skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"California law prohibits noncompete clauses, contributing to the inveterate poaching with which the state’s technology industry was founded. It can be brutal for employers, but it helps raise wages and has created a situation where any company looking to hire a bunch of engineers in a hurry, be it an established giant or a start-up, feels it should locate there."
https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati
The article doesn't adjust for the inherent lowpass/highpass/aliasing behavior of function parameter rate vs sample rate, which is responsible for most of the audible difference, especially the similarities to real life low-passed-noise situations (airplane cabin, high building) noted by the author. Still, I agree, you can hear some residual tones!

Spectra of the 3 noise samples: http://imgur.com/a/gaiVm

I haven't read up on perlin noise recently enough to know whether that's inherent to its structure or whether there's a more mundane explanation like distortion or encoding tomfoolery.
It is a film festival for cineastes - film lovers or film snobs if you will. Its whole culture. For them there is a big difference between the big-screen cinema experience and watching home video. It is certainly a bigger difference than just the means of distribution.

I think it was David Lynch who said "If you haven't see my movies in a cinema, then you haven't seen my movies".

You may not care for this difference, but why does it anger you so that others do?
There are plenty of Republicans who are against this type of mercantilist behavior.
It doesn't matter what America does. Mr. Xi is hypocritical either way.
But if she was a spy, she would have a reason to not blatantly show the gold crowns.
I really think Gilbert Strang's lectures are responsible for creating the impression that linear algebra is hard. I watched that lecture and it was all dry math and very few intuitions.
"Linear algebra done right" is a better book.
Come on we are in 21st century and our intelligence has evolved so that we can understand the 16th century math better :)
Primarily, the quality of discussion. This is difficult to quantify, especially if you want to do it algorithmically.
install security updates and do security hardering by whitelisting only what you need.
Best tip for docs in small teams: Have a server running in the local network that pulls the latest develop branch, renders it and serves it on the network for each project. For microservices I would recommend API Blueprint, for normal libraries, whatever is the language standard. Really cuts down the friction of getting to the docs, since you don't have to do all those steps on you local machine anymore whenever you need to access the documentation of an internal project.

Next best thing would be building Dash docfeeds for internal projects.
I'm not sure this is all that much better for the countries that end up with their critical infrastructure in Chinese hands.
This has nothing to do with Wikileaks, who have tried not to release any unpatched vulnerabilities in the Vault 7 documents and have been ignored by many companies they have approached offering to disclose vulnerabilities.

At least double check you've got the right person before labeling them an arsonist.
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On sites like Reddit (and maybe HN), links with those extra parameters aren't flagged as a duplicate, and end up getting posted multiple times with multiple comment threads.
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When I was a kid and first learning to use a computer, I thought the briefcase was just like a fancy folder where you should put your important stuff. So I put all my docs and bitmaps I drew in MSPaint and midi files of songs from movies and Dark Forces levels in there.

Months later, everything in there just... disappeared. Gone one day. For reasons that still aren't entirely clear to me. Never (mis)used it again, haha.

Aaaaand this is why non-tech people are terrified that their computers will bite them.
Again you used the word "rape" which isn't what the CDC measured.

It was a telephone survey dependent upon what the respondent regards as rape. Nearly half of what they counted as "rape" were categorized "drunk/drug facilitated penetration". So they count anytime a man drugs a woman and has sex with her against her consent (which is clearly rape), as well as if a woman drinks too much, has sex, regrets it and later answers a survey that it was rape because that man should have known better.

Rape is a horrific crime. But trying to pump up the statistics by using vague and overly broad definitions isn't right either.
A distinctive reading experience?
They do that some times, including carefully measured network cables so every customer has the exact same latency. https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/
You can look at every request for retaliation and amendment on the WTO here: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e....

For example the US lost on subsidies for cotton and music intellectual properties infringement:

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds160_e...

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds267_e...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/21/how-mislead...
Fairly certain. I know people who voted to remain in the EU, and people who voted to leave the EU. None of them are racists; they had valid reasons for voting the way they did, and none of them are planning to leave the UK due to us leaving the EU.

I regularly see people mouthing off on forums about how they're going to leave their respective countries because they're not happy they didn't get their way in one vote or another. But do I see people ever say that they have left their countries? Pretty much never.
I wonder if the people who wrote the report were also considered cuckoo crazy conspiracy theorists then (as Richard Stallman has been since around the same time).

Good thing they gutted it in 1995, I guess. Congress didn't want the public to find out about such facts.

> Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an "unnecessary agency" that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically "de-funded") in the "Contract with America" period of Newt Gingrich's Republican ascendancy in Congress.

> When the 104th Congress withdrew funding for OTA, it had a full-time staff of 143 people and an annual budget of $21.9 million. The Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. The move was criticized at the time, including by Republican representative Amo Houghton, who commented at the time of OTA’s defunding that "we are cutting off one of the most important arms of Congress when we cut off unbiased knowledge about science and technology".[1]

> Critics of the closure saw it as an example of politics overriding science, and a variety of scientists such as biologist PZ Myers have called for the agency's reinstatement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
Are you trying to say that Poland is sparsely populated? Compared to the UK it is not so crowded but it's hardly sparse and Switzerland is not far behind the UK

People per km2
UK: 268
Switzerland: 203
Poland: 123
USA: 33
Norway: 16; but almost everyone lives within 50km of the coast, the mountains and the high plateau are even more sparsely populated.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...
Even today, T-Mobile still does that – any domains that can not be resolved are redirected to their ads.
Well said, and on top of that the pressure to deliver in a short amount of time is high. Which leads to taking risks in traffic. Sure, that might go well usually [deliberately not gonna make examples where it can go well], but there's still a higher risk than abiding the traffic law. You can actually read in the article that the reporter broke the law, on multiple occasions.

One thing it has going for it is that as with a lot of jobs you get better with practice. You learn to take your breaks, you get better muscles (as with any physical labour job), etc. However, what happens if you retract a muscle one day? In a normal job you'd call sick, and in EU if you're on contract that means benefits.

What we need is two things: one we need laws structured to make this type of self-employment illegal (since the relationship between contractor and contractee is clearly top-down, and requires near to no expertise), and two we need active enforcement of this law.
When fields collide (2007) [pdf]
Yet people and governments around the World still use IT services provided by the USA, even though they know their data is utterly compromised by doing so.
"a difficult three-hour drive over potholed roles from the capital"

s/roles/roads/

Incidentally I have done this three-hour drive. Horrible indeed. The potholes limit your speed to 20-30 mph. I kept thinking on the way "what would really be the cost to repave a ~100-mile 2-lane road?" And "how high on this country's priority list would this be?"
Wasn't one of the things we learned from Snowden that the NSA archives huge amounts of encrypted data because they can't crack it right now, but might in the future, given enough technical advancements?
The report in question:

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_5/DATA/1981/8109.PDF
Yes. It's paravirtualization.
Oh, Drawbridge is full NT in user-space, is in production now for SQL Server on Linux, but Dk (Drawbridge) is much newer. :)
hadn't heard of API blueprint -- pretty cool.

in addition to tools for documenting interfaces (i.e. APIs), I'm interested in tools that document behavior (both desired & observed) and integrate it back to codebases.

In type safety terms, this is like the difference between function signatures that verify inputs & outputs vs something like coq/TLA that can verify more advanced properties of your program.

Configuration is particularly difficult to document in 2017 -- if you solve that problem you fix a lot of migraines.
Patching is not a technical problem, 90% of the time. It's a political one (in medium to big operations). We have let our civilization down? No, our civilization is still asleep believing than when we say that patching is important, that rebooting your pc to install upgrades is important, we are spewing shit.

You need to patch, but big management wants X features implemented before the fix that will actually allow you to patch stuff without creating problems. And the only thing you can do is fix stuff after it breaks and look at your manager(s) when they leave in the day shit hits the fan at 6PM, as usual. And then stay in the night restoring data and praying it's not corrupted or infected too.

And in that moment you are sure of one thing: it will happen again, next time. Our civilization does not care.
Authorizing HTTP APIs, SSH, and Puppet with OPA
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Its not new solaris, so I have no idea what the mechanism is, we just run the patch and reboot...
Thanks a lot for this endorsement of his functional analysis book. I never got around to understanding functional analysis properly; mainly because I don't work on PDE's/control theory that would have used the ideas more heavily.
Added to my todo list.

Not really on topic, but I would like to use this opportunity to express gratitude to the HN community - although this forum is mostly tech-centric, it is wonderful to see things like this post get interest and discussion.
HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn
It is definitely the point.

One of the basic notions in the school of thought that Tracker comes out of is that team interaction is valuable and to be encouraged. So making a tool that makes it easy for people to not talk undermines the broader goal.

One of the basic insights of the Agile movement (R.I.P.) about Waterfall is that processes structured around documentation rather than collaboration have a lot of subtle bad effects that gradually destroy characteristics you'd like your teams to have. E.g., responsiveness to change, systemic effectiveness, resilience to failure, low overhead, ability to ship frequently, ability to deliver customer value.

