skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while the idea has merits, i would not trust you with my most sensitive data (especially if it is reversibly encrypted or plaintext), i would feel like i was paying for an added secuirty risk, of which there are too many already. also it doesnt seem like there are assurances against you abusing my data like there would be if you were a lawyer i had entrusted to execute my will. there's no personal relationship there, so i don't feel comfortable.
I am very confused by the definition of type erasure which is being used in this work.

As a type theorist, my working definition is "terms which have types inside them are turned into terms which do not have types inside them"; this is a process which occurs after types have been checked/inferred, and before execution. This is crucially not something that programmers do: if you take a polymorphic interface and wrap it up in one that doesn't quantify over types, that wasn't type erasure.

But perhaps I have simply misunderstood the code in this post; I'll admit it's been a while since I have read C++.
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People simply shouldn't cut live wires (unplug, pull battery, etc.).

Whatever exceptions there might be aren't terribly relevant to the general readership of Popular Mechanics.
This is of course the main problem with this type of idea. It is very likely that I will live longer than this site will, therefore it doesn't make sense to use it.

What did you do with the people who had signed up for you site?
Yes, of course. Just like Jim Crow laws are a success if they keep the races segregated. And ultimately this will be up to the people of Kansas to decide on the quality metric they want to apply to their state's economic policy. But I think it's telling that many prominent Republican politicians are endorsing the Democratic candidate for governor. I don't think they'd be doing that if there was a consensus that the results of Sam Brownback's experiment have been a "huge success."
Since you asked for speculation, I'd say the NSA. Well, why the hell not, eh!
Over the past 2 years, many small web consultancy shops have figured out that teaching boot camps is more lucrative than doing actual consulting.
The article seems to suggest these studies were controlling for other factors (though obviously one would need to read the study to find out how extensive that control was).

But the article points out another study where people were able to make more emotionally neutral decisions when operating in their 2nd language (even though the effect disappears in the 1st language for the same individuals). So there is definitely something happening in the brain at a fairly fundamental level beyond "practicing cognition". It certainly gives credence to the theory that language provides a lens through which we view the world.
> Does it mean that all drugs should be freely sold?

No. Ron's First Law still applies: all extreme positions are wrong.
Yeah, except for the fact that Chromecast sender apps perform a cert check now, so open implementations don't work. https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2/issues/2
> Can we agree that your latest scan(), if we dropped the two lines that have "scan_helper" in them, is the most efficient, most idiomatic, most (py2 and py3) compatible and clearest?

Yeah. Actually, I just generally liked your feedback here.
i recently played https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banished_%28video_game%29 and its quite nice..
Thanks! I was looking for subs to this one movie for really long time and you found it for me! Got a suggestion:

There are too many messages before I can download the subtitles. Perhaps dropping a file could take me straight to the language picker, and selecting the language will immediately result in download?
Change became the norm around 1800 in the US. 1800-1900 saw absolutely spectacular changes in the US, in the way people work and live, at all levels of society, and that continued on unabated after 1900.
Real issue isn't confusing UI although that is part of it - the real issue is that they are misleading the user as if their queries are going only where they want - to the search engine they configured. There is no indication that Apple is receiving a copy of every one of their queries to display Maps results that the user may or may not need.

A privacy conscious implementation would ask the user on startup if they would like to include Maps results in their inline suggestions and if so do they agree to sending their queries to Apple.
For those who have heard of OpenBSD but have not used it, I strongly recommend trying it on your next server appliance. I have been using it on my servers for some time now and I have been very happy. The entire OS seems to be of substantially higher quality than Linux.
Never mind, I see you already implemented it. Cheers!
It's not even that confusing. This is just alarmism for pageviews. Of all the large tech companies right now, Apple has made the most moves to protect user privacy. Disabled 3rd party cookies by default in Safari, randomized WiFi queries, full device ios encryption, opt-in only crash reporting, restricted MAC and UDID access, zero information shared with ApplePay, etc. And yet we're supposed to get out the pitchforks over an autocomplete feature that's disableable with two checkboxes in the UI? Give me a break.
You raise a good point. I hadn't considered a shell based init system where the shell scripts only run at startup and aren't available to run at any other time.

You mentioned smart cards... what system would handle when you connect a smart card after boot?
> Put simply, we think differently, and that manner of different thinking is critical to preventing some really unruly code and architectural patterns from happening.

So, women are better at being organized? I've heard women complain about this exact idea, because they believe it leads to them being pigeonholed into the "secretary" role on a team.

