skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this reminds me of the android marketplace, where, in order to get a nice, clean, stock android installation (as opposed to an "enhanced" OEM android flavor), some consumers are eager to buy a device directly from Google.

interesting that a significant (supposed) advantage of separating the software company (e.g. MS, or Google) from the hardware company (e.g. Lenovo, Samsung) -- of making the software generic and capable of running on a broad universe of devices -- also became a powerful source of FUD.
A country with no systematic process for power transition that has survived all of 68 years? There are plenty of people older than the PRC. Wake me up in another century.
> I received a call from a SDB support team member informing me that we either needed to move off their platform by Christmas Day or they'd have to shut us off

Wat?! That's an excellent reason to burn fields and salt them.
Since when are web servers DO-178 certified?
Q: Any scratches? Skips? Thanks.

A: No scratches or skips or I will refund.
Sun had an allergic reaction to it.

Oracle has improved it quite a bit and all those features are being worked on for Java 10.
Also, don't use a typical *nix terminal that looks all hackerish (black background, green font, something like that). Someone non technical is bound to notice that, even if out of the corner of their eye.
I asked my cofounder about this (she's mentioned in the article). She said "This occurred to us. We're a school of engineers - we talk about sample sizes a lot"?

Here's her thoughts on why it's not just sample size: https://twitter.com/ellenchisa/status/905448602142572545
Price is what people pay, value is what they get, and it's completely subjective.

The only reason people pay more for a BMW than a Honda is because they perceive they're getting more value with a BMW than with a Honda. There is no such thing as an "objectively better driving experience" -- all value is derived from perception, and perception is individual.
One can always get a receipt from the attendant after the sale, at least at every gas station I have ever been to.
When you're talking about billions:

If you hold it physically, you have to store it and secure it, which costs money.

If you deposit it in a commercial bank, it'll be less safe than German bonds.
In my experience with Riak, it absolutely lived up to its promise of scale, even if single-request speed was never quite as zippy as anyone would have liked.

However, the Dynamo design is just borderline unpalatable from a developer's perspective. I enjoy being aware of exactly the trade-offs being made, and Basho was always really open about it, but I don't blame anyone for not wanting to dig deep in the weeds to make it work for fairly common use cases.
Well, on the extreme end, there's hypochondria.
http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

See 2.10 Related work.
Actually, it's not selection bias at all! This result wasn't just drawn out of a 1000-count small college hat, so naive Bayesian priors shouldn't be used here.

As an alum, I specifically went to Olin because I thought it would best help me become a successful entrepreneur. Many people do.

So my priors are that Olin is likely to do this at a higher rate (since Stanford / MIT etc. have entire swathes of the school not interested in entrepreneurship at all); this evidence makes that seem overwhelmingly likely now.

Consider evaluating all the departments of a school and finding out that one of the smallest turns out the highest percentage of high-energy physicists. Selection bias? Nope, just the high-energy physics department.
That would be a very long process. The natural range is vast:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ulmus_americana_rang...

Any effort to really restore it will require establishing thousands of resistant colonies.
Sheesh! the ECHR's phrasing is awful. ..The protection of morals?

I agree though. They haven't. Even in countries with a high regard for free speech, there are exceptions. Nor is internet censorship the end of democracy.

But, directionality is important in politics. China provides an alternative example, that breaks many of the "rules" entirely. You can have a great firewall. China does. It's doing OK. Why can't Turkey? Why can't India? Why can't the EU?

^thanks for posting, btw. I've never read it, and I'm a citizen.

^^Ok… that caveat appears 5 times, allowing the limiting of 5 different rights for almost any reason any member state decides.

This really bothers me. I wish they had left these rights out, and only included rights that they can actually agree on.
Maybe he did it as the plane was coming in to land? When else do you think he might have access to such a system?
I remember about 20 years ago, you could crash any Windows computer you had the IP address of by sending a particularly crafted package to a certain port. Oh, those were the days.
Old joke from engineering school: How did the economist cross the river? He assumed a boat.
The company who sold me a TV sent out an update that embeds advertising in the UI

Thanks Samsung.
Little Snitch is a Mac firewall that can block outgoing TCP connections.
Tendermint works great for 4 to 300 validators, and with the Cosmos delegation model, many more stakers can participate. So yes, it's not a trivial problem, but Tendermint is solving it.
Agile is about finishing the antagonism around the developers and product owners that appears when the product is badly specified or the business is risky.

I have no idea what Scrum is about. Most people claim it's a way to fulfill the above paragraph, but then half of its formalism would have to be dropped. Anyway, as badly named as sprints are, they are one of the formalisms that wouldn't need dropping.
What are the time complexities like?

