skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be shocked at how nonchalant and downright negligent people can be about security at even the largest companies in the US. I did consulting work at a large insurance company that had the contact information, ssn, and PHI of pretty much everyone in the America (and I mean everyone). I lost track of the number of times people checked in the production password into git. In fact our production cassandra instance still was using the default cert password 'changeit' when I left. Unsurprisingly, this company was filled with contract workers and H1B workers that were barely able (if at all) to get their work done.
Wonder how this would have worked out during the two elections where Ross Perot pulled in a decent share of the vote.
FTA:

> def _(n):
> if n <= 0:
> return n
> else:
> return (_(n - 1) + _(n - 2))
>
> for i in range(0, 20):
> print(_(i))

> It's fairly simple and recognisable code. A simple recursive algorithm for printing the first 20 Fibonacci numbers.

That’s obfuscated enough to confuse the author; that program doesn’t print the first 20 Fibonacci numbers, but their negatives :-)

Some simple fixes:

- change line 2 to "if n <= 1:"

- change line 3 to "return -n”

The obfuscated version (https://gist.githubusercontent.com/shakna-israel/03172c2c06e...), for me, is worse. It prints

-3
-4
-7
-11
…

(tried both python 2.7.16 and python3 3.7.4)
Thanks - will sort
Yep, it is flawed and, conversely, can be gamed with unintuitive choices. Yet, it is an improvement nonetheless just because fewer people get an outcome they liked less.
Securing Apache Airflow UI with DAG Level Access
It depends on what you're doing. If you're writing sorting algorithms, it's not far from Java (C++, really, but). If you're writing something multi-threaded, or asynchronous, or with polymorphism, it's very different. If you're writing data structures that involve pointer-juggling, it's extremely different unless you bail out and use unsafe!{}.
Yeah, this is a legitimate concern.

For any project that makes a decent amount of money, we'll do our best to make sure the proceeds find their way back to the OSS maintainers who deserve credit.

Thanks!
YES. I didn't even know that nomenclature before you said it... I employ an ELK and TIG stack for a huge part of what I do. You can very much say that I "process mine" my own process. I also have a ton of regex capability that's often employed to rip through large datasets to extract key data.

Lots of times I have to measure certain things before I begin to fix a problem, and the above stated tooling (typically ran in Docker containers) has really really helped with that.

I have dashboards, warnings, circuit breakers, etc etc. that all help me monitor complex processes, and that help me react to ongoing changes (ex: when a 3rd-party website updates their DOM).
@audiosampling: Is there a way to get these on the iOS myNoise app?
IRV produces a direct improvement in the politics in that it promotes coalition-building among minor candidates to defeat better-equipped competition: "vote for me and for this guy too".

That means that instead of everyone running alone and mudslinging each other, which gives voters little narrative to work with(which in turn tends to lead towards the incumbents and partisan votes winning) there's more time and space going towards specific issues and platforms that consensus can be built around.

As a voting system there are certainly better ones in terms of the vote itself, but having experienced the change I now think that the impact on consensus-building is an worthy criterion too.
>they have "Bible" in their museum name, and that gets all the bigots out in arms.

Your post admits they broke the law.

It's not bigoted to insist rich, religious people follow the low.

The opposite in fact: it's the height of entitlement for a group that holds oversized sway on the political process to refuse to obey the few laws that exist to stymie them.
I think you may be reading a different WSJ than I am
Not exactly the same, but in the 90's we almost split up Microsoft to two separate divisions: a company that builds the operating system, and a company that builds user-space applications.

This was because, during the browser wars of the 90s, Microsoft was purposefully gimping competing browsers at the OS level like Netscape Navigator so as to encourage people to use Internet Explorer.
However it will change the political landscape.

If each state sends representatives according to proportional voting, we would quickly see other parties gaining some seats.

Those other parties will probably grow and even gain seats in the senate. At some point you won't need the support of all parties to break a fillibuster.
My understanding is that Estonia's tech push has some "great PR" but very little substance, and some of my friends' experiences, as well as some other HN commenters on this thread, seem to agree.
> I'd rather things be direct. I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product).

