skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" the USA does not produce nearly enough STEM graduates domestically"

They do, and so do most other countries.

The US has a 'very large market' that is 'capital friendly' and has a lot of 'early adopters' and consumers that love the latest, newest fad.

So, 'market dominance' is so many things will come from America.

One of the reasons America pushes for 'free markets' is because there's no need for geostratic shennanigans otherwise.

Ex: If Canada (or other countries) opened up their telecom sector to aquisition - even on 'even terms' - do you think Rogers, Telus and Bell (Canadian) would be buying up Verizon, TMobile and Sprint? No. The other way around. Canadian firms would be immediately aquired by American firms. Same for everything else. All of the 'top jobs' would go to the US, and the only thing left in Canada would be 'customer service' 'local marketing' and 'field ops'.

The same thing for developing countries x100.

'Free Trade' plays very naturally into Americas strengths, and it's an easy line to promote, because the 'short term net advantages' are supposedly positive for everyone (though, generally capital).

FYI - Canada/US comp. has a lot to do with Oil prices. Oil prices high = Canadian salaries almost at par with the us.

(Remember that the vast majority of US STEMS are not earning 'high end Google salaries'). Low Oil prices means you can earn considerably more in the US.
iPhone X ears
Redundancy, why use only one lock when you could use three different ones?

That, of course, assumes that none of the locks come with a vulnerability which would allow an attacker to bypass all the locks at once.
LOL, this doesn't make a lick of sense. You are going to display a 2D video to a system that takes 3D measurements?
Algorithmic trading with NodeJs
Everything is a crime in our neo-puritan state.

Congrats, two 17 year olds sending pictures of themselves consentually = child porn.

What I also couldn't understand from the article:

A picture of someone who is an adult, but is /pretending/ to be a minor is also child pornography?

What?!

Pornhub.com will need to take a hard look at some of its content providers then.

Or does it not apply to Montreal based companies?

What if the servers are in the US? What if the client is in the US?

Lunacy.
I don't speak much French and have only spent a few weeks in the city all told, but the romanticism of Paris sometimes appears inexplicable... no thanks to writers like this! I wonder what it was like in the 1960s and 1970s? This week I finally sat down and watched Alphaville[0], a 1965 French science fiction film about a dystopian future in which 1960s computing technology (and period Parisian architecture) spawns an all-knowing, all-controlling artificial intelligence with the cunningly original scheme to supersede humans. It is full of brilliant tidbits, from memoire centrale to "I would like to telecommunicate" [...] "Local or galactic?" and perhaps proto-instagrammery if you squint right. The film is well worth a look if you're in an appropriate mood. Produced in 1965, the 1970s saw the introduction of the Concorde[1] and the construction of seedy G's[2], which now seems such a scathingly retro monument to French brutalist modernism, and yet another layer of Paris... what an interesting city!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport
I've seen some craziness due to reusable usernames on GitHub as well. Like someone being tagged into a discussion several months later for it to, in fact, be a completely different person, since the original user changed names.

I really can't fathom any particularly good justification for allowing usernames, org names, etc. to be recreated. They should be treated how many platforms treat email addresses in that regard.
Answering this accurately would require a lot more information about the aerodynamics of the Saturn V than I have. But I suspect it was the latter - he was justifying a design decision after the fact.

I say that because for the fins to do any good at all, boundary layer or not, the launch vehicle has to be moving at speed. I don't think a successful crew capsule abort would be likely past a couple of hundred miles per hour. If that.
A lot of modern psychology/psychiatry is based on refutations of his ideas, but it's a little unfair to level the criticisms you do through anachronistic lenses: psychology was hardly alone in that problem, the sciences were full of it. (And for that matter, a lot of modern science is based on refuting earlier science -- look into both QM and relativity coming out of the failure of experiments trying to detect the luminiferous aether, a development on a similar timeline to Freud.)

Viewing 19th and early 20th century science through the lens developed by Popper and ilk in the 20th century is unfair -- they'd have done better if they had the benefit of knowing something that wasn't invented yet, naturally.

Freud and contemporaries were the birth of modern psychology, in that they were a radical improvement over the prior methods, even if they don't measure up to modern standards. The reason we talk about them so much is their role in improving over what came before -- the mistakes Freud made were better than forcibly dildoing women for "hysteria" (which is what 18th century psychiatry of women often looked like).

In short, we respect Freud because he was "less wrong" than his predecessors in very meaningful ways, even if he was considerably more wrong than we are now.
Except shoot you because they are afraid you are reaching for a gun. Last thing in the world I would do when a cop says, "put your is hand up," is reach into my pocket.
Samsung already did face unlock in a very insecure and unusable way. They are guaranteed to continue to try to improve it and guaranteed to make those versions insecure as well.

