skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty ashamed to see this sort of stuff making the front page of HN. If an argument for a similarly archaic and backwards explanation was posted about some other topic (this sort of stuff is on par with heliocentrism, creationism and homeopathy, at best) it would be ignored, but for some reason (it's hard for me to pin down exactly, but perhaps because it has to do with mental illness?) it is given a free pass.
"that he knew changing the LIBOR number affected the valuations of swaps — a type of credit derivative based on interest rates". Wrong! The men convicted of Libor manipulation were all interest rate swap traders, so the swaps at issue are interest rate derivatives, not credit derivatives.
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It becomes unconstituational in the moment those officers make arrest that a normal police office wouldn't.
It's highly questionable that this church needs police instead of normal security officers.
Last year I was able to play with one for a couple of hours. The most impressive and exciting part for me was that it wasn't bad. I don't know about others, but I had expected an unpolished feel, and to be continuing to say "oh this will be great when they ______". The latency is much lower (comparable to modern VR) than I expected; the occlusion of virtual objects by real ones works surprisingly well, even with weird shapes; even the gesture recognition worked well. My overall takeaway was that it was much further along than expected. It was genuinely fun to play with, and I felt able to walk around my office while wearing it. Obviously the FOV is an issue to be worked on, but overall I was just impressed. I wish I still had one I could play with.
After Samsung's issues last year, do you REALLY want to take a chance on a battery?

That's the best $70 I'll ever spend towards a part.
I've pondered the above statement for a bit. It could go either way. From a demand side (hiring), it's very positive. "We have increased our talent pool AND lowered cost." Win-win.

From a supply side (employee/contractor) it would be fantastically negative: "These jerks are lowering my rockstar wages by hiring women, ethnic minorities and old people." Lose-lose.

There's a lot in what you expect to see here. I wonder how much this type of thing makes these discussions worse than they have to be?
> But this was the police/airport-security that should shoulder most of blame

Not really. It's the United that called those "cops" so they should take the full responsibility for their actions.

I'm still amazed that "overbooking" is legal though. It feels to me like it's a one big scam - airlines basically sell a product that don't have and it's absolutely fine by the law. WTF world?
In Pakistan Citizen didn't let a minster on board a flight, after it got delayed due to him. Citizen abused him and he had to leave the plane. I meant United is demonstrating something even worse than would happen in our 3rd world country, and all I get it now, the 1st World only got bit of money and tech and at the end of the day, they are just as big an assholes as we are.

First they beated a customer and now another one was moved to economy in order to make room for a certain high profile.. !!! So you truly see, this is the so-called first world, racism against minorities and immigrants despite 'they' invaded Red Indians land, and now they are demonstrating same 'social class' discrimination, that's common place in the 3rd World, minus the $+Tech, and there you have even worse of the 3rd World.
Separation between church and...?
This article is a little odd. It describes conservatives as being worried that professors are "subversive", but it's exactly the opposite - conservatives worry that colleges are enforcing and indoctrinating people in the orthodoxy.

It's the rare subversive academics, e.g. Charles Murray, who are being assaulted and chased of campus for holding unorthodox opinions.

And it's happening off campus as well - for instance, we recently had a peaceful (but unorthodox) anti-war activist assaulted: https://antifascistnews.net/2017/04/09/richard-spencer-just-...
>Actually, I wonder how much this will last considering that fossil energy will likely cost more and more and that more and more people from developing countries start to travel too.

On the other hand, planes may become electric, and the cost of solar power is rapidly falling. If this trend continues, it will likely become cheaper to fly in the future.

Even if planes don't become electric any time soon, other demand for oil may be displaced, lowering its price.
At work I was given permission by a vendor to screen scrape their site while they worked on building a real API. This site was extremely dependent on javascript. Including doing some really complex token passing between multiple domains that the company owned. Not to mention all of their js was minified and uglified so I had a very hard time understanding what it was doing.

It was the first time I wasn't able to successfully reverse engineer a site enough to scrape what I needed with just requests/beautifulsoup. I was however able to get it working just fine using phantomjs via selenium via splinter. It was a fun exercise, but part of me still feels like it was cheating.
"I'll whitelist you, as soon as you stop using a third party ad network"

"But then what's the point", we both said in unison.
My kid wanted a fitness watch for Christmas. One morning I received bunch of emails about purchases on Amazon, but I was too busy to look and I knew that it was probably my wife Christmas shopping. In the evening I had a chance to look at the emails - 6 orders of watches $175 each. I had time to cancel all but one. So my kid got black watch for Christmas, even though he wanted blue. At least size was correct. Amazon should not have switched Alexa purchasing on by default.
Anyone got a link on how to transition existing large webpack/React/babel project to using Typescript? Googling I only found https://medium.com/@clayallsopp/incrementally-migrating-java... but it doesn’t use ts-loader and doesn’t go into details on how to use typings. I tried following ts-loader docs, but things broke at `import flatten from 'lodash/flatten'` and adding typings for `lodash ` didn’t help. Would be interesting what strategies people use to get it working in existing project.
I know a guy that bills at least 5000 eur/day (this is before taxes, so personally he doesn't see that much) for fixing Cobol stuff for financial institutions.

