skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactaly right. You should assume, especially in an environment like the NSA, that your internet browsing and email correspondence is being monitored and certain hosts and suspicious DNS will trigger something.

I've worked at far less security concerned companies that monitored all network traffic going and out and logged it and continually were looking not only for internal nefarious behavior but for possibly viruses, worms, etc.
> It really doesn't seem very many steps above slavery.

If I ever go through that system there is no way in hell I am coming out of the prison "reformed". Today when I look at a young kid I feel compassion and I will help the kid in need. After coming out of an US Prison I am likely to see everyone else as "these people were responsible for putting me through hell". That lack of compassion is way more worse.

I am not surprised that so many people turn out to be repeat offenders.
I didn't like Station Eleven and this is a big element of why. It seemed to refuse to engage with it's premise in a way even more so than lots of other post-apocalyptic works where there is a kind of yearning for a simpler technology free life that comes after billions of deaths.
Similarly the whole thing with Miranda and Dr. Eleven bugged me because you had someone writing a comic that seemed to be very Euro-comic inspired like Moebius or Christin but the only comic arist who's mentioned is Bill Waterson.
Colorado doesn’t need to replicate Silicon Valley
> It doesn't matter how much education you have, if entertaining a particular problem causes your amygdala to start firing then your ability to think critically is out the window.

Thinking critically is, by definition, the ability to not hold beliefs and opinions too deeply or too personally. This is a learnable skill, and is one facet of intellectual maturity.
"And I think in that it succeeded."

No need for speculation. Go ahead and say it: 124 points on HN's front page objectively proves it was successful in being interesting [to more than a handful of people]. Exploration into minimalist languages sometimes leads to interesting, practical constructions as well like seen with LISP's, Forth, and Lambda Calculus. Far as time wasters go, such experimentation has a higher chance of going somewhere than some others.
Going by what we've seen so far (Crowdstrike report), the malware looks like an old copy of some freeware called P.A.S. and the IPs were mostly Tor exit nodes.
Hard to believe it costs so much if they're getting that much free labor. I would think they'd at least break even.
It's almost as if relentless standardized test taking doesn't generate critical thinking skills? Wow who woulda thunk! If only we could critically think, maybe we could think critically about this.
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Entirely altruistic?
You can't export for now, but this is something I have in mind. You should be able to be in total control of your data, for sure. So I'll do that. Probably in CSV.
You wouldn't put stars on people but on relationships... it's something you can have am effect on, so I wouldn't mind rating it !
It's still an interesting idea to try to expose an unknown domain in terms of a well thought out API which takes care of some of those dirty details. An ORM would be an example. Should linear algebra API be the raw numerical algorithms (Fortran like) or something dressed up which throw exceptions on failed convergence?

(This is probably orthogonal to your comment btw )
It wasn't clear for all of us. It would be nice of the OP to change "jail" to "prison" if that's what they meant.
What is unicode normalization?
I did something similar with aMember a few years back. Supports many payment processors; a one time fee. API, etc.
https://www.amember.com/
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I think everyone would agree with that. The question then becomes: did The Intercept not follow best practices here? Once again, there is no evidence and any "yes" answer relies on trusting the NSA/DOJ.
yes, i'm sure homeless people and billionaire execs rubbed elbows, trumping their class antagonism!
The second chapter of the book The Mathematical Experience has a hilarious interview between a hypothetical pure mathematician working on "non-Rimenan hypersquares" and a reporter who wants to do a piece on his work (pdf link, starts on page 39: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddoc...). It demonstrates this exact issue.
Haha. I know the feeling.

I've been offered these kinds of jobs at BigCo's and turned them all down. I just do solo coding from the house. I get to define my own projects, use my own tools, and set my own hours. Most importantly, if I don't like a customer, I can just never work for them again after that project. This keeps my life full of working with people I enjoy working with.
Actually, some of the later versions of core memory were very difficult to see with a "naked eye"; almost grains-of-sand kind of thing.

I own a couple of examples of core memory; one is a very old core assembly (I swear the frame is made of bakelite). It's highly damaged, missing several frames, and some of the existing "outside" frame have damage (but the inner frames are "ok"). Those cores are readily visible, and each measure a few millimeters in diameter (the wires of the grids are very thin magnet wire). There are around 10 or so layers in this core assembly (and I'm not sure how many were originally there).

