skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iranian Hackers Targeted Deloitte via a Seriously Convincing Facebook Fake
What's with the "force protection" with assault weapons? What exactly are they protecting from?
Yeah, I can see how a rewrite makes sense. It's not rewriting diskutil itself, it's adding a new UI, that presumably uses newer APIs that will be easier to maintain in the future.

The problem really is that the new Disk Utility is a minimal viable product, rather than an app that can actually do everything the diskutil command line utility can do.

And then you have terrible bugs like this, which is presumably a non-security engineer writing a bit of UI code that they shouldn't be. I doubt this bug actually came from the APFS encryption itself.
> (even though it's probably technically illegal)

The article mentions that they weren't convicted for their hack because it wasn't technically illegal.
He's not criticised New Zealand either, as far as I know. So what?

What Trump disrespects tends to be predictable: not tough enough, too friendly to foreigners, not conservative enough etc. Putin happens to be tough, conservative and not especially friendly to foreigners, all attributes that Trump respects and yet which are not very common amongst world leaders.

It helps that Putin doesn't speak English and - fantasies by Clintonites aside - isn't actually doing much around the world outside of Syria, a place where they mostly spend their time bombing ISIS (something Trump approves of). So there isn't much reason for Trump to talk about them, beyond the constant Russia-linked attacks on him.
Those people often don't have access to reliable internet or electricity, bitcoin does not solve any of their problems. Further, bitcoin is not spendable money for 95% of human needs, especially in the aforementioned regions. Exchanging bitcoin for spendable money in person is risky, inconvenient and expensive. Bitcoin is a terrible option for this population.
I've been rereading this trying to see a coherent argument, but I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say. The thing that you quote seems like it could win an award for stretching metaphors.
Visual Studio Code team and Visual Studio team are completely separate, AFAIK.
I don't morally justify it, no matter how barbaric it is.

For me, meat just taste too good.
That can’t be the reason. If you _change_ the password (and use good passwords that are not correlated with each other), an attacker learns nothing from being able to read your old password.
> You are begging the question. I posit that he is aware of it and is presenting it differently than others.

Flatly stating that an entire field of inquiry has, up to the point at which you are publishing your commentary, failed to recognize and consider the ramifications of a phenomenon on which effect and it's ramifications numerous papers have been published in the field for several decades is not being aware of the factual circumstances and presenting them differently than others. Its either ignorance or dishonesty.

And when you compound that by using the mythical failure as a jumping off point for an explanation (“skin in the game”) for the systematic incompetence that seems necessary to explain how the field could fail to address the phenomenon, this compounds the problem.
The Clever Machinations of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer
But how you report the factual information is important.

For example, suppose a ship with 1000 people was sinking.

- 800 lives saved by swift action and heroic first responders.

- Botched government response results in 200 dead.
Yeah, I think the problem is that they rewrote everything but the disk utility.
Agreed, I was a pretty die-hard lenovo fan until they started pulling this shit. When my t410 started showing its (very) old age last year, I went with a Razer Blade instead of a new thinkpad. I'm extremely happy with it. I know razer pumps out a good deal of lemons, but I won the lottery and have no problems at all.

EDIT: I do really miss the nub (or whatever it's called). It made programming in crammed areas (bus/plane/wife sleeping on me) much easier.
There are many coherent, good arguments against animal product consumption which have nothing to do with morality. Environmental cost of production and subsequent effect on health are two popular arguments for abandoning animal foods. There are also the poor workers in slaughterhouses and surrounding communities to be concerned about, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/20/north-caroli...
Recently i've been trying to find an app like Duolingo but for math. Essentially, a way to practice bite sized pieces of mathematics to keep proficiency up.

Unfortunately the current selection of apps are fairly low quality and only allow very basic arithmetic. Any suggestions?

May just build it myself otherwise.
Slashdot made a lot of mistakes (amongst the good parts) for the industry to learn from but it doesn't seem like this one was ever heeded, Digg made the same mistake and it's looking like Reddit is going to follow it (the moment the main site looks like the mobile one and the mobile app is they day I'll leave), many sites and products have been ruined by redesigns and over complicating things.
word2vec is useful when one wants to build a machine learning based system. It allows you to get away with a really small matrix [number of documents,~25-1000]. This really makes ML feasible. Another advantage is preserving context. A vector for car and vehicle are closely aligned.

Problem when implementing a vector based search engine system is that your recall is going to be really high. You will potentially get a lot of marginally related results with your query.

My recommendation will be to implement a tf idf based system. You could enhance your queries by also enriching them with synonyms as well. You could find synonyms by using something like LDA, get a topic model and use the words add the words from that topic in the query.
Looks interesting. You have a typo on the main page: "Mathmatics".
Activists were filming, under cover, a farm being heinous to pigs, saw two piglets in a dire state, and absconded with them. The FBI got involved to get the pigs back.

