skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It borders on the impossible to fake data on this scale and in such amounts.

It's quite far from being impossible. Actually, it's a widely known fact that a string of greek governments systematically falsified Greece's books, and it actually culminated with Greece going as far as hiring Goldman Sachs to hide their double-digit deficits.

> The false data Greece reported to get into the Eurozone was an open secret,

That's the old attempt at diffusion of responsibility that often pops up. It's the same old tired argument: once the fact that Greece did in fact cooked its books and falsified their accounting for years, there comes the argument that they still have no responsibility for their own actions because somehow.... others might have known they were falsifying their records?

It's a lame excuse, and it never sticks.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 29 – WebKit
Unicode domain names, Google OAuth phishing...changing my passwords every 30 days is looking less and less important.

It's sad we can't seem to provide good, usable secure software.
Marx was describing capitalism in his critique of political economy, Capital. Puerto Ricans definitely live in capitalism.

A Marxist society (or, Communist) does not have wage labour at all.
Look out for the Google Docs phishing worm
Point taken, edited to say bad actors.
It's called greed
Some commenter on Reddit/here said that Uber doesn't have a way to profitability, self-driving is just to keep the investor money flowing in.

But the future of cars is really like servers, not ownership, but as a service, you'll just use an app to hail a self-driving car to take you anywhere. Whoever can sell their self-driving tech to car manufacturers will win, Uber probably wants to be the infrastructure that the car companies use to manage their CaaS, and if they win the self-driving first-to-market race, they can bundle their existing fleet management service as a bundle with the tech.

But if someone else wins the self-driving tech, a car manufacturer can buy that, and either self-develop their own fleet management or buy from someone else (it's a lot simpler than self-driving tech, obviously).
Well, 1 is pendant on 2. If 2 is invalid then 1 is also irrelevant. It is really hard to argue that the defendants have lost their property rights or that a contractually legal property transfer occurred. It was "seized" after all.
DVL: Devils Lake, ND

// technically K8J7 is closer
SGF: Springfield, Missouri, USA
Thanks for explaining this. In my laypersons opinion I think this outcome is the just one, although I appreciate the dissent as a logical argument. Does something similar to the UK rules of statutory interpretation exist in US law with respect to the US Constitution to prevent absurd outcomes? like the dissenting outcome (IMO) would have been?
Poet – Package and dependency management for Python
To understand Trump, look at the NYT.
Poet is a new tool for Python to help you declare, manage and install dependencies of your projects.

I started building it because I wanted to have something simpler than what is currently existing.

Packaging system and dependency management in Python is rather convoluted and hard to understand for newcomers. Even for seasoned developers it might be cumbersome at times to create all files needed in a Python project: `setup.py`, `requirements.txt`, `setup.cfg`, `MANIFEST.in`.

So I wanted a tool that would limit everything to a single configuration file to do everything: dependency management, packaging and publishing.

It takes inspiration in tools that exist in other languages, like `composer` (PHP) or `cargo` (Rust). The `poetry.toml` file is really similar to the `Cargo.toml` one for example.

Note that there is no magic here, `poet` uses existing tools (`pip`, `twine`, `setuptools`, `distutils`, `pip-tools`) under the hood to achieve that in a more intuitive way.

I would also like to point out that, at this time, it is highly experimental and mostly still at a proof of concept stage but I’d gladly appreciate feedback and pull requests to improve it.
Big ass city on seven hills, one of the top 10 most expensive cities by housing costs, got an excellent public transit system and horrible traffic (it's rare to get somewhere faster by car than by subway unless it's sunday).

The other three airports are DME, VKO and BKA.
Just received one as well. Source is Hired.com - according to them:

https://cl.ly/1i0b0v110s0J

---

Hi Sergio,

It has come to our attention that some of our users may have been hit with a Google Docs phishing scam. It appears that this scam has been spreading throughout the internet today, and is not isolated to Hired or our customers and candidates. If you want more information, you can read about it here or here.

If you receive a Hired email that says that someone from Hired has shared a Google Doc with you, please validate with the sender before clicking the link or doing anything else.

If you think your account may have been compromised, be sure to change your password immediately.

We apologize for this interruption to your day. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
The Hired team
Sounds like it would be neat to use this for a business account. Just need a corporate accountant chatbot.
I'm curious: what's the main use-case for this functionality?

Particularly given it's a lossy transformation, I can't think of any situation where I'd use this.
Exactly. If you'll excuse me highlighting the obvious, the floor-mopper in Puerto Rico is having to work just as hard as in some other place where the economy is better, so there is a transfer of wealth from that person that's generally not accounted for.
I'm heading to Omaha tomorrow for my first $BRK shareholder meeting this weeekend. Super excited to hear Warren and Charlie speak and answer questions. Warren just has incredible discipline (way above most people). He does not let emotions get the best of him. All of his decisions and investments are calculated and thoroughly researched.

