skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Above all, congrats on shipping.

The problem I have is, you may have built a better mouse trap here, but for the last 20 years the retail investor -- your customer -- has been the mouse. And few people in your industry acknowledge that.

The stock market has a built-in upward bias of 3-5 percent. It represents the premium over the risk free rate that entices people to invest in equity instead of debt (bonds, treasuries). So retail investors don't "lose" money but they have underperformed the market to a extent that is IMO criminal. Literally.

All of the education, services and tools (like yours) are teaching investing all wrong. Price targets? Made up numbers by analysts? What were the price targets on Netflix before it fell 100 handles (and then clawed half of it back)? The day before the drop CNBC said $600/share. How about GTAT? Jim Cramer loved that stock.

There are some people doing it right, though. Check out TastyTrade.com. These guys have made a massive investment in teaching the retail investor techniques for investing that don't rely on the magic of technical analysis or analyst prophecy. And even more awesome -- they built a trading platform that is free to use and provides tooling to support their principles, which are basically: do many small, high probability trades to give yourself many independent occurrences to smooth statistical variance, and let duration work for you. The platform is Dough.com

I'm obviously not affiliated, just a fan. And I don't mean to take away anything from what you've built. But I think we're just doing it wrong and i want to see that changed.
I agree, this doesn't make much sense to me, the correlation is flimsy.
It works offline, that should give you a clue that it is not just a request/response app. Yes, it does make requests to Google's servers, but it can run completely offline with no connection as well.
It's seems Apache Wave has moved from SVN to git since the last time I checked it out. Does anyone know if the project is still alive?
The doctor goes treats patients with Ebola and then brings it back to infect the city. He traveled in subways with many people. There is of course no way to trace these people for being in quarantine. The entire city can get infected.

Doctors are not supposed to be bringing back diseases to infect others. Exactly the opposite of the Hippocratic Oath. Totally irresponsible of the physician.

People that return to the US after treating others for Ebola should be in isolation until they are demonstrated not to have the illness. Why this is not part of CDC guidelines is beyond me....
Right, it makes existing infrastructure more affordable. But for new infrastructure, any income generated is priced into the value, making the "profit" from renting it out less substantial.
but doing this in the rift would take at most 30 seconds... doing it in real life is an actual chore which takes at least 30 minutes if you also consider the way back.
Ubering While Black
It is not unlikely Airbnb goes wild and tries to get feet on the ground in Detroit and expanding its legal reach by being able to verify as institutonal home exploitation company.
>>but what really pushed me was getting a job, on campus, writing software to support PhD candidates in another discipline. I quickly made the jump from researcher to practicum precisely because I was trained as a researcher, then applied those skills to understanding what my customers needed.

I think what allowed you to make that jump was that you were inherently familiar with the problem domain; even though your customers did research in another discipline, at the end of the day they were still researchers.

I was the lead trainer at my company, and the training materials (hundreds of pages of them) used to be on Word documents. I got fed up with it, taught myself Rails, developed and deployed a learning management system, and migrated the content there. It was very successful because as the lead trainer, I knew exactly what features would be needed and how they should work. It was kind of funny actually because when I gave a demo to the trainers in other teams, they basically said, "wow, this is exactly what we need -- when can we start using it?" Which is music to any programmer's ears.
Most likely the Kumbh Mela in India last year.
This is very interesting and quite frankly awesome but I was hoping to see some breathtaking pictures and not cartoons - the kind you see on National Graphic.
Dang. If a person's not familiar with the ins and outs of USB protocol, I'm going to bet they're not going to be able to think up or through that procedure. At best it'd just be some incantation to recite in the hopes the gizmo comes back to life. And if you're using the FTDI chip specifically because it abstracts away serial to USB communication stuff, well, hopefully the device is cheap enough to just replace.

Still, perhaps it could be automated somehow via a responding Windows Update? That's the thing that gets me - it was autmatically propagated, it oughtta be automatically fixed.

Nice find though.
>We only require licensing for uses of Mono and Moonlight on embedded systems, or systems where you are unable to fulfill the obligations of the GNU LGPL.

In other words, you have to pay a license fee for shipping the Mono runtime in a proprietary game, which is what Unity does.

So Unity has negotiated a license deal with Xamarin for the Mono runtime version they use, and if they want to use a newer version they will have to pay more, which they aren't doing.

Instead Unity has developed il2cpp which means that they no longer have to ship the mono runtime with each game and therefore no longer have to pay the license fee for shipping mono.

Atleast that's what I've gathered.
Half the homes need to be torn down, and 2000 lots are already empty.

