skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a nice infographic: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-biggest-codebases-in-his.... Unix 1.0 (1971) has a third of the number of lines of code as the average iPhone app. I know LOC is a very poor proxy for complexity, but I have a hard time believing that 70s engineers could replicate the functionality of Google's 2 billion LOC with tools like ed.
How's college in Mississippi? I'm thinking not many HNers are in that state.
It's a reminder not to think the presenter was honestly trying to teach
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Did you even listen to Sam Harris's podcast with Charles Murray?

I've seen this vox article before and I think it's a joke.

EDIT:

To clarify my GP comment, the point is that there are very good reasons to conclude that IQ is not distributed equally across different populations, and so if there are different percentages of developers from X or Y populations it should not be seen as evidence of discrimination because it could very well be the result of IQ distribution.

Also, it should not be necessary to point out since it should have no bearing on the discusion, but I am not white (at least not of European ancestry).
I've heard getting scammed by people you don't know (I guess people you know too) is really easy on Venmo. Especially in cases like CL. Be careful.
Tiny changes at the margins absolutely drive decision making. It's not about "company x is making $y so they should have to pay $z." Companies will pay what they have to in order to get what they need. If that thing becomes more expensive they may look elsewhere.
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Please don't spread fake news!

The metro system is owned by the city, and ultimately the government. With all its problems, it is still not a mafia.

Although you are in a different part of the world, but when visiting the poor and backwards Eastern Europe, please use your common sense, or at least do some fact check.
Is this a VM in the sense the JVM is a VM, or is it a VM in the sense of a CPU emulator?

It seems to be the former, but I'm not well read in VM implementation.
> Any successful thing on the internet that hits the media will sooner or later be copied (usually sooner)

Definitely not copied from anotheer commenter ;)

I keep a list of things that follow this pattern, and yeah, altcoins/tokens are another. It really just becomes a catalogue of what's been popular/happening these past couple decades.
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You can't really avoid taking a position on the distributional aspects. All "willing to sell in the marketplace" gives you is that their choice is better than their next-best alternative. It tells you nothing about whether the system as a whole provides fair choices and opportunities for people. It tells you nothing about whether rents are getting extracted through coercion. It passes no judgement on who gets the surpluses from trade.
As long as the other application is Firefox, Safari, IE11/Edge, or Opera, then it probably has a HSTS preload list that is at least in part generated from the Chrome one.

Firefox have some scripts which go through and check to make sure everything still on the Chrome list is still announcing the preload headers, and will autoremove if that isn't that case, IIRC. I wouldn't be too shocked if Apple/Microsoft were doing something similar.
let's hope that this good AI won't turn bad once it's too late to switch to something else...
Do you find your job meaningful? Look into that and you might find that you need to feel that you're making a difference with your work. I had a similar situation where I felt like a cog without much significance to my job. Dealing with technology day in and day out can be very dissatisfying.

Possible solutions:

1)Find out what you really want to do even if it's less money

2)Do you need to find someone to share your life with?

3) Do you need to work up the career ladder?

4) if what you want to do won't let you make a living. Use your current job to finance what you want to do. It will give your job a purpose.

5) Talk to a mental health professional.

I would take one of those long vacations and test different things. You'll have to take action. You can talk about it forever and it won't make a difference.
The paper is from the upcoming USENIX Security Symposium in August, here is a link to the metadata:

https://www.usenix.org/biblio-136
I know. And not a word on forward-error correction, trellis codes, automatic gain control, beam steering or MU-MIMO. Is this for babies? They don't even touch on low-noise amplifiers. Much less DAC and ADC performance. Where's the link a primer on FFT?
>At any interesting wage, a minimum wage increase will increase unemployment.

This is not obvious. Increasing the income of the almost-bottom could act as a stimulus which drives down unemployment. It is possible that this effect is greater than the unemployment caused by the minimum wage directly.

Having said that, I agree that the UBI is a generally better way of accomplishing this.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the reviews are effective—I bet reviews are a metric that's tied a lot more directly to executive compensation/promotions than "number of people protesting outside HQ"! Both attack the company's reputation, and, unless a protest gets on a major news network, I suspect acting out on Facebook has greater reach.
In some I would argue most cases a job is still viable costs go up or profit goes down.

If a company pays 65% of their employees the minimum and wages go up 5% the company doesn't fire most of its workers it grudgingly pays more.

In a lot of cases the existing low wage is actually below market now and subsidized by benefits like food stamps.
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I was more naive, but it worked out. Reported a vulnerability and how to fix it to a regional bank when applying for a student loan. They asked me to come in person to explain it and dropped a point off my interest rate.

