skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, I agree with this, but it specifically doesn't help with issues where glibc vs musl matters.

Either your build image's libc (musl in this case) is statically linked in and you have the aforementioned issues, or it's not statically linked and your binary won't run. Most things compiled within an ubuntu container won't run in an alpine one; you specifically have to go out of your way to make that so.
It seems to be built primarily around asynchronous communication, not synchronous.
My team sends gifs all the time in Slack
The article gets quite short on my expectations. It just notes that Hearthstone is doing the same things that "Magic: The Gathering" does. And they notice - I disagree - that is completely different because Magic has to deal with physical cards while Blizzard has digital ones.

> it's a systemized way of creating enforced scarcity of a theoretically limitless digital product through a deliberate, timed process.

This is the theme that will have make a memorable article. Our economic systems have been dealing with scarcity for a long time. The increase in production and reduction of scarcity was one way of measuring an economic system success. I really would have liked a talk about how for the last decades we have designed scarcity as an expanding business model and what it will mean for the future of economy.
As opposed to them being on Google or Microsoft's?
People have been jailed for violating the ham radio rules.
Your point is one well worth making..."technical debt" is not an inept choice of terms in IMHO...

I've been in the trade for decades now...I'm more inclined to apply the term "technical baggage" to the feeling I often have these days when sitting down to solve a problem for a client...

Layers upon layers of dependencies to sort to do a proper job of putting systems back on sound footing...multiple patches to be examined, some to be discarded...with the clock ticking...non-tech managers love to hear you say, "OK, you're back up"...increasingly, that's what we settle for...

All to keep the wheels of commerce turning with as little down time as possible...

I have to admit that my discomfort is at least somewhat influenced by comparing the current environment to the environment of the early days...essentially stand-alone programs, elegantly written, performing the same basic function that now require five, ten...

Forgive the reminiscence...times are different...
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It's linked in the article:

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/dell-edge-gateway-5000/pd?...

It's a ruggedized industrial-usage small-ish form factor fanless PC.
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As an anecdote, this has definitely been my experience. And it's compounded by having numerous different media: phone, text, GroupMe, Slack, email, Facebook, Hangouts, and so on. At this point, there's not a single service anybody can use to immediately reach me, because I've pretty much conditioned myself not to read anything until I feel ready to be distracted. It's a mess.
On your point about young folks not learning about binary and hex.

I know these things myself since I started writing code 30 years ago and they were a necessity back then.

I'd love to justify all the obsolete stuff I have in my head (systems and microprocessor assembly languages that are long dead) but I cannot.
Did I just get hacked?
You have a significant misunderstanding of the mechanics of this treaty, FISA, and EO12333.

This treaty: it must be ratified by Congress in order for it to be considered accepted by the EC. Under the U.S. Constitution, this means it would carry the full force of the law. The Commerce Department wouldn't bear the weight of enforcement.

FISA §702: limits collection to targeted non-U.S. persons of foreign intelligence interest at borders (Upstream) and submission of NSLs to U.S. organizations for data on non-U.S. persons. The Privacy Shield agreement only prohibits mass surveillance.

EO12333 does not apply since that collection occurs outside of the United States, and would not be in the jurisdiction of this agreement.

> Department of Commerce who has no authority to talk about reforming this policy.

No, this agreement was made at the behest of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation [1]. Since this will be ratified by the Senate, it will carry the full weight of the law.

[1] http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressrelease...
Ask HN: Typical equity rates for SV startups?
I'm comparing offers from various Silicon Valley startups. I'm a software engineer with ~7 years experience.

I'm wondering what are typical equity offers for startups in SV. I've seen this table [1] which has some numbers for post Series A companies. How much does this drop for a post Series B company?

[1] https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation#negotiations-and-offers
Neither does anyone at Microsoft
I actively block Facebook at work with /etc/hosts and I would continue to do so if my workplace installed this.
It does: like an overfit (verb) model, Deep Blue and Jeopardy Watson don't generalize well to other problems.
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Also, runtime behavior depends on the order of --add-module compilation flags! Got bitten by this when sub_filters weren't working... and then I realized that the order in which [un]gzip and sub_filters are applied isn't driven by the order of the directives in the config file, but by the compilation string - the substitution filtering was being done on gzipped gibberish!

This was probably a Good Idea (tm) for performance reasons - filtration is just a compile-time linked list of function calls. But it's barely documented at all!
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"a period of disconnection, of feeling as if you have been abandoned by God, of not knowing how to get back on track."

^ that sounds to me a lot like a common "bad trip" on LSD.
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There are two different issues.

One is whether simple progress on neural nets is enough to close-in on real intelligence and I think those who really understand neural nets generally think not.

The other issue is whether incremental progress in general can achieve AI - there I don't think anyone can be sure, especially the relative vagueness of "incremental" and so I don't one should dismiss incremental progress or uncritically assume it.
This will have to be ratified by the Senate, DoC will not be in charge of policing this.

This agreement was made at the request of senators.

Under the U.S. Constitution, all foreign treaties must be ratified by the Senate. This will carry the full weight of the law.
Chip chomped after debug backdoor found in Android phones
Uri Simonsohn's website[1] is full of links to interesting papers by Simonsohn and his colleagues that illustrate the dangers of "researcher degrees of freedom" and back up the points you are making here.

[1] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/
My take: you are both right.

1) "It is a paradox": Relaxation is not the absence of anger, relaxation is the abandonment of stress.

