skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who deploy to war zones (for 12 months), or get sent on rotations to Boringtown, Iowa, get sad, divorced, gambling habits, alcoholism. The military pretends that everyone has good Christian marital relations; getting divorced can be a career killer, and getting caught cheating also. It's a mess.

It turns out that none of those problems is a very good indicator of insider threat. Hardly anyone gets blackmailed, all the big ones were volunteers. But the paranoia gripping the military at the moment will cause crazy damage. Kind of like a bear being bitten by fire ants, slashing itself all over.
Is this an accurate representation of Generation Z?
There were some incidents doing WWII where both the British and soviet ran successful raids using low and slow flying biplanes that was simply too low and slow for the motors guiding the anti aircraft guns of the day.

Doing the Taranto raid the low altitude of the Swordfish bombers caused the Italian navy to not just miss the planes but inflict collateral damage on themselves.

Today it's much harder to pull a similar stunt mostly due to night vision goggles/binoculars. But especially the US have a vulnerability as they have replaced proven effective systems based around cheap ammo and smart people, with systems based on dumb computers and expensive missiles.
Can someone explain what "neighborhood spoofing" technology is? Is it legal (beyond the fact that it lets you spoof and match the first few digits)? Can anyone do it? What's a legitimate use case for it?
HP's Dynamo did something comparable in 2000:

http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1....
VCs have a position of power when dealing with entrepreneurs. It is never okay to flirt or proposition someone whom you have temporary or prolonged power over. This is well accepted in modern society.

Bosses, professors, doctors, interviewers and every other situation I can think of have a bright line where it's not okay to try and romantically or sexually engage someone when you're in a context that you have power over them, even if it is ephemeral. VCs are no different.

I'm not even going to try and address groping or other forms of harassment, which are wrong even when a power dynamic doesn't exist.
Good thinking! I haven't been considering SEO at all yet really, but I should definitely start.

These are the only two so far, but I have a few others in mind. I really like how these have turned out, and I like this style of guide in general.
Nice write-up. It's heart-rending to read an article about coming to terms with the fact that project you poured your soul into didn't work out (I've certainly been there).

The control system would doom this game for me. Squishy, indirect controls means a lot of frustration. The fact it is the central idea around which the entire game is designed doesn't help.

I think that's exacerbated by the visual design. It looks good, but a critical part of the mechanic is the ball ("seed"), is being rolled up a wall. You should intuitively see and understand the danger of a hole, the presence of obstacles, things you can roll up or roll down or over or through. But everything is flat and has almost uniform visual weight. There are some 3D cues, but they aren't consistent and don't seem to directly match the mechanical geometry.

It's tough to read the environment. This makes the indirect unresponsive controls even more frustrating: even when you can get the ball to roll where you want, you have a hard to seeing what you want to roll toward or avoid.
As new facts emerge, and things develop, so does the story.

I mean, should the press only be allowed to do a power point presentation, once, for posterity when a story breaks and then never revisit it?

I'm failing to see what your gripe is here.
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If you can run wires all the way to the surface, you can sink the power into the grid or traditional batteries.
Well you can either learn how to build frontend yourself or pay somebody to do it. And as always you get what you pay for so somebody good will charge a lot. That should help motivate you to learn.

You don't need to learn JavaScript or Node initially. It's perfectly fine to start with old school front end built with Rails or Django.

Dynamic HTML generated on the server. Which could be Node but doesn't need to be. PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby will do just fine.

You need to learn HTML and how submitting forms works at the very least. And probably some CSS. You can start with that.

And by the way, $50 per hour is not even that high. There are some too frontend experts charging double that or more.

So unless you got big budget for this side business I'd recommend to learn very basics yourself and start with simple UIs that you can write on your own. Later if the side business takes off you can hire front end experts to take it from there.
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Its a lose-lose for men, but Pence's route is the far safer option.
You have only subtly insulted the commenter without providing a rebuttal regarding why you believe he is wrong.
The whole point of blocking calls from unknown numbers is that your phone doesn't ring or distract you. Picking it up is obviously not a solution.
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I don't know enough about thermodynamics to judge it but a quick search for "venturi effect heat pump" reveal this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US20090183858
That was my point all along. The people that write extensions in this case are also the people "hacking" on the editor itself, and saying they (or web "devs" in general) are not performance conscious is an understatement to say the least.
@niniane - Thanks for being open with something so personal.

I know it must have been a hard decision to make because you were probably worried about how you & your company would be treated afterwards but this is going to help open so many people's eyes.
Once you factor in the effort to build the entity that backs a centralized infrastucture and the way they acquire their power to enforce centralization it suddenly becomes a lot more complicated too.

