skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's quite a clear time when not using or not abusing non-human animals was impossible. It's quite clear from all the data that the effort should go towards better biological models and away from wasteful random variable measuring which physics does so well but medicine does it by abusing billions of animals to show a statistically significant discovery.

Are you really claiming eagles are the last line of defense against drones? That is what I get from your line of reasoning. The only reason why they decided to use eagles is because it is convenient, some idiot came up with it and given that non-human animals don't get the same moral considerations as humans (speciesism alert!) it was acceptable and ignored from the stance of non-human animal cruelty.

So, if a serial killer doesn't hold the same values as I do, I guess it's fine for him to kill? Or is it not fine just because he's killing homo sapiens? What if he was killing homo erectus?

We do share the same values. I'm just making my actions consistent with those values. I'm coming from the same sentiment OP had.
I have a terrible memory for names, and (relatedly?) have awful auto-biographiical memory, which is apparently a distinct thing from other forms of memory. I've got an average-ish memory otherwise.

I'd have trouble giving you specifics of what I did last week, for instance, and I'd be lucky if I could come up with more than one or two things from last month. Last year is a blur—I could come up with a handful of details, mostly anchored to holidays since it's easy to prompt myself with "I know Christmas happened, what did I do for that?" and the like. Forming parts of my life into any kind of narrative is incredibly challenging. I hated those "what did you do over the Summer?" writing prompts elementary school teachers love to give the first week back.

Maybe your situation is similar. I don't have a diagnosis or anything, but pretty sure I'm affected by this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overgeneral_autobiographical_m...
If you set your machine to the DST timezone for your political unit, then the displayed time will automatically jump back and forth on the correct dates, as long as your time database is reasonably up-to-date; you don't need to manually change from non-DST to DST & back.

The non-DST timezones are for those who are lucky enough to live in political units which tell DST to get bent, and just stay on real time all year long.

DST delenda est.
Dropbox’s Slack bot spots suspicious activity, chats with employees about it
To my mind this kind of honestly is appealing, where "The team is very excited" would sound fake. Maybe a British vs American difference?
the whole internet and social media in general is getting polluted because of this.
The Apple Park main building has such a large diameter that GCHQ headquarters would fit inside it. That's why it looks slender. :)
I've been wanting to dive into this subject for quite a while now. I've been playing with large data sets for a few years now. I learned only the basics of data mining. I re-took courses in linear algebra and inferential stats. How much time do you think I would need (per week) and for how long to achieve a knowledgeable status in Tensorflow and deep learning (assuming I know the kind of models i aim to build and improve) ?
This Map Reveals the Top 2017 Brands for Each Country
Should be able to escape docker with this. Docker provides host kernel access, so if you get the kernel you're good to go.
That is exactly how it's described in the documentation, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology
Isn't THAT ironic!
Here is some career advice: do not describe yourself as a "JavaScript Magician, Story-teller, Code DJ". That really doesnt play well to a recruiter who is looking to put together a team of people who like to work together.
I don't understand why one would point out a person's race (unless it's relevant to the situaiton), but since the title did...

I cannot fanthom how anyone could call this person "black". If anything, his complexion is similar to what US people call "hispanic" (although to me that's just southern European, not a distinct race).
Branch prediction
> You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture.

E.g. Mr. Obama, who is actually half-white but considered black by American blacks and whites alike.
Most people on Earth will certainly be forced to change their eating habits because of increasing prices. The more people we are, the more food must be produced. But space on Earth is limited. All prices are defined by supply and demand. If supply is low, but demand is high, prices will increase.

Everyone should have seen the film "Soylent green". It shows us our future. And i don't like this future.

I think we should try to reduce the world population to 3 or 4 billion people. This would solve a lot of problems. We also wouldn't be forced to think about food security, genetically edited or modified foods or crop losses because of climate change.

I am ready to help.
Bashing someone who's more succesful than you is what grown-ups do. Right?
To be fair though, without Steve, the engineers would have never thought of creating Apple and a business. It is a team effort, but let's not undermine the importance of a great leader.
>> how did you get this "written exemption"

1. Your current job and or job situation (company not doing well, layoffs on the horizon etc) is hopefully not one which you are desperate to leave at any cost.
2. Apply to multiple companies and interview with them around the same time; this usually works out.
3. (HARD PART) Land multiple offers in hand.
4. With 3 and 1 combined, look at the offer letters and negotiate the bad clauses, after reviewing with a lawyer-friend, so that the wording is also right. If they say GTFO, you also get to say GTFO :-).

I know from experience and also that of a few of my friends, it works.
Revisiting Windows Security Hardening Through Kernel Address Protection
Time is running out...

