skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To fill in all these gaps you'd need the equivalent of a 4 year CS degree. I say this as someone who worked as a software engineer for about 5 years before going back for my degree.

You spend most of a CS degree studying the theory and techniques developed over the last 60+ years. These techniques are incredibly useful time and again.

It's the difference between spending a month trying to solve a problem or realizing the problem is actually just a version of a graph theory problem that was solved 50 years ago.

There are many positions in the field that can be filled by people without degrees. But there are also many that need someone who knows the theory and history. That's not to say that there aren't rare individuals who learn all this through self study, but they are rare.
That's really interesting, hadn't heard that before. A big difference here though is that the software is making (the appearance of) very specific logical connections itself -- with the ink sponges, you're creating a vague image that is open to human interpretation.
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Why You're an A-Hole on Facebook
“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
I was born in 1985 and just turned 30, and I've been in a monogamous relationship with someone I met online when I was 15 for five years living together now. I see others in our age group and they are as much broken as you suggest. A lot of them are selfish and in love with themselves or their narratives, but more are selfish for lack of agency in things; so many people are busy trying to make the basics meet, they don't give the time or energy to think of others as we push ourselves harder to make our personal dreams happen.

My entire presence online with different communities is one of charity and hope, and it's the most wholesome activity I participate in. The same feeling of spending time with friends in real life is the same I purport to have online, and I've seen more matches made among those same friends and strangers when everyone has, for a modern term, a chill place for netflix.
Maybe for their first jobs in industry. But assuming they aren't in academia, I'm betting a PhD in an in-demand CS field will be making a lot more than someone with a BS and 5 extra years experience in a few years.

Not to mention that for the type of jobs that require a PhD, the 5 years it takes is 5 years of relevant experience. And there are many jobs that are effectively closed to people without PhDs regardless of how much experience they have.
Sincerely curious: What's an alternative to the bidding process you mention?
Important also is the rate of species extinction. An ecosystem with some number of species in it can likely cope with a low rate of extinction (as species get outcompeted quicker than the my evolve), but can't cope with several species dying out in rapid succession.

The issue with humans is that we are rapidly increasing the rate of extinction, by pollution, poaching, exclusively occupying large tracts of land, clear-cutting forests, etc.
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Typos:

>We had plenty or "real" research projects to work on.

Or -> Of.

>I therefore decided to upload the manuscript to a standard web site that posts manuscripts and papers both before and after publication, the arXiv at http://arXig.org/.

arXig -> arXiv.

>About a month later, after some haggling, he mailed both Wilson and me each a check for $100.

I'm not sure, but I think "both" and "each" are redundant.

On another note:

The journal editors would do neither, and eventually asked me to stop emailing them on this topic. So I stopped.

That's what makes this person sane :)

Also, previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7920642
Your Account Will Be Blocked Phishing Email Scam – MailShark
Shouldn't we worry that someone has been fooled by the ycombniator.com domain and lookalike design?
Can you fit a parabola of arc length 4 inside the unit circle?
This whole article reads like a smokescreen for what actually happened. If you look at the video - the Times has it[0], strange they didn't link it from the article - Blake was leaning up against a wall minding his own business, and was more or less rushed, grabbed and tackled by an undercover officer. He did not appear to be threatening anyone and did not appear to offer any resistance, at least none beyond what anyone would if they were suddenly attacked.

He was mistaken for an alleged participant in a credit card fraud scheme; the actual suspect ended up either not charged or acquitted. The officer in question has multiple complaints of abusive behavior on his record.

The whole thing stinks, and while Blake received apologies from the mayor and some other officials, he correctly pointed out that probably wouldn't have happened were he not James Blake. Honestly I don't understand why it matters that he might resemble the suspect, given the footage it's pretty clear that there were other ways to approach Mr. Blake without it going down like it did.

This was not a case where an NYPD officer just hadn't spend enough time around other races (...please). This was yet another example of an overaggressive cop, and for whatever reason Ms. Swarns chose to write this article comparing it to some goofball crap w/ other celebrities rather than what it is. It barely makes sense.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000003905322/survei...
I couldn’t believe this, had to look it up for myself: “This is why Walmart is MHacks’ title sponsor, and why Comcast (lol) was PennApps’ title sponsor"

Something has been bugging me about hackathons recently. I think this put it quite well.