So it's just 1000 actual homes that may be re-inhabited, and 5000 empty or soon empty lots.

That could be pretty tough to deal with, whatever your plan.
Probably not dense enough without re-building to avoid the blight returning again. All those empty lots would hurt. So some huge money will have to be poured into it to accomplish much.
> and also could be considered illegal in some countries/areas

Is there some country where it's legal to break somebody's property because you have a beef with a third party?

Certainly in the US if somebody produced a virus that did this nobody would even blink at a federal prosecution. That FTDI slipped a bit of text into a document nobody reads doesn't strike me as relevant. If a piece of malware also popped up an innocuous dialog with a terms link and a user clicked ok, nobody sane would say that the malware-writer was legally in the clear.

If FTDI doesn't end up prosecuted over this, I think it's less about the relevant laws and more about how prosecutors view people with money and status who commit crimes in pursuit of profit. Versus, of course, somebody like Aaron Swartz, who not only failed to wear a suit, but was engaged in a political act against the status quo. Crime that improves profits is currently more acceptable than crime that harms profits.
NFC in the iPad Air 2 is a big deal for small businesses
Awesome xkcd: A curated list of implementations of various xkcd comics
"Intelligence agencies still have to comply with the law."

What news have you been reading?
I think you probably weren't a dick. You just said no to someone who was very accustomed to getting what he wanted.
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"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet
Becase he's the proud, probably exhausted father of newborn twins.
I absolutely believe that medical workers in the US that have potential exposure should be very careful about what they are doing (both people traveling back from West Africa and people involved in treatment at US hospitals). The various institutions involved should be helping with this (the hospitals, city, state, federal agencies).

That doesn't mean chickens need to start running at axes the second a known case is identified and isolated.
If it was for a drug that might not otherwise be made or sold at usurious prices, I wouldn't be against crowdfunding it, so long as it was available under reasonable terms like the Vatican Library documents are.

Laundromats I've gone to expect you to bring your own soap. And I'm not sure what the banker example is about but will admit it sounds bad.
I am 10 years younger than your father and had a though time finding a job too. I have a bachelor in Information Engineering, founded and sold two successful startups in the InfoSec space, have raised venture capital and love programming, but still took me about a year to find a job. Granted, I wasn't ready to compromise too much, but heck, as the months go by, it becomes more and more frustrating, especially when age seems to be the #1 discriminating factor.

I am moved by all the support shown here to your father: hopefully it will help him boost his morale. I encourage you to keep digging too - it's payback time.
Yeah, pretty sure the answer is no (though it's funny, we wouldn't have any idea how bad it really was, and maybe still don't, without the whole PRISM thing)....

yeah, the next decade is definitely going to be interesting.
Saying a definite 'no' in Korean culture is often hard (as is saying a definite 'yes'). Saying a firm 'no' to your boss, which would make him say a firm 'no' to his boss, is harder still.

/* Include a typical "that's why such things should be open-source" essay here. */
Is this an opportunity for someone to make an open-source driver that just works?
Another TypeScript or another Dart?

http://xkcd.com/927/
Wow. Interesting that the Rocky Mountain locust proceeded to go extinct 30 years later. It boggles the mind that a species of 12 trillion could go extinct so quickly.

I didn't know about the Rocky Mountain locust - my favorite example was always the passenger pigeon, which by some accounts flew in such enormous flocks the sun was blocked out for days by dense flocks moving through and dung fell "like snow".
Not sure about this. I'm on the same network as my boyfriend. Yesterday he pointed out that amazon.com looked different. I'm on my laptop and it's not showing the new design.
Laura is out selling the film, expect these type of click-bait, one-liners to trickle out as they make the rounds. It's actually a very boring and obvious statement, but it includes Facebook so it plays well around the web as an attention grabbing headline.

Sort of like Peter Thiel claiming that Twitter execs were smoking pot all day when promoting his book.

Say crazy shit = eyeballs on your product.

Edit: I should point out that I don't think the statement about Facebook was "crazy" or in this case even controversial. However my general statement about how PR uses click-bait headlines and takeaways holds true.
having been recently beset with some really bad life things, i seek solace in my son who is my best friend, inspiration, and reason for living.
a few minutes with him, and i am ok for a while. but mostly after being screwed so many times in the past few years by jobs, infosec industry, ... its hard to wake up happy just waiting for the other shoe to drop. constantly looking over my shoulder waiting for something bad to happen is not a fun way to live, but at least i realize the trigger.

this is my own depression and i am going to just put it out there that you have your own depression too. take it one day at a time, get comfort from the little things.
Of course laws cleverly created by lawmakers that does not necessarily support our rights.
it is technically called a Kaleidoscope of Butterflies (sometimes Swarm) -- pretty cool name huh?!
"So how do you stay in shape?

