skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40% is a _dramatic_ cut.
You are not gonna see raises no money ifor years till options vest. Say three years.
Now stack 40% of your gross yearly rate times 3 and ask yourself: what are the chanches those options will be worth that much?
> Never attribute to maliciousness what can be better attributed to stupidity.

We are talking about the government here.
Not angry, just disappointed. That's why I didn't demand that HN start showing the symbol.
I think the problem is is the last part:

> often motivated by political, religious, and moralistic ideologies.

From Cochrane's post the economist's motivation I came away with was publications, tenure and prestige.
>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I honestly strongly dislike this quote, because at the end of they day just about every malicious activity could be wrongly attributed to stupidity.
It is dying and/or much of its flesh is already dead. They should not be white. Even if healthy, those eyes are probably blind in such light. I doubt this animal is capable of reacting to much of anything.
As someone who's never had visa free travel to the US in the first place, this is some good Schadenfreude.

Frankly I think you should still visit Iran and just get a US tourist visa like the rest of the us. US tourist visas are good for multiple entries and only expire after 10 years, so it's not as bad as most European countries.
Feature-wise, you're partially right.

But using a modern framework (I prefer Ember) allows a team--large or small--to build advanced apps without losing their sanity. UI-based routing, declarative data-binding, and a REST abstraction layer save you a lot of hair pulling.
For the curious the kickstarter campaign video is also worth a watch : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boo...

Lots of features listed on the campaign page but nothing to back it up, IMO the whole thing smells very fishy.
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I agree with you plenty that this shouldn't be acceptable, but most of the people I've seen that are against modern practices of decent software teams are not so much examples of the points in this article as much as stereotypical examples of one's grandparents or parents trying to tell you how your job doesn't matter because software isn't "real work" and that their principles work just fine today as it did in the 70s. Or they expect that continuous delivery / CI is a product or feature of something else they bought for 9+ figures and that it's something that you bundle in with services and a license cost because that's literally all they know as how to make anything happen. Doing software projects with people that have more experience in medieval architecture would be probably more pleasant and productive than dealing with leadership that have decades of experience doing nothing but big company projects with more resources spent on planning software than on engineering talent.

If a company is hell-bent on focusing for development and new features over stability / security, that's something that can be fixed by leadership - I've worked with plenty of companies that turned themselves around and have wise leaders that know that it's time to spend the resources to do spring cleaning while trying to keep existing employees excited by feature development happy.
Looking at https://twitter.com/gernesti/with_replies, seems like there are some offers!
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To put this into perspective, it's worth noting that this was an issue of almost unprecedented contention between the US and Israel over whether or not to lift sanctions against Iran in exchange for nuclear disarmament. What Israel does to advance its foreign policy objectives is definitely within the purview of a foreign intelligence agency, and in this case the Israeli government was very actively lobbying congress. It seems pretty clear to me that the goal was to find out what Israel was doing, not spy on Congress.

The folks over at Lawfare had a much different breakdown of the issue: https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-do-conservatives-suddenly-so...

Relevant quote:

Was the activity properly disclosed to the intelligence committees? Actually, NSA’s behavior with respect to Israel appears to have been briefed to Congress, as one would hope. “Convinced Mr. Netanyahu would attack Iran without warning the White House, U.S. spy agencies ramped up their surveillance, with the assent of Democratic and Republican lawmakers serving on congressional intelligence committees” (emphasis added).
> Actions, not thoughts, make a monster.

I reject that absolutely.

I would not want a pedophile in my neighborhood near my children. They are monsters, no matter how they acted thus far

I will not wait for somebody to be harmed before I condemn an admitted pedophile. There is no sense in allowing somebody to be harmed first. It is immoral to wait for somebody to be harmed. In waiting for somebody to be harmed, you are essentially offering their victim as a human sacrifice to appease your personal ethical philosophy.
I'm not denying anything to anyone. I'm only stating observations. People have less and less autonomy nowadays. The illusion of autonomy, yes, there's an abundance of that. But it's not the real thing. It's actually more dangerous that no autonomy at all, because in the latter case at least you know you're doing someone else's bidding.

> Poor != uniformed.

I didn't think along this line. It's more of "general population == uninformed", especially when it comes to science and technology. It's too new and it's changing too fast. Societies internalize things very slowly.

I love quotes too, but denying freedom isn't what's happening. A big issue in our times is that people have very limited capabilities to exercise their freedom for any good. Not only the world is too big and complex, in every aspect of our lives we're constantly facing armies of malicious people that are paid for fucking us over. "Free will" sounds cool, but it loses much of its glamour when you see how easy is to manipulate people into doing things that go against their best interest.