[–] TheRealFroman 848 points 4 years ago

I'd love to know when I can start packing my bags for mars ;)

[–] spacexdevttySPACEX[S] 1638 points 4 years ago

Give us 5-10 years.
Demangling C++ Symbols in Rust
> it’s worth revisiting that past during Black History Month
Hunting with YARA rules and ClamAV
This book doesn't cover testing at all. I wanted to, but there just wasn't room for it and it would have lead to information overload.

What I am thinking about doing is writing a companion book that covers git, testing, etc. Eg after every chapter the companion book then walks you through writing tests, committing to git, merging it into master, etc. That way someone could optionally choose to do those things along the way. I might also experiment with other formats, but time will tell.
Why so sexist? Does it matter that it was a man?

"The sentient being who invented the first search engine" would have more appropriate.
Making company culture data-driven
At http://zeal.technology we monitor our company culture everyday through pretty unconventional means. We use an AI to pickup on how we are doing from a day to day basis and transparently track and display peaks and valleys in our overall morale. It has allowed us to solve morale problems and boost productivity. It also allows us to really shape the company culture in everyone's image instead of just one person's which is far too common in my opinion.

I am curious as to how your company tracks and addresses culture needs.
Cloud Security Best Practices: Finding, Securing, and Managing Secrets
hahaha. Amazing.
Was this the article?

Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319629

Or maybe this one that it links to:

Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318980

Archive of the deleted story: http://web.archive.org/web/20110314205955/https://morgsatlar...
Nieren zuiveren zorgt ook voor een platte buik and Aangepaste recepten
That's pretty unfortunate by comparison with Java, where while ConcurrentModificationException is specified as unreliable you tend to hit it pretty quickly in practice (and then hopefully the docs encourage you to fix your code properly rather than catching it).
Black in this context is a race, which is an extremely broad spectrum of ethnicities and nationalities of various skin tones.
Letsencrypt-win-simple only supports http-01. Acmesharp seems geared more towards developers (letsencrypt-win-simple uses it).
How do I store phone numbers in PostgreSQL?
No. Twitch's rules won't stop people from playing for 24 hours straight. For all we know, this was a choice this grown man made entirely by himself.
How do you detect a "pointer that has already been freed"?
I remember that exact article you mention, because I was posting lots of updates about Fukushima when it happened and being called an alarmist until the scale of the problem became clear.

On the other hand, objectors to nuclear power frequently overstate the danger - which is not to say that a meltdown every 10 years is acceptable, but that it's so difficult to get buy-in for any nuclear initiative that it ends up creating a siege mentality whenever something does go wrong. I feel like the problem with nuclear isn't so much the technology itself as the social/organizational failures that compound any operational problem.

It does really bother me that when nuclear facilities have minor incidents where the problems are properly identified, solved and documented, anti-nuclear activists still get upset and claim things are being covered up. When success (in safety procedure) is treated much the same way as failure, is it any wonder that actual failures are often poorly handled?

I feel this points to the need to abandon adversarial approaches to truth-seeking and public oversight and look for more cooperative ones. Adversarial systems are really easy to game and tend to result in over-simplifications of complex problems which are then exploited in turn. Meanwhile the public - whose general lack of awareness on the scientific details is entirely rational, because we shouldn't all need to be experts on reactor safety in order to enjoy the benefits of electricity - ends up in the situation of not knowing who to believe because there is a lot of bullshit coming from both sides, and opting instead to do nothing, resulting in predictable infrastructural decay.
I know a lot of big company CTOs –– for old, boring companies like insurance (blah!) and real estate (yuck!) –– and they are very concerned about tech companies' willingness to keep services around for the very long haul.
Well race isn't the color, but the genetic makeup. My wife is "technically" Cherokee Indian because her great grandmother was a full blooded "Sally Anne Lamb" Cherokee. As such, she would be entitled to scholarships for Native Americans and whatnot for school. Whether she chooses to or not doesn't make it any more her right.

The "They're not black enough" argument was the same racist bs they used against Obama. Can we please collectively give it a rest please?

- Your neighborhood pasty white American tech friend
Ha! So little code for a complete app. Nice.
Wait to see 2020 when everybody here will be on Zuckerberg For President's train
Care to use Slack as your one&only news platform?
Real story: I had a problem. I follow news everyday and I'd like to be up-to-date, so I follow every newspaper and several magazines out there. But the problem was that every day I was bombarded by newspapers: notifications, emails, site content, social media content and several others, simultaneously. So I decided to create a simple stack to get news directly to a Slack account. I've been using this for a while and now that it is somewhat mature, I'd like to share it with fellas who experience similar problems. If you wanna check it out send me an email at metin \at/ mtndesign \./ net.
Please, no GitHub
Good point, this PDF is very U.S. specific. As long as the taxation is progressive, it would seem to make sense to put your money in a tax sheltered account during your peak earning years. And also to get any company match. Other than that, I don't know.

