skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> reproduction ... is most likely going to fuck up the planet

Malthusian fallacy. The idea of a "population bomb" has been indoctrinated into the modern mind of certain political orthodoxies since the late 1960's. It has yet to pass, because it is wrong. The jeremiads of Malthus and Ehrlich are myopic and dangerously lacking in imagination.

We will engineer ways to feed ourselves, generate potable water, control our climate, clean our air, and thrive -- all with a human population that monotonically grows over long periods of time.

> Don't confuse basic capability with a "right".

What does that even mean?

The fact that the same people who fight for esoteric rights of privacy and free speech disproportionately flip their semantic switch to cast the most fundamental human right in scare quotes is difficult to fathom.

> It's not about Godwin's Law, but about having an actual argument other than "somebody tried that before once and it didn't work". How about exploring why it didn't work and how we can avoid that particular failure mode while reaping the rewards, without throwing the entire concept out?

Here's an "actual argument": modern history. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics. Arguments that an idea is grievously misguided based on broad appeals to disastrous periods in recent history brought about by that idea are valid in matters of social policy debate, which this is.

We throw the entire concept out because it is intellectually rancid. The taboo is justified. We should not touch eugenics, just like we should not touch proposals for disenfranchising women or chattel slavery.
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I don't know if there's a rule against this, but here's a link to a Google search to let you bypass the paywall:

https://goo.gl/AfoDnl
This is purely speculation, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a pin-strapping method that disabled the boot ROM and caused it to be read off the EIM interface, which is probably how the ROM was debugged in the first place.
Amateurish and ersatz "thoughtful thinking aloud" is just the latest reason I can't stand listening to radio, and now prefer podcasts.
Pause and ponder all you want, Abumrad, Krulwich, Koenig et. al. I have set my player (Podcast Addict, among others) to skip silence and play at 1.2-2.0x speed, so that gormless pauses and ponderous exposition are now scarcely noticeable.
And part human! (Come on it's almost Halloween)
Also, Adam Curtis's documentary: The Way of All Flesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lMrp_ySg8
Just click on hn's web link and then read the article through google.
I'm a bit skeptical of this. The way the CEO brushes off the issue of what happens when the user is offline leads me to think that they don't have a great answer for that. Services like Dropbox and iCloud are great because you don't need constant connectivity to use them - with Dropbox you always have all your files on your computer, and with some exceptions (Photos) the same is true for iCloud. This company might be living in a Silicon Valley bubble of perfect connectivity if they think that people always have a fast and reliable internet connection.

I'm also interested to see if they have a way for you to run your own Upthere server instead of using their service. I'm not eager to have to trust yet another third party with my private data, and if I can't host it myself somehow I'll probably avoid using the service.
Seymour Cray “Father of Supercomputing”
More info

interview (linked in the article): http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/cray.htm

Long detailed article on The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/02/seymour_cray_90_anni...

Obituary by John Markoff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422103

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
For SaaS analytics companies, take a lesson learned from online advertising: host your corporate site and dashboard on a different domain than your ads/analytics pixels are hosted on. That way if your domain inevitably ends up on ad block lists, your corporate website and dashboard still work.
The right to sell it when the price rises. You own a part of the company which you acquired at a price that you presumably considered below fair value. Even though there is no premium for voting rights nor expected dividends, but you still own a fraction of the company.
Check out Nature: Meet the Coy-wolf if you have Netflix (presumably in the US only)

Also, available here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365159966/ (not sure if region restricted, sorry)

This page has a bunch of other resources: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/8605...
The engineering behind the space shuttle software is a fun read [1].

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff/
There are a ton of reasons for the price to be "wrong" if a particular practice is unusual or new. Markets only function as well as the people involved in them. If the people are all acting (unwittingly) on incomplete, incorrect, or insufficient information, then one would expect there to be risks that haven't been "priced in".
Alternative to Google: open in incognito mode
I did this for a while, except my thin client was an X1 Carbon (!)

Have you calculated how much it's costing you?

I ended up scripting up a way to find the cheapest Spot Instance price from Amazon for whatever workload I needed - if I was doing builds I wanted the 8 core machines (c4.2xlarge?). They're ~11c an hour as a Spot Instance, although it's 3x the amount for a Windows instance, and I'd be pushed out of the market if everyone started doing this.

