skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The civic duties of scientists
Maybe not if you work up to it.
Yeah it's very YMMV. Although if you've never had caffeine jitters then you just may not be drinking enough to notice the effect. And supposedly the ratio matters.
I "dose" at a 100mg:200mg caffeine:theanine ratio.
> NOTE: I've seen people mentioned L2TP, it is obsolete. L2TP does NOT provide encryption or confidentiality to traffic passes through it.

Would you clarify how it's obsolete, because it's doesn't follow from "L2TP does NOT provide encryption or confidentiality..."? AFAIK no one uses L2TP by itself, as there's no shortage of encapsulation protocols (GRE, AYIYA, vxlan, etc.) for other purposes. In practice L2TP/IPsec are always paired akin to TCP/IP, even though in theory you could do things like TCP/IPX or TCP/AppleTalk, or whatever. In the context of VPNs, L2TP/IPsec is "the protocol" even though they are two distinct pieces.

> L2TP/IPsec encapsulates data twice at layer 2, it has pros and cons. See this (may be out-dated) -> https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/4147/pptp-vs-l2tp-vs-openvpn-vs....

Sure it's not optimal, but for its intended purpose, establishing VPNs from roaming devices to intranets, the overhead hardly matters. IMO, what does matter is client device and network[0] compatibility, and L2TP/IPsec is hard to beat here. I wouldn't say that OpenVPN or other VPN solutions obsolete L2TP/IPsec in this aspect, either.

For (semi-)permanent site-to-site VPNs I agree just use IPsec.

[0] IIRC last time I chimed in on L2TP/IPsec you or someone else in the thread disputed that firewalls were generally not an issue for IPsec, contrary to my personal experience. Maybe I've just been extremely lucky, so I'll conceded this point.
Microsoft has managed to keep VB and C# alive and well supported even though its major codebases are in C++.

I don't think it's as big of a problem as the author seem to think it is.
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Winston Churchill's views on aliens revealed in lost essay
I'd be surprised if automatic emergency warnings didn't increase fatalities. The absolute last thing I want my car to do in an emergency driving situation is add an additional distraction.
The next course:

Deep learning is primarily a study of multi-layered neural networks, spanning over a great range of model architectures. This course is taught in the MSc program in Artificial Intelligence of the University of Amsterdam. In this course we study the theory of deep learning, namely of modern, multi-layered neural networks trained on big data. The course focuses particularly on computer vision and language modelling, which are perhaps two of the most recognizable and impressive applications of the deep learning theory.

http://uvadlc.github.io/
"security through obscurity" refers only to violations of Kerckhoffs's principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle
Huawei Is Developing Its Own Voice Assistant for Smartphones
The author says "Objective-C and Swift cannot continue to coexist indefinitely." but their only supporting argument is that a multi-lingual platform is bad because nobody will know what language to choose.

This is the same charge that has been leveled against Microsoft since they don't use .NET to produce every single piece of Microsoft software. Has that somehow stopped .NET from continuing to grow? No, it has not.

Off-topic: Learned a new word reading this. Lacuna ~ an unfilled space or interval; a gap. Thanks!
Open source simulator based on Unreal Engine for autonomous vehicles
Well, I would agree that most people most of the time don't know what the heck they're doing...

...but some people DO know what they're doing, at least some of the time.

Applies to business too.
The microsoft hololens is a great piece of tech. Works great, no cords. Its development only though. It's cool that I can tinker with it, but at the end of the day I cannot sell a product with it.
looks like unreal engine and the "modular neighbor pack" asset by dokyo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5CKj0gBo2c
The webpagetest of the blog post is pretty telling: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170215_26_MSDP/1/details/...

6.5 seconds to fully load the page in a desktop browser over cable modem. Over 18 seconds on a low-end Android phone. 9 web fonts loaded. Over 1.5 MB of javascript downloaded. Tracking beacons from ads-twitter, multiple "netlify.com" subdomains, addtoany, segment, intercom, mixpanel, twitter analytics, double click and GA, most of them blocking the load of the page.

TTFB is kind of a vanity metric. If you're serious about it, the way to achieve that is using varnish + edge caching rather than switching to static HTML pages. You can have good TTFB and still have a slow rendering page, as this illustrates.

(edit: spelling)
lol @ conflating meditation and yoga with slavery and infanticide. Hard to take the rest of this seriously.

Look at all texts with skepticism and practice reflective equilibrium, sure. That includes all modern texts.
unless some other change is offsetting the difference?

FTA:

"Many studies and observers cite the rise of mobile devices and their growing role in our lives as a possible cause behind the recent spike in traffic fatalities."

