skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lottery based on what?

Are you willing to send your kids to a non segregated school and live in a non segregated neighborhoods?
Me to now looking back I am surprised the way round the horn got away with so much
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Yup. He seems too young and idealistic. Of course you don't publicly release anything that is damaging to your employer. That should never even have occurred to him. Companies have these kinds of training all the time. Maybe if he'd lasted long enough to actually get to the internship he would've learned it.

I'm glad that he noticed the privacy flaw, but someone who is about to become an employee of Facebook is the worst person to publicly release it. Maybe the notoriety he's gained from this will be worth it in the end, but I know a lot of companies probably won't want anything to do with him given the (lack of) judgment he's demonstrated from this.
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I think there is a stage 5 now:

An Open Source project becomes good enough and takes over the market. Because the price of the Open Source product is zero you cannot compete with proprietary software. Additionally your software introduces licensing overhead. You have to move your product significantly forward or move on to other markets.
This happened e.g. to the application server market. And at some point in the future it will happen to the office suite as well.
but then, it really isn't a smart PR move from facebook. Now we know that not only do they mess up with privacy big times, but that they're not hiring anyone that wants to raise public awareness on that subject. As if public awareness was detrimental to facebook.

Which it obviously is, but by hiring that personn anyway, and have him work on privacy and ethic inside fb they could have shown some good will.
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The countries on the plot are exactly the 34 countries surveyed in the original paper, "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Jon Miller et al, 2006.
You think these are zingers, but they're really just worthy of cringing.

a) Red herring. No one is talking about a reference implementation of Unix shells, but about Korn shell compatibility in particular.

b) Red herring. Don't imply it's a Korn or Korn-compatible shell - that's the issue here.

c) Red herring. Though the conversation was never recorded, it's implied that nothing was said about "portability", per se, but in particular compatibility with the Korn shell language specification.

d) Red herring and an insult. Stephen Bourne didn't write the first Unix shell. Ken Thompson did. Is your implication that no one should iterate or create new designs? Microsoft creating a Unix shell is fine, but the issue at hand is that it wasn't a Korn shell like they claimed it to be.
Fascinating stories. Would love to read more if you have them written down.
You can choose from a lot of other sounds on the website as well just take a look around. I really like the "Healing Water" one. Another site which was featured lately: http://rain.today/?
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Yes that's what I was attempting to illustrate, thank you!
Especially worth remembering given that if the East German authorities had had access to the kind of information that current governments have access to that these families likely would not have made it out at all and/or would have been killed in the attempt.

Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration, disproved by the many criminals (arguably the the existence of otherwise traceable crimes) and people under surveillance who regularly get away?

Useless anecdote: I've sometimes seen border guards checking passengers' faces/details against faxes as they exit the plane I'm on. I'm nosy, and have hung around a couple of times to see what's happen - in the end, absolutely nothing.

It seems that even if they know you've got away, the how and where can remain elusive, even in this day and age.

Edit: Forgot to add, I loved your comment! I would love to hear more about your times in e.g. Poland at that time in your life.
It's OK to have similar/duplicate things on the Internet. (It often is the case.)
Problem as others pointed out is that no matter how you design the system, even with Google a completely as trusted party in this, proof-of-authorship, timestamping-service, it can only work if every original content creator (or platform, like SO) gets on this train.

Say you're a content creator that maybe doesn't want to use this service, simply hasn't heard about it yet, or accidentally publishes a whole archive of original articles they forgot to sign with the proof-of-authorship/timestamping API just before they get scraped by an ill-intentioned content farmer, that quickly uses the API to sign/stamp the articles to themselves before the content creator can. They don't even need to publish them right away, they can drip them out over years and have the proof-of-authorship signature to "prove" their authorship.

If we would actually trust this system, it means that the real original content creator is shit out of luck. There's no way they can prove their authorship in a way that distinguishes them from a scraper, that part remains the same with or without this system--but what would be new is that the scraping non-author now has some sort of extra claim of authenticity over the actual original content creator.

I see no way around this. Unless you devise a way so that all content written (anywhere, any time, on any medium) is immediately signed with a proof-of-authorship, such a system will be giving power to bad actors to claim authorship of any content that happens to slip through without being signed.
People know how to work. Work gets done despite the lack of these "enabling" social tools, or even despite their presence.

