skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[from TFA]: The offending content was a page titled, "Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe Mushrooms."

It's no suprise that they would ban the whole of Reddit rather then let people grow and eat psychedelic mushrooms.

It's just a testament to how dangerous they think this is for their current regime.

Drugs, especially psychedelics, are antidotes for brainwashing and they know it and won't allow it.

I strongly believe that if more people took psychedelics in Russia, the regime would melt away and young people would start inventing crazy cool stuff and organizing Burning Man's instead of listening to state propaganda and preparing for WW3.

Theories aside, I'm really sorry for the people in Russia who are affected by the decisions of these zombie officials and each time I see something like this, I feel a greater need for a decentralized web which would be impossible (or extremely difficult) to block.

(If you're working on something like a decentralized/p2p web/Internet/content distribution platform), let me know, I'd love to join you.
It's important that one of the key lessons here is that the CEO of Zirtual, AND their investors, failed in their responsibilities during this whole fiasco.

The CEO:

Jack Dorsey has a fairly good description of what the CEO's role is - that of an editor (http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-role-of-a-CEO). The CEO should do 3 things:

- Build and nurture the team

- Communicate internally and externally

- Make sure there's money in the bank

It looks like Zirtual's CEO screwed up all three of these - it's inexcusable and ludicrous to think she didn't know how much money was in the bank, and the burn rate. She probably knew exactly what was going to happen, she saw the writing on the wall, and tried her best to figure out an outcome for the company and team.

It could be that the Startups.co acquisition was the perfect thing to do, but to do it after missing payroll, breaking user and employee trust, and in such a ham-handed way is ridiculous. She played chicken with cash flow, and she lost. 400 employees who thought they had a job had to suddenly go through a stressful shake up, and start worrying about bills, insurance, and their livelihood, right before school season starts.

The Investors:

According to Crunchbase, this company raised $5.5M from VCs like Mayfield.

Don't these investors have an obligation/responsibility to their Limited Partners to invest their money wisely? Don't these investors ask the CEO for monthly or quarterly financial statements (or something simpler like - "How much money in the bank? What's your Accounts Receivable? What's your monthly burn rate?").

Why didn't someone say something 6 months ago? Why didn't someone say something 1 month ago, so that there could have been a more orderly pause in the business while trying to sell it?

What's the point in simply investing in deals and not spending any time to advise/help start-ups? The CEO of Zirtual could be super talented, but she's not run a start-up before. Shouldn't investors spend some time with her making sure things don't go off the rails?

It's events like this which erode trust in start-ups, investors and founders.
It was more than a fun design choice. When twitter first launched, smartphone weren't as ubiquitous as they are now. They chose the 140 character limit so that tweets could be sent via SMS.
7 Inspirational Movies for Creators and Misfits
The point about having self-discipline to work on projects is very true. I have found that the best way to stay motivated is to write as little code as possible and deploy as mush as possible. My usual commit is never more than ~50 lines of code. There is no better satisfaction than seeing your code doing magic in the wild.
Maybe they could do a kickstarter.
Red Hat Satellite 6.1 finally arrives
I was expecting to see the NSA spying on the Senate, not the CIA. Maybe this is one of the "shell games" where CIA agents are using NSA equipment and data, and so it's a CIA investigation not an NSA one?

At the risk of sounding too cynical, I'm beginning to expect that every classified document is classified merely to cover up mistakes, bad choices, and other events that would make the person in power look poorly to others.

Do we really benefit - as a nation, or as a society - by classifying documents?
Ask HN: How often do you view your application logs?
Apache, Nginx, etc?
Octopus Genome Offers Insights into One of Ocean's Cleverest Oddballs
I've written some in the 200-300 line range, that took 500+ lines of Ruby to replace. Ruby was less efficient in wall-clock time, but easier to scale up in features. It required using a database for storage rather than line-oriented text files (the problem set was too large to fit in-memory as Ruby objects at least) - a source of performance loss, as I went with sqlite to keep things self-contained. I could have coded in a pipe / batch oriented way like bash, but then I wouldn't have gained any ease of feature implementation.

If you can express a problem as a set of filters and pipes, don't need to fork too much, and have efficient executables to run each stage of the pipe, bash can be hard to beat without breaking out a real programming language with threading support. That's because bash isn't doing the heavy lifting, just doing process orchestration - something it does better than any scripting language I've used. <() in particular is tedious to do in most non-shells (and many alleged shells).
Where are you getting that info?
Chat apps are very popular. This lets Twitter get a piece of that action. Coming soon: emoji packs for DMs!!!
And is also not the silver-bullet people hope it to be, being that there is absolutely no FS level support for userns.
Somehow I doubt that in Russia young people "listen to state propaganda and prepare WW3". If you believe this you are probably victim of other state propaganda.
Strace and tcpdump and htop and iftop and lsof for containers: An interactive demo
Or, it could radicalize them.
Stupid, deceptively-simple question:

Why can't you do something like "Game on Rails", where you set up a basic framework that has all the stuff a game normally needs, and then you only have to layer your assets and logic on top of it?

