skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simultaneously flippant and serious answer is that the Queen sorts things out. For any one constituency, a dead heat will be decided by drawing the short straw, and then it's up to Parliament to come up with someone who can command a majority.
He is right that the presumption of guilt is bad, but typically these things either snowball or fizzle, as more women come forward or none do. If I had to gamble, I'd gamble he's done nothing wrong and this will go away.
Blurb Blast: North Korean Hackers Change Tactics, KingMiner Mutates and More
Yup, it's about the rate of change. Sucking 10s of millions of years worth of sequestered carbon out of the ground and injecting into the atmosphere over just 100 years is complete and utter suicide. For all living things on our planet.
It is only anecdotal: but I had my identity stolen within days of joining the Marriott rewards program in December 2016. I think they may have been getting credit reports on members (which generates a lot more personal data than you gave them) and leaking for quite some time (not just a small number of data breaches).
Last Day of Cyber Monday Week
Further down the comments is a dl link: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues...

Even if these extensions can still be installed, without being published on Mozilla's addons site, the average user will be unable to find them. It seems like a really bad precedent for Mozilla to accept this without a fight.
Google Play Music subscriptions billed on 27th have lost YouTube Premium access
So this is an issue that seems to have just developed in the last day or two. If you have YouTube Premium through a Google Play Music subscription and your billing recurs on the 27th (US timezones) then you likely cannot access those YouTube features anymore.

It seems to be contained to accounts on/around that day only which is really interesting. Also, quite a few people already have contacted support and it seems that Google isn't able to fix the subscription issues in chat support threads, leading me to think it's not just a flag that a support technician can flip on/off?

I'm still kinda new on HN, so forgive me if this info is incorrectly submitted. I thought it would be a good discussion topic around billing and the complexities, even at huge companies like Google.
Tech News: Estonia to Stiffen Crypto, Should You “Freeze” Your Credit? And More
I think that’s implied by his pointing out that capacitors use vacuum. A cap that doesn’t allow electron flow wouldn’t be a cap.
also searching other branches than master
Why? You are now paying a higher rate than the big guys. 20% across the board would have been the right move, not this.
Be an inter with Jeff Dean as a mentor...
My instinct is to downvote this to keep it at the bottom of the page, but since you are a new user with seemingly good intentions, that seems too rude.

Undefined behavior gets a bad rap, but it's not always evil.

Probably true, but make sure that you are distinguishing between undefined and implementation defined.

Compilers and executables would be a lot slower if they had to account for these cases.

Maybe, but I'd like to see better quantification for "a lot". My instinct (unsourced) is that it's usually minimal for most C, and quite significant for templated C++. But I'd interested in seeing firm numbers on this.

If you're writing serious C, you should be using tools like valgrind on debug-mode executables to make sure you aren't relying on undefined behavior.

This is where I think you veer off into being mostly wrong. I grew up with Valgrind, but I don't think it really has much use any more. You are almost always better off with one of the now built-in "sanitizers": https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerCo....

But while you should be using these to catch bugs, neither the sanitizers nor Valgrind are able to catch the dangerous forms of undefined behavior shown in the examples in the article. UBSan is great and should be more used than it is (https://medium.com/@lucianoalmeida1/the-undefined-behavior-s...) but it is not going to catch anything near all the problems with undefined behavior!

Here's a summary of the unfortunate state of the art: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1520. While there are underutilized tools that can help, "using tools like valgrind on debug-mode executables to make sure you aren't relying on undefined behavior" is likely to give you misplaced confidence that you are free from the dangers.
Postgres layer is still extremly beta (has no update support etc.)

But it should become good fast since they use fdw api (storage engine api in pg12) and reuse most of pg code.
You joke, but building and retaining an extra Xapian database would be something that lots of people would be willing to pay for. I'm surprised that this isn't something they sell.

Git is easy to host, especially now with several good web frontends.
I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission. I mean, it's obviously possible because it's reality, but it's nonintuitive. I wonder if it will continue to be that way. For iOS, you don't really have a way to install apps outside the app store without jailbreaking, but you do for macOS, and I've seen a number of high-profile macOS titles decide they're not going to sell on the App Store anymore. That's gotta damage the moat somehow and thereby damage the App Store's ability to maintain its commission margin (eventually?). I wonder what it would take to get that to happen on the iOS side. So long as the iPhone remains a market leader, I guess I don't see anything changing.
What's "M & M Security"? Linked article never defines the "M"s, I had no luck googling.
The Funk programming language (slides)
The 'smart' baby technology raising today's children
FCC Communication Marketplace Report [pdf]
Companies who had a data breach (like Mariott recently) are requested to announced it much earlier (72 hours to authorities) and are liable to bigger fines.
Brazil's Generation Z aims for technology careers
A Big Step Toward the Practical Application of 3D Holography with HPC
I have a slight physical impairment that makes it harder (but not impossible) to do things that require coordination - like riding a bike and swimming. I had to learn to adapt. Last year I rode a bike for the first time in over 25 years and I struggled with balance and coordination. It would take me at least a week to remember. I also have to concentrate on my form to swim. If I was dropped in a pool, I could swim back but it would take me awhile to remember my proper form so so I wouldn’t favor one side over the other.

