skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then a company wrote him a letter saying he never borrowed from them (despite the paragraph before saying he did, in fact, borrow from them). Okay.

You misunderstood that paragraph.

He got a payday loan from an online lender, and paid it back promptly. The online lender was not Vista, the company to which his alleged debt purported to be owed.

*edited so I don't end a sentence with a preposition. I have no idea how by that slipped me.
The Monadic logging concept explained (using JavaScript)
I had a similar issue with Comcast.
Not having work you can show would be the least of my concerns about working at the NSA. How about more pressing issues like "am I undermining democratic governments?" Or "am I helping collectivism engulf the entire world?"
I think its ridiculous that this is being voted down. Heres the situation:

1. Diplomats are experiencing weird physical symptoms.

2. Diplomats are claiming to hear a noise.

Yeah, its suspicious, but there still isnt much tying the two together besides the fact that they happen around the same time. Even if they are related, thats still not a good reason to believe 2 is causing 1- its just as plausible to believe there is some kind of surveillance causing the noise and a drug related attack is also being carried out. IMO (and I have experience with high frequency in-air sound) its far more likely than a sonic or EM attack causing the symptoms, but it is at least as plausible.
I own a food service business - this entire article is a bunch of conjecture and on-its-face nonsense . The only space that Uber is even going to be able to potentially dominate is that of delivery food, which is already a deeply entrenched industry with a ton of local and national and international competition, and unlike the taxi industry there's not much in the way of pricing that can be knocked down. Places that specialize in delivery already have minimal storefronts and not much in the way of wait-staff. So while these phantom kitchens with strict delivery may cause a few smaller joints with poor advertising and middling food quality to go under, those businesses were likely not going to last all that long anyway. Even with Uber's driver network and the power of Data™, I don't foresee Bill's Speedy Chippy going under due to Uber undercutting them anytime soon when it's got an established customer base.

On top of all of this, Uber still loses money with its ride-sharing, so what makes people think that they're ever going to make a lasting dent in delivery food? The only actual information they're able to garner from a card is how much people are spending, where, and at what time. That's got its use, but it's not exactly revolutionary never-before-seen information.
What other kind of endeavor could it possibly be?
Perhaps that's why we seem to be separating comments out into dedicated sites like Reddit and HN, rather than continuing to host comments directly on blogs?
How We Design Enterprise Software
Hilarious! From the comments: "I think I count 0.90 fizz-accuracy, and 0.99 buzz-accuracy. So it's clearly harder to teach fizzing than buzzing."

The real machine learning that takes place in an interview is to develop an expertise model for your interviewer as quickly as possibly from their general demeanor and comments. You should then generate answers that are 90% within that limit (to generate sense of comfort and rightness) and 10% above (to generate awe).
The article outlines two options. There is a third.

Lobby google through petitions and collective developer action to surrender their .dev TLD and create an RFC that makes it reserved for developer used, similarly to .example and .test.
Maybe he feels like it would be more beneficial if the work were put into WINE instead.

There are lots of people who could switch to Linux if certain apps worked well under WINE. With the anti-user shenanigans Microsoft is doing in Windows now (e.g. using upstream bandwidth to seed updates, sucking up people's Internet connections, and potentially busting their data caps), this is needed now more than ever.

But no one's going to replace Windows with ReactOS. For example, is ReactOS going to keep up with drivers for current hardware? Of course not. Do they regularly release security updates? No. But Linux and Linux distros already do. So improving WINE helps people actually switch off Windows to a safer, less anti-user system.
I guess not employability as much as hoping someone will pay me to solve problems with mathematics with ideally some interesting problems thrown in. I majored in pure and applied mathematics and I am fully aware the no one is going to ask me to do functional analysis for cash, but it would still be nice to do some sort of applied mathematics for money.
Pure amateur speculation here, especially given the lack of facts, but I wanted to bring up these two studies here on white matter changes.

https://utdallas.edu/~sxv140030/Published/134.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496540/

Could be possible an unknown infectious vector altering gene expression on the central nervous system?
This is one of the few DVD sets I've ever bought. The episode documenting the fire and its aftermath is in my top 3 episodes (Spider and Apollo 11 being the others). The hearing at the end where Frank Borman offers a look at the three dead astronauts and then tells Mondale and the other panel members to stop the witch hunt and let us go to the moon is perhaps the most satisfying scene in the entire episode. Great show and great series.
I really enjoyed this piece. We don't use .dev on my team so it allowed me to read it as purely educational. And it really was informative and surprisingly entertaining!
I've just switched away from Chrome (because I'd like to support Firefox) and am a FastMail customer.

But I've started to think about moving back to Chrome for "high security mail".

