skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alex only does dangerous free solos on rare occasions. He's certainly vastly more likely to die on one than the average person on the average day, but the fact that he only does it rarely is how he's still alive at all.

Nobody really knows exactly what type of risk he's taking, but my rough guess is that he's probably on the order of ~10x an average mortality rate (which is 1.5% / yr among males his age).

Whether that's insane or not is up to an individual. For me, it's a rare combination of crazy and rational, which I find fascinating.
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Existing as a counter example to someone's categorical claims is _not_ selection bias.
Ask HN: Sim card control frequency?
Does the sim card control the frequency transmitted? And does the transmitter in the phone allow for a large range of frequencies, like from below 900Mhz up to and past wifi (2.4Ghz)??
Firstly I agree with the posts below talking about actually having human connection. This is the most important thing.

I also want to point out that this is actually pretty damn good. I know I was clueless when I first started dating and this would have helped.

I think this could be a great first step for people who want some feedback about what they're doing right and wrong. The problem is when these people meet face to face these same issues will come up. Again, they're going to need some feedback. That might be a good avenue to move into later if this takes off?

Primarily though - work on yourselves and understand who you really are. Once you do these things the rest should fall into place.
This is what is called the ideology of no ideology.

A small cadre of elite economists that convened as the Mont Pelerin Society (led by Hayek) called themselves neoliberals for a bit but stopped using the term.
Because nobody gets assigned a task and rushes to a white board with a non-collaborative audience. The WB wire framing etc is always a discussion amongst peers. Sit your prospects at computers spec'd like they would be using in their role with appropriate Internet access. Knowing what to Google is generally the most used function. What is googled varies with each individual.

The pressure of dumping pseudo code is a poor metric.
Deep-water soloing is its own discipline, with a unique set of hazards.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-water_soloing
That's what I thought. Not a new concept. Google it.
"who enabled/let HR do this?"

Typically, CEO or COO.
Ahh thanks, that'll be good to use and seems like HN wouldn't be overall annoyed by me including these comments on the site. And in general as well for other people to run projects with the data.
1. Someone climbs to your location from the ground, or descends from the top of the route, hauling a sufficient amount of gear for you to rappel or be lowered to the ground. Obviously impractical on massive routes like El Cap.

2. A rescuer is slung onto the route near the incapacitated climber's location using a helicopter long-line. They prepare the climber for extraction and then they are both slung off by the helicopter at one time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_Flight_Rescue_Syste...
> Unoptimised code says a lot, it's an indication of what we can expect of real world apps that will be mostly or entirely unoptimised.

Maybe but not in this kind of performance-sensitive application that spends most of its time in a tight inner loop. Then it really comes down to how optimised that inner loop is.
These MIT Grads Want to Let Anyone Invest In, or Start, a Bitcoin Fund
Any job that would pay less than minimum is worthless.

You're better off taking that time and putting it into learning something, anything, than to work 8 hours a day for less than $40 in wages. You're essentially asking lower class workers to be unpaid interns when you pay them that low, but there is zero benefit to being an unpaid intern in mcdonalds.
Put the Terms and Conditions (the part relevant to scraping) in the /robots.txt as well.
The real question is now - would you pay for this?
"We're sorry, but you do not have access for this content"

/meh
In Australia most over the counter payments are done with NFC cards. Some banks allow this to be done with a wave of your phone so you don't need to carry credit cards at all.
I don't see how it's productive to put a scarlet letter on someone simply based on where he or she used to work as "third engineer from the left." Maybe one day the place where you currently happen to work will earn some kind of tarnished reputation--should your career suffer because of it? Should you have to quit out of fear of being put on a blacklist, putting your livelihood at risk?
This is the 3rd major outage in a week, wow.
Could you expand on the flaws and why are they problematic?
I don't believe you need to write to the card in order to do payments. You send byte streams and it generates OTPs.
If you're only reposting links, there's no issue. Content is what they care about. Reddit considers the comments to be content.
Mac + Chrome = Now Tesla live for you.
the crown jewel in the google-oligopoly
How about terms related to tending a garden?

"nurture"
"Attend to"
"Mind to"
"Tend to"
"Cultivate"
"Nourish"
maybe it was a video from magnus mitboe?
https://youtu.be/BEc5uVsM6bE?t=1m33s

or the 80ies oldschool classic; wolfgang guellich in a german gameshow: https://youtu.be/rugoETlUAVI?t=22m47s
Alright or not is relative and always depends on the context.

If I'm the manager and by doing that there is possibility that I could get sex with minimal downside then its alright.