You don't have that choice - what happens is you pay and become the product. Cable TV used to be ad-free, since you paid for it, then they figured out they can make more money selling ads. There are ads on the buses and subways, even though you have to pay for tickets. Windows 10 shows you ads and spies on you, yet you have to pay for it. You pay for a TV, yet 'smart' features get included, that spy on you and show you ads. You pay for a movie ticket, yet have to sit through 20 minutes of ads before the movie starts.
Thanks for the explanation! Do you have any info on how electing multiple winners works out in practice? Seems like it essentially shifts the complexity of disagreement from the ballot box to the halls of legislature... does it end up with more positive compromise to get things done, or more gridlock and stalemates? Do initiatives take more or less time to enact? Any effects on approval ratings?
As the current American President has shown, treaties and obligations only go so far. That destruction of trust may be the most lasting damage that he causes.
Another thing: even if placebo "works" the effect is much smaller than the effect of proper treatment (that is actually the prerequisite for FDA approval for drugs and treatments that clinical trials must prove). So, if by selling placebo you're discouraging patient from seeing doctor and getting actual treatment then you are in a way harming them.
Definitely very reasonable feedback and the self-hosted option is something we're considering.

Would love to chat with you more about what you'd build with a self-hosted version if you wanna connect.

Thanks!
Is Bernie Madoff running Softbank from prison?
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Wish HN did something like this monthly. 24 year old, software engineer here.
Adult Day Cares in the Rio Grande Valley
New Yorker here. Instant Run-Off Voting is terrible and I will happily be voting against this when it comes to ballot.

Also, the NYT Editorial Board can't seem to keep a consistent line on this issue:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/us/a-critical-spotlight-s...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/ranked-choice-vot...
80-90% of what I do doesn't have an API. If there's an API that's functional enough you're darn straight I'm going to be using that vs. Puppeteer, etc!
Listen to New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio rape and kill five boys in Buffalo on January 14, 2019.

Download the video link below, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. See page 35 in the PDF.

14JanCh3_2100-2300.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yolCgVtY5b8d8YDcshwb-Yd3kS0Jg-Bk/view?usp=sharing

Excerpts from the audio of the dialogue (number on left is video time in the upper right):

2102 Gigi Hadid: Why the fuck are we giving you five kids DeBlasio?
2102 Bill DeBlasio: Jesus Christ because I asked for them.
2123 Bill DeBlasio rapes and kills his first child of the night.
2123 Bill DeBlasio: I can't believe I killed the little bastard.
2128 ?: Oh God (FBI) Rapinoe is coming down the street (seen in front of 307 Summer headed in the direction of Ashland Avenue Apartments).
2130 Tara: Rapinoe is fuckin furious.
2134 Christopher Porter: A fifth child has died at the hands of Bill DeBlasio.
2134 Matthew Porter: Thing is Bill [DeBlasio] didn't even want the fifth one, but he did it anyway because that's how bad he wants to be a part of the Illuminati.
2135 Bill DeBlasio: [regarding Illuminati 'ownership' of DeBlasio] ...seriously, you already owned me with $100 million dollars.
2137 Bill DeBlasio: I think I figured out what you're doing. You want me to go on record saying I killed five kids. But here I am on video so what difference does it make? I killed five kids by raping them. Does that fucking work for you?
2137 Donald Reeves: That'll do Bill thank you.
2138 Bill DeBlasio: Now where is that little minx I'll finish off with her.
2138 Gigi Hadid: So he just fucked five kids and killed them now I have to finish him off?
2138 Patricia Porter: Gigi is gonna finish [DeBlasio] off. She has to do that.

This is the tip of the iceberg. Full 84 page document [updated 9Sep]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...
OK, let's say we institute this cap. The obvious thing to do then is to spawn off officially-separate parties that can nominate more candidates for you. You could outlaw that, I suppose, but now we're getting into the area of things you need a judge to adjudicate, and, well... yeah.

Anyway yeah you see where I'm going with this. When I say "party", that's shorthand -- I'm not talking about literal party organizations. The teaming problem is just that having a bunch of candidates that are similar to each other increases the chance that one of them will win; it's the opposite of the vote-splitting problem, where having similar candidates decreases the chance that any of them will win. This problem doesn't require a formal party organization in order to manifest; strategic nomination is still possible.

Ideally one wants a voting system that is "cloneproof", i.e., has neither of these problems. (IRV is cloneproof, actually, but it has other glaring problems -- most notably its lack of monotonicity.)
Human in the loop machine learning. All the successful big players use it, but pretend it is all ML. Merely making the human explicit and finding the best trade-off between human and algorithm can do wonders for machine learning.

Plus it has better optics than "AI WILL EAT YER JORBZ". In this case human in the loop ML inherently creates jobs as an essential element.
I assuming running = owning, not managing. Subtle maybe in practice but not in revenue.
Isn't this what for a short while was called robotics, but now is mostly referred to as RPA? It sounds like you are competing with things like Blueprism.

These things are really a big deal within large organisations.
It's actually true of Pizza Hut right now. I had to call in an order because the online form didn't have the option I wanted, and the operator on the other end definitely wasn't even in the same state I was.

