skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, so you'd be fine with them scanning and storing a copy of every piece of mail that ever crossed your mailbox in the same fashion.

If you're ok with having to rely on their discretion we may already be talking past each other. A bedrock principle of the constitution and amendments are that the government's discretion can't be trusted, so discretion must be limited and controlled and standardized. My point is that discretion to use a power is no different from just having the power outright.

Appeal to tradition, a strawman, followed by an ad hominem. I hope you're saving a better counter for later. Parents don't need parallel construction, they already have absolute power and can investigate however they wish. Are you sure you understand what parallel construction is? A simplified example: A prosecutor wants to convict a citizen (for whatever reason) but they don't have any evidence, so they use illegal means to find evidence that they couldn't have practically found otherwise. But this is inadmissible in court, so they fabricate an "investigation" that -- through the prosecutor's superior "intuition" and uncannily accurate "hunches" -- ends up producing some of the same evidence, enough to make a conviction. I don't understand your goal here, are you saying that parallel construction is fine and the source of evidence doesn't matter? It sounds like you're trying to throw out the exclusionary rule altogether.

I'm sorry you're not aware about the existence of secret laws. Please read up on it [1], it may be enlightening. If you take issue with my use of the adjective "arbitrary", I'll give you that. (But if they're secret how is that really so different from arbitrary?) If you take issue with my colloquial use of "law" that includes regulations, executive branch pronouncements, and secret interpretations that fundamentally change the plain reading of statutes, I'm not sure what to tell you other than to stop being pedantic and think of the bigger picture. "Couterintel" is an overused excuse employed to dodge accountability, most of the time it doesn't need to be secret. "Subject to review". Yeah, sure [2].

What you see as "overactive imagination" I see as a healthy distrust of the government, because "all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree" [James Madison, 3]. Yes the checks exist, but the systems I mention are the circumvention of these same checks. What I see from you is sticking your fingers in your ear, burying your head in the sand, and singing LALALA as loud as you can when presented with evidence of the very abuses for which you say we should stay vigilant.

[1]: http://www.brennancenter.org/publication/new-era-secret-law or https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/the-governments-a...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/19/fisa-c...

[3]: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_711.asp
It may use the same sensor as the Pixel, but it doesn't have the Pixel camera processing algorithms. Those Pixel algorithms are a big reason why it's considered to have the best smartphone camera.
The Job Application of Leonardo Da Vinci
Gold coins so people can steal them from you in this doomsday scenario? Gold is about as useful as monopoly money when facing a gang of people that will just kill you and take whatever they can.
Which is around $280 billion, or about 1.5% of us GDP.
Correct. It was an online textbook and it didn't work in Safari.
Yeah, I guess there are less constraints on length than in a print publication. But that can be an advantage as well, I thought the kindof meandering path here was pretty effective, when it starts with extremely detailed and nerdy investigations of Star Trek trivia, and then gradually zooms out to draw conclusions about fiction/society/literary studies in general.

Strange Horizons pay contributors ($80 for an essay), and the author mentions that she discussed the piece with an editor, and that she thought about the essay for 4 years, so I think the format is probably chosen somewhat deliberately.
>3-in-1s might have a legitimate future

It does seem as if you're going to have two devices with basically the same hardware there ought to be some way to converge them.

I agree that Microsoft has probably come closest but no one seems to have fully cracked this yet.

OTOH, I often travel with an Asus Flip Chromebook and I find it sufficiently awkward as a tablet that I usually travel with my iPad as well unless I'm going very light in which case I take my Kindle Paperwhite.
My read on it was that the Author is saying that maybe there is more truth to the conspiracy theories that America has looted everyone's gold out of the Fed for its own purposes than you might think.

His reasoning appears to be, "If the world is, as the Fed presents it, then we should be able get our gold back. But we can't." and then notes agencies that the auditing agency that was aggressively pushing even an accounting of the available gold has gone silent implying they have been made complicit somehow in the conspiracy.

Here on the outside we can't really know what is going on of course. And frankly if it got out that 1200 tons of gold was on the move I could imagine that would be a tasty target even for nation-state level thieves. But I also found it interesting when the Economist and others reported that the Fed was refusing to let auditors verify their gold deposits. That is a question that really needs an answer and we haven't gotten it yet.
"Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry" by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff

Scandal distracting them, playing by the old bandwidth rules too long, and Verizon wanting an iPhone killer (which is different from RIM/Blackberry's focus) were the lessons I read. Remember, they hit their max market cap a year after the iPhone.
I love this idea, it can be even bigger than Paypal. Three suggestions:

First, make it a mobile app as a simplified gmail with just the recipient, the amount and a memo. That's it. In version two add the pic, avatar or whatever people use.