> I have no objection to that. They can advocate that it should not be used. I am only opposed to banning this service.

Yeah, I'm not advocating a ban either. But I don't see anything bad about the third-party "elites" speaking up. They aren't just random celebrities, they're the people with knowledge and means to understand this particular issue.
> implicit expectation that, if you're a tech company, you by default must agree with and be a part of your incorporated nation's national military and intelligence complex

this shouldn't be the norm. Replace software with property, and it makes no sense. Gov't does not have the right to just appropriate a citizen's private property, unless it's war time. A gov't does not have the right to install surveylance in your private property, nor search your property, unless they have a warrant. Why does this not extend to the cyberworld?
I've seen your post go through substantial edits, so I'm a little wary about replying at all--it might change significantly again. That said...

No, I'm not sarcastic. Bringing out a gun to show people you'll shoot them over possessions is a serious overreaction.

Your story seems to describe a childhood event, and to be honest it sounds like a child's interpretation of the events: things are cast in black-and-white terms with your dad playing the role of the classic "good guy with a gun", there's clear-cut justice where he helps out another family in need, the villains are obviously just villains and thieves. That's all fine, and I have no doubt that you vividly remember these events and that they played out that way.

However, the reality is that, despite what you say, bringing out a gun is an instant escalation-to-the-top technique. Showing someone you're ready to shoot them (and that's exactly what walking up to a stranger with a gun in your hand is doing) is not de-escalation, it's escalation, it's raising the stakes to the highest point.

I mean, they're, in your own words, older teenagers. If they're not supposed to be there, use words! "Hey, that's not your stuff! Go home!" Brandishing a weapon, adding a gun to the mix is dangerous, because immediately and very clearly life is at risk.

If one of those older teenagers thought the same thing--"guns are a good way to go and get my tools back from that crazy guy who's been looting and hauling our stuff back to his barn"--and was walking around with their own gun, what's he or she going to do if some crazy guy with a shotgun comes up and starts yelling at him? All of a sudden, oh shit, the crazy guy's here with his gun and he could point it at me!

Because you're right, you don't know someone's intentions just from looking at them, whether it's the teenagers who you're afraid are picking over your wreckage (your perspective), or the guy who came up to them with a gun in his hand (their perspective).
One explains semiconductors using quantum mechanics.

Computers are constructed with semiconductors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

This is a good place to look. If you are interested in something more stable, and you have solid full stack experience, something like surge or toptal is good (I do contract work full time for surge).
> My assumption is that the text is allegorical, and so please decide what the allegories are about and commit to an interpretation. Or else stop claiming that any of it is true, or the word of god, etc.

That is a very Christian understanding of religion. I know a bit more about Judaism, and Judaism says that once the scriptures were given, they are open to interpretation and reinterpretation, and practical matters are decided by a majority (in accordance with the some framework around scripture -- which is viewed like a constitution -- and based on some deductive rules). There's even a famous (allegorical!) story in the Talmud where one rabbi is arguing with a group, and at one point God intervenes and says that the single rabbi is right, and the rest of the rabbis tell God that his opinion doesn't count anymore once Torah was handed to mankind[1].

Of course, polytheistic religions (like Shinto and some forms of Hinduism) are quite different, and others (like Buddhism and some forms of Hinduism) are not even theistic at all (and even in Judaism the concept of God is radically different from Christianity).

In short, when Dawkins says "religion", he really means "Christianity", because it doesn't seem like he has a clue about any other religion.

> Literal belief in a large section of the Bible is not anachronistic at all; it is perfectly current.

That is not what I meant by anachronistic (anachronism means placing an assumption, idea or object taken from one time period in another). I meant that today we assume most normative texts to be literal, but that was not the prevailing assumption when the bible was written.

[1]: http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm + Discussion: http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.co.il/2010/07/furnace-of-akhn...
- join a startup job :)
- just started a personal blog, so keep writing.
- travel to many countries to attend dev confs :)
- have in mind an IoT solution for brt travel planning in my country.
Huh? That the police investigate criminal wrong-doing by elected officials is obviously consistent with the police force being under control of ("strictly subservient to") the elected officials. Why would national security be any different?
Wait, will this nullify existing plans? Should I rush to get an upgrade on my device by signing up for a 2 year contract just to have the contract nullified on the 8th leaving me with a new device and no contract?
If you are signing a contract, why don't you have the right to know? If I tried to defend the fact that I never specified paying in US currency in some contract and instead used what ever the new hyper-inflated currency is, a judge would kick me out of the court room. Only if it was explicitly stated would a judge uphold such a contract.
One reason is that you have more control over contention over bandwidth. For example, if you have control over the outgoing packets, you can temporarily stop those packets when more important data needs to be sent.
A little unclear, is this an about-turn now that Jack's back?
I'd be interested in hearing more about it and how it compares to other established honeypots (e.g. Kippo).

