skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s easy for people whom work “hard” to unreasonably and ignorantly prejudge others to “get a job,” when there’s various individuals whom have invisible disabilities: can’t get along with other people, understand or perform traditional work. Some also can’t perform useful work because either accommodations would be costly/extreme or they have debilitating socio- or psychological conditions like psychosis, bad memories or are too kinematically-slow.

It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place. In California, for example, SNAP goes away for ABAWD’s for 9 months out of the year beginning September 1, 2018. IOW, penniless homeless people are having their food benefits cut off for most of the year if they’re randomly assigned this status.

This is what “falling between the cracks” looks like.
Scale to 0, faster scaling up/down (no need for full VM spin up), faster deployments, less surface area for attack (maybe?).
This is cool. Will OP open source this so others can use it?
The article, strangely, leaves out the name of the project it's reporting on. It's OpenAPS, http://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . I use it and have worked on the code. It's a massive health and quality of life improvement over anything that exists which is FDA approved. The core problem is that the FDA-approved devices are optimized not for getting the best result, but for ensuring the manufacturer can't be blamed if something goes wrong. But that in practice means kicking most of the important things to the end user and their physician, who can't do nearly as good a job as software can.
Yeah. Homeowner in Seattle? http://gismaps.kingcounty.gov/parcelviewer2/ has your address publically available, unless you made special plans to purchase with an LLC or something. (And you probably need to be sure your LLC's mailing address is a PO box as well.)
I have always wondered what is the relationship between PM2.5 measurement and humidity/dew point. From what I have read all three types of PM2.5 sensors (beta ray, particle counting...) can't tell the difference between dust particles and water droplet. Googling around gives me a lot of conflicted answer[1][2][3].

If one looks at the air quality graph of my city[0], it can be seen that summer has much better AQI while winter/spring are worse. But I feel summer is much more dustier and spring is cleaner because the street is always wet from drizzle (dust is prevented from floating in the air). Maybe it has something to do with the lower dew point during winter/spring as my city has very high humidity, from 60% to 100% (right now it is 90%).

[0] http://hanoiair.de/en_US/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4555266/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29063278

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072227/
The follow up article (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdDynami...) explains the underlying problem.

Basically, to get around root-only readable directories, a special mount namespace is created when Dynamic Users are used. That fails when there are mount points that systemd can't access, which was due to FUSE filesystems mounted inside owner-only home directories, combined with an NFS mount.

This is the second time in a few days that I've heard about systemd-related user / ownership problems. The other was related to when a systemd-managed socket needs to be owned by a user that is created by a daemon that relies on networking to already be up (ldap / activedirectory / whatever). systemd wants to create the socket at the same time as networking is starting, so the user doesn't exist yet -- and there isn't a simple way to tell systemd to delay creating that socket.

Instead, the post-start script of the user daemon can chown the socket, and services relying on it will need to be started after that -- and there is no generic way to say to start a service after the auth provider is up, so you have to be specific, making the dependency fragile.
Ben Ferencz on Human Rights: “when I see the progress, I get optimistic” [video]
Sounds about right.

Accordingly one of my feedbacks to the camp I attended was to drop like four things, add one (minor thing), and spend more time on the rest. Rather than sort of shotgun it.
> Maybe the other options are better, I don't know. Would definitely be interested in hearing people's personal experiences.

If you are open to trying out Hugo, see if my above comment[1] regarding ox-hugo.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721272
Can someone explain to me why there is an inherent contradiction in that hardware/software keep trying to be faster in crypto computation, while crypto algorithms (like argon2?) keep trying to be harder and harder to run fast?
I think this is a very common experience for maintainers.

I wonder if it would make sense to have a low friction way for people to notify maintainers that they’re using a library? I guess stars are a little bit like that but people star stuff they don’t use.

Or maybe have something that would automatically crawl github for you and find out how many projects depended on your library.
Boston Dynamics Is Getting Ready to Produce Lots of SpotMinis
Which is where someone pays you to vote a certain way. It follows that they want proof, so the receipt shows proof of your vote.

I think it's also likely to cause harassment outside of polling places with gangs on sidewalks asking to see the proof that people voted for their candidate. You DID get a receipt, didn't you?
Ask HN: Quarterly result info of startup after quitting in SV?
For an ex-employee with some exercised equity at a SV startup, are they eligible by law to get quarterly results?
I prefer the paper first, scan into box and then it is electronic.

Makes it fairly easy to identify a box and verify if needed and identity a possible suspect machine and etc.

I does the best job of preserving the voter's clear choices made by them, filtered by nobody.
It’s very politically convenient to confuse the veterans who endangered (or gave up) their lives to serve in the military with the military-industrial complex and the hawkish political factions.
Missions are 2 years for men, 1.5 years for women. It's optional for both men and women, but men are expected to go.

