skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second that emotion. I inherited an entire ecommerce platform built around Yahoo Store's proprietary RHTML language. The only documentation was a single comment:

"RHTML turing complete?"

I never did find out the answer to that, because I only lasted one month at the job. I'm sure it was a great learning exercise / psychotic breakdown for the original author.
When they discontinued VMware Server 2, I migrated over a dozen machines over to VirtualBox on CentOS. We have had no issues with performance or stability with any of our machines. VirtualBox 5.0 brought feature parity to VMware Server for our needs. The only thing we have found lacking are more remote management features.
Ah, sorry for jumping to conclusions then.
If the bot is trained through human play and trains against itself, would it not only be as good as the best human? This doesn't seem like computerized intelligence, this seems like advanced human intelligence. If you get the thing to play hundreds of games against 9P dans it will probably eventually beat them yes. But the theoretical limit to skill in that game is still probably a big margin above 9P. How will we make it hit that mark?
Well, that's the test. I'd love to see the community learn how to do that. Perhaps it means fellow users gently nudging one another in the right direction.

We toy sometimes with the idea of creating an 'overflow' section of offtopicness, but it would be more interesting if HN could steer into the hardest problem, which is (to use your apt phrase) enjoying complaining.
The bad guys generally don't bother browsing Wordpress code to find vulnerabilities. It's tiresome to do, especially since a lot of good guys are doing the same thing and patching the obvious bugs.

Instead they use automated attacks to test any website directly for the most common errors. Understand that this is not limited to Wordpress. The types of vulnerabilities they test for are universal: password brute force, directory permissions, code injection, XSS, etc.

Sometimes one of these tests works, a site gets hacked, and then the developer has to a) recognize the site has been hacked, b) diagnose the problem, c) patch the hole, and d) recover the site.

For open-source projects like WordPress, the developer can then contribute the patch back to the community, and everyone else can pre-emptively fix their sites, even if they haven't been hacked yet. Bad guys also get these patches, and add automated attacks based on them. These are often what you see in WP logs, but such attacks are easily defeated by simply applying patches when they come out.

For custom-developed sites, you the developer must do all those steps by yourself, and yes that means you probably won't know about vulnerabilities until they are exploited.
Aereo founder is back with a plan to disrupt the broadband industry
Yes that is Embedded 101. How about 201, 301, 401 and the real world? Dynamic allocation happens. Parsing XML and OSC happens. Recording sequences of various lengths happens. It makes sense to apply intelligence to dynamic allocation.
(not the downvoter FWIW)
I think you lost most people when you suggested the status quo "mega rich" should get to keep all their assets whilst the tax system is redesigned to stop anyone catching up with them through entrepreneurial zeal and hard work...
Logistics will make a big difference. But distance will always matter for transportation. Also, walking on foot will always remain a core human experience of cities and buildings (I hope)-- and technology can't change walking speed much. Finally, an increasingly large part of the population want to live close to a vibrant neighborhood -- and you need density for that.
ImportError: cannot import name futil :((

"pip install futil" have not help
He has plenty of people working in the AI field that keep him up to date. I think he knows where we are.
It's a bit of a game design problem too, since you may want to optimize for how "fun" the AI is to play against. There are patterns of behavior that can be equivalently challenging, but greatly varying in terms of how interesting or enjoyable they are to play against.

I.e. there are various chess bots that can be assigned personality dimensions like aggressiveness, novelty, etc.
Of course you can close the tab, but I find attempts at censorship like this regressive and harmful.
I am interested in expensive stuff and in leadership. I have to moderate my ambitions to those I can realistically try out. Two years ago I bought 3 custom suits for $3000. These days I'm happy browsing clearance racks and got a nice three-piece for under $150, a pair of secondhand Italian leather shoes for $14. I'm better dressed now than I was then because I have more variety to choose from.

Instead of begging for more responsibility at my job, I cultivate community relationships and put together deals. I'm currently doing a website for a musician friend of mine. I took my side of the fee and gave it back to him in exchange for a guitar.

I scratch most of the personal development itches that an entrepreneur seems to be after, and have a lot more fun (to me) doing it.
> I'd love to see Anil [...] comment.

Does a tweet count as commentary for you?

" Profiling MirageOS unikernels from a Xen dom0, an excellent and short howto -- http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-01-27/unikernel-profil... "
https://twitter.com/avsm/status/692396667576938497

Also, it's the Cambridge Computer Lab you're thinking of (at the University of Cambridge).

We also spoke about debugging (but not to this depth) on today's Docker Online Meetup about unikernels. We made the same points but Brendan's post is fantastic as he shows a worked example. There's a discussion thread [1] and there'll be a video of that webinar out soon too.