If I'm the woman and him doing that make me uncomfortable then its not alright but if I do like the guy or maybe I can use it to advance my position in the company then its alright.
That's a good answer! The question is a good interview question too.
Did they outsource their ops to Infosys? This is the third time this week.
You'd be surprised at how many mathematicians are avid hikers. I've heard stories of people flying to Calgary, disappearing in the Rockies, then showing up at UBC for a conference over a month later.
Running on Empty
BISE Lahore Board 10th Class Result 2017 Www.biselahore.com
Not sure yet, but it seems to be due to AWS (S3 likely).
Arabia Give Qatar 24 Hour Ultimatum as Analysts Warn of “Military Confrontation”
It will be robotic boats next time. They'll be small and numerous. The smaller they are, the less likely they'll be attacked themselves and the more likely they'll sink the opposing "battleboats".
GitHub is suffering major downtime again
Sure that's part of it if it's actually adequate, but people and businesses have a right to know if you have a criminal record and make risk-assessments based on that.

Jail time doesn't reverse your wrongdoing on society and the way it's currently setup - it's not really a redeeming process. Why should a business hire you over someone as qualified with no record?

We're basically talking about felonies anyway. Misdemeanors are generally irrelevant for most jobs and you can get those expunged from your record.
Luck only lasts so long. You don't last long at sports like this if you aren't cautious and well-trained, that's for sure.

I'll offer a counter anecdote to yours: I was talking to a guy this weekend who had been a serious hang-glider for over a decade when he was younger. Every time a friend would have a problem, he analyzed it and saw that because of the way he operated he wouldn't make the same mistake and could therefore rationalize his continued participation in the sport. Eventually though, he had a problem, he made a mistake, it scared him, but it took fully two years of continuing to fly before he finally worked through it and decided that he could never eliminate enough risk and quit flying.

EDIT: I may have mischaracterized his response and removed "error-free" language and clarified with "eliminate enough risk".
It is neoliberalism itself that is on the ropes. Since Reagan every single administration (Bushes, Clinton, Obama) has been neoliberal in degrees.

Early roots of neoliberalism were laid in the 1970s, during the Jimmy Carter administration, with deregulation of the trucking, banking, and airline industries.[76][77][78] This trend continued into the 1980s, under the Reagan Administration, which included tax cuts, increased defense spending, financial deregulation and trade deficit expansion.[79] Likewise, concepts of supply-side economics, discussed by the Democrats in the 1970s, culminated in the 1980 Joint Economic Committee report, "Plugging in the Supply Side." This was picked up and advanced by the Reagan administration, with Congress following Reagan's basic proposal and cutting federal income taxes across the board by 25% in 1981.[80]

During the 1990s, the Clinton Administration also embraced neoliberalism[68] by supporting the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, continuing the deregulation of the financial sector through passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act, and implementing cuts to the welfare state through passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.[79][81][82] The neoliberalism of the Clinton Administration differs from that of Reagan, as the Clinton Administration purged neoliberalism of neoconservative positions on militarism, family values, opposition to multiculturalism and neglect of ecological issues.

You couldn't get elected in this country without being a neoliberal for the last 30 years. Bill Clinton got elected precisely because he was a relatively conservative Democrat from the south. The only reason nobody wants to identify as a neoliberal is because it has the word liberal in it and people want to get elected.

Saw a similar comment the other day about neoliberalism being a newfangled nonpartisan movement (not accusing you of saying that), but the populist movements are around because of its flaws.
Isn't the Stuxnet story actually a good example of the tech community maybe taking their scepticism too far?

I'm also really sceptical of what, if anything, the government could provide as evidence that people would accept. If the evidence is technical, that doesn't only prevent non-technical people from evaluating it. It also means it's susceptible to being called "fake" when it isn't.

Say, for example, the NSA has log data from a bunch of switches across the world, and maybe the Russians also tapped into a few honeypots. All the NSA then has is IP addresses and other system logs–all of which could easily be faked.

Concerning your last point: Yes, we would treat the reverse different. And there's nothing wrong with judging some information by their record: If I read something on a website that open 6 pop-ups for porn, and that I have never seen before, I'm going to trust it less than the New York Times, which has, contrary to popular myth, an excellent track record of trying their best and making it public when they fail.
You seem to have reworded to "All eigenvectors that correspond to one a unique eigenvalue lie on the same line, but have different magnitudes." This is technically true if you interpret "unique" to mean "multiplicity of one", but still seems confusing, especially as you have not yet discussed the multiplicity of eigenvalues.

I would consider rephrasing the article as you do in the above comment, "when you find an eigenvector for one eigenvalue, then you can construct infinite number of eigenvectors by scaling that one".
Wow.

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
And Chromium apparently does not ship with H264, interesting!
Your short retelling of your uncle's kindness has rather inspired me to be more diligent in my approach to being kind to others. Thank you for sharing!
I forget to blink at a healthy rate when playing unusually intense matches in certain RTS games.