I went on a mission to Peru for 2 years. It was amazing, I have no regrets, but I wouldn't do it again. It was incredibly hard.

In contrast, I've started two modestly successful companies (one bootstrapped, one backed by $16M in VC money) and I'm working on starting my third. Startups are grueling, but not as grueling as a mission IMO. :)
I think he is referring to cases in the past where politicians and political parties would pay people to vote and require they bring the slip back to prove they voted for the right guy.
I think the YubiKey nano is intended to be left in a port. I don't leave mine in though (keep it on my keyring!)
Seeing your luggage etc means they can make a pretty good guess about whether you're going to the airport.
@alexqarbuckle changed his account display name to "Italian Elon Musk" for a dumb but hilarious bit and lost his blue checkmark over it. So that's where the line is, I guess.

https://twitter.com/alexqarbuckle/status/1008257043843690497
> in fact it seems that safe spaces are one of the few things that counter infantilization of Western culture

How is that fact? De facto pronouncing adults unable to deal with reality and/or speech wherein they need to be protected by institution, is infantile. That's why we put children in schools or under guardian care.
I don't see Apple being that interested in jumping into something as big as car industry. Dealing with auto suppliers, labor stuff, etc is a bit out of their usual business.
No matter who you are (T1, T2, neither), you die without insulin. It's the only way to remove glucose from the blood.

Most T2's are resistant to the normal level of insulin in the blood, and must compensate by introducing ever more insulin until it reaches a high enough level to overcome the resistance and it acts to absorb glucose. Normally this is done through medications that either 1) increase the amount of insulin your pancreas secretes, or 2) decrease your insulin resistance (via the liver, IIRC).

As such, most T2s maintain a higher continuing level of insulin than non-T2s. Thus an insulin pump like that in the article will work for both T1s and T2s alike, but the insulin dose for T2s simply will be higher than for T1s.
Most American cards are chip and signature, not chip and pin. And they weren't even chip at all until recently.
> I have the President of the United States' address. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Oh no! I done dox'd him!

If only we all had access to the Secret Service. Lots of modern games make use of P2P behind the scenes (e.g. for voice chat), which means that maladjusted script kiddie I just sniped already has my IP and might decide to forego DDoSing me and skip straight to calling in a hostage situation at my home address. Being able to easily resolve a concrete address from an IP is certainly a bigger deal than being able to determine its ISP.
It's really unclear to me what your product is. I would have given up trying to figure out if you hadn't implied that it's somehow related to what this cool blog post accomplishes.

From the FAQ, my best guess is that you offer businesses bank accounts that come bundled with the reporting you'd get with something like Mint/Quickbooks?

It's OK to basically be two services glued together, but why are you better than just the two existing services, were they to be glued together?
OMG! this is so cool! need one for PSX.

https://nes.party/mp798x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rja7tCtxSN4

It fits too well.
Econometric models typically do not say anything about causality. For example, the coefficients in OLS are just correlation, i.e. one unit increase in X is associated with $\beta$ increase in Y. Let's say that we regress "happiness" on "being married." It's impossible to tell which way does the causal relation flow, or if "happiness" and "being married" are both caused by a third factor altogether.

In contrast, causal models explicitly think about when we can claim that an effect is causal.
Some crypto is for actually encrypting things (e.g. SSL). You want that to be fast.

Other crypto is used for things like password hashing, which is something that's a common target for brute force attacks. You want that to be slow.
inertia. Easier to keep movement going than to start it.
What is an LGBT inclusive event?
My boss was big on TOGAF and ITIL, at least the concepts behind them. He would always talk our ears off about Margaret Thatcher and the origin of ITIL. In 4 years of working for the company we never got farther than talk. Meanwhile we were able to get agile and scrum up and running in a few weeks.
Read Data in GML Format and Working with ESRI File GeoDatabases Format in .NET
Chinese v Singaporean, Spanish v Mexican, it goes on. The belief that abuse occurs is intolerable (no compromise) is just lowering the bar as to who controls what is said and how.
Google could easily adjust their ranking algorithm to better reward non-AMP pages (which they've obviously already crawled) which they know are 1) below say 75 KB and 2) contain a limited number of resources to fetch. But instead of doing that, they choose to attempt to strongarm everyone into using AMP.
In SF, at least, Sonic has started stringing their own fiber. But it’s not in every neighborhood yet, and even in places where they are installing fiber, some streets may be left dark, (Including, frustratingly, a big swath of Portrero Hill where the utility poles are “overloaded”.)

If you’re in a larger building (15+ units), there are a couple of other fiber providers that may be an option, if building management is up for it.

