skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the "intelligent caching and network awareness" is basically the Smart Sync feature. Dropbox makes files appear as if they're on your hard drive when they're not and fetches them in the background when you actually need them all while trying to keep the files you really need locally cached for you.

Edit: there's some cool tech around this you can read about here: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/going-deeper-with-pro...
What left wing authoritarian groups in the U.S. have been prominent, post-60s?
Maps nagging me to confirm I was at specific locations at specific times, news articles I don't want to read, etc. Just now I re-enabled Launcher notifications, and it's notifying me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google". This is common knowledge and not a notification I want or can use, but have no way to disable this irrelevance.

Google calendar funnels notifications through the Google App, just like all Google apps, at least on my device.
Geometric Deep Learning – Michael Bronstein
Good point - if it's just got firmware uploaded from the SoC, it's more of an escalation / memory protection bypass vector versus a persistence vector. I also wonder what gets sent across to it - for example, if a malicious video from the web could land on the coprocessor.

Mostly it's just fun seeing more and more co-processing devices arrive in phones as they get broken :)
A pretty history of the conversations with your users
The headline unfortunately downplays the scope of the data, since it covers a lot more than social media - it can include legally priviliged and "otherwise confidential" information, as well as information on "religion, racial or ethnic origin, political views, medical condition, sexual orientation."

What is remarkable is the absolute lack of oversight over the sharing of this sensitive data with foreign governments and law enforcement, but especially with so-called "industry partners". And that there don't appear to be any legal penalties for its misuse.
This ico happened before the sec bulletin was issued:

https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...

Do you have any more recent examples?
You missed step 5.5) Do your research.
I don't see any claims made by Google in that first piece, every interviewee seem to be unrelated to them.
The port lands are a bit of a mess.

The waterfront area is pretty nice right around Harbourfront Centre, though. The Beaches to the east and Sunnyside/Humber Bay Park to the west are pleasant as well.
RHEL is RedHat Enterprise Linux. RHEL 5.5 came out in 2010, to give you an idea of the speed of the IT department in some places.

Slashdot picks up stories that Ars and HN miss sometimes. It just adds some breadth to my tech news sources.
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...

Abstract

In many disciplines, data are highly decentralized across thousands of online databases (repositories, registries, and knowledgebases). Wringing value from such databases depends on the discipline of data science and on the humble bricks and mortar that make integration possible; identifiers are a core component of this integration infrastructure. Drawing on our experience and on work by other groups, we outline 10 lessons we have learned about the identifier qualities and best practices that facilitate large-scale data integration. Specifically, we propose actions that identifier practitioners (database providers) should take in the design, provision and reuse of identifiers. We also outline the important considerations for those referencing identifiers in various circumstances, including by authors and data generators. While the importance and relevance of each lesson will vary by context, there is a need for increased awareness about how to avoid and manage common identifier problems, especially those related to persistence and web-accessibility/resolvability. We focus strongly on web-based identifiers in the life sciences; however, the principles are broadly relevant to other disciplines.

claimer: I am one of the many authors.
I think OCaml does what you are looking for. See the example on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system, which features OCaml.
Blasphemy! He's said it again!

Yes! Yes, he did! He did!
Guide to Greener Electronics 2017
I feel like ebay died when they removed the ability of sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers back in 2008. I understand why they did it, but they created a less than desirable environment for sellers who moved to other platforms like Etsy, and the buyers just moved along with them.
A great example of a recently triggered ratchet was in Square's IPO:

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/11/18/square-pays-93-milli...
Oreo is available. I will upgrade after work. Thanks for the reminder.
Reminds me of eye-scan advertising in Minority Report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
As someone who currently lives on said coastline, I'm really not sure what you mean by "scummier". In my humble opinion, it is the most pleasant part of the city, more than half of it is accessible parkland of some sort.

This is what I saw from my roof a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/aaronmhamilton/status/919820166833242112

The only sorta crummy building on the waterfront from this vantage is the Canada Malting Silos, but even that has its charm.

To me, a lot of the rest of the city is an eyesore. Unfortunately a lot of the large buildings in Toronto are brutal postmodern slabs of concrete spiritual oppression, including many around New City Hall.

The Port Lands are not actually so bad at the shore, some of the industrial stuff like the Hearn coal reactor and the recycling plant that went up in flames a month or so ago is a bit rough, but it's convenient to the city that these things are within city limits. It is exceptionally unusual to have facilities like those on the Port Lands and the island airport this close to the city center.
Excellent suggestion. The article actually mentions this idea "McGhee, who helped develop the efficiency gap measure, wondered if the court should hire a trusted staff of social scientists to help the justices parse empirical arguments. " I think it's a very good idea.