"People who mix their politics up with their investment activity.... I don't think that makes sense." -- Warren Buffett
Only SL has some crowd. Highfidelity has some good architectural ideas, but development is moving so slowly. They deliberately chose empty regions, though i think they will eventually have to add extensive in-world building controls to make building more fun.
down in Bangalore, India.
What the CSS?
Bankruptcy is only considered something "to be ashamed of" when it's personal and when you're poor. How many startup founders around here are positively feted after they have ridden one or more rockets into the hillside?

Bankruptcy is a legally accepted aspect of economic transaction and you need to establish that there are moral means before you start talking about moral hazards.
down at Bangalore, India.
That's a rather harsh and Darwinistic view of things. Remember, the main purpose of Kickstarter is to raise funds to be able to bring this thing to market. If I have the idea, but no money, I deserve to have my idea stolen because I wasn't able to execute on having more money well enough?
This sounds pretty awesome, but has it been released for public use? In my cursory pass I didn't spot anything obvious.
It's in beta stage, so that's not unexpected. They can easily add a cost function later that considers multiple parameters.
ORD: Chicago, IL, US
Fortunately, over a long enough time scale, it doesn't matter, the technology will eventually leak out of their control. If they come up with incremental medical treatments, well, then they will be under patents and initially only available to the wealthy in first world nations, but over time patents will expire and countries that don't care about patents will find ways to replicate the science. At worst it won't be different than any other medical advancements. If they come up with an immortality serum or something equally fantastic, I can see governments and nations just ignoring Calico IP claims under a "public interest" argument, anyways... I think you are overestimating the risk that "they will solve ageing, but be evil about it" and underestimating the obvious risk of "they won't solve ageing" (which, honestly, still probably means we get a lot of interesting science done in the process, so it is still worthwhile to try)
The very same thing happened at my university. The sender is hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh@mailinator.com
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Ha. Myopia on my part, I guess.

I am, in fact, a Python / C++ user who probably isn't switching to Clojure any time soon (unless I switch jobs).

I still think that these posts are a little light on what exactly the library's cluster story is. Your library, for instance, says "Distributed" right there on the landing page, which is already super helpful for me to know what I'm looking at at a glance.
I'm not sure I care for this topic on HN, but I believe one of the biggest problems in healthcare is the 'collaboration' among the hospitals and insurance companies on billing through the National Uniform Billing Committee[0], which ultimately results in people not knowing how much stuff costs (i.e. how much is an MRI). Without this knowledge, people can't make proper decisions because it's completely opaque.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Uniform_Billing_Commi...
I won't comment on Trump, but repeating the mantra that the Brexit vote was due to stupidity on the part of voters over and over again not only won't make it true, it didn't work to convince the leavers to vote remain.

There is a very interesting failure of imagination of the remain campaign in assuming that their best interests were the same as other people's, and denigrating or dismissing other people's concerns as due to stupidity or racism. The Brexit vote result is a comeupance for this self-serving elite.
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> Greece didn't cheat anyone,

So falsifying their accounting to hide double-digit deficits as well as tehir massive debt is not cheating anymore?
> The US definition of a "debit card" is massively different than the Canadian one. For us, our bank card is the debit card. The same one I use to take money out of my account at an ATM is the same one I can use to buy a $1 coffee.

I keep seeing this pop up, but it's a misconception; we have these in the US too. I have one, although I don't use it for purchases (I use a rewards credit card that gets paid off monthly instead). Here's an example (hopefully Wells Fargo doesn't redirect you because you're in Canada): https://welcome.wf.com/checking/?gclid=CIzL2ong1NMCFVBtfgodb...
This looks amazing. I actually spent several months making an awesome Mint killer. The only problem was getting access to bank data that wasn't crazy expensive.

If this pans out, I've got a beautiful app ready to roll! Anyone want to help out?
States do not have access to chapter 9 bankruptcy. If Puerto Rico were a state then it would not have the bankruptcy protections that it currently enjoys right now. Things would be much much worst for them in that case.
Well maybe they should. I'm not a communist, but the idea that there is only one valid economic model that is true and best for all sizes and stages of society sounds just a little bit convenient for the people promoting said model.

You don't feed a baby steak. That doesn't mean steak is bad, it means it's not what a baby needs or can use until its older.
Assets provide return on investment. Children do not. Using this term just muddies the water.
What really stands out during this outage is the excellent communications strategy to keep their user base informed.
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Isn't this bait and switch?
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So your big argument that everyone is to blame is that somehow you assume that others might have suspected that Greece did extensively falsified their accounting to hide double-dgit deficits and massive debt?

