skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My short answer to that is: shit happens.

The longer answer is that life doesn't always pan out the way you expect it to and, well, shit happens. Rather than worry about what you think someone should have done, let's focus on the fact that it already happened and how do we make the best of the situation.
That's correct, but with what we know now it can be pretty much assumed that any security there is will be actively subverted by agencies, companies or both.
Not necessarily, if there was no reason to recover it

(I'm not sure if there was a reason or not)
Excellent! Good for Mark, and better for the world. The average privacy invasion perpetrated by megacorps will hopefully be falling slightly over the next two months.
I do not fear
You've forgot to mention that up to 14 months from those 3 years are paid.
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That's not very fair comparison for rockets. When people fly in B-747, it also has a pretty significant amount of fuel - and energy - aboard, yet safety complaints are rare regarding that.

So the goal for rockets - for now - could be to become as safe to ride as airplanes are. 100% safety is unobtainable, so shouldn't be a requirement.
fingerprints on DL?
let's just make a wrapper :D
Yes - I have a plan to clean it up. Clasp exposes the clang source to source translation library. Now that it's fast I'm going to automatically refactor the whole thing in one go.
Dude can do whatever he wants for the rest of his life. His only handcuffs are the ones he chooses for himself.
It's just such an elusive pattern. The NSA wants to collect information about digital comms AND they have the ability to eavesdrop/split network traffic at the infrastructure level... I just know there's something there -- there's SOME kind of link between those two concepts -- but I can't quite connect the dots yet.

Oh well, this will be a good data point, so I'm glad to know this one particular thing isn't some kind of conspiracy theory (always have be careful about those conspiracy theories; they're just so tone deaf and reactionary).
And even if devices are designed to be secure, what good does it do when agencies with nearly unlimited resources actively try to subvert it?
> We do algorithms every day at 9am (9am!) on whiteboards in groups. It’s a pain in the ass, but they’re necessary for job interviews. What’s kind of amazing is that an algorithm that used to take me hours/days last year now takes me 15 minutes.

What does that mean, "do" algorithms, I wonder. Design algorithms based on requirements which describe the inputs and outputs? Implement existing algorithms from a description? Check the correctness of algorithms? Some of all of the above?

If it's the same algorithm as last year, why would it be amazing that it takes 15 minutes to do it (whatever that entails)? If you had to basically reinvent insertion sort the first time and now you can just regurgitate it from memory, of course it's faster.
How is that different from acangiano's point?
This is getting nitpicky against your very valid point, but I think most actors are 1099 contractors so it doesn't apply
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A dirty secret of the insurance industry is they don't actually want to lower prices. They act like cost plus defense contractors and are happy to maximize any systemic costs that are spread around the industry.
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I believe this is not a very fair comparison to connecting things to the Internet. When people in the 90s question whether they needed a phone all the time, they were questioning the usefulness of doing so. In contrast, connecting things to the Internet exposes the user to an additional vector of attack and exploitation (crappy or non-existent security from manufacturers, adtech companies selling your data etc). So the question changes from "what convenience is there" to "why would you put yourself to such a risk?"
Not to mention that sex is free (well, generally) so it's an even easier and more available option than drugs or alcohol to distract yourself from crushing poverty.
Suggestion: instead of standing by the wayside and making fun of those that try, try it yourself

Musicians will still be telling rock critics to try making their own music when the sun burns out, but it won't be a valid complaint, even then.
Are there any adblocker-like/privacy-proxy tools to neuter extensions like this?
Wolfram is going off into the weeds. The whole point of NKS is that the universe is digital. We live in a computational universe, therefore we are living and breathing and interacting with natural (not artificial) intelligence as a function of merely existing.

Assuming that by AI, Wolfram is referring to a computational device built by humans, the communication has already happened in the act of designing and constructing the machine. Real communication is over once you flip it on.

What Wolfram is proposing is to then run a Wolfram Language interpreter on top of this new machine and use that to communicate, presumably to ask it for the meaning of the universe. Instead of creating a lingua franca between man and machine, this will prove only that the machine can emulate a von Neumann computer and run the Wolfram interpreter on top. You are NOT communicating with the machine at that point, you are communicating with a parser and a nifty collection of mathematical routines.

Think of a parrot. You teach it to say "Polly want a cracker!" - and the parrot may even learn a few human words - but are you really communicating? Can the parrot express to you the thrill of flying, can it explain to you what a total mind-fuck it is for it to be stuck in a cage begging for crackers when it should be flying with its flock and living its life? No, the parrot can only ask you for a cracker, just the way you taught it.