My other core assembly is a 16K board for some kind of a minicomputer or mainframe, made in the early 1970s. It even has a few surface mount components on it, plenty of thru-hole components, a few ICs (mainly line drivers), and the core memory module (which is actually protected by a metal cover - I've never opened it, so I don't know what it looks like underneath). My wife and I have it hanging in our dining area, next to our periodic table, stirling engine, and Tesla coil (yep). The whole board measures about 16 x 16 inches, and includes some metal frame stiffeners soldered on as well. The actual core assembly measures about 6 x 6 inches.

In either of these, physical shock wouldn't do much (other things would break long before the core assemblies). That said, in actual construction they were typically protected in some manner; either in a case of some sort (in the case of the larger unit I have) or behind a metal plate (as in the board I have). This was mainly done to prevent fingers from poking where they shouldn't go (as well as prevent issues with tool slippage or dropping).
I think they got their causation backwards. A working understanding of how foreign policy works is correlated with a higher education level is correlated with being able to find countries on a map.
it uses the Mini Blockchain scheme https://cryptonite.info/files/mbc-scheme-rev3.pdf
"Pretty sure you don't use any visual language for FPGAs."

There are physical and spatial constraints in efficient implementation on FPGA's. Although I don't use them, I saw plenty of examples in my research of people looking at them visually and changing representations to make them more compact or something. Modifying the physical layout outperformed whatever the initial synthesis was.
This is a pretty inaccurate exaggeration. While death in childhood was a lot more common it was more like 30% in the middle ages and lower then that by the 1800s. And while people living to 80 wasn't rare it was by no means as common as today given that diseases and injury were both more common and treatment was worse. Childbirth was also a very dangerous time for the mother and accounted for a substantial amount of post-childhood mortality.
It seems like your thesis has changed slightly from "being rich doesn't get you much" to "the jump from limited means to middle class is a bigger QoL jump than middle class to extremely rich". Again, I think we agree on the latter point, although it may be a faulty comparison. My post was largely about things that being extremely rich gets a person, and I think that this can have tremendous value depending on priorities (e.g., valuing time or experiences very highly).

Some specific additional responses:

- private jet: With a private jet, time from car door to taxiing the runway adds about 5-10 extra minutes total on each side of the trip. On a commercial jet, that's more like 30-120 minutes extra on each side depending on the airport.

- audio: My most memorable listening experience was on a $100k+ system with B&W Nautilus speakers. I don't remember all of the peripherals, so I can't cost it out exactly. Anyway, we played some CDs (heathens!) of some baroque performances that I thought I knew well. When we started listening, I heard things that I had never heard before. It completely blew my mind. The music sounded totally different, and the subtle expressions of the performers via their instruments were far more obvious. I've listened to the same music on $300 Sennheiser headphones (which I love and recommend) -- totally not the same.

In general, extremely rich people are able to buy A LOT of time and very high quality experiences. Is this as much of a quality of life jump from upper middle class as a jump from limited means to middle class? I think it's a faulty comparison as the needs and wants (both practical and aspirational) of each of these starting groups is very different.

That said, ymmv.
What were the issues with the declensions?
Could you even produce enough quality teachers across America to have that sort of outcome? NYC maybe, Lewiston NC probably not. If software can turn a mediocre education system into a good one then I think it's worth doing. Even if it isn't going to raise a mediocre system into an excellent one.
People are attending and graduating from these schools now. It is far better that their outcome improves now rather than only work to some perfect solution.
Fittingly, it's also a better career move to become a prison guard than attend Harvard:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704132204576285...
Cohabitation and provision of support aren't necessarily the same thing, though. The latter seems to be what's argued to provide the family motivation discussed in the article; the former, while perhaps not entirely orthogonal, certainly isn't necessary for the latter to occur.
My memory is terrible, I've wanted something like this for ages to manage my life in general, love it!!

I would like this to be hosted for $12/year.
Seems like a colossal waste of limited resources and tax revenue.

Maybe every non-violent criminal should be put on house arrest with an ankle bracelet instead? Then they can work off a fine, do community service, etc?
If this is an educational product then it would be even better to expose more details to the user. For example, the fundamental steps illustrated in the Blockchain Demo (https://anders.com/blockchain/). A nimiq blockchain explorer would also be a nice feature.
When was Columbus, Ohio an internet and tech hub? Are you somehow referring to Batelle? https://www.battelle.org/about-us

Genuinely curious. I used to live in Columbus and knew it mainly for retailers (Express, Limited Brands, etc.), insurance co's, hospitals, some other big co's like Cardinal Health, Batelle, and Ohio State University.

Columbus is bucking the trend in Ohio and other places in the midwest because it's growing.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2017/01/04/...