Because I'm pretty sure that greek governments decided all for themselves to pile up even more debt and falsify their records to hide it from the public.
but they don't. studies have shown that increases in minimum wage laws tend to benefit those who are in not poor families and a 10% increase in minimum wage can cause prices in the local area to increase four percent.

throw in that even as recently as 2011 President Obama had to sign into law a bill postponing minimum wage laws and increases in America Samoa because it was literally destroying their economy after being force to accept such in 2007 and 2009.

It isn't just competitive labor markets but mobility of those who can fill the jobs that exist. then throw a likelihood of employers to increase work loads to compensate, penalties for tardiness, and such, it does not always turn out to be a boon.

with regards to Puerto Rico, this is simply an example of politicians selling out their populace to retain power and actually being around to be there when the hammer falls. it has happened in a few American cities and there are some states with very excessive and dangerous pension obligations that will be forced to vacate them or seriously reduce them .

Puerto Rico should stand as a warning to anyone who sees politicians promising the moon.
Great idea. I do have an irrational fear of cockroaches, but i am not sure overcoming the fear of spiders is a good thing.
I've long thought I should do a blog on it and submit it here, just haven't gotten around to it. Until then...

The "lines" data structure. This is a list library that scales down to a very small thing and up to pretty decent sized things. Think perl arrays and the ops on them.
lines.h snippet below.

/*
* liblines - interfaces for autoexpanding data structures
*
* s= allocLines(n)
* pre allocate space for slightly less than N entries.
* s = addLine(s, line)
* add line to s, allocating as needed.
* line must be a pointer to preallocated space.
* freeLines(s, freep)
* free the lines array; if freep is set, call that on each entry.
* if freep is 0, do not free each entry.
* buf = popLine(s)
* return the most recently added line (not an alloced copy of it)
* reverseLines(s)
* reverse the order of the lines in the array
* sortLines(space, compar)
* sort the lines using the compar function if set, else string_sort()
* removeLine(s, which, freep)
* look for all lines which match "which" and remove them from the array
* returns number of matches found
* removeLineN(s, i, freep)
* remove the 'i'th line.
* lines = splitLine(buf, delim, lines)
* split buf on any/all chars in delim and put the tokens in lines.
* buf = joinLines(":", s)
* return one string which is all the strings glued together with ":"
* does not free s, caller must free s.
* buf = findLine(lines, needle);
* Return the index the line in lines that matches needle
*/

The stdio stuff. We have a way that you can "push" code on
top of a FILE. Some layers we implemented were compression and CRC and XOR. The compression is lz4 (we may still have
gzip); the CRC stuff splits the file up into "blocks" (size is uniform in a file but it varies by overall file size), crcs each one. The XOR stuff adds an XOR block at the end.

The result to a user is if they

fpush(&f, fopen_crc(...));

then the file will be crc "behind the scenes". That fpush is
the only new line of code to get the crc stuff. Ditto for
compression.

It gives you compression and hardened files under the stdio
API and it's super fast. Like GB/sec fast.

There's other stuff as well, like the spawn() code (I haven't
called fork() in a decade or more) that brings a form of Windows
spawn to Unix (since you can't make fork() work well on Windows). All of the code is Windows/Unix portable.
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Never unless they are revenue generating over a few thousand a month
You missed the part where I said a government id is required to make a purchase, so there is a single point of failure aka disconnection. This is not true in the USA or other countries where you can have cards from many different banks so if one blocks you, you pay with another. And cash certainly represents a way of paying with no such restrictions.
Someday the equivalence between the notations will make it possible to (gasp) automagically translate between the two. If we're still typing programs.
Ask HN: Is stack smashing still exploitable?
Stack smashing was a common technique to gain control of programs several years ago. Since then a number of mitigations have been implemented including canaries and ASLR.

Has this been sufficient to mitigate this attack vector or is it still a common exploit vector?
Here's an interesting case that I encountered (~1:20pm maybe):

1) I clicked on the link on my phone's email app. It looked super believable since it was coming from a person I was expecting a Google Doc invite from. I allowed access to "Google Docs" and then the page hit a 502 gateway error.

2) I tried it again on my computer by logging in, and this time, when the page was loading (after I allowed access), I saw the website was not legitimate (based on the url) SO I immediately closed the tab.

