skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first UFO story:

I was ~13 years old in The Civil Ait Patrol, this occurred in Truckee, Ca at the Truckee Airport.

We were doing standard marching exercises and our troop leader was a former SR-71 mechanic/maint person...

It was a full moon - and as our gatherings typically started after 5PM - it got dark fairly quickly.

We were marching and then looking to the mountain line in the horizon, we saw a light come up over the mountain line and fly vertically up at a steady clip as it was near the moon which had also just risen over the ridge.

We all watched, speculating what type of plane this was (Civil Air Patrol was like the cub scouts for the air force)

As we watched and guessed, this craft flew straight up from the mountain - then directly toward us.

I came to a complete hover just above us by about 300 feet. The craft was the classic triangular shape with large round whit lights at each corner.

As it hovered - the troop leader said "OK KIDS - EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!!!" and he ushered us into the end of the hangar building that had our CAP office.

Ever since then.... I've had an interesting relationship with believing UFOs...
NATS Chat – Secure Chat App for NATS with TLS Server and Payload Encryption
Yeah, Ring is where it's at.
I write libraries that get used by people who write websites that provide tools for creating visualizations of the number of commits made per day in the repository of a library used to make other libraries that get used in the building of services that power servers that provide free hosting of applications that help people write more code, commit more and then visualize how much they have commited.
I am using the IRS definition of a hobby. If your business doesn't earn enough money the IRS classifies it as a hobby. Once you earn enough money it is no longer a hobby and must be taxed.
Actually, there is: economics. You can't have a successful country and exclude everyone who wasn't smart enough to be born there. In a world of N billion people, a lot of talented people are going to be born abroad. Keep them out, and they'll concentrate in other places.

Do you realize how much of the tech world was built be people from all over? HTTP, Linux, Google, Java, C++ and so on.
I disagree with many of your characterizations here.

...are you sure you're not reading way too much into it because you feel attacked? :)
Sure, but things can appear to provide lots of apparent value for customers and employees (i.e. the borrowers and loan-bundlers in the pre-2007 real estate bubble), until as you say, they collapse.

Also, just because a small group of people (customers, employees) may derive value from a particular startup company doesn't mean that that particular company, or the overall the ecosystem of startup companies, is creating more value than it consumes. The effect on inequality of the overall ecosystem is what's being debated here, and I'm not sure that anyone has a clear, data-backed understanding of which way it skews.
"Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified
and interested U.S. worker..."

This video is a smoking gun, with respect to this firm and its clients, at least. Everyone interested in the topic should watch this. (Has anybody composed a transcript?)

Note the strategy laid out starting around 3:30:

"(have US applicants go through the motions) to find a legal basis to DISQUALIFY them... in most cases, this doesn't seem to be a problem."
Direct causality, for one.

If a person on the street who is starving asks me for food, and I decline and yell some epithet about the homeless, and keep walking, any reasonable person would consider that less evil than if I shot that person while yelling that epithet.

At the end of the day, the direct cause of the famine were crop failures and the invasion of Burma, not Churchill's inaction. At the end of the day, the direct cause of the millions of deaths in famines in the USSR was Joseph Stalin's mass collectivization.

You should remember it, because, to put it bluntly, if you ever said that in Western society, you would be laughed out of the room.
Out of curiousity, did you try docker-machine (the docker toolbox)? I have found that to be fairly straightforward, though I had not used B2D previously.
We (Chatlio) like to think we started the trend ;) But verify that with the wayback machine. :) And if imitation is a form of flattery, we are very "flattered" by these.

But in all seriousness, before you install a Slack App, make sure to verify how much permissions they request. We at Chatlio strive for asking for as little permission as possible. If some feature requires more, we ask for that on an as-needed basis after signup.
It sounds like you want Zoneminder: https://zoneminder.com/
Safer use of C code – running Gentoo with Address Sanitizer
Despite Snopes confirming this, I refuse to admit that it's true. Nethack wouldn't lie to me like that.
Eh. I'm more of the opinion that technology amplifies the existing characteristics of social, political and economic structures (http://geekheresy.org/tag/law-of-amplification/) with the possibility of disrupting and democratizing. But I know I'm on an island in that regard. I understand your point.
That would make more sense. Yes, that is definitely a problem.

I think he is ignoring / discounting leverage as a component to wealth creation though.

Even in a world where it is impossible to make wealth without providing value, inequality will still grow in proportion to available leverage. And technology (leverage) grows at an exponential rate.

