skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never understand what makes people take the focus-grouped, carefully worded speeches and statements of CEOs and politicians at face value, and then label those CEOs/politicians "good people" or "nice guys" based on that. It's obvious that critical thinking skills are severely lacking across most of society.

It's the equivalent of believing a company is "run by comedians" because their marketing team injected some dull humor into an ad that played on TV, or believing an oil company is "environmentally friendly" because they published a picture of someone wearing their logo planting a tree.
It's worth nothing as an interesting background note that FiveThirtyEight uses ggplot2/R for their data visualization workflows instead of matplotlib/Python. Specifically, they export ggplot2 visualizations as a PDF/SVG vector image which then can be precisely annotated in Illustrator.

More info in this video: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/useR-international-R-User-c...
Gexps are not a build system implementation. They are a means to generate code.

Guix continues to use whatever build system a package requires, such as the GNU build system, the CMake build system, the R build system, the Python build system, etc. Gexps are not an attempt to replace these build systems. They are a way to stage code on the host side that is meant to run on the build side; this could be done with mere S-expressions through quoting, but would require more boilerplate. Gexps provide additional context, which allows for simpler code.
Considering the colony as a superorganism, this could be primarily to serve the purpose of redundancy/slack, so that losses or shocks can be continually replaced/responded to, in order to maintain a systemic homeostasis. Though 40% of individuals inactive does seem a large proportion, but perhaps they use little energy.
Selling it means I can't live in it anymore. Renting is the ideal option, but if I'm 85 years old, maintaining a rental property or dealing with property managers would be tricky at best.

(My actual goal with my current property is to sell it once I'm having trouble going up the 3 flight of stairs leading to my unit and using the money to live in a much smaller place as people mentionned already)
They mean 57 in nightlies: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#night...
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>Let's trust the laws that already exist to handle things that have been illegal for a long time.

So in other words I can create an Uber for murder for hire, and I'll connect people who want someone dead and people who will do the job; ill process the payment and take a cut. If the two conspirators get caught fine, let the laws that exist work it out...but I escape any liability "because I'm just a tech platform". All I have to do is respond to LE subpoenas during the murder investigation, that's what you are suggesting.

Don't get me wrong I agree with points about bitcoin, that it serves as a legit technology and shouldn't be outlawed because it might be used for illegal transactions, but the arguement is not that "banks already engage in money laundering for drug dealers and other illegal businesses, and at worst they pay fines, no one has gone to jail; therefore, bitcoin should remain unregulated so even one else can engage in money laundering".
Wasn't this "bug" originally meant to reproduce IE behavior for compatibility purposes with IE?
> The self-reported Google salary spreadsheet [...]

That's all I needed to see. Nothing worthwhile here. The people who'll tend to report will be the people who are worried about how much they earn. I'd say all this shows is that men are less worried about how much they earn than women.
the problem is there is no "right" until you define what right means, which is where the spec comes in. These results are "right", if unexpected, and the true issue here is of course not so much the mathematical results between the three tests, but the fact that JS gives you the freedom to compare anything to anything, irrespective of whether that comparison makes sense at all. Python allows this in a few places, too, with equally bizarre results (see another comment that highlights a few of them).

While tempting to do so, thinking of >= as implying "> or ==" is simply not true in any language that performs type coercion to get around type incompatibility issues.
Trump made a large fortune into a small one. Zuckerberg did better, financially, and probably in a much harder industry .
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"a pure self-defense system"

There is no such thing. A good defense is the best offense.
So a few years back, Equifax bought a company I cofounded. They assisted my former business partner in diverting ~$13 million of the purchase proceeds that were supposed to go to me over to him. Then they helped stonewall the resulting litigation for years.

While I am upset on behalf of all affected consumers, mere words cannot adequately express the unbridled joy that I experienced when I found out that they were likely, at a minimum, going to lose hundreds of millions (or more) over this. Having dealt with high level executives at the company, I can tell you that an event like this is wholly unsurprising given their nonchalant attitudes toward...pretty much everything. I absolutely hope you are right that this is an extinction level event for them. My admittedly biased opinion is that they are an irresponsible company with far too much power over peoples' lives, run by malevolent executives. The company should probably cease to exist, at least in its current form.
It must depend on the power company. This one has it almost immediately.
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Thank you so much for doing this! I have one question though: how do I get my Equifax username?
Container tabs are live in the latest nightlies (without addons), so signs are good that it will make it to stable.
The search bar is soon to be hidden by default -- you'll have the option to turn it on. [1]

[1] - https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/08/2330232/firefox-57-...
I am as weary with Chrome, but for a different reason.

