skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what a colleague of my father told him at work some decades ago with microcomputers.

He felt calling those "toys" computers was some disrespectful for the real thing, the one with 125 MBytes hard drive, instead of the ridiculous amount the toys had at the time.

Of course he wanted all the company to buy an IBM mainframe(under his control of course). My father decided to buy 30 micro computers instead. It was a great decision st the end.

Those hobbyists making semi-useless, plastic trinkets are the same people that will make the serious low tolerance manufacturing in the future.

Did you learned to run and jump before crawling?
You don't do this and expect to be in PR long.
> anti-free-basics mindset

Ahh, the usual attempt to create factions.

> Facebook isn't stopping anyone from providing internet access anywhere.

The very idea of "free basics" is about normalizing the idea that Facebook can prevent who people can access. Yes, other providers already exist (removing any need for "free basics"), which is why Facebook is abusing their position as a social network to manipulate people into supporting their plan.

They can do this because being a gatekeeper of social interaction is one of the most powerful political tools known to man.

> And they certainly don't gain this power by providing free basics.

If you read any of the other threads on this topic, you will find examples Facebook's tactics such as lying to users saying their friends support "free basics". That is their existing power as a social gatekeeper. The entire point of this new plan is to extend their gatekeeper position into one of the largest untapped markets on the planet.

Without even considering how this position would allow Facebook to monopolize the market, their power as a gatekeeper to monitor social interaction (why do you think they MitM encryption?) and manipulate public opinion is so powerful it should be seen as a threat to national sovereignty. You probably think this is hyperbole, but I'm deadly serious. As I mentioned in a previous thread, the end game of this power to use friends against each other already exists in China under the name Sesame Credit. I recommend watching this short video[1] about it by Extra Credits. Their perspective as game designers about how people can be manipulated with the mechanics of a platform is key to understanding how these new powers work.

> anti free basics arguments are rather sloppy.

(minor suggestion: it's customary to note when you edit a post)

It only looks sloppy if you only focus on the narrow framing Facebook is pushing in their propaganda. If you consider the last few hundred years of history and the recent-ish trends in political and social power, Facebook's power grab is obvious.

One of the problems with your analysis, I suspect, is that you seem to be assuming that some sort of market solution will sort itself out. This is an obvious fallacy: "the market will fix things" is not a law of nature, people are not in any way "rational" in the way economists use the term ("homo economicus" doesn't exist), and the very idea of a market only works if-and-only-if consumers have accurate information, which is exactly what Facebook is manipulating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
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What do you mean by a codebook? Something like a static dictionary?
http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/the-legacy-of-silk-road-part...

What kind of "Drug Lord" orders fake IDs to his home or posts his own email address to an online forum?
"a sign that the country, once one of the world's poorest..., has grown affluent enough"

In case you didn't note that for the last few decades South Korea was a rich country (especially by PPP).
> I can assure you, the CS understanding of the people who disagree with you (like Chris, Gavin, myself and Satoshi) is just fine

Speaking for Satoshi is a bit presumptuous, yes? It does make me question who else you're supposedly representing.
I will be honest the person arguing with you was literally there. He grew up there. He probably knows better than you about the environment he grew up in. It's disingenuous to paint him in the light you're doing.
How do you think GlueStick will limit you?
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>> One suspects that a lot of spear-phishers know about this already.

We have seen this attack vector. We have seen key-loggers, as well as crypto-locker Trojans, delivered in this way.

It has been an up hill battle educating staff who view themselves as non-computer people, but we are getting there. Most staff have come to think as safe behind our spam, content, and security filters, and getting them to think critically about whether they should open an attachment has been very difficult.

[edit / I press 'submit' too early and my comment was incomplete.]
I'm not talking about subgoals, because the ultimate goal is the task which must be careful in scope obviously. What I'm concerned about is the assumption that an ai can't avoid situations it needs to propagate itself(its not a direct line to goal) and then simply not stop once a task is completed.
FYI -> https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html#cluster_cluster_scheduli...
It's not really "no harm done" - the opportunity cost of wasting time that could be spent on other activities is a deterrent, for me at least.
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Which books of Scott Adams you are referring to? Any specific book you read?
Duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790734
This is not code as in "secret code for which you need a decoder ring". It is executable code that gets executed with one click inside your network, and with essentially full permissions.

Code that can go through is a bug. Usually a buffer overflow, but in this case, it's a specification bug back from the days when the world wasn't so networked.

Also, I think you meant steganography.
While I don't like quotas, I don't understand this kind of comment.