[1] https://devel.unikernel.org/t/docker-online-meetup-about-uni...
This was rejected by the parliament last year:

http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/10/swiss-parliament-opp...

but is currently slated for a public referendum here in Switzerland in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2016

I think it is one of really only four possible futures for human society [mincome, totalitarian, oblivion, expansion into the solar system and beyond (which will me effective status quo)].
Is increased family breakups necessarily a bad thing? There are plenty of people who are stuck in abusive marriages because they are financially dependent on the abuser.
Blockchain and Virtual Reality, Davos, MIT Hackathon
You put that well (edit: mostly), but HN is more than a stream of links. There's a community here, and it has emergent behaviors.
MTA unveils subway car of the future, and it's a whole lot roomier
I think this is one of those dreams that will always be pushed into the future. People will always want to own new things that come out even if we see them as useless. The cost of living always rises and people will want to work to afford it - and other people will want to work to create it. Automation will get rid of a lot of jobs but as a person writing code to automate engineering work currently this is not as inevitable and straight-forward as people think it is. These automated jobs will be replaced quickly with new jobs that can not be automated - just look at the current US economy as proof- you would think we would have automated a lot of jobs by now but we are at full employment.
You act like warnings are a form of censorship. The point is to help the person clicking the link, not the people around them who may accidentally see. I want my computer screen to appear professional which means no Facebook, albums of pretty men/women, and no Disney characters.
Better remote work technologies would certainly help. For now, most tech companies have found that working face to face is really vital.
bringing in more modern paradigms such as functional programming and richer type-checking than the Smalltalk-inspired pure object-oriented model of Objective-C.

One thing I noticed while using Smalltalk: Large swathes of the Class Library were "pretty close" to functional, in that there were very few side effects. Because the debugger was so powerful, you could use it edit a method and "go back in time" to replay execution with the new version. My theory is that, as a result, a kind of social pressure against side effects developed, because introducing side effects made fellow programmers annoyed at you while using that wonderful debugger.

I wonder if there are other social mechanisms for getting to such a desirable state, like having very few side effects? (Other than functional paradigm hipsterism.)
Huh - somehow I missed that in my searches - thank you.

I guess part of the problem is I've never seen it in action, and never seen a really good description of what it is and does.

I'll hunt some more - thanks again.
Plenty of people voluntarily leave work. I did it last year for eight months to travel. It didn't hurt my self worth, nor those of my friends who've done the same. But if I had wanted a job and not been able to get one, I think that would hurt my self-worth even if I didn't need the money.
Looking Back, Looking Ahead–2016 Edition
Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury to pay $6.4M in punitive damages, jury decides
Is there video available of the matches between AlphaGo vs Fan Hui? I'd love to watch them play.
All data brokered by the service must be encrypted to a keypair whose private key is held only by the end user's browser, using the scheme described in the webpush-encryption IETF draft spec at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-01
Laura Poitras Prepares “Astro News” for the Whitney Museum
Thoughts:

* Standards of living are variable, and especially so between different social classes.

* Debt requires someone to earn more money than they would otherwise need to in order to meet the same standard of living as someone without debt.

* The variety of higher margin products and lower margin counterparts create inefficiency in making consistent spending choices, particularly when it comes to visibility (e.g. marketing).

* Healthcare costs can be extremely variable from person to person.

* A big question is what it takes for a person to feel contentment. E.g. I have multiple family members living hundreds to thousands of miles away from me, from each other even, that I never get to see, and I would be a much happier person today if I was able to spend more time with them. Other factors can include obtaining a sense of achievement in what you do with your time, or a sense of approval from your peers.

* People have a much smaller pool of peers to identify with if they don't go to a regular workplace or gathering of some kind.

* There are regional differences in supply and demand, especially for property, housing, water, and egress. I'd include food, too, if I didn't think you were targeting the US.

I can probably come up with more, but I'll just leave it at that for now.
Scientists Move Closer to Understanding Schizophrenia’s Cause
Please tell me this was written in Go
I like your random byte on start-up concept btw.

For the truly paranoid, the compiler must be re-written so that bits within the stack words must remain unutilized and the remaining bits include a cryptographically-signed bit field. E.g. a 32-bit machine can allocate 8 bits of each word for application data and 24 bits for authentication.
So next up ntp clients that support blacklists?
Your "meat points" idea is horrible, because it destroys market knowledge.

That is: In a free market, there are two things, supply and demand, and they communicate via price. In your idea, you fix the amount of supply, for absolutely no reason. All that's left is for the price to move the demand to where it meets (no pun intended) the supply. But you're throwing away half of the ability of the market to respond - the supply side, and you're doing it for absolutely no reason.

