skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit. The way to stop this is to prohibit using and collecting personal information of citizens without their consent and against their will.

In non insane countries, a company doing that would be closed and the perpetrators would go to jail.
Individuals should have the option to tell companies requesting credit checks that they do not consent. Further more, it should be illegal to hold non-consent against the individual.
Wouldn't an iPad with the keyboard cover and ssh client app meet these requirements?
Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow
So I can create antisocial companies that hurt more than they help and take/distribute profits until damning evidence is assembled using public resources, then pay back a small portion from whatever I couldn't get off my book value?

I'd say that's giving organizations rights in civil matters that only are supposed to apply to individuals in criminal ones. The end result is thousands of companies actively trying to kill us and manipulate evidence and politics for much higher profits than the ones doing net positive work.
Yep, I understand about icc. I actually wonder what is so difficult about optimising the way icc does, what does it actually do so much better than gcc? Anyone know of a good analysis?
This is a carefully written question that deserves a better response than I can give it. My basic answer is, "I don't know". I can give you some hunches, but you should be aware that they're based on the same kinds of first-principles reasoning that I'm so skeptical about in other people's HN comments. So:

* I have been very unimpressed with the quality of NSA "TAO's" tooling, and, when I have conversations with people closer to NSA offensive cyber stuff than I am, what shakes out generally is that they people at the tip of that particular spear tend to be super young people in basically their first ever software job.

* But Stuxnet was sort of impressive.

* But then, what was impressive about Stuxnet was domain knowledge about a particular piece of industrial equipment, not hardcore computer science. The software engineering details of Stuxnet were kind of unimpressive.

* But there's Flame, which is impressive in a CS kind of way.

* NSA's original advantage in these kinds of systems probably stems largely from the fact that they were a monopsony buyer of cryptographic talent for many decades. You'd expect there to be a period of catching up.

* But cryptography is now one of the better known pipelines for applied mathematics research, particularly for people who cross over between math and CS, and there's a lot of those people, so it's hard to see why NSA's advantage would be sustainable over the long term.

* But also NSA does have a sustainable advantage in the kinds of cryptanalytic work that can only be done with massive, specialized compute resources, and for all I know when you can casually conduct research on gigantic ASIC clusters as easily as I can fire up Sage and add generate a curve point, you learn a whole bunch of stuff that is broadly applicable.

* But academics get to collaborate directly with everyone in their field and NSA not so much, which is a mitigating factor.

I think it's very healthy that we assume that NSA has space-alien capabilities. It adds rigor to our security models. And again I don't think we should use things like SIMON and SPECK.

I just don't think we have to stop talking about the engineering aspects of SIMON and SPECK simply because they came from the NSA.
> "The legal complaints also cite an internal Exxon document from 1982. Its authors predicted that global temperatures will rise 3 degrees Celsius before the century ends."

Did it rise 3C?
No, I know of other people who did. I was personally bored by those sections, since I already have a good understanding of them - so I skimmed through parts.
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The Perils of Letting Machines into the Hive Mind
We are a team of 4 developers who work on iOS and Android app for Copart.
iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/copart-app-online-salvage-ca...
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copart.mem...

RN has worked really well for in delivering functionalities to both the platforms and even in maintaining a single code and a small team. Our app is a real-time high-intensity auction platform which uses web-sockets to stream data. When we were using native languages to develop app it was very tough to maintain the same feature for both platforms. RN has helped us in tackling this really well. I understand there are some drawbacks of RN but with proper optimization of native code, we can achieve the results really well. I still believe that RN Android is lagging behind RN iOS but it still does a great job compared to other Cross-platform tech stacks.
Elon Musk - I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad
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This is strictly anecdotal, but I flew a 787 to London (transatlantic) a few days ago, and to be honest I didn't notice any difference (apart from the chemically dimmed windows and the lighting) between it and most of the Airbus planes I've been on. I'd actually venture to say Airbus equipment is a little more comfortable.
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>raising the income for everyone will raise housing prices for everyone

This is a truism but incorrect in the context of this conversation.

UBI does not increase incomes for everyone. It is a wealth redistribution. Many will see their income fall, especially initially, in order to prop up the incomes of the poor and those who decide to live solely off UBI.
>actual use of gold as a part of something was exempt.

Certainly not in its entirety, the same "articles containing gold clause" was used very creatively by courts to issue confiscation orders for jewelry for sure. That was my BLAW101 essay subject, something I spent few hours on digging court records.