Even people who don't use large amounts of bandwidth can't benefit from high speeds.
Take this as a learning opportunity. Anyone who visits your site and gets irritated by something is likely to close it and leave. And even if they were only there out of idle curiosity, you've just lost a chance to convert them.

So enough with the down-votes already - I really just didn't care enough even to click twice more to see what it was about. Telling you that shouldn't be punished, and is absolutely relevant to HN.
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I'm wondering if this problem can be approached as a standard convolution problem.
Agreed, free-as-in-beer internet is a pretty compelling deal for poor people, even if it's limited. And Free Basics has real benefits for governments and internet carriers. Wrote more about it here[1].

It's hard to imagine (but maybe possible?) there could be a comparable quality, net-neutral alternative. What would the model be?

[1]: http://www.thebenedict.com/posts/2015/12/26/free-basics-alte...
yeah but none of them can beat Rijisa Mineru the foolish Destroyer of Github
One is prolonged, the other is intense.
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This is impossible, Facebook Messenger doesn't have any open protocol at all. Facebook will fight everyone who will try to do so.
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exactly. science is sad sometimes, just like any other religion, it creates walls that some people get stuck inside of... waiting for some kind of "approval" by its priests
Massive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783711

Also submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793844
Then you really would not like my world view...

FSF at least supports the concept of government granted monoplies over ideas, I do not. I would love to see the end of copyright, and patents as a concept.

I firmly believe a world with less windows and more linux would be a wonderful place...
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793969
Looking back on it, I think you can never have too much maths/statistics knowledge, and coding is a skill akin to a superpower in some ways. I think if I were giving someone advice today, who was about to embark on their undergraduate career, I'd suggest something like "major in math or statistics and do a minor in computer science" (or the other way around).

But really I agree with Ultimatt. And you shouldn't think of finishing a degree (whether it's an associates, bachelors, masters or phd) as "the end" of ones education. Especially in the era we live in with so much knowledge freely available on the 'net, there's no reason to not make learning a lifelong thing.

Heck, I'm 42 and I'm taking a handful of Coursera classes right now (I am literally taking a break from homework right now to stop and check HN). And if I had nothing but free time, I'd spend half my time doing classes through Coursera, Edx, etc., or doing something on Khan Academy, etc. That or downloading papers from arXiv and reading them, or watching deep learning videos on Youtube, etc.
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> Between them they have done more to promote classical studies than all the professors who try to reach thousands through the electronic programs currently known as massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Was this side-swipe necessary?
Naively:

There are n starting points
There are n ending points
The interval is n/2 in length on average
Thus it requires n * n * (n/2) additions

You said:

Generating one partial sum costs n, and
you need to do it n times, ...

I think you need to do it n^2 times.
> Stenography is a one sided battle.

I'm sure there's a great joke around that punchline, but I can't find it.
it's real:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/intelligence-co...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/08/21/us-launches-ic-on-t...

In recent years, the IC has made major strides toward enhancing transparency. These include establishing the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) IC on the Record, a repository for declassified documents, official statements, speeches and testimony on the Tumblr blogging platform. To date, more than 5,000 pages of officially released documents have been published on IC on the Record.

http://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=7210
HN mods have said that pay-walled links are on topic for HN, and that complaining about pay-walls is off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
> It is executable code that gets executed with one click inside your network, and with essentially full permissions.

At least 2 clicks, one of which is a warning.

Although I accept the warnings are mostly pointless.
It's not much about language, it's mostly about code/ecosystem re-use (that is: if you have a library available in system X and you're writing for Y you can still take advantage of it).
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Ask HN: Is 24 too late to start life?
I feel like i have failed in life.I have dropped out of college,have no job,no money,no friends except one guy, and 4 months back i had a nasty breakup with my girlfriend of 8 years.Now i am on the verge of being thrown out of my parent's home.I have absolutely zero skills in anything except a little bit of coding.I turned 24 last month and am feeling that its too late and that all doors are closed to me.I have absolutely no reason to live my life.I feel like a total loser.
However in some corner of mind,i have a feeling that i can rebuild my life if i put in the required efforts.But in my present state of mind,i am not able to believe it.
What you people think i should do in this stage of my life?Is it possible for me to really come out of this and progress in my life?I am really in need of advice.Please guide me.
How is meditation like or different than flow? This is an interesting question. I see it as a paradox. When I meditate in the early phases there is wide awareness but when I quiet the mind, for me, there is no awareness and time disappears. Some days I can quiet the mind quickly and go into what you might describe as a trance. But in that trance I can hear / sense what is around me if I chose to.

I don't think the quiet mind phase is flow however. It is just that time disappears.

