skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can target more specifically than that. Suspected activists get a keylogger bundled in their next windows update. Later on another update removes all traces of it. It might take decades before something like that was noticed.
Bill Gates on Paris Climate Summit
The Dutch also didn't have the wide open spaces of half a continent to relocate to, but instead were rather cooped up.
Part of it is capital. The chaebol completely dominate the Korean economy and any serious competitors are taken out with mergers and acquisitions. The other part is that the model works and the companies are profitable. Sure, they could be more profitable with less wasted time and more productive employees but they already have an overwhelming majority in the Korean economy and they are globally competitive. It irks me to see more productive methods of work that are not adopted but yo can see that in every country.
I think everyone agrees that the sea level is oscillating around a positive trend. The disagreement seems to be about: a) how steep it is, and b) whether the rise poses an immediate or serious problem for humanity.
This is the same method I use to check for adblockers on my sites, is there an issue with this approach or?
The main thing I have against webapps is that from a technological point of view they aren't meant for the use we go today.
Obviously the privacy thing is another big issue, but this leads me to point 2;
I can protect my privacy: I just need to switch off my router, throw away my phone and say good bye to the grid, but that is the 2015 way of being an heremit and honestly, is something I don't want.
So I came up with this solution: carefully try to not divulge sensible data and, if I need to, split that over many possible unrelated services.

We're not going to win, but at least I try to defend myself
I'm surprised this isn't included in current tracking applications
Where can I see the couple hundred lines of Python code that powers the robot?
Fantastic, thanks, it's working great!
Phil Zimmermann gave it a stab:

https://github.com/SilentCircle/contact-discovery

I suggested this to Moxie, he said "it's not meaningfully privacy preserving", but there wasn't any more detail.
Syria air strikes: MPs authorise UK action against Islamic State
As it's for whitelisting, it is generally an e-mail address - the ID you are logged into Google with when accessing the Cloud console. If that doesn't work for you, let me know - I work on GCP and I can ping the people who can fix it.
How many significant figures does it need to have, do you think?

And that makes me wonder, how does this simulation deal with irrational numbers and real numbers? How does it represent pi and radical 2? The Greeks were afraid of these numbers. Are they are problem for a theory that we are a simulation run on finite resources?
The neat thing about the lego example is it uses overlapping grids instead of overlapping circles.

Overlapping circles are familiar -- everyone made venn diagrams in primary school.

Problem is it's notoriously subjective to use circles to map to some quantity. Visualization blogs are rife with examples of people riffing on visualizations that confuse mapping circle radius vs. circle area to some quantity.

Using a grid (or legos) is nice because it eliminates that area-vs-radius ambiguity.
I taught a computer to write like Engadget
You jest, but https://tensorflow.org
> I find the readability is where Java's verbosity really hurts it.

I'd agree, but on the JVM there are plenty of statically-typed languages with clean interop that permit more concise expressions than Java, so I don't see conciseness alone as a reason to go to a dynamic JVM language. (That said, Java is getting better at this over time, though its still, to me, a pretty big negative for Java.)
Good question, I'm not really sure. HN isn't the right place to find out, though. There isn't a lot of interest in Grails in the Bay Area.
My confusion arises from his model of space emerging from something than in and of itself requires space to exist. It just seems circular.

And i don't see how the term "information" has much descriptive power when discussing nature at its most fundamental level. That may be a way to model it, or describe the physics of it, but that's just an abstraction of whatever that fundamental building block is.
Probably not the most constructive long-term strategy, but try getting really drunk and launch it.
How well do you really know your country?
How to Get Traction to Your Startup by Writing Blog Posts
It's also valuable to know the open rate. If people aren't opening your email, maybe it means your email subject line isn't "zingy" enough. At least you could A/B test with different subject lines and see if it changed the open rate.
It has less to do with ToS than it does with legal precedent, though I don't doubt that without legal precedent, it might fall back onto the ToS.
This seems to me to be the best way to understand Bayes' theorem, with natural frequencies being the best way to mentally compute with it. E.g. for the breast cancer example,

- Imagine there are 1000 women who participate in routine screening

- 1% → 10 of these have breast cancer

- 80% → 8 of these will get positive mammograms

- 990 don't have breast cancer

- 9.6% ≅ 10% → 99 of the 990 get positive mammograms

So that the probability of having breast cancer, given a positive mammogram, is ≅ 8/99 ≅ 8%.

There is a bunch of research on natural frequencies being generally the best way to reason about this sort of thing.
Well and the 2-3 year mark, what can you do? Even a cliff is gone.
Why would an answer to this philosophical debate change anything about how we deal with crime?
I've loved BM since Meatballs, but I thought this was an interesting point, "lost in the funny retellings is the melancholy reality of an older, divorced dad partying with 20-somethings." It made me wonder how I'd view my own father if he was doing things like this on a regular basis. Probably not too favorably.
Facebook Wants You to Know That Zuckerberg's 99% Initiative Is Not a Charity
Just because people construe the post that way doesn't mean they're right. Truth is not democratic.

