skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had nothing but pain with openLDAP. Every guide I could find trying to learn gave examples using the 'old config format' even though the newer db config format had been around for many, many years at that time.

This is a poor excuse. While the flat file (slapd.conf) is deprecated in 2.4, it still works fine if you don't mind restarting to apply changes, and you can easily switch from slapd.conf to back-config (but not the other way) when you are finished getting a new stack up.
I have had issues with centos 7.2 and nvidia drivers. Nvidia assume linux kernel sources are installed, but centos 7.2 puts them in a directory that the nvidia driver can't find. I ended up having to scp sources from a working machine and add symbolics links to get the drivers working (1080Ti card - i assume the Tesla drivers work better).
Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter
It's well past the point where journalists should, with most Trump tweet articles, note the correspondence between "whatever fox and friends said today" and "whatever he just tweeted".

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034416321226784768?ref...
"The full segment, btw, is on Fox's website. If you're a journalist writing up the president's tweets, you should really explain where the president is getting his ideas."
Hossenfelder’s book "Lost in Math" ( One review here http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10314 ) covers a bit of why confirming the standard model is a bit disappointing. The rough idea is the standard model is known to be limited (problems unifying with general relativity and ready to explain dark matter), so one wants to see an explicit experimental-scale (non-galactic scale) exception to help find a replacement theory.
If only the constitution was a little better to start with. The interpretation of the commerce and general welfare clauses hurts my soul.
Don't stingrays downgrade to 2g where cellphones didn't authenticate the tower?
You really have to wonder what caliber criminal the stingray is targeting. stingray is useless with an encryption layer, and I don't see how any seasoned criminal doesn't use encryption.
So if your internet goes (which never happens here anymore, ymmv), then don't make any calls. If the stingray lets through internet, then make encrypted voip calls.
> seems like that makes it trivial to detect and defeat for any capable criminal

Or OS vendors. crickets
Screw identity theft protection. It's at best pointless and at worst a scam to get you to pay to continue the "protection" after the initial period expires.

They should instead have a minimum fine per-user that gets paid in cash directly to the impacted individuals. Paying $10 x 1M accounts would make businesses wake up to this problem much faster. Maybe even have the fine be tiered based on the level of data that was compromised:

Email - $10
Hashed Password - $25
Plaintext Password - $100
SSN - $500
NIH investigating if U.S. scientists are sharing ideas with foreign governments
It's interesting to note that there is a dependency on OpenAI's gym. From here:
https://github.com/google/dopamine

sudo apt-get install cmake zlib1g-dev
pip install absl-py atari-py gin-config gym opencv-python tensorflow
No actual user cares how their messaging application is made. If it's a progressive webapp or a native app, and the actual experience can be the same, then it really doesn't matter.

> AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Yahoo Messenger all used local clients.

A webapp with a service worker is a local client. And a lot of people use Whatsapp Web, or Facebook Messenger's web site. I know I do.
You shouldn't start with them because they have not started in China. Others have. This targeting is hypocritical. Especially for Apple, who promotes themselves as so privacy-focused. That was always a marketing gimmick, and this is part of the proof. Stop defending them and others by ignoring their actions.
Your average customer wouldn't care unfortunately. No action to mitigate can be taken by the user, no business repercussions for the data loss.
I was trying to understand if your friends like to see just each others' payment or everyone in the world's payments? Venmo has 3 settings: Anyone, Friends Only, Private.
No, that's not why. Otherwise they wouldn't have to lie to judges, too. But they did, and still do. And it's because they know the judges would require them to follow proper due process if they are caught using Stingrays.
Or they'll move their business to providers that can operate at lower cost because they have more secure operations. They point is to expose the insecurity as a cost.
While this particular instance is dumb, there's definitely conversations in politics that need to happen about algorithmic biases. If this kicks things off, I'm fine with that.

Trump doesn't address other search engines though, which (hilariously) helps Google more than the threat of looming regulations hurts them. Getting attacked by Trump is a badge of honor at this point. Just about any liberal or conservative with a brain will realize only regulating Google's results is a very bad move when there is Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines.
It would be nice if the documentation had some examples of how to do that, though. All it says is this:

> Salmon is best deployed behind another mailserver such as Postfix or Sendmail - much in the same way as you host a WSGI application behind Apache or Nginx.
That's bad but at least they checked. Apple recently swapped out a phone for me at the store. The genius called Sprint and they activated the new phone on my Dad's line without asking me for ID or my account code.

