skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who really cares if this company collects and/or sells mapping data of our floors?

Me. And not to put too fine a point on it, the people in the market for buying and selling this data.

> Why should I be worried if Amazon knows the distance between my couch and coffee table?

I'm not going to presume to speak for you.

> Isn't our outrage better preserved for when our privacy is truly invaded?

...So don't speak for me when deciding what is an isn't an invasion of privacy.

I find this to be a significant invasion, and so do many other folks, some of whom are giving you possible answers to your question. In a lot of ways, this is no different than people claiming the FB 'true name' policy doesn't matter/is actually a positive. Maybe for them, but not for the former partner of an abusive spouse, or the gay kid in Russia or Alabama.

Don't presume that your tolerance for data leakage is the same as everyone else's.

More generally, the point is that information like this just should be default-private. There is zero reason for me to want information like this to be shared with random third-parties. If iRobot or whomever wants to "enhance the value of their connected devices" with private data about me and/or my possessions, let them approach me and convince me to share it, not just blandly write some bullshit privacy policy and take it from a device I purchased.

I love innovation, new toys, etc. But this rush to sneakily inventory/quantify/spy on me, my home, possessions and relations is awful, and will have creepy outcomes. It won't happen to me, because I won't install this shit in my home or use social media, but it will happen.

Do what you like with your own sense of privacy, but don't presume to speak for anyone else about what a "true invasion" might be.
Solving the traveling Pacman problem
For something that would aim to be used by the general public, that's a huge problem.
Traffic is horrible expensive :|
You've got it backwards. "Without a belt, air bags are of slight benefit".[0] Airbags are chiefly a nanny measure to protect people too stupid to fasten a seatbelt.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/26/us/study-shows-air-bags-sa...
No, you generally can buy it back for the scrap value.
There is a bias against certifications by some (but by no means all) professionals in InfoSec, since it is a heavily "hands-on" field. There is more emphasis on demonstrating actual ability through CTFs, bug bounties, published exploits, etc.

However, unlike Certified Ethical Hacker, CISSP, and other "mile wide, but inch deep" certs, the OSCP is a heavily hands-on certification that tests actual ability. No knowledgeable employer would discriminate against you for earning it.

And CISSP or CISSM are valuable if you're applying for a management job. For government defense-sector jobs, they are often required.
I was going to write something similar. It is extremely odd timing to write that the same week bitcoin is getting upgraded to be able to compete with VISA level payment networks.

Its like, sure, maybe any other time over the last eight years. But even then it would have been disingenuous to suggest that was the death knell of the concept, since it can be upgraded.
Cool. But it's DOA if it doesn't meet safety standards. People might accept 4/5 NCAP stars but not for a premium car. Lack of airbag is concerning but might be fixed before the production model is finished I suppose.
Great game. Was it a side project, or were you a full time game dev?

And what about now after its success? Did it provide enough income to pursue whatever you want full time?
For a second, I thought this was a post about immigration.
I think your first point is the one that matters the most. The primary thing you should be thinking about here is "how compelling is this going to be to the intended audience?"

If you can get to the point where you can hammer out a game in a weekend, which isn't that difficult, I'd suggest building a simple game that showcases the concept that you find compelling and submit it a game jam like Ludum Dare. You're going to get a bunch of people playing it and you'll be able to see if they respond to the concept.

If they do, then go ahead and make a larger version of the game. If not, well it just costed you a weekend anyway.
Quote interesting release, many useful features. `action_fallback` looks really nice. Contexts ... not so much imo
I'm fairly skilled up with Linux, but I don't often read about anything the community is doing, saying or thinking. What is it that everyone hates about Systemd?
Nice collection of Linux distributions I'd like to avoid now.

There might be some issues with systemd, but systemd is by far much better than anything else we had before.
The amount of BCC you will get is exactly equal to the amount of BTC you have. If you have 1 btc, after the fork will have 1 bcc and 1 btc. It doesn't matter how many miners support either chain.

Best advice is usually not to hold it on an exchange however. Withdraw it to a personal wallet you control. That way you will have the most control over what happens after the fork.
While bazel and buck look great for building Google/Facebook-sized codebases, meson looks great for what most of our projects are.
The mouth movements are deep down in the uncanny valley to me, but the audio is frighteningly convincing.
TFA has a nice link for that: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...
> The service is free of charge until November 1, 2017.

Gee, thanks!

To my eyes this has Ponzi scam written all over it...
Use Koa-like middleware everywhere with ctx-compose
Unless it's a Takata airbag and the thing that catches your face is a piece of metal shrapnel.