As for home country vs foreign investment, from bogleheads:

"The relative percentage of domestic and international stocks is a subject of intense discussion in the forum. One sensible option is to hold domestic and international stocks in the same proportions as they represent in the total world economy. As of October 2014, that would be about 50% U. S. and 50% international. ... Other authorities suggest holding less than that."

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Domestic/International
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio#Combini...

The advice still seems to be U.S. specific though.
My problem with foreign audio + English subtitles (if that's what you meant) is that my brain just reads the subtitles and tunes out the audio for the most part.

I think anything is better than nothing, though. I personally watch movies/shows now always with foreign subtitles.
> The feds forbid LE.

Nope! Very much allowed -- at least for almost all applications.

Here's just one example from a quick Google search that turned up lots of others: https://www.digitalgov.gov/2016/09/07/lets-encrypt-those-cna...
For dead-simple parallel execution of a handful of jobs, IMO nothing beats mapping data to tasks with Linq and then "await Task.WhenAll". And if they have to share data, use something in System.Collections.Concurrent.
Yeah, it's like those corny Java libraries that end in "4j".
Nor is this Howard Roark's wet dreams (even if it does also involve architecture). Your points are not unfounded, but I don't think the Godwin's Law-esque strawmaning is helpful here.
This was made for my own and a friend use, and we found it useful, maybe others will find it useful too.
I fought a contract clause, it was a separation agreement rather than an employment contract. I imagine you would have a lot less leverage going in than you do going out.

The first key I found is to make it easier for them to say yes than to say no. I simply refused to sign my separation agreement unless we could change the line. Like everyone else, I got the "it's standard policy" bullshit, I just nodded, said nothing, and went back to my desk.

It's an intimidation tactic, those contracts are done up by lawyers and modifying them potentially exposes them to liability, they'd have to get a lawyer to look at amended agreements and that costs $. Intimidation tactics are generally used when they don't have any real leverage to use. Just don't give in, and keep asking for the change. Works best if you're actually prepared to walk, you don't want them to call your bluff.

After it became clear to them that I wasn't going to do it, they agreed to the change, but only after a stern discussion that I was not to discuss it with anyone. If we didn't already enjoy a friendly, trusting relationship I doubt I could have gotten away with it.

If you're not willing to walk away, then of course your leverage is limited. Their BATNA was basically to fire me without cause, they had more to lose than I did.

In your case I'd appeal to their sense of decency. Assure them that you won't tell anyone about it, that's a big reason for the "standard policy" bullshit. And then say that if you'd realized how onerous the contract provisions are, you would have never even applied for the position. That lets them know you're serious. Tell them you're prepared to walk out over it but you'd really like to make a deal so you can get to work. Presumably the employer actually wants you and you have champions at the company.
> I'm paying 15-20% more for groceries just on line-item price.

In San Francisco at least, almost every store is listed as "Prices are same as in-store." Target and Whole Foods have "Everyday store prices," which means Instacart doesn't match sale prices. Costco and Cash&Carry are the only stores where Instacart prices are not matched.

I'd expect they'd get called out right away if they weren't honoring this.

But if you agree to a service fee and tip, you'll still end up paying 10%-20% more.
Here is the link to the bot we created and use on a daily basis. http://zeal.technology/
I think doing that is kind of insane but I love that she is doing it. Also, as an OS geek, I enjoy reading about the setups of other geeks.
Ask HN: What books have changed your perception of reality?
What books in the areas of science or religion have made you feel that there may be more to reality than what we perceive with our ordinary five senses?
I actually prefer to call myself Californian in most contexts. I also think the word "state" is diluted by the US.

Anyway, I'm not really advocating for one side or the other. In common usage "American" definitely relates to the US most of the time.

I can understand the annoyance of people from other American countries, though. Surely Nigerians, Eritreans, etc. would have a reason to be frustrated if "African" came to refer particularly to "South Africa" and not to the continent.
Yes, it matters. The gender and racial identities of underrepresented populations is relevant to a whole host of readers, including researchers, educators, social scientists, etc.

Relevant: http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/7/14503144/white-histor...
"Leftist" by American standards in 2017 is, again, not leftist by world standards or even US standards in 1970-1990, except on a few social issues (e.g. Gay rights) or things that aren't even political in other countries (basic science). Bear in mind that Nixon tried to pass Obamacare and set up the EPA. Teddy Roosevelt set up the national park system.
Windex.
Salary Range – Cost of Living
Can anyone refer to a reliable source for calculating cost of living which can help in salary negotiation? I refer to http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/index.html but did not much helpful.

I understand other factors but hard to predict city's cost of living if planning to move to a new city.