Um, unless you're doing it as research. That... might be interesting research, but I suspect that it will show that "supply and demand" makes a more efficient market than "demand alone".
> Whether you make $40k, $100k, or $500k, the $10k isn't there to prove "additional income support". The system could be set up so that after basic income is implemented, your disposable income is the same as it was before--people making $40k wouldn't have $10k in free money to spend, because their taxes would go up $10k a year, for example.

> So if you make over $100k a year, you might be taxed $15k more than you were before, but you would also receive $10k.

So basically as a middle class person, I don't benefit at all, I may even lose money, but some kid who has no income and wants to live in his parents basement gets $10k/yr for contributing nothing to society? Am I understanding this correctly?

The upper class won't care - this is pennies to them, but this is going to bite the middle class badly and completely change their incentives to avoiding getting housing and living as cheaply as possible to minimize or eliminate work.

You always have to think very carefully about the incentives you create with something like this. This seems to create very bad incentives to me, incentives which would have caused me to make very, very different decisions in life drawing me away from any sort of productivity in society.

I'm not strictly against this idea, but as you've presented it, I can't see a way this would ever be implemented, how would you sell it to the middle class?
MCTS = Monte Carlo Tree Search?
What do you have in mind then? The for-profit university experiment has largely been a scammy failure.
They should do something useful for the web and remove most if not all the current root certificates. There are so many places that have what is essentially a master key to the internet - and that master key is only going to be more important as more and more sites become SSL.
Is YC the precursor to The Federation? :)
Yes. He's a case where you'd make exactly the right assumption if just told his rank.

Though I should warn: as a low level pro who moved to Europe, this database has very little data on him. His European results indicate that he's stronger than Pavol Lisy, Alexander Dinerstein, and Mateusz Surma, who all rate higher than him here.
Could you please point out where the XSS issues are?
Donald Rumsfeld, at 83, decided to develop an app
I don't know enough about Denmark to evaluate your comment, but stipulate that it's true, and then, if you'd like to reframe my list as "a list of things startups could do to use the market to make the US more like Denmark", I would have no objection.
EA Drops Out of E3
Yes you can, plenty of IRC clients let you post animated gifs, some would let you embed youtube videos I am sure.
Too bad Marvin Minsky did not get a chance to see this. I think he would have enjoyed it deeply.
Seems like "It has rarely happened to the benefit of small/medium businesses." and "The companies that most struggle with red tape aren't mega-corps but the smaller companies" are contradictory. Not sure if I understand if you are for or against removing red tape.
Don't worry, this is just the lapping of eternal waves: stories get posted, stories get flagged.

One of the biggest threads yesterday was about an obscure binary sound-control protocol. Most of the apples still fall close to the tree.
Small-town America is primed to beat Silicon Valley in innovation
"Our idea is to give a basic income to a group of people in the US for a 5 year period"

In order to get realistic information for how people will behave / feel with a basic income we should seriously consider dropping the '5 year period' and extending it for the remainder of their lives.

Personally, knowing that I will have to start working again in 5 years to support myself would drastically change how I choose to spend my time over the next 5 years.

Also, props to Sam / YC for this initiative.
I think that would be

https://icga.leidenuniv.nl/

I can't find the claimed ELO for Jonny (current champ) but Junior (previous champ) is listed at 3200+, Magnus' top rating, the highest ELO rating ever, is 2882 for reference
I agree, and because that's a rather obvious market inefficiency, I see it as an opportunity for a startup to make money while improving the world.
I wish it were easier to avoid their use, but without antibiotics my kids would spend like half the year with ear infections, miserable (and making everyone else miserable) and lethargic at best. Then there's strep—last year I discovered the hard way how dangerous that can be if you don't treat that very soon after symptoms start (I'd never had it, didn't realize what was happening/how serious it was at first)
A negative income tax is basically equivalent to a basic income funded with a progressive income tax. No matter how you pay for it, some people are going to pay more in taxes than they get from the basic income, and some will pay less.

For people who have a job, we already have a system for them to pay taxes with each paycheck (withholding). By reversing that, you could make negative income tax payments year-round rather than at tax return time.
edit: The more I think about it, the more I think this is important regardless of the cost of land. If it became cheaper to "start over" and redevelop underused lots, you could scale up density a lot faster. In that vein, technology to make demolition cheaper/faster would help too.

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original:

That's definitely part of it. But cost of land often dwarfs the construction costs. And some things like excavation (which lets you avoid wasting land on low-value uses) need to be done on site.
> That makes your network insecure, not my page.

