skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satisfactory? Saying "if you don’t trust them then that’s fine" and ignoring anyone who disagrees that that's fine isn't giving an answer -- including the poster you just replied to with this link. I don't believe it's exactly easy to achieve and maintain such a lack of self-awareness.
Zello trended up during hurricane Harvey:

http://zello.com/

> Push the button for instant, radio-style talk on any Wi-Fi or data plan.

> Access public and private channels.

> Choose button for push-to-talk.

> [...] available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows PC and Windows Phone 8

...

> Connects to existing LMR radio systems

> All Radio Technologies

> Interconnect conventional and trunked analog FM, ETSI DMR, ETSI TETRA, MotoTRBO, APCO P25 FDMA, and NXDN.

> https://zellowork.com/lmr

They probably need some batteries, turbines, and solar cell chargers to get WiFi online?
Not proved or disproved as I understood it (I'm not qualified).
I like this, Here is my try:

10 CEOs can't fix your teeth.
The studies that are currently under scrutiny were conducted well before he wrote the blog post. All of the errors and methodologies that have come to light had always been visible.
That made me think of the famous "What have the romans ever done for us?" scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
It's not my assertion, just that there are those who say that.
MMM does have this:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000...

Web dev is great for a lot of people, perhaps not for everyone.

As for MMM is general, I personally love his style. I remember back in grad school, I stumbled upon his blog, I think from an HN comment. I was hooked. I read through years of blog posts in a few months. I probably factored heavily into my decision of not going for the PhD (stopped at MASc).

Although I still think he makes a lot of good points, my take on frugality and my personal finance goals are a bit more, um, nuanced these days. For anyone who'd be interested in a quick intro to his core ideas, I highly recommend this 28 min talk, it's a really fun watch:

https://vimeo.com/183016901
Compiler doesn't yell, because it's unnecessary in most cases.

My experience is that huge amount of C code running on my computer had exactly zero issues like this today. It has been working perfectly fine.

I run GNOME which uses a paradigm of checking all inputs to a function on entry via g_return(_val)_if_fail(assertion_expression). It helps the programmer do the right thing when it comes to using APIs that are disallowing NULL input.

Two days ago, the code on my workstation hit one of those "assertions":

Sep 26 23:40:31 core transmission-gt[1084]: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed

No oops in the kernel recently.

Millions of lines of desktop and kernel code, and one failed assertion in two days for using NULL incorrectly in the API.

So unless your standard is absolute perfection, it works fine as is.
Sorry, I misread your earlier comment.
I would definitely buy a crank cell phone if I were allowed to clone my sim (for emergencies).
The Pharaohs' teeth were well preserved. You can see how messed up they were with abscesses and stuff. The Pharaohs lived into old age, whereas few others did.

Wild animals die when their teeth go bad. Zoos have dentists taking care of the animals' teeth.
Did you grow up in 18th century England and Mr.Malthus was your teacher?
What a bizarre API. You might get some mileage out of writing a helper function like `readParser :: Read a => String -> Parser a` which can call `readMaybe` and inspect the result.
A Shift in the ATM Malware Landscape from Physical to Network-based Attacks
Stanford. I thought it was Ron Fedkiv’s group, but I might easily misremember, or could’ve been a visitor. I mostly remember because it was such a random thing. The graphics people had a lot of fun, one group was working on hair, fur, and fire or so. All boils down to PDEs, discretised into massive linear systems.
Im middle class and prefer a tax cut.
> Four guys with that passion were artist Adrian Carmack; programmer John Carmack (no relation); game designer Tom Hall; and programmer John Romero.

I like to think that the real reason Tom Hall fell out with id before Doom's release is that his name wasn't Adrian Romero and it spoiled the symmetry.
For things excel is used for I find a few unix tools and piping between them can achieve a similar affect yet still be maintainable, debuggable and repeatable. In lieu of convincing the masses to work this way, I wonder if visual tools could take the best parts? Instead of updating cells on sheets (global variables), have a UI that allows users to break down it down into a series of steps with an input and an output, much like a makefile. Then it would be possible to step through the script, inspect the input and output for each step and view the final result.
> Unfortunately the bar to get a General license is much higher than Technician, even without the Morse Code. There are a ton of regulations and rules you need to be familiar with that are often not related to E&M.

I suspect you are underestimating your abilities and/or overestimating the difficulty of the test. The test is very structured and you can take advantage of that.