I agree though, it was very surprising.
It's a parody of Gundam and other mecha anime.
Yes, but when? Stripe has been saying the same thing. They will support more countries, and yet, three years later they have yet to support many countries.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that a country can not be supported magically. What I'm against are these comments that are written with (what I believe to be) the best intentions.

But then it's posted, and the person who read it, years later is left with a bad taste in his/her mouth.
I think it's more of a remnant of a primary-employer-as-patron model of thinking that still permeates much of modern society as something of an echo of feudal social relations than a “desperare ploy” to do anything, but otherwise I agree with your characterization of it as a displacement of social responsibility onto a private actor that is both poorly positioned to carry it out (in that any greater effort of them to do so to their employees would probably reduce the number of employees and increase the total unmet social burden) and lacking incentive to do so.
Have you read up on the system? Do you genuinely believe that it has been deliberately designed to be confusing?
Marie Byrd Land (Antartica)
> according to piwik my website had 23% more visitors than on GA

A fair share of that is probably because GA is much better at identifying the same user across multiple browsers / devices. If they identify two browsers as the same person on site A, they can know they're the same person on site B, even if site B on its own doesn't have enough to figure it out (so piwik can't know it).
Yes, the fundraising campaign is for engineering work for a PPC motherboard for an existing laptop chassis.

I would also prefer sending them money in exchange for a physical product, but they're not at that point yet. They're asking for €24,000 which honestly seems a little low to cover the engineering work for an almost completely new laptop MB.
I did answer, but you weren't paying attention.

GNU/Linux security is better than ChromeOS because the updates are guaranteed for longer than six years, if one buys a laptop from someone like System76, or plenty of small Linux shops, it can be properly configured with encryption, LinuxSE, Flatpak/Snap/whatever.

Windows is a proper OS and its cloud offerings are not new.
I believe OP means running a fast food joint as the owner, not a manager employee.

Granted I don't know anything about that business, a quick google search comes up with an article from 2015 saying running a McDonald's provides an average annual profit of $150k so it sounds about in the right ballpark range: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/mcdonalds-franchise-cost-vs-prof...
> Autohotkey

Yep I've had to employ this software to get things done before. Also OCR doesn't need a cloud vs. a beefy computer - I do a lot of that too.
A mini-guide – Middleware, and how it works in Go
Indeed it does not. I'm just not clear on how one postpones a cataclysmic devaluation.
My side project is AutoMicroFarm (https://automicrofarm.com). Currently working on https://edible.estate/
It's describing the progression of the plot of the original anime. The anime becomes more of a psychological thriller towards the end in a very fantastic way. I recommend watching it if you haven't.
Listen to President Donald Trump demand a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to "turn a blind eye" on January 3, 2019. Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. (See Page 63) Bribe demand @1018am:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...

This is the tip of the iceberg. PDF link below:

Full 84 page document [updated 9Sep]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...

You might want to save this post. It will be censored when this account logs off.

Earlier at 11:27, New York Senator Charles Schumer checks in on the Porter camera system. "We're jerking off to Brian Schlenker, we want you to join us." says Matthew Porter. "Obviously I can't jerk off with you, but I can keep watching him in the apartment." replies Senator Schumer, who also comments: "...crazy that you expect me to stay here while you jerk off. As crazy as this shit is, it's pretty fucking funny." Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Video link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwsxQhi1I26w5PhNhPfmMLfcELX...

That was from page 57 of this 84 page PDF, that gives the same audio of wealthy high profile child rapists incriminating themselves. It keeps getting censored, but they will eventually have to face justice. Please get this around:

Full 84 page document [updated 9Sep]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...
boomsaas looks promising :)

One of my core beliefs is that there won't be a single solution to the problem of OSS sustainability, and I'm excited to see other talented devs like yourself tackling the problem as well!
How many people are commenting here because the color of this badge meaningfully affects them? The debate on this post is happening because it's easy to have an opinion, not because there is anything of significance to be gained here.

From the wikipedia above: "...everyone can visualize a cheap, simple bicycle shed, so planning one can result in endless discussions because everyone involved wants to add a touch and show personal contribution."
Given that search data is not very valuable after 3 months I suppose the other data is less valuable after the same time. This may prompt some users to help google out by deleting their old less valuable data when they get near their limits, or if not they may help Google out with some money for storing old data that otherwise is not valuable for Google.
Charles Moore: Man on Fire
Functional Programming Paradigms in Our Persistence Layer
I'm working on starting my own business with SDRs, radio, and the final area of hacking.

SigInt.

