skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there is evidence that Assange delivered cracked passwords to Manning, I'm sure that people will change their minds and agree with you. But that is not what the indictment claims.

The indictment claims that Assange was guilty of conspiracy to crack the password, not that he actually cracked the password. Conspiracy is a crime in itself. He didn't have to deliver anything to Manning to be guilty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)

> The indictment cites Assange saying, "no luck so far" [emphasis mine] after asking some questions about the stuff Manning is sending him.

That's evidence that he took actions to further the conspiracy. The "so far" indicates he was attempting something at the time.
Url please.
This is what I do but I work for myself. Withholding is easier as most people would prefer to watch Tom Brady throw touchdowns vs manage their money.
Is a world where we build n+1 billion tv's for n+1 billion people better than a world with n billion people and tv's?
The Fargate Illusion
There were private messages of Assange saying he wanted the GOP to win because they wouldn't be able to get anything done, which is a hint about how he feels for US government.

Maybe it's just a coincidence that they only leaked Russian-hacked emails from the GOP opponent who was critical of WikiLeaks while ignoring ongoing stories about Russia itself and remaining silent on the many GOP scandals.

They were also really critical of the Panama Papers leak which exposed several cases of corruption, but again it was probably just a coincidence those were more of a condemnation of Russian oligarchs than Western intelligence.
If you can be flexible when you travel there are some cheap fares to be had (like Leeds to Southampton for £62 First Class) but, at peak times it is a different story, especially if you buy a ticket on the same day of travel.

The real problem is that so many people need to travel within a narrow time window.

Also, in the south, lots of people are commuting 100 miles or more each way because they can't afford to live near where they work.

Rail travel in the UK is a victim of its own success in a perverse kind of way.
That's awesome!

Food waste seems so very easily preventable. Take what you want, but eat what you take. Composting what's left over is an awesome idea.
> All that effort is better focused on committing legal white collar crimes, via plausible deniability and in person conversations that aren’t recorded.

We've got about 5 minutes before "in person conversations that aren't recorded" are a historical artifact.
Also, the straight line distance between two points can often be misleading when used to estimate driving distances depending on the topography of the area. It just depends on how important accurate driving distance is for the use case.
Philippine Negritos have high Denisovan %:

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/9/8/2013/3952725

Malaysian and Andamanese Negritos don't.
Ensnaring the innocent is a feature. Cops are happy to have opportunities to prosecute people for other stuff later on, or have someone take a guilty plea even if they didn't do it. It looks good for them. Not to mention fines for missing court dates (to keep your job, or because you don't have transportation).
Create a good config file format and transpile that to a bad config file format for use in an application? I dunno I would rather just have the application use a decent config file format in the first place.

It's just a config file, no need to overthink this with translation layers IMO.
Their approach of strapping a booster to a plane always seemed misguided to me. If the first step in designing a new rocket is to also design a new airplane, and the largest in the world at that, then I think you are throwing money and engineering time away. You now have _two_ really hard problems to solve instead of one.

But I have to say that after seeing what SpaceX has done I am now much more positive and supportive about moonshot ideas instead of being dismissive. So, at any rate, kudos to Stratolaunch!
Sort of an aside, but I do sort of wonder what goes into the decision to go with Freescale/QNX as opposed to allwinner/rockchip/MTK and Android in this application. Surely the cost would be similar or less, and the performance could potentially be better?
WikiLeaks turned down leaks on Russian Government during U.S. Presidential Campaign - https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
You’re well within your right to buy a Tesla, modify it to the moon and back, and use it independently however you want. I hate Tesla as a company and I’m a strong supporter of these rights, but I stop at claiming that businesses have an obligation to continue supporting a product with unknown arbitrary modifications.

To the extent that a product is designed to only operate efficiently (or at all) with continued access to manufacturer services, it’s probably a bad idea to disqualify yourself from that access. But there are only two ways to solve that, either A) disallow the sale of products that rely on first-party services, or B) requiring manufacturers to uphold their end of the services contract while you do god-knows-what with your end of it (the product). Neither of these is the clear moral high ground that hacker types seem to think they achieve in this argument.
It is, actually. Unless you have figured out some previously-unknown way to successfully educate the entire population to be financially responsible?
Eight orders of magnitude pressure difference,
not likely in one generation.
The reality of being a junior software engineer at a small startup
I think it's the writing sample at the bottom that attracts the concern. I thought the content was beautiful in its' capacity to evoke emotion. The typeface definitely added something to it.

What was the cursive block before it in? Out of curiosity.

First time I've ever noted typeface really making a difference in how I read something, so just curious.
I love that "ct" ligature so much! Also "st". Sometimes you find "sc".

