skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally for me, I just can't trust a none security focused enterprise, running a security focused product. I just know that priorities will slowly change from security first to some random not so secure feature.

Additionally, LastPass did good job in disclosure of security incidents in the past. I'm pretty sure this won't happen now that they are tied with this big brand name which thinks that publishing security incidents is bad for its PR.

Bottom line - It's a matter of trust for me, and I don't trust them.
Computer science is the top major for women at Stanford University
#allgood
Knuth had actually this "it should last" goal as he designed TeX:

http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/3462/increasing-t...

“Ever since those beginnings in 1977, the TeX research project that I embarked on was driven by two major goals. The first goal was quality: we wanted to produce documents that were not just nice, but actually the best. (…) The second major goal was archival: to create systems that would be independent of changes in printing technology as much as possible. When the next generation of printing devices came along, I wanted to be able to retain the same quality already achieved, instead of having to solve all the problems anew. I wanted to design something that would be still usable in 100 years. ” – Donald E. Knuth: Digital Typography, p. 559 (quoted from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX )

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

"Even though Donald Knuth himself has suggested a few areas in which TeX could have been improved, he indicated that he firmly believes that having an unchanged system that will produce the same output now and in the future is more important than introducing new features. For this reason, he has stated that the "absolutely final change (to be made after my death)" will be to change the version number to π, at which point all remaining bugs will become features.[11] "
Why We Should Worry About Hackable Hearts
First, systems can hardly make any decisions, but I understand what you mean. And I believe that this system is quite fair, but so are many more theoretical systems that have been proposed throughout the ages. My point is that none of them has ever been implemented on a sustainable basis; in fact, I believe that implementing a system by decree is not possible in the long term; such a system can only come by organically.

And of all the systems that have historically developed in an organic way, I would be ready to suggest that capitalism is the most fair we have seen so far; certainly much more fair than, say, feudalism and slavery.
I wonder about reddit. I guess this doesn't apply to reddit? Or less ?
Here's an example of why mborch's statement is true:

class A:
def __init__(self, value=0):
self.b = value
def __str__(self):
if self.b == 0:
global a
a = A(1)
elif self.b == 1:
import __builtin__, __main__
__builtin__.a = 2
del __main__.a
return str(self.b)
a = A()

def foo():
print a
print a
print a

foo()

This generates:

1
2
3

but it's a different 'a' in all three cases; the last isn't even from the module's namespace.
Secure Email Report (LEAP Encryption Access Project)
Make it part of the process, send a push notification once their issue has been fixed and ask them to take a photograph of the fixed tree/rubbish free space etc to "verify that the work was done".
Annoyingly Accurate Quotes
Yeah, russian roullette isn't risk-free, just like drinking water, so let's do it.
Triggering psychosis != causing longterm mental illness. I think parties on both sides of the debate over the safety of psychedelics would agree that they can and often do trigger psychosis. And both parties probably agree, at this point, that they do not cause mental illness.
I fail to see how what you're describing can be distinguished from a psychological effect.

I don't think anyone disputes the fact that (summed up and oversimplified) attitude matters; but it's not as if attitude matters to the extent that it is more important than the cancer processes themselves.

I don't think it's quite as you describe though; the side demanding proofs do emphasize experience (which is what empiricism is built upon), but it demands a certain standard (which is what skepticism is about).

Not being so generous towards the other "side", I would suggest that it has a problem with regards to bothering with metacognition, as its sympathizers are often more occupied with speculation and imagination - running their mouths, rather than ensuring that what they say makes any sense.

While the adventurous streak in the "experience side" is somewhat admirable, it simply isn't up to par with regards to (standards for) credible claims of truth and knowledge - not to mention that the approach of mindlessly plunging into every unknown might lead to certain death in some cases.
Well sure. I don't think many people think all those people were sitting around twiddling their thumbs all day, but none of those open source projects ultimately benefit Twitter. If those had been OS api clients it would seem prudent (except twitter doesn't like third party integrations any longer).
hopefully, at least I am being seriously considered. We shall see.
Even for home systems it is possible to set up a system that only records when there is movement present.
let window: PistonWindow =
WindowSettings::new("Hello Piston!", [640, 480])
.exit_on_esc(true).build().unwrap();

That is one of the ugliest, most "accidental complexity" ways of creating a window I have ever seen.

I am certainly not going to use that.
can anyone suggest similarly helpful resources for those of us stodgily using nvi?
It always strikes me how often these "old" games stimulate imagination and satisfy the soul much more than all these µ%*$ "candy-crush-pay-per-view" stuff I see all over the place.
I presume they use the image selection as training data too—if not that seems like awfully low hanging data fruit.
Perhaps that is the lesson to be learned? That technology with limits... scales?