If you are good on the E&M stuff, you can blow a lot of the regulation questions. The tests consist of questions drawn from 10 categories. Here's the breakdown for Technician (T), General (G), and Extra (E):

T G G E
6 5 5 6 Commission's Rules
3 5 5 5 Operating Procedures
3 3 3 3 Radio Wave Propagation
2 5 5 5 Amateur Radio Practices
4 3 3 4 Electrical Principles
4 3 2 6 Circuit Components
4 3 3 8 Practical Circuits
4 2 3 4 Signals and Emissions
2 4 4 8 Antennas and Feed Lines
3 2 2 1 Electrical and RF Safety

(General is listed twice because I made that table just a couple months before the General test was due to be updated, and I now don't remember which column was for which revision. Extra was revised last year so the counts may be off for that too).

For Technician and General you have to get 26 out of 35 to pass. For Extra it is 37 out of 50.

So, for general, you get to blow 9 questions. Even if you miss everything in the rules questions, that's only 5 out of your budget of 9.

Furthermore, the questions in the pool for each category are further divided into several groups. You get exactly one question from each group. The 5 groups in the rules category on the General exam are:

• General Class control operator frequency privileges; primary and secondary allocations

• Antenna structure limitations; good engineering and good amateur practice; beacon operation; prohibited transmissions; retransmitting radio signals

• Transmitter power regulations; data emission standards

• Volunteer Examiners and Volunteer Examiner Coordinators; temporary identification

• Control categories; repeater regulations; harmful interference; third party rules; ITU regions; automatically controlled digital station

You can almost certainly pick one or two of those groups and learn enough to answer the questions for those groups without much trouble. For example if you can just memorize the lower and upper frequencies of the major HF bands you'll known enough to answer the majority of questions in the "General Class control operator frequency privileges; primary and secondary allocations" group.

If you haven't actually given General a try, I'd recommend going to hamexam.org and/or hamstudy.org, and doing some practice tests. You can also review the entire question pool. I bet you'll find that in a weekend or two of practice in your spare time you'll find you are passing with reasonable frequency, and with a little more time you'll get to the point where you pass enough to be confident in taking the actual test.

If you make an account at those sites they will keep track of stats, and at least one of them, I believe, will give you stats by category and group so you can figure out what areas to concentrate on.
If you have anything on your phone that's valuable / incendiary enough that the government is willing to SWAT you to get at it... don't use goddamn biometrics.

In encryption terms, logging in with biometrics is "vs. kid sister" security, not "vs. major government" security.
Strong Sapir-Whorf is likely untrue. Sapir-Whorf is contentious. Linguistic Relativism in general is by no means disproved. It just goes through phases of popularity, like any ideas about human experience. At any given time it has some number of critics and some number of advocates, and the majority floats between
Can you explain how this is wrong?
You can buy books on the ARRL web site that contain every question -- along with the answer! -- to every question you could possibly be asked on the tests.

If you just want to get the license as quickly/easily as possible, get a copy of the book (hell, the question pools are probably even online, I'm sure) and spend a weekend memorizing the answers before you go take the test.

If you want to actually understand the material (which I highly recommend), then spend the extra time to research the questions and answers.

I don't think it's ever been easier to get a ham radio license.
As a Canadian corn grower, I'm not sure how the US (or Canadian for that matter) government is subsidizing me growing corn, but the reality is that the prices were still quite strong at the start of the year when we were looking at contracts for the season. I'm very happy with my corn position this year.

We may have reevaluate growing corn in the future if the market does dry up (although for crop rotation purposes that is a hard choice to make), but when the market is buying it at a profitable level, why wouldn't we grow it?
Alternatively, psychopathic and narcissistic men are more likely to seek power, affluence and glory, and are good at fooling people.
Lost me where he starts citing the speculation put forth in "Catching Fire" as accepted fact.

We had big brains before we discovered fire. My understanding is that it's generally understood humans traded muscle for big brains.
Unless you are financially independent, sell it if you can
>For example (this is just a theory, I have no evidence whatsoever here), the men who tend to advance politically and in their careers are usually the ones with the best social skills. They're the ones who are the best at making advantageous alliances and forming strong relationships with those outside their family. Perhaps women are not as good at that? If that is the case, then it might be wise to try to encourage women to improve that subset of social skills.

Since we're on the topic of biological determinism, it's worth pointing out that women generally have higher levels of emotional intelligence than men. Estrogen is a hormone for emotional bonding.

And for that matter, a disproportionate amount of clinical psychopaths are in positions of leadership. That probably entails a better explanation for why men are disproportionately in higher levels of management.
Why is any of that relevant? What percentage of the US do you think lives in the Bay Area? (~2%, if you didn't want to look it up.)

Of course there are exceptions to this and any generalization, but that doesn't make this generalization less valid or less interesting.
There are a number of books, throughout history, on either side of the conversation. I would not call the issue settled by any measure. It's hard to settle any issue when it comes to tricky, sneaky, intangible things like qualia, and semantics.
Unfortunately, Malthusian logic is still around in the common era.
That was a representative sample of the code quality on the Android side.

