skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Vue-IsYourPasswordSafe. Never again user sign-up with a leaked password
But it is still possible to prepare police officers for such situations. Don't know about US but in my country police officers:

a) are never alone, always a pair of them on patrol

b) are supposed to be trained in combat to reasonable skill level

c ) carry their own meele weapons (batons)

d) (often) carry a taser

That should give them enough advantage over a man with metal pipe to subdue him without using guns. And if that's not enough, then maybe we should give them additional equipment (pads, helmets, shields, etc.) so they don't have to resort to guns.
Complaining about it definitely won't improve the situation.
Yes. You've correctly read between the lines to discover
my hidden, unwritten argument.

All standardized testing should be conducted in the universal language of interpretive dance.
How do you know 0.01% is not a cause for panic?
> probably taken in 1-2 week chunks

if that wasn't mentioned in the employment agreement, then you (the boss) just lied about the conditions of employment.

I think a startup deserves the right to not hire somebody who plans to take multiple months off (without telling the boss), but a startup also needs to be upfront about it. I think a bit of transparency goes a long way towards making the market more efficient.
Same here - I've been trying unsuccessfully to put that feeling into words for 20 years!
Comparison of tranditional and deep learning models in text classification
To survive, GItHub must provide the way to encrypt private repositories so that they can make sure that files cannot be read by github employees. Would that be possible?
Is grading to a curve the norm at Australian Universities?

They don't seem to do that at UNSW except in special circumstances.

It's quite strange coming from the Canberra secondary school system where everything was scaled to a consistent mean and stdev.

I think Canberra's secondary school system (years 11 & 12, 2 years before Uni) is light years ahead of other Australian states. It's great how you can focus on individually driven project work rather than studying state-wide standardized tests.
Assuming this device works.

And worries about production, commercialization and raising funds in a VC-less environment are bothering these guys what advice would you give them?

How would they outsource production or fabrication without large capital?

Can they sell their device for cash and then produce on demand?

I'm asking because once in a while, I read about smart creations from different African nations. In the interviews, a common complaint is "If we can get a sponsor..." And that's where their story ends.

Note: African esp. West African transactions is heavily cash based. So crowdfunding is out of the question?
Ctate/autocode: spec-driven code generator
Announcing the Build Server Protocol v1.0
> for not continuing to store things in a warehouse that is currently on fire.

That metaphor is rather silly. Microsoft's purchase of github didn't set the metaphorical warehouse on fire. At most, it only raised attention to the fire hazard that was present since the warehouse was created.

What next? People will complain about the privacy risks presented in services such as Dropbox only after some major corportion buys it?
This article is pretty bad. It gets a bunch of stuff wrong.

> The GDPR requires companies to send emails to people on their mailing list who have never bought anything, asking permission to keep emailing them

Emailing those people was already illegal under PECR. GDPR hasn't changed the legality of sending unsolicited email to people that you don't have a business relationship with.

> "People are not opting back in," says Michael Horn, the director of data science for digital marketing agency Huge. "It's one thing for your customers who don't have a relationship with the brand to decline and not respond, but you're also losing a sales channel."

GDPR does not force a business to get consent for all processing. This is a persistant myth. If you have an existing business relationship and you obtained the email address legally you can rely on legitimate interests.

> "You never read the terms and conditions when you sign up for some website.

GDPR requires companies to make their T&Cs a lot simpler and clearer. This is a good thing. If you know people aren't reading your T&Cs how can you expect those people to be bound by them?

> Under these regulations, companies are relatively free to send emails to customers who have purchased something from them. But sending email to non-customers is common practice in the email marketing world. A lot of companies ask for email addresses when you visit their web site, even if you don't buy anything. Others buy email lists from third parties.

This is what people are defending. Sending junk email to addresses that you've bought. Getting someone's email address for one purpose and use it for another. (And, again, these are already illegal under PECR).

> Although the GDPR rules are only for the EU, European citizens living abroad get the same protections.

No. GDPR applies to EU residents.

Someone somewhere is making a lot of money giving people terrible advice about GDPR.
Talking about sexual harassment, I have just read an article at https://www.lemberglaw.com/what-is-workplace-sexual-harassme... about this matter. I think sexual harassment is a very old crime, but we don't care about this problem. Thanks to some movements such as #MeToo which have helped many people to start speaking up about this.
The ATAR isn't broken as such, the process of getting one is.

For a NSW student a good ATAR means you can ace a test after 2 years of study, where as Canberra/ACT focuses a lot more on project work and has much more flexibility in subjects.

The difference of experience between Canberra/ACT high school leavers and NSW school leavers is staggering, especially when it comes to project work.