Is there a place I can go now to learn more?
And I would add, "human subject that knows they're talking to a machine."

Also hopefully a machine that's being treated humanely so as not to start the robot uprising, or some skynet biz.
That was my point. The OP states that quantum mechanics "allows us to construct", not only describe.
Some really exciting things coming down the pipeline in the startup I work on.

On the personal side, A huge huge undertaking for my brother and I that's been a dream of ours for a long time. We'll be building the web app with MeteorJS and React. These two tools enable us to really build our vision with the few resources we have.

I also want to start a proper YouTube channel dedicated to Meteor programming. I've ordered my Microphone which should arrive whenever, it's new years so no rush. Once I get that I will start recording some cool stuff that hopefully helps grow the developer base. They say that you don't really know the material unless you can explain it in simple terms. That's my main reason for launching the channel.

Maybe, if there's time and things take off, I'll dive into Elixir/Phoenix.90% chance I won't though.

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@Sergio in July: How is the project going so far? How many videos have you made?
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I tried to look up the team that they brought in to give the training, but I couldn't find them. It was several years ago, but I remember that the main guy was one of the more popular authors. He had a series of books written that ranged from basic to advanced skills. I wish I could remember his name.

The books are probably useful (there are a ton of them), but the live sessions are likely much more effective because you get to practice the techniques, see the subtleties, and experience the results directly. For me, seeing the results really helped train my brain.

Honestly, I went into the training dragging my feet and expecting the worst, but it's given me a huge edge. The results have been amazing - especially when negotiating with unskilled negotiators. I've gone into negotiations expecting X and consistently getting 2X, sometimes even 10X.
who's holding a gun to your head? a guy who's read and studied source materials for decades knows more about authorial intent or historical context than you; i'd bet he has an understanding worth thinking about and considering.
> Note that Facebook's model requires a sacrifice of net neutrality from the get-go. Even if the market forces decide against Free Basics, net neutrality is long gone by then.

This is the heart of your argument. You believe that this undermining net neutrality, and it probably is. I don't see why there should be a different set of rules of paid services and those with a different model that doesn't involve direct payment from the user. As you can probably guess, I am not in support of net neutrality, so this is where we differ. I respect your resolve on the issue especially when faced with what seems like a hypothetical. I could see someone arguing against net neutrality by asking "hypothetically, under net neutrality I would be unable to offer free internet with limited functionality to the poorest people in the world...".

I believe this is a better argument to make and the rest is really an unnecessary distraction and can often be interpreted as condescension of the poor.
The first line of that article: "In standard English usage, the toponym "the British Isles" refers to a European archipelago consisting of Great Britain, Ireland and adjacent islands." Rather contradicts your original claim that "Ireland is not in the British Isles."
Yeah I want modules and contracts badly
No, I din't!

I come across this issue repeatedly in the economics literature, but didn't have the inclination to google up more evidence when writing the above comment, as I assumed "everyone knows this." Evidently I was wrong about that. Here are a few other economists (other than Cochrane) weighting on the topic:

* http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mathiness.pd...

* http://paulromer.net/mathiness/ (shorter version)

* http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/theory-vs-data-in...

* http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/freshwater-vs-sal...

* http://news.mit.edu/2010/krugman-event

Finally, if this is of interest, I highly recommend you read this opinion piece by Richard Posner, in which he concluded that the dominant conception of economics until the global financial crisis was the abstract-theoretical study of "rational choice" as opposed to the study of how economies actually work:

https://newrepublic.com/article/69601/how-i-became-keynesian

If I get the time, I'll google up more blog posts and supporting evidence.
I didn't feel the user interface was ready. Also, as the system is a database at heart it has to be absolutely rock solid.

Planning to launch on the 5th of Feb, which is the date (4 years) since I wrecked my knee and started working on this project to keep my mind busy. See https://velox.io
I think the term is seller's remorse. You give up your baby for adoption, you lose ALL control as a parent. How could he not know that? It appears Disney is doing a fine job creatively and fans will get to experience more of the franchise.
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Yes, its an economy of scale thing. A %5 profit margin decrease will kill some small market makers (or at least make them move to other venues/trades) but the big ones have seen their profits erode so dramatically already they have become much like utilities or gone out of business.
Ah, I'm reading that, too! Looking forward to understand more about ML since I see it'll be a good part of Computer Science in the coming years :)
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The actual article. The Discover Magazine synopsis doesn't meet Hacker News calibre:

http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2015/12/mhst1-1512.html
* Publish a Shopify plugin I started recently. I need to just do it and not get distracted by perfecting every little thing.

