skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two reasons:

1) Services at that scale are hard, and even companies like Yahoo and Google struggle to provide fast, secure, and robust services like email. The US Government doesn't exactly have a good track record implementing services like this. Just think of the extreme security threat. And don't even get me started on customer support costs.

2) They are heavily invested in carrying physical letters and parcels. They would fight tooth and nail to resist a new service that might cannibalize their current service.
> And it does make sense for Open Source code because the resources are limited hence other features and/or bug fixes might be more important than pushing data at full speed

That's not how open source works, though. There's not a group of people obligated to work on the GNU utilities. There's not a central project manager ordering people around telling them what changes to make.

Declaring that 'yes' is generally fast enough already doesn't imply that it was fast enough for the person who spent their time optimizing it. Somebody needed (or just wanted) 'yes' to be really fast, so they did the work and submitted the changes back.
Right now, you could use search to find posts based on cities or regions. We are planning have a bit more robust location based filter in future.
Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry point six years ago
Having unexpectedly lost a parent myself, and worked with others who have been through similar circumstances, it is absolutely accepted and expected to take at least a week off, probably longer, if you work for a reasonable company with a reasonable manager. It's one of the most difficult things most people will experience in life. That amount of time is barely enough to get over the initial shock before you half heartedly return to work while beginning to deal with probate, attorneys, settling the estate, and trying to work through your emotions.
PDF and OOXML are also open specifications.

Try to implement them though, you will run into a lot of issues.
Indeed. I think the story here, isn't so much about the loss in transaction fees, but how an attacker in Russia ordered and paid for a user in Australia's account.

I notice the victim uses Android: Is it rooted? What other random stuff do they have installed? etc. etc. - because that will make a huge difference.
Mostly...

But notice how you still post and the downvote brigade still obliterates your score.

You can't say anything and get upvotes because you have angered so many with how you said some things.
there are 89 flavors of markdown.

there will never be a standard markdown.

and not just because of xkcd927...

if you have a muddy puddle, you can't make it clear by adding more dirt. you have to replace all the muddy water with clear water.

markdown needs to be abandoned, and replaced with a superior version of light-markup.

(unfortunately, neither restructured-text nor asciidoc is superior.)

sooner or later -- probably later -- the tech sphere will see the need to do that replacement. until then, it would be a major disservice to assert markdown upon the world-at-large.
The motivation, as far as I see, was only that it "may be used."

But see the post of belorn where he argues that the error handling seems to be good.
> Until it goes live, it's vaporware.

That's a ridiculous definition. So nobody can advertise that they plan to add a novel feature to a piece of software, even if the code already exists in draft form, without being labeled a vaporware peddler?
>> The only reason I don't have full auto is they are too expensive

...not to mention illegal
Think about the "designed to end human lives" a little more. What's really designed to end lives is a gallows, an electric chair, gas chamber, etc. Guns are designed for combat, not just killing.

And not just any combat. The strong and numerous attackers don't really need better tools for hurting the small, lone, and weak; they can do that just fine already. Guns are for the weak to defend themselves against the strong. They let the little old lady stop multiple attackers. They let the lone rebel fight back against the oppressive government. The gun is civilization and democracy.
We create one row per event logged in Heap.

We currently have a default 3-year retention policy. We will keep your old data for up to three years.

We have a redshift integration which you can use to export your data from Heap into redshift.
I got the impression there was no password input. It's getting way too common to do phone based verification, and authenticate new phones by SMS codes.

If it asked for the password (does Uber use passwords at all?) then yes, I was just saying dumb things; please ignore.
Plain text would've been THE usual way to go for most things (1), but it's so hidden in major OSs, even in Linux distros. Many use Word or Wordpad mostly as a plain text editor becausr they don't know the difference between plain text and a word document. Also, there is thpage metaphor in those programswhich people like, because we think of text in pages. This is not that hard to emulate in plain text but not that straightforward too. People often share documents so pages and paragraphs must be equal for all (paragraph numbering might be a solution). We have the tooling fir generating convenient formats for consumption likr PS and PDF, but default tooling for plain text and the visibility thereof is what's needed.

(1) When youcompose text you want to compose first style later. Wysiwyg mixes the two and you end up with crappy spelling and half arsed formatting most thetime.
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I'm not sure, but maybe simply turning the firewall on in macOS doesn't provide any benefit if everything else is fine, and you have to lock it down and disallow all requests by default to actually get added security through it.