Do game devs already use something like that and still have these delays?
Separate of the blocksize issue - fundamentally I don't think the network should run on the back of transaction fees. The benefit of a high hashrate (a secure network) isn't limited only to those actively transferring money. Anyone who holds Bitcoin has a stake in the network.

Everyone also benefits from high scalability of transaction processing, so ideally transaction fees should stay low or zero. I don't accept the idea of meta-currency (alt-currencies and sidechains) to rectify this situation - too much risk when you have a known quantity that works pretty OK. It also decreases security by splitting processing power. If the problem is that it doesn't scale well, fix it, don't replace it. Joel on Programming's #1 Thing You Should Never Do: start over from scratch.

It's impossible to maintain the massive amount of processing power spent on this solely through transaction fees. Block rewards effectively socialize this collective interest in network security though a very low level of inflation, which hits the right population (Bitcoin holders as a whole). To me transaction fees should be nothing more than spam prevention, to prevent a DOS attack from clogging up the transaction blocks.

Really there's no reason you couldn't have an arbitrarily-large transaction block as long as the bandwidth is reasonable. You still have the problem of the chain becoming too great in size, but that's a problem with some pretty obvious answers.
Posted this on another thread as well.

It's important that one of the key lessons here is that the CEO of Zirtual, AND their investors, failed in their responsibilities during this whole fiasco.

The CEO:

Jack Dorsey has a fairly good description of what the CEO's role is - that of an editor (http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-role-of-a-CEO). The CEO should do 3 things:

- Build and nurture the team

- Communicate internally and externally

- Make sure there's money in the bank

It looks like Zirtual's CEO screwed up all three of these - it's inexcusable and ludicrous to think she didn't know how much money was in the bank, and the burn rate. She probably knew exactly what was going to happen, she saw the writing on the wall, and tried her best to figure out an outcome for the company and team.

It could be that the Startups.co acquisition was the perfect thing to do, but to do it after missing payroll, breaking user and employee trust, and in such a ham-handed way is ridiculous. She played chicken with cash flow, and she lost. 400 employees who thought they had a job had to suddenly go through a stressful shake up, and start worrying about bills, insurance, and their livelihood, right before school season starts.

The Investors:

According to Crunchbase, this company raised $5.5M from VCs like Mayfield.

Don't these investors have an obligation/responsibility to their Limited Partners to invest their money wisely? Don't these investors ask the CEO for monthly or quarterly financial statements (or something simpler like - "How much money in the bank? What's your Accounts Receivable? What's your monthly burn rate?").

Why didn't someone say something 6 months ago? Why didn't someone say something 1 month ago, so that there could have been a more orderly pause in the business while trying to sell it?

What's the point in simply investing in deals and not spending any time to advise/help start-ups? The CEO of Zirtual could be super talented, but she's not run a start-up before. Shouldn't investors spend some time with her making sure things don't go off the rails?

It's events like this which erode trust in start-ups, investors and founders.
A guy I know retired in about 1970, and raised his family on his savings alone, which were about 200k. He says today his savings are mostly untouched (he lived off the interest, and his in recent years he reached the legal retirement age and receives a pension).

To do so he:

- Home schooled his kids

- Had the benefit of free public healthcare

- His kids (who most have now got university degrees) used government interest-free loans to pay for uni

- He did take his family on a year long overseas trip back to his native country which cost about 40k

- He didn't live in a house, but in a sailing boat!
Setting+kids+up+to+fail+-+math+class
I didn't say POV pushing and bias doesn't happen. I said that there are tools to deal with it. It does take time to learn how to navigate wikipedia, but it's not beyond the reach of the average person to do so if they have the time and motivation. I would urge more people to spend time editing wikipedia to deal with issues like this.
Massive Explosion Rocks China
New Akumina Chief Revenue Officer Maffei Looks to Stengthen Channel
A Dozen Things I've Learned from Chris Sacca about VC
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
>>Free markets when supported by strong property rights can have strong protections to prevent harm or pollution.

>Can someone explain how this is supposed to work? I don't mean to sound rude/biased but this sounds like one of those cases where the theory is sound but when it meets with reality we get unpredictable(and sometimes disastrous) results.

The example is meant to illustrate the mechanism being asked about by the parent (quoted). Nothing was said about filtering air and water in the example.
This idea seems like an ambitious evolution of tracking devices. You attach tags to the items you want to keep with you, and they warn you if any of the items get too far away from the rest of the group (as detected via Bluetooth). The system also supposedly learns the patterns of proximity of items.