How do you protect yourself and your company from the myriad of radios and devices and BYOD policies? Can you keep up with what's talking over radio? Do you know what's secure and what's not? Do you want to not only find bad devices, but locate them in your facility?

Do you also want to detect radio attacks that originate in or out of your facility? Or, do drones disturb you?

That's what I'm working on.
I agree with you that IRV is confusing, especially because it is non-monotonic (meaning it can actually help you to vote insincerely). Considerably better and easier would be approval voting, where you simply vote in approval of as many candidates as you want.

Just change the ballot from saying "vote for one" to say "vote for as as many as you like."
A large number of people moving to this network means a majority of the internet is routed via the United States. Local service providers will die out and in the end the internet is owned and operated by one corporation which is willing/required to hand over anything to the state. Total surveillance, total control. This is a nightmare.
Having used Rust for several months, I'd say that multithreading is still one of the biggest pain points (strangely, as it's also one of their headline features). The only thing I've encountered so far that's harder is pointer-juggling data structures, but at least in that case you can mostly just use the (excellent) ones in the standard library.

The "crossbeam" library helps a lot: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.7.2/crossbeam/ It's the only way I know of to have thread closures with a less-than-static lifetime, which helps a ton with borrowing/moving and also general encapsulation: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.7.2/crossbeam/fn.scope.html.

Once you get the hang of it you can move forward pretty well, but the ergonomics around Rust concurrency, especially in the standard library, really need some work if they're going to continue focusing on it in their marketing materials.
> On March 6, 2013, Holder testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the size of large financial institutions has made it difficult for the Justice Department to bring criminal charges when they are suspected of crimes, because such charges can threaten the existence of a bank and therefore their interconnectedness may endanger the national or global economy. "Some of these institutions have become too large," Holder told the Committee, "It has an inhibiting impact on our ability to bring resolutions that I think would be more appropriate.

> Prosecution rates against crimes by large financial institutions are at 20-year lows. Holder has also endorsed the notion that prosecutors, when deciding to pursue white-collar crimes, should give special consideration to "collateral consequences" of bringing charges against large corporate institutions, as outlined in a 1999 memorandum by Holder. Nearly a decade later Holder, as head of the Department of Justice, put this into practice and has demonstrated the weight "collateral consequences" has by repeatedly sought and reached deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements and settlements with large financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC, Countrywide Mortgage, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and others where the institution pays a fine or penalty but faces no criminal charges and admits no wrongdoing. Whereas in the previous decade the Bush administration's Department of Justice often sought criminal charges against individuals of large institutions regardless of "collateral consequences" such as cases involving Enron, Adelphia Communications Corporation, Tyco International, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder#Criminal_investiga...
I think the people behind "trustlessness" should have chosen a better word. When people that are not familiar with crypto hear trustless, they can associate the solution with the common definition: "not worthy of trust; faithless; unreliable; false". I.e. the solution isn't reliable. I realize that the people behind it are trying to apply the world trustless to the problem they are solving, but that is definitely not clear from the quick soundbites people read.

source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trustless
Interesting, this must be relatively new. They introduce a slight modification to IRV that mitigates its artifacts. But you can see even in the video that some remain.

I'm not sure if or why people might feel more satisfied casting their votes as a partial ranking versus as a binary approval. But it seems like STAR works great for the former group, approval for the latter.
Is "the middle-of-the-road candidate wins" necessarily a feature when you're in a political environment that's been generally dragged far to the right of the rest of the world by decades of big business donating to right-wing candidates? Most "centrist" Dems feel more like the Repubs of my youth these days.
For values of "Doing perfectly well" that encompass "Killing 30,000 people a year."
The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash [video]
I'm quite familiar with Instant Runoff Voting (“Ranked Choice Voting” is a bad name that attempts to usurp the entire space of ranked-choice methods, of which it is very nearly the worst) and, whether intentional or not, the loser-elimination step makes it needlessly chaotic and produces worse outcomes than dropping that step and simply choosing first (and, if tied there, farthest).past the election quota without loser-elimination.
Reaction Engines Test Programme Fully Validates Precooler at Hypersonic Heat
I live 20 minutes from Nesebar. Looking forward into researching this a little more. Thank you for sharing this.
Yep! I'm effectively a boutique provider of such services.
Crispr upgrade could make genome editing better and safer
>Also blame borrowers defaulting.

Forgive my ignorance, but wasn't the subprime crisis so scandalous precisely because bankers were recklessly pushing mortgages on people who couldn't pay?
Solid comment. How do you deal with getting the knowledge of the process out of the people you are trying to leave without a job? That must be rough.