The Canberra secondary school system is incredible, and the rest of Australia could learn a lot from it. Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(programming)
One of my friends who is a successful entrepreneur (bootstrapped, high double digit million yearly revenue) now recals that he never managed to find a job because he looks arogant.

He also lacks apathy. (I think it's some medical condition and not something sinster).

He is very honest and trustworthy but sometimes he ends up insulting us like Linus. But he is also super talented, so we ignore his cons as limitations beyond his control.

Currently, he is GP of our VC fund. He is lot better!

So he had no choice but to bootstrap his own company.
California moves to declare coffee safe from cancer risk
I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that it's not clear that the advantage is so much as to be a relevant factor. I grew up in a very poor minority neighborhood and the language the teachers used in school was the same as the ones on the standardized test, so it's not like I wasn't prepared.

It's almost insulting to think that dialect matters that much considering how much exposure everyone gets to the mainstream dialect.

In China they've got a standard dialect and there doesn't appear to be any advantage for those that are from the area north of Beijing where the dialect originates.
CopperheadOS guide: security and privacy enhancements over the stock Android
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309883
The (known) body count under Stalin by far outstrips Germany. But look at the history of rarely-mentioned Belarus during that era (I only recently did) ... a people caught between these two monsters ... and at Germany's 'Generalplan Ost'.

WP says:
"During that time, Germany destroyed 209 out of 290 cities in the republic, 85% of the republic's industry, and more than one million buildings.... The population of Belarus did not regain its pre-war level until 1971.... "

A pox on both their houses. If Stalin is mentioned as a monster less often, it's probably because Russia was an ally ...
With computer based testing, we should be able to make a far better test than the SAT -- something where being able to master it would actually be solid evidence of both "g" and knowledge.
One simple trick is to be more verbose when using an automatic translator. "Do you allow me to search for things your car?" gives you "¿Me permites buscar cosas para tu auto?" which might be better? (I had Latin in school, none of that modern stuff).
Anecdotal, but in support:

I was diagnosed with chronic heavy metal poisoning [0][1]. I had developed almst asthma-like pollen allergy after an event that very likely contributed quite a bit all at once. Over the years I also got allergic to cats. Everything is completely gone now after years of chelation. The creation of additional "outflow" surely must have helped get the stuff out from the system overwhelmed by amounts it could not handle using its normal methods.

A tiny bit of my story, pieces of it posted on several occasions:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310648 (in this thread, all my responses)

[1] http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137355.html and http://onibasu.com/archives/fdc/137356.html (list of things that improved/disappeared through chelation treatment) -- Psoriasis is missing from that list, that completely disappeared too, had it on both elbows since "forever"
the problem is more massively distributed botnets guessing a few times, each with a random known email, and a popular password(s).

You are virtually gaurenteed to get hits with this approach and its extremely difficult to block.
Don't forget paste. You need that to make your table from your column oriented data store.
Did you mean empathy instead of apathy?
Conor McBride's lecture series CS410 at Strathclyde is freely available on Youtube, and my team is watching that at lunchtimes - excellent gentle introduction to proofs-as-types and so forth, and it has turned me onto Agda as a theorem proving environment.
An interesting, though inhumane twist, would be to seek a shorter but more severe punishment, like 1 year in a maximum security prison.
Setting such a precedent would make an utter mockery of the 4th amendment.
Researchers develop SafeSpec to overcome Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
That's more of a sed thing than awk. You can play golf in any language. Is it really the fault of the language?
> Separately: minorities face material discrimination at every income and wealth level. I understand that it's tough for some white people to support anything positive that they're left out of, but racial bias in college admissions is meant to be a counterbalance to other, negative things that white people were also left out of, at every income and wealth level.

Thing is, it's just not sustainable. No matter how it is justified in the grand scope of things, for an individual that was rejected over someone on the basis of race (or any other trait they have no control over), it will feel unfair, and rightly so. In aggregate, this creates long-term resentment that is focused on the very traits you're trying to mitigate discrimination over. Eventually, you get pushback - and since the group pushing back is the majority, it can get really nasty (indeed, to some extent, we're already observing it).
I did, twice, and I'm about to go on a third run (though this time it's not because of any particular run of back luck with the job market). I have a weird-looking resume that doesn't look quite right at first blush, and most of the hiring decisions that brought me on board I later found out were someone "taking a chance" on me. I was in the Guard for many years, and deployed a lot (a lot). Even though it's against the law, startups just don't have the resources to give up a team member and save their spot while they deploy. I actually completely grok this. But for most of my adult life, it looks like I've jumped from job to job with weird breaks in between, which is a huge red flag. I'm actually pretty good at what I do, if you'll pardon me for saying so, and so I have a pretty good network to lean on now, but throughout my 20s I didn't truly understand the power of one's network and so didn't cultivate relationships that I should have. No problem, life lesson. We aren't all jumping out of our mother's womb in full armor swinging a chain.

