skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a ridiculous thing for a company to do. It makes them look unprofessional and immature, and probably could form the basis of a libel claim.
That's an easy scenario. The prosecutor sees you (elsewhere) while the crime is being committed. Later, they charge you anyways because the evidence seems strong enough to convince others.
somewhat agreed, but I sort of think folks here get a bit insulated and have an inflated view of what "trivial" is. I've done a lot of sysadmin stuff for years, and web work for 20. Setting up an IRC server for me would not be 'trivial' either. Earlier this year I was told by several people that setting up an icecast server was 'trivial' too - anything but, ime.
You do know that's what the top level domains were actually for, right?
Read back in the Monday Note archives and you will see he's quite the fan of most Apple things
No, they didn't.
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That's a good point. Lawsuit might have factored into the decision although they don't reference it. In any case, I think Nucleus is a good recommendation as I also regularly cite it as a great idea worth emulating. That GEC work integrated just the right functions into the kernel, built entire OS around that for consistency, and had non-software-writable firmware for security. Way ahead of it's time.

Well, one company did build on that work that I can tell. They built on it so well they dropped bombs on the formal verification community. You might be surprised which company that was.

Safe to the last instruction: Automated verification of a type-safe operating system (2010)

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/122884/pldi117-yang.pdf
Wow, this behavior is pathetic. Just delete the accounts and move on.
It actually even did not matter here if multiplication is commutative or not. The child had to apply the repetitive addition strategy and so he or she did. Just probably not with the taught convention.
This is wrong. Training data can be streamed through GPU memory during training. It's your parameters that can't exceed GPU memory. You can get GPUs with 12 GB of memory, and they also support float16 so they can be twice as memory efficient as CPUs. If your model has more parameters than that, then you'll be waiting months or years for a single model to train using CPUs, even distributed.

Furthermore, almost any technique you use to distribute and scale training will work just as well regardless of whether the computations are happening on CPUs or GPUs.
Do you actually control your content? Contract Reader will tell you
iptables rules are not magic security talismans.
Uhm, no? Nokia was (relatively speaking) a software company. The South Korean and Chinese manufacturers, which are closer to production, excelled while the software companies like Nokia, RIM and Palm didn't. The iPhone was ahead of the market and despite the turbulence Nokia had caught up as of the N9. By then it didn't matter though. Because between Android being free and the importance of apps there were no longer much of a place for them in the market.
> > the history of science is full of cases where it didn't know as much as it claimed,

> I don't think this is true at all. Name one such scientific consensus that was, like climate change, the result of different sources of experimental evidence, that turned out to completely wrong.

Here's one: Before the discovery of Vitamin C, it was known by the British navy that lime juice prescribed to sailors on long voyages prevented scurvy. As technologies improved, voyages became shorter, which allowed someone in the navy to start sourcing less expensive limes (which happened to have less Vitamin C). Fast forward some years, and someone does an experiment. The (new) limes don't cure scurvy! So, naturally, everyone concludes that the limes-cure-scurvy thing is an old wives' tale, which they believe to now be "debunked". It's not until Vitamin C is discovered that people actually start to figure out what's going on.

(I believe this is from Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but I could be wrong. It is also documented on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy)
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Building and running an ISP is the easy part. Being allowed to do so (regulation/facilities access) and making money are the hard parts.
I don't understand what you mean by this?

I mean, you are paraphrasing Animal Farm, (but substituting "individual" for "animal" ) , and in doing so you seem to be, suggesting that, libertarianism(?) claims to treat people equally, but doesn't actually do so?

Please clarify, as right now it just looks like a quip.
Just wondering here can someone explain to me why campfire didn't move to fill the need of IRC/slack better? was it ever truly competitive in this space?

I was casual fan of 37 signals/Basecamp.
Slack may have a working IRC bridge, but it still has a closed-source server. You're still trusting a third-party with all your data.
> They don't have to delete your account

I haven't read the full document, so can't say if they HAVE to delete the account or not, but the last line of the privacy policy definitely implies you can remove any personal information they hold:

> If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at support@Livecoding.tv
> large classified ad pages

It literally has the word "ad" in it.

> dating websites

Either ad-driven or membership based, in which case the membership is received as a currency-exchange.

> real estate brokers (syndicated/search websites)

Just because your content is an ad doesn't make it less an ad.

> airbnb

See above.

> hotel and flight booking sites.

See above.

Every one of those sites are classified ad sites, which is problematic on two fronts:

1. All the content is the ad.
2. It's not unique content, it's content created for the sole purposes of selling something.

Literally everything you listed requires that there be something to sell, whether a product or sex/dating. So the Internet should effectively be one big shopping district?