Edited the recommendation after reading the sibling comments.
Also mud & water. If you drive through deep water with a conventional car, worst thing that can happen is you hydrolock the engine. Don't want to think what happens when you try to cross a shallow river in an electric...
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I can't view this while at work, but... are we really at a place where patterns change year to year like fashion? Just going from the title, it seems like the kind of thing that would make the gang of four groan.
Kind of. It's at least the part that matters if you want to walk out of the store with your merchandise. It's not the part that matters on your card statement, though.
I was refering to http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
To expand on my other answer in regards to this - I wouldn't say we have a glut of qualified applicants. It's pretty hard to find the great developers, and the reason we bin the generic ones is that we have never found a fit through one of those. Also it simply takes too much time to move further with those applications. I'd rather be programming :)
The website in itself does not give me an understanding of whatever the hell they're doing. I'm a computer engineering undergrad and I've done FPGA's before. I don't see what's "code in go and deploy FPGA's to the cloud". I think that putting some code and other actual use cases to the website would be nice.

Looking at some of the examples it seems to me that you'd still need to know hardware programming, memory etc. Now my comment seems very snarky, but I still think that it's a huge achievement to have gotten this far with this and I wish them luck! I just don't get the target user base.
Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
> I have never in my 20 year career understood the point of word-processing tools, and never will.

... wait for it ...

> And those tools make money.
I was going to use CPR as an example. How many people have been trained in CPR vs. those who have actually used it?

That said, the strength of my recommendation is not very strong, but if you're asking, "Why should I take a pistol class?", general safety is a good reason.
Hence the old saying "God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal!".

My approaching-70 year old father will be retiring to the middle of nowhere, along with his wife. What's he going to do if someone breaks in - fight them? He's an old man with COPD. Call the police? They're an hour away. But with a good dog to alert him to intruders, and a good gun he can reach for? He can protect himself against anyone, no matter how much of a physical advantage they might have.
There's a link to the security audit report in the post but here it is, as well, for those interested: https://cure53.de/pentest-report_teleport.pdf
New ROpenSci Packages for Text Processing in R
I'm in Lincoln and I don't think too many people are planning to go far since its in the middle of the day.
Blind Résumé Review stands out.
Downvotes are for signaling failure to honour conversation protocol, no disagreement of opinion. You guys shoud know better.

If you want to argue that liver cleansing is a quack, do so in a comment. Better yet, ignore the parent and let it fall to the bottom of the conversation.
> There's not a central project manager ordering people around telling them what changes to make.

No, but there is review and approval of patches (also the most frequent contributors know where the project is going and there is bug tracking)

If one just makes it faster without major benefits that patch is likely to be rejected
Its part of a awesome talk on file formats from the ccc.
You should check the terms of your debit card. My credit union offers $0 fraud liability on its debit cards.

OTOH, getting a credit card and paying the full balance every month is S good way to build your credit history and scores.
Intuitively it seems easier to build strong inference heuristics for CGRA than FPGA given the more constrained (limited?) degrees of design freedom.

I've always been wary of inference-based systems that target clocked logic. Most of them (especially the C-based ones) are not suited to produce efficient designs and usually require some heavy massaging of the original code to make the inference system happy.
That's not what it takes: it's what they prefer to be done by the kinds of people who won't disrupt them too much with reforms. There's been many internal assessments in companies that did even better. Usually just have to survey and interview the workers to see what's going on. The supervisors and managers, too, but the big problems usually start from them on up.
>it's not like great companies put themselves up for sale -- just look at Microsoft's or HP's acquisition history

I wouldn't think of HP or post-Gates Microsoft as very good examples of how to run a publicly-traded tech firm.
Ok fair, this is the first time I've gotten public interest! Awesome. Please hold shortly, website incoming...

(Just for reference, I do want to build a business on open data, but not by owning your data. I would like to help people manage their data.)

EDIT: Website is live! Try https://www.optik.io until DNS catches up, if optik.io is not responding for you.
Your typical "parents" are not the sort to need that sort of stuff. Those are profesional tools for people with specialized needs, and they can assess the risks of installing such things.
Google, general patent for using ANS (both tANS and rANS) in video compression
Not native, but you can use the Flex Environment to run Dart apps on AppEngine:

https://github.com/dart-lang/appengine
How data is transforming the music industry
You mean besides the banks that made the same type of investments and exchanges after the U.S. banking crisis? Not to mention hedge funds.
What, like via brew?
That something can occur has only superficial relation to whether it ought to be to be discussed in a given setting.