Here's the interesting part: None of my contacts got a "Google Docs" invite from me - meaning I didn't "send" any mail. Any idea how I can see if the person behind this has my emails too via API requests?
The problem is that the populists are able to make that argument at all. Most establishment politicians in Europe are trying to be as much like Weimar as possible in all the wrong ways (austerity, wage repression, pension slashing, privatizations, etc.).
I'm using 3G or 4G as a cheaper alternative to landline broadband. It's… acceptable, but not amazing. 20 GB per month doesn't go as far as it used to before I started watching so many YouTube videos, even though I use 144p whenever possible.
'expected' is the key word here. Getting an esoteric new technology from a proof of concept in the lab to the mass market doesn't happen overnight, but when it does, and after it's been through a few product cycles, it tends to get cheap.
After looking at the source code, it looks like all it does is send a copy of itself to somebody in your inbox, and nothing else.
Um. The TO address is hhhhhh@mailinator.com. Not the sender.
This was particularly effective because the app was registered as "Google Docs" - to not even filter names of your own products out seems ripe picking for imposter apps.
What considerations do persons in the US need to take into account before opening a foreign bank account?
Trade surplus without a safety valve (the ability to devalue a currency) is very much a problem since it leads to unsustainable debt buildups.

Germany should be running a trade deficit with the rest of Europe right now but it refuses to.
You've failed to answer the question. You only stated that a project costs money, and proceeded to assert that the technology is "obsolete" and then pulled from the conspiracy theorist's playbook with the pork reference.
Account created a day ago. Is it really Jan Koum?
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We own you but we don't want to give you more rights because we can't figure out how to profit enough of you. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Assuming you were born in the USA, why were you born there rather than in Puerto Rico? Was this a matter of skill and judgment on your part, or just luck? If so, what basis do you have for denying the rights you enjoy to others who live in a territory rather than a state?
Down in Hull.
For anyone who looked at the repository linked from the Heroku app and was confused as to how this works (or indeed the extent of what it does), the actual transformation is being done server-side, using this: https://github.com/balajmarius/svg-to-jsx/blob/master/index.... (from the same author).
> Do you have any references regarding this exploitation, especially in regards to knowledge workers?

Unfortunately, no, although I'm sure it would be easy enough to dig up some articles. My knowledge of the anecdotal, based on conversations with people. That said, I've had the same conversation with many people! People are working harder for less. I've even heard of people who get passed up for promotions if they use any of their vacation time. As an aside, I've said in other parts of this conversation tree but I'll say it again: I love my employers and my job, so these statements don't reflect on them.

> it seems that we have a good opportunity to live more and work less.

This one also hits home to me, especially with the upcoming automation boom. We need to think of wealth redistribution channels that take a higher-level view than just "let the market decide." How will anyone have jobs if there is nothing left to do? Does all the wealth just funnel to those who own the automated systems?

UBI comes to mind. Many people really seem to hate it (labeling it as socialism even though it has nothing to do with workers' ownership of production) and write it off immediately as unfairly taxing the rich to give the poor a free ride. People really seem to defend the rich a lot in America, even though 100 years of a commoner's salary is pocket change to the people who would be hit hardest by a UBI. The term "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" couldn't be more true.

Or maybe there's another wealth distribution mechanism that could solve the problem too, but I'm not aware of any.

EDIT: just realized your response was to the parent comment, not me. Oh well, the points still stand =]
> Warren and I have written during the past two years that he will win the bet absent a market crash. Hedge funds tend to significantly outperform in bear markets, as demonstrated in 2008 and 2000-2002.

This bet started in January 1st, 2008 shortly before the market crash of 2008. What could Ted Seides mean by bringing this up? It seems to just reinforce Buffet's win.
Microsoft is forcing Edge and Bing on Windows 10 S users
Can you expand on why civil forfeiture based on suspected criminality shouldn't require criminal conviction? Forcibily taking money from someone for a civil reason (e.g. child support) is obviously different from taking money because you suspect a criminal offense.
Introducing Yelp's GraphQL API
Without dividends, stocks wouldn't exist as a financial instrument, as there's otherwise no payout for the person stuck holding shares of the company at the end.

In a purely rational market, the value of a stock should be the present value of future dividends that share will pay out. Price fluctuations reflect investors' changing estimates of what that ultimate payout will be, based on how well the company is doing.
Yeah this bet was not a smart one for Ted given the terms. I'd gladly take it with a few slight revisions though:

1) The hedge funds don't have to be "funds-of-funds", and

2) I can choose the hedge funds.

But I suspect Buffett wouldn't take that bet. He strikes me as someone who doesn't take bets without knowing pretty well in advance that he'll win.

It also sort of alters the claim from "hedge funds as an industry will beat the S&P 500 overall" to "elite hedge funds can consistently beat the S&P 500." But given that he is a fund manager, I have no idea what Seides was thinking trying to claim the former.
In the case of greeece the austerity is far worse than the debt. In America you have to wonder how bailing out the home morgages themselves (including hypothetical haircuts) would have compared in cost and economic effects to bailing out the banks.
On a quick survey of it, it seems like the offering and pricing is similar to Sling TV but 1) you can't customize what you get, and 2) you get all of non-live Hulu bundled in the price.
in addition, the users who don't have smartphones yet don't have very attractive demographics, and attention is saturated: https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/570bbc5f-526e-482f-90ac...
FYI: link opens a pdf