As for my original argument, I didn't advocate for the court to ignore statistical evidence. I think courts in general should weigh all the evidence. They just should exercise caution with statistical arguments, it's only too easy to get it wrong.
Exactly: a few reasons.

Moreover

1. latency is low enough that people are playing triple AAA video games on AWS for a $1/hr.

https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...

2. Sure, that's a good reason. It had better be spewing out lots of data, though, or again, you might as well process in the cloud.

3. Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this case, unless you intend to wheel it around like a suitcase.
Don't know where you get that idea from. The reference implementation for letsencrypt has always been (a Python-based collection of scripts with auto-config, auto-update etc) for Apache httpd. A native Apache module for ACME has been proposed for some time now, and is great because the reference implementation is quite a bit too rich to run as root (and is Python 2 only I believe).
I'm 50, still on HN, and still an engineer (although I do a lot more ops and analysis nowadays).

As far as stacks go, I use whatever suits the application I want to write. I use:
- PL/SQL (mandated by my employer) for generating large batch files in an ETL process
- Python for validating the files mentioned above
- I'm evaluating the OCaml compiler set for a language I'd like to create
- I'm interested in Elixir for back end processes
- R for ML
- Prolog for prototyping a rules engine that may become the seed for a product
- I'd like to get familiar with a JS-based web framework like Angular 2 or React or one of the other ones I've been reading about
- I'm looking at Flash to develop a game with my daughter, who seems interested in coding.

I think it's important for older developers to assure younger ones that you remain interested in trying new tools and technologies as you get older. The curiosity and passion for creating don't abate. But, after you stay with an employer for a while and develop critical applications for it, then you get caught in maintaining it in that technology. Essentially, you get frozen in time in a technology stack due to the success of the app you wrote.

You also begin spending more time on ops and support.

But, you pick and choose times to introduce newer technologies, which you largely have to evaluate on your own time.

You don't have to leave the field or slink into irrelevance just because you're older.
VirtualBox shared folders are really really terrible.

With VMware Workstation that feature is super fast. The product has a much better experience overall.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck with Vagrant's VMware plugin (paid) and couldn't realistic make the switch.

It seems using each OS's native virtualization (Hyper-V, xhyve, KVM) is the way to go, but that means we have to maintain separate vagrant boxes, which we don't have to with VMware/VirtualBox since they work on Linux/OSX/Windows.
And Boeing issuing statements like it's kindergarten.

https://twitter.com/Boeing/status/920373843142864896
America’s Mumbai
It's nothing compared to the Vancouver waterfront, though, with the park, seawall, convention centre, floatplanes, and everything else.
> I have long thought Perl can do anything Python can

I mean, yes, they're both Turing-complete languages, so one can be used to do anything the other can. I guess the actual question is whether it makes those things easier to do, and I think the same properties that make Perl great for one-liners make it harder for long-lived, large projects.
What will that tech need to survive?

Lithium, for batteries. Heavy metals, for processing. Energy, most of all. I wonder how long it'll be until we replace fiat currencies with a balance of kilowatt-hours.
Also, we are tiny, so 'competitor' is a laughable comparison.
I think it’s great people keep experimenting with new languages. Sure many will die off and be forgotten, but the people involved will learn and create. If we keep waiting for someone else to make the perfect language we’ll never get anywhere.

I like how error handling is structured, though I’m undecided on if I prefer a specific case of a more extensible system. Pretty sure it’s right for 80% of cases though.
It's a unix system! I know this!
An objective test removes the power of picking winners and losers from the academics, they will never allow that to happen.
Introducing LotusJS
Training a neural network to keep up with the latest ML papers on ArXiv
Please define ICE, HSI. You left that out.
Also John Oliver did a good segment on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Acquisition by Yahoo! Flickr suffered the same fate.
What sync do you use on Linux then? I am moving over from the Goog to mega. Full Linux support, 50GB, TNO.
Pinterest is visual bookmarking (though it may be phrased differencly), so a small tweak to the model made all the difference.
You would redirect to the canonical one.
I feel like the surface book marketing has been horrible like this for a while. I recently had someone ask me if they could get a Surface Book, so I tried researching it. There was no way to tell that there were multiple models, just one labelled "Surface Book with Performance Base." What the fuck is a performance base? Is this the second revision of the Surface Book? They never mentioned that the first revision was discontinued either. I had to call the Microsoft store to figure all this crap out.