I think the messaging for the project could be simplified a bit, but the focus on engineering and detail is nice. I hope they get funded, though momentum hasn't quite built up. As one commenter said, "Come on folks - this is the best of all the IoT tracking type technology on offer - back, back, back!"
Agree, but also believe that the great barrier to clear thinking is extreme alcohol consumption. That's where they get you!
Apple aside, doing this kind of thing silently sucks for users -- one of the benefits of native applications over the web is having control over when updates containing potential regressions are inserted into your workflow.
still down 8:00 PM
I just got out of public highschool a few years ago and it was fairly easy 99% of the time. Even the final exams didn't take serious studying. Any work that was "hard" was generally more tedious than challenging. It was an easy coast to get 90s. Maybe it's not high schools in general, just specific districts.
great theory, man. i don't know who is brainwashed more, the Russians or the Westerners
Forget todoMVC; make a content site with Angular
It's all about consolidating control of the media in the hands of the Russian state. Reddit is uncontrollable, so they block it. Putin is trying to roll back Russia to the 'glory days' of communism when Russia was powerful enough to project its influence far outside its borders. I don't really think that type of state control is possible anymore -- it's just too easy to spread information around the world these days. Russia's economy is also not strong enough to make the kinds of promises (aka economic aid) that are required to gain that kind of influence in today's world.

But along those lines, I would expect to see Russia block any other site that relies on user-submitted content. It's really hard to construct a narrative if everyone outside of Russia is saying something different.
During the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor kaboom, one 4th grade teacher remembered her Russian "Duck and Cover" lessons and her 44 charges avoided injury: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek...

By no means a "Cold War relic".
I've tried and beat Crash Bandicoot and Crash Cart for the first time
this year. (I'm 25, and neither me nor my friends had PS1 in my
childhood). While playing this game I was like always been on the
bleeding edge between difficulty, wishing to give up and
encouragement... I mean, I just couldn't resist, -- I couldn't turn off the
console, in spite of the fact that I had to re-run some levels about
~50-80 times to beat.. It was amazing, very challenging journey, i had always been
feeling that arcade spirit while playing, which is such rarity nowdays.
Actually, resources are the least of your concerns when it comes to DL.

DLs have a shitload of hyper-parameters (effectively, the entire architecture) which is mostly built by trial and error + intuition. There was some really exciting work on reversible SGD by an applied math group at Harvard (https://github.com/HIPS/hypergrad) to obtain derivatives with respect to network architecture, but it's not very mature yet.

Further, DLs need an immense amount of data to be efficient. If your dataset has only a few hundred of features, and you have a few thousand samples, it's unlikely DL will help you much.

Finally, DL is not really useful out of the box, at all. scikit-learn's selling point is that it has an amazingly good uniform API, fantastic documentation, and very clean code. Making a working DL implementation with a simple 'fit' sklearn-like API is impossible.
Reddit works fine for me(Russia/Yota provider), what is the target url? Everything I can find for (Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe site:reddit.com) works for me as well, but can't find that exact title in search engines. Interesting, how bureaucrats finding such stuff? :)
Close footage with replay of the big one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPTKlHrX3w
Russia still does conscription. So all, well at least all MALE young people, do listen to propaganda and prepare for WW3. They do not have a choice.
If your nearest private Catholic school is willing to provide you SES/Racial/Immigration status of their kids, I'd not be a bit surprised if it's more diverse on one or more of those grounds than the nearest public school, thanks to scholarships for low-income students, among other things. The public school will be 100% kids whose parents could afford to live in its district, unless there's busing going on, or some sort of magnet school thing. Property values will tend to follow school and district boundaries. The families in them usually have very similar income levels.

Public school peer groups absolutely are selected, primarily on an SES basis, which tends to skew race stats and percentages of low-generation immigrants, too. I don't get why anyone would think they're somehow not selected (I'm aware that you didn't advance that notion, brockers) or that deliberate selection would even typically result in less diversity, for any useful measure thereof.

This whole thread is built on a flimsy notion, best I can tell.
Well, half of the Russian populace is so drunk they don't care.

And apparently half of the US populace is high on mushrooms because Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate...

But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet.
Oh man, that is awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Yea I make like $50k pre-tax - where do I get this $150k salary? If I spent as much as you there would be nothing left.
Putin's sick regime can start WW3. I hope my country won't be invaded by these idiots again..even when we share common culture and the language.

Oh god where we could have been without 50years of russian influence and propaganda. I am really sad that american forces did not advance and did not drag us out of USSR's sphere of influence.
Really? Why? Isn't the sun moving along some path in the milky way and can't we use that to accelerate the launch of a spacecraft? It looks like Voyager 2 used the effect, at least according to this image:

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/voy_traj.jpg
From the text, it seems you've eaten way too much psychedelics trying to wash out Russian propaganda from your brain
your email?
You can also see a minimal amd64 version in C here [1].