"I have a two-story house and a very bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise."

I love Betty White.
The vast majority of your weblog postings describe https downloads, so it is mostly tangential to grandparent’s complaint and to the article. A .sh script may be a messier and less idiomatic file format than .pkg/.deb/.rpm/.msi, but a pkg from an unknown server is just as dangerous as a shell script from an unknown server.
Tell that to building haskell from source. It depends on itself.
" In their pre-bricking drivers, FDTI caused the counterfeits to fail in confusing and counterintuitive ways, rather than just telling the user that the chip is fake."

Or maybe because the fake chip is not working in some corner case exactly as the original chip?

It's probably not something deliberate.

Edit: Do you really think the manufacturer should test their driver agains all fake chips and see how they behave? Really?

They test their chips and their software first and foremost. What happens outside of that is not their responsibility.
>>Because programming != web programming

That's your personal opinion, and frankly, it reeks of elitism.
Surely it's possible that Facebook can be both a gift to advertisers and a useful tool for those looking to observe social networks and monitor communications as a third party (e.g., three letter agencies, or any adversarial party at all)? Painting it as an "if anything" sort of scenario is forgoing the middle ground between complete skepticism and naive trust where the truth (and best course of action) probably lies.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/525202516816842752

They figured out how to program the clones without programming their own chips. Looks freaking intentional to me, I don't know any reason to send commands to write to an eeprom and do a pre-image attack on a checksum just on opening a connection. Also explains why just the PID is changed, not the VID. It would have affected their chips if they tried changing the VID.
A half hour walk to watch leaves in the park doesn't sound like much of a chore.
What I find fascinating is that there is less natural conflict of interest in being a police officer than there is in being a politician.... and yet people are willing to believe police are corrupt (and some are, no doubt) but so unwilling to believe it about politicians.

This, even after a decade of revelations ranging from Bush's illegal collection of phone metadata, the creation of the TSA (in violation of the 4th amendment) to the NSA spying Snowden exposed and the installation of porno scanners (which I think under most state laws, when used on children constitute child pornography, and if a child gets patted down, it's pretty close to molestation-- as the statutes are written and applied to civilians.)

It's like, to a lot of people, somehow when the government does it, with a plausible sounding rationalization, the laws of morality don't apply.

In fact, even the laws of the law don't apply. The fourth amendment trumps anything congress can pass. State laws still are in force, even if congress authorizes something (e.g.: it can be legal at the federal level but a crime at the local level.)

The government violates its own laws with impunity-- without even an investigation in most cases. Where's the special prosecutor to root out the criminal activity at the NSA? Instead it's just a manhunt for snowden. Yet people are very upset about "net neutrality" (which is a legitimate issue, but far less damaging than the panopticon)

I don't understand this.
The poster's point still stands, though. The user should decide whether to allow that permission on a case-by-case basis.

Sadly, that's a problem with Android, not Paypal.
For those of you with bricked FTDI chips, there is hope on linux:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/44
And lawyers getting big, fat paydays.
I don't see why that would be more challenging than any other class-action suit. Indeed, this looks easier, in that you have widespread media coverage and plenty of experts speaking out publicly. It's not a question of trying to find experts qualified to testify; here, you can pick from a bunch. The technology here is also much more straightforward than, say, an automobile, and there are successful class-action suits involving those all the time.
Googling well is very helpful in filling in gaps in your knowledge that are widely known by others. For most (?) software engineering jobs, that's probably enough.

Writing some code that works, though, doesn't forward the state of the art. I was lucky enough to take AP computer science in high school. I remember arguing with the teacher when she criticized my code in front of the class. I said something along the lines of "Well, it runs and produces the right output!" She then lit into me, explaining that the structure of the code, its readability and maintainability were at least as important as its output. I've carried that lesson with me in the 19 years since, and had in reinforced multiple times over.

The art of "Googling well" won't teach you good abstraction and maintainability, and yet I would argue it is one difference between junior engineers and (good) senior engineers. We talk about learning all these frameworks, but that's not nearly as useful as developing the skills to create the next powerful abstraction to make a class of hard or time-consuming problems easier or faster to solve. You won't learn how to do that on Stack Overflow.
Wei et al. (FAST '11), discussing solid-state drives:

"Drive B’s behavior is the most disturbing: it reported that sanitization was successful, but all the data remained intact. In fact, the filesystem was still mountable. Two more drives suffered a bug that prevented the ERASE UNIT command from working unless the drive firmware was recently reset, otherwise the command would only erase the first LBA. However, they accurately reported that the command failed.

