skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even know where to begin with this.

Your understanding of basic civil liberties is so fundamentally flawed that I can't even understand how you arrived at those conclusions.

> The existing procedure for screening police officers, though it has some flaws, works remarkably well overall.

I don't have a constitutional right to be a police officer. I would also argue with your characterization of "works remarkably well overall". You're making an assertion with no supporting facts but since we're going to play that game. There are close to 300 MILLION legally owned firearms in the United States today. Contrary to popular belief, we do not have a rampant gun violence problem with legally owned firearms. So I'd argue that the existing regime works pretty damn well for civilian ownership.

Now compare that record with the record of accidental police shootings (not unarmed suspect shot; think...I didn't hit the right person or/shot killed a person even given my training) and let me know which looks worse to you.

> When your free speech impacts others in your community, you often do.

NO. YOU DON'T. That's PRECISELY the point. The impact of my speech on my community is EXPRESSLY protected by the Bill of Rights. Political speech is given the HIGHEST level of protection. That's why racists can march down main street and call for all minorities to be expelled from the USA. It's why someone can picket a legal business and complain about its actions.

> The license would not restrict any law abiding citizen from going through the qualification process, and the cost would be subsidized, so how exactly are your rights being infringed?

Would you like an example of how this infringes rights?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_(United_States)
Shameless self-plug.

If you are running postfix as your mail server, you could use something like [0] (or write your own solution, utilizing a database or whatever, of course).

[0] https://github.com/afics/vmailmgrpy
PM if you want to talk more.
Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon too long
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This is an urban legend. Iowa is so incredibly productive because it get sun and rain in a good predictable quantity, and we apply man-made fertilizer to largely level fields in controlled quantities. The rest is wishful thinking. Topsoil became irrelevant to farming decades ago.

Returning to a Pollyanna view of a perfect agrarian society of cows fertilizing humble fields of vegetables, would result in widespread shortages.

Corn based ethanol no longer uses more energy than it creates; that threshold was reached years ago. Some more reading is in order, I suggest.

Just pointing out how agriculture economic systems work, and its absolutely nothing like described above.
It's an important clarification, just like we call the artist that insists on using a new graphic symbol for his stage name "the artist formerly known as Prince".

How else are we going to keep track of one person's name changes over the years? It's just common sense, really.
Unfortunately, the author does not offer much to actually answer the question posed by the title.

He does complain about the whiteboarding during interviews, and would prefer to be taken at his word about his past experience. As an older engineer (much older than the author, I might add), I can understand the feeling; however, in my years of experience, I have seen too many people coast on their former laurels and contribute, basically, nothing to the day-to-day business of the company. They can talk a mean talk, but never deliver anything of value. They sure are quick to jump on a hot idea once it's proven out and take credit, though!

So is whiteboarding the best way to higher people? I don't know; but I think it is a good way to keep the slackers _out_.
Police raid programmer who reported flaw in Argentinian e-voting system
I would be more interested in whether it will outperform in the future, and whether it will outperform before I start moving into more conservative investments. Given that I'm going to be around a while, consistent but middling performance will eventually outperform inconsistent great performance. I would hate to invest in a managed fund only to have it underperform for several years.
One story I've heard is that the original Tron was responsible for a lot of this. They originally tried to use computer graphics for many of the movie's effects, but it proved to be way too expensive and time-consuming using the technology of the time. So they ended up hand-animating and rotoscoping most of it. The hollywood studios deemed the CG a failure and were scared off of it for a number of years following. So computer graphics didnt get as much adoption as it would have otherwise throughout the 80s.

Also many, many movies still use practical models in addition to CG. It's just that now movies can blend both techniques to use whatever is most appropriate for a given shot. What is rare now are movies that use no CG at all.. even things like Mad Max which are touted for their practical effects utilize a TON of CG work.
Coursera has a great course on discrete optimization [1] where I have learned and used or-tools. They are rather nice, but the documentation is half done (basically code is the best documentation) and some interfaces are not compatible with others. I ended up forking or-tools for my own use and tweaking many unexposed internals. I guess it's extremely difficult to implement generic optimization solver, so I won't complain, but be prepared it's not out-of-the-box thing (I doubt there is any).