Usually my eyes dry out and I end up with smeared vision and halos around light sources until the eyes regain their moisture.
I would argue the opposite - while there are many cases where you want values to be consistent across runs, I don't think they're the majority of the casual use of rand(). And especially for something that has "random" right there in the name, it is a very strange and counter-intuitive default.

Furthermore, even for those cases where you do want consistency, I doubt you'd want a hardcoded seed value. Most of such cases allow the seed to be parametrized between runs without recompiling (via command line arguments, configs etc), and so they'll still need to invoke srand to set the seed.

On the other hand, saying that without srand, the default is random, would actually allow modern implementations to e.g. initialize from /dev/random. Right now there's basically no cross-platform way to set a truly random seed in ISO C.
I think this is an excellent example of why security through obscurity is a bad idea. Now that we know they are there, it's only a matter of time before they are all broken and duplicated. How hard is it? I don't know, but I can't imagine that its impossible. Given time and technology, someone will figure how to forge these without difficulty.

They were clearly betting on the fact that no one would notice they are there. What scares me is we're just finding this out. How long have criminal organizations and rogue nations known about this and what have they used it for?
Twitter Users Blocked by Trump Seek Reprieve, Citing First Amendment
Are you sure it's transmitting over NFC? I thought NFC is quite a limited bandwidth connection. Maybe it's creating the initial connection over NFC and doing the actual transfer over wifi?
As the last time, pull/push access to repos works fine for me, only the web service doesn't work.

edit: confirming, push doesn't work either
That's because the buying power of the minimum wage has been getting lower over time, while teenage employment has been going down. It's not the reason teenagers aren't working.
It would be neat if there was a privacy printing app that added random yellow dots to a document to obscure the info.

Perhaps simply printing a single yellow dot through a few different printers would be enough to accomplish the same thing. Then using the resulting paper for "real" prints.

The more I think about it, this could even be a service. "Preprinted" paper that went though a bunch of printers, each adding their own unique identifier each time, then sold and distributed.

That or just paying cash for a printer.
Tangential: Slack was down for a bit earlier today as well.
I have at least some sympathy with the point you're trying to make here. I think you are essentially saying that we've all gone a bit soft, and that the modern workplace is full of a bunch of crybabies that can't solve any problem on their own without escalating it to HR. And this problem becomes particularly egregious when that escalation turns into a dark mark on that person's "permanent record", as it tends to do in modern society when we're talking about allegations of sexual harassment. Can't we all just be grown-ups and deal with our problems with ease and panache, rather than being sanctimonious little tattletales?

I get this argument, but I would posit to you that perhaps the modern take on sexual harassment IS society growing up. Consider changing your mindset - imagine that a new hire is just bad at working with people. They don't consider other people's ideas, or they're just generally rude - whatever it is. Just generally hard to work with. Now try to think about somebody who makes inappropriate propositions to women in the workplace: this is just another brand of the same problem. If you can't get along with some of your fellow female coworkers because they don't feel comfortable with you, then you're not a good team player.

In other words, instead of thinking about society as having gone soft, think about it like we go hard. We demand excellent people-skills in the workplace. If you can't take the heat, and other people feel annoyed, offended, and yes harassed working with you, then you're going to have trouble keeping work. Tough titties. Working at Uber requires excellent technical skills - why not social skills too?

Anyway, I would put it to you that if you don't find this compelling, you might be giving too much primacy to the sensibilities of poorly socialized men. If you find yourself asking "why should these poor saps have to suffer just because they can't talk to girls?" then that's a sign you have a blindspot. Food for thought.
Both days a different error on pushing, making me think it wasn't down and it was my fault!
> But how do you know you should use a /64 mask? One of my hosting providers assigns much smaller subnets.

It's baked into the standard that IPv6 networks shouldn't be smaller than /64. If a provider is disregarding the standard so blatantly I would probably avoid them.

Really, why on earth would a cloud provider be so stingy with IPv6 that they'd give less than a /64 per customer? ARIN gives out /32s like candy and a single /32 can be split into ~4.3 billion /64s.
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It could still make a major difference when it comes to the question of what they can prove in court.
Pushes are failing for me. (To one repo, at least.)
You omitted a key part there:

"that scrapes comments and posts from Reddit that link to Amazon products and shows that information"