Your comment reads as if you have little understanding of how women are treated in our culture.
So you think they magically determined he, not only didn't want to work there but that he wanted an offer to utilize as leverage elsewhere.

They couldn't develop a set driving car without stealing, I somehow doubt they figured out mind reading.
> They should lie about "oh it was this guys first offense".

There's some implied reasons in the language, though we can't tell whether that was a direct consequence.

> Human Resources Record Keeping
> Uber should ensure it has appropriate tools, including complaint tracking software, to keep better track of complaints,
personnel records, and employee data.
> For example, if a complaint is substantiated but results in discipline other than termination of employment, relevant stakeholders should be able to easily identify whether prior complaints have been lodged to ensure that appropriate action is taken with respect to repeat offenders. Likewise, senior managers should be able to track whether certain organizations or managers give rise to multiple complaints such that intervention with the manager is needed. Uber should also emphasize the importance of recordkeeping to all Human Resources staff, and impose consequences for failure to adhere to recordkeeping requirements.

Seems unlikely, given that Uber released it themselves, that the report would provide any sort of self-incriminating evidence. So all we can really do is read between the lines and #deleteuber.
Because it's annoying and it doesn't help — most people don't care for managing a firewall, nor should they. If an attacker has run an executable on your laptop, whether you block it from phoning home or not is hardly your main concern.
Ask HN: What is the norm for email validation?
For email validation, what is the norm for mobile apps? Are people making a service call to third-party like Mailgun, or checking on the client side?

I'm trying to come up with the options on the service side and client side, and what options exist in the Rails environment already. I feel like our CTO is more inclined to go with what other tech companies are using on the mobile apps.
Anything like this would increase the budget of the USPS. Republicans control Congress and have been trying to reduce the budget for USPS (or replace it entirely with private services).
Anyone from the tech or startup community who is willing to be in Las Vegas area for 2-4 days and is reasonable sane/not a criminal/etc, I'd be happy to help to a class at Front Sight for free (you'd need to pay for ammo, about $100-200, and rent a car/accomodations/etc)
That is pretty cool, all the dates are place holders, when was it published? Tom Lyon had a startup in this space that was trying to build network accessible memory systems to solve the 'process migration' problem. That is the problem where moving a process on a Linux system takes too long relative to the benefit.

Google looked at some proposals that were kinda sorta like this when they were soliciting ideas for their 'energy proportional computing' effort. Basically they were attacking the problem that the difference between an idle machine and a fully loaded machine was about 25% power usage. That isn't held against your PUE (after all the machine is 'running') but it does mean you could theoretically increase your energy efficiency by 50% if you could leave idle machines powered off and effectively bring them on line quickly enough to meet your design goals.
>In schools, on campuses, or in places of worship

Arbitrary rules. In that case, no guns allowed in grocery stores, zoos, museums, public places of gathering, anywhere where one might find humans.
I've seen it work well for people. Those people spend a lot of time talking to, getting to know and befriending people on the business side of things, like managers, VPs, and technical leads.

Think of it like sales. Salesmen don't only sell to people they happen to run into at home or at the office. They go out of their way to target (ie: chat up and befriend) people who buy what they sell.
SpaceX and Tesla both have a long history of extremely shady labor practices.
It's simple - Bitcoin is stagnant and full of politics and holy wars where as ETH is implementing everything Bitcoin promised 5 years ago.

Bitcoin is facing an existential crisis August 1st (UASF) that some view as liberation and others as extortion. As if BTC wasn't high risk enough!

Yes we haven't seen a single ICO that has resulted in anything worth anything yet and we probably shouldn't any time soon. Yes the rise in ETH the last few months is comical. Yes there are plenty of scams out there right now and some we don't even know are scams yet. But it's damn exciting.

Anyone with an imagination can see this. It's the wild west and it's fun and crazy. And there's a real opportunity here to do something different. 99.9% of these early things are going to fail but there will be a breakthrough eventually I believe. And when that happens...
Just a little nit-pick: checking for kernel extensions that don't have Apple in their name is definitely not the same as checking for 3rd-party extensions... :P
Apple updates iWork apps with new shape library, auto-correction features, more
I don't know what gave you the impression that HN isn't capitalist-friendly. We have long had a whole lotta kool-aid going around here about markets, entrepreneurs, etc. In many ways startup culture is the embodiment of capitalism.
The paradox is that, after picking a random number, you have just done a thing which has probability zero. Doing a thing that has zero probability shouldn't be possible. Ever.
As long as the weather is good... I have yet to see a drone fly in bad weather.
But... that's not an airgap.