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization
A cousin of mine with a high IQ (TNS level) and who would be categorized as a 'cute blond' expressed similar laments. Moderately sociable as a kid, reasonably well-heeled, one who loved spending most of her time devouring science and math tomes, conducted experiments on her own; an individual. Then adolescence hit coupled with menarche and amplified social pressure to 'fit in' which caused her sense of strong individualization to wane. In late teens she talked to me about majoring in law or sociology and I questioned: 'is that YOU?' What followed was a long diatribe, de rerum natura, which had the earmarks of a 'something' being repressed. Using salient observations like those opined by Marilyn vos Savant in her old 'ask Marilyn' column it was conceded that individualization and mutualization are sustainable while open-end charity with no sense of culturally enforced mutualization is fatally maladaptive, given received human nature. And the old social dictates evolved for survival in times prior to the advent of modern medicine were just so THEN but this is NOW. And the great seminal inventors and scientists of the late 19th century, almost all of whom were male, were individualists by temperament who while developing their ideas would partition themselves off from the vicissitudes of life for the duration. That exchange was capped-off with a paraphrase of an extract from the 'Bulfinch's Mythology' section 'Glaucus and Scylla'. Glaucus was a river god who developed the hots for a maiden called Scylla, who scorned his every approach. Retreating in to sulk mode he was given a pep talk by a mentor goddess Circe (where the word cereal comes from). To paraphrase: Recognize and objectify your worth. Then realize you are someone to be sought after rather than one who seeks in vain. Be willing to meet people half way. But if they spurn you, spurn them! Why should they disturb your Wa? (Wa = inner harmony (jp); we were both into Japanese and anime). In any event, my cousin segued back into math and IT, is herself, and suffers no fools lightly (IE, abides no BS).
This is beautiful! Not just is it really quite cool to explore with, but is truly gorgeous. It is true as another user put that this is a graphical way of looking at a sieve of Eratosthenes, but to say that it is is “only” suggests to me a lack of appreciation for the beauty (plus, it also maps other non-prime patterns: deficient, perfect and abundant).
A negative area to avoid in the discussion would be the computing analogy that having computing as a hobby is a complete waste of time because a brand new CPU fab line costs in the billions and uses all kinds of non-garage compatible toxic chemicals, or the standard automotive analogy that no one can or should be a gearhead because so few living rooms have space for a supercomputer cluster to do finite element analysis and fluid dynamics simulations.

I predict long term that bio will be much like electronics or ham radio where the population drops by maybe half at each tier or level, but there sure are a lot of people at lower levels of the hobby...
"A team of international scientists says it is virtually certain that climate change increased the likelihood of the ongoing heat wave stretching across much of Europe."

It's been colder where I live. Probably 10-20 degrees cooler than normal. Should I attribute this to global cooling?
March 27 and March 4 are the most common days for birth, death on Wikipedia
But certain namespaces cannot be created without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Sure, you can drop privileges later, but a privilege escalation exploit in the container gives the attacker root access outside of that container, too. Sure, user namespaces have had issues, but they seem a hell of a lot safer than no isolation at all. Furthermore, user namespaces allow unprivileged users to create containers, too, which is particularly exciting.
now I'm really curious
I'm a Brazilian, and I completely supported the creation of the gun control laws we currently have.

That said, I think our data is clear enough. As soon as we took the guns out of the streets, violence started to increase in a much bigger rate, and we are now almost in a civil war situation. Looks like the US stereotypical idea of a good men with a gun being the best deterrence to a bad men with a gun bears some truth.
good luck with microtonal on a midi keyboard, though..
Nice! Just a question - are there distributed versions of these somewhere as well?
Slavoj Žižek on GReferendum: The Greeks are correct
There are distracting writing failures--technical stuff.

The phrase "[he] connected the battery to an antenna" breaks the flow of the story because it leads the reader to the wrong idea, then the reader has to backtrack...

An IRC channel with 100k users in 1996? Look, freenode has 85k users today, spread across 40k channels... Even worse, the Wikipedia page for securax indicates that it was an online community that had newsletter with 90k subscribers.
Wow this article is ridiculously biased - it reads like a press release from Zenefits.
It's for operations research stuff (like logistics, scheduling etc.), not software optimization.
Yes indeed you are correct, I forgot about that. But in such a case I think it's still a good idea to own plenty of those robots or be able to do something that a robot can't :).
Basically it solves NP-complete problems that are solvable because of small set size and some clever constant optimizations. There are industries where it's a useful thing for scheduling, for example. Or you may want to solve travelling salesman when planning a trip.
While I agree with you with health-related biotech, not all biotech is in this area. There are quite a number of industrial uses for biotech that would not require the extensive testing and validation required for drugs.

Examples might be isolating novel enzymes for biocatalysis from the vast microbiome that remains to be explored, novelty decorative plants, etc...
Hello from this other side of the spectrum! I need at least 8h/day of sleep to NOT have a migraine. If I don't set an alarm my mind/body will happily sleep 9 to 10 hours a day.
Looks like this is more LP oriented.

