skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crazy part is that, instead of throwing an error when given input that doesn't make sense, it just silently produces garbage output.
Why does Jeep in particular have so much issue with quality assurance? The most memorable is the SUV rolling over in a simple test a couple years ago which have been fixed but it's quite worrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYFLb8WMGM
"Does anyone know: are malaria vaccines not interesting for drug companies because there's no money in them?"

This drug was developed by GSK...

In a general sense, no. Malaria is just a very hard target for vaccine development. Not the hardest, but the limiting factor for vaccines is not just 'interest'. Otherwise, we'd have one for HIV.
"The 17 Billion transistors on the Pascal GPU are twice the transistors found on the GM200 Maxwell and the Fiji XT GPU core which is literally insane. "

https://xkcd.com/725/
> People want

Yeah, no. Auto mfr.'s want to reduce the display count to make cars cheaper to make and the interiors simpler to build. I've never ever spoken to or heard form anyone who 'wants' or even kinda likes having their climate controls on the same screen as their maps, pandora, etc. It's confusing, usually cluttered, and complicates things unnecessarily.
> would like to know what's the best way to protect me or, in case, the best way to obtain a fair "farewell" package...

As a useful benchmark-- reach out to your former Senior colleagues who received the package during the last round (best done face-to-face over lunch or drinks). Tell them your situation, ask for any advice based on their recent experience. They may also volunteer details of their severance agreement.

> my role will be diminished and I feel that my career will be damaged.

This can be tricky. Sometimes it's a vote of confidence, we truly value your contributions and are trying to figure out a new role. Other times it's a signal, we wish you'd resign own your own volition. Assuming you have a cordial relationship with your superiors, ask them to tell you as neat & clean as they can-- how things stand between you. You likely already have a clue.

Incidentally, restructures are often messy & arbitrary things. In 18-24 months, they may realize it was poorly executed. If you survive, you could easily be back on-top. Happens more often than you think.
Agreed. It's a red flag for "expect more exploitable issues to be found around the corner" and can result in biased distributions, but it by itself does not break a RNG.
The recall aligns with an ongoing software distribution that insulates connected vehicles from remote manipulation, which, if unauthorized, constitutes criminal action.

The WIRED story's hackers presumably were authorized by the vehicle's owner or operator, so the demo did not "constitute criminal action."
Sorry, I didn't explain but those were my analysis of those particular Politifact fact checks. You can verify the facts yourself. In both cases Politifact is clearly biased, and misleading. BTW, I also did fact checks on the fact checks about Romney too. In any case it seems you have drunk the kool-aid so I'll leave the discuss here.
This is actually really good stuff, I've never been a fan of Dworkin due to some out of context quotes. I would say that this attitude isn't one held by all women, though.
Ask HN: Inspiring guides/books/blogs for modern Node.js infrastructure?
I've been using JavaScript for more than 10 years as my second/third language. I wanna take a look deeper at node.js, probably switch to this platform in my new project.

Can you guys share any must-see links, recommend must-have books, must-have tools, inspiring open source projects for a beginner, blogs, etc.? Coffeescript or js?

I'm mainly focused on webdev.
Sure, JSON is easy and intuitive.
Unless they can provide a username that crashes fail2ban via blowing up the regex parsing... and then they get all the free tries they want.

fail2ban/sshguard/etc are not infallible. Someone will find a way to break them.
Do Co-Founders Decide Things Together or Does the CEO Call the Shots?
I'd say that having performance reviews enforces:
1) culture of "don't screw up". (Yes, opposite to your thought) What risks would anyone will want to take if it means preparing yourself to be scapegoat if something will not work out perfectly?
2) enormous amount of politics, lies, and self-promoting by shameless liars and back-stabbers. How can you tell whether someone delivered significantly better then others? In most cases it's mutual BS feeding/consuming between manager and certain type of employees.
Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?
This is inspired by the recent "How's your eyesight?" post where a commenter posted sarcastically that a better question would have been "How's your drinking problem?".

Now while the title may have been a little hyperbolic, I do think it's important for us to discuss the drinking culture we're always around.

How does drinking fit into your life? How has your body or your mind responded to increases or decreases in the frequency of drinking? Have you tried being aware of any of these things and if so what did you learn?
Yes, but I don't think skimmas is fully right. Updating firmware over the internet is not a terrible idea. Public key decryption is well established technology and simple enough for even big corporations to get right.

Of course.. there's some room for them to screw up, but I would argue that that's set off by the risk of having buggy vehicle control firmware killing people. Especially with a new vehicle like the Tesla.
The ability to send OTA updates is a much better option than having to physically touch every single vehicle with a recall...

