skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's possible to design a system that lets the government decrypt (essentially) everything. The same technology that lets you send a PGP e-mail with two recipients allows you to send a message that can be decrypted by the NSA as well as your recipient.

It's not that simple. That "solution" has the government key as a single point of failure: when it leaks, everything is compromised.
I'm in the middle of auditing the Scala track on Courersa.

The first course was great. I agree that Odersky is a very good lecturer, organized and easy to follow. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in Scala.

The second course was OK but not quite as good, it felt a little less systematic. It was mostly Odersky, but for part of the final week the course switches tracks to a different lecturer who clearly was preparing slides for a different lecture series, and I thought both the lectures weren't as clear and the stitch-in of the different material wasn't handled smoothly.

I've just started the third and while it's not Odersky, the lecturers have been good so far.
When did I say that should be our expectation? I'm only talking about things as they are now, and why current phenomena might be caused by current policies.

I'll also do an aside here and point out that generous (paid) and equal family leave ends up being a subsidy for parents and a tax on childless people, and also in a way a tax on single parents.
These courses are for beginners, but I started with what I learned from a few courses in Coursera and turned it into a career as a software engineer. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-to-program and https://www.coursera.org/learn/program-code from Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries from the University of Toronto laid a great foundation to build on. I think I took them the first time they offered it and I still don't understand how they completely nailed a new medium like that first try. It was very accessible, but with enough detail to make sense and the videos were so clear and concise.
The Python one from Rice University, is a fun, awesome course, where you build games to learn. https://www.coursera.org/learn/interactive-python-1
The Reddit discussion[0] corresponding to this.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/89aiyw/mesalink_a_mem...
It's a bit senseless to use the eu domains when you're no longer affiliated with it...
If you like CAW another good one is Masterminds of Programming.
> They actively censored and silenced people who were complaining.

Forget the issues with design. The active censorship by both Reddit admins and power-hungry moderators is the real issue that Reddit is facing. Reddit used to be a bastion of free-flowing ideas and discussion. Now it's a hive of groupthink and curated brand-friendly content.

I still frequent Reddit because it has enough network-effect to still be worthwhile to me. But that can change on a dime, often triggered by something unrelated, like a UI re-design (e.g. like what happened Digg).
Or the pool of dateable men shrinks as women earn more (for those who insist on dating men who earn more than them). Eventually such women can earn too much to have a good chance of finding a man whose salary satisfies them.

The same happens with college degrees. More women than men go to college. But many women with college degrees want a man with a college degree too. Cue articles complaining about the shortage of marriageable men.
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I don't disagree. I think Zuck is the face of the Facebook brand, but I don't think he's the right guy to run a company of this size. He was instrumental in two great acquisitions: WhatsApp and Instagram.

Other than that, many of his initiatives are nearly complete failures: Internet.org, Facebook drone internet, Oculus, Portal, Facebook Phone, the developer program, the cloning of Snapchat, his own national press tour, etc.

Not to mention, he's had numerous serious public-facing, brand-devaluing flubs that are literally too innumerable to list here.

For some reason, he doesn't surround himself with the best people anymore. I think because he's surrounded by an army of comms/PR people rather than actual scientists and engineers at this point.
I also almost always use contactless payments here. But there is one big exception. When paying in a small business such as on off license or small cafe/restaurant I will go out of my way to use cash because I want the business to keep the full margin instead of paying a visa fee.
State OTB and lotteries in NY were enacted because there were so many underground/illicit versions of the same things run by the mob. It was an attempt to eliminate thievery and corruption but all it did was turn the whole state corrupt instead.
About 11% in the US, according to this dataset at least.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-brackets-wealth-brackets-one-per...
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Losing your home, being unable to pay medical bills, and struggling to provide things for your family isn't "self-imposed stress."
How on Earth inserting multiple bills in a small slot, waiting for the change and retrieving all the nice and heavy little coins is faster than just tapping with your phone/card?
it's obviously satire
https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
Regardless of who’s giving the advice, it’s actually good advice.
The guy has completely lost touch with reality.
His comments on Apple and Tim Cook (who has never attacked Facebook directly, just replied to a specific question) show that he’s also losing the needed institutional composure his position requires.
Personally I thing his argument (we profile you for advertising ‘cause that’s the only way to give a service to poor people as well) is utter BS.
To a degree. But, on the same token, large enterprises, especially financial, typically value stability and are risk averse when it comes to core infrastructure. So, yeah, you don't always get the latest shiny things.
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Picnic is growing fast. We're a tech-first venture, where you ship code that either gets used by thousands of customers (and growing fast!) or runs our supply chain and is used by our hundreds of warehouse employees, where efficiency is key. Few places offer the chance to impact (good and bad!) so much with the code you make.
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Yes, sure. Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, .NET (I think I read that he worked on it too), TypeScript. Maybe LINQ too.
Well, not if the roller coaster collapses. Hopefully that doesn't happen anytime soon.
Question for anyone who knows the answer. Is there any legal way to force a majority controlling shareholder to do anything? I've read about Larry Page and Sergey Brin regularly ignoring shareholder requests to relinquish some of there powers over Google.
apps don't have ad block. This is the only reason companies care about apps.
I understand some people's motive to fork OpenSSL but don't hear much about the success of these forks in the wild. Does anyone have any information on how BoringSSL or LibreSSL is used? It'd be great to hear from maintainers or anyone who has a large deployment with them.
>I find it very difficult to believe that most of the people who continually reinforce this myth actually believe it to be true.