Man will never have a relationship among equals with a machine, regardless of how much software he pours on top - the machine has a frame of reference that can never be communicated to a human, it's different at the electronic level, never mind the symbolic or linguistic. The machine will have a reality so different from that of the human that even if it could communicate something of substance, it would be as futile as asking your parrot to help you with a math problem - the parrot is not stupid, and in fact can do many things you would find highly mathematical, but it cannot help you with your homework because you are in two different mental universes, no human-invented language can bridge them.
Hacking GCN via OpenGL
This guy once gave at talk at my university where he said he regretted not doing a lot of things because he was working and now he was too old to do them because of his health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Schulich
> regarded by almost everbody in Saudi as an extreme perversion

that's just saying that they are aware of the implications, hence those in agreement might know to be quiet and.
Why is that safer? Cops can seize cars; why can't they seize money orders?
You are being pedantic. The author obviously meant "algorithms that you might be asked to do on a whiteboard during a tech interview at Google, FB, ect"
React generally requires more than just a wrapper, since its virtual DOM is populated in a highly controlled manner that libraries need to follow. But you can try.
My bedtime reading recently has been Propagator Networks[1][2][3] ... and I keep daydreaming of a resource management system just like Dave describes in this video... I do believe "mostly correct" computing is going to play a big role in the future.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/phd-thesis.pdf
[2] http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/art.pdf
[3] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/
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Wow. My wife had a section with our first, 2 months early, with some weeks in the NICU afterwards. I had absolutely no inkling that recovery would be so hard for my wife; I'd always heard "too posh to push" and thought she was getting the easy way out! It's a brutal surgery and she struggled to do basic things for weeks. Fortunately I worked for a small firm at the time, directly for the CEO, and whatever our HR policy was didn't matter as I was given essentially free reign to manage my time and work from home as needed. I was able to be largely absent for weeks, going to the office when she had help at home.

You have my heartfelt sympathy. 40hrs is pathetic, insulting, and the process for you to get it is frankly dehumanizing. Fortunately those scumbags will pale into insignificance as you get to know your son.
It wasn't an oversight. It was intentional. The Dragon v1 is designed solely for cargo. It has no launch escape system and its software does nothing while it's going up[1]:

> The software in this cargo version of Dragon (Dragon 1), Musk explained, is inert on ascent and was not programmed to release the parachute in the event of a failure. Software in the version of Dragon under development for taking people into space (Dragon 2 or Crew Dragon) is programmed to do just that.

While it sounds like simple thing, remote control of the 'chutes would add significant complexity and cost.

1. http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/failed-strut-likely-ca...
This is really cool. I'd love to see some sort of visual front end where you can set up your timeline and change position, tweening, and the like. I wonder how practical an exporter for After Effects would be? If this is made more accessible for artists, that would be awesome.
I currently work there so I'll answer your question (throw away account). Morale is low, for sure, but the people I work with are great, the work itself is fun and engaging, I learn a lot, pay and benefits are good, and I'm pretty confident I could get another job easily if it came to it. There's a glimmer of hope here, and I'm willing to stick it out and see what happens.
Then prepare to be amazed, because they actually have four months paid paternity leave.
Presuming unconditionally for the sake of argument that this methodology actually works, I'm curious - would it be possible to make this type of thing self-sustaining?

As in, the pigeons are rewarded (or not) based on their choices within only a few moments, given only the pigeons' input to the system.

If pigeons were isolated and input was fed to them in parallel, then two or more inputs were taken to mean consensus and interpreted as evidential truth, would the distribution between individual pigeon responses mean that false positives would be evened out across the input distribution, or would such a technique result in progressive drift of accuracy?

I'm guessing some form of drift would be quite likely, and that for a real-world system a firehose of already-known outcomes (go vs. no-go) would need to be fed to the pigeons to ensure accuracy. Taking it further, I wonder if the drift could be modelled and accounted for...
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Water landings only work if you design for them which is a lot of extra weight. Catching the thing in the air is difficult because you get very little warning and they can land in a huge area.

Net result, failed launches are not really worth trying to recover unless it's people. Though, deploying parachutes may have marginally reduced the risks to a passing boat.
> the cost of the drug to the insured doesn't really go up by a whole lot.

Nonsense. The insured are paying the full inflated price of the drug. The cost is spread around the whole insured cohort, not just the subset that needs this drug.

It's a bare-faced cynical exploit of insurance. No one feels like they are paying more, but in fact huge numbers of people are paying a little bit more for no good reason.

Insurance companies don't care much, since they pass on the costs to customers. Diabolically clever and a terrible waste of money.
I honestly don't know what exactly that means. (Given your nickname, it must be obvious to you, of course).

