skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When there's no difference between cramming for your History 101 mid-term and a technical interview for a software developer, we're not in a good spot.

Your "1 million strings" example is exactly the kind of thing that can be memorized, and is actually a quite common class of interview questions in certain segments of this industry. It's also only tangentially related to engineering. If I may, I'd draw an analogy with engineering a satellite system: your "million strings" example is more like the act of selecting a bolt from a catalog that fits the spec than it is engineering the spec in the first place.
OkCoin still operating

https://twitter.com/cnLedger/status/906197219560136705
HVDC is used for long-distance transmission where taps aren't necessary, and to connect disparate AC standards. Popular applications are undersea cables, remote generation facilities, and intercontinental or inter-country distribution. It's a lot more efficient than AC over distance as it requires fewer conductors and doesn't suffer from skin effect, so transmission losses are lower. And since you're already doing the AC->DC->AC conversion, there's no need for the connected grids to be synchronized.

As renewables (solar, wind, hydro) become more popular, so too does the need for reliable long-distance power transmission. With fossil fuel, fuels could be delivered to the point of generation - with solar, wind, and hydro, the location of the generator is non-negotiable and so the energy must be transported instead.

So we'll probably see more and more HVDC systems in coming years.
Not plausible at all. If China took Guam, the United States Military would kick the crap out of China from one end of the Pacific to the other. Within 60 days, China would completely defeated on the oceans and in the air.

Any resulting peace treaty would be of China accepting Taiwan independence, dropping all support for North Korea and giving all ambitions to the South China sea. China has a lot to lose if it went to war against the United States.
Undoubtedly Equifax will claim that the hackers were agents of a sovereign power, to escape liability. Regardless, they admitted on their own web page that there was a flaw in their web application.

Biometrics would be a terrible idea. Mass surveillance, anyone?
Assuming an approximately Bernoulli outcome from Equifax’s perspective, the stock market thinks there’s only a 13% chance they’ll be shuttered by this negligence.
A bank 'absorbing' a cost surely means passing on that cost to consumers in some way.
Sorry, didn't mean it's pointless, I meant to say they have proved that this concept/idea can work. Siacoin has been up and running for a while now and works very well given how young the concept is. They have a great dev team backing them too.
> I went from Astrophysics > Computer Security > Genomics > Alzheimer's research > AI > Medical imaging

With half of these jumps I'd be worried about Impostor syndrome.

With all of these? About Dunning-Krueger.
The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection: Surviving the Networked Age
I'd appreciate advice from someone in the know about credit monitoring/repair services. There are so many and little credible information available about their capabilities and performance. If you have experience with this who do you recommend?

I've been caught up in the DOD breech, this Equifax incident and a couple smaller ones. I'm not interested in pinching pennies here; I want good results.
That's a good point - the leaders of the American Revolution were already "working within the system," they just also led a violent revolt. I think there's a good point to be made that that's one of the best ways to make sure that you can successfully burn the existing system down and put what you want in place.
I'm generating the JSON, either with custom C++ marshaling routines or with JSON.stringify which doesn't include newlines unless you give it extra arguments. I believe that any valid JSON can be converted to a single line by changing any '\n' bytes to ' '. Literal '\n' bytes are not allowed inside strings, and outside strings any whitespace is equivalent.
regardless of the amendment number, there has been zero clarity from the Supreme Court about what fair and speedy means.

As such, there are people in prison for almost a decade without a trial because they couldn't afford bail, see the Riker's Island cases.

This is not what I had in mind and I think this result undermines the social contract people have in mind for this country.
Interesting article, but I don't really agree with their conclusions. I think social networks are legacy from first engaging people on the real web and have a fate similar to AOL.

Experiments in decentralized social are more of a test run of components for "subversive" networks that will eventually engage the global youth politically on tor rather than compete with fb for grandparents sharing photos and recipes or Myspace as a MP3 storage space for forty somethings with bands.
For undersea connections, the water around it means the line has a lot higher capacitance. An AC link has to load/unload that capacity all the time and looses energy to it, a DC link doesn't.

Similar effects happen with normal power lines as well, so it also has benefits on long-distance connections on land. Since you need conversion equipment on all ends, it's typically used only for point-to-point links, not for lines with branches in between - an example might be connection hydro plants in the wilderness somewhere to more populated areas.

For links between non-synchronized networks, since conversion is needed anyways to match between them.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
To be fair, class action suits aren't really about recovering damages for the class members. Or at least, not entirely. That's almost incidental. Rather, they're most often about leveraging a large class of injured parties--whose injuries are usually relatively minor on an individual basis--to force a change of behavior by adding up all of those small injuries.

