skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're willing to use a typewriter you're willing to use a computer with no network connection, so all you need to do is block radio transmissions. A faraday cage can't cost that much compared to the other costs involved in espionage.
Samples for using LLVM and Clang as a library
I agree the lack of rifling doesn't help, but what's wrong with a 2" barrel? There are snub-nosed revolvers with barrels just as short.
Thanks. Now to find some brain power... :)
"Corruption in cases where governments explored switching to alternative operating systems."

huh? I'm not MS lover but can you prove this ?
Rest assured, they have better methods of attribution than a reverse DNS lookup. It's difficult to attribute a specific attack, but relatively easy to attribute large campaigns.
> block radio transmissions

To what attack are you referring here?
If your using a mechanical typewriter, your likely not in a public (and/or pre-deterined place). This forces an attacker into a cumbersome, intrusive, and maybe-evidence-left-behind espionage scenario (B&E). That in and of itself is quite useful.
Or a 12 oz soda and 4 Reese's Cups.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8599991

Pure private unemployment insurance.
it can make it much easier to do on-demand migrations: in massive online apps, a large percentage of data is essentially 'dead' - it's unlikely anyone will ever access it again. and massive online apps (call it 'web-scale' if you will ;) can accumulate a lot of data. the systems they're discussing make it easier to migrate data as needed instead of at once (which sometimes isn't even possible if the infrastructure is really being pounded).
> Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 will support gulp, grunt, bower and npm for front end developers.

Holy Gates! It's like they're listening or something. Can't wait.
>Please make a specific claim.

Well, in Nofunspeak: People take care of the things they own. Cows have done pretty damn well considering their spot in the food chain. Much better than, say, tyrannosaurs or Bengal tigers. Were I reincarnated and given the choice between a cow and a tiger, would I pick the cow? Of course not. But realistically (I use the term loosely given that we are talking about reincarnation), the tigers would all have been taken by nobler and more deserving souls than I, and I would have the dilemma of, say, a cow and a flea. Ah, I forgot: this is nofunspeak. So: tigers are independent, fear-no-man humans innately sovereign, cows are their slaves, employees, mistresses, and children, and fleas are property of the horror-state that would be erected if the real estate were not currently occupied (this is likely to be our point of supreme contention, which I must confess boggles my mind. It seems perfectly obvious that states of some kind are a naturally occuring phenomenon. I mean, they're all over the place. It also seems obvious that they are easier to get wrong than right. If only the criminals are allowed to set up states, all the states will be run by criminals.) Or, in today's boredom-state: tigers are whoever you think of as bogeymen, cows are the virtuous economic producers industrially farming their villes, and fleas are their unkempt IT guys, anarchist commune residents, and (shudder) idealist college students (Reader's note: I have been all three of these at some point in my life, so I have some flea cred).

Shall we aphorize? Who is more free, my dog that's dumb as a rock and I don't allow off my property, or the dead one euthanized as a puppy because I didn't adopt it? I mean, the second one can sit on whatever dog heaven couches it wants, but this seems small consolation.

Now at this point it must be addressed: yes, my dog, by rights, ought to be allowed to fulfil her noble duty of guarding Tibetan shrines. It's good for Lhasa Apso health, according to that article in Nature. But didn't we go over this? In our bleak world, there are not many shrine-guarding, tiger, or free-from-political-power spots left.

Clearly I am treading in moral gray area, because I am contradicting the central dogma of the (world-wide! Tip your local Peace Corps Rep!) American religion, which is freedom ueber allen. Choice, man! But I have just demonstrated a scenario that is beneficial enough that both parties would voluntarily agree to it (cow doesn't get eaten by wolves, human gets milk), but limits the freedom of one party. Behold! Political power, ex nihilo! And so we see that choice is very easy to lose: give everyone the same amount today, and tomorrow most of it will be in the hands of a few. This makes voluntary beneficial exchanges rather tricky. Of course you could periodically reset the amount of choice people had, perhaps by cancelling contracts (Jubilee!), but that reeks of rules, and political power.

And as for the car: you and I may be happy, but Joe down the street has to breathe the same air. Was our exchange beneficial for him?
I would love to read this. How do you know? Are you Chinese?

I find it weird how in a world this connected, we still only get one POV.
Yup. It gets a bit annoying when people try to figure out why they didn't get the job.

The answer is always that someone else was preferred over you. You usually can't know if your interview performance was a determining factor.
Typewriters are subject to attack, but it's a much more laborious and non-scalable process. It requires social engineering, infiltration, or else planting bugs, intercepting shipments, etc. It can be done, and certainly was done, back in the age of typewriters. But it requires some old-fashioned, boots-on-the-ground fieldwork. It's a lot tougher to place bugs in embassies today than it was in the 1970s. And in some respects, it's logistically tougher than hacking into computers, which can be done from any location on Earth. (Which is not to say that computer hacking doesn't benefit from social engineering strategies, of course).

