skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the security people can usually get it right

Having worked for an AV vendor, I assure you that is not the case. Just check Project Zero[1], most of them do parsing of complex binary formats in kernel mode, 'nuff said.

This is just one example, but all major vendors have had issues:

[1]https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ro/2016/06/how-to-comprom...

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OTOH, there are a few individuals who show a great deal of care about software correctness. Daniel Bernstein comes to mind, but many other people are offering big bounties for their personal projects, and have a track record of delivering correct software. But even in cases such as these, there are probably some hidden bugs in there, because of the inherent complexity. Nobody has the time to verify the fine interactions between the compiler, OS, libraries etc.

At the end of the day, if you want higher quality software, you have to incentivize it, as others have mentioned.
Wow that is a crazy rent. I also live with a wife and two kids in about a 1000 sq. ft. apartment and make a similar income (but pay $2k rent). I've been squirreling away $50k per year and buying cheap homes to help with passive income. Up to about $7k per month which helps a lot both in terms of future saving and investing and also with peace of mind if I ever lose my job.
Reminds me of this great Gary Bernhardt talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world

This almost certainly won't catch on because inertia is very hard to overcome, but how amazing would it be to have computers do more of the heavy lifting for us?

(this is guided by my reaction to the product, where I saw the following:

* Syntax is a detail, you choose one you like without altering the semantics! It's a view layer.

* Static types (present in many other languages, less of a gamechanger)

* Analysis of dependencies of and users of code at-a-glance.

* in-IDE integration with social element of it

These were what struck me as the most novel bits, but I might have missed others)
Ah yes but Tesla is an American company and the media darling.

In the real world Tesla is small time. They make only 100k cars a year and their research is being outpaced by the big corporations.
Just for one day...!
GP is complementing Singapore on its transport infrastructure.
What's the plan though?

Like, tuck away the money to buy a place somewhere else? Or are you waiting for a housing correction?
Yep! That's pretty much what happened with me. I worked in SF as a developer for about 4 years and then left. Back in the 00's and early 10's I was always paying less than $1000/month rent for a room in a house or apartment. It's a great place to live if you are young and don't have a lot of responsibilities or expenses. I would love to move back to the Bay Area but now I have a wife and a kid. I can buy a relatively affordable house here for about $150k (Northwest Arkansas) and be able to pay for private education for my child OR move back to Dublin/Pleasanton, spend an hour and a half on the BART every day, pay rent, and send her to public school. I make $70/hr doing remote work in my home. How much would I have to get paid in SF to get the same level of compensation? It's hard to justify moving back.
As two notable countries of significant interest to HN readers recently proved, frustrated voters are easily led astray by populist demagogues with big promises and low tolerances for truth-telling.
Property taxes are capped to the level they were at the time of last sale.
So, if you bought 20 yrs ago, you pay taxes for the purchase value at that time.
Re-adjustment is done when selling or after you finished an addition.
Sure. And that's great. But even at a record pace, that's (according to the articles) 1% of their total electrical energy covered by solar. Of course, solar is a tiny part of China's total regenerative capability; both hydro and wind power make up much more.

I don't have the numbers for China, but in Germany the power usage for transportation[0] is roughly as large as the electrical power. So whatever progress they're making, they need double of that if they want to power their cars.

[0] I don't remember off hand whether air and water are included
> young rockstars

young wannabe "rockstars", and perhaps a few actual ones.
If you think ideas for commute audio might help at least in the short term, check out the most recent edition of what has become a bi-monthly discussion:

Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170121 (Sep 2017, 93 comments)
On August 25, 2017, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order limiting the government of Venezuela's ability to access certain types of international financing. This would certainly curtail the governments ability to ease the pressure of bond payments.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/25/exec...

when you cant sell assets, you cant repay a bond. PDVSA, the nationalized oil asset of the state of Venezuela, is now legally prohibited from dealing with US markets.