Has the original meaning of the word been lost?
I just don't get it personally, I would think HN being about startups would be more capitalist. I mean, she did her job, she didn't to my knowledge do anything unethical. She negotiated her salary based on her credentials and the board gave her that salary. My capitalist opinion is, fucking good for you, I hope to be in that position some day.
"Ye to hona hi tha "

English : this was going to happen anyway
The fun thing is indeed that neither the Ethereum optimists nor the sceptics have concrete numbers to back up their statements.

The skepticism is healthy, the optimism interesting, the discussion unfortunately remains fairly immature, on both sides. I hope we'll get more academic and professional insight soon.
With Amex, at least, you can only do chargebacks for purchases in the last six months. Probably similar for others. Just something to be aware of. Even if you have indisputable proof of theft or fraud or whatever.
The article says this plan to do just the kit is a deviation from the original plan of project Titan, which was to do the whole kit and caboodle.
Uber CEO takes leave of absence
Can't reply to child comment that says automatic weapons are illegal. Kind of silly to say that on the internet - the OP could be in a country where they are not, or where the concept of "illegal" is ill-defined or irrelevant.
I'm as great a fan of plain text as anyone else, but you gain a lot when you keep it in a sqlite db.
They're actually not completely illegal. You need an NFA stamp for things like full automatic rifles, machine guns, most silencers, short barreled guns, and the stamps are often very expensive. Which is why you probably don't see many full automatic AKs being used in crime.
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That definitely stood out to me.
Also, linked text boxes in Pages.
Thanks for sketching out the proposed policies in more detail! That's a lot more productive.

Now, to tackle them in reverse order:

> as opposed to the minor inconvenience it would be for law abiding citizens, so I doubt it would ever be possible.

There is no concrete benefit for law-abiding citizens above the system we already have in place here. Like, it's not immediately obvious that the proposed changes clearly make things better (unlike, say, requiring seatbelts in cars).

> you can simply say that if you are the registered owner of a gun and it's used in a crime, even if you didn't fire the gun, unless you processed the transfer you're personally liable.

This fails (badly) to account for firearms that have been stolen. See also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/new-e...

If you want to make the argument that "gun owners need to keep better track of their guns"...it's their property, so that should be their choice. We don't require people to know exactly where their car is, or to know where their bicycle is, or where their axes are (even though all of those could and are used to wound others).

> Private party transfer and gun shows would be a bit trickier to regulate

Again, it's unclear that there is good reason or precedent for regulating the transfer of property here.

> you're a fool if you think they don't already have this information.

One could make the same argument about requiring people to cc the NSA on every email they make to people outside the continental US: just because it's happening doesn't mean we should set legislative precedent.

> Currently if you're a convicted felon you can't own a gun.

There has been a lot of work in the last few years to try and restore that right, actually. This makes sense given the arbitrary enforcement of non-violent felonies.

It's hardly assumed that felons (given our current judicial system) have any moral obligation to be unarmed.

> You should need to present this permit when making all further firearm and ammunition transactions, including private party transfer and at gun shows.

Why, exactly? What is the purpose of this?

What benefit or supposed safety do we get from having this?

And if the benefits are so great, shouldn't we just make this near-mandatory training during schooling, as we do with driving?
> in the pipeline

And that's the crux of it. As I said, I'm yet to see anything that's actually useful. There are a lot of claims about all the amazing things that will be possible at some point in the future, but besides internet gambling, I've yet to see a demonstration or even a coherent explanation of something useful that these systems are capable of that isn't already possible and less complex with existing systems. (Just so you know, I was already aware of status and augur, but I examined your other links as well before responding)
Because it's an ingress firewall and by default netstat -an returns zilch, so a firewall would have zero work to do.
What about passwordless, email-based login? It's easier than username/password login, it verifies the email address, and it provides the same level of security (assuming password can be reset via emailed link).
How Does the Richest Nation Solve a Milk Shortage? By Airlifting 4,000 Cows
I don't know if Monty hall problem counts as a paradox, but that is quite high on my favourite list of counterintuitive probability results.
Download all your contacts in Excel or PDF format
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There is real movement in the ethereum space. I'm on mobile right now but check out the ethereum enterprise alliance. The other big thing would be ICO's, for better or for worse.
Its limited because they are using low power LPDDR3 ram, which its limited to 16GB. LPDDR4 doesn't have this limit, but isn't supported by intel on Kabylake.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/macbook-pro-16gb-32gb-ram/