You do understand that airbags are bombs. The inflation mechanism literally uses explosives. They can and have killed people especially children and the elderly. Early generation airbags are more violent and dangerous because the standard was to protect an unbelted driver.
Trump's actual policy actions are generally consistent with the “extreme right” label, though not all positions of the same extremist faction.
If I am using Arq, will I have additional costs except '$.0039 per GB per month'?
Funding criminal activities comes to mind as an immediate use.
The mouth looks like a slightly more sophisticated version of the Annoying Orange. I remember an academic fake talking head demo a while ago that was much more impressive.
Ivy looks great. That said, every time I see a new SSG in Python, I get all excited about it for a minute. Then I remember this bit of advice: "Just use Jekyll".

> Jekyll is not better than the rest for any fundamental design reason; it’s better because it’s enormously popular and therefore excels in the long tail of details.

> ...

> If, like me, you secretly believe that everything is better if it’s written in Python, I still suggest you start with Jekyll (which is done in Ruby). In my experience, using Jekyll does not require writing or reading a single line of Ruby.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/jekyll.html

This matches my own experience pretty well.
Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA’s WB-57F Jets
Promises aren't going anywhere. async/await is built on top of Promises, for instance.

Observables are in position to be adopted by ECMAScript in a future spec eventually, but they are still only at Stage 1 of the ES proposal process, and also Observables don't exactly replace Promises so much as extend them.

An Observable can be thought of as a "stream" of promised values rather than just a single promised value. It's a somewhat different paradigm. From the Observable perspective a Promise is a simple Observable that produces a single value and completes immediately after. So you can see Promises are useful in an Observable world as something of a building block.

A good resource on Observables can be: http://reactivex.io/

It's focused on the main cross-platform library for Observables (ReactiveX which has implementations in .NET, Java, JS, more), but a lot of it is applicable to Observables in general and it has a lot of good "marble" diagrams that can help show why Observables can be powerful.

The dry Stage 1 ES spec itself is here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable
This idea that open source is somehow immune from criticism is old and tired. If they want to pretend like they're targeting normal people, they need to act like it. This means putting work into things like UX.
Wow.

In the past few weeks:

- Erlang/OTP 20 released,

- Elixir 1.5 released

And Cowboy 2.0 is in Release Candidate phase.

Exciting times.
Reading reviews of it on Glassdoor makes it sound horrid. Part time contractors who have to work in "blocks" and who seem to have it mostly automated/appified with little human guidance. No wonder in the end they don't care.
This is essentially what the Black Panthers tried, isn't it?
There's also a short documentary (20'ish mins) on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/97270099
Chilling.
Note that this is not a list of distributions hating systemd. Some distributions just don't use systemd for technical reasons or because of other design considerations.

One example is GuixSD, which uses Guile for everything, including the init (via GNU Shepherd).
So if I transfer from Coinbase to kraken - I'd be able to leverage the split in a no risk scenario?
New world record of distance landscape photography
In its naive form, it seems very monolithic, which seems un-unixlike. And its adoption was largely driven by decisions by large distributions, rather than organic growth. To some, this feels very corporate and centralized, which seems un-linuxlike.
It's actually a positive for Chicago. The economy here is highly, highly diversified. We have a large tech sector but it doesn't dominate the economy...nor would it be a good idea for it to do so
Really excited to see this out. I've been learning Elixir and Phoenix with the 1.3rc and have really been enjoying it!

I'm a fan of Contexts myself as that is typically how I architect apps on mobile as well. I like having everything separated more explicitly and testable individually and Contexts seem to promote that in a really nice way.
That makes sense, I didn't think of it like that. I was thinking that since the value is in the performance, that that's where the protection would be.
You should make rsync.io redirect to rsync.net with your coupon code and get a bunch of storage :)
Contexts are in practice pretty nice, and you don't have to use them. I've found that in my own work with 1.3.rc.*, the contexts describe an area of the system and help enforce some separation of concerns. That said, you're free to build everything in one context.
From experience, I suspect NB does well on text primarily for two reasons:

(1) High dimensionality - this is also the reason why SVMs with linear kernels do so well on text (NBs find a linear boundary too - but a different linear boundary than linear-kernel SVMs)

