skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this at one point when I needed a large synthetic "customer" dataset, and found the sample size to be somewhat limited. I had to munge first/last names with added random characters. But looking at it now, it appears that's improved. For example, there are about 3000x500 first/last name combinations, for a total of about 1.5M possible full names (for en_US). However, if you need, say, as many unique last names as possible, 500 might still be too few. Still, a nice project.
So what, you're postulating that US citizens justly deserve to be killed by police 79 time more than their British counterparts? I mean the police is only supposed to kill to protect their, or a bystander's, life. We know from the few times that police-caused deaths have been caught on video in the US that this is often not at all the case. The guy shot down as he walks down the middle of the road. The guy who's neck gets broken in a police van, the young kid shot down in a park because he's playing with a toy gun. The guy that is choked to death because he's selling loose cigarettes in the street.

Those are all recent cases that I am personally aware of, as a non-US citizen, living in Europe. I'm sure there have been plenty of others.

So yes, not all police killings in the US are undeserved, but there sure are plenty that are, and that is what those statistics are showing.
That is true.

However, how many of the people impacted by the current DDoS against Linode are only affected BECAUSE they are using Linode?
And if we removed government-backed monopolies on these designs it would hurt the development of these things or what? Just pointing out that serious work could go into a design and still not be a good public-interest decision to let it be patented. Probably the restrictiveness hurts innovation more than it helps.
> The machines are not on the verge of taking over. This is a topic rife with speculation and perhaps a whiff of hysteria.

People like Musk, Hawking, Gates, etc. with vast A.I. resources and knowledge available to them state that "A.I. [Cambrian] explosion" is likely to occur, and that it could mean the end of humanity.

Ray Kurzweil, with a degree in computer science from MIT, inventor of many prolific technologies, known for his startlingly accurate (esp in the temporal sense) predictions about technology, and hired by one of the largest tech companies in the world to create a computer "brain" and bring a new understanding to NLP, thinks this future is inevitable, although he's more optimistic about such a future.

Isaac Asimov, with a PhD in biochemistry, and one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, was concerned about A.I. long before it was even a possibility, considering the state of computer technology in the 1950s.

But hey, a Washington Post reporter with a degree in politics says it's all OK, so I guess we're good.
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Damn these numbers! :D

Regarding your correction. The percent value is now too low (.002%). I think you used the factor value of ~0.002 as percentage. So you probably meant 0.2% which would be close to my number.

Using your numbers

30000/18200000 = .00164835164835164835 = ~0.16% = ~0.2%
Was it this one?

https://archive.org/details/Getting_Started_with_TRS-80_Basi...

My introduction to programming was this via this book in the back of my sixth grade math class in 1982. Been hooked ever since.
This statement seems debatable: "Since all the contestants implement the same functionality, the main difference between their samples is their coding style."

All the (winning) contestants implement the same functionality, yes, but with possibly wildly different approaches/algorithms, so the main difference between code samples is not just "style" but what could be called "general thinking in and around the problem".

But this statement seems the most interesting: "By comparing advanced and less advanced programmers’, we found that more advanced programmers are easier to de-anonymize and they have a more distinct coding style."

Beginners tend to think alike, while experts develop an original line of thinking, that is identifiable. The paper could be called "Fingerprints of Thought"...
And that proves what? That I'm wrong? Hardly.
I don't totally understand your question: the bank is typically slowly paid back on the loan and the loan is collateralized, so the nine million dollars don't puff out of existence at a single point any more dramatically than it currently would. The bank would have time to deal with the inevitable defaults due to the duration matching of deposits and loans.

Obviously banks could still go bankrupt, but they would not be bankrupt by design, like they currently are.
> All I'm saying is that more freedom causes economic growth

What about Russia in '90s?
I used to run a hosting company similar to Linode back in the day, and DDOS's were the most annoying thing ever.

The main reason DDOS attacks exist is poor security and lack of cooperation between ISPs. Lack of adequate security on desktops (usually Windows) makes it possible to build large bot networks.

Lack of cooperation between ISPs makes it very hard to track down the source of the DOS. Very often the DDOS isn't as distributed as it may seem - it can just be a couple of machines on a very well connected network (e.g. a university). But getting a hold of someone in the middle to filter that traffic can take a very long time or be outright impossible. First-responder network engineers (typically referred to as "security") are overworked and underqualified, and the people who really know their stuff typically can't be bothered with silly DOS attacks.

