skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salt.

In SSL/TLS, the data is transmitted using a one-time pad of some kind, so that intercepting a transmitted token gives you nothing that you can use to authenticate in a future connection (but you might be able to hijack the connection you intercepted, if you spoofed the server into thinking you are the intended client)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
It has won GitHub, that's mostly it.

Separately, GitHub has won the "place where you share you project code" prize that used to belong to sourceforge.
There's actually a little bit more info out there for would-be "Watson builders".

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/InsideSys...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/ibm_watson_qa_system...

http://learning.acm.org/webinar/lally.cfm

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-processi...

Of course, there's still a big gap between "Download some stuff" and "Build Watson", but at least there's a trickle of details on what happens in the "a miracle happens here" step. :-)
"Amazon doesn't disclose Prime membership numbers"

"The numbers were based on surveys of 500 U.S. residents who made a purchase at Amazon.com in the period from October-December 2015"

Lot of bold claims here. Just a few ways off the top of my head for why this estimate is ridiculous:

- People who use the Internet are more likely to be Prime members. We have elderly people here.

- People who've made a purchase on Amazon are more likely to report being prime members.

- People who made a purchase during the holidays are far more likely to be Prime members (I was a Prime member this holiday season, because I finally cashed in my free month and cancelled).

- 500 people is far too low a number to extrapolate such a bold claim about Americans.

- I'd even argue that people who fill out surveys may be more likely to be Prime members.

In short, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners sounds like a joke.
I'm not sure you could call Germany's "stable", at least not in the 1930s. I'm not certain you could call Japan's "functional" - wasn't it more ornamental than having any real ability to change the course of government policy?
Nate Silver said Donald Trump had no shot. Where did he go wrong?
It gets much worse once you step out of the open source software and start up communities.
Why quitting Cisco gave me better job security
who needs practical uses?
i watched joe rogan's episodes and their ideas also intrigued me. i have no knowledge base of these facts so these ideas are just scientific entertainment for me, and for someone like me there's huge value simply being that.

one quote that struck me is (paraphrasing): "it's like we've all had collective amnesia for a million years and are just now waking up asking ourselves wtf just happened and how did we get here?"
At 83, I Decided to Develop an App [Donald Rumsfeld]
>>Like carrots.

Poor thing. As a kid I told my cousin(he wore glasses), that carrots were good for the eyes, to a point I exaggerated if he ate enough he could get rid of them altogether at some point.

He would eat kgs of carrots.
I'll leave this on Deluge for a while to share :)
As far as I know there are channels with nix-expressions (which are the package definitions), which are descriptions of how gather the source-code or binaries from specific URLs.

npm2nix for example only uses npm to gather the the packages from the registry, but uses Nix for all the other stuff. [0]

[0]: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.de/2014/10/deploying-npm-pa...
After reading that book my imagination came up with a cartoon I doodled in my notebook. It was someone speaking at Minsky's funeral and saying "I know he thought my mind was just a bunch of simple machines like Builder, but he was still a pretty good guy."

Not that I knew anything about him... it was just an impression.
"All trademarked and copyrighted liscences are property
of their repsective owners."

Obviously some magic YouTube incantation to protect against take-downs :-/

With 1m+ views, it's nice to see it's made it so long. Don't feel good about its prospects for much longer though!
How come nobody mentioned this classic soviet SciFi novel:

Professor Dowell's Head

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Dowell%27s_Head
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967578
Trenchard More of Dartmouth was also a participant and is, as far as I know, still alive
you've got me beat there, doppelganger!

I love the idea of putting the bus tracker inside a model bus. Do you mind if I steal that idea?
Whether or not it becomes widely used (or developed further), I think crom is a great idea.

Hopefully it will encourage developers beyond js to create usable, composable modules.
(LaTeX comes to mind...)
I don't know if you still can but you used to be able to do this to your whole screen on Windows using the NVidia control panel. Playing first-person shooters as ascii art looks pretty cool!
I believe that Mercurial's greatest flaw is that it is too damn easy to use. Since you don't have to wrap your head around it so damn much to use it, it seems weak, like if it was only slightly better than subversion.

The truth is different and Mercurial is roughly as capable as git but it's easy to miss Mercurial's power where as Git rubs your face in it (less so these days but early on, it was a brain f* to my CVS trained brain.)
Choosing what kind of data to expose or research can be political. Simply releasing data on the # of regulations is helpful for only certain kinds of discussions:

* Who pushed or repealed the most regulations

* Who regulated what

* Correlating # of regulations to market performance

These are not bad discussions to have but has the consequence of shifting the discussion further away from "what makes a good regulation?" towards "how much regulation is too much?".