And depending on the urgency, his rate goes up. He's retired, and works at most 2 or 3 months/year and lives a pretty normal life and lives in a very small house. His neighbors were pretty stunned when he bought himself a Tesla, his previous car was a Nissan Note...

He told me he was usually called in for projects where they needed specific expertise when writing Java to interface with existing COBOL, or rewriting COBOL parts with Java and adapt other COBOL code to inter-operate with that. Apparently most COBOL stuff now runs in the JVM - which tought me: in 30 years, Java will be the new COBOL.
Recent paper giving new insight why indexing works so well.

Why Indexing Works, Heaton , Polson and Witte, 2015.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2673262

The distribution of returns in the stock market is very uneven. There is significant positive skew. Just handful of well performing stocks at any moment account make significant gains in market.

> The risk of substantial index underperformance always dominates the chance of substantial index outperformance, with the difference being greater the smaller the size of the selected sub-portfolios. It is far more likely that a randomly selected (small) subset of the 500 stocks will underperform than overperform, because average index performance depends on the inclusion of the extreme winners that often are missed in sub-portfolios.

Index funds pick these winners every time. Active funds start as underdogs even in the stock picking game.
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My reply wasn't intended to. I was pointing out that even the Plus version doesn't have Server Push. I don't expect it will ever be present in the open source version, barring a fork.
How much has he paid for all those parts?
Choosing an event schema for AB testing that works well for Amplitude and Redshift
How does that justify having a ridiculous 35 year sentence hanging over somebody for a terms of use violation? That is murder levels of sentencing

The case was far from clear cut, weev had his case overturned and the Lori Drew case was overturned specifically because the judge said terms of use violations don't apply under CFAA

I read Orin Kerr a lot, abd agree with almost all of what he says in the series he wrote on the Swartz case - I only didn't buy his justification that overprosecution is ok because all the other prosecutors also do it

Swartz's main concern was a lifetime criminal record and not being able to work, and second pleading guilty to charges that he (and many others) don't agree he was guilty to

I def agree with Kerr that the unauthorized access statutes need to be reformed tho, that would have the Swartz case irrelevant and placed it back where it belonged - in a civil court
Please share your resume, your cover letter / emails to one of these jobs, and an overview of how a typical interview goes. You're could be screwing up one of these on a regular basis. Alternatively, a lot of employers may be dismissing you out of hand due to the long gap, which may need some explanation.
I don't really see the problem. After all, you just install those deps once in your Dockerfile, right? ;)
Considering about 180 people are being made redundant, they'd be in a pickle if they hired new people for positions that could have been filled by those leaving.
Any verification that handcuffs were threatened? A guy saying it's so while also claiming he's considering a lawsuit doesn't lend much credibility -- he has a financial incentive to hyperbolize.
This is what happens when people watch too much sensationalized news.
What will stop home owner associations and condo complexes from getting their own police forces? Who would they report to? What about privatizing the judiciary too?

Maybe the church should be (paying higher taxes/start paying taxes) to the local government so they have better policing in the community?
"... In addition, we draw from our experience to propose a new language extension to Rust that would enable it to provide better memory safety tools for event-driven platforms."

I believe this part also warrants mention. Not only did they share their findings as experts in the field, they also did the extra work of detailing improvements.

My take away is that its painful to make embedded systems in Rust now but its promising enough to make it worth the effort for the embedded community to help guide Rust's development.
I used Phantom once upon a time, but I eventually switched to just using xvfb as well within a docker instance. Headless Chrome and Firefox with xvfb.
No, that's a scenario you want to defend against, and I'll remind you again that if you're dealing with attackers that can exploit your computing devices directly, the tokens are pretty much cosmetic. If you have an insecure phone and you actually use it like a smartphone, you're boned no matter how many security tokens you've got attached to your key ring.

When we work with lawyers, reporters, and NGOs, what we find are people with much more urgent security problems. They're one carefully worded email away from giving their entire email account away to a 25 year old in Estonia. They aren't worried that their phone is about to get owned up --- mostly because that isn't going to happen, but for other reasons too.