Is it like, "write down the entire A-star search algorithm in pseudo-code from memory"?
US and China set up ‘space hotline’
What I find most strange in this is that safe spaces used to be places where individuals voluntarily gathered to be insulated from something and to feel comfortable opening up to their peers. The classic examples are supports groups.

The problem as I see is it that people who appreciate having a safe space are now trying to change the venue to one where participation is no longer consensual.

Take three locations, A, B and C. A and B are empty and C is a large room with all of society. Now take two groups, a majority and a minority group.

Members of the minority group wants a space where they can relate to other members of their group and avoid those who aren't members and can't relate. This is space A and what most people are calling a "safe space". Members of the majority group do the same. This is space B. Members of the majority group call this a "club/clubhouse". There really isn't much difference between a safe space and a clubhouse. Both are places where likeminded people can gather, relate to one another and conveniently ignore everything around them that they don't have to interact with.

The tragedy now is that space C, the public space is crumbling because it contains people from both groups trying to "improver the public clubhouse" from their perspective, ignoring the perspectives of the others.

You simply can't take a public space and make it a more comfortable/safe place for one group without likely alienating some of the people already occupying that same public space.

A lecture hall on campus can be a safe space, but designating an entire campus as a safe space without enthusiastic consent from everyone already occupying that public space is oppressive to anyone that disagrees.
"Children who might grow up to fight wars were not shielded from danger; they were expected to meet it with assertiveness and even bravado."

My childhood, I was however schooled in understanding and evaluating "Risk".
Why is whoever that was getting an announcement and i got hellbanned? Kinda serious question, because the comment in question was deleted
You think it's going to be more reliable than Saturn-V manned stack? Why?
unless you move there

It's a big opportunity for Mexico, then. Already home of the most cost effective first world (OECD) universal health care system, Mexico has good facilities right on the US border in half a dozen cities and is popular for eye and dental procedures for US visitors already.
> Plus, bidets have many other use cases not mentioned.

Drinking fountains?
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LinkedIn down
This article from a few years back tries to quantify that answer...

https://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astron...
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It's not an estimate based on statistics, because there are no statistics for the system you are talking about. It is a prediction based on engineering analysis, and the prediction for space shuttle reliability was quite a bit better than the actual record turned out to be.

I want SpaceX to succeed as much as anyone (probably more since I work there), but one should not delude oneself into thinking that predictions are fact.
Divorced, but still related, I think. There are lots of possibilities to die in space, to kill fellow crew members or to seriously damage quite expensive equipment, so one should really know how to, e.g., turn wrenches.
I hope the environment is such that people feel they can use it without penalty. Anyone have experience?
It doesn't work that way. "Stealing" data on Americans from GCHQ is just as illegal as collecting it themselves. They aren't allowed to have the information without legal authorization.
It seems it's a "sponsored content" for the company making those toilet seats.
> And I guess it's also true that not any of those billions could be trained to be an astronaut for a myriad of reasons.

This is less clear. Even more, the space tourism industry relies on that to be false. To an extent.
I assumed she meant that they answer questions like "write a function that finds an arbitrary value in a sorted array" and are expected to use a binary search.
All I see is the cold darkness of reality, Bob...
> functions are always referred to as “he”

I've been programming for a while and I'm pretty sure I've never heard someone gender a function
Thanks for the Hacker Newsletter mention, Isaiah! In case anyone is interested, here is the issue that went out today: http://eepurl.com/bGNPCf
Viva la Mexico or Canada.
Up to 14 months are paid however.
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Up to 14 months are paid.
It wasn't an oversight - they launched the mission with the understanding that their parachute software wasn't ready and the risk was acceptable since it was uncrewed. I seem to remember reading that their parachute hardware was ready to go if absolutely necessary, but they wanted to make sure the software was locked down.
> How do you think our ancestors

Right, but that doesn't mean we should follow that just because the ancestors did that?

On the opposite, I'd hope for astronaut-level safety precautions be spreading for the rest of society, so everybody could benefit.
As pointed out in the article, this is basically a direct consequence of the commercial crew program:

"The contracts call for orders to take place prior to certification to support the lead time necessary for missions in late 2017, provided the contractors meet readiness conditions."

There is plenty of time for NASA to back out if either of the companies don't meet the milestones.
Paris is the city "par" "is" - for Isis. Go figure.
Heh. A company whose motto is "all the news that's fit to print," whose entire purpose is to provide people with reading material, deliberately breaks its own website so much that other people have to develop software to make it readable again.
We have understood the same sentence in two different ways.