While this all seems to be a reasonable response to the Maduro leadership issues in the country, one becomes immediately suspicious of the US intent in latin america when Vice President Pence cites the motivation as 'ensuring democracy.' the sentiment has about a 40 year grim history in the region as it applies to US foreign policy.
I think this will substantially increase conversion rates. My experience with it as a customer was that I paid for something I otherwise wouldn't have, because I didn't have to input my credit card info.
How to Write a Good White Paper for ICO: Tips and Examples
Bristol, UK - get it done! ;)
Chain: Introducing Sequence
> The neuronal model used in most artificial intelligence networks contains few synapses and no dendrites.

Does anyone understand why this is true?

In a typical multi-layer network, doesn't each node in a lower layer connect to every node in a higher layer? All the {L(i, n-1), L(a, n)} edges going from the nodes in layer n-1 to to a particular node (a) in layer n would constitute a dendrite.
Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis is put online for first time
Let's move the convo over to n.boskovic at gmail, shall we? I have a couple questions I'd like to ask that are pretty specific. Thank you for your time!
They currently specialize in different things. The larger Illumina instruments have a huge up-front cost (~$1M), tremendous throughput, low cost per base, short reads, <1% base error, and significant latency between starting sample prep and getting results back. Nanopore sequencing has trivial up-front costs, same-day results, orders of magnitude higher cost per base, >10% non-independent error rate and very long reads.

ONT will be much more useful for assembling reference genomes (which can then be polished with short reads), characterizing large scale structural variants, and real time applications like "what pathogen am I infected with?".
Given their vast amounts of information about mail, might their spam filter work by only examining the header? That is, of course, still 'reading' mail - though it may be an acceptable trade off for privacy minded people.

And, if it's being interpreted by a machine, does that really count as reading?
AFAIK they send "yes" and "video interview" before the flat "maybe next time".
Text editing efficiency is overrated, at least for coders.

thinking >>> editing.

If serious non-trivial editing effort is required, write a script to do it.
It's on the MS FTP server (which seems to down at present - withdrawn?). There are plenty of mirrors - first one on Google is:-

http://www.kompx.com/en/network-setup-in-dos-microsoft-netwo...
Expanding on the comment below, it's an unfortunate combination of many prevailing issues.

1. One of the things Prop 13 does is to cap the maximum rate at which a property tax grows per annum to 2%. However, due to housing demand, the property values grow at a much faster rate (7% is not unheard of). The property tax can change when there is a sale.

2. Bay area prices have skyrocketed.

3. The peninsula topography and zoning laws make it hard to expand housing capacity.

So, if you are an aging home owner, sure you can cash out of a sale. But where would you go? Unless you can afford another place in the same area, existing home owners do not have incentives to sell their property, which results in a very low inventory. And, low inventory further puts pressure on the prices and drives it up.
I'm in the exact same situation, minus the BART part. Not sure how long can I wait to buy a house.

Also, If your commute is 30 min, then you are probably living around Fremont. Is the rent for 900sqft that high over there? This is touching SF territory.
I wrote an article detailing why companies acquire technical debt/bad software. It's typically sacrificing quality for short term gains. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-is-technical-debt-and-w...
Then most of the advanced countries already have this sort of system in terms of pensions or social security in the US. And based on discussions around strengthening social security, the solutions which are politically feasible seem to revolve around: increasing retirement age, reducing the benefits (by limiting COLAs), increasing taxes (by removing caps on salaries subject to SS taxes).

Any final proposal to improve SS budgets would be a combination of all three, but I don't see reducing retirement age on the table. So how would your proposal work in this political climate?
What about the low-paid hourly employees who make food, mop floors, and stand behind cash registers?
Catch "swallows" errors by design. Unless you re throw. chaining another then has no effect on the behavior of a previous catch.
I love that list of needed tools!
I operate casually.
In which of the above 3 categories would you put the Google/Facebook/Apple employees making 200-300k+ per year?

