skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was not saying either really. I was asking what sure fire way we have other than a number / name for identity.
> I have control over how I secure my car from being stolen.

Really? Those were your exact words, in the context of claiming that your ability to secure your car made the comparison to identity theft invalid.
It's a meme. People do it because they see other people doing it.
Why do you believe "Tensorflow sucks", and why do you believe PyTorch or Caffe2 is better, and for what metrics?
Dean of Undergrad Ed Visits CS50, Tells Students Not to Cheat
In this context, there are two sorts of black-hat hackers: those who already know of the exploit, and those who do not. If it takes over a month to shut out the latter, then there is another problem.
Oh come on. Anyone here who is a developer has at least some experience with raising a security concern to business or management and having it shot down as not important enough to worry about. We all know companies still aren't taking cybersecurity seriously enough, and it's because the consequences for a breach aren't severe enough.
Equifax Hacked
> I may be banned from doing something I love for the rest of my life (not to mention having no apps to add to my portfolio)

1. You can continue writing Android apps. You can (very likely) start distributing apps through the Play Store again just by creating a new account with a new credit card. Create an account as a company instead of an individual, for example.

2. Unless you're very old, distributing apps through the Play Store isn't something you'll be doing "for the rest of your life" regardless. Technologies come and go. Native apps will be replaced by web apps on mobile, just like they were on desktop.

3. You don't need to have apps in the Play Store to have apps in your portfolio.
>Windows users will need to ensure they have the Visual C++ 2015 Runtime installed.

Why?
Tractor feed, 11x17 fanfold greenbar FTW!
Isn't the traditional capitalistic argument that the people on top are the ones taking all the risk, which is why they should be making all of that money in the first place?

Note that I'm not making that argument, but trying to understand how this situation differs.
Well, there is biometry, with the simplest form being a picture, if you want to somewhat reliably identify people.
> The thief would have to physically resemble the victim's photo

Why? Show up to a government station with your birth certificate, SSN, some telephone and utility bills, and they'll take the thiefs picture and put it on an identity card with your name on it.
It's interesting that a commercial pilot would buy in to the "risk" bent of this article. Are you an inexperienced/new pilot? I flew into and out of the outer bands of Harvey last month. That portion of the system is no different than any storm. Nor is flying between the bands. That gap is huge compared to a little tiny airplane. No "adrenaline" or "balls" were involved here. Just competence. I'm sure the pilots have had far more harrowing experiences flying back and forth across the US in the summer and the departing passengers were in no danger.
Are there any plans to add UDP support?
Domain name was registered on August 22nd 2017...
Hold on there, cowboy. You're still assuming the worst about me, with no evidence, and that gets annoying by the second or third time.

> You do not understand the difference between what the program code does and what the programming language implementation does

False.

> I am going to assume you need a stdlib.h refresher

False, and even if I did, that wasn't much of one.

> How do you think free works?

I've seen an implementation.

> How would you write a linked list implementation in C?

I've had the pleasure (?) of doing so.

On to the meat of your reply: I was not aware of any non-garbage-collected Lisps. Still, isn't it fair to say that such Lisps are by far the exception?

I was under the impression that immutable was the normal way to write Lisp. ("Normal" here not meaning "the one right way" or "the way the language tries to make you write" - Lisp doesn't do that - but more "the way the majority of people write it".)

And even if you're going to not write it that way, if you really want to avoid allocations, don't you have to also be careful what library functions you call, since many of them cons?
"Equifax also identified unauthorized access to limited personal information for certain UK and Canadian residents. Equifax will work with UK and Canadian regulators to determine appropriate next steps. The company has found no evidence that personal information of consumers in any other country has been impacted."

Fairly ambiguous and I trust that sentence about as far as I can throw it. I too am interested in the answer to this, both personally and as an employee of a company that uses their services.
How is that not what you asked? If we've increased the amount by 50% over preindustrial levels, then the current portion attributable to us is about 33%.
Show HN: A vue file upload component inspired by ng-flow
I'm ok with this. I'm also lazy. If you write a letter to our state assembly I'll co-sign it.
Also if you sign up for our monitoring service you waive the right to a class action suit.
This is more involved than I care to get into here. Here's a Wikipedia article which discusses it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun

Why create an account to make your initial comment? It doesn't seem very substantial or on-topic. The two reasons I can think of aren't very charitable, which is why I'm asking, assuming that it's neither of those.
Of course the argument is also the employees are paying taxes. Besides, Amazon is notorious for pouring money back into the business and growing instead of reaping profits, so good luck taxing that. By any account that's exactly what a city should want.
> [upgrading ELB], in those situations we work directly with customers via AWS Support.