I was also a fitness instructor for a little over 10 years, and stopped about 6 years ago because of $life. I remembered some of my old step routines, but I struggled trying to get all my body parts to work together again to do it. There are a few things that I physical can do, but it takes me a lot longer and a lot more practice to get it.
My grandma died (long before I was born) after she fell and an ox pulled a cart over her. I wouldn't rely on a horse to stop for a small obstacle like a human.
A slowly developing putsch by the Israeli bureacracy against the elected politicians. Welcomed by those who want those politicians gone, not welcomed by the rest.

I would instead think ahead and decide how much I like the idea of rule by bureacracy vs. elections.
Researchers Successfully Train Computers to Identify Animals in Photos
> A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator.

If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.
This has nothing to do with ad blockers, or indeed advertising at all. The way it works is they set the user-agent to one used by search engines. The website thinks you are Google, so they give you the content for free because they want Google to index their proprietary content.
This is an active topic for browser based machine learning. Try searching around "Neural Nets in WebGL". Trick is to avoid CPU lookup via glReadPixels() as that sync will be slow. Create one giant texture atlas. And leverage GLSL shader calls for parallelism.

TensorFire

https://tenso.rs/
The 'Netflix' model of car ownership is on the rise
think of all the diseases caused by externalities
FWIW Microsoft _does_ do this, it's just that the alternative is a click-through warning, whereas it's more difficult to install un-curated addons in Firefox.
Would Amazon accept those for FBA in the US? If not, then it may be tedious to register a legal entity abroad just to get cheaper UPCs that you can't even use. If they do, then it would be worthwhile building a list of countries with cheap/easy UPCs and cheap/easy legal entity registration.
I think it's the author's name for perimeter based security
Out of curiosity, have you actually attended a university? Because I can assure you that a lot of things professors do and say (for better and for worse) have little or nothing to do with scientific enquiry, and that lectures and seminar programmes seldom have the fluidity to incorporate extended discussions on the merits of an academic's recent behaviour, treatment of students or allegedly overtly racist media comments. Especially not if they're a hard science programme. I don't think all protests have merit or are carried out in an acceptable manner, but I also don't think professors are such special snowflakes that all criticism of their actions is off limits unless specifically solicited in their classes, and I certainly don't think you can dress blanket censorship of unauthorised criticisms of them in the clothes of free speech.
McCarthy and Stirling.
To compensate for all the other advantages huge companies have over small ones.
Thats great.. charge big companies less. :(
> The choice of landscaping materials and chemicals is ultimately up to the customer.

Not true, there are all kinds of regulations. You can't use DDT for insects in basic landscaping, for example. If it had been heavily used in landscaping (not sure it made sense), the solution to DDT's toxic effects wouldn't have been to educate individuals. When there are big negative externalities, the government usually needs to step in.
The search features discussed in the article are now available through Google Cloud Source Repositories: https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-...
I was surprised to find my small petrol car made in 2001 is exempt from the London charge. I realise the primary aim is to reduce diesel emissions, but it seems a bit sad that our expectations today can still be met by a 17-year-old petrol vehicle.
> Is Battle.Net a "Store"?

Yes? I don't see how anyone could claim otherwise.

Battle.net is a store, because it sells games you can purchase, including expansion pack sales, microtransaction sales, etc.
So Valve is giving breaks to the big developers/publishers that don't even need them?
"Conservative" views that are punished somehow always end up being racist, sexist, homophobic or some combination of those.
It's linked, and it's perimeter based security. I've also known it as egg-based security - once the shell breaks, you've got a big mess on your hands.
It's very cool to see someone trying this out.

Any predictions on the outcomes?

(1) I sold a bunch of product and made money

(2) I sold a bunch of product and lost money

(3) No one wanted my product and I lost money

(4) I sold a bunch of product then Amazon started selling it for less and I lost money ?

Separately, I have been following the Keyboard.io backer updates for years now ( https://shop.keyboard.io/ ) which provide fairly thorough slice-of-life pictures of every step involved in creating a consumer electronic product from scratch in collaboration with manufacturers in China. It's not an exhaustive guide to the process but every step of the logistics we do get to read is fascinating. Lately I've been feeling like they could make more money teaching hardware startups to navigate this landscape than they could by selling the keyboards.