Data is data but it isn't all the data. What we choose to look at frames the political discussion.
The Australian aborigines have told the same stories for 10,000 years:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-t...

The same for India:

http://www.earthporm.com/5-mind-blowing-underwater-cities/

See #3.

Most people don't realize just how deep human history is. Words people use every day are ~2000 years old. e.g. "via", goes back to the Roman times.
Yes. In addition, all Republic of China maps you buy in Taiwan show PRC as part of ROC. lol
This looks like the very start of a project that's not far along (and hasn't been updated in a year). Why is it interesting at this stage?
Befor ditching browserify for webpack, do check out https://github.com/ForbesLindesay/browserify-middleware gets the job done just fine
I'd think that for any given type of disaster, one could find a correlation between it and witch-hunting, somewhere, if one searched through the annals of history for long enough.
Hi MSFT employee here. Yes. High-level bindings are planned and are a high priority. We will document the planned interfaces on GitHub soon.
شهادة التعليم المتوسط
As a cashier when I was a teenager, I was told to ID and call in anyone with a check # under 500 with the assumption that low check numbers were less likely to be reliable. When I ordered my first book of checks a few years later, I started with # 1550 and was never bothered.
Why we switched from JSPM to WebPack
> I don't think it took or takes specific courage

I am assuming you are from a developed country and probably white which is why you are saying that. Ask people who are from developing countries who have to put a major chunk of their life savings to get a resident visa move to a different country use their savings again till they get a job in their own domain.

People from developing countries also have to face the humiliation from their friends and families incase they dont get a job and have to move back.

I think courage is the right word.
I mean no offense to those 65,000 H1B visa holders but many many of them don't deserve the title 'engineers'. No, not even the title of IT workers.

They are quite often simply bodies being pushed by the outsourcing firms to get fees. Many of these workers brought to Disney had to be trained for months.
Thanks for posting this. Very useful overview and much of the reading was new to me.

Anyone interested in this syllabus might also want to check out Palladio, a Stanford digital history tool which grew out of the "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project mentioned in the syllabus. The basic idea is to allow researchers to easily turn their spreadsheets of historical/archival data into visualizations:

http://palladio.designhumanities.org

They're still working out the kinks but I think it's a very promising idea. I do wish it was less focused on mapping networks of individuals as opposed to other types of historical data, though.
A lot of people will make fun of this but it's pretty amazing to create something this late in your life in a technology that you did not live most of your life with.
How is it validated? I have yet to discover something more frustrating than debugging a code generation bug that's actually an assembler bug.
But that data is already available. it's just that the doctor is writing it down twice. First on his paper journal then into a system where he/she is also forced to add all sorts of other info.
Just like the rest of the cyberlibertarian blue-skying that went on back in the '90s, it was a nice dream, seriously! But in reality it turns out that governments can just send some armed men around to beat up the people with the encrypted faxes, email, and digital cash, and that'll largely put an end to it. The extent to which a government is helpless to stop that behavior is purely the extent to which it is reluctant to send, or incapable of sending, the armed men.
I'm not sure if it's a deep learning framework. Perhaps they are in some ways complementary http://hunch.net/?p=2875548. Who knows, maybe CNTK is one big reduction.
I had to read a lot of OSHA regulations for my last job, and now I'm a programmer. I recommend mentally substituting "lines of code" throughout this piece.

There are lots of regulations that could be streamlined, and there also plenty that should exist but don't. But knowing that there are X thousand regulations isn't the most useful information you could have.
Uh, Minsky does?
> [CVE-2015-7578/79] Possible XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer: You're safe if you use a single page application that properly encode for you. Stripping tags isn't the best way anyway to filter XSS, so if you're encoding, you're good.

So uh, what if your application is taking an input that's then parsed by another application with poor output encoding? Granted, the application that's properly encoding for the correct context is good, but any applications which don't do that but also use that same dataset are screwed because your application didn't perform proper input validation.

Defense in depth strategies exist for a reason. Input validation, output encoding for every single context (this includes using angular properly, for instance), anti-xss headers, CSP, the list goes on. These aren't all prescribed just to protect that one application. They're prescribed so that when applied correctly across all apps, they're all protected from negligence in one app harming the data.
Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures
Microsoft employee here. MKL libraries and headers will show up in CNTK soon. We are working with Intel on this.
There is no 'general US immigration cap', because most immigrants are family members who pretty much get to come as long as they pass some checks.

