skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my problem; it was incredibly boring (at least for the first few classes) and the video-based nature of it meant that I had to skip around and try to pick up what was going on later, which seldom worked. I hear it's more self-paced now, so that might be a better option these days.
If it was just boosted, then presumably 'temporal gravity' (or whatever that's called here) would pull it back down again.
VM isolation? Now that's an attack surface.
> With larger companies, they will never say it,

They will say it. I worked for a startup acquired by Yahoo. I was hired by the founders, but then they all left and I was kind of stranded. Anyway I tried to make a go of it, and proposed how we were going to hire some new great people, and my manager expressed confusion about why I wanted great people.

In his view, if you get great people to do not-so-great jobs, you'll end up overpaying and then they will just leave. For him it was obvious that not all jobs are going to be great. Most of them will kind of suck.

It was 180° away from how I thought, which is the standard "only hire A players" script. But then I realized it did make a kind of sense. Startups and small companies that win have geniuses doing everything, including very unglamorous work. Often they have great solutions which work okay for them, but are incomprehensible to others. (Example: Paul Graham's Yahoo Store builder in Lisp).

Such people are compensated with maybe stock options, but more importantly, with freedom. That wasn't really on offer at a big company. So we had to look for average people to do average things at an average rate, and usually it would be multiple people to do the job that one brilliant person would have taken on.
That's disingenuous. JavaScript is typically deployed minified, and, although you may reformat the code to use proper spacing and indentation, the original identifier names are lost forever.
This is soo useful!
Atom and VS Code are built on top of Electron.

http://electron.atom.io/
Which third party is this?
Not to mention the protocol for usage of something like that. Do people get to pull the handle whenever they feel like it?
What do you mean by "supportive parents"? I think that eludes some. You can be supportive without really being helpful. Can anyone provide some context as to what that support looked like?
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This took me a while to get this process down but I just wanted to share how I go about creating an Android Library and upload it to Maven Central.﻿ https://medium.com/@etiennelawlor/the-complete-guide-to-creating-an-android-library-46628b7fc879
Cloudflare CEO lashes at Anonymous claims
But the fact is we can't stop people cooking up nerve gas and anthrax in their garages if they want to. Just like we can't stop them building their own encrypted apps. Banning it won't stop a determined group.
Eff has a bigger semantic issue to deal with first.

It is only composable for commutative effects. Once you introduce non-commutative effects like throw/catch or nondeterminism, the semantics of a block of code using more than one effect depends on the order in which interpreters are run.

Monad transformers escape this issue by allowing code to specify the effect nesting order in the type. They're no panacea either, of course. But they currently allow somewhat better code reuse and abstraction properties than the Eff approach does.

If Eff ever gets the ability to control the semantics of non-commutative effects, it will have a much more compelling story.
This is why they should keep resumes on file for H1Bs. The major reason they are poorly qualified is because they lie on their resumes.

My friends brother is 24 and has listed 5 years of experience on his resume even though he has none. Now he is working for a major bank in critical financial infrastructure.
Given that air density at 80,000 feet is ~1/40th of sea level[1], 'ejecting' at Mach 3 there sounds... A lot more survivable then ejecting at 10,000 feet above sea level, doing Mach 1.

[1] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604....
I fear a centralized solution, if only because Credit Bureaus are the same idea for your money.

The equivalent for jobs wouldn't be better.
> but it's hard to accuse someone of "misinterpreting" something because they follow its literal meaning.

Not so hard actually. A correct interpretation of a work is to discern what the author actually intended to communicate. If I say to a coworker "a meteor is about to strike earth, wiping out all life unless we do something about it" and the listener interprets what I say to be a metaphor (perhaps they think that I am trying to say simply that the project we are working on is in danger of falling apart) they may or may not be correct. If I work at an accounting firm, the statement is probably metaphorical; if I work at NASA, probably not.

In any case, determining the meaning of a text depends upon the genre, and to understand that you need context. The main issue that most Christian traditions have with literalists is that they try to interpret the texts without any of the original context, or without any acknowledgement that the Bible is an anthology of different books written by different authors for different purposes.

>It similarly seems incorrect to say ISIS is "misinterpreting Islam" by reading the Koran literally. It may not be the popular interpretation, and it may not be a pleasant interpretation, but that doesn't mean it's an incorrect interpretation.

You're right, it may be a correct interpretation. Understanding the correct interpretation of Islamic texts is important for those deciding how to approach the spread of violent Islamic teachings. Should it be left to Islamic religious leaders who can leverage Islamic texts to spread a more peaceful (and accurate) teaching, or should the focus be to discredit Islam from the outside?

> "Your interpretation of the Bible is wrong" has no more validity than "Your choice of religion is wrong" in general.

