skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next line after what I quoted: "The username and password are set to the same as the Quickstart ones." (admin/changeme123)
It could well be, as a non-native speaker I'm not aware of such shades of meaning. It sounds a bit "TopTal speak" to me. Probably I picked it up subconsciously as I was skimming my TopTal post during writing.
Our city's paper focuses exclusively on local and regional issues and includes a USA Today section to cover national stories. I suspect a lot of smaller metros' papers do the same.

Specifically those owned by Gannett: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gannett_Company_asse...
My hires are uniformly distributed across the score spectrum. Not sure how the HCs "adjust" me. I have gotten props for the quality of my written feedback though.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Once Personally Threatened to Kick Uber Out of the App Store
That article reminds me of The Auditors in Terry Pratchett's "The Thief of Time" who try to analyse a painting by reducing it to its component molecules.

There is no mention of tailoring comments and replies to the target audience. Once I adopted the mindset of a senior high school or college student and posted accordingly, I was able to increase my karma on Reddit from 1,000 per year to 1,000 per month.

I still haven't managed to crack Hacker News, though. Tough audience.
Executable research paper
A relic of 90s programming. Perhaps we can take a moment to realise we are not just doomed to reinvent things that were done properly in the 70s. Looking back there were plenty of things that were just poorly thought out and this was one of them.
Interestingly, this has been the approach of a dietary study being conducted by a group doing research on a circadian-focused pattern of eating. The study uses a mobile app as part of their distributed clinical trial design. Participants take pictures of their food with only the option of further journaling. Kind of cool.

Here's the website for the trial (& app)...

http://www.mycircadianclock.org/

Here's a video of the principal investigator (Satchin Panda) talking about his research...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-eqJDQ2nU
Even being born is a lucky break
Jack Ma Sees Decades of Pain as Internet Upends Older Economy
Carmax does it with millions of cars per year. It's not magic. If you're a market maker, you need volume, capital, and intelligent valuations and pricing of your goods.
Python wasn't designed from the start with this kind of security concern in mind. It could have been, like http://erights.org/. In such languages it's reasonable to say "you can write a user-level drop-in replacement for eval(), and therefore we can make the built-in eval accessible to all code without any extra security-design concerns" (though of course you still need care in implementation).
I wonder how common illegal invoice fraud is, because most of these invoice scams are not fraud, legally. They are angling for a contract without claiming that one existed in the first place.

When you imitate someone else's voice to validate an invoice you're committing fraud at the very least. Most invoice scammers wouldn't do that because they want to stay on the legal even if scummy side of things.
Python maybe better but there are FAR better languages out there...
What is your particular definition of crucial?

You might find that without any cyclical dependencies, it is really hard to define "crucial" without ending up on "provide most value". And when discussing jobs which "provide most value" you are forced into a corner accepting that the highest paid positions are the ones which the market has determined as "providing most value".
I have to admit that I did not know time-series databases are a thing and just recently realized that because they came up more often. Unfortunately I do not have an answer for you, but I know traditional DB systems are hard to build, as we expect more reliability and guarantees from them compared to other (daemon) software.

However I am interested to know why this kind of data and/or problems require specific software and why it can't be handled by traditional RDBMs? Obviously you could model the domain with a classic database, but seemingly there exist important queries that can't be satisfied (at least timely) through classic systems - what kind of queries are these, and why do they fail using a general-purpose DB approach?
Would you prefer three N=300 studies or one N=900 study?
So the tool is getting used everywhere by "kiddies"?

I don't see any discussion about the fact that, if you were the NSA, you'd absolutely want this to happen to muddy the waters for attribution.
We're all aware of his pattern of behavior, and hope to one day see the death of Uber. However, it's not new news. That's why it's not the true lede
This is a very smart but also very slow move.
> I still haven't managed to crack Hacker News, though. Tough audience.

Just link a bunch of studies to anything you say.[^1] It doesn't actually matter if they're related.[^2] No one really checks the sources anyway.[^3]

[^1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02876

[^2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02728

[^3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03799
Not a restaurant, but Costco used to accept only Amex as a credit card (debit was a different story) and now only accepts Visa.
This is what immediately crossed my mind too. I have talked to quite a few people from other countries who assumed that USA Today is our foremost national paper, like the American Der Spiegel.

I have no idea where the idea comes from though.
When sites pay other services to increase their fb likes, they are always from other countries for some reason. Because in this case the payer only wants to see the actual like count go up.

