skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he is actively deleting himself from the internet; his several blogs (gse in particular as it was posted here a few weeks ago, but there are more), his youtube channel and any reference to him.

i doubt this is speculation as the actions definitely show he is trying to hide something (his original writing from analysis). this is also apparent in his replies to wired.

also, it sucks that this kind of content is being cleared. i found it interesting and hope it will make it back. please put it back craig.

edits:

the following quote is quite odd; anyone have any clarity?

“About 20 years ago, I was at the launch of Alta Vista. It was the first big commercial search engine. Back in the early '90s… everyone told me how much of a ‘coo-coo’ [crazy] I was for wasting all this money to be part of something that’s a ‘bloody piece of computer code’," said Wright. [1]

[1] http://www.cio.com.au/article/549278/bitcoin_safe_/
There is a subtle danger in only selecting candidate (people) whom think, act of look like you... the venture may end, not for a lack of talent or capability, but for a lack of ideas or questioning the normative, cultural convention.

Hire tortoises, hedgehogs and hares, introvert and extroverts, peacemakers and activists ... so long as there is respect, civility and productivity, because it's the "pulling" away from the center of gravity and institutional momentum that leads to exploring other great opportunities of venture successes that weren't originally founders' core product.
The study from Harvard involved the flavor chemicals added to the "juice" and the parent comment you're replying to mentions the same. Most of the people I've heard of vaporizing cannabis do it with the plant itself, without this additive; I'm aware of another method that uses liquid or "shatter" but I don't think flavors are added to it. It's also my understanding that vaporizing this form is much more potent (being a concentrate) than other forms, which would point to non-diacetyl-related risk factors.

There has been some discussion around the safety of the heating elements themselves, specifically what happens when the metals get vaporized and enter the lungs/blood stream [0]

[0]http://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/are-e-ci...
The telescopes are actually built here on earth and that money goes to people's jobs just like building anything else. A billion dollars sounds like a lot but if you were to make a list of wasteful billion dollar projects I doubt these would be very high up on it.
My Alcatel with FxOS 2 does not crash at all.
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The best argument for whiteboard algorithm questions is that they (to some degree) filter out people who think that whiteboard questions are "an exercise in memorization".

I mean, whether or not the company actually values the underlying non-memorization skill is another question (as someone who is very strong in that skill, I think that most companies/roles do not have a use for that, and should not test for that).

But the main argument against whiteboard coding applies equally to both kinds of questions. That argument is that it's a psychologically unrealistic environment, and that the main signal you get from such questions is whether or not the interviewee is psychologically comfortable under this particular artificial form of pressure. Does this generalize to other types of pressure? Does it generalize to the work environment at large?

I mean, me personally, I love whiteboard questions of either kind. Wheee. But I'm not convinced that the tech sector should use my hobby as the ultimate test of employability.

(PS: and for good engineers who are bad at whiteboarding in interviews, I'm available for coaching, heh)
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Indeed. I use Android devices and think the market is headed toward native vs. the web too, I just hope it's not zero sum. ChromeOS is arguably less functional than Android, but there are use cases for it, and its stripped-down, web-only nature, in many respects is a feature, not a bug. I also really don't like commercial app stores. Discovery is terrible and then who wants to try a couple different versions of an app, before finding the best in class, if not immediately obvious? At least with web apps discovery is easier and switching costs much lower. Native apps also feel less configurable, less extensible, silo'ed off, and don't offer the freedom software provides for on a desktop anyway. I know this all may change in the future - I'm hopeful it does!
A lot of people switch to vaping because they perceive it as less dangerous than smoking cigarettes. So yeah, I'd say people care.
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Camp fires do produce harmful particles and I'm pretty sure that BBQs do as well. Purposefully breathing the smoke generated by either of them is a bad idea.
If it's harmful for the user, it seems likely there's also going to be a "second-hand vape" danger. While I wouldn't want to ban them altogether, it might be wise to ban them in public indoor spaces. Maybe make it so any smoking ban is automatically a vaping ban.
They've been focusing on being open on the mobile front for several years now. I'm still waiting for them to drop their horrible skins and move to stock android. Or at least make the skins optional. The Z#c line-up is, imo, in a class of it's own. It's nice to have a phone that's actually small, light, with a great camera, and amazing battery life. If only they'd ditch the skin!
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698009 (472 points, 7 hours ago, 393 comments)
The title is misleading, this is not an AWS announcement nor is it an AWS offering.
Using PNW drivers as an example is, well, a bad example. They're collectively so bad that getting onto the freeway in my rental car in any other city in the U. S. is like a breath of fresh air. "Hey, honey, look at that guy: he just moved out of the left lane!" "Wow, it's like everybody in $CITY knows how to merge into a freeway. I want to live here!"

