skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corruption in the financial industry is extraordinarily entrenched because of deregulation, not because of the Fed.

Allowing banks to merge and become huge conglomerates, the elimination of Glass-Stegal (which eliminated the distinction between normal banks and investment banks), and lax regulation of derivatives / dark money are all very direct causes.
Of course you want to cut costs.

But what percentage do trucking expenses make, of their overall sales receipts?

Will their sales double if the cost of trucking drops by a third?
Yes, ECB, although other modes would only require superficial changes. In practice the harder task is actually identifying the mode in use!
What Really Happens When You Don't Turn Off Your Cell Phone on a Plane?
Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
Definitely, they probably realize they get better targeting by using demographic metrics like Facebook does - age, wealth, gender, interests, likes, etc - than they do by scanning email contents for keywords.
Very few servers store/transmit emails unencrypted...
Retail’s Last Hurrah Against Amazon
If this wasn't shady cryptocoin BS all these trades would be busted.
Actually, you can buy some paint that blocks all RF signals. It's absurdly expensive but quite effective. There aren't many ways to get signals out of a room painted with the stuff.

If you're thinking "Why not just build a faraday cage?" then you're thinking the right thing.
A "mind if I share that table" attack might be much more useful than explicitly taking some laptop and running away with it. It completely depends on your threat model.
This is so cool! I was starting to research the design of something like this...

The ERC20 token idea is also great, people then would have a reference implementation for their own tokens... it could unlock a new wave of DApps. Kudos!
If building games is a hobby you have no problem doing it on your spare time. For me, making games is leisure time.
If you're handy, and your housing market isn't super-hot right now (read: unaffordable), consider rentals. With the right tenants in a good market, it's quite passive income. And the build up of equity will provide a cash-out option later in life you may benefit from (if you choose to use it).

But don't rely on it, and don't overextend yourself. Traditional investment strategy is still a very good, solid one.
That's standard dead code elimination, and that's only true in static linking. Dynamic linking, which is far more popular, will load the entire library into memory. And then you get interesting hybrids like Java, where libraries are dynamically linked but only the classes that are actually used are loaded. [0]

The equivalent for dynamic languages is tree shaking, and is a harder or impossible problem depending on the language. When you can do something like the following in JavaScript, how do you determine what's dead or alive?

var fn = document.getElementById("function").value;
var input = document.getElementById("input").value;
var output = functions[fn](input);
document.getElementById("output").value = output;

[0] EDIT: But all the method and fields within a class are loaded, regardless of whether they are used. Which is why I called it a hybrid.
Shades of the AOL search data leak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

Of course personally identifiable information will be extracted despite this model. "Differential Privacy" is cynical academic malpractice -- selling a reputation so that when individuals are harmed in the course of commercial exploitation of the purportedly anonymized data, the organizations that profited can avoid being held responsible.

We never learn, because there is money to be made if we pretend that anonymization works.
Wonder if it's also a move that will help encrypted email become supported
Firefox: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #14
Amdahl's law. Shipping is only useful when you have goods to ship. Unless you're selling bricks, shipping is a small portion of the price of most products. Reducing the cost of shipping, which is already a small portion of the price of the product will not result in price elasticity of greater then 1.
I can and will blame one voter for a lost ballot. Republicans controlled 40 seats. Democrats controlled 58 and had two independents who mostly leaned their way. They needed all 60 of those votes to pass something. Lieberman was one of those independents, and he explicitly threatened to filibuster any bill that included a public option, while the other 59 accepted it.

Republicans were going to vote against the ACA no matter what it contained. That means they had no power over the content of what got passed. Lieberman had huge power over the content.
Quotes on Design
Java is Blub. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
We're always glad to have more hackers in Canada, welcome! (If you've got your PR this was probably a while ago, but still)
I only think about the percentage loss (and invest money I can afford to lose), and then buy and hold more often than not.

From my "fun" portfolio personally, which is mostly tech stocks, there are many small losers but a few massive winners that outweigh the losses. When I was trading on a daily / weekly basis I never saw this, but after holding for quarters it's become my new approach. Instead of checking daily, now I check the numbers every few weeks.

If it's any consolation, I got started with investing in the 3 months before the housing crisis in 2008 and watched 50% of what I invested in relatively stable funds disappear basically instantly. That was depressing but in time all of them came back. For longterm, you've really gotta trust dollar-cost averaging and just waiting out the bumps. After surviving that rough introduction, everything else feels minor.
[Video/Slides] Haxl: Making Concurrency Unreasonably Easy
and we keep finding that outside of the labor theory of value (and he may not even have been wrong as much as overstating the importance of labor) ol' Marx was right on the money...
The F35 is indeed welfare, but it's not the most damaging kind. Things like that represent waste but do little in the way of active harm, and sometimes they can even have side benefits like funding the development of advanced technologies that can find more productive use elsewhere.