This is painful, though. I don't know about Sep 2017, but in 2016 upscaling your ELB involved answering a block of 21 or so questions in a list only given to you after you engage with support, which had some pretty esoteric items on it. It was decidedly un-AWS-ey.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the security incident earlier this year [1]. My company terminated all HipChat subscriptions after the incident. A rebranding (understood that this is more than that) may allow some companies to revisit the product.

[1] Linking the cached version since the hipchat blog now points to Stride: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c6dtRh...
> Making a spacecraft work and making a production line work are completely different problems

SpaceX has a production line of spacecraft.
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/javascript#_typ...
Including why it went kaput in the summary could be an useful information.
"Mitchell & Webb Sound - Identity Theft"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I love the idea of citus. An abstraction on top of sharding sounds amazing. The docs are clear. Their learning material is solid and actually gave me plenty of ideas.

I was really excited about citus... until I saw the price! Hosted citus is expensive. The estimator estimated thousands of dollars per month, splitting to just two small Db machines with limited ram and CPU.

For now, just spending all that money on a huge vertically scaled rds box with lots of ram and CPU made way more sense. Hopefully native Postgres eventually ties more parallel ability to take advantage of bigger and bigger rds boxes.

If we scaled past 1 big box, I'm guessing we would just do classical sharding instead.
What is weird/interesting about buying a dremel or printer? They are pretty normal, casual purchases
I don't necessarily agree with bobbygoodlatte but it seems like you wrote a themed mad-libs rather than an analogy..

Did you mean for the terms you listed to relate to the bitcoin situation in any way?
What a terrible paper title.

For anyone wondering, this has nothing to do with microkernels. From the abstract:

The clock frequency in modern workstations is stabilized by an uncompensated quartz or surface
acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, which are sensitive to temperature, power supply and component
variations. Using NTP and traditional Unix kernels, incidental timing errors with an uncompensated
clock oscillator is in the order of a few hundred microseconds relative to a precision
source. Using new kernel software described in this paper, much better performance can be
achieved. Experiments described in this paper demonstrate that errors with a modern workstation
and uncompensated clock oscillator are in the order of a microsecond relative to a GPS
receiver or other precision timing source.
Makes sense! All I'm saying is that there is no need to avoid using extensions if that is your strategy. Extensions will work in all versions of the library you wish to support.
Nope, not it!
If you haven't seen Trading Places, please please please make the time to watch it. Its both educating and entertaining!
> Fork trucks run into things way more than most people would guess.

Would you say there's a market for some kind of automatic braking / collision prevention addon for forklifts?
Better yet, implement a sort that handles numeric substrings:

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200712/human_sorting.html
The burden of proof for criminal charges is the other way around. I can think of a few ways he could "in a world of hurt" without being found guilty of criminal charges; in fact without any formal burden of proof:

* A trial or even just discovery for a trial and having to pay lawyers more than he gained from selling this stock.

* Angry shareholders or even board members could demand consequences such as docked pay or termination.

* Negative media attention such as this article.
Maybe these [1] ones comparing ld, gold, lld?

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/#performance
I tried doing something similar. I rigged an array of Bluetooth receivers to a Raspberry Pi inside a large cabinet, and then attached inexpensive beacons to liquor bottles. The idea was to be able to quickly locate individual bottles.

The project failed because the drivers or devices don't provide enough precision (1 dBm might represent several inches).

With room mapping, you can use round trip time, which is a bit more reliable.
> Lovell also mentioned that bats during testing were dropping to the ground like stones

I think it wouldn't have been a particularly pleasant experience for them before that point, haha
It is a small niche relative to the credit-using public at large, and there's no reason to accommodate them at the expense of everyone else.
This is essentially trainspotting for telephony nerds. Most of this hobby is exploring and mapping telephone exchanges just by dialing random numbers and listening, and sometimes discovering interesting unlisted phone numbers. The jargon is mostly referring to identifying telephony switching equipment based on dialing a lot of phone numbers in a given area code then listening for the subtle audio clues that hint at the type of switching used by that exchange. Lookup Step by Step switches on YouTube for to see what old timey telephone exchange equipment was like.
Mid-level developer that can't find another job
> And the Vegan shows up! I kid, but the stereotype really holds true all too often

And the meat-man with a vengeance shows up. I kid you not, this stereotype holds true all too often. And, may I add, puzzles me absolutely no end. What is it about some people's restrictive dietary choices that regularly sets off these spasms of all too vocal disapproval in the minds of certain people?