You can make any title more accurate by making it longer and more specific, but picking a good title is a trade off against other things as well. A charitable reader would not necessarily insist on the narrow interpretation of Python the language you insist on.

And your title is not more accurate, because it's not just the existence of certain libraries, it's also the way they can be easily glued together and incrementally improved. Compare this to say Java, where you'd have to use JNI to use those same libraries, which is much more cumbersome to the point that most people prefer to write everything in Java.

> People want to see others say good things about their favourite language

To be honest I only think this only describes people that enjoy internet debates on programming languages. If what you are interested in is getting work done, you don't care about the merits of a particular tool in isolation but about end results. Hypothetically, you could find the "perfect" language but if it doesn't have users or libraries, it's of no use, and therefore the insistence of discussing only this or that language is pointless.
Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata
They should but they don't. That's why have competitive UX is important for the good tools or people won't even consider using them. We have seen that happen countless times.
This idea is not revolutionary and already has plenty of market research. A single day talking to people who work in fashion/apparel/denim industry would've told them this was not viable.
Simple. Immediately implement certificate pinning so that rogue CA's can't be used to MitM their application traffic. That should have happened long ago for these apps anyway. This will break those apps and the government, in the face of everything breaking for their citizens might re-think their plan and at a minimum, turn of TLS middling for the impacted domains.
"I was successful even though there was a long time that I thought I wouldn't be all that successful, and I've gotten to where I am because I believed in myself."

I paraphrase, but Poe's Law is in full effect here.
As a Seattle resident, I had no idea that our beloved Killer Whales were the most toxic animal on the planet.

Doing a little research, I did find an article[1] from 2009 that states this is because of contaminated salmon, who appear to pick up toxins from the Pacific Ocean (as opposed to rivers) off the coast of the US (Canadian fish fair better).

It also notes that " The state of Washington has issued some local fish advisories, including a recommendation that people limit eating Chinook from Puget Sound to one meal per week."

Information for life.

[1] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/contaminated...
Why not use what we already have? I.e. what if beyond every current road was a drone-zone from 300-500 feet up. Then we have drones not over private property, and easy to avoid this kind of thing... (But then routes get way less direct)
How did they do this without transistors? The only thing I can find is this diagram here which looks like a small box: http://www.twinbeech.com/images/TURRETS/cfc/CFC%20computer19... which is smaller than a vacuum tube. I'd assume you'd need vector calculus to calculate the path of a bullet?
Regarding #2, since it's worded somewhat ambiguously, should we read that as wanting to stop targeted attacks in general (I'm thinking specifically of criminal suspects/etc. when a valid warrant exists) or targeted attacks against specific targets (i.e. people being illegitimately targeted like crypto nerds)? As a follow-up, are there any situations in which you think it would be appropriate to give information or the plaintext content of encrypted messages for a specific user to a law enforcement agency?
There's plenty like that in Star Wars. What about 'blasters', the weapon whose projectiles move so slowly that an alert person can physically dodge them?
My favorite Bill Murray story is the time he was filming something and some fans asked for an autograph and instead Bill filmed a Wes Anderson style slo-mo walk with them.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2012/05/25/a-fan-asked-bill-murr...
I heard once that the book originally lacked many footnotes and they were added later after an outcry from the scientific community. I don't know if that's true but I can believe it.

Like I said the subject area is fascinating and merits a much warmer reception than this book got. Tragic.
The MLK thing is amazing to me. We celebrate this person every year as a national event but unlike are presidents his speeches are under enforced copyright so nobody hears his famous thoughts or words. Even on his day people reference the I have a dream speech but nobody hears it or even references portions of it. It's a weird shadow of remembrance.
Soylent Green
What No One Is Telling You About Zuckerberg Donating His Fortune to “Charity”
“people with cancer” (designated as A), and “people with no cancer” (or A)

Presumably the second "A" is supposed to appear as some symbol for "not A"? On my screen it just appears to say A.
I had no idea this was a phenomenon, but I definitely plan on getting one of those shirts and coffee cups.
> "You can then claim that "oh none have truly existed." And to that the answer is that's because it doesn't work in practice, so it devolves to dictatorships and oppression."

Okay then, point to one communist society that started out with shared ownership and devolved into a dictatorship. All the examples I know of started out with a ruling elite and stayed with a ruling elite, so I'm curious about which of these societies devolved over time.

> "If it were a winning combination the world would look that way."

We've barely begun to explore the possibilities of how societies can work. Furthermore, it's not exactly a common topic of debate in most people's social circles. If it'll take some working examples before people are open to new ideas, then so be it.

