skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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'text over a high contrast photo' - rule applies when the text is over a high-contrast PART of the photo. The rule is there for legibility - black text over a flat, white (or just off white) part of a photo that also, in a separate part, has some high-contrast elements, is perfectly fine for legibility.

The only unreadable type on that page is actually the white type over the high contrast photo at the very top of the page. "From one gift come many" - on my MBP, that looks really poor. My eyes are nearly in pain trying to read that.

All in all, I do think it's a bad job of a redesign. Very trendy, but quite obnoxious navigationally. Bad UX. I'm fine with big images and minimal text, but I think it needs to be shrunk quite a lot -- the entire Beats by Dre section should fit, top to bottom, on my 1440x900px screen. As it is, it's a full 2.5x screen heights (estimated).
looking forward to exploring this one; it seems like a nice tool to have in my toolbox, with a fairly low entry barrier.
You're describing an overly optimistic scenario. "Why not just harden all your machines?" Because it's more complicated than that. Yes, you can automate basic hardening (configuration of access controls, limited use of SSH keys), but how do you automate hardening of RPC between one server and another, or hardening of those 3 internal administration web apps which may or may not have some local file disclosure and crypto flaws?

Defense-in-depth is still the only sensible way to handle security. You do what you can on the host side, but bastion hosts, jump hosts, VPNs, etc. provide an additional layer to make lateral movement much more difficult for an attacker.
Interesting. Does anyone have any thoughts about how this would compare to a home-brewed solution? I'm about to publish a web app I'd like to update via git and this seems cleaner than using hooks.
per the chart here [1], it appears that a given volume of 40 degree(F) water is 0.03% smaller than that of 80 degree water.

[1] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-specific-volume-weig...
1 ª Mesa de la Tierra en defensa del territorio, en Eco-Reus 2014
> Isn't this just a subset of what anti-virus software does?

Yes. The signatures are written more generically to detect the samples though. AV software can (or at least shouldn't) write signatures so generically because the potential for false positives. Since the scanner is scanning a non-enterprise environment the signatures can be a little more generic.
Incorrect. See page 10. http://www.firstdata.com/downloads/thought-leadership/EMV_US...
The job market in the Valley is excellent for developers - if you for some reason aren't happy at Yahoo, it would be very easy to find another position nearby.

Otherwise, this is only a question you can really answer. I wouldn't think too much about the stock options though - if anything, they'd just be a nice bonus.
Thanks!

I agree, there's a handful of these issues I'd planned on talking about in future posts; but your list adds a bunch more I hadn't thought of.

Lack of training is a tricky one, isn't it? If you give the wrong kind of training, or too much, or too little, it's easy to miss the mark.
Of course eating non-organic produce is better than eating no produce at all. Eating only organic is a straw man position.
Talk to YouTube
Fear-mongering at its worst.
It might be tied to the increased rates of immigration many European countries have seen in recent years.
What would you say when, in a few years (or few thousand), we develop a rather crude simulation (compared to our universe) where sentient life forms emerge? And what would you say when they point out the exact same argument you did for them not being in a simulation?

The only valid answer, I think, is that nor we, nor any other lifeform, will never be able to do so. And it's impossible to predict whether we will be able to do that or not, but everything points out to the answer being yes!

But please, give me an answer I didn't think of.

PS: I completely hate the simulation argument, as it stands, as you can see in my answer to the top post.
Name one AV company that "looks the other way"?
Never thought about this, interesting question.

You can try this equivalent, killing the server when it tells you to - https://gist.github.com/aidanhs/e40417381e9aecb87b35. It prints '/', i.e. would remove your root directory if it was an `rm` command.

Won't be doing that again then.
GeoTappy – Location sharing inside the ios notification center
That's a good point. I might include setting headlines' font size in the next update. Thanks!
I'm pretty sure those numbers are too high, if you use the CPM of ads on those services as your source of truth.