If you want to "do social", do it for small groups. Nobody really has 40 000 friends, so why bother with the use-case that is literally only used by advertising companies?
Toy problem and algorithm classes with Charlie were awesome.
> They also had a big talk about leaks and then went on to show 4000+ people the full product plans for the next year. Then, sorry, we're firing a bunch of you. Oh yeah, don't leak anything we just told you. :-O

I find this mindset frankly mind-boggling. I work for a significant corporation, and we recently changed CEOs. The trade press was reporting the change three months in advance; and anyone who cared to know about it on the shop floor probably did. But they didn't tell us ... presumably because it would get leaked. Which it, of course, did anyway. It seems to be almost an unconscious corporate reflex to treat the bulk of your staff like morons.

My feeling about Twitter is that there was an opportunity to seriously monetise it around the moment it started getting serious traction for PR. The celebs had given it critical mass, and Coke and McDonalds had to follow.

Now, however, the shills are basically just given an enormous amount of free advertising space with a not-great premium option on top of that. (A promoted tweet is not as good as an embedded tweet in a 'proper' news outlet, which will be part of the PR package, sold together to a client as advertising-equivalent exposure.)

They could still do something like start charging per tweet per thousand followers for content promoting a specific product or service (a made up back-of-the-fag-packet example, I'm sure there are better ways), of course, but it would be much harder given the expectations that have built up around what the platform is.

EDIT: clarity
Thanks for the advice. Can you please advice me what type of side projects I might choose. I get really confused when trying to work on side projects. So Please advice what type of side project I should work on. Currently I am working on mobile platforms.
This case is worrying. He was guilty of some crime, but not the crimes they charged and sentenced him with.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/05/joint-enterpr...

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/03/31/case-study-...

There are a bunch of these.
The only reason they are not, as far as I can tell, is nearly universal drug schedules in the west - rather than lack of promise or interest among researchers.
Ubuntu Touch Port for OnePlus One
HPC also use OS Bypass so the plan9 team, who develop for Blue Gene and other large clusters, worked on currying system calls to maximize throughput

http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/usecsys.pdf
I, too, wondered about $ and ^ - they are rather inconvenient to type. But instead of B and E, why not map <Space> as leader, then have <Leader>b and <Leader>e?

Space seems like the perfect leader key. Mapping , means you lose prev-finding for some searches (f).
>So when people worry about the surveillance state I just smirk. None of it actually works in any useful way, it's all security theatre.

This was what I always suspected pre-Snowden: that the government simply wasn't capable of creating a system to effectively monitor all internet traffic because they didn't have the technical chops. Which, in, say, 2001, might have been true.

Turned out all they needed was time and money and they had both and then once it was revealed that they could do it and actually do it rather well it came as a shock (to me, at least).

Two years ago was a long time in camera and facial recognition technology.
I discuss the ideas of others and mine on https://www.stomt.com
I predicted Twitter would be the next unicorn to cut staff and offices ten days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300002). To be honest, I didn't think it would happen quite this fast.

But 4K employees, 2K engineers to support Twitter? If they were still in a rapid growth/innovation phase, perhaps they could get away with this. But rapid growth is over.
Side Effects and Java 8 Streams
> When it does happen, you'll barely notice it either. You'll wake up one day, read the news and discover that somebody was caught using facial recognition technology that the police has been using for a year and it only came out because some court docket had to be made public.

The police is pretty open about the legal powers they have and the technology they use.

And people have already been caught by facial recognition - the submitted article talks about it.
I am on a passenger seat something like 3 times a week, in france, for the same 15 min rides (about 5 different rides in a southern city), and each time there is at least one car who emits a very foul smoke, so foul we immediately roll windows. Most of the time those cars aren't even so old.

I highly suspect french automakers to cheat too.

There needs to be many more random exhaust controls, or at least much tighter annual or biannual checks. I can't even comprehend why it's not the case already.

It's not even a climate change problem, it's a health problem. I caught a cold already 2 times this year, which was followed by a chronic cough that lasted 3 week after the cold went away.
Timeline of History
Agreed, the current defaults are a major turn-off. Especially for first time users. Vim is incredibly frustrating without auto-indent.

The problem with vim is that you can't use it effectively unless you know almost everything that there is to know about it.