There are numerous free implementations listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenberg%E2%80%93Marquardt_al...

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What kind of markups are you getting on the people you are billing? I noticed in the wufoo form the rates are pretty low:

What hourly rates would you consider *

$30 to $40

$40 to $50

$50 to $60

> $60 (this position is not for you)
One potential fix is to insert a countervailing bias into political procedures to make it harder for restrictions on freedom to get passed. For example, one could say that a simple majority (>50%) is enough to repeal rules, increase individual rights, or decrease government authority; but a >=60% majority is needed to do the opposite (create new rules, decrease individual rights, increase government authority).
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What is install.json used by?

Also, the names aren't entirely unambiguous. Bower used to use the same name as NPM (package.json) until relatively recently, for example.
Not sure at all what you mean by 'Sino countries'.

AFAIK in Japan the predominant pre-Buddhist shinto beliefs paralleled Taoism in their nature-focus.

Korea and Vietnam had Taoism, at least in Vietnam it is still sort of alive, though Buddhism far dominates. In Korea Buddhism and Christianity dominate. Taiwan has numerous Taoist shrines, though Buddhism dominates it is not to the same extent. Mainland China has effectively killed off Taoism almost entirely.
>"That's a big hitch with digital games. They are inferior to physical games in showing how and why the player’s inputs produced the outputs that they did. I cannot really see the model, nor access it to modify to improve to my understanding of history or the world."

Intuitively, I don't agree with this, but I'm not sure what the actual argument is. My sense is that he was making a statement about his own mentation but couching it as a statement about humanity. Rather strong bias if so.
Really this goes for a lot of big co.
No one ever said sovereigns always come to the correct conclusion. That's not their mandate. It's social order. That's why it's important for citizens, and their representatives in this case, to be educated, and have the ability to affect decisions of the government. Sadly those with the most influence right now are simultaneously of narrow vision, and aren't that educated right now.

When Comey says that "two sides are talking past each other" who are on the other side? Because it's inappropriate for him to propose "two sides" are crypto experts and non-experts should be given equal weighting in the debate as if effectively breaking encryption has only mainly upsides.
I never thought I'd be jealous of having a migraine (I've had my share already), but I'd gladly suffer another two day one if it meant I felt refreshed after only 4 hours of sleep daily from that point on!
There are many private portfolios that "beat the market." Of course, you can extend the timeline or find myriad other ways to exclude them. It's very hard to be a hedge fund and beat the market because they do not have the luxury of sitting out poor market conditions.

I'm not suggesting "anybody can do it" but the study that concludes money managers underperform the market often gets stretched into "nothing beats index funds".
Docker hosts pre-built images that have known exploits in them. They also bundle insecure versions of libraries with their software: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601
It's true that WHOIS always catalogued both name and IP, but in the early days, they corresponded to the same position in the network. The information for the owner of that block was already in the ARPANET directory that WHOIS duplicated.

Domains and IPs used to be closely tied together, but that’s not the case anymore - when you WHOIS the IP lizdenys.com is at, you don’t get anything, but when you WHOIS the name lizdenys.com, you get information about me. Getting my personal information when you WHOIS lizdenys.com isn’t in the spirit of getting the information in the original WHOIS directory.
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This says I'm totally screwed and will be out of money in 5 years after I retire, while my retirement planner says I'm golden.

Oh well. This calculator also fails to take into account the effects of the singularity which everyone says is coming certainly before my retirement date, so I'm not sure if I should care.
Yes. I'm not entirely sure why this was posted now, as it's a couple of months from 3.5's release date yet, and What's New is not up to date. On python-dev, David Mertz just volunteered to write/update this "What's New" page, somewhat sponsored by the company he works for, Continuum: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-July/14065...
I was like that before the mega migraine. I think I'm broken and you're not :)
I don't know that it's possible to have a realtime application running in an interpreter (which makes no realtime guarantees as far as I know) running on top of a soft-at-best-realtime OS.
Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you track your income?
I've been freelancing for a few years now, and I never found any tool (or Excel magic) that could solve my problem.

I'm working 40+ hours and when I look into the numbers, I should be doing really good. But at the end of the month, I'm not even close to that number. Sure, I'll eventually get there, but I'd like to know how others are coping with this.

I'm doing fine for the daily expenses. But before I make big purchases, I have to spend hours to project the state of my finances in the coming months.

Anyone in the same situation? How are you coping with this? Is there any tool that can help out?