Source: my Italian wife and I went through that process when we moved here from Italy.
Microsoft Bets That Bitcoin-Style Blockchains Will Be Big Business
A Package Manager Without the Registry
Control diabetes by Sugar Nanny – Helps you track sugar level and insulin dosage
Just use a Digital Ocean droplet or something; that's what I do, and it works well. I mean, not if you want graphical UIs, but if you're good with Vim and a command line...
True, for some reason I read his post as both linking to Wikipedia and quoting from the original article; my bad.
Why one company set up employees on blind dates
That's a really optimistic view of a patron, patrons purchased or owned much of the work they helped create. That was the point of being a patron.
> And then the hospital starts making less money (losing money), research funding dries up, and we start using mercury to treat syphilis again. I'm only half-kidding. I say hospital because all the laws that have changed in healthcare have driven most doctors out of private practice into hospital positions. since 2004, hospital-employed doctors have gone from 11% to over 60%[1]. One major reason being that with the wave of medical reform, the overhead of running a practice has skyrocketed. "Comfortable and enjoyable" are rarely applicable when you only start paying off your $1m schooling debt at 30.

Sorry, I meant suggest taking less patients, in addition to charging enough to match what you were making before. Not just doctors/hospitals making less money across the board. This will encourage more people to be doctors/open hospitals in the long run to fill the demand (then bringing down the price again, until we're at a nice equilibrium), which will bring down prices, and ensure that doctors take as many patients as is comfortable.

> I'm not sure what else to say other than "They aren't". These are laws, not administrative suggestions. Hospitals expect/need the same output regardless of the laws the government changes.

Is there no doctor's lobby? If the law is wrong/naive, there are measures you can take to make sure it's changed.

> I have a life-long condition. I don't care when my doctor is typing because I've had it my whole life, it's nothing more than maintenance, and I'll see them again in 6 months. Imagine being told you have 6 months to live from someone half-sitting behind a computer.

Yes, that would be a very insensitive way to convey such information, but that's also not the routine case, right? Also, I noted that it seems serviceable for the doctor to cut up the time (in a world where they could set their own billable hours, which could exist).

> My father doesn't eat lunch, using that time to catch up on notes. For as long as I remember, has left for work at 5am and gotten home at 8pm. He spends his Saturdays and Sundays working. And again, hospital employees don't get to choose how many hours they bill.

I didn't call into question how much current doctors work to catch up on notes -- from what the article said, and your personal experience that is a crazy amount of paperwork. If hospital employees don't get to choose the amount they bill, then maybe someone should change the hospitals? Or come up with some other structure for serving patients.

My main point condensed:
The amount of paperwork doctors are buried under is insane, that much is clear. Doctors are some powerless group of victims -- surely there are some actions they can take to alleviate the problems, especially if what's best for patients is what the care about.

I did not know about these problems so reading this article was informational for me, but I found it lacking in the "what we're going to do about it" department.
Here's a link that explains all the fakery used at Area 51 including the fake cardboard planes to fool infrared.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110520-area-...
Very sad and surreal, I happened to just be reading his Wikipedia page yesterday. I hope the cause of death does not prevent his cryopreservation. Say what you will about cryonics, but it definitely gives you a better chance of living again than internment or cremation. I hope the world will see his genius again.
It’s hard to tell how much overlap there is.

One of way of looking at Crom is that it provides a more convenient interface than a URL, yet without the centralization that comes from using names in a registry.

Crom helps you go from a name to a URL (via search heuristics), but it’s the URL that ultimately serves as the identifier. So, if you author a package.json with a name like “d3-format”, that gets expanded to a full URL, perhaps with interactive confirmation. (Or not, because it’s trivial to undo and redo.)

Also, unlike a URL to the ZIP file directly, a package URL in Crom supports semantic versioning: it refers to all versions of a project, and thus you can upgrade or specify a desired version range.
this site has some good info:

https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql#lib-c
I can think of 3 REI locations that are quite close to a Costco

Never thought of that. True, the one REI closest to my home in LA area is just a few blocks away from a Costco, which is pretty close being in LA.
Arista is just a few months from an exclusion of their products entering the USA
Five realities that will shape the market in the next 5 years
Some sequences of bits are copyrighted, or otherwise illegal to distribute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
Looking online is your problem. Sure, donatj met his wife on Ok Cupid, but online dating is mostly luck. I have girl friends with an account... they get tens of messages a day, if not more. Even if you do everything right, you can get lost in the inbox (kinda like applying for jobs!).

Online dating works as an "extra" way to find someone, not your sole source. Despite all the talk about online culture, most couples of any kind (serious, affair, etc) meet in person.
4-5 hours of sleep as a typical habit isn't that rare, unfortunately.
Wow, I didn't know that he invented confocal!
How Dependent on (External) Liquidity Is the Unicorn Economy?
It's not an either or.