Not saying we have proof that they did this.
TV is only one source of ads, YouTube, games, and other web/mobile resources are full of ads. I cannot get rid of all of them without creating creatures from another planet.
Maybe more than you thing, if you're running a multithreaded app malloc/free/new/delete need to have mutexes to protect the heap data structures, that can also lead you into the kernel
I agree the dashboard is pretty worthless, I made it because I wanted to fiddle around with some Charts. The best thing would be what you're saying is tracking tasks.
OMeta can also be used to define tree transformers, and may be of interest too.

http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/
Crypto-currencies are in the wild west early days right now.
Having looked through Uber's iOS app pretty extensively - that fingerprint methodology is easy to bypass.
Agreed. That should be the bare minimum to show something like this off.
To me it seems like this is mischaracterized to make it sound worse than it is. Can someone explain why people are making a big deal about this practice?
Some screenshots would be useful but I'm still rapidly developing Timestrap and the interface is getting stuff added to it every few hours so I feel like it'd be a wasted effort on my part right now.

EDIT: Added some screenshots to the bottom of the readme
Doesn't a 3D graphics (not game) engine like OGRE or Irrlicht fill this void? I don't know if either one supports DX12/Vulkan yet, but I imagine they will in the not too distant future.
I read about that 7x stuff back in the 80's. As I recall, it was based on the idea that you could look at the disk with an electron microscope or something and it could pick up echos of the previous data.

If this actually worked, data recovery companies would make a mint recovering overwritten files. But I've never heard of anyone advertising such or ever accomplishing it.
Not the parent, but he is right. If you are not from India or China, the GC takes about a year - once you find an employer who would apply for it. People who are from India or China wait for the same amount of time plus about a decade.

I often run into people who ask me about my immigration status and when I say that I am waiting for my GC to be done, they nod sympathetically, roll their eyes and tell about someone they know who "had to wait two years! Gosh!!". I tell them, with as much politeness I can muster, that I have been in the country for over 10 years, have filed for my GC 5 years ago,, and expect to wait another 5 to get it.
March for Science: Protesters gather worldwide to support 'evidence'
Most legislation, counted in line or pages, is written by industry. Legislators aren't writing this themselves.

And there's little in the way of taking a strong anti-trust (competition law) in politics. The Obama administration watched over, and permitted mergers that very blatantly reduce competition: multiple airlines, and drug companies. And it was more aggressive overall in applying competition law compared to previous Republican administrations. So, point is, even with a Democratic president, competition law isn't pressed strongly enough, let alone with a Republican in office where it's apparently "we need to recognize more natural monopolies, and help them whenever possible".

About the only thing all Americans might be able to agree on when it comes to politics, is the increasingly obvious need for a constitutional amendment getting money out of politics.
A Deep Learning Visual Chatbot Released by Researchers from Georgia Tech and VT
> I still haven't managed to crack Hacker News, though. Tough audience.

I can't tell for sure it's intended, but this sounds Machiavellian. And also following your own stated advice. Compliment the audience on being tough -- tell us what we want to hear -- in order to be rewarded with upvotes. Nice work.
The question was how you'd configure a concrete MPI implementation to separate MPI-IO traffic from the rest if it was a good idea.

We have the Infiniband (or similar) fabric, and we understand it -- in my case better than the Ethernet one we're proposed to have to understand as well, and we're typically not "network engineers" doing this stuff. I disagree that Infiniband is more challenging anyway, having had and known about bad problems with cluster Ethernet. Then this 10G Ethernet get a whole 10% extra bandwidth on top of current HPC fabrics while presumably adding jitter.

HPC codes don't generally spend 60% checkpointing, and "data warehouse applications" typically aren't of interest to us, but we can do mapreduce-type things fast. See the bits about redundancy and the advantage of RDMA in the checkpointing filesystem.
Downtown Bellevue springs up, with visions of a Seattle-like urban hub
Because Uber is the market leader, with the most investment, and with the largest subsidies. Given your short posting history's unusual interest in Uber stories you probably know about that already.
I'm interested where GitHub comes into play here. Took a look at the website but didn't see anything the resembled git or GitHub funtionality.
Ask HN: Did anything actually happen due to Y2K?
While it's obvious that the Y2K bug didn't have the apocalyptic impact that people were freaking out about, I was curious if anything major broke/malfunctioned/did-something-unexpected because of it.
Not all lucky breaks involve talent. For example being born into a well off family. Further to the point, you'd not imagine the number of rich kids who piss away that particular lucky break
Because for fonts, textures, windowing, effects, materials, requires the use of third party libraries outside the spec.