We've also observed that (D)DOS's happen because of content. Anything political, religious, or whatever other shade of the many things someone out there disapproves of is a potential target for a DOS. Contrary to what you may read in the press, extortion is only a small minority of all DOS attacks out there. We've actually told customers to go away because their content was too DOS-prone.

And because these things usually happen across countries, even though they are very real crimes that cause serious damage and cost money, they are hardly ever prosecuted. As the target of a DOS all you want is for it to stop, nobody ever bothers reporting it to the authorities afterwards (because how would you even know who the "authority" is).
Well, to be fair, in my experience hiring, I've had far more freshly graduated potential hires that couldn't do the FizzBuzz test than senior devs. So much so that I usually gave something more complex to do than just a simple fizzbuzz like test.
Unlike most startups, it's not going to be easy to profit from and has a good chance of suffering reprisals.
Really? They do this?
Sure...

Edit: If you had said "some" and not "majority", I'd have agreed with you. But "majority" is just cockamamey, made up BS!
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I was in a tight spot after college (recession 2010-11) and hustled hondas and vw's for a year and while this guy makes some good points, the 'average' car salesman was not making 60k. The guys on the floor were busting their asses 10-16 hours a day, 6-7 days a week (Saturdays mandatory, no paid vacation) for 30 - 50k at most places.

It wasn't uncommon to come in at 7 AM and close up at 11 PM after dealing with idiots that demanded to drive 5 cars and then get kicked out because they had 350 FICOs and wanted a new SUV with 0 down. The majority of people had no idea what kind of car they needed or what they could afford.

The things this guy doesn't point out is that dealerships will work with banks to get deals financed that otherwise might not be, they provide loaner cars, make sure people have insurance, and they deal with title/registration paperwork that is a huge hassle. They'll also take just about any trade-in if it runs (and some that barely run) and dispose of them (something that could cost you).

Vehicles are the highest value or 2nd highest value purchase for most people. You definitely need to know your stuff when purchasing a car, and I'm totally against predatory dealership tactics, but after working in the industry I don't have faith that the average american can navigate the myriad of vehicles, processes, paperwork, and other tasks that go into buying/selling cars directly. I also have a hard time trusting an individual seller after seeing the completely wasted cars we took in on trades.
> There is no problem having up-front ballpark pricing

There certainly is, and it's a bigger problem than potentially turning away people who are uneasy about sharing contact info. Just to name one: A SaaS company may be willing to undercut a competitor's price for a sufficiently big prospect, but advertising a high price at the outset may turn that prospect away before you have a chance to talk to them.
I'd trade all of those inefficiencies for secure 2FA, anyday. YMMV.
Slightly off topic for this post. The features of unroll.me look appealing, and would save a lot of time and frustration for many people. But what is unroll.me's business model? I don't see any pricing mentioned on the site. I presume this is one more service that's "free" to gain a good customer base. Considering that unroll.me was bought by Slice (slice.com) a year ago, which is related to tracking stuff you buy online and is in turn owned by Rakuten, this looks like a web of services that can gain a lot from your use of them.

Most (not all) email subscriptions are a result of financial transactions like purchases. I value my privacy, and even though I know that providers like Gmail or Yahoo or Microsoft use automated systems to read my mails with such transactions, I'm just limited to trusting them (and their employees and their policies). By giving access to other companies to my mailbox with valuable information, I would just be increasing my exposure further. When companies start providing services "for free" in exchange for access to your personal information, habits and actions, it always looks very uncomfortable.
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Ditto this experience from Shopify
Where'd you find those calls?
Brian Krebs is a security researcher partially responsible for uncovering some of the biggest credit card leaks in recent history. It's his job to "antagonize" the credit card black markets.

He's not just some internet troll, he's doing real good that you very well may have personally benefited from as a result.
A lot of the dealership hate stems from the fact that negotiation is expected, so their first offer is always high, even above MSRP, and if you're meek and mild you're very likely to pay more than you need to. Even still, with the amount of information out there, margin are being squeezed and you're almost never going to find thousands in markup on any vehicle, especially brand new models, so a dealer offers MSRP (e.g. $30k), you counter with $25k, but since the dealer breaks even at $29,400 they stop answering your emails.

Transparency has helped but not as much as it could.
As a Linode customer, I guess this wouldn't have happened with AWS, but the way they handle it is still far better than "your server, your bandwidth, deal with it" that you'd get with e.g. Hetzner dedicated servers. We had several hours of downtime, which sucks, but other than that we didn't have to worry about taking measures against the DDoS ourselves.
> The very fact that Oracle has started to address the slow startup times of JVM applications by finally working on AOT compilation is an admission of the technical immaturity of the JVM.

