skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely if something was compromised, you'd end the relationship with that supplier? You wouldn't have much incentive, especially cross-border, to bust them in action.
youtube-dl works great so far with mpv.
E.g., If every block on the device changes, that's a pretty big flag. If only a few change, that's expected. So the magnitude of change is both observable and conveys information to the attacker.
How to Track a Butterfly Across 3,000 Miles
Surely, this isn't abused. /s
Because they’re able to detect issues before they get that bad, all my natural teeth are in place. I come in, they scan my teeth, drill out a tiny amount of decay before it turns into something that requires a tooth to be removed, and precisely mill a filling instead of hammering and drilling away my teeth to fill it with some lead alloy like the days of old. Anyone doing that is stuck in decades old practices.

I understand where you’re trying to go with your comment. It’s simply not the case that we’re being given bottles of gin while the dentist pulls out a hammer and chisel.

I just went in and had part of my tooth replaced because part of it crushed (I have very bad teeth). I felt zero pain. My heart rate remained under 60 the whole time. It was quick and easy.

Good Dentists are not mad scientists out to destroy you for financial gain.
Correction: first to put camera on glasses with enough fashion sense not to spawn a brand new word to describe just how much their owners looked like Borg assholes. I’m referring of course to “glasshole.”

All signs point to Apple launching their glasses in 2019 or maybe 2020 if they slip. I don’t have insider info at Apple but if you look at the rate they are hoovering up AR companies it’s clear they’re prepping for a big move. If they don’t launch by 2019 somebody else will steal their thunder with the first consumer smartglasses that don’t totally suck, most likely a fast moving startup with a killer niche product.
You busted me: I guess that's my age showing because I didn't know Excel -had- a new data model.

What's it called and how is it different than sheets, and when was it introduced? I was using Excel2013 up until I left the project in 2014.
B-But bees! In space! It doesn't get more Hackernews than bees in space obeying their robot overlords, man. Not without involving gut bacteria and/or Kubernetes -- and I think Neri would be the type to find a way to use both.
The extra cost may be due to labor if the university is unionized.

The college cafeteria has to deal with, at least, the intention or pretense of making something nutritious, but also that people will actually eat. K-12 school lunch programs face this problem too: Kids won't eat healthy food.

But yes, even when I was in college 30 years ago, some students figured out that paying cash at the cafeteria was cheaper than the meal plan, and they raised a stink about it.
If a journalis sells short a company stocks before printing a story that will shock shareholders, is that insider trading? What's the legality of that?
> Why do people buy common shares which give them no voting rights as a shareholder?

Because they trust the founders to protect the long-term interests of the company more than activist investors trying to maximize short-term profit?
Personal attacks and name-calling will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The person who created the MCP was hired by Mojang several years ago.

That person still releases the MCP with Mojang's blessing last I checked.
It's not that simple, and that's the problem with microservices. You'll learn that "break it up" means a huge investment in devops, logging, stats dashboards to understand what the problems are, etc. It's like transitioning dimensions from 2D to 3D, and that's the trap that most people fall into.

You cannot survive microservices without real-time dashboards and proper logging to understand the health of your environment, whereas with a monolith, it was fairly obvious because there's the server and usually a database, and that's it.
The article refers to specific timeframes for the error, mostly in August, one period in September. Not sure what you are going on about.
probably not. Even it is, if the cost of breaking laws is dwarfed by the revenue, i guess it's perfectly rational to do so.
The Consumer advocacy group here in Australia, CHOICE, specifically recommends using a VPN service to avoid geoblocking (https://www.choice.com.au/electronics-and-technology/interne...). So there is definitely a market for this type of service.
It was borderline. But they were clearly supposed to be the precursor to wider scale consumer glasses. Google would never have committed that much time and money if it was originally intended to be an enterprise product.
A few years ago I worked in a startup, and to find customers we needed to find web sites using certain technologies (e.g. wordpress and certain plugins). We used the service of an extremely similar SaaS startup for a little bit -- that basically did the exact same thing as Mixnode. That startup didn't work out and was shut down soon (and my startup didn't work out either). Wish you best of luck and hope things work out for you, maybe the tech climate and trends have evolved since a few years ago and this could work out a business now.
MIP solvers work themselves through the search tree using all sorts of clever tricks, constantly running LPs on relaxations (approximations) of the problem to prune the tree. They can be very efficient, but the constraints need to be linear for the LPs to work.

