skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then such schools that predominantly work on ISAs, will pre-select for good students, who are most likely to succeed and also for industries where the compensation is higher.

That still sounds far better than the current system of selecting for the most popular (instead of valuable) subjects that draw in the most clueless students to get indebted for life for something they are unlikely to succeed in anyway.

> It doesn't address the real problem...

What does?
Yeah, I believe at one point I had them rescan with my left thumbprint.
Juse because "we can't be absolutely sure" doesn't mean the evidence doesn't point in a direction.

There doesn't seem to be ground to overwhelmingly doubt to evidence to the point where the conclusions are radically reversed.

It's a known cognitive bias (assuming you don't know what you're doing) or sophism (if you do).

See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GrDqnMjhqoxiqpQPw/the-proper...
If memory serves it usually wasn’t that dramatic but there were significant outliers where it was 50+% cheaper and I don’t think I ever saw it go significantly the other way so there was a strong inertial tendency to just buy it on Amazon rather than put time into shopping around.

One other neat thing was international availability — Amazon.co.uk had Terry Pratchett books months ahead of the US release, so I could read them at the same time when people on Usenet were.
I'm a somewhat frequent contributor on IndieHackers actually. To promote the page, I basically posted it everywhere I could (without getting banned) and started asking my friends to critique the site. When applicable, I would also answer questions on fora as I am now. In terms of time, I'm not really sure, it's an on and off commitment as I also have a job.

Anything other questions or anything you're working on as well?
And "of course", this is one argument not to go to a top ranked research university for undergrad.

BTW, the low ranked university I went to was a research university. Professors got tenure/promotions based on that and not based on teaching. They still cared about teaching. It is at some level a matter of culture. If a top ranked university is worse when it comes to teaching, the reality is the university doesn't value education. Let's not use research as an excuse for poor education.
To be fair, education in the US is very broken.
I solved this problem by requesting a TLS certificate from my company's Windows domain CA for my machine's hostnames on the internal network (machinename and machinename.company.com - both added to the same cert via Subject Alternative Name). Then I mapped those domains to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts so it works even when I'm not on the internal network.

From there it's simple to host the front-end app I work on using a node.js script.
All the old DEC manuals are online. For example, the PDP-11/40 system manual:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp11/1...
At least mention that you work for the company.
Could the same argument apply to personal firearms?
So, this is for "plugged in" IoT devices only? Or at least ones with large batteries?

I've been experimenting with some IoT projects. Have been using ARM M4's and a Nordic nrf52840 dongle mostly. There's no way these things are running node, or anything beyond an RTOS for that matter.

Would this sit on a Thread Border Router maybe? Just trying to figure out a use case.
Not dead yet: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/business/sears-future-bankrup...
I didn't have any contact with the maintainers, but I found node-RED pretty reliable. It was nice to work with, even though I'm not a big fan of Javascript and Node ecosystems. The third-party blocks from their web library did tend to be pretty buggy in my experience. I tried to stay away from them and (re-)implement my own blocks where I needed them.

Perhaps the worst offense was the insecure-by-default config I mentioned in the other comment. I was unknowingly running it on a public port on a dev machine without auth for months before I realized (the network I was on didn't happen to filter inbound connections on ports >1024).

I used Node-RED pretty extensively for controlling experiments (see e.g. https://github.com/avian2/sigfox-toolbox)
Many, many people would see the forced formation of a new country over the top of an existing country, against their will, as objectively wrong.
I think that’s a scummy business known for not following the letter of the law.
Since I began to become aware of politics as a late teenager in the mid 80's, there was conspiracies of power grabs that mostly all came true in hindsight.

It doesn't seem controversial to say that nothing has changed other than improved technology to further their power grabbing goals.
In fact, that's how IBM lost the PC. They came out with PS/2, which was patent-encumbered, so that they could kill the clone market. But it turned out that "low cost because clonable" beat "best technology but higher price".
Once you know that, you can resist these thoughts. The first few times I used it, it seemed like learning to drive a bycicle as a small kid for the first time. Once you learn how not too fall, it becomes trivial.

If it were legal, like alcohol, people would better be able to deal with it.

Even if not 100% harmless, prohibition is not helpful, for (almost) noone.
#notblackmirror
Pyarmor – Obfuscate Python scripts
> Which is why I find it weird that he thinks it's weird why people who weren't born on vegetarian cuisines can't just switch to them, when introduced.