It's ambiguous, but my interpretation is that it's the Amazon content (or perhaps a summary thereof) that's being rehosted, not the reddit content.
What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...
Funny, I went to their status page before coming here, and it definitely was "all systems go."
Compile-Time Sort in Nim
I've been waiting for Apple to open up their NFC hardware too. I'm working on a closed loop payment app (https://www.loopz.io) that uses NFC and Apple's lockdown has been frustrating since the first question I get when showing the app is; does it work on iOS? This is the first step in them allowing access to the NFC chip hopefully. The chip in iPhone 6 and 7 supports writing to tags (which I need for my app) but it's not exposed through the API's at the moment. Android has allowed this since Gingerbread.
Rough year for GitHub. GitLab is licking their chops right about now.
Privacy comparison: http://www.syhunt.com/sandcat/index.php?n=Main.Privacy
Have capability based systems solved the "user clicks yes to everything" problem? Until then they solve nothing.
I am in the process (Slowly) of making something similar

https://simplerm.co

Monica looks way more feature complete though! Nice work.
Running the test randomly is fine - indeed, desirable for fuzz tests (some eventual run might uncover a new issue). The requirement here is to have reproducibility - i.e. if the test fails, it should be able to log some kind of state, like a seed, that allows you to reproduce that same failure exactly. Obviously you'd need to also use the same environment, but that's usually not a problem.
Good point. I think that probably gets more of a pass because we used to have a lot of inline JS in the past.

Doing it the other way was a lot sloppier before because HTML was such a chore to include in JS.
at least they didn't delete the db.
Ugh, time to go to bed then.
How I grew my money X6 by investing in cryptocurrencies
If I remember correctly, if the Riemann conjecture is proven the geometric complexity theorists have a path to resolve P=NP.
in this case he could just wait on a ledge until other climbers went by and ascended with them.
I wrote the original article, and that consistently matches what we've learned and heard. However, that doesn't mean that forensics can never identify the printer that printed a document (there's an entire lab at Purdue that's been studying possible ways to do so for over a decade!), just that the printers are not intentionally engineered to track their users.

Edit: It looks like the Purdue lab was only publishing research from 2003 to 2010, or hasn't updated its web site.
Seems to be used for pen-testing, http://www.syhunt.com/sandcat/index.php?n=AddOns.Extensions#...
Pushes are failing for me with this error: "remote: fatal error in commit_refs". I'm seeing it across various repositories so it's not just one particular repo.
So is this a mining program inside the browser? Can someone please explain?
Yes, my experience has been that for basically everything:

1. The Stripe webhooks are really great but...

2. ...you've absolutely got to pay attention to them like a hawk, because Stripe views that as the primary/best way of communicating critical details with you.

It's great when you get used to it/have built up support to handle their webhooks correctly, but it can be a bit confusing/daunting to start with.
How one guys said it to me, Neoliberalism = Clinton. Then you have the Bernie Sanders liberalism, akin to FDR liberalism maybe.
App server availability is now 98.3% over the past month, which seems pretty bad!
iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
Easier to bribe some intern or entry-level engineer who has the excel file mapping all the signals from every module on the bus. These used to be passed around pretty openly at the suppliers I worked for, and interns started out making something like $11.50/hr with no benefits.
Relevant HN discussion for context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085098

Related screenshots:

* Uber requesting location access: https://twitter.com/joeduvall4/status/872007928844345344

* Apps using background location now displayed more prominently: https://twitter.com/ow/status/872145515386982400
Don't forget, it's not just about consumer applications. Anywhere you might use a QR code or traditional barcode, but you don't want to have to worry about the barcode becoming obscured or worn with use. I know we've thought about using them to track vehicles and some kinds of parts in the automotive retail company I work for, and there's probably plenty of other industrial applications for them.
I wrote this article/originally created this list, and I would like to emphasize that there is a second generation of this technology that probably uses dithering parameters or something of that sort, and that does not produce visible dots but still creates a tracking code. We don't know the details but we do know that some companies told governments that they were going to do this, and that some newer printers from companies that the government agencies said were onboard with forensic marking no longer print yellow dots.

That makes me think that it may have been a mistake to create this list in the first place, because the main practical use of the list would be to help people buy color laser printers that don't do forensic tracking, yet it's not clear that any such printers are actually commercially available.
A good WBI should feel like a discussion with a peer. While I think the interviewer has to be careful not to direct/guide things too much, they should be giving input/feedback/questions along the way, much like a coworker on a real design problem might. Dumping pseudocode shouldn't ever be the metric to evaluate a WBI, but just a product of the conversation with the interviewer, which is a far more interesting indicator.
> Most OSes already support some form of using temporary random IPv6 addresses within your provisioned range, including so far as for each individual outgoing communication. ...

Yes. I'm planning to run a Tor exit relay that does something like that. It'll connect with directory servers and upstream relays on a stable IPv4 address, however. Changing the exit IPv6 will screw up bandwidth measurements. But it doesn't matter, because I don't want the relay used as anything but exit role.
Five Thirty Eight did an article claiming that the results of this strategy have been mixed:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fly-ball-revolution...
Samba surely, wanna cry about having to set up file:// remotes?