I won't, however, argue with your numbers. Tagging 60% in the "able to aim their car toward Bel-Square without hitting anything on the way" seems about right. And as you point out, it's the cause of much of the traffic woes of the Seattle area, not lack of road capacity. If everyone learned to merge smoothly, and realized it's not their $DEITY-given right to just randomly pick a lane to drive in, we could last another ten years before needing to add lanes.
> you should absolutely consider their motives, especially in contentious subjects such as this one.

Which is why deliberately concealing and lying about funding sources in the manner described is SO BAD
I'm sure you could, if needed pick up specific things as you go from the web or a used copy of a good basic linalg textbook.
What is it that makes you a die-hard WP user? As someone who works for a company with mobile applications, we've had a hard time seeing the value in this platform and I'd like to change that.
Imagine a browser that has a privacy mode using tor ? Privacy in browser nowadays is privacy from your wife or kids, not privacy from anything on the server side.

Seeing how hostile most of the western governments are toward privacy on the internet, that's probably not the best long term strategy for Mozilla though. They could quickly find themselves labelled terrorist organisation ( by mistake ) and have their account frozen ( by mistake ) for a long period of time ( due process, can't rush those stuff )
I just spent the past month looking around for interesting new work after quitting my last position. Two of the ten or so smaller companies I've interviewed with so far had work-sample-ish tests as part of the hiring process: Keybase and AltspaceVR. Both of them had already made my short list of potentially ideal companies to work at, and I had ample time to ask them questions and chat before doing the work sample project. (At Altspace I went and had lunch with the co-founder and the director of engineering, and also tried out their VR software.) I felt no compunction at all spending 2-3 hours doing a interview project after that. Afterward, it was clear that both companies read my work and judged me based on it.

If companies were cold emailing me on LinkedIn asking me to do their two hour project, I would not do it, but neither would I bother going to interview with them. Given that I'm already cherry-picking which companies I care about, I don't mind investing some time to make them care about me.

EDIT: I agree that it would be nicer to spend time doing something really useful. I hope that if I handed them a FOSS thingy that was representative of my ability, that these same companies would respect that in lieu of their work sample -- although standardization is valuable for evaluation purposes, so I can understand if they wouldn't. (I just did the projects they suggested because I thought they sounded fun.)
I feel your pain. TWC business class is the scam of the century. TWC really has colluded the market here. In our current office, we basically have no choice: TWC or Verizon DSL at 3Mbps for $100+ per month. What is this? 1997?

Their service from what I hear is shoddy, crappy customer service and of course they really take you for what's it worth when it comes to the bandwidth / cost ratio -- because they can apparently.

A great solution is to grab a T-Mobile LTE Hotspot for $110 / month (21GB max data limit unfortunately) but you're getting 60-80Mbps downstream. It's solid. Rig it to a router and spread the WAN signal to your LAN.
Curious what effect a doubling in the DWave machine's "qubits" would have on this factor and how soon that's likely to be achieved. Does the complexity / cost of building such a machine scale linearly with the number of qubits involved?

Are there problems that are reducible to quantum annealing that become attractive with such a performance improvement?
Even using wildest estimates of the proponents of the anti-AirBNB measure, AirBNB involves a negligible fraction of the city's housing units. It was only related to housing by political rhetoric. Surely the commenter upthread was talking about the moratorium on development in the Mission.
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Meh, from what I've read in this thread, the bandwidth situation is much worse in LA. At least you can get 300/20 here in NYC for under $100/month. Plus, while the competition is usually limited to a single provider (TWC or Verizon), there are some smaller ones like RCN.
Well, this has prompted me to make sure any brand I buy is free from Diacetyl etc. It's not the vaping that's bad per se, it's the chemicals some brands are using in the flavoring.
What is the future of Mozilla and of open platforms?

1) Without FirefoxOS, what is Mozilla's future on mobile devices? The Firefox browser, while I think it's great, has very low adoption on mobiles. I'm not sure content-blockers are enough, and they now need the platform owner's cooperation to get their product in front of users (i.e., to get into the app store and to be compatible with the user systems).

2) Without a future on mobile devices, what is Mozilla's future? How influential can they be while playing no role on the most popular Internet platform?

3) Without a player on mobile devices, what is the future of open platforms in general? On the desktop there are several mature operating systems and ecosystems but what is there on mobile? Can open platforms be relevant without a presence on mobile? Where are the BSDs for mobile? GNU tools? Vim?

