skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can often request that the FOIA officer waive the fee so long as the public's interest outweighs the burden to collect and redact the info. That's almost certainly what happened with my IL requests.
The customer doesn't need to use crypto for rent or milk. And the customer shouldn't care about the idea of paying content producers directly, that's not the point.

The customer uses a fiat -> crypto exchange/wallet combo service, sends a payment in crypto to the content producer, the content producer exchanges it back to fiat currency. The overhead of this is much less than 30-60% as mentioned in the article, and it's an extra 10 minutes of effort required by the customer, which is nearly identical to the 8 minutes of effort to type a credit card directly into the payment provider.

With this approach, the content producers win big time, and the customers lose 2 minutes, which can be further minimized by laymen-friendly online crypto wallets.
Any good examples of “whiteboard questions”, I’m not super familiar with the phrasing.
If people would stop using money rather than complaining about it, perhaps banks wouldn’t be able to cause a financial crash to begin with, so don’t blame them!

You need to recognize the level of organization you are proposing might be possible but is adamantly undermined by governments and businesses around the world, and nothing like it is found in the history books. Not even close, unless maybe you count Noah’s Ark.

Your expression here is generally only expressed by sheltered Americans, and there must be a reason almost nobody in the rest of the world would accept a such a short conception. It might be useful for someone stuck in this view to realize that.
If we don't complain about Facebook, how are the people still on it going to know all the reasons they should leave?
I actually really enjoyed it. I find articles that are like "This Simple Trick Will Cure Your Back" a bit too simplistic. I want to know why the technique works and what's wrong with the standard way we're doing it. They actually split this into 3 different articles/podcasts saying a similar thing and I read them all.
What an odd assortment of distributions to test. I would have expected the “Leading Distributions” according to LWN to appear: https://lwn.net/Distributions/#lead

But no Fedora, no Slackware, and, perhaps most perplexing, no Debian.
Mastodon: Social Media Made Social – Things That Matter Most
Why would you need crypto (rather than cash) for any inherently in-person exchange?
You might be able to foster a deeper appreciation for some of these ideas by playing with Elm a little bit. Some time ago, they implemented time-travel in the standard debugger, and its a really wonderful feature. The site also has some demo apps that make it easy to play around with that time travel support.

I agree that, currently, languages and frameworks don’t make things like time travel easy, insofar as such a feature is not often built in. However, technologies like Flux and Vuex are paving the way for such things to become mainstream. It’s worth pointing out, too, that both were inspired by Elm’s runtime architecture.

Functional programming is, only in the last half-decade or so started to see a relatively dramatic rise in popularity. I think this trend will continue for a long time to come. For that reason, it’s worth learning more about these concepts.
>>The goal of this is too test whether the interviewee can recognize that this is a case to apply this algorithm in.

That's the easy part. Everyone knows if you have sort a large data set, then you partition it in someway. Searching a huge data set requires building a tree on some criteria before hand and eliminating whole branches at every node. Or that they have to use a graph algorithm to figure out shortest paths and cost associated with the paths. Or that if you face a situation where you recompute many results you memoize. Or that writing nested for loops is a very bad idea. These are easy things to spot.

But they won't clear you in the interview if you don't get the mechanics right. Knowing BST helps in sorting doesn't cut it. They want you tell them how you would traverse across a tree in some 'level ordered' fashion. Or list different ways you could order a graph and list the exact heuristic. From here on this is pure memorization.

There is huge difference between inventing a new framework of thought even at an abstract level, and knowing the precise mechanics of balancing a tree.
How does sp_execute_external_script Work – Part I
Status quo applies relative to one's peers as well as oneself. If most humans could fly, those that couldn't, whether as an acquired or congenital trait, would have an illness.
Nah. Most the people I see on that train are people commuting to/from work, and locals who live along the blue line corridor. Some tourists, but I think most of them are opting to pay a driver 8x as much to take even longer to get them downtown.
Sigh... give them an inch and they take the universe. It seems like nearly every piece of local data an application can gather is being abused for privacy invasion, this time under the guise of fraud prevention. It's bullshit; we all know how this information will be used. Swiping, mouse movements, keyboard input habits, etc. will all be used to build a profile about you and target ads. What a sad, sad use of humanity's infinite ingenuity.
Current state of the art in objects classification
This sitting style worked fine for me for a decade. It takes the pressure off your lower back. However, I'm now starting to get shooting pains where you least want them since all the weight is on the seat. Sit straight in moderation, I guess. Sit straight in work seating, slouch in overpadded chairs maybe.
Funny how the stories from citizens and your fake news differ so much.
civ·il dis·o·be·di·ence

/ˈsivil ˈˌdisəˈbēdēəns/

noun

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
Run a C program barebone on an ARM Cortex M3
I didn't have any expectations, but FEAR AI was one of the best I've seen in games. I could replay the same battle over an over again, and the enemies did different, convincingly intelligent things, based on my own actions.
First post of three about how SQL Server's sp_execute_external_script work.
Do you know what caused the US attorney to move to dismiss? Public comment?
And that's why I'm considering the energy usage. If it costs too much, somebody gives me a message to use less energy. For example I was able to build my NAS to use 20W of energy just because of the prices being so high.

