skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come no-one is talking about safety w.r.t. moving to and living in Argentina?

> In the first three months of 2017, there were 77 kidnappings for ransom.

Source: [May 2017] - The Numbers And Locations Of Kidnappings For Ransom In Argentina => http://www.thebubble.com/the-numbers-and-locations-of-kidnap...

> From March 20 to March 31, authorities registered at least 16 express kidnappings in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. According to Clarin, the victims of these kidnappings are of all ages and social classes.

Source: [Apr 2017] - Express Kidnappings on the Rise Again in Buenos Aires => http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/express-kidnappings-...

Can someone who lives there throw some light on the prevalence of ransom kidnappings?
I read about this a while back, and want to know if it's really a cause for concern for Americans and other foreigners moving to Argentina for work, or is it mostly localized (i.e. political kidnappings / gang related kidnappings) in which case you can be somewhat "reassured" that it may not happen to you.
I would think this is primarily to hide gambling activities so it doesn't affect your credit score. If you're applying for a loan or credit card your bank statements can be assessed and if it finds transactions to known gambling sites or ATM withdrawals from known gambling venues or hotels then that will affect your credit rating badly.
Banksy's true identity revealed in major gaffe
If the security of your router is of concern to you I would recommend setting up your own FreeBSD+pfSense router.

Another option is to setup a vpn server that all your devices connect to to access the internet. In that scenario it won't matter if your router is compromised because all traffic flowing through would be encrypted.
Giving himself extra overtime work?

Gotta be quick because his van probably has a GPS tracker on it, and he'd have to explain to his boss why his truck was parked there for 20 mins otherwise.
Games are at an advantage because they can do a lot of up-front processing. They can statically schedule their content based on knowledge of the hardware, and programmers can and do even tell the artists to tailor their content directly to the system. Conversely, on the Web, we can't do any of this: we have no idea what the content is going to be like until we receive it, and we have to handle specifications that were written without parallelism in mind. All of the decisions we make have to be dynamic rather than static, which is why work stealing is especially effective.

Besides, vertices are a much simpler problem than CSS styling. CSS supports hundreds of properties, all of which are parsed and cascaded differently. You have properties that are inherited and properties that are noninherited. You have properties that depend on other properties: for example, any lengths might be specified in terms of ems, which means you have to have resolved the font size first. You have properties that result in completely different render trees, for example "display". You can't effectively throw stream processors like GPUs at the problem (believe me, I've tried).

Could we do better? Sure. But every proposed replacement for CSS I've seen (e.g. Cassowary) has made the complexity problem worse. And most native styling solutions I've seen are usually just very slow implementations of CSS. Separating presentation and markup is just hard, no matter what.
Some context: doubly efficient interactive proofs are one of the fundamental ideas that make Zcash possible on modern hardware.
Could this be optimized for the SLA Form2? I.e. No flat sides oriented horizontal?
i'm not saying it's happened here, but i'd imagine with router firmware (because it's not too large) it'd be pretty cheap to have a copy of the factory firmware and settings in a physically read only storage of some kind
Python, Scala and Go would be great additions (in that order).
Can't be true. If they take to the streets then that creates a new societal need. With new societal needs comes new opportunities. With new opportunities comes new jobs.

They may not be jobs as we know them. The jobs may be based on barter, and may be somewhat criminal, but people aren't just going to sit around doing nothing while they starve.

Besides, if humans have no jobs, no organization, no motivation for anything, then the AI that's replacing them has nothing to do, so why will it even continue to exist?
Are you an investor yourself ?
not mentioned in this article: there will be a huge camp in the Stadtpark (now permitted by court verdict) and lots of events/concerts in the local clubs and on the streets

violence from protesters and the police - quite likely, but no reason to get scared, just keep your eyes open. meet interesting people from all over europe instead and protest against the ever increasing stupidity & brutality of the worlds leaders

lovely time to visit Hamburg!
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Imagination Formally Announces It's Selling Itself
Yeah, I'd think it would take a reflash to get rid of the compromise, since the compromise is implemented by means of firmware replacement to begin with.

Probably your cheapest bet on the supported device list (ca. p27 of the PDF on Wikileaks) would be a WRT54G v5. The GL models have some support as well, but last I checked they had a relatively high used value, presumably for their hackability - the G models are much more limited.
Doubt they have enough evidence...

