skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm suggesting that in all previous attempts to reach the state you consider heretofore unreached, the states passed through have highly undesirable consequences. The uniformity of this result is striking and the consequences grave.

I'm suggesting that attempting to create a Communist society is a really bad idea. Every previous attempt to do so has led to exceptionally bad consequences. You've provided no reason to think that a new effort will avoid repeating these mistakes. In fact, all you've done is insist that the end goal of Communism has not been achieved.

That a leaderless society has not yet been created in the name of Communism isn't relevant to what has resulted from historical attempts to create such. It matters not one whit to the question of what all previous attempt to achieve such a goal have produced.

Is your goal of a leaderless society with shared means of production achievable? I don't know. I do know that I don't think it's worth killing another thirty million people for the sake of another attempt at finding out. History strongly suggests that that is a significantly more likely outcome of an attempt than the creation of a stable leaderless society with shared means of production.

It's in no way relevant that (Russia|China|North Korea|Cuba) are not or have ever been genuinely Communist in an idealist sense. It doesn't matter if there ever has been a True Scotsman.

In conclusion, every attempt at Communism has failed. This is because every attempt to get to Communism has failed. This is significant because it calls into question the plausibility and achieveability of any kind of transition to Communism. This in turn suggests that Communism cannot ever be evaluated because it is not achieveable by means we consider acceptable. Thus, the initial question of "Has Communism been attempted and failed, where Communism is defined in a textbook manner and the transition to it ignored?" is rendered null and void.

In other words, if you can't find unicorns, it might be time to reconsider the policy of virgin human sacrifice in order to search for unicorns.
A National Security Letter will not prevent the certificate authority from being blacklisted when detected, and there are at least some legal precedents for warrants (though not necessarily for NSLs) that could challenge a warrant if complying with it would effectively destroy the business (given that the business itself is not the subject of the warrant). If that isn't the definition of an "unreasonable burden", nothing is.
See also (in the other direction?): #mynypd

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/04/2...
It would be very interesting if the two looped together, each using the other as a reference to improve their own parameters ;).
What do you mean it's a point-to-point mapping? Genuinely curious.

You mean that there is no server to buffer failed delivery attempts if one of the devices is off or disconnected?

(Side note, I've hit that the same bug where the other person has to contact me first because they don't show up in my contacts, even though they should.)
i'm all for constructive criticisms, but calling his calling of the article "dumb" as "unnecessary language" doesn't contribute anything.

your ignorant hypocrisy is dumb.
Oklahoma Wesleyan raked in $12.6 million in federal student loans and grants in 2013-14. In other words, your tax money is helping students attend a college that not only discriminates against legally married gay students, but also forbids students from dancing.

Idk if it counts as the point of the article, but it does seem wrong that any amount of tax money ends up funding a discriminating institution such as this. 12.6 million is just one school, I wonder how much of our money goes towards religious "education" in total.
It was arguably a net-win for user privacy. Admittedly - it doesn't hurt Google to weaken other marketing channels but it's disingenuous to frame it this way without also pointing out that it's a lot more user-friendly than 'images in this email are blocked. click to enable'.
It's not hat "homebrew install gcc? pip install foo" is hard for us, it's that we didn't want to support 1000s of people trying to set it up on their machines.

Every possible source of error we eliminated meant we'd need to spend less time on twitter debugging installation problems. It's useful to remember that our target install base isn't python developers who might want to hack away on a python project, but rather analysts, end users, DBAs and all kinds of people who've never heard of homebrew and who might not even be comfortable with using a terminal in Mac OS X let alone compiling things.
> In a sea level rise, the likely sea border disputes as
> islands disappear

If we're talking about UNCLOS, I doubt that anyone's going to redraw territorial water boundaries based upon rising sea levels given that there are already provisions that prevent expanding your territorial waters by building artificial islands.
I would say the reverse of that is also true.

If you can't trust someone to not abuse not having a cliff, you can't trust them enough to be cofounders.

Especially if a cofounder is putting sweat or cash equity in, he absolutely should not have a cliff of any kind.
If you set the vesting schedule properly, they shouldn't. But given how easy it still is to get A round money, and how most of the work of building a competitive advantage happens between A and C rounds, IMO you have to compensate them like founders if you expect them to build your company.
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What about a non-business owner? How about an application security consultant working with a business such as Matasano? How do those salaries compare?
It is not what you wish for interactibility, but you might enjoy http://seltani.net/
You can't solve political problems with cryptography, much though the software engineering industry may wish it were so.