There are Android forks, but they depend on the continued generosity of the market leader (to release AOSP, a version of Android designed for that purpose). And having looked around for a good option, I can report that the various forks are unambitious, provide little to differentiate themselves from Android, and their organization and support don't inspire confidence.
He will be on the hook for an absolutely huge AMT tax bill.
Inhaling charred chemicals doesn't sound like the greatest idea.
Surely there's a happy medium between assuming that every minute difference in an individual's clickstream is valuable data to which can be mined for insights to optimise for certain behavioural responses on the one hand, and assuming that any effort spent setting parameters for giving people free money is bound to be a futile and wasteful endeavour on the other?

Though frankly, $xxxxx from the government for signing up to pervasive monitoring would still be a better deal than anything I've ever been offered as a result of interacting with an ad tracker or promised by the brave new world of the IoT.
I went back and read it more carefully, and it's linked to an email address one character off from the known Satoshi one. satoshin@vistomail.com vs satoshi@vistomail.com.
That's kind of funny, but it's not really that small. I haven't been all over finland (but a bit of it, helsinki & area, turku, lahti, tampere, and up to oulu.) Still haven't seen the Northern Half of the country. New Zealand is definitely smaller, but it feels easier to visit both islands than the northern half of finland.
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I didn't RTFA,could someone that did comment on how much insight was given into "We selected 51 types of flavored e-cigarettes sold by leading e-cigarette brands and flavors"? Some ecigs (disposables) are manufactured in China where I suspect quality control might be suspect, whereas many juices are manufactured by small startups in the US and I'm quite certain they take ingredients extremely seriously.

Any study that "accidentally" doesn't differentiate between the two very different manufacturing scenarios is suspect in my opinion, as it does very little to provide any useful information.
> Microsoft should have put the Courrier table into production.

Yes, yes, yes. Like iOS and Android it would have been born a touch device. Killing Courier makes buying Nokia's handset business Ballmer's second worst decision.
Learn to embrace your inner Schadenfreude.

I almost commented to the effect of, "Go, Google. Even though in general I might prefer a municipal deployment/solution."

I might... in other environments. In Chicago... Well, at least Illinois seems to be in the process of getting away from treating filming public officials as a felony offense. So, when the Fiber team captures all the indirect language and outstretched palms, maybe they will actually have the advantage.

I make this comment with mixed feelings and thoughts. I DON'T like a lot of the outsourcing and privatization as a means for a connected someone to middleman the revenue stream as well as perhaps dump on the actual workers (although sometimes, those workers have been making a killing).

But the City's done little to take on consumer abuse by AT&T, Comcast, etc. I don't see a source for a genuine and effective municipal effort.

So... let overwhelming consumer pressure force Google Fiber onto the poles, and let 'er rip. Google's bread is buttered elsewhere, giving more hope for a relatively clean and effective deployment.

P.S. There is also the business aspect to Fiber. Let businesses -- generally a bit more organized and consistently communicative -- in search/need of a better ISP get behind this, and maybe it will really take off.

Assuming Google doesn't start to flake in its support, as it has with many other "real world" products. One particular concern I would have in considering their viability.
It was doomed from the beginning, already such a crowded space. Firefox OS had no chance at all.
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I continue to find it amusing that an imaginary animal is being used to describe a(n increasing) number of things that actually do exist.
My favorite was Bomber Gas in Oregon where a scrap B-17 was used as the canopy over the gas pumps. I'd go out of my way to refill at Bomber Gas :-) Last I heard the value of it had gone up so much it was taken down and is being restored.

Found it: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968
Who could gain by doing something like that?
It's already in Wired, has 212 points on Hacker News, and who knows what value to people assessing him in academia or business sectors. Altogether, enough people care for it to matter to a tech egomaniac. Not "scoop of the century" or anything, though.
When Chrome stopped working for me a few weeks ago, I was very glad to have Firefox to fall back on.
I think that there are lots of companies making an open core model work. It is hard but if you can get to massive adoption like Elastic Search or Hortonworks you can generate significant income. I must admit that both companies are not profitable by a long shot as far as I know. At GitLab we're mostly close to but below cash flow break even.
What confuses me is that we all seem to have more-or-less the same moral compass when it comes to fiction. "The bad guy" is often going to extremes to prevent something from going public - dumping toxic waste in a river, taking bribes, selling a vote, torturing people in secret etc.

Somehow it seems like these days, if someone gets caught doing these things in real life, nothing happens. Dumping toxic waste is pro-business. Bribery is freedom of speech. Torture? Heck, it's not torture, and they're really bad people anyway.

Sometimes I want to grab these people and ask them, seriously, if this isn't evil, then what IS?
Wouldn't it be fun if we could set up a prediction market so that we could all place bets on whether Mr. Wright is or is not an inventor of Bitcoin?
I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco.

I want an informed, even evangelical society when it comes to comsumption. I want people to be allowed to choose how they live their life, at least privately. If you can be a functioning meth-head, do so. If you can't, die without harming others on your way out.