* Other than that, I ran about 1000 miles this year but want to be more consistent and avoid taking weeks long breaks from running.

* Read less and but get more out of it. I read about 25 books, but so many of them I don't remember much from them. I'll try to sink my teeth into 12 or so instead.

* Lose 10 lbs. Lost 15 this year, 10 more would be ideal for me I think.
Most committers only review or care about a small area of code, and thus have a lower frequency of commits. That's a good thing, IMO.
To me it has always been the tooling and its ecosystems around the language that matters, not some of these advanced features...

So C# might lose its appeal to you specifically but not to many people ;)
Store the decryption key in a removable module or the wireless controller? Then anyone who captures one is stuck with a ball of encrypted code that can't execute. Dealing with securing software and keys against capture is not new for the military.

Also destroying the hdd/ssd is easier than destroying the whole machine. You could even have a secure wipe option if the machine is still able to run it's computer but is disabled mechanically.
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I am aware of DeepMind. It is surely a step in the right direction. However, while model independent reinforcement learning is one part of the puzzle, the other (and equally important) part is transfer of knowledge between agents (most human learning happens via interaction between a teacher and a student). I would really love to see some progress in that area.
I've had a lot of success using System.js and JSPM to transpile and bundle my Javascript code. I've dropped Karma altogether and I am just using the Mocha CLI for testing. Testing Angular 1.x was such a nightmare that I kind of just gave up. I'm having a lot more success with other frameworks that are a bit smaller and do less.
I've been working full-time on a startup for the past four months but had this side project pretty much finished for the past year. I decided to finally release it as it might help some small businesses be a bit more efficient with their invoices, expense reports, time-off tracking, etc. Also any additional runway it gives me for my main project can only help.

Please let me know any comments you have (both positive and negative). Thanks!
If you match up the best AI systems against the bottom 25% of the U.S. population, the humans won't come out looking too smart. AI might still fail the Turing test at least some of the time, but it's getting a little scary.
Agreed! As an aspiring DJ this site is essential part of anyones work flow. A lot of the older music from the early days of the rave seen is not available in digital format and no longer being pressed into new records. So its the only place you can really find and buy it now.
Congrats! This is quite interesting and I look forward to seeing the site. Have you come across CyberChaff [1]? It seems like you may have similar goals. CyberChaff makes use of HaLVM [2] so this approach (using unikernels) seems like it might suit you too.

I've put together a website to help gather the unikernel projects [3], so if you choose to consider this approach for your next round of work, please do share your experiences there!

[1] https://galois.com/project/cyberchaff/
[2] https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM
[3] http://unikernel.org
Wow, that's some shameless self promotion if i ever seen some!

I don't think you can attribute slack's success to design of their apps alone, but there's very little actual concrete design info, except for a vague "it's fun", "it's colorful", and "sounds cool".
This is a very interesting idea. Have you, or anyone else on HN, ever seen this in action? I would LOVE to hear stories about this, either successes or failures.
Exactly! Plausible deniability is a very low hurdle to jump over. If it's your only hurdle, you're in big trouble.
Actually, I don't get the feeling that a single person in this discussion is upset on behalf of Ireland's tax revenues. Why shouldn't a sovereign nation get to decide that they'd rather have Apple HQ there for other reasons and forego some or all of the tax revenue? Tax incentives to lure businesses are common and reasonable.
The very glue within the majority of HNers' effort here is money. Jobs represented $$$$$, Ian's Debian is free.
You, like almost everyone else responding to me, have missed the idea that smart phones without data plans still are data capable. (The number of teens without any sort of smartphone carrying around an iPhone that gets wifi is negligible.) The point is that the claim "we should support wifi because the poor don't have devices that can access 4G data" is mistaken.

Yes, there may be technical issues surrounding swapping SIM cards that makes a municipal 4G network unworkable, but this isn't the issue I'm addressing. It's discussed by one of the other commenters. And in fact, this downside would effect the poor the least since they could just pick-up a free municipal SIM card and us it continuously (since they often can't afford a network dataplan), while those who can afford network data plans would constantly need to swap SIM cards.
It would be interesting to know the context. If this feature was already in a popular piece of software, then saying "don't do that" in your standard risks fragmenting things rather than codifying them, and that's no good either.