If we are concerned with inequality, then part of the equation is how do you make that leverage available to those without large pools of wealth or privilege.
Clojure Recipes Review and Q&A
It's mathematically interesting that the optimal solutions (I assume that the robot uses the fewest-moves-possible to get its high-speed results) never require rotating the middle layers.
Agree. React is a library. Meteor could complement React as a framework much like angular.
Was his cerebral hemorrhage a sudden/unpredictable death? If not, I'm surprised he didn't first relocate to cooperative hospice care in Scottsdale near Alcor to cryopreserve himself before damage became (possibly) irreversible.
The Atlas of Beauty: North Korea
How Typography Shapes Our Perception of Truth
To be clear on adamsea's point, docker-machine is now the replacement for B2D and is also officially supported.
I also am not sure what major advantages this brings. And the article was slightly unclear in that you can add Docker environment variables to your `.bash_profile` -- you still are dealing with environment vars, but don't have to run the `eval` command all the time. And, I believe the docker-machine default VM settings mount your User (Users/myname) directory in it's virtual machine
Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code
I always loved this TED talk of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsTv-ap3XQ
But Rails Culture is to make developers smile!

Fixing security vulnerabilities and writing docs that actually reflect best security practices do not make developers smile.

And accusing to have a terrible attitude does not make a developer smile either, so this is obviously your fault!

/s
That would make more sense. That's probably what he meant.
If engineers have more value, then market forces will adjust wages to fill those roles won't they? If that doesn't happen then clearly your conjecture of their relative value must be wrong. Necessarily.

At least that's the story I'm endlessly told.
Nix wasn't a possibility?
Usually random drawn from a certain distribution (ex: Gaussian with std. deviation 0.001, or a std. deviation dependent on the number of input/output units (Xavier initialization)).

For some tasks, you may wish to initialize using a network that was already trained on a different dataset, if you have reason to believe the new training task is similar to the previous task.
You haven't mentioned why you think Git won. If by "won", you mean "is more popular", then yes, it won. But that criteria alone doesn't make a decision bad. When changing gives you no clear advantage, why change to something more popular?
I'm a React fanboy, and use it and React Native in production on some pretty large apps. However, Meteor adopting React (and related tooling) still has merit, as to build those projects required me to wire them all together, enforce convention for the other developers using it so that we didn't try to use the tools in ways they weren't intended, and work around the various issues that crop up when doing Unviersal Javascript. Meteor can solve all of these, and can market themselves as that integrated solution. We all win, in that case.
Human solvers do the same.
Some writers will say that the -s after Charles' is not necessary and that adding only the apostrophe (Charles' car) will suffice to show possession. Consistency is the key here: if you choose not to add the -s after a noun that already ends in s, do so consistently throughout your text. William Strunk's Elements of Style recommends adding the 's. (In fact, oddly enough, it's Rule Number One in Strunk's "Elementary Rules of Usage.") You will find that some nouns, especially proper nouns, especially when there are other -s and -z sounds involved, turn into clumsy beasts when you add another s: "That's old Mrs. Chambers's estate." In that case, you're better off with "Mrs. Chambers' estate."
Half-Measures on Encryption Leave Much of Your Data Exposed
New Systems Coӧrdinate Cyber Responses
A tweaker guide to OS X personalization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969149
Under the apprenticeship model an apprentice agrees to work under a master/company for free (and then maybe for low wage as he becomes more skilled). Traditionally, it was a 7 year contract. Taxes are not necessary under that model. The education is provided in exchange for work. Work that gives you experience and helps you build mastery in the field.
How so? I understand that doing research on regulation is by its nature political, but that doesn't mean 'ideology driven'. For instance, you may argue from this data that Obama is the most-regulating president in history. Or, as some researchers have done, you may argue that regulation hasn't killed dynamism (see work by Goldschlag and Tabarrok). Data is data, what you do with it may be ideological or not...
I had the chance to walk with Marvin Minsky down a hallway once, and I asked him what he thought of Bayesian reasoning. He said that it seemed to him like it was still part of a general trend away from tackling the central problem in AI. I said I didn't think so, but he seemed tired so I didn't try to go into detail.

There's an urban legend that I once got into a fistfight with Marvin Minsky, which does about as well as anything to illustrate the crazy, crazy things that people have been known to believe about me.

We have temporarily misplaced a great mind. See you later, Professor Minsky.
My point was that the reclassification as employees does not imply that any of those would be true (very unlikely for a few, false as a matter of law in at least one).

You can't just assume that the change would achieve this state where workers get strictly more benefits and Uber's profits are sucked out. You need to take into account how much they can cut driver cash payments in that circumstance (i.e. paying them via benefits), where the economic incidence of car costs and FICA taxes currently lies, what the law says about piecework, etc.
I keep feeling like e-book readers need a "grab a bunch of a pages and flip them all" gesture along with the single page flip. When I flip a chunk of pages in a physical book all at once, I slide my index finger down some percentage of the remaining pages and just flip that entire section of book. Some kind of reasonable and intuitive two-finger equivalent seems like it would help with making e-books work better on digital devices.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll definitely take a look and pass it on.
That's high praise, although I guess he never met von Neumann.
The article makes many points but I agree with what you say as well. Hopefully with the SEC relaxing the crowdfunding rules funding will become more spread out.
> What is to stop Spotify from adding an artist upload feature?