I persuaded the author of Linux Libertine to add the first two as "historical" alternatives.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25118/is-there-a...
Dhall is a good example of a "programmable" configuration file format. It's based on System F, which means you get no-nonsense abstraction (in the LC sense) without any pain. It really helps to be built on something conceptually robust instead of ad-hoc whims. Oh and it has a static type system. Quite nice!
In a case like this where he ended up getting released a week later and experienced extreme hardship, you'd think he could've gotten out on bail (even if there was an ankle tracker or something). Instead in most regions, bail and trackers are both revenue-generators for the people involved, so people rot in jail for no reason.

Imagine if the person wrongly imprisoned in jail has a kid or parent to care for, not only is that dependent abandoned for a week but afterward there's no money to feed them with. It's truly inhumane.
I'm taking the "Manners and Means Section" to be equivalent to "these are the acts that taken together constitute the crime." That is the context of my post.

If you don't agree with this, what do you take that to mean?

The "Purpose and Object of the Conspiracy" section is not a collection of acts that constitute the conspiracy. It's the objective of the conspiracy. An objective is not an act.

I agree that actually attempting to crack a password so that a source can cover his/her tracks is beyond the actions of a journalist.

And as far as "collaborate in advance" not being a journalistic activity- do you not consider "cultivating sources"[1] to be a core journalistic activity?

Let's say a source/whistleblower reaches out to an NYT journalist. They communicate over "Signal" an encrypted chat. The source worries about being detected in passing the confidential material they've obtained. The NYT journalists assists the source by providing a link to this NYT article "How to tell us a secret"[2].

You could then remove the second half of section 18- add in some other part about the journalist conspiring to assist the source in covering his/her tracks, and reuse this indictment.

That's the threat to journalism.

[1] https://ijnet.org/en/story/developing-and-cultivating-source...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/reader-center/confidentia...
Yeah, it's a matter of personal choice.

My choice was to forgo any hobbies unless they are somehow useful for programming, ignore most of being "well-informed citizen of the world", ignore the whole mating and breeding business and to focus solely on programming at first, then on programming-related fields that picked up my curiousity. I'm still competent enough in other programming- and work-related areas - at least I've never been told otherwise - but, indeed, half of what you write about is nonexistent in my life.

Actually, if there was a monastery for programmers, with ascetic lifestyle and good broadband connection to the Internet, I'd go there in a heartbeat.

OTOH, I don't think you'd need to go to such lengths normally. As a programmer, you'll be working for 40 years at least, right? 30 minutes of reading a day will eventually get you to the respectable N (if you choose this particular field), it'll just take longer.

The OP said the fact that he learned multiple languages makes him fall behind his peers in coding tasks. I'm saying that he would have no such problems had he learned these languages in-depth and it's perfectly possible to do so. I admitted immediately that the effort needed for this is at least substantial, no disagreement here - I just pointed out that, after that initial effort of consistently learning N languages for 2*N years, the following languages become very easy to pick up. That's it :)
Is there any indication that past board members managed to reign in any of Facebook's less acceptable decisions anyway?

I get the impression there are few (if any) limits laid down as far as what Facebook does or doesn't do.
According to Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data#usage-1), both are correct.

> Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (such as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (such as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (such as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard. The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.
Beyond this in some areas due to lack of funding & supply there aren't even enough public defenders. It can take people weeks to get one at all and the one they get will barely have enough time to represent them.
It's so exhausting being a developer nowadays. Do this, do that. Do this, don't do this. This is right, this is wrong. Everyone has an opinion. Who is right? Who is wrong?

I don't even like the term "best practice" nowadays. 9 times out of 10 it's an opinion on a best practice.

I prefer to just get shit done, do my best what's right, learn from great colleagues and peers on the job, and filter out the majority of this noise.
> But in the world we live in, YAML parsers don't have security features like this.

I'm the author of the "yaml" npm package, and would be interested to hear more precisely what security features you'd wish for a YAML parser to have. In other words, if there's one I've missed, I'd like to fix that.

https://eemeli.org/yaml/
No good config file format will allow you to share common shared values across all of the formats. That database host everything uses? You'll have to copy paste it everywhere or use a template engine to generate all of the formats.

If you only have one application then it's overkill. When you have 10's of applications it's a life saver.
I think we need to stop saying “As someone who believes in Global Warming”. It is as ridiculous as saying “As someone who believes in theory of gravitation”.

It somehow perpetuates an awareness that Global Warming is optional to believe in. The belief part is off the table.