The cost of pursuing each claim individually would usually be sufficiently high as to make pursuing a claim unviable. The behavior would remain uncorrected, and the injured parties would receive neither compensation nor the knowledge that the behavior has been altered or eliminated. Nobody wins in that situation.

And while it's almost inevitable that discussions about class action suits will involve complaints about the lawyers fees, that's not really fair. Mass tort litigation is complex and involves significant investments of time and resources on the part of the attorneys involved. Especially if they actually make it to trial. It might seem unfair at first glance, but it enables the class to access the legal system and justice where it otherwise would not. They may be imperfect, but they're a hell of a lot better than the alternative and have had a profound positive impact on our society.
keep in mind NKs missiles are on mobile launchers like this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-china...

They can be hidden pretty easily.
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Dude, you're blowing my mind which your causality warping.
You could try https://www.insynchq.com/
> Yeah, macros can do everything multiple cursors can do

Not everything. You can perform set operations on multiple selections, or filter them, eg. by keeping every nth or removing those on blank lines. You can save and restore selections, or use them as jump points. You can find their covering range, globally or on a line-by-line basis. You can count them or run scripts across them. Most importantly perhaps is you can copy them.

Similarly, macros can do things multiple selections struggle with, largely because macros apply sequentially so the start to one can depend on the end of another.
Excellent! I agree -- I quit my job last year to get to work on climate, even though it wasn't "my thing". We started Impossible Labs http://impossiblelabs.io

BOOKS: I like "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air". I also really liked Stewart Brand's "The Whole Earth". Both books are written from a technology/engineering perspective, which I like.

Check out http://carbondoomsday.com, an open source project tracking and mapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
On github: http://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change

And yea, second the "What are some good sources of climate data to analyze" post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15132145
> they're all terrified

This is an odd phenomenon that's only happened in the last couple of years -- situations that folks would previously describe as "disheartening" or "disappointing" are now characterized as "terrifying". It's clever, really -- expressing concern over your physical well being (even when there isn't really any danger) is a cognitive kill-switch; physical safety is at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs, after all.
There is a difference between having serious flaws and not liking it. Go's idiomatic concurrency is in the first camp and should be considered harmful.
This ID seems just as insecure as a SSN.
As usual HN just loves to take a dig at Emacs and people that like it.
I'd guess you are right.

Impacting the financial system is like cutting off oxygen to the military machine. And further domestic discontent is a side bonus.
It is barter, goods for goods. The profit is still taxed. This is not technically money in that it is not backed by a government. It's just bits of paper. Printing your own probably isnt a horrible crime, more a copyright violation or fraud rather than a felony.

That people assign value to these bits of paper is no differnt than bitcoin. If a bank wants to sell bitcoin, or buy them, it can. The regulations re whether a bank can call such holding an asset make thing complicated for the bank but so long as things remain small there isnt much of an issue.

It also isnt money because people can refuse to participate. An employee need not accept these in lieu of wages. A business need not accept them. Real money cannot be avoided. All debts in the US can be settled with dollars.
yes a case of "Pour encourjay lays ortras." as the late Terry Prachet puts it
My username isn't a semi-secret number that I have to guard.
This is like the whole country's credit card holders got affected. Is it a suggested idea to freeze your credit reporting account and not allow any issuance of new credit cards? or Like SSN Lock provided by my EVerify provided by USCIS?
From the PDF:

> Despite Doe’s refusal, forensic analysts discovered the password to decrypt the Mac Pro Computer, but could not decrypt the external hard drives.

So either the Mac Pro had a weak password or Doe had it written down somewhere. It's rather unlikely that the FBI has a zero-day for FileVault.
Yeah, I feel like through using Mongo I've learned how to model my data in ways that are not relational, which has worked well because using aggregation at all always tends to be really awkward.

Agreed that it could go no where, but, I'm hoping that one project, at some point in my life does well—so learning a technology that doesn't suffer from scaling issues would hopefully be a road I eventually have to take.

