skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is certainly the case, however for an organization implementing best practices for code deployment, such a change would have to be peer-reviewed in the best case, or pushed directly to master with an obvious paper trail in the worst. It wasn't my intention to imply that employing well-designed envelope encryption would shut the door on any possibility of an engineer gaining access to secrets; clearly there's a lot more involved in making that happen. However, this goes a long way to allowing the source of any leaks to be traced should they occur.
Yes, I believe for a certain kind of player, the SC experience is enough to sell a lot of Oculus Rift CV1 units. Obviously, this price point is above what most people would spend on a computer, let alone a peripheral. With respect to FPS, I don't know. I don't play FPS. :P
That "code" was widely known ... to the people controlling the missiles, the only people in the world who could actually use it. Imho that means there was no code.

"Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel."

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-d...

Or to really get the heartbeat up:

"WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Wednesday it was only as "an added precaution" that an armored car was hurriedly parked atop a Minuteman 3 silo after the nuclear missile inside gave off false signals suggesting it was about to launch itself nearly four years ago." [They left the brakes off so that, should the cover slide open, the truck might fall into the silo and destroy the missile.]

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-29/news/mn-17348_1_minut...
You can't dream if you don't play.
One definition I was fond of and struck by hearing was that you're not an adult when you can take care of yourself but when you can take care of others. We could qualify that all sorts of ways but its short and pithy form makes it stick in the mind well.
+1 for pointing out that it is actually a $491MM payout that you can choose to take as a $800MM annuity over 20(?) years.

You also have to subtract taxes from the payout, which also eats into the payout. I would expect it would be 30% or higher, depending on how much you spend on a tax lawyer (which, of course, cuts into the payout as well).

The only[1] way to win is to not play.

[1] Odds are 292,201,338 to 1 of winning by not playing.
Audi: machine intelligence to give cars “better than human” capabilities
I'm a little sad to see Paul's footnote 2, where he declares that "the numbers in the Forbes 400 are nonsense. But it will do ..."

Has Paul ever interacted with the Forbes Wealth team? My book research has overlapped their interests going back to the 1990s, and every time I've spoken with them, I've been impressed with how much work they put into trying to come up with the best possible approximations. Most of their numbers are pretty good -- and in some cases, their research trumps the public boasts that various rich people offer up on their own behalf.

If Paul had said Forbes's numbers were "imprecise," he could have made his point. But "nonsense" is a loaded word, and Paul has been around long enough to know that. If he wants to be taken seriously in this conversation, a better discernment/name-calling ratio would be nice.
How MIT Seniors, a Retiree, and Two Researchers Beat the Massachusetts Lottery
It's true that if you play all your tickets in one drawing, you have a higher chance of winning the jackpot at least once, especially as your number of tickets approaches the number of total tickets. However, your expected value does not go up, because you lose the chance of winning the jackpot more than once.

For an extreme example, consider a lottery with only one number, selected from 1 to 2, costing $1 per ticket, with a $2 jackpot.

Buy 2 tickets at once, you lose $2 on tickets, and you get $2 back. Expected net return, $0 (with probability 100%).

Buy 1 ticket per draw for 2 draws, and you have a 1/4 chance of winning nothing (net -$2), a 1/4 chance of winning both jackpots (net +$2), and a 2/4 chance of winning one and losing one (net $0). Same expected value.

Of course, in a real lottery, usually[0] the expected value is negative. So what's happening is like anti-insurance. In both cases your expected value is negative, but you pay the insurance company money to lower your variance, and you pay the lottery money to raise your variance.

[0] Usually? Well, in theory with a cumulative jackpot the jackpot might get high enough to make the expected value positive... except that usually as the jackpot rises, the number of players rises too, such that you have to take into account the possibility of having the split the jackpot, which of course would cut your take in half, or worse.
It's a genuine scalability problem when you have to work out how to physically print/place that many tickets, and the mechanism by which you distribute the jobs up to all of your volunteers (are they volunteers if they're being paid?)
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In the past I've run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular job, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Previous work:

- School data processing app (Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL)

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- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

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- Project management webapp for construction companies (Rails, AngularJS, Bootstrap)

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I think the opt-out nature of it was a calculated risk they felt they needed to take.
I said it another thread so I'll say it here. Inequality isn't not fundamentally bad. It's a second or third order derivative of something that is bad.

Bringing in more refugees will increase inequality. Refugees are actually good for the economy. Therefore inequality is not strictly bad.