I know that is a harsh view, but look at the alternative: the present system. We incarcerate individuals for safely smoking a meriad of drugs in the backyard, apartment or stoop. We spend, speaking as an American, $60-80k a year to confine these people. Even if one makes the argument that drugs keep people on welfare, welfare is far cheaper and freer, in the rights sense.

So too this drug. Label it, warn, perhaps even tax, but don't let it be an excuse to prevent vaping. States, in my opinion, are itching for a reason to block this new product. Stop them now. Otherwise how can we innovate to an alternative for tabacco?
It's nothing new that PostgreSQL is a great tool for doing analytics, even coming from MongoDB. I'm very happy that MongoDB took this route, it speaks a lot about their capabilities in the non-OLTP world.

Having said that, I very biasedly say that there's a much better solution to this connector, which doesn't flatten out the MongoDB data: it's called ToroDB (https://github.com/torodb/torodb).

ToroDB, open source, speaks the MongoDB protocol, transforms documents to relational tables (without any kind of flattening, and without having to define any schema) and stores data in a RDBMS. More precisely, PostgreSQL.

Current development version (repl branch) speaks the replication protocol, and hence can replicate live from a MongoDB into PostgreSQL. No connector needed, no flattening, no FDWs, nothing else. Just add a new "slave" (ToroDB) to your replica set and you're good to go.

It goes even further: if you want pure data warehousing, ToroDB will soon support GreenPlum. Some initial benchmarks (http://www.slideshare.net/8kdata/torodb-scaling-postgresql-l..., slide #42) show 25x-75x improvement between doing aggregate queries in MongoDB and their equivalent queries in GreenPlum's distributed SQL.

Now that MongoDB 3.2 ships with PostgreSQL "included", feel free to try ToroDB. It's always better the original :)

Note: I am a ToroDB developer.
I assume the (joking) origin is that it's something everybody would like to find but nobody really does.
I don't know if I'm a "best programmer", but I definitely enjoy "add a little feature to our fake app" tests.

A friend of mine's company usually sends out a little canvas-based browser paint app with a bunch of features, and asks them to implement a few things, like flood fill. It's really enjoyable.
Sorry, when I said journalists, I meant tech journalists.
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Music Schmusic. I'm waiting for the advertisements.
how is an adult supposed to know what's safe? what incentive would any company have to ever label anything as "by the way use of this product will kill you" if they weren't legally required? Do you think snacks and junk food would even be labelled with calories and RDA values if it weren't a requirement?
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A 1-bedroom for $3k inside SF is a steal.

Median rent for a 1-bedroom in SF hit $3600 in October -> http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/10/09/the_median_rent_for...
I'm infinitely curious about these kind of projects. As you and other said, current systems are so full of waste and people investing so much efforts into tricking it. I can envision a lot of good outcomes. That said I really don't know how the culture will align. So much in human history was defined by your role, your work etc etc. Now if you're not contributing to others in a market will you be seen as valuable ? how will people relate to each others now that there will be less "classes".
I also believe survival pressure is mostly needed for people to exist fully; todays system pressure is too chaotic and suboptimal, but removing too much pressure may lead to muddy waters.
Trying to identify one member in a population of 7 billion, you are likely to find many more than one very persuasive false positive.
Worth noting that things like emissions from hot metal and (though you didn't mention it) keeping the air path away from things like circuit boards or plastics are considerations and even marketing points for high-quality cannabis vaporizers. Some use ceramic heating elements instead of metal for this reason as well.

Edit: also worth noting that cheap no-name ones are frequently soldering iron elements housed in random plastic or wood cases and have no consideration for this whatsoever.
And why require the label, right? The free market means that companies that sell arsenic-laced apples will lose market share as people stop buying from them /s
I have looked at the GPG keys, and based on the hash algorithm preference order, I believe they were created after [edit: July 2009], by a gnupg version following this[1] commit, on a computer with its clock set to 2008.

1. http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit... [edited]
Let's say someone stole Satoshi's stash. To convert it to non-Bitcoin value, they would have to spend it or transfer it. Wouldn't people notice that the famous Satoshi block is suddenly in play? And the point at which it is converted to real value is the point at which a criminal investigation would begin.

I don't understand why Satoshi's stash of bitcoins is any easier to spend untraceably than any other store of value.
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It seems about as reasonable to treat vaporizers this way as it does to treat laptops this way because sometimes they catch on fire and smoke. It sounds like this is one flavoring that was already known to be harmful. That seems pretty far short of establishing a likelihood that personal vaporizers, as a category, create harmful second-hand effects.
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Consumer service in LA is pretty good, around $90 for 200/20 in most areas. It's TWC Business Class that's a horrible rip off.
When I was working for a startup that was getting DDOS the only thing that stopped it was this service.

https://www.dosarrest.com/
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