MonkeyBrains is a wireless ISP. I regularly get 25-40 Mbps from them (though they don’t guarantee that). I’ve had only occasional slowdowns and one outage lasting a few hours. (So, more reliable than Comcast had been, at least for me.) I’d heard rumors MonkeyBrains was planning some equipment upgrades that would let them deliver 60-80 Mbps, but no official announcement or timetable.
I came here to explain that laziness does in fact exist, but eh whatever
> Only for the 10X price/performance boost for infrequently accessed services?

Yes. this will allow us to offload async tasks & other non-critical tasks to standard. It will also allow us to keep lots of various staging environments available for testing / unit testing, and deploy dedicated instances that are fully contained without 24/7 costs for each instance.

Re - latency - absolutely, we've seen times where it can take 10-15 seconds to serve an initial request. Things are snappy afterwards.
> But it all seems to be about "raw pointers", which are mostly for talking to non-Rust code and probably ought to be on the way out as more low-level libraries are implemented in Rust.

Plenty of pure Rust code uses pointers. They're necessary for the implementation of things like `Vec`. Raw pointers aren't going anywhere.

> The expressive problems with the ownership model mostly involve backpointers.

These problems can be trivially solved in 95% of cases with arena allocation. The other 5% fundamentally require bespoke solutions because you're trying to do something elaborate/niche.
Loved Thomas’s quick sketch on that same topic last month: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/1-billion-people-100000...
The current solution requires no manufacture or distribution of custom hardware. It's all software that exploits hardware the users already have.

Your solution is surely better, but the current one exists.
How China could beat the West in the deadly race for AI weapons
You're correct, however this article is about transportation in Utah County, aka Happy Valley.
His systems thinking book will stay with me forever. RIP Gerald.
You know its almost trivial to buy millions of people's full names, addresses, estimated income, etc., from legit data brokers right? It's how credit card start-ups know who to send direct mail to and it's 100% legal.
China made demands regarding data hosting of tech companies operating in their country. Worrisome, but by definition lawful.

Apple complied while still retaining as much security as possible. They assert that the data is still encrypted, and they hold the keys:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/business/apple-china-data...

Apple had, as I see it, two choices: disable current customers and refuse to sell any more devices, or comply with the law.

So, yes, Apple could have walked away from their customers, but how would that have helped anyone? Their phones are still more secure from non-state actors than nearly anyone else's, and Chinese citizens, for better or worse, have to live with the dictatorship's rules.

(And to preempt the inevitable comparison: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/google-is...)

So "They literally made a deal to spy on Chinese citizens as soon as that made them profit" is only true if you assume Apple is lying about the encryption and lying about their reasons for opening the new data center.

It's also possible the OP is talking about some other Apple cooperation with China, but that seems to be the one most people throw at them.
Advertising is rarely a good way to learn anything.

I heard about Monkey Brains from a pal. From a quick search, the only comparison site that seems to mention them is Yelp.
> Or maybe have something that would automatically crawl github for you and find out how many projects depended on your library.

There's already a form of this: https://github.com/waynehoover/s3_direct_upload/network/depe...
Not that I have practical experience with this, but I believe that equipment leasing is the norm in Australia.
If it's in the binary Simple ships I can take it or modify it to not need it. It's a huge pain in the ass, but it's not "hard."

And while I know I did a cert pin and you did a cert pin, not everyone does it (or does it bidirectionally). Nor is that the only way folks would get an API spec.
Seriously, Stop Reverse Engineering Your Health Checks
It might be config and security fragile, but ntpd is a safe bet.

When religions preferences come up, I prefer s6 because it’s scalable like daemon tools/runit. Old-school upstart was meh and ancient style rc scripts rarely did process supervision.

Debugging and simplicity are prime requirements for init’s.

http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/

PS: Logs aren’t files... they’re streams of structured messages often, that are unfortunately usually destructured into text lines. Log-rotation, logging to local files are horrible kludges that doesn’t scale for high-volume servers... log-structured log device, log sourcing or time-series structured db are more natural fits. Keeping log data in structured form instead of broken up in arbitrary line formats makes custom parsing unnecessary and log mining/transformation (ETL) much easier and usable. “Grepping” is simply looking at a text view of desired fields like a full-text db search. IOW, historical logs become random-access msgpack/protobufs streams while app logs are just always appending... and one string per log message for backwards compat, with a “logger”-type command for logfile-less 12-factor apps.
The UniFi suite has some rough edges, the Unifi Security Gateways will just sit there in a useless state if both WANs are down and they are rebooted (until one of the WANs comes up and they connect to the controller). That is a less common scenario, but its still annoying & breaks the local network. Better to run in a crippled state than not at all IMO!
They can verify the results of their individual vote on their paper ballot. They cannot do that with an electronic system.
Hi, I founded Level Money, was one of Intuit's earliest aggcat customers and one of their last customers, and did this for a lot of people until Capital One bought my company and we did it for them.