> "Shared ownership is not 'ownership' You don't "own" something if everyone owns it. That's ridiculous doublespeak."

People often need to relate something new to something they already understand. If the word ownership bothers you then you can drop it, the key word is shared. Communist societies share the resources that enable material wealth.

> "Why not start your own communist group if you're hell bent on it."

I do intend on living in an ecovillage one day, does that count?
Sand Cat
I'd do the ruby version as:

splits.flat_map do |(a, b)|
alphabet.map{|c| a + b + c}
end

Which feels pretty close to the list comprehension to my eyes.
While I like James Reason's book and I find its discussion of mental models instructive in my code and in my life, I do have to break with him on his conclusions, which chiefly amount to the takeaway that systems at the level of complexity we're building today are impossible to run safely, and we should shut them all down. (I exaggerate, but only a little.)

A book I like which responds to Reason's is Nancy Leveson's Engineering a Safer World (free PDF from the MIT Press, even! https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world) which says, okay, if we don't want to shut these systems (like the Internet) down, how can we run them safely, and provides some guidance.

I gave a short talk about it at Facebook's most recent Security@Scale conference in Boston a couple weeks ago, the video of which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-n5wX8okQ

Edit: To tie this back to the OP, I think while it's desireable for software to be as simple as is reasonable given constraints, it's decreasingly possible to say that all software can be built so simply that analytic reduction works, and we need tools to help us cope with software systems which exhibit emergent complexity.
Truthfully how must successful photographers do it. A little more than trained monkeys, but certainly volume plays a huge role.
worth mentioning: https://www.projectoxford.ai/ from Microsoft
Electrical generator using Induction?
Attn physicists: If an Induction cooktop can boil water so quickly - less than 3 minutes at 1300 Watts, then why can't we use Induction technology to make a hyper-efficient steam-based electricity generator? You use a small amount of power to create a large amount of steam, which then goes and turns the turbine, creating electricity. Thoughts?
What do you do? You immediately reach out to Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Box, Dropbox, Tumblr, and any other popular platform which has mobile apps. You ask, or down-right demand they implement certificate pinning in their apps so they will fail when middled with the government provided certificate. This will in turn break access to those platforms via mobile apps which will result in very real and direct impact to citizens who will then hopefully wake up and pressure the government to roll-back the program or at least put exceptions in place. You continue this strategy with banks, etc., until it becomes clear to the government that this plan will not work. Note that cert pinning for mobile and desktop apps should have happened long ago & this might be the perfect opportunity to drive it to happen.
Hi Dang, if you've banned my account, then how come I was just able to post something? So, I'm going to have to refer to my previous point. Bite me.
Found a guide to do this [0] but without a web interface for configuration, or figuring out if there is a wifi device. Would be easy to setup a script to run on boot to check to see if a wireless network interface is attached, then set up the ad-hoc network accordingly and serve a simple config page. Finally something to do with my pi(s)!

[0]http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/04/22/raspberry-pi-wireles...
"What the whale inspired was wonderment, a dilation of the ordinary. Everyone was talking about it, on the buses and in the delis. There were dogs on the beach held back by their owners, sweeping flat quarter-circles in the sand with their tails."
This is great news! Such a big fan of the work you guys are doing at Whisper Systems. We are in the middle of an update to Umbrella App (which contains lessons on digital and physical), so will add the latest Signal changes to it in the next few days.

If anyone is interested in taking a look (free, open source, code reviewed, Android) please feel free:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
Will it work with equations? A major peeve of mine is trying to get Tex to deal with figures in a better manner, especially in space-limited situations (e.g. grant proposals), and I used to use InDesign for that before my work got too mathy.
Somehow Alzheimer is a popular subject at this forum.

Alzheimer is linked to cholesterol lowering drugs. That is the reason why these drugs have a warning that it may cause Alzheimer. But more interesting: Dr Bredesen has a program to reverse Alzheimer. In a mini study with 10 patients Alzheimer was reversed in 9 patients with remarkable results. His article is here: http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n9/full/100690.html. Dr Bredesen is now doing a followup study with 35 patients. His successful protocol is not based on gene theory.
Civil filings in general [0] have no required proof: they are simply the places where the contentions which will be at issue later in the process (where they generally will need to be proven) are laid out. This is just the basics of the legal process and what a filing is by definition; they precede and frame the part of the process in which proof is involved.