People like to play around with how to arrange metawork. Mangers especially like this. A lot of it is yak shaving.
Here's a good example. Came up just the other day.

$ du -hs big.log;time cat big.log > /dev/null
199M	big.log

real	0m0.045s
user	0m0.002s
sys	0m0.043s
$ time gtr a b < big.log > /dev/null

real	0m0.334s
user	0m0.182s
sys	0m0.142s
$ time tr a b < big.log > /dev/null

real	0m33.105s
user	0m31.757s
sys	0m0.488s
$

I don't have a freebsd machine around to see if it's just apples tr that is broken.

I'm sure it's related to unicode bullshit, but the usual env var tricks don't seem to help.
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Isn't that the end of stage 4? The price diminishes until it reaches 0.
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What is the real harm of not rescinding this guy's internship? Seems punitive and petty. It's not like anyone actually believes that FB cares about privacy. Whatever reputation or brand damage there was done a long time ago by FB's repeated violations of user privacy, which is just the natural state of things given their advertising-based business model.

FB could have turned this around and scored a marketing coup: "look we're hiring the hacker who exposed a security flaw, he'll be patching up the hole he found this summer - because at FB we're committed to user privacy and saving baby harp seals!"

But then again, is this really a big surprise? Just another data point in the growing contradiction between what SV is and what SV wants to be.
That smells vaguely like ransomware.
First, I commend you for being so open about your company's finances. A lot of people don't really understand how venture-backed companies operate, so it's really helpful to have real-world examples.

That said, it doesn't really matter whether you refer to your financial projections as projections, goals, etc. What I would observe is that the growth in revenue you targeted and presented to investors apparently has not materialized. At the same time, based on this[1], it appears your burn has doubled in less than a year, and your quarterly burn appears to be significantly higher than what you projected here[2].

This is a quintessential demonstration of what I wrote above: it's far easier to spend money in anticipation of growth than it is to actually grow revenues. I would add that it's usually doubly difficult for venture-backed companies to cut spending, even when it becomes clear it's the fiscally prudent thing to do, because it sends all sorts of negative signals to the investors you're going to be asking to continue buying into your growth story.

[1] https://medium.com/@DanielleMorrill/is-my-startup-burn-rate-...

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/DanielleMorrill/mattermark-1st-ser...
My IT department is a menace. In the name of security we have all been forced into a shitty Juniper VPN with no Linux support, ssh and http access is curtailed campus wide and we must install some tracking software so IT can "monitor our patch status".

Whether this improves anything in terms of data breaches I don't know. But as far as I can see "security" is the literal opposite of freedom and openness.
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Context:

After rescuing 1,700 boxes of manuals from a closing manual warehouse for future archiving and scanning,

"goodwill and the interest in these types of project shouldn’t fade away with the completion of the main part of the Manuals Plus project. He instead proposed that there be something like Archive Team for physical rescues. Naturally, there’s a lot to learn in that space, but with a level of speed and radical approaches that worked for Archive Team, maybe something good will come of it.

Therefore, in one line, I announce: ArchiveCorps."

from: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4755
You may not be seeing the big picture here. Censorship is about rulers cementing their rule, and may well ultimately lead to complete tyranny.

There's no guarantee that "the censorship arms race" will continue, even in your specific nation-state.

For example, I bet there's not much anti-censorship software being developed in North-Korea, because people don't want themselves and their entire families tortured to death.

The real problem here is not that we might be lagging behind governments with our anti-censorship tools. The real problem is the existence of governments to begin with, because as long as they do, they will want to control their subjects as closely as possible.

Policitians and the real rulers behind the scenes are all psychopaths.

They see us as human livestock, and any one of them would be perfectly happy with a global North-Korea, as long as they personally would be in the tiny ruling elite, with all the riches and power a psycho could ever dream of.
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My point is: that's not a lot of money.

It's called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox — "the low costs of rent-seeking relative to the gains from rent-seeking."

Influencing individuals is relatively cheap. You just have to overwhelm them. Our laws are made by a limited group of individuals. Ergo, influencing laws is relatively cheap once you've got a few million dollars to burn and can gain billions off the results.
> Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration, disproved by the many criminals (arguably the the existence of otherwise traceable crimes) and people under surveillance who regularly get away?