AMA, I guess.

But to answer the implicit question: shutting that off can be harder than it sounds. And because it's a mobile API and iOS's store has fairly slow update cycles, it can be very hard to simply rotate your API spec fast enough without interrupting customer service: a difficult thing for a bank to get away with (lol, I'm joking they're down all the time).
Canadian Digital Service: Supporting more users with gracefully degrading React
I agree.

I think the idea is that being able to track the flow of monies is supposed to lead to changes that nudge us in the direction of political donation reform.
This seem like a great option!...thanks for sharing
Because they know they can't compete on a technical level with Amazons and Google's even dumping a billion dollars into tech growth, and disintermediation is a fast road to becoming a utility.
systemd's job is to start daemons. It can be reasonable to decide dynamically when to start them based on which others are healthy (maybe you care more about speed than determinism on a laptop). But there's no reason to choose a uid and mkdir dynamically. You want these errors at install time, not at the box's next (probably unattended) restart.
Learn ML Algorithms by Coding: Decision Trees
> Europe recovered from WW2 relatively quickly; surely the US could also recover from a partial market collapse.

Well, part of that is because of countries like ours which weren't completely destroyed were able to assist financially, help rebuild essential infrastructure, and -- perhaps most importantly -- provide political stability to the region (which they desperately needed in 1945).

I'm not sure who would have played that role if we had let the entire global financial system melt down in 2008.
> “The deeper molecules were easier because their surface was plainer.”

I can't tell, is this is a mistaken transcription and they meant "planar"?
What you are describing as friendly is to me non-discriminatory. That means making no difference between people.
Catholics are pretty different. The Catholic Church asks for less than the LDS (and most churches) at the local level, and it's quite a bit more hands-off. The higher levels of Catholic hierarchy looks like a medieval institution because it is a medieval institution. There is definitely set dogma, and the Church does not waver on it, but Catholics are generally quite comfortable being buffet Christians (choosing which bits to follow and which to disregard). I've met many more buffet Catholics than buffet Mormons.
it's the FDA's job to keep the public safe, hence all the regulation and paperwork a medical company has to go through before releasing a product. If people want to hack their own health and be their own guinea pigs then that's fine- it's actually easier for the manufacturers.
Password hashing algorithms like argon2/scrypt/bcrypt are a special case. The security of a hashed password depends on how much work an attacker has to do until the correct password is found.

Suppose an attacker has to try 1,000,000 passwords until the correct one is found. If the password hashing algorithm is fast, so the attacker can try 1,000 guesses per second, it will take the attacker less than an hour. If the password hashing algorithm is slow, so the attacker takes a whole second to try each guess, it will take the attacker many days. With a complex enough password, and a slow enough password hashing algorithm, the attacker will die of old age before the correct password is found.

But that's not the case for other classes of crypto algorithms. For symmetric encryption algorithms like AES or ChaCha20, hashing algorithms like SHA-2 or Blake2, elliptic curve algorithms like secp256r1 or curve25519, and so on, being faster is a good thing.
The belief is that God speaks to the world through a prophet, like he did with Moses, and that he still actively does so to this day. The leadership at the top is established so that it can be certain who that prophet is, and not just anyone who claims it.
I don't think that helps with the vote buying implications though does it? Not that I really think vote buying would be such a problem.
let's see how long before Nintendo drafts a C+D
We have a Coway AP-1008DH, and it's interesting to see how quickly it comes on when cooking. Probably cheap sensors, but it appears to be a good device overall.

I see that Air Visual ship to Australia; could this be a good way to assess the pollution levels at the school we're considering moving our son to (see my other response in this thread), or could there be cheaper options? Thanks!
Better public transportation means more bodies in the seats at church.
That's beside the point. Resolving parcel numbers to owners is also problematic, likewise resolving license plate numbers to owners (used to be possible in Switzerland), but we're talking resolving IP addresses to owners. I wonder how many porn sites could blackmail viewers, or Honeypot mpaa operatos could sue torrent users more easily...
30000 queries per day, and 550000 queries per second seem like two radically different things.
I got it working locally syncing between Chrome & Firefox on Ubuntu. I did get degraded performance and dropped frames as well.
Ask HN: Is there a MOOC provider that deals in more advanced topics?
I enjoy learning new things and expanding my area of expertise outside of the work that I do, usually I try to do this through reading, conference talks, and online courses.

Lately though, I find that a lot of the MOOC courses from coursera, et al. tend to be written for complete beginners and provide very lightweight courses. Because of this I tend to disengage from the course and not complete it.

Are there any MOOCs that are more suited for continuing professional development?

A side question is how can these courses ever hope to replace university level training?