I think I was averaging a couple of dollars a day, so I suppose it comes out in favour of using AWS all the time.
I've stopped thinking about this in terms of mass surveillance, and re-arranged my perception, to align with a different world view. Namely:

If we weren't surprised to learn that exploration
throughout history was all about conquest, power
projection, fortification and exploitation, and we
wouldn't be surprised to learn that in the future,
deep space exploration proved to hold similar outcomes,
then why should we be surprised to learn that virtual
spaces of imagined information across inert transmission
mediums should experience these sorts of things.

This is to say, the militarization of hypothetical realms,
just like the oceans, and just like outer space, was
probably always inevitable.

So, with that in mind, that there are people arming themselves to the teeth and enforcing doctrines and demarcations, and patrolling every last iota of territory available to them, is a fact no less ugly than, say, aerial bombardment, but when mortal humans find themselves gifted with potent advantages over their peers, these things happen.

Now comes the time when new virtual territories will likely be carved out. Programming languages that don't use reserved keywords of English origins. Mathematical models for address spaces incompatible with TCP/IP of any version. Other, alternative internets that refuse to be compatible with The Internet as we know it.

The Internet being an American invention, has been dominated by America, and is very obviously patrolled broadly and deeply by American paramilitary entities, in much the same way that American nuclear powered vessels patrol the earth's oceans.

Given the capacity for computation that one can assume must exist, at this point, the only thing that would surprise me, would be if those that had conceived of an internet in general, hadn't actually hypothesized and accounted for this sort of fault and fracture in their models of social behavior and technological progress at the outset of all this, back in the early 1970's.

Part of me wonders if a Snowden-like figure wasn't part of the equation to begin with. Columbus, after all, didn't sail into the Atlantic expecting to fall off the edge of the world.
If it was against the rules, HN wouldn't include a link labelled "web" under the main article link for people to do exactly this. ;)
A firesale, or buyout, or merger, or nationalization. It's strange, because few of those terminal events will get you a very high valuation, yet this doesn't seem to have a depressing effect on current values.
But if no-one thinks too much about it, there is still plenty of liquidity, and that's really all the evidence the liquidity providers need.
Exactly. I often recommend that anyway. Let's you offload all the interrupts and often plenty pre-processing. And microcontrollers with onboard peripherals are more numerous, powerful, and cheap than ever before. So many possibilities there.

I downloaded as much of the source of Bluebottle as I can. I'm glad the OP gave me the link to the modern one. I'll get it too. Think I might try to retarget it in one of the safer languages, secure hardware (eg Cambrige CHERI processor), or certified compilers. Oberon is the kind of thing a one-man project can make progress on. On other side, I think I recently saw another team quit after little progress on rewriting NetBSD in something safer. ;)
Ahaha, I can't believe I didn't notice that! Thanks for pointing that out.
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The first reason why you think they rejected you is because you think they didn't read your application?

Not gonna lie but i am going to give my honest advice here.

There is nothing wrong with your idea, I think there is some kind of need out there for photo organization because people takes so many pictures nowadays that they dont even remember they have taken them.

But when I see your team is when I went, WTF? You have 8 people working on a pre-alpha photo app and you don't even KNOW if people want to use it.

AND you are hiring? What are you hiring for? More people to argue with whenever someone think of a idea? You need speed and focus at the beginning stage of a startup and having 8 person on the team is game over for you already.

Instagram is built with 2 person only all the way from original idea to pivoting to launch, and they STILL only have around 10 people on the team.

In fact there hasn't been a software startup I have seen in YC that has that many people. Most startups had 2-3 person for the first 2-3 years.

You should really consider about the size of your team especially at mvp stage.
Any sale—not necessarily a fire sale.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedbacks and encouragement! Yes, I am definitely not discouraged. I just feel I was warned about the issues we have and mistakes we probably are making. We know our competition landscape and know the overall idea might not be fancy and fresh to people. But we still believe people need it and will need it more along the time. That's why we work on this now.

Yes, it is about photo management, photo content discovery, and instant sharing. Kind of all-in-one solution (not sure if that's bad?). I personally have 5000+ photos in my phone and completely lose track. I might have shared 5%-10% of them, but I can't delete the rest as I don't have time to select, and also don't use them anymore. We want to make these buried treasures useful to people.

Sorry, I am international. Will be more careful on the copy.
If he doesn't need the money, it is far more likely that he likes people and sees no reason to say no.

The author also overstates Wozniak's pull. People like that he is a quirky hacker. I don't think people ask him publicly for advice. His private life is his own business.
You've got a GPG key up, which is more than most.