CP solvers are less sophisticated in their search (although some are getting more clever [1]), but they instead delegate to graph-theoretical algorithms [2] that can efficiently deal with more high-level constraints, for instance "I only want solutions where all these variables have different values", which in the MIP world would translate to tons of auxiliary linear constraints and variables that would slow down your solver.

So it really depends on how you write your model, and it's not even always obvious whether MIP or CP is better – which is why Minizinc is so useful. There are even attempts to automatically choose the algorithm to use based on the problem structure [3].

[1] https://github.com/chuffed/chuffed
[2] http://www.emn.fr/x-info/sdemasse/gccat/sec5.html
[3] https://github.com/CP-Unibo/sunny-cp
In 1967, as a soon to be graduate from a university in what is today called computer science, I applied to the NSA and nothing about that interview was nice. I failed the polygraph on two consecutive days and that's all she wrote. What tripped me up was the question "have you had any homosexual activity." The pen almost went off the graph when I truthfully said, "no."

Where and when I grew up that was about the worst thing that could be said of a young male. On the trip to the interview my magic magnifying mind had wondered about whether sensitivity to a question alone could cause truth to appear to be a lie. Of course the question that popped into my mind which I anticipated was the question on homosexual activity. Well, having thought about it beforehand, sure enough I reacted strongly. It was just as well because the overall interview had shown me that I didn't want to work there anyway but it was still traumatic to be accused of lying and about that in particular at that time.

For a short period of time I questioned my sexuality but can say that in the intervening 51 years there has not been one moment when I considered homosexual behavior. This is not to say anything negative about homosexuality, just how one's fear of responding to a question can cause one to respond negatively even with a truthful answer.

Times were different then and my attitude was too. I doubt I'd fear the question today given that my accepting attitude toward homosexuality in general has been normalized.
This is actually still available from the original author, just under a different URL: https://www.seanjoflynn.com/research/bittorrent.html

Additionally, it has been discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11922444
Microservices move tranasactional concerns out of the database and between service boundaries. If you ever need to transactionally write data to two different microservices, you need to roll your own rollbacks. And unless you store this rollback state in a reliable datastore, there's no going back. The tooling to do this properly, as far as my research goes, does not currently exist.

I much prefer horizontally scaling a big old monolith backed by a sharding database like CockroachDb or Cassandra. Same scalability and you get to keep some ACID semantics.

Concerns about code size are overblown. Facebook's mobile app is utterly massive and it still runs mostly okay even on weak devices. The maximum practical code size for a monolithic server side app will probably never be reached. We're talking maybe 100 million LoC before you run into real problems, especially if you use a VM lanuage like Java or C# where hot and cold code can be dynamically swapped out and code is stored in a very space-efficient fashion

When you reach the scale where the codebase size is an issue you've probably already several rewrites to deal with such massive traffic volume.
I used fiverr and it didn’t work out. Can’t really complain because it was so cheap but I’m reminded of you get what you pay for.
This company makes food for kid's lunches...A similar market...

https://rfrk.com/
Please don't be a jerk on HN.
There was no editorializing here by the poster of this article, but given recent news I have to suspect it's obliquely a claim that there may be certain incentives at play in the recent reporting of the SuperMicro issue (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h... and Amazon/Apple/gov't-agency denials).

I don't feel that I know enough to make claims about how justified (or not) that is, just pointing out why a story dated "Dec. 11, 2013" might have been posted.
I think you bring up interesting points, but in Neri Oxman’s case the answer seems to be that the science is essentially absent in its entirety. I won’t pretend to have a good answer to “what is art,” but the question “what is science” is much easier to answer. Her work may be art, but it utterly fails the test of science insofar as it doesn’t adhere to the scientific method. She’s a scientist in the same way that a color therapist is a medical doctor.

Better examples of the intersection of science and art might be found in the work of someone like Buckminster Fuller. The nature of science being what it is, the science probably has to come first, with the art emerging from it
If they got information from an insider, it could potentially be insider trading. Something somewhat similar happened when MedSec shorted St. Jude before publishing some security research about some hardware: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/tradi...

I don't believe that case was considered insider trading but I may be mistaken.
It wasn't. It is now though.
Forgot to mention, I used it to get an illustration made that I wanted to put on my surfboard just for fun. They didn’t make what I asked for, not even close and never replied when I tried to get a revision.
Here's an example. There are 600,000 people in Wyoming. They have 2 senators.

There are 700,000 people in Washington DC. They have zero senators. There are over 3 million people in Puerto Rico. They also have zero senators.
Their hit piece on SuperMicro is a prime example. With zero hard evidence, they posted a multi-page hit-piece on them permanently damaging their brand developed over past 25 years. The stock is down 45%, added some more salt to US-China tension and the authors are happy with their paycheck.

