skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be more appropriate to say that Russian influence socially engineered the 2016 election rather than outright hacked the election.

One other thing to consider: US elections are by definition secure from a wholesale hacking on account of the election being run on a patchwork of systems that differ from state to state (and sometimes county to county or even precinct to precinct). However, this same design and subsequent long list of vulnerabilities found in election machines and their software means that it would be possible to tip crucial precincts and districts in surgical, spear-phishing style attacks that may not attract all that much attention.
Two Banking Trojans beating each other for victims credit card details
Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers
I feel this will be much safer than anything Uber or Amazon or Alphabet can put together...
Hard technical skills for the modern business analyst
The problem with interviews is that there is no time for false starts. When approaching a coding problem in real life, I pick a solution that seems to be right.

Half the time I pick a good solution and half the time I've rushed in and picked the wrong one.

If I have picked the wrong one, I know within 30 mins that it is a flawed approach, but have usually explored the problem sufficiently to pick a good solution. The interview unfortunately ends after 30 mins.

I should also add that I'm not much better at this after 13 years of professional development than I was when I left uni, when it comes to manipulating linked lists and arrays. My systems design is a lot better though.
I feel like pg is broad and deep and mysql is shallow and narrow.

Pg has capabilities above and beyond anything one could dream of in mysql. Pg supports a wide array of back up and replication strategies.
A decently clever candidate could sneak out of that first one without a loop. Something like

numbers.reduce((a,b) => Math.min(a,b))

would do it in JavaScript. In general, if a candidate realizes they can use reduce for that purpose, in my experience interviewing candidates they probably wouldn't have much trouble doing it with a loop, and it would usually be a signal they're going to have a pretty good interview.

Then again, you might run into a joker who has just memorized how to use reduce for finding the maximum or minimum element in a list of numbers.
Ah, I had no idea that the implementation required you to proxy everything through Google, I thought all you had to do was changing the code.

I would never do that.
So great to read. This is exactly the kind of project the Raspberry Pi was designed to enable - doing something a bit odd (and arguably pointless!) but having fun and learning loads along the way.
That's what I was getting at, yes.

But as alkonaut was pointing out, the actual rules themselves don't matter as much to business as predictable and swift enforcement.
Thanks, added it to Pocket.
I never understood the craze over React. I tried it, and I didn't like it. It may work for Facebook's use case, but to me it looks like a lot of people are unnecessarily rebuilding their front ends with React just because it's hot.
For the requirements you correctly identified - very long service times, very strict reliability requirements, etc, I think it's insane to rely on a closed source operating system in the first place. With open source you can always hire some programmers to fix bugs. With Windows you're at the mercy of Microsoft.
One of the better laid out Pi project summaries I've seen. Good work, I say.
Sometimes I add a "; mail" at the end of long-running commands.
The 3 statements you made here are completely illogical and foreign to me. Can you provide sources for why you believe this kind of monopoly is beneficial to the people?

For example this is my view and the view of most EU citizens:

"punishing a big company for its potentially big effect on markets values 1) people above markets and 2) competitors' ability to participate on the market which is to the benefit of costumers (people)"
CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative “bullsh*t"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE

Well now....
Visa takes a strategic stake in Klarna, the finance startup out of Sweden
Should Amazon be forced to show results for e-readers other than Kindle or audiobooks other than those on Audible? I don't think it's obvious at all where the line is.
Google's search results have become more than just a directory of websites like it was in previous years.

It now integrates tons of specialized results such as embedded videos and smart answers to direct questions. It will only move further and further away from simple lists of sites as their AI improves.

I fear this fine will deter innovation here as any special results Google adds will be scrutinized heavily. It's also very possible the complex data they need for it's 'smart' results aren't available by integrating with other 3rd party services (at least not initially), which is likely why Google even created these competing services in the first place.

If Google was merely a Yellow Pages style service as it was previously then I'd be more sympathetic to the idea of distorted rankings favouring Google services but that's becoming less and less the typical user experience.
Well ... Trump lied to a bunch of disenfranchised blue-collar workers and added them to the patriotic isolationists. If you weren't part of that group but had previously voted republican, you probably wouldn't vote for Clinton either.

My biggest hope is that this lasts only four years (or less) and that a) the two major parties come to their senses or b) we end up with more than two viable parties.

For those of us in the U.S. who are sane (but surrounded), I'll simply say "I'm very sorry Daniel". P.S. I use cURL most every day - thanks!
Diffblue (Oxford University AI spin-out) raises $22M in Series A funding
It's weird that someone commenting here never read corporate PR before, I guess it's not any weirder than the proliferation of anti capitalist sentiment in a startup incubator community section.