That tells me that you've got a security team (even if its one person who wears other hats too), and it implies that anything encrypted with that key will be forwarded to your security team instead of being triaged by front-line support staff.

It definitely lends creedence to your Application Security offering.
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DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface
Supposedly carriers in the US are going to be shutting down their 2G networks in the near future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#United_States
> So now you can buy a radio chip for a few bucks and add it to any device.

Can someone tell me some names of those radio chips? I'm in Shenzhen, if they exist they should be available here. I want to buy some for a few bucks.
There's usually a provision on super-voting shares that automatically convert them to common shares upon transfer.

So, in an event where Mark passes away, decides to sell, etc, then the rest of the shares will have more voting power, relatively.
When I'm in a pessimistic mood, I can see a day where we return to $4000+ "developer" machines. I think Doctorow wrote about the war on General Purpose Computing. It turns out that developers and power users were casualties in the race to protect users from themselves.
> So yeah - telling people to "just stop using facebook" is akin to telling smokers to "just stop smoking", and will net the same results.

I have no problem with that. Want to not have the damaging effects of smoking? Don't smoke. Seriously. You're addicted, I get it. But the fundamental unhealthiness of smoking isn't going to change any time soon.

I don't really disagree with you in general (though I don't think Facebook has gotten to the necessity point of being required to have a social life). That metaphor is just way off.
I think the problem is expecting that there is a one-size-fits-all approach to writing software. I have had many discussions with developers over the years who come from a pure CS background who really disparage the code scientists write. Yes a lot of the code is not good code, but it would not have been possible to get anything done at all if strict coding standards had been applied from the start.

The best approach I think is to take a hybrid approach of hack and then rewrite. I have worked on problems where I have written 10,000s of lines of very hacky code over many months and once I had a viable solution rewrote the whole module from scratch in a week. The key is to make sure you (or someone else) re-writes the code once it is working if you are going to use again and not pretend that what you have hacked together is acceptable just because it (sometimes) works.
You don't need customers like this. What is your SaaS product anyway, if you don't mind me asking?
Dividends are definitely the primary way of rewarding shareholders but another way a company can reward its shareholders is by doing a buyback. Owning a share gives you ownership over a portion of a companies profits so it is very tangible even if it only exists for you on paper for the time being.
Duly ordered! I am beyond stoked.
One outcome of this interbreeding is that these animals have lost their fear of people, but they retain their predatory instincts, making them quite dangerous.

There are coyotes in the northern part of Nova Scotia that have attacked lone hikers. A woman was killed, in fact a few years ago, and there have been numerous scary encounters in which the animal creeps closer and closer to a wary human, much like a predator approaching its prey.

The coyotes in this part of Canada are said to have interbred with dogs; it's not clear that these are the wolf-coyote-dog hybrids described in the article, but anyway these animals harassing hikers have been hanging out in the forested national park, as wolves would do.

Park rangers have tried to control the population, with varying results. Simply shooting a few of the coyotes actually can backfire; it seems to stimulate larger litters to replenish the population.

We might have to return to the pioneer approach of shooting them on sight, and hope this instills a healthy fear of humans as they once had. It's good having them around, because they control the rodent population which is a vector for disease bearing ticks and other problems. We just don't want them stalking our children in the local park.
The structure of the company gives you the right to future dividends at the same rate as other classes of stock. So as long as they think they're creating something of value and the marketplace does you own an equal equity share of that entity.

Google finally paid a dividend (although a one-time dividend) and also announced a stock buyback so these companies may start returning capital. As of right now facebook thinks that capital is best put to use inside the company. I think there's a pretty good chance they're right on that.

Bottom line, you have the same rights to payments per share as Zuckerberg. Also technically Zuckerberg will at some point (might be 30-50 years from now) start divesting his shares and at some point your stock might be valuable for someone who does want to change the structure of the company or take it private.

Another defense is "internal arbitrage". So the company has value, and a different owner might decide to sell off assets or pay dividends to realize that value. But even without the stock changing hands, let's say it started trading at $20 a share. This would encourage Zuckerberg to work with a PE firm to take the company private again.

When stocks trade near, at, or above fair value you wont' really see any of these things happen, but if they started trading way below fair value, you would.
> So each app will continue to ask for access to everything and you choose between being info-excluded or giving away your data.