Ultimately, though it will be very hard to accept, crypto may be on the way out as a technology with any political impact. Governments currently accept the rapid increase in SSL because none of the politicians or regulators understand that it's possible to disable it at a country level, and nobody with any technical clue has been willing to point it out to them. But that situation isn't sustainable, as the Kazakh example shows. A sufficiently determined government won't care about minor details like user convenience. They'll just say "you either install our root cert, or you don't get to use the internet" and that's it. Game over. If even just one western country does it, the rest will all follow within a few years.
Automatic contact discovery is tricky, but the beginnings of one potential solution is I think explored in agl's Pond, using pairings on BN curves?: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/

To a point, so is offline messaging. Distributed datastores in general do that kind of thing - there are old implementations over Freenet in particular, and GNUnet as well and other things I think. The robust part is harder: if the client is offline, where's the disk space coming from? Volunteers' (nodes') cache? That needs to be opaque, and so do lookups. What's to stop spammers flooding the network? (Spam, and denial-of-service in general, is a Hard problem to deal with in general even in distributed systems.)

They're not among the hardest problems. Pseudonymity is a huge challenge as the latency gets lower against traffic correlation attacks, and a secure messenger is most definitely up against the kind of threat model that can and will try to pull those off in the wild. Perhaps mixing high and low-latency traffic may help, although it's going to need to be very carefully analysed how much (I believe I2P's design can do that, although I'm not sure if jrand0m ever implemented it in the router).
That's not entirely true, he pointed out that you can't say "Not a Day Care" then baby the ADULTS that come to your "university".
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Given that you're relying on server-provided JS to verify the integrity of the data in the first place, a MITM could replace the verification function with return(true) and then inject whatever data they want.
Feedback Request: How do you use screenshots on your mobile phone?
Regarding: "I started work­ing n months be­fore my co-founder"

A really good way to handle this is with vesting, which is something every company should have. Normally stock vests as you spend more time at the company, in my opinion it's totally fair for cofounders to have equal stock allocations but if one founder was working for 6 months before the other joined they should be 6 months ahead on their vesting.
Not following the politics; following the technological "innovation". "Appropriate technology" for "developing" dictatorships.
very well done, really like the layout and overall feel of the navigation, especially on mobile. I'm not a fan of how contextual the home page feels especially over the images, I'd maybe try a different homepage layout even.

contact page is sick, congrats on the awesome portfolio.
No, I was asking about transferring the final Android images out of the VPS to my home machine.

I figured it - Transfer: 16 TB at https://www.linode.com/pricing
Similarly to https://xkcd.com/1172/, every change breaks someone's business model.
I have no doubt that neither Google nor HP made those error maliciously. I was just curious as to whether or not it's possible to incorporate some sort of... tact?... into these recognition algorithms to avoid labeling people (or other things) offensively. Is it just a matter of a larger training set? It would be hard to cover all sorts of people in all sorts of poses, with all sorts of lighting conditions, etc.
Why? They would have already installed the root cert themselves and they'd know perfectly well that they are being spied on. It'd just be another annoying warning bar for them.
They also require TWO WORKING DAYS in their office in the hiring process.... crazy.
Yuck, what a mess. My monthly rate is absurdly high, because for the last 10 years I've chosen to work primarily for companies that will get a lot of value out of working with me. The fact that I've done security work for big financial firms doesn't mean my work is that valuable to the startup relative to what all the other founders are getting, but my resume anchors my rate there.

If you're finding it important to draw these kinds of lines between founding team members, that's a sign that you might not have the right founding team members. A founding team that "clicks" and works together is incredibly valuable, probably far more valuable than any year's worth of billing you've ever done. Don't mess it up with stuff like this; it's just not worth it.

Man, I am even more procrastinatey than normal today.
Maybe this will be what the UK government do as a 'relaxed' version of 'ban all crypto'.
Honestly I see more (well paid) php offerings than other rogramming languages. And most of it is not wordpress work.
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TwLng is Buffer for Content with six main features:

1. Post content to Twitter that is longer than 140 characters
2. Add content to a queue for posting later.
3. Add content to a 'circle' for posting later.
4. Schedule post times using a calendar.
5. Follow users / favorite tweets based on a query from a calendar view.
6. Save drafts.

A circle is a queue where items are not popped - when the pointer reaches the end of the queue, it is reset back to the first element.
If your company fails, your equity is worth $0 no matter how much you have. If your company is the next Google, then you're all going to be so rich it won't matter.