There’s a legitimate question around why public dollars are being spent on a relatively minor crime. But that legitimacy is lost by the article blowing a reasonable law enforcement response to a theft into a “cover up”.

I have a pet theory to explain why animal rights organisations are so often ineffective. The organisations that effect change get fewer donations than those that piss people off. This, together with institutional prerogatives, results in the villification of reasonable le enforcement actions over trying to pass legislation.
Just started writing it up! Thanks for the encouragement.
That article about using actually, for real using homing pigeons as data carriers is very cool, thanks.

Also - excellent handle responding to a comment about latency.
Thanks for the update! Very excited to get going on App Engine.
The major issue with logical replication is the lack of DDL replication, meaning any changes to your table structure will cause issues until the replicas are updated to match. Also an all tables subscription will not automatically pickup new tables, it needs to be refreshed too. At this stage, I'd recommend against using logical replication unless absolutely necessary because it doesn't really do what people would normally expect it to.
When the story about the Bodega startup[0] came out, it occurred to me that what they were trying to do was essentially what Japan is already doing with vending machines - automate retail at scale. Unfortunately, Bodega tried to undermine, transform and rebrand the local culture in a way that many found offensive, but that aside, I wonder what particular cultural elements make vending machines seem so successful in Japan, but not as much in the US?

Maybe Amazon could bring back Automats[1]?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291795

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
Yeah it was slashdot that sent me to the embryonic Ars to find out all about Pentium2 (or was it 3?) architectures, BeOS, and this new-fangled unstable unixy MacOS in beta etc.
Russia reportedly stole NSA secrets with help of Kaspersky–what we know now
Exactly why I (the GP) was advocating a change in leadership.
I tried that first too. You have to just click the shape, and it appears.
> So you again need a model of what valid query plans are, and a cost model to evaluate how efficient a plan is, without having executed it.

Surely query optimizers do this already. What about that sounds like "magic"?

Computers can beat Lee Sedol at Go, it hardly seems like "magic" for a computer to come up with a query plan that is obvious to a trained human.

For example, OP mentioned the case of creating a temporary table with an index instead of emitting a lot of temporary files executing a subquery. Surely you could statically verify that such a transformation was legal, and it seems likely that a cost model could accurately predict that such a transformation would be cheaper. So why doesn't the query optimizer perform this transformation? Presumably because it doesn't yet explore this part of the search space of possible transformations.

EDIT: apparently this post is making some people mad. I'm not saying it's easy or obvious, but with ML being applied to so many problems very successfully, it seems very strange to say it's expecting "magic" to suggest that ML could improve on obviously sub-optimal query plans.

We have a cost function and we have a search space of valid transformations. Sounds like a lot of room to experiment with ML-based approaches to me.
The US can extradite foreign citizens for committing crimes against American interests. Whose to say that China can't do the same one day?

Maybe the US would never agree, but imagine you are vacationing in some country that has good relations with China.
Ditto: https://www.prerender.cloud/docs/api

// URL to screenshot
service.prerender.cloud/screenshot/https://www.google.com/

// URL to pdf
service.prerender.cloud/pdf/https://www.google.com/

// URL to html (prerender)
service.prerender.cloud/https://www.google.com/
Hi I'm on the VS Code team, this is one of the next focuses for the terminal.
That's not a justification, though, as there is a victim involved. Also, it is not the meat that tastes good, but rather cooking with plant-based seasonings, spices and additions which make a decaying carcass actually palatable. Given that it's possible to emulate the same nutritional profiles and even taste of meat with entirely non-animal derived ingredients, the choice here is pretty clear.
Both sides have their frame and mythology.

I get that you feel like you're doing what's right and true by advancing yours, but it's narratives and semiotics all the way down.
It's not impossible.

Your examples are what orginally was the reason for massive massive emphasis on code quality and automation ( I started out with Extreme Programming in 99 ).

Your examples are actually the whole point, if your code base becomes such that estimates vs actual does not correlate very well, then you don't use it to plan, you have too much variation. You look at what the cause of all the variation is, then sort it. It's actually good when it's no good for planning, it means you should have a bunch of obvious things to improve.

Estimates were, in the XP world at least, virtual. You could give them a unit of "JellyBeans" so tasks were either a 1, 2 3, 4 JellyBean level of effort. Then you tracked how many jellybeans you get done in a time interval. Plan based on how many Jellybeans you got done in the last time interval. You track the variation. If your variation essentially means it's not predictable, then you look at why, and improve that. You as an individual should also be concious of how you are estimating as well, if you "should've assumed the worst 19 our of 20 times" then do that. IT'S THE WHOLE POINT. It's a feedback mechanisim.