Knowing if something was accidental or deliberate is super hard.
> If users believe their router firmware may have been compromised,

What would make them believe that? Wish they had a detection tool as well. Anyone know of one?
Huh, I was reading it fast, and didn't realize that word "students" in the text meant a variable name, not his students. My bad :)
If this is true why is my Virgin Media fibre pretty damn fast and reliable and every American seems to constantly whinge about their cable provider?
Your comments are crossing into personal incivility. We ban accounts that do that, so please edit such bits out of your posts here, regardless of how wrong anyone else may be.
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Some Uber Employees Balk at Travis Kalanick’s Exit
I sometimes help film live events for a friend when he needs extra hands. Getting the framing perfect is really hard unless you're very good with the camera. Panning to follow a moving subject while simultaneously making sure everything else in the shot is desired is... really hard. Imagine being able to simple film a "general area" in 8K and the post-production team could handle all the framing/panning and still get 1080 output. That would be an amazing feature of filming in higher resolution. So the higher the better... let's get there, and make everyone's life easier.
To give you some additional perspective, here is a FB post from a female Uber employee floating around in my circles - https://www.facebook.com/margaretann.seger/posts/10214004058...

She highlights the nuances of Uber's culture and how it has both affected her positively and negatively.
The problem is that the departments that handle infrastructure and contracts are probably divided, maybe even separate subsidiaries / companies. So the infrastructure subsidiary may not have enough information about who the actual customer is. All they see is equipment and maybe an assigned contract number, but no names. It gets worse, when infrastructure is done by contractors, just labeled as insert big telco here.
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Ironically I've had that on my profile for years.
Or to put it in other words: browser technology is asked to do so much that they had to go invent a new language to keep up. So that they could serve ads.

For us ordinary folks trying to write good applications that can be maintained by one person and scale reasonably well, there's justifiable reason to jump off this rollercoaster and work in a more humble environment with modest perf/safety tradeoffs and native code executables(e.g. Go, Basic, Pascal).
Horses became unemployable. There are no tasks that a horse can perform better than machines, except for nostalgic reasons. Their population peaked around 1900 and it's been nothing but down.

There's no law of nature that says "New technology makes new jobs for horses." It sounds shockingly dumb to even say this out loud. But swap "horses" for "humans" and everyone thinks it sounds about right.
"To someone used to the mathematical rigour of typed functional languages,

this is patently false, just check out brian lonsdorf

"As far as I know, the success of JavaScript had nothing to do with its qualities as a language. It was timing and market forces. It was there, so people used it."

i would wager this is largely true
As unfortunate as this unarguably is for the affected traders, it does go to show the importance of utilising stop limit orders (sell x amount if price dips below y price, but only sell for price minimum z) as opposed to standard stop losses which simply execute. It is however important to stress that whilst doing the former would protect against flash crashes, is does come with the inherent risk that should a true, rapid devaluation occur, the orders might never execute.

The golden rule of investing -- regardless of asset -- remains not using more than you can afford to lose.
If I was a trucker I'd be learning diesel tech, not training my replacement drivers
Speak for your self. As a non American the idea of a European swat team surrounding Limousine One and arresting secret service guards would be an amazing thing to watch.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the death of a loved one?
I lost my father this Monday 19th June and I'm pretty much very very sad yet being the first born I feel I have to be strong for my siblings and mother and I don't know how to, so I would appreciate tips from those who have passed through something like this.
There will be many cameras at this event.
SpaceX spent $1B on reusable rockets: how fast they might recoup it all
Regardless of anybodies sympathies for refugees, this is simply not going to achieve anything.

They are not going to let you cross the border with a cab filled with refugees/asylum seekers/undocumented immigrants.
The printer in question hasn't been released yet, so I'm guessing there's no physical print yet.
This happened to me in the Bay Area (Walnut Creek) about three months ago. I thought it was an isolated event. Fuck them.
> Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper.

I'd liken AWS more to KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y or PwC than an accountant. You don't need your accountant to have a risk management consultancy any more than you need your server host to be able to provide instant and infinite scalability.

> Ha! Complain about the price and then say "just install NewRelic".

DD and NR are still cheaper than the 2x cost of using AWS and I also suggested self hosting. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up.

> you've just got an axe to grind with AWS.