At which hop does it stop being "my" network and starts being "our" network? Your webhost? Your IX? Your country?

You can't shift the responsibility; only you can definitively secure the content coming out of your webpage.
If you're working and can't watch YouTube, here's a transcript:

> I knew that it was Larry and Sergey’s company, and I acted that way. For example, I never did any press. Right before the IPO, Larry and Sergey did an interview with Playboy — no pictures. It turns out that the interview was at the wrong time in the quiet period, and it put the IPO in jeopardy. “Did we screw up?” The correct answer is Yes. But the even more correct answer is no problem, we’ll fix this. From that moment on, they’ve never given an interview. That was 12 years ago. When they wanted to do interviews, they did them. Once they didn’t want to do it anymore, I did them.

https://medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/cs18...
Here you go, I imagine some of these are underhand pitches for the HN crowd, but here you go. There's a few that most users are simply unaware of, such as replacing the Airport card with one that supports ant continuity and handoff and Airdrop support.

7.5 years later, and my 2008 Mac Pro is still going strong.

http://blog.greggant.com/post/58331227038/recommended-mac-pr...
If your backer is a state with access to a printing press, failure is synonymous with either failure of said state or loss of political favor. Such entities are de-facto government agencies and are not subject to the normal rules of economics.

Very true. It makes me sad when people continue to refer to the USA as a capitalist country, especially in the context of a criticism of capitalism.
It may or may not be wrong. There will definitely be some inflation, but there will also be an equilibrium. It is also a possibility that if the UBI is adjusted accordingly, that the relative costs of things will remain roughly the same.

As for whether employers will benefit, recognize that demand will also increase when those who were formerly impoverished begin consuming things. It is direct and distributed economic stimulus.
"Access to money transfer as a basic human right" is a brilliant way to reframe the conversation around financial services. I'm gonna start talking about transaction fees from that perspective now.

And yeah, good luck extracting the banks from the profit-making niches they've carved out in that process. They will fight that to their last breath.
You should read the article to see which symbol actually displays the effects of HFT shenanigans by end of day. (Hint: it starts with K, and it deserved everything it got.)

To see how cheaper liquidity directly enables speculators, read the section "Why Speculators Need Liquidity" in this post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html An example is worked out in detail illustrating the point.

Also, HFTs are extracting far less money than the humans they replace. So if extracting money is what you want to prevent, congrats.
I think 80% of web sites will be labelled as red-unsafe.

SSL layer security is good but sometimes a certificate is expensive and not free. Suppose that you have 10 domains and not all of them are for SNS, banks and etc..

At what minimum cost will you purchase a HTTPS certificate?
Life is short, and I agree with the author, you won't remember most of the hours you spend working.

If I had 10 dollars for every set of stock options that I've been granted I'd be a hundred-aire by now.

I've lost count of the number of times I've been told, that if I just work really hard right now, I'll be able to retire soon.

Every time I read an article about some employees making big bucks off their stock options or six figures off an iPhone app, I see that for what it is: propaganda designed to make sure we keep feeding our young bodies into the machine.

That machine will grind you up and spit you out like hamburger on the other side.

Life is short as I said, and it seems to go faster the further along you are.

Work as little as you can, and if you must work, try to work for yourself.
Antioxidants May Make Cancer Worse
OK, well this is a good thing for YC to fund an experiment to test.

If given basic income, do people spend money on food and shelter, and plan out a good life, or do they live day-to-day and remain a burden on society?

This is why I think education, for example, comes before basic income. Without education, you can easily imagine people remaining homeless despite the income.

Of course some people will succeed and some won't -- the question is the ratio.

Some rich people are scrupulous; some rich people waste their money. I don't see any reason to believe that poor people are any different. I think we can still help those people with education, etc. without wasting taxpayer dollars. But how much would be "wasted" is of course an open question.
Vulnerability of US power grids
The flipside to your first point is that employers can probably get an edge these days by simply ignoring college degrees. If you're skilled enough at hiring to actually find good people, ones without degrees are probably undervalued by a significant margin.
I've always viewed it as "The lack of money can make you unhappy, but money itself can't make you happy."

Or put another way, money can be a demotivator, but not a motivator.
Yes, working at a factory production line is utterly mind-numbing (I speak from experience) even if one is bored enough to use the spare brainpower to perform all sorts of microoptimizations, but at the end of the day, one provides people with goods and the other uses up electricity to provide entertainment, so the value to everyone else isn't the same.

And we do need to provide each other with value, or there won't be enough things to buy no matter how many dollars we have.
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