Hopefully the investments to solar and wind will pay themselves at some point and the price of energy plummet.
My family (in Poland) is in that situation with a member denying, going to hospital, coming out, avoiding medication and the cycle starts again after a few months. We feel hopeless and at this time wait a judgement could force that family member to take a medication once a month...
A temperature so hot that we have to invent a new quantum theory before we can figure out what physics would be like at that level? Yikes.
Plenty of things have been popular and then gone out of style.

Perhaps the answer is to make the concept of social networks no longer cool; or even make them undesirable. I think it's pretty clear they are not, anyways.

I use whatsapp, line, email and photo sharing services that allow me to easily share and communicate thoughts and media with exactly who I want. It's more personal, not addictive, creates better relationships, and helps me focus more on who I am rather than how others perceive me. And of course I don't have to use facebook and be a part of all its oft-criticized problems.
> Work to shore up the foundation of the bridge was being carried out at the time of the collapse

Seems like a more plausible explanation on the face of things. Lots of highly publicized incidents in the US of fatal bridge and overpass incidents due to construction. While I assume these are overseen by an engineer, there are a lot of things out of their control that can go wrong when people are actively using the structure under maintenance.
Very easy to defend, since there are infinite possibilities of what a Coinbase transaction in your bank statement could mean. "I wanted to try out crypto so I bought a takeout pizza" he might say. Not the case with CC-Bill or AcmeMiddlemanHoldings.

And regardless of how the interaction plays out between the wife and husband, the end result will never be a chargeback, so the content provider wins anyway.
We should probably say "okundugu gibi yazilan" instead of "yazildigi gibi okunan" :) That'll do.
Contracting has been the answer for me.

Reply to me if you have:

- worked many hours overtime without any recognition or remuneration

- been caught up in office politics

- felt unsatisfied with your job

- felt like you could achieve more if the company listened to your advice

- wanted a change of role without sacrificing your career

12 years ago I started contracting in data warehousing and analytics. I've alternated between permanent and contracting over the years.

At 38 I'm contracting for a huge multinational company, working on exciting big data challenges and never been happier...it's literally my dream job.

Between my day job and side project I work around 16 hours per day, but I love what I do. Fortunately I have a supportive wife and kids.

Prior to this I managed a few teams at a big company and struggled to stay motivated.

Contracting is not for everyone, but if you are passionate about what you do and like to work hard knowing there is an end in sight, it is well remunerated and keeps you in touch with the market without the HR responsibilities.
Experts do make mistakes sometimes
Exactly this. Adult and high risk in general are an absolute quagmire, and all actors are trying to "outcompete" with one another, making the situation worse and worse.

Risk from transactions: stolen credit cards get default checked on adult sites (digital good delivery instantly verifies if the card is still useable).

Bad faith merchants. This goes from outright scams to the still widely used practice of "card banging", when they tack on added services or hit you with a huge fee after your free trial ends (which is not presented to the customer).

Affiliates screwing sites, sites screwing affiliates.

Billing support building more and more barriers for customers to get a hold of them or to cancel subscriptions.

And then let's not even get into the industry's backbone, content producers...
> A screenshot posted on the account showed he had managed to change the name of the winning candidate on the replica Florida website to his own and gave himself billions of votes.

So he opened the DOM Inspector in Chrome?
Well that 2/3 is spend earning money that allows you to make the 1/3 better. Obviously there's a delicate balance there, but it's not as if they're wasting 2/3 of their lives. A friend of mine works 9-5 in a big corporate company and he loves life - he's paid well (or, well enough), never has to pull long nights or answer e-mails on the weekend. Gets home in time for dinner with the kids and to put them to bed.

(and can you really factor sleep in this? No matter what your state of employment everyone needs to sleep)
The trouble lies in two places:

"When there is false information but the the poster is not trying to mislead anyone, that's just someone on the internet being wrong, and there is no Facebook policy against it."

In and of itself, being wrong is not a problem. You can be thwarted by debate and evidence. However, it's much easier to spread a lie than to effectively repute one, so this gets out of hand very quickly.

"This is why Facebook concentrates most of its efforts on the last category, when someone spreads lies with the explicit intention to mislead."