Also it is stuck in a C world API, with each binding being a third party library with different degrees of coverage.
I browsed through the debugging section of the text and was disappointed:

> The easiest way to enter the interactive debugger is through RStudio’s “Rerun with Debug” tool.

Oh, great. Let's take a language intended to be driven from the command line and tie it up with a non-official GUI that abstracts away the details of how one actually debugs with R.
You could show off mock-ups you've done in Photoshop (and perhaps add a disclaimer) if you don't have a stable UI right now!
Hello HN, developer here. I started this Friday night because I wanted something much simpler than all the options I was given and something that I could host myself. There is a lot to do on this project still and I wanted to see what the reception was for the start.

Timestrap currently does fully support time tracking and CSV exports for multiple projects and tasks. It has a full REST API and admin panel. Invoicing will come after I get the dashboard more fleshed out, more export options and better security.
> Do you work for Google?

I do. I've also done 200+ interviews.

> Googlers are known to come out to defend their employer on HN

Well, sure. It's not because Google tells us to defend it though, but rather to state the facts as we see them.
I don't have any mock-ups. I'm literally just creating the UI as I go since I just started making this on Friday and wanted to get something working.
Startup Podcast: Friendster: Part 1 (Season 5, Episode 2)
not sure why you'd want to run TempleOS on a NAS. It's an incredibly impressive piece of software from a very intelligent (and sadly, very schizophrenic) man but it's not very practical.
Oops, sorry, yes! I did mean encfs.
Thanks. Assumed it was something like fingerprint in. Techcrunch says it was more tracking of uninstall then reinstall than tracking while the app was not installed. They apparently geofenced Cupertino and used deprecated apis to get the device serial number but other Apple offices outside Cupertino detetected the unauthorized tracking.
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
One can dream!
I've written many, many articles/analysis about the karma systems of Reddit/Hacker News.

Karma aggregates are meaningless internet points. Neither Reddit nor Hacker News, nor their users, give major impact to how much user a user has (aside for low karma aggregate thresholds for downvoting on HN), nor is there any correlation between the amount of karma and the quality of content that user outputs.
You're right, but I prefer my conditions as open as possible...
Why do 3 letter agencies need special tools? Who will they be accountable to that these tools are being used ethically?

We already have a bunch of stories of crooked cops using databases to stalk love interests, etc. Then look at the Michael Hastings incident. Imagine how much abuse goes unreported.
But then shouldn't they be profitable already? How are they losing multiple billions per year if they're profitable per unit.

If the answer is they need to raise prices and/or reduce the drivers' cut, how will they be better than the taxi services they're replacing? Many taxi services up here in Canada already have apps that are close to on par with what Uber offers.
Do both devices have to support it? What do I need to do to enable and try it, if my network supports it?
Server error 500. Well too bad then.
I remember that New Mexico's driver's license system went down.
True.

But don't underestimate the amazing benefits that will come with it.

Education and Entertainment will be revolutionized. It will disrupt the world in a huge way as well as create new cyberpunk criminal endeavors.
> "I interviewed at Google, had a good experience, got hired, and now move protocol buffers from one directory to another every day"

There, FTFY. :P

(used to be a Googler.)

* Well, that and eat tons of snacks and coffee. So it was actually pretty good.
It seems very far from completion in comparison with D3D9 implementation in Wine. So for now it's just a interesting project, rather than something practical.
It already gives you an error message if the message couldn't be authenticated. That's the whole point of Signal.
Isn't that the goal of a business though, optimize profitability and reduce costs. If migration to an SaaS platform is cheaper and more efficient, then i'd be more concerned if a business didn't move to it. I'm seeing a lot of commentary that seems to imply a business has a responsibility to create jobs and i'm genuinely perplexed where it comes from.
Which, even stipulating that is the case, is not what most people use. Instead many phone conversations involve "Wait, are you still there" "Can you hear me?" [Shouted] "What?" No, we've most assuredly given up universal quality for convenience and lower prices.

We CAN provide high quality but we mostly don't want to make the tradeoffs to do so.
Practically speaking, I don't think it's a problem. You'd probably want to reproduce the builds in an environment that was, itself, reproducible and isolated, such as Docker or a chroot or a VM (Maybe for security reasons rkt would be a good candidate since it has signed images on top of normal cryptographic hashing.) That's my opinion anyway. It's also useful to do so for projects that use a CI pipeline.
Ask HN: Do you write Runbooks, if so how?
I am just curious how people here approach documenting various operations and support aspects of their applications and systems?