That's why when I set things up I generally drive things off of index cards. [1] Those are obviously insufficient, which forces people to discuss and collaborate. (That's in contrast to more voluminous documentation, which is subtly insufficient.)

[1] E.g.: http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/
That makes sense, it's all about tradeoffs and what works with you in the end.
Friendly of you to make it so easy to strip out.
This is ridiculous. Market authorities should disallow sub-centisecond trades, and allocate the trades that fall on the same centisecond at random. That would save a lot of people a lot of time and money...
I feel the odds are against Labour party although they have the best policies.

The odds are controlled by media bias and collective rhetoric. So much so I noticed some phrases created by newspapers and later repeated by the PM herself.

I'll be voting for the party with the best policies, I have not forgotten that the current PM has championed snoopers charters.

The care for privacy the tech community has is a minority and edge case. Beyond HN the world doesn't really consider the relationship between a political party and privacy laws.
Record number of people losing US citizenship in 2017
a living wage makes sense because at $4.40 an hour, you are going to get people who will not show up when they feel like it, will rob you to make up for wages, and will not care about your business because they cannot making a living at it.

What's hilarious about this example is that it makes more sense to work for them one day a week, eat a single meal you were supposed to deliver, and keep it up for as long as you can till they find out, because a single meal probably costs more than your entire wages for the day.
The big advantage of the A380 is routes out of airports like Heathrow with few available landing slots.
China doesn't even allow its own citizens to read about things like the Tiananmen square massacre. If they could censor the rest of the world they would.

Even their citizens abroad will tow their party's line [0]

0. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-essential-educati...
I think what you are trying to say is that - you think there may be varying "degrees" of PAF and that certain types may be less risky? That is something that certainly can be debated, but at least most of the of thinking so far is that any presence of PAF, aside from isolated episodes after cardiothoracic surgery, carries the same, if similar risk.

I think the way my stroke colleagues look at it, is sort of the other way around - more like PAF is PAF, and as far as they can tell, based on current data, there is relatively few stratification levels that the current medical data can tell us. Meanwhile, the current assumption of risk from PAF, is so high, vs. the risk of anticoagulation (adjusted for individual patient, i.e. maybe not the patients with coagulopathies or risk of falls) that they view NOT anticoagulation as a higher risk. Because if one is wrong about it, the result is paralysis, coma or worse. If there are cheaper ways of detecting AF, all the better.

But overall, anticoagulation decisions aside, think about it - this is a potentially a cheap way to passively screen for the condition in the population. Orders of magnitude so, and possibly w/ more accuracy than a typical holter monitor or even the newer implantable devices (which in all probability use simpler rhythm analysis). Even if you are worried about the potential existence of differing levels of AF, the wealth of new data should go a long way towards further understanding AF and figuring out whether differing levels of risk exist.
Ok I guess it doesn't, sorry. I just guessed it would by virtue of Google, Dropbox, Owncloud & Seafile offering relatively stable services...
China has shown that they are very adept at copying American high-tech innovation.

* Facebook: WeChat/Weibo

* Google: Baidu

* Apple: already being made in China, clones everywhere

* Amazon: Alibaba
Thanks for taking the time to answer!

FWIW this topic would make for a great technical post/how-to.

I also seem to recall that Automattic does this with their front end (calypso) which handles wordpress.com
What if the training set is evolution data? To me CRISPR + Deep Learning seems like a powerful combination. Looking to see some amazing advances in this area.
The really annoying thing about noncompetes is that they're usually at the discretion of the employer. You might be in a situation where you have a 12 month noncompete and nobody wants to hire you 12 months in advance, but then your former employer terminates your noncompete within a month and stops paying you.
> surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?"

Let us not forget the used to be part of the NSA's mission. A part that was essentially abandoned early in the 21st century.

For example, the NSA required mysterious changes to be made to the DES s-box; many assumed at the time (as did I) that the agency wanted to weaken security, but it turned out, to quote Bruce Schneier, "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.2...
> Which is it, and how can we improve?

Minimum wage exists for a reason. Minimum wage is per hour. What we need is to have this type of employment to be illegal, and we need to have this actively enforced.

I find it mind boggling it still exists, and I suspect it is because of illegal immigrants falling for it. Incidentally, that's also why the reporter was so easily hired: there's a huge demand for low paid workers, but actually this is illegal competition with minimum wage workers.

If that cannot be worked with without increasing the cost of delivery the solution is very simple: increase the price of the food in combination with delivery. Let the customers pay a fair price for their food plus delivery instead.