Not at all. If you listen to the talk introducing that work, you'll see that it is designed to address a very particular (and relatively unusual) use-case, which is important to some specific (yet lucrative) Oracle customers.
This could be a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card
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I closed it more as an incentive for them to improve their security than because I feel I'm at risk. I think customers should do this more often otherwise companies are slow to address these issues. And if it were too difficult for me to close my account I'd know I am too dependent on them.
WTF? They are simply about getting women into nightclubs.
Hear, hear. I have worked in a warehouse before (part of paying my own way through college). It wasn't that bad, in the grand scheme of things. Hell, I've been treated less as a person at some of my software development jobs.
No, he won't recognize them. As he is running the plates and driver's license through the official public computer system, he will also be whipping out his personal phone to run that name through a few private databases, run by ex-cops, with subscription access granted only to cops and ex-cops.

Those databases will tell him, essentially, "This guy created a popular app that puts your job under a microscope. Also, he probably got a bunch of money for it, and may be carrying a lot of cash."

It won't actually say anything about harassing him. That will be entirely up to the investigating officer, and all the other investigating officers that he may have alerted via the aforementioned databases to watch out for cars with the same model and color.
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I can go on and give you the full story, but here is the gist, consolidation is the first step of real resiliency. I don't know what you do in your day job, but you weren't in my position and let me tell you, it was a nightmare to pull off in that situation. I am happy we are dealing with AWS. We can mirror tools to actually make two VPCs alike. Human cost is not cheap, people have to work over time in order put out fire, people rarely worked eight hours a day, we were all consultants.
I started really getting into nature, hiking and camping this year. If you aren't careful, it can quickly become an addiction. Although it's probably the healthiest addiction you can have. Most of the time while I'm in my 9-5 box, I'm yearning for the mountains and planning my next adventure.
"I would also spend my free time learning a skill"

They only get 13 hours a day away from work, minus long sounding (and expensive) public transit each way, so good luck with that. Of course its temp work so between jobs, as long as they somehow have a place to live and food to eat, they could study, in theory.

Also most unskilled labor jobs are already staffed with skilled laborers. Everyone in unskilled labor older than about 20 already has some story along the lines of "I was a (blank) before the (accident | disease | downsizing | divorce) and now I'm here in the warehouse, no jobs you know." Why would a newly educated nurse or soldier get hired when there's a better qualified experienced one currently underemployed and working next to the clickbait author? There would be very little point in spending time and going in to debt to become a nurse if the best job a nurse can find is the one he already has working in a warehouse.
On one hand: Glass is pretty cool hardware, and an improved version of it (relative to the Explorer Edition) would have a ton of potential. On the other hand: Google screwed Glass' early adopters, myself included, and in more than a year since they withdrew from the market, they've done nothing whatsoever to set things right.

(A summary I wrote last year of what happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8609412)
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This is somewhat relevant: https://i.imgur.com/Q6j2Jmp.png

(inb4 yet another Krebs article complaining about me)
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It is ridiculous to say that we simply need to pass laws to address unacceptable behavior from companies. I firmly believe in regulation as a force for good, but attempting to create regulation that addresses specific companies or situations usually results in a mass of outdated regulation that becomes a hindrance in a few years. Companies should treat their workers well because it's the right thing to do, not simply adhere to the letter of the law because it's the lawful thing to do.
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Unless someone has broken the law in their process of accumulating resources, they are legally in possession of such resources.
> ... rounded corners were held to be enough to establish infringement.

... amongst other elements. This is what Apple's complaint stated:

>"Closely comparing Apple's patented design with Samsung's products reinforces the conclusion of substantial similarity. Samsung copied every major element of Apple's patented design:

a flat, clear, black-colored, rectangular front surface with four evenly rounded corners;

an inset rectangular display screen centered on the front surface that leaves very narrow borders on either side of the display screen and substantial borders above and below the display screen; and

a rounded, horizontal speaker slot centered on the front surface above the display screen,

where the rectangular front surface is otherwise substantially free of ornamentation outside of an optional button area centrally located below the display."

Certainly not the most earthshaking design, but a lot more than "rounded corners".
I don't have strong feelings on your question. I would prefer to live in a country where individuals could save via CD-like instruments and earn a reasonable return, because I think it would better express the time preferences of society as a whole, rather than a centralized political entity, but its certainly not something I would force everyone to live under.

