skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if he had known more about Google infrastructure, he could have done some damage, both active and passive. He had access to a lot of internals. I was surprised by them at first, too, but they all make sense. On the other hand, he would have probably been caught fairly rapidly.
You could say the same thing about doctors. How dare they try to collect a paycheck saving vulnerable trauma patients who can't even consent to treatment.

To me, where it becomes a scam is if/when they proffer completely ineffective treatments. If this place happens to make a buck while saving someone's life, more power to them.
Well, those means are there (most of the time), but if researchers want a career in academia, most of the time there's no other option than submitting their work to "high impact" journals. I don't think sacrificing their already slim career choices is a reasonable sacrifice to ask when speaking of voluntarism.
somafm.com

listener-supported internet radio. Lots of different channels, mostly ambient electronic music.
No but there are piracy streaming apps that are more convenient than netflix.
when i absolutely must think very carefully: silence.

when i’m doing something tricky but not right at my limit: palestrina and other polyphonic composers of medieval and renaissance sacred music.

plug and chug coding: kind of whatever.
> Contracts are supposed to be fair for both sides.

That's not really a prerequisite for contracts. Contracts will often reflect substantial negotiating leverage on one side versus the other (e.g. a contract for sale of a house where the seller just lost his job, or a contract for sale of stock where the seller really needs money due to an unforeseen emergency). That's not a reason not to enforce them.
What ancient Egyptian lineages - she was Greek.
Quite a few good streams on http://somafm.com/
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/transboundary_waters.sh...

According to the UN, this is very old, citing a water treaty from 2500BC on the Tigris.
A friend of mine worked for a company in College Station, TX. They still had a few Symbolics boxes around, wouldn't get rid of them because the owner had paid so much for them new.. but they were, yeah, being used as stands for the coffee machine, tables, etc.
Wouldn't the corollary of Friedman's position be that if businesses take actions that people in society find offensive (such as preying on vulnerable individuals), that those people should therefore work to change the law?

I think Friedman's point was more that 'businesses' don't make decisions, people make decisions, and there are two classes of people involved - the people who own the business(principals), and the people who run the business on their behalf (agents). His article argues that the agents should carry out the principal's wishes (which does can include ethical concerns), not their own.

"Of course, the corporate executive is also a person in his own right. As a person, he may have many other responsibilities that he rec­ognizes or assumes voluntarily–to his family, his conscience, his feelings of charity, his church, his clubs, his city, his country. He may feel impelled by these responsibilities to de­vote part of his income to causes he regards as worthy, to refuse to work for particular corpo­rations, even to leave his job, for example, to join his country's armed forces. If we wish, we may refer to some of these responsibilities as "social responsibilities." But in these respects he is acting as a principal, not an agent; he is spending his own money or time or energy, not the money of his employers or the time or energy he has contracted to devote to their purposes. If these are "social responsibili­ties," they are the social responsibilities of in­dividuals, not of business.

Much of the best writing I have seen regarding the relationship between individual 'virtues' and economic growth is Deirdre McCloskey's "Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce"

http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/academics/
OVH includes DDOS protection for a lot of their services and it works quite well.

They've had to weather a lot of huge attacks because their service is popular with Minecraft server hosting companies, and apparently that industry is rife with DDOS sabotage of competitors.
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I don't know, but I do know I'm in the middle of making sure any non-static symbol name in libui either has a prefix of ui[capital letter] or uipriv[capital letter] to at least ameliorate this madness.
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You could start with reading Africa-focused capital market news:
http://www.africancapitalmarketsnews.com/

There's a Ryan Hoover (not the Product Hunt founder) that blogs about how to open a brokerage account as a foreigner in order to buy stocks in different countries:

https://investinginafrica.net/about/
We (STOMT) use Cordova/Phonegap and AngularJS for our desktop/mobile apps. Ionic is considered to be faster but it's difficult to implement custom UI. Ionic might be interesting for casual apps, for us it would mean to do a complete rewrite.
Wave music like Noah B lately
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4F4w1Gkfja6wPJzuMKCLmk?si=2j...
Her dissent is "I wish I could write legislation from a bench and darn we don't have enough on our side".

It is great that SCOTUS is starting to uphold the laws as they are on the books. Frankly, the idea that not legislators but the courts get to write the laws should be abhorrent. Courts need to stick to "is this law contradict other laws and hence is invalid" decisions.

Want to change the law? Get congress and senate to pass a new law and have a president sign it.
I mean, yeah. If you ran your company's mail server it was trivial to read everyone's mail, for example. The reason you didn't is the same reason you don't do the snooping you could do today -- it's too boring.