[0] Criminal filings are somewhat more complex, and differ between cases proceeding on indictment vs. those on information.
Oh he, or at least some agency representing him, does. Even though it's not clear why some business are targeted (small face-mug class) and not others (e.g etsy). But you might get a mail if you piggy back on the Bill Murray ride.
I think in one of the EU novels (Courtship of Princess Leia) Luke flies the Falcon while using both quadlasers, and if I recall correctly Han mentions that the controls in the cockpit allowed for such a thing but with a major accuracy penalty compared to having actual gunners at the gun stations. I don't recall if Luke was using the Force to make the cockpit quadlaser controls super accurate or if he was just reaching out with the Force to directly operate the controls at both gun stations.
“Watching people play video games is a niche” is now “I’m in charge of our consumer, marketplace and esports investing.” Fuck them. Build your business. Thank You Justin, just what I needed today !
That's lovely, thank you. Upvoted.
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That is not what I have been told. Happy to clear it up if you email me.
This is my question exactly. What features does Chrome have that are worth making the app completely incompatible with other browsers? Why is it not just a "Web app" and it's a "Chrome app" instead?
But what about respecting the Principle of Charity [0]? Once we do, then we shouldn't we also apply the Precautionary Principle [1]? We find that, if we do, then what the OP prescribes (lead, not silver, bullets) is hardly worth questioning, since otherwise we are claiming there are hidden risks of hard work (which, to be fair, do exist; burnout et. al are not pleasant to deal with in reality). I think that we can agree this (that we should not strive to work hard, especially after rejection) is harder to accept.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Where did you hear this? The maximum is a day, for engineers.
When I encounter complex subjects like Bayes, I tend to turn to Kalid to see if he has a way of trying to internalize an intuitive understanding of the subject.

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-e...

Now, this might be too simplified compared to what you were being tested on given you did a whole module on it, but hopefully it helps.
Yet, Scheme has seen many standard revisions. Without Steele editing it.

The Scheme standard has been edited by others, not Steele. Since three decades. From R2RS in 1985 up to R7RS in 2013.
How does this article fail to mention "no one will ever believe you"? That line from his random appearances was the key to his online ascent.
One simple reason is that water tends to flow towards the lowest point. Since there are height differences on earth, distribution will not be even.

Another is that polar ice, through its gravitational pull, pulls water in the direction of the poles. If it melts, it (on average) moves away from the poles, decreasing that pull towards the poles.
This "tick" theory gets my vote.

I see c as an emergent quality of a base granularity. If the universe is a cellular automata then c would be related to the distance between two successive layers, between what just happened and what is happening now, between now and next.
Launch a launching site with a countdown or a date at least, definitely easier to do mentally, and it will force you when the time is up.

As other said, don't launch both at the same time, don't focus too much on "will it work", for "completely finished" product it's no longer the right time.

I'd try to review your expectation:
-- One of them will take off like a rocket and I'm convinced of it
That's giving you too much pressure, just wait, see and iterate accordingly.

Doing a closed launch before the actual release date is another thing that can help feel "everything is really ready to go".
I disagree with your interpretation. I think Justin is saying,

"If the fundamentals of your business are good, believe in the data even when investors don't recognize its value. Eventually, they will."
Big Data Still Requires Humans to Make Meaningful Connections
You're missing the entire point. You don't mine asteroids to bring precious metals back to earth's surface. You mine asteroids to produce much less exotic raw materials outside of earth's gravity well, where the cost of importing them is over $4000 per kg.
Cellphone Metadata
Still think nothing interesting in cellphone metadata? Think again - call patterns show how wealthy or poor you are

(hat tip: Gina Neff @ginaSue) https://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1073.short
Apologies for the difficulty in entering your information. We just need the email address that you use to log onto the GCP console. For your project Id - you can find that in the developer console. IF you click on Dashboard and the upper Left corner has the Project Name and the project Id.
Seriously, a guy acting as humble and goofy as he does is pondering something as ridiculously ego-laden as legacy?
Yeah it's a little insane how long it's taken for Apple and Microsoft to get software updates right when it's so common and humdrum on the linux side of things.
> Before the end of the first month, a weight is lifted off my shoulders. The dwarves will still gain unhappy thoughts when caught in the freakish weather, but compared to some of the procedurally generated horrors I've dealt with in the past, elf blood blizzards look like a fluffy wambler infestation.

> Besides, an active volcano comprised entirely of ice and coated in crimson snowdrifts of frozen gore? Fucking metal. I love this game.

I love Dwarf Fortress.
Is Dwarf Fortress open source?
We don't do "take home" interviews. Engineers are asked to do a 1-hour tech screen, then asked to visit for a pairing interview, up to one day.

The pairing interview is, basically, the job. You sit next to a real engineer working on a real product on a real business need.

There's no whiteboard. No brain-teasers. No CS101. Just the real thing.
The same way that Stuxnet destroying Iranian centrifuges was an act of war ?
Ask HN: Your experience using kaggle to hire data scientists?
Just curious as to your experience sourcing data science candidates via kaggle. We were thinking of using it but were curious as to the experiences some others may have had.