I'd prefer it if my car didn't have any connection between a public network and it's control systems, but if it does I want it to be able to automatically install patches ;)
Remember that beautiful, amazing time when pop-up blockers had forever defeated those obnoxious and intrusive ads? My timeline could be off, but I'm thinking somewhere around 2004-2006, when Firefox was really picking up steam. I feel like the current web is in some kind of alternative universe where we've been shifted back in time over a decade. I have to use Ublock and Ghostery to make the web even remotely usable.

Perhaps websites just need to die altogether, and instead we'll just use APIs. You choose how to render the content in your browser according to your desires. Oh wait....RSS.
So in the government contracting space there's effectively two kinds of work that are relevant here:

- products, which Palantir claims to be

- services, which Palantir appears to be by offices and head count

You are right that product contracts (and associated services like installation and training, O&M, etc.) can be fairly sticky, but the government has been on a trend towards open-standards, open-source etc. and proprietary software products are under lots of pressure to be incomparably better than anything else out there.

But "cheeks-in-seats" service contracts are not. The government is notorious at tossing out incumbents on service contracts and bringing in new companies, who then simply hire all the people who worked on the previous contract.

Palantir seems to push themselves out there as a two-product company with some sales-staff. It's obviously not going to be turn-key software, there's likely to be some configuration and support stuff up-front. But once you, as a product company, get big enough, even those tasks can be handled competently by other companies. [1] But their product sales don't look to be a huge dollar amount. fbo has a couple awards from 2011 for ~$750k licenses. This is four years ago, but we're not looking at dozens of millions of dollars.

edit here's an award for $20m for Palantir support to the war in Afghanistan. Note that DoD only reports contracts over $6.5m. So the bulk of their DoD awards must be falling under that threshold.

edit here's a 5 year contract from DoJ for ~$10m. http://www.govconwire.com/2014/04/doj-selects-palantir-softw... hardly $20billion dollar valuation contract sizes.

So it's likely most of their growth trajectory has been in specialized consulting services that direct customers to their products, but also use other tools and solutions. But again, once the ecosystem is big enough, the government can just try to compete that work out and hire another company to handle that work...companies that might not direct the solution-space towards Palantir's products.

1 - https://www.palantir.com/partnerships/service-providers/
A lot of SUVs were prone to rolling over before they got the traction control system right.
Even Dijkstra didn't use it - the title was added by the editor.
It might be worth noting that 'sarciszewski was the author of that remark.
Defect appears to have a particular meaning in relation to vehicle safety. I'm just basing that on the way it is used here:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/recalls/recallprocess.cfm

I guess it isn't that big a stretch to use such defensive language, there are a lot of things that can be tampered with on a vehicle that arise out of engineering trade offs.

I don't mean to dismiss the problem at hand, but it is only an issue if someone makes an effort to tamper with a vehicle, which is different than a critical part failing prematurely or whatever.
I'm not saying my personal beliefs - I'm saying what others are taking issue with. The Thought Police are taking issue with it being a "Frat Party" because it "excludes women and makes them feel unwanted".

Or am I not understanding the backlash properly?
Then you're screwed when you need to log on to your server from some random machine that doesn't have your key installed.
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One thing a lot of people don't think about is the potential for abuse for financial reasons. Imagine insider trading with access to CEOs e-mail, industrial espionage, etc.
Two systems that accept input from the same touchscreen can't be isolated in hardware. From the software side, any portion of each system's interface that overlaps at the touchscreen cannot be isolated. On top of that, if the touchscreen is reprogrammable, then it can be attacked directly and touchscreens are commodity devices not normally considered part of the security infrastructure.
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Oh, good old PAM: http://web.archive.org/web/20131205090841/http://deadmemes.n... (Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3325510)
> This is a terrible decision.

It's the only one available to them. They can't just refit all existing cars with a new design on a short timeline. Hardware has permanence.

With that in mind, how would you fix the issue for existing vehicles?
Is see stuff like 'cgo' and 'import "C"'.

What's going on here?
Yes, the video shows the test execution part, and not a clear understanding of the cloud integration. Sorry for the confusion. That said, the cloud comes into play when the automated tests are ran successfully, and the results are sent to a Web server to capture, and share the test results with the team. The test summaries are also updated and shared with other team members. I hope this helps. New videos will do a better job with highlighting the cloud integration.
True, and there's nothing stopping that power also being exposed in the graphical user interface. Sourcetree in particular has an excellent rebase UI.
When modelling data it should be the primary concern and not an ORM. Different applications will need access to the same information. ORMs are application specific and therefore should not determine how data is structured.