> I get worried every time I see an all-male team because there's not that dissonance there to keep things more on the level.

Would anyone ever even say the same thing about an all-women team?

imo, this is just making the problem worse - believing that you need both "male and female energy" on a team. How about we just say that a competent woman programmer is as good as a similarly experienced man, and - surprise - able to be good (and bad) at the same things.
One of the common hazards in entering a field is that the neophyte tends to see everything through the lens of what they grasped first. In a traditional CS curriculum, this is intended to be a formal and mathematical understanding of computers.

When you start by learning a language, that becomes the basis for your understanding of computing. This isn't always a strength. Imagine someone who learned programming via C but now has to learn Lisp - they're going to have a hard time.

I've heard very mixed reviews of hiring from bootcamps. For people who needed the exact skillset the bootcamp taught, it was perfect. For those without that exact alignment, ran into the limits of the person's knowledge pretty fast.
I don't understand your (repeated) point. Are you defending the status quo? Are you claiming that nothing done in industry matters?
So don't use Spotlight. The whole point is to search EVERYWHERE IT CAN which requires asking a whole lotta services about what you're asking about.

Remember, the UI is intended for most of many millions of users, not the tiny number of people wound up about each and every nuance of a given UI action. Most users either want Spotlight to tell everything it can, or they just don't use it; few indeed want a detailed list of every service involved and a switch for disabling each one (never mind the symbiosis between many of those services).
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Don't fall into the trap of thinking that "less unethical" means that it is actually ethical. Plenty of things that one shouldn't do have analogs that are much worse.
This isn't remotely limited to the chromecast though. The HDMI video signalling protocol is old and robust and works well and near-universally. The HDCP spec and CEC remote control features, on the other hand, are cesspools of complexity that work pretty much nowhere sanely.
Hello,

I think there is a need for this type of service. Two comments:

* People might be concerned that this website will shut down long before they pass away. On the homepage I suggest you GUARANTEE that emails will be sent.

* I am 34. I don't want to pay $1.67 every month for the rest of my life. Make it an easy purchase decision: one time fee of $40. For example.
What's your 5 year plan?
Does OpenBSD have an analog of Docker?
Reading between the lines
> So don't use Spotlight.

Oh phew - there's a solution - I can as well stop using a Mac!

>Most users either want Spotlight to tell everything it can, or they just don't use it; few indeed want a detailed list of every service involved and a switch for disabling each one (never mind the symbiosis between many of those services).

I guess there is solid research around this? Good to know everyone wants everything or nothing!
Sorry but could someone please explain to me what the joke is about?

I don't get what's going on, and cards.twitter.com throws an error page saying that the site is down :-(
I'm saying that the gender gap manifests well before issues in industry can reasonably be expected to take their toll.

Which is not to say that there are not major problems in industry. Just that there are problems upstream of those.

EDIT: In other words, how you word a job posting definitely has an effect on who applies. It probably doesn't have a huge effect on the decision of a sixteen year old girl considering taking a computer course.
Whatever they do,as long as they make it clear it is fine.I think that's an important thing users should be made aware of.It's not a big scandal but it's good practice whenever a soft does that to have the user's explicit consent.

For instance IDEs often ask if they can submit anonymous datas to a server from the software.
This isn't the same thing though, the killer app feature of the OP's product is the fact that it handles removable media properly. I would very much like that feature on the OSX platform.
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Docker originated from BSD Jails which basically give you Chroot on steroids.

The synchronization likely won't 100% work, with cron script you maybe able to just do that with git.
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Yeah I definitely have no problem helping someone, as long as it doesn't take away time for me to do my job.
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If you think what I said was so absurd, I'd like to know what you think "privacy" entails, if it's not "don't share my info with other people."
Also things are deceptively simple. There's of course the initial hiccup for new users since the setup is a tad esoteric, but once past that, using it is very straightforward.

It's not quite "set it and forget it" for servers, but pretty close IMHO.

There's an attitude among the developers of making it extremely difficult to run sub-par code on the OS, which makes the overall quality of most ported apps high, quite stable and (unpleasant)surprise-free.
Thank you very much to the author and the HN poster. This is exactly the type of tutorial on JS plotting I have been looking.
Yes. As long as there was a hedge type clause saying if it dropped below a certain threshold it would revert to USD.
Sounds a bit like working in Argentina or Zim but those would be my terms.
I don't think they are related, unless I'm missing something
I used to spend hours and hours playing Utopia, which is incredibly similar to Sim City, but came out in 1981 for the intellivision. I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but I still enjoy playing it sometimes. I suggest checking it out if you can.
I think its usage is limited to students and very small shops.