Anecdotally, in my area, teens often receive the current family car (which is often 8+ years old), or one of the families secondary vehicles. Then another vehicle is purchased for the parents, often new or a recent used vehicle. So the vehicle with less up-to-date safety options goes to the family member that is the least experienced driver.
automated enforcement for speed limit violations

That is a concerning recommendation. How would this be achieved? GPS tracking? Speed limit cameras? Both methods can have serious privacy implications.
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also conducted a survey that indicates some possible causes for the steady increases, including speed, texting via touch input or voice, as well as driving while under the influence.

I think most of it can be attributed to cellphone usage while driving.

And now that most drivers choose to use their smartphones as GPS rather than a dedicated GPS device, I think it's going to get much worse.
Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.M1 Adds RBAC Security, New MongoDB and Postgres Sinks
Thank you for the reference.
I moved over to Privacy Badger a while ago. It's an EFF project unlikely to ever be bought by a for profit company.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
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On Street View that doesn't appear to be the case at all. It looks like there's a 15-20 foot levee between Marysville/Yuba City and the Feather River.
Yeah, I moved over to OpenBSD from FreeBSD because of their no-bullshit approach to supporting IPSEC -- everything just worked out of the box.

I was thrilled when FreeBSD added IPSEC support in 11-RELEASE, but was less excited to learn that IPSEC_NAT_T wasn't compiled in, making it impossible to use strongswan. Oh well, maybe in 11.1 :)
> I think everyone agrees that hacking is not inhumane...

People have committed suicide for leaked information.
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
There's a lot more to data structures and algorithms than sorting. For example, just knowing that bloom filters or interval trees exist opens up a ton of options, even if you don't implement them yourself.

For that matter, the choice of sorting algorithm can have security implications. QuickSort on user-facing data can easily become a DoS vulnerability.
Delphi 6 "Personal Edition" was my intro into Pascal. I absolutely loved it.
Must be very small-scale, less than 1 pixel.
I replied to the form, but I think this has to be more transparent than 'some charity'.
Also, there is no incentive for the recruiter to put up a quality job posting (aside from hiring a good candidate), but there are recruiting "farms" who will just put anything on the web. The incentive here is for the platform to have as many job postings as possible.

I think a better approach may be charging both the seeker and recruiter the $2.5 fare (recruiters can set a cap, and does not have to be 50/50... could be seeker $2, recruiter $10). But there needs to be painful and incentives on both sides.
The ad is in this sentence: "Additionally, this article illustrates how publicly available data from the California DWR can be easily loaded into the non-relational Axibase Time Series Database (ATSD) for interactive analysis with graphical representation of open data published by government organizations."
Another option would be to use thumbprints for all authorizations after the device is unlocked.
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The article says "philosophically interesting" – unless I am missing something, that's a very different thing than what you're claiming the article says.
Conversion to Swift is not something that must be done 100% at once (due to reuse of the Objective-C back-end), nor is it wise to change quickly (due to source and binary incompatibilities that have been very clearly documented for the first few Swift versions). Slow-moving engineering teams, even within Apple, are just being wise; they can still be firmly behind the move to Swift.
Honestly, I don't know. I know what I want to be true, and I know what I see in my own experience, but I don't know if it is nationally true.

I live in Silicon Valley and am married to an immigrant, and live next door to a house where I don't believe everyone that lives in it speaks English. Meanwhile, a man that ran on a campaign on explicit xenophobia and implicit white nationalism is now president.

In my world, it's not. I mean a common language is just a pragmatic thing. After all, you're not going to move up the economic ladder without knowing the lingua franca. I certainly wouldn't expect to have the job I have now in say Korea, because I can't speak or read Korean.

My family has gone to Dia De Los Muertos events, and no one in our family has any ties to Mexico. At the same time, I grew up in the rural midwest where one of the biggest regional events was Fiesta Italiana, and there aren't any Italian immigrants left, and the people left with Italian surnames don't know anything more about Italy or Italian culture than I do.

Most people live in the cities, and deal with immigrants and foreign cultures on a daily basis. The people that live in the rural area don't, and they're the ones that elected him. So who says who's right?
This is nothing but inconclusive speculation. It mostly focuses on whether and when Obj-C will be retired, so the title should really be "whither Objective-C?"
I already pay, usually, north of half a kilobuck in lost wages to interview, so the fiver doesn't matter except as a signal.

That said, I would never apply for a job that asked for cash up front, just because it is a signal that it operates like a mlm or other sales related thing, and that isn't something I have to tolerate.
The thing always got mentioned whenever Ghostery is brought up is that they were owned by an advertising company that sold user data. I wonder how Cliqz plans to make this a profitable venture (besides being another Mozilla charity case)?
Could you explain why you think you're in a good position? From what I understand, the comments are owned by the users, and by posting them to IMDb, they allowed IMDb and their affiliates the right to use them.

The users did not give you permission to use their data, and you're not associated with IMDb, and therefore do not inherit the rights.