Imagine if this were to happen to a journalist or politician. The stakes are quite high.
I've never used the Zelle app itself (don't need to if your bank has integrated it), but the bank I use for sending and receiving small amounts of money (BoA) lets you setup 2FA via email only, which for me is effectively TOTP. Also, one less entity has my checking account # so one less entity that can initiate ACH transfers into/or out of your account. And of course, the money goes directly from me to the recipient and vice versa as opposed to someone else so that's always better.
My easy answer is "No. Don't regulate. Stop considering it. It's a terrible idea. Please, no."
I wonder if it’s harder to get funding for that. With the LHC they at least expected the Higgs boson. And hopes for super symmetry signs that seem to have failed to materialize. With only hand waving and hopes for hypotheses left, and ever increasing costs... :-/
"Imagine being able to respond to push notifications"

Yes, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could do this in all major browsers today? sigh
> every single time I encounter service workers they make things worse

I'd wager you encounter more service workers than you think, but you don't notice them when they work correctly. They are designed to be invisible in the majority of cases, so of course you only notice them when something goes wrong.
Just take good care of your team. And do not expect fairness.

Business can be honest but never will be fair.
> The quickness by the administration to attack media, promote propaganda, and now censorship is frightening.

How exactly is trump promoting censorship here? Isn't he doing the exact opposite? Isn't he promoting free speech?

And frankly, I think it's great that the media and the president have an adversarial relationship. The president should attack the media ( free speech ) and the media should attack the president ( free press ). Why would you want the president and the media having a cozy relationship?

I can't think of a greater symbol of democracy and free speech than the president and the media keeping each other in check.

The media and president should be adversaries, not friends. I'd rather the media tell us everything the president is doing wrong and shining the spotlight on him and vice versa. And this isn't just about republicans. I wish the media would be more adversarial with the democrats as well. With all politicians. It's a great way to keep politicians honest.
CentOS is based on a stack that is nearing 5 years old so that makes sense. The driver world (even mesa itself) has matured greatly since then. Mesa and Nvidia even have libraries now that help them coexist instead of replacing/overwriting library files.
URL is likely https://stackabuse.com/dropwizard-develop-restful-web-servic... https://www.dropwizard.io/
I've used LyX and had high hopes for it, but never really fit my workflow.

LyX is really good if you need to produce simple documents and don't need to invoke a lot of special LaTeX packages. I think LyX hits a sweet spot between Microsoft Word and full-blown LaTeX.

If you need to do anything out of the ordinary (like use TikZ), LyX will still let you do it but it's going to feel a bit unwieldy. LyX is also quite slow on very large documents like dissertations. I recall the WYSIWYM rendering of math symbols and the old-school fonts looking a little unpolished compared to the PDFs generated by LaTeX, which bothered me a little. Many advanced LaTeX heads are sticklers for correct aesthetics. I know LyX can generate PDFs too, but if I wanted that, I'd rather write LaTeX code directly (more control, much more lightweight and responsive).

I eventually wrote my dissertation on TeXworks.

p.s. as mentioned in another comment, TeXmacs has a higher fidelity WYSIWYG than LyX.
I heard a discussion on NPR about this. One of their prominent hosts (I forget who) said that they had decided not to run a lot of the newsworthy but negative things they had on Trump during the campaigns, because Rubio, Kasich, Cruz, and the rest did not generate anywhere near as many negative things (and same for Clinton during the general election campaign).

If they just ran all the newsworthy items on all the candidates, they might appear to be biased against Trump. So, to avoid the appearance of bias against Trump, they ended up without realizing it introducing actual bias in favor of him.
The book "Fields of Color" is short, math free, and largely organized by the historical progression of discovery.

> any indication of how these things are observed

In the last 50 years or so, the bulk of the evidence has come from particle accelerators, but there's been meaningful results from other experiments as well. Sean Carrol organizes the current state of physics into two broad categories: intensity experiments, like the LHC, which are attempting to reach energy concentrations we haven't probed before, and sensitivity experiments, which observe natural but rarely produced or interacting particles, like neutrino detectors.

> what set of data this model fits

All the data. The standard model is the best model we've found to explain all experiments observed in the history of physics.

> what is the nature(if any) of a quark independent of the hadron in which it is a constituent

Quarks and Gluons are bound together in the nucleus by the strong force. This force is, as its name indicates, very strong, however it falls off with distance sharply. The way it works out, the force is such that if you try to pull two bound quarks apart, the energy you add is sufficient to create new quarks. So lone quarks never appear, they're always bound into a composite of two or three, and if you try to pull them apart, you just end up making a second composite when they separate.

> But it seems I must spend some hours doing this before I can gain any understanding of what particle physics means, or how particle physics is done?

The blunt truth is fully understanding the standard model requires a lot of non trivial mathematics. I can't work with the math, but I've read through enough textbooks I've got some intuition for the big picture now. This isn't a topic where you can swoop in, spend 15 minutes, and suddenly understand it all. It's not going to just take some hours, it'll take much much more time than that.