I always liked the collaborative and learning environment of a bunch of nerds coming together – the current prototypical hackathon seems far, far from that.
George W. Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. ‘Fix’ After Hospital Room Showdown
Volkswagen accused of using algorithm to evade US emissions law
while driving.
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but using photoshop without a GUI kinda sucks, no?
cwyers statement is the one that implies all bitcoin transactions have to be reported and taxed. Why would the IRS care about transactions that don't?

The statement is only relevant to my comment if the IRS requires all transactions to be reported and taxed. Typically I assume replies to my comments are relevant. That is why I made the inference I did.
The general public doesn't make a distinction between free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech. Browsers are free, as far as the general public are concerned.

The general public also has no idea how difficult it is to make software. Frequently even programmers don't see software as that difficult - witness how many times someone has to raise the 'mythical man-month' or similar.
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Couldn't you build something like that on top of the REST API?
> Indeed, in recognition of the fact that Ashley Madison data contains confidential information and constitutes stolen property, a Canadian court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, issued a restraining order requiring several websites and Internet service providers to immediately disable the Ashley Madison data, deeming it “offence-related property in respect of which order of forfeiture may be made under the [Ontario] Criminal Code.”

Since this suit is being filed in Arizona, will the Canadian ruling hold in this case? It seems as though the DMCA's safe harbor provision shields the defendants from liability in this case.
Yes, if, probably.

I never made that assumption, but many people here seem to have.
Some of the software-generated "logical connections" are not quite logical though, and require a little massaging/tweaking (human interpretation) in order to make sense. This process can result in interesting new logical connections.
Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government
They're basically developing an after market adaptive cruise control + lane centering system.

Not revolutionary, but can be very useful nevertheless.
A IV drip regulator "changes how medical devices are made?" Hardly an example to compete with pacemakers, stimulators, orthopedic implants, biologics, endovascular devices, laproscopic surgery, electromagnetic navigation, CT and MRI scanners, etc. Bit of an oversimplification (not uncommon for "Fortune") I might suggest.
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Surely an endangered animal would be the least likely to cause problems for us if it went extinct. Otherwise we would have noticed the ecosystem starting to go wonky as it neared extinction.
The death of hacker culture? Would most of these people otherwise would have been into what would be more traditionally considered hacker culture?

Most hackathons now are for PR and for recruiting. Fine. With all the preaching about how everyone needs to be able to program, and the number of jobs available, is this a surprise?

People who enjoy hacking for the sake of hacking will continue to do it outside of these sponsored events.
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AVG is clearly circling the drain at this point and doing anything and everything to squeeze out as much revenue as possible before the music stops. Another example is AVG Secure Search, which is effectively malware snuck in with AVG installs. I recently spent a good many hours trying to get it off of my wife's computer, since it doesn't have an uninstaller and the removal tool they provide on their website doesn't work (or at least didn't on her machine). In fact, in researching the issue I came across multiple cases where it not only didn't work, it also deleted people's bookmarks. The program also appears to use common malware techniques to prevent manual removal. And of course, this kind of thing has been going on for years, and the company gives no impression of caring. It really seems like they're now using their experience with malware to... create malware.
Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit
We completely agree with your safety concerns (along with those of many others we've spoken to in the industry). That's one of the reasons we haven't released a product that works in the way currently advertised on our website.

While NHTSA has begun thinking about autonomous vehicle safety, there is still much to be done. We plan to release some of our thoughts about this in the next couple of months.
An interesting read is "Bare-faced Messiah" - an unauthorised biography of L. Ron Hubbard.
This disappoints me a little, but I cannot quite put my finger on why. Javascript is not an awful language, but it seems like the 'javascriptization' of everything leaves programmers less well off, not more.
Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash
The Jason Bourne Aesthetic
“Then came the systemd controversy. I'm sick of talking about it, so let's skip that part. I decided to look into other operating systems. Linux isn't the only UNIX-like OS out there, after all.”

I would like to read what he actually has against systemd, but could only find a complaint from two months ago that he was forced to learn /bin/ip when ifconfig was unavailable. This, to me, seems like someone simply unilling to move with the times.
Talk: Going functional with JS
Bullocks. The generation comprising the largest voting bloc in the last half century is responsible for what they voted for. Student loans instead of student grants, and loans from banks instead of loans from the government. Subsidized mortgage interest instead of subsidized new housing construction. Encouraging banks to lend to so many uncreditworthy borrowers that it tanked the world economy and devalued their retirement savings.

They voted to let the banks take their money. They now own the consequences of that.
Ok, but that doesn't make what they are doing insignificant, and it seems a bit unfair to only react to the excesses of yet another euphoric headline when maybe there's a real incremental advance here to talk about.