Thanks!
Wouldn't it be better to plan further ahead and make a requirement that the venues need to be in use for X years prior to the games? This would ensure that the facilities are usable outside of the Olympics.
They are selling data visualization, not mass surveillance. There is a key distinction here. If it had some out that MongoDB was being used as the underlying datastore for XKS or that Tableau was being used to visualize the data, would we be decrying those products too?
party A should add a DNS TXT record for the hash of the current certificate.

party B should validate any new certificates against the DNS hashed value.

just because party B has a process they currently do once a year for most people shouldn't stop party A from rotating certificates more frequently if they choose to, but party B might not agree and will walk away.
Thanks! Will change that ASAP.
I knew a colleague who had a relative who knew Obama before he became a politician. Back then, Barack was far more embracing of himself as a mixed-race individual. He made a choice later on to be identified as a black man.
> Companies that have audit requirements for these things are most likely going to need purpose-built tools for this; depending on AV crapware is a terrible idea.

Good luck for them. FTA:

> They also find that the default settings on 11 of 12 network appliances tested introduce severe flaws, such as incorrectly validating certificates, while 24 of 26 antivirus products introduce one or more security flaws.

...

> Similarly on the appliance side, only Blue Coat's ProxySG 6642 scored an A. Others products are from A10, Barracuda, Checkpoint, Cisco, Forcepoint Websense, Fortinet, Juniper, Microsoft, Sophos, Untangle, and WebTitan.
The errors won't be swallowed only in two cases: either if router.get actually supports promises (thus catches all the bubbled errors on its own) or if you have unhandledRejection global listener.
Some node versions do show unhandled rejections automatically (e.g. v7.x), but that is getting deprecated soon.

So, there's quite a real risk of quiet failures in that bit of code.

Upd. Looks like even though the unhandled rejections warnings are getting deprecated, the rejections themselves will actually stop the code execution with non-zero exit code! Which means most of the issues I had with that code are gone (which is awesome)
Show HN: Search for exposed secrets on GitHub (back online)
Iirc gemm and float performance isn't very good, since amd made a decision to reduce math performance in order to decrease latency.
It is Black History Month in the US, as the very first paragraph of the article says.
Cloud computing is the mainframe model. ALGOL was safe, maintainable language for systems with LISP being ultimate for scripting or flexibility. Current languages mostly do what the could already do. High-performance, NoSQL databases were how mainframes started. Clustering & early distributed systems by Dec's VMS & Tandem NonStop. Xerox PARC came up with desktops. Englebart's people demonstrated all kinds of stuff in 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Most stuff I see today is just rehashes of concepts that were made from the 1960's to 1980's. The core ones you need for personal communication or running a business were all built before 1970. There's still innovation happening but most improvements were just incremental rather than ground-breaking. The most groundbreaking stuff today, like a computer in your pocket, were often result of massive, economic investment into a pile of incremental improvements by many people over time. I'm fine with this but let's not act like we're having many Xerox PARC or Doug Englebart moments.
A game can give the illusion of a relationship, but it is not a real relationship with another human being. The evolutionary reasons why we need relationships are because having other humans care about us helps us live better lives. A game, which does not care about you, may partially satisfy that evolved need but cannot provide any of the real-world benefits of an actual relationship with an actual person who actually cares about you.
I'm pretty sure there were castles built hundreds of years before the pentagon that match this description
My PocketCHIP
Tbf, the return acts like a goto.
Mother Jones is nowhere near is leftist as Fox News is rightist.
The article is for Black History Month, a...holiday? here in the US which I think is now called "African American History Month". So does a guy from Barbados working in Canada not count now? I'm not good at that kind of math
AngularJS Single Page App Using UI-Router and Angular Templates
My first comment was discrediting universities entirely conditional on tps5's claim that they are merely political actors, same as anyone else.

I favor free speech, free thought and open inquiry even for ideas that I feel are harmful or dishonest. I want universities to be bastions of these values.

For example, although feminists are far more dishonest than Milo and far more hostile to open inquiry and free thought, I still favor allowing them to speak at universities. They should even have the right to criticize specific individuals (like Milo was going to) and argue against the very freedom that allows them to speak.

My knowledge of a specific speaker is completely irrelevant, because the argument I'm making has nothing whatsoever to do with who the speaker is or the content of his talk.
most common != popularize
1:) It's black history month, and he's black and part of history.

2:) That lighting makes his complexion look much lighter.

3:) If they say he's black, i'll take their word for it, skin colour varies significantly.
Why is the race of the man relevant? Seems a bit odd to point it out in the title that he was of presumably african heritage?
I wasn't endorsing the concept of 'deserving' here.

It may have been a bit of a straw man, but the idea that "foreigners are stealing our jobs" has an undercurrent of entitlement to it.
why so sentientist?