skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do get to exclude them from the kernel domain, because the kernel doesn't export a programming language that interfaces with the scheduler and with the various object lifecycles in the kernel (not to mention the programming language's own object lifecycles) --- and there are more different kinds of objects in the browser than in the kernel.

I'm a kernel person, not a browser person. I am not good enough at software security to be a good browser security person. It's not a coincidence that the best researchers in the industry spend much of their time discovering and weaponizing browser vulnerabilities.

Bernstein's argument is, predictably, not ridiculous.

I do not see daylight between your explanation of why browsers are insecure and Bernstein's. You say browsers are insecure because they're required to be complex. Bernstein says browsers insecure because their complexity makes it hard to isolate a TCB. Those are the same arguments, in different terms.

(My resume is pretty easy to track down if you want to see what I was up to a decade ago. When I said "do this for a living", I meant "software security research", which is my full-time job and has been for ~10 years, not systems development, my former job. Also, FWIW: prefer Thomas.)
US cows produce twice as much milk as the average, I guess.
And their assumption that everything is to be normally distributed is weird, and a distinct cognitive bias in and of itself.
> threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture.
Factual information tends to get up-voted to the top... but until then, the people demand a lynching, err.. sacrifice!
It's worth reading the Xerox story: http://www.gatesnotes.com/media/features/books/Bill_Gates_Jo...

Xerox was essentially the hot startup of the 1960's, and it's interesting how similar many of the issues and attitudes were back then, including fears that copying would destroy the publishing industry, struggles with no longer being a startup, and resentment from older industries.

In the opinion of some commentators, what has happened so far is
only the first phase of a kind of revolution in graphics. “Xerography
is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it
means that every reader can become both author and publisher,” the
Canadian sage Marshall McLuhan wrote in the spring, 1966, issue of
the American Scholar. “Authorship and readership alike can become
production-oriented under xerography.… Xerography is electricity invading the world of typography, and it means a total revolution in
this old sphere.”

...

Dr. Dessauer threw a retrospectively distracted glance at the ceiling
and went on, “Hardly anybody was very optimistic in the early years.
Various members of our own group would come in and tell me that
the damn thing would never work. The biggest risk was that electrostatics would prove to be not feasible in high humidity. Almost all
the experts assumed that — they’d say, ‘You’ll never make copies in
New Orleans.’ And even if it did work, the marketing people thought
we were dealing with a potential market of no more than a few thousand machines. Some advisers told us that we were absolutely crazy
to go ahead with the project. Well, as you know, everything worked
out all right — the 914 worked, even in New Orleans, and there was
a big market for it. Then came the desk-top version, the 813. I stuck
my neck way out again on that, holding out for a design that some experts considered too fragile.”

...

McColough said that since he came to Haloid, in 1954, he felt he’d
been part of three entirely different companies — until 1959 a small
one engaged in a dangerous and exciting gamble; from 1959 to 1964
a growing one enjoying the fruits of victory; and now a huge one
branching out in new directions. I asked him which one he liked best,
and he thought a long time. “I don’t know,” he said finally. “I used to
feel greater freedom, and I used to feel that everyone in the company
shared attitudes on specific matters like labor relations. I don’t feel
that way so much now. The pressures are greater, and the company is
more impersonal. I wouldn’t say that life has become easier, or that it
is likely to get easier in the future.”
Anytime :)

I misread stuff too :D
What absurdity are you balancing? Do you run around internet forums instantly defending the accused in posted articles?
Excellent! How about: DependaPal - stop s---ing on your goals?
If they had asked for an estimate of how many people died when the first Death Star was destroyed, would you answer be 0 because there was no actual Death Star?
I think the interaction is very interesting and engaging, lots of potential there.

But the only thing I learned is to look up answers to trivia questions on Google, and to drag chart bars to match the text above.

Overconfidence isn't the problem people have when obviously faced with questions they don't know the answer to (I've never milked a cow, and I don't intend to), and the inferences the protagonist was making from his trip were very suspicious and arbitrary, so that was disengaging in a tale about using proper logic.
Yeah, no one bothered to hide their racism. It was part and parcel of the system. It was so part and parcel of the system that if they had, instead, been building luxury high rises in the big city, you would have seen similar stipulations. I thus see no reason to conclude that suburbanization was motivated by a goal of specifically getting away from blacks. It was motivated by people who had lived hand-to-mouth during the recession finally having the means and ability to buy a single family home of their own.

I am well aware that racism ran very, very deep at the time. For example, the federal minimum wage law was originally intended to get the South in line with other parts of the nation in terms of what it paid and it was a de facto attempt to outlaw the practice of paying blacks about half what whites got paid for the same work. It was passed prior to WWII. It was failing terribly. The initial result was that blacks got fired in droves (which is part of what drove blacks out of rural Southern states into big cities of the Northern states). They weren't able to make it stick at all until after WWII began.