AFAIK they won't even let you spin up anything other than one or two instance sizes they kinda got working. The pricing was ridiculous, $6+/hr if I remember correctly.
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Quote:

> Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last update.

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
Having all of one type of thinking is a horrible idea. It leads to a certain amount of groupthink. The more diversity in a team, the less likely it is to happen.

You seem to be reading into it quite differently than I meant it. What I'm saying is that they think differently in some cases which can lead to more thought out code, and by result better architecture.
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> randomized WiFi queries

You know that the iOS 8 mac randomization feature doesn't actually work right? From imore.com - http://www.imore.com/closer-look-ios-8s-mac-randomization
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It would need to operate much like "perpetual care" at cemeteries. Fees for the services go into an irrevocable trust that runs much like an endowment -- costs are kept below the ongoing interest income of the account.

As I understand it, these are rather tightly regulated in many states for the same reason you're asking this service to be dependable.
I share your fears about its longevity.

What company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service?

I feel like WordPress.org or Wikipedia Foundation would be two companies with the right moral compass, funding and longevity who would be great backers of something like this.
Yes, I tried that for a while, and didn't like it. Here's why:

1. It has Cherry MX Browns. I like more clickiness.

2. I found the curved alignment of the keys annoying. The thumb keys also felt off, but I don't recall how.

3. The remapping support for Kinesis is far inferior to Ergodox's. When I talked to tech support, they recommended using macros rather than remapping keys. This is because switching from Qwerty to Dvorak wipes any key remappings. Certainly I don't want to risk losing my keyboard layout, so macros are the way to go. But there's a maximum of 48 macros that can be stored, so you could only remap 48 keys. That's probably an acceptable limit if you don't need a bunch of extra macros. However, having a lot of macros means you might lose keystrokes^1. Compare this to the Ergodox, which lets you place any key anywhere with no downside other than your memory and ergonomics. You can also have multiple key layouts, and switch between them easily.

4. I was trying to switch to the Kinesis while at work, making it more frustrating when I was slow. I switched to the Ergodox at home, so I had more time. I also got the Ergodox after I tried the Kinesis, so some of the muscle memory was already entrenched when I got the Ergodox.

5. I borrowed the Kinesis, but bought and assembled the Ergodox. This means I was more invested in liking the Ergodox, whether or not it was actually better.

[1] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/technical-support/faqs-a... , the section "How do I switch between the macro memory configurations of 24, 36, or 48 macros?" states "Fast typists will often lose keystrokes from certain common words with the 48 macro setting, and very fast typists may even lose keystrokes using the 36 macro setting."
Jails are a FreeBSD thing. OpenBSD doesn't have them so far as I know.
However, this may also reveal the fact that your IP address is 'pirating' movies.
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Over the next twenty years the earth is predicted to add another two billion people. Having nearly exhausted nature’s ability to feed the planet, we now need to discover a new food system. The global climate will continue to change. To save our coastlines, and maintain acceptable living conditions for more than a billion people, we need to discover new science, engineering, design, and architectural methods, and pioneer economic models that sustain their implementation and maintenance. Microbiological threats will increase as our traditional techniques of anti-microbial defense lead to greater and greater resistances, and to thwart these we must discover new approaches to medical treatment, which we can afford, and implement in ways that incite compliance and good health. The many rich and varied human cultures of the earth will continue to mix, more rapidly than they ever have, through mass population movements and unprecedented information exchange, and to preserve social harmony we need to discover new cultural referents, practices, and environments of cultural exchange. In such conditions the futures of law, medicine, philosophy, engineering, and agriculture – with just about every other field – are to be rediscovered.

Where are the hackers here? The dreamers? The risk-takers? Hackers have the tools, funding, time and ability to change the world for the better. The environment is arguably THE greatest threat to mankind, yet we are more likely to see hackers working on an app to help people share photos faster or order pizzas quicker than something which will have a true impact on the environment.

A damn waste of talent.

Hackers unite! Hackers I beg of you to dream big. Demand more of yourself and of other hackers to work on startups which have a social impact. When evaluating startups, "How does this help mankind?" should be a mandatory question.
Just set it upstream on your router.
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I think everyone else's criticism of this idea is that it can't really be guaranteed, can it?
So this is the new cloud based service that should be trusted with all our secrets?
same here. Great presentation on getting graph viz working in sigma and d3.
My ideological fairy tale is that hiring the most qualified person leads to better outcomes.