As Ezra said, only certain things are bad. He called out finance. We should focus on the root causes. Inequality is a too far removed at best and a red herring at worst.
I am actually hoping for something like web assembly versioned modules with a p2p module registry to become popular for iot, blockchain, everything. Web assembly is actually a language-agnostic abstract syntax tree which can be JITd/compiled across architectures.
I find that it's more enjoyable to not join the pool and then buy myself a lunch when the participants inevitably lose. I make sure that everyone knows that it's a celebratory lunch. And then I wonder why I don't have any friends.
The infographic and analysis are slightly misleading. If you look at the YoY analysis, funding is basically flat. One could argue that Q2/Q3 2015 were outliers and that while investment didn't grow in 2015, it didn't shrink either.
Google Signs Lease for 250000 Ft^2 of Office Space in NYC Pier57 Building
The customer signed the specification.
Every single new modification is it's own risks independent from all others. So, no set of studies can say that this new GMO product is safe until you test that GMO product.

In 100 years people may reasonably feel that pre 2060's GMO food is fine, but that new stuff is risky. And they would be reasonable to feel that way. After all, we have recalled a lot of great new products from the market due to long term issues.

PS: This might be unreasonable, however the pro GMO argument is lower food costs which is a non issue for many people.
Hahah and dangerous as all hell!!! I love it
> Hell...there are hundreds (if not thousands) of companies just doing advertising services, alone.

http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

> I often wonder how much of Facebook's revenue (for example) consists of valley startups trying to micro-target indifferent consumers.

During the dot-com boom, a large fraction of Yahoo's revenue was coming from startups, who were using their VC money to pay exorbitant amounts for partnerships with Yahoo. You can guess what happened at Yahoo when the party ended in 2000 and the money men went back to NYC.
Famously, something akin to this was done by Voltaire in 1729 (including the crowdsourcing). See https://books.google.com/books?id=BBusxgu8-AAC&lpg=PA259&vq=...
This should be the new "wall" command!!!

Edit: Shirley my dear, you'd best know I was joking.
interesting i would like to install and run the scripts, if so what is the process to go docker or aws, or cloud would be great it would be awesome if you can provide the installation and running steps how to load images and make them to color like a guide, may be i can help aswell.
I was surprised when the author all of a sudden started talking about AWS, and clicking some kind of button that creates a key.

(Besides, one would assume has been backdoored by the Amazon staffers anyway)
So I have a question...

I have an extremely paltry amount of Yahoo stock (5 shares) that I bought on a whim in 2014. This is the only investing I've done outside of my company 401k. I know absolutely nothing about investing. What the heck should I do with it at this point?
http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320#comic
A 15 minute call could save you 15% or more on car insurance by switching to Geico.
Telescope Building with John Dobson (2014) [video]
"I just do the "Ok Google" thingy and talk to it and boom, it's all done. "

I wish such apps (incl Siri) would be able to handle accent. Sooner than later, I hope.
I want to +1 this idea :)
Yes you will. 8+ yrs retail. Underpaid Tech Support/Sys admin/WebMaster/Copy-Machine-Boy now.
Don't worry, your luck is bound to turn around. Any day now.
I will comment here since my comment on her blog didn't pass moderation.

The analysis is obviously flawed. If people used their first names only that doesn't automatically mean they aren't Open Source users/developres.
Same with anonymous comments.
Same with handle he couldn't trace back.

Really, it seems she had a thesis and conveniently went through the data to confirm her views.
If you operated it as a business the lottery tickets are tax-deductible, so no taxes.
Martin Gardner’s Signs of a Crank
Sadly have to agree with the other commenters here that site broken on mobile....
>Most opponents of systemd are not against consolidation and standardization of linux system administration.

That's not my experience, in the discussions I've seen and taken part in, most (as in vast majority) of the detractors are opposed to systemd as a consolidation of a large array of core tools and services all under the same 'umbrella', which is exactly what the BSD's do at an even higher level as they are developed as full operating systems.

I'm not sure what 'happiness to introduce bugs and unbootable systems' refer to, I've been using systemd ever since Arch made the switch (~4 years ago). I've yet to have stability issues and I haven't read of any widespread problems in the Arch forums either.

There are (and likely always will be) distros which default to and promote alternatives (Gentoo comes directly to mind), but in the grand scope we're seeing a huge convergence around systemd across distros, which tells me this type of standardisation is something the Linux ecosystem really pined for overall.
Sure cpu's are cheap, but the thinking in the embedded world is still - i'm making 20K of this(or maybe a lot more) , and if i save 50cents on the cpu - this is $10K so management will like this savings, even if it takes some work.