While Safari lags, Chrome seems to introduce more and more Chrome-isms onto the web.
As web developer I back this. I didn't hear it before but say that in the office because is the browser that often has weird css bugs. But to be fair Edge also requires some dedication and their update deployment is a nightmare. Their latest stable release was on April but because Windows rolling update strategy some users might be using a 2 year old Edge that doesn't support css variables.
If that new product exposes scads of private data, then it's rather irrelevant. These credit scores aren't something most people signed up for, they are a product for financial lenders and not for the direct consumer.
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That seems to be a rather particular case, of which the details are not publicly known. It could easily be that the NSA had a particularly good reason to withdraw the contracts, and obviously the company didn't have a right to these contracts in the first place, or the NSA wouldn't have been able to stop them.

On the other hand, the NSA is not controlled by the government, at least not to the level of individual prosecutions, investigations or contracts.
HI I see that you have constant opposition to AMP because it renders badly on iphone. Do you know how expensive is DATA here in 3rd world? Native websites, force people to load trackers + install stupid apps (no space in a 4GB android phone). Please once try to get a cheap android phone and you will realize how good AMP is for us to read news. Example visit: ndtv.com indiatimes.com

Seriously, please I am not for support Google. Please do not tell me to buy used iphone to get privacy which also costs $200 (2 months salary). You need a mac to create a "apple-email" account (which costs 4months salary).

I am not a troll supporting Google. I have in my cheap Moto E (pure LineageOS - NO Google Play) works for 2 days without charge. I too hope Google will open up more, but privacy for rich is not fine. We, the poor, need technology even if it means Google puts AMP.

Why are you happy that apple puts walled garden? You have a choice to use a different OS or phone or browser? In linux, even uploading to iPhotos is NOT possible? icloud/ical/Mail all work terrible - try it once.

I am sorry.
> 2. Equifax accidentally deleted a substantial portion of their database.

Although most people know of stories where backups were broken, didn't work, (etc) for some reason, it would be truly mind boggling for it to be the case here.

Deleting a substantial amounts of production data... seen that before (I used to be a NetBackup Admin for large places). But recovery procedures do exist, and for them not to have multiple levels of recovery available for their core mission data is extremely unlikely.
Not at all. The point is there are different standards, and it's not just no liability or strict liability as EFF is framing it.

You can set the standard as a middle ground, such as the web company knew or should have known their technology was being used to facilitate crimes (we are talking about specific crimes, not generally). I only used strict liability to highlight the most extreme counter example to EFF's position of no liability.
Science fiction fans. Yep, you read that right.
> their support for ES6 features beats all the other browsers

This is deceptive. They purposefully do not support critical features that other browsers do support. As a developer, if there's one browser that consistently gives me headaches, it is Safari.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FormData/ge...
Just using a catastrophic hurricane as publicity it seems.
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The r/personalfinance thread advised to put a 90 day fraud alert on your credit report. If you do this for 1 credit company, they have to tell the others. Here is TransUnion's form to put a fraud alert on your account. https://fraud.transunion.com/fa/fraudAlert/landingPage.jsp
Guix is a package management tool, not a build system. It surprises me how many people doing support for HPC systems, in particular, don't appreciate the difference even after they've been bitten by something like lack of dependency management.

Scheme has good abstraction facilities if you wanted to simplify package definitions somehow.
Can anyone provide a bit more detail on database cracking? What does "massage the query plans to crack" mean?
R doesn't include a 538 theme, even though ggplot2's theme_minimal() is close.
Wasn't this exactly one of the items Microsoft got in trouble for with the European antitrust authorities?
I'd never consider using a free browser from an ad network, and don't have windows or a mac. That pretty much leaves Firefox as my daily driver.

Not to mention I've been using it since Netscape 0.9 or whatever it was first released as. Started on Mosaic ;-).

Have appreciated the kick in the pants from chrome and keep chromium around for testing. Shame about the dumbing down of the UI but extensions have mostly saved me so far. I prefer traditional widgets, a single OS theme, and hate skinz.
Every landlord I've rented from has pulled my credit. My credit has always been bad. But my landlord references were spotless, and that's what landlords seemed to care about.

Were you trying to rent in a tight housing market? In Vancouver, it's common for landlords to (completely illegally) weed out the tenants they don't want -- in particular, single parents, certain ethnic minorities, and people in low-class occupations -- via the excuse of credit scores (even though they accept childfree white professional-class tenants who have those same scores).

I suspect that maintaining a good credit score is far more useful for people who will encounter landlords which are looking for an excuse to reject them.
They already have your SSN unless you have no bank account, credit card, utilities in your name, a loan, etc.

I think it'd be nearly impossible to be an adult living on your own and not have your SSN in a credit agency's database.
No running a platform explicitly for murder for hire is already illegal.
I have a R/ggplot2 data visualization tutorial which gets a similar style in about 10 lines: http://minimaxir.com/2017/08/ggplot2-web/
Why bother paywalling me Elsevier, you know I'm going to get what I want for free. You're my bitch.
The first example seems to work fine in iOS 11, but congrats on the clickbait title.
> 0.134 BILLION

So 134 Million then. I mean that's still an extreme amount of bits ofc. Just seems silly to use the "billion" signifier for something that is less than 1 billion.

Likewise it'd be strange to call something "1000 milliunits" instead of just 1 unit. (Unless ofc milli happens to be the frame of reference for some obvious reason like "15 millunits of x is a deadly dose".)
D3 is a functional paradigm for graphics. From the D3 intro: "...styles, attributes, and other properties can be specified as functions of data in D3, not just simple constants."

This sounds trite, but it's enormously powerful and it's what makes D3 worth learning.
I think you are getting unfairly downvoted here. Clearly low-lying land is a serious concern for any entity with a long-term planning horizon. Most floodzone land should be left for low development, such as farming.
I hold a contradiction over Zuckerberg. He would work harder than most to understand issues, fundamentally transform government to embrace tech, and also have a very powerful platform to reach out to voters directly.

However, given all of this, running as a Democrat would not protect him from the same pressures and problems as Trump. It would probably exacerbate tensions, with him ending up much more isolated than Trump from the political establishment. If we think the Trump presidency and its coverage are hectic, just imagine the air when Zuckerberg blows through all of the weak political candidates. Everyone D and R will unilaterally oppose Zuckerberg, 10x as they do Trump, just because of his power.

Additionally, it's dangerous gamble for Zuckerberg to run, as all Facebook products WILL face a massive exodus stoked by political enemies. The debate of him vs Trump will not please anyone. His path to the nomination will feel so forced like a repeat of Hillary's campaign without all the enthusiasm.

Despite all of this, in my recommendation, it would be incredibly foolish of Zuckerberg not to run. If not in 2020, at least afterwards.

2020 is not an election anyone should want to be involved in. Ever. With the optics and warping that Trump's campaign style involves, traditional campaigns (and even with an adept tech strategy, direct messaging, etc.) do not work against Trump. Even co-opting his strategy and style (energy, heart, voice) is suicide. It would take an exceptionally practiced person to channel, reflect and amplify the frustrations of the electorate as a candidate to displace Trump.
Credit cards is also a crazy system invented by Americans to screw themselves.
CVE-2017-9805 is yet another deserialization vulnerability from a language and set of frameworks that seem designed to produce an endless stream of deserialization vulnerabilities. This should very much reflect on Java EE.
Try amazon maybe, https://amazon.jobs/en/teams/phd-internship?base_query=&loc_....
"without producing anything."

Well, except for numerous technologies that are in use today. Our current missile defense program, which is fairly crucial right at the moment, greatly benefitted from SDI.

Details, details...
It's almost certainly personal taste, but I found kaiseki to be rather unappetizing when I visited. The presentation was absolutely wonderful, most of the food didn't align with my palette.

It turns out some simple, wholesome curry really does the trick.
The standard is already a middle ground. Web companies can't just wash their hands of activity they know about.
This is an Enron-level event. Company executives need to lose their fortunes and some people probably should end up in jail.
If it's overall text replacement then how do you manage something like an aggravation?

PS. I have changed default search engine in OSX/iOS Safari to DDG. Uninstalled Google app and installed DDG app. Let's see.
I used Envy from 1992 to 1993 on a prototype project to replace Sybase SQL server. It impressed me deeply for two reasons.

1.) It was directly embedded in the development environment. Just saving a method would check in the change automatically and make it sharable across the team. This was at a time when most people either not using source control at all or wrestling with cumbersome systems like SCCS. Combined with Smalltalk's built-in dev environment, it is still the easiest source control system I have ever worked with, as least from the developer perspective.

2.) More interestingly, Envy also made metadata about the code base and versions of code easily accessible. Not everyone knows this now, but Smalltalk was unique in that the entire environment above the level of the VM was built in Smalltalk itself and not only available for introspection but for modification. For instance, even execution stack frames were objects that you could see and edit directly to change their behavior. (Not a good idea I soon learned.)

Getting to the point, you could easily introspect every change to code and by combining introspection of classes and methods quickly determine which changes were happening where. We built a test framework that could list the changes since the last run, then compute dependencies and run an appropriate selection of test cases to check. This cut down test time by 90% or more for new changes. Because the dev environment was pure Smalltalk it was easy for us to integrate this this back into the tools so that it was available just by pressing a button.