EDIT: And I just realized that means you'd be willing to pay.
Open source dashboard for tracking app activity by location
An aspect that the blog post did not get into as much is what does it mean for something to be a computation or a simulation. Formalization of computation is well trodden ground.

Lets take the state transition view of it. Our PCs, phones or any other physical thing that we agree is a system 'that computes' is just following the laws of physics, or state evolution. We engineer the initial condition so that it converges to something that is of interest to us. So does it mean it is necessary for the existence of a conscious observer / intervener / interpreter of state for something to be deemed a 'computation' ?

Even if no one is there to observe a particular state or have interest in it, if the system happens to be initialized at some state it would 'compute' the result (end state) no matter what. So what would be that fundamental difference between a simulation and a universe following physical laws ? I think the issue is not whether this is a simulation but whether someone is consciously simulating it. The thing is that it need not be an external entity, embedded entities themselves may reside (perhaps voluntarily) in a simulated experience (hallucinogenic drugs), insanity (socially imposed conformance / compliance), schizophrenia.

The notion of reality is messy business that ties one up in knots. What I find interesting is how two ancient cultures : (i) native American and (ii) Indian thought about it, how they answered when I am dreaming is that real or is that fake. It is really hard to argue that what we call real is a more privileged position than the dream world or a hallucination when we are in it. Some native American philosophies decided that both are equally real. If some one flies in a hallucinogenic trip the person is really flying in that world. There are ways to get in and out of those worlds. The ancient Indians or the vedic philosophers took another route, they chose that both these worlds are just equally unreal.

The question of whether this real or not is pretty much as old as thought.
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Remember that these days, with GNU rm, you have to pass in `--no-preserve-root` to actually `rm -rf /`. Attempting to remove something in the home directory and getting a `rm -rf /home/username/` would still be pretty bad.
Is aircraft technology creating stupid pilots? Maybe. It also drastically lowers the accident rates, though.
"No, the freedom to have all the sex you want is new, for pretty much everyone in the US."

Except for the tiny problem that you need somebody who wants to have sex with you to have sex.
Scrutiny? The article is pretty weak on real scrutiny. It's not quite a whitewash, but it's definitely limp when it comes to hammering the bottom line:

The "ties" described by the article would be better described as symbiosis between regulatory bodies and Goldman Sachs designed to maximize wealth for Goldman Sachs to the detriment of the public. Everyone knew that Goldman Sachs owned most of the politicians and regulatory groups before. This article puts forth a few more pieces of evidence, to nail the coffin shut. Cue apologists denying that these are established facts.

Why is this corruption tolerated?
It definitely has potential, but without tabbed windows, editing multiple files at once seems like it'll be cumbersome.
The PHC is defining a standard API which works with all the proposed algorithms as part of the contest. There's a lot that a proper password hashing API can provide and be secure by default. The PHC mailing list has pretty extensive discussion on this topic.

[1] - http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc
These guys are worth checking out for a similar sort of guide to boston: http://boston.jumpshell.com
How Two Sound Geeks Created Facebook’s Friendly ‘Ping’ Tone
Thanks for this. Learning Swift right now, and I'm going to dissect your code :)
Why is this corruption tolerated?

A more illuminating way to phrase this is, "What are you going to do about it?"
Also it depends what you're working on. Yahoo Research has some of the best data mining people in the business
Are Telomeres the Key to Aging and Cancer?
Open source project management and time tracking application written with RoR
My hunch is this is what 'immigration reform' is really all about behind closed doors, expanding foreign worker visas for "high tech" professions. It appears that is the whole basis behind Zuckerbergs fwd.us campaign.

If you are a tech company you are foolish to not take advantage of the OPT program. Unfortunately it has a negative feedback loop on actually getting enough qualified and trained citizens in to these positions. It basically drives up the cost of such an education displacing citizens from the classroom. However, from the tech industry point of view it's a positive feedback loop.

