skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly? I walk most palaces. Bad weather is my biggest reason to riding. And most people in cities can do that much more. Within an hour I can walk to most of my meetings throughout town. I live in a central-ish spot. Nice, affordable and walk-able - part of the choice. Driving takes almost as much time. The trams or metro save time only if the walk is over 30 min - and even at 60 min save only about half the time at best.

But as I posted, I didn't claim to be some universal example. I guessed 50% of people live in urban or sub-urban areas - high enough density to make public transportation practical. And I guessed that walking / public is appropriate for of transport needs.

Those who live in rural areas and/or have special needs would not be covered by the 50/80% easily (but I bet a very high percent would be covered by shared or taxi services)

Owning a car is absurdly inefficient. It sits parked 90% or more of its existence. We all pay taxes to support massive infrastructure for private cars - such as street parking in cities and police for drivers who can't stay within the law and choose to endanger my kids lives for their own convenience. Our whole view on car ownership is backwards.

I'm not preaching though - it's my choice to spend my money on things I find more useful than a status symbol parked where it might get stolen, broken into, and generally cost money. Everyone gets to make their own choices. :-)
I saw the better GCs were implemented for machines with the 68851 MMU. Later the 68030 had the necessary MMU functionality built in. Both allowed for example Macintosh Common Lisp to have an ephemeral GC, IIRC.
For folks who are new to Qt5 and are wondering how an app looks in production, we have a screenshot at https://www.sostronk.com/app

We released SoStronk's desktop app using Qt5 in 2014 and its going great today as well. Having had ~5 years development experience with this, I'll be happy to answer any questions :)
Anyone remember OPENPEER?
"order a new EC2 small instance now"?
Well, perhaps the fact that you justify surveillance is mostly the result of what those organizations have done around the world.
You can't grow yeast with sunlight?
I see a few critical problems with this research.

The first in the section "Do MBAs Make Better CEOs?". If the labour market is efficient we would NOT expect CEOs with MBAs to outperform CEOs without MBAs due to selection effects. We may expect them to outperform if we sample randomly from the general population that has MBAs versus that which does not, but this is not the sampling scheme in effect. If boards are able to accurately select non-MBA CEOs whose other characteristics compensate for the lack of an MBA, then we would expect a zero within-group correlation in the selected population. It is like if I was to hire a quantitative researcher for a machine learning research team. I could pick a PhD from a top school, or I could allow a non-PhD into my team as long as their other characteristics are sufficiently great (e.g. competition math in high school), but after appropriate selection effects there is no within-group correlation between holding a PhD and not holding one. If I looked at the average PhD versus the average non-PhD in the general population though, then an effect becomes apparent, but that's not the sampling scheme I've used.

The second problem is in the section "Is CEO Performance Persistent?". They used stock market returns which is flawed as expected CEO performance should be baked into the stock price from the beginning, meaning we expect zero excess return in the second sample even if the CEO was truly exceptional. This section would unlikely pass peer review into a top finance journal.

The only valid thing I can see is research about "Share Price Performance for CEOs Who Ran Multiple Companies", since nobody knows the second company ahead of time so the information shouldn't be baked into the price. But a lot of details are missing. Skewness and kurtosis of returns will impact the way they've quantized the data, among other things.

All in all, unpersuasive.
If it is all client based someone could chose to use a patched version that e.g. donated all their money to charity. NB "never trust the client".

You will never get the big websites that monetise with advertising on board with client side analytics. That would need e.g. server side analytics or DRM on the client side app. Either way I wouldn't touch your app and nor would most that block adverts - and the big websites would probably not be that interested either.

Maybe with reproducible builds you could have a trusted build that people could build at home that also signed the requests with the analytics data. I don't think that the technology to do this exists yet.
Trying it out, and a couple of life experiences to already have a gut feeling how things are going to turn out, specially helpful those that went bad.
I agree with you.
Though your grandmother is obviously more sensible than the average car buyer, she's not representative.

I think 300k is fantasy.

But, that Lyft is actively taking on the car economy is encouraging. They aren't a band of hippies, it's a business that sees an opportunity in doing so. They may fail, or they may be what Tesla is to electric cars. That I find encouraging.
I'm aware how dependent many people are. I imagine that's why suggesting they take responsibility for themselves triggers such emotional responses. I recall one academic study showed people would have to be paid ~$1000 before they'd consider stopping for just a year. But that only makes it all the more important.