Anyway, I have had both success and failure when I started my own businesses. The first time was a failure, but I saw it at the time as a success, because I had to make rent, and it paid the rent. I literally sat there with a notepad thinking of things I could do in less than 60 days to make rent. Incidentally, I have always paid rent one month ahead of time. It's just something I started doing by chance when I was 16, and it turned out to be the difference between having a place to sleep and living in my car or out on the street.

Anyway, that paid the rent but wasn't sustainable. Everything was wrong with it, since I thought I was smarter than everyone hah! But that was another life lesson, that the world is full of way smarter people, and history even fuller. The second time I started a business I was much older, late-20s, and by then had worked at a bunch of startups and a network full of sensors (the army says "every soldier is a sensor" and likewise your friends and professional network are like your sensors) and also had been taking notes the entire time. I still take notes every day on the things I learn, the decisions I make, or people around me are making and why, if I can discern it, or if they'll tell me when I ask (another life lesson about taking notes). That time I consider it a success, because the people I started the business with are still running it today, and I was able to sell out of my share of the business. I went back into working at startups (because that's where the action is yolo), and now I'm feeling the itch really badly. This time around I've got solid business partners / cofounders on board, and few "green leaderbooks" full of notes and ideas (another army thing) and a couple servers full of prototyped side projects. I've got enough saved to bootstrap whatever we do and most importantly, as a lifelong transient with wanderlust, I feel that same comfortable feeling of "going places and doing things and taking risks" that won't let me put down roots in one place for too long. Sorry for all the text, but that's my story.
See I hope that "expert" coders understand that 'git push' works even on non-MS controlled endpoints, and how to setup a damned wiki if need be...

GitHub is stupid valuable for MS, and will make their dev tools offerings much stronger (TFS is a dog, bringing GitHub Enterprise into MS Enterprise support & sales cycle is gonna make a loooot of scratch). But the value of the GitHub community persists only so long as the community is present. MS can't start destroying Open Science, because Open Science will be open any- and everywhere.

Frankly, disciplines should be creating their own community hubs and portals based on Git and the publishing standards of GitHub: leveraging GitHubs infrastructure and standards while capturing and engaging with the relevant users. That way they can always migrate and maintain the community.

Besides, even cynically MS is more likely to do a bad job of community management trying to upsell related services moreso than poop on things for the sake of pooping on them. If it becomes offensive you'll have a nice window to find a superior collaboration hub.
Dude, it is pretty shitty to have your candidates go through a 40 minute coding test and then not hire those with the best results! If you aren't acting on the test then you're essentially giving these candidates false hopes and are wasting their time by having them do this test. How would you feel about it if you were in their shoes?
> It’s quite humbling.

I didn't want to get all management-consultant-preachy earlier, but you touched upon why I persistently perform that exercise. I believe there is a very valuable leadership lesson imparted by continuously performing that exercise first-hand. Too often leadership devolves into management, especially when people lose sight of just how fractally difficult many human endeavors are. The humility helps teach me perspective on problems and people.

That Australian aboriginal might live a dramatically different life than "developed world" citizens, but there is no way I can be convinced that on average, they aren't as smart.
Is there a non-video link?
I think that reporter did good work, but isn't this like pointing to a hackathon bug fix that saves a company as engineering excellence?

The parent is seemingly saying that quality journalism would have better scrutiny to not allow the situation to get this far in the first place.
There's some drama with the founders at the moment and the signing keys (for new releases) have been destroyed.

I wouldn't install this OS now, probably a good idea to wait and see how it goes.

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1006299769214562305
Missing link? https://medium.com/dair-ai/detecting-sarcasm-with-deep-convo...
Check nodeRED, or Zapier (or any other Yahoo Pipes followup). You can.
I think leading with the fundraising amount isn't the best way to plug around HN.
Isn't saved? I log my bash history forever and have tools to help with grepping. Also for any serious data processing not saving the process is unacceptable. But I guess you're talking more sysadmin type tasks and yeah, I write throwaway awks all the time.
Realistically, it is still true on Windows - unless your containers don't need chmod, chown or any of the other rather fundamental syscalls that are still not supported under LCOW
Are you saying that Stallmann was right?

People should stop digging themselves deeper into Apple's and Microsoft's ecosystems that are getting more and more locked down by the year.
That, sir or madam, is an utterly fantastic idea.
>>When they prize their own intelligence, they have false confidence about areas they have zero expertise in, purely because they feel they can figure it out.