When it comes to vim, you're either a novice or an expert, there is no middle-ground.
Support MAPS (Multidisciplinairy Association for Psychedelic Studies) http://www.maps.org/ or the Dutch OPEN Foundation to promote research in this area.
https://twitter.com/FoundationOPEN
Another nice resource is CSSDB [1] which basically provides a nice little curated list of the somewhat more popular resources on GitHub (For now for example think Bootstrap, Pure, Foundation Skeleton and friends)

[1] http://cssdb.co/
Oh.. Twitter who lobbied the crooked mayor of SF, Ed Lee, to kick the Chess Players out of Market and Powell?

HOW THE WORM TURNS.
Haskell for All: Basic Haskell Examples
Yeah, I just realized it was about more than human recognizers. The future arrived a little early. Hence the edit.
Perhaps because providing ad companies with the tools like these is the way to monetize the service?
How can this work?

If the point of the law and recent court decisions is that data must not be available to US intelligence, then obviously the AWS US datacenters should not be a suitable choice, and the non-US ones probably shouldn't be either (since there is no way to prevent the US employees from covertly accessing them).

Are there loopholes in the law/court decisions?
4100 employees is completely out of whack with reality. And for those saying they are incorrectly trying to scale to $20 billion...thinking you will be a $20 billion dollar company in the future (even if it were true) would not justify hiring that many people now.
I'm not much of a user of "Moments" myself, but I'm guessing it is primarily targeted at new users who sign up and go "what now" and don't know who to follow, etc.
So, the language Peterson is using isn’t scientific, it’s an act of cultural interpretation. Which is, of course, fine, and a great reminder that linguistics is a subject that connects many different fields of knowledge. But when I see an advertisement for Game of Thrones, I see a cultural vision that is inaccurate, distorting, and bears a very specific relationship to the European past. It isn’t an innocent one. I see a Tolkien-inflected vision of the Middle Ages, with the sexual violence and warfare and ethnic stereotyping amped up to a pitch so cartoonishly horrendous that I can’t look at it.

PC crap in an otherwise really interesting article.

It's not amped up actually. The degree of butchery that goes on in historical outbreaks of violence is astonishing to the post-19th century mind. Mass executions of enemies and conquered cities (and accompanying rape and pillage) happened with regularity in some parts of history.

One of the noted advancements of the Mongol warfare style in the middle ages, especially under Genghis Khan, was development of efficient mass execution tactics. Sexual violence and warfare happened at a cartoonishly horrendous pitch. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has an amazing series on the Mongol conquests, "Wrath of the Khans" if you wanna know more.
I don't think the final question is realistic. I have 20K followers (not huge, but far beyond who I could realistically ever "know") and get huge value from it as an individual, not as a business. It would be so boring (to me) to only be able to talk to people one knows closely.

There are numerous non-company non-celebs-in-the-Hollywood-sense-of-the-word people who have huge followings on Twitter who get a lot of value from that and who their followers also appreciate: people like DHH, John Carmack, Marco, Sam Altman, Scoble..

There is a definite space between "people you know personally" and "blast ads to 2 million customers" in social and Twitter fills it really well.
Having cancer fucking sucks.

Taking psychedelics might help it suck less.
Nice tutorial. While I understand the pleasure of configuring stuff — being a Gentoo-lover I'm throwing stones in a glass house here — I always stuck to a very simple Vimrc file. I find it better to learn how to use the standard settings than forever me tinkering on my own. One could always wish the standard settings were more sane, though…
A problem I found with generators in Javascript is that you (apparently) can only yield from within the generator function itself, not from any function called by that generator. This affects the composability of functions. For example, say I want to model blocking i/o on top of generators. In that case, there is a low-level asynchronous mechanism (function) that yields whenever there is input. A parser function could call this mechanism. And another function could call the parser. This pattern seems logical, but isn't possible because suddenly the complete calling hierarchy has to be generator-aware.
"Reliable" is a relative term for WA. Everybody I know has a random delay in messages, the browser "thing" is mostly not usable, no desktop app, etc. You can not use WA for productivity.
[I am not a lawyer]

A motion does not need to be consistent or holeless to be successful.

Anyway, it is worth considering that time spent on legal matters is a distraction for a startup founder. Winning in court is not a substitute for building a product users love and growing revenue.

Winning in court is not success and is attractive because it is easier than executing a business. Pivoting into something else may be more productive than fighting as a business decision.
2015 Nobel Science Prizes: Wisdom, Ancient and Modern
Austrian took on Facebook over data privacy in the European court and won
Zero to 5M in one week
Allow me to also tell you a true story.

