suck less (it is hard to imagine overloading people with 80-hour work weeks if the company employs more workers).
Gallina (The programming language used in Coq) -> Theorem proving assistance
Something that just struck me. There is absolutely no mention of Margaret Hamilton in this article. Didn't she lead the team that wrote the Apollo software?

Her name is the very first one in the original documentation:
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
From the article:

> I remember cooling the early CPUs with simple heatsinks; no fan. Those days are long gone.

Interestingly, for desktop machines, this is not quite correct... there is still a "fanless" movement going. My roommate has a PC that doesn't have any physical moving components: no fans, no hard drives.

Fanless designs are not space-efficient, though; see this fanless CPU heatsink: https://www.quietpc.com/nof-icepipe which is rated for up to a 95W TDP CPU - enough to run an Intel i7-6700K, which has a TDP rating of 91W.

If you're willing to build a very quiet machine instead of a silent machine, liquid cooling with very quiet fans (that eventually ramp up based on temps) is very workable, and means your machine is effectively silent (i.e. at or around ambient noise levels) 99% of the time.
Amazon Machine Instance [1]. Its the name Amazon uses for the virtual machine image running on AWS.

1: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html
Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13418654 and marked it off-topic.
They tried that mate. But it turns out it's hard to find credible weapons experts that are total hacks with no qualms about lying. When it became clear that their chosen expert was going to expose the fact that there were indeed NO WMD's, he promptly died shortly before his report was due to be published:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)

By comparison, posting on online forums can be done very easily by anyone of any character.
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I think you missed the forest for the trees - the author clearly states that a quantitative approach to understanding turnover is needed and that everyone knows "The costs are high, so try to minimize turnover. It's simple." but it's hard to take action on a qualitative indicator. He then presents what appears to be a reasonable equation to estimate how much turnover costs a company.
although I'd be less rigid about the particular structure of the arguments.

My reasoning was for conpatibility and consistency. If everyone makes up their own argument structure, it becomes very difficult to maintain and puts the onus on the developers to remember which components use which structure. I'm not really asking for much beyond standardising that the first argument of an instanced event of subscription query is the instance id.
Not really, the page is located on slate.com, that's the canonical location, and google is adding a secondary location that is confusing and adds very little benefit. AMP provides a lot of benefits that do not depend on google hosting the page in addition to the canonical location.
I don't think many orgs actually quantify the cost which is the point the article is trying to make. Figure out what it costs _you_.
"Their estimates did not include potential costs and investments required to deploy the technology."

well, of course not... because then there would be no dramatic teaser headline. Accenture money grab here - presumably they've positioned themselves accordingly already?
It's not the right camel if all you wanted is a horse.

Nice line though, made me smile.
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I don't quite understand how you're putting a moral judgement on outsourcing which is simply the purchase of a service. Certainly if a specific company is using slave or even child labor that is terrible and they should be boycotted. There have been several cases of business suffering real consequences. I am sure that they have not escaped your attention.

Anyway, its wrong to say business ethics account for nothing. Companies can and do self-regulate. e.g. http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-023.pdf
I wouldn't feel so safe from US Gov't backed propaganda either. The US recently enacted the "Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act," which, in following recent bill naming history in the US, seems to be more about the opposite of its title: setting up the gov't infrastructure to push it's own propoganda and controlling speech it deems as sourced from "enemies".
He's not measuring TDP directly, he's measuring the difference between TDP of two different processors. The test setups were identical except for the processor.
No, this is why I disagree with Moxie, the right UI design wouldn't have to create fatigue. It could just block by default, and then allow you to change the default with an appropriate warning.

At least that way, everyone will become aware at least once and make their choice.
See, taking a reasonable generalization and interpreting it as an absolute statement is a classic case of "assuming they're stupid".
I know a couple of hypochondriacs that actually might like this.

It also may make sense for the elderly.

For everyone else it doesn't seem to make much sense. I get a checkup once every year or two and that's pretty good.
Yeah, for an office you are generally fine by looking for "closed" headphones meaning they block out external sound and contain the headphone sound better. It's similar to noise isolation using sealed earbuds except I find it much more comfortable.
Honestly I do not know, that is just something I read in specialized forum very long time ago.

But some points:

- EU Shengen rules are pretty strictly enforced. EU even regulates "curvature of bananas". I can not imagine situation where Germany could not sell bottled water on Czech market.

- All formulation are talking about human health; "essential quality and health parameters" or "if human life is endangered". I do not think this applies to german bottled water.
Czech springs (and bottled water) are pretty high quality, and our limits were very strict even compared to international standards.

