skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has worked in the security field the desire to want to help people is still overwhelming. I love PenTests and have had successful ones run on me even when I was vigilant and in the testers faces.

The key reason why I think most confidence penetrations work is because in most cases the "system" doesn't work smoothly enough to not have usability issues. So when you know of credible people who are vetted but are still not "in the system" that becomes an instance of the "system" not working.

Then, inevitably in the few boundary cases where it doesn't work, you get to the point that you know how it will break and will wave over anyone in that specific sitution. If someone knows of these specific "breaks" then by definition they will exploit those knowing that it is a common issue.

If however you stick to the "I don't care what you say, you aren't in the system" then you are now "the inflexible security nazi." Security really is an ethos and it takes only a few pinpricks to make it crumble.
If you don't notice that you're out 20K... you should probably just give your money to a financial planner instead.
Video: Apple Thunderbolt Monitor Starts to Smoke
> In the USA certain constitutional crises betwixt Presidents and Congress have led to civil war

The US has only had one civil war, and it wasn't a result of a Constitutional crisis between the President and the Congress.
A very related link to a project I'm unaffiliated with, but which I've been aware of for some time: Homicide Watch. It follows homicides in DC (largely shooting related) from incident through trial and the wider ramifications. Politico-journo-techno-mashup. http://homicidewatch.org/
IMO the Unix philosophy of reuse is vital for data analysis. I recommend that people in this space learn to use the interactive shell and shell scripts well. I saw a comment that said "Shell is a REPL for C", which I think is quite pithy.

People think too much about reusing R packages or Python packages. In my experience you can get things done a lot faster if you factor things into programs and not libraries. This lets you use multiple languages, and all real world analysis problems need multiple languages. (If you're only using one language, then you're likely only working on part of the problem).

Right my toolset is Python, C++, and R, coordinated with shell scripts. I still like R for quick plotting, and of course data frames are essential, but I'm playing with Pandas now, which seems impressive. I don't think Python will ever catch up to R in terms of statistical functions, but in terms of plotting/munging/data frames it might.

In the future there will be more languages, not less (Julia will add to the number of languages, not replace any). So being able to decompose a problem into separate, reasonably generic, programs is an important skill IMO. Most data analysis pipelines are a huge mess, but they don't have to be.
Whites are smarter than blacks, according to IQ tests too. That's why IQ testing is discredited now.
I doubt it's actual job offers. More like recruiter spam. But even if it was true, I doubt the enthusiasm towards offering a job to a woman they've never and know little to nothing about could be considered positive. Hitting on job candidates isn't good for women's perception of the tech industry.

But if it was recruiters? I work in tech and get spammed by recruiters all the time. I don't really think it counts for a lot, since I didn't get any until I was already in tech.
This is a bold statement of fact. And while it's certainly incredible how many of the brands we see daily in stores and advertised represent the same economic interests, I don't think the assertion is born out by the article, as it stands. In particular, there is no data linking those brands to actual consumer buying. Or to put it more precisely, I'd like to know how much of the total market all of those brands command when you combine them all. I'd be looking for something like:

"In the US, total food spending in 2012 was 1T. The food brands in this list made 900B in revenue in the same year. Therefore, these 6 companies control 90% of everything the average American buys."

I'm pretty sure something like this is true, but without relating that brand chart to actual revenue and market size, you can't really say much about what the chart means.
Well actually, speak of the devil, I moved out of my last apartment specifically because my downstairs neighbors, who had lived there for years, were completely intolerable. If I could have waved a magic wand and replaced them with an AirBnB crash pad, I would have done so in an instant. Restrictions on short-term rentals are of little comfort when your long-term neighbors are worse. Then again, the arguments against short-term rentals go through just about as well for long-term rentals, so why not just restrict rental properties altogether? Many homeowners seek to avoid neighborhoods with high rental density, so why not make their jobs easier with a law?