I didn't read it like this at all. He's arguing to bring more vegetarian cuisines to the forefront to raise awareness of the possibilities that exist. His critique was against lauding the "impossible" as the solution to getting everyone on veganism immediately.
With maximally repeated sequences, you can
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6012115
very-very-very cool!

with subtitles?
Ptolemy Project: Good Node-Red wine needs to mellow
Of course, but then they'd have to contend with the country in question - basically, the US should be revoking whatever benefits China gains from such treaties, not prosecuting them directly.
I feel like everyone has their own anecdotes about this. Surely some third party has done controlled performance profiling on the major browsers? That would be very interesting.
Why should you support decentralization
...yes, I saw multiple such screens. I want a large screen and I do want to learn something, i.e. how to actually turn this into a product. I can't seriously buy these pre-made touch screens and sell them as a product with an RPi.
Nah.. right now the risk is born uniformly across all tax payers. We should make the school responsible for some of it.
Ah, good ole' NAPA, where you pay twice as much for half the quality (in their house brand anyway). At least, that's why I avoided them like the plague a quarter century ago when I was building muscle cars. Also, they always seemed to prioritize their garage delivery service over their walk-in customers. Although,that was a long time ago, and perhaps they've gotten better over time.
May I ask, how old were you when you attempted this and at what stage of your personal/professional life? I like the idea of taking 6 months off, but for persons in their 40s or later, it might be a serious risk, especially when mortgages run.
100%? That sounds like a real statistic and not totally something you've made up.

In any case, how you feel on your deathbed is about the least relevant feeling you will ever have in your life.
It's probably a language thing that stayed in translation. At least Spanish doesn't have gender-less pronouns, so every object, living or not, has a "gender". In any case, it makes more sense for Xorg to be male than female.
Eventually that non-college grad will need the services of the college grad (and vice versa) so really it should all come out in the wash right?
The problem with subscription models is that unlike with ad revenue and donation models, you cannot subsidize your circulation by extracting more revenue from wealthier people more for the same service.
Thank you for the kind words
I tried 1.0 it was horrible. even a macdonald hamburger was more edible. I doubt that heavily process soybeans (known for developing breast in men) are the way to go. but who knows im not a marketing manager.
This company uses AI to track down password sharing for video streaming
Insanely complicated compared to what?

I'd suggest that one obvious comparison is with not having the GDPR.

I know my own businesses spent considerable time and money understanding the implications and updating our documentation to comply with the new requirements. However, that was basically all we changed in the end, because we weren't doing anything particularly unusual or dodgy in the first place. In other words, for us, the whole thing was basically an expensive box-ticking exercise with no real benefit to anyone.

I imagine there are many other small businesses that could tell a similar story. The most likely alternative for those that can't is probably that they're not compliant, either deliberately or through ignorance of their new legal obligations, so that still doesn't benefit data subjects in any useful way.

It seems realistic to estimate that several billion pounds has been spent on this sort of paper-pushing exercise in the UK alone, which does suggest some level of rhetorical insanity here if it hasn't really benefited anyone in any measurable way. Perhaps time will tell and regulators will be more effective in curbing the excesses of the big data crunchers that these rules were presumably aimed at, but until we start seeing evidence of real benefits for the average person in the street, I for one will remain sceptical about whether all the extra red tape and complexity was justified.
The deal was negotiated and signed by US, Russia, China, France, UK, Germany, EU; and it is based on the "IAEA safeguards", a system of inspection and verification of the peaceful uses of nuclear materials as part of the NPT.

To suggest that all the major world powers would have signed a deal that leaves space for Iran to develop nuclear weapons, and that the IAEA might have been happily certifying the compliance to the terms of the deal without bothering to make sure that Iran isn't actually developing nuclear weapons, would be supremely naive.

A more complete quote from the IAEA statement that you quoted is:

"The Agency’s overall assessment was that a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device were conducted in Iran prior to the end of 2003 as a coordinated effort, and some activities took place after 2003. The Agency also assessed that these activities did not advance beyond feasibility and scientific studies, and the acquisition of certain relevant technical competences and capabilities. The same report stated that the Agency had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009. Based on the Director General’s report, the Board of Governors declared that its consideration of this issue was closed."

In fact, what IAEA is diplomatically saying is "we don't give a damn what Netanyahu claims, we have reports and information that proves that the claims are not true and we don't have to discuss it any further".
If you take a full load of summer classes you can get a four year undergraduate degree done in 2-ish years.
Sounds like that's the first step...
It's not that simple. SQL in particular actually requires lexicographical sorting, so you need to do it somehow. The problem is relying on lexicographical sorting remaining fixed when it isn't. Per the unicode standard, lexicographical sorting rules are subject to change. So now you need a mechanism to detect/manage those changes.
It's not the act of not listening to them that's stealing, it's the act of algorithmically excising them that's stealing, especially (but not exclusively) if there is a premium option available.