"Unhackable" is a poor choice of words -- more like "practically speaking, tougher to hack." This is a speed bump, not a roadblock.

Of course, if the US were to adopt this sort of strategy, we'd have to make sure we're manufacturing the typewriters domestically. Which probably means setting up a puppet company somewhere in the States, purely for the sake of making typewriters for government contracts. And then you'd have to make sure that company isn't socially engineered, infiltrated, or hacked. And so on, and so forth.
Zappos has a 35% return rate.

http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/03/31/get-back
Sure, people pay for support where they need it. If you've got a critical box, it's probably a good idea.
I don't think it's so much the weight but the material.
Awesome! Great to see more examples of F# being used in production. Have you considered submitting a testimonial to http://fsharp.org/testimonials/ ?

You can actually target iOS and Android today with F#, via Xamarin Studio, but today's announcements definitely open up even further potential.
Yes, this is the most probable; see https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sv8IHkBtBEXjSW7WktEY...

Slides 12-25 in particular.
I have to say this is Science Awesomeness at it's best, and I'm bothered by the lack of media coverage. Perhaps if all of us posted and retweeted we could get some motion on this?
If you are making changes when you notice the need (and thank you for that work!), then you ARE an editor of Wikipedia. That's what that word means.
While I do think this move is a valiant one, I don't believe that it will, in and of itself, build better practices and help Microsoft build better software. Open source is very hard to do right, and if you're a company that doesn't have open source in their DNA it could pose a huge challenge to building positive relationships with your developer community. If you're a big corporation like Microsoft, you have tons of people with their eyes on you at all times. Everyone can read and criticize your code.

Also, being open source means being open and transparent about release cycles and roadmaps, which takes a lot of effort and initiative. I do think Microsoft can do that if they build a solid team of technical community evangelists, but otherwise, they will be swimming against the stream.
Poll: What is your goal with your startup?
For those that founded a startup, just wondering what you're aiming for.

If multiple apply, just choose the one you feel strongest about.
To make a large amount of money (eg. acquisition)
To build software you're proud of
To have a better work/life balance
To change peoples lives
To work for yourself.
> but all that requires application code changes and significantly more configuration management.

And not to talk about making them highly available, scalable, having to continuously monitor and so on takes time, effort and involves significant opportunity costs.

Imagine business folks telling engineers about an upcoming promotion campaign that bring in 3X more load. Outside of AWS (or cloud provided service) one has to sit and plan for scaling up all the individual components (rabbitmq, haproxy etc.,) which really becomes pain after a few iterations.
Yes, Early Preview stage. Get back on November 20, there will be more info then.
And if PubMed isn't your cup of tea, just head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/keto, unless you think those ~125K subreddit members are just lying.

Not all calories are the same. I myself lost almost 40lbs on the keto diet (~200 to start, now around 160lbs). 31, male, sedentary IT worker. NO EXERCISE. I eat everything except carbs (fruit, beer, anything with sugars).
AFAIK, the main legal issue is a trespass to chattels tort. The data collected is generally uncopyrightable if not reproduced in it's entirety without modifications. The relevant case is Feist v. Rural [0].

IANAL, but I think the best bet for staying technically legal is to use jurisdictional arbitrage and tit-for-tat to liberate the data. If someone scrapes a US server and are in the US and they generate enough load to deprive the owner of use, then they are technically liable for damages under trespass to chattels. If they instead trade scraping labor with people in other jurisdictions, then that other entity would be liable. There might be some other legal defense/attack that might be usable by the entity who has the data being liberated, but I reckon it would be tenuous at best.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
This is beginning to feel like how it was when Intel was competing with AMD -- evolutionary improvements at first, which just kept on coming, increasing in size and impact, until AMD just faded out of the high-perf server market.
Keto In A Nutshell: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gZfJejOM8fJsX1iCilmnpp1q...

/r/keto FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but just in case you are actually serious, perhaps consider just for a second that the company did not fire him because of his depression.