Do they actually do better than "factor the RSA key, then compute the output, then re-encrypt"?
It's possible that Olin exclusively having engineering degrees produces a bias. Stanford has a significant population who study subjects that do not aid in pursuing a career in entrepreneurship.
Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks at Uber
Windows 7 is still supported on Skylake and earlier machines.
Agreed.

Remsh and recon are tools I use almost every day.

Chapter 3 planning for overload is useful in general not just for Erlang systems, and is something that is not given enough consideration usually.
23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia
There are many embarrassing things about the US government, but giving every bill a lame backronym (SELF DRIVE = "Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution") is right up there.

Just call it the "Self Driving Vehicles" act.
Wild guess: Roughly about the time they began being used in IFE systems?
Tiny enrolment is a good point but selection bias is not. You could easily argue that virtually all of college effects are selection effects.
Flying through the eye of Hurricane Irma [video]
If you don't mind, can I ask a question about Olin? It looks like it's full of cool kids that make stuff and go on to make more stuff.

My guess is that they only accept kids with a track record of making stuff, like the kids that are in the robotics club.

I've got a sharp kid who I would like to turn into a maker kid but he's currently not that kid. He's a math guy, wants to try and get a PhD in math. I'd be happier for him if he became a maker of things, that's what I am and it's worked out well for me, both financially and it was satisfying.

So I'm wondering if Olin would take on a kid and try and form them into a maker or is that just asking way too much. His GPA is so so, 3.6 something, his ACT is 32 I think, I know the math part was 34. That was his only try at the ACT, he can do better. He's taking a gap year and working on retaking the ACT, he's shooting for a 34-35 overall.

Thanks for any insight and congrats on going to that college, it looks sweet!
Will European supermarkets act over Paraguay forest destruction?
what makes this clerical error newsworthy?
> I believe their extermination had less to do with industrialization and more to do with taking the land.

Industrialization is what prompted and allwed ships to bring millions of europeans to the US. It's what allowed railroads to ship millions to the midwest and the west. And of course the desire for oil/resources and farmland/etc. Industrialization is what allowed our armies to wipe out and clear the natives west of the mississippi.
Zzz. Second sentence of the article “Google Fiber quickly restored her connection and forgave the 12-cent balance after she called customer service”

(Disclosure: I work for Google, but a 750 word piece about how someone didn't check the email account billing went to isn't really news, I do it all the time.)
Controlling a Bitcoin Node with Elixir
> "Google Fiber values our customers, and we have since worked with Ms. Tane to restore her Fiber service"

Sounds like a minor issue that was corrected.
My primary reason against Tests for CSS, is that CSS is not about business logic. And the other being that the way CSS works is the last run CSS styling over-rides the previous one. Unit-testing eh? The order of CSS styling that is applied depends on the order of inclusion, correct? Now write anaother test for this? All these thoughts, made me laugh at the idea of Testing the CSS back then. All said, I was still curious to know what was the positive/negative experience of those who tried it.
I could be missing something but I feel like you are inventing an impossible scenario. You may not be making the requirements, but the requirements have to be technically feasible. CQRS/DDD give you a lot of flexibility on where to choose your boundaries/aggregate roots and these are designed around the business/requirements. If you can give a valid scenario where this model breaks down but others would succeed I'd be very interested.
Reified generics are more of a problem than a solution for language creators. .NET generics are too weak to be the base for languages with really powerful type systems like Scala or Haskell. Therefore implementing Scala on .NET required to use erasure and turned out to be more complex than in Java, which supports erasure "natively".
If you live under the influence of a failing government, the liquidity of bitcoin may well be higher that the local failin currency as you can move value to/from the outside world.
I'm not sure quite what they meant, but that doesn't sound quite right to me either.

If the currency is stagnant or close to stagnant, the incentive to invest is that you end up with more wealth overall.

I'm not sure it's possible for deflation to be both predictable and higher than the market rate of return, because people today would immediately speculate and bid up the price of the currency to reflect its future expected value.

Of course inflation is an added incentive to invest money, or at least to store your wealth in assets other than money.
Perhaps not over months, but over years OS bloat becomes nontrivial. Subjectively, my phone appears to slow down after most updates; objectively it definitely loses usable space to the operating system. App bloat displays a similar problem, albeit less blatant.

This seems to mirror Wirth's Law more generally; every piece of software on your phone gets more demanding every time it updates.
Self Consciousness is the bane of my existence
ISIS would kill all these monks and burn the place down if given half a chance but then they would literally be going against the word of Muhammad if they did.
> tankie

Tankies? I think of that as the Communists who supported Stalin's invasion of Hungary in the 1950s. What does that mean here?
1. Commit to starting over and learning with fresh eyes

2. Don't rely on old knowledge or pedigree as a crutch

3. Humble yourself to your colleagues and ask questions

4. Seek out mentors with the expressed purpose of learning

5. Understand that new beginnings take time and purpose
Spent the last 17 years working for a university, writing custom code to support teaching, learning, and research programs. I've written code for projects related to climate modelling, tracking polar ice movement, studying traffic related air pollution, optimizing electrical grid construction in developing countries, helping law practitioners understand collateral consequences, improving counseling for domestic abuse victims, supporting HIV counseling (deployed in a successful study in clinics in South Africa), and teaching world leaders to detect and properly react to pre-genocidal warning signs.