In hindsight it was a huge risk and I was dangerously trusting.
As far as I know, they can [1]. Once you're connected to the network you can sniff out everything from clients that connect after you.

The standard response to this is that you're safe since the eavesdropper needs to know the shared key. You can look into setting up WPA2-Enterprise if you're worried about that. FreeRADIUS doesn't seem particularly hard to configure.

[1] https://superuser.com/a/156969
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Unless ubi + new wages actually makes some poorer
It's really interesting to be going in the other direction. People learn Java/C++ in university, then get jobs writing PHP or whatever. I can't imagine how cynical that would make a person, at the very least against their student loans! Not to language-war, natch. But going "in reverse" really feels like an excavation. "Interesting, this is what they had (have, like in your case) to do before langs/frameworks evolved!"
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It kind of is. I'm not against a higher minimum wage...in fact I welcome it. But let's be honest, it's going to crush small businesses and force larger ones into automation. The real problem is that this cuts into the unskilled lifeline. Unskilled labor is dying, these people must learn a trade. I have no hypothetical solution for those unable or unwilling, sadly, outside of UBI which presents its own issues.
Then the cost of automation will be less than the employee is paid very soon anyway
Not saying that creating military killer robots counts as "trying to do good", however ...
if we're talking about a terminator-like scenario, let's not forget the robots from the movie initially are human-designed military appliances.
Not sure if anyone used Open Bazaar on Hacker News. I tried it and forget to close it. After 24-hours, this program leaked 4GB memory. How could the developer let this happen?
I didn't know that, every place I lived in here had much slower rent increases (despite the market around the apartment raising more than that - in fact in my current place I'm still paying then same rent 3 years into living here).

Either way 15% in 3 years is still rent control.
"replace-ability vs maintainability"
They are the same thing...
More people will want to connect/meet you if they have something interesting to gain from you. Mentioning how successful your financial services startup became or what your current startup ideas/interests/insights are may be helpful.
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Yep. And lack of exceptions in languages like C or Go makes it harder to pretend you have done the right thing, if you in fact did not, given that it forces you handle every single error condition explicitly.
Actually yes, the EU some money for refurb, not new trains.

The Russians didn't magically win the tender, i think it was realpolitik. They manufactured them originally in the first place, they have the means to do the work, and without knowing if the proposals were technically equivalent, Hungary needs to maintain a good relation not only to its neighbors, and fellow EU members, but to Moscow.

Also the trains are not in a worse working condition than the Siemens Combino trams or the Siemens and Alstom technology at Metro 4 line, which also had integration problems during the first months of operation. The problems will be addressed by the russian firm as well as as the western firms addressed those problems.
It already has that feature!

Hit "New Plan", and then in the top right there's a link that says "Create Sample Plan"
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It's true that it doesn't help once the user has been MITM'ed.

But before that happens, if the user always goes to the http address and it works for them (whether by legitimate redirect or by the legitimate site simply supporting http) it lulls them in to a false sense of security, and a belief that going to the http address is ok.

So the idea behind having the http address be broken from the start is to make the users see that the address they're trying is broken, and therefore the wrong one for them to use. Hopefully at that point they'll investigate why (perhaps complaining or talking to their sysadmin, if they have one), and be straightened out by someone providing the https link to them (or the more tech-savvy users like the OP figuring it out for themselves).
Yes, other devices on the same network (using WPA2-PSK) can sniff your traffic. It's possible to prevent this with WPA2-Enterprise.
What fraction of users of programming languages are mathematicians, or even CS graduates (of any degree level) who (should) care about the mathematical properties underlying the principles of the language? The answer: close to zero. The reason I chuckle is because I do understand the terms and I do recognize how absurdly placed they often are.
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Yes, if you know the PSK (=password) and can capture the initial handshake (which is easy, since you can just force-disconnect a client so it has to do a new one) you can decrypt it. (If I remember correctly, Wireshark has this built in, so you can try it for yourself if you are curious)
I get where you coming from but I would still encourage people to report. Most companies will want to fix and hush it up.

I have previously found a way to access very personal information in a large corporate billing system. When I contacted them I specifically used careful language that what I'd done was unintentional, and easy mistake that could lead others to this, that I kept zero data and exited the system as soon as I realised 'my mistake' and was very surprised. Basically enough that 1) If it should go to court the situation would be in my favour as much as it can be and 2) Given they were a well know public retailer I figured this would hit social media and make an uproar about the company should they act badly.