Still it's not nearly as nonsensical as this case in which a website operator is being fined billions for not featuring other website some more.
We went five years without Congress being able to pass a budget during the Obama administration. If we tried to come up with a new Constitution we'd not have one country anymore. (Which may well be what we need.)
On operating systems you set preferences for which service/program to open when a certain extension is clicked. Similarly Google should be forced to allow you to set your preferences through your browser, i.e. not forcing you to login, on where you want to go when you type certain types of queries, like for instance directions or products. That would improve competition and give other service providers at least a good chance of their services being used instead of Google. And keep the system more competitive. Then Google can go and claim that this is what their users actually prefer.

This could work through cookies that the browser always makes available to certain or all sites that indicate preferences of the user.
So, while holding this meat at 135 F for the specified hours, in the last 30 minutes a fly touches down on the meat. Oops, the meat is no longer safe.

In practice 135 F is a bit too cool to be very safe.

Sure, the situation is more complicated than just one number for temperature and, sure, time is also important. And, sure, can still eat rare (never got as warm as 135 F) beef steak, say, a thick T-bone, if are sure the cow was healthy so that the interior of the steak is sterile and if have browned the outside to sterilize it.

I remember Dad's remark on rare steak: "I've seen critters get hurt worse'n that and get well." IIRC for human fingers, pain to the touch is about 140 F.

Still, for practice 135 F is a bit cool, especially for holding meat at that temperature for a long time as in the OP. Or, sure, if the meat at 135 F were in some sterile, air-tight situation for all the hours, okay, but that's not very realistic for a real kitchen.
Yes, but you still need to have those parallel subterms in the first place!

If you eg still use a linked list data structure as an input, you are never gonna be faster than O(n) no matter how clever your implicit parallelism is.
Does anyone know where the €2.42B will be used?

Will it be used to compensate the rival companies?
Will it be used to compensate European consumers? (And most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation)
This building in London can melt cars or set fires in other buildings: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/how-london-skyscraper-can-mel...
OP here. Definitely, great idea :)

Briefly: Sites are archived using a system written in Golang and uploaded to a Google Cloud bucket.

More: The system downloads the remote HTML, parses it to extract the relevant dependencies (<script>, <link>, <img> etc) and then downloads these as well. Tesoro is even parsing CSS files to extract the url('...') file dependencies from here as well, meaning most background images and fonts should continue to work. All dependencies (even those hosted at remote domains) are downloaded and hosted with the archive, meaning the src attributes on the original page tags are wrangled to support the new location.

The whole thing is hosted on GCP Container Engine and I deploy with Kubernetes.

I'll write up a more comprehensive blog post in some time, which portion of this would you like to hear more about?
Uber I can understand. But Amazon and Alphabet have bigger names to protect.

Also, how much AI knowledge does NVidia actually have? They are big in computing hardware, not sure about AI.
Trello causes some issues for OEMs as it will affect their carrier deals. But once we are past that I think Android updated will come faster.
That was a rather old article. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-b...

Also see Russian activities in the Ukraine, Bulgaria, etc.
A minimum wage seems like an attempt to compensate for weak labor collectives and the lack of a safety net. Sweden, for example, has no minimum wage, but a combination of strong unions/labor collectives and decent unemployment benefits manage to keep wages up anyway.
I'm on a nominally unlimited pay-as-you-go plan in the UK for about 25 GBP a month. I regularly do 20+ GB over 4g a month.

The UK isn't ahead of the rest of the world here, is it? (Google paid for my mobile data in the last few years before that, so I am out on the loop on general prices.)
Court? the problem is that these fines don't go through any court.
Ask HN: How can I stop switching between projects, and actually deliver?
I am a software developer with a reasonably fulfilling job, which I perform well at.

During the day and evening, I come up with ideas on how to improve OSS software in various ways. All these typically need a prototype, blog post or contributing to an open source project.

I never do, however. Instead I move from idea to idea, never delivering.

How can I be more focused and keep my mind on one OSS project until some fruitful end?
Probably just me but NNabla seems unfortunately close to NAMBLA.
10 Simple things you can do to make your life easier
Hold on buddy, just 8 yrs left
Absolutely true. However, which platform do you want to trust your data to: One that recently stopped eating data, or one that has a 20 year history of putting correctness first?
"for not featuring other website some more" => for not featuring other website equally as own ones...
"As a result, Google's comparison shopping service is much more visible to consumers in Google's search results."

Well, that makes sense.
Nice, post it on https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

They will love it!
They could be fined 5% of their daily revenue every day until they comply! Big difference.

