skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm less afraid of the police than of my neighbors.

I guess that depends on who your neighbors are. If I lived in a city that was 63% black, I'd be more afraid of my neighbors than the cops too.
Don't give up the faith man. Do whatever you have to do to eat, but folks like you are the only long-term hope the species has.
All of your examples suggest that it's the public markets that are not doing their job.
More like: robber has $1000 to his name, robs the liquor store for $500; avoids criminal charges by paying $750 restitution. (The article mentioned half of the account balance, not half of the amount of taxes owed.)

But the real difference is that while robbing a liquor store is universally viewed as unethical; that isn't the case with tax evasion. Many people (including, ironically, the founders of the USA, who seceded from the British over taxation) believe that taxes are unethical, and using every loophole and trick in the book to minimize taxes is both ethical and smart.
lol.... I implemented both Google and Facebook's Oauth as a complete noob. It was super easy. Like literally its a button and a few lines on the client and a few GET/POST requests to double check the user says who they say they are on the server side.
The posted article seems to be doing quite the opposite; it is arguing against that perception of Microsoft.
If you're interested in a close approximation, you can find colatura in gourmet shops and online. It's a direct descendant of garum, but more refined.
In what way is OAuth2 not a spec? Both your comment and the article leave me wanting some concrete complaint…
test generator: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/poem/poem.php
Glad that there's a discussion. It would help humanity to also give enough focus on boy child development so that we could save their future, avoid the crimes they commit and their languishing in jails.
Yep. Spent basically 2 months trying to implement saml manually. We had kinda a working implementation for something else. Tried to use it. Didn't work. Ended up finding a solution that somebody published. Modified and got working for my situation. It sucked and put me really behind schedule. Doesn't matter. The other members of the project were ever further behind
Being Featured on Product Hunt Positively Messing Up Our Soft Launch
Uzumaki.el – a simple Emacs buffers cycler
Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental OS Services (1992)
Unfortunate field-of-view picture; that was a still of a much-discussed error in the Oculus Kickstarter video :).
Odd ways to zeroing some x86_64 registers
u rite good. learn me some words?
Yea. I found Oauth to be pretty straight forward and easy to figure out. I'm also pretty new to this game, so I couldn't imagine people with more experience than me having difficulty implementing it properly. The blog posts seems more like a clever marketing scheme than a real rant against setting it up.
> there's nothing to be afraid of

Eh, except, like, you know that whole thing with the being naive to the pitfalls of addiction, and the the lurid, carnal prostitution that is often associated with certain hard drugs, and what not. I mean sure, why be concerned about that?
Do you think that a person or company retaining the money they earned over the fiscal year, or not paying as much as they should to their gov't, can aptly be compared to armed theft of someone-else property? I mean, if we are making analogies about armed theft, like one good one is taxes.
If every country got to tax money the way the wanted the taxes on $1 of revenue would be $1.75.
Parallels (rather than descendents) in other cultures include Thai _nam pla_ and Vietnamese _nuac mam_ and a related product is Worcestershire sauce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_sauce
I don't know that anyone has tried to build a practical system on top of SKI combinators, which are certainly simpler than Nock. It's probably quite hard.

You can build a practical system around the lambda calculus, which is arguably as simple as Nock. But you don't build a practical system by building layers on top of a simple lambda interpreter; you do it by extending the simple lambda interpreter, until it's no longer simple.

The critical feature of Nock is that it's very simple and you don't extend it, you layer on top of it. So, for instance, it's very easy to upgrade Hoon's syntax or semantics over the network in a live system, because the interpreter is a Nock interpreter and doesn't know anything about Hoon.
Satki3, Theranos, uBeam.
It seems this whole women in tech thing may be helping some rather unscrupulous people attain high profiles and cash in, confirming some prejudices, whereas what is actually needed is for women to have equal access and opportunity to ordinary tech jobs.
> you support capitalism where COMPETITION exists

Do you think these monopolies just randomly happen? There's a lot of competition to be the monopolist.
Work on stuff that matters: First Principles (2009)
I totally agree. Just to add, playing the game well and keeping your own money is borderline unethical/illegal depending on where you land on the issue but it is your money. Threatening someone else at gunpoint, and taking their money is quite different than simply keeping your own and not paying a fair share.
Thanks! The appropriate authorities have been contacted :-)
I hate OAuth [2.0] as well.