Why would I be surprised though, their entire website is a giant clusterfuck and always has been.
Can someone, anyone try to explain why Magic Leap keeps getting money thrown at them? Series D and not even a whisper of a product. What is going on in the tech industry?
I recently found Datadog for performance monitoring (it's like statsd++++) and I'm already a big fan. I haven't managed to get it working with my Heroku projects yet though.
I too will chime in! I attended App Academy as well, as a fulltime student in New York a couple years ago. Between my cohort, the cohort before and the cohort after, I would say it was something like 80% of people were placed in fulltime jobs by three months. I was one of the last to be employed (we graduated in late Feb, I was finally working by the end of June). A few people had jobs before the whole 12 weeks were up. I can't say for sure about salary, but it wasn't drastically lower than advertised.
You'll ned a dedicated IP as their free plans use shared IPs which are often flagged as spam sources.

Source: Tried the free plan a few times.
This will provide further impetus for not using CCM/GCM and similar AEAD cipher modes in any context other than octet stream protocols (e.g., TLS, but _not_ DTLS).

There is ongoing work to produce AEAD cipher modes that do not fall apart when {key, nonce} pairs are reused (for different message plaintexts, naturally).

Crypto is tricky...

It's easy enough to construct AEAD cipher modes by generic composition that don't have this problem. For example, the Kerberos enctypes don't.

The key is to construct AEAD cipher modes that are efficient (Kerberos' add a block's worth (16 bytes) of "confounder" to each message, bloating it, and also adds a block's worth of cipher operation, slowing it down) and don't require additional random numbers if at all possible (those confounders in Kerberos are random numbers prepended to the plaintext). Also, Kerberos' enctypes use HMAC for the integrity protection part, which is not a very fast MAC.
If you find this interesting, you'll find eagle mode to be 100x as cool: http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
Seagate updates SSD, NVMe, and high cap HDD with Space  branding
Amazing story. He mentioned that that doctor was "high-lined" over from another ship. Am I right that that's a "zip-line"? (TIL also that High Line is a "park" in Manhattan.)
The fact that eBay is now primarily (80%!) new items that are 'buy it now' not auctions is why I have lost interest. Amazon wins that game hands down with competitive pricing, 2 day shipping, and no-hassle returns. I can't get any of those assurances from a bunch of random sellers on eBay.

What made eBay fun and interesting were all the weird things you could find there that you couldn't find on sites like Amazon. Now every time I try to go searching for something on eBay I have to wade through all the shady sellers who have packed it with thousands of items that are better bought elsewhere.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and
naming things.

-- Phil Karlton

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
Your comment is right, but it seems BD are still developing their robots to be more practical, and may eventually have something they could sell for use in the field.

BD have battery-powered robots much quieter than the gas-powered Big Dog: Handle (https://www.bostondynamics.com/handle), Spot (https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot), Atlas (https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas)

Spot was mentioned in the article you linked to as being quieter but able to carry less weight and less autonomous than Big Dog.

The Marines are resuming limited testing with a version of Spot upgraded for greater autonomy in 2018: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/04/05/spots-back-mar...
That sucks. Besides the dumb low cert expiration length, built in support for Nginx is why I haven't adopted Let's Encrypt.
I tried a year ago. Nice interface, worked fine, but the source code was a mess.
Cryptocurrency.

I don't mean to come off as a crypto fanatic but even if you turn on mainstream news you'll see articles like Goldman Sachs' are about to open crypto trading, china is about to open up and regulate cryptocurrency, russian wants cryptoruble etc. etc.

Clearly there's a high demand up and coming for it, and to not even take a dip in it you'd have to be a really pessimistic person.
Recalling Career Advice from the creator of Dilbert:

Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix. > http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...

There are lots of AWS guys, lots of generalist PMP's. Not many AI engineers with PMP. *Reference Linkedin.
You can walk all the way to Pickering along the shore from secret beach (the difficult-to-access beach beside the water pumping station at the East end of the Beaches), it's something I enjoyed a lot in my tween years.
America should lead the world in healthcare and many of those proposals would help us accomplish as much.

We're mired in this current system with no rationing, low accountability, and rentiers sucking cash with the Government's approval and leftist protection against any reduction to the cashflow. Look at the yelps ushered by leftists when Trump stopped giving insurers free money - many of them bemoaned the loss of corporate welfare.
Tooting my own horn, some of the stuff I've done is aimed at more experienced people, and I'm not really interested in teaching specific technologies so much as skills and ways of thinking.

E.g.:

* Blog post on object ownership's different uses and limitations in different languages: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/26/object-ownership/

* Blog post on bug reporting as an important process in software development: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/02/10/voice-exit-user-rete...