An example:
Right now I have a project that spans over 3 months. I'm 2 months in. So now I'm wondering:
- How much per month am I making with this project, considering 30% was paid upfront?
- The initial payment was cleared last week (delayed cheque). I should be noting that somewhere right?
- Am I hitting my monthly target at all? Projects spanning on several months are very common.
It's the customers server. If they need a /48 of address space, you just want to route all of it to them.
When I was a teenager, several of my friends and I went to several businesses in our neighborhood to inquire about jobs. One place was "Folino Bros. Fruits & Vegetables", as I remember, it was a wholesale market. But, on the inside, we didn't see many fruits or vegetables. It was arid, dark and dusty with very little inventory. When we asked about jobs, we were led to a back room where this burly man wearing a three piece suit and a fedora was smoking a cigar, he explained to us that they weren't currently hiring then gave each of us an apple and thanked us for the interest.

When we walked away, we waited until long after we were out of earshot and we all stopped and looked at each other and confirmed that we were all wondering the same thing. "Is that a mafia front?"
With a formal education in biology, I've always thought the industry was much like the computer industry a few decades ago. Jobs & Gates arguably took something that was limited to corporations and Universities, and brought it to the masses. It's a matter of time before there's a startup that revolutionizes something from their garage. Just think where we were before PCR was around, imagine what's next? With open source tools, OpenWetWare, etc, it's lowering the barriers to entry. Who says it's restricted to pharma and human clinical trials? There's plenty of room for innovation in many other areas (GMOs, synthetic bio, methods, tools).

Plus, Bill Gates (loosely) agrees. [0]

[0]: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/heres-to-you-biolo...
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The submission title is a little dishonest.
What an ignorant comment. Feminism is directly responsible for women getting their rights, like abortion. Saying it is "just as bad as..." is a clueless claim. What wrongs has Masculinism ever corrected?
Do software engineers need mathematics?
Giant robots from Japan, US to face off
Stacked Bump Charts – d3 tutorial
How come `bytes` and `bytearray` got old-style formatting? Aren't we trying to do away with that in favor of a `format` method?
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Book Review
I too purchased a network video solution for baby monitoring. My experiences...

I initially looked at the popular off-the-shelf baby video monitors, but after doing a little more research it was "unclear" how secure many are, and several appeared to employ absolutely no encryption at all and instead relied on frequency jumping (but people had been able to pull them apart, figure out the pattern, and intercept with a software defined radio).

So after that I decided either standard WiFi with WPA2/AES or no dice. So ultimately I started looking at more general purpose network video cameras (often sold as "security cameras"). Something I could connect to my WiFi, and security would be reliant on my knowledge of networking and legitimate encryption rather than security through obscurity.

The TL;DR after a long search I wound up buying a Foscam, it is a Pan & Tilt, day & night indoor camera. It was around $60 on sale and 720p resolution (but costs a little more right now on Amazon). The camera's video stream can be received just using standard VLC Player (it uses H.264) on a PC. You can also use their browser extension to receive the feed, or their paid software if you want to record the feed. I also paid $4 for an Android app called "IP Cam Viewer Pro" which can receive the feed and control most of the camera's key functions (pan & tilt, night-mode, etc).

So now I can OpenVPN into my home network from either my phone, PC, or Mac and then use VLC, a browser, or an Android app to see the stream (and in some cases control the camera).
"But 28 short years ago, the term [hacker] hardly existed–that is, until the Max Headroom Incident."

That's blatantly incorrect. For example, the movie War Games (pretty mainstream, with Matthew Broderick) is from 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
Docker's UX is not a feature, it's just part of its DNA that assisted in gaining rapid mindshare, sort of like Vagrant before it, by being more approachable than older tools like OpenVZ and VirtualBox respectively.
http://ceres-solver.org/
I wish I only needed 4 hours of sleep a night. I hate going to bed and wasting 1/3rd of the day passed out. Or getting less than that and feeling groggy and lethargic all day.

I always hear these stories of people who can live happily on 4 hours of sleep and am insanely jealous.
His function isn't necessarily to defeat the wolf. If he can discourage it or delay it long enough for the shepherd to come, he has done his job.
Yes. While they have been possible in Firefox since forever, they should now be possible in Chrome, too.

Another idea is vertical tabs.
I second this wholeheartedly. Unless you are specialized in some vertical with locally or nationally recognized skills, you are going to hit the ceiling. I'm not commanding 200-300K salary yet. But story is true for someone earning 150-160K. It seems like 150K is the beginning of the ceiling.

From a company's point of view, it's legit to not offer high salary for individuals with generic skills and experiences. They can always hire 2 at the cost 1 engineer. Then pay thru slower productivity, buggy software, inefficient architecture and so on.
Then there's the co-workers who say they need little sleep, when the truth is their productivity is suffering...