Same thing with debates about whether earth is flat or earth is 6000 years old. The fact that these debates take place gives undue credibility to the non-scientific opposition and elevates to the same stage as the scientific views.
How do you propose to sustainably support 7.5 Billion people on this "tiny" planet without engineering?
I can't say I've ever heard of a company "installing" employees instead of hiring them. Is there a joke here that I'm missing?
Claims that Assange assisted Manning with hacking the documents released by Wikileaks are obviously false. Those claims are inconsistent with the indictment and the publicly-released evidence such as the Manning-Lamo chat logs. There is no public evidence that Assange conspired with Manning to get those materials.

All you are alleging here is conspiracy with regards to targeting of a separate server that was never hacked. If that is the case then evidence can be certainly presented with regards to it, but the burden is on the prosecution not the defense and the statements alleged as regards it do not seem to indicate much beyond a vague excuse for inaction.
and system isn't rocket science, it's been coded by good engineers knowing the limit thus gives you a good abstraction for you to learn it quickly.
that is, get hands dirty and start coding.
Look at those who were _so_ good at Novell's NetWare admin goes?
Loot at those who were _so_ good at openstack goes?
And no more longer, you can see those who were _so_ good at k8s goes XD
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I felt this way until I asked a tax accountant who said that the majority of taxpayers are just not capable of this discipline, planning, or in some cases math.
What would you recommended first? I'm also self-taught, just JavaScript, typescript and react and a tiny bit of shell scripting. Job never asks for anything more, but I want to get better at designing, engineering, and building scaleable webapps. So more towards "full stack" I guess.

Haskell sounds super cool, but it seems like nobody really uses it to build things on the web. They mostly just talk about how it "helped them think".
I find it interesting you're being downvoted. I think your question is reasonable: why does XML suck "harder" than JSON? This just seems a bit faddish to me. Things like namespaces and attribute/child distinction in XML are super annoying ... until you really need them in your ML (JSON, in this case). Then, suddenly, you're reinventing a wheel, hoping all of your downstream tools 'agree' on the behavior.
That just indicates that metal recycling is super advantageous, to be profitable even with the abnormally low price of energy.
Damn space aliens
So because I put information in a digital format, I cannot own it? Even if I only put it on my hardware and encrypt it etc? If you hack into my stuff and get my information, it isn't criminal because We All Own the Bits??
Xiamen has geographical benefits, lots of wind blowing any pollution out into the ocean. Not to mention that they have a lot of nice colonial architecture as well.
But with a complex system. How would you know where the bottleneck is if you don’t know how to instrument your entire system and how would you know the possible solutions?
LOL! There's nothing more beautiful than a homeless guy taking a dump in the middle of the side walk.
Freescale and Motorola before it have had a long history of supplying microcontrollers for automotive applications. I'm not sure the other companies even have the extended temperature range components which are required for automotive use.
It's widely accepted that if I modify my vehicle mechanically causing to to become unsafe, it is my fault. Not news, at least for 100 years. Driving assistance software has not yet earned the same presumption of initial safety.

Its also more technically feasible to prevent modification, and speaking as a fellow road user, I think I'd rather you run with stock firmware.
this criticism, while accurate, is just utterly pointless sophistry. yes news articles are not infographic packed reports, nor are they academic research papers. your overdeveloped contrarian reflex is an impedance mis-match here.

it is well past time to make a conscious decision of which side of the 'debate' you choose to lend your voice to. regardless of what caveats you may put up front.
Further reading:

* Blog post: https://openai.com/blog/openai-five-finals/

* Live tweets: gdb at https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1117106896610058240, psyho at https://twitter.com/FakePsyho, mtrc at https://twitter.com/mtrc, nickstatt at https://twitter.com/nickstatt
Because it doesn't match the reports I got from people living in Belgium, France and Spain.
Effectively ya, officially no. Zhejiang is rich in general.
Funnily enough, it also has Harrison Ford in it as well (one of the earlier films he was in).
You're mixing up eras and reigns. The "Edo period" refers to the years when the shogunate ruled from Edo (today's Tokyo), during which there were over a dozen (notionally) reigning emperors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_of_Japanese_...
True, not because it's 2019 but due to Project Treble's GenericSystemImages that cleanly separate OEM (Samsung, Sony, Lenovo) and silicon-vendor (Broadcom, Qualcomm, Mediatek) related blobs from the Android subsystem, such that the Android bits could be changed or updated independent of vendor support.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/an-update-...
> So, for example, they'd get 1% if they sold it for $500k because even a "for sale" sign written in crayon in front of the house would sell it, but then 6% on the amount between $500k and $750k, and a juicy 18% or whatever on the price above $750k. But does anybody actually do this?