I only object to using AWS for everything or blindly. People don't seem to see the costs of using AWS or any of the other big cloud providers.
No, next-sibling selector was not the point. You need that label+input combo to do something like in the video using only css
https://codepen.io/bushyn/pen/owevJO
People may be tempted to call this hypocracy; i think it's classy.
Really? Surely there must be more serious and immediate problems than that.
You're talking like Google wants to give information to LEOs without a warrant, but this post is specifically about ECPA search warrants.
Outcome-Focused Coding
Network effects and a unique investment cycle are the root causes IMHO. It's a machine that vacuums up talent, powered by money.
Meet the world's first rechargeable 3D zinc micro-sponge electrode
Margaret-Ann Seger's post referenced in the article: https://www.facebook.com/margaretann.seger/posts/10214004058...
Latin America needs more integration. None of its markets is very big (except Brazil or Mexico), but together they are huge. It needs to be easier for small businesses to interact and swap money and goods. There are some sectors (automotive comes to mind) where governments set up deals, but for most businesses it's really hard. Not even the mail works well enough.
>(soon to get even better) performance

Why? Are the rumours of porting the language to Chez Scheme true?
It's not as easy as it sounds. We're talking about the MAC address of the modem itself. In any current DOCSIS network you're going to need to use BPI+ which encrypts everything between the modem and the CMTS as well as authenticates the modem itself. Basically there's a cert on the modem that's signed by the manufacturer and the manufacturers cert is added to the CMTS. In short you can't just impersonate a modem and even just rooting a modem and getting at that certificate is difficult enough, not to mention once you do that you can only impersonate the modem that you've already rooted.
Yeah a more accurate title in these cases is often something like "assumptions of theoretical law don't quite apply in this case or can be otherwise worked around in practice" but that doesn't get clicks.

Another good semi-recent example that comes to mind is the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem being "broken" by compressed sensing.
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This seems like a vulnerability for human-operated vehicles also.
One (perhaps non-representative) data point: I have teammates who live in Villa La Angostura and Cordoba and I chat with them using Google hangouts every day. Their bandwidth has never been an issue for video chat.
I keep hearing this "people don't care" argument but this is not at all true. People very much care. It's easy to be in one's bubble and assume that nobody cares because everyone around you is handing out data left and right.

Education and messaging are obviously required to make the general public care but even companies like Slack went through this phase where they had to educate people about the product. But tbh, the real problem is that the solutions just aren't good enough and convenient. Tell me today, what is a good solution for me or average joe to keep all my data to myself without giving it to the big G and at the same time have a good experience sharing it with friends and family? I would love to hear proper solutions.

For example, people would _love_ to use firefox for privacy and security reasons but they aren't because firefox is not good enough compared to chrome.
> it would be much more valuable as a patent troll

Or the threat of a counter-suit is low but they want to weaponize the company out of spite and the low chance of recovering as a producer of new IP. My recollection might be off but didn't Apple want to purchase Imagination but Imagination wanted to remain an independent company, so Apple hired away their talent instead? Or am I confusing this with what they did to Nuance?
Infrastructure is probably handled by a different department, maybe even a different subsidiary or company. I bet, the infrastructure people get to see as less information as possible about the contract / actual customer and no information about other lines / contracts.

I worked on workforce management software for utilities companies. The field crews often only see information about their current task for various reasons (data size of standing data, privacy protection, field crew is a contractor).
God no.

I work in an industry I otherwise despise (advertising) literally helping perpetuate what I so dislike about the current industry (data science and ml relentlessly invading everyone's privacy). It's a job I took because the alternative was being unemployed, and one that I hope to get out of soon.
Maybe you meant to post this on Dunning Kruger News?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_E...
I'm not sure what you think selection is. Organisms which do not have diverse offspring are very unlikely to maintain a lineage through big changes to the environment. Big changes to the environment are frequent. Therefore diversity of offspring, as a trait, is selected for.
"You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way."

Abba Eban
I don't know what definition of "countries that honor baseline principles of privacy, human rights, and due process" they're using, but if they want to put the United States on that list, the bar must be pretty low.

On the other hand, this is going to be hilarious...

Germany: Hey America, can I get some data on this guy?

America: No problem!

(A few months later)

America: Hey Germany, can I get some data on that guy?