However, automated data collection has gotten far more advanced.
Yes, in ArrayLists ... etc., but if you want compact values on the stack, or compact value data structures you don't need this. I feel like 80% of the solution (and one which is likely future compatible) is going begging whilst they worry about nice to haves.
So as to effectively but inefficiently beat the hell out of or defend against competition by way of patent shenanigans.
I'm sure they have a good reason to do it that way but why run a privileged process when per-user processes could do the job just fine? You'd reduce the surface of attack tremendously that way.

If somebody finds a flaw in their admin ssh-agent process they potentially have a way to access other people's key or maybe even escalate their privileges.
Just a heads-up - the pixelation used to hide the keys in the final screenshot is not safe! There aren't that many possible characters in each of those 10x10px blocks, and ~256 levels of average brightness is enough to distinguish between them. (Here's a simplistic demo: https://dheera.net/projects/blur)

Stick to the block-of-constant-colour method used in the first few screenshots. It's ugly but safer!
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I'm going to be boring and say "music". I don't really get distracted by lyrics - I never really take them in anyway. So, whatever I want - Jazz, Electronic, Rock, Folk, Classical, Metal. Anything.
When was the last time Congress did something for the people against corporations?
Yep! I just purchased the 1Password 7 license from the beta app, i.e. voting with my wallet. :)
And if you're told something "increased by 150%", for example, make sure it really is 150% and not just 50%.
Kalman filters were invented for moon lander navigation in the Apollo program, so they had taken firm root especially in the days of limited data processing capability.
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You know the corruption mindset and very bad things are on the horizon when your gouvernement can't or is unwilling to protect its territory from foreign actors :/.
They pay their own people a salary - having a dependable living (at a very, very nice rate) is a pretty awesome thing. Sometimes there are bonuses involved, but they're usually not on the order of magnitude of external bug bounties.

My understanding of the pricing is that it's designed to make ethical behavior profitable enough that fewer people are tempted to sell the exploits on the black market, not necessarily to out-compete the black market entirely. I think this person's find is a great example - it's a resume-booster, a great experience, a very nice cash infusion, and helps, instead of hindering, their job prospects with future employers.
Hi, I'm Neal, author of this analysis. Yes, you nailed it. I was just thinking today about what older car (2014 or earlier) I could buy for $10,000 or less that had adaptive cruise control and lane assist. That would allow me to disengage mentally a little from driving without suffering depreciation. Is there a way to search for what's the oldest car (e.g. Civic) that has these features?
It's not free, but I listen to brain.fm while writing code at work:
https://www.brain.fm/app

I have found my ability to focus is increased when listening to their "Focus" music.
The reasons I would like refer a human or automaton depends upon the kind of transaction I need. If it’s something I think is done pretty often I’ll look for a web form with a workflow that someone has invested some time into to make sure the business process works. Additionally, 90% of the time I call a human to do this I can clearly tell that they’re filling out yet another form or even the same one I just had problems with - this is ultimately a UX and business process failure that results in a call center call. I typically wind up playing “let me spell my address and e-mail to someone using variations of military phonetic semaphores” when I can just type it in myself. The number of errors I’ve had over repeating entries over the phone that have resulted in rather serious repercussions are too numerous that I’d rather just type forms in myself if possible.

Where I want a person is when I want to bypass processes completely or I have a big exception that warrants a human. So if I’m calling your call center, you may as well send me up to tier 3 or higher because I’m going to be a pain.

And given I did support for a couple years myself, sure I’ll try to make their day a bit better where I can and try to have all my info ready and to be as calm as possible. Because I know it can take a while, so I usually have an hour or two set aside for these calls and can just wait and not have to hurry anyone.
That's a strawman. Concise code != hieroglyphs.

In fact, if you need hieroglyphs to keep your code concise that's a deficiency of the language. This is why we want expressive languages in the first place.
There's quite a bit of rehabilitation of Stalin going on, and a lot of "and if somebody was executed, well they were the enemy and deserved it". Reading Russian forums can be quite "entertaining" in a way lately.
This is all very sensible as long as it's a buyers' market. What I get frustrated by is a sellers' market where the buyers gripe about how there are not enough qualified candidates. At that point, employers should be figuring out how to identify and cultivate inexperienced potential. I thought I had sensed some of this "there aren't enough qualified candidates!" hype in data science (for instance, that's the vibe I got from the article we're discussing), but the first-hand reports from people on this thread are making me think that probably isn't the case; that is, that people in the field feel that they can be very choosey and still fill their roles. If so, it seems to me that this is all working as intended.
Is there any live coding video recording that demonstrates this? I am a noob to live coding performance and I am curious how this work in practice.
I listen to art/programming streams on twitch
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You don't have to "design for it". The default storage class for S3 is your data is automstically copied across three data centers. You have to explicitly specify "reduced redundancy". Yes you pay for it, but you don't have to do anything special.
Jazz or Drum and Bass.
Well... I'm not sure that counts, since court sculptors are going to make him look as good as possible, even at the expense of realism. Remember how Oliver Cromwell had to insist on being portrayed "warts and all"?

