skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"citation needed"
http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2015/01/maryland_pa...

"Your parents negligently put you in charge of a dog that you negligently killed. That should be legal?"

Shit happens. The truck killed the dog, not me. Maybe you come from another continent or country, but America is a free country, so we don't care about what is legal, because the law establishes what is illegal, and everything else is legal. It is not illegal to run with your dog.
"FOOF" is an interesting word choice. Have you heard of dioxygen difluoride, aka FOOF? If not, you may find this article interesting:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
You've created quite the false choice there. You've completely left out the people who know that it is in idea for reasons, X, Y, and Z (and maybe some others too) but are doing in anyway with a full understanding of how to modify and subvert those risks.

You know, hacking with a depth of understanding. I think you are responding to a person like this.
All the table saws I've ever used have been super dangerous. Car crashes are a leading cause of death for young people. I could go on, these sorts of things can't be made safe while still being useful. Beyond a point, it's up to the user to understand the danger, learn behavior that minimizes risk, and pay attention when using the tool.

With all of those things, like batteries, it's not good to assume the general public can use them, so they shouldn't be as common as elevators, shopping carts, and other ubiquitous tools/machines. But it's very dis-empowering to claim only elites can use these tools.

Your final comment regarding lineman safety is completely decoupled from DIY battery pack with re-used cells. That would be a failure of the inverter in a grid-tied system. You could have an unsafe grid-tied inverter with a 100% functional battery pack with every certification in the universe and backfeed the utility lines, or I could connect a faulty battery to a proper grid-tied inverter and it would not cause the utility lines to be energized by my house when the utility shuts off the power upstream.

Additionally, you can use a home storage battery without a grid-tie inverter at all.
I'm surprised that AOL isn't really discussed in this article. I always assumed Yahoo's ethos, as the one-stop shop on the internet ("We didn’t want to call it a portal, because a portal is a door to somewhere else, and we wanted people to stay there") came straight out of AOL's playbook. What I know for sure is that I, and a lot of other people, immediately felt comfortable with Yahoo when we first started using the internet because we were so used to AOL's vision of how you connect "online".

I think the connection run strong - I'd go as far as saying that Yahoo and AOL failed for the same reason. To survive at their inflated valuations they had to be everything to everyone, which stretched their vision thin. Meanwhile, it was always impossible to do everything, so smaller, more agile players came in and etched away at their business models.
Great idea! Any ideas for expansion? I imagine you could map rows/columns to a bootstrap-like grid system for more custom layouts.
This highlights the need for independent security organizations located in mutually unfriendly political jurisdictions.
That is indeed extreme. The main point of having 4 kids is that it the redundancy makes it OK to risk losing one of them due to unfortunate circumstances that might occur as when riding a bus.
It addresses a poorly designed form of education.

Until we address the stupidity of regurgitation of facts as a means of learning, if this helps someone generate flash cards to prep for exams, it's a positive thing.
EC2 is a significant part of cost for most customers. So, rightsizing is essential to keep costs under control.
Agreed, and all the past comments are about this one specific controversial change.
Kaspersky isn't even necessarily an FSB arm - they're just (seemingly) the most competent non-Five Eyes-compliant security company right now.
I would expect 26 pages is unheard of even in the USA.
I have been using LinuxLibertine for text. It's just about perfect. Noto Serif looks like it was intended as a caption font.
As a hiring manager, I now look for at least two languages, and they don't need to be the tech stack we're currently using. If you're a good developer, and you know more than one language, you understand that picking up another is not an insurmountable barrier. You'll pick up our stack soon enough.

What I need to know is if you can think critically, not if you already know what we plan to teach.
Perhaps it’s sort of an incremental vs revolutionary change kind of situation.
>> For better or for worse

Its definitely the latter. Not because there is something inherently bad about staying in touch. It is because you do so despite the knowledge that you are not doing it at zero cost to others who care about their privacy. Analogy: I wish I could just throw all my garbage over into my neighbors premises rather than walk all the way down to the recycle bin. But I don't. I am actually violating their personal space. By using Facebook, you are also violating the privacy of folks who disagree with your view, and this is now open knowledge.

And things don't even out if my neighbors are also doing the same to their neighbors over on the other side (but, but, everyone is on Facebook!). Ultimately, all of us will end up living amidst a pile of stinking garbage, which is an excellent analogy to what is happening with social networks today.
Also, I wanted to add one more point to this.

If this is the case, then what about all the influencers sharing?

social platforms have not banned them?
> but there more people working on it, and maintaining Library Genesis too, and dealing with risk of getting into prison for the service they provide to everyone.