And BGP is far from ideal too.
Whisper Systems Signal Server
100+ sites use NaviStone to log your personal data even before you hit submit
That would interfere with the insider threat detection program! Big data! AI!

There was a story a while back that the Russians had reverted to typewriters and paper files.
Popular People Live Longer
That's Swift: turning benign non-errors into crashing programmer errors.

"!" is a language mis-feature. As is crashing on potentially every arithmetic operation.
Interesting article. However I can't recall tube stations being much warmer than outside temperatures in winter (on non-windy days). If that's right then how is the heat dissipated better in winter?

I don't live in London so anyone with regular riding experience please correct me if I'm wrong.
So what's your answer? Hand over all control to the Microsofts, Apples, and Googles of the world? Become a cog in their machine, just because freeing ourselves from their machine is hard? No thanks.

People probably laughed at the efforts of those trying to overthrow monarchs and dictators, and instate democracy. And that was hard too, but it doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile.
Can we stop calling screen scraping scripts a hack?
Indie game development is pretty cruel compared to starting a business software company. No mercy, even early adopters are much more demanding and less forgiving, the launching it is a major part of the success (and it is much less lean as it is not just a CRUD, but a fully featured software published on another platform(s)), almost no chance to correct more fundamental flaws and pivot.

The first version of a SaaS is responsible for 0.0001% of its lifetime revenue. For an indie game it is what, 50%?

And a new SaaS is compared to your a home made Excel sheet. A new game is compared to Zelda, Mario and games built by thousands of people with millions of dollars.
Even the lightest wind is also hell on a targeted landing. Our model rocket experiments clearly demonstrate a significant force is applied with even the lightest winds which ends up putting the rocket far off course when choosing landing zones.

We have actually been precalculating trajectories, and have used trial balloons to measure wind speed and direction immediately prior to launches, combined with planned pre-flight path alterations in an effort to land rockets with parachutes more accurately into a targeted area or small designated area.
Yeah, but users are a connection level concept, meaning you have to abandon your connection pooling system in order to use the db's user authorization and authentication system. Every new query is a new connection.
Uber Spinning Out of Control: Employees Eye Exits, Press Question Business Model
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No, Italy isn't banning the iPhone
It incredibly expensive, a satellite that could be lift by a Falcon 9 with a first stage only recovery would have to be lifted by a Falcon Heavy if you wanted to recover the second stage. Basically you'd need to almost double the unfueled weight of the second stage with aerodynamic devices that can withstand the re-entry plasma and the heat shield. And then add the extra weight for the de-orbit and re-entry burns. You would probably more than halve the payload capacity. Even at best is borders on not worth it.

[EDIT] fixed typo
Employers making job applicants play sports as part of interview process
I'm curious if that discount offsets the increased insurance premiums on the payload(s). Given the increased risk (2/2 successful launches doesn't mean much in the bigger scheme of things) it seems to me that insurance providers wouldn't be keen on insuring such payloads when it's already the riskiest part of the payload's lifetime (with an average 7% failure rate).
Justice Department Tries to Take Microsoft Email Warrant Fight to Supreme Court
When I was there it was definitely warmer than outside in winter. Don't live there either mind you.
Paywall free access:
https://outline.com/DCjJDr
Anybody care to explain why I was downvoted for explaining what the immediate consequences to operatives will be? Or à la Assange would we all rather ignore the risk people are being placed at?
Some of my emails are "read" (as in shown as I have read them) when I have literally just received them. Is this referring to the same thing?
Typewriters may not help them.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...
Choosing a frontend framework in 2017
I used to play around with Gambit, but never saw Gerbil before. Thanks for the link.
When do you use it over Gambit?
I reported a minor security issue once and it was fixed in a day or so.

Edit: Your first reminder email is already quite harsh ("STILL no response? [...] Come on!")... wouldn't be surprised if that pissed the assigned support worker off.
I feel like in the long term, this may become a liability compared to regenerative braking and level tracks.

For example the Montreal metro currently only allows a train to leave a station when the platform of the next one is free, limiting the frequency of this very crowded system. With modern signaling, trains can creep up to the ones before them and reduce the time between them down to 40 seconds - but it's more difficult with all those slopes around.

It's also making extending platform lengths or moving/adding stations nearly impossible.
We must deal with the increasing balkanization of Apps, Smartphones and Devices
The fact is people everywhere are in denial of our biology.