They also just had a $1 billion exit for Covermymeds, a tech company in the healthcare field.
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170126/covermymeds-sale-for-1...

Anecdotally, just this weekend I was visiting Columbus and stopped by the old house I rented in Victorian Village. I paid $975/month 10 years ago and the same place is renting for $1875/month today.

Anyways, I'm not here to cheerlead Columbus, just genuinely interested in reconciling the picture I have with the one you painted of "dilapidated warehouses" and an Internet/tech hub that lost its way.

Thanks!

P.S. I see your byline: "most of my comments are designed to provoke a response" so well played iamleppert.
Sure there are bugs. There are also compiler flags which elucidate the model of loops it has and how it makes its decisions.
> which would enable attacks on ciphers that rely on the difficulty of this problem

I don't get this. If such attacks are possible, wouldn't assuming the truth (without proof) of the Riemann Conjecture allow you to develop such attacks?
I'm trying to explain what these are to my grandmother. Any car analogies? ;)
Ask HN: Can you explain how a database index works in an interview?
Over the course of the past year or so I've been doing a fair number of interviews for web developers (full-stack and back-end) and have asked this question nearly every time. Across a wide range of experience levels, not one has been able to answer this question well. About half just honestly say they can't, a quarter know a little bit, but can't explain it well, and the other quarter come up with some wild response. It is not my intent for this to be a "gotcha" question, I ask because I was once asked it and the learning I did after that interview really stuck with me.

How would you explain how an index works?
>The value of a College degree depend heavily on how the individual leverages it but it's an important thing to have. Without what are you left with?

Being a software developer with an impressive Github and set of independent work, the likes of which will impress the vast majority of good tech companies that need productivity and not papers to hang on a wall?

People that think that undergraduate degrees pass a "filter" are ones that are applying through open portals and hoping their resume is selected. Most of the good jobs in software development are obtained through networking in one form or another, in-person and online (Show HN is a good example, amongst millions of other ways to get your work out there).

More and more hiring managers are becoming like me. I blind your resume for education. I actively don't want it. I have found it to be a useless signal at best and a counterproductive signal at worst.
This story has the danger of cyber-fatigue'ing the general public, but it has the potential to forward a number of positive aspects in the war against warfare-criminality-because-secrecy, on either side of the argument: Pro "Pease with Russia, At All Costs", or Con "Send Russkie Hacker UP The Bomb(s)".

These leaks have value, because they continue to forward the narrative in the general public, and the centres of true power, though weakening: mainstream/middle-class/entitled-/privileged- consumers who can Do Stuff™ to change the power structures behind this big military-industrial mess.

If we hold one thing in place: Pease with Russia, we must assume that there are parties who want this, and parties who don't. Oh, sorry, I mean "War With Russia", which is what this is all really about.
Thanks a lot for the advice. I've been product manager for most of my career so I totally understand what you mean. I will definitely be careful in where I want Monica to go, and definitely I'll reach out to you on your email (but not today, I just received way too much feedback and emails thanks to HN today :-D
We published the roll-out schedule for Block Storage a little while back. Both LON1 and AMS3 are planned for this year: https://blog.digitalocean.com/block-storage-comes-to-singapo...
Note that this is an Editorial
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Great privacy policy but it's not linked properly from your signup page:

https://monicahq.com/privacy

Excited to try this, it's a Thing I've been wanting to have for quite some time now. Hope you won't mind the occasional feedback.
>If you don't like it, you are free to accept another job offer or to quit and make your own business out of that thing you were thinking of but didn't do because you feared your employer would claim ownership.

This is a thread where people try to understand why a state maintains such boneheaded policies which are actively driving it into the ground. It's not a forum for people complaining about the policies' impact on them, personally.

So, re: "take your ball and go home": everyone already did.
Not sure if it still works that way, but years ago I used to overwrite the argv[0] param with my own data to change how the process appears on lists such as one shown by the 'w' utility.
I'll quote the part of the GP that I think you're ignoring:

> it can't scale without an...investment that, so far, society has been unwilling to make

Without making any judgment on what is proper or appropriate education funding, tax policy, or anything political like that, the GP is right. Getting tech out of the classroom 1) is not a 100% positive thing; 2) costs more than society, to date, has been willing to spend.

> Are we trying to make education cheaper, or better?