> OK, how about the newly founded austrian branch of swiss publication NZZ - it started with 0 users and paywall.

A subsidiary of a 300 year old establishment is your example of a startup making it day one with a paywall. Okay...
I think the idea is that we don't really know the consequences of our effects on the climate, whether they will actually be catastrphic or not.

The geocentric model, the heliocentric model, keplers laws, newtons laws, the luminiferous aether...all of these were established scientific concepts that later turned out to be inaccurate. When you learn a new thing and discover a new model, the previous state of the art is necessarily wrong to some degree.
Researchers think they've found the holy grail of secure passwords: using poetry
Which means funding or sponsored developers are critical to the success of OS projects if anything significant is to happen in reasonable amount of time. So, the failure was to match funding rather than features per developer. ;)

On top of their design decisions that made the project ridiculously hard in the first place.
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"hotel" is defined, by law in most jurisdictions, to have certain properties, regardless of quality or level. AirBnB listings have very few of these properties as part of the definition.
Answering calls with individual investors and giving out material information is illegal under Reg FD. Not sure about this particular fact pattern, but being told something officially vs. over dinner/drinks can have a different expectation as far as confidentiality goes. That seems sensible.

Also, FWIW, and I'm sure this wasn't your intent, but "Shylock" is considered an Anti-Semitic slur by many people.
It's a suburb, but nobody who's ever been to Elgin could say with a straight face that Evanston is the "archetypical" suburb. If Chicago were organized the same way NYC was, OP/RF/FP and Evanston would be boroughs.

The better way to frame this, without getting into the special-case trouble of Philadelphia, NYC, and Chicago, is that the overwhelming majority of suburbs are not like Evanston, and are not hooked up to the arterial public transit connections of their major metro areas.
Uh, you should be acting a lot more decisively than that, considering that your co-founder is currently torpedoing your company's reputation in front of a large part of your potential userbase.
> some secrets (eg memory-safety scheme) require more than disclosure to break

And to that extent it isn't actually a secret. If the secrecy is providing you with anything then it comes at the expense of having a unique design but is lost by a compromise of any device. That isn't cost effective.

Your Microsoft link has an excellent exemplification of the flaw in thinking that leads to the erroneous conclusion that obfuscation is productive:

> Renaming the Administrator account can only improve security. It certainly can't hurt it.

The trouble is that it can. Renaming the Administrator account not only breaks poorly written malware, it also breaks poorly written legitimate software. Then the system administrator has to spend time and resources fixing a manufactured problem that could have been spent on other measures that achieve a better security improvement.

And you keep talking about things like diversity and sandboxing as if you can't use these things without hiding their design, but you can. Obfuscation of design is essentially useless because it has similar costs but a worse failure mode than other ways to improve security -- including the ones you keep talking about. Or layering independent systems.

You claim this layering is "ludicrous" but can you name a single major company that doesn't separately use all of those things already? Layering, for example, IPSec and TLS is the same work as configuring them separately. Being independent from each other so that a vulnerability or misconfiguration of one doesn't defeat the other is the idea.

Every security measure comes at a cost. You may need to configure more things etc. Which is why wasting resources on high-cost low-benefit measures like protocol secrecy harms actual security.
> If publishers really think it's a problem, they can easily disable the site for anyone with an active ad blocker.

Anti-ad blocker blocker's are a thing. UBlock and Adblock both include them. At the end of the day all it takes is regex.
Related article with ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10482701
It's just really bad reporting. The sales figure Amazon reports, is its share of revenue and does not include the merchandise value of what its merchants sell.

You can safely bet that Amazon's retail dollar keep, is about eight times the size of AWS right now (excluding their hardware and digital goods business).

Amazon handles about 40% of dollar figure sales of all merchandise on its site (and 45% of all units sold). Amazon breaks out the units sold figure, but the dollar figure is a ballpark guess from analysts that track Amazon. You can roughly double their sales to get the total merchandise value of goods moving across their retail site.
I run a large FOSS project; we use both Slack and IRC. Working with maintainers in 3 or 4 different timezones you can’t afford to lose your IRC session if you don’t want to miss messages. As pointed in the article however Slack is for teams, not communities. We use IRC for open discussions and keep internal discussions on Slack.
I really did not wanted to blame YC. My mention of them is mostly because they are the biggest incubator, so people who get in should have at least minimum amount of marketing skills. They literally make fool of themselves in front of their main "customers" and apparantly we are still talking about one of the cofounders. You are trying to run companies worth millions and do such stupid mistakes, it is just beyond understanding for me.
Inside the matching engine, there's a sitting limit order on the limit order book flagged as a retail order, just off the bid/ask. Whereas you may not have taken the other side of that resting order before, you might now because you know it has extra informational value attached. Dealers will pay exchanges for the right to access this information, either outright or in reduced liquidity rebates they would normally otherwise receive (normally outright to my understanding).
Okay, so let's examine the remaining browsers, shall we?