You sound like a VC. While some investors might not care about any exit smaller than Google, let me assure you that there are plenty of companies which are worth more than $0 but less than $23B; if a company is acquired for $5M, there's a big difference between owning 5% and owning 50%.
Well that's not completely true "Also, most students have a choice as to where they attend school." not when mom and dad are paying... I had a number of friends who parents pushed them into christian schools. Also these colleges (and this one in particular) accepts federal funding which I think changes the rules a little on how backwards they are allowed to be.
Thank you for the solid feedback!

As a work-around for mass uploading, I might suggest signing up for a 30 day free Bluemix trial [1]. You could then upload your data to a container and script the creation of sample archives and uploads from there.

[1]: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration/
Our tax money is helping students get an education. These are loans, students can take loans to attend any school they want. If they decide to take a loan to attend a religious school it's their choice, what makes it less legitimate than liberal arts or STEM?

Plus, this has nothing to do with the day-care controversy.
Like anything it depends on how good the idea is. Some ideas are not worth much, while others are worth lots.
Speaking as a founder who is putting both sweat and cash equity into their company: run, don't walk, from cofounders that demand not to have a cliff. You might not end up regretting giving someone a pass on their vesting cliff, but if you do regret it, you will regret it a lot.

If you're part of a founding team and you put cash in, get IOUs, and take cash back out later.
I will have one last go at explaining my position, as simply as I can.

I used the word 'unchanged' to indicate that the sea level in the Marshall Islands is unchanged. It is currently approximately where it was 23 years ago. This is a pretty common usage. If a stock trades up and down all day and ends where it started, you will hear people say 'it ended the day unchanged'. Or 'unch'. Sea levels in the Marshall Islands are currently 'unch'. Over a period of 23 years.

And make no mistake, I acknowledge the worldwide trend in sea level is upwards, the evidence of one tidal gauge doesn't trump the evidence of thousands of tidal gauges. And it has been upwards of course this entire interglacial.

Now, your example of a linear trend superimposed on a sinusoid is a good one. So let me say this, it's a pretty fucking pathetic linear trend if, 23 years later, the bottom of the sinusoid is still overlapping the starting point. The noise in the measurement, and the seasonality, is greater than the supposed trend. It's worth considering for example the coastline of Manhattan 100 years ago. This trend you speak of is utterly insignificant on a human timescale. We can literally grow land faster should we so desire. For example, consider the fact that many Pacific islands are growing due to sediment accumulation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10222679), so weak is this trend. And yet, we're expected to sit here and swallow the premise of this article, the concept of 'climate refugees' and compensation...
Thanks for your comment, but from my experience - a good video can benefit greatly to the product. And true, younger crowd prefers video to the text :)
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I'm curious how the new attempts at wind will work out. Some of the hybrid designs seem to be a good attempt especially since a lot of the bigger ships were being run at half-speed anyway.
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My experience is Java costs me around 10x the number of lines of code (and I mean code, not imports) to get the same things done. The brief syntax and higher-order programming eliminate so much from my screen that, in hindsight, served as little more than visual framing for sparse bits of code.
Is it just me or were there zero visualisations in this post?
The solution for those startups may be to target more specific solutions and smaller niches instead of aiming for "general" classification and image tagging solutions.

Could be any kind of niche, from specific industries (utilities, media, transport...) to specific use cases (I don't have many in mind, one could be https://sightengine.com). Ideas welcome :)
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I would agree if we were talking about many other people than Christensen. His insights are invaluable even though they might need to be updated.
Thanks for mentioning this. Hadn't come across Affinity Designer before. Taking a look now, it seems good.

Also seems like it would work with my old (mostly offline) macbook running 10.7.5. ;)
Reminds me of http://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/
If you have to give one co-founder living expenses, give the other co-founders IOUs for the same money when you get funded or start taking in revenue.

Would you allow co-founders to invest in their own company on the same terms as angel investors? If no, why not? If yes, how is this not equivalent to giving the salary-taking co-founder less equity?
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> Moxie is probably going to hate you for it

Overly dramatic...
Well, PDF Expert can potentially bring $10M a year if we do it right. We just feel that the PDF experience with Adobe isn't great... And for people who work with PDFs that does matter.

Speaking about lifestyle business: we definitely decided not to do it. It's been 7 years, we grew to 85 people and 45 million users... that is why we are aiming for something that is much bigger and has much more impact! Have a look at Spark!
If we ever meet I'll buy you a beer for the year of the Linux desktop line.