Also separately, I used to log 100k+ miles per year butt in seat flying for work and recreation, flying with carryons only but with a 3x 70lb baggage allotment and a modest duty-free allowance I never used, and I always wished I understood how to buy off-the-shelf consumer products that are cheap in one country then resell them in another. It seemed like it would be low risk because consumers can usually return unused merchandise. I figured there must be some way to buy iPads and sell them on Gumtree, meet up in Covent Garden and trade them for cash, then return any iPads I couldn't sell at a profit. I never found good docs of anyone doing this and always wondered whether it was logistically very hard (i.e. issues with customs or reliable resale) or whether it was just an area where people were quietly individually making a killing and didn't want competition. Ended up pretty much only using the free 3x 70 lbs to help move house when we moved overseas & came back.
A capacitor shouldn't allow electron flow between its (dielectric separated) plates. The charges should build up on the plates, then exit through the terminals when discharging. If charges cross the dielectric, then you have leakage.
Caps don’t allow electrons through, do they? They resist DC, they only conduct AC?
What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law?

I'm guessing the answer is no ( betteridge's law ) and we are going to stay in the multi-core environment for a while. 128, 256, 512, 1024, ... cores. Though I suspect that is going to run into problems very quickly.
>A lot of the old school recommendations create more issues than they solve, like rotating every database login password every 90 days or so.

This is one of the ones that drives me crazy. You can maybe make it work if you have a really good secrets management system, especially if it's hooked into AWS EC2 roles. But having to manually log into servers to change config files/passwords every 90 days is ridiculously disruptive.
>Ideally, the individuals involved at Google would also take a big reputation hit.

Ideally yes, in reality? the problem of a system that rewards trickery and deceit is that eventually the opposite (truth, honor, respect, etc) becomes worthless. You even have countries like mine that are so down this rabbit hole that being called a "good guy" is almost an insult because it just means you're simpleton who gets scammed.

Public reputation is only good in an environment where (public)reputation matters and in this situation the (private)reputation of that google employee within the corporation as a guy who makes money for the company matters more than if a limited portion of the public (us here) knows he outright steals things from other people through deceit. In general the average consumer couldn't care less about the actual individuals behind the products they are using or the controversies behind their creation. The vast, vast majority of computer users don't know that Xerox actually created the GUI and not Apple or Microsoft, and they don't care. So expecting them to provide justice in lieu of the system its a tall order to say the least.
UPC are international by nature. But the point is to have products registered with the right entity, so (I think) you should be able to demonstrate that the company who owns the codes is somehow affiliated with the company that sells the products.
I believe GitHub uses ES, and currently allowing users to perform regex can bog down the entire cluster if the regex is malformed. This is a problem with Solr too. I believe there was some effort to resolve this at the Lucene level, but I am not sure the status.

In other words, I agree with you but I also know it is an extremely hard problem to solve at Github's scale.
Telling people to use a buggy beta is not acceptable. This is anti-user and pro-corporation.
> To me it seems obvious that if the average term of service lasts longer, you’ll need replacements at a lower rate.

I feel dumb right now that it wasn’t obvious to me. I was thinking in terms of throughput vs latency, and how for a single pipe, increasing latency doesn’t affect throughput. So why would it change for multiple pipes? My bad intuition was that letting people stay longer would drop throughput until everyone that was in the pipe during the latency change retired, and then throughput would restore to the same as before.

Doing the arithmetic, it’s easy to see why you’re right, but because it wasn’t obvious to me, I’m not surprised it wasn’t obvious to others. Or at least it makes me feel better...
>"The police recommendations regarding me and my wife don't surprise anyone," Netanyahu said in a statement. "These recommendations were decided upon and leaked even before the investigation began."

Isn't this entirely normal for criminal investigations? First you decide that someone is probably doing something bad, then you investigate and indict?
Vacuum is a special case of an insulator. Others will conduct beyond some threshold voltage; vacuum will not. On the other hand, vacuum will conduct at any voltage as soon as free charges are injected into it.
There is no reason at all that conservative views about how they no longer can say the n-word or how "those people" don't deserve rights should be defended.
Do you think the cost of hosting is relevant at all to the bottom line of an internet publisher? What is costly is creating and buying the content.
On top of this, unions behave differently in C++ wrt undefined behaviour.
Thank you, very nice article, actually this sentence made my day:

>The pioneers who are connecting the global human family and removing barriers of time and space won't take you seriously unless you brunch at the same restaurants they do.
With a "real" warrant, I will eventually find out that it's been issued, either because I'll be served with it, or because the evidence will show up in court and the prosecutor will have to explain how they got it. It's totally possible that literally all people on Earth are currently being surveilled under a single FISA warrant, with any prosecutions in real courts being disguised by "parallel construction". We don't, can't, and probably won't ever know if this is the case.
Slackbot Destroyer
I'll be honest, there's a LOT of markdown editors out there. What's your USP for Notably?
Allowing people to pollute is effectively a subsidy for them, paid for with a tax on everyone’s health. Wealthy people are more able to take advantage of this subsidy and more able to avoid some of the tax, so the old way is also a tax on the poor. Except instead of just taking their money, they’re being slowly killed.
The Race to Build Megafire Prediction Tools
After the shipment arrives at the FBA warehouse, it may be in a "reserved" status (processing, validation, transshipped, etc.) for at least a few days in a normal part of the year. This is not a normal time of year, so it may take weeks to clear into "available" status.

If you send too much stuff to Amazon and it doesn't sell, you will be liable for long-term storage fees and they can be expensive (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200684750?...)

The FBA universe is filled with stories of people having a manufacturer overseas make some low-cost product and encountering problems including low demand, poor quality, too many similar products available, and commingling with pirated or "third shift" inventory.

Protections against piracy and commingling include trademarks and the Amazon Transparency program (https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency). Requirements for Transparency described here: http://leanmedia.org/amazon-transparency-what-is-it-and-how-...
Idea: Create an incentive to overestimate — if the leaked data shows up online (pastebin/etc), and the volume of affected users is x% greater than the publicly disclosed figure, then fines are doubled (or go up by 3*x% or whatever).
Actually undefined behavior is defined. It is defined as undefined.
https://github.com/UnitedIncome/slackbot-destroyer
It is not about sovereignty, it is about jurisdiction. If a site on Internet in a different country is upsetting you, you cannot simply shut it down just because you can convince a judge to do it. The law in your country does not apply to the site in a different country.
In the same way, you completely misunderstood how VAT works: when you sell something in EU you collect VAT, but only when the buyer is there and only if you have any presence as a seller in EU. If a EU citizen buys something in Wallmart in New York, Wallmart is paying no VAT.
I've you've ever tried, you'll know that only the rich can park in the city at least, so it isn't that different.
Encryption Is All or Nothing
>>How is this at all relevant to whether a police officer deserves privacy?

They get paid to serve and protect and no one is asking for their cancer status. Everything they do is public, so it's well within our rights to know how many times they used force. Now if Officer Tim used force four times more than others in the same area and years, we can wonder...
Holding my copy of this excellent book, I'm reminded of Mortimer & Van Doren's comment on 'How to Read Science and Mathematics'

249.2 "Until approximately the end of the nineteenth century, the major scientific books were written for a lay audience. Their authors--men like Galileo, and Newton, and Darwin--were not averse to being read by specialists in their fields; indeed, they wanted to reach such readers. But there was as yet no institutionalized specialization in those days, days which Albert Einstein called 'the happy childhood of science'. Intelligent and well-read persons were expected to read scientific books as well as history and philosophy; there were no hard and fast distinctions, no boundaries that could not be crossed. There was also none of the disregard for the general or lay reader that is manifest in contemporary scientific writing. Most modern scientists do not care what lay readers think, and so they do not even try to reach them.

Today, science tends to be written by experts for experts. A serious communication on a scientific subject assumes so much specialized knowledge on the part of the reader that it usually cannot be read at all by anyone not learned in the field. There are obvious advantages to this approach, not least that it serves to advance science more quickly. Experts talking to each other about their expertise can arrive very quickly at the frontiers of it--they can see the problems at once and begin to try to solve them. But the cost is equally obvious. You--the ordinary intelligent reader whom we are addressing in this book--are left quite out of the picture."

The authors apologize for not being able to offer specific advise to guide the reader of technical books, as those texts are on subjects of which they do not possess the necessary expertise. They suggest the reader fall back on 'scientific popularizations'.

I've found this to be a very useful strategy. Beginning with a readable book, well researched book. Then systematically read the book's bibliography, recursively.

The one problem I ran into, specifically in mathematics, was it seems some notations are not universal. Furthermore, some authors take no pains to define their symbols at any point in their texts. (I quite understand a paper would assume a specific audience, but for a published book I think it's just rude.)

For this I needed to rely on communities such as math.stackexchange.com.

Good luck. The journey is part of the reward.
The law applied in the country that established it, not worldwide. This is what I said.
If they use ES (or other Lucene) they could already be doing fuzzy search via ES's own ngram support. At that point indexed regex search as described in the article isn't far away. You just need to bridge the gap between a regex and a trigram index.
Retrospective for 10 Deep Learning Predictions in 2018
Seaborn Categorical Plots in Python