Stress is the clinging resistance to things as they are.

You can't "try to relax" because trying implies dissatisfaction with your un-relaxed state, and dissatisfaction is stress.

You can only relax fully by not worrying about whether you are relaxed or not.

2) "Anger mgt is possible" : strong emotions, even positive ones, also cause disturbance.

Disturbance is a form of stress. So to relax, one has to first learn to deal with emotions. Not to say you have to try to get rid of emotions, which would make them stronger, but to find a way to experience them without struggle.

Once that is achieved then you can relax.

But more subtly in order to relax, one does have to begin by first being dissatisfied with stress, which is itself stressful, but if this dissatisfaction is used skillfully it can help lead to relaxation. :-)

So, in order to fully relax, one has to engineer disturbances that are less stressful than the stress you are trying to eliminate, and to modify your approach as you go.

It also gets complicated because there are feedback loops in the system. Manipulating one thing, brings up another thing to deal with etc...
Hell yes, we even deployed code written by developers onto them!
You know that inserting a Google Analytics tracking script is a.) one of the most common things a web developer does anyways and b.) a very helpful and common-sense feature coming from a Google product?
Thank you, that is very kind of you to say.

Personally, psychedelics are just too high risk with my default internal attitude, even if they could help.

I have some odd form of somatic anxiety. It's basically chronic pain that varies with situational anxiety. I've had seizures, so it's probably some neurological disorder we don't really understand yet.

Mindfulness meditation, sensory deprivation therapy, CBT, journaling, and (by far most importantly) extremely intense exercise all help. All the first and second line treatments have failed (Benzodiazepines, SSRIs, pregabalin, MAOIs, etc.)

Basically, learning to live with the pain was a long and difficult process. It initially eroded my intelligence by about thirty IQ points, which was terrifying. My LSAT score, for example went from very high 170s (near perfect) to around 150 (dead average), before going back up.

I think most people around here could relate to how scary that can be, especially when intelligence is a key aspect of how you self-identify.

But eventually I learned to manage it, and my normal functioning has mostly returned.
Do you really think people would post the same stuff to their 'work feed' as their 'personal feed'?

Actually you know what.. probably
Oh, I know. Ironically enough, Bill Gates actually did take LSD as well and obtained a TS.

But the story of Jobs' clearance is especially funny.

Remember, this is the same Steve Jobs that only ate fruit for years, didn't often wear shoes, put his feet up on other people's desks, refused to put a license plate on his car, parked in handicapped spaces, and was generally an anti-authority hippie his entire life. It's fun to imagine him being grilled by the CSS.

That said, don't falsify a clearance document. It's a Federal crime, for starters. But the most severe typical consequence you'll face is having it committed to your clearance record forever. So if you lie on say a Secret clearance application form, there's no way in hell you're getting a TS/SCI.

You can absolutely get a clearance with past history of criminal behavior and drug use, provided sufficient time has elapsed and you've demonstrated reform.

Just don't lie.
Google and Microsoft don't have a history of stealing user's passwords and using it to spy on them.

(Microsoft does have some history of losing data, but that's not as malicious)
IMHO, the stock keyboard on Surface devices is barely functional. It looks nice but lacks a lot of features that I am used to from my (non Microsoft) mobile devices. I am hoping this acquisition is a move to improve that technology.
Part of that is right out of the Microsoft playbook. Promote you right before the review cycle. Give you a bad review by comparing you to all your peers in your new level. They had a limited number of promotions and good scores to give out. This way they didn't have to give a promotion and high score to the same person.
Most environments don't have an implementation for it yet

The speed with which environments actually got implementations of previous secure algorithms was half the problem with their use, but I think Argon2 has this nailed. The README now links bindings for Go, Haskell, JavaScript, JVM, Lua, OCaml, Python, Ruby and Rust.

Disclaimer: I wrote the Ruby one.

https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2
Yes, I was referring to `emacs --daemon`/`emacsclient`.

If you run `emacsclient -a ''` then it will automatically run `emacs --daemon` for you (if it isn't already running), so that you don't need to run it up-front.
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade battle enters a new final straight
Unless their needs include security.....
Parallel scoffs at your measly 24 pins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port
It starts up under 50MB with the built in notebook. Scrolling around between notes (with images) and starting a new notebook, I managed to get it up to 150MB (and then back down, so no strong evidence of memory leaks).

Not a huge deal to me for an app of this functionality at this point in time. (I do remember being able to run X11 + Netscape in 16MB, though.)
But, try to think of it from the point of view of somebody who's been making and selling wagon wheels to people his whole life in an industry that's been making and selling wagon wheels for hundreds of years, as part of a company that's probably been around for at least a hundred years itself. These guys know a thing or two about why people buy wagon wheels.

Sometimes, things change.
Yeah, I was talking about spinlocks.

You're right that context switches would dominate std::mutex. For some reason I was thinking std::mutex uses spinlocks, even though I knew better. Too much kernel side coding lately - context switches are often not possible there, so mutexes are often not possible as potential synchronization mechanisms.
I giggled at `A/10` ... Thank you for that.
I have to use Jive at work and I honestly hate it. There was a forced migration from email lists to jive and rather than continue the communication using Jive, the discussions just stopped. Enterprise social networks seem like a solution looking for a problem.
I'm assuming we can just throw more hardaware to the problem. I expect strong AI to be highly parallelizable which will make it quite eazy to scale up.

Yes, I think it is trivial. At least it will be in hindsight. The brain exