skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on altheamesh.com. The idea is to allow routers in mesh networks to collect payments in a decentralized, ownerless way. I'm hoping to start doing some testing of it in the next couple of years. Email me at jehan@altheamesh.com.
Pointless. I mean sure if they see them do it, fine them, but I am far more concerned with drivers who are drunk - they are dangerous the entire trip.
I doubt they thought it would really work so hadn't actually thought through how to launder the money. On the other hand, it was Lithuania so who knows how hard or easy it might be there.

I'm sure there are any number of bankers in various countries who would gladly help you out for a 30-50% cut.

If I was in the con game and knew a loophole to get my hands on $100m, I doubt I'd wait around too long to figure out all the details and risk the loophole being closed.

Also, side note, you have to wonder if the conman had some detailed insider knowledge of existing legitimate PO #s, like from the actual vendor's insecure systems. Hack a vendor, get PO #s and beat them to sending the invoice. Hope you get the money and can disappear faster than the vendor sends his invoice and alarm bells go off.
True, passenger in the car does blow a hole through this. But that's only something like 5% of cars, so it'd be easy to only target the other 95%.

Voice to text is certainly harder to prove right now.

To me (and I know this will be a controversial opinion) I feel this is something smart phone manufacturers should work together with the government on. A simple "has a text been manually entered in the last x minutes" read out feels like a non slippery slope that may save lives by proxy.
It clearly doesn't help.

Who are the most successful lawyers? Politicians. Try and think of an unethical one...too many to chose from. Hell, if religious laws don't prevent people from doing horrible things and then justifying it (and they don't), why would a code of conduct help anything?

If the heart of a profession is greed (and tech is or is getting there), then your code of conduct means nothing. You just gotta justify your actions, and tech companies already do that.

"We're changing the world for the better! (But don't mind us if we track, spy, manipulate, and price-gouge you along the way)."

Is that unfair? It feels unfair, but the actions of too many tech companies are deplorable and yet we've got tens of thousands of people working for them. Where do you draw the line? When do you become complicit (someone abuses data because you've built systems which allows and encourages it)?

It's really an argument of social norms, and how do you change those, especially (if like law was at one point), you are the industry to get into to make money? If that is the main reason lots of people get involved (from management on down), how do you build and maintain norms that say that quality and concern for the user comes before all else?
That is depressing. I remember seeing an episode of Nova Science Now about it and being so amazed at it that I showed that segment to everyone i knew to get them talking about it...

Really sad to hear that this is also a "can't have nice things" situation.
I would consider it immoral to be a member of such an organization.
We used a real database for testing. In the short term it was less work than architecting the application in a way that allowed the DB to be mocked.

Long term, the result was a 45-minute test suite which spent most of its time setting up records in the DB, and which could not be parallelized except by adding more instances of the real DB (otherwise the tests would interfere with one-another's assertions about the DB state).
Ping pong tables. You just need one ping pong table and a billion dollar market and you are good to go!
Hahaha the best thing is how, because the admin panel is not HTTPS, the researcher's browser literally says "Not secure" :D
Wendelstein 7-x is really not fusion research, but plasma physics research. At the energy/temperature levels and magnetic field strength this machine is operating, plasma is showing all kinds of undesirable behavior, such as turbulence, radial forces... a little bit like the storms on Jupiter. This imposes many challenges, because as soon as the plasma escapes the magnetic field and touches the vessel, it rapidly cools - ending any potential fusion.

Wendelstein's goal is to find out the viability of the stellarator concept, to see if it could be on par with the Tokamak concept, which so far have shown a better ratio of energy invested and energy won back, but come with their own bag of problems.

What the folks at Wendelstein are doing is a step by step verification of some of the hypothesis. There is this excellent 3h podcast with the scientific leader of Wendelstein [0], unfortunately it is in German. It is fascinating to hear their story on how they build this ultra complex piece of kit. The current change is the shielding of the vessel, which now permits higher energy levels and longer runs. Their long term goal is to operate at 100m K for 30 min.

Regarding the "when we should stop trying" and "it is 30 years out" adage: There has been great progress made in improving the ratio of energy invested and energy won back, the G-factor. Right now no fusion reactor is crossing the G > 1 limit. But Iter would be design to yield about G = 5. Newer designs using high temperature superconductors could even yield G > 10 with a smaller footprint. For more on the current state of fusion research, this video [1] from MIT is fantastic, albeit 1h long.

[0]: http://alternativlos.org/36/

[1]: https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk?t=37m23s
I was talking about brick & mortar shops.

Now I've done some reading, and it seems my country (in Latin America) is following US standards. It seems US-issued credit cards only require signatures, even when used abroad, and only recently (as far as I can google it) are they slowly starting to switch to either PIN or chip-based cards. Newly issued cards where I live have chips (this is a relatively recent development), which I'm not sure exactly how are supposed to be safer than magnetic strip cards, and also don't require PINs.
This argument against checklists would apply anywhere for checklists: healthcare, airplane pre-flights, auto mechanics. Checklists enforce a minimum set of thought processes.

Suggesting checklists be discarded because some people don't do more than the minimum is a ridiculous misunderstanding of their value and human behavior.

This post argues for a detailed thought process of "Vulnerability Taxonomy" which could lead to new ideas, but also fails to enforce any minimum. Moreover, by encouraging exploration of various security areas (which is good) it still leaves you to your own knowledge which will be faulty and insufficient in some areas.

End result of this sounds like you'll have your own homegrown checklist, but it won't be called a checklist and it still won't adapt automatically and thinking will be required.
Trackball for normal mouse use alone could play a big part. I really liked them but I haven't used one since the late 90's because the fatigue was very noticeable, especially on the top of my hand, my hands feel weird just thinking about using one again.
Canada has a refundable tax credit that many startups take advantage of, known as SR&ED.

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

The one caveat is that you have to spend money (and keep good books) in order to be eligible for the tax credit.
Too bad, it's your old friend Unicode.
Sorry, I have trouble seeing lawyers as example for professional conduct. In my view it's often lawyers that push the limits of ethical behavior to the absolute limits.
i was thinking pulling a Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

you would probably have to take it out and apart and get another one and reverse engineer it and maybe get your hands on some schematics.
Martin is working on a book about Clean Architecture:

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Softwar...

I'm sure the book will have many real world code examples, as is fairly typical of his previous works.
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I doubt is is going to act like a jammer. It is probably narrow in bandwidth. Your microwave also leaks a healthy amount of 2.4 GHz. That's why most wireless specs that use 2.4 GHz (e.g., Bluetooth) have the concept of channels and hop to avoid interference.
Fair enough. It just seemed of a piece with some other recent interactions I've had here.
> I get the same thing--or worse, screen shot pasted into a Word document that's attached to the email, so their two monitors are squished into 8.5 inches and any text is scaled down to illegibility.

Yes I forgot to write that part in: while we rarely get the "screenshot pasted in word" (which IIRC stores the full image by default so you may be able to recover it, yay) the screenshotted traceback is usually cut off at the bottom, so we get the least useful part (wow I get the stack information of the WSGI handler, well that's going to be helpful) but commonly don't get the actually interesting part.

> It doesn't help matters that some of the software I inherited uses this antipattern: […]

Fuck everything about that with a rusty bonesaw.
Ask HN: When will we actually see a battery breakthrough?
Year after year we read that some scientists have find a new battery technology that would improve the current ones by at least one order of magnitude, but still this field is far from having an equivalent to the Moore's law.

What's the current state of the art? Which approaches seem more promising? Will the next battery technology be a propietary one?

How could I, as non-expert, get into this topic (like, say, at least knowing and kind of understanding what is being research)?

Thank you very much.
I spoke about this with my dentist, and according to him the research and money is going to ever-greater precision and bio-compatibility. Scanning and imaging the tooth to replace is still part-art and not fully-automated yet. The scanning processes out on the market has not perfected discriminating the tooth from the surrounding tissue, so there is some manual work the dentist performs to shape the replica; there are weird artifacts here and there they shave away and/or re-shape. Bio-compatibility sounds like it is is very close: the latest materials outlast human lifespans, and is tougher than enamel, with very small populations that adversely react to the materials.
You are right, in the squintiest, most Futurama-technically-correct-is-the-best-kind-of-correct sort of way. But this is Hacker News, where "breaking unjust laws" is used as an excuse to fetishize and drool over companies like Uber, and the connection there is pretty awful. Uber isn't breaking Jim Crow laws by treating its employees--sorry, "contractors"--like garbage or by lying to government officials or by stealing from others.
Can a 'bank in a box' replace a branch?
The article doesn't mention it, but this architecture is good for functional programming as well. If you model those three inner circles as pure functions operating on input and returning results + effects, your app becomes easy to test and easily maintained by a good type system.
Whereas $6000 is a nice (modest) incentive, the lack of universal health care is the greatest barrier to entrepreneurship.

Especially for parents (and wannabe parents).
Here's hoping that the anti-trust laws will bring Amazon in line one day. Maybe.
I decided to explore what else this blogger blogs about, who I believe blogs from Arizona:

"Take the Pledge: Let's Take A Year Off From Giving To Our Universities"
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/04/take-the-pledg...

"How The Left Is Changing the Meaning of Words to Reduce Freedom -- The Phrase "Incite Violence"

Wealth Creation and the Zero-Sum Fallacy

Statism Comes Back to Bite Technocrats

He actually has a few views I can agree with, and links to plenty of things I read every week, but I don't think his analysis is particularly technical or hard hitting.
Yes, the problem isn't Germany's companies; the problem is the lax regulation and weak unions in the US. Both foreign and domestic companies frequently mistreat their employees in the US.
I wonder why Nomx don't have a Comments section at the bottom of their rebuttal... >:-D
Yeah, realistically, the best way to get a full service carrier pilot position is to go military, early, get your certs, training, time in there, and then make your way to civilian life. The big airlines tend to love military pilots.
THE NAZI BELL – A PARANORMAL CASE OF HITLER
Having actually done a little number theoretical stuff back in the day, I see what you mean, but prosaically this was astonishing enough for me to make the link worth posting:

Decimal characters include digit characters, and all characters that can be used to form decimal-radix numbers, e.g. U+0660, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO.

Rigid designators vs definite descriptions for numerals, anyone?
I don't mean to bash you because it is a valid point considering the current state of affairs, but this comment really highlights how we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian.
Or a country where you can bribe some clerk to "lose" the paper work. So basically anywhere.
Rails 5.1 Released: Loving JavaScript, System Tests, Encrypted Secrets, and More
Pretty sure E911 piggybacks on the periodic pings that happen to towers. You cell phone needs to periodically hit the tower to determine CDMA power for the code division to work correctly. Either way positional(and extrapolated from that, speed) data is available to carriers.

Fair point on who's holding the phone but I think there are certain cases where it can be determined. I'll full agree that any solution isn't perfect, however the stakes of someone driving distracted are high enough that I think it's at least worth trying to tackle it.
Base Supporters Needed
Lots of ways.

You can look into agile and xp methods like user stories, story points, backlogs, user story mapping.
It seems counter-intuitive, but read on industrial engineering practices around optimizing an assembly line and you'll see it shown all around.

Development isn't an assembly line, and the fact you'd use that analogy says a lot...

If that happens to be one developer who has their hands in 50% of the code (that others couldn't support if they wanted), then the rest of your team exists to support that one developer.

Oh heck no.

If one person or only a few people are creating most of the value on the team, the team is dysfunctional and you've exposed yourself to enormous risk. If those people leave, fall ill, get injured, or go on vacation, you and the team are screwed. If you, as a manager, have put yourself in that situation, you have failed.
>I'll repeat that: Amazon.com, a reseller, told us that we were not allowed to raise the price of our own product for any reason.

I don't believe this...

Were you actually selling using "Sell on Amazon/Fulfilment by Amazon"? Or some 3rd party using Amazon for you...?

>Amazon's policy is to never return unsold products to manufacturers

https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/fulfilment-by-amazon/...

says that:

>Typically, return requests take 10 to 14 business days to pick, pack and dispatch.

It also goes on to say you can have returned items sent back to you...

>Prior to that, our Amazon buyer had refused to ever reply to any of our questions or requests for support.

Your what?
By "security" you mean the euphemistic term "security" which refers to executive powers. Actual security, the non-euphemistic kind, is inseparable from privacy.

Given that, you are absolutely correct. It's not surprising that the government has gradually given itself more executive powers; governments seldom do the opposite.
LMDB – First Version of Redis Written in Tcl
I agree the original list (microsoft, facebook, google, amazon) is outdated. Hard to ignore a company like Apple. I would put FB in it because every single CS student wants to work at FB.

Microsoft shouldn't be in the list anymore since it became an enterprise company like Oracle/Salesforce. Not hot anymore. Same for Amazon, I don't think they should be in the list, people don't really dream about this company anymore with all the bad press they got from their employees.

I would probably put SpaceX? Apple, Google, FB and Space X?
I doubt it works as claimed. My phone when plugged in goes into charge only mode by default, there's not exactly much to exploit there when the data pins are turned off.

They mention the tech is glitchy, I'm guessing because their exploits fail on many devices.
Money doesn't buy moral righteousness nor equal brilliance. Our economy has proven that time and time again.

I absolutely agree with you that people should treat people like people, though. The plumber shouldn't look down on the college student and the college student shouldn't look down on the plumber. If anything they ought to talk and learn from one another. I've learned my hardest to understand and learn on my own lessons from people that were drastically different from myself.
Most engineers work professionally without a PE. I think it's something like 80% of engineers never get a PE.

This idea that all other engineers have a PE is rampant in the software field, but it's just not true.
A leveldb build for java with linux and windows support
Reminds me of Cloudflare's "Flexible SSL", where backend connections aren't encrypted at all.
on the twitter front, is there a good way to get secondary influencers that are following a primary influencer and interact with that influencer on a regular basis?
but now with containers you can have a snapshot that's already set up in the right state. A separate build.
> if I'm a Rails developer that wants to become a SRE at Google

Of course, you're probably not qualified for the position. Thus it's normal to have troubles in the interview.

This sort of transition used to be done by joining a "junior" position and getting trained on the job, without having to pretend to be a wizard.

Unfortunately it's hard to accept for one's ego that he has to continue as a not senior when changing fields, and it probably makes no sense on a financial perspective since an experienced ruby dev might earn more in his niche.
Except BTC has been "teetering" on the "brink" for 3+ years on the block size issue. When everyone's value is in the consensus, nobody is going to break it, no matter how much they complain about it. You can't rock the boat too much or you lose all your money.

That also means bitcoin is never going to get better, so it is pretty much destined to always be cryptogold. Which isn't even a bad thing, it just isn't competing to be a real money. But it has never been valued for any potential monetary use - it has always been valued as cryptogold.
To see an example on how it is used, visit protostuffdb-examples/todo on github
Constitutions normally only protect the content of communications, not the fact that communications occur. This isnt even the traditional metadata debate (inside v outside of an envalope). They dont care who or what you text, just the when and that you did. A mandatory tech that betrays only the time that a text was sent will probably survive legal scrutiny.
This was written in 2015. I don't recommend Theano to learn DL. Keras is probably the best option (which runs on top of Theano or TensorFlow), and if you want to look under the hood, use TensorFlow directly. TensorFlow is probably the most popular DL framework today.

Two other frameworks have recently appeared: Caffe2 and PyTorch.

In my opinion, PyTorch is the most intuitive to use (similar to coding in Numpy). However, it does not support Windows yet. It's a Python version of the popular Torch DL framework, and is probably the most flexible tool for experimenting with DL today. Most bleeding edge research published today seems to be using Torch (should be easy to reproduce in PyTorch).

Caffe2 is the newest addition. It builds on a popular Caffe framework, so should be fast and scalable. It's still very new though, so expect issues.
Has anyone ever done this in practice before without it mattering:

> 4. Independent of Database. You can swap out Oracle or SQL Server, for Mongo, BigTable, CouchDB, or something else. Your business rules are not bound to the database.

MongoDB vs Oracle.. Ok architecture astronaut, you're gonna have a real bad time when you swap those out for each other.
Cellebrite sells phone exploits and "forensics tools" (read: exploits + data gathering) if I recall correctly.
They've basically put a message on their front page which says:

"Look everybody! We don't know what the hell we're doing and here's the proof!"

Even people who don't understand the initial report are going to get suspicious and Google this.
Calling it a trade secret would certainly be a stretch :)

You simply can't do this with Twitter realtime. You'd keep hitting API limits. We use a variety of techniques to collect this data.

Tweeple Search itself is based on the powerful Social Animal content intelligence product : https://socialanimal.io
This is an excellent point and a powerful pro-market, entrepreneurial argument that's pro-small business. When you're a business of one, or even a small handful of people, private insurance is painful and costly. And wouldn't that essential operating expense be better spent expanding the business?
Steve Jobs: A computer is a bicycle of the mind
Most American pilots have to start their careers at regional airlines and many pay under $30k/year to start: https://www.alpa.org/news-and-events/news-room/2016-08-16-st...
I don't think there's all that much nuance there.

> It might seem that there's everything to gain and nothing to lose.

There's almost always more to lose, it just might take time. If you think providing for your family is hard today, how much more difficult would it be for them if you were in prison, or were paying restitution, or were unable to find work due to a past conviction?
It also interestingly works on all devices evidently. I think it's vaporware it says it hasn't been developed yet.
If that were the greatest barrier, wouldn't nations with universal health care see higher rates of entrepreneurship? I don't have numbers, but at least anecdotally it doesn't seem to be the case. Is the U.K. startup culture particularly impressive?
Just like all the unlicensed doctors?

I don't think it's a good idea to require licensing for most software engineers, but I think this specific concern is not actually a significant issue.
>Cramming may get a candidate a job. But they won’t succeed at the job if they don’t have the skills and experience needed.

Nothing any of us can do about it. It would mean avoiding all mid size/larger tech companies. I am looking for a change, and I am preparing heavily. Algos, data structures, design stuff.

>Granted, all of this implies that companies have actually created an interview that actually tests the skills needed for the position they are hiring for.

I think he meant "assumes" not implies, but this is the crux. They test what they test, and if it possible to game it, people will do so.
This is just EITC expansion / very low "basic income". There's nothing about "for startups" here, except that "poor founders on ramen noodles would benefit". Note also that "start-up" in the original study means "firms [less than a year old]".
I agree. Everyone who now has the experience to do the job well was once a novice who had the willingness to learn and put in the necessary effort to do any job well.
I believe it is possible to use a cc here without the pin if you show ID and sign a receipt. I think I've seen it for people who've forgotten their code and tourists who don't know their code.