The "rarely enforced," does not mean that it had no effect. Effectively, people were forced to sell their trinkets, and buy stuff on the market with that money if they didn't want to loose all of the value of their savings.
My year in a Silicon Valley hacker house
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You can thank Hurricane Nicole for that, and if you're going to talk about it in specifics, you should also mention that this was a rare positive blip in a long-term trend of melting that goes back for decades.
Isn't that the exact point of a free market? It only works if we have a method of handling externalities, the one our society has chosen is the courts. Politics don't even have to get involved. Your company ruined my air, now pay me; your company ruined my beachfront property, now pay me.
Don’t write “hold the government responsible” is what I mean.

Write about holding Obama or whoever, and detail the reasons

Break down the abstractions to specific actors and events in detail

“Corporations are evil!” Is the same nebulous crap that puts Equifax on the hook not their CEO

Name the people and their actions. It’s how it works for us.

Language matters. And we often blame abstractions like “the government”

How do you hold that accountable? Most people can’t even name all 3 branches

People don’t look at it as the individuals. If you want them to think of GW or Obama write their names and increase the signal associated with their efforts

You just did it again “The Unites States is directly responsible...” All 300+ million directly? All government employees during the Obama administration did vile acts?

What’s the real who and when of it?

At least personally I see nebulous references such as “the US government did shifty thing!” as pointless

Arguments have been made the US government has been violating its founding documents since the start

Tell me specifically who and why and let’s have a real conversation about it
Not if you just say no to startup equity offers for less than 1% of the company, but sadly there's one born every millisecond...
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There was a HN thread that was linked to an article about it a month or so ago, but I can't find it now. You can also check out the top comments on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13312629

The time ticker "feature" is what was referenced in the other HN article from a month ago.
File sizes are also increasing because filers are adding structured data[1] to their SEC filings. Also, most SEC Filings are now verbose HTML files instead of plain-text files.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/what-is-structured-data
Sorry for being negative but as someone who is paid for desingning and conducting experiments I have to say that this experiment is very poorly designed. (Many of the flaws have been discussed here and at previous occasions, no need to repeat them.) The fact that they are spending $60M on this makes me sad. So much great research could be funded with this kind of money.
Another way to say this is that, since most fatal accidents occur during takeoff and landing, a flight from St. Louis to Chicago is about as safe as one from New York to Tokyo. If you measure based on time or distance, you'll get wildly different numbers. But that time and distance doesn't really matter.
12 Lessons Learned from 12 Rejections Submitting Actions on Google
I agree, but I don't think Neal Stephenson is outside of engineering culture. :)
Are you saying if that you have missing data you can't use numba, or if you have missing data, and you use numba together with pandas, that pandas will handle the missing data where numba alone could not?
I love EDGAR. I use it daily, and agree with the benefits of simplicity in its UX/UI. It loads quickly and you can get the info you need in seconds if you know where to look.
I don't mean to nitpick but I'm pretty sure S&P gives the US a AA+ rating....
YC freight startup Flexport soars from “unsexy” to $800M valuation
exactly, not sure why it is missed, if there is network i will get one for sure, without network, no plan to buy it.
Generally not much simply because of shipping issues.

Components may be sourced from China, but you can just as easily source most things from somewhere else.
> There must be some allure to remaining nameless

Or, perhaps, some people just do things because they want to do them, not so other people notice them. The Poe Toaster is visiting the grave of a dead man they give omage to. Toynbee is a reserved lunatic with a hobby. Maybe it's the other way around.

Point is: neither of them gives a crap about what other people think of what they do. Not everything someone does has to be for the public. Sometimes you just want to put a rose on a grave, or some weird tiles in the ground.
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Can you explain why you look down on pizza delivery drivers so much? Why would a person delivering random crap you bought off Amazon deserve retirement benefits but a person delivering your dinner does not?
I'm confused, 335X was designed and made by TI many years ago, is it outsourced to octavo now?

also wish it had some sort of networking option, e.g. esp8266 or wifi/BLE, kind of a standard need these days.
“Less Mature” Teams
If your car can only be unlocked by your phone you made a mistake when buying it. Just like if it features proprietary chargers. These things just don't last.
If SIMON and/or SPECK are NOBUS-breakable, then NSA probably has an unknown cryptanalytic technique that would likely threaten other widely used ciphers. Certainly possible but unlikely. However, that's not the issue IMO.