Libel laws need to be improved to hold shoddy reporters accountable for their work.
Please don't make a thread like this even worse by tossing in even more political flamebait.

"Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> English is a germanic language and hence a synthetic language

This is nonsense. Morphological strategy is not a strictly genetic trait. This is like saying "your name is Baker so you can't be a barista". Every other Germanic language is far more synthetic than English, and English is the most analytic language in the Indo-European family.

> and their writing system is notoriously difficult.

Writing is not language. One is an invention, the other is a natural phenomenon.

> In other words "simple is easier to learn"?

No, simple morphology makes a language easier to learn for adults. Complexity can come in many forms.

Mandarin is easy to learn for the same reason that English is easy to learn: the bulk of the linguistic complexity is in the vocabulary, which is easy for adults to learn, not the morphology, which is easy for kids but hard for adults.
I used voicebunny and that went really well! I’m kind of amazed how cheap it is to get great voice talent on there.
Play framework has support for this via akka and it works quite well from my experience ^^
How do you prevent cheating?
KDE offers the integration that I expect from a desktop. Plasma was way ahead of others, when it came to management of

* audio, including Bluetooth

* network

* display

Unfortunately, little care is taken on security.

KDE Wallet simply offers an API to all your passwords, without any separation. Users cannot tell which application just accessed the "wallet". Certificate warnings randomly pop up, asking for "yes" or "no" without any explaination. Plasma "integration" will ask you for full access to your Google account, but it is unclear what for. The calendar integration will require separate authentication -- to the calendar only.

I think Linux desktops were ahead of others, some years ago, but right now I struggle to recommend it to anyone.
It was correctly downvoted, since the comment was unsubstantive on a divisive topic.
Would probably hinge on where the information in the story came from. If the story is based on insider information the absolutely it meets the definition of insider trading. If the journalist is simply using publicly available information then no.
There's something so refreshing about reading things in legal point form. No fluff, easy to read fast, and no "life story before the recipe" type writing.

I wish more news articles were written with such brevity. I read pretty much the whole thing with ease, whereas I would struggle to read an article the quarter the length with all the fluff and irrelevant drivel added to most articles these days.
I'd describe Google's interaction with applicants as more average than dismal. Ghosting is far more common than you'd think (hence the recent stories about employees ghosting back twice as hard), and if you want utterly clueless ask a coworker who's done classified work about how incompetent Beltway-bandit recruiters and HR departments are.
Paying people more for doing their job well? Yes, it's legal. :)

(I'm sorry if the answer comes off as flippant, but really, there's nothing particularly odd or unsavoury here. Journalists are paid to break stories that get attention or are otherwise important, and this is a perfectly valid metric for "important". Why would it be illegal?)
This is pretty much (if not completely?) all you've been posting about to HN. It's one thing to occasionally share relevant work, but using HN for promotion crosses the line into spamming. Please stop.
Obviously, you don't need an external message queue to have a functioning system, only to have one that meets the article's definition of a “well-architected monolith”.
Perhaps I should have said "there should be methods of enforcing discipline". As in, "we should make/find them".

In .NET you could compile individual assemblies separately and use technical measures to prevent developers from one component from touching code in the other component. The external surface of the assembly would be its API, only no network traffic is required. Does this give us enough discipline, in your opinion?
There is certainly some truth to what you say but it's not a universal rule. E.g. plenty of people refuse to sign up for welfare or unemployment benefits that they would qualify for, and we still have a bunch of states boneheadedly refusing to expand medicaid even though the expansion is almost fully paid for by the federal government.
This doesn’t only apply to technology. It applies to hiring and other organizational processes as well.
The Crown Prince is incredibly influential in the tech sector as I believe he controls the purse strings that fund Softbank's +100B Vision fund.
"Those people" indicates that the majority on this forum (including myself) is part of the general dupe-susceptible population. That seems dubious to me.

Edit: *is not! I do think Hacker News readers are dupe-susceptible.
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Yes, I asked what an option was.
Okay. Name a specific negative incident stemming from fake photos, off the top of your heard. (No googling or otherwise searching for an example.)
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Please don't do ideological battle on HN. It's always the same, therefore tedious, therefore off-topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yup, everything was peaceful and lawful in America before those darn whitemen showed up.
It goes both ways. Some people have a Gell-Mann revelation, some suffer from the amnesia.
Don't believe certain politicians are guilty of certain crimes, even if you see video evidence!
I believe klipt's point is that a group of people may agree to use the name (potentially at different times), not that someone is using it without the originator's consent.
What likely happened to Bloomberg
Bloomberg was the victim of a sophisticated con job by a defense contractor.