Meditation makes me peaceful and can provide me with more energy reserves for the rest of the day. Flow makes me satisfied but usually tired and at the same time wanting more flow.

So how do you HN participants see these different states?
That is a very, very good question. I'm not sure if anyone actually knows right now, in many ways it's a wild west I think. Not important enough for people to struggle over with making money but part of our shared heritage, locked away in an AOL vault that is slowly having concrete poured into it.
Chris: what happens now? Will you continue the work or go to something else?
Can confirm, I worry about where I might have gone if it hadn't been for meditation pulling me out. It's impossible to put into words what it does for you, you're right, you just have to try it without any pre-conceived notion of what you want to get from it which for some, is too wild an idea.
> by then we’d be under military control

You're in America - you are. You live in a militarized police state. The police don't consider themselves civilians anymore. They deploy en masse with automatic weapons, green military uniforms, armoured vehicles to steal from and generally terrorize the populace.

> Stories of strings being pulled by hidden hands

They are not all that hidden. Corporate money being used for political campaigns. Some are slightly more hidden. The "free trade" deals being enacted recently.
Gemsets are redundant when you use Bundler. Your second question will boil down to opinion but Bundler has been extremely solid in my experience. The feature set is huge and the work ethic of the core team is commendable.
Wonder if they activated at the Comcast Building too. Looking forward to test it out next time.
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Anyone know if there's something planned for haproxy?
Rebecca Solnit about Lolita:

"You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you."

She quotes Vera:

"I wish, though, somebody would notice the tender description of the child, her pathetic dependence on monstrous HH, and her heartrending courage all along…"

And Azar Nafisi:

"Lolita belongs to a category of victims who have no defense and are never given a chance to articulate their own story. As such she becomes a double victim—not only her life but also her life story is taken from her. We told ourselves we were in that class to prevent ourselves from falling victim to this second crime."

http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/
and black marketeers, and hoarders, and vandals...
That's fine. It's quite possible they could sort out Chrome and most of the world's browsers would have the feature by the end of the year. We live in exciting times :-)
> First, citing Kurzweil as a proponent of AI risk is very odd.

The article doesn't do that. It says:

> The leading theorist and cheerleader for mankind’s imminent disappearance into insignificance or worse is Ray Kurzweil, who extrapolates the exponential growth in technological capability characterised by Moore’s law to a point in the mid 2040s—the Singularity—where AI will be self-perpetuating and no longer reliant on human intellect.

Kurzweil is being brought up as someone who thinks that some sort of superintelligence will soon surpass humans, which is true. The "cheerleader" comment is to indicate that, as you put it, "Kurzweil thinks AI is the bees knees."
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I am a man, but I don't think that's why I think it. I'd be perfectly fine with a ".girl" or ".chick" or ".fem" or ".sis" extension, or any similar variation, if it happened to be a valid acronym for some technology.

Unless the issue is that "bro" has some other kind of objectively offensive connotations, which I completely disagree with. Many women (and some men) use "sis" (or, much more rarely, "dudette"), in the exact same way as "bro".

(And for the record, I didn't downvote you.)
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Here is the link to the actual PHP script https://github.com/kasparsd/photos-sync
Tumblr aside, "kill" is a dumb name anyway. It just send signals, and it's default signal isn't kill, it's terminate. And hangup doesn't have anything to do with terminating.

A better name would have been "signal" (as in the verb), avoid a default signal (how often do you actually send TERM?) and to use lowercase for the signal names consistent with other commands.
Just curious do we know the company behind this drug? I just did a quick skim of the article.
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Well, to qoute fight club, it is simply the illusion of safety at 30000 feet. In reality, and as this articld recounts, the pilots control the plane and an eggregious piloting error will not ve corrected regardless of whether I am aware that my seat cushion is bouyant, or that I should secure my own oxygenmask before helping others.

Also, I would suspect that given the element of fear and urgency in a crisis, this information no matter how valuable, will be ignored by everyobe except a mibority of overtly obedient passengers and the most measured individuals.

Tl;dr
Malaysian Airlines didn't have a 100% mortality rate because no one payed attention to the onboarding safety demo.
I mean, no, it's not too late, yes, you can start you life :)
There are n^2 results, right?
Reddit AMA with Chris Daniels, VP, Internet.org (Facebook) is on
Quotas become more and more restrictive the higher the bandwidth is (e.g. a 1GB limit on a 2G mobile network is basically unlimited traffic due to how long it takes to fill it. The same 1GB limit on a 4G LTE+ network could be consumed in mere minutes).