Apple built it with secure enclave, so they are actively protecting your privacy.
A clever way to transmit data on the cheap
Wow, MarketWatch is right. They are trying to erase Susan Mauldin (the former CISO), she is not even mentioned in this article. Does anyone with Google juice have a way to recover the interviews that are referenced in [1]?

I watched them before they came down on Sept 10, and they were eye opening. I can say with certainty that the transcripts are not complete, because I remember "resistance to cloud is futile" and other such gems which are nowhere to be found in the partial transcripts that you can still find on the linked archive.is pages.

[1]: https://hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-officer/
I assume they're incredibly well connected, and lobby hard.
Yep, just like TouchID! Wait, TouchID worked great! You're a loon!
This is about a 17 year old sending a picture to an adult non-consensually - the court declined to rule on whether "two 17 year olds sending pictures of themselves consensually" would be the same.

"Pretending to be a minor" would have 1st amendment protections as per previous cases.
The issue is that an attacker could buy a domain, serve content from it with the cache-control: immutable response, and then later someone else buys the domain, puts their own content on it, but a lot of their users (who had accessed the domain when it was owned by the attacker) have a lot of the attacker's immutable content permanently cached.

Even if the second owner follows the advice of setting expiration dates appropriately, nothing helps them.
if you don't care about backwards (POSIX) compatibility.

...nor overall performance, as the benchmarks in chapter 9 show. Apparently BFS is very good at sequential accesses (but then, so is FAT... which has probably become the most popular filesystem in use, especially in embedded devices) but performs poorly for a lot of other operations.

This book also reaffirms a common adage that books with "theoretical" in their title tend to be very practical, and vice-versa... but then again, it was written at a time when a lot of people were betting on BeOS being The Next Big Thing and they never expected the current dominance of Linux and Windows.

Ultimately, it seems the "keep the filesystem simple and build further abstractions inside files" design has lead to the greatest success, because it's more flexible and allows more interoperability --- building too much "intelligence" into the FS, proprietary or otherwise, makes it harder to exchange data with other systems, whereas you can e.g. move or copy a file containing a relational database between systems and operate on it more easily. Filesystem drivers are usually implemented in the OS kernel, and so it makes sense to keep them minimal from a reliability and security perspective.
I don't know you learn these things with practice. You practice when it's fun. But that part of programming is boring. Maybe some focus could be given but it sounds like it could suck the motivation out of would be programmers.
Yeah, a lot of advances in psychology start with refuting one of Freud's ideas, but it's no different than modern (Enlightenment) physics starting with refuting Aristotle. It doesn't mean Aristotle wasn't a massively influential genius. In fact that Aristotle and Freud are the starting point for what came after them shows how important they were.

Freud deserves credit for revolutionizing an entire field, creating something new and coherent. Given the context of his time, he was a genius, like Aristotle was in his time.

Also, while most of Freud's details are of course pitifully ridiculous today, the basic insight that the unconscious matters, and that we can see its influence in indirect ways, is still a valid idea today. It's debated a lot, but it's a core concept we've never abandoned, so he deserves credit for that too.
The attacker who buys a bunch of domains and legitimately owns them for a period of time wouldn't have any issue getting SSL certificates for them.
Few-shah.
Really? Wasn't that movie they made a good indicator of the public's interest? Or what happened to Zynga? Unless they have a Nintendo property in the pipeline for release near or before the IPO, they'll go the way of Snap.
Because of the potential for selective or punitive prosecution I'm in favour of legalising teen sexting. Obviously the law needs to be carefully drafted to avoid allowing child exploitation, but it should absolutely not be possible to prosecute normal sexually-active teens under child pornography statutes. “Trust us, we'd never use it against the people it's supposed to protect” isn't enough.
I did a study on leveraging machine learning to predict chargebacks and will be speaking on it here: https://conf.splunk.com/

If you have enough data (clean transactions and transactions marked as chargebacks) - and willing to do private study - I'd be happy to help (no cost).
Sheesh, I need to get my eyes checked!!

Thank you for clarifying.

Is it me or was this densely worded?
Close. To be fair the printer is supposed to support PCL5, and this is the first time I've witnessed this happen.
The US health-care system is not a 'disaster'.

This is a bit of Canadian propaganda and mythology.

I lived in the US (and Canada) and the US has the best healthcare in the world bar none - for those who are covered.

The 'flaws' which are deep - is that it doesn't cover everyone, if you don't have coverage, you are totally screwed, and it's obscenely expensive.

For a 20-30 something 'STEM' it's actually much better. Doctors will actually listen to you, you don't wait for stuff, it all just seems magically better than Canada.

Again - I'm not ignoring the deep systematic problems with the US system - rather taking a more nuanced view.