One little anecdote on something I thought was pretty telling and a bit funny was when I recently heard an interview with Joe Kennedy where a member of the business community asked him about his thoughts on immigration reform. He gave a pretty canned response about hard working people, family ties, deserving a chance etc. Before he could finish the person asking the question chimed in '...and what about H1Bs?" and it was as if somebody snapped their fingers and Joe Kennedy stood up straight, changed to a more serious tone and replied very quickly with 'Oh yes, we MUST expand the H1B program'.
"Lots of little tricks you can do that will tweak the system to your advantages."

Can you suggest any resources for these tricks?
Why Docker Data Containers Are Good: Transitioning from “huh?” to “neat”
CPAN dependency resolution seems worse than with other package managers for two reasons. First, CPAN prefers to install the most recent version of a dependency (rather than pinning to a specific version). Second, the default CPAN client behavior is to run the entire automated test suite for every distribution it installs.

While that behavior feeds back into improved quality for responsive maintainers, it takes additional time during installation. When combined with point #1, it can make dependency chains seem more fragile.
Oh, I didn't realize that the different videos would have different languages. The one showcased on the front page had only French, so I went and assumed that they were all only French.
How'd you even find this post? The community flag killed it within an hour of it being posted.

And the OP is being incredibly condescending to a project that is specifically trying to help deal with that exact condescension. Who is he to ask they rename their project? And specifically to make him feel better about the fact that it promotes feminism. He deserves derision.
The one showcased on the front page had only French, so I gave up right there and went to do something else. :-/
Deep learning might help you get an ultrasound at Walgreens
It probably because France never had problems with food itself (because of good climate and good earth). So people had to develop food culture.

In russia, where climate is hard, earth is not very fertile and one unsuccessful harvest could mean country-scaled global hunger, food culture is more about eating while you can, conservate food while it's fresh. With current excess of food there are many fat men and women out there.

I believe that all countries will develop food culture very soon, it's already happening around. Dietology is a popular topic.
I have installed lots of extensions on FF because I find them to be useful. If I were to use Chrome as my primary browser and wanted the same features that my current FF setup gives me, then I would have to install extensions. But the extensions would slow Chrome down and then I would be back to square one. So "just use Chrome" is not a solution.
> "balance" is antithetic to "interesting"

That's an unusual opinion, would you mind explaining more? Unbalanced games tend to, in my view, be less interesting, because imbalance removes choices from the game.

For example, if you changed the rules to Rock-Paper-Scissors so that paper no longer beats rock, that's not an interesting game anymore. Paper is now clearly the worst choice, since it has no chance of winning, and Rock is now clearly the best choice, since it will draw in the worst case.

Put another way: There's nothing about a balanced game that keeps you from going on the journey that you feel is interesting. But with an balanced game, that journey is mandatory; with an imbalanced game, it's superfluous. You're playing strictly sub-optimally, which is a fine choice, but it's hard for me to see how it's more interesting.
I haven't looked at it carefully, but it's hard to think of a setting where I'd want to teach from this book: it's aimed at stats 101 students, but uses python as the programming language (great language, but far beyond what I'd expect a typical intro stats student to be able to handle); it advocates bayesian statistics, which is a reasonable decision, but seems to take it to such an extreme that "hypothesis test" never appears in the table of contents...

But, it's obviously a labor of love and it's an interesting take on intro to stats. And, from skimming it, I don't see anything in it that's wrong. So this might be a good intro to bayesian stats for most HN readers.

edit: there is a wide range of quality for the graphs, though. Some look great, but some (the histograms especially) are... unappealing. And the formatting for the code sections is quite at odds with the style of the rest of the book. Those are minor, though.

second edit: not to start a license flamewar, but can this book be redistributed? It's licensed under either CC or GNU FDL, but I don't see a way to get the source code. So anyone hosting a copy would also need to license it under the FDL (since they can't remove the FDL licensing from the pdf), which they would then be violating. Am I understanding things correctly, or am I wrong?
They gave $180 million to the families of the deceased in the 5 years after the attacks. If they went out of business due to September 11, none of that money would have been there.