- I mentioned it as a curiosity. Because communism caused lot of pollution in here. Back in 2000 it was a huge contrast to cross borders to Germany or Austria. It is surprising that we had stricter rules on water.
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I believe this is called "Job security." I've seen it a few times including a dev deleting the source code repo and substituting all copy of a set of scripts he was responsible for with compiled binaries. This was discovered due to a platform incompatibility between one of the hosts running the script and the binary wrapping. Data was then restored from backups and dev was summarily let go.
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This makes me wonder more at the pro-Chinese position of a lot of western media, particularly the New York Times. Its fairly telling that Taiwan is most often described as a "renegade province" as opposed to a "peaceful high-income democracy", for example.

Having talked to a lot of English speaking, wealthy, educated, overseas Chinese people I am always disturbed at how many of them take communist party positions, despite being able to google "Tiananmen Square". More disturbing when they weren't even born in China.
And I believe the world is flat and USA is a made up fairytale.

More importantly, why do you post this bs on hn?
Doesn't mean it wasn't already happening at some level.
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Appeal court overturned the conviction.

Excerpts from Wiki:

> In March 2008, Bernard Farret, a deputy prosecutor in Pontoise, outside Paris, asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines and two of its employees – John Taylor, the mechanic who replaced the wear strip on the DC-10, and his manager Stanley Ford – alleging negligence in the way the repair was carried out.

> At the same time charges were laid against Henri Perrier, head of the Concorde program at Aérospatiale, Jacques Hérubel, Concorde's chief engineer, and Claude Frantzen, head of DGAC, the French airline regulator. It was alleged that Perrier, Hérubel and Frantzen knew that the plane's fuel tanks could be susceptible to damage from foreign objects, but nonetheless allowed it to fly.

> Continental Airlines was found criminally responsible for the disaster by a Parisian court and was fined €200,000 ($271,628) and ordered to pay Air France €1 million. Taylor was given a 15-month suspended sentence, while Ford, Perrier, Hérubel and Frantzen were cleared of all charges. The court ruled that the crash resulted from a piece of metal from a Continental jet that was left on the runway; the object punctured a tyre on the Concorde and then ruptured a fuel tank. The convictions were overturned by a French appeals court in November 2012, thereby clearing Continental and Taylor of criminal responsibility.

> The Parisian court also ruled that Continental would have to pay 70% of any compensation claims. As Air France has paid out €100 million to the families of the victims, Continental could be made to pay its share of that compensation payout. The French appeals court, while overturning the criminal rulings by the Parisian court, affirmed the civil ruling and left Continental liable for the compensation claims.
I was responding to the idea that there are no more frontiers on earth left to explore. "frontier exploration is a massive part of many of our cultures, but the painful truth is that there aren't any left on Earth."
Can always count on a GIMP thread to bring out the people that like to put down the work of volunteers.
Let's say WhatsApp wants to read the next message sent to user X:

1) WhatsApp makes user X appear offline

2) User Y sends user X a message

3) WhatsApp sends user Y an indication that user X's key has changed, along with the public key for which they have the corresponding private key

With these steps, user Y's message will be resent with the new key that WhatsApp knows, and so they can read the message. There is a configuration setting that will display a notification that the key changed, but no way to prevent an undelivered message from automatically being resent with the new key.
>"how are you going to compete?"

By building a better product? By standing by your own convictions?

Your question sounds like a line a VC would feed entrepreneur in trying to convince them to part with equity.
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I prefer this quote by Bruce Schneier. FTA:

> How serious this is depends on your threat model. If you are worried about the US government -- or any other government that can pressure Facebook -- snooping on your messages, then this is a small vulnerability. If not, then it's nothing to worry about.
I understand the discomfort that people have with the notion that an autonomous car will make such life and death decisions. However, I feel like it's obviously better for such decisions to be made ahead of time in a thoughtful, collaborative manner than by one human driver in less than a second when something goes wrong.