Lastly, IMDb specifically states that scraping or extracting data is forbidden without written consent.
Link to actual press release from NSC: http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/12-month-estimates.pdf

Shows the per population and per mileage driven death rates have increased as well.
Browser fingerprints can be largely extracted from fairly fundamental JS DOM/CSSOM APIs, you don't need to get into anything nearly as easily-disabled as canvas. (For one, start by measuring metrics of a list of several hundred fonts to detect their presence: that's just simple CSSOM operations.)
I've found out the hard way that the rx480 is actually a counter example to my earlier point. I'm happy with the performance but was misled about the state of Linux support.
iOS devices routinely ship with batteries ~60% the size of flagship android devices and have competitive amount of battery life. If apple chose to ship an iphone with a 3000mah battery like what can be found in Android flagships it would absolutely crush the competition in terms of battery life.
I never bought any more individual shares like that, it was really just for the emotional aspect of making my first investment after finally having the money to do it. Right now I have my company 401k and Schwab ETFs.
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Stacking Theory for Systems Design
We at educative.io re-published this course as a free course with implementations in Java, C++ and Python (in addition to Javascript).

https://www.educative.io/collection/10370001/760001

One of the authors - Professor Balkcom is our advisor as well.
I am looking at the Martin Wicke talk. The Estimator API is very reminiscent of SparkML. Nice to see that the tensorflow crew are flexible enough to take good ideas from projects such as SparkML and Keras (now included natively in the TF stack).
Other highlights include the hotspot compiler (I was not that impressed so far, but it's early days for them), and embedded visualizations (looked quite cool) for visually inspecting learnt manifolds.
This looks kinda like http://standardjs.com/, but not quite.
The Register's guide to protecting your data when visiting the US
Essentially there are two ways to do this. The “old” way is to export your TensorFlow neural network into a protobuf file, then load up the TensorFlow interpreter in your iOS/Android app, feed it the neural net, and run the inference directly on device. The GitHub repo [0] has a good set of examples of what that looks like in practice.

The new, still experimental way is to compile your neural net into executable code with their XLA / tfcompile tool, and link that into your app. They are adding more docs on this on the TensorFlow website [1].

[0]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

[1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/experimental/xla/...
I haven't found a link to less generalized data. What were road/traffic/driver conditions in the fatal accidents?

Were there more accidents, or were accidents themselves more fatal? What percentage of fatalities involved a semi? Happened on freeways?

What if climate change is the culprit? Road conditions have deterioriated as a result of changing weather patterns. Drivers have deteriorated as mobile devices become more central to our lives. I doubt that the 8% increase in fatalities is best explained by a 3% increase in miles traveled.
Thanks for the detailed post on your experience. I've also wondered about the value to the different online courses. Seems to be that the bottom line is getting thru the material. Motivation is the key. Any advice on that?
> Given how around 50% the US population was brainwashed by government and media into believing Snowden is a traitor,

"brainwashed" seems a bit much. I have mixed feelings on the guy. Unfortunately he carried a ton of information and there is no way to completely guarantee he didn't give it to, say, China or Russia or anyone else nor is there any guarantee that the reporters didn't in turn give it to an adversarial.

I get that the privacy conversations that he sparked were great. I'm just not sold on him being all rainbows and sunshine either.

> Given that the NSA has locked down their systems completely since Snowden's revelations.

I would disagree with this assessment but I guess it depends on what you mean by "locked down".
The genesis of the current stupidity is that the government is willing to lend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for people to learn about literature regardless of whether there is any market whatsoever that would justify the expenditure.

The managerial/administrative class sucks up as much of this wealth as it can for itself and like minded individuals while burning lots of it in conspicuous displays of wealth like football stadiums designed to attract more interest/wealth some of which will stick to their hands.

This waste is probably nowhere more apparent than in areas of study which require so little special equipment and expenditure like literature. The single most valuable resource, a library, is available for free to most, next up is the teachers time which costs only a small fraction of what the student is paying.

When basically students are paying 20x the actual cost of the teachers time for the credentials to participate in the institutions that only exist because of the easily borrowed money in the first place it seems that this is unsustainable nonsense most easily rectified by cutting off the money supply.

In the longer term it will be necessary to implement means by which we can legitimize means to connect teacher to learner without an unnecessary intermediary that takes almost all of the resources.

Providing a way to achieve this wouldn't be terribly hard fixing our entire system which depends on credentials from this dysfunctional industry to legitimize employment isn't but cutting off the money is the first step.
I did. It's ok for now because the ecosystem is still maturing, but a system language will need to learn to live with the system, not be in it's own isolated world like ruby/python/Java.
Yes, but "octopus" is an English word, and "etymologically correct" is not a subset of "correct".