Edit: We changed the title to a more representative sentence from the article.
Well there's not a huge variety of species we can actually bring back. DNA doesn't last all that long. So nobody has to worry about the implications of dinosaurs. All-in-all it's a pretty minor thing.
ODT Charts Rendering, Table Grid Calculation and Footnote Balancing Are Enhanced
Readiness protocol problems with Unix daemons
The complaint says they notified Amazon and GoDaddy, and apparently no take-down resulted, so I think DMCA does not apply. Also, it's questionable if searching for an email address in a stolen database is a DMCA issue, rather, the suit is alleging possession of stolen property.

Greyhatpro for example was trying to charge $149 for people to search the data according to a screenshot in the complaint. Now the site appears to provide searches for free.

There are a few sites which provide search tools for breaches which I think are pretty convenient. Breaches are so common it's good to keep a central record. Can a commercial service monitor a given email address and keep track of breaches affecting that address? The particular services named in the lawsuit are quite sketchy, but where do you draw the line?
Surprised to see a Wooyun article translated and posted to HN. In case anyone is wondering, wooyun is a Chinese security online community like Full-Disclosure, it features a CVE like vulnerability tracking system. You can find literally thousands of Chinese software/hardware/online exploits.
You should check out how Meteor (https://www.meteor.com/) works. It makes REST pretty much unnecessary.
Tell HN: my first dollar on the App Store due to a good review from Techcrunch, lessons learnt. (spreadsheets.google.com)
Can Canadian rulings set precedent in American courts, or is this just a case of the claimants demonstrating how the issue has been handled in other countries for reference by the court?
they lost that sweet google deal and im guessing they're getting less from their deal with yahoo
And PCI compliance still requires antivirus ;(. What a crock.
But learning to code takes passion, dedication, time and sometimes money. To expect everyone to learn how to design clothes, and design clothes well, on top of what they're already passion about is counterproductive. Another point is: clothing would look a lot different if the experts in their field can design their own.
Reports on North Dakota Weaponized Drone Law Miss Larger Picture
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Does anyone know if Windows is affected by this?
So knowing absolutely nothing about the relevant laws of the claim, I went and looked up 18 U.S. Code § 2315. How do the claimants intend to demonstrate the value of the stolen goods exceed the $5,000 or more test required by the law?

More important, do they have to demonstrate that the value of the whole dump to be greater than $5,000 or just the value of their constituent component? I can imagine that the whole dump would pass the test, but tested individually, can their records really be worth that much?
No, $60/month is the plan with cost of phone included. Please do not put words in my mouth.

If you were poor and unemployed, would you go without a phone, and access to email, LinkedIn and other services while you were looking for work? How do you edit those Word documents or read PDFs?

A smartphone is cheaper than a landline and desktop computer of any variety.

If you really believe that a person can look for work with just a $20 feature-phone, go try it yourself for a month as an actual experience and not a thought experiment!
This affected me. It's immoral and should be illegal
Oh man, I almost did this awhile ago. I even registered http://ycornbinator.com

Very convincing fake.
Somehow I don't remember reading about the "hospital room showdown" in the past. Incredibly fascinating to read about the legal gymnastics performed by G.W. and Cheney's lawyer, and exactly when and where the words "collect" and "acquire" got their peculiar meanings. Impressive how much Ashcroft and Yoo were channeling Nixon a la "When the President does it, it is not illegal." The Executive branch "displacing" Federal law is not the separation of powers I remember learning as a kid. Is there any chance that theory could ever actually see scrutiny at the Supreme Court?!

Nice to know there was at least someone at Justice finally ready to walk out based on NSA bulk collecting email and phone records. But how exactly was the program "curbed" in order to avert the threat of "mass walkouts"? Is it not safe to assume that bulk meta-data collection of email, phone, payments, license plates, facial recognition, phone triangulation, etc. persist and in fact are only mounting in coverage, accuracy, and post-processing?

I suppose the last territory to cover is beam-forming microphones with high accuracy far-field voice recognition in crowded environments. The technology certainly exists in the lab at this point, I would assume only a few years ago from mass-deployment and collection. Of course, relax, conversations are only "acquired" when they searched, so our leaders can happily testify that American's every outside conversation isn't actually being "collected" in full searchable text form in Utah.
> That's one of the reasons we haven't released a product that works in the way currently advertised on our website.