Instead of blindly supporting or rejecting an author, we should insist on public crypto competitions which are the best route for obtaining well-tested, studied, and trusted ciphers.

There are decent correlations between:

* crypto that's been de jure standardized before deployment and bad crypto (DUAL EC, DNSSEC, etc.)

* crypto that's been through a public competition before deployment and good crypto (Salsa20, Argon2)

* crypto that's been de facto standardized and good crypto (Curve25519, Signal protocol, etc.)

As an aside, high-level APIs like in NaCl, libsodium, libtls (from LibreSSL), etc. are a new, in-progress form of de facto standardization. It would be hard to introduce a new low-level general-purpose crypto library and attract major adoption.
Why can't you require that each wallet be signed by a party that identifies the person behind it? Then you find where the money went and you force them to give it back.

But I think really the statement of interest is here:
> ... at which point there is no point having a blockchain.

Lots of people have different reasons for liking block chains. Their reasons may disagree with yours.
Who is Ray Dillinger? Why should we trust him with this post?
If the developer doesn’t want to update their apps to fully support my device, then I would look for an alternative.

There are almost 0 cases where I would withhold an OS update in order to keep using an specific app, let alone change my device, and I’m completely on Apple’s side for finally killing 32-bit.
I was all on board with doing recaptcha in 2008 when it was digitizing newspapers, and they were pretty simple.

But now they take way too long and are just used to train a product for a company I don't like very much.
> It reminds me of BET... why would we want to segregate content to one specific channel or network? It feels backwards to me. True diversity would be having this content everywhere.

Not exactly. Cartoon Network was created as a place to show old Hannah Barbera cartoons before branching into their own content. In that same sense, BET was originally conceived as a hub for black sitcoms and shows that had come and gone over the years before branching into their own content. That's what cable was in the 80s and 90s: niche programming. Segregating content made sense when a-la cart programming was infeasible. Like what were they going to do? Cable networks were already sharing signals (BET began as 2hrs of block programming on Nickelodeon for instance) before digital receivers gave them hundreds of channels to exist on.

I agree that we're still a long way from a-la cart programming. Hell paying for Playstation Vue's Spanish package doesn't get you Univision and in some US markets Telemundo isn't included in the Elite package. However I think its a little narrow minded to throw shade on any niche channel without considering the environment that channel was founded in.

Also as an aside: BET was not created with diversity in mind. It was created to target programming at African Americans and it has been a resounding success because its first mission is to show programming like hip-hop/r&b videos and reruns of The Game (though that does not come without criticism). The channel execs probably couldn't care less about catering to other people of color.
i have a special talent for falling asleep while taxiing, and waking up for takeoff.
How do programmers cope with the triviality of it all?
Let's face it, most of us don't work on cancer treatments, cutting edge machine learning, or NP-problems every day or even once a year.

Is it just me, or do others sometimes feel like they are just moving data from here to there, buttons from there to here, colors from this to that, extra fields in services, oh a neat opportunity for caching, and so on...? And then there's just work we make for ourselves, maybe to do something interesting for once like switch to some new framework, switch up to a functional programming style, join some religious coding cult over here, then switch to over there, google "how to do X in Y language/framework" and so on again.

It has left me wondering, are we all just McEngineers serving up soft-serve and fast-food for fat executives and fickle users? Sure, we can make this polynomial busy-work interesting, but after awhile doesn't it get old and do you find yourself just copying and pasting from SO to get on with it? How do you cope with this, or do you reject it for some reason?
It's interesting that "your" data is in quotes. I understand what you mean by "your" data and it's a valid point. It's not my data, not in this country anyway, even when it identifies me personally. That's another subject.

You have made a substantive comment and I don't have time to respond substantively to any more comments right now unfortunately. I'm not arguing that they didn't have the right to collect the data.

I'm arguing that we have two other credit reporting agencies that appear to be functioning properly, and one that looks like it is in a continuing state of dysfunction. There appears to be no end to their ongoing dysfunctional behavior, and no possible remediation for affected parties on the horizon at all.