(Yes, the quote itself is probably apocryphal, but his painting did show blemishes in a way that wasn't typical for VIP portraiture.)
The article is a review of the book written by the journalist that first broke the Theranos story (John Carreyrou).
I wish... Section 9 is outrageously competent.
We have a system that operates at the pace of 1776. That served us well for a long time, but since the post-war proliferation of mass media, it's hard to argue that it's adequate anymore.

You're right that people don't understand the way the separation of powers works, but the system badly needs to be revised. The world has totally transformed in the last 75 years and it's much smaller now. Political and legal feedback loops need to become much more responsive. One can see how it all worked when it would take weeks or months to get news of things like national election results, and when most people lived mostly self-sufficient agrarian lifestyles, but we don't live in that world anymore.

Our entire political system, including the functional ability for normal private individuals to seek and obtain useful legal relief, has ground to a halt over the last several decades. Technology has made the old methods increasingly bad fits for the modern era.

It'd be great if we could renovate the system before we fully convince the populace that the elements of good governance, like separation of powers and an independent judiciary, are necessarily linked to stunning and clear deprivations of fairness (of which binding arbitration is just one good example).
How would you tell?
Boiler Room on air or archived shows, summer festival sets and Mixcloud.
To me many products are just the result of management asking engineers to apply the company IP to make something that can be sold. The market is saturated in every niche with a huge load of products compared to the number of potential buyers, so they have to act creatively in the hope one day they make a killer gimmick.
Example: if IoT and AI are the new words, then everything must be connected and/or exhibit human-like intelligence, at the risk of developing junk product with no actual usefulness, like shoes asking politely the user if they can twit in real time how much his feet stink after a long walk. But again that is rather the result of management looking for money in every possible way than brilliant minds attempting to solve vital problems.
The occitan/latin name is Tolosa. I never saw other intermediate form.
"Government is notoriously inefficient, especially at scale."

No more than any other similarly sized organization.
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Hehe.. turntable.fm v2.0 :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm

Just checked it out. This is really well executed! Definitely doesn't look like a one man operation. Congrats!
Yeah, I can't see them overturning the 2nd amendment even though the same logic applies.
Non-expert here, but I wonder if the obscurity actually points to an machine learning-based solution at Google's end.

Let's say that Google has developed a deep learning paradigm to identify -- and ban -- low-value users who violate their ToS. The low-value group would probably include all non-paying users, as well as small G Suite accounts. Let's also say that the paradigm was deployed as an automated solution, since it was 99% accurate during testing at picking out ToS violators, though the exact percentage doesn't really matter. I would imagine that the relevant Google execs did a cost-benefit analysis, and figured that the PR hit and revenue loss associated with a liberal and fully automated use of the banhammer against all supposed ToS violators -- including the 1% that were false positives -- was justified by the benefits to Google's bottom line.

Based on this possibility, it seems likely that Google employees would not _know_ why the banhammer fell in any particular instance -- nor would they care to know, since that would involve digging through the data to figure out which events triggered a positive hit in their machine learning implementation. It presumably wouldn't be worth Google's time and effort on behalf of users already classified as "low-value".

This might also explain why, as mentioned in another post, it took a few days for the banhammer to fall on a start-up, after a dev with a "poisoned" Google account joined the team. Presumably it took those few days worth of traffic and usage data for ToS-Hammer(tm) to figure that the dev had spawned new accounts elsewhere.

Again, I'm not an expert, so pardon any flaws in the relevant logic.
While the terms may have been originally coined during the Cold War, the meaning and common usage has clearly changed. If you use 'third world countries' in a conversation hardly anyone will assume that you're including Switzerland in that. When enough people use a word "wrong" for a long enough time, they kinda stop being wrong.
A long, long time. Sadly.
in my experience, there's a tradeoff curve with "honesty" of income on one axis and time/effort spent per money on the other axis, and different people have different curves (at different times in their lives.)
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Self driving cars

Tesla electric cars and electric car infrastructure

The sharing economy where we rent instead of buy things hopefully will stop or at least slow our rabid consumption

These are huge changes in the way we will live our lives.
We have viable stock markets across the continent, remember Nasper of South Africa, Nigerian Banks , Dangote cement , and thousands of others.
>In other words, Go is designed for practicality. It shows design consideration to favor engineering