That would actually be a lot of money even for Google.
Oh yeah, I too have written my own shell scripts for log shipping and failover some time 6-8 years ago when I was still using PostgreSQL 8.4. But talking about this in a comparison makes about as much sense as bringing up MyISAM related issues.
But if you can't do the calendar question and realize within (lets be generous) 3 minutes that double nested loops are the wrong approach... I think it'd be fair to question your abilities.
One problem with this is the "long tail" issue: in many applications, you have a highly active small minority of users, and any server assigned to enough of those users will be overloaded while other servers are underutilized. Since these are also (typically) your most excited / engaged users, this effectively penalizes user behaviors you'd rather encourage.

The other main problem is that it's not a consistent hash: if you grow the server pool, you typically need to reshard a lot of content.

(It's still useful in a pinch, but it helps to be aware of the tradeoffs.)
Clickbait... "Explain like I'm 5... this topic probably can not be explained to a 5 year-old"
A series of fortunate events: How our culture made us
My company[1] Analytical Flavor Systems is a vertically integrated domain-expert based AI for new product development, flavor profile optimization, and predictive manufacturing in the food and beverage industry.

Like the article and some of the comments here suggest, it took years of domain expertise (most of the team comes out of the Tea Institute at Penn State, a research Institute for tea and tea tasting), followed by years of R&D to collect the proprietary data-sets and develop the models. And then it took a year or so to build a product around the AI's predictive capabilities - this isn't the shortest or easiest path, but we're still going strong!

I think companies like this are hard to build, hard to fund, and hard to compete with.

Where I disagree with other comments is on the competitive side; we've developed a few of our own algorithms[2] (not generic or even "played with some options" neural nets / deep learning) trained on specialized and proprietary data set from years of work and collection - now that we've dug our moat, I don't think anyone will be competitive with out specialized AI for modeling human sensory perception and predicting preferences[3] of food and beverage products anytime soon!

[1] www.Gastrograph.com

[2] https://gastrograph.com/resources/whitepapers/local-fisher-d...

[3][PDF] https://gastrograph.com/resources/whitepapers/2017-market-pr...
They recently jacked up the penalties in the UK (six points on the licence and £200 spot fine). Maybe it'll help.
Fish Skin for Human Wounds:
well they did come out with a replacement for corded earphones, just that cost is nearly ten times as great as what they replace and there is now a market for creating an lanyard so you don't lose the individual Airpods.

I have no inherent issue with the removing the headphone jack since the included earpods do use a lightning connector. Not sure if those existed at launch
Did the pot you use have holes in the bottom? It looks like you have it just sat on a desk so I'm assuming it's basically just a bucket?

Your moisture problem could just be that you were relying too much on the water evaporating/being absorbed rather than needing to drain out. Gravel at the bottom of a pot with holes in helps water drain really well. Alternatively, without the gravel you could place the pot on a dish, fill the dish and let the water be absorbed from the bottom up.
A lot of our industry hires based on buzzwords. For web developers, it pays to have React experience in their resume. Doesn't matter if the app they built didn't need it at all.
I use an adblocker and various other privacy tool (uMatrix user here). I still get one-click checkbox most of the time. I'm logged into my google account.
Volvo does this for living. It's their main product.

For Amazon and Alphabet this is just about reaching a new market before the other guy. Things will be rushed, and they will move fast and break more things. I don't want to ride the car that was created by first-to-market.
The US antitrust regulation that led Google's acquisition of DoubleClick and Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp happen? That one?
This helped me to understand flyback diodes: https://learn.digilentinc.com/Documents/390
I haven't done much electronic stuff in a good seven years, but this is typically what you would use a relay for, right?
strange, thx for clarification.
I hope they don't change the design. This would be great for camping/hiking/backpacking. Having a bowl that's also capable of starting a fire is a nice extra safety measure and it takes up almost no space because you pack stuff into it.
Yep, even Rightscon (human rights and tech conference) has shifted to Canada next year, instead of it's usual rotation to San Francisco...Basically because a huge chunk of participants probably wouldn't be allowed into the US.
"patterns are harder to refute" -> there is also a pattern, how big US tech companies avoid tax payments in EU, it even has a name ("double irish sandwich")
I also thought about doing a project like that, thanks for the write-up. I somehow can't really believe that it's that hard to measure soil moistures.

Are there any industrial plant moisturing robots? What approaches do these use?