The wide variance among the drives leads us to conclude that each implementation of the security commands must be individually tested before it can be trusted to properly sanitize the drive."

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/tech/full_papers...
It's malicious and intentional.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/525202516816842752
QRM Rule Will Provide Clarity in Housing Finance Market, Benefit Consumers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbh_Mela
ECMAScript 6 returns JavaScript to original intent
I think you mean undeserved wealth, via inheritance, rent-seeking and downright theft. The wealth was created and actually earned by someone.

The sheer number of sports/movie stars, well-off politicians and entrepreneurs in the US with humble beginnings don't give weight to your claim. Sure, there might be a top "caste" that
controls who can belong to that "caste", and very much tries to use the law to protect their collective wealth, but they don't have much control on the rest of the population's "caste mobility": http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...
A GPU Approach to Conway's Game of Life
It mentions Windows, what about other OSes? Does linux/mac need driver? If no - why it works without driver on these OSes?
Totally see what you're saying, and we definitely want to get into the educational aspect at some point. But Netflix fell because of earnings, and GTAT was a fundamentally horrible company (our site wouldn't have recommended it). From what we've seen, retail investors tend to lose money when they invest with their gut, and that's the biggest issue. They hear some news and go and buy that company. They don't know how to do the fundamental analysis, and look at income statements, etc - that's what we're really trying to solve. I agree with not really trusting the analyst target price - we were actually debating whether to keep that there or not, but I disagree that technical analysis can't give you good, long term picks along with a little research.

I'd love to hear more about your thoughts. Think you could shoot me an email at chintan@capp.io?
Maybe it's just because people believe the police are ever-so-slightly easier to change than the federal government, which seems far away and immovable.
If it's Androids problem and not Paypals, I'm not really sure if it stands, then.
Same here. It always eluded me. Security seems like a field where there is still no definite way to get good at.

Being a good security researched requires (among many other things) ability to understand how things work. How ANY things work down to the LOWEST level. Idk about others but I always considered 'security guys' to be the elite of elites in IT world.
Flux causes slag, which necessitates cleaning with a wire brush. If you read the parts listing, you'll see that they are using a Miller 140 MIG welder, which can use an external gas source instead of flux wire.
Note: this was written in Angular
Cause Linux has drivers that support it already, that are a part of the kernel. Not likely that FTDI'd manage to get the kernel devs to add bricking code like this. Kernel devs already added code to handle devices that had been messed up by the drivers, actually.
Hey guys! Looking for beta testers for this application. Unfortunately group creation isn't available yet (so I'll set you up with a group).

You can test it with the group name '13337'.
In what way does "the creation of the TSA" violate the 4th amendment?
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That's taking it deep. Luckily most of our economies run on price systems. :)

First, just because you're making more doesn't mean developers can charge more. Building is a fairly competitive industry. Land is usually the thing that can increase in value in response to rising demand.

Overall when thinking about housing prices the thing to consider is supply. Housing stocks take time to build up and there are all sorts of forces preventing them from increasing. That's really a different discussion but my personally opinion on it is that housing costs go up where and when the government and the citizenry want it to.

Rising house prices are a weird pathology. They help credit markets, which everyone is fond of (banks, developers & home buyers directly; retail and any consumer spending focused industry indirectly). Homeowners feel wealthier when their property increases in value, even though the house is still the same house and they have no way of realizing those gains without moving to a different town.
I was recently buying some reclaimed lumber, it was quite expensive. It occurs to me that 6000 homes depending on how old they are might be worth that much in materials alone.
I miss Google Wave too.
Seems stagnant, if not dead. :-(
The main reason this bid is surprising is if no one bought these properties at this county level auction, they would show up cheaper at a city auction.
JetBrains (the company behind IntelliJ) is headquartered in Prague - Czech Republic.
But keep in mind:

"It seems important to you that you stay relevant. For example, you’re active on Twitter.

"I don’t physically do it. My assistant does it for me. But I say what I want to say, and it gets on there."

That's almost precisely not being active on Twitter.
Indeed, the developer can only explain the permissions in the description.

Perhaps developers should be able to explain permissions in the application's manifest file (where permissions are defined).

Or, maybe there should be a method by which permissions are permanently granted (as it is today), and a method by which permissions are granted on a case by case basis, asking the user's permission. With this model, installing the app would only notify the permanent grants. I'm probably forgetting something here, but this seems like an ok compromise between all or nothing and not harassing the user for the general (non-malicious) case.