So I know racism ran deep. It was open. It was intractable. And it was not, per se, the reason whites invented the suburbs and moved there. Unprecedented middle class wealth was the driving force behind the invention of the suburbs. Blacks tended to be left out because blacks were generally left out economically. They also would have been left out had well off whites invented some other housing solution. But leaving them out was not the raison d'etre for the invention of the suburbs.
I totally agree, so much so that when this story hit the front page I flagged it; what could any of us usefully have to say about it?

Two hours later, lo and behold, we have this gem of an HN discussion.

Truly horrible threads (as this story is starting to germinate) get nuked by the moderators. But my sense is, the (overworked, underappreciated) mods find it much more gratifying when the site's "immune system" kicks in and flags them off the site before they have to. Why not help this story meet an appropriately speedy demise?

(Boom! The system works!)
it being vague is the reason i concluded it wasn't part of a big evil scheme.

if this was part of some "big evil scheme", the title would be far less innocent. do you disagree?

so to say it is "phrased like this is some big evil scheme" seems disingenuous. i try not to make assumptions, especially when it comes to headlines and "news".
Perhaps historians generally consider the Dutch to be a short-lived prelude to the British Empire. I'd say even considering the British Empire and the United States to be two separate hegemons could be wrong. They both speak English, and the British were the main land-owning settlers to North America. People like Washington, Jefferson and Franklin had British surnames. The revolution was simply another step in shifting the capital of the English-speaking people from London to Washington. Another step was World War Two when the US let the British go broke fighting the Germans, then stepped in in 1941 to save the day, taking control of the world's sea lanes from Britain. So before the revolution we had the "British Empire and its American colonies", nowadays we have the United States of America in a "special relationship" with the United Kingdom, via defence and security treaties such as UKUSA and ABCA.

The movement of the English-speaking people's power center from London to Washington thus took 150 years, longer than the ongoing Russian move from St Petersburg to Moscow, but shorter than the Song move from Xian to Hangzhou.
EnduroSync is going open source in response to Amazon Cognito
Glad I'm not the only one who read that and thought "digital? That's what they're calling cybersex now? As opposed to... old-fashioned analogue sex?"
I believe they were acquired. This is one of the few cases where I wish I could say they folded.
> There are no grocery stores within city limits because of lack of customers and local crime rates.

First one that came to mind was the Whole Foods [1] next to the hospital. They look to be doing very well from the hospital employees.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Whole+Foods+Market/@42.349...
Forget the cite, but the first American suburb layouts were actually based on cemetery plots. Because you can't build cemetery plots on top of each other, they were forced to create all the artificial winding roads and figure out how to maximize space.

So if you grew up in a suburb, your grave will essentially be the same.
They've done studies and the "victory gardens" never really contributed or impacted the food supply. It was more of a morale thing, way to sell bonds.
Selective Outrage
You've just described bike shedding.
And there is rarely a novel aspect to these harassment cases that is worthy of repeated discussion here. That's certainly not to say these cases aren't newsworthy, but the discourse typically generated here regarding this topic devolves into speculation, generalizations, and crude remarks.
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Can we stop comparing Detroit to other places?

I am in the city often and there are some damned interesting companies getting created. I was born in Detroit and have watched it all my adult life, first as it slid down hill and then the numerous attempts by well meaning people to bring it back. Detroit finally has lots of forward momentum and I don't believe the forward motion will stall anytime soon.

But Detroit will never become what it was in my youth. Richest city in the world, best public big city school system in the United States. Heck the auto industry will never be what it was back then either. But it can be a healthy city with full employment, but its going to take time. It took fifty years to hit rock bottom and at least that long to fully recover.

I tell college students that there is both risk and opportunity in Detroit. If you want the safe choice it's probably not where you want to go. But if you want to skip a few steps in your career rise along with a higher risk of failure then it's one of the best places.

Forget the Silicon Valley comparisons. Lets Detroit be Detroit. Don't accept the ruin porn pictures, check it out for yourself.
Nah, 'organic' food is still easily mass-produced with big machines, you just avoid certain untrendy things.

Especially since large farms can easily be more environmentally-friendly, mostly through fuel savings, and market the hell out of that.
I see lately a lot of buzz about Bill Gates. Is he coming back as CEO? Is this marketing campaign?

imho Bill Gates is not the person to follow when talking about business. He missed multiple big chances calling them a bubble like internet, mobile and much more. He get where he is out of stealing Windows from Apple, bullied software programmers and created extremely closed environment.