They also provided health care to the families for 10 years. Again, if they went out of business, none of that would have been there.

Losing someone who is earning a salary often drives families into a downward spiral. Having to sell your house and move because you suddenly are choosing between mortgage payments and food for your kids is not easy. The survival of the company prevented this from being a sudden financial adjustment for many of these families.
-Connect with your Google Analytics and focus on the entire journey - click to conversions.

-Download Avinash Kaushik's custom reports for Google Analytics to see the ROAS (return on ad spend) of your campaign. There is a great custom report called E2E Paid Search.

-Read the intro articles on PPCHero.com

-Make sure you understand broad, phrase, exact match. You need to know exactly when your ad will be showing.

-Make sure you use ad extensions to increase your CTR.

-Google cares about your Quality Score. Learn about it and obsess over it.

-Is your landing page aligned with your keyword/ad? Google cares.

-Is your landing page providing a good mobile experience? Lower your bids for mobile devices if it doesn't so you don't waste money.

-Read the AdWords certification guides - they are a bit long but will help you avoid silly mistakes.

-Always test. Test bids, copy, ad extensions, etc.

-Do you only want to target a specific geo? Always think who is seeing your ad. If you don't serve customers in a specific region, should they be seeing it.

-Have a list of negative keywords. If a visitor uses specific keywords from your negative keywords list, your ad will not show up. Think about the user's intent - if a user types a specific keyword, does your ad help him solve his problem?

-If you're using broad match, obsess over the exact keywords typed in. You will see that your ad might not be showing up for the right searches.

-Focus on your campaign structure and go as granular as possible. One keyword theme per ad group - don't lump variety of keywords in the same ad group.

-Learn about dynamic keyword insert--it will help you boost CTR.

-Obsess over outcome (see point #1) - every click costs you money. What is your Cost per conversion? Are you getting any ROI? What is working, what is not working?
That quote is not from the article. In fact the BBC article says the exact opposite "two women in Sweden accuse Mr Assange, 43, of sexual assault."

I'm inclined to believe the BBC over an unreferenced quote.
That's a juicy bit of politics: give the tech industry its guest workers and bail out the universities by shovelling more fuel onto the college bonfire, both at the same time.
Why is Sarkeesian "unlikely to lie about such things"?
My family is conservative and holds more traditional views about sex, family, and religion than most, yet is caught up in the obsession with healthy eating just as much as its liberal counterparts. That's what makes this interesting from my perspective: attitudes about food have changed dramatically across social boundaries and political boundaries, to a greater degree than even our attitudes about sex.

You don't have to agree with the author's conclusions (I mostly don't) to be interested in the way food is being treated in recent years as simultaneously a status symbol and the object of moral and political dogma.
Just this morning, I was just listening to NPR's Planet Money: What's A Penny Worth? and wondering about this problem. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/16/312732409/episode-...
Pelican 3.5 released
Indeed, if the D&D universe is the real one, we may all be in some elven wizard's toy universe, with "simple" rules and no magic, where she goes to meditate... I did try to caveat in my original answer.
That makes no sense to me. Isn't it important for this to be useful in an enterprise environment too? Gov't may be spying on any number of entities, including businesses.
Gecko-Inspired Tech Allows Man to Climb Glass Wall
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We went to Mexico for a day trip and brought an apple in our cooler. Our friends fed us so we never opened the cooler. We forgot at customs and said we had nothing to declare. Customs decided to search our cooler and found the apple. We explained that we had brought it with us but forgotten about it. When he said it was contaminated from being in Mexico, I thought he was telling a joke, but he was dead serious. Thankfully he just confiscated it and let us on our way.
How much did you spend in parts to build?
> Is a simulated universe possible? If we accept that it is, then we also accept that we are most likely currently in one.