Currently looking for a new gig and wondering whether I'd be able work on shitty adtech and still look at myself in the mirror.
I'm still learning all the tendencies of these macroeconomic trends...

So, this should mean mortgage loan rates, savings account interest rates, and inflation are all now on an upward trend. Right?

And thus housing prices should begin to curb, since the cost of loans making buying houses more expensive and less appealing, thus lowering demand.

(I've already noticed increasing savings account rates and mortgage rates, so it definitely seems like this is an upward trend, though I haven't seen much curbing of housing prices yet)
I apologize that Vonnegut wrote his letter at a time before the internet made defensive writers of us all.

https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
Thanks this is wonderful! I think my implementation is very close to the "riffology" described in the paper. Lots of other great ideas in this to pursue!
>Actually, it's not selection bias at all! [...] As an alum, I specifically went to Olin because I thought it would best help me become a successful entrepreneur. Many people do.

From the link:

>In other words, what we might have perceived as a difference in education quality was really the product of systematic differences in how the considered populations were put together. The groups we considered had a hidden non-random distribution. This is selection bias.

As you just stated, entrepreneur-y students self-select into Olin. The fact the school produces entrepreneurs doesn't have anything to do with the teachers, the curriculum, or the chemicals Olin puts in the drinking water. It's the non-random distribution of students.
You're not wrong, but it's also important to remember that they're running a heat engine to extract work. The amount of work that can be extracted is dependent on the temperature differential between the heat source and the heat sink. The water being cooled there is to keep the heat sink cold. And since the heat sink will always be colder than the heat source, they can't recycle any of that heat back to the heat source without expending energy to move it. Which would kind of ruin the point.

It's not that the heat isn't useful, or even that it's not a large amount of heat. It's that the heat is in the wrong place, and they need to efficiently get rid of it.
I've had a succession of Android phones made by Samsung. Each of them has become nontrivially slower over time, seemingly as a product of OS updates. I've even timed startup before and after installing updates as a crude check; startup at least gets measurably slower every time I update the damn thing.

Obviously regular updating is important for security, but I sort of suspect users would be more open to updates if they weren't consistently harmful and occasionally catastrophic.
As much as I like .NET, the truth is that they are loosing mindshare among new generations.

"Microsoft’s Open Source Developer Journey"

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Live-2017/Key...
I always do. Putting all your eggs in one basket is a recipe for disaster. Worst case scenario, you book yourself a couple of interviews and waste your time. Best case scenario, you get a couple of offers that you can leverage in negotiations and end up with a job.

I typically apply to about 10-20 companies at a time, of which I eventually narrow down to 3-4 onsite interviews. Hopefully, at least one of them makes me an offer. If not, I start the process over. It generally works well for me, though I've only gotten multiple offers one time...

The problem I run into with this strategy is that with tech interviews, they often want me onsite for a full 8 hour day, and I can't take 3-4 days off in a row at my current job... and I certainly can't do that two or three times. I really despise the current trend of interviewing people for more than 2-3 hours in SV.

Anyway, it's something to keep in mind if you wind up applying at multiple places at once.
> I hope you're referring to the common use of the word "hacked" instead of "influenced"

Yes. It's the lie. "Hacking" and "influencing" are completely different things. The first implies that election system was compromised, and, in the mind of 99.999% of common population, that election results were directly tampered with. Nothing of the sort happened.
> To adopt Chromium as the base for VS Code?

Ehh, using Electron to write a relatively lightweight wrapper for Monaco (the editor component that was developed for an entirely different product) was an obvious technical choice if you were no longer restricted to only using Microsoft technologies. There's not a reasonable/supported alternative to Electron within Microsoft.
Well, pick one. Either there's a cause, or there's no cause. Either they're full of shit, or they deliberately did this. You can't credibly claim both to dismiss them.
There is some truth in the idea that the growth of the EU was intended to slow down the process of federalization. The UK pushed hard for the growth in the 2000's and was also a proponent of Turkey joining for these reasons.
You are correct. At the time this was started there was no github; or git for that matter. I think I joined github around 2006 or so, and sometime after that converted either the CVS or svn repo to git.

And I was a bit lazy in setting up the project since I didn't know at the time how long it would last. So it is under the mostly unrelated bashdb project that I started earlier. (The tenuous relationship was that I wanted to debug autoconf configure scripts, and having done that I then realized I often also needed to debug the Makefiles that automake produced. Okay I tried to motivate that, but really it was laziness.)