The real active harm comes when you get a professional class that does very bad things. These can be mistakes, like the total collapse of the economy in 2008, or they can be intentional crimes. Either way if there are no consequences then no correction gets applied and the problem gets worse.

A large scale wealthy civilization can absorb a tremendous amount of official incompetence and misconduct.
It's about time! I wonder if this is due to the fact that if email encryption becomes common, the content will be inaccessible to Google anyway.
How to do that?
Any project that works with information inside a computer program as well as data has a chance to be 20 years ahead of its time. Current software development supports information very poorly, and supports data very well. Right now the most we can do to work with information is to extract it after the fact using Data Analytics. If we could work with information inside a program that would be a huge leap from where we are now.
I can answer this for AngularDart. That one is used for AdWords, AdSense, AdMob — these 3 alone bring 75%+ of Google's revenue —, a company-wide CRM, Fiber, Shopping Express, Wing, ...

No Gmail, Calendar, Docs, or any other consumer app so far.

Disclaimer: I work on the Dart team.
Therein lies its strength. It filters out both those too weak and those who want to appear smarter than they are. The first group just never can get anything done in C++, the second writes code they can't understand themselves 3 months after they wrote it, so it either ends up in Boost or nobody uses it.
Yes, exactly. The marketing local used to be "certified pre-owned" = "smart cars". The terms were used interchangeably, usually by differing brands.
On reviewing code–Some practices I've found useful
I've thought about turning my whole house into a faraday cage way too many times to be considered sane still.
Not that few - more than 1 in 10 emails sent and received by Gmail are unencrypted: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/
"The wrong kind of entrepreneur flourishes in America" would probably be the better title. The article describes a single kind of behaviour. "The wrong kinds of entrepreneur flourish in America" would better describe an article where multiple kinds/distinct groups of behaviors were present.
Haiku is POSIX compatible, so at the very least there are the standard C APIs. It is true you need to call into C++ for things like GUIs though (unless you use a port of a C GUI library).
So much for the argument "how else is Google going to make money if it isn't reading your emails?!"

Companies can make money without tracking you 24/7 and reading all of your private content. They just choose not to, because it's easier, and then spread the propaganda that those things are "needed" to stay in business.
Precisely. Someone said that once driving is automated, truckers will only be responsible for cargo management, with a few people standing by for a fleet, ready to take over manually if autopilot breaks.
Yes, at least the tech employers that most of us are likely to work for. And, with the repeal of the ACA imminent, this seems relevant: employer plans usually didn't discriminate on pre existing conditions. Individual plans did.
I think the context matters. If the employee(s) in question have meaningful equity and authority in the business then it's a reasonable comment.

If they're just salaried employees, even with some token paper lottery ticket style equity options, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect them to have the same passion and commitment as the founders.
Tuning postgresql queries
Why Choose Vue.js
Yes, but there's a huge difference between having a hobby(that might never produce anything for consumption) and shipping a game.

90% of indie devs I know want to do the latter because sharing their game/art/vision and seeing people experience it is the goal. Totally fine to do gamedev as a hobby but that's something discretely different from being an independent game developer.
The request is pointless for that purpose. Unless a government is using the source code to create their own trusted builds using an environment under their control then there is no guarantee that a particular set of source code has any bearing on the compiled product image.
> But honestly, there is an expectation of some level of competency/knowledge when trying to "claim" a hobby, because people consider a hobby as something you involve yourself in at more than a surface level.

No. In fact, the very definition of a hobby refutes this.
A hobby is purely anything you have taken interest in for mere pleasure or to fill leisure time. Hobby's synonyms are pastime, leisurely activity, leisurely pursuit, etc. There should be no expectation of mastery.

Now if I said I am a piano practitioner, I would assume some knowledge.

> If someone tells me that they like to play a musical instrument - I'd first gauge [...]

And this list of criteria you gauge will vary from person to person, and interviewer to interviewer, which is exactly why approving/rejecting candidates based on their hobbies is unreliable at best.

By the way, your listed criteria of what someone being a musician is would exclude Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul McCartney, Kurt Vile, Tony Williams, Danny Elfman, Eric Clapton and Tom Morello, just to name a few.
That's like saying it's ok to rob you because at least I didn't kill you like the other guy wanted to.
That sucks for me as an advertiser. Gmail ads were great for B2B marketing.
I actually make less than the amounts you quoted and I still absolutely don't care. I'm actually living very comfortably on this salary. But then I'm in the north east, maybe in London you have to use food banks on 27k but over here you absolutely don't.
I think it's silly to assume that's the case. You could very well be right, but there's no way to make that anything more than an assumption based on the article.
My educated guess would be that given the proliferation of services offered by Google, it indeed has many more sources of information on each individual, and having email as one of them perhaps proves less beneficial today as it did when Gmail was first introduced. Now there is the Android OS which gives information about apps you use, locations, activities, and online searches, map queries, bookmarks, sentiments via G+, etc. So, it can disable auto-scanning of emails perhaps as a PR move (or, should I hope it is going to eventually evolve its email service to include encrypting emails, and this is one step in that direction??).
You're correct.