Some topics cannot be simplified into a tidy summary that can be skimmed in a couple hours.
My understanding has always been that the point of Stingrays was to make cell phones connect to it, and then it would act as a bridge between a real cell tower and connected phones, which allowed them to intercept communications instead of blocking them. This [1] seems to indicate that my understanding is correct.

Where is the disconnect here?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/stingray-government-spy-tools-...
I'm saying he's a good CEO because has been a fantastic one for 15+ years at 2 world-changing companies. He's made shareholders 10s of billions of $$ so obviously would not be fired.
I think that GNU TexMacs [1] is a superior to LyX, albeit less well known. Unlike LyX, it doesn't depend on the TeX stack and all the baggage that comes with it.

1: http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
It means that another way in which the standard model could have been broken doesn't appear, at first glance, to be broken.

Improved colliders, and improved experiments generally, tend to increase the number of ways in which we can search for a departure from the plan.

What we may need, at least as much as new colliders, is the right insight to open a new way forward. The standard model is large and complicated -- there aren't that many people who really understand its complexity enough to find something analogous to Gell-Mann's eightfold way.
https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/particle-physics-2-st...

Not something you can read, but that's what you're looking for.
Looks to me like it's a service you can deploy on your own server.
On the contrary, Section 230 was a short-sighted action to allow unchecked behavior in an attempt to get that rapid growth, without solid, reliable protections behind that growth. And while rapid growth can be good, we have to come back and put proper regulations in place to keep things from crashing to a screeching halt. The stock market's a great example: You can strip out protections, and yeah, growth will skyrocket, but when you realize what that house of cards is built on, it crashes down and makes everyone bankrupt.

And the suggestion that regulation hurts small companies and helps big ones is a myth generally perpetrated by those large companies. "Don't regulate us, it'll hurt the little guys" is an amazingly frequent scream of big monopolies trying to protect their business models.

Content moderation actually doesn't scale well at all, because nobody's really gotten automated content moderation right. Small companies have little to no problem moderating their comments sections or business relationships, but large tech companies actually can't do this without cutting deeply into their profit margins.

Yes, they'll use "expensive monitoring and filtering software", but those systems tend to suck, which is why so much malware and bad content comes through Google Ads and the Play Store and why Facebook's platform has been gamed in countless ways by bad actors. Automated systems present massively additional liability compared to human employees, and removing that immunity would ensure large companies couldn't just hand off moderation to an algorithm.
Hey, it lists answers too. And it's concise. That makes it immediately useful. I was expecting a list of questions, and the interviewer is expected to just muddle through picking the ones for which they knew the answer.

Not only is it immediately useful, it's actually educational. That's nice. I'd say it's well done, even if some people are saying that the questions are too junior. It's well-organized, well-structured, and well-written.
non paywall link: http://archive.is/mwqlP
> That article is incredibly biased. Precisely because it's run by Chu's consulting company, I cannot trust them when they describe 389DS as "a less-capable LDAP server".

The article says:

"This is a guest post from Univention."

Howard Chu's company is Symas, not Univention (a different consulting company who does provide support contracts for open-source software including OpenLDAP).

Yes, there is a link to a blog post by Symas that relates to the announcement, but not in the article being discussed here. If you meant the Symas blog post, you should be more clear on that.
While I am not sure how plausible it is that US gets there, it certainly feels like some sort of authoritarian dictatorship is still possible. Democracy is only as good as our institutions, and a lot of institutions seem to be struggling.

Checks and balances require the separate branches to be willing to apply them. With the apparent lack of any meaningful oversight by the legislature, it does not seem like the checks and balances are working very effectively.

I suppose that's a strong reason why many (including myself) prefer divided governments, so that adversaries can keep each other from going too far.

I don't remember where I read it, but something like this rings true: the founders anticipated authoritarians seeking power, but they did not anticipate legislators allowing it.

Edit: I don't mean to say that Trump becoming a dictator in the US is possible; I think that's extremely unlikely. I simply mean that there is a weakness in the US political system when government is controlled entirely by one party, and that this weakness could possibly be exploited some day.
Isn't there already bias in that computation because the range for the random numbers includes more even than odd numbers since it's the interval [0, 2147483647)?
I am saying my understanding of page rank is that it is basically impossible to bias - i do not work at google, but i have a background in math.
> I understand the desktop market, but I don't understand why a Linux distribution hasn't taken hold on the desktop market.

Because there's about 600 million distributions wasting energy competing. They waste energy on solving the same problems in slightly different ways, rather than working together to solve new problems.

As a user I don't _really_ care about window managers, package managers, KDE vs Gnome, or systemd vs whatever. I want my desktop to enable me to perform the tasks I want to do.