As for sourceforge or github, there are a couple of things. As others have mentioned, sourceforge has a file release section. That is very useful for those who want to work off of release tarballs, rather than git tags. And the download stats can be ordered by both OS of downloading browser and Geography.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/remake/stats/t... says mostly downloaded in US with MS Windows. Looks like the SF mapping function is broken, but I used to find it fun to see country distribution. Continent-wise, Africa has always been the lowest in activity.

Over the years sourceforge has proved very reliable and has done lots of people a great service.

In the early days I admired how good it was. Yes, it is unfortunate that they couldn't figure out how to monetize the good work they had done. Well, I have the same problem too. I'm not one to forget the good work they have accrued in the past. However, as you saw, I did switch to github for day-to-day use and use sourceforge for released tarballs, and mailing lists.

I don't see anything wrong with using multiple providers. I also use Travis, CircleCI and Appveyor for continuous integration testing.
Tendermint is not solving the problem I pointed before because it is not trustless, you are trusting the validators.
>We want money to move around, rather than sit in someone's safe

It's just paper. What's wrong with it sitting in someone's safe? We certainly don't want actual productive capital assets to be idle, but dollar bills don't produce anything. If they're sitting in a safe, the value of the ones that aren't in the safe goes up slightly.
OneFlow – a Git branching model and workflow
tl;dr: A Manhattan-sized area of Paraguay's tropical forest is felled every fortnight to meet European demands for charcoal and beef.
This is obscurantism. Port-scanning a networked system, even aggressively, must be considered typical environmental hazards that any network-attached system must be able to weather (preferably with no degradation in service).
Is that still white hat?

I think if you are not specifically asked to do it, it isn't white hat, and I think (but am not 100% sure) the law is like that. I don't know what hat it is, but white it isn't.
It's always irked me how the naming is often deceptive or manipulative. I've often considered what would be different if it were in some way mandated to use the "UID" names, but came to realize people would just assign a canonical names ala Obamacare regardless. Whether or not letting the bill-writer "get ahead of this' and make up their own name is an improvement, I can't say.

A shame in this case since I've become inclined to distrust anything named in such a way, but the underlying bill seems to support a few reasonable things, at a glance. (privacy and security plans and disclosures for manufacturers of automated vehicles, among other things, and a regulatory body for overseeing this)
Zzzzzz - wake me up when they hike it to 10 per cent.
I really enjoy Doctorow, but he's been getting into territory where the hyperbole becomes factually inaccurate. His coverage of the Wells Fargo debacle featured some headlines that simply weren't true, which really put me on edge for reading his other stuff.
Facebook is either incapable (which I doubt) of enforcing their terms of service, or has concluded that it is in their best interests to turn a blind eye towards people with more than one account and children in the US under age 13 who have accounts.

Some modern day incarnation of Tipper Gore needs to take them to task for violation of the US COPPA legislation.
Good question. I guess by "right" here I mean an implementation that I was happy with. Not nessesarily standards compliant or complete.

In my early attempts it was things like parsing which tripped me up. I'd implement something that broke the bracketed lists up into a list of tokens and then get stuck nesting those lists into an ast. Abandon an implementation for a while and then try again at the problem, often with a fresh implementation.

Then is was evaluating expressions, when to evaluate the arguments and exploring different approaches (fexprs).

I'd do these iterations across months and with different languages. First python then JavaScript, Ruby, C.

My favourite was the JavaScript implementation. Lisp code is literate and I bootstrapped most of the built in functions by exposing the environment as a cons tree (and working with cons trees internally in the interpreter).
don't forget the ecosystem. SitBit is building a competitive social relaxation tracker to pair with this couch.
> it's worse in every way except for the fact that it is not operated by a central authority

National currencies are better for buying a cup of coffee and paying your taxes.

But over the last 9 years, Bitcoin has proven to be a far superior store of value.

Maybe Bitcoin's role will be as a reserve currency, the "gold standard" of both national currencies and cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin is slow, stable, secure and reliable. So save in Bitcoin. Move large quantities across borders in Bitcoin.

But do routine transactions in whatever is most convenient for each transaction.

Ubiquitous usage by "the masses" to buy coffee isn't what makes Bitcoin valuable, since that's not its role.
> And you are missing my point, most people who are poor do not have a credit card.

I repeat... < that's what the "etc" was for>. I don't think you read my entire comment...

I didn't miss your point. I think we actually agree for the most part. My bit about the time machine was basically saying, if you could go back in time and tell yourself, "hey, buying shiny things is less important than establishing an emergency fund" and similar other wisdom, that would be ideal. Obviously, we don't have a time machine so we can only tell people these things going forward. Sounds a lot like the "financial education" you refer to.