That is totally irrelevant to their decision process. People keep repeating these statistics because it's useful to make others believe that women are discriminated against in the workplace.
What is apistar supposed to be solving in this context?
As soon as you like to access any sensors on the device, the PWA sadly isnt an option anymore.
I use Yubikey 4 with keybase too and my GPG key is stored on smartcard. As far as I know Keybase uses device keys for encryption which are independent from your PGP key (but they are cross-signed if you have PGP key added to your profile). Everything is working well for me. Probably your issues caused by some immature version of app or server API.
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>We’re not trying to harm Facebook, we’re trying to make it a stronger company.

Ha. That's a statement and a half. Does answering to shareholders make your company stronger? Lots would argue that too many shareholders focus on short term growth over long term strategy.
unplanned pregnancies exist, and abortion access is spotty at best, especially for poor people
The cloning of snapchat has succeded though, Instagram is doing great and it’s actually stealing users from that platform
Yes, and Sweden's population is 3% of the US's, and the country is very homogenous ethnically. There are other factors I'm sure, but these factors are very important.

In any event, I detect the unmistakable tendency of many in the American Left to view the Nordic countries as something approaching utopia[0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-the-scandimania...
Agreed, that's one of the more important advantages of Common Lisp in my book. But the reason it works so well is that the standardized version was based on plenty of experience and experimentation, and that it's powerful enough to be extended from user code; same goes for C to some extent.
There is a prominent link in the article where he addressees people's criticisms, including most of what is said here. He also puts "hacking' in quotes which generally denotes that the term is not to be taken literally.
> Alternately, they could also just learn how to validate and be with women's emotions (and their own).

That would mean unlearning every single thing society tells us not to do. I would ask you listen to this:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594719471/guys-we-have-a-prob...

Humans are emotional creatures, modern men get that beaten out of them. If you're female I'd ask that you talk to some of the men you know and ask them if they've been emotional around women in the past and how that went. This is a societal problem and if we keep treating men as both the problem and the source of their own problem, its never going to change.

As it stands I highly doubt anything will change in America in my generation or the next two at the very least. Until it becomes a problem that can't be ignored this will continue to be ignored.
Are these still vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown?
They have had the good sense of not taking away http://reddit.com/.compact
> Eventually, many managers and organizations would just sidestep the battle by paying everyone the same thing based upon easy-to-identify metrics like seniority. As a result, the people with more value to the business will find jobs at companies that pay them according to a better measure of their bottom-line worth. With no one left but the lowest-common-denominator employees, the company flounders and fails.

In most fields, there are already companies which pay wildly different amounts for the same jobs, so the people contributing more in those similar roles are already highly incentivized to leave for higher-paying pastures.
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My hypothesis is, most assembling is now done by young gamers, as majority other users have migrated to laptop/tablet. So flashing PCs is now major chunk of the market.
Apples privacy policy actually says they will always do "on device processing whenever possible". Where the line between possible and feasible is drawn isn't really specified but If they really live up to this it is reason enough for me to only buy apple products as the other 2 options seem to have a completely different view of this.
That's nice, but they actually already broke that i.version of that site. Some posts (those with images hosted on reddit?) open the regular mobile version of the site, making it cumbersome to use. Does not feel like an officially sanctioned choice.
Thanks for the kudos. We're open to supporting other providers as well, including other types of services beyond compute (e.g. databases and specific verticals.)