Appreciate the feedback!
Are there any downsides to doing this? Aside from not being able to get credit when you need it ASAP
I want one, and I belive there's really not an age constraint to this.
US middle school teachers for public institutions received less than the OECD average pay per year in 2013.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fig2Sta...
To me, this is the same as "must have CS degree" It just says something about the company culture. If they think a CS degree automatically equals quality developers or Boot camp automatically equals unqualified, they're probably missing something in the big picture. But hey some people might actually want to work for companies like that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have said for years this credit controlling triopoly needs to be shut down and replace with something less disgusting. Ever tried to fix a mistake they made in your credit report? You may as well be dealing with the Spanish Inquisition. There is no penalty for Cxx's who perpetuate inept security to make more money so security is always job #99. These folks seem to have cornered the market on ineptness. I doubt any lawsuit will make them do anything different.
I'm perplexed by the logic here

I'm perplexed that you're perplexed. The article does a good job of laying out their argument. In short: The claim is that Kim believes the US wouldn't "retaliate so savagely" because the US wouldn't be willing to risk losing a major populated area to a successful ICBM strike.

So preemptive nuclear strikes on local bases make sense to degrade the US's ability to stage a conventional invasion, while acting as a deterrent by threatening a strike on the domestic US.

You can choose to believe or not believe that argument (it depends on your measure of risk in that scenario), but the logic is clear and reasonable.
This is very reassuring, thank you so much!
I think suing the organizations who irresponsibly gave our data to such an unsafe organization will be more fruitful. Equifax doesn't have enough money to truly compensate, but JP Morgan, Bank of America, &c do.
I wonder how much we could free up the courts if we stopped wasting time on useless laws?

Example (that is drenched in personal opinion): How much time would we save the courts if we stopped prosecuting people for personal drug abuse?
Apparently now they're saying that only applies to the monitoring service, and not to the breach itself. It was on Consumerist (https://consumerist.com/2017/09/08/equifax-already-being-sue...).
Banks are already charging all the fees they think they can while still remaining competitive. If they could have already charged another fee they would have.
> Even the ones who do have their identities stolen will likely be made whole by the credit card companies.

No one will be paid for their time wasted over ID theft resulting from this breach. That's what "made whole" would mean to me.
The cost of discriminating can be negative, for example, if the wealthier group that you allow in prefers your establishment if you keep the group they dislike out.
This is why Equifax should use a reputable domain name and SSL Cert
I prefer the visual representation. I find algorithms very hard to read as code, but I'm fascinated by the concepts.
Your external drive may fail or be destroyed in a number of ways -- protection against this is a portion of what you're paying for.
I have not heard much about long-distance DC lines in the United States, where AC transmission lines are incredibly common. However, I have read long-distance DC transmission lines are becoming more popular with alternative energy sources in China, such as the Three Gorges Dam project.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/01/daily-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Three_Gorges_%E2%80%93_Gu...
Never heard of them either - from north county.
Damn it, iPhone. This comment should be above as to why React has licensing issues.
How does one prove they wrote and satisfied the requirements within 30 days? I actually currently have a situation where my HOA claims I have violated covenants, but there's an architectural review committee one can write to for exceptions, and the covenants state that if no response is received within 100 days the exception is automatically approved. However the committee members have a habit of cancelling public meetings, ignoring emails, and their other employers are very good at deflecting attempts to contact them on committee business. I'm at their mercy to prove that I qualify for an exception. Same problem. In hindsight, best I could have done is prove I sent some mail to the right address on a certain date. That's it.
Yeah, because this totally doesn't go against everything cryptocurrencies are (supposed to be) for. If anything, this is a long-term positive sign, I think.

I predict this won't work.
> My advice: Save some money. Just like a car accident, or some health or other emergency

Isn't this what legal costs insurances are for? Why should everyone save huge amounts of money individually if you can spread the cost (as well as the risk) over a large group?
I don't see how criticizing/disagreeing with the article is equal to

> take a dig at Emacs and people that like it
The previous title was "GSuite Drive File Stream Deprecates Google Drive", which is absolutely leaving out a large part of the context
How about coloring in the Butterfly diagrams from the FFT or Viterbi algorithms?

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

http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US5163017-2...

I'd use neon black light reactive crayons, of course! ;)

http://shop-uv.blacklight.com/ultraviolet/Neon-Crayons

It would be kind of like those Penrose tilings coloring books:

http://www.woodenbooks.com/altair/
Seconded - they've been killing it.

However, a big part of it was due to their lead engineer Tetsuya Takahashi - a true creative genius - who just left. It remains to be seen how good their product line can remain without him because he really was a unique hybrid engineer/product designer.
FinLab enters cryptocurrency world – invests in Bitcoin gold exchange Vaultoro
If the US didn't act massively and immediately to any strikes to our close allies, our alliances would be rendered meaningless.