(2) this reason applies to certain cases only: text where "token" based estimates are sufficiently discriminatory. For ex take a dataset that has two kinds of documents - one talking about product A and the other talking about product B. And you want to label the documents based on which product they're talking about. Here, just noticing if the term "A" or "B" appears in the document is good enough for classification. You don't have to have powerful models that infer "connotations" of words based on context. NB will do well here, esp if bundled with a feature selection technique that weeds out noisy features (like sthg based on Normalized Mutual Information)
It would be a great destination for cloud backup, where one of the concerns is loss of all your backed up data due to malicious action - look at the trouble the hackers had to go to in Mr Robot to take out their offsite tape backups. I'd be more concerned though with the durability of the company rather than their disk systems over the long term though.
You give it to your kids instead of a cell phone, mostly.
Seattle was nice but it had no lightning bugs so I left. Lightning bugs are important.
And lose all their contacts, and have to communicate to them that they lost their account and had to get a new one.
Does this have anything to do with Cicada 3301?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
India contributes to Amazon's 77% profit plunge: company continues to invest
I thought it was the Brussels-Utrecht Limitations and Legalities of System Hardware Instruction Types agreement?
I think it's undeniable that we spend most of our time by debugging and fixing the existing code structure, bugs, defects and sometimes adding new features. I highly doubt of existence of a book that can teach how to effectively do that.
It's a luxury and real pleasure if you are asked to create the project from scratch in a real job.
I don't have a years worth of data to compare just yet. During tourist season, it's obviously more than what I could get than long term. This is about 2.5x as much profit than the long term, but during slow season, it's breaking even what a long term tenant would be in there for.

I'd also need to account for renting it for free to friends and family. I agree that short term in other US cities would be great, where my other properties are, I don't think I'd get much value out of it, especially when I'm usually in the USVI myself.
Augur REP Token Critical Vulnerability Disclosure
Scott Wlaschin's talk does a pretty good job of demonstrating how F# is pretty great for BLOBAs (Boring Line of Business applications).

You can find it here: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ddd/
Cool!

Would appreciate a motivation section in the readme, specifically whether this addresses needs better than others (especially Lektor which seems aimed at the same use case).

Or not, it's your project, can just be because you wanna :)
I'd rather read an article than watch a keynote.
Mass surveillance is also the accepted law of the land.

I know you haven't accepted it, but the government you appear to endorse has, and apparently that's all that matters, because I haven't accepted taxation in any form, nor have I accepted the form of law making that creates the power to tax, but I'm taxed anyway.
No offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about. He never says that the water is magical, and he also never says that liberals are bringing the apocalypse. The left in America shoots themselves in the foot time and time again by refusing to learn the right's viewpoints and effectively counter them. The party of "skeptics" who live under a rock (or maybe in a cave?).
As others have already pointed out, it's the extraction and concentration of fructose (which is what is meant by "processing" in this context) that is so bad.

The perfect example is that it's unlikely you'd have the appetite for eating 15 apples, but it's not difficult to drink 15 apples worth of juice.
Awesome, nice work!
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ivy-python

Ivy: a lightweight software bus

I can't disagree. You can't even easily filter down searching 'ivy python' or similar
I would compare it to cheap iPhones instead. You can get a iPhone 5 for $100 or less, or a 5S for a little more, or a 6 for about 200, with no contract.

I bought a cheap Kyocera last year and it was a nightmare compared to the experience i would have had with even an iphone 4s. Outdated system software with no updates, a terrible camera and poor reception were my main issues.
There is a subtle difference between writer's block and burn out, though the two might manifest hand in hand sometimes.
What's the long version? I've always struggled to define "tech company" vs. "non-tech company".

I like your short version except for "hire a contractor to build it." What if the company actually hires on one or two engineers to build it? Would that company have made the jump from "non-tech" to "tech"?

I wonder if it's simply a matter of engineer/development headcount i.e. what job function has the largest headcount. Google's is R&D (https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Google-have) and Microsoft's is Engineering (https://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/#RevenueHea...). I tried to quickly find examples of some non-tech companies' (Walmart, Target, BofA, Wells Fargo, Nike) headcount by function, but couldn't.
That's the path of least resistance. Just passively accept calls and interviews via recruiters, and next thing you know you're in the enterprise. It's what happens when you don't have a plan.
the orientation is horrible. why is north up? just no.
If the presentation of the models was an academic paper filled with equations, I would not find the insistence unreasonable. In this case the context for The Evolution of Trust is alongside the Parable of the Polygons and parables are not mathematical or game theory.

At the mathematical level, if there is nothing moral/ethical/rational to draw from the simulation, then what's the point? If it's just math, then why is it only the least successful agents that switch to the most successful strategy and why are they able to switch to the most successful strategy before it is clear that that strategy is the most successful? Going further why don't moderately unsuccessful agents switch strategies? And since mistakes are part of the simulation, why don't agents mistakenly switch strategies? Why does the simulation maintain a constant number of agents rather than varying based on outcome?