> Even people who don't use large amounts of bandwidth can't benefit from high speeds.
What does that sentence mean? I don't understand this kind of comment.
Even if you were to give me a top 10 designer right now, we'd still have to interview them to see if their art direction is something that fits into our overall scheme. Or to find out if they
Why is an IRS agent working with the DEA to find the proprietor of an illegal drug market? It's not like the IRS is going to ask for corporate profit tax on Silk Road's earnings.
I've been around where you are. Around the same age, though my circumstances were different - My spouse had a suicide attempt, new bipolar/schizo affective diagnosis, nearly lost all income and had to move back to my parents place. It took some time for me to work out of it and wound up leaving him, but I am ever so happy that I did so. Life isn't perfect now, but much more happy. It isn't too late to start or change life.
First things first, take care of your housing. It'll be an uncomfortable talk with your parents. Admit things, regardless of embarassment, and either tell them your plans or admit to your own confusion. This will take some of your worries away.
Second, money. Any job will do. Try to do well at it, and find bits you like with it. The reality is that you might not be able to support yourself, by yourself - As in, countless people and their families are in the same situation. It is an unfortunate new reality, and easier on the mind if you view your situation as more normal than not. I oddly wound up with a retail job at a pharmacy and thrived: I'm currently taking language classes (I'm now an immigrant) that have a focus on health care terms so that when I re-job, I'll like it better.
Third, give yourself a break. You are still reeling from the breakup, plus the life situations. Friends - I've always struggled to have friends. I tend to have very few, but I get my social needs met between that, any job/school/volunteering and the internet. Get active somehwere, anywhere - to get your mind off things.
Worst case scenario: you spend half an hour day relaxing. Doesn't seem like a terrible waste of time.
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Worst case scenario: you persist in a course of treatment that has no evidence of efficacy rather than get treatment with some evidence of efficacy.
What about .sys files?
The problem in the USA is these announcements are more geared to train consumers to accept prices to go up even further on every tier level.

However this announcement specifically says they don't have to make any infrastructure changes so it will be hard for them to explain price increases.
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Without spine they won't be able to function at that size. Gravitation is mean bitch - weight grows as x^3, but muscular power only as x^2. Mammals are probably the best you can do in "very large" form factor.

Indeed, even at their present size they are called "slow steppers".
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This NYT piece is heavy on moralizing rhetoric and light on technical details. The BloombergView piece by Matt Levine [1] is much better:

"It's important to realize that slowing everyone down by 350 microseconds can't possibly help anyone. As Hudson River Trading said in its comment letter: "Similar to a 100-meter sprint, if you simply add 350 microseconds to each participant’s time, neither the order in which they finish nor their time differentials will change.""

It would indeed be pointless if everything was slowed down by 350μs, which is why that is not the case. IEX lets its own "pegged orders" and "routable orders" cut the line, picking off liquidity at the other exchanges. If IEX is approved, there will be an arms race, with other exchanges inserting their own similar delays. Even worse, because of Reg NMS you can't legally avoid trading on IEX even if you wanted to. If the price of a stock is falling rapidly and you wanted to sell, IEX will always have the best price since it is stale by 350μs. Everyone will be forced to send their orders to IEX, even if everyone knows that the bid there is illusory.

The Matt Levine piece is very good. Do please read the whole thing.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-22/the-flash-b...
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Calm down and put yourself together, find a Minimum Viable Job bettertake something that you are in contact with people.. Like a waiter barista or something it would not be a lot of money bit you will meet people... I your spare time pravtice coding until u sharpen enough to find a internship. Doors are shut only for those who give up
I suppose "filtered" makes a less exciting headline than "hacked voter database" but wow is there ever a gulf between how this has been covered and what happened. Thanks for this.
Thanks for linking this! But I easily overlooked your post. It links to "Reasoning, Attention, Memory (RAM) NIPS Workshop 2015"
> It's not like the IRS is going to ask for corporate profit tax on Silk Road's earnings.

Why not?

IRS doesn't care if the activity is illegal or not. See for example this slate article describing how sex workers declare income.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I am OK with this if I ge tto opt out.
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I guess it's because Mary Beard is not fond of MOOCs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/10675043/Prof-Mary-Beard-online-courses-risk-losing-focus-on-education.html

But it does seem a little odd. Perhaps some ill-advised editing?
You have time and reason. That's all anything needs. Judgement of others is not important. Measure yourself by what you can do better each day.
How could 10x the bandwidth not require backend changes? Would need at least 10 gb to each neighborhood which I doubt they have now.
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From what I can see, it's not developed by github but an independent developer. Chrome extensions are a way for third-parties to inject content/scripts into sites they don't own.
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