As for the non-English speakers finding the collective difficult; I can see that. I have not specifically considered their needs whilst compiling the guide. In the case of `flora` I am guessing you're thinking `plant`?
The Internet of Things has lots of bright minds working on it...
> You must implement a prototype. This prototype doesn't need to be "ready to merge", but it does need to be a basically complete solution to the problem at hand. You can't have a meeting to propose a big piece of work that you'll only do if the team agrees. You are basically producing a demo. Demos can cut corners on certain things (tests for one), but the main goal is to prove that the idea is a viable one and will work within your codebase. It's not useful to suggest a solution that is done outside of the context of your technology stack.

> Where can you find time to create this demo? You'll want buy-in from your supervisor (if they're a good one hopefully they'll encourage you!) Otherwise (to steal a line from Hunter S. Thompson), I hate to advocate nights and weekends, but they've always worked for me. (I do understand this isn't how it works for everyone...)

Having to work nights and weekends to build a working prototype to get in-house buy-in on new functionality makes little sense to me. If your team cannot work together well enough to agree on new features without them being built first then perhaps the issue isn't feature adoption.
What filesystems would you say provide you with high stability confidence?
It would appear, then, that actually something does happen between high school and death which decreases women's interest in CS. It is not due to women leaving their career for family either, since many of this 56% decide to continue working, but in a non-technical role.

I would posit, that this "something," if it exists, is also experienced by older programmers and by programmers who, for whatever reason, have a harder time presenting themselves as a "Standard Silicon Valley guy."

As an oddball older programmer, I would attest: I strongly suspect this "something" definitely exists.
Our law has for the most part never recognized any kind of privilege for journalists and their sources. Protection of sources is more like a code of conduct among journalists, not a part of the broader social contract.

To me, this makes sense. Literally anyone can be a journalist. Nobody elects them, and nothing but the market has any voice in what they do. I think it's better that way, too: you can see how fraught government involvement with even the most reputable state-sponsored media outlets can be.
You can mitigate this by having lots of machines with your key installed (at least two), in different physical locations.
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If there are protection measures in place it could be a violation of DMCA, whether or not they had the owner's permission.
I've always wanted to disable password based auth, but I am worried that if I need to connect to my machine in a pinch from some random device (wife's phone, borrowed machine from friend, work, etc), that I won't be able to connect. How do people get around this? Keep in mind that I'm talking about home machines and hobby VM instances, I do not manage any production servers or anything.
I've used http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html and https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html for years.

It's some what asinine to reduce the complexity down to a single number but I've found that they are usually pretty reflective of what you find in practice.
It is illegal to manufacture/distribute any technology that could enable decentralized power production. It is a threat to the stability of the international monetary system.
Steady (and growing) cash flow from contracts with large organizations (whether you like their clients or not), very strong technical staff and consequently, inventions, prominent brand and public awareness, etc..
I think you make a valid point, although I was able to acquire a course of Chloroquine to cover me for a couple of months at one week's notice, for <£10, whereas the vaccine would need two months for the three initial doses. So maybe it's a practicality argument that I'm making, rather than a financial one.
Not even just possible, but the default of operation in the industry. Most don't turn an underwriting profit with any consistency and make all their money on their investments from that float.
We are in Palantir's space; we consider them a competitor.
Not that that's perfectly secure
There is simply no alternative at this point. The press coverage was so big (which I prefer) that they can't hope that 100% of users will do the fw upgrade themselves.

That thing here is a big fucking warning to all other car manufactures for the future.
The comment you are replying to was deleted before I could read it so I don't have sufficient context to know if this distinction matters, but the part you quoted talks about interest in computer science, but the stats you cite are about practicing computer science. There are many reasons one might stop practicing something other than losing interest in it.
Auto companies' lax attitudes towards systems security will change when insurance companies start considering such security vulnerabilities as safety issues and adjust their existing safety ratings appropriately.
I agree with melling's comment here, and I wanted to add that malaria has been a difficult disease. Attempts to create a vaccine for it have been going on for decades. It is a disease caused by a parasite, not a virus nor a bacteria. No other parasitic disease has ever had a successful vaccine created for it.

Malaria lingers in infected people for their entire lives with periodic disabling relapses. The malaria antigens, that trigger the antibody response, are extremely variable and allow the malaria parasites to evade the body's immune system. It is surprising to me that any vaccine can be developed which is effective against it.
The justification given is extremely interesting as well (if misguided?). We generally wouldn't have a problem with a girls-only tech program because girls are disadvantaged in tech. But boys in school are lagging behind in lots of school subjects. Still, one wonders why robotics is supposed to improve literacy.
Desk Employees: Developers, designers, others: do you brush your teeth at work?
Why or why not?
Here are 4 other such services - the first one is particularly nice.

http://dreamingwith.us/
http://dreamdeeply.com/
http://psychic-vr-lab.com/deepdream/
http://deepdream.pictures/
Assuming the network fixes are effective, the recall is just a PR campaign.
Surprises me that RAM hasn't increased more, the machine I'm on is 5 years old and it has 2GB of RAM on the GPU (HD6950) which I paid ~200 quid for 5 years ago.
I started to think, "But, isn't it an oxymoron to suggest that something is more overt, if it distracts less..." when I realized, the true discovery in these tests is just that we can't really judge what is overt, because that's based on context.