The trouble is that most of the second category is actually the third category. Just because the lies are coming from random people, your uncle Joe, or some innocent organization sowing dissent in the US and secretly run by a Russian, and just because they don't say, "This is what you should believe so that the world can be run by neofascist forces", doesn't mean that the intent isn't to mislead. Any attempt to spread lies and falsehoods via the common viral video or meme styles IS an attempt to willfully spread lies. To assume that much of this isn't willful is naive.

Leaving it to Facebook to decide what's intended to mislead has not been working. The solution is not to trust anything you see on Facebook or to leave the platform entirely.
Every city/county hires CIOs, pays a little less but more benefits https://jobapscloud.com/solano/
The hundreds of dollars in my favor are not worth the mental energy I had to expend on the process. All those cycles are be much better spent on something else.
I dunno. I still get goose bumps thinking about and watching the protagonist's hair swing realistically in the opening scenes of the FF movie. It was an awesome accomplishment for its time.
I guess it is a slippery slope on a path towards someone yelling "fire" in a theater when no such threat exists and as a society we determined that that is not acceptable. It would have something to do with intent to mislead, harm or knowingly distort some truth. We see "truthiness" and its damaging negative effects on society. Also "free speech" in the constitutional sense is to protect you from government prosecution but it has limits. It is not a license to say anything you want in any context anywhere. Society imposes editorial control through law and order. And by order I mean through organized groups of individuals.
Time spent traveling isn't necessarily better; by some metrics people going faster are just traveling more effectively.

It's a question of whether we rate the travelage by utility or by luxury. If we consider it for utility, vehicle-miles travelled is a perfect metric. If for enjoyment, time spent traveling is better (but still not perfect).
Like most tech and science reporting, this piece is heavy on sensationalism and light on details. Disappointing.
While there's probably some cool stuff from the voting village, this doesn't seem like the most critical result. Hacking a website could cause confusion but isn't going to change the outcome of an election like tampering with voting machines or the computers that do the tallying.

Here's a hack I'd like to hear more about: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1028358365993259...
Supposedly this person proposed the correct structure for diborane in his homework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Christopher_Longuet-Higgins
>"That is INSANE."

Is it? What have you compared that to?

At least some people like bitcoin/etc, who likes the new reddit layout that requires transferring 60x more data than necessary (using HN is an example of an environmentally friendly text-based site) just to track all their users clicks and mouse movements?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671695
This article is really poor quality and gives no useful information at all. What even is a replica of the vote system? By the sounds of the article they could have just inspect element substituted words on the page.

>“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,”

More meaningless words. "unique networks and custom-built databases" Makes it sound even less secure but I agree with how it would be pretty much impossible to create a replica unless it's all open source.
Yeah. If I could stop seeing this non-event posted all over the internet, that would be great.

"Boy writes that he is King of Earth on replica newspaper!"
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> I'm really tired of people fawning over China.

Where are you seeing this? Any thread even remotely involving China is 95% filled with anti-Chinese posts, such as your own. There were a few this week. Heck, look in this very same comment thread -where are the 'fawners' you speak of?
> temporary measure

Everyone knows that temporary is a new word for permanent.

//TODO: temporary workaround, fix ASAP, etc.
Translation not very clear, but seems to say towards the end that the bridge will quickly cost more than it's worth to maintain (issues with the concrete?) and will need to be demolished.

I'm guessing what happened here is neither maintenance nor (planned) demolition.
It helped a lot when I did aerobics. It might not just be weightlifting, it could be that any heavy exercise will do.
I did watch Incredibles and Incredibles 2 nearly back to back, and did not notice any difference.

I do remember Zoolandia a striking in terms of effects though.
You'll find that once you accept payment for them staying there your rights are curtailed depending on which state you live in. Your blanket statement isn't even close to true in quite a few places inside the US.
T1ha: even more Faster and Better hash functions family
Sorry, in almost all cases its really choosing over several ways of Joining the data, not writing SELECT *, not writing cross joins and learning SQL well.

Which why I ask again. Please list your problem which is so novel it requires you to invent a novel algorithm.

Please note statistics is a science that has existed for centuries now. Unless you are in a university, its highly unlikely you have a problem that will need to you to work on something that novel.
> In case it's not clear from the above: Crystal supports type annotations, they are enforced by the compiler, and it's not uncommon to use them in practice.

Yes, I considered that when I was writing my post. :)

> In a more strictly typed language (that doesn't support intersection types), I couldn't do that without first defining some interface that includes `to_json` and `to_yaml` and then maybe convincing the compiler that my objects qualify for the interface (by extending their class definitions or casting at the call site), which is a lot of work to enable a trivial method whose purpose is already clear. In Crystal, the compiler just checks that whatever you're passing into the method has `to_json` and `to_yaml` defined and lets you get on with life.