It's really important you don't blindly do planning with estimates if it's not working. It's meant so you can make reasoned choices about scope to achieve a particular time line.

- so either variability is good meaning you make reasoned choices about scope

- OR it's bad, and you make reasoned choices about improving the code base.
You can pay for managed hosting for commercial databases. What further requirements are you missing?
Japanese woman 'dies from overwork' after 159 hours of overtime in a month
Funny/action SHORT FILM with UNEXPECTED TWIST
WSJ and any other media outlet aligned with the globalist, pro-Clinton, pro-EU world view.

I knew the whole "Putin ate my election" angle was getting completely out of control when I started seeing people claim, with a straight face, that Russian interference was somehow behind Brexit. It's the same people making the same tenuous claims about any political change they hate - it's not legitimate because anyone who disagrees with me has been brainwashed by tweets.
Is such animal mistreatment in a farm not a crime in the states in question? I find it absurd and sad that the "crime" of documentation and rescue even enters the discussion, when the FBI resources should clearly be used to investigate the far, far greater misdeed taking place at the farm itself.
The most interesting crypto apps
Is It Time to “Redefine Statistical Significance”?
If you were able to land that job you will have no problem landing other ones. Software engineers are one of the hottest professions right now and jobs are both high paying and plentiful. Jobs in SV probably pay the highest but if you aren't willing to relocate you may have to be willing to take a slightly lower salary. That being said, no matter where you live you should be able to find a job that pays well relative to the cost of living. Moving could damage or even end your relationship so maybe it is best to take a job closer to your girlfriend at least for now well you are still figuring out what you want. In a few years should you change your mind there will be plenty of SV jobs still there waiting for you.
You're just a little bit special, aren't you?
Count me as a skeptic on this one. NSA employee/contractor takes home classified docs and I am assuming hacking tools, Kaspersky detects the hacking tools and uploads them to Kaspersky, Kaspersky determines it's NSA tools, notifies the Russian government, Russian government hacks the computer and gets all files. Then somehow NSA is able to deduce all this information. I'm not saying this is not possible, but I think their level of conviction on this is too high. A home computer is not going to have access logs. So let's say they see NSA malware in the Kaspersky quarantine folder, and there is also other malware on the computer. They of course have to assume the worst, that Russia got all the files. But they are making a couple big logical jumps without proof. This article is just to sketchy on details for me to take it credibly.

Makes me think of the claim Cuba is using some kind of new radio brain weapon on US consulate workers in Cuba.
You didn't have to be crushed directly if they crushed one of your favorite tools.

Happened to me three or four times and I picked up a pitchfork too.
Opting out simply isn't good enough, because you may just end up translating animal suffering into human suffering if you just eat vegetarian products without knowing how it is sourced.

What is more moral, eating a steak from a cow that was killed for its meat by decently paid, respected workers - or - eating a chocolate bar made with palm oil whose products were farmed using slave and child labor?
If the judge gets suspicious, you'll have to explain the potential issue to him off the record. After that you can only continue to say it if the judge thinks that you have a potential reason for worry. But they err on the side of respecting it.

That said, a defendant who pleads the fifth at all questions will not necessarily help their case...
You are more than welcome to join any Apache project and improve the code quality.
There's always a big looter/violence problem during disasters like this, and it's difficult for police/security to do their jobs at normal efficiency.
> The FBI agents ordered staff and volunteers to stay away from the animals and then approached the piglets. To obtain the DNA samples, the state veterinarians accompanying the FBI used a snare to pressurize the piglet’s snout, thus immobilizing her in pain and fear, and then cut off close to two inches of the piglet’s ear.

>The piglet’s pain was so severe, and her screams so piercing, that the sanctuary’s staff members screamed and cried. Even the FBI agents were so sufficiently disturbed by the resulting trauma, that they directed the veterinarians not to subject the second piglet to the procedure.

a blatant act of animal torture.
> WSJ and any other media outlet aligned with the globalist, pro-Clinton

No News Corp outlet is aligned with pro-Clinton anything.
User #527 here. I sold my username (iota) on eBay for $150, back when your slashdot user number still meant something. I've always wondered what the buyer was up to, it was funny at the time to think of "selling" something that didn't exist. I guess it's commonplace now
Regarding NPR's choice of words: it is in fact quite common to avoid very direct accusations in politics and news. I really doubt the author came about this for the first time ever, but rather wonder if he detested it as much each and every time earlier.
Great to hear - I'll be checking it out.
And do the motherboards support features that you would expect out of a consumer version? They often only have a couple usb and video out, with very few features.
File system and LVM snapshots are atomic, so if you cannot get a working database from that your database won't survive a power failure either. You can also do a file system backup of PostgreSQL without atomic snapshots but then you will need to inform PostgreSQL of the backup and then copy files in the right order. The pg_basebackup tool and various third party tools handle this for you.
I'm not 100% sure how the homepage should be configured yet. Right now, the only type of content are just Discourse Communities (sites). However, i'm planning on adding plugins soon. They'll be a different content type with a different way of displaying, searching, etc.