I'm not saying he's lying, but assume for a moment that he got caught up in the emotion and felt that was the reason they fired him. What if it wasn't? What if it was something else? You are telling this young man to start a revolution against a company that may have no malice in their intentions. Naming/Shaming companies have real effect. This company doesn't seem like a multi-national huge corporation with deep pockets, atleast from their webpage I didn't gather that they were. Publicly shaming them may do real damage to the company and people that work there.
If the person really was discriminated against, then go the legal route, sue them and settle it that way. If he was wronged, then law is on his side. Once you win that lawsuit, then feel free to blog and start a revolution because then you have a guilty party. Right now, its just his word against no one else's word, they can't defend themselves.
Reminds me of the bit about Chopin leading listeners on for the satisfying note/chord in this Benjamin Zander talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passio...
Reminds me of how Neal Stephenson in The Diamond Age taught us that a culture might control the copying of information by utilizing mechanical type to print newspapers, where each printing shows the grain of the type and is hard to simulate.
It was an attempted paraphrase of one party's position for two people who seemed to be talking past each other. It was not stated as my position.
These can't be flown at 15,000 feet legally (in the US) without a special FAA civilian UAS license. Without such a license you can fly them under 400 feet using the model aircraft rules but going over 400 feet is not allowed sans license.

DJI's Phantom quadcopters (with newest firmware) enforce the 400 foot ceiling in software, not sure what their plans are with this one since it is being marketed as much more pro-sumer than than the Phantom line, but if Joe Schmoe Parkflyer flies one of these above 400 feet he is violating FAA regulations and theoretically could be charged large fines currently.
It's an interesting data point.

That suicide prevention barrier on the George Washington Bridge was completed in 2011. Suicides had been gradually falling for ~25 years at that point, and hit a low in 2005/2006, and have increased since then even with the suicide barrier. There doesn't appear to be any evidence that I can find that it reduced the overall suicide rate.

In fact, the rate appears to have climbed since the barrier went up:

http://www.intheforefront.org/media/stats
This is strongly correlated with brand values they push in certain marketing campaigns and both returns as well as excellent service are promoted.
Flipping it you could say they attract people that do returns more than avg.
What are your best lazy man's “free money” tips?
Tonight I spent 10 minutes rebalancing my 401(k) and changing my allocations from higher expense funds to equivalent lower expense funds. I estimate that in that 10 minutes, I saved a recurring $500 annually by slicing 0.5% management fees.

That got me thinking--what are your best tips for spending a small amount of time (<15 minutes) that may yield a significant recurring payoff?
Of course, I should have deduced that. Is the harpoon expected to go deep enough to prevent this from happening?
Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code
I think you absolutely did the right thing by removing their name. I hope you see a positive end to this situation.
When the Industrial Revolution came around, the amount of value a worker could produce increased a great deal. But society saw that increase as belonging to the business owner who purchased the machine. Wages fell and fell as worker productivity increased. Entire families, including children, had to work just to survive. After a great deal of fighting, and not a little bloodshed, we got the definition of a 40 hour workweek, and society came to see it as proper that a single person working 40 hours a week should be paid a wage high enough that they could comfortably support an entire family. Society expected employers to share the increased value workers were generating with the workers.

We're facing a similar situation now. Computers and automation technology came into the workplace around 1980 or so. And society sees the increased value workers create thanks to these tools as belonging to the company, not to the worker. The idea that a worker should be paid enough that they can work 40 hours and provide for an entire family comfortably has vanished. Now the concern is only that no one be paid above the market rate for their position, and that the market rate be kept low. Society and the business world was entirely unprepared with the breakneck pace of productivity growth that computers brought about. The idea of having wages keep pace with the productivity gains simply seemed absurd, as it would require large and frequent raises. And now we've gotten so far behind, with wages stagnating for decades while companies have grown accustomed to ludicrous profit margins, that any reasonable correction seems ridiculous. Will we see society come around and consider it proper that a worker once more is entitled to a good portion of the value they create? Or will companies devalue jobs to the point where taking one costs more than they pay? Will we be able to avoid bloodshed this time?
AMO is the addon-site itself

the review process isn't against obfuscation, its only against addons which it is prevented from reviewing.

the credit-card thing is mentioned on the description of the addon, same for also the email-muckery stuff

> The code encapsulates XMLHttpRequest in a function called "n", so it's hard to find all the places it phones home.

I honestly don't see how that would make it much harder, personally? just mentally alias `n` to `XMLHttpRequest`

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ghostery still has a tracking opt-in though, which can be too much for some

Privacy Badger seems to be the "best" bet soon, all automated without any inbuilt knowledge, which is fairly nice.

ghostery probably does similar, and to a better degree currently, but... simply put, I trust EFF more
I guess I'm still unclear how that would work in the context of AES. Or really any symmetric construction, come to think of it.
Someone should build this if it doesn't already exist.
This already happens, every time I sit through United's forced-ads talking about how "I saved up to $100 on checked bag fees". (All to promote their crappy Chase partnership.) Still, pretty cheeky to rub the baggage fees in people's faces, I think.

Or, United not carrying amaretto on some flights, or having the nerve to charge $6 a drink for it in the lounges.'