For example, watching non-premium crunchyroll with an ad-blocker enabled is dishonest, IMO.
Location: Seattle, WA, US
Remote: maybe
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: R, Scala, SQL, analytics, machine learning
Resume: upon request
Email: saosebastiao1982@gmail.com

This might be a weird offer, but I'll throw it out there anyway. I'm someone with a background/education in supply chain management, but have 8 years experience programming in an analytical context using R, SQL, and Scala (Scala for 4+ years now), as well as a few other technologies (linear, integer, and constraint programming). I'm currently making a decent living by algotrading in futures and forex markets, with 90% of my code written in Scala, and some offline analytics done in SQL and R. I'll stress that this is production code, earning real life money (for example, here is my results for today[0], and algorithmic entry/exit signals for 01/02-01/04[1]).

I feel like I am a good programmer when it comes to the core of programming and problem solving in general, but I'm self conscious about my lack of formal CS training, as well as inexperience with some of the more rigorous parts of software engineering as a trade (eg. architecture, testing, development workflows, collaborative development, release cycles, devops, etc.). And I'd like to find a position that will help me to develop those capabilities. I understand that I'm not the typical entry level candidate, but where I lack in some areas I definitely can make up in others (analytics, machine learning, business experience, etc.).

If there are any teams in the Seattle area (no relocation for personal reasons, unfortunately) that are willing to take on and mentor someone like me, I feel like I could quickly become a valued member of the team. My expectations on compensation are modest; I'm already earning a living through trading, and I would fully expect that my salary will reflect the amount of risk you'd be taking on with me. Resume available upon request.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/vCB5kP9.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/us6bOSv.png
- The "Here is a 20-pages PDF preview" is too small. I had to scroll up and down twice to notice it actually.

- The layout of the PDF file is awesome!
Full Disclosure versus Responsible Disclosure
The embargoes are to force regime change.
2018 - The year in charts
Ask HN: Where can I find HTML5/CSS website templates
Where can I find decent looking website templates (either paid or free)?

A good example of what I'm looking for would be HTML5 UP (https://html5up.net/) which has a number of templates that are responsive and very well designed.
an exception stack trace containing the data of a customer object could put in a name by accident, for example. And then you're in trouble. The third parties you use could be storing data, even if they tell you they don't. If they do you need to get a DPA signed up. You might still need a DPO, and so on and so forth. It's a massive undertaking for any org of a reasonable size.

Worth it in the long run, as once we're used to it and tweaks to the law happen to make it easier/better? Sure. Easy? Heck no.
Soylent has proper release notes: https://soylent.com/pages/release-notes
Nintendo got away with it...
Yup, thanks.

Yes, I have a simple version control system. I have some simple tools based on macros for my favorite editor KEdit and some scripts based on Rexx. So far they have been fine.

The biggest problem I had was documentation for .NET. I found, read, downloaded, and abstracted 4000+ Web pages from Microsoft's MSDN and have about another 1000 Web pages from elsewhere. These are in four batches -- the languages, especially Visual Basic .NET, for SQL Server, for communications including TCP/IP and ASP.NET (for the Web pages), and the rest for Windows in general. I also have documentation of my own, mostly just text but some with the math from Knuth's TeX.

So, in the code and other documentation, I put links to relevant documentation. The links in the code look to the compiler like comments. I insert and use the links with editor macros. In the end, I can display a page of documentation with one keystroke to my editor. Works well enough.

For help with versions, I have a very heavily used editor macro that inserts a time-date stamp or two of them delimited with BEGIN and END as comment blocks with time-date stamps.

Sure, if I hire some people, I'll have to have something better. But in our AI project at IBM's Watson lab, we did quite a lot of software development, including shipping some IBM Program Product code, with less in versioning tools than I'm using.

Right along I've been thinking that if my startup works, then one of the first steps up will be some audio-video facilities, a lecture hall, good audio and video recording and then editing, etc. Then we will call in experts on various topics, have them lecture, maybe sell their book or some such, record it all, and have it on-line for everyone as documentation. So, we'll have people who worked out good means of versioning, backup and recovery, archiving, data security, disaster protection, network security, server monitoring, server construction and software installation, SQL Server performance, LAN performance, code testing and reviews, developer training, the servers, racks, LAN, electric power, backup power, HVAC, real estate for floor space, telephones, e-mail, etc. Yup, I'll need a COO!