To favor 1969-1975's engineering, you mean.
Do you know of these modern digital advancements?
re 3: My perception & guess is that he was offered a deal after he dumped the docs: Come to Russia and we'll ask you to use your platform to talk on issues we care about. Snowden has a lot of cred with the Left and libertarians/anarchists, so he is an excellent agent for division.
I like instrumental space music, like Tangerine Dream.
1Password for iOS was just upgraded to v7 and was not a paid upgrade (anyone who had previously purchased received the upgrade free of charge). As for what the future will bring, having just recently launched v7, it is a bit early to say.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
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Same exact reasons for me at a big US university.
I thought Michelson and Morley disproved the ether, not Einstein?
> Then the movie pass doesn't apply to you. Why even respond to this?

Because this is a discussion forum and OP is discussing this price point.
So, good reason to use the Cygwin version of ssh-agent? I assume it doesn't suffer from the same thing.
Maybe referring to the fact of the intermarriage practiced by the Ptolomeic dynasty. (Brother and sister marriage)
I always find his book recommendations disappointing. I hope to see some obscure gem in there, but it mostly looks like the non-fiction display section being promoted right now at my local bookstore - pop science and history etc.. Nothing wrong with that, but I know Gates has a high intelligence, so I always hope for more.
As far as fundamental research goes, they are both currently doing a lot of the very best machine learning research.

What they are as companies is an entirely different matter, in which case I would not doubt your comparison.

Take, for example, the decreasing quality in user experience in map apps over the last few years. Mining our data is apparently much more valuable than doing a simple job better.
One of:

* http://Brain.fm

* Chillout on http://di.fm

* http://listentothe.cloud/
Even that photo looks staged. All those technicians standing there looking at machines like they are trying to monitor something.
We're using 1Password. Sharing various passwords, documents, and licenses between different groups is built-in, so it works well for our needs.
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> You can write map/reduce views in Erlang itself as an alternative,

Or you can use a query language mostly similar to what MongoDB uses http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/api/database/find.html

> If you make a change to a single view in a design document, the database system will rebuild all indexes in that design document unconditionally,

That's a feature. If they don't usually change together put them in a separate design documents.

> and manage those documents yourself.

It's a document database. So managing documents yourself is kind of what you do. Isn't it?

> he data itself is stored in a single file per shard, opened in O_APPEND mode, effectively serializing all writes on the shard.

So have more shards? A lot of databases use append only mode. There is a reason for that. Having uses the db for a good number of years, it had never lost data. Even during power outages or brutal restarts. That's more than I can say about other databases.

> no shared memory for IPC,

Shared memory IPC doesn't magically solve problems but it is a minefield of bugs.

> use of mmap AFAICT.

Large blocks of allocated memory use malloc instead of brk so memory allocation uses mmap. For file IO mmap isn't a panacea either. If data is not there, reads will still go to the disk. If it uses regular reads through data should end up in the page cache

> kswapd active,

Hmm, seeing kswapd being active is not something I look forward on a production server. From what I remember I have seen page cache utilized correctly and that's what should matter. Not kswapd.

> Transactional behavior: no, aside from a single bulk write feature

bulk docks is not a transactional feature. The database is not CP database so it doesn't have transactional feature.

> But worst of all: every time it starts up, it tells me "it's time to relax". Nothing about this is relaxing.

Yeah that is silly never liked that. From what I remember it was a DB that was built when MySQL ruled the open source DB world and many of the current DBs were not there. It was actually pretty relaxing being able to insert regular json object in it, index them, have master to master replication (which most dbs still don't support), have a nice built in web dashboard to inspect and query documents.
A lot of African owned companies are in London stock market and debts market
Congress did things for people all the time:

Making it marginally easier for those with means to save some money by reducing their taxes... because they took away some essential service from those without means.

Which "helps motivate" the people without means to stop being so lazy. /s
Terrible idea.

You keep it unified because then you have a single entity to regulate. The problem with Facebook does not stem from a lack of market competition but rather its fundamental business model of allowing anyone to purchase ads.

If we are concerned about Facebook being used as a vector through which bad actors try to influence elections - which we should be - then we keep it unified and regulate it so that ad purchasers must be vetted and approved, especially if the content of their ads relates to politics.
I authored many check fixes like these in Cocoa.

Cocoa would not change from a stable sort, even if undocumented, to an unstable one. There's large compatibility risk and no benefit, since any app that is bound by sorting speed should do something custom anyways.

As to why the sorting hot fix: My first guess is that the app modifies the array from within the comparator. My second guess is that the comparator is not actually transitive, e.g. there can be "less than" cycles. In either case, Cocoa could work around this by employing a naive sorting algorithm.