The problem isn't in flat files, it's in "serializing" to the flat files by dumping the objects directly from memory. Specifically, Java's native serializer is used, which serializes types and constructors in a non+portable way. There are fucktons of people that get this wrong, every second RCE in JavaEE was due to this. It's long deprecated. You use it as only storage backend.

Files written that way can't be reliably read on different android versions, or different devices.

Reading such files back in basically allows anyone with write access to the files to execute whatever they want in your process, because it also serializes constructors.

The problem isn't flat files, but that whoever wrote that code has never had any experience with security critical code.

I can easily provide hundreds more examples of this. Race conditions that lead to private messages being sent unencrypted. Bugs that cause full crashes due to code errors. Horrible messaging performance with tons of low hanging fruit.

All this would be fine were this a random flashlight app.

But if an app with a focus on secure messaging fucks up the secure part and the messaging part, then it's definitely not something I'd want to use. I've got apps of my own that I've worked on daily for 3 years that have similar code quality — but guess what, I haven't released them, because of this code quality.

With secure messaging, you can't release first and iterate later, you actually need to build a secure solution from the first version on.

The fact that you apply Silicon Valley mentality to secure messaging makes it already problematic. If your company needs to iterate or pivot, you can. But once your data's been sent unencrypted, it's gone.

And the fact that you also don't even notice the problem with this code even when I'm pointing you directly at it makes it even worse, because it makes your project even less trustworthy.
Fair point. If the New Republic still publishes articles this long perhaps they feel shorter because the language is less dense? Maybe it is just my perception then based on how the writing style has changed.
To this point, my bank replaced my card due to a breach that they refused to disclose to me. I'd like to know the source so I can avoid shopping there, but cannot.
Matcha - iOS and Android UI apps in Go
chrome://flags/#show-cert-link
Relative deprivation occurs when people learn about other cultures where people have access to greater wealth. In the information age I don't think this is avoidable even if we stop trading with each other.
Why would there be a preference for ham radio over satellite phones?
No the idea is that the universe is expanding. It's not infinite but it's expanding faster than C and therefore it's impossible to reach the edge.
Meh, tell that to the California Indians who worked less than four hours a day, lived ten years longer than Europeans did, and had a society mostly free of violence. Thanks a lot for introducing civilization, Father Serra.
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I wondered that too while listening, but it wasn't mentioned in the broadcast.
"Can they reasonably steal a full perfect 3D map of your face that can pass the attention checks and whatever FaceID uses to determine its you?"

Plenty of phones and cameras have 3D capability. That kind of tech is already being used in cosmetology courses to 3D print a model of your own face and hair for hairstyling practice. It wouldn't be that difficult to make a warm 3D mask to fool the infrared camera and sensors.
The scientific method isn't just whatever happens to work. It's subjecting what works to rigorous testing that's meant to overcome human bias and subjectivity inside various theoretical frameworks to provide us a better understanding of the world.
Just to add another facet: there are folks from other hobbies (like R/C planes) who obtain an amateur radio license because it lets them legally transmit at higher power levels.
Probably it is needed to check if the row is still visible to that transaction.
The 0.0001% was obviously a facetious figure. Meant to convey the fact that a duress feature whereby you cross your eyes while using FaceID to "alert the mothership" as OP said, is an extreme corner case.

As another commentor said, you can't expect Apple (or any manufacturer) to build all these extreme corner cases. If you don't want to unlock your phone at the border, put it in your checked luggage or ship it to your hotel/destination.

If you still think that Apple should build something like this because it's important and serves a non zero % of the population... I'd also like Apple to build...

1. FaceID that will tell me when I have something in my teeth

2. FaceID that will tell me when my hair is messy

3. an iPhone that listens to my voice and detect when I might be sick and orders cough syrup

4. an iPhone accelerometer that detects when I am limping and books a physio appointment

5. an iPhone camera that can detect when someone is watching me in the distance

6. an iPhone that will passively listen for gunfire and tell me to seek cover.

See how feature requests can get out of control.
Well if you define a new type, and * and + operations for it, you will get matrix multiplication for free in native julia. I think you can do similar things for a few other algorithms in native julia. I don't think it will be MKL speed though because MKL uses cache size information etc. and is very optimized. Of course julia uses BLAS/Lapack etc for the types it can.

GenericSVD.jl is an interesting example of how you can factorize a matrix of quaternions by just defining appropriate functions for quarternions and running using the generic SVD algorithm (it's just an example of what I talked about above, the library is not really used by anyone I think).