I can't speak towards family living, but as a single person willing to live with roommates, you can find pretty nice places in the heart of Silicon Valley for ~$1000/month. Now add in compensation-packages well over 6 figures, brand-name companies for your resume, networking locally with other great engineers/techies, and the ability to switch companies every 1-2 years if you're unhappy. I wouldn't ever recommend a 30-year-old giving up all that to work in Kansas.
You can pull trailers with cars, provided they have enough torque. When I was a kid, my dad pulled our pop-up trailer with a 1974 Pontiac Ventura (GM 5.7L V8 engine). Just last month I regularly saw relatively large trailers being pulled by relatively small cars when I was in the UK.
I'm fairly early in my career at a company (< 30 years old). I'm currently able to afford a house in the bay area. Its not as crazy as it sounds.

80-10-10 mortgage on a 1mil home is only 100k down. And the monthly payments split by 2 people (aka a couple) is ~2k / person / month. That's 4k/month all in once you include the tax rebates.
From an outside perspective it is interesting to see, that a place, which is accepted as the planet’s hotbed of innovation is not able to produce a solution for this pressing problem.

Maybe Elon or someone else should be city below the sea.
The Drought of Real Peer2Peer Apps in Montreal (Canada)
I noticed something while leaving in Canada. The absence of a real P2P platform allowing people mostly millennial to transfer each other funds. Don't come at me with intérac or Paypal :). With Intérac you have to create a question, an answer and send that to the recipient etc. A whole lot of work for only 5 bucks. With PayPal, there is not that social aspect to it that I which it had.

So I asked a close friend to help me build something. We came up with the idea to gather in one place all financial activities people are involved in (P2P, Pay bills etc).

I'm really interested in you guys takes on this issue, especially if you live in Montreal. And what will you do to solve it?
East, Pleasanton, Tracy, etc. sprawl
Sounds interesting, any papers that I/we should read..?
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One thing that frustrates me about protonmail and most other mail providers is it's limits on email aliases, even if your using your own domain. With gmail you get an unlimited number of aliases.
South Korean banks sue Newegg for alleged Ponzi scheme
This is a common complaint in Texas as well. Dallas and Austin growth has been crazy and California companies keep relocating. Great for those of us already with houses, terrible for those who don't and don't want to live in remote suburbia.
Anybody know how "Galvanize" is doing in NYC? They have a similar model, and from what I've heard-- they had to fire 11% of their employees nationwide to "adjust". I also heard that they aren't getting enough numbers in their classes in NYC to warrant hiring real full-time faculty-- I think they just have two instructors and some contract help. (I knew someone who applied to be a teacher there, semi-recently.)
Most people don't move because they "hate the bay". They might hate living in the Bay Area because of housing, traffic, etc.
Not only do different individuals have different genomes, each cell from the same person will have different genomes. It is more like an "average" human genome, one that no actual cell has ever contained.
>in the past, tech companies always talked about buying premium TV shows but didn’t actually have the cash, but now it’s part of the marketing budget
I'd consider living with non-family roommates to be in the "relative squalor" bucket if you're making $200k-300k a year.
You should ask some Greeks if they feel they are in a colony like position with respect to Brussels/Germany. Controlling your own money is a key factor to maintaining sovereignty. Goldbugs take this to a level where they desire personal sovereignty and thus a money not controlled by the government (gold or silver).
iOS White Label App Ban and Easiest Design Solution
At my junior high school outside of Cleveland, Ohio, the boys had wood shop in 7th grade and metal shop in 8th grade. Girls took "home economics", cooking and perhaps sewing. This was in 1967 through 1969. I don't know what the schools there teach now.
solution: 1 child max per person, globally
Note that enabling stack protection is often not enough to completely mitigate stack smashing attacks if there is a vulnerability in the code.

For example if you can leak the value of the protector somehow, then you can just replace it with its original value when you smash the stack.