I do not, as a general rule, eat meat. The predictable uninvited spluttering opinions on that quite unremarkable situation are beginning to get really old. Please!
What actually happens is that they get interviewed repeatedly. If they get caught in a lie (like Martha Stewart), they face criminal penalties for perjury. If they keep their story straight, they are acquitted.
This would be great to have.
I moved to post-its about six weeks ago during an intense period with lots of small jobs. I am the only one who does what I do here, so the interoperability isn't really required... and I'm not keen on going back to a digital ticketing system (post-its are also satisfying to scrunch up when finished). I will eventually though, as ticket history can be useful, but at the moment I feel a bit like a dog who has escaped the yard and is roaming freely :)
She wasn't actually convicted of insider trading.

After a highly publicized six-week jury trial, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators
National ID has nothing to do with this. National Password is the problem here.
FPGAs: A Chip for All Seasons
I did this about 8 years ago, and have only needed to temporally unfreeze it 3 times. Besides the big 3, I also froze reporting from Innovis.

The only unforeseen hangup from frozen credit reporting I've run into is with car rentals. With a few exceptions, most car rental companies (at least in the US) run your credit. Everything else was pretty predictable.
If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from this experience. Walk away from Google services and count your loss as cheap tuition. Bend your path toward free and open systems instead. Where you can't find them, develop them.
Americans don't like National ID cards because we remember the Third Reich and the USSR.
> I'm not sure how easy this is to resolve in Appveyor, but I would also prefer to have Windows binaries compiled statically. I'm much less familiar with compiling Rust binaries on Windows and don't have a Windows machine readily available, so I'll have to fire up a virtual machine and experiment.

> Worst case scenario, I'll need to add an instruction for Windows users to install the Visual C++ 2015 runtime. I'd prefer to avoid that though. This also likely won't be a problem with the GCC-compiled version, but this runtime is a dependency for all programs compiled by MSVC.

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/issues/49
U.S. Wants Shkreli Jailed After Offer of Clinton Hair Bounty
We use this too. It's not bad if all you're ever doing is returning json, but escaping from their `rest.ResponseWriter` to a normal `http.ResponseWriter` is always sad when you need to write out anything else.

That's a pretty good summary of the rest of it for me too...pretty good, but sad that it doesn't adhere to the standard libs `http` interfaces
Out of 7 billion people, a fair number of them look like you. I'd hate to have an ass for a twin in your world.
Yes, really. Having control over how I secure my car does not in any way imply that I can guarantee success. However, as a matter of fact, you can essentially get arbitrarily close to that, it's just a matter of your effort. Which is in contrast to banks being defrauded and blaming me for it, where I can not do anything about how the bank protects itself against the fraud.

The problem is that the power to do anything about the problem and the blame is not aligned, which leads to a situation that is equivalent to the bank leaving the key in the ignition of the unlocked car, not allowing you to change anything about that setup, and then expecting you to foot the bill when the car inevitably does get stolen.
Find someone that works on the gmail team using linkedin and get on twitter and spread the word about your issue.
Introducing AI Challenger, a $300,000 Global AI Competition for Students
CRYPTON: Like Acorns, but for Cryptocurrency
It is. The tool chain going into those releases is locked down months in advance.
Not much really much difference but an ML Engineer would focus more on building software and data pipelines
Where do we go from here? Tinder and the future of dating apps
Maybe it's time to require licensing and audits for the privilege of holding personal information like SS numbers.
It's interesting how all these groups get absorbed by the Gramscians whether they want to or not. They can't maintain their focus with all the money from the big donors at stake who are not really dedicated to their original mission and instead want to amalgamate them into the big hegemony smashing coalition.
I (and others) are not so much imagining a standard between cloud vendors, as we're imagining a standard "FaaS server function API" (sort of like how the web has a standard DOM API) supported by several FOSS FaaS server implementations (sort of like how the web has several FOSS Javascript engines.)

Given such a standard API and compatible servers, you'd then deploy a FaaS server cluster to your public/private cloud of choice, the same way you deploy e.g. a Kubernetes cluster, or a Riak cluster.

There would likely by small public clouds attempting to be "FaaS native" by exposing only such servers in a multitenant configuration (like small public clouds like Hyper are currently doing with CaaS.) Their implementations wouldn't always be exactly compatible, and might have some lock-in.

However, once FaaS "caught on" with the enterprise, a FaaS server would likely make its way into the OpenStack architecture.

At that point, you'd see medium-sized public cloud providers like OVH and DigitalOcean set up their own multitenant FaaS clusters as well, probably with custom code, but built to be compatible with the OpenStack FaaS tooling, to allow enterprises the freedom to move FaaS functions freely between public and private clouds.

And, eventually, the other major cloud providers would feel the need to support the API.