As I said, there are plenty of attributes that make different houses more or less desirable to different people. If the OP had converted their apartment into a sarin gas factory or a practice pad for MBV, it might be a little more understandable why regulation would be efficient. As it stands, having a short-term rental next door strikes me as an extremely vague sort of source of disutility: all you can say with certainty is that you won't have long-term neighbors. Which many people are fine with in the first place. If people have varying preferences about living next to short-term rentals (either because they view them as a source of variety in se or just don't mind that much either way, as I do) then it should be more efficient to let people figure it out for themselves. People already self-assort into spatially resolved communities according to many other attributes (e.g. school quality, proximity to nightlife, population density; all attributes which reasonable people can value differently) so it seems strange to pick 'proximity to a short-term rental' as the one intangible neighborhood-character issue to treat like 'proximity to a meth lab'.

So let me just state again: I wouldn't mind living next to a short-term rental. In fact, if they're as widely despised as you suggest, I'd mind it even less because the housing market would be effectively subsidizing my tolerance.
Is this forever? Why are we just hearing about this now - and from a mallard?
I've spent my career thinking about these same issues. And certainly Fisher was, well, abrasive to put it mildly. I've read much of his early work and I think the intended context has mostly been lost. Many modern statisticians ( of the "frequentist" persuasion ) use a strange and awkward combination of fisherian and neyman-pearson. We talk about "p-values" but then interpret them as hypothesis tests with long-term error probabilities ( Fisher disavowed this interpretation of p-values, and insisted they did not have a long run probabilistic interpretation but were a measure only of evidence against the null in the particular experiment. ) I think Fisher gets a bad rap for a lot of later bastardization of his work. ( I'm sure it did not help that he was not a likable person, or his valid but misguided and testimony about tobacco. )

Still, I'm sympathetic to your position and can understand how you'd come to that way of thinking. I'm not convinced even a diehard Bayesian would completely disagree with Fisher's more restricted and stringent interpretation of p-values. Or at least they would see it as a big step up from the more common usage you are referencing.
Because people are not rational and may never reach that conclusion themselves?

I like to think that I am rational, but I still double check myself to make sure I'm not being sexist. Occasionally minor sexist behaviour or thinking still creeps in...
I never saw this before. I used to like walking past the old data center in the Rich Building at Georgia Tech. It was hard to imagine what it was like in its hay day with punch cards and all.
> This is absolutely the case.

Is it? Assuming users don't wish to hold BTC directly, the buys and sells should match up in the long run, and the only costs will be exchange fees.

Implementing international remittance will probably help bitcoin liquidity.
Basecamp is not open source.
Yes, it's hard to predict and the odds change every day, which makes it quite different from SatoshiDice or any casino game where the odds and rewards are in full display. It's also hard to predict which company is going to be the next Google and not get killed from the outside by a patent troll or would-be competitors who use the government to hammer down any new competition or something else, but a lot of VCs still make money regardless. I certainly wouldn't suggest anyone put all their eggs into the bitcoin basket, but mine and others' best guesses on the odds indicate the risks don't outweigh the potential rewards.
GE does not own Comcast or NBC. GE and Comcast once jointly owned NBC, that changed and now Comcast owns NBC. GE has no relation to either.
... in other news, Blockbuster says Netflix isn't ready for the national movie rental market yet.
What about COBOL?
Joel Gascoine and Leo Widrich from Buffer do. Essential part of their routine and business practice.
FWIW, I work helping the non-profit site www.thegivingmachine.co.uk. We give 2.25% of purchases tracked through our site from Amazon (plus some other retailers).

We also have a lot of other merchants signed up.
> There's also poor testability, inability to re-use functions that reference the request internally, inability to statically analyze dependencies (less of an issue in Python, since the lack of types makes it hard to analyze them anyway), additional context that the developer must keep in his head, and inability to cross-reference parameters & call-sites and identify where a given variable is coming from in code browsers or debuggers.

I don't know. Most of them seem like a non issue to me. Shouldn't the api cover that testability(of request)? At least, it does in Flask. Re-using a function which uses request won't be any different from re-using a function which uses datetime. I do get your point about difficulty of analyzing Python owing to dynamic typing and monkey patching, but I couldn't connect it to context local. As for cross referencing, you just treat request as you treat datetime.

> Singletons are no better - if you dress it up as RequestManager.get_current_request(), it's just as bad. If you don't understand why something is a bad idea, complying with the letter of the law without complying with the spirit doesn't really get you much.

I won't do that. That is just a tongue in cheek comment to appease "death to globals" police.

> Now I want my programs to do as little as possible and have access to as little as possible.