I have traditionally put together runbooks for new hires or NOC/support teams with instructions how to troubleshoot rudimentary problems which may come up, how to find logs, what common failure points are etc.

How do you keep track of system accounts, certs expiration, what errors to look for in logs, how to log into certain systems etc for other to troubleshoot?
All of that is outside of the spec. That has nothing to do with 3D graphics. MS just lumped it all together and called it DX.
New Florida Virtual Currency Bill to Target Bitcoin Money Laundering
I was lucky to have a University class where we studied studies - constructing them, running them, and evaluating them. We went through many historically important studies to understand them better. Our conclusion? Lots of studies are very flawed and lead society in the wrong direction for decades - even if double-blind and statistically sound.

When we tried to reformulate the studies so they would have been correct, the most common problem was that it wasn't possible to reformulate them at the time they were designed - what to measure wasn't known, or there was no way to measure it, or inputs or outputs were not known to exist or known to be measurable.

Really, I wish everybody had taken that class. I hear all the "fact-based" exhortations by people who don't really understand that they are trading one religion for another (but, hey, I believe in taking the best judgment at the time, based on the best data - just understand it's limitations and take those into account.)
Google - a big part of it is framing the query to get the responses you need.
>3. Create detection signatures for the exploit to run against Upstream collected internet communications.

Yes, it's a good thing that very illegal cyberattacks are never done over encrypted channels. To catch the once-in-a-blue-moon hacker who has their bots log in to the mothership with ssh or something, we could just go ahead and let the government write ring-0 antivirus for us.
Fallout 2 was the source of many joys and frustrations, I even did some work on the pt-BR translation.

It was very upsetting that Van Buren [0] was not actually the expected Fallout 3, I very much prefer the pure isometric turn-based system instead of the hybrid that was subsequently developed by Bethesda.

Hope this project reaches a high-quality stable release so that the community is able to create great storylines and mods based on it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_(video_game)
This seems like a really fun project to try and reproduce!
If there is no outrage over SimilarWeb/Jumpshot buying Google Chrome browser extensions and tracking every url (even https ones like banking sites) you visit.. and selling that data, then why would anyone be outraged over this specific scenario?
Weeping Angel: Did the CIA Really Hack into TVs?
It resets every 10 minutes or so, it's bound to break with HN hitting it and doing whatever they want to it.
The meta-hype algorithm
I really respect what the author tried to do with ArkOS. He got a working open source product out the door that put a premium on usability and ease of installation. There aren't a lot of volunteer-run open source projects that are able to do that.

Did anyone ever host their own email "at home" using ArkOS?

Edit: typo
>Amazon is a infested with scam storefronts.

Evidence?
> However at the end of the day he's working with Gaussian noise assumptions, just like everyone else, and the solution is obtained by some form of Least Squares, again, like everyone else.

Well you need some kind of model to optimize, and finding the perfect one is a vastly more difficult problem that probably begins to incorporate some stuff from information theory (which starts to become rather a different field).

I don't actually see the issue with researchers working on algorithms to solve the Gaussian noise versions of these problems — they can usually be extended to some other model relatively easily (for instance, rotation synchronization via Riemannian manifolds can incorporate a Pseudo-Huber loss function without much difficulty).

Also, what is SOTA?
> so where is the cutoff between "monopolies" and simple economies of scale?

If a market is closed to new entrants purely because the economies of scale make the established players products cheaper, then that is one thing.

That is rarely the case. Usually, as described here, there are also deliberate attempts by the established players to exclude new entrants via other means.

"The primary supplier of syringes, which controlled 80 percent of the market, structured an arrangement with a vast network of hospitals that essentially closed our industry to new firms for good."

> The author claims 6 seed companies are worse than hundreds of seed companies, but doesn't give a single fact to support that claim.

Yes, he does:

"The result is that the farmer’s share of each retail dollar of food has been collapsing, while consumers pay either the same or higher prices. Mega-corporations in the middle exploit their dominant market positions to reap all the profits."
Thank you, that's roughly what I was trying to say... short of digging up specific examples, that I don't fell represents the overall issue which is relatively hard to express void of specific examples. There are also plenty of people in the millenial generation that I wouldn't want to apply the term broadly to, because I think it has a relatively deserved negative connotation.

Other than for comedic effect, I don't like generalities and stereotype expressions... but it really does seem to be a generational shift from a subset of Gen-X to a majority of Gen-Y and Millenials that just seem opaque when it comes to understanding anyone that doesn't agree with them, or has a different culture or perspective in practice.

In some ways it's absolutely fascinating and in others it's absolutely terrifying and oppressive.