I think the US system could be more socialized (and cheaper) than it is, but for 'those with good jobs' ... it doesn't matter.

And when I say 'propaganda' - I'm serious. I believed all this CBC-promoted stuff until I lived abroad for many years, then one looks back on one's youth and thinks about all the things we were told that were 'given as truth' but really are not :).

Anyhow, it's complicated obviously.
In the end he's just another religious leader. The problem is his religion has successfully pretended to be a science for a hundred years.
Well, one use case I have is my phone sits on my desk arms reach away. I can lay my index finger on the touch id and check if I have a message. I don't have to lift my phone to use it.

Not saying I can't adjust my behavior. We all have our own way of using our devices.
An example of what I was aiming at is to use ML methods like deep nets to detect early-onset diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness and at least 90% of new cases could be reduced with early detection and proper treatment. [1]

Especially in third world countries where there is no eye doctor in sight, these cheap automated methods can be deployed on a mobile phone and achieve near-human expert level accuracy. [2]

Then organizations like Watsi can use data science and predictive modeling to reduce fraud and get both detection and treatments to those most in need. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_retinopathy

[2] http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/09/09/diabetic-retinopathy-winne...

[3] https://dssg.uchicago.edu/

About IBM Watson, the entire thing is unfortunate, I completely agree. Their marketing department upsold IBM Watson for cancer treatment. But I know that a lot of great research scientists worked at IBM on Watson. What they were doing was legit advancing machine learning too. That's the thing about marketing: if IBM were to deploy 10.000 phones with a neural net to improve early detection of disease in a third world country, I probably won't even hear about it, and I work with ML. But for IBM Watson, everybody and their grandmother goes: That's the AI that beat Jeopardy. It's a thin line between being majorly successful in marketing and crossing the line into damaging your reputation and goodwill (or in this case: the entire ML industry).
What Is Timeless Web Design?
There's sunlight in California? Good gravy I need to get out more.
Half the article is just a quote from the court.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/teen-sends-dick-... is more readable, probably.
What is the rationale behind defining child porn age < 18? I think most would agree there is a profound difference between a 23 year old dating a 17 year old and a 50 year old having anything sexual to do with an 8 year old. There are worlds of moral difference here.

The first case is something that actually happened to a friend of mine. He was 23 and dating a 17 year old, got convicted, sent to prison, and is now labeled a sex offender for life.

Are there any countries out there that take a sane approach to this moral conundrum?
> Its fun to dream about the future. But, a dream is all it'll ever be.

I think it is more nuanced than that. The future is always a direction and not a destination. The article points out that the direction is more mixed us and less islands, more mass transit and less individual vehicle ownership.

So for a long time the 'way' was zoning commercial or zoning residential, never in between. But the 'future' became mixed use, and new projects started getting zoned that way, and now 20 years later we've got lots of places where there are shops below and condos or apartments above. I even saw a proposal for connected residents where the owner of a shop can live right over their business which could be leased at the same time, mitigating issues with living far away from your office.

And with most things as you move forward in a direction you learn things and then those things affect your direction. To the extent that new modalities of employment (working 'remotely' in high tech as an example) it also opens up development options. Imagine a chunk of Missouri converted into a 'town' with really nice Internet service so that folks living there could work from their 'home' or maybe a community 'office' but otherwise exploit low land and building costs of the different areas.

I think you need to consider that while you're top priority is a "roof over [your] head without it costing 60% of your paycheck" there is someone trying imagine what part of the equation they can change so that they can offer that to you while accommodating the way in which you acquire that paycheck.
Part of their reasoning for this warning is BND claims vast majority of relays are in 5 Eyes Alliance countries, and BND claims they told the 5 Eyes Alliance a few years ago they should just run relays themselves until the odds are favored a Tor user ends up using spy agency relays.
It's not a valid idea, there is little to no scientific validity in the entire world of psychology. Psychologists will continue to chase their tails "proving" things with unscientific methods that will later be unproven. The fact that he was the first pseudo scientist to defraud the public in this field doesn't make him a genius any more than a carnival huckster is.
Mouth was definitely required too. One of the edge cases noted was it fails with masks on.
Should note the sentence here was 30 days + community service.
>"It lacks much of the latest file system research that has gone into things like ZFS and Btrfs."

Could you or anyone else recommend a book or other single resource about filesystem design that does include more recent research and concepts?
SELFIE ASYLUM: Psychological Effects of Selfies
> I haven't met a single person who likes PowerShell.

The only thing I like about it is it's object oriented nature. That everything is an object ( PSObject ) that can be piped is very nice.

However, the shell itself is slow, ugly and cumbersome. I just don't understand why windows can't create a shell like bash. The old cmd shell was horrible. PowerShell is a step up but it's still lightyears behind all the terminals we have in linux/bsd/etc.