Real targets are going to be compromised for 3 reasons:

1. They're going to be phished out of losing their credentials.

2. They're going to share credentials between sites and lose them in a breach of one of those sites.

3. They're going to click on an attachment and lose their whole computer to an attacker.

The U2F/TOTP stack this post recommends nicely addresses (1) and (2), and nothing anyone on this thread is talking about addresses (3). I'm not sure why we're spending so much time considering (13).
Actually yes
> only siths deals in absolutes?

At least we have cookies.
campus police tend to be among the more community-minded LEOs.

This is bullshit.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-university...
Not a whole lot more than they are at the moment.
Building a static website generator with React and Terraform
Is the title an allusion to Proudhon's succinct quote: "Property is theft!"?
There is a many fake lithium batteries that have way less capacity than advertised.
I have experienced it with a laptop battery. It might worth checking the real capacity of it. Also, when changing the battery, the time spent to disassemble and reassemble the phone without breaking anything might account for a lot.
This is how you get burbclaves.
No, admittedly I've never been.

But I didn't mean it as some abstract "Detroit is bad" comment. I meant it more specifically. Someone tried to break into his house. And streetlights and road crews are apparently a recent development.

Quote from his AMA: "Detroit is a dangerous city, and someone did try to kick in my door one night-- It's a story I tell in the book. But I think what makes me the most safe is a good relationship with my neighbors. They look out for me, and I for them. I can't say it won't ever happen, as almost all of my neighbors have been broken into"

Maybe that's an acceptable situation for some people, but I'd pay money to move to a better neighborhood.
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Code generators are super phishable and that is the whole reason to abandon them in the medium term. In the short term however they are all we have for most websites so protecting the secret in a hardwre token is as good as we can get.

No matter how much you protect the secret though, not getting phished is left to the hopefully paranoid user, which is for sure not ideal, but we are probably years out from TOTP being replaced with U2F for most sites.

TOTP via hardware tokens is a stopgap.

Great comments though. Will update to reflect them.
He said he spent around $1000 on failures and tools. If he had done it perfectly the first time it would've cost him around $300.
When a 90-year-old person has any illness, even a cold, it could be life-threatening.
Also a song by the Hooters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
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I wonder if kids are harder on the dexcom sensor or something? I have a family member with the G5, and it works well. Not perfect by any means, but a lot better than what you're describing.
Because it's a huge waste of time and resources. No one benefits. There's no reason for these clowns to be wasting my time and making people buy water on the other side of the checkpoint. It's just one huge welfare program for unemployable morons, and I have to waste two hours every time I fly to put up with their dumb horseshit.

I'm gonna throw a brick through your front window. No reason for it, just gonna do it. Hey, a guy's paying me to do it. Why you gotta be so upset about it?

Let me put this in perspective. The Twin Cities gained a new light rail passenger line a couple years ago. The construction cost for this new line came to about $1 billion[1]. I use this line every single day. It takes me to work and to home and out to dinner. I love this rail line. It makes my life better.

The TSA's annual budget is $8 billion[2]. For the cost of running the TSA for one year, eight metro areas could gain a new rail line. Every year! And what does the TSA do in return for this money? Waste my time. Waste your time. Piss me off. Humiliate me with pat-downs. Why the fuck are we paying for these clowns to do this instead of doing something useful with that money? Because of Americans who have never met a person of Muslim faith but are terrified because of the loud angry white man on TV.

Yeah, it's a big deal and I'm fucking pissed. Why aren't you?

[1] http://finance-commerce.com/2015/04/progress-mn-metro-green-...

[2] https://www.rt.com/usa/tsa-useless-airport-security-479/
Maybe not, but with cops it's stupid. And it can get you dead, if things go very wrong. Extreme politeness is the best course, in my experience.
What turns me off immediately about TypeScript (and examples in the article show it) is the use of the class construct. If I could see some examples of teams writing TypeScript without falling into the use of classes I would feel a lot better about it. I am in full agreement with Douglas Crockford and others that adding pseudo-classes to JS was a big mistake.
I travel a lot internationally but won't visit the USA - I have no interest in putting myself through that.

By contrast, I've travelled to a lot of countries that the USA considers dangerous or extreme (e.g. Sudan), and have had nothing but pleasant and easy experiences.
Church of Satan, please come to the smoldering sulfurous courtesy phone. You're needed in Alabama again.
This is just wrong.
Quite an interesting device. But sounds a little too good to be true for $179? It'd be great to have clinical trials and also qualified people (doctors, diabetic users etc.) to review it and compare with other devices
What's astonishing is that the parts he ended up using cost him $300 [1], less than half of what a new phone would cost. The parts come from recycled / broken phones, so he effectively has a Franken iPhone. I'd take it.. wonder whether it starts creaking later sometime.