He was person non grata decade ago, but recently people make him a legend... I wonder why the retreat of majority of web society...
No, because such questions, to me, implicitly acknowledge we are talking about a fictional world. The question about the Dalai Lama, however, is a question about this world.

Another example that I would say 0 to is, how many times did Jesus Christ come back to life? But I would say 1 to, according to the Bible, how many times did Jesus Christ come back to life? The difference between Star Wars and the bible is that there are not large groups of people who insist that Star Wars is real, so I feel safe in assuming an implicit, "According to this fictional thing". I consider the "reincarnations of the Dalai Lama" to fall under the bible category.
I too read the article, but "white flight" on Long Island happened after Levittown and in other areas. Howard Stern is actually a byproduct of this, his family refused to move.
I've found Midnight Commander (https://www.midnight-commander.org/) good if you just need the progress bar. In fact, you get not just one, but TWO - one for the individual file, and one for the transfer as a whole. Perhaps I'm easily pleased, but I find this useful.

(It doesn't do all the rsync fanciness, but if you don't need that and/or you've got some unwieldy subset of files to transfer - a situation the GUI-style approach makes light work of - then it comes in handy.)
>>> The thing is we are conditioned to believe that anything the government does, especially anonymously, is necessarily bad.

I definitely noticed this trend here, in HN. While it's popular and not surprising in general public (cheap joke sort of thing), it's quite disappointing here.
Would a good description of this be Red Flag Deals with a way better UI? Looks awesome.
Cynk Technology's Valuation Defied Gravity Without Revenue, Rousing SEC
The only problem here is that RG is classified as a "tech" company. Its a legitimate business, but they don't sell technology, and neither does technology make or break them.

They happen to use web technology, but how is that different from the bakery next door that happens to use a payroll program or allows you to order online and home deliver? Or a company like Walmart (where arguably technology is a part of what makes them successful)?

The standards for what companies are classified as tech companies right now are extremely inconsistent. In my view, Rap Genius is a for-profit fanclub, not a tech company. Similarly, AirBnB is a travel and accommodation agent, not a tech company.

I define a tech company as a company for whom advanced technology is what they develop and sell (either as a product or service) - Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Dropbox - all qualify.

Merely using technology doesn't make it a tech company, every business in the modern world uses technology, it doesn't make them "tech" companies.
Note that I'm no scientist so I only have my personal belief to go by. Yes. If its important enough, I believe anyone can.
The blockchain is big and ever-growing. If people really start transacting, like hundreds of millions a day pay their parking with Bitcoin, imagine the size of the data. Plus, Bitcoin can't handle it now with the 7 TPS limit.
What exactly is the holdup with extreme ultraviolet sources? I remember reading an article that said synchrotrons could generate x-ray beams with the power density of a blowtorch, and some others suggesting free-electron lasers should be able to generate anything down to hard x-rays with more or less arbitrarily high power density; why don't these suffice?
Monitoring background services can be difficult due to changing process ids. If anyone is looking for a commercial product that does this, I would recommend checking out Stackify. We do server monitoring, app monitoring, errors, logs, metrics, etc all in one app. http://www.stackify.com
Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.

They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...
Yay, humans are re-inventing proteins!
It's interesting that the two industries you mentioned are two that are intensely subsidized and regulated by government.
> They're gaining access to high-cost cities like New York or San Francisco that offer so much more than good jobs: more restaurants, better schools, less crime, even cleaner air.

Yes, and a lot of these folks are spending the vast majority of their disposable income on housing and discretionary income on the so-called "amenities" mentioned in the article.

Don't get me wrong: it's great to be able to live in a desirable area with high employment, but at the end of the day, it's not what you make, it's what you keep. There are a lot of folks like this guy[1] who confuse cashflow from employment with financial security.

The paltry savings rates in this country aren't just a product of the less educated, lower-wage workers. If you look at national averages, it's pretty obvious that most college graduates aren't doing a great job of converting their higher wages into savings and assets.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5505622
Show HN: Xcffib, a cffi-based replacement for xpyb
In response to this announcement, Orando Labs (https://orandolabs.com) has decided to offer EnduroSync and Identio with open source licenses and as paid AMI instances. We believe we have a unique solution to some difficult problems (identity and syncing), and want to see our solutions widely adopted. Read more at http://orandolabs.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/amazon-cognito
This is very nice. Is it open source by any chance?
I really dislike this idea that we should always elevate individual wants over the overall societal benefit of having integrated societies with low levels of inequality.
Human Universals by Donald Brown. Identifies the traits common to all humans, all societies and cultures.

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/00700...
Robot journalism isn't going to be great for journalists. Publications will quickly gravitate towards the content farm model where every article will be accompanied by 20 - 30 keyword permutations and no overhead for articles that don't pull social media traffic/shares/links. You can already see companies like Mashable pushing the limits of doing this by hand.