I'm sorry, I never was one for philosophy. How does that follow?
I find this technology extremely cool and I have little doubt that its adoption should be widespread.

However, while reading this I started wondering if the drop in infant mortality is going to reduce our genetic fitness over time and require ever more complex and invasive surgery. Oddly enough I think directly altering DNA is probably the best long term solution to avoiding such dependence which I find kind of uplifting. It's sort of the antithesis of the 'bleak' picture painted by most sci-fi dealing with genetic modifications.
Simplify the game.

I'm not joking. Since games have no real "purpose", it's easy to treat all features as equivalent in value. After all, every feature is there for fun. But the reality is that many features are just cruft that distract from the core gameplay that's actually "the fun part".
Google, Rockstar agree to settle patent litigation
Things also start changing physically (physiognomy), for men as well as women.

Believe older people when they suggest you do some things before this happens.

And, make your own physical health a primary personal priority, to help minimize its impact.

Too many people and places will, directly or indirectly, try to get you to place them first (at a corresponding expense/detriment to yourself and your own health). This is a slippery slope.
Why would you call an 'compiler' an 'interpreter'?

The following is Clozure Common Lisp. Every single input is compiled directly to machine code. Feed it source text and everything is compiled. Each and every expression.

Why should I call a direct native code compiler an 'Interpreter'? Makes no sense.

? (let ((f (lambda (a)
(+ 1 a))))
(disassemble f)
(funcall f 2))

;;; (lambda (a) (+ 1 a))
L0
(leaq (@ (:^ L0) (% rip)) (% fn)) ; [0]
(cmpl ($ 8) (% nargs)) ; [7]
(jne L57) ; [10]
(pushq (% rbp)) ; [12]
(movq (% rsp) (% rbp)) ; [13]
(pushq (% arg_z)) ; [16]

;;; (+ 1 a)
(leaveq) ; [17]
(testb ($ 7) (% arg_z.b)) ; [18]
(jne L39) ; [22]
(addq ($ 8) (% arg_z)) ; [24]
(jo L32) ; [28]
(repz)
(retq) ; [30]
L32
(jmpq (@ .SPFIX-OVERFLOW)) ; [32]
L39
(movl ($ 8) (% arg_y.l)) ; [39]
(jmpq (@ .SPBUILTIN-PLUS)) ; [44]

;;; #<no source text>
L57
(uuo-error-wrong-number-of-args) ; [57]

3 ; result
You're confusing book value with market capitalization and shareholder's equity. In your magic company they're always identical. In the real world they never are.

More germane to HN: I'm a founder. I own 50.01% of my company. Issuing stock is a "neutral" event for me because I'm going to own a smaller piece of a bigger pie? C'mon dude, admit you're wrong and move on.
> IMO, the only defense against doxing is to dox yourself. Doxing is just a form of intimidation, after all, usually done by people who think publicizing some "secret information" will be taken as a vague threat. Make the information public and you remove their ammunition.

> To me, the best defense against a troll is being completely nonchalant and not giving a shit what they do. Hacked my accounts? Oh well, it's just an account, i'll make another. Sent me death threats? Hey, life is short and we all die some time.

I am clearly a little less nonchalant than you. But I don't feel all that inclined to publicly post my home address or my kid's school address or scout camp location.
Please, try implementing non-linear regression to understand images. Tell me how it goes.

Also, 'nonbody know hows learning is stored'? You very clearly have never worked with neural nets before. Experience is stored in the form of weight values.
How could we have missed that very large year? Thanks!
Despite smartwatches, Google Glass will pay off in the end
lol it was painful. about $2.5K. Really its the pan/tilt controller that killed the budget. The thing is theatrical quality... cost about $1300 itself.
> "Even in America, old habits, like his KGB-induced skepticism of the police lingered."

[Cough]. Even in America? More like especially nowadays, no?

Beautifully written piece, otherwise.