It's proven by the many people that were picked up before they could make their attempt because the VoPo's picked up on that before they could actually do it.

These guys would happily turn in their mothers if that's what it took to rise in the ranks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkspolizei

A bit of 'big data' (to use a popular buzzword) magic would have turned up the names of the two buyers of fabric from the story linked in mere seconds.

Your experience with passengers exiting planes is probably not comparable unless it is in a country like Israel or North Korea. Keep in mind that it wasn't that the police was looking to stop particular people at the border but that they were simply trying to stop everybody from leaving (which tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands would have done if given the opportunity)

I've written a bit about what it was like to be in Communist Poland here:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communist...

Joke from the era:

Erich Honecker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker) has been abroad for a state visit and returns home. Upon reaching Berlin looking out from the windows of the aircraft he notices that the streets seem very quiet. After landing this is confirmed, they drive around for hours on end without encountering a single soul. Finally, in desperation they drive up to the Berlin wall and search along side it, when they reach a very large gaping hole in the middle. Next to the hole is a wooden post with an envelope stapled to it, addressed to Honecker. He opens it and finds a note inside:

"Honecker, du bist der letzte, mach bitte das Licht aus...".
Agreed. Biologist here who uses CRISPR too. Gene therapy is limited by getting the DNA into the right cell and having it only do the genome manipulation you want and nothing more. This was hard before and will continue to be hard. That said, it is an amazing advance. There is good reason for excitement.
BuildZoom is hiring engineers to make America great again
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We offer competitive comp, health benefits and generous equity but here are some of the unique things about BuildZoom:

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More here with XFS and F2FS included:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1508224-HA-BCACHEFSL02

(personally I'm sticking with EXT4 until the promising F2FS is mature)
> It's not like anyone actually believes that FB cares about privacy.

Almost everyone knows that Facebook the company is hostile to user privacy.

But most people hope that individual Facebook employees have limited strictly audited access to user data.
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Microsoft wasn't creating anything; they were working with MKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Inc

MKS claimed to have a Korn-shell workalike, AFAIR.

> The MPM asserted again that the shell was pretty compatible and should work quite well

which sounds reasonable, and isn't an assertion that MKS has the Korn shell in it such that it is 100% compatible. (And could anything even be 100% compatible, if not running on Unix? The Korn shell source ported to DOS woudln't be 100% compatible with the Korn shell, just "pretty compatible" so that many things work "quite well".)

They probably had some good reasons to with MKS, because in fact it isn't easy to port a shell: not to the DOS environment. Or Windows. The minimal example of doing this reasonably well might today be the MSYS environment used by MinGW, which has to re-create significant infrastructure (a whole C library from the ground up and other things).

Maybe Microsoft also had favorable licensing with MKS, avoiding the AT&T license.
Historically, I believe it would be much more accurate to say that opportunity creates civil wars. People start wars because they think they can win.

Incidentally, in most of those Chinese conflicts (4 out of 5 I believe), they were right. Many other wars were similar : starts with "immigration", numbers increasing, conflict, open conflict (and mass death), repression (of the losing side). Extermination is often tried but rarely succeeds. Well it succeeds in causing mass death, but it doesn't succeed in the sense that extermination is the result.
These kinds of things are very helpful in allowing employees to solve problems and share the solutions among themselves in large traditional organizations instead of always needing a top down solution.

The article talks about the guy that posted the fix to reading old email by copying an encryption key. It's discussed in a light as if he were doing something wrong but in reality he was probably solving an actual problem people have. In the process, it sounds like he also exposed the fact that you can copy keys our of what sounds like should have been a read only smart card but that points to the VA IT department being inept not that guy doing anything wrong. The fact that employees use yammer to begin with probably is because the IT department is inept and doesn't provide a good sanctioned forum for communication.
The framework allows for partial data updates - for instance for a 3D renderer it suffices the push the new position to the GPU whilst the vertex data remains in GPU memory. If you invoke the kernel function again it will not recompile the kernel nor reupload the vertex data.