Second, open a new wave of email accounts since all gmail accounts are already taken so people can start using their names or businesses as email accounts again. Perhaps GoMail? And start from day one with two factor authentication so squatters don't start their party.

Third, create Merchant accounts and apps so business owners can track thousands of payments a day with tools for money management.

This was my dream solution for the mobile payment need but now that Google is going to do it I'll leave it to them.
Your tone could be improved.
Unsurprisingly, the US is in the "Fairly Good" bracket on RSF's index. This is despite the fact that it has a lower "abuse" score, which is based on documented incidents and not survey results, than Germany, the largest European country with "Good" status.

If you read the 87-question RSF survey, you'll see that it's pretty unlikely that the US will ever break into the top "Good" bracket, despite the fact that we don't have state control of the media (some "Good" countries, including Belgium, actually license journalists), the fact that we lead the world in the education of journalists (I'm not making a big deal about that --- the questionnaire does), and the fact that virtually everyone who wants to function as an online journalist has adequate internet access; the questionnaire is also full of subjective questions that have more to do with assessments by journalists of the culture. So regardless of the status of our laws, the fact that journalists fear cultural reputational damage for challenging power, for instance, is going to weight the US down.

Expect the score to drop precipitously next year, by the way: the questionnaire directly asks, in multiple questions, whether the government attempts to discredit the media.

I think the Trump administration is a travesty and that their treatment of the press is actually a significant indicator of how much of a travesty it is. But it's frustrating that the hallmark of a truly free press is its ability to continue functioning despite brickbats thrown from the administration. Our free press will be challenged in the next few years as it hasn't been challenged for many decades prior, and I expect our system will persevere. Despite that fact, our RSF score will drop as a result of us weathering those challenges.

So, I'm not a fan of the RSF methodology or really of any of these indices. But if you look at the underlying data I think you'll see that "ranked #43" isn't as interesting as it sounds.
I'll agree lots of bits of the UEFI-spec represent solid over-engineering, but the EFI partition is IMO not one of those bits.

It standardizes how to deploy a bootloader in a multi-boot friendly way without any cheating, tricks or risk of "competing" OSes stepping on each other's toes.

It significantly reduces complexity in all cases except for the simplest of them all, and even in those cases it represents a reliable standardization so it's possible for people (like you and me!) to inspect what actually gets booted, how and why.

Try that with ad-hoc MBR-written voodoo-tracks outside the FS and partitions. Now try it again as a OS-vendor who doesn't want to risk bad PR by accidentally overwriting existing bootloaders.

I honestly think this part of the UEFI spec is among those which makes most sense and is least problematic.
Dunno - I've used First Direct bank for ~20 years without problems.
Is Technique Important for Building Muscle?
But how do you get "accustomed" to it when every OS Cisco has looks the same but is different enough to drive a man insane?
Lots of parents think dried fruit are a healthy sweet treat, and in the UK there's a big market for raisins or dried fruit bars or dried fruit sheet (Fruit rollups) aimed at children.

All of these are terrible for teeth because they're high in sugar and they're sticky, and there's guidance to avoid these things.
I don't even know what pop music/culture is anymore. Justin Beiber I guess? We'll we've always had crappy commercial imitations with little artistic value. The 80's were full of it so I listed to "real" music from the 70's (not realizing the 70's were likely full of the same thing but only the quality stuck around).

This ignorance of current culture might because I'm older and don't have a TV. Or it might be that the internet has allowed me to isolate myself in my own little bubble of excellence. And there is some great music around now. The quantity of good stuff is mind boggling. You had like 10-15 choices when I was young. And the mechanisms for discovery. It truly is a dream time for people who love art and music.
If you go to MySQL's website, they will list page after page of users, most of which you've heard of. If you go to MariaDB's website, they list users. Most of them you've never heard of.
I visited his website exactly because he released a new version of putty just yesterday.
and now that Microsoft bought it, it's even more offputting.
College2.0 #CollegeReboot – How would you change college/higher education?
For anyone interested in reading more about the standards of gold storage and exchange, the company BuillionVault has some good information on their help/FAQ pages, such as explaining what 'good delivery' bars of gold mean, and how professional gold vaulting works. (Naturally, the pages also promote their own services, but you can ignore all of that)

e.g. https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-guide/ready-to-buy-gold
"Plus, any new network is susceptible to the same sort of lobbying and moneyed interests plaguing the existing internet."

BOOM! If corrupt politicians are the problem, then they'll be the problem no matter what you do if it threatens the interests of incumbents paying them. So, you have to fight the real battle.
But from twenty years ago, maybe ?
Lol, I always on the lookout for an answer to this as well. I use Browsers vs Mobile Browsers vs Desktop Apps vs Mobile Apps if I want to be precise. But, yeah, it's usually confusing.
The same thing could be said about a chunk of any element. "It's worth whatever you imagine because it will last a long time."
Exactly. I was getting frustrated when searching for cyberpunk content and then realized it's mostly fashion and which night club has the best atmosphere.
The Passport's keyboard was a poor layout but BB10 usage of it was amazing for editing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVT95S6_eE
Completely depends on what you are building, if it's an iPhone App and your website is just a static holding page, then that's easy to do for free.

However if your service logic is server side then I don't think you'd last long on a free tier.

Why not go for a more simple VM from someone like DigitalOcean? It's not free, but it's very cheap and much simpler to use.
There goes a slab of my painfully thought out test cases.
Maybe people don't view it as fancy, but it is still fancy. I went to one a year ago, sit down restaurant with leather style book menu. Cost enough - 130 RMB for a small pizza!
My iPad mini is a great little synthesizer. That's not a very big market, though.

For about $400 (total - iPad + Casio, some wires and software), you can use one to build a portable rig that actually sounds decent (if only I knew how to play better...). Use a "camera kit" (USB hub) to run MIDI in through USB, and an aux cable to run the sound back through something like a Casio keyboard (disabling the Casio's internal noise maker). Start up one of the inexpensive but pretty good synth programs on the iPad and go to it. (A cheap Casio lacks controller knobs, but you can use the tablet touch screen for expression)

Audio latency on Android is generally too sluggish. Have not tried ChromeOS, but I expect it's similar.

Plus, the guys that make the synth programs expect to get paid $5, $10 or $20 (depending), so I don't see this stuff moving over to one of Google's environments, where everybody expects vendors to provide free apps.
I don't enjoy journalism too much and definitely didn't like Nautilus. But you might enjoy edge.org.

Once a week they have someone successful in the respective field talk about whatever they're passionate about in a philosophical manner. Usually, they happen to be prominent researchers. It's not journalism, but I guess it fulfills a similar need.
Antirez has long-been a TCL fan, as you can see by his piece here:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

I dabbled with it myself, writing a simple TCL interpreter in C, but I always find myself comparing it to FORTH a language I still find it easy to love.
> That's absurd. Open access to an ocean of articles without the ability to search through them is meaningless.

I'm pretty sure this statement is debunked by the fact that this feature is a new feature and didn't exist before for the site, unless you are suggesting that prior to this, Academia has always been meaningless.
I think so too.

Google is the last Co I want to know about my transactions
on related note - any cheats for faster ride skipping floors which actually work nowadays without special key?
You still need your DB to be correctly sharded plus app constrains correctly distributed. It still more complicated than to enforce only in one place.
Being a Guinea Pig for Science Can Be a Long, Slow Slog
However RDS for PostgreSQL is still more expensive than RDS for MySQL, and I don't know why. If someone can enlighten me on that, I appreciate.
It's not that I don't trust you but we are a technical community and I believe we all appreciate some more details...
> Meanwhile, there are cities whose energy companies are investing in bringing broadband to consumers. It's partly a result of ISP bribes to states to ban tax-funded Internet where some compromised allowing at least energy companies to do it. Most don't care but some do. In Tennessee near me, they did municipal broadband in 8 cities with Chattanooga doing a gigabit at $70/mo and 10Gbps at $300/mo.

That's cool, thanks for sharing. Hope to see more pushback against current ISPs and their monopolistic tendencies.

If it needs to be public first -- so be it. I think there's still room to argue the ISPs made use of public infrastructure to lay lines. Anyway, I think we all agree that these monopolies are producing bad businesses and we ought to disrupt them before they do more harm in rolling back net neutrality.
I don't get it. Isn't any good SQL ORM provide their own DSLs for migrations?
Raaco racks could work! Thanks!
Cities Seek Deliverance from the E-Commerce Boom
Interesting. Can you show an example of how Lua's interface to the underlying platform improves on Python? Doesn't replacing APIs with protocols merely shift the breakage to higher-level logical errors rather than lower-level mechanical ones?
The anthrax jibe made me laugh though.
It's a slippery slope, not a slippery rope, and you also failed to read my post correctly. I did not say anything about tagging people - in fact I specifically said I was against that - but about tagging content or specific ideas.

It is extremely dishonest of you to attempt to alter the terms of my argument like this and just goes to show how weak your own position is.
If practice didn't work - how come every professional performer practices regularly?

Quite simply it is because performers: sports stars, musicians don't have the time to think about how to perform - it has to be "muscle memory".

In an interview, a candidate needs to have the muscle memory to do the work in a timed manner. I have had candidates say they know Java and then not demonstrate their knowledge. (They might indeed know Java well - but have been out of practice!)

I suspect the OP is a very smart person, who can "muscle" his way through most interviews. Most developers are mere mortals and can not pull it off. This is the danger of listening to exceptional people - their techniques do not apply.