Knet.jl is a fairly mature deep learning library that really demonstrates the power of the language. You simply define your forward and loss functions, and then you are set. The function gets auto diferentiated and you go ahead and do SGD. There really isn't anything else you need to mess with. It also works seamlessly with GPU arrays without you having to touch the forward and loss functions.
I ended up buying a second hand MacBook Pro instead of a new one because Apple have stupidly for some reason decided that if you want a more powerful configuration, you have to have a shitty touch bar. It makes no sense, a touch bar and a high spec are orthogonal.
Technology isn't science. Science is a systematic discipline meant to understand the world in naturalistic terms. Technology has come to heavily rely on science, because it gives good, reliable results. Better than the hit/miss tinkering from before.
I had to turn off DNSSEC support for my Bind9 at home, from time to time pages wouldn't resolve or it would take up to 10 seconds (ages!). When I checked the logs it was something about EDNS packet sizes that tripped it up. Turned EDNS off (and DNSSEC with it) and had no issues what so ever. It's a pretty standard installation with a few master zones and it's resolving queries directly - without forwarding to ISP or GoogleDNS or anything.
Well, the whole industry operates on a model of avoiding false positive at literally any cost. So I don't think it's an exaggeration, though I certainly agree it's ridiculous.
We encourage any other registry operators who want to add their TLDs to the HSTS preload list to contact us and we'll make it happen.
Very much this. It doesnt bode well for the credibility of an article posted on IEEE no less, when random 30 something person can spot 2 errors in 5 seconds after loading the page.
> In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple and gray

Native Danish speaker, and I really only acknowledge eight true colours: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, and gray. Perhaps tellingly, all those that come with solid, earthy, Germanic names. Orange and purple are clearly much later imports, and while I do of course use the words, I cannot help regarding those two as constructs - blends of yellow/red and blue/red. Pink is such a recent import, it has only really become a term in my lifetime. It is not a word I would normally use, except in a sort of ironic context. I would always default to "light red".

My no nonsense daughter, in her twenties, insists that pink is definitely its own colour - not the same as light red. But then, as I understand it, female eyes can see further along the infrared spectrum than male ones. I assume women have a richer perception of most things reddish than the rest of us.
Recursive mutexes? SaferCPlusPlus is not seriously recommending to replace standard/sane mutexes with their disfigured recursive cousins? Yuck.

I thought people agreed long ago that their only valid use-case was papering over broken/non-existing resource access schemes in applications of yore, so you could try to speed them up sprinkling magic multi-threading pixie dust.
Isn't it a little early to be calling it an implosion? Did something happen that I'm not aware of?
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Why would evolution make an accommodation for their emotional well being if the penguins are fit enough in their environment to pass their genes on?

That being said, I have no idea what it's like to be a penguin, or how much they suffer. I did watch March of the Penguins and it seemed the males huddling together deep in Antarctica during the winter were uncomfortable.
Like the dissemination of knowledge about bump keys fifteen years ago, which put a large number of homes suddenly at risk.
Objectivity is not a binary, and just because we can't be 'truly' 100% objective doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be more so. If you ask everyone different questions, you don't have a baseline of responses, so you can basically fail or pass whomever you want without anyone being the wiser.
The story behind the experimental collar worn by Luke Kuechly
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Maybe this is common knowledge, but I recently stumbled across "The Great Courses" on Amazon Video. There is a free 7 day trial, and the content I have viewed so far is pretty top notch. I'm not an Amazon shill, and subscriptions are available via https://www.thegreatcourses.com, I just figured this would be the fastest option for many.

So far I have been watching Arthurian Myth and Legend and the other history classes, and they are excellent. Let me know if you have any recommendations!
You say that you don't like this phenomenon, but it seems completely apt here.

Silicon Valley does have a particular culture, and it does value certain things more highly than other places. SV is, to some extent, idolized in the US.

Germany's cultural values are different. Germany is doing well, whereas recent surveys have showed that people in SV want to get the hell out.

So what exactly in the article are you arguing against? How is the SV reference not related to the content?
How long was that situation sustained? If longer than "for a bit", then it's probably a major outlier.

On average across time and space, the situation would be way less comfortable than modern life.
I was just told today that gathering requirements is not my job, it's the PM's. But they are swamped in administrative minutiae, and all too often the only person who knows how something worked has quit anyway. So in sum "no spec, no spec, you're the spec!"
Are suggesting that trial and error, heuristics, empiricism and so on, are the basis of scientific method? You probably do, considering your mention of animals and brains.

I'm not expert in epistemology, but I very much suspect it's more complex than that.
In essence the author seems to be arguing that Uber is experiencing bad karma.
Don't you also have to trust that the person running EtherDelta hasn't modified what's running on the site...?