> Another good case is removing redundancy on wrapper methods:

I fully agree that there are cases where the relative number of keystrokes saved are considerable; however, these cases are quite rare and keystrokes are much, much cheaper than readability. Also, structural subtyping (aka protocols aka 'static duck typing') allows the compiler to determine whether or not a type implements an interface without an explicit `implements` declaration.

In any case, I don't want to put too fine a point on it. In the worst case it's a relatively minor inconvenience and perhaps it adds more ergonomics than I'm giving it credit for.
t1ha aka "Fast Positive Hash" - In most cases up to 15% faster than StadtX, xxHash, mum-hash, Metro-hash, etc.

Simple benchmark is included (git close && make).
The quality and speed could be checked by Reini Urban's (https://github.com/rurban/smhasher) and Yves Orton's (https://github.com/demerphq/smhasher) forks of SMHasher suite.

Reasonable to note: t1ha have two injection points of each data word inside the loop of entropy sponge.
s/investors/speculators/
Could be tied into "$usd strength" narrative. As historically there has been a correlation between EM currency market weakness and crypto flight to safety. Such was the case with Greece and Spain. But now with Turkey, South Africa, and others seeing 5% moves per day. That correlation seems to be broken in favor of the Almighty Dollar. Be careful out there. August volatility can be especially fraught in illiquid markets as traders are away from their desks and out on the beaches in East Hampton ;)
No, just propaganda trying to make him look dumb. Anyone with basic econ knowledge knows that raising rates has a dampening effect of economic growth, as it crowds out investment. Turkey is caught in a very difficult spot.
No, it's a good idea, but it's better in combination with solitary work.
This article isn't very descriptive, but it was actually done via SQL injection. DEFCON gave the children a SQL injection course, then had them find vulnerabilities.

Another one, that at least quotes the DEFCON tweet:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/roger-simmon...
Posted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17748947

Yes it's a different source but same click-bait story.

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17757977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17752559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756468
Binary trees on Go [golang]
For now here you can find a binary tree written on Go.
https://github.com/InFamouse/Binary-Trees-Go

There are a lot of things to do. So, if you want to contribute you can think about balanced trees and so on.
Tree can contain `interface` values, but there is a trouble of making universal function for inserting values of Slice types.

I hope that project will grow into useful package and I appreciate everybody's help. Thank you!
It says these are "copies" of the website. Were these full-stack copies, supplied with help from the states? I can't seem to find this information anywhere.

In another article I read about this, I saw it downnplayed as "well, these are just the vote tallies on the website, the real totals weren't affected," but I think that underestimates the fact that the distinction will be lost on most, and it'll undermine trust in the system if on election night the website says one thing while election officials say "ignore that, we got hacked."
> The solution is not to trust anything you see on Facebook or to leave the platform entirely.

Unfortunately neither does much good individually, because the real harm comes from the widespread acceptance of the lies.
Strangely the article is basically useless on my iPhone. All the graphs go off the side of the screen so unless you rotate into landscape you can’t tell any difference in performance.

Very odd error for a benchmarking site.
I don’t think that’s entirely true. A lot of the ideas talked about in this article and that most people have already become familiar with are not very abstract. If you tried to build a large application out of nothing but pure function application, of course your code would become complex. We need more frameworks or libraries to take some of these ideas and bring them together in a way that scales. Elm, Vue and React are examples of tech that are doing this and, I think, make functional programming extremely appealing.
Not an expert by any means, but do dive some. I think one concern is that not all life can easily move or be recreated. Coral reefs probably being the biggest one there. They have huge biodiversity and are incredibly important in the health of the oceans but are also incredibly fragile and sensitive. It isn't hard to imagine a few degrees difference in water temperature affecting these and they don't just "pop up" again somewhere else, they are often thousands of years old.

Most of the ocean is pretty uninteresting though, so I would hope this project is looking at installing these datacenters in deeper waters (where as you said the life can more easily migrate) rather than the shallower waters that reefs inhabit.
I suffer from various back ailments. I’d suggest to people that if your back pain is bad enough, and it’s been around a while. Provided you can afford it, see a good orthopedic surgeon and get an MRI (w/o contrast). This will help diagnose or at least rule out a lot of things - it’s all guess work otherwise
No mention of how he did it. Is the kid some child genius, was the security non existent, did he memorize a dozen lines of SQL, was the access control so broken that he clicked his way into this position?

Also, why are they having kids try to hack a voting site? Granted it's probably a very cheap mockup, but this doesn't seem like the area for kids to be playing in.