Safari and IE/Edge automatically don't matter because they are exclusive to their respective [proprietary] host operating systems.

That leaves Firefox.

Does anyone really think there is legitimate competition between Chrome and Firefox anymore?

I mean don't get me wrong, Firefox was a godsend in the bad old days of M$IE domination...

But this is 2015, and Google is basically Skynet, while Firefox is not much more than a warm, fuzzy memory.

Seriously... does anyone really want to turn this into a battle between Google and Mozilla?
> Why do we need to have it somewhere if nobody wants it enough to pay for it?

Yes, because search engines are basically elitist.
How many companies would (not to mention could) you think buy OEM phones and build their own Android OS from scratch including device specific and baseband drivers? I would bet that it's 0 even government agencies opt-out to certify existing devices.

If you work in a place that is too sensitive to accept phones there is a much simpler way to go around it and it's that you aren't allowed to bring in phones into the facility in such cases you usually leave them in a locker at reception.

Other policies might only prevent phones from being used in places that deal with sensitive information such as labs and R&D departments or meetings which touch sensitive matters.

I've worked at a facility that while allowing phones it didn't allow phones with cameras so around 2009 I still have an old nokia phone which while had a camera initially it was easily removable, if you didn't had a phone without a camera then you could simply do a follow me to your roaming extension before shutting it off.

I don't think that any company that sees phone tapping as an actual realistic threat would filter phones based on their manufacturer yet alone the OS, they might issue their own phones which are connected to the companies MDM or require BYOD devices to be pre-screened but saying Android no, iOS yes or vise versa unless it's has to do with specifics like MDM compatibility wouldn't be a realistic scenario.
I am sure you are somewhat correct that people don't know that they want this. However, there is more to it than that. This is actually a very hard problem to solve. How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition. This seems like a pipe dream.
Doesn't run in Chrome - because of NPAPI?
In the most recent quarter it essentially matched the retail side of Amazon's North America business on operating income.

In North America Amazon generated $528m in operating income. AWS generated $521m.

AWS is growing extremely fast of course (78% sales growth year over year for the quarter). In three years it'll probably be spitting off $4 to $5 billion per year in operating income.
> So don't use AWS or Google App Engine or Heroku? etc. Why?

Leaving aside that there are extremely valid reasons not to use those services, communication is a huge deal. Can you imagine if email was a walled garden?
Yes, and if you need connectivity between the two, setting up a VPN would be easier.
Libuinet is a userspace port of the FreeBSD stack that can be run lockless.
I thought the example was pretty obvious.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
They don't deserve you! You had the full right to ask them to delete your account!

Even if you where "an unreasonable user" they should never treat their users like that (just for their own sake)!

Livecoding.tv should immediately admit this huge mistake and apologize to prevent any further damage to their public image!

Calling your user a spammer?? Shame on you!!!
You're paying an analyst to look at Dell. You know that they went to lunch with a Dell investor relations person yesterday. They tell you they think Dell are going to miss earnings this quarter.

None of that is illegal. Unless you're a micromanager you wouldn't ask why they think that - that's their job.
In discussions of objections, Pepper comes up a lot. I don't understand the situation well enough, but that always seemed to me like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The secure, native, binary executable is the big deal. The fact that people who are currently writing secure native binary executables are using an unpopular API seemed incidental and eminently fixable. Not "flip a switch" fixable, but "Let's work together to figure out a better API" fixable. But, the idea that the huge, Chrome-specific API would be required to be incorporated into every other browser as-is and could not have been replaced in the last six years seems to be assumed as a fact of life.
> but I wonder if it could have been done had there not been a network guy in the group?

More to the point, what happens if he moves away or is unable to support it.

I do wonder if there is a business model to implement and support this type of network for small towns.
To be fair, "Netflix played all night" is not actually a thing that happens, as far as I can tell. When autoplaying, they pause every few episodes in case you're not watching. I'm sure they don't want to pay bandwidth/licensing for shows playing to an empty room.
Hold on. It's not the market's job to correct for income inequality. It's the job of a market to rapidly incorporate information into prices, so that everyone who needs to participate in commerce can do so with a shared picture of the value of different things.