Any given religious text was written by a human being to convey a set of ideas an claims. It is no less valid to talk about a correct interpretation of religious texts than it is to talk about the correct interpretation of any other text.
I've seen what you've managed to do with Click and cmd.exe and I complimented you for it on Twitter.

I doubt that anyone has ever managed to output Unicode into cmd.exe in Python before you made this.

I hope Python 3.6 can incorporate what you did.
The problem in the USA is not violent crime.

The problem is that there are too many arbitrary laws that are applied capriciously by prosecutors who don't care whether people are innocent or guilty, that these same prosecutors don't care whether the due process of law is fact not fiction, and finally that when these prosecutors deliberately subvert the process or threaten people with horrendous consequences unless they sign a plea deal (even when they know the accused is innocent), these people suffer no consequences.
They could have just found another soundstage and reshot everything, surely, unless they got rid of the props and shooting script as well. But i'm certain I saw some of the props reused in the Outer Limits and Star Trek.
> And I feel even a commercial airline could make a similar device a standard configuration

What failure are you trying to shield against? I can think of very very few commercial crashes where an escape pod would have helped.
And on iOS, if your app does not receive permission to access your location or contacts or camera or Internet, there's no way to do that by using objc_msgSend or whatever.

On both platforms, these security policies are enforced at the process boundary, not by the runtime.
> One is denying the right of people born in the U.S. with parents that are citizens.

Umm, no. You are mistaken. Racial criteria also applied to naturalized citizenship aspirants. Today, once you have a green card, irrespective of where you were born, it takes you 5 or so years to get your citizenship. So, person of white ethnicity born in Switzerland and a non-white person born in India would have the same wait and the same criteria for citizenship. This was not possible before the INA act of 1965 (and other civil rights acts).
> Surely an entity as large and as well financed and ISIS would have little trouble finding bright young engineers & technologists sympathetic to their cause to simply build their own encrypted services?

You wouldn't even need the brightest engineers. In fact so many encryption algorithms have been opened sourced and / or in library form for so long that it's easy for practically any developer to do.
I think harichinnan meant to reply to shas3's post.
It's about resource exploitation and the opportunity to grab a piece of land that was given away far too fast and far too permanently far too long ago. I for one wish my relatives had been one of the lucky ones to grab country sized swaths of land back then so that I could sit fat and happy on undeserved and unearned lands too. But, alas, it was not to be and I really don't feel like buying it now.
Python 3 is so far ahead now as a language that it surprises me anyone would even consider it for a new project. Among other things, Python 3.4 and 3.5 have added support for coroutines that provide a whole new level of utility to the language. Meanwhile, Python 2.7 is a study in limitations to anyone who has followed up on Python 3.x developments.
What about IOS being used both by Apple and Cisco?
I've been lucky enough to be in school most of my career. I'm waaaay slower at learning now at 44 than I was at 20. It often frustrates me.
I'm not trying to defend Congressman Bishop here. I certainly didn't vote for him.

But as a minor counterpoint to those (pretty biased) articles, it's important to understand who he represents.

The Federal government owns 66% of Utah. That's a lot of land.

Most of that is managed under the BLM, which is very permissive as far as public use, but every once in a while, someone scores a political hit with "we made more National Parks" by carving out a chunk of that and severely restricting access.[1]

I have family that live in south/central Utah and from their point of view the only thing that changes when a monument/park is created is that local recreation is limited by people across the country who will likely never even see what they've done. "The common man being oppressed by the suits in their downtown DC ivory towers" is the general feeling.

Right or wrong, it's a more complicated matter than simply trying to exploit the lands for money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Staircase-Escalante_Nati...
A service like this will always be a band aid solution. You are at the mercy of the provider of the source data, and they can easily screw you up (as you have pointed out.)
I was able to use 'dnu build', but that looks like it builds a dll and places it in a folder. I was curious if it's possible to build a single executable (similar to go) that can be run. Also, 'dnx run' is slightly slow so I wanted to see if the performance hit was less after building an exe.
https://github.com/codeinthehole/django-in-a-deb-file is an interesting solution
What you are calling "evidence", I am calling an unfounded assertion. You insist that polls aren't/can't be valid indicators of public preference, and you don't have hard data regarding the preference "in reality" for being able to speed over government surveillance. It's not that I don't "like" your evidence, it's that you haven't presented any.

Then, still without evidence or justification, you imply that others are out of touch with reality for not seeing things from your point of view. ("Sorry you had to find out this way."; "I am not so out of touch...") How delightful. Perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you actually demonstrated how the current state of surveillance reflects public opinion and desires rather than just declaring that as self-evident.
>So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe.

Why are they knowingly allowing people who fought for ISIS to return to Europe?
Stephen Wolfram Discussing AI and the Singularity [audio]
It does! Mono is still an option but CoreCLR is also considered supported and ready to use in the RC.
Yeah, I think the 'chance' is that coca and cocoa are so similar in English.
The place discussed in the article isn't a national park.