It would be better to say "entrepreneurs of the wrong kind flourish in America" - but that might sound odd or overly formal to everyday speakers.

It's similar to the rule about ending your sentence in a preposition. It's incorrect, but it also sounds more natural in many instances.
How do you know? That's the problem with closed source software, and software that runs in someone else's computer. You have no idea what it does. You aren't in control. Someone else is deciding what code runs on your computer. That's a problem.
Yes. Macroeconomics is secular theology. The global economy is so vast and interconnected that basically none of the theory can be scientifically tested.
Hah. I came here to basically say the same:

"They have such a strong baseline of the predilections of their users, and by association with those they regularly communicate - by their overlapping interests and behaviors, googles ad dossier on any given user is complete enough to no longer read the drivel one sends to another to predict your future choices.
Why do size and diversity matter? Size is solved by just doing more of the same. If Germany, say, needs X doctors and Y administrators, then the US needs approximately 4X doctors and 4Y administrators. There are problems which get dramatically more difficult with scale, but I see no reason to think that this is one of them, let alone that a factor of 4 is enough to take it from tractable to intractable.

I can't even figure out how diversity would factor into it. Medical treatment depends very little on people's race or culture. I don't get it at all.
Motivations matter.

When we had the march to war in Iraq, suspect intel was being selectively and deceitfully pulled out of context specifically to build a case for war in Iraq. By politicians, not by intel professionals. A bunch of former intel people went on record calling BS on it.

Right now, nobody's making a case for war with Russia. Retaliatory sanctions at best. They mostly just want to harden our election process and systems to prevent it from happening again, or worse.

Yet we see constantly moving goalposts from people who don't want that hardening to happen. What's their motivation?
It's fun, isn't it? It's one of those things that costs way too much to be practical but you can't help but try to think of ways to get the cost down. Mini-SpaceX in a useless domain.
Google can stop reading your emails because they track you so well you elsewhere. You wouldn't want to cite this example.
It's certainly a personal risk tolerance decision as well balancing high-risk individual trades with indexing.
My favorite math joke, imagine a professor speaking: "I explained it in my seminar, but they didn't seem to understand. So, I had to explain it again, and again they didn't get it. I ended up explaining it a third time, and by that point I understood it, but they still didn't understand.

Many more jokes of varies quality: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/1083/do-good-math-jokes-e...
As eriknstr correctly points out, the puzzle I have included above is already classified as "very hard".

SICStus Prolog 4.3.2 takes about 20 milliseconds to find the solution with the formulation I posted.

I tested this on a machine where cat /dev/cpuinfo yields:

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
microcode : 0x11
cpu MHz : 2668.000
cache size : 8192 KB

Prolog is very well suited for solving such combinatorial tasks, and the powerful pruning algorithms of constraint-based solutions using Prolog will often outperform other formulations of such problems.

I have used the following Prolog code to benchmark the running time of a goal:

goal_time(Goal, Time) :-
statistics(runtime, [T0,_]),
( catch(Goal, error(resource_error(memory), _), E = memory) ->
true
; functor(Goal, F, A),
portray_clause(failed(F/A))
),
statistics(runtime, [T1,_]),
T #= T1 - T0,
( nonvar(E) ->
Time = exception(E, T)
; Time = time(T)
).

For example, it takes about 1 second (990 milliseconds) to count from 1 to 10 million:

?- goal_time(ignore((between(1,10000000,_),false)), T).
T = time(990).
No - that does not appear to solve the verification problem.
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There are lots of cases out there where the so-called "zombie" state is a perfectly valid one, and may for various reasons be preferable to representing that state externally (for example, with a null pointer). Such an object is simply a placeholder instance of the object that is ready to do work, but not yet actually doing anything. If necessary, it can check its internal state and throw exceptions when not-valid-while-uninitialized methods are called.

The examples that come immediately to mind are the Publiser, Subscriber, and Timer classes that are part of the ROS C++ API: http://docs.ros.org/api/roscpp/html/classros_1_1Publisher.ht...

I agree that there are caveats with it, but I get nervous when people toss around a phrase like "known antipattern" with such confidence.
I dig Guix, but Lisp is also one of the most commonly reviled syntaxes, so it's hard to say it's clearly better, or that Nix would enjoy more adoption with S-expressions.
> 1. There are plenty of US Government (i.e. tax payer funded) programs to help people get "normal" ideas off the ground. From grants, to loans, the money is there. It's hard to imagine someone destined for success being stopped by not being able to raise $10k. $10k in credit card debt is nothing for the average american.