It's not a binary proposition and pretending it is is dishonest. I want to see the median increase. I want to do it cost-effectively. If the choice is raising the median 5 points by utilizing technology for a marginal change in overall cost, or raising the median 20 points by quintupling education funding, one is possible and one is not.
You've proposed a false choice - between a conference with male speakers and a conference with female speakers. As the article shows, the choice is between a conference with male speakers and no conference. In the first case, most attendees learn Electron and the community expands and maybe a small subset of people are turned off by the demographics of the speakers. In the second case, nobody learns Electron and the community doesn't grow. Everybody is turned off because the place to which they wanted to go to learn about a cool new technology is not available.
I work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and I can tell you that Fortran is indispensable. It is the primary language used in numerical simulations, such as climate, stellar dynamics, cosmology, etc. This is partly due to inertia; scientists don't like to spend time learning new programming languages. Also, the various Fortran libraries used in this work are thoroughly understood and no one wants to change them or port them. Most of the code here is in Fortran 95, which may look odd, but has all the things a reasonable "Structured Programming" language should have. Later versions added some Object Oriented features but I don't think they've caught on much around here.

I don't personally work in Fortran, but I'm not repelled by the idea. The thing that would attract me to it, as a former computer graphics programmer, is the decent support for arrays. C99 is better than C89, but it's not where Fortran is. Sure, C++ can do it with classes but, goodness me, that is one complex language. One pays a hefty price if all one wants is decent array handling. And speaking of complex, Fortran has had complex numbers for decades. I've never used complex numbers in C99, so I don't know how they compare. I'm hearing murmurs of moving some things to Rust, when it matures, but I think the jury is still out on that.

I always like to include the quote below in discussions like this:

“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982
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I can see many cases where there is need for more control. Yes, we can start and end manually, but is it acceptable to be that flaky with payments. I mean, I have managed my personal server in pretty ad-hoc way and more often than I expected there are some problems with something. I don't think I can trust myself with lambda.
There are already thousands of black boxes. Consider satellite photography, malware detectors, fire alarms, sniffing dogs, credit fraud detectors. All of these are tools ("black boxes") used to launch investigations. The future of crime fighting is impossible without tools like these as criminals become more sophisticated.

The real question is who owns them and are they audit-able? This blogpost is about making neural networks used for these purposes auditable by a third party without making them vulnerable to evasion by criminals.
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> I remember hearing the same about DX 10/Vista, DX 11/Windows 7

And DX 10 & 11 adoption took forever to happen. Those claims were completely accurate. The difference now is that Vulkan is actually good with good tools, debugging, and support (probably because it came out of AMD instead of Khronos), so DX12 brings nothing to the table other than reduced platform support including worse support on Windows. Particularly since both are massive breaking API changes, so you're basically starting from scratch anyway not just porting over your DX11 code to DX12.

I didn't claim GNU/Linux would save the world, so why are you trotting out that claim as if I did?

> I guess you don't follow XBox SDK news, UWP is irrelevant in XBox context.

Huh? I literally said "Console devs aren't writing for UWP nor for Direct3D." as the very next sentence. So I'm obviously aware of that, why are you pretending I'm not?
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Legality aside, which other posters have covered:

I dealt with a local mechanic (small shop) earlier this year who, when it came time to settle the bill, said he will do debit/check for no fee, or a 2% fee for a credit card. In addition, some local gas stations advertise cash rates for fuel, which are slightly discounted vs credit cards.

It's an interesting practice that I don't mind. Ultimately it provides transparency and options to consumers who may be unaware of interchange rates and such that factor into day-to-day transactions.
Incredible. A cryptocurrency exchange is born in a HN comment thread.
What are you trying to prove by asking this question to candidates? Does it matter? Does not understanding what is happening under the hood prevent them from using them correctly?
Is that not just treating the filename as a byte sequence?
From the OP

"Historically, a cool building in a hot climate implied thick walls, high ceilings, balconies, courtyards and windows facing away from the sun."

New Orleans is one of the clearest examples of this hot and humid specific architecture[0]. In that picture the second floor balcony represents roughly the height of the 1st floor ceiling. The many doors like porticos, can be opened on the shaded side of the building allowing for air flow. You see this style all over the city.

Apart from reflective coatings on glass in high rises and office buildings and the occasional Leed certified building trying to save on energy usage, you don't see much architectural consideration for the climate.

This is especially true in office buildings (in the U.S. anyways) built 1900-1950 or so with blocky brick buildings in which the central rooms have little natural ventilation[1]

[0]https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9459548,-90.0658908,3a,75y,2...

[1] http://forgotten-ny.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/01/e149stbus...
I can totally see them doing it. It would be the same as the GP described. It wouldn't be compulsory but those that don't agree get their good time reduced, get written up, marked for non-cooperation and so on. In other words there enough mechanisms for this to happen.