All these topics have been done well lots of times in the Fortune 100 and more, and lots of people have been there, done that, and still have the T-shirt. Likely don't necessarily have to hire them but can fly them in for 1-3 days and capture what they have to say. Later in the growth may have to do some things that are original, but can have a lot of growth before that.
For me as a vegetarian, getting into Indian food was a dietary breakthrough. Vegetarian Indian food has already been developed for thousands of years to be tasty and meet dietary requirements.

I grew up on typical American cuisine and then became vegetarian, and I was disappointed by a lot of vegetarian recipes that were designed to make sense to people with my culinary background. However, I recognize that switching someone's cuisine is a big thing to ask for; reducing meat consumption will go a lot smoother if it doesn't mean switching to a new culinary tradition - which is why cookbooks featuring those recipes that I didn't like are so popular.
Does anyone use this and have a good example they've round-tripped through the CPython compiler and this decompiler? I would assume variable names are lost, like in most other bytecode compiler languages.
Some days ago:

We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18849961

The value of crypto currencies is strongly linked to the available processing power that can be rented for a short amount of time. An attack must never be profitable. So the value of cryptocurrencies cannot grow arbitrarily. Just Bitcoin is quite secure because you cannot easily rent the specialized hardware.
Not that I’m aware of, however as I said in my last post - I usually take the high road and do what it takes to get the heat off. I usually don’t sit there and start arguing with the cop and antagonize him. Even if I’m in the right. I don’t bend over and follow orders, I resist enough to make the experience unpleasant for them as it is for me, but I have other things in life to do than fight the injustice.

Assange did the opposite. He came out guns blazing. When you do that, the court system often will find a way to bone you. And that doesn’t usually result in repercussions because the system can say “well maybe we were a little wrong but he wasn’t helping his case!”. And tragically that’s often enough for the external watchers to let it go.
I do wonder how typical your experience is, though. I personally never found much by doing that (partly I was paralyzed by choice without a good algorithm for narrowing things down), and consequently stopped the random browsing in bookstores long before the bookstores themselves mostly disappeared.

When I was much younger (pre-teens and teens), I was a voracious reader and would spend a lot of time at the library. But even there, I would mostly stick to the long-running series that I knew well, or prolific authors that I knew I liked.
These are all valid point. I’d add to that bad knock off items mixed with the real ones.

But most of these issues are plaguing every other major site. Ads that stick with you for days and days whatever site you look at are becoming the norm.

No ec site review system can be trusted in my opinion, they are usually way to easy to game. For anything that actually matters reputable and dedicated review sites end up to be the most useful.

Different sellers and different price are fine to me, it actually helps to mitigate the knock off issues in my experience.

All in all amazon has degraded a lot in these aspects, but I feel the whole industry took the dive and don’t see competing retailers coming up with fresh ideas.
One day, Amazon, Google, and Apple will also die. It's the circle of life. Sears operated for 126 years - astounding in our era.
> I recall they're stuck on Python 2 and use some obfuscation and opcode remapping with a custom interpreter so its a little hard to decompile but still possible.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one...

Currently (custom) Python 3.5, I guess.
In my experience, most of the spaces in libraries where I work are still pretty quiet. But there's a pretty strong cultural expectation that you don't talk on the phone or have more than short low volume exchanges with others--even aside from any specific rules.

I agree music seems more than a bit much but a workplace is somewhere many people have conversations and have to make and take calls. I don't think I'd be very inclined to spend money on a space where I had to try to find a room every time I was on a phone call or wanted to talk with someone.

I'm willing to restrict talking if I'm hanging out for free in a library. Not so much if I'm paying for a desk. One should of course have consideration for others but, for many, a big part of their job is talking on the phone.
That squares with what I have heard before about UK university degrees being shorter than US degrees. What do you do with the rest of the year?
I'm sorry but no.

It's a pretty common use case (so common that it is usually taught in an introduction to databases) that you might want an index that allows you to efficiently search by non-ASCII strings like say, a person's last name.
Ignore the utility of gold, I feel that just muddies the waters.

The volatility of crypto makes it a terrible store of value. While people may use it as such, it is primarily a speculative asset.

OTOH, gold has historical precedent assuring its stability. So while that could suddenly change, its going to take a fairly sizable event to shift the perception. Like a nuclear holocaust or something.

If there's any generational shift in this thinking it's purely naivety.
Empty Pockets
How I didn't get my first paying customer because of my birthplace