The DAG idea sounds fun to build and very useful - I have some spare time anyway so I'll see what I can whip up. As for the command line interface - It too sounds pretty useful and it should only be a bit of parsing as all the OpenCL related code as been written already, but ufo-launch already performs pretty much the same function so it's not very high on my todo list.
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>Maybe they expect too much?

Yep definitely. Capitalism depends on people buying what they are selling. The whole system falls apart if you don't buy what they are selling you.

Our brains have now been so conditioned that we think this is the "normal" brain. A brain that craves something, something that is being sold to you, all the time.

I wish we could step back and evaluate what is happening to human mind and why despite centuries of technological advances we are still lonely, anxious, desperate and violent.

I wish we could stop with the technological fanaticism and economic intoxication.

I really don't want any of the shit apps that SV is producing. I don't give a shit about Virtual Reality,fitness trackers or eating white powdery garbage for breakfast. Please stop with this stupid shit for god's sake.
Sure, so instead of messing with messy market risk, better to patent first and not commercialize. Then sue the hell out of anyone that tries (or bury whatever the idea behind the patent, because I filed the patent, so if I can't have it, fuck 'em. It's my natural right.)

Then, start a fund that simply buys the patents and "defends them" because I can get investors a 15% return from legal extortion (as opposed to illegal extortion which is higher risk/higher reward and less scalable.) Those investors will make me rich and give me lots of cool inventor awards and fancy dinners, so it all looks super legit. And make sure to hire lobbyists, because they're pretty good at making sure a good thing doesn't die.
Giorgio's post on the matter:
https://hackademix.net/2015/08/22/webextensions-api-noscript...
Is there anyone on this thread that would disagree with that? Hurting people to make a political point is immoral. I don't think anyone is advocating for that.
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This is quite serious for the service members who used the site. I had a friend in Federal prison who was doing 20 years for adultery in the Army.
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Nice tutorial!

Note that your sbcl must be built with threading enabled for the example to work. Otherwise, the initial Lisp landing page will show up at URI /, but the handler for /hello?name=Blah will never be executed because sbcl-without-threading silently fails to use threading and instead runs the server in a blocking way in which later code never gets a chance to run.

This was confusing for me at first, but once I built sbcl from source using "./make.sh --fancy" everything worked perfectly.
I love the AWS platform, I find the entire thing very elegant. I wanted to move away from software development and get into more high level stuff (hence the SA role), and I'd rather join a company where am passionate about their products.

I have friends working in AWS, and so far none of them have been complaining about work life balance, so am assuming that it's different from the retail side.
I'm sorry about how Canadian this thread has become..
TSA publishes photo showing master keys, allowing them to be copied
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How would that happen? Most research is funded by the federal government. Biology is too expensive and too unreliable for companies to sink the money into research themselves until the technology is at the point where it just needs to be optimized.

Also, most biologists aren't making six figures.
Note that this is not about changing genes, but about exogenous tags that are passed on.
I agree that it seems, by today's standards, a non-issue. And in reality perhaps it is just my active imagination that is the enemy here. Although I would posit that though 7-10 years seems like a reasonable timeframe to most people today, it will probably appear to be a lifetime to future generations.

If you really think about it, how long do Cell Phones last on the market before they're no longer a threat commercially? If I had to put a number to it I'd say no more than 1 year. After that you better have something new, and hopefully patented to prevent competition.

Now amplify that by 2x, maybe 3x, or 10x. Now perhaps only the patent holder has legal rights to experiment on a given range of problems (given the nature of the patent). I imagine if someone plays their cards right, and hits the "patent lottery", you end up with a "waterfall-effect", or in other words, centuries worth of patents by a single entity with no end in sight.

Perhaps those in the field recognize that biology is just as diverse if not more diverse than most other fields. And my concern could be a red herring. I, personally, have no doubt that the field of biology is enormously diverse, and in most academic settings I'd consider this pretty much a non-issue. I think the over-arching fear is the US has nominated 9 people, none of whom are likely to know a significant amount about genetic engineering, to decide (in essence) the fate of genetic engineering and the "patentability" of specific inventions / discoveries.

What I think the field of genetic engineering may need in its future, is the equivalent of a Linus Torvalds in their field. Someone who will cut through the BS, and donate the overwhelming majority of their work / research to the public domain to prevent or reduce the possibility of some calamitous scenario from unfolding.