skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are legitimate use cases for sshd with default logins. Headless and embedded systems come to mind first. Of course, this should not reach production stage.
Play Music and Humble Monthly. It used to be Netflix, but I'm pissed at them for how limited the library is in my region compared to the US one.
Since when has the aggregate human being in one country, been happy with a reduction in income, for the upliftment of millions in another?

The only reason this has happened, is because they got back some of those pennies in terms of cheaper goods.

The issue today, is that the average person is losing their purchasing and earning capacity in the western world.

The only people benefiting are people capable of straddling the complex legal and financial networks that span multiple countries and regulatory systems.

This provides them with a significant arbitrage opportunity, which they are abusing.

You could say that this whole conversation is about how political entities - countries themselves (!) - are now trade barriers.

If we let ourselves imagine - tomorrow every country in the world has some geo adjusted minimum wage, and all countries can compete in any geographic position while creating a single globally valid corporation.

Then, all the infrastructure which the 1% enjoy - lawyers, financiers, legalesse authors - it disappears. Their ability to extract rents from the system drops as their advantage vanishes.

Of course, mercantilism is also bad, but at least rent extraction and arbitrage disappear.

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Thanks, your comment helped me spark off an idea that I didn't know had been nagging me.

I can now give a better example of why brexit is bad for the UK. The biggest loss is to new firms. A firm in the EU can start up and is valid across the entire region. They don't have to make new entities, or spend on lawyers, tax consultants to tap the full range of their market.

A UK firm, has only their own market to target.

When I argue this topic out, most of the focus is on big established firms.
Other newspapers made it into a cover https://imgur.com/a/2UbBZ

enjoy
Looking to expand my Instant Pot repertoire... Mind sharing your recipe?
What you described is a short term savings scheme that would destroy the company's long term reputation. Who would want to work for a management team that screwed employees like that?

It's hard to imagine that the cost-savings justifying the long-term consequences of losing of the best employees + candidates to competitors.
Or how much burgers they eat and mountain dew they drink.
> If you're wrapping a try block around any code that might throw an exception, then you're doing it wrong.

CS student here, can you elaborate on this? What code would you wrap in a try block if not code that could throw an exception? Are you suggesting try blocks should only be used to insulate function calls we know to be unsafe?
What's interesting about this particular paper, is that it can learn from a single demonstration. Instead of taking thousands of examples before it can do anything. Even cooler, it learns how to learn. They didn't hand code how to do this, it figured it out through training. On top of that it uses machine vision to learn to see all on it's own, without having to be hand coded with information about where things are.

More generally, it uses a deep neural network. Which is very different than the older approaches you mention, and can learn much more sophisticated functions. And has enabled a lot of results that would have been unimaginable previously.

As for the early AI researchers? They were insanely overly optimistic about how difficult AI would be. It didn't seem like a hard problem. They thought they could just assign a bunch of graduate students to solve machine vision over the summer. It seems pretty simple. We can see great without even thinking about it, how hard can it be?

But after biting their teeth into it a bit, I'm sure they would appreciate our modern methods. They might not be as elegant as they hoped. They wanted to find "top down" solutions to AI. Simple algorithms based on symbolic manipulation and logic and reasoning. Such an algorithm probably doesn't exist, and an enormous amount of the history of AI was wasted searching for it.

And even if they did discover our modern methods much earlier, they wouldn't have been able to use them. It's only recently that computers have gotten fast enough to do anything interesting. It's like they were trying to go to the moon with nothing but hand tools. Sometimes you just need to wait for the tech tree to unlock the prerequisite branches first.
Do you have any idea who Marina Abramovic is? This stuff is insane.
Um. I lived quite comfortably for years in a US city of a quarter-million people on around $50K/year, before tax. Granted I had no dependents, a cheap apartment, and rode my bike to work, but I had money to buy everything I needed and most of the things I wanted, and I ate out most days. In major cities where a one-bedroom apartment costs $2000 a month, it might be a problem, but I was paying $400/month for a 1000 sq.ft. place near downtown. My parents in a smaller town were paying that much for a three-bedroom house, and thought my apartment was expensive.

Where are you living, and how much does housing cost there?
In one of the subway projects in Hamburg, a cost of 1.1 billion EUR per kilometre was reached.