I wonder how this squares with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Are domain-stupid generally intelligent people more susceptible than domain-stupid generally stupid people if they are equally cocky?
Yep, in other words the prior probability of a user trying to use a 'bad' password will be a lot higher than badpasses/allpasses. The whole point of checking against a list of compromised passwords is because people reuse their passwords.
Don't so easily underestimate the longterm utility of money outside government and corporate control.

Centralised money, like dictatorships, is only good when benevolently ruled.

For the majority, money is wielded more against than for their interests.
Jails are already overcrowded understaffed in most places though.
The race to the riches of asteroids
I think it's blindingly naive to think that, on any meaningful timeline, a company like GitHub wouldn't be mining their userbase for trends and capitalising on them by selling it to third parties... There's nothing shady about using corporate information and user metadata to provide value to others, but you have to imagine that MS owning that data set is highly similar to MS buying it from GitHub.

Up to the minute analysis of a meaningful percentage of the development ecosphere is highly valuable. Selling reports, analysis, or monitoring is a natural expansion of GitHubs business model.

Maybe having this dataset go into the same warehouse as LinkedIn strikes some as scary, but I think one actor who is less reliant on direct revenue will have less incentive to push boundaries and spread that info to as many other actors as possible... So whatever privacy issue people feel has arisen here, it's likely just refined itself a little to be much narrower but only a little deeper.

Fundamentally, if you don't trust MS with your goodies you shouldn't trust GitHub with your data at all. GitHub Enterprise might be a better solution ;)
> strategically empathetic

aka, the sociopathic mentality.
New deep learning technique solves Rubik's Cube without assistance
The issue is it remains non-concurrent and any code (macros, extensions, …) executes in place of the editor doing its thang, so any non-trivial operation (or trivial operation on an entire buffer) locks up the editor until it's done and does its thing.

And while it might technically be faster for the process, as is the case with e.g. STW GCs on large processes it 1. feels horrible and 2. as an editor is interactive it stops the user in their tracks and slows them down to hell
>Losing your license is a major deterrent as well:

People still drive when they lose their license.
They have to.
No. Scaling jail sentences based on income would mean that the monetary size of the punishment was (roughly) constant between a rich and poor offender; just like if they were charged the same number of dollars as a fine. However, just as with fines, it would mean that the subjective effect of the punishment is much greater for the poorer person.

If the goal is deterrence, then we need care about how subjectively costly the punishment will be to each person. Having a high income doesn't make your time subjectively more valuable, but it does mean that you can trade it for more money. A rich and a poor person would likely value a day of their own time quite similarly, but they would each value $100 quite differently.
And FX rigging ...

Speaking morally, rather than legally, the packaging of loans into CDOs was clearly fraudulent, basically the equivalent of tampering with the mile meter in your car before selling it. The fact that there is apparently no law to prosecute people under is a failure of our various legislatures and judicial systems.
Avoiding hour creep: get your work done and still go home at 5PM
Theranos founder hit with criminal charges
Much better. Awk is first a filter, then a processor. As others mentioned you don't even need a processor here. Using awk as just a filter is great and easily communicated by proper use of the language.
Some? She mishandled Top Secret/SAP emails on her unsecured server.

https://www.businessinsider.de/hillary-clinton-email-server-...
React profiling component to measure the "cost" of rendering
The 6 Ways to Grow a Company
But commands and variables are in different namespaces.
Just messing around and nothing worth showing, but the web audio API gives all the low level stuff, and then hot module reload from webpack means you can change a function while the music is playing and it updates in real time. Not being bound by a GUI makes it trivial to do things like arpeggiate or automate filters, and then orchestrate that at higher levels

It's easier to break the mould if you're not bound by other people's software, but starts to look awfully sciency if you explore too far : D So it's useful to keep wiping the slate to not be bogged down by previous experiments
That would make it possible to create a program that would check all the passwords in the keychain without sending data over the web. False positives wouldn't be an issue as the user can decide himself if he wants to update. Currently it still is a bit of a big filter to have on a mobile device - wonder how far it could be slimed down and to have just 99% accuracy.

I just wonder how one could create such a program that the users will have some guarantees that it will not leak stuff.
That’s fair. We’re thankful for the support from our investors and partners: but you’re right, the product should speak for itself. Maybe a little bit of an amateur move on my part. Feel free to check it out - we’re super receptive to feedback! You can comment here or email me directly (even if - hell, especially if - it’s to criticize me ;)), keith at stdlib dot com.
> someone at that level

Paying hush money to The Donald’s cumdumpsters isn’t exactly Order of Merit material