But honestly: I understand mobile support for iOS/Android only. I don't understand Chrome as a platform (FF isn't dead. And the biggest reason for that is that I fail to understand why that client needs to be 'web based' and then again not. A web app in a silo)

Mobile numbers.. Why? I mean, if 90% of the population WANT mum to see that they use a service and when they're online (or whatever metadata you want to exchange for contacts), just because they happen to know the phone number: Fine. But why isn't it possible to sign up, hit a box that says 'no phone number associated' and .. add contacts manually? I don't want the 99.999% to change, to make it harder for them. I just wish that Christmas brings an option that lets me opt-out of that. Chat contacts don't need my phone number. People that know my phone number are not chat contacts.

I'll get back pretending that Linux has won and will try to surf the web in FxOS for 30min just .. to prove you wrong. :)
It's one device to one device (as stated elsewhere in this thread. Apparently, only Android+Chrome combo is supported for multi-device).

Put differently, I can't register the same number to an iPad and iPhone simultaneously at this time and hope to communicate with someone. It apparently gets things all confused.

I was doing some more testing and it also appears that I'm unable to call someone with a greyed out name but with available phone icon. Once again, no clear indication if this is a bug (not supposed to happen) or a feature (can call but not text).
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Engineering and corporate behavior aren't really orthogonal topics, are they, when the actual engineering you want to inspect is unavailable (closed source) and you have to rely on observed behavior and trust?

If Apple actually did have a history of, say, pushing customized "iOS update" binary blobs at USG targets that undermined all the security features they describe in their white papers and in their (other) marketing, that would actually be entirely relevant to claims about the security of iOS, would it not? Even without such on-device updates, a system like iMessage can potentially be thwarted if Apple itself decides to cooperate with MiTMing, at least in certain scenarios.

(Btw I'm not actually endorsing OPs point that Apple is too close with the U.S. government. That does not seem accurate given the public heat brought down on Apple by entities like the FBI recently. But if it were Microsoft, there would be a point there.)
Well, Wikipedia at least has humans working on it, who can catch issues and improve it.

It can’t be worse than YouTube/Google’s systems anyway.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10649933
Your sentence is obviously valid but i'm not sure how it relates to my comment
They say the best way to dispose of nuclear waste is to mix it with the concrete we use to build our elementary schools. 115,000 gallons is a very small amount of water. That's 40 ft x 40 ft x 10 ft of water. Mix that into the ocean and the pollutants will disperse widely. One cubic mile holds 1.1 trillion gallons.
Who is we?
...bonus points if you mention "Society of Mind" or "The Emotion Machine" by Minsky.
C runtimes do add extra issues but that's not relevant to my comment. I said I largely came up dry on methods to prove correctness of C++ code. Quite important if one is considering C++ vs other language for a robust application and/or unikernel. C++ would be a bad choice if language itself was supposed to contribute to robustness.
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> To the people trying to blame it on human activity it should.

It just shows that the climate can change due to natural processes, and that it can change by a great deal if conditions are right. This could happen for a number of reasons, but the rapid, large-scale warming we've seen over the last century can only be accounted for by human activity. All other natural processes have been falsified by scientists.
You're right for borders between existing nations, however, the expected result of a large sea level rise will include a number of current countries being eliminated.

I wouldn't expect a non-existent nation to keep it's territorial waters, instead it will be re-distributed among its neighbours (possibly depending on some deal with relocation of their current inhabitants), but no matter how you do that, there is a lot of potential for disputes.
Not sure how this is visual, neat post either way!
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It might not be what you were expecting, but there's an animation if you ctrl-f "Here’s the transformation animated:"
"In this case, you appear to be confusing climate and weather?"

No, I'm just looking at a suggested chart and seeing nothing

Is there a chart that goes farther back with the raw values like this one?
Thiel also forced entrepreneurs to ask what they think is true that others don't. With PDF apps, the answer was that there is a gap in between where they can provide a better experience. As you noted, it may not be enough to take on Adobe but it fulfills a niche from which the vision could become broader. See Dropbox who wanted to replace thumb drives and rewritable CD-Rs to popularizing the cloud storage consumer option with all its additional possibilites.
This really makes me want to play Kerbal Space program again, to see if they have added asteroids, or if I can build a rocket big enough to go to one of the smaller moons, and nudge it into different orbit...