There would not be time for public debate. The US would respond within minutes of a move like that.
>C++17 will remove support for old-style exception specifications

Right, you've been told for some time that those were deprecated. At some point deprecated features go away.
So premium mediocre is chipotle and bourgeoisie is the latin fusion place that charges 25 bucks for entrees?
I think it started earlier (around 2008) with Scott McCloud doing a comic describing the architecture of the (then newly introduced) Chrome browser, especially the innovation of running each tab in a separate process - http://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/
Im not 100% convinced authorities are not motivated by settlement funds.

In ny, the mayor used bank settlement funds to buy iPads for police. It was a significant amount of money.

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/490-14/mayor-de...

Mortgage settlements were large and went to various administrative entities including prosecutors office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/business/dealbook/24mortg...
I'm not sure on the best way to handle this, but it seems like this should come from tax money, rather than donation money. Relying on donations to make sure our justice system is working seems like the wrong solution.
That depends, did Domino's pay for each pizza in full or cancel them when they made it 90% of the way there?
That's because the US government doesn't provide a convenient and reliable way of proving physical identity. And that's mostly because the people don't want it.

Most countries have some form of universal photo ID, and a copy of it is usually required, along with a signature that matches. Not perfect but better than a simple number.
Some countries like Estonia include a cryptographic token in their ID, protected by a PIN. That's the 2 factor security you wanted.

But people in the US tend not to like the idea of government IDs. But when such a thing is needed, they use the closest thing they have, and that's the SSN.
Are they auto-updating everyone? How is this not being understood as a product rename with extra features?
Thanks so much! We currently use Atlas and it's been pretty great, although prohibitively expensive for my small side projects, where mLab instead has been awesome.
I paid less than a third of that. The good ones are either affordable or they make you pay % of salary once you are employed.
Right. It doesn't make any sense. Can they really prove it was you or that it wasn't you that did the search or lookup?
“We had better understand what's happening before it makes up our minds for us.”
Now if only it had a Pavlok[1] integration, it could punish you for failing to keep the beat.

1: https://pavlok.com/
Recurse Center, née Hacker School, emphasizes that they are not a "boot camp", but they at least started with the best reputation.

I'm not sure where they are now in terms of reputation, though.

I think it may be that there was an unserved pool of natural talent that the first boot camps quickly served to train, and now we're down to the trickle of trainable talent that thinks boot camps are the way to go.

And as schools like NYU (where I'm currently teaching a fairly new Python certificate program) begin to grab market share as substitutes to boot camps, with their stellar reputations, the bootcamp niche will become even more difficult to compete in.
> The problem with this kind of thing is that despite representations to the contrary, no-one is really interested in the group means for their own sake.

I'm interested in group means for their own sake. Or rather, I'm interested in them because they hint at underlying mechanisms, and I'm interested in mechanisms for their own sake.

FWIW, I'm asexual and do not regard homosexuality as some kind of defect. Otherwise, what would I have to think of myself?

Additionally, I don't think you can "lack" masculinity in the sense that you "need" some amount and are deficient otherwise. There are some people who are closer to one extreme than to the other, and if likelihood of attraction to a specific sex changes somewhat monotonically with position on this axis, that tells you very little about individuals, but a bit more about biological interactions, which, again, I find interesting for their own sake.
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Thanks for posting that; depending on the site (if you go to equifaxsecurity2017 or trustedidpremer) you see different ToUs.

Equifax has the clause for opting out of arbitration, but Trusted ID Premier's Terms of Use doesn't have it. The enrollment site I've seen is owned by Trusted ID Premier, and it's arguably deceptive that Equifax structured the site as a bat-and-switch to see if their shitstorm exposed you.

Heck, they may have even planned a PR push around telling news outlets to refer readers to that site, omitting that using trustedidpremier.com means that you agree to a ToU that mentions only waiving the right to participate in class-action suits, but not how to opt-out.
If I promise to pick my friend up at the airport and don't go, have I harmed them? Is it a crime?

If I run for president and lie about my positions to get elected, have I harmed anyone? Is it a crime?

If I create a second identity and maintain two relationships in different states, have I harmed anyone? Is it a crime?

In response to your edit, yes, that's exactly the point. Not all harm can be sued for. Not all wrongs are illegal. Some wrongs cannot be illegal.

If I promise to be faithful to my wife and then cheat on her, do you believe I've done anything wrong? If so, do you think it should be illegal?

Or let's take emotion out of it and focus on "real actual damages". Say I verbally promise my friend a job at my company in New York and encourage them to move here, with no intention of actually hiring them. Have I harmed them if they trusted me enough to sign an expensive lease in New York? If so, should it be illegal to break a verbal promise? Should everyone act like robots and refuse to trust each other without written contracts?