Are you making that distinction because it is managed by Fish and Wildlife as a "National Wildlife Reserve" ? That doesn't seem particularly useful.

For scale, the United Kingdom is ~60 million acres

How is that a relevant scale? The ratio of parkland/total area compared across countries I could see, but what relevance does the total size of the UK have?
No, you create virtual block devices that needs to be "unlocked" before you can start using ZFS. If you need to scrub the dataset, you need to unlock all the virtual block devices, start ZFS and then run the scrub command.

The whole point is to run ZFS on top of virtual block devices which are encrypted with GELI and "unlocked".
They are definitely taking non-traditional interpretations along with traditional ones. I still don't see how this is at all interesting—what matters is that ISIS members buy into it.
If you're storing your passwords in the browser anyway, why not just generate random, arbitrary passwords anyway?
I just read the http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ article referenced elsewhere in this discussion and it illustrates why there is some stuff that is not so easy to port.
I have seen many people make this observation. I'm just curious about your problem. Is your problem

1 : Mathematics in ML - proofs etc.

2 : Understanding the intuition behind ML algorithms without the requirement of higher order math?

Personally, I feel that 2 can be tackled quite easily. The core issue is that most people who teach want to stay on a "higher dimension". ;)
How should we talk to AIs?
Yes it is. Every conversion to and from the unicode type and every expansion of the unicode type from 1 to 2 to 4 bytes eats up processor time, cache/memory bandwidth and puts more pressure on the garbage collector.

And I don't want to be forced to distinguish between strings and bytes. To me they are one and the same as I use UTF-8 for everything. Not once in my code do I need to encode/decode anything.
When was your experience? I could definitely agree with that pre 1.9.x. But I can think of barely a handful of examples in which minor things have broken during my time in Ruby from 1.9.3 to 2.1.5...even when booting up a year-old laptop with godknows what actual version of Ruby via rbenv I have on it...things just seem to work...And even problems that arise from specific scenarios with libraries, or when I simply must move an old system from 2.0 to 2.1.x or whatever...Upgrading the Ruby and then running bundler almost always just works.

In contrast, with Python, on a weekly basis I run into 2.x and 3.x problems...last week it was running the Google Cloud SDK, which is 2.x only. I say this as someone who has almost switched exclusively to Python (3.x) and enjoy it...but man I miss the days of Ruby's ease-of-use.

(but yeah, 1.8 to 1.9 was not a lot of fun, but thankfully, many years have passed since then)
For the record, I just got it. Must have been rolling out at a certain pace.
> Biblical literalists are generally not accused of "misinterpreting" the Christian Bible.

Yes, they are. This has been a discussion for millenia. Many people will definitely consider their interpretation incorrect, or absurd.
> It is extremely unlikely to be only "keeping people safe".

Why do you say this? It seems you are accusing parent of making a big leap in logic and then doing the same type of leap yourself.

Do you have any evidence that they want to do more than keeping people safe?

I've worked with and talked to many who work in the DoD space and while there were some who didn't seem to understand how technology worked I never met one who didn't seem genuine in wanting to keep people safe. Sure plenty of contractors just want the money and don't give two shits either way and sure this is only anecdotal but do you have anything better?

Seems the easiest, least complex reasoning is people who are not well enough versed in the technology but have good intensions are trying to do what they think is most correct when it may not be.
This, exactly.

Vista is now my go-to example for when people managing platforms say "just break badly written applications, their incompetence is their problem, not ours." Microsoft took a staggering PR hit when all sorts of crappy, poorly-written applications broke under Vista, because their users all blamed Microsoft for it. People don't know their applications are crappy under the hood; all they know is that they used to work, and now they don't.
I am not speaking necessarily about prevented live assaults, but about pre-emptive action as well.

But I get your point. I need to check that article back then.
hosts file?

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
Yeah, unfortunately that nice clean syntax requires a fairly recent version of PowerShell so the code we actually use has to be a bit verbose for compat :)

Source/Disclaimer: I work for the ASP.NET team
Anonymous accusing a Silicon Valley startup of assisting ISIS
The point is, “if a technology exists, you cannot tell people to not use it” is a terrible argument for anything.

We restrict people’s use of technology in all sorts of ways to protect the basic order of society. For instance we restrict people from driving 150mph rocket cars or armored tanks with cannons on residential streets, we disallow radio jammers, we carefully regulate access to radioactive material, we don’t let unlicensed doctors implant untested medical devices, and so on.

More generally, gun control is almost entirely irrelevant to encryption. It’s an emotionally charged non sequitur which derails the discussion.
Disappointed no one brought up the regulatory hurdles involved when discussing the resistance of the industry to disruption. When the cost to bring a new drug to market is over 2 billion dollars [1], it's hard to see start-ups competing in that environment.