The reason is that the goal of the presentation is to encourage people to be more open to the possibility of mistakes before retaliation. The presentation is trying to appeal to people using mathematics. My criticism is that the price of the mathematical model is too high: justifying cheating because it is best for the individual.
Well.. at the moment are you at the mercy of Coinbase. Then you are at the mercy of Kraken. Why don't you just keep the coins to yourself?
Replied to a child post of this already, but in case you missed, they specifically said they won't share data either without first obtaining informed consent. (Full disclosure - former iRobot engineer)

https://homesupport.irobot.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/964/~...
If taxation was "the price you pay for government services" then people should be taxed in proportion of the total of government services they use -- that's exactly what "the law of the law" says businesses should do when they elaborate their pricing.
An Extension to Make Swift's Date Class More Readable
didn't know you were into necro?
With the exception of slackware (which aims to be the most Unix-like Linux distro) I don't understand all the hate for systemd and why people continually try to remove it from their system. I've read countless blogs on the pitfalls of systemd, but all the benefits of systemd outweigh the downsides. It seems there are a lot of people who get way too hung up on sticking to the UNIX philosophy as closely as possible without taking other factors into consideration.
There is some crazy legacy regulation in the US. This classification of vehicles doesn't exist elsewhere so I don't understand why you'd tailor a vehicle for such loopholes. The only answer would be that it's aimed at the US market only (which would be a weird commercial decision) or it would need a completely separate export model.
Experience. If you dig into the billing information and/or actually attempt to create a cloud project it'll tell you there is $40/year minimum.

On OVH you create an "OpenStack/Cloud" project -> They charge you $40 -> Then you have use of the cloud storage.
Vietnam was more of a failure due to anti-American agitators within the u.s. government and media, but your other points are valid. Also people who think the military would turn against the people are insane... the people stockpiling ammo are overwhelmingly military related.
Or they were smart enough to change the size of the box so that it can't be used to easily identify the vendor (from among a very small set of candidates).
Nothing has changed since 30 years ago. Huge part of the 8-bit demo scene grew around exactly 'illegal and undocumented' CPU instructions, allowing kids (at the time) to come up with some really crazy and awesome stuff, given on paper capabilities of hardware like 6500/6502 in C64 and other machines (think opening screen borders, think more than 8 sprites, think more than 256 colors in hi-res and many more).
Out of curiosity, is getting the rights to a lyric catalogue a 4 figure, 5 figure, 6 figure deal?
Since it's a programming forum my favorite satirical map is of C++:

http://goldns.ru/cppmap-2012.png

That was probably more relevant maybe 10 years ago, things have improved since. But anyone who remembers how it was will have a good laugh.

These always crack me up:

"Concepts Shipwreck" - anyone remember those ?

malloc/free Oasis - remember thinking, "I am confused by all new and deletes so I'll just use malloc and free"

"Type casting ghosts dance in the meadows"
On that note, I haven't heard much about Atom in a long time. Is anyone still using it?
I said simple ad-hoc conference calls. Like a phone conference, even more simply: just drag and drop some contacts to a call, and they all can participate. (It worked like a charm in skype. you can even share a screen and files and chat with the conference call)

No conference link, no recording, no fancy web-ex like stuff.

If you take a look at recent success stories many had a success through simplicity. Startups, ordinary people, small business don't want the enterprisey complicated stuff where a complete IT department is needed to set up a conference. They like simple stuff that works, and are willing to give up some expectations due to limitations of a tool. (I had to give up far more expectations for enterprisey stuff for consumer stuff)
I think you can learn a lot if you become very familiar with ROS and just start building things (on the software side at least - much harder to pick up electronics and mechanics if only because of the material and machining costs). My first real foray into robotics was with OpenCV (which is part of ROS) many years ago. There are lots of tutorials online - find something you think is interesting and build it and go from there. If you really like it then start going to meetups (there are enough in the Bay Area for robotics) and meet other people, some of whom are amateurs and some of whom are professionals.

That would be my advice, although I have a university background so take what I say with a grain of salt.
I taught at a summer camp that had a curriculum focused on playing and modding Minecraft. One of the biggest challenges we faced was getting the kids to stop playing Agar.io for long enough to play Minecraft.
And the popular lightweight interactive completion interface for Emacs called Ivy http://oremacs.com/swiper/
> So it goes without saying that you're not one of those people who has committed the monstrous act of singing Happy Birthday without paying to license the performance rights?

But, none of the copyright claims on that were valid so, how is that a monstrous act, even in an absolutist view of adherence to legal copyrights?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-s...
So, what does actually count as promoting hatred, legally speaking?
Reflections on the Programming Life (Book Excerpt)
I'm going all in, boys. I've sold all my ETH and put it in my Kraken wallet.
I think based on some of the other comments you can surmise that illegal doesn't mean unlawful in this instance but mearly out of spec.
I don't think the modest raise in IQ would be worth a society that considers children as products they can alter to specification. Bill McKibben in Enough wrote eloquently about the existential dread that could happen if we somehow managed to select for musical skill for example. It's one thing to deal with your talent or lack of it in terms of the randomness of normal life, another thing to realize you are little more than a racehorse that has been bred because your parents want you to be something.
No. It uses the OpenStack API.

https://github.com/openstack/python-openstacksdk

You'd need to use that to build it out.