Such is the beauty of language, and the absurdity of communicating through it.
Stable: a group of people (as athletes, writers, or performers) under one management [0]

[0]: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stable
Thanks for the kind words. We only had 1 week in the NICU (our son arrived 1 month early due to some maternal complications). That week was hard enough. You also have my heartfelt sympathy. Hope your little fighter is doing well now.
If we do have to leave Earth-based nationalities and nationalisms behind, I'm quite confident we will find new arbitrary group identities to hold on to. The human tribal impulse is very strong.
> I said 'US/Iran' resentment

If you mean "US/Iran resentment" means "US resentment of Iran but not Iranian resentment of the US", I now understand what you intended. Unfortunately, your syntax is undocumented and not defined in the language standard. :)
It's really worrying to read that these bootcamps hire instructors who have no experience and whose only relevant education is a different session of the same bootcamp.
I sense some bias in your comment, I just can't put my finger on it...
More like take those secrets developed with public money and turn it into a personal consulting firm complete with rubber-stamp from the NSA that you're not infringing "their" ip.
If someone else has it, everyone has it. You're never safe from a leak.
Why people keep saying: that's what the terrorists want
Nice, if you have enough savings to do it. Please don't forget that not everyone is fortunate enough to have enough savings to be able to miss three months worth of paychecks. I did, until I bought a house, sold it, and bought another in the course of a year due to escaping from a horrible job.

I'm getting savings built back up again, and I can afford to miss a few paychecks now, but not at the 6 month level I had a couple of years back. I'll get there again.
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The code base being a mess is a known problem. There's an issue open for the next release to get rid of all those useless files ([1]). The code has also recently been passed through clang-format, and in general the quality of the codebase appears to be improving as the number of people contributing to it is slowly increasing.

A file having multiple copyright notices is actually common practice. It indicates that the code is based on older code, the copyright of which of course belongs to the original author, but that it has been significantly modified by the "new" author.

I think it's important to note that up until recently this was basically a one-man project. It's in the early stages still. drmeister has since gotten some serious help organizing the project, which should (and looking at the issue tracker, I think it will) help a lot to keep the project moving forward in the right direction.

The 0.4 release seems to mark a point at which Clasp is usable and major issues with its functionality have been resolved. It's not in any way "finished".

If you want to contribute or are just interested in the project I'd suggest joining #clasp on Freenode (as I did a couple of months ago). The channel is pretty active.

[1]: https://github.com/drmeister/clasp/issues/41
Well, the trick is that loss prevention is difficult in a living fast and dying young culture where everythings supplied and effort is reduced to repetitive narrow minded tasks. It should give the brain enough workout to gain some IQ points. Memory can be trained, too, and that is an important part of the intelligence or at least to leverage it.
I live in a bubble in San Francisco and post on HN, so when talking to people I usually assume (perhaps incorrectly), that they are all software engineers between the ages of 18-25 currently in the job market, interviewing at all the same hip 5 companies, so I apologize :P .

In software engineer, when applying for jobs at tech companies, you are universally asked to program solutions to algorithms problems on a whiteboard that follow a very specific formula. If you ever interview for a software position, you will get these exact kinds of questions.

Such questions are usually things like:

"Given a N sorted lists of numbers, join the lists into a single sorted list efficiently"

"Implement a Stack which has push, pop, and minimum operations in O(1)"

"Traverse a Tree and print out each item in level by level order"
ect

They are all very formulaic and similar. In the last 3 years I've done about 100 algorithms interviews, and 9 out of 10 times it is a question I've been asked before.

You can find other examples at Glassdoor, hacker rank, or project Euler.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Google-Interview-Question...

https://projecteuler.net/
That's basically what is happening with rent in SF. The landlords and other owners have basically turned the middle and lower class against newcomers to distract everyone from the real problem, which is a lack of supply.
No one expected Dragon to survive those conditions, so they never bothered adding that code. It's just a cargo ship, so it doesn't really matter.

After having learned in real world conditions that it can handle those sorts they figured, what the heck... might as well add it.

The crewed Dragon (Dragon 2) uses powered thrusters to push itself away from a failing rocket.
I would say that doing something that less than 1/5th of the country is doing is pretty progressive.
Dragon already lands on water, so there's no technical reason it couldn't do it after a launch vehicle failure, if the event was survivable. Now we know that such a scenario exists, but that was not obvious before.
I'm five years out from this and still remember the stress. Students are now asked to give up their present for a chance at a good future.
Maybe, just maaaybe. We as a society should allow people to take some time off to take care of their infant.
> I'm having a hard time thinking of a use case that would be appropriate for wildcards but not appropriate for this.

Serving multiple sub-domains from the one IP whilst still supporting clients without SNI.
"GM vehicle I own"

That was your first mistake.
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