Many of the ideas of Smalltalk such as VMs, self-documenting methods and classes, and auto-compilation made their way into other languages and products. However, I have never encountered anything quite like Envy since. It displayed the same level of transcendent innovation for developer productivity that characterized the original Xerox PARC windowing system for desktops.
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I keep seeing people say Blockchain technology would prevent this type of hack. True?
To be fair,

let a = 0;
for (const record of records) {
if (record.bool){
a += 1;
}
}

or

ls.filter(x => x).length;

aren't that much harder to read. The second one probably doesn't do deforestation and would end up stupidly slow, though.
> they diverted attention by concocting Russia collusion story, something that fell completely flat.

I mean, other than Trump Jr. admitting that it happened, yeah, completely flat.

We're well past the point where it's reasonable to pretend that the Clinton campaign "concocted" the story entirely, or to dismiss the mountains of (admittedly circumstantial) evidence that Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to undermine the Clinton campaign. That seems to be passing from the realm of conspiracy theory to likely fact.
I do not know enough about Safari to agree or disagree with your general point, but I find this part to be really irrelevant:

> Also one could argue that if Apple did not invest so much in WebKit then chrome would have had a harder time achieving its current usage and would probably be a very different browser than what it is today.

The same can be said on an even larger scale about microsoft and IE 5 and 6; that doesn't mean in anyway that years later they were not a pain stopping the web from going forward. In other word, I don't see how that has any impact on the conversation at end (neither for or against the point made).

EDIT: Not sure why the downvotes.

Apple invested a lot into Safari (and thus webkit which lead to chrome). Doesn't change in any way if Safari is or isn't holding the web back currently, which is why I say it's irrelevant to paren't countering argument.

And in fact, we have a previous examples since we lived the same scenario with Microsoft who invested a lot into IE 5/6 (and leading into DHTML, XMLHttpRequest, ...), which then definitely hold the web back.

This is, literally, the same argument. I don't see how I can be downvoted for stating that obvious fact unless you think that IE 6 didn't hold the web back after a while.
Thanks for all of the passionate comments on login.gov!

First, my name is Joel Minton and I lead login.gov. All of us who came here to build this did so to drive higher Security, Privacy and Usability for all Americans. This is a core building block that we believe will benefit millions of Americans and the government agencies that serve them.

Second, the tradeoffs that we have been considering for over 18 months are very similar to those that all of you are bringing up as well. We have made a lot of progress on balancing these tradeoffs, which are primarily focused on Security, Privacy and Usability. Since we are constantly iterating to improve login.gov, we welcome any future feedback that you and others provide.

Third, for anyone who has a background in identity and/or large scale platforms and is interested in serving our country by helping to build this critical platform, please consider joining us. Your salary would not likely be as high as the private sector, but trust me, the amount of positive impact you would have on our country is tremendous. You can DM me either on Linked In or my lightly used twitter Account (jrminton).

Thanks again!
I find myself wondering whether the information published in this article is reliable or not, given the current Administration's bias and hostility against science (http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/349877-climate-...). I cannot just take the data, arguments, and conclusions and assume they have been reviewed and vetted by a panel of experts prior to publication. It is a sad day....
That's why the program is still active.

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

Well, getting someone to spend themselves to death.
> But nobody should pretend that RCE on an on-prem webserver wouldn't be game-over, for the entire internal network, across the majority of the Fortune 100.

You certainly have more experience with this than the vast majority of the rest of us, but with that kind of data on millions of people, shouldn't it be, and why isn't it, standard practice to put servers storing that data behind an extremely limited API, with a firewall in place to monitor queries and responses and severely rate-limit or stop additional traffic if something suspicious happens, until the monitoring people can take a look?
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Can't you download other browsers in iOS? In any event, it may not be relevant if most iOS users don't bother.
I know "all the money is on iOS" is verifiable for apps as a counter to Android's far greater market share, but is that true for the web? iOS might just be a little blip in both usage and money on the web.
Just from my limited experience, it's possible for people to be working on multi-year projects that may not bring in much or any money but which have the strong potential to grow. On the flip side, it's possible for an employee to claim he's 'bringing in' $X while he's simply maintaining work that was developed by someone else. Trying to to draw a line from revenue to your work is something you like to do if it is favorable and not if it's not (I've been in both positions). OTOH raises are about retaining people and the relative differences between who gets a raise is usually about who's more important to the future of the group and / or who is harder to retain / replace.
> "sociopolitical climate (we have probably the largest Confederate memorial in the US called Stone Mountain)"

The thing about Atlanta is inside of the perimeter is almost just like any other multi-cultural and socially-liberal coastal metropolitan area.
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Researches hack voice assistants using inaudible frequencies