A woman was found stabbed to death outside her house, everyone who would have any reason to mean her harm had a reliable alibi.

Until the CCTV footage was analysed properly, and a suspicious car was found to have unique identifying marks. Further research of phone records revealed that in fact her husband was the primary architect of her murder and had orchestrated it with others.

CCTV was pivotal in detection and conviction. Nobody gives a shit about your phone or your tablet. People's lives matter, and one murderer caught is worth a thousand fines which would be overturned on appeal.
> Could the federal tax laws — 74,608 pages of legal gray areas and welters of credits, deductions and exemptions — be accurately rendered in an algorithm?

Funny how the discussion is never to simplify the code

Government is very good at creating their own problems. Then they get to complain about how there's not much money for actual benefits to the population

The tax code should be designed to fit into 100 pages (or even better, 20 pages)

Reducing nominal taxes AND complex deductions would probably result in a net gain in revenue
Of course, NSA is not a state-sponsored hacker organization.
In the apple developer docs[1] on deep linking it says " When users install your app, iOS checks a file that you’ve uploaded to your web server to make sure that your website allows your app to open URLs on its behalf".

Is this a good thing? Seems like there might be privacy implications?

1. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
"We can breed"

Yes, by inbreeding dogs, starving the puppies, and other disgusting methods. You torture animals to create a cute little toy that will have lots of health issues. Just google around, you'll find many articles on the subject...
Soon: tax consultants using artificial intelligence to battle tax anti-tax invasion artificial intelligence leading to a new arms race...
Where, specifically?
This is a very nice write up, but the tabs/spaces part of it makes no sense at all.

"I like it, since it means my source code looks the same on every machine."

That reason just makes no sense at all.

There's only one reason for configuring tabs to be anything but tabs, and that's because someone else set the standard. So if you're editing python or bash, and you don't feel like being a rebel with a cause, you set expand tab.

But obviously you shouldn't be doing that manually every time you open a file, so you should configure Vim to detect what's going on.

You can do that by adding the `ciaranm/detectindent` plugin and then setting the following line:

autocmd BufReadPost * :DetectIndent

To detect the indentation any time you open a file. That at least for me makes the headache go away most of the time.
The ones who listen to what they "will do", complain about what they do, then promptly forgets during the buildup to the next election.

The ones who follow "the line" and are afraid of getting ostracized by their peers.

The ones who value pocket change now over future prospects.
There is a new testing procedure (WLTP, Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedures). Major carmakers just want to delay it:

http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/carmakers-pushing-3...

The emission cycle used now (New European Driving Cycle, or NEDC) is actually a joke, nobody drives like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_European_Driving_Cycle#/me...

comparing to the new one (WLTP):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_harmonized_Light_veh...

With the new testing procedure in place, you can still cheat like Volkswagen. But it will benefit the customers more, when the OEMs try to game the system by optimizing solely for the cycle.
AI is smart enough to not do that.
Isn't this the state of most mental medicines? That is, "reasons we don't understand"? Hence the typical search for the right med combo of anti-depressants, stabilizers, and stimulants to make someone OK?

Sure SSRIs might have lots more study than LSD and they might know how it affects certain neurotransmitters. But it seems a far cry from really understanding it.
Who is John Galt?
You can do something that

- it's interesting to you, something you will be passionate about. Something that is fun to program.

or

- something that will help you learn new things, that will help you grow as a programmer

or

- something that solves you problems (for example open source library that solves some problems you encounter when programming on mobile platforms)

or:

- something that solves problems of other people

> Please advice what type of side project I should work on.

"should" is Wrong word. You can. It's more like mental attitude. Take a look around on hacker and startup communities. Many things arose from sideprojects.

But even if you don't have this kind of sideproject mental attitude it's still good to spend some time programming on your own, at least to get familiar with other tools/libraries and approaches than you have in your work. If you can really don't know what to do it's still better to make anything just for learn new things (for example to learn popular framework you don't know yet)
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How is psychosis not mental illness? You are splitting hairs.
Nicki Minaj's Photo Re-Creation Put Real One to Shame
AFAIU the whole thing runs in ring 0.
What I find incoherent is the OP's implication that saving a historic icon means neglecting the sick and starving.
I suppose the Eiffel tower should also be left to rust away.
In a certain sense, twitter's one-to-many messaging is simpler, because it is a smaller volume of messages that have to be served.
I like to joke (only half-joke) Smalltalk-80 makes Java-2015 look somewhat primitive in comparison.

Around PARC is the place where the future was least evenly distributed.
Amusing to note you found that thread on undelete :/