I do for example care that there's no decent remote desktop support on Linux. That's one of the primary reasons I still run a Windows desktop on my main machine.
Generative art would be more compelling with clean, commented source attached. Even to non-programmers. I am always drawn to good explanations for inexplicable beauty, but what better explanation for the unknown than procedures to repeat it? (Especially if the source itself is formatted artfully.) I would love to see human readable DNA for example, one day.

Edit: Not that I believe DNA to ever be human readable, I'm referring to a level of abstraction that might be, and the expression of awe that art can evoke in relation to this and many other natural processes.
About time someone starting calling Google out
I had to twitch my feet to all three imaginary pedals to figure out the brake is the middle one. Even in this metaphor doing and knowing how to do are distinct skills.
If you've ever called 911, or had any experience with dispatching in any capacity, you'll have discovered that trained, experienced professionals don't think that those are the only two important questions.
Why We Should Watch Less News
It’s not a shame at all. This is fair and square competition. Contrary to Martin’s (Symas) statements, openldap is a rapidly aging product. No one without an openldap legacy wants to deploy this beast today (no one in their right mind). Many of the 2.5 changes are misguided. Performance sounds great, but no, the right place for directory configuration is not in fact inside the directory itself. etc.

The blog probably directly tells us the motivation for a response at all: external pressure to Symas.
Processing is probably the most popular and accessible.

OpenFrameworks and Cinder are probably a bit more powerful, but more difficult to use (built around c++).

I also like PaperJS, which is built around JavaScript, but doesn't have the performance of Processing and OpenFrameworks.

Finally, you can just use raw drawing APIs (such as Canvas in the browser).

Good list of resources here:
https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art
I'm kind of surprised they let him in the Senate Intelligence Committee for so long. It seems like everyone else in that committee is basically an "anti-Wyden" or pro-complete surveillance.

I think the only reason they haven't tried to push him out is because they don't want to put him in a position where his ethics will compel him to tell everyone exactly what the intelligence community has been doing.

Wyden generally tries to get the intelligence executives to come out with the truth themselves, but 99% of the time they don't or they mislead the public, and there's little he can do about it.

As a Senator Wyden has complete immunity to blow the whistle on whatever national security intelligence he wants on the Senate floor, but he's too much of a nice guy to do that - unless they force him out with their shenanigans.
thanks, will check this out
A userland Chrome browser is what Chromebook WAS. What it is becoming is a desktop. With Linux and Android apps integrated.

There are a lot of good Android apps that would be useful on a laptop. There are a lot of Linux apps that are useful on a laptop.

Good security. With secure verified boot. Yet Linux apps that run in a strong sandbox allowing untrusted code. Android apps run in a different sandbox. All this is transparent to the user who sees a desktop.

The Chrome OS and Android are self updating. I don't know about Linux apps yet.
I've just installed it all from scratch on Ubuntu 16 in about 20 minutes. Just followed the instructions on TF website exactly. Didn't compile TF though, don't see the need.
It's possible that the bias is from the corpus Google is indexing and not in the algorithm used to index the corpus.
I think we got that covered already - https://abc13.com/society/woman-calls-cops-on-8-year-old-gir...
Agree with all points above.

I think the most important plus for CL is that CL is image-based, and that every important thing is already standardized, either on the ANSI standard, or de-facto via mature libraries.
Yeah its predecessor, OStatus, was pretty much that: you start with a feed of anything, then you add another feed for the reader to comment, then a way to send the comment back to the source so everyone can see it, and lo and behold you've got yourself a social network brewing. Activitypub is a rethinking of the whole thing with clear requirements and specs instead of some informal pieces added here and there, which is a good thing. Except all the existing RSS feeds can't be used as such.
Best thing I've ever done as far as college is concerned is

1. Saved up money by working before going to Masters.

2. Lived with 3 others in a two bedroom to save money.

3. Chosen less prestigious institution in a smaller town which is significantly cheaper than one of the bigger schools to which I got admit to.

Graduated with no debt.
maybe its not page rank, but as far as i can tell it is public information: https://www2007.org/papers/paper570.pdf. also, my family member was not talking about the news site, they were talking about google searches themselves being biased, as well as google search autocomplete being baised in favor a clinton (see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvfNExG8kw)
I suggest you watch a couple of episodes of The First 48 to see the level of ineptitude of both criminals and the police
If you prefer the video format over a book, Grand Designs (BBC, select seasons available on Netflix) is a series covering the build from nothing to completion of complex or unconventional building designs. Most of the time the episode covers how the build goes wrong.

There are certain themes across the variety of site locations and designs and backgrounds of the individuals building:

1) It costs more than expected

2) It takes longer than expected

3) Project managing it yourself is extremely difficult

4) Building it yourself is even more difficult
Vue.js – Scoped Styles vs. CSS Modules
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