Well, to be fair it is quite easy to upload tracks to Spotify. You just have to use tools like Ditto Music (https://www.dittomusic.com/)
How does Nix find packages? E.g., how does `nix-env --install firefox` get mapped to a specific package?
I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't, unless a grey bar would be more appropriate (Minsky was signed up for cryonics with Alcor, so he's not dead dead.)
Trump?
Time line isn't the same thing as network effect.

GitHub and Linux gave git the network effect.
Yes, this is true if you are talking about unsalted passwords, or if the attacker knows the salts. If there's an unknown salt, having the salted hash of a given plaintext input match the first few bytes of the target salted hash does not help you narrow the word list at all. If there is no salt, or the salt is public, then that's a case where you could append some ephemeral CS-PRNG output to both sides before hash-comparing... but probably better to fix the underlying issue.

I mean, it's funny to be far enough down the rabbit hole to be doing hash-compare. Then to say we wanted randomly keyed hash-compare is the final step. The nice thing is adding some random bytes imposes a fairly miniscule performance hit and it's purely computation, no additional storage. Probably still too slow to use for every comparison, but for constant-time critical comparison, it literally can't hurt.
Erlang's syntax isn't simple at all. No if statements, no for loops, only recursion and guards. Else is ; and there are proper and improper lists e.g. [1|2] is improper but [1|[2]] is proper. Weird.
In 1945, most Americans would have believed that the Japanese people and the German people were not ready for democracy. Luckily the Truman administration and its allies were not as feckless and irresponsible as the Bush administration.
The review of the film, a shorter useful info:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mirage-men-film-revi...

For me it was too boring to watch the film. If anybody actually saw it, liked it and remembers something interesting but not mentioned in the review, please tell.
>next shiny new view-model library to ride the hype train.

If widespread use in production by Facebook isn't real world enough for you, then perhaps it's best to find a slower-moving part of the stack.
Even if I stop seeding, I like to keep them in the torrents folder because it gives me essentially free integrity checking.
Was that before or after he invented the Internet?

(I think the initials you were looking for there were FDR)
Kinda sounds like the long rumored TR-3B ( http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/tr-3b/ ). I love UFO mythology, and that around the TR-3B is wild, to say the least.
[facepalm] translation: our sound goes to 11!
This site crashes Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, resets your iPhone and iPad
I think Minsky was the last living giant of AI that attended the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, which many cite as being the beginning of NLP, computer vision, machine learning, etc.

Sad news...
I wonder if they know about TAOS and its virtual ISA JIT VM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
I'm not really the person to answer that (I'm a lowly software engineer keeping the cogs greased m'lord!) I know at some point Larry (https://github.com/lwneal) was looking into that, at least cursorily. I'll refer to him as the authority on anything encryption-related at Dropcam (or anything, in general. Brilliant guy!)
I have wondered about that myself.

One plausible argument centers on overall stability. Most of the public would be fine with it, but that slice of the public that would not be fine could be a big worry.

However, I do not believe the secret would hold. It would be too important. Someone would leak. Way too many of us would really want to know and find it all fascinating.
"I consider the CPython switch from Mercurial to git the final declaration of victory."

Really I think it was bitbucket's total sidelining of hg in favour of git. hg features break regularly on bitbucket and today if you visit bitbucket's home page you're greeted with "Bitbucket is the Git solution for professional teams"
Excellent, glad you wrote this.

Can I suggest you put something like this on the website front page? It's very engaging, and makes the book far more personal.

I'll be downloading it and reading.
No it wont. The last year or so of policy updates has pretty seriously alienated a lot of the original user base, who have since started using Bandcamp and other outlets a lot more seriously. Move involvement from major labels just means that copyright enforcement will keep getting increasingly strict, and the content creators will keep moving to Bandcamp.
I don't think your assertion about 1945 is correct. Both Germany and Japan had functional and stable democracies before that date which was excellent evidence that they could support it.
Ipad dumbs down personal computing by doing things in this way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o (Alan Kay talk, 14-15min)
Britain's doomsday nuke subs still run Windows XP
>In reality, identify theft doesn't exist. In my example I stole from the bank

you wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Our American government was never based on the idea that the people would have direct input on all issues.

We elect leaders (not followers) to run the country. They probably shouldn't keep fundamental facts about government from us. But lying about our first strike nuclear capabilities to get an edge is understandable.