So how do you do twitter? They don't have a full JS client side implementation..
That last video could make for an interesting small game.
Jack Dorsey Gives 1/3 of stock to employees
Google announces deeplearning residency program
At mozilla - for B2G battery drain issues there is a project for building battery harnesses - the work of one man working in low level power measurements

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/04/measuring-power-consumptio...
I appreciate the quick-math here:

> With 24 different permutations of 4 digits and iPhones having "wipe the phone after 10 failed attempts" option this would have a little under 50% success rate.

and I agree with this:

> hardly "we can pwn you from a photo every time" territory.

It sounds like neither of us is concerned about being pwned from this. But I take from this that given enough time, someone will find a way to get unintended-data-emission from people, and it'll be from an unexpected source.
Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?
aptitude: a natural ability to do something.

What's the fastest way to tell if I'm cut out for, and should pursue programming?

I know a tiny bit of Java, and I can do FizzBuzz, basic recursion, logic exercises, etc. Can anyone suggest a few problems with max completion times for each that will let me know for sure?

Thanks!
The catfishing scam of self-publishing Kindle books with fake reviews
There's an implicit corollary that, if your trying to avoid leaving behind traces of activity on your own computer, you probably would also like to minimize traces of activity left behind on other computers as well.

This might carry the expectation that unintentional interactions with other systems should be eliminated, since, the fewer systems touched, means the fewer traces of said activity there are in the entire world, no?
It seems to me to be all about having the right prior and planning for exploration.
Policy search methods (http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702) assume that there aren't many trajectories that make sense (based on prior knowledge/testing in simulator) and search for the best ones among those that make sense using real-world data. Even within policy search you need some kind of exploration such injecting gaussian noise in trajectories. The hard part is to come up with a model for exploration.
Do you know what the topic of the survey was?
It happens exactly as you suspect, by arm twisting in secret.

I can tell you in some detail how Canada did some of its own arm twisting against the United States!

Some years ago, Charles Schwab & Company (a major US brokerage) had to close all the accounts of Canadian customers who had accounts in the US.

Charles Schwab & Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Schwab Corporation that trades on the NYSE. Schwab Canada was a subsidiary of the Schwab Corporation. There was no other relation between Schwab Canada and Charles Schwab & Company.

When the Schwab Corporation sold off Schwab Canada (their Canadian broker/dealer) to a Canadian company, the Canadian government said that Schwab's US operations had these these choices:

(a) get a Canadian license; Canadian laws says that they cannot solicit Canadian business unless they open a branch in Canada, or

(b) transfer all Canadian clients to their Canadian broker/dealer before they sold it, or

(c) face a $2,000,000 fine for doing business without a license; the Canadian government's threatened fine is against the parent company (the Schwab Corporation)

Notice that the Canadian government feels free to punish and give orders to the entirely US-based company (Charles Schwab & Company) and to the parent company (Schwab Corporation) because the Canadian government doesn't want it citizens to maintain accounts in the US.

Schwab kept holding off for 2 years on doing anything, but finally the Canadian government threatened to start fining them.

There were 1400 Canadian customers who had their US-based accounts closed. Merrill Lynch (an even bigger US brokerage) had a lot more US-based Canadian accounts than Schwab, and the same thing happened to them as well.

So even though foreign countries should have no jurisdiction over what a country does internally, they actually do because deals get blocked and secret pressure is applied.
> Drives many of us crazy that concentrated urbanites in one region want to boss around country folk living very different lifestyles/values/history, and do so due to sheer concentrated numbers

Strange that you pick that example since that happens within a single state too. In fact it seems like there is a much larger difference between urban and rural regions within any given state then there is between urban regions (or rural regions) across different states.
I think this is just borne out of the stark and daunting difference between the way Urbit works and everything else we're familiar with.

I'm daunted by it, but I'm intrigued by it. I'm also pretty convinced that if I devote some time to it, it will make sense. And as a bonus I'll probably understand the rest of my computing a little better as well. Which is why I'm cloning the repo right now to have a play.

PS. Big repo. 400mb and counting.
This is very true. While there has never been a bubble without the public markets involved, there has also never been this degree of capital deployed in private markets. I mean that as an investment, in the sense that if I lend my neighbor $5K to start up a farm or something, I have money in the "private market", but I have a firm idea of where it is and how it is being used. This has been historically how capital was in private markets, pre-tech.

However, now there are large funds, and funds of funds, taking investor money and parking it into vc & pe firms, as well as companies directly. All of these companies have fees associated with deploying the capital and are competing for a finite resource, driving up the price.

The public markets are extremely efficient at whatever they're for now, mainly HFA, gambling, and FOREX liquidity, and warnings that something bad has happened in the world. Or for alerting the world that the FED is making an announcement. They are not used for raising capital to fund business expansion. They are a last resort for dumping a failing company or a forced move because a company scaled out and has hit shareholder max and therefore is defacto public anyway.
Remove the stress, pick a deadline
Anonymous salary sharing
Another interesting tidbit, that maybe someone can shed some light on: "Reactive auto-updates are a particular speciality of %clay. We use them to drive auto-updates of code at every layer. A normal Urbit user never has to think about software update."