Here is an example:

You're driving down the freeway at 90mph. As you begin
rounding a corner there is a giant red sign on the left
that says, "You need a heart transplant!" in huge,
reflective white writing, while on the right a deer's
eyes glow in your headlights just as he begins to jump
in front of you.

Which is more "salient"? The deer is a mere pair of one inch eyes glowing in your headlights, while the billboard is seventy five feet of glowing red and white. Salience is based on context and perceived importance of a pattern, and that function cannot simply be overridden.

Here's another (different kind of) example:

You're driving down the freeway at 90mph, using Waze to
track police locations and avoid tickets, when all of
the sudden you see a lightning bolt a few yards in
front of you...

Now you're thinking about Waze (esp if you've used it), even though I mentioned there was a lightning bolt in your face.
So has Intel. Skylake (2016) and Sandy Bridge (2010) have roughly comparable single core desktop benchmarks. Power/performance ratios have increased drastically, but that's mostly because of process improvements. AMD has been stuck on 28nm for a long time, but that's not AMD's fault.
This is an interesting idea. I will give it some thought as others have also suggested similar. Perhaps the guide could be relaxed a little to allow singular names.

Someone mentioned that tables can be considered like types - another interesting thought - in which case singular makes sense.

On the other hand it is a collection of something and therefore the collective term applies equally well.
Every day at work I just try and endure the suffering, and every night at home I just try and endure the alcohol.
Gave it up five years ago - feel much better and my sleep is markedly improved.
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It seems to be pretty common. Does anybody know why so?
Disclaimer: I am friends with the developers, and have been using since early alpha/beta builds.

I just gotta say, that for my uses, Penny has already replaced Mint. I used Mint as a big picture view of my finances, and the ability to search through my transaction history and so on. But the other majority of the features in Mint, went unused by me. Also the constant advertising of financial services, and other things got annoying. I tried to use the Budgets, but those aren't well laid out.

Queue Penny, and I think i got most of what I want, and features that Mint doesn't have, which is figuring out which of my transactions are recurring, and allowing me to get a total of all recurring transactions as a lump sum. That was a major feature I loved from BillGuard that I don't need to log into that for. Simple and easy to access information of all my bank account and CC balances, very nice graphs and breakdowns of my spending in a few clicks. And a solid history of my transactions.

It does what I need it to do it, with less fuss and more focus. And I am sure this product will get better with more feedback and use.
A Pulitzer Prize winning organization whose "Lie of the Year" was proven to be false, and who probably knew it was a lie when they wrote it? Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes. Here's the truth: all newspapers and media have bias, and to think that fact checkers don't have bias just because they say so is completely naive. When a site has at least 90% liberal readers (their FB comments are just one indicator), and is owned by a liberal-leaning newspaper, do you really think they are going to not going to skew their writing to suit their audience? Try doing your own fact checks (I did over 100) and you'll quickly see how their claims to truth are just a clever way to mask their own bias.
> The WIRED story's hackers presumably were authorized by the vehicle's owner or operator, so the demo did not "constitute criminal action."

They were probably authorized by the driver, but car companies have argued that the driver does not "own" the software in the car, so I assume their claim of unauthorized access is predicated on the assumption that the car company still owns the software and that the car company did not authorize the access.

I do not agree with the car company's stance on ownership, but that may be the origin of their claim.
Renthop has no login authentication
I received a link from a broker when I was browsing renthop. I noticed an "edit listing" link at the bottom:

http://postimg.org/image/v0irmzc6p/

So i clicked it.

http://postimg.org/image/qyubvaqhl/

Hm, maybe I can go to the profile?

http://postimg.org/image/nj6szhimx/

Bug or feature, you be the judge!
Then it should only read the CAN, or have a limited write capability

Customers want things, it's not their responsibility, it's the manufacturer's responsibility to not ship something unsafe
Waiting for them to release the source for Ivy. I made PoC android app writing UI in Java... but curious to know how to do it purely in Go without knowing how to interact with OpenGL.
The Google Voice web app hit me with a feature/satisfaction survey a couple of months ago, which gave me some hope that they might be considering some new development. (But also the fear they might be trying to decide whether to shut it down.)

[GV user since it was Grand Central.]
"1984" is not only an instructional manual now, it has become a political must-have. At least in the US we have lip-service to privacy and freedom of thought.
I'm pretty sure it was /their/ Jeep.