Amazon’s gov cloud contract is dangerous for entrenched government contractors. Since contract award there has been a stream of negative news about Amazon’s cloud capabilities. They started around the time research for this story began.

The 17 sources is irrelevant because the government is littered with officials dependent on relationships with contractors to find future employment.

The sick thing about these type of cons, they are effective because they can’t be officially denied and are difficult to verify. A handful of conspirators only need to feed bad information to a group of stooges.

Bloomberg should analyze their sources to identify personal/business relationships among those sources, something that is rarely done. Because of the nature of government contracting there will be connections that can be considered financial in nature. The question will be, how recent and how long have those connections existed?
>I have seen cases where the reviews are mixed and they're generally accurate. The problem is that they're describing different departments and a candidate on the outside would not know that, so they'd not understand that one department is a lot more pleasant than another.

Yes, for example I'll often notice large companies like Google have "work life balance" listed a both a pro... and a con. (Because different teams have different cultures)
I went to look at their Go implementation but the libraries are each split into separate Github repos (super annoying) and some of those appear to be non-public/404. Very strange.
Short answer: If they "stole" the information (by, say, bribing an insider), they it's probably illegal. If they found it out by being clever (by, say, buying some satellite images and counting cars in parkings lots), then it's probably legal.

If you need to know how a court is likely to draw the line, talk to a lawyer. :) But in general, the fact that a journalist is involved doesn't really change anything. In general, you can trade on whatever information you may have; the exception is if you have some duty not to trade on it.
this is overly constraining the meaning of science to the process of deduction. science includes observation and exploration.
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Sorry im posting so much, my silly opinions, but i interviewed with an AI company a while back that I didn't realize was in the military space and basically flat out told the interviewer once I read more about the company's projects that combining AI in military applications is basically the scariest sounding shit in the world to me and what are people even thinking with this kind of shit. Yes it's sexy to investors and warlords and the stuff cartoon villains dream of, but I dont want my kids (if i had any) having to live with weaponized AI flying around testing whether or not machine gunning things to then rank the outcome and reinforce an activity that is obviously always bad. Humans don't behave or make decisions that way. That system is not ever going be able to relate to the infinitely complex system called emotions which are highly involved in human behavior. They are probably so complex and influentual to behavior for a damn good reason and I bet it involves our survival up to this point. All the code and unit testing in the world isn't going to teach this technology to be friends with us. It's just code and equations. Even if the closest algorithmic proxy would have trouble evaluating us consistently. I feel like that's probably why we have emotions to begin with and they are too hard to solve using partial differential equations. And totally unique to every person individual.

I think we need to leave it that way. I think there's a kind of a misguided excitement about the benefits of technology coming from the tech majors who get hacked far too much to support linking our brains together to experience the misery of a virtualized existence in an advertising experiment.

Its a shame that there are not options in the AI space to do something other than harvest user data, trade stocks, or autonomously murder things.

With all the data scientists in the field. Someone plot out the direction this is going. I'm too opinionated now.
Having disproportionate influence in the market isn't illegal. Never was, never is, it wasn't the intent of Congress, wasn't an interpretation ever considered by the SEC, and nobody in the courts care. In fact, the courts typically find the SEC's interpretation of 'insider trading' to be WAY too broad.

So this Hollywood interpretation needs to go.

Its only insider trading if you trade on material non-public information ABOUT SECURITIES (but if we're being honest, only equities and equities derivatives, corporate bonds are supposedly covered but no-one cares enough) where you have a fiduciary duty to not tell, such as by being employed with the company or in a nondisclosure agreement. You also create liability if you have a fiduciary duty not to tell, and you tell and that person or someone in that chain or persons trades.

If you:

- don't have a fiduciary duty not to tell, and you have material non-public information, you can trade or tell people who then trade.

- don't have a fiduciary duty not to tell, and you have baseless non-public information, you can trade or tell people who then trade. It doesn't matter if you KNOW that your baseless information is going to move the markets. To avoid liability from individuals - this is distinct from liability from the regulators - all you do is put a disclaimer at the bottom of your post. The PSLRA of 1995 streamlined this due to frivolous lawsuits.

- and last but not least, if you aren't trading securities then there is no prohibition of insider trading. there is no regulator that polices trading ahead of information in non-securities markets, there is no statute, there is no interest in Congress which assumes they could even make that constitutional at all, since there is no voluntary fiduciary duty role people could get themselves into.