But that project was building a subway including station directly below a riverbed.
Actually, that's not always correct in C++ (it is in C). It is possible that either type has the operator& overloaded, so instead the proper way to do it is:

(std::addressof(a) == std::addressof(b))

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/addressof
You sure you don't want a 5000MP camera? Lol
It's hard to say, because there's a few different subway operators in Tokyo, and if you switch between them your fare doesn't transfer. An example is JR and Tokyo Metro. There also exists Tobu lines, which run on Tokyo Metro lines, but sometimes have a different schedule. In my experience, the base fare (the price of entry) seems a little high, but the price stays the same for the first few stops, meaning that going 2 stops is more expensive than 4 stops. I think this effect continues into longer subway lines, and the prices of going to different stations is staggered if they are close together (e.g. if two stations are close enough, the price will be the same to go to if you come from the same location). I would argue that Tokyo's subway, overall, is probably about the same price if Bart was the same size.

Beyond the price, Tokyo Metro is almost always on time and pretty clean, and generally the delays happen late at night (the delays are only for a minute or two). Having been here for over a month, I've only experienced one daytime delay that lasted more than 30 seconds.
The point is to handle exceptions in appropriate locations, and pass exceptions up if you cant handle them. I think theyre saying that throwing a try block around an exception just to avoid dealing with it is a problem
Gotta wonder if this is the end game for Apple. MacBook Air that's basically a battery, screen and peripherals holster for the 2020 iPhone 12, all running via USB-C. I'd buy it.
> I don't get it, where does that come from anyway?

Let's:

* replace tipping with a minimum wage which helping working people get out of poverty

* make checks obsolete

* etc.

> Driving in New York isn't practical, so people take the tube

The what now? I think you'll find it's actually called le Métropolitain
Provided the Macron campaign had a competent chief security officer (coming straight from the industry) and was paranoid about security, and given the scale of the leak, it seems unlikely that it was the job of skiddies doing it for the lulz.
I missed the first release of 5 qubit processor since the IBM website has so much marketing jargon. I find some papers in arXiv where they use the processor. Is there any reference demonstrating that this is a true quantum processor? I'd like to see some non-classical scaling with respect to N, etc.
The throughput of "car directly after car" is about 10 times lower than that of a railway with a frequency of 90 seconds.
> I've never seen this work in practice. It always takes almost as many people to properly maintain a solution as it did to build it, there is no "done" state where the can get rid of the developers. It was accepted as far back as the mythical man month that maintenance is where the vast bulk of software costs are.

Those companies see software development as a cost and not something that need to be kept around.

Usually we also don't have someone sitting on our building to repair the doors when they get broken, we call someone to repair or replace them, when the need arises.

> At this rate we're about a decade a way from expecting developers to be one man corporations.

If you are living in an European country this has already happen long time ago.

In countries like Portugal, many companies are hiring developers on "Green receipts", which are literally one man corporations.

Similarly in countries like Germany and Switzerland, many consultants are freelancers, or work for a consulting company that plays the same role as agents do for sport and movie industries, giving them a fee. Also expected to be an one man corporation from the customer point of view.

The glorified idea of the developer that codes all day long on his cubicle/desk without anything else to worry about is long dead, at least in western part of the globe, when targeting the industries that don't sell software.
> Everything about Musk's idea seems absolutely terrible.

Depends what his goal is. Currently getting from A to B in a car at a certain time involves traffic jams.

If his goal is to get from A to B most efficiently in a car then it's one of the best ideas.

If his goal is get people from A to B via any mode of transport, perhaps trains. But he owns a car company, so that's not exactly in his interest.

Also with cars it's truly A to B. Not A to subway/carpark, wait, travel, walk to B.
There's is a fundamental issue here that comes up with lots of small organizations around security: If your process for prioritizing work is based on which issues people complain about the most, you will never prioritize security issues until its too late. Security problems are never obvious until the horse bolts.

It is very easy to accidentally add egregious security vulnerabilities to products if you don't know what you're doing. In fact, accruing small security issues (like this SSH password problem) is the default state of the world.

As a user, I pay the cost when products I use have bad security. If I get hacked via your product, it might be embarrassing for you, but its my device and my data that gets compromised. And because of that, I expect most small companies will not care about their product's security as much as I do as a consumer.

Of course, once a company grows large enough they'll hire a person or a team to look into their software security. At that point they'll fix all the obvious security issues. The database will gain a password. The root AWS account will stop being shared out amongst employees. Work laptops will have full disk encryption turned on to protect against theft, etc.

But until then, as a customer, I should be really nervous. How can you tell the secure products apart from the insecure ones? Well, one of the most obvious signs is that secure products will have already fixed the obvious mistakes. Things like connecting to backend services using unencrypted HTTP. Things like a backdoor-by-default SSH password published on the website.

That is why we (security wonks) make a big deal out of small security problems when they're obvious. They're a sign that nobody has even taken a look at the security situation, and for every obvious problem there's probably 10 more that aren't obvious. This issue might get fixed, but thats why your reply doesn't make me less nervous.