But actually , if you can replace the physical UI with a phone based UI using a cheap bluetooth mcu and some framework like blynk or simblee ,than you'll have a decent ram/flash and a cheaper product.
Is there reason to believe that a TRNG would somehow select numbers with a better chance of winning than any other method?

I can see the method impacting the number of dollars you win but surely any valid set of numbers has the same chance to win as any other.

It's not like your TRNG is actually emulating the behavior of the balls in the machine.
Want to help solve this problem? My company, Genability, builds software to help solar companies and other new energy companies figure out how to make the economics of clean power "pencil out". And we're hiring! http://genability.com/careers/work_with_us.html
Where can I find a directory of machine learning consultants?
Googling "Machine Learning Consultants" turns up only a few websites ... there must be many more ?
Understanding the background here is important.

A year ago, Yahoo announced that they would spin off their stake in Alibaba (around 30B). Somewhere along the last year, it was determined that the spinoff might incur a huge tax bill, costing shareholders a few billion dollars. Last month, they decided to do a reverse spin-off. Instead of spinning off Alibaba, spin off everything else (which is only worth a few billion). The tax bill on 4B is much less than the tax bill on 30B.

In other words, all that would be left after the spinoff is an Alibaba holding company.
The law. Utilities cannot profit on the electricity they sell.
Fastest doesn't mean actually making tons of money. Sure vaulation on # of user, but a business can't live forever with # of users. How many of these users are making original contents? I keep seeing posts from years ago getting liked over and over by the people I follow on Tumblr.
Good technology is a terrible company to inject into this conversation. They've been around for a decade or more and were always an also ran in their space. They hardly match the desired narrative that the NYTimes, or anyone else wants to use, of a 3 - 5 year rocketship/unicorn who is suddenly engulfed in flames. When I first saw that article a couple of weeks back I was like "What? That company was still even around?"

And why would the author assume, based on one quarter worth of data, that any sort of landing of any kind has occurred? Surely you'd want to let the change of direction play out a little longer before making any type of claims about whether there's a meaningful change and at what speed it's happening.
http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/jordan-hubbard-free-bsd-..., slides 32 and 33:

"etc/rc.d is quite sophisticated for what it does, but the paint on /etc/rc is obvious"

"Too many things need to know explicitly about dependencies"

"Even the Linux die-hards have essentially grasped the necessity of systemd"

Talk is by Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD co-founder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard)

Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645188, video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri66Uz6-8Y (49 minutes)
It's not called Venture Capital for nothing.
His "Bill Gates education" analogy doesn't really make sense to me. I think he is saying that it would create a bunch of super rich people but I don't think you get Bill Gates by education alone (IIRC Outliers supports that). The major of people would probably join the middle class (and not "stop short", the middle class is a great place to be compared to poverty) and lessen income inequality, even if one or two became billionaires.
Could you explain the performance issue and provide (or point to) an example showing how to do this correctly?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1933734

The Superorganism Account of Human Sociality: How and When Human Groups are Like Beehives

Abstract:
Biologists call highly cooperative and socially integrated animal groups such as beehives and ant colonies “superorganisms”. In such species, the colony acts like an organism despite each animal’s physical individuality. This paper frames human sociality through the superorganisms metaphor by systematically reviewing the superorganismic features of human psychology. These features include: (1) mechanisms to integrate individual units, (2) mechanisms to achieve unity of action, (3) low levels of heritable within-group variation, (4) a common fate, and (5) mechanisms to resolve conflicts of interest in the collective’s favor. It is concluded that human beings have a capacity to partly and flexibly display each of these superorganismic properties. Group identification is a key mechanism that activates human superorganismic properties, and threats to the group a key activating condition. This metaphor organizes diverse aspects of human psychology (e.g., normative conformity, social identity processes, religion, and the “rally-around-the-flag” reflex) into a coherent framework.
I disagree with the statement that you should not buy individual stocks because others know more than you. This is only true if you buy stocks for companies outside of your area of expertise. If you work in tech you know more than the average wall street trader about tech companies especially the one you work at. If you work in medicine you know which medical insures are shit and which are great, etc.

Now this does not mean you should buy multiple stocks all in one sector but it does mean if you know a company well and you know they are doing great and will be doing great in the next year you should buy their stock. You should never have more than 20% of your portfolio in a single sector but it is perfectly safe to have 80% of your portfolio in vanguard funds and 20% you invest in one or two companies you truly believe in.
I'm glad Paul Graham is being honest about startups' role in wealth and income inequality. Ezra Klein says there are good (Silicon Valley) and bad (Wall Street) rich people regarding income and wealth inequality. However if you're using the gross measure of income and wealth inequality, rich people all contribute the same way, in proportion to their wealth and income. Paul Graham is correct to focus on finer-grain factors, which are implicit in Ezra Klein's good-bad dichotomy but which he misses by going after inequality rather than a concept of justice, whether that justice be just deserts or equity.
Boom... Like being a parent or taking care of parents.