---

This path has already been followed: it's what happened to Amazon S3—first cloned (but not compatibly) in FOSS by tools like Riak CS; then standardized by OpenStack Swift; then cloned compatibly in FOSS by tools like Minio; then picked up by medium-scale clouds like Rackspace; and then, eventually, picked up by Azure and GCP as secondary APIs to address their equivalent offerings (that originally had quite different APIs.)
Amazing, apart from obvious benefits of being Wikipedia article it's necessary to note that it was written in one of the oldest regional Indian language - Telugu; so it will serve as good medium for language preservation as well.
I think it's more that Americans don't like national ID cards because they're paranoid about the Mark of the Beast and mistrust Federal power on principle.
Huh? It's no different than ELB.
Need a list of all cryptocurrency transaction providers indicating which have been hacked and how much stolen
I'm not sure I would proclaim that unironically in a discussion of a giant American company accidentally losing track of a database containing detailed personal information about ~1/2 the country.

I mean sure, it's not in your pocket. But are you going to move house in response to this breach?
Seeed Studio Fusion CNC Machining Service Is Back
Does NLB have the option for session affinity? i.e. keep the same tcp connection open to the same backend host?
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Here's a typical story.

Online loan firm gives money to someone. Months later, they default, so they call who they think is the holder of the debt. That person has no clue what they are talking about. Finds out through first ever credit report they are defrauded. Victim calls loan firm, who requests lots of proof of existence as well as a police report, before they will help them. Process takes weeks. Victim finds out they signed up at Equifax during hack. Now they are in worse shape.
Yes, "Watson" is really old technology coupled with costly consulting services. And yes, IBM is far behind Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies in AI research.

That said, for MIT, which in some ways is trying to catch up with schools like Toronto and Stanford in AI research, particularly in deep learning, it makes a lot of sense to take the $240 million from IBM to create a dedicated AI research center.

I think they have a shot at becoming an important 'center of gravity' for AI research in the East Coast.
Good comment, triggers a bunch of associations:

1. the rule of thumb to prefer feature detection to user-agent sniffing is generally a reasonable one, BUT if you have something like WURFL to map UA to device (and device to capabilities) then the one-time, up-front lookup can be a better choice.

2. that said I remember using yepnope.js, and sharing this hilarious (because accurate) post on the history of the user-agent: http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

hard to believe it's been almost 20 years since I started messing with HTML...
Defamation laws differ by state, but in NY for example, I believe libel (slander refers to oral defamation) requires that the perpetrator knew, or should have known, that the statements were false.

The question would then become whether the bank's identity verification procedures satisfy that burden. I think it would be a difficult endeavor, but it would be good to see it tested.
Speaking of economic views, I think that people tend to overlook the most fundamental part of the Blockchain based currency phenomenon today. While the technology is great, it tends to overshadow the fundamental observation that these cryptocurrencies are first and foremost currencies and then afterwards technologies. Perhaps Hacker News is not the place to have such a view, but it ought to be stated. There is a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of excitement, we ought to continually remind ourselves of this truth. These currencies and their intrinsic value are subject to the same rules of all regular currencies: supply and demand. Do people believe that these are valuable or not? The economic view trumps the technological view at the end of the day.
http://benshieldsblog-blog.tumblr.com/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18R6MTugMCZaL1A8b0gj_9F_E...
Trivial lambdas make Python more readable than highly nested languages.
The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb
Is it possible or are there free data sources if an average person wants to dig into tradings of Jul 27, two day before official date of discovery.
Oh, good, it wasn't their _core_ business. What a bullshit copout - you acquire a company, you own it, warts and all. Who's worse, the crappy company or the company that acquires it and continues to operate it without fixing it?
Does this include the work from zopflipng? That usually makes more of a difference in size than OptiPNG does.
Yeah that's not true. See AWS's HIPAA certified services for one example.
Ah, I don't know too much about what Khronos is doing. We have thought about your work from the standpoint of supporting DL4j on a range of datacenter accelerators, we do tune for NVIDIA etc with good results. We're pretty framework and hardware neutral.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemploym...) the five countries with the least unemployment are Qatar, Cambodia, Belarus, Thailand, and Laos. Which one of those should America look more like?
Yes and no. Chicago has been really good at wooing companies to move their headquarters here: see Boeing, McDonald’s, ConAgra, GE transport, Kraft Heinz, the list goes on.
My charitable explanation is that it's a non native speaker of English genuinely asking the question to learn.
As it is marketed as a supposedly nonlethal weapon, you pose a false dilemma. The alternative nonlethal weapon is the baton.
Statistical significance doesn't mean an effect is "true", or "real". So getting rid if it shouldn't cause you any issues.
Germany has rather more intimate knowledge of both of those, and they have national ID cards without sliding into authoritarianism...
Most calories from plants come from plants that have already died. Corn, wheat, soybean, etc. Maybe stop eating greens if this bothers you. Nice firm lettuce is quite alive when you eat it.
PMML is definitely in use. There are occasional compatibility issues, but for the present, it is the standard for exchanging models.