Debt is a bad amplifier if not used correctly. Racking up huge student loans to get a degree that is not in demand will lead to poverty. The same with excessive credit card debt. Leverage works both ways.

Certain people will always have destructive qualities. The percentage of people digging their own graves hasn't changed much. It's just that instead of a shovel, they now have a bulldozer.
You'd want to write a server that could retrieve and serve the file over bittorrent, but would store it canonically in IPFS.
CrashSafari.com Analysis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964902
Anyone interested in essays on photography should read Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Camera_Lucida_(book)
I don't know, I think you're over-characterizing this as a psychological decision. I tend to prefer libraries over frameworks for the simple reason that they're usually much quicker to learn and use (because they have a single purpose), and they don't box me into patterns I don't want or need. I wouldn't categorize that as like making me a control freak or untrusting of others design decisions, its a pretty pragmatic decision.
Goodman

> [i]s the first to admit that the Zero UI name isn't meant to be taken literally. "It's really meant to be a provocation," Goodman admits. "There are always going to be user interfaces in some form of another, but this is about getting away from thinking about everything in terms of screens."
I use soundbutt for at least 90% of music I listen to. I use spotify never. The fact is everyone is missing out on a lot of great music because there is more great music than any one person can listen to.
Docker hasn't used lxc for a long time. And the Docker daemon doesn't compile on OS X.
Human's don't typically rotate the cube either when they're speed solving. Rotating the whole cube causes you to slow down. We usually do yellow on top, white on the bottom and then you just think of the other four faces as opposing sets relative to each other (blue and green, orange and red).

If you're interested in learning how to solve, here's a link on how to use the Fridrich method. http://ukcubestore.com/fridrich-tutorial.html
Favorite paper of his:

Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20...
Which is going to break down quickly when anyone can replicate those materials at little cost on their workbench.
Just because (theoretically) the government knows (or can't discredit the possibility) of UFOs being alien craft, doesn't mean they know where they come from, what they want or how to stop them. Revealing that beings from an unknown origin were violating our airspace at will, with technology we can't comprehend, doing whatever they wanted to people, messing with our military hardware, etc, and that there was absolutely nothing anyone could do about it, might create a panic and destroy that government's credibility.
The map centering is quite okay. After all they'd want to highlight the home country, no big deal.

The troublesome part is coloring land not theirs as theirs in the map as well as labeling India's "hat" as disputed. There ate disputed lands, but not as large as implied.
I'm constantly looking for a clean Corrado, really want a v6 model. That and more 204z's. Yeah One day I put 2x2 together and realized German cars tend to have good head space, although if I flipped my buddies Miata over I'd loose all my hair....
Ask HN: Do you trust GitHub security?
I'm seeking a Git host and CodeCommit is too unruly to configure (auth on the client side doesn't play well with NetBeans).

Considered Github, but they don't encrypt at rest, claiming that doing so wouldn't increase security, since an attacker who had root access to the box would also have encryption keys. This seems wildly disingenuous for a number of reasons. But, in general, my thinking is that encryption at rest is always more secure.

Do you trust Github's security (network and otherwise) and do you buy that at-rest encryption isn't more secure?
China Capital Outflows Rise to Estimated $1 Trillion in 2015
Just want to speak up and say that your comment is actually very sensible, and it's terrifying to see it's downvoted.
You mention that you are willing to accept a 5% error rate. 5% is a bit higher than the Error Rate from Trolling of most surveys (see http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-...). Do your users have an incentive to falsify their gender which would push it higher than that?

Since gender is relevant, I assume you're making either a dating app, or an app that feeds into some sort of beureacracy. If the former, then people have an incentive to enter their real gender if they want to get any use out of the app. Linking to Facebook is a bad idea since people are usually kinda wary of linking their dating profile to other social media. If the latter, then facebook is not going to satisfy your stakeholder. You should consider asking for some form of ID or credit card.
Glad I was able to get to meet Marvin back in 2014. On cognitive neuroscience he was pessimistic, he likened it to telling a chemist to try and discern what a computer was doing by looking at the machine without the monitor. Really enjoyed that analogy.
On closer look it's actually trivial. Any move that requires rotating a middle layer is isomorphic to rotating the top and bottom layers in the other direction. :)
Apprenticeship model can produce very good result. It is a one-to-one instruction and instructor has real world experience to pass on with all the technical knowledge. The advantage of this type of education can be illustrated by the Bloom's 2 sigma problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem
Auction + transfer tends to guard against this. Don't shell out for labour which walks.