Germany: Uhh, you're not a country that honors baseline privacy, human rights, and due process.
Milan Agree Deal for Sunderland's Fabio Borini
Would it help if we put a button "high-contrast"? On vast majority of displays the website looks well balanced and not eye-burning, but of course it does not cover older displays, displays that are dimmed or used in heavy lighting. Would such button solve your problems or do you think we should just strongly re-consider how we present everything?
Let the arms race begin!
> Anyone know what the cheapest Linksys I could buy is, and whether these vulnerabilities have been released publicly?

To be clear, the main "vulnerability" is just ability to get physical access and re-flash the devices with a custom firmware which allows the access to the target network. The best defense would be locking down the router physically and setting a strong password for the admin portal.
The Race to Solar Power Africa
You're correct in some cases. My last "consumer" router was a TP Link Archer D9 and doing a factory reset only restored the last flashed version of the firmware - so that partition was writeable during updates at least.
Launchkit.io is shutting down July 31 – Do you need to migrate your services?
tl;dr - Launchkit is closing down and we have a replacement - apptoolkit.io

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Right now we have:

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Cloud Config - Edit your app features from the cloud. Hide features until you're ready for release, change settings, do what you want without needing to resubmit your app to iTunes for approval.
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Super User - With the AppToolkit SDK, you can find out who your best users are. We track how often each user opens the app and how long they stay in it (along with some tracking of events). This tracking is very resource efficient, and shouldn't be noticeable at the user end at all. You can target super users for extra attention, easter eggs or review prompts (your best users are probably going to give you the best reviews).
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Are you actually disagreeing with me? If people cared the product would be good. The lack of a good product reflects the apathy. As for your question, the two are inherently at odds. People prefer the later to the former. That's my point.
Care to back that up? Every time I read something[1] -- reputable -- about, for example, restaurants testing out eliminating tipping in favor of paying employees a livable wage, they have to implement a mix of cutting staff (and making existing staff work harder), increasing prices (sometimes beyond the 18% you'd expect based on a common tip amount), and reducing quality of ingredients (or finding ways to consolidate menu items to reduce the variety of ingredients or increase scale).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/dining/restaurants-no-tip...
diversity is selected for as a heritable trait when big, unpredictable changes to the environment end lineages which do not have sufficient heritable tendency towards diversification.
I'd productize this more as the next level of "spreadsheet" than of "programming language". These kinds of visual programming things always seem to come out with lots of fanfare but then never get used for real work. The spreadsheet, however, is by nature reactive, relational, visual, impromptu, yada yada. But even though spreadsheet tech has added lots of functionality over the years, it's still essentially based on an old paper grid.

I could see a product like this challenging that old basis with something more modern. But it still has to do all the stuff regular spreadsheets can do too. And ensuring that it can, and in an intuitive fashion, should probably be the first priority.
Cable pirates generally don't know how to terminate coax. There's terminators that require a special tool to remove intended to deter cable theft but the design of those terminators means that just about anyone who's determined can open it with something like a fork. If they can't open it, they can always just disconnect one of the neighbors and use that or try to remove one of the terminators via brute force and break the tap. Cutting the drop cable would be very obvious to a cable thief and they wouldn't be able to do anything without being able to terminate coax.
> They are the enforcement arm of the ruling class seeking to take away whatever privacy we have left.

Does that make tech employment in general the research arm of the ruling class trying to take away whatever privacy we have left?
I generally like what I do, I just don't make enough money. I am working on that second piece.

I do freelance writing, resume editing and I blog. I generally get to pick assignments I want to write for freelance writing. I enjoy doing resume editing because it helps someone get a better job. And blogging allows me to express myself while putting out useful information in problem spaces that I am personally interested in.
I'm not sure I could attribute the technology hub we see to WWII. Most technology advancement in America was happening in Bell Labs during WWII (The lab was located in New Jersey).
I had actually thought Kyle was a girls' name due to only knowing a female Kyle (spelled Kyle, pronounced Kylie).
Sure, but we're talking about US-local wages here. The numbers aren't directly comparable.
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it's not great but if it's sunny in vnancouver it means it's a nice day to be outside. there's almost no days where it's sunny but too hot or cold to use your patio/deck/balcony
Games are a completely different problem space. "styling" is a concept that games don't have; games don't deal with deciding which thing has which style at runtime. Browsers do, because they are just given CSS and have to handle the cascading and assigning of styles on their own.
I don't believe you could buy gold directly from Blizzard at the time.