Ah, that is very handy, and very illustrative. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, still have to publish them. This was article 1. the rest will follow soon.
Speed Challenge: Which is faster, voice or touch?
Ah, that is correct. I wish I could still edit. I also realize that my post makes it seems like github develops and directs git itself (they do not).
I dunno, people use the same kind of argument to say that nobody's really done anything new in philosophy since Kant or even Aristotle. The KISS principle is not the same as a distinction between simplicity and ease. Accidental vs. essential complexity is orthogonal to simplicity vs. ease. And parsimony and elegance are both about simplicity rather than ease. Some people can be a little bit too historically literate for their own good.
Quite true. I hadn't meant to make that implication but it is too late to edit.
Looks neat, but I'm a little confused at what it's goal is. How is this different from, for example, supervisord?
Hey there! Yes, I read Meditations regularly.
I've gotten into Erlang because of Elixir. I didn't realise any other systems people cared about syntax design before. I'd love to learn anything about FP or using patterns from dist systems / telco worlds to scale web apps using Elixir / Phoenix.
This is true...and on Twitter, I've "whitelisted" a lot of people I am not close enough at all to have them in my phonebook. And with Twitter, you have at least some assurance (in the same way that Airbnb gives you a bit more assurance than Craigslist) that you're contacting your intended person...whereas with email, a search can reveal several emails for a person, nevermind several similarly named people, each with several addresses.
Sure. The parent comment referred to one download per thread so I did as well.
No pricing options that I can see. Makes me think I either have to have a conversation with a sales-weasel or that your pricing model is going to be a pain to work with for a small site.
Tor Browser 5.0 is released
I saw video of one go up in Brazil, gas stations don't go kaboom to that extent at all. That is early reporting that is full of errors.
Hey young champ, from my experience building a twitter clone on heroku is much easier that setting up a dovecot/postfix server on digitalocean.
I get that, I just meant to point out it's a collective action problem in both cases. There are different trade-offs for you personally though which might make you pick one over the other.
To the extent that it's a new umbrella term that mostly encompasses a set of techniques that have been around for a couple decades now, yeah, it's just a rebranding.

But I think the rebranding makes some sense because it calls attention to a common characteristic shared by all the techniques that fall under the brand: They tend to learn their own feature transformations, which is cool because it means you don't have to put nearly so much effort into figuring out how to curate the input.
Yeah, remove the multi-platform thing. It's frequently the case (Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, etc.) but it's certainly not required to be a AAA title.
SourceDNA (YC S15) finds hidden security and quality flaws in apps
Well, talk about (effective) propaganda...
Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043792
US will do anything to protect itself, same as Russia. US politicians will do anything to get votes, same as Russians. there is nothing fundamentally different between them. just different circumstances, different cultures, etc.
I was in a conscripted army too. Technically I was preparing for WW3 but in reality we drank a lot of beer and waited to get out again. We certainly didn't think about fighting a war.

I don't think Russian soldiers think differently.
That would be the (logistically) obvious route to take for an interested party, but I didn't want to suggest it out of fear of coming across as facetious :)
Is Python library ready for usage? Will there ever be Go library?
I was being sarcastic :)
I'm not 100% sure cause the details are a little weirdly worded. But I believe this is for monitoring already running tools like supervisord.
'not toxic' - until you heat it above its suggested operating temperature - which as I recall is about the temp of a 'high' setting on a stove.
Close footage with replay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPTKlHrX3w
A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10041651
This tiny change could completely transform Twitter. My most-maintained professional relationships exist on Twitter, yet my non-public conversations (and the attention I pay to them) have nearly always been forced to other venues due to the DM character limit. In my mind, Twitter is now an equally-good alternative to SMS, FB Messenger, etc. You can bet I'll be DM-ing more and SMS-ing less because of it. Thank you Twitter.
Wow, my heart goes out to these guys, I guess they dropped the ball but obviously they really cared. It's hard to fault people when they made a good faith effort and came up short. I hope after things settle down and maybe they get some space away from this, they try again on a new project with a bit more wisdom.

I think the lesson here (and this one really is probably important for entrepreneur types), is getting funded really should not be viewed as an achievement. It just means the stakes got higher.
A clone is useless because you can't message other people on them. A mail server can actually send email.
I speak Russian and I read and watch Russian media from time to time.

I'm sure not all young people are buying into the official propaganda.

Unfortunately 80%+ approval rating for Putin shows that most of the people, including young ones, are believers in the same state-produced message: fear and caution, revisionism, nationalism, conservationism, etc, etc.

And the subject of WW3 is discussed quite frequently, on talk shows on state tv channels.