So... one could go to prison for doing something that is explicitly illegal in most countries of the world, just so that the "face of the project" can preen about "standing up to the West", and fighting foreign enemies of the people, with the only risk to her being that Putin suddenly does a 180 and she's too slow on the uptake... Or one could, say, work on a viable long-term solution. Maybe setting up a wiki-like, peer-reviewed alternative publication scheme or something.

While the project does provide some benefit (which is not Elbakyan's goal), I just believe that the problem should be solved in an entirely different way -- you should start at the publishing side, not distribution side.
Cars have air-conditioning, heaters, and openable windows.
Lazy enumerators don't make each individual step of the iteration any more efficient. They just let you stop the iteration partway through without traversing the entire original enumerable. Given this contrived example:

a = (1..1000).lazy.select(&:even?).map{|i| i*2 }.map{|i| i + 1 }.map(&:to_s).map(&:reverse)

There is no benefit from lazy if you do `a.join(",")`, since that iterates over the entire sequence. But if you do `a.take(10)` or `a.detect{|s| s == "14" }`, the chain will only be executed for each item in turn until 10 elements are produced or an element is the string "14", respectively.
Anecdotally Django seems less common in the job listing post every month than Rails but is still present, and the python experience is relevant to many more.
Yeah, we are talking about people here.

You think I like any of this? Do you really think I get my jollies from looking in someone's e-mail to find a picture they e-mailed another employee that is so far into NSFW that it is sickening. Or the fun of finding out how some employee is plotting with others to make life miserable for someone else? I would prefer people keep their crap off the servers intended to do business.

We have folks here who have argued that a remark at a conference should get someone fired from work. We are talking about something owned and operated by a company that they will be legally liable for unless they are vigilant. Something that hits the press and people will be saying "why didn't the company know?" and "how could they not stop it?".
Yeah, we are talking about people here. Companies get sued and people lose their jobs.

Never mind the professions that absolutely have every communication logged and monitored.

If you want something the company cannot look at then use something outside the company. Its really that simple[1]. Its really simple, if you don't pay for it then it is not yours. If its not your computer then don't expect privacy.

I still cannot understand the folks who want to use stuff from work systems even when they are not work related. Have your own life, interests, and stuff. You are trading your time and work for money. Don't give companies something beyond what they pay for.

I truly cannot understand how one can have a dignified life as an individual when all your forms of communication are being watched by your overlords.

If your place of employment owns all your forms of communication then you have a lot more problems beyond this.

1) well, unless you get into something really nasty and the court discovery orders start flying.
Tbh their entire site needs a ui/ux rework. The header and div background transparency makes it difficult to read the content.
Well done you! Though 30 is not that old, I've never believed that old adage about old dogs. Grit, determination, self belief and a positive outlook are some of the main ingredients required to change course in life. Sacrifice will most likely be required too if the change of course is more than 45 degrees.
Node is evolving pretty fast and thats good, I am personally in love with async/await that can be used without transpilers. But I believe it may be a good time to sort of slow down/mature so as to give long term stability for developers. It's bit crazy now. Isn't Java, which is like 14 years older just reached v10 like yesterday or so?.
My only experience with it was after giving a Java 8 jar to someone who ran in on a Java 9 jvm and it crashed immediately.

This is the first time that has happened to me in nearly 20 years of using java.
My heuristic is that if they don't make it clear what jurisdiction they're talking about, they're talking about the US.
...illegal, but with a loophole you can drive a truck through: if the employer thinks your project is close enough to what they do (or might one day do) it’s theirs. Beware!
Mozilla Foundation petition for Facebook to improve privacy
I want to get this right, so I appreciate you taking the time to contribute.
You're missing the point. Slack was one of those programs until this retroactive privacy policy change.
> So why bother to court that one private company?

Because they've seemingly been the leading antivirus company for years? In terms of vulnerabilities found, at least.
Yup, it sounds like Kaspersky was doing their job. It seems incredibly disingenuous to say that they endangered people by doing so.
What is wrong with people if they need to make a law for this? Seriously, just because a kid is playing outside instead of being confined indoors playing video games is no reason to call the cops.
Ah, I see I was a bit narrowly focused.

btw -- "flout" is usually what's meant in terms of breaking laws, rules etc. It's basically a pedant's dream, which is doubly appropriate in a legal context.
Ironically, is it not a law in UK that children younger than 12 cannot be left without adult supervision?
> Did you know the democracy was just for the few free citizens in the city state?

Yes, of course.

The vast majority of the Christian Era even in Europe has been spent in feudal monarchies. The modern African slave trade was run by Christian nation states. The Christians have been in charge in Europe since Constantine (306 AD). They spent some of that time burning 'witches'.

> Not exactly the same as our modern democracy.