Income inequality may be worth correcting for (I sure think it is), but it does not follow from that view that markets should be distorted to try to accomplish that. There are plenty of other instruments we can apply to that problem that will be more effective and will harm the economy less.
True, but for this case it's more than adequate. An attacker would need to be able to tunnel through your companies network, and then what? Assuming they're that far, who cares if they can read what you talk about on IRC?

And even then, they'd further need to exploit some vulnerability in your IRC server to do it unnoticed.
> AirBnB should implement the rule that you only get to list 1 rental.

I agree with your concerns, but why not just distinguish between personal/regular/single user and power/multi-listing/comercial users? Craigslist does this pretty well with their "for sale by owner" vs. "for sale by dealer" option.
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Maybe I should clarify...it's an alternative to hotels.com

The difference however is that there is a minimum standard I am getting with all the properties listed at hotels.com, in that there is a consistent check in/out process, there are always options for accessibility, there is a person I can call 24/7 at every location if there is something wrong with the room etc...

It's no secret that the general thought around AirBnB is that it is an alternative to booking a hotel, please don't pretend that isn't the case. That's the entire valuation thesis.
But that is why Apple is so popular. They are a marketing monster! They sell a "lifestyle" and they do it extremely well. They tell you to "Think Different" (as long as it means buying an apple product). They tell you one button is easy and the best. They tell people what to think and (some) people think that.
Interesting, forgive my ignorance, but does this mean anyone could write a language that compiles to SIL and then to LLVM IR?
Oh yes they are you just need to add the --rabbit-foot switch.
But what is the better foundation: an honest 2.5B valuation, or dishonest 25B one?

(calling Airbnb 'dishonest' is perhaps an exaggeration, but their advertising definitely reflects values that a lot of hosts don't represent, and they must know that)
The things you mention are either not 'completely wrong' (i.e. Newton's Laws, Kepler's Laws, the heliocentric model) or not based on multiple sources of evidence (the geocentric model, luminiferous aether).

I will absolutely grant that scientists for centuries have made prevailing wisdom out of untested hypotheses. I'm just pointing out that climate change is neither prevailing wisdom (of that kind) or an untested hypothesis.

I'm quite sure that there's a lot more to discover in climate change akin to how there was a lot more to discover after Newton described his laws of motion. That does not mean we should commit the Nirvana fallacy and disregard our current efforts as fruitless, untrue or unhelpful when they are the complete opposite.
Depends on workload.

Compare pmc data for instructions retired .vs processor unhalted.
I think it's because that doesn't scale to seventy companies without being a hinderance. I'm sure the skills are there, the problem is unless the founders ask UC doesn't know where to deploy them.
Could an attorney chime on on this article? I'm hung over, and a bit fuzzy. Yea--Halloween!

"It’s not that it will be impossible to bring insider-trading cases from now on; it’s that, at a hedge fund, all of the legal liability will now rest with the analysts and traders on the front lines of information gathering—with the initial knowing recipients of a tip. (Incidentally, if you’re a junior portfolio manager, this might be a good time to ask your boss for a raise?"

1. This means anyone, such as a home trader, hires a worker who receives insider financial tips from and passes that information on to me. I can then make the trade, and profit. I am legally protected, as long as the employee didn't tell me about the origins of the tip? The only person liable would be the employee?

"With billions of dollars to be made in betting on the market, whether or not you see cause for alarm in any of this will likely depend on just how scrupulous or unscrupulous you think the average investor is."

Of course the average investor is unscrupulous. For as long as I can remember, the successful investors used insider information to make money on investments. Growing up they openly exchanged tips at church functions. Hell, the only real money my father made in the market was off an insider tip. My father didn't even know it was inside information. He just trusted his new father in-law.

My point is ever successful trader, I tangentially knew, used insider information to make a profit.

My second question to the lawyer. The boys at Google/Bing can see every every IP. They can map every IP to an address, and most likely a name. They probally know exactly who's who in all financial institutions throughout the world.

Could Google/Bing hire an analyst to scrape the data/information are pass that information to a higher up. The "Higher ups" could then make stock trades on this in data. (yes--I know Google only scrapes information in emails for "advertising" data.) 2. Could, if a search engine was combining IP to a name, address, and maybe where an stock trader works. Could The search engine put all that info. together and use that information to buy stocks? They might even call it big data mining for financial gain?

Or, would this senerio be invasion of privacy, and wiretapping?

(I have two questions poorly laid out in this mess of a paragraph. Sorry. I will number the sentences with my final question, as 1, and 2.)
This was first mentioned on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905767

(I'm hoping I won't have to partake in this.)
Very well said - thanks!! :)
Nice. I wonder what it is about nutrition science that makes it so rife with these examples.