1: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-to-develop-ne...
You cannot legally do paid side jobs with visa holders.
If you're dealing with emoji -- and yes, they are incredibly common -- you'd better not use any Python before 3.3.

Non-BMP characters in 2.x-3.2 give you implementation-specific behavior. It can vary from one system to the next. Some string methods fail on "narrow builds" of Python (the ones that store their characters in UCS-2), while others return different results than they would on a "wide build".
Leaked Lyft Financials Show the Struggles of Being No. 2 Behind Uber
No, we depend on the enforcement of that illegality, which is usually assumed when people discuss banning something.

(EDIT: Previously said "making something illegal", which I realised was ambiguous.)
> but they can't do that while retaining staff and recruiting new staff effectively

I wish I had a better way to ask this, but... can you actually provide any evidence this is true? It is directly counter to my ~10 years of experience, and I've seen it at many companies that are home-run-level successful (i.e. there's no way one could qualify them as having trouble recruiting). I'm not sure I could name even one company that is "ostracized" for their hiring practices.

The only way that I can reconcile this theory with my experience is if I take the maximally extreme definition of "ruthless" ... something like firing someone in their first week after enticing them to leave a job and move across country. That, of course, will get you a bad reputation quickly. But I personally have not seen measurable negative consequences for firing alleged low performers for little to no reason within a 2-3 month period.

I would be curious (and pleased) to hear if this is just an unusual sample of experiences I've had.

Edit: let me clarify that when I say "I haven't seen measurable negative consequences" I don't mean that I have done that to anybody. But it has happened to upwards of 10 people I know.
Saying it is false and calling views "distorted" does nothing to further the conversation. If you're interested in furthering conversation on the subject try providing reasoning behind your statements instead of condescension.
I remember being awed by a demo of KPT/Convolver at the Toronto Macworld in 1994 or 1995.

Kai was showing off how you could take a blurry satellite image of a parking lot and do a "spy movie" style zoom and enhance to reveal a car's license plate, which was impressive back then.

The UI was just plain crazy, especially by today's standards.
My fighter pilot fried has told me stories, he's said, "Ejecting is the last thing you want to do, you'll come out of it a few inches shorter, if you survived the 10% chance of dying from your neck hitting the canopy."
If you adopt a "we only take down content pursuant to a court order", then you need to adopt this policy all time even when it is uncomfortable to do so. Cloudflare has often been criticized for harboring DDoS sites, controversial content, and now ISIS, but I think cloudflare sees themselves more as a pipe or utility than a walled garden.
Which shows part of the problem of this approach: The word doctor is in the top 1000 words in its usage for "medical doctors" but it's not in the top 1000 words in its usage as a reference to PhD graduates.
Considering that a16z said that they are focusing on software around biotech and not on traditional biotech I think it makes sense that they aren't talking about regulatory hurdles or the cost to bring a drug to market. Eroom's law is a serious problem, and it is hard to imagine a disruptive startup that could compete in that environment.
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The letter does not help the situation:

* The letter says: "In your various demand letters you noted the scientific study in question was of some consequence, and could potentially have an effect on policy decisions. However it should be emphasized that the issue in question is a scientific research study, not a policy decision by a Federal agency. As such, this is not an area of delegated legislative authority by Congress to the Executive (unless you are proposing that Congress should somehow legislatively overrule peer-reviewed scientific findings.)*

First, Mr. Johnson, cutely tries to defer that science is not going to be used in a policy manner. Right now, the President of the United States is engaged with making policy decisions from scientific studies, so his premise is flawed to begin with. Also, all of the pushes for climate change agendas feed from scientific studies.

Second, pointing to the delegation of authority and making a cute reference to legislating peer-reviewed scientific findings is a nod to The Daily Show crowd's jokester attitude.

Third, the last line from the paragraph says that "you have not articulated a legitimate need for anything beyond what NOAA has already provided" plays into my argument from before about a government agency obfuscating.

One could argue that the obfuscation is to hold a checks and balance, but then why is a legislature member worried about what the executive branch is doing? The executive branch should be defining what it will fulfill in FOIA requests and why.

Also, the entire letter points to my earlier discussion that while one can have the data, the models, and the methodologies, the reasoning behind the change appears to be left off and NOAA is not helping the concern with the agency when it does not come out with this. Even if they came right out and said, look, we used an incorrect number of significant digits, that is why our models appeared misleading before, it would be a quick story, make the rounds on skeptic sites, and then could move forward. So, why obfuscate?
Some of your Python 2.8 exists as from __future__ imports added to various 2.x releases.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/__future__.html

(in versions where the new behavior is the default, the import does nothing and is not an error)