* Recorded talk on testing, the big picture (first talk here): https://codewithoutrules.com/talks/
I can't remember his specifically talking about why he focuses on right-wing extremists. But as to left-wing extremists, he does also talk about that quite often, usually in rebuttal to accusations from the right.

See, for instance, his extensive responses to Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism:

Summary:

http://prospect.org/article/jonah-goldbergs-bizarro-history-...

More recent posts:

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/historians-stand-lib...

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/jonah-goldbergs-libe...

Follow the links here for much, much more:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/liberal-fascism-respons...
It's a good paper, but it really needs a more accessible, much less dense, layout, and some syntax highlighting.
I just don't buy it. I understand I'm in a minority, so let me indulge myself and explain, for a moment, why I think AI / Robots are nothing to worry about.

My claim is: Robots will not replace humans in all jobs. Further, it's more than because of Human preference, I think that Robots will lack cognitive abilities that we have.

My expectation is that in each area where they are deficient then they may well become a tool for a Human overseer, and that might replace some workers.

I don't believe AI will effectively deal with:

1) Cultural concerns. e.g. Appropriate imagery in advertising.

2) Major strategic considerations when faced with an uncertain future. (Physical war, trade war, geopolitical events, natural disasters).

3) Legal frameworks, as they are not well defined.

4) Human relationships. e.g. Don't make Alice and Bob work together.

5) Intuitive leaps. e.g. Rubics cube.

6) Empathy.

The reason I believe this is not because I believe in a soul, or anything mystical, but because I believe that the nature of our brains, our senses, our learning experiences, and the evolutionary processes that got us here can not be matched by our technology.

I think this means Robots / AI will not independently create new businesses, new products, build factories, kit out factories, buy other robots, produce marketing, deal with customer services, returns, courts, investors, regulators, suppliers and so on.

I can imagine products that will exist forever, like, rope, or cutlery, or plates, and someone automating a factory to produce these commodities. But they will still use humans to manage product development, supplier and customer relations, advertising and security, and, probably, looking after the robots.

I think that Robots / AI will at best become a tool for people to use, but the power will remain with Human employees.
Putin green lights launch of the CryptoRuble
It’s so bad. My work just switched to Google from Dropbox and it performs much worse. Also everything about the client and the product just screams that Google doesn’t give a crap about it.
There's no mocking. When you have a docile and powerless population combined with an intelligent central planning system, it's a no brainier that it would succeed--especially within the realm of exploitation of its own people. It's just not obvious that the next level can be reached. The US is open to people being different and intellectual exploration. These are important qualities for innovation. China is draconian in its approach to making people try to become "the best" on some centrally planned linear scale. That's great for resolving the hardest math problems that have already been solved, but it's not great for thinking about problems and creating products that are outside the domain of current human knowledge.
Complaints about how short term focused equity investors to the detriment of long term planning almost always come from people who either don’t really understand what active equity investors do or are entrenched management trying to bury bad short term execution under th hazy and impossible to refute excuses of “we have a long term plan.”
Related...

Ever go on vacation someplace famous for its seafood? Well, ask what seafood on the menu is from the region. You may be very surprised.

The trick to getting a truthful answer is to come across like you're just enthusiastic to have an authentic local dish. Then the manager or server is more likely to empathize and steer you towards what, if anything, is actually local. I've found that asking what is 'from the region' elicits better responses than asking what is 'local'.

I've also learned that when someone is admitting, by omission, that a lot of the fish and crustaceans on the menu are not local, they do not really want to explain where it's from. Usually its from all over the world and to know for sure they'd have to go look at a box in the alley.
could use some love.
http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/?from=duckie.tv&/
Why not just seize the means of production? Private (real) property is ultimately rooted in the theft of the commons. This has historically been justified using two assertions: that people don't value what they don't own, and that nobody does anything except for profit. Both are highly questionable, yet when counterexamples are offered they are generally dismissed as 'the exception that proves the rule' or some equally irrational rhetoric.

Our existing economic paradigms are demonstrably flawed. Just as feudalism tried to restrain the creative forces of capitalism but eventually collapsed, capitalism is arguably restraining the creative forces of (socialism, participativism, something we haven't got a good name for yet). We are familiar with many of the potential pitfalls - excessive bureaucracy and various flavors of authoritarianism - but have yet to fully systematize the desirable alternatives of open source culture. Perhaps what is needed is a general theory of economic networking that incorporates lateral as well as hierarchical structures.
Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests during election
Even more OT, but if you like sushi, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi lightly touches on the entire process of making sushi in a Tokyo restaurant along with the story of a family restaurant. Then if you liked that, there is a touching and gentle mockumentary about it called Juan Likes Rice and Chicken.