My private mail is pretty bland and uninteresting, so I don't care too much about not using GMail there, but for my Apple account, Google account, Microsoft account etc. it might be a good idea to compartmentalize those "high value" things from everyday mail and go to GMail with the Advanced Protection Program (so no access from smartphone or iPad, I guess).

And looking at their web site I've learned that GSuite Business is affordable and allows adding domains hosted elsewhere. Good.

What do people think about this?

But then the next step: what about losing my domain? My registrar is a reputable German domain hoster, but certainly no Google. On the other hand, Google doesn't register domains, but has "domain partners" like "domaindiscount24" (that I've never heard of before), so I guess not much to win there.
More importantly, what problems are electronic machines solving? Having to wait until the next day for results?
The verse deals with insult, not injury.

>Striking on the right cheek refers to a back-handed slap to the face. In Jesus' time, and still today in the Middle East, such a gesture is one of the highest forms of contempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:39
I was also pleasantly surprised by the film, Mission Control, which focused on the mission control staff during the Apollo missions, rather than focusing on astronauts and scientists. Fascinating lessons in "ops management" embedded in the collective experiences of that staff. The film also has amazing production quality for reliving the struggles and successes of those missions, and especially how the suspenseful moments felt "on the ground".

http://missioncontrol.movie
>> some github repo in some dudes repository which contributes to it in his spare time

This is a little too close to how some real official crypto libraries are maintained. OpenSSL for example.
So at launch this will only have Shell, Exxon Mobil, TGI Fridays, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. None of those are even within twenty miles of me. I can imagine the usefulness now...

Driving past Speedway and get bombarded with an advertisement for Shell and Exxon Mobil.

Drive past McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, Arby's, Waffle House and Wendy's (all in my town) and get blasted with advertisements for TGI Fridays who closed the only one near me last year leaving the closest location 40+ miles away.

Drive past the local Coffee/Donut Shop (which are great and cheap) and get advertisements for Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.

How freaking useful. /s

Other than learning how to disable this, just like with OnStar, this provides absolutely zero benefit for me and people I know.
Which we technically call transponders, and while they do have EEPROM, they don't normally have CPUs.
I did the same thing, and ended up working for an early-stage biotech company doing some combination of hardware design, signal processing, machine learning, and experiment design. For better or worse, people generally seem to think a math degree implies "smart" and tend to be willing to overlook a lack of any specific skills...
Price. I gaurantee that's the problem they were brought in because of.
I'd never read this before -- thank you! Especially liked this bit:

>But precisely because all the archetypes are here, precisely because Casablanca cites countless other films, and each actor repeats a part played on other occasions, the resonance of intertextuality plays upon the spectator. Casablanca brings with it, like a trail of perfume, other situations that the viewer brings to bear on it quite readily, taking them without realizing it from films that only appeared later
We've asked you many times already not to post like this so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Getting HA right is hard. DIY-ing it incurs risk, possibly deliberately, out of Not-Invented-Here-ism.

Source: PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade; have built multiple HA environments; have seen many ways of "doing it wrong", and how those can end up biting their creators.
Just curious, this guy is obviously not getting payed for his heroic effort. But is there anyway that we can (or should) incentivize this behavior, either for lawyers or for others? Im guessing lawyers dont make a career out of hunting these people down because it doesnt really pay because so many are small potatoes? Can a lawyer comment?
GitHub's technology predictions for 2018
This.. seems to resolve every issue I might have otherwise had with the story, including the impulse to yell at Google about it, but the author himself makes a fair case for not doing that.

It turns out that part of the way the internet is declared to work includes reserved TLDs to be used for testing. So the burden of responsibility for avoiding a situation such as the article describes lies on the developer to use one of those reserved TLDs instead of ".dev", which anyone could (and now, has) come to control.
Pretty much anything. Any consultancy would probably hire you as an analyst for example if you social skills are ok.
Database-backed job processing
Could you explain how my approach is black and white? I'm stating that institutions weigh the tradeoffs, which is a pretty neutral statement. I know people that hated Trump but voted for him anyway because they had huge reservations about Clinton, they wanted to make the most of a Republican majority in the House and Senate, etc. These decisions depended on their own values and their projections of what the future would hold.

To continue the Uber example, it may have been in Uber's best financial short-term interest to keep "high productivity" devs around, regardless of harassment issues. But it might not be in their best interest in the long-term because of issues of toxic company culture or fear public outcry. Some would also argue that there is a moral responsibility in play as well. These factors are all being weighed by institutions and the outcome seems to depend on the collective values of that group.