[1] http://www.arykar.com/guy-builds-diy-iphone-6s-for-less-than...
I don't see the constitutional issue. The University of Chicago (among many others) is a private entity that has a private police force. Not permitting churches to have them just because they're churches would be a free excercise of religion violation.
WA with a performant web API, you mean. First iteration of WA won't let you touch things like the DOM without jumping through JS-land.
I had a case where I had a mental disorder but eventually, I found out that much of it was me being afraid of how the society will accept it. I personally thought I had a self-caused mental illness because of a psychotic episode from drug abuse. Drug abuse having a huge stigma in my country, I was afraid to seek mental health help because both my relatives and a firsthand experience with a GP were negative experiences. To me, it seemed like everyone I talked to condemned my behavior. The condemnation was so bad that the advice I received was just to avoid drugs and to not talk about the use to anyone. When I asked a GP to prescribe drugs to me which I thought would be helpful in my situation, I was basically told that as I just admitted drug abuse that would not work.

Eventually, I sought mental health help (to get the drugs I sought from GP) where I was being treated from the article's perspective. I was told that instead of a mental illness, I seem to have a PTSD and the way I am having delusions is a natural behavior. I also got some drugs, not the ones I wanted, but the ones I actually needed. Either way, I finally found an authority that accepted me and my situation. Surely enough, all my symptoms disappeared within days the appointment.

The experience showed me how fine line there is in mental health and how much the outside world can affect the image of yourself.
> because the majority of users are troublemakers

This statement is actually wrong. The majority of users are probably normal people. The majority of the traffic coming from exit nodes, though, may come from scripts/bots ; but that is a really small percentage of users.
Metaphysics aside, which model for dealing with mental illness do you think would have the least adverse effects on one's fragile mental state?

1) a model which stigmatizes you for life and rejects you as a functioning member of society and has the supra legal power to subject you to a vast array of human rights abuses including but not limited to: indefinite detention, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, forced drugging, and other forms of psychological torture[1].

2) a model which accepts and respects you as a member of society

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29gr27/redditors...
Creating the group scared United because you didn't have any unifying characteristic other than the event. Having people ruminate together could have been the fermenting grounds for several (or a class action) lawsuit against the company.
Thanks but I don't know if it is or not.
The steps you mention apart from the last are all to do with protection in case a phone is stolen.
I suppose what really concerns me is someone hacking my phone through some kind of malware.
If Android is as insecure as some say it is, then is it risky to log in to gmail on any android device ever?
What about the Google Pixel range of phones?
How do they compare to the iphone. I don't want an iphone if I can help it. I prefer Android to iOS.
If fact, a lot people I know who had iphones have been switching over to higher end android devices.
But security trumps everything else if it's a question of keeping email secure.
that's just higher emphasis on formal appearance as necessary part of 'success'. teeth are very visible in communication. that's it.
> My wife and I just got back from a trip to Italy. The flight was full on the way there. We went from Chicago to Rome. However on the way back we flew from Venice with a stop over in Madrid back to Chicago. The plane was only 1/3 full at most. I remember commenting to my wife how empty it was.

That's most likely just the normal variation in the flight schedules - they can vary dramatically not just by time of year, but also time of day.

For example, I just took a flight from Dubai to NYC (and this was after Trump's Muslim ban came into effect). The flight was packed, with nearly every seat full. Last year, I took the same flight but a few hours later, and it was nearly empty - almost every person in coach had the entire row to themselves (which, for a 15-hour flight, was great!).

Or put another way, if the flight on the way from Chicago to Rome was full and the flight from Madrid to Chicago was not, that doesn't really tell you much about aggregate tourism from other countries to the US, unless you're also making the assumption that there are literally planes full of people emigrating from the US every day.
I am all the code that I wrote, all the code I will write and many things that has nothing to do with the code.
I occasionally use dailies - for swimming. But your example, and some of the stuff online doesn't makes sense: the difference between showering wearing contacts and without is that the contacts scrape up the cornea, and that the natural washing of tears become less effective (lenses trap all sorts of stuff on the eye).

It sounds odd that if you throw away lenses after showering anyway - the risk would be different?

Sounds like if one has been wearing lenses for a few hours, one should take precautions with getting water in the eye - with or without lenses?

Also it appears, swimming with dailies - if one wears glasses before/after and throw away the dailies - should be reasonably safe from what I can gather?

Alternatively, it would seem a lot more people would be infected even not wearing lenses at all?
A) Yeah, they could have, true. I also could become a billionaire tomorrow at 10:31 am. But the probability is so close towards 0% that it's much smarter to not assume it.

B) Strawmans are awesome. Don't dare to criticise my strawman. I'm an artist!

C) Yes, adding more reading material is always nice, and none of my comments was supposed to discredit that. Thanks for adding it.

D) Still, don't increase your hopes because you've read another secondary source.
Google already has Dart.