Alternatively, it may be possible to brute-force the stack protector value, particularly on 32-bit systems where the protector often only has 24 bits of entropy.
What makes Seattle better? I've visited friends there a few times and I can't shake the feeling that it's only trailing the Bay by a few years in of affordability and transportation woes.
For me it's not about wasting time, it's that frequently switching between mouse and keyboard is a repetitive stress injury waiting to happen. The accumulated damage that can occur after doing it everyday for a few years really creeps up on you.
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like Moose right?
Oh yeah! Funny story -- when he was first starting they had to FedEx their videos to a friend because upload speeds were so bad. That, and a bunch of other stories, is what inspired me to start an ISP (and party like it's 1999).
I am curious where you are looking to buy. I bought 2 years back, 3000 sqft in Easy Bay close to a million. Have you looked at places like Hayward Hills, Union City, Dublin, San Ramon etc. ?
Software Development: Sprint vs. Marathon Mindsets
Anyone who complains that their city is too attractive to the (upper) middle class and thinks that public policy should seek to motivate people with good jobs to stay the hell away, yeah.

I’ll complain about rising rents too, but from a place of “we need more housing” and not “people need to stop trying to live here.”
> It’s why Austin/Portland/etc grow in these areas.

Realize you're being colloquial here, but I think it's a bit SF centric to credit SF with growth occurring in other areas of the country... In the case of ATX you have at least UTexas & Michael Dell not playing a small part in the tech growth there, for starters..
Does Tennessee have excessively more smartphones than the rest of the country? I'd say it's the best basis for extrapolating we have right now.

We'd need tighter regulation, so that we can collect the data.
That doesn’t make the manipulated voters any less guilty.
I'm in the same boat. Been here since 2012 and feel like I've wasted the good part of my twenties on this place. I'm desperate to get out of here but I'm having a hard time saving money and finding a place I'd want to to move to.

I'm only half jokingly considering becoming an off the grid hermit.
Ask HN: Is there a wifi setup tool for the Raspberry PI similar to Chromecast?
The Chromecast wifi setup is dead simple, and it allows for anyone to setup (and re-setup) a secured wifi connection without having to do anything beyond their comfort zone (like connecting a keyboard and doing cli stuff). The genius of it is that the general public is now capable of setting up the wifi on an embedded device, and it just works.

I am looking for a similar type of solution for the RPi. It would be amazing to be able to put the access code on a cheap 7-segment display, for example, to make a wall wart type of device for family members, but without the need to personally set it up over and over again in the future.

Does this type of solution already exist (and is my Google-fu failing me)?
Honestly, I believe the only reason they did this is so that when review sites run benchmarks the Threadripper won't look abnormally slow compared to the other chips out there.

I own one and in both work and play I have had zero issues. If I drop a frame here and there in a game due to some memory latency? Eh, could care less. If you can afford a Threadripper you can afford a 1080 Ti and a Gsync monitor to smooth out any issues you might run into.
Privacy is as much a feature as it is a business model (or reaction against ad-based business models). The biggest question to consider is what will you replace that business model with? And will people pay to use software they're used to getting for free?

I'm not super confident the answer to #2 is yes. But that's the kind of market research you should do before jumping in.

The other alternative is to follow in the path of Signal, make a free, open-source alternative. Survive on grants and donations if you're lucky.
Tampa is one of the most underrated metro areas on the planet. Keep it that way. :-)
I used to live in Las Vegas, and before that SF. Downtown Las Vegas (not the strip) looks a lot like SF's bar rows. Once it became a tiny tech hub the usual culture was imported, grafted onto the surrounding Las Vegas milieu.
I did the math once and realized that the cost of a modest apartment large enough for my family in SF/SV would exceed my total cost of living in Southern California.