Initially I contact several people in IT and heard nothing. Six months later when I noticed this was still open. I then contacted the CEO. Expecting nothing or canned 'thanks', we was thankful had some followup contact about the issue.

I wont say there is no risk, but I think its the right thing to do and risk seems minimal. And you can always do it anonymously.
It's not about whether the company as a whole is profitable

This is a great point. McDonald's and Walmart could paradoxically become more profitable after a minimum wage increase. How? By closing their least profitable stores. Perhaps those stores were just barely making a profit and the increase pushed them into the red. By closing these stores they increase their profitability despite recording a decrease in profit.
Actually the Russian company and the tender has received attacks that the cars are actually new, only some identifiers have been transferred from the old cars, as Metrowagonmash had a dozen or so surplus cars of the type the used cars were supposed to be upgraded to.
Minimum wage laws don't tend to increase real wages, at best they reduce hours. In some cases (data indicates this in Seattle) the reduction in hours overshoots the increase in rates. Labour has a utility to employers, and if the employee can not provide utility that the employer can translate into more than a minimum wage's worth of value, then they simply can not be hired for that rate at that time.

I am taking time away from work right now, which is possible due to my frugal lifestyle and fairly high skills. I would love to do part time work to keep me on my feet, even below minimum wage. There are endless things around town that I'm sure somebody is willing to pay something for.

There is no such thing as a living wage, there might be such a thing as a living salary. Due to good planning, my expenses are tiny, my living income would be maybe two thirds of the U.S. poverty threshold (in the U.S. I could still afford health insurance at or below the poverty line with my other expenses), and that's in a real city.
Company McDonalds made 1.47 per share (815M) shares so, yeah, they should have to pay a minimum wage. In Oakland CA where I live, that's currently $12.86 and McDonalds has not left town.

I'm well aware of the microeconomics argument. It is basically ceteris paribus except that all things aren't equal. You're leaving out a lot of the beneficial aspects of a MW such as more money spent by the wage earners. You're also ignoring a tremendous amount of empirical experience with MWs around the world.

In particular, Red States with low MWs, basically at the Federal minimum, aren't economic miracles.

http://minimum-wage.insidegov.com/
"This Vox article" is a piece Vox provided space for from 3 experts, at least two of whom are major figures in the academic field, prompted by that podcast. You won't have any luck dismissing it as a superficial Vox article. Any attempt to do so will inevitably end up saying more about you than about the piece --- which is the point I am trying to make to you.

Incidentally: Charles Murray is not a major figure in this field. Turkheimer and Nisbett are professors at major research universities both of whom have spent their careers studying these specific scientific questions. Murray is, for lack of a charitable description, a pundit. Obviously, he's well known for _The Bell Curve_, but we tend to forget that his co-author (now deceased) was the scientific authority behind that book.

Reevaluate.
I am very curious about this tool you are super happy with and would be totally fine with a reference about this entirely in Chinese ;P.
Microsoft doesn't get any special mention :p. Makes sense to leave Microsoft out in 2017, but Apple doesn't really have a monopoly ripe for abuse either in the same way of Google, FB, Amazon. If Apple is included because of its size, then Microsoft still does more revenue and profit than most of the tech companies. And its market cap will be higher than Amazon and FB for a few more years.
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In general, you can setup an environment in which Redis is HA (replication + auto-failover) and persistent.
Redis Enterprise does it by default + backup and DR + some enhancements to the Redis storage layer (as mentioned in this blog. These enhancements together with the high end storage device by Dell-EMC allowed us to reach this throughout & latency. BTW, this test ran on a single node, you can scale it by just adding node(s) to the cluster.
On a related note, at Blackhat this year there's a presentation on using Machine Learning based malware detection to train your malware to evade ML based malware detection:

https://www.blackhat.com/us-17/briefings/schedule/index.html...
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Sorry, the numbers are a measure of talent; so from that table, if a man were to work a year in an "A" field, he would generate 1 unit of production, but if he were to work a year in a "B" field he would produce 2 units of production. A woman would produce 2 units of production regardless of whether it is in an "A" or "B" field.

In many real-world cases you get diminishing returns for more production. Let's say it's a square-root return, so 16 units of production in "A" is twice as good as 4 units of production in "A" (if you do the math with other diminishing returns like logarithmic you see a similar outcome).

Consider a population of 8 men and 8 women. If they are equally distributed between jobs there are 12 units of production of "A" and 16 units of production of "B" for a total value of sqrt(12)+sqrt(16) ~=7.5 units of total value.