Spirit's even worse.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way but this sounds like a much better advice than the one you gave above. I would not have guessed that both comments came from the same person, until I checked the username.
Sure he's glad to have a job, but unless he's a major fuck-up he's also overqualified for that job. And I'm sure if he actually needs to support himself or anyone else he's looking for his next job too. Not graduating high-school makes it hard to land even a low skill job, but not because he's any less qualified for it. It's just a lazy minimum filter to avoid people that would have absentee issues.

Working retail is simple (not easy, depending on your personality) and anyone can do it once they've been shown how to run the register.

"The likelihood of them leaving is much higher..."
Do you know what the turnover is in low skill jobs?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102021496#.
"After reaching 100 percent in 2005—then subsequently dropping to 51 percent following the recession in 2011—median turnover rates for part-time retail workers jumped back up to 74.9 percent in 2013, according to Hay Group, a management consulting firm."

Even call centers (considered a decent job for "unskilled" adults), have better than 25% turnover.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/standard-employee-turnover-ca...
Why would you compare C# (although they keep adding functional programming concepts to it) to Scala, instead of comparing F# (which can commingle with C# wherever you need it) with Scala?

I haven't looked into F# or Scala too much, but I bet F# comes out looking far better, because it was so deeply inspired by Haskell (but made practical).
But I am sick & tired of hearing people blaming the lie that "some anonymous person/society told me to work hard and study hard, but now I'm not where I want to be--it must be society's fault".

What if--and I'm just spitballing here--what if they're right? What if it is society's fault, because of the numerous extra requirements we place on people: car insurance, health insurance, taxes, etc.? What if we aren't actually giving back their money's worth?
According to the article the best thing before "sliced bread" was "wrapped bread".
People are ridiculously bad at estimating the caloric content of food they eat. We can see the volume of food, feel the weight, taste it but we cannot without practice and training easily guess how many calories it will be.

Also people are just as bad at estimating how many calories they would burn by exercisng or walking.

We've all heard it -- "I'll need to walk around the block after eating that piece of cheese cake" phrase. I've said it myself many times. Even though I know it will take hours and hours of walking around a very large block to burn it off so to speak.

One more thing. There is a negative aspect of exercising in relation to weight that is often overlooked. Because of the pervious 2 points, people who do exercise will rationalize eating more food because "they will burn them off in 15 min on treadmill".

Now I am using "calories" here in a simplistic way, but we had long discussions before about how it is not as simple as calories and calories out. It is bit more complicated -- hunger, hormones, insulin level, fat storage rates etc.
So you are disputing that it's not illegal? Or something?
Good. that's probably an indication that what most people really want is to get from point A to point B as quickly and cheaply as possible.
I don't understand their consumer segments. Who is this product targeted for?

For amateurs, it's rather expensive compared to the other DJI options out there. Especially if you already have a GoPro.

If you're a pro, you probably opt for something more customizable. You want a camera that you can get a great footage out and there is a nice and commonly understood post-processing and grading option available and not use some propriety camera.

So I think real pros would spend a bit more and attach their existing camera (GH4, Canon 5D III, etc.) system that they are familiar with to a large drone or if they want a smaller drone they'll go with the LX100 or some one of many Sony offering (if they don't need 4K)
The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar
Yeah, I thought that when I wrote it. The same is somewhat true of Equal Exchange (ie, presumably their advocacy is intended to drive market expansion).

But what about the other examples I've named?
I feel the same about Latin's elegance which I learned in the 70s in high school. More recently I have mastered Russian and find the same kind of elegance and ability to convey a lot in a few words. There are all kinds of two word and four word sentences used by Russian people as a kind of poetic shorthand about life's situations. And Russians, young and old, men and women, professional and blue-collar, have a love of great poetry and lyrics. They will often write their own and share with others as a toast, or just an impromptu performance at a party.

I recommend learning Russian, which is much easier than English to learn, partly because its grammar is a lot simpler than Latin (or Romance languages) while at the same time having a much more regular vocabulary than English.

I think one reason why the authors chose language learning as an example is that mastering a language, even part way, is a long term commitment over many years, and that it is the frequent and long term effort that has the effect on the brain.
Wondering if a flat percent make sense is sorta reasonable. But the rest of your screed is pretty idiotic.

And most civilizations have come to the conclusion that progressive taxation makes sense. The wealthy benefit much more than in a straight line proportion.
SSD EBS most likely.
Sounds to me like they are not using EBS like RDS-MySQL would be..
Now this is music theory! There was this heated discussion back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472157

Well, that notation-jargon is still not real theory, and this stuff from the nautil.us link here is. This is the stuff to understand if you want to understand music.
It will look like every other book... intended to hold private information so they'll never suspect anything! ;)

I once had the bright idea to put passwords written on a small piece of paper and place it inside a 3.5" floppy. If it's in a pack of other unlabeled disks, that's going to be a nice fishing trip.