I don't disagree with that but assuming that the request object is available for the request lifecycle is pretty reasonable.

> Usually I end up pulling out the values I want inside the view function and calling any helpers using only those values, so I don't pass the request around anyway.

You don't pass around request in a general workflow(why would you?). But consider this https://github.com/tschellenbach/Django-facebook. This does a post save signal when a new user registers. I need to send a welcome mail to the user asking him to activate his account. I need request.build_absolute_uri to construct the uri, and guess what, I don't have request in the callback and I don't have a way to obtain it. Now there can be other ways I can solve it - configure sites and generate url using sites; simply have the base url in settings and construct the url by doing a urljoin; may be in some alternate universe, django's reverse generates external url. But the thing is, I have needed access to request object on more than a few occasions. Granted if the callback passed me the request object, it won't have been an issue but it doesn't and I had to resort to thread local middleware to save the request object.

> A fourth was that I worked a bunch with both systems and found that adding a parameter to each function along a call path is easy

The issue is apis which you haven't wrote. I can always change the packages myself, but I don't want to sync up with upstream for something I see as a small change.
Multiple and perverse equilibria can exist--it was the economically rational thing in 1950's South (at least in some models) for people to discriminate. And even if formal discrimination might have disappeared eventually, it's a bit too easy to condemn in retrospect an entire generation of people to continued oppression just to satisfy some ideological gesture.
Its a really new program - it seems to bea l ong term thing.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131030005299/en/Amaz...
See also https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...
Rupert Murdoch seems to love Silicon Valley.

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/389132604311474176
This chart is mainly about convenience food and fashion goods.

The real companies that 'control' the market are the behemoths about which you hear little;

- Tyco, Siemens GE that make the industrial systems that run manufacturing

- Plastics manufacturers behind packaging, $500 billion annual market in the USA alone

- Shipping brokers and agents that batch goods for efficient transport

- The sea-shipping companies that move the goods
I through this one is a no-brainer.
abso-fucking-lutely nothing! got nothin but love for brooklyn beers, i am a huge fan of six point and brooklyn brews.

the real question is: why don't you know the beer's actual fucking name?!

THE Crisp (by Sixpoint)

http://sixpoint.com/beers/core/thecrisp

it's even IN the url slug!
;)
By "job offer" they probably mean "contacted by a recruiter" which is not unusual, that's what LI is for.
You gave a lot of proxy measures, but none measures standard of living.

For (1) to make sense we would have to look at the ration of rents to incomes. Otherwise, the relation is obscured by the huge impact of falling real interest rates. (Falling real interest rates is probably a good thing!)

2 and 3 don't have a direct bearing on standard of living. Lower real interest rates play a role as well.

For 4 you have to differentiate between the average among all Americans and the average fate of each individual American. They are different because of an influx of new Americans.

I agree about 5.

For 6, education was never as cheap as today, thanks to the internet. What went up is the price of the piece of paper that certifies you went to a specific university.

For 7, we have much better cars. You can buy a used car that's much better than what was available in the 60s for a similar fraction of income as back then. (And again, lower real interest rates play some role.)
> skilled work force
... see H1B slavery

> legal infrastructure
... see patent trolling
Previous Discussion (4 days ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643676
More food, more trade, and more cosmopolitanism have decreased per capita violence by an order of magnitude compared to hunter gatherer societies and the first agricultural civilizations.
"if "bigoted" ideas are delusional, shouldn't the fact that we have far more integration and exposure to different sub-cultures in sufficient time eliminate all bigotry"

I'm not sure if delusional is the right term - small minded might fit the bill a little better. So if it's due to mental laziness or an inherent dearth of mental ability, perhaps bigotry is difficult to abate without laws to protect minorities.

Nonetheless you ask a good question - with time and exposure can we eliminate bigotry? I hope so. But it's easy to invent new targets for ridicule: Emos, Hipsters, Rockabillies etc. They're not exactly unprivileged minorities, but it shows how easy it is to disparage someone because of their appearance and cultural differences.
It would depend on what degree she claimed to have. You could be working full-time and cruise Psychology or Geography, good luck doing that and Mech Eng.
What in tarnation is a “typing hacker”? Imagine my disappointment when I realized this was not a Type Theory quiz game.
Getting paid :) Especially for a full-time position with the job title "Software Engineer". I am fudging a bit on the time though, since in high school I was mostly doing troubleshooting IT crap and only got large software projects in the summers.
Is the same true of the bionic library and and core OS libraries? How many vendors actually released closed forks of those, or required that Google restrict the availability of source code for the version of the core (C) libraries and utilities on their version of the device?