> mind bogglingly verbose.

It's verbose if you don't use the aliases. But I don't mind the verbosity as you can understand the command just from the name.

I like the idea of powershell ( OO, Verb-Noun commands, etc ). But the execution has been disappointing.
If 100k packages are already security audited by the community..
Then what's the issue? They send them to dstufft, he takes them down (which of course does not actually happen because nobody is auditing most packages). As mentioned elsewhere, most contributors to pypi have only one package so the notion of "find one rogue package == dozens of untrustworthy packages removed in one swoop" doesn't really exist (esp because a rogue agent would be making one account / key per package just to avoid this kind of detection!)
The problem is that servers are allowed to update their resources at any time without waiting for any specific expiration time. So when a user instructs it's browser to refresh the page, usually expecting to get the most up to date version, the browser has to choose between giving the still valid, but maybe not completely updated, cached version or actually checking if the resource has been updated.

Immutable makes it clear that the server won't update the resource in place and will handle updates by generating a new one so the browser can happily avoid checking those resources on page refresh.
Only 8x? Doesn't seem like that much? Maybe more aligned to the patterns in which the trucks are used.
There's plenty of cities already! I live in a smaller city, for me there is a good amount of employment options and stuff to do. I have a decent sized lot, have a 20 minute commute by bike (to the burbs!) and have plenty of places to eat within a 10 minute walk.

It is very affordable here, and there is plenty of housing to boot. I was able to buy a house my first year out of school. It was about 25% of my paycheck at the time and I've since paid off the place.
Freudians used their crazy theories to do things far worse than dildoing women. Look up the history of autistic treatments for just a smatter of the terror. Remember when it was caused by the mother not loving the child?
> How do you come to that first conclusion?

I don't really trust any of the marketing (including videos) or friendly articles about how far along companies are. The best way to judge I've seen is by the mandatory reports companies testing in California must supply. By those, Waymo is far, far ahead as of 2016. They've driven 635,868 miles (two orders of magnitude more miles than their next closest competitor) and their miles driven per disengagement was 5,128 (an order of magnitude higher than the next closest, with many still in single digit miles per disengagement). I'm eager to see 2017 numbers. Perhaps one of the other major companies has caught up but I'm doubtful. That's a wide gap to close in a year.

Sure, the numbers could be gamed a little (just drive on the same road you can do perfectly every time every day all year) but doing that will never let you improve your real world performance (important for the big companies heavily invested in this, not so much for the smaller companies looking to get acquired).

I think it's reasonable to just ignore all the small companies working on this in stealth. It's all about testing for self driving cars. They can't perfect it just sitting in a garage and thinking really hard about what problems they may encounter and maybe a few prototype vehicles. They need as many cars as they can on the road driving and collecting data on real world situations.
As far as 'endemic racism' - this is again totally unfair.

The US is by far and away not racist.

I lived in the US for many years and never saw someone ever - ever - do or say anything racist, either directly or through ignorance.

I'm not saying the US doesn't have problems - I'm saying that in every day life, issues are 'systematic' not remotely 'hateful'. Also - the US has a massive population of ex-slaves, and very poor people from Latin America. 'Racism' might be somewhat of an issue for example in the Asian community, but not remotely in the same sense that it is for African Americans. Canada has lots of E. European and Asian immigrants, and very few people of African or Central/South American descent, and os the issues are just softer. Canadians attitude is a reflection of their situation.

America has many flaws, and racism is one of them - but it's not some kind of cesspool.
Atlanta is fascinating because a lot of areas of Atlanta, like midtown and buckhead, seem to be doing exactly the sort of smart building that is so apparently impossible in California: transforming inside-the-perimeter space into higher-density inside-the-perimeter space, while already being bustling business centers, to an extent I haven't seen as much in the parts of Dallas I've spent most time in (I'm familiar with the continued expansion of satellite cities/suburbs, and the use of all the land to spread things around sufficiently so that it hasn't become the rush-hour-all-the-time mess of LA, but less so what's going on in more central areas).

My guess is that the difference is that more of those spaces in Atlanta had become more abandoned residentially in the past since there was room to expand outwards, opening them up for redevelopment now, whereas in LA or SF much of the old-construction lower-density stuff has remained in continual high demand because people have already gone outward just about as far as currently possible (1-2hr each way commutes) so NIMBYism kicks in hard. Plus things like "environmental impact studies" concluding traffic will be worse, etc—I'm very skeptical of the idea that keeping density low so everyone has to commute from further away really helps the environment.
Not 20 extra tons. 65 Extra tons.
> but they're also the only show that just has all episodes for free to watch.

They haven't been free for years.
Ah news to me, that is definitely a lot of cash.