Is this another way to say that you can never know what version of urbit you're running? So when someone compromises the upstream keys/ids urbit becomes one big botnet?
The real solution is to create more positions and increase the grant budgets. The reason the publishers have such a strangle hold over academic science is because there are so few academic positions available to scientists that it becomes imperative to be published in an existing high impact factor / well known journal. If there wasn't such a hyper competitive atmosphere, people could explore open access journals more openly without fear of negative career implications.
> Except like 95% of the sites out there won't accept that e-mail

And that's the problem. There's a standard. Everyone ignores it and tries to reinvent their own idea of what the standard could be. It only leads to issues. If people think that the standard is so bad, they're of course welcome to produce and post their own RFC for discussion. But making up their own version of rules is bad and pretending there is no existing standard is also bad.
Totally agree OAuth sucks. Want a simple way forward?
https://passwordless.net/

For profile info:
https://en.gravatar.com/

Why do you need someone to sign in with their third party service account? If it's just because you want a low friction sign up / sign in think again, it is not low friction. If its to prevent from having yet another account and password? This could be a great option.

With OAuth There is a lot of friction on the flow and privacy concerns. "What kind of data are they going to suck out of my account?" Last time I looked at OAuth years ago I had huge reservations. In mobile apps it uses a web-view in the middle of the flow. Is that web-view logging my key presses? Is it using HTTPS? Is the cert good? You'll never know.

I ran some of these concerns by Eran Hammer (brilliant, great guy) and he had no great consolation to give me. Not long after came his epic departure from OAuth (Not implying any correlation.)

I went on to "invent" a new auth system for mobile based on push notifications. I got mired in trying to patent this and realized that was stupid. TL;DR of that project, push notifications are an amazingly secure and targeted way to deliver auth tokens try it out! But in the end, nothing beats the simplicity of letting go and just going with passwordless and gravatar IMHO.
The limited checking I did on my machine points to this, at least that's what the URLs in the code appeared to be for. Didn't really look at the code, just searched for the URLs.
"Computer Lib/Dream Machines" was in print once upon a time. I bought a copy circa 1992, the copy I have is the revised edition which was published in 1987, these are photos of my copy (it's a wee bit aged looking now):

http://imgur.com/a/ghtEb

You can still find copies on Abe Books but they're not cheap.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=091484549...

Glad I held on to this little bit of dead tree history even if it is the revised version.
Tucker made the accurate prediction. If you challenge that it won't happen again, the onus is on you to explain what is different and why Tucker's model will fail this time around. Did you even read the essay?
Hedge fund manager, or Y Combinator advisor?
> help people spot mistakes when entering things

I completely agree. Here's how it should work: "your email abc+def@example.com is valid but looks unusual, are you sure it's your email? ok/cancel". Not: "your email is invalid, guess which of our made up rules it violates". But you're in a tiny minority of people who handle this properly.
Ford Brothers Productions Ink Partnership with LeTV, China
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I think that Tucker would argue that the US prison state is a result of socialistic tendencies in this nation. He made statements about 2/3 of the way down that are reminiscent of counter drug wars arguments (of course that is not strictly a prediction since counter drugs laws argument have tuckerian ideas in their DNA.)
The CompuServe of Things (2014)
Nope. I'm not arguing Nock is bad because it's hard for humans to understand- live images, core dumps, databases, etc. are great. I'm arguing Nock is bad because it relies on jets, which are nonsense.
Unfortunately, the IRS does not agree. They want to tax US citizens everywhere
Someone once posted an article that asked why ebooks were becoming low quality. It is because of this scam apparently. Hiring a third world ghost writer that barely speaks English to write an ebook for $20, putting a pen name on it, charging $5 for the book and paying for fake 5 star reviews. Doing this with like 45 ebooks all of which are low quality, but ends up earning a lot of money in sales.

I've written ebooks on Kindle, and I don't make a lot of money from it. I use my own writing and I don't always get 5 star reviews, heck I'm lucky to get 3 star reviews. But at least I'm honest at it.
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Yup and they're working on correcting this with FATCA.
One reason car companies are conservative: unit-body construction and safety and efficiency standards mean that getting a new car to market is very expensive nowadays. In the 50s and 60s, restyling every year or so cost a lot in tooling (meaning the independents like Nash and Studebaker had a hard time keeping up), but it was almost pure fashion, with very little regards for aerodynamics or safety. And since the body didn't provide the main structure of the car, you could do some radical changes to styling without affecting much of the underlying function.