I wonder if/how Google will differentiate between automated news vs machine-generated spam?
The first P in PHP stands for PHP
I answered 0 gallons of milk, because I don't believe in cows.

Kidding aside, I get your frustration. Trivia questions by necessity have the format of "one short question" = "one short specific answer".

Real facts usually don't work this way. Historians argue or change the date of various historical events over time as more data emerges. The Solar System "lost" a planet few years ago, and so on. "Facts" are in constant flux.

There's also a complicated, detailed context, there are a lot of "depends" in a real answer. Say, "how fast a horse runs"... domesticated & trained or wild, what breed, on a road or on a meadow, with horseshoes or without, etc.

So when faced with trivia questions the last thing I could say is I feel "overconfident" answering. Especially when the answer is a number. The designated correct answer is just an arbitrary data point that the author stumbled upon earlier in a book or online and wrote down as the answer.

It's apocrypha masquerading as facts.
I could not find language supporting a "private restroom"
requirement after about 30 minutes of Googling, but it appears that
FDA meat processing regs may require full-time on-site inspectors.

Considering that slaughterhouses process the entire animal, and thus
have to deal with whatever happens to be on the hooves or skin, or
inside the viscera, it may be that a separate restroom is actually
a method of reducing the risk of cross-contamination.

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Inspections/ucm381526.htm#foods

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/CFR-2001-title21-vol2/CFR-2...

http://www.ncagr.gov/meatpoultry/pdf/Facility%20Guidelines.p...
Discussions on Scalability have suggested an eventual goal of 4,000 TPS are entirely reasonable.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
"I'm not subservient to helping cities-- I'm going to cities because of my own interests, and I absolutely reject any guilt to bringing down those cities."

This dogma has penetrated very, very deep amongst techies. The invisible hand seems to be a drop-in replacement for any reflexion about morality for some.
the function name is arc4random but it's chacha20 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138065251627052&w=2
There are numerous development bootcamps if you search for them. I believe a couple of the others out there are General Assembly and DevBootcamp
Winter over at Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica
Assuming PNW = Pacific Northwest US. If you are in Seattle area, you may want to consider attending a few data analytics/visualization meetups and build network. I know Seattle useR Group meetup is quite active.

Also UW data science and Fred-Hutch biostats groups are other possibilities. Overall, if your interests are in Biomed/Biotech domain, you shouldn't have any trouble finding some work in Seattle area.

Depending on industry domain of your interest, you may want to setup a blog and share your analysis and opinions on data analysis and visualization in that domain. You may get fair bit of leads this way.

Participating in Kaggle competitions, data related sub-reddit on Reddit and industry forums will also help you generate leads.
Thanks. That's an interesting response.

However, the statement in question was explicitly regarding pesticides, not herbicides. And, implicitly, the context is those pesticides which are in use at scale on non-organic crops.
here's the difference:

- make the build system reproducable, so that every build is exactly the same binary, no matter who runs it. that's "easy". But you don't know why you get that exact binary

- make the build system verifiable, or the resulting binary verifiable so that you know exactly why you get that binary. This is hard.

The first one is repeatable, reliable.

The second one is trustworthy, verifiable.
Iron Dome: the public relations weapon
Well, considering the size now with 7 TPS limit, 4K TPS (which is still lower than any of the major credit cards) will make things worse. 7 TPS is there for a reason.
Dogma has penetrated very deep. If you read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", the invisible hand is something that intervenes in markets to prevent free trade among merchants from different nations.

Nowadays, 99% of the time people use his term the exact opposite way. They say it is a hand that gently guides merchants from different nations to trade with one another within a free market, and that such thing. They have twisted his term to mean the exact opposite of how Smith intended it.
the author seems to be unaware of threading and event based models.

multiprocessing adds memory isolation through the CPU's protected memory.
https://docs.python.org/dev/library/concurrent.futures.html
Bringing coffee culture back to Italy
I similarly dislike the idea that someone else could, in any capacity, have the power to decide for me how I am going to live my life, even if their decisions are "morally correct" for some values of moral and correct.
It's not an individual preference, it's the result of a political process. There may be a continuum of genetic modifications, that doesn't mean it's unreasonable -- or even arbitrary, per the quoted definition -- to pick a point in that continuum and make rules and regulations based on that point.
Not exactly true. The standard library is precompiled and the same is worked on for packages.
The (mis)Behavior of Markets, A Fractal View on Risk, Ruin, and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.

You may enjoy this book if you are interested in Financial Markets, have some knowledge of Efficient Market Theory, and aware of existence of Fractal Geometry.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Financial-Turb...