That said, the poll cited above shows that the majority of his supporters don't even believe in the allegations. The ability of people to choose to disbelieve things based on what benefits your institution is supremely disturbing. It's nothing new in the history of humanity. But I'm worried more people will be emboldened to use conspiracy defenses in the future, given how well it seems to be working for Moore.
The old testament describes a time when life was very cheap, and the KJV is a beautiful piece of literature. I take them as what they are.
We still have a huge number of the dev environments running on .dev, needless to say we were pretty pissed off when Google were able to buy the TLD to use as they wish. Anyway, not much we can do about it now other than start the process of setting up a new subdomain and reconfiguring all our CI/CD, Apps, Docs etc... I know we should have done it ages ago, there’s a ticket there for it... but resourcing.... sigh
This.

From the article:

> It had become clear to a growing number of practitioners that the most effective response to addiction had to be personal, and rooted in communities. Treatment was still small-scale, local and largely ad hoc.

> after 10 years of running the CAT in Faro, Goulão was invited to help design and lead a national drug strategy.

It seems to me this is really important. You can't just decriminalize drugs on a national level and expect things to improve on their own. These CATs were around for over a decade and seemed a large part of the success.
Hmm. I have never seen this done or heard of it being done.
> Your comment is a good example of exactly why the way this article (and the original paper) uses the word "Wi-Fi" and "connection" is a big problem.

The main point of the article was : "University of Washington researchers are the first to make this a reality by 3-D printing plastic objects and sensors that can collect useful data and communicate with other WiFi-connected devices entirely on their own."

Um I don't understand if you look at the flow chart this paper is narrowly speaking about wifi that it is

Wifi TX --> 3D Printed Object --> Wifi RX

I am talking about how this is 100% wifi communication and sure the Wifi RX is where the success of this relays. Sure it will work with other protocols but this is about them specifically using it as a way for Wifi RX

> > Actually it does. It manipulates the WiFi signal.

> Actually, it doesn't.

"backscatter" the Wifi signal isn't manipulation?

If you follow the "Backscatter" link in the article they actually state the following:

"This new “interscatter communication” works by converting Bluetooth signals into Wi-Fi transmissions over the air." http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/17/interscatter-commu...

So they can convert signals from bluetooth to Wifi isn't manipulation?

Your statement of

> It scatters back some radio frequencies, including 2.4GHz, which happens to be used by Wi-Fi...

Seems off to their own "backscatter" definition. This is not simple reflections of radio signals these technically are new signals physically manipulated by the non-electronic devices.
Yes, it didn't take long and I didn't even need to validate my email address.
Here it is: https://app.enviar.io/link/d6b6e380
To ensure that nobody else does. Google uses .dev pervasively for projects - if someone were to buy .dev and sell domains in it on the global DNS infrastructure, then myfancynewproject.dev would resolve to something entirely different from within Google than from outside it.
> the tests never try to mix PSYNC2 with replication of Lua scripts

This sort of testing gap is so hard to avoid. Any complex system has an inexhaustible number of potential feature interactions. It's very difficult at best to guess which combinations need to be tested, and often difficult to even write a test which exercises a particular combination.

What techniques do people use to ensure test coverage of complex cross-feature interactions like this? Two things I emphasize:

* Emphasize integration tests, and try to use multiple features in each test. This can help drive out interaction problems; the downside is that these tests are harder to write and (especially) maintain. It can also be difficult to exercise specific code paths.

* Write randomized tests, that exercise as many features as possible. The challenge here is identifying failures. "The program didn't assert or crash" is often a good start. A gold standard is to run a simple reference implementation alongside your real implementation, and compare the output... but that's not always possible.
Does Enviar have any integrations with any of the real estate focused CRMs like Contactually?
Stealing IOTA would be a severe felony and probably an international crime.
We have a large number of MS/PhD level Math folks in my Data Science group.
isn't this solved by using Firefox instead?
This might seem prophetic or cocky, but I've used a random b64 TLD for years that I expand with a macro. After we expanded past countries on the TLDs, I just figured that any short (or even sensible) TLD would eventually be taken, and I didn't want that to break any of my tests that had hardcoded domains (as rare as those are.)
I had no idea you could buy gTLDs for internal company use. That’s outrageous, and ICANN should have rejected the application. I don’t mind the idea behind gTLDs, but the while thing has been handled pretty poorly.
Why should they be taxed for the benefit of their customers? Aren't their customers paying them?
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I'm not sure a strong case can be made that Google should be obliged to do that. There already exist TLD suffixes reserved for testing. ".dev" just isn't one of them.
I wonder how bitcoin will look in the aftermath of other technological novelties. Usually, these things start off as a niche novelty of an insular crowd, then savy people take part, then it goes mainstream and the influx of traffic forces regulation and more overhead due to demand. The drivers of the technology leave, then there's a slow burnout time where people try to maintain the appearence that the tech isn't dying.
Because classic counting was too expensive or too cheap?
When statisticians rebranded themselves as data scientists a few years ago they got themselves a pretty big average salary bump for their trouble.
Is there a way technology can better be leveraged to verify debt? Would such a centralized system be dangerous? What about a decentralized one? It scares me that someone can put my name in a spreadsheet with 300 next to it and it can cause so many to be fooled
I always advocate for monthly "pull the plug on the box" tests.