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And thats a shame, because your project seems super cool and I really want you to succeed! This has come across much more negative than I intended, and I'm more frustrated at the startup industry over this than I am frustrated with you or what you're doing. Hopefully you can get a security review done at some point to make sure there aren't any other simple problems that need to be dealt with. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
It only costs that much if you're staying far away or going pretty long distances. I stay in a station pretty far from Central Tokyo (past Kita Senju on the Tobu line) and to get to somewhere like Ginza costs less than 400 Yen, which is about $3.75. However, a chunk of that cost is due to Tobu, and if I was staying in Kita Senju or Ueno my trip would only be about 200-250 Yen.
It's pretty easy. When they were attacking the republicans everybody on the left loved them. Now they are attacking the democrats, ergo they have zero credibility and are working with our enemies.
The timing of the release of the leak is suspicious. Just in time to be too late to have an effect, and right before the "période de réserve". Maybe a last push to demonize Macron's opponent ?

This leak happened at the end of an election where pretty much everything seems to have been orchestrated to turn a two rounds election into a one turn plebiscite for Macron:

- small irrelevant candidates easily got their required 500 signatures (cheminade, lasalle, etc.) while serious candidates struggled (mélenchon, lepen)

- the outsider (fillon) had scandals made public all over the media while what he did is politics as usual and other candidates scandals got no coverage

- the direct contender (hamon) had his own political party pull the rug under his feets with rumors that the party was preparing for macron's victory.

- media gave a lot of attention to lepen both pushing her by reporting it was inevitable she'll qualify for second round and demonizing her at the same time to make sure she would not win.

And the list of suspicious things continues, the last one and not the most significant being macronleaks being released with a weird timing.
Maybe in Europe Red Delicious is different, but I like it so much, hehe :)
If you need IDE then go with IDE. There are many programming tasks and languages that gain no benefit from IDE-ish things.

For me auto complete works just fine and I don't know what project management means.
"If what he thinks he is on to is viable with cars in those tunnels, it's even more viable with trains carrying 1,000 passengers each coming every 3 minutes"

When it's all said and done, Elon is a car salesman and entrepreneur, I guess that's why?
>Wouldn't it be cheaper to wait until the day(or week or month) that you'd otherwise offer them to leave on, and fire them right then without any benefits?

That's a trick you can pull once. And after you do all of the skilled employees are going to be eyeing the door.
it still requires to give away privacy and go to facebook.com
Yes. I agree. One only has to look into history a bit.

https://i.redd.it/5nuf25zglpvx.jpg

How about that island?
Dependencies are evil?
Inside the Microsoft FPGA-based configurable cloud [video]
A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
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StartupToolbox
Simple answer: Unions. They can't just layoff people without repercussions.

Complex answer: Businesses that have been around this long have learned to survive by not making enemies. A tenant of this brand of capitalism is that it is cheaper to make mutually beneficial deals than to 'win'.

Also, because the brand is so tied up in American identify, and many of their workers are their own consumers, they don't want to muddy the waters, especially if they expect to hire back some of the same workers again later.
Macron campaign had a competent chief security officer ? Seems unlikely.

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well then downvote me instead of providing a name and explanation that this guy was competent, macronleak was depicted as poor security practices and probably low level attacks[1]. Let's not forget that they got breached at least once beforehand during the campaign and the trend micro report[2] explained what to do to protect against these attacks which obviously was not applied (assuming the leak has not been orchestrated).

[1] https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104217-edito-macronleaks-ou-...
[2] https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/wp/wp-two-years-of-p...
And of course his "simple" example of an `Either` class leaks and doesn't call destructors, because C++ unions do not cleanly support types with nontrivial destructors.

Meanwhile the open source project he links to has an implementation that is hundreds of lines of template magic that I gave up on interpreting.

I've dealt with codebases like this and I strongly recommend against using this kind of arcane template incantations in production. It becomes an impenetrable fog for newbies, and a morass for veterans with something to prove.
I think you guys all forget the point that it's not only for cars but also for cargo which makes this a lot better.
And One Infinite Loop is itself built on the former Four-Phase Systems site.
Or, in the case of New Zealand at least, already be a permanent resident :D
Through my work as a lawyer I have dealt with manufacturing of consumer electronics quite a few times, usually when things go wrong.

Most European companies have their products manufactured (assembled) in China. In a small gadget, there are easily 200 little parts that are produced by dozens of different Chinese companies. As always in business, there are regularly problems with quality or delays or price hikes, and then the client considers moving production back home to Europe. But such considerations always strand on a number of troubling reasons, and it's not that the gadget would be more expensive in Europe. Actually, the price increase nowadays would be less than one might think (for example from 10 euros to 15 euros on products that sell to stores for 50-100 euros and part of that extra cost would be recouped in not having to ship the products so far).