That's why it's important to vote not just for a platform but for the candidate. Because they'll be dealing with issues that aren't known, be them hidden or just yet to surface. Especially for president. Our president is modeled after a limited monarch, just with an limited term.
I have CMD+arrow keys for that, and those key combinations are often easier to reach that home/end/pgdn/pgup on many keyboards.

Haven't really needed a separate delete/backspace key. About the only time I use the separate delete key even on windows/linux is in the file explorer.
> "Overall, for 2005 to 2007 vintage tranches of mortgage-backed securities originally rated triple-A, despite the mass downgrades, only [...] 4% of subprime securities had [...] losses imminent or had already been suffered by the end of 2009."

> (Also, I think you're missing how huge the decline in home prices was, both as cause and vector of the crisis. A vast amount of paper wealth nominally owned by the middle class vanished in a puff of smoke; most of the crisis was the result of that. But the impacts of an asset price bubble should properly be attributed to its inflation, not it's popping.)

Its inflation exists because of how corroded the mortgage ratings were. None of them were correct except relative to each other within the mortgage bond market. You don't rate things AAA when they are really BBB. I understand you might feel that is correct but I sure as hell do not.

https://www.moodys.com/sites/products/DefaultResearch/200660...

> Aaa 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.10% 0.07%

That is the expected cumulative default rate for a AAA corporate bond. The mean is .10% with standard deviations of .07%. So when you say "4%" that is absurdly high in comparison yet they were marketed and sold as if they were equivalent risks.

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2008/06/pdf/dodd....

> The extent and speed of rating downgrades of asset-backed
securities. Investors have learned to their cost that the credit
ratings of structured credit securities are more likely to suffer
rapid and severe downgrades than are corporate bonds (see
chart). Not only have downgrades occurred more frequently
to subprime securities, they have often been reduced several
notches at once because of the sensitivity of such securities’
ratings to increases in assumed credit losses. As a result,
investors’ faith in rating agency opinions has been shaken—
credit spreads on AAA-rated U.S. residential MBSs have been
priced at about the same level as BBB-rated corporate bonds
since August 2007.

The real value of the AAA-rated residential MBSs were the equivalent of BBB for other securities and had been for years preceding the event. The majority of the market was blinded by the assurances of the credit bureaus which were valuing BBB assets as AAA assets.

A credit bureau that doesn't consistently and accurately estimate risk across securities is in many ways worse than useless because it gives a false sense of security where none exists.

Similarly, captured referees / regulators / credit bureaus cannot be trusted if you are not the sole organization in control.

However, I can see how this is likely more in the realm of opinion so I'll just leave it here but I think the comparison to corporate bonds is relevant.
Brudgers
Maybe because we in the west are biased towards our own and vilify the other? And quite frankly who gives a damn what the west thinks about one of its leaders? Hardly an objective POV is it? Why not ask the victims or observers with data and facts?

In this case, given that Churchill was prime minister of a colonial power, its more akin to starving POWs while siphoning their crops to a different locale; a crime in any post war court. Your analogy is way off base.

Would also add that part of the crop failures thing is because the British forced the locals to grow cash crops over several centuries. Funny how independent India has yet to have a drought that escalated into a famine and has effectively dealt with droughts huh?
Something that I haven't seen discussed much is the possibility that when a startup (i.e. Whatsapp) achieves billion-ish scale adoption in a space that overlaps with an incumbent (Facebook), it has already destroyed some value (monetizable user attention-time) in the incumbent, so the incumbent has to obtain the upstart (pun-intended) in order to regain that lost value, and simultaneously grow into the areas that they don't overlap.

In that case, any premium paid that isn't reclaimed by future value created as a result of the acquisition is destroyed wealth. Unfortunately, without a crystal ball, it's hard to say what that premium is, if it exists at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10965250
small companies do this too, because it works great.

employee #63, invoice #51775. press 1 for sales, 2 for support. sure.
But don't pass on the salt!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Well said, I agree.
Government-issued money being "debt based" is a fiction used to make the accounting equations look pretty. It has been since the gold/silver/whatever standard fell into disuse.

Or are you talking about fractional-reserve banking? If so, there's nothing that prevents implementing that on top of crypto-currencies and more than it can't be implemented on top of physical currency.
They seem to be moving in the direction of attracting more big-name labels, which are often Flash DRM-protected.

This is the exact opposite of what I use Soundcloud for, but presumably they have numbers that disagree with my use...
> Sounds like win/win/win!

Except for the customers who bet their livelihood on you and now have to turn their entire workflow upside down to accommodate your lack of interest.
BBcode can go pretty horrifically wrong from a security perspective because you're still generating HTML markup based on unstructured, untrusted user input. There's a long and nasty history of XSS issues in forums that use BBcode where clever use of mismatched markup has made it possible to break the HTML generator enough to inject JavaScript and other nasties.
When he's uploaded, who owns the copyright of this mind? Should it be considered a derivative work from his education?