If instead all women work in "A" jobs and all men work in "B" jobs, then you will see 16 units of production in each, for a total value of 8 units.

The most pessimal would be the reverse of that and it would generate ~6.8 units of value.
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> It's been stretched quite far through the commerce clause...

Yeah, and there's no limit on how far it can be stretched. States only have control over what the Fed isn't already in charge of.

> Practically it does not matter since the Fed has to rely on the states to enforce the law.

What? ICE and Homeland Security are federal programs. Cooperation with local authorities is great, but state authorities aren't the ones removing people from the country.

> Exactly. See if it will ever pass.

I don't know enough to say what states can do to demand funding through the court system, but it passed in the House.

> The only practical solution I see is to shift welfare to the state level.

I'm sure that would be a good start, since those costs would be reflected in, and limited by, state-level taxes. However, that alone doesn't deal with people hiring illegals and the impact that has on the wages of citizens, or crime by illegals. At some point, enforcement is required.
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> German researchers had developed better components for a large, stationary battery that used negatively and positively charged liquid electrolyte pools to exchange electrons through a reasonably priced membrane.

Seriously? If those electrolyte pools were substantially charged, the electrostatic forces would be humongous.
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Not just good code described in books like Code Complete, But aslo has a great architecture as a whole, and should be open source business applications, as there are many great library/framework/generic applications like Yii Redis Lua Linux, but open source business applications with great architecture not easy to find.
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I'm having trouble understanding what exactly an org's thought process is when they elect to prosecute someone for reporting a security issue.

Would they also prosecute a person who told them one of their doors was left unlocked after-hours?

A normal person's reaction upon being told "You left your keys in the lock" is usually gratitude, not calling the cops.

EDIT:
Is it suspicion? "Hmm...this person found an unlocked door, which means they were clearly trying all the doors. Don't like that. Who knows what else they found but didn't report." Which is understandable, but clearly counter-productive. If the person was a malicious actor, they obviously wouldn't go to the trouble of reporting in the first place.
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Can dividends be issued at-will? Or are they restricted to being quarterly / pre-planned / etc.?
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The sports-caster style commentary was hilariously awkward at times. A room full of people staring a stage full of server racks with a projector showing basic shapes being spewed between locations. Then off on another screen a technical person trying to explain to the Science channel person what the hell was going on with the different types of exploits and code execution graphs.

It's completely indescribable and epically nerdy. +10, would attend again. :)
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TBH in Eastern Europe something being owned by government usually means that it's being ran (basically owned) by mafia.
You might also be interested in algorithms like Adaboost [0] and its successors, including the various "gradient boosting" algorithms like XGBoost, LightGBM, and the newly-open-sourced
Catboost.

0: https://jeremykun.com/2015/05/18/boosting-census/
Exciting news on the liquid Li, but I'm a bit dejected to hear about the wall.
That's little consolation to the person who loses their job today instead of years from now.
I'd rather have the cars sense me, if we're that sophisticated, and skip the neurosurgery.
>Then the server needs to settle the check at the register.

This is where the time becomes an issue. Running each card can take awhile, and when you add up 4-5 cards, you get a real impact on time that the server can't be taking care of anything else. In a job that doesn't have a lot of downtime, 5-6 minutes tied to a computer can be detrimental.
Sounds about right.

I much prefer it for payments amongst friends than anything else now though. It’s rather good.

I would love to know if the college crowd was a specific target for venmo: it’s nailed it
I’m not technically sure they’re allowed to do that via ToS - it’s the owners personal account - but it happens
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Yes! One time payment for life storage is a great idea. I would also want to be able to serve some content publicly for ~100 years, so that it would be accessible even after my death. I called it the 'Century Archive' and wanted to price forever storage at $1/MB (for design as well as economic reasons).
But how will I edit screenshots?
Maybe not - but some tool that you use probably gets it artifacts from it. http://search.maven.org - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Maven-central-repository
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It is a paid service but I just started it so I haven't got the website up. I was thinking a dollar a GB?
It really depends how you define "strong." But boys outnumber girls over 2:1 in getting 800 on the math SAT, while it's something like 1:1.2 on the verbal.
I've been hearing about Vanadium flow batteries for a long time, and it would be great to see them finally deployed on this scale.
This. Executives who usually have no trouble treating engineers as replaceable parts, suddenly fail to believe someone else can and possibly has found the same vulnerability. They think getting rid of the one person capable of finding it is all it takes to be safe.
No, in this case it just means binaries won't contain / depend on the path you used to compile it in.
The company already is begrudgingly paying more to a subset of affected employees.