Do you have some specific providers you were interested in having connected?
I think anyone, regardless of training or education, should be able to be a nurse. To say otherwise is sexism.
Nature has an elegant solution to the double-spending problem for physical commodities.

If only there was a way to timestamp digital transactions without a write-only ledger...
If remote controlled aircraft are a problem then basically anything on a network is a problem. Pretty sure nuclear power stations, missile silos, satellites, dams, darn near everything has a remote controlling and monitoring element these days. You could just shut down a whole country.
> Nicest: Andrew Ng, Machine Learning, Coursera. Interesting topic, well-planned material, very well avoids going into the mathy details, but still conveys a feeling of understanding of the topic, so accessible to a wide audience. (Martin Odersky, Functional Programming Principles in Scala, Coursera, was almost equally nice, but had some rough edges in the first run.)

Have to agree with all of this. I've taken Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course (only time I've paid for a 'verified' certificate), and found it a great overview of ML, though I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable telling anyone I have a good understanding of ML :)

Odersky's FP in Scala was actually the first Coursera course I took (during its initial run, I think). -- I also found the follow up Reactive Programming course to be excellent as well.
Old is the keyword you are missing there. Linux distributions, even enterprise ones have great C++11 support. However RHEL is designed for those who are thinking "I got this working now lets not break it". There is no reason to want C++11 on RHEL5 - the only valid reason to do anything on that system is if you already have a working server and need to do a bug fix. If you want to write new features you should be targeting the latest RHEL where you do have all of that.
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Model thinking (https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking)

Taught by Prof. Scott E. Page, teaches about models in several fields and how they're used to aid thinking about complex issues by careful design and usage.

A couple of insights: all models are wrong but some are useful. Having many models about a situation to help your thinking is better than having only one, and much better than none. Complex models are not necessarily better than simple ones.
They want to IPO and cash out. They have explicitly stated that this is their goal.
Nice find, seems I'm mistaken.
It's absolutely very likely that individual, well-respected developers, and engineers are working on cool things in the company that directly has nothing to do with ads. I have nothing against those individuals or those products or even google for that matter.

But the business model is much more complicated than that.

Their product is their vessel for ad money, you can't mention one without talking about the other.

So when someone says:
> vast majority of Google's products that aren't ads, like Search, Maps, Android, Gmail.

It's a very simplistic view of how Google business model works. Because AFAIK, only 3 Google products are directly ads related, but ~90% of their other products exist for the sole purpose of driving business to their ads products.

ie, Machine learning in adsense:
https://adsense.googleblog.com/2018/02/introducing-adsense-a...
You should read it again- it says "secure public control over the payments system", not to nationalize the banks.

In the USA, the Fed Reserve controls ACH, so not that far different.
My minikube dev environment (microservices with lots of independent databases) can be crammed into about 24gb of ram and mimic our production environment almost 1:1, there's a number of various databases (couchabse, elastic, redis, rabbit, etc). If a developer is limited to 16GB they have to run a more crammed and far less simliar dev environment. Instead of using one database per service like we do in production we have to cram multiple services into one database (say couchbase with buckets for each service). I can chunk this down to use 13-14GB but if the user has 16GB max that means they're left with 2-3GB of ram for their IDE, Chrome, spotify, etc.

It's severely limited the freedom of range with our dev environment and we're constantly fighting to stay within that 16GB spec. Do we deviate heavily from our staging/prod environments?

What's the sweet spot? A bunch of us have built hackintosh desktops at this point so we can have 32-64+ and more cores so we're not constantly fighting resource contension with all of docker containers we need to run.
This is shameless self-promotion, but if you have an iOS device the Hopper app has a feature that lets you watch flight prices for flexible dates/length of stays/destinations and will send you a notification when there's a deal for any of those things.

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I am indeed making a blanket statement about the theoretical possibilities of prediction and suggestion as a preferred or comparable replacement for allowing the user to choose for themselves, and that statement is that it's neither comparable nor preferred.