The English word "journal" comes from French, but if you're talking in English about two systemd log files, they're "journals", not "journaux". (If you're talking in French, they are in fact "deux journaux".)
I would agree with this. I'm imagining Obj-C to eventually be Apple's COBOL. Even presently, a lot more job postings regarding iOS development are expecting Swift experience than even a year ago.
It was also the name of the mind-erasing company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. That is a much better way to learn that particular word than this content-free meth-binge of an essay.
Find new friends. Move to a more politically diverse area.

I do believe we should go back to the old rule that neither religion nor politics should be discussed in polite company.
No.

Would you pay me $5 per unsolicited recruiting email/message you send?
That's pretty fuckin' rich. With the possible exceptions of wars and nuclear-plant meltdowns, nothing disrupts lives on the scale of large dams. I didn't vote for the Orange One, but this is why he won.
yeah but that's a webserver almost no one has heard of and may not even be in a position to switch to
Somewhat appropriate, as nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
It appears the NSC are recommending speed cameras and red light cameras. The NSC non-profit has quite the history of recommending both.
For an easier way, try Algo. Algo is a set of Ansible scripts that helps you deploy a fully functional StrongSwan IPSEC server with the most secure settings available:

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

It even generates Apple profiles to auto configure your iPhone!
Distracted driving could be come epidemic if not curtailed somehow.
So very true and largely people don't have the ability to view external data and decide to change their mind. They've already done that (now granted the data could just be "because" or parents or religion or political party or...).

The easiest way to convince someone to view new data is for them to explain their position to you. Either they provide enough data for you (being so enlightened) to change your mind or they may realize they are being internally inconsistent and then they change their own mind. Then you don't have to waste any effort trying to chip at their position. Trying to do so generally results in obstinance from them.
It only makes sense to apply such rules to closed-source and proprietary software.
>and each one of those 1U units costs how much

It depends on what capabilities you want. A good oscillator with GPS discipline capabilities would cost between $100-$10000 depending on specifications. In particular, if you want it to have high stability with time and temperature when GPS fails you must spend much more money.

>and can feed reference signals to how many individual end-point servers?

In theory one of these units could feed a whole datacenter (thousands of endpoints), if you also purchased enough cabling and distribution amplifiers.
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The truth is that the difference between many companies is the perception, that they can create towards the external world, and 3rd parties: that they KNOW what they are doing.

Eventually, when you talk to your friends, you notice it's a mess at most workplaces. Management often is very shaky and clueless. People keeping up apperances etc. This is all more or less the same in alot of companies (though not all), however: the perception of it to the outside world, is what makes the difference.

I've been validating this theory many times throughout the years and it's very applicable and true.
Genuine question here, if predicting the weather for a localized area such as a small region Cali is "tea leaves and Tarot cards", why are we so confident in the prediction of the climate for the entire planet?
But that's always been the case, and today's 8 year old car is safer then it was 10 or 20 years ago, so I wouldn't think this was causing an upward trend.
Part of the problem is probably that there is no money in it: Congressional offices don't have a big enough budget for the staff they need, much less any pieces of software/services.
> No one is worried about the dam failing

My wife, a Water Resources Engineer, is. If the damage to the spillway starts to move sideways, or uphill too far and too deep, you could see the main dam get damaged. It's not as likely as the emergency spillway dropping things 30 feet, as you say, but it's still on the table as a worst-case scenario here.
You can check the code of Cliqz's products by yourself. It's all on Github: https://github.com/cliqz-oss
Or JVM...

Java, Groovy, Scala, Closure

Will they exist "indefinitely"? Well, all language have a lifetime, but these will/have coexisted for decades.
My vmware experience is a couple of years mostly as an internal user of a cluster totalling about 1000 VMs, not using any advanced features like FT/vSAN/NSX. I've also developed a KVM-based IaaS platform.

I think your concerns are justified (and is it possible they are just applying existing knowledge and experience without considering your requirements properly?)

The vSphere Web Interface drives me insane. It is slow, does not do background polling for updates and ends your session after 2 hours (by default). ESXi is fine as a hypervisor but not having a Linux host (as with Xen/KVM) to do things like advanced networking/firewalling/hardware troubleshooting/stat scraping is quite frustrating. You're mostly limited by the vSphere(/NSX/etc) APIs. DevOps tooling (e.g. packer, terraform, ansible) treat it like a second or third class citizen, if at all.

I think you need to look at the applications' architectures and work backwards from there.
It is. It's not perfect with a few odd black outs. Eg when you start climbing a ladder bit otherwise PSVR is a great way to play the game.
This from a little over a year ago was very informative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615
It is. It's not perfect, with a few odd black outs e.g. when you start climbing a ladder or when you crouch/stand. Otherwise PSVR is a great way to play the game. You really do feel like you're there.