If people don't like the way things are then they have to be the change. Facebook is not going to change as it's business model is based on selling it's users. In the absense of taking responsibility for themselves or Facebook chosing to change many default to arguements for government regulation. Bringing in the use of force like this creates problems significantly worse than the privacy issues of the original voluntary Facebook use.
Why coordinate outrage? So they will "learn" and do better in the future, HAHAHA.

Seriously, just delete your account, no one needs Facebook even those that make up ridiculous excuses for why the can't leave Facebook.
It doesn't belong to the bank. They've borrowed it from the depositors, who can take it back at any time. It's only created in the sense that the person they've lent it to can spend it while the depositor still has it in their account.

Edit: to illustrate this, try this thought experiment. Borrow $10 from a friend. Lend $5 of that to another friend. Congratulations, you've just increased the money supply by $5. That's the exact same method used by banks, but you'd not claim that you're now $5 richer or that you've effectively printed $5.
Wait until you go back again. Then you'll really be enlightened.
Ask HN: What Do You Use for Linux Full Disk Crypto?
What do you use to manage Linux full disk encryption centrally (like BitLocker and FileVault let you do)?

I know you can do FDE with LUKS but would prefer a more enterprise solution where I can store a recovery key centrally that a user can’t remove.
(Anecdote) music with lyrics impairs creativity. I think its because lyrics makes you think.
That was the always best trick with new installations. This brings back memories :)
Exposure to Nicotine Can Harm Embryos at the Single Cell Level
Yeast doesn't photosynthesize. You can use solar power, but then you have big capital costs.
While I appreciate the premise and good intent, the transparent society sounds like an idealized Girardian nightmare to me.
A missing letter helped create Australia's first tech billionaire
My trick question to TDD advocates is how to develop native apps following those principles, after all no GUI change is allowed without a test.
Alt-SVC Lands in Curl
Phones are not unique but a lot of them are reused when a subscriber changes provider

(They could have always searched you by name, if you're worried about your identity then it makes sense to not connect your phone number to FB)
Ada is a positevly amazing language. The only real complaint that can be made about it is the dearth of libraries/non-existent package management and the weird FSF vs. AdaCore compiler licensing issues.
Actually, Zhuyin was used for a number of years before the Latin Pinyin scheme was finalized in 1958, after which it remained as an alternative for people less familiar with the Latin alphabet. Dictionary and reference books[0] published in the mainland used to include Zhuyin well into the 1980s. The characters used for Zhuyin were actually retained in the earliest simplified Chinese character sets (GB 2312-80) for computer typesetting, however by then very few people are still using them over Pinyin. And indeed it gradually faded from public knowledge from there.

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This will only be true until a terrorist decides to bomb a train for whatever reason, and the "public" "demands" "security"
I've often read discussion about how you can't regulate this sort of thing because the industry moves so fast that what's a best practice today can be tomorrow's horrible security (then enforced by law).

But, isn't it possible to legislate this on a blacklist basis? "Fine of up to $X if you're storing passwords in plaintext. Fine of up to $X if you're limiting the length of passwords to < 16 characters. Fine of up to $X if you misrepresent your 2FA implementation (as in the article). Fine of up to $X if you accept unencrypted logins over the web."

Outlawing a small set of easily identifiable and correctible attack vectors, would be enough to get companies thinking about security a bit more seriously. It doesn't have to be anything big, and I wager it'd have a serious impact.
Not quite as bad but I got a letter recently from something bank-ish (huge, international, traditional) that contained some serious admonitions including one about never using password managers or writing down the password in any way, concealed or not didn't matter.

I have problems taking any security advice seriously from such companies after that but since I fully expect them to use ut against me if I ever have to file a fraud complaint I guess I'll have to deal with it - and get another account with a company that isn't braindead when it comes to security.
You are not alone, I had to use Yaml for some Swagger related work, hoping never to deal with it again.

I rather have my json, but preferably XML with schema validation, having the joy of auto-complete and proper documentation.
Two years back they synthesized the both halves of the steps for creating morphine using yeast.