For me it was when I got married. At first it was like cool and then it dawned on me that as head of household, I was responsible for more than just ME!

Once my kids were born, a different type of adulthood settled in. The decisions that I had made earlier in my life about things like moving, finances, and doing stupid things on the weekends with my wife weren't as easy to make or not even possible.

And now as time has passed, I've had to deal with aging parents. I now talk with my mom and dad as an adult and not a child. Our discussions when dealing with serious topics related to health or family now weigh heavier on me. I now carry a sense of responsibility with me that I just can't shake.

For me the moment I entered adulthood was the moment I couldn't shake my responsibilities anymore. I also want to point out that I choose to be responsible. Could I decide tomorrow to be irresponsible? Hell yes, but I choose not to because I have people that depend on me.

One last thing, being an adult does not stop me from doing kid like things. I still play plenty of video games like my favorite Black OPS 3 (many hours have been thrown into that black hole of time) and watch cartoons like Bleach (soap opera for nerds).

My two cents worth.
FANUC factories.

2003:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...

2007 (?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SREct28lJM

2010:

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/magazine/content/10_49/b42060442...

2015:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/japanese-robot-maker-fanuc-revea... (put google in the referrer to avoid paywall)
> universal for all people

I don't think this definition fits extended family cultures like you'd see in other parts of the world very well.
> I wonder if the "deep learning" is getting any hints from the bayer patterns that may be detectable even in the desaturated image.

I'd say it's highly unlikely, since these images are downsampled to 224x224 pixels. That would average out any residual Bayer pattern (which is pretty hard to detect in the first place).
If replacing standard high level programming concepts like generics/templates with C macros is your idea of a productive programming environment than I don't know what to say.

Just look at any C collection library for things like maps compared to C++.
They're not losing it because of some legal battle or copyright claim, they're losing it because they lost contact with the guy who really owns it, and waited until they had one week to go to make the issue public.
Is this something that can applied to a regular embedded development ? how ?
My father used to say your not an adult until your third child. I think his point was it's not about being independent so much as juggling responsibly when you can't make everyone happy.
My linkedin URL has a prefix "br." because I signed up when I still lived in Brazil. That makes Glassbowl crash and alert me the URL is invalid...
The Business of Space Funerals
I think it's a reference to this from some years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015

"Did you win the Putnam?"
Yes, I did.
I'm not sure there's immense danger. VRBO/ADP/PayPal/UPS/Xdrive 2.0 aren't super risky. Basically going in to huge categories and "doing it right". Again, easier said than done. I get that. But with 100 startups per year, an incredibly smart group evaluating, a priceless 3+ months, etc, I'd like to see even better stuff. Sure, maybe slugging percentage is the better number.
The problem is that people feel ridiculous trying to pronounce "kibibyte", "mebibyte", etc. Probably the same reason "jiggabyte" never took hold except among grey old engineers. But no, I don't have a better replacement.
Judging by the startups that yahoo actually bought I don't think it will pan out.
Schrödinger's Firefox OS
The principle I think you're hinting at here is one of reinforcing good behaviour and extinguishing bad behaviour, à la Skinner. However, this can only be done over time, with repeated interactions.

The mechanism described in the article doesn't seek to alter the behaviour of the customers, each of whom may never be seen again. Rather, it is a defence mechanism for the employee.
I'd rather not as the details are not important.

There are all kinds of people doing security research. In my experience with some of those people that I've met it doesn't seem like the challenges they have to contend with are not unrelated to the stress caused by the work that they do.

Sort of like how someone who works with giant metal stamping presses is likely to be missing a couple of fingers if they've worked long enough with them (and in an environment where safety regulations are too relaxed).

These are also some of the wonderful people in my life and I enjoy them very much.

But you have to take care of yourself!
Yep, Venture Capital is just a subclass of Private Equity.
Triton looks interesting, thanks for the tip.
I'm guessing it would be hard to eliminate timing side-channels in pure python, so no.
Lily Camera Drone Pulls in $34M in Pre-Orders
they can file a dispute I guess

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

edit: according to a verisign employee I know, it costs ~1000-2000USD to do the dispute process but if they have the trademark and it's not being challenged (go to trial) it just gets reviewed at meeting and people vote.