So I just segmented the communities list off to begin with until I figure out something better.

Thoughts?
1-2 times per week.
Nobody wants to hear it. They just don't.
Hi. I'm the author of the article. Thanks for your interest. I'm glad the piece is sparking a deeper discussion of the technical trade offs of the technology.

I just want to clarify that this article is one of many included in a full Spectrum issue dedicated to blockchain technology, which I had a hand in organizing. From the outset I was adamant that we acknowledge the costs and limitations of blockchains. Part of that treatment can be found in the last half of the overview.

But we also try to hit those notes in a separate piece, which you can find here.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/do-you-need-a-b...
The diagrams are now correct (the read/write diagram was placed under the mmap section by mistake).
Is there a grand realization i'm missing in the observation that all people's belief systems are composed of data points that lead to those beliefs? This seems tautologically true to me, and mostly irrelevant.
I considered messing around with your project, then immediately gave up due to lack of documentation. Sure I could spend the time reading through all your code, but one of the benefits of using a library by someone else is I can treat it as a module, learn just the interface, and be productive. Check out the mongodb driver for erlang for a great example of documentation:

https://github.com/comtihon/mongodb-erlang
Führer isn't dead in modern german unless you're talking about a person who leads. Most guide books are still called Reiseführer, and most germans have a Führerschein (driver's licence) etc.
It's part of the charm.

The issue of course is that if you don't flit in a distant metaphor, you tread disrespectfully upon _sacred ground_.

To toe the line a little for you, the witch-hunters are activists (good, noble ones) looking for sinners (bad, evil ones) and preaching about a world where the sinners have all the power.

In such a world, why would there be so many successful witch-hunters?
Did you guys use any particular toolset to build the game? Looks fun.
Gcc had competition in the form of proprietary compilers from hardware manufacturers. I remember I used the HP compiler on HPUX machines at university (8xx series?) We were using gcc most of the time, can't remember why.
I didn't say I was pessimistic on it :)
In Soviet Russia, where the pants wear you!
That was a pleasure to read. Pushing the politics to one side; there is a call here to use words correctly and to use clear and unambiguous descriptions. That is a coherent and entirely reasonable expectation on any political dialog.

Doubly rewarding was that the writing style, while not pro-Trump, avoids the bile and hysteria that has been common since the last American election. Limiting criticism to unclear language does the author a lot of credit. Limited changes are needed to apply this article to many political statements.

Trumps pronouncements are particularly entertaining examples though. His speech can make it so clear that he isn't using specific facts. Watching his opponents trying to deal with something so audacious can be very entertaining.
I'd look into youtube-dl. I tried all the parental controls on Youtube, Netflix, Amazon and devices only to finally realize that my idea of what's suitable doesn't have an equivalent rating.

There are so many safe for any age videos that have a bunch of kids with the worst, most cynical attitudes and no respect for authority and then wholesome shows with "intense emotion" or whatever that get rated tv-14.

So I download everything and put it on a USB hard drive hooked to a media hub.
Ada Palmer's "On Progress and Historical Change" https://www.exurbe.com/?p=4041

"So when I tell people about this election, and they ask me “Does it always have the same outcome?” the answer is yes and no. Because the Great Forces always push the same way. The strong factions are strong. Money is power. Blood is thicker than promises. Virtue is manipulable. In the end, a bad man will be pope. And he will do bad things. The war is coming, and the land — some land somewhere — will burn. But the details are always different. A Cardinal needs to gather fourteen votes to get the throne, but it’s never the same fourteen votes, so it’s never the same fourteen people who get papal favor, whose agendas are strengthened, whose homelands prosper while their enemies fall. And I have never once seen a pope elected in this simulation who did not owe his victory, not only to those who voted, but to one or more of the humble functionaries, who repeated just the right whisper at just the right moment, and genuinely handed the throne to Monster A instead of Monster B. And from that functionary flow the consequences."
Sort of, the point of Agile is if it is bad, then you know much sooner than with waterfall.

But if everything is so bad no matter what you do, then it's not really anything to do with how to do software development, it's a whole different problem.
Which Apple device got 5 years support (from the last sale date, which is when a "minimum support" period applies from)?
This is not a logical line of thought. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
Is it possible to increase playback speed?