If you feed the yeast sugar, which is made from sunlight it will be worth it if the yields are high enough.
Ticwatch S2 vs. C2 vs. Pro Compared
Not just gender I think. I witness over and over how employees one day realize they were underpaid and get paid immediately. Including myself. Sometimes the company asks the employee to keep it silent so the other ones won't do the same. This is ofcourse unhealthy situation, and too common. You got to win your rights manually.
1) you could just post the last block ID to an active blockchain or centralized data store if you must, then anyone can download the blockchain via a torrent for example and verify the entire chain; this just requires some trusted data store. If you don’t have one, then you are screwed anyhow and probably shouldn’t have shut down that blockchain.

2) if there is utility in the blockchain, chances are it won’t shut down.
> ... I use it (crediting the fake persona) ...

No. There is no "I use it". Only the fake persona does.

> But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?

If you created an anonymous Tor onion site, they'd have a hard time forcing you. But of course, then it's less accessible. So you might just use hosting that caters to spammers and worse.
Apps will simply pay you to keep fit
They say "we find no statistically significant change in departure rates of males or females across firm hierarchies."

Have not read it closely, but "no statistically significant" need not rule out the scenario that departures drive the whole effect. It's just saying that the error bar from counting departures is large enough to include zero, while the error bars on mean salary are smaller, because everyone has a salary but only a few leave.
Exactly. I think it's getting better now that some of the cool things people were waiting on have made it into the 2018 edition. Off-hand I know that Remacs switched from the nightlies to 2018.
If giving out the length hurts anything, there's enough going wrong that you should probably assume it's already compromised.

Unless there's something fundamentally wrong with the password, a public length of n is almost as secure as a secret length of n, and significantly more secure than a secret length of n-1

Never get into the specifics of a password, but explaining the basic structure should be a tiny impact and well within your margin of safety, or you didn't make a good enough password to start with.
Alien species are primary cause of recent global extinctions
World's first 'floating tunnel' proposed in Norway
The question is how civilisation collapse must feel like from the inside and what it actually means?

Do you mean something like the end of the Roman Empire which in retrospect can be seen as a paradigm shift? Or do you mean we are going back to the stone age by e.g. destroying civilisation with nukes or similar (all of which could also happen any time with the right volcanic eruption or meteorite impact).

It is quite clear, that without education we are not gonna get more civilized than we are now. On top of that people realize one way or the other that they are ripped of by oligarchs, that masterfully played their power over the last decades to increase the share of money they drain out of the rest of the people. This won’t go on forever and we definitly should think about the effects similar things hat last time when this was the case (pre World War era with it’s rapid industrialization).
He took the job of Uber CEO because he'll make 100x more money than doing anything else.

Taking over Uber was not 'hard mode' it's 'easy mode'.

'Hard' is building a business that scales and that's making money. That's extremely hard.

Uber has utterly fantastic fundamentals - they are growing rapidly and have a very powerful brand (despite their CEO shenanigans, riders don't really care, they'll take Uber if it's convenient).

As the previous CEO self destructed with some bad bits of PR, the 'new CEO's job is to come in and be the new face of the company as he prepares for the IPO.

The new CEO can blame the old CEO for all of the cultural problems, which are frankly not that hard to fix - after all it's mostly cosmetic. Fire a few really bad apples or those who can't be tolerated, launch a new social program, make it public etc.. The vast majority of Uber staff are just regular people.

Some restructuring would be required, such as axing some of the more aggressive secondary plays, which allows the nice unit-fundamentals to shine through.

And then do one of the biggest IPO's in history.

Taking over for a CEO who mostly has a 'perception problem' of a company that's growing like gangbusters and about to go IPO is most CEO's dream come true.
At forty I'm starting to learn chemistry because my 12 year old daughter has an interest in it. If you have a layman's explanation for why the periodic table strongly hints at a lithium salt connection I would love to show that to her. Thanks.

If you have any other insights that one could derive from the periodic table that would be much appreciated as well. Thank you!
TIL he stopped eating because his wife was sick and couldn't cook for him, and he didn't trust anyone else with his food... not even himself?!
And I'd imagine not many people associate "happiness and refreshment" with Coca-Cola anymore.
ADD person here: I feel that this is true for me aswell when I am in the rare state of being able to focus. When I am understimulated, listening to music seems to increase my focus (and otherwise I will move or sing silently to create that stimulus myself).
How does yeast modification actually work?
>only you don't know what it's called, where to download it, or how to write the code.

>you've never used this.