Someone should also look into Amazon Mechanical Turk. It has the very same issue we discuss, but it has a benefit (for Amazon): its not specific to the physical world (like delivery) and is world-wide, and therefore can also exploit world-wide.
Itanium did have features for various kinds of speculation, though. You could load from an address even if it were potentially aliased with a subsequent store, with the processor doing a dynamic check to make sure the right value was observed (eg, performing a late load and blocking if it turned out there was an overlapping store).

It wasn't as effective as OoO in the end, but not for lack of attention to the problem.
For the first part I just thought that you might don't understand a few things about how the internet works, but when you then wrote

> It's only when acting under government direction that you should be immunized from liability.

I also thought that you meant it as a satire.

Anticipating your next question, can I ask what kind of internet police he should have asked?
assembly is awesome yet scary
What is so bad about it in your oppinion?
BOX-256 is a free web-based assembly language game: http://box-256.com/
Do your budget sometime with an effective wage equal to $4 an hour. What does it cover? What can a person do effectively with that $4 an hour? Will it lift them out of poverty? Can they live on an effective wage of $4 an hour working 40 hours a week and even afford shelter and food?

I mean, do people not get how little money this is?
If they terminated the noncompete, that's excellent!

I'm thinking you've made a typo. ;-)
Perhaps, but they do owe it you to not pay you an exploitative wage.
We have limited attention span in 21st century. The teaching content better be interesting with low cognitive load required to understand using animations to get the material in to the brain. This is the right direction.
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Human Resource Machine is really fun. It's also available on tablets like the iPad. I think it's a great intro to programming.
This is a very vice visual - thank you for that.
What an absolutely amazing project! The interactive explanation is pretty slick as well.
there are republicans who arent? they are suppose to defend free market
It will be nice if somebody ever does a version of (I) here's the theory behind a linear algebra equation, and then, (ii) here's a real world application.
I used to feel that way, but now generally don't. Most documentation is effectively duplication of something already expressed in the code. That means that whenever you add docs, you are multiplying the effort needed to change things in the future. You also create opportunities for the various expressive duplications to diverge, causing untold confusion.

Now documentation is always a last resort for me. That's a shame, as I enjoy writing. Instead I try to put knowledge in existing places, like unit tests, acceptance tests, method names, object names, code structure, file layout, in-app text, and all of the other little things I'm already doing along the way. Only if I can't put something there will I write docs, and then reluctantly and with a feeling I probably missed a chance to minimize duplication.

The only documentation I still write without reservation is stuff that obviously doesn't have to keep up with the project as it changes. E.g., personal journals and project blogs are great, in that everybody understands those are out of date right after they're written.
That's a lot of work for little reward, I think. Most of the time the idea is that the hackers have every incentive to decrypt or else word will spread that it doesn't work even if you pay so people will stop paying.
so your idea is necessarily tied to the existence of unemployment benefit.
> ... However, instead of helping Microsoft fix them, we are supposed to believe that the NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows ...

> I'm sorry, this is just silly.

This only goes to show that reality doesn't have to make sense to a literature critic. Only novels do.
I guess some people interpreted the joke as confrontational and admittedly it does not contribute to the conversation. Nonetheless, I just could not resist.
It's astonishing that Brunner was not only prescient about this event in The Shockwave Rider, but also predicted sophisticated high-tech terroristic attacks in Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up.

If you haven't read this trio of dystopian novels (you can read them in any order) you really should. Still mind blowing today.

(Admittedly he wrote them at a time, unlike today, when the US appeared to face an existential threat from terrorism. A threat that of course never materialized).
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Thanks for the link. The original post is unreadable on my Android tablet as you can't zoom. Other comments here mention the threat to the first ammendment, I find the one about the 4th as relevant to today:

The fourth amendment protects the per-
sons, houses, papers, and effects of in-
dividuals against unreasonable searches and
seizures by the Federal Government.
● Fourth amendment issues may develop
from:
—the use of personal and statistical
data contained in automated informa-
tion systems as a justification for
search and seizure;
—the search and seizure of information
per se as personal property, particular-
ly in electronic form; and
—the use of automated information sys-
tems as a tool for search and seizure
operations.

All the other issues are depressing, the 6th amendment issue is that computer models could be used to predict juror behaviors. What is described as a threat to constitutional rights is depicted as cool in the current TV show "Bull"

That's a very thorough report overall, it evens mentions the issue with software patents:

The concern that continuing uncertainty about
copyright and patent protection for
computer software is significantly im-
pairing software R&D and innovation.