The truth however, is that the decision will end up being made by some opaque neural net that's been trained by the actions of other human drivers in relevant situations. It'll just "react" the same way that we do. Coding specific logic into such edge cases is probably unrealistic.
'Show HN' is for projects that you've personally worked on. A blog post about someone else's work doesn't fit that, so you should have submitted this post without putting "Show HN" in the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I agree with your sentiment. I do not see a scenario where financial institutions would agree to put their transactions into a distributed ledger with copies of the data (even encrypted) held by their competitors. If the financial institutions limit the ledger to computers within their control, what would be the benefit over a clustered database environment (I am assuming that most large financial institutions already have these).
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But the salaries for Bay Area startups are usually much lower than the standard tech companies like FB and Google. Startups make up for the difference by distributing equity (which could potentially be worth more in the long run, but could also be worthless).
Indeed. My main desktop PC has zero moving parts and a massive heatsink and copes fine with medium- to heavy-usage software development needs.
A Medium'ish open source editor does exist at https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor. Almost 10k stars too.

You can demo it here: https://yabwe.github.io/medium-editor/demo.html
I don't believe it could be done by the thousands, it would be way more targeted:

You'll need to be next to the actual phone number user when you request, and the victim will receive the SMS. Also, the victim would be shut out of WhatsApp (it allows only one client to be active), which would probably trigger some reaction.

Sounds like a nice hack, nevertheless.
Accenture is trying to augment their Financial Services[1] practice arm with blockchain capabilities and expertise.

[1] https://www.accenture.com/us-en/service-blockchain-financial...
Here's the deal, nearly all of the benefits of AMP are unrelated to the masking of the URL, they are in the HTML validation aspects of AMP. Masking the URL and keeping users on Google when they think they are on Slate is a rather naked land-grab with a lot of downside for users and very little benefit to users.

Why doesn't Google drop the URL masking while keeping all the real benefits of AMP? The answer, profits over people. I say this as a long time fan of Google, but this AMP stuff is where the "don't be evil" tagline turned into a joke for me.
And that fact makes it really rude to call them for anything that isn't urgent or important for them. It's why telemarketers are so reviled.
The "quantitative approach" here is hardly worth considering. Maybe I should write for Medium. I could just as easily throw a bunch of crap together and call it journalism and provide some random numbers and factors and call that an equation!
Yes, so the obvious point for the reader to glean is that Intel is sneaky about using different ways of calculating TDP for different products. Why they would do that is anyones guess. Obviously they wouldn't want to give out false information to system builders who might end up with underpowered PSUs and overheating CPUs.
Anonymity allows for sockpuppetry, the digital equivalent of ballot stuffing. A dedicated actor can essentially commit a sybil attack against an online community, creating the illusion that a particular point of view is more widespread than in reality.

Most individuals don't have the time or resources to perform this or hire people who can, but state-level actors can and do, as can influence groups, in which case it's either called astroturfing or marketing. Money buys influence. There's a reason why loyalties are still best tested face to face, and why most social progress requires people in a room, people on the street, and a few allies behind the scenes.

Different groups struggle for influence all the time, even within the same state. On the international level, states compete against other states by winning hearts and minds and swaying the public, despite publicly preaching cooperation, trade, and peace. This has always been this way, and the upside is fewer commoners are getting killed in the field of battle at the behest of their king.

For a critical reader, when reading anything, ask yourself, are the points raised plausible? Are the sources believable? Could anyone have an agenda (yes), could anyone have an axe to grind? (maybe) Who does this information benefit or hurt? Could it be genuine, or a false flag? Then consider your existing beliefs. Do they still hold? If yes, you were exposed to some new information and a different point of view and you're enriched for it. But are your views invalidated as a result of this new information? If so, then slow down and repeat these steps until you're satisfied with the conclusion.

(On the other hand, anonymity is a partial countermeasure against reprisal. I'm a sock of a medium volume HN poster, and predictably, I don't know if you'll believe me, and you won't know if I'm being genuine)
Hah! I'm not sure what the first recorded instance is, but the act of coming up with a definition is an act of inclusion/exclusion. [edit for clarity]
I love Gimp and Inkscape. The Gimp vs Photoshop debate is irrelevant to me because I can't afford Photoshop - it's Gimp or nothing for me.
Yeah everybody knows that, so what was the point of the article?
So they could effectively leave the phone off for a while, then pop in the SIM and suck up any messages that had been sent in the mean time, and only then would the warning come up?
The Effects of ‘Alternative Media’ Are Evident Everywhere We Look
People have never made decisions based on facts. We decide based on emotions, and then rationalize our decisions later if ever.

Evolution did not optimize us for accurate understanding of the world. It optimized us for having offspring that survive. The latter by and large does not require the former. Indeed, deception plays a big role in human reproductive strategies.
>The last software rendered title I can think of is the first Unreal Tournament.

Deus Ex had software rendering as well. But that was on an engine derived from the UT one.