What next? You've asked for an example of powerful typesystem, here, you got it. Other examples are SPARK, Coq, Liquid Haskell, Idris, C++20, Agda.
Changed my mind on OO after seeing how difficult it is for ordinary humans to design objects that can withstand the spec changes that are inevitable in any real project. Bad procedural code is a mess but bad object code can be completely irreparable.
And, from skimming the paper, they have literally divided companies into two groups, <35 and >35. It could be that one giant employer (like a hospital system) is the whole story.

A more subtle study would be to look for a discontinuity: expect that firms with 10, 30, 100, 1000 employees will behave differently, but anything which happens sharply at 35 (and changes in this time) can be more confidently attributed to the law. But this is obviously harder to do.
Does the ARM version hyperscan work well? Can you describe the detailed steps? Thanks
That's why you never give them your primary number. Have a burner phone. Or lease a SIM in the Philippines.
xkcdpass is also useful.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xkcdpass

https://xkcd.com/936/
For what it's worth, such password schemes usually include lockouts after small-N tries to prevent the passwords from being brute-forced from the outside, and an attacker with database-level access is probably going to use it not to compromise passwords but to directly change balances.

Not to excuse such password schemes - they're horrible, and banks need to get with the times - but if they were really so ineffective, their coffers would have been drained long ago.
From the screencaps it looks like surveillance systems used to monitor internet cafes and public access points where people must use their real ID to login, so it's a bit easier to link accounts to actual identities. A number of these IM suits are actually encrypted in transit that it's very unlikely that this level of interception is possible without a root certificate installed on the client machine.
I can imagine the cold sweat of reading this title when that is actually your password
Don’t try to deflect by putting words in my mouth.

> Not only in the West

How?
Many companies award salaries in fuzzy way where few good negotiators people negotiate themselves larger salaries then similarly performing rest. One would think that salary disclosure helps to close such gap among men themselves bringing average lower.
It still gives the same warning if you remove the phone number while TOTP is enabled. But I was able to remove and then set up TOTP based 2FA without a phone number.

I should add that removing the phone number didn't actually delete the number from my profile (who could have known?). You have to go into the Mobile tab and remove the phone number again.

All this despite me reluctantly adding my phone number just for 2FA. Dark patterns throughout the website.
I have lived in the UK, US and Sweden, and travel a lot to the Netherlands. There is an awful lot of difference in the 0.2 in those numbers. Just saying this, as it can be deceptive. Sweden’s and Netherland’s infrastructure are certainly more developed than what we see in the UK and the US.
> Existing Dash buttons will continue to function “so long as the public keeps using them,” CNET says.

via https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245315/amazon-dash-butt...
What would be some good (economically viable) applications of this tech?
The article cites a 2.5% reduction in overall wages, and a 2.5% reduction in productivity. (Or one was 2.8, but close enough). Which sounds exactly like what you suggest: the most productive employees used to get other offers, and use them to ask for raises, and now they leave, or just slack off.
They were fun to hack around with, that's all I heard anyone using them for.
Neither the President nor the Pope have a considerable amount of power.

The office of the pres. was specifically designed to 'not be a king' and he's highly constrained by the other wings of government. The US was supposed to mostly about the states.

The Catholic Church generally gives a very wide berth as to the operational artifacts of Parishes. He's also to some extent a figurehead.

CEO means such different things at different scale, at different organizations, it's really hard to compare.

I suggest the issues may have a lot to do with short-term vs. long-term incentives.

Also - 'average' pay isn't so helpful when there are a few with massive, massive pay packages that skew all of the data.
Microservices are just SOA done right; services should have a single responsibility, be replaceable, have a schematic etc.
Its embarrassing to have your sovereign government changing its policy for a social media company's data center.

We need to create our own jobs, give smart people a good reason to stop moving to the states.
>From 2003 to 2008, the gender pay gap at the reporting companies shrank 7 percent, from 18.9 percent down to 17.5 percent

Is this really a large enough effect size to justify such a headline?

>Our findings suggest that regulatory mandates on pay transparency, as a means to overcome biases against women in the workforce, may be effective in closing the gender pay gap.

No, they really do not. A potential reduction from 18.9% to 17.5% does not 'close the gender pay gap', and attempting to close such a gap in this manner to begin with just demonstrates a misunderstanding of what confounding variables cause it to begin with.
This reminds me of the conspiracy theory which claims that the government is putting chemicals in the water supply to keep people docile and controllable.