Wait, what? That sounds like (awkward) double-speak. So you're advertising a product you don't/won't have?
We really need a much better interface for managing trust. All of these security features rely on trusting something, and people need to have control over that. Maybe they have reason to distrust one of the CAs (China and their effort to catch people circumventing the Great Firewall is an obvious example), and so it should be easier for people to manage these important trust choices.

An interesting (and probably good) side-effect might be that market forces put pressure on websites/etc about their choice of CA. That is, if people distrust a CA an "break" websites that it signed, that's a good thing as it lets the market punish shady CAs indirectly.

We really need a simple way for for someone to browse the trust choices and easily say "I don't trut the government of $COUNTRY, disable all of their certs" or "Use these trust settings that my friend gave me on this $PHYSICAL_MEDIA" or "I trust $SOME_3RD_PARTY, use their recommended list". Several of these suggest the need for a portable and secure way to publish lists like the 50 CAs you just removed.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you would be better off posting this as a Show HN with that link, then adding the text above as a comment to the thread. Good luck!
I'd add to this, someone is more likely to be promoted if they are great at managing up, than managing down. Ideally you would have someone that does both well, or is stronger on managing down. I'm sure we're all seen that weaker results/contribution employee that seems to fail upwards.

I wonder if companies have tried doing promotions via a 360 selection rather than managers putting in their choice. It would be interesting to see people from lower ranks push for promotion and how this effects dynamics/results if weighted in the decision? Might work or just be a popularity contest.... I guess like everything it would be more about execution than idea.
Is there any "good" antivirus? I personally don't use any antivirus software, but I usually install Microsoft Security Essentials for not-quite-tech-savvy family members.
Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can't be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).
I found the commercialization of hackathons quite amazing and a bit scary as well. Something I don't know if it has been tried however is having a hackathon where every team pays $100 to attend, and then they vote on the best hack at the end, the winner gets 1/2 the total gate, second place 1/4, third place 1/8, and the organizers get 1/8 to offset costs.
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> The WordPress admin interface is it one its best features, and provides a clean and elegant way of viewing and managing data

lol
I don't have a IPv6 connected Windows machine handy at the moment to check, here's one way you could get an idea: take a look at ipconfig. Look through the list of IP adresses. If there's an address with ff:fe in the middle of the last half of the IP address, that's a sign Windows may have the same issue.
So don't go to hackathons, and maybe look a bit farther afield for this "hacker culture"?

There's so very many open-source projects, LUGs, meetups, civic open data hack nights, hackerspaces, mesh network initiatives, workshops run by community-minded coworking spaces, IRC (or equivalent) channels, etc. out there nowadays that I can't help but feel you're just not looking very hard.
The biggest problem I see with the proposed solutions at the bottom is that the author arrives on the two node-based solutions as the preferred path forward. The reason Wordpress has become so successful over the years is that even the least expensive hosting provider has mod_php installed and you merely have to drop your installation files on the server via FTP. This is easy enough for many less technical people to accomplish. Node, ruby, and the like typically require more advanced and expensive hosting solutions, in my experience.

Of course I haven't used any of these cheap hosting solutions or setup a Wordpress site in a couple years so I might be out of date on the state of things.
if you make other people unconfortable, you will be kicked out of any place you go.
It's against the rules to delete and repost the same article. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Yeah, obviously which interface is "best" depends on a huge number of factors, context, task, user, etc, and there is no universally best choice.

Even in the context of a graphics editor, though, where a GUI makes a lot of sense generally, I often find myself wishing for a way to actually specify operations using some language rather than using the GUI.

For instance, I select a layer, and then want to move it exactly 50 pixels down, and then rotate it 45 deg and halve its intensity. Using the GUI for that is often a cumbersome, if straightforward series of steps that require a lot of busywork, and in many cases I have to very careful if I want precision (e.g. carefully looking at the edge guides to make sure I move the mouse exactly 50 pixels). For an experienced user, an equivalent textual command to do the same thing would probably be far quicker and more precise (assuming a halfway decent implementation).

Really you often just want a system that's flexible enough to seamlessly integrate both types of interface[+], and let the user choose which is best for them and the specific task at hand, hopefully allowing the user to use the GUI at first (for ease), and learn equivalent textual commands as he gains more experience...

Unfortunately that's not only more work to implement, but runs afoul of those usual villains in any human endeavour, religion (not "real" religion :) and tribalism... ><

[+] Of course, there are actually more than just two choices. For instance there's a common split between "quick and simple" textual commands, like a typical unix shell, and "real language" textual commands, e.g. allowing commands to be specified in Lua or some other "real" language. Similarly GUIs can come in a wide variety of flavors.