The problem is that doesn't really fix it. You want them to get the $800K even though the $750K offer walks in the first month. But the $750K offer nets them $20,000. The $800K offer nets them $29,000 -- 45% more to get a ~7% higher price, but for doing 500% more work. So they still take the $750K the first month and then spend the other 5 months selling five more houses for $750K each.

In theory you could make the math severe enough work out the other way, e.g. they get 0% for the first $750K and then 50% of anything over it. But then the problem you have is valuing the base price appropriately. If you set it at $800K then they don't even bother trying to sell your house, but if you set it at $600K then they're back to being better off to sell six houses in six months for $750K each instead of one for $800K, and you end up paying them a very large commission for the privilege.
Board members are not employees. Alford works for PayPal for example.
There are social conditions in other species that can result in extinction of a population group, despite ample resource availability. That's what Calhoun's rat population sink experiments were about.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/pdf/pro...

I don't disagree that the number of human beings on this planet is unsustainable, but I also wonder if there are underlying social pathologies that immigration is only temporarily masking. If we can generalize social behavior (and maybe we can't - but if so, "humans have reason" is not why) in mammals at all, Calhoun's experiments are certainly very alarming.
I get this, and also that it's to help prevent the sticker shock of taxes that can lead to serious backlash. With that said, America is not supposed to be a place where the Nanny State must step in to manage people's lives for them simply because they can't do it themselves. I and my fellow citizens should not have to lose money simply because others choose to waste money.

I like the comment lotsofpulp made below: "The solution to people’s inability to save is not for the government to hold their money hostage."
This seems like a ridiculous chart. First of all, no homeless people or animals want to eat leaf litter, moldy vegetables, or coffee grounds. Second of all, the only inputs to my garden are water, sunlight, and compost, so as far as I'm concerned composting garden scraps is net zero at worst.
Install is a correct verb for board members and other high level executives, this isn’t unique to Facebook or even this decade.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
It's a common English phrase. It just means he put them into place.
Perhaps there is a middle ground between "engineering everything" and "without engineering".
on ios, if you have a pihole set up, you can use dnscloak[1] to block advertising and tracking servers. (alternatively you can use one of the servers listed in the app by default if you care to trust someone else's dns server.)

you can set it to 'connect on demand', ie always on mode, at the cost of a bit of battery (not enough for me to be bothered). it acts as a vpn but only for your dns queries. afaik this is the best single step privacy option on ios at the moment.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/i...
Delphi was never 'big', it was merely different and had some interest from the 'Borland' name being attached to it. Now they're not called Borland noone gives a shit about delphi.
At the level of average employees the company has all the power, but in the higher levels of corporate governance (the board) there is some element of pluralism. The design is set up to avoid autocrats, which is why CEOs can get fired.
Interestingly, support for railways being owned and run by the state seems to be a popular policy among voters in many European countries.

Below is a link to is a YouGov poll from November 2018 (see the second-to-last question).

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inline...

Every country polled had support for state-owned railways above 50%. The exceptions were Germany and the US. Of course, you have to view these polls with caution - it's a snapshot in time. Nevertheless, it's interesting that even in countries perceived to have reliable and affordable railways, support for state-run railways is high.
Modern tracking is fundamentally a product of executing hostile code on your own device. The idea is to never put apps that have built in or will otherwise facilitate surveillance on the more secure devices. This includes a javascript browser, due to its unwieldy attack surface.

Separate devices draw a line in the sand, rather than just accepting amorphous insecurity as inevitable. And then you can work on slowly moving your usage patterns away from the surveillance-foregone devices.
No, all I am saying is that you cannot equate "breaking and entering" to "decrypting a file". The two are fundamentally different. If you want to deal with crimes pertaining to decryption, you deal with them after the fact based on the actions and their broader context. So in this case, the action is "publishing". Whether publishing is legal or not is governed by different laws.
> Lately I've confirmed its because they know exactly 1 language , but they know it so well & in so much depth, they know exactly where to look, the right mcmc library, the right slice sampler, the right optimizer, that's what matters.

That sounds like your "issue" isn't knowing too many languages but that you don't know any one language as in depth as they do though?

I don't see why you'd want to unlearn anything.. doesn't that knowledge only help?

I think there are benefits to learning more languages but also support the idea you should have at least one you're super comfortable with.. thats not mutually exclusive!
European trains a great. I wish Europe would be more positive about the future and build more modern trains. Why no self coupling train cars that go to different destinations?

Good news, recently on HN. I love night trains!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19557848

As always: http://seat61.com/