SoCal is not exactly cheap. That's completely and utterly insane.
IIRC it does
Optimizing k-means clustering for time series data
It's the other way round for me. I read feeds but no Facebook. Works fine. Which content producers are missing?
Yeah, but the givernment controls the institution that runs those elections... it’s a completely frigged system. So you statement is moot.
Cray Supercomputers are coming to Azure
Sphinx can connect to MySQL or Postgres, but can also read XML and [TC]SV, among others. Does this do something better? The examples seem to be where the user is providing the data to the indexer, which Sphinx can also do.
10x vs smartphones seems plausible: smart cars, smart speakers, smart lights, smart thermostats, smart watches, other wearables ....
Usually if you don't be a dick (if you have one or not) nobody cares. Missoula would be the best town if you're looking for an inclusive city culturally. Our state pride is pretty big.
https://www.bigskypride.com
Counterpoint: it is a very conservative state, and one of their elected representatives choke-slammed a Guardian journalist who was trying to ask him questions, and he still got elected.
I'm about to evaluate it for my needs. Do you run into any issues with the temporary tokens expiring, e.g., with developers working locally on a web app over a period of a couple hours?
Lots of places like this. Check out this 3-bedroom with front porch, backyard, for $70,000 in Iowa: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/IA/pmf,pf_pt/87001013_...
Change can't be fought, only embraced and directed.
FYI, California state legislature has passed a number of housing laws this year intended to accelerate housing development and affordable housing. I am hoping this really makes a dent. On the other hand, I don't think real estate would ever be cheap in coastal California as the demand for such real estate extends far beyond the US.
Some online courses the White House team could definitely use
Unless they’ve recently changed how it works the URL does actually affect the Top Stories vs Most Recent.^1

I’ve had the same bookmark for a couple years now which always defaults to Most Recent.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
I have friends who have moved there. They are married and their kids are young. Neither of them plan on staying there when it's time for their kids to go to school.

They tell me about how guards have been placed at their local train stops to cut down on the number of suicide attempts by stressed out high school students who feel insane performance pressure.
Vested elites. Yeah, I know a decently successful ex-VC. Lives in Menlo-Atherton. Dunno why. I suppose it doesn’t matter. Good schools. Used to it. Prop 13.
Yeah, I wish more would come to Phoenix and drive up our real estate prices more.

I left California right before the last housing bubble burst to take advantage of the real estate arbitrage.

I'd love to do it again.
I hear you :) Its just so hard to see people throwing away so much money every month in SFBA without telling them other options that could make their quality of life so much better.
Comparing bluebird and promises is like comparing squares to rectangles. It's a superset. One benefit of bluebird is having specific catch blocks for specific types of errors. You can have certain errors handled by the catch while other errors bubble through. This is also possible (and cleaner) with async/await though. Bluebird also adds a bunch of operators for racing promises a d and polyfills for other things that might not be available in your runtime. I'm not saying to use bluebird, I definitely prefer native implementation, but there are still contrived use cases for bluebird
Looks solid. Bookmarked
Maybe it's just because I'm more familiar with the former version, but I find it...catchier? And that's important in a mantra.
Supporting faced search and other functionality requiring access to per document field-values is just an extension over the core IR functionality.

Tracking (document, field) values can be used for query by range or by geolocation primitives (that's what Lucene does, where it will index that data into a special tree-like structure, and for each query, it will build a custom 'iterator' and use it along with other iterators to match documents), and for static ranking of matched documents.

BTW, Lucene and Algolia are vastly different in terms of the underlying architecture.
Right, but in the context of the OP's question you'd need the second .then() to mirror what .always() is doing.

The point is, there is no way to do .catch().then() and throw the error unless you do some hideous type checking hack cludge. Hence the need for .always().
common sense requires no supporting evidence.
100k down is probably out of reach for the vast majority of people.
The flip side to that is without prop 13, families like this would quickly find they can no longer afford to pay the taxes on their house and are forced to leave. Which is also not a great situation.