If you don't need "high availability", then it will test your backups and restore process, and if you do need "high availability", it will ensure your failover processes are running smoothly.

Not to mention it trains everyone involved what to do in an emergency since it should be second nature by the time it really happens.

If you can't go "Full netflix" and unleash a chaos monkey on your servers, at least setup a maintenance period where downtime is somewhat expected, and do it then.
How western is EU?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UsedSoft#ECJ_ruling

But its not applicable in this case, same German court rejected resale of used games on account of identifying them as art and not software.
The video lists pros/cons for strongly consistent and eventually consistent databases, but only has pros for a "just right consistency" database. What are the cons?
Someone can be Christian and imperfect, that doesn't make them a hypocrite.
It's for the same reason that no one wanted to touch zimbabwe dollar back in 2007, if the value of the medium of exchange differs from breakfast to lunch it's not really a good medium of exchange. Doesn't matter if value is appreciating or depreciating, currency needs to have a reasonably stable value to be useful.
Ahh. I see. Thanks.
Show HN: Astronomical image processing library rewritten in Rust
The country is in debt, not default.
Generally speaking an ineffective agency is the result of certain political blocs in Congress trying to limit it or cripple it... Either out of political philosophy or to satisfy some donors.

That's why the IRS is underfunded despite basically being a revenue center. That's why the ATF is forced to do manual searches of paper files.

If all one does is call to replace the agency, that just provides even more opportunity to the saboteurs in charge.
A bit oversimplified, but in France, voters are essentially given a printed coupon book, with each candidate on a different coupon.

They just take their coupon/candidate of choice and deposit it into a box.

There are no pencils needed, no ambiguity. Ballots are hand-counted and totals are reached rapidly. A far less-hackable alternative to what exists in the US IMHO.
Maybe instead of negotiating rate, you get all your clients to pay on net 30
You could presumably use existing devices for that, but it would require making a serious software change - in particular, you'd have to alter the radio driver to listen to and recognize backscattered signals (instead of rejecting them as noise).
My understanding is that you can cast to a Chromecast from a Kindle device if the app implements such a capability, but that you need either the Chromecast app (barred from Amazon devices) or the Chrome web browser (also barred from Amazon devices) in order to set up a Chromecast.

Ergo, you can't buy an Amazon device, buy a Chromecast, and get them to work together without another outside device. And there is no technical reason for this limitation.
Steem is still supporting Bitcoin though.
The country pays its obligations. When was the last time the US government defaulted on its debt?
This was a very compelling read. We need more poeple like Therrien to make a stand.

The fact that this sort of injustice is allowed to thrive really makes my blood boil. It makes me wish I had become a lawyer or some other legal professional instead with the authority to prosecute these predators and scammers.
Have you considered the NSA or CCR?
It provides zero value. It just asks for our email.

Here's a useful page: https://medium.com/startup-library/marc-andressen-bookshelf-...
Is it possible to remotely brick the most insecure voting machines before election day?
So the solution is a better kitchen management experience / assistant / whathaveyou, not a dumb "smart" widget that fires off when you run out of oil.
I always approach my work as the solemn responsibility to respect others' time. Every necessary change I shirk from making will waste the time belonging to users and other developers. It's very easy to do boring work when you can appreciate that you are preserving the most precious resource there is.
That's incorrect because of the assymetry between attackers and normal users. An attacker needs only generate as many transactions as the rest of the network combined, and indeed this isn't that expensive.

A single consumer machine can generate hundreds, if not thousands of transactions per second. A fleet of specialized machines costing less than 7 figures total can do millions, if not hundreds of millions, of transactions per second.

IOTA has a terrible security ratio.
Ask HN: How do I get a Linux admin job with no degrees?
I live in central Kansas. I am 20+ years old. I've been playing around with Linux, networking, and virtualization at home for roughly 5 years.

Today I had an opportunity to work along side some Linux admins from a company that provides dealerships with hardware, software, and support solutions.
I was able to help with numerous parts of their script that they were not sure how to work with, as this system was an older unsupported system.
I would love to get a job doing something like this, i.e. Linux server/networking admin, but I have no degrees, and no experience doing this as a job, only for a hobby.

So the question is: When I find a job listing that I would like to apply for, how do I get an interview to prove my knowledge, even if I have no degrees or experience working with this as a job?

Thank you for your insights!