How much time did using this port from BSD take over shipping with a GPLv2/LGPLv2.1 version of libc and coreutils?

(Note, I'm explicitly referring to the Unix base operating system, not drivers, audio or video codecs or libraries or anything else, only Bionic and the core Unix utilities)
I've heard that argument. For me, it breaks down in that it assumes there's a correlation between the number of people carrying guns, and the number of responsible people carrying guns who will actually react properly when something happens.
Thanks. You can reach my gmail directly at david.larsen.
That's a very interesting thought, nl.

Have a look at Eko (http://eko.co.in). Eko is creating a network of trusted agents to service cash-in/ cash-out/ money-transfer needs of billions of non-tech-savvy customers.

The cue given by you could be an interesting opportunity for companies like Eko to explore.

Kenya's m-Pesa is a similar network of mobile money agents that indeed started accepting Bitcoins recently [2]!

[2] http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com/article/216119/M-PESA-mee...
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> An amendment eliminating the Electoral College would go a long way towards fixing the problems outlined in TFA.

No, it wouldn't.

> The Constitution is largely very good, but it unintentionally created a de-facto two party system. With the executive branch free from that sort of nonsense, it may be that the legislature will right itself.

Not really; the EC isn't the key feature of the electoral system that produces a two party system, and the features that are -- the fact that most elections, and particularly those for the Congress, are by plurality or majority-runoff methods -- is nowhere in the Constitution, but is the product of statute (and, largely, state statutes.)
I work for quite a big Hawala system (www.bakaal.com.au) and were thinking about implementing bitcoins. Moving through the legislation is the biggest stumbling block.
Right on time since I'm going there for Christmas holidays. I used to use HotspotShield as a VPN when I was in Beijing but that was 5 years ago, anyone knows a good VPN right now?
Logo? Or the python turtle module.
Probably a far greater proportion of successful entrepreneurs blog than bloggers among the general population.
In india it is used extensively and very often,
we some times call them "Aangadiya" they transfers the money for very little cost ex. i have sent 25K INR with only 50rs extra as charge, which is basically 0.2 percent. And its accuracy and speed is amazing.
>The government funded the early technologies that led to the Internet, venture capitalists are financed by nontechies' retirement funds, and laws passed in Washington can determine the tech industry's legal future.

Right, and the Spanish and British founded modern America, what is your point? There is quite a bit of precedent for taking the ball from the previous players and starting your own game to their exclusion.
Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride
Yes, it is the case right now, because the long-term balance doesn't help the person with short term needs.

Go to a Somali refugee camp in Kenya and attempt to exchange your Bitcoin at anything approaching international market rates.

This doesn't mean it will always be like that, though. The arbitrage opportunities (if nothing else) make it too attractive for that need to remain unserviced.

(I speculate elsewhere about alternative international payment networks may fit perfectly into this model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6666899)
>iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

>Note: if you get an error you might need to change the execution policy (i.e. enable Powershell) with set-executionpolicy unrestricted -s cu

The Windows equivalent of curl | sudo bash...

Please don't do this. Sign your Powershell scripts.
Forced labor is not "fair". It is slavery.

I do not accept the idea that by doing a crime, you forfeit your all your human rights.

If the programs are entirely optional, it might be OK. As is, it is utterly exploitative.
Wouldn't this be the real precursor to the internet instead of the often-hyped arpanet? Is TCP/IP really what makes the internet the internet, or sharing ideas and collaborating with abstractions on an electronic network in general?
That's a bit generous of a description of what happened.

Their were communally owned lands that peasants had access to. Landowners seized those lands, and the British crown was more than happy to back them up with mass violence.
As someone who lives in territory that belonged to the Republic of Venice for longer than Italy has been a going concern, 'Doge' means one of the leaders of that Republic.
In your phone you have a million times the computing power these guys used to launch rockets into space. You use it to launch birds at pigs.