Your work, at least as you present it, does not seem to collide with that statement because it asks the user for intent and then examines behaviors to see how they align with that intent... there is no inferring trap. Determining optimal action, while its own complex kettle of fish, is only a concern if it over-rules the user's decision-making WITHOUT the user opting in to such an arrangement.
Hey Byran - what do you hope to do with it?
Actual scientists and engineers (I'm both of these) often are too narrowly focused on their own interests to be good at business at the scale of Facebook (or anything else for that matter). Scientific and engineering acumen are signs of intelligence, but not indicative of being "the best" in most contexts.
> Reread his comment.

Thank you for implying that I didn't know exactly what I was responding to, and that I didn't read it carefully. The grandparent to my comment mentioned the cattle-pet distinction. The parent comment took that as some kind of statement of how common each situation is. I replied in a similarly loosely-connected manner, trying to reinforce the grandparent comment's point.

I fully understand that "cattle-owners" are less common, and that that's part of what the parent comment was saying. Reread the comment that they replied to, and reinterpret my comment as a reiteration of the grandparent comment, phrased in a different way.
> Safe and fast crypto implementations from Google's BoringSSL

I'm a little confused, is this a wrapper on BoringSSL?
It was tough finding a solid answer, but everywhere I looked, it was distinctly not in the top 10 or 20.
It's really not that hard to see, on a single team, who's contributing twice as much as who else. You don't even have to be a manager - sometimes managers are the last to be sure, actually. Generally people who complain about lazy coworkers end up settling on a lot of the same people... Being a manager just gives you official venues like feedback requests to realize "oh everyone else sees it too."
> On the automated checkouts I've seen in my country, there's no possibility to pay by cash. You have to pay by card in order to use the self-checkout.

And in stores that don't accept credit cards you have to pay cash. What does that have to do with anything? Machines that can rapidly make change for cash purchases are still a thing that exist. Stores whose customers prefer them can install them -- and then not have to pay a percentage to the credit card companies.
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Author of the tool here.

The output is designed to be valid JavaScript, which doesn't allow certain characters in unquoted object keys, like the dash in User-Agent.

Using JavaScript's rules for quoting keys makes it a lot easier to specify the grammar (and therefore write the parser); and makes it trivial to 'parse' the output using JavaScript should you want to.

There must be _some_ rules in place for when to quote the key (e.g. when there is a dot, equals sign, square brace etc in the key name), so I see no reason to adopt something custom and potentially error-prone when a known-good set of rules already exists.

Hope that answers your question well enough!
> Guardian and others unfortunately used the term "data breach".

In places where a data breach is a legal defined thing with specific consequences (notification requirements, etc.), the common definition seems to be unauthorized access to information (encrypted data without a reasonable means to decrypt it is usually excluded) without permission under the applicable law and/or policies. This incident is exactly a breach in that sense.

> Calling this a "breach" or "hack" makes Facebook look less culpable.

Calling it a “breach” does not, because a breach is not generally a thing for which the custodian of data is not responsible.
Agreed. Also another issue was that I Tested and trained a number of NGOs on it and the general feedback was that there were too many options on it when it came to rooms, sharing etc. As a techie I love it, but the general response was that it was too complex to use.
I think there's a special place in Hell for people who offer financial advice to people who get hit in the head for a living.

These sorts of stories seem to happen often. I don't know if there's a group of predatory finance people out there or if athletes don't want to hear what the responsible ones have to say and they end up with the charlatans.
On the Pattison one, out of curiosity did it use his Writing Better Lyrics for the material? I've read the book and love it to pieces even though I write prose, the way he explores words and phrases is sort of magical.
Why would he not qualify as an investor?
Yes, what a clever, politically convenient explanation.
Then why are you on the internet?
but why would you compare something like cloudflare which is a DDOS prevention service to DNS service?
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I was blown away to watch the transformation happen first hand. I can't even go there anymore, it's become so incredibly toxic.
Putting up ham radio antennas is difficult enough in the suburbs, and damn near impossible in the cities. It didn't used to be that way; you could once string up wires between buildings and no one would care.
Here's one that's very robust.[1]

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> who has never attacked Facebook directly, just replied to a specific question

Both of them "sideswiped" each other.

> The guy has completely lost touch with reality

This is true.
In fairness, it's the manager of the NYC pension fund, so there might be more incentive for long term strategy as part of his remarks.
I haven't worked with it yet, but it looks to me to be a Python framework just like Japronto or Flask but one that is focused heavily on building APIs.
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> Would it be fair to rephrase that as "... and fails"?

No. Unless you consider failure to be the vast majority of interactions with smart software