I just want to know what other kind of business in America would still have any customers after the two weeks that Equifax has just had? Do you think that Equifax should now have the right to continue operating, all things considered?
Alternatively, ban rugby in schools, where winning and school pride are placed above individual development and often taught by people that are not qualified to do so.
Has anyone considered that the witches from "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." are responsible for the moon's destruction?
Pointless? Programming Problems
The Story of Trade
Lots of things have changed since es5. It's actually more than suitable for front end. I am certain that by using react/redux and es2017 you could cut pretty much any native codebase in half and still have it appear and behave cleaner in the end. This is why they are porting these principles to native, for instance in Kotlins Anko, Litho, ComponentKit, ReactXP, or react-native itself.

JS + npm/node also has more modules and components to choose from than any other repository combined. The crippling factor was always the browser, now that that's out of the way, it can build applications native counterparts could not get at given the same amount of money, time and workforce.
The Sydney Morning Herald article you cite [1] measures “deposits”. The comparable figure in the United States is $12 trillion [2]. The comparison is misleading, however, since few U.S. institutions, financial or non-financial, “save” in deposit accounts. (This is true in a China, too.) All this comes down to the murky definition of “savings,” which are in the end largely irrelevant to national credit concerns since “credit” is trying to quality their probability of seizure (through default, expropriation or other means).

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/china/with-28-trillion-in-sav...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DPSACBW027SBOG
Government contracts create perverse incentives. I've worked in the space for the past couple decades, and it's revolting. The government takes bids for a project - a project written in very specific ways to guarantee that only 1 or 2 companies on the planet are capable of bidding on it, usually. I wouldn't be surprised if a necessary condition of the IBM contract was intimate long-term experience with the exact system they were replacing, which was likely built and maintained by IBM. Then once the contract is going on, if the company is incompetent and can't meet their schedule - they get more money. At NO point will the government EVER dare to hold a companies feet to the fire and tell them 'you must finish this project and absorb the entire cost yourself' which is exactly what NEEDS to be done.

Instead, companies are incentivized to hire the dirt cheapest labor they can because getting the job done quicker is actively harmful to their business. Then at the end of it all.. there's usually a maintenance contract to be awarded to keep the system upright and operating. The company doing the dev work is going to bid on that and have an apparent advantage (only apparent though... if they don't get it the actual technical people who matter will just go with whoever gets the contract, the contracting company will never actually relocate anyone) and the worse the system looks, the more bug-ridden and unlikely to succeed it is, the larger the maintenance contract will be. Even more incentive to build a ball of shit. Literally at every single turn, doing whatever makes the software worse is what is most profitable in that space. And eventually some news articles like this will get published, people will complain, and someone on the govenrment side of the fence will decide they want to make bringing the system in as a badge of honor in their career - so they will slash all the mandatory requirements the system doesn't yet meet and sign an agreement that whatever half-functional garbage they managed to get was a full completion of the contract. And then the executives of the contracting company go out and celebrate at an expensive bar.

I once worked on the maintenance side of a system that had just been delivered. The original contract that had been granted was a single contract to develop 3 systems. 3 contracts later, 1 system was delivered. And that system required 9 months of full-time development work to be ready to be used operationally. You know what that's called? An unfettered stellar monumental magnificent success... as far as the contracting company is concerned.
I think S&P gives the US a AA+ rating. I don't know much about "a culture of saving" but I'm pretty sure economies don't grow forever
Mozilla to distrust PROCERT certificate authority
And in the vast majority of the cases the guy pulling the lever happened to be on that side of the gas chamber door because his nation had a strong defense sector and the government that was supposed to protect the people on the wrong side of that door had a weak defense sector. Maybe ask yourself what side of the door you want to be on before getting up on that high horse.
No, it means a chance to do it right: to separate the part that uniquely, globally identifies you (username) from the part you use to prove that you're the owner of that ID (secret). And the SSN shouldn't be that secret.
I'm not sure if you understand what a password is.

Identifying a person is one thing, proving you are that person is a completely different concept.
Why doesn't Canada put a rule saying all work must be done by Canadians. Even if its cheaper keeping the money in country seems better than sending it to India.
Not only bitcoin, China is trying to clamp down different types capital flights. Recently had also limited or banned foreign investment by Chiense companies.
and redash https://redash.io/
and many more
>Further, highway miles while sober have very different safety numbers

A chart/graph that compares the impact on accident likeliness of various safety reducing things about driving and quantifies them relative to "beers on an empty highway" would be interesting.

It would also anger a lot of people who condemn drunk driving while doing various dangerous things themselves.

Someone should make that chart.