Apps under the new model will only ask for permissions when they need it. So, when you decide to post a picture to Facebook, that's when Android asks if you want to give the Facebook app access to your pictures on storage. If you deny it, it lets the app know it doesn't have access. If it's an older app that doesn't understand, it gets fake data as if you had no photos (or no contacts, etc). At least that was my understanding from reading about it.

Note that this security model is similar to web apps wanting to "connect" with you Google account (or Twitter or Facebook for that matter) to access your contacts or similar.
"And in 2015 everyone is on Facebook"

Not even close. Check some statistics on how many (or few) teenagers use it.
Technically not a new species, rather a new subspecies.
If I run a shell script under my user account, that shell script has full access to anything my account has access to, UNLESS I'm running SELinux or something like that.
I certainly won't trust a bot to validate code for all the operational and trust issues it commingles. Not anytime soon.
> that does not result in them stopping the interview or taking me off their list.

Why would they take you off their list if you gave them an honest answer (I do not know)?

You clearly knew were to stop, so you did not misinform them . That is a valuable trait for an expert.
In short, yes. It's your claim to the assets less liabilities of the company. Since Google is trading at around 30x equity, the value equity holders get in case of a sale would be about 1/30th of their market cap. I didn't look at their 10k, but debtors would have claim on any assets before equity.

If you're an investor in Google, you're betting either someone will buy the stock higher from you in the future or they will eventually pay dividends when growth slows.

Here's a discussion on an internet forum on the topic [1].

[1]http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/51976/if-a-stock-do...
The rating game
Why is Android 6.0 exceptionally horrible? I found one bug in a Play Services API that can crash Play Services remotely, but I can't get code execution so Google aren't interested.
The best programmers I know are also great writers.

Not good, but great.

Their ability to organize ideas to write about them also serves their ability to organize ideas to code about them. I really think we give too little credit to analytical training available from English departments. I would train an English major as happily as a CS major, other factors being roughly similar.
Well, I'd appreciate a report on the WSPRNet page once you get your ticket. I'm W8KV, but I don't know that I'm putting out all that much, and when I look at streetview of the houses of the people that pick up the signal they have some crazy setups! That said, I was able to receive PSK31 from France here in Ohio back before I got my ticket with just an old AC extension cord strung along the ceiling as an antenna, so keep playing with things, you never know what all will work.
For a long time, cell phones operated in a hub way. Just like early computer networking with hubs, the tower would broadcast the packets to all phones in range, and it was up to an individual phone to respond. There was a hack where a phone could be set to respond to all numbers, and thus hijack all communication on a tower. This attack has probably been mitigated somewhat in recent years.
Solving security aspect will mean much less hackability, which means slowing down its development.
For PV it's quite easy. 'uname -a' is currently straight up telling me i'm on the el5xen PV kernel.

If the kernel itself doesn't just straight up say it's a kernel designed to work under Xen the drivers used to work with the virtualization will give it away. Right down to the version if you care to dig deep enough and compare builds.
Wonderful taxpayer funded research that will see limited diffusion into industry. So in effect, we all pay twice while innovation at the edges is denied access. Research shouldn't be "in business"
Thanks for the clarification. True, its far from free, and needs the continued support of the citizens to continue to function.
Of course, sometimes the decision is easy because you're bumping up against complexity limits to such a degree that you just can't fit any geographical reality on a map and still have something even remotely readable:

http://www.meik.jp/2rosenzu/jpg_640/tkyo_yko_chba.jpg
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Strawman. Strong environmental protections and positive population growth can coexist.

And, of course, we should be striving in our generation to solve these existential challenges, rather than squandering our time optimizing sales funnels and click-through-rates.
Not necessarily. A large portion (indeed, probably a majority) of the benefit from serving on Facebook's board comes in non-pecuniary compensation.

Everyone on Facebook's board is already quite wealthy and is not serving on the board for the purpose of getting a salary.
Best thing to do is always drink lots of water.
Why programming languages matter
Can't you just use babel for this?
Oh really? I never heard of the Inter-library loan system or Worldcat. The default search system at my county library seems limited to just whatever is in its network of nine local libraries, but I'll check if they have those systems as an option. Thanks for the tip.
This floated through my Twitter stream yesterday (I think via @thegrugg) - as I was reading it I kept thinking "Really? Is there even a vaguely plausible explanation for that choice of leaving a command message unencrypted and unauthenticated that doesn't boil down to 'so the NSA or other LEO can exploit it'?"

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07563v1.pdf

"Practical attacks against privacy and availability in
4G/LTE mobile communication systems"
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