Yes, almost all the Christian Era has been very different from our modern democracy, which is why I'm reluctant to attribute the current state purely to Christianity. If it's all in the Bible, and you've been in charge of a continent for 1700 years, why did we have to wait until 1776 (for white Americans) or 1836 (for black Americans) or 1890 (for female Americans) to get freedom and democracy?

edit: another important one: We waited until 2015 for homosexual Americans to gain the freedom to marry, previously denied by the Christian state because:

'And if a man also lies with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.' Leviticus (20:13)
(condemnation never revised in the New Testament.)

So much for freedom.
The Social-Media Panic
Goodto see that Project Blue Beam is still on track. All hail the Illuminati!
Most of the time you're not using JRuby for the JIT but for threads and/or to fit into some Tomcat/other Java environment. JRuby isn't exactly fast.
Well, my husband told me he made this post. I am the wife. I did HSCT so yeah you can trust what he says. My progression has stopped.
Gitlab already has several plugins for auth, for example you can use OmniAuth to have users login with an external identity provider: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/omniauth.html

No extra products needed if they're already using one of those supported providers. OpenID Connect makes things much simpler than traditional SAML unless you need all the extra enterprise provisioning features.
I remember that question/conversation. So pleased it worked out.

Mind sharing a few thoughts about your experience as an "older" student? Any surprises about the coursework/assignments/fellow students?

Comparing my oldest child's recent university experience to mine (in the 70s) it's like a different world. Much more paper submission & grading online, much more 'handholding' and support from the instructors, more teamwork assignments, less reading.

Thanks again for the followup, and congrats!!!
It seems odd that there’s coverage that “this put US lives in danger.”

Is there any action that Kaspersky or the general public should take to mitigate this risk? Is the suggestion that we shouldn’t work to eliminate malware in case it serves some higher purpose.

Will there be a new US law requiring checking with a secret government agency before publishing and patching exploits? Will it matter to non-US firms?

Maybe this secretly currently happens. No way to confirm, currently, and not productive to speculate.
This is a good comment to be used as an example. A personal attack does not make for a good discussion, and it should never be used as a fallback for a weak argument. I assume you knew your comment was provocative before you posted it.

You could have mentioned how Redmond, or King county as a whole, is primarily "liberal" on the scale of opinions, but you didn't. On top of that, you made no effort to get to the point on how political opinion plays a role. If you did want to write about the role of national politics on the perceived "tech monoculture" then I would be more interested.
I don't believe ability is tied in 15% of the population to fundamental brain reality. It's more tied to experience.

If more people are brought through the experiences, they will be able to perform the tasks. It's accumulating failures through experience, and then repeating the actions that causes skill. Not some magical IQ.
i.e. a reactor that is not meant to produce energy but breed plutonium.

The French demonstrate that it is perfectly practical to run reactors to both produce energy and breed plutonium.
You're correct, and that's exactly why I used seems.

Strong, but not conclusively causal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

People usually post workarounds. There's one elsewhere in the thread.
Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion – DeepMind
Yeah, I asked Eric Sachs (who runs the identity efforts at Google) and others a few times over the years. They always directed me to Okta, Ping, etc.
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yes. it does happen that way sometimes.

though not FB, I know someone in California who lives in company-owned housing. the person recently decided to leave the company. sure enough, the company is indeed forcing them to move out too.
Where are you getting abuse of access from the prior comment?
Most employers are shitty. That's just a fact of life.
> it was quite challenging in every sense: time/money management, high drop-out rates (~80% fail or stop studying cs at my university), lack of math skills - school was far far away.

This is where a mentor I believe does a great job. I know people that had a hard time learning because they don't have someone guiding them. Some aspects, like say, async programming or memory management could be hard to grasp by yourself but when someone explains it well, then it everything starts to come together. That's why when I'm teaching I always tell people to understand the concepts first cause you'll only learn it once and it will help you understand the pieces better.
Both Mastodon instances I use are run by people working in tech and have limited registration. I doubt it's a huge burden, but I'd help spread a Patreon/Liberapay if they started one.
Damn, I knew I got this idea from somewhere, I just totally forgot where. Thanks for posting this link - I'll have to rewatch it.
The final paragraph of the article is weird.

"Kaspersky's exposure of the program will likely not win the company any points in its battle to get off a US federal government blacklist."

Is that just rhetorical flourish? Or is Kaspersky actually going to be penalized for doing their jobs? Is there an implication that other security companies have been "recruited" by the government to turn a blind eye towards government-sponsored malware?
> It seems incredibly disingenuous to say that they endangered people by doing so.

Not really, it could be a fact based on knowledge. Although I’d agree it would be disingenuous to say it was intentional.
> To my fellow programmers, consider for yourself why should gigantic, massively wealthy corporations get to use our code for free. Use the most restrictive version of the GPL to keep your code free for other individuals like us, and provide a paid license option for gigantocorps.