You've obviously never tried this. It would be a full-time job for a year to even have a shot at these supposed grants. The money is absolutely not there the way you claim.

The younger you are the less credit history you have which makes getting loans almost impossible unless you already have collateral to pledge against the loan.

Oh and $10k is often not nearly enough capital to start a business since you need to pay your own bills while you bootstrap the business. We get away with it in tech often because we have the luxury of working after-hours as a side-project to start with. A customer-facing business can't do that.
Super late edit - it's several wallpapers per month and one video. Also you can get physical objects with the designs on them through his kinda-defunct old site http://fractal.world/
I doubt it. That's a pretty big "if".
It's certainly a consistent position. I am inclined to agree with it, even.

However, it does not follow that the state is not using violence to enable speech.

State violence is still violence. The army of riot police descending on the city is there for a reason - to suppress the rights to freedom of speech and assembly for the many.
You seem intent on getting me to defend a point I'm not making. I'm just describing what Ethereum could provide here and what makes it different from other solutions. The closest I came to actually praising it in any way was calling it "kind of cool." I'm not actually attempting to say, in any way, that this is actually useful or the way everything should be done or anything like that.
The headline promised a lot but the article delivered "4.4 percent less energy". Also, I find it interesting that the motor Tesla uses isn't even mentioned (and AFAICT doesn't fall in categories they compare).
If Howard had known of this paint, then he wouldn't have had to put Mylar all over his house and look like a kook! Jimmy wouldn't have had to do so much to help him out... maybe he'd still be alive!
The former and latter comments of yours in this post don't appear to agree with each other. Am I missing something?
Isn't there RF-blocking wallets? Seems like something I'd probably buy if I had an identity worth stealing.
Abstract algebra is a massive field, the vast majority of which has little applicability to writing code, so it's hard to know what to recommend without knowing why you want to learn it.

If you're ready to get very serious with mathematics, I like Algebra by Mac Lane and Birkhoff. (Note that this is a different book from A Survey of Modern Algebra by the same authors, which I'm sure is okay, but... a different book.)

If you're not ready to get very serious with mathematics... well, then why do you want to learn algebra?
And to an extent, I fully get what you are saying. However, the entire push of HTML/CSS is not much different than the push of LaTeX over TeX. Or any number of other examples. (You can almost draw the line at people wanting a fully declarative language for content being the problem. I'm sympathetic to that view. I haven't explored it enough, yet.) People want to find a very hard separation of presentation from content.

And to an extent, this makes sense. However, ditching HTML and similar tech seems excessive to me. The largest problem with HTML is so many people try to appease the flow and native layout of the elements. This leads to a massive bloat of markup to create what is actually easy to describe using minimal markup and liberal usage of absolute/relative positioning.
Agreed. You still have great buying power (locally) when every other merchant out there is demanding their piece of the pie.
My approach has been to put it out there as soon as I had something playable, with an obvious disclaimer that you play at your own risk and may lose everything. I don't know if that counts as shipping but at least I get to see people experience it.

You're right though that I may not count as a real indie game developer since I do it purely for fun.
Having bounties at all is above average for a seed-stage startup with 13 people.

Most people that are successful here are surely doing it for personal joy and satisfaction, not the money.
To clarify: in one of the attacks discussed we mostly picked up a signal from the address lines - that is, we exploited the fact that AES' RAM access patterns correlate with the key.

ChaCha20 is sufficiently constant-everything (which includes not having any key-dependent RAM access patterns) that we'd probably need to pick up the data (not just address) lines. That turns out to be (mildly?) harder in this particular combination of attack target and measurement setup.

We do make appliances designed to survive (or at least strongly resist) such attacks, but admittedly we don't rely on naive software AES implementations operating on external RAM. ;-)
Infidelity grows out of a shitty relationship, not the other way around.
How many people here use Kaspersky privately or at work?
The article explains it plainly: they weren't getting the message to business people that Gmail on Google Apps isn't scanned despite free Gmail being, so they stopped scanning Gmail altogether.
> WHY pooling the society's resource for health care is "socialized"?!

Because that's what the word means.
Isolating and encapsulating apps for Linux is a snap with Snapcraft and CircleCI
How bout you tell me all the deaths and property damage that has happened from nuclear weapons detonated by hackers. Ill cross-reference it against all the financial, property, or other damage from hackers without nukes. We'll see which has been higher to determine what worries people should invest security money in.
Is it ethical to have ~23 empty homes for every homeless person in the US?

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22335/are-there...