My reading of this analysis is that they compared 100% male boards, to ones with at least one female (but still many males). And found under performance in the all male boards.

And anyway do boards run companies, or do they just hire the people who do, and vet large decisions?

Maybe a diverse board is better than a homogenous one, even if the individuals are less capable?

I don't think the conclusion that women are better on average is well supported by the Credit Suisse study.

> I wish people who believe it would just invest in female led companies or start an index fund of such companies. Let the market sort it out.

I think a fund that invested in companies which made a reasonable attempt to hire the best people would out perform based on analysis I have seen.

In particular about 10% of hereditary company CEOs are significantly worse managers than the 10% worst hired CEOs. (I am sure that can be phrased better, sorry)
>For those without that exact alignment, ran into the limits of the person's knowledge pretty fast.

That seems natural. They only have 3 months of experience. The company is simply going to have to help with that, along with ample googling and reading.

I think the expectations of those doing the hiring may have been out of line, possibly due to bootcamps selling them something they simply can't deliver reliably, possibly due to hiring managers not knowing the field.
That book made it all snap together for me. It really is fantastic. After reading it, I felt I knew enough to build hardware from first principles, even I'd be slow and terrible at it.
<hr> is a poor choice from an accessibility perspective. You should use a <span> instead.
Actually, given all the attention on the well known, controlled substances, making a little Poppy Tea flies well under the radar, and sometimes happens with Grannie's decorative flowers.

That aside, the parallels regarding stronger formulations and compounds is spot on.
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Posted this in another thread but what company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service?

You need to know that when you kick the bucket in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years etc that the switch is actually going to work.

You need a company with the right moral compass; funding to pay for hosting, maintenance etc; and the longevity to keep going for the next 100 years.

Companies on the "maybe" list for me include Wikipedia, WordPress and maybe Evernote...

Internet Archive might be the best option if they can sustain their funding / longevity.
Got it. I read the story about applying to jobs with overbroad requirements more of a "glass ceiling" thing than a "glass wall" thing. Even if you've got a tech industry job, you might be less eager to try a lateral move.
I think it's an interesting view into how we think about our lives that the first scenario listed is about work data and coworkers, not loved ones or personal data:

"Imagine that you die with computer passwords in your head, leaving coworkers without access to critical files."

I enjoy my job, and my coworkers are great people, but when thinking about things as serious as planning for post-mortem, I'll admit that thinking about how it would affect my employer ranks much lower on the list.
I'm actually surprised google launched the new nexus player device instead of doubling down on chromecast. I'd think a boxed-set of a chromecast and a minimalist cheap $60 4" wifi-only device would have fit more with the existing android ecosystem, and would give the users similar functionality to the nexus player.
Pretty sure it's still actually sending a hash, not a URL
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Omg! I couldn't stop playing.

what is the technology behind this. this is amazing.
That really needs to be qualified.

If a person smokes very regularly, yes. Your argument has merit, particularly among people with modest to low financial means.

However, people with average and above financial means, who also really are recreational users are likely to buy. (weekend, social, specific event users) They know doing so contributes to the acceptance and normalization of the activity, and that's worth a lot to everyone involved, save the black market dealers.
Astroturfed comments, sockpuppet votes, etc., are not allowed on Hacker News. We penalize accounts and sites that do this.
There is also d3.js (http://d3js.org/) which I've used in the past. Based on the examples pages for the two libraries it looks like d3.js has much more functionality:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/
I'm a bit concerned how little they talk about security of this data. At one point they suggest using "codes" to obscure messages:

"For example, you can design your message to contain privately shared codes (“my password is a combination of the street where we grew up and the first name of your mother-in-law”)"

This would only really add security against a very small threat, if they were properly encrypting data at rest: attackers taking over one of the email addresses on the recipient list. And I'll not even dive into how bad it is to base passwords on this kind of personal info.

Is anyone aware of more details on what they're doing to secure this data?
Would be helpful if you shared what your reads are like. Are they limited to a single customer or span the whole db? How fast do you need the "read-side" [or some portion of it] to be aware of the new writes?
Also remember that there's nothing stopping you from using multiple databases. I.e. if you run complex analytically queries that are just impossible to execute even in soft real time it's very reasonable to have a separate database for that does that very well.
Boom. Perfect example.