Edit: I met this guy a few months ago at a faire: https://lambdanodes.wordpress.com/ The project doesn't seem to have advanced since then, but maybe he'll get better results with his epsilon node.
I think he did learn the lesson, but then his fix for it was removed in the cost-cutting phase.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1029...
A block chain is a similarly verifiable append-only log and map. However, block chains loosen the restriction of "trust this other singular party but verify what they have done" and broaden that to, "trust the majority of nodes in this network, but verify." It's likely that there is some improvement in the periodic "publish an authoritative tree hash" step which digital currencies do not use yet, see the table at the back and think about how many cases one needs to download the entire ledger for with digital currencies... But of course the proof-of-work schemes are important to get that "majority of the nodes" trust.
putting oneself in a position where you interact with a person whose first language is not English does tend to increase the odds you will learn a second language provided both are interested in that outcome
Which says to me that the overwhelming majority of Canadians do not live in the GTA or the GVA. The average home price in Canada, as of May 2017, is $401,594 USD[1]. The average home price in the US, as of May 2017, is $406,400 USD[2]. Given that the latter has already gone through a correction, it seems like the current level is typical.

[1] http://www.crea.ca/housing-market-stats/national-average-pri...

[2] https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf
Big Pharma company under cyber attack right now
Direct source tells me all windows machines are affected by ransomware asking for 300 Euro in BTC. Happening globaly.
Google gave up on dart as an browser language quite a while ago. It now sees use server-side and in flutter (a native UI layer).
I can understand some level of isolationism, but hell this is shooting yourself in the foot with a machine gun. USA used to be the place people dreamed to go, now it's the place they'll avoid thinking about. If they think they can do everything alone, then good luck. Often history happened at crossroads, not dead ends.
In a stunner, Merck lands positive PhIII for its CETP outcast anacetrapib
Yeah, it drains into a little tray underneath. I'm trying to figure out a better solution for that because we can't see how much water is in the tray, so if too much has drained out, it starts overflowing onto the table with no warning.

Also I get the sense that I shouldn't just be leaving standing water in the tray forever, but it's also pretty difficult to remove the tray and empty it.
On Blockchain, Intermediaries, and Hype
That conclusion made me laugh. In the early to mid 90s, I was working on 3D interactive software. The video drivers and chips had advanced so much in one year that all of the lovingly handcrafted assembly I had written over that time was useless. I thought to myself, "what an unstable industry to build a career in". I also made comparisons to accounting, medicine, and law, thinking perhaps I had made a wrong choice.

Turns out that adapting to rapid change is a critical aspect to this career choice. It is also a problem for businesses, which you start to grapple with as you move up the chain of command. The mistake is wistfully hoping that things would slow down enough for you rest on your hard-won knowledge, as in other fields. There is no competitive advantage in aging technology.
finite state automata haha
And.. in other news: Amateur chef that tries to make a 5-star dish ruins it. * gasp
Comparing current market options for Postgres as a service
Doesn't doublespeak imply a self-contradiction? At any rate, I thought the OP was complaining about "spin", in which case the reply is valid, as it isn't spin; there's just multiple valid ways of interpreting Google's behaviors, and which interpretation you choose depends largely on how satisfied you are with their business model.
A local download only increases the redundancy. Tesoro keeps a copy, and the user keeps a local copy that they can also use however they want. A bit like keeping newspaper clippings, that are found decades later by some relative to be then posted on social websites as something interesting.
I'm afraid academia may produce religion. After all, it's a place where they show you a bunch of tricks, you practice them in simplified applications and then risk leaving with a belief that you actually understand shit.

A recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267555
Do amazon treat the kindle differently from other ebook readers on their site? If, for example, kobo fits my search better and they demote it while putting kindle content right at the top. Does that kind of thing happen?

In which case, quite possibly, if

* amazon can be argued to have a very large position, with the vast majority of searches going through it

* it can be shown that people tend to click almost exclusively on the first or first few links

* they are treating their own, different, service more favourably than competitors (and remember when in the context of google, it's how people would find the competitors in the first place)

* you can see them having hugely increased sales for their own product after the introduction, and massively decreased sales for other people

But then my understanding of the regulations comes largely from the links here.

Fundamentally though, if you're big enough to be concerned about this you should be able to afford the legal teams to figure this out or approach the commission to discuss what is and is not within the regulations.
> You can win the electoral college / house / senate / whatever, despite being disadvantaged via gerrymandering

Of course you can always still overcome gerrymandering with enough political momentum. Gerrymandering currently tips the scales slightly in the direction of one party or another. Fixing gerrymandering would level the playing field (in theory).
IME it's often used as a sort of sarcastic parody, to emphasise that the element of the person's statement being questioned hasn't been resolved and the whole situation is contingent on the answer.

For example, when PM May had finished presenting her new manifesto before the election one might ask "Quick question: how are you going to pay for all that?" to highlight the fact that no costings had been included and suggest you thought it was unrealistic (or hiding tax rises, or whatever).

"Quick question" is used genuinely too. One use appears to be "don't go too deep, give me a superficial answer".