skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might just be ruffling feathers, but if you work remote why does your team lead need your machine's webcam?

That said, since this is company equipment, the more rational part of me says, "Put up with it."

But from a security/auditing perspective, this 'policy' is an absolute minefield, particularly because it sounds like each individual developer has to set up this account on his/her own box.

What happens when someone is fired? Does every developer have to change the password and disable the old account? What happens if one developer is off sick that day? Will the company keep that hole open until that developer comes back? Or will they kill off all of the sick developer's SSH keys?

Crap, it's hard enough to provide proper access control and monitoring when everyone has a unique credential. I can't even begin to imagine what that kind of policy would look like.
> Recidivism rates in the US show it is objectively not working, with state prisons leaving inmates to re-offend 76% of the time.

The problem is that you're assuming that low recidivism rates are an actual goal of the US system as it stands. Look at actions, outcomes and actual effects of policies, not at the claims written by PR departments.

It's like voter ID laws in many states - the claim is that they're to prevent fraudulent voting, but they're very poor at addressing the kinds of voting fraud that actually occur. Further, if there's such a big problem with in person voting fraud does that mean that elections staff and prosecutors are completely incompetent since they're apparently unable to find and prosecute enough cases to be even a statistical ripple?
The former attorney general Eric Holder basically admitted that some banks are too big to face any criminal charges they might deserve. So expect the crimes to continue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/holder-conce...
300 units is a "game changer"?
So you're saying that if I spent 30 minutes learning fmt then I can expect a raise? Sold!
I wasn't the one who brought up Trusting Trust.

But the person who did said

> you don't have to write a whole new compiler from scratch, unless you're worried about "trusting trust" attacks.

The point of that comment (at least, as I read it) isn't that you have to be worried about "trusting trust", but rather that there's no point in writing a new compiler from scratch unless you already are worried about "trusting trust" (with the implication being that most people aren't and so writing a new compiler from scratch isn't necessary).

SCM security issues (as you mentioned) are irrelevant at this point, because they really have no bearing on whether you have to write a new compiler from scratch.
$100k in a single trade would not be noticeable.

I'd go with more like $10M over a few weeks.
Over 11 × 10^9 units sold per year? This number seems unreal to me.
Yes, definitely Bukowski the dissident. Although I would highly recommend both And the Wind Returns... and Factotum.

There is this very telling scene in And the Wind Returns... where people peruse Lenin's works on the toilet (to then use as toilet paper because there was a shortage of course) and afterwards discuss what they read. It leads to never-ending arguments because the collected Lenin's writings were so contradictory, everyone found something different.
World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Crippled by DDoS
Fighting Fantasy... Just gonna leave this here: http://nomadgames.co.uk/fightingfantasy/

(Disclosure: I am one of the programmers)
FactoryOS, the builder, has never built anything. But they have a really cool team video.[1]

It sounds like Google is building a "man camp", like the ones in oil fields.[2] "Owned by management companies, the oil companies typically pay a daily rate per employee for residency at the camp, and, depending on the employment arrangement, the oil company may require employees to be responsible for a certain portion of the cost. ... Many oil companies have set up company policies that forbid alcohol, illegal drugs, firearms, and unauthorized women. Rowdiness is controlled not only by background checks of employees but also by working the employees long hours so that each day is like "Groundhog Day" – work, eat, sleep – leaving little time for shenanigans."

[1] https://factoryos.com
[2] http://www.ogfj.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/feature...
Free cloud storage options with limits and features
This is why we have the Fourth Estate. Politicians won't vote to reform our prison system until that system's flaws and abuses and inefficiencies are made into a big public issue. We need more reporters and more columnists publishing more stories about this topic.

This is a civil rights issue, and it should be written about as such.
Clickbait, vapid article.

Canada will "begin to have a moment" when a $20bn exit spawns a legion of millionaires happy to become VCs.

Except they probably wouldn't want to become VCs since they don't see many successful VCs around them, there aren't many big exits, and there isn't a huge startup ecosystem.

Chicken and egg problem.
I'd say that's exactly what SGML is about - a meta language to describe those things consistently.
That logic doesn't work with telecoms, or with other big infrastructure type companies - water, power, sewerage.
Oh, it's soft, unscientific nonsense. It is also direct experience as a semi-pro in the field.

Subjective experience is not science, but neither is it irrelevant. If someone's "science" does not explain observed subjective experience very well, then it shouldn't pretend that it does - and it really is not grounds to dismiss the subjective experience of experts by saying "BUT THOSE DUDES HAVE NUMBERS AND STUFF!!!!"
Why would anyone want that?
It absolutely looks to me like you're just trying to keep this field unscientific. Misrepresenting the article, then throwing out a bunch of jargon without explanation, then coming to the conclusion that people here shouldn't even try to understand.

The study doesn't say "that explains everything!". It measures one component in isolation. That's what good science does. The existence of other factors in headphone performance is irrelevant.

Besides, would you really not consider it news if 0-60 time in cars didn't correlate with price? Yes, a luxury car can justify its price in many other ways, but, on average, there should still be a correlation.
Instagram is a serious photo app in the same sense that the Holga is a serious camera.
The Best Age to Start Programming
isn't twitch also some kind of video-message platform
You probably mean companies that are loaded or well-funded or stupidly rich. This isn't the same as fuck-you money, which refers to the amount of savings a person would need in order to retire early and thereby bid their employer goodbye. See for example: http://time.com/money/4187538/f-u-money-defined-how-much-cal...
> The target function suggested by Olive and Welti (2015) is fairly similar to the average headphone response found in this study, with the exception of a deviation of up to about 5 dB for frequencies between 50 Hz and 2 kHz.

I find little fault with the arguments laid out supporting the paper's thesis.

For those commenters making the jump to "sound quality" (which is not the topic of this paper), the quoted observation above conclusively proves that these headphones have differing tonal qualities. Even a casual listener will be able to hear a difference of 5dB in the critical freq range of human speech.
As a primarily .NET developer, I think I can count on two hands the number of times that I've needed to actually write my own generic types. Generic functions are maybe slightly more common, but still pretty rare.

However, if I had a penny for every time I've taken advantage of the generic collections built into the standard library, instead of using the old shitty, type-unsafe ArrayList or HashTable collections, I wouldn't have to work for the rest of my life.

.Net generics are more limited than full C++ style templates, or maybe I've been lucky enough to never encounter any code where people have gone overboard with them, but that seems to be a pretty sweet spot.
The problem isn't so much that the general population is so far removed, it's that the victims are so closely connected.

Why's an outsider gonna stand up for a rapist or a murderer when they've got their own problems and the victims will never forget nor will they stand down. You can't get upset at the victims for that, it's very natural.

I have empathy for some prisoners and a family member was according to him unfairly convicted (he ended up dying in prison), but I've also had family members murdered and sexually assaulted. As far as I'm concerned the people who did those things took innocence and ruined lives it's hard to feel too sorry for those actors when their lives are ruined, too.

That might be a little vindictive, but you can never give victims back their peace nor their normal lives and normal people don't commit heinous crimes.
Seattle is it. Thriving ecosystem and lots and lots of building.
"It's a pretty common criticism of GDP."

...with no more veracity than your hypothetical. You don't understand what GDP measures. You've allowed yourself to believe that the economists involved are naive. You are correct, however, that this sort of bad thinking is common. Very common.
Is dictatorship a necessary condition for oppressive governments? Democratically elected governments can be oppressive as well.
Rape Victim Files New Lawsuit Against Uber
This is really cool!
I've recently been playing around with z80 emulators, but it must be neat to try it on an actual device.
Sorted.ai’s Messenger bots to target progressive voters in 2018 midterms
Python I/O also releases the GIL (and has for decades).

And FWIW, libuv is also available in Python.

https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ claims significantly faster than nodejs.
What encryption scheme were you using in PGP?
That sounds suspiciously like the addiction specialists got bored with the real games they were tweaking, and decided to move on the the UI instead, and gamify that. "Hmm, my friends are all using this weird effect, I wonder how they are doing that? I guess I'll have to spend some time and figure it out so I'm one of the elite users too..."

Mix one part neglect and abuse with one part intense pleasure from finally getting what you were looking for. Enjoy your Stockholm Syndrome cocktail, rinse and repeat.
> These "long gone luminaries" would be appalled at our current situation. They expected that the populace would be educated - not to a base level, but to an "Enlightenment level" - each of us capable of rational discussion, discourse, and understanding of virtually all topics of our day. Where we were limited, we would have the temerity to defer to another with better understanding, in the hope of becoming more educated ourselves. We would not rely upon some mystical being who may not even be there (most of them were Deists), but instead rely upon ourselves and the guidance of history to correct our problems as best as we could. We would embrace and not eschew Science and its understandings, because in that knowledge we could find answers.

Why would they have had these lovely expectations, given that they (the founders) constituted a small minority in the colonies and were constructing a government for a majority population that was basically uneducated? Free public education as a movement remained decades in the future. The founders were not stupid or delusional, and they knew their neighbors, and they had no expectation that "the populace would be educated".
The threading story isn't great. It's not statically typed, which can make working on a large codebase with more people more painful. It also forces you to write more unit testing code coverage to make up for the lack of a static compiler checking things for you. Raw performance is not good compared to golang or java.

When you start getting to a certain scale, developers are cheaper than your server costs in some cases. That is when something being performant is more worth it.
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There's a market for 16-bit OSed too, though often they run virtualized because the hardware might not even exist anymore.
Is there a correlation between weight and price?

I know some low end headphones add weights to increase "luxury feel". It'd be interesting to see some research about when adding weights stops.
Headspace’s revamped app helps busy people turn meditation into a habit
US Open 2017
> The Design Patterns guys were often saying that design patterns and other kinds of common incantations were often symptoms of deficiencies in programming language design.

When I reread the GoF book a few years ago, I was struck by the number of patterns that are just built-in to modern languages.
Expat in NorthEast Lancanshire. FreedomPop has excellent prices and different plans. O2 and Vodaphone are a bunch of thieves, the first thing they will do is to sell your emails addresses to spammers. Also their plans are rubbish.
The biggest threat to x86 is containers. A new unit of work removes the lock in. Then also things like Android and ChromeOS in addition.

The other aspect is cloud providers have the data for the next generation of processors.
I'm sure there are lots of people who roam a lot; people travel on business all the time, truck drivers cross borders all the time, anyone living along the border to Norway or Finland goes across a lot, anybody in Skåne is an hour or two away from Denmark, and let's not forget the thousands who take the ferries over to Finland and Åland.

And who is going to buy a roaming package when you're gone for at most 24 hours? A week in Greece or Mallorca and it makes sense with something like that.
Vegan Movie What the Health Is Coming to Netflix
Building Production-Ready CSS Grid Layouts
Tahoe-LAFS supports a mark/sweep-style garbage collection algorithm
We're still nearly half a year away from Firefox 57's release, so many add-ons, like Foxy Gestures, are still going to be a bit rough. There's no harm in sticking with FireGestures for now, knowing that replacements are in the works.

(Though it's probably worth letting the Foxy Gestures author know what bits seem to be missing as a FireGestures user.)
That's good to hear, I have some Swedish friends that are looking to move to Calgary in the next few years and were worried about tech job availability.
Not quite the same but there's always

nmap --script ssh2-enum-algos.nse
Brain drain will continue until compensation in Canada rises to match compensation in the US.
The Robot Takeover Is Greatly Exaggerated
Marketing.

Sadly, one of the conclusions you can draw from Telegram is that a security business is almost better off with no security.

Pavel Durov says that Telegram is "heavily" encrypted over and over again, journalists who don't know better take that at face value and encode it into every headline ("Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, ..."), and meanwhile since there is no encryption there is no risk of anyone finding or publishing vulnerabilities in it.

Since cryptography already seems unreal to most people (and is always just a matter of getting the smart IT guy to 'crack' it on television), everyone's already predisposed to thinking that security = Switzerland. Unless there's a major change, the charlatans will win every time.
I think that's why they have a part about determining if technology can be invented to detect this. And a lot of these laws seem to have a point of making easy things illegal, so they have more ways to go after you if they need to.
Wikileaks Unveils 'Cherry Blossom' – Wireless Hacking System Used by CIA
Why wouldn't this have been priced in?

Why does everyone and their uncle think they can predict stock movements with lockup periods?
Documenting and quantifying the obvious might not be glamorous but someone's gotta do it.

Many species have similar learned adaptations to the dangers in their environment. Anyone who's fished saltwater and a range of freshwater environments will be able to vouch for this being readily observable.
Also RocketSpace will be opening their first Canadian office in Calgary. The local government is starting to push for a bigger tech industry and add diversity away from the oil/gas industry that has dominated the city. Also the climate isn't so bad with plenty of sunshine and warm Chinook winds occasionally during the winter.
Punishment of criminals does nothing to help the victims. The justice system should be about:

1. restitution (where possible)

2. removal of criminals from society so they cannot continue
to harm others

3. re-integration of such people back into society when they are no longer a threat
Interesting idea, and I'm not sure what your goal is with this page but a couple problems:

Your HN title is "Amazon, EBay, Shopify Images Scaling", which in and of itself isn't terribly descriptive, but on top of that, your page does not communicate even that. It is not clear what the purpose or intent is.

As for the functionality itself, I'm given the option to place 4 objects on a page along with image uploads, and do a few rudimentary actions to the objects, and "Save" it as a new tab with the frame exported in Base64. Couple issues on this front:

First of all, the items are not to scale relative to each other, there's a giant forearm and a giant banana, but a tiny human.

Second of all, there is no option to adjust the order of the layers of these objects. I cannot place an arm atop an uploaded image when the arm was previously lower.

Third of all, "save" isn't actually saving. The exported image is not served as a download to the user, what the text suggested will happen did not happen.

Perhaps this solves a genuine need that I am struggling very hard to see. Maybe you built this to solve an issue you have, and maybe I'm not your target audience. Regardless, it is wholly unclear what the intent or purpose of this is, and your page fails communicate its value proposition to a visitor/user. Even if it provides value to me or solves a pain point, I am not aware of it.
> It absolutely looks to me like you're just trying to keep this field unscientific.

By naming a bunch of things that should be measured, but aren't?

> Besides, would you really not consider it news if 0-60 time in cars didn't correlate with price?

What they said was "how well it drives at 60mph". Acceleration testing would be akin to the untested impulse response.
There's a lot more to CPUs than the size of their registers. The fact that those 32/64 bit binaries still run is exactly the kind of legacy support we're talking about.
> instead of in the 1990s when public support for interracial marriage crossed the 50% line.

WTF.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...
But that wasn't always the deal. The US up until 1900 was not the top dog.

Yeah, the US has a lot of flaws that need to be reformed, but that doesn't make it any different than any more country in history, it makes it exactly like them.

It's not an American problem, it's a human problem. When we understand that and stop pointing we'll all be better off.
Apple wants to use iTunes as a model for disrupting the health industry
Moxie Marlinspike's reputation is dependent on his ability to deliver a secure product. Signal/Signal Protocol development is funded by donations and grants from groups like the Freedom of the Press Foundation, EFF, etc, and those groups desire a secure messaging product. Moxie has staked his reputation on WhatsApp's implementation of the Signal Protocol multiple times on the OWS blog, which he would not do if he disapproved of WhatsApp's implementation. There's no hard proof (except what can be gained through analysis of the executables), but there's no incentive for Moxie to lie, therefore, WhatsApp's implementation should be reasonably secure.
Ok, say I am on vacations and my laptop turned brick. The SQL crashed and I need to perform a restore.

What do I do if only SSH keys are allowed? So I keep my key on a USB key? How is that safe to plug in into a computer?

Do I go around with a USB-Linux-distro with my key on it? What if in the border an official decides to keep the USB device I was holding on to.

How do you manage this situation?
I don't see anything wrong with either. It shows passion.
I own a pair and honestly I would use them more but I need either LASIK or to pop in prescription lenses.
There is, but getting good microphone placement for headphones is difficult. http://www.roomeqwizard.com is the standard for this with home enthusiasts, and many affordable measuring mics have calibration files (typically provided by the mfg), but the frequency response of a headphone on YOUR head will be much different than having them free-air with a mic between the sides. They have model heads made from various materials to help with this, and measuring rigs of varying effectiveness have been used for a while. IEMS are even harder to measure, and here as well we see a market from the free earbuds you get at promos to $3k JH Laylas. The accuracy doesn't go up that much above a few hundred dollars, but they do sound different, and some people like + are willing to pay for it.
> There's an actual game on Steam called "Please, don't touch anything"

The original was a web game way back in the day called "Don't shoot the puppy". When I realised what was going on I nearly died laughing. My flat mates thought I was having a seizure.
>These concepts (especially Ethereum) are the digital manifestations of the theory of democracy - unhindered by loopholes, corruption, indecision, and private-interests.

The kind of democracy where having more money means you get more votes, which is the kind of democracy almost nobody would want to live in lest someone has more money than them. I don't know the word for such a thing, but it sounds barbaric, yet I've seen it seriously proposed.

Taking "vote with your wallet" to the extreme.
* Assymetric transforms are much, much slower than the AES transform or any other block or stream cipher.

* In most cases, an asymmetric transform gives you a deceptively small amount of headroom within which to fit your data before losing security.

* asymmetric transforms are less safe to implement than simple authenticated symmetric ciphers.

* for that matter, cost-effectively authenticating messages will require "symmetric" primitives anyways.

* modern asymmetric algorithms (like Curve25519) don't "directly" support encryption.

That's just off the top of my head. It is hard to think of a single competent public key cryptosystem that encrypts directly with the asym transform.
That's a generic anecdotal story that exhorts people to try to do better than average that could've been used as a response to anything. I'm not even sure that you're reading my posts other than seeing "pro-indexing" and trotting out random active investing arguments.

Reference class forecasting. Have you heard of it? Do you know that it reliably improves the accuracy of your predictions? What makes you a better investor than everyone else trying to beat the market?
> Software developers are actually in the "sweet spot" for paying a ton in taxes

That is as it should be. Is there something wrong? The only problem is that people above you are able to weasel out of their taxes, but the fact that you're in the top bracket means you're rich, you made it. Congratulations! Enjoy the high quality meats! Consider lobbying your Senator to close the loopholes.
Could someone explain the pricing? $30 million for 300 "modular homes" that appear to be very similar to trailer homes seems a bit much. That's $100,000 a unit; you can build a much larger and fancier house for that kind of money. From the WSJ article mentioned in the article, it sounds like the deal is for the houses only, not any land.
I get that you don't trust Amazon, but if you think they would protect your data less rigorously than Slack you really need to provide a more substantive argument.