The real reasons are that there are almost no manufacturers in Europe who have the required knowledge, that European manufacturers cannot deliver as fast (they are smaller and have much less manpower) and that European manufacturers are not able to source the components in Europe anyways. Maybe we could get part of the components in Europe, but surely not all 200. In China, they are produced locally and can be delivered in hours or days. In Europe, we would have to have them shipped from China.

I don't believe production of the current consumer electronics will be moved back to the Western World. Phones, pads, monitors, flat screen tvs, laptops etc. will continue to be produced in Asia. After all, that's where the manufacturing infrastructure and knowhow is. What we can hope for is that the next generation of products will be mass produced here; robots, electric vehicles, drones etc. But I doubt it. Salaries in China have been at the level of the cheapest countries in Europe for a while but manufacturing has not returned in scale. Your next 3D gadget is likely going to be produced in Shenzhen or Malaysia, not in Romania, Portugal or Michigan.
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That is a pretty terrible example to give considering how it turned out.
People call this a bug, I call it an interoperability issue.
Microsoft wanted to represent a real smiley in text without resorting to images. There was no standard unicode character for such a smiley so Microsoft chose a font that did support the smiley character.

Of course hindsight is 20-20, it's easy to say now they should've gone with a character that wasn't in use yet, but circumstances being what they were, a bug is not a completely correct description for what this behavior is.
Yeah, the legislators should be as immune from legislation as the judiciary is from the judicial system and the executive is from executive action. Oh wait...
Have No Fear, YuMi Is Here ABB’s Collaborative Robots Just Want to Get Along
soda w/o carbonation

Soda without soda? :)

As a non-native speaker, this continually fascinates me...
Wow. This looks amazing. I have always loved atom's UI. Now, the git and github integrations are really cool too.
I have seen that using error singletones together with logging at the point of error worked rather nicely. Surely as a global state it is not thread safe, but when the state belongs to a component with well defined API and uses once an error, always an error strategy so error recovery requires constructing a new component, then thread-safety is trivial to address.

A bonus of this approach is that error path through code is the same as for the non-error case. Thus getting good coverage for error cases in unit and integration tests is easier.
How to optimize your Store Performance?
Come to Berlin. Rent is about 11€/m^2, so about 800 Euros provide enough room for you, your partner, and a child. Add about 600€ for food for three, and for about 17k Euros you have food and housing. That leaves you a couple hundred Euros each month for clothes, transportation and entertainment.
Compare http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/05/the-right-to-waive-your... for the practical limits of contracts here.
> When Congress agrees on something, it passes law

proposes* law ftfy
N=5.
cash - an enabler of crime

The sentence : ...[bitcoin] is only superior for criminal uses...
shows a lack of knowledge about the technology and economics involved imo.
Nobody is saying anything of the sort. But it feels good to tear down ridiculous arguments of the "other side" that you come up with yourself, doesn't it?
That picture is presumably from her piece The Artist is Present [1] at the MoMA in 2010, where any visitor could sit opposite her.

Any visitor. AT THE FUCKING MOMA. How many pictures of her do you think were taken?

The links you posted didn't have anything about an island, so if you want me to do your googling for you, please be more precise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramović#The_Artist_Is...
Yes, they accumulate 0days, that's what they do. The NSA for example defines themselves as a "capabilities based organization", which is synonym for just accumulating ways to breaking into systems, whatever it is... hardware, software, cryptoanalysis... you name it.

But the difference is that if a vulnerability was found in Linux, people would quickly get it fixed then get their machines patched for free.

Now, this is a Microsoft insider talking about the development process in their kernel: http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...
What I'm saying is that for the purposes of removing moisture, the temperature gradient itself is an energy flux which might be utilised.

In some ways, this is the inverse of an evaporative cooler, where the incoming air is saturated with moisture to lower its temperature before being vented to a warm space to be cooled ("swamp coolers" are best suited to dry climates, and have humidity issues). Here, instead, cool (possibly chilled) air could be ducted through the warm space, with the intent of condensing moisture onto the ductwork (for drainage by other means) prior to being vented into the space.

You're trading cooling capacity (condensing water warms the cold air supply) for humidity control.

I'm not trying to imply that this is practical, only that a latent energy flux might exist.
Does this mean we can teach auditors to look beyond nist now too?
Normally the argument is the this should be part of your backlog and not spread all over the code where no one (and especially the PO) can keep track of all the TODOs in all the files.
What an excellent article. Now combine Clinton's 7 careers over your lifetime with the cost of education in the US...Say $65,000 base to get a masters in Product management from CMU and multiply that x 7 over the course of a career. Eternal debt. And age discrimination after your age and salary peak.