It's not to say that there isn't a lot of conformism, like in many industries. This leads, for instance, to the use of less-durable features like those silly plastic wraparound headlights; everybody has them, but because they aren't protected from the sun, they quickly fog and yellow; their complicated shapes also mean they're very expensive to replace for no good reason.
Jack Dorsey Gives One-Third of Twitter Stake to Employees
And an emoji used as an element id.
Can someone please explain to me the social/economic/historical basis of academic publishing, maybe in the way Jaron Lanier might?
What I meant is that all the activity you reference is because of the difficulty or undesirability of IPOing.
What a silly response. Of course the Swiss can do whatever they want. The IRS doesn't have any interest in taxing Swiss people living in Switzerland, earning Swiss francs working in Switzerland.

But people and organizations doing business in the United States, and all US citizens, have legal US tax obligations. If you don't like it, feel free to renounce your citizenship and avoid doing business in any US markets.
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>You can't prevent access to any social network that has an API

Could you elaborate on this? China blocks Facebook/Instagram/Twitter [0] so well that there's an entire industry of VPN providers making bank on getting them access to it illicitly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...
I think it is mostly to pay and retain talent. They are giving employees stock options and those are not worth as much if stock prices do not go up.
Anyway Alphabet stock is still undervalued specially with their investments in Uber(google fund), Magicleap, Google Fiber, Google self driving cars, Nest, Renewable Energy, Health Sciences. Once Alphabet starts reporting all these separately it stock prices are going to hit $1000 or more.
Just because a system is unfamiliar does not mean that it hides some new insights, though the reverse is often true. Urbit's problems are much bigger than that- it is full of redundancies and poor choices of abstractions, like using "jets" to optimize away peano numbers.
The OECD also works to establish Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA) between various countries.

Countries need to have a certain number of TIEAs to not be considered a tax haven and be white listed.
Thank you! It's frustrating when a frontpage HN article is hidden behind a paywall.
Poor rich, they are a persecuted minority.
You can also try MS computer vision API. It is not very broad but it is still something - https://www.projectoxford.ai/doc/vision/visual-features
Nobody is insinuating that they'll be competing with you. I had a class of 18, I'm one of two who ended up as a back end developer. It wouldn't surprise you much to learn that the two of us were both Math majors. The rest were design-y people who wanted to expand their job prospects and ended up as front end developers. I mean this in the nicest of ways to front end developers, but your algorithms mean jack-shit to them.

As one of those few back end developers, I would HOPE I'm not competing with you for a job, as that would then have been a waste of my time and money. That being said, 4 years down the road of real world experience, I doubt there will be any separation between myself and someone with a CS degree and 4 years of work experience. Real life converges. From my couple years post-GA, I'm perfectly capable of talking the talk with the CS majors who think the two letters give them superpowers.

Again, nobody is implying 3 months will match your 4 years. However, thinking that 3 months of immersion doesn't give you enough knowledge to gain the REAL knowledge on the job would be ignorant. I'm reasonably confident if you blindfolded me and dumped me in France, I'd be speaking french in 3 months. I doubt I'd be able to appreciate The Count Of Monte Cristo, but I'd be more than capable of navigating day to day life.
Ugh! So sorry about the repo size. We can archive some old binaries to get that down.
The US can still bomb Switzerland.
RE: simply hiring experienced Java devs. This doesn't usually work - good mobile devs are also at least partially UX people - we spend a lot of time knee-deep in UI, and consumer expectations for the fit and finish of apps are high. Someone who has completed the "Hello World" equivalent of Android learning has done exactly that - finished "Hello World". It in no way implies the ability to build apps that aren't an embarrassment to the Play Store. There is a vast amount of domain knowledge here, and the gap between an app built by someone who merely knows the API vs. someone who knows mobile apps is pretty darned wide.

Why not hire and expect that people need to be trained and train them? There's a catch 22 situation here. Do most tasks really require amazing android specialized developers? Cant some decent developers get by with some guidance?
force quitting might not work if you have push notifications enabled, you can get silent app notifications (content available notifications) and the app can be relaunched in the background.
Because the laws are not written by liquor store thieves.
No. That is simply wrong. The President cannot nominate Commissioners except to fill a vacancy, nor can he order them to take any action. They do not work for him. Congress created the FCC and Congress has oversight of the FCC.

https://www.fcc.gov/what-we-do

"An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation."
This is actually perfect, I've switched to neovim anyway so treating old vim like a haskell IDE is fine.
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