If it can't be used by anyone without restriction, it is neither opensource nor free software. You don't get to pick and choose who uses your software. That's the entire point.

The fleas come with the dog.
Keep at it. They're out there. Rev (rev.com) was fantastic for this in engineering. I'm currently at the Predictive Index and we effectively have a "no dbags" rule in the culture. If you're not nice or you're not helpful, you're not going to last. It's something we're really focused on keeping as keep growing. It's a hard problem, maintaining culture as a company scales but I'm really hopeful at least that one facet stays around.

I wonder if it's something you can weed out companies for during interviews. I imagine you could iterate on some questions for the interviewer that, assuming they didn't lie, would give you a pretty good indication of this "safety" factor. Something like: "Can I go up and ask anyone a question about what they're doing?" It might rely on you speaking to real employees. I imagine if you're speaking to some very HR-y types, they might just be focused on saying "yes" to whatever question you have.
True, but i don't have to remember 5 different map implementations either :)
Here is a quote from my insurance policy (Erie Insurance):

> “We” do not pay for loss resulting directly or indirectly from...the discharge, dispersal, release or escape of any solid, liquid, gaseous or thermal irritant, pollutant or contaminant, including smoke, vapors, soot, fumes, acids, alkalis, chemicals and waste

I checked another insurer (State Farm) and they had similar language:

> We do not insure, however, for loss...caused by...Discharge, dispersal, seepage, migration, release or escape of pollutants...Pollutants means any solid, liquid, gaseous or thermal irritant or contaminant, including smoke, vapor, soot, fumes, acids, alkalis, chemicals and waste
For better or worse, I consider myself a fairly principled person. That is, I’ve chosen to live my life in a way that reflects my convictions. From what I eat to how I vote to what I spend money on, I consider how those choices impact me, those around me, and the world as a whole. I consider what my actions and choices say about me as a person, and take great care to ensure I like who that person is. Ethics are important. Convictions mean something.

...

I’ve known that Facebook, the company, doesn’t line up with my politics for a while and have written about (almost 2 years ago) how uncomfortable the site makes me feel.
Spotify will spend nearly $450M on Google's cloud over 3 years
I don't think the lawyers would allow that kind of trickery.
> The comments here are more evidence the "hacker" part of hacker news really no longer applies :)

More like the same response that an article advising people to create their own crypto library would get. Except creating your own crypto library doesn't have the risk of killing your family, neighbors, and emergency responders.

Presenting this kind of project as a "hack" is really irresponsible given the very serious risk of death, severe physical injury and property damage involved.
Seems like most of the research on that is inconclusive. There's not much evidence one is much more readable than the other.

http://alexpoole.info/blog/fighting-bad-typography-research/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#Readability_and_legibili...
But that shared culture had deep roots in Christianity. One of the more interesting questions is, without the Christianity, what will happen to the culture? (Even if you're an atheist, it's a relevant question. You don't have to go to church, but you still have to live in the culture.)

And it's too soon to tell, really. The cultural habits last longer than the roots from which they grew. If the roots are gone, will the cultural habits find new roots? Will they survive without them? Or will they just slowly fade away over the next several generations?
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mastodon.rocks is the saddest story. They had no backups, and lost the database upgrading to the version that would have let its thousands of users back up their own accounts.
What is most likely to kill you in most fires is the smoke and that is definitely true about Lithium battery fires.

This what makes them so deadly on a plane: you cannot get away.

Assuming that your smoke detector reacts properly to that kind of smoke, you should put one near your battery array.
Your comment helped me find the part in question thank you very much.
I won't deny that. ;)
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I use this on my Nexus 6P and it's surprisingly great! The only app that I really need that I have problems with is Lyft, but other than that everything I need works smoothly. I get as many apps as I can from F-Droid and use Yalp Store to get the rest. Preferring F-Droid apps also means I have fewer apps that expect Google Play Services.
I don't care about events, but I'd like my friends and weak ties to easily be able to keep up with what's going on with me. The only alternatives I can think of is signing them up all for a mailing list, or starting a website/blog. But if I don't want my blog to be public, I'm faced with doing something like setting up a wordpress blog with membership, and asking them all to register and sign in to see my semi-private blog.

Unless there's a free / open-source blog system with a decentralized federated SSO system, where everyone can choose to friend up (probably one-way, not two-way) to follow each other's feeds? I suppose like mastodon, but for long-form or free-form writing?
Hello World: We are now letting anyone invest in Are.na.  why
> Copperhead is an information security firm located in Toronto, Canada, specializing in protecting mobile data and devices through security assessments and secure endpoint deployments.
It is a gamechanger. I have done it. Have a look at http://www.hsctmexico.com/ This is where I went.