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As for preparing the candidates by letting them know the questions, as an interviewer, I want to judge the candidates based on their best performance. At my company we have a very practical approach to interviewing - it starts with no brainteasers.

And yes we are hiring for all levels! (reply if in the bay area)
Lego definitely likes the secondary market, because the Lego market turns out to be pretty efficient.

The price of buying a new (or used) box vs. the price of "Bricklink"ing the parts is usually pretty much in favor of the former, which makes sense since the latter involves more S&H fees.

In additions, new moulds or new colors for existing moulds come up all the time (yet new moulds are all designed in the same system, so that they increase the versatility of Lego rather than Playmobil-izing them[0]). Therefore, advanced fans who design their own creations and buy bricks in bulk do get lots of new Lego boxes. For example the VW Beetle model[1], besides being really cool in itself, had a lot of azure bricks, including many shapes that had never been realised in that color. Likewise for some Architecture boxes.

[0] "New bricks are too specialized" is the Lego version of "HN is turning into Reddit"

[1] http://www.newelementary.com/2016/08/lego-review-10252-volks...
The word juice shows up and is spoken all over the place.
If you're interested in the counter-culture of the 1960s the book BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera, 1965-70 is interesting.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAMN-Any-Means-Necessary-Manifestos...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/987215.BAMN

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/BAMN_By_Any_Means_Nec...
I wonder why banks in the US don't just give all of their customers an IBAN and let them transfer money for free or very cheap. They could even give companies those IBANs and let them receive bill payments that way. But I guess that would be too easy and also too European.
>Sometimes the decision gets made on a golf course and not after reading very long texts.

This is why I swore to only write software at software companies some years ago. For other industries software is just another expense like buildings or supplies. The people buying it have no idea what they're looking at so they buy the shiny thing that everyone else is buying.

When I worked in other sectors I regularly saw executives attempt to assemble software as if it was a large building. Materials were gathered, agreements were made to purchase or rent heavy equipment, and the whole project was planned out with exacting detail. When all the permits and contracts were in place construction would begin. This was to be done in a measured amount of code using the chosen architecture, and delivered complete on a certain date. Any deviations were seen as workarounds for not following the original plans, and overruns the result of incompetence. The whole thing was just a shitshow of incompetence at the higher levels.
I did not mean it like that. Most pages where I see affiliate links only exist to serve those. This one seems like a genuine website created for good, not to make money.
I firmly believe they have a winner, specially for the small and informal businesses, all they need is to deliver simplicity and security. The pay by email is not as important as the pay by mobile but it can be used to leverage market penetration. Later on add NFC to the mobile app to have a total winner.

Now, imagine this mobile app used to pay a taxi driver, a street vendor, a handyman, any and all informal activities that are hard to pay by credit card. Trillions a year.

Make it simple, Google, simpler than the suits can ever think of, or I'll be forced to make it with my own bare hands. All this time I've been waiting for a giant to bring mobile payment to the masses just to see Apple fall short and nobody else stepping to the plate.

Your time to shine, Google.
Well at Google where a lot of development on containers took place the problems with process sandboxing and language level VMs were machine resource allocation, both in memory and in I/O bandwidth. Lets say you have three "systems" on the box, one is a collection of processes providing elements of a file system, one is a collection of processes providing computation, and one is a collection of processes providing chat services. Now you want to allocate half of the disk i/o to the file services, and a half to the compute system, then 75 percent of the network bandwidth to the chat system, 20 percent to the file system, and the remaining plus any "unused" to the compute system. You want half of the memory in the system to go to the compute system and give the rest to the network file system processes.

That is a complex mix of services running on a machine, some sharing the same flavor of VM, and you're allocating fractions of the total available resource capability to different components. If you cannot make hard allocations that are enforced by the kernel you cannot accurately reason about how the system will perform under load, and if one of your missions is to get your total system utilization to be quite high, you have to run things at the edge.
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for the partial fast? And how did it affect you?

+1 on the giant salad for minimal calories! If you don't use traditional, calorie packed dressings you can really fill up on a small amount of calories since lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers are such low calorie foods.
Q: Cyber Security is a Growing Field. What are the best ways to get into it?
Have you used a laptop with a touchscreen?

I have for about 18 months and I never use the touch screen functionality. In fact the only time it ever gets used is when someone else tries to point at something on my screen and of course that causes a click and they awkwardly say, "Sorry, I didn't know it was a touch screen."
Only if it meets the following criteria:

1) Apolitical. No editorializing. No political opinions what so ever. Just the absolutely facts.

That's it. There is enough out there already that you're way behind the curve. However, IMHO, if you produce something that is apolitical, and stays on the facts without allowing your personal political ideology to bleed through, it would be really wonderful.