My core point is that we should not allow the introduction of multiple claims on monetary units at a given point of time. This is simply fraud, even though it requires a bit of thinking (and un-thinking, if you have an econ background) to realize it.

Intentional duration mismatch is fraud, and is no way to run a banking system.
But that desire is instrumental for performing many of the possible goals we might have specified, since humans are at best "useless matter" and at worst "actively preventing my actions" unless we were very careful with the goals. Therefore the desire to get rid of the human race is actually a logical consequence of most utility functions, rather than being directly specified.

By contrast, utility functions don't just appear when you think hard enough about a problem. The desire to get rid of the human race does just appear like that, if you're super-powerful and have any of a certain huge set of goals, but your set of goals does not simply come into existence ex nihilo.
Greater than $100k as a floor sales guy is extremely uncommon in a modern new car dealership, and really only possible in your major car meccas like houston/atlanta/LA. Most deals are "minis" (varies between $75 - 150). I worked in sales for a while and the average income is closer to 40k.

It's also pretty much impossible 'part-time'. Most people don't buy during their first visit. We worked 80 hour weeks because if you missed your client when they came back to buy it was somebody else's deal (or a halfsie).
That's not at all true, releasing=/=uncovering.
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Thanks, I'll get in touch :)
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Something to consider: it is now technically possible and within the grasp of hundreds of clinics worldwide to run gene therapy. The only reason they aren't yet doing this is that it takes some increment of time to get things lined up; funding, customers, propagation of knowledge, etc. But all the pieces are in place.

Myostatin or follistatin gene therapy is about as proven as these things get. It exists in heavily muscled natural mutants, including humans (look up brute whippets). Antibody myostatin blockade has just completed phase 2 clinical trials, adding muscle mass to 75 year olds. Chinese labs are turning out myostatin-free dogs. The BioViva CEO organized her own follistatin gene therapy earlier this year in an overseas lab. Five years from now it won't take starting a company level of networking to fly somewhere and do this.

But myostatin for muscle mass is just the best risk/benefit/knowledge picture out of hundreds of alterations that could in theory now be run up in humans, many of which are high risk in the sense that they've only been tried a few times in mice and not followed for a long time. For example adding additional lysosomal receptors to mice restores liver function in old mice to be the same as in young mice. Increased GDF-11 sends stem cells back to work and improves health in old mice.

And so on and so forth. The eager early adopter with a hundred thousand dollars to spend ten years from now could spend the time between now and then mining the research literature and organizing collaborators, making connections with labs overseas and setting up for multiple gene therapies down the line, many of which are associated with interventions shown to delay or turn back specific measures of aging in mice.

This isn't SENS, it isn't repair of underlying damage, but it is a step ahead of what is currently possible.
What data do you have on your PayPal account that you're so worried about?
If the AI is designed to be an a self-motivated decision-making agent, some form of utility function will be already built in by its architects. One both hopes and fears that it will also be provided with a manner of updating and actualising that utility function in altering circumstances.
Thanks for the info, I am going to have a look at them and see where the road leads
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Sarin gas doesn't decide deploy itself. A superintelligent autonomous insect drones might. That's the difference.

>human-controlled

They might not be human-controlled. That's why it's extra scary.
On AWS the DDoS hits the wallet instead. What’s the difference?

It’s “denial of service,” not denial of server and network resources.
You haven't answered the question I posed at all.

This problem isn't unique to Krebs and it doesn't just affect people deliberately sticking their hands in fire.

Regular people have their CC and SSN posted online too.
That's not what I got. She does say:

> Although it’s hard to credit the study entirely (it may have happened anyway), the study did give us a way into a relationship that feels deliberate.

In that light, the "we made the choice to be" is, in part, because they chose to ask the questions.
In the fourth paragraph that starts "Twenty minutes later..." he specifically states that his account email and password were changed on his account a second time. This is after calling in to paypal to fix the first hack.
Nope, there's only one spelling: Agnieszka.
That was it - thanks!
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No, it didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807369
The poverty problem in the united states mostly stems from the fact that the income distribution is insanely screwed and politicians are bought too easily by corporations. It has very little to do with racism. If racism were the cause appalachia would be the garden of Eden.
OVH offers very comprehensive DDoS protection with all but the most budget servers:

https://www.ovh.com/us/anti-ddos/