If sex was better accepted across the culture, there wouldn't be a need for these ambiguous games perpetuated by both sides.
I was wondering that too. If they clay is able to cool off and "reset" in winter then the real story is just that these lines see more use today.
Ditto for me. Chrome on MacBook Pro is grinding to a halt.
Almost like, the police?

The law should be handling sexual harassment. The reasons why we have these issues with companies is because there's a conflict of interest. The police are a third party and have no interest in the success/failure of the company, ideally.
Do men like fat women
I call this the "invented here" syndrome: When company management becomes so dysfunctional they don't trust anything invented at their own company unless it's been externally validated.
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The author seems to be assuming that, if they enable third-party app 2FA, SMS-based 2FA will be disabled; and so, they're assuming because they are still getting SMS verification codes, app-based 2FA hasn't been set up. But the support documents don't actually say that enabling app-based 2FA disables SMS-based; in fact, the docs seem to view app-based 2FA as a supplement to SMS-based 2FA (to be used when you don't have a signal), rather than a replacement. I tried enabling app-based 2FA, and Twitter still sends me SMS codes, but using the code from Google Authenticator, rather than the one from the SMS, also lets me log in.

So, it's not clear to me that app-based 2FA actually is broken. Still, given the security weakness of SMS, not letting people disable it in favour of an alternative form of 2FA does seem like a bad decision.
This is a great start, and I find your code extremely easy to read.

I might suggest some example code for more advanced methods of data ingestion. All the code I see uses feed_dict, which is certainly the most straightforward, but once you start to try to ingest larger out-of-core datasets or use distributed tf, things get exceptionally complicated (to me at least).

Some simple-ish code with queue runners and the new Dataset API would really be helpful.
That's actually mostly not true any more. By next year day to day costs will be 100% self-funded, only capital investment will be funded by the state.

http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/govt-funding-changes-will-force-...
To be honest, like I said above that screenshot, that was my second reminder email, I didn't take a screenshot of the first one.
Nope. It's like feeding pigeons. Pigeon-feeding is illegal because doing it results in an exploding pigeon population and pigeon shit everywhere. It becomes everybody's problem.

We want to keep the number of scam artists to a minimum, and especially to reduce the number of training grounds where novice would-be scammers become practiced experts.

Even if we have zero compassion for people who get rooked, there are a bunch of negative externalities to scams. A giant one is that trust is the lubricant of the machinery of the marketplace. The busiest and most efficient financial marketplaces are the ones that are the most effectively regulated. E.g., many foreign companies list in the US because people trust US regulators better than the home-country regulators, meaning they can raise money more effectively here.

A good analogy is restaurant health and safety inspections. If they didn't happen, more people would get sick. If people were often getting sick at restaurants, they'd go out to eat a lot less. That harms the whole industry, resulting in sub-optimal outcomes for both businesses and consumers.
This is an amazing story about hardware innovation, politics and some kind of bullying. I am amazed that despite all, corporations had innovation in focus, even at the cost of decreasing profit margins.
That sounds interesting. What is the standard called? I'd love to read more about it.
Doxxing isn't against the law, at least in the US. No privacy rights, first amendment, all that jazz.
Make your own with ARSS:

http://arss.sourceforge.net
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This is more interesting for casual investors than the headline would suggest, because it also has a little insight into which UK stocks have been struggling and why.
Unless you are writing an app that should also work offline. In this case, most of your logic _must_ be your frontend, and your backend is mostly a data repository for data backup and synchronization. In such a scenario, database-as-an-API seems to be exactly the right approach.
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Uber future
I still believe this was travis's aggression which taken Uber to such heights despite too many issues. Whats your take?
Yeah, my first contact with their support was excellent. My issue got explained within half an hour and it got resolved within an hour (IIRC).

The second was literally caused by a typo on my end, and it literally took 82 days and me asking some random GitHub employee on his AMA repository what to do when support ignores you to get it resolved.
I'm not sure how this is related to what I wrote? Are you saying that "exterminate ISIS" should expand to "exterminate Saudi Arabia" because Saudi Arabia currently mistreats homosexuals and women?
Also, the Udacity course is a really good.

However, the example code here is amongst the cleanest I've seen.

Try googling how to do simple regressions, and run some of that code. I think there is one other program out of the dozens out there that come anywhere close to this level of clarity.

In fact, I think you may have used that as a starting point, in which case extra kudos for going out and seeing the state of the art.
If you're interested, there are a actually a few other sites being hosted with Dat!

You can view them over https or if you download Beaker [1], you can view the peer-to-peer version of the site with the dat:// protocol.

- taravancil.com
- creationix.com
- pfrazee.hashbase.io

1. https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/install
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translate.google.com works for me and gives this URL:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

but fern12's link to the English version is better.
as I said, government intrusion can't be defended as is. Name one web technology that is government intrusion proof. Fuck that. Name on technology that is so. Air gapping isn't. Granted, air gapping allows you to at least know about it. But that's that.

"invasions of privacy" is not a use case. Give me details. By whom? Your partner? Your coworker? 4chan? Your mayor? Russia? What information are they getting from you? Why? It's very likely that whatever use case you come up with, you are better defended with 2auth gmail than with whatever other solution.

That's a problem with the web. In 15 years, and not counting legal government requests, there were what? 3 cases of email data breaches that were caught? 5? That's your "provably bullshit"? What do you use on your life that has a lower failure rate than this?
The CallKit framework is definitely a welcome addition, and Nomorobo is quite good. I am actually working myself on a new app similar to Nomorobo, but with some additional features that so far no other app using CallKit provides.
I decided to write such app because of the daily robo/telemarketers calls I am getting.
FireWire: the hardware interface where the designers & implementers thought offering unfettered DMA was a good idea.
People should just once and for all assume that any data you have that is hosted on a drive that isn't encrypted OR has encryption, but you don't have exclusive control of the keys (e.g. all the cloud products) can and will be used :

(note that exclusive control of the keys means it can't be on a virtualized server shared with anyone)

1) in any court case against you or anyone else it might be relevant to. It does not have to be a criminal case (translation: you don't have to have done anything against the law, a mere commercial disagreement will do). This is especially true of divorce cases, but also for others.

2) This means that this data is no longer covered under the right to avoid self-incrimination in criminal cases in the US. Your Gmail/Outlook/Office 365 documents ... cannot be held from any court, no matter how much you disagree.

3) "to further the strategic interests of the US and it's allies" is the term, I believe. Essentially, anything one of the three letter agencies.

4) The way corporations are responding to this is to delete any and all mail, documents, ... after 2-3 months unless it's specifically marked to keep. Also, as soon as someone leaves the company, the duration is reduced, to avoid incriminating themselves.
I remember someone expressing surprise, years ago, that glass fiber gliders were detected by air traffic control radar. The most massive metal parts would be the undercarriage (single-wheel), but my guess is that the control cables, laid out in a cross at 90 degrees, would be the most reflective feature.
I loved FireWire. I had an external HD and DVD-RW, I could daisy chain them and connect them to my Dell, Sony, and Apple machines. Faster than USB, only needed one port... everyone complained FireWire was more expensive but the devices performed so much better.
I'd say he is spot on with the analogy. He's describing a situation where the actual solution to the problem at hand (a quality Voice experience) is just the opening of a door to a much more complex charade than originally understood. I spent a decade becoming an expert at creating digital doubles of people - where the term "uncanny valley" originates. In the 3D-graphics-person situation it is very similar. Once one develops a method of generating a likeness of someone, it's not right because the model does not have the real person's hair; then after creating their hair, the human model needs clothing models of the style that person would actually wear. But it is still not right because the character does not exhibit the specific facial expressions the real person uses that are characteristic of their personality. After that is their characteristic body movements, how they stand, sit, how they idle. This is very similar to the issue with quality Voice - it is not just creating a Voice, just like it is not just creating a 3D model, but it is in fact creating a model of reality the software holds, which is then query-capable by external humans and the software model itself as that self-conversation within the software is necessary to fulfill the simulation, and finally generate an experience piercing the uncanny valley for both voice and avatars. But it is going to require 2-200 times more computational capacity than we are throwing around now. The devil is in the details.
Even if a lot of the vulnerable machines still run insecure software there's just no reason why they all need to be networked as they are now. E.g. medical machines at the NHS running Windows recently got ransomware'd.

There's no intrinsic reason for why these machines need to be connected to even an internal network other than lazyness prioritizing convenience over security.
> On top of Elixir, Go, and JS fatigue, I don't think I have any more room left for another language to "try".

Not to mention Elm.
In the words of Roy Trenneman.... Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

I.. Um. It's different now but I'm pretty sure certs still won't renew, and if they did haproxy wouldn't know about them.

I'm not sure what your motivation is for posting this article but honestly you need a better understanding before trying to give other people technical advice about something.

Edit: also the weirdness persists. Why are you allowing inbound dns requests. Why is your firewall blocking first instead of last. Why are you using sudo for curl that gets piped. Jesus why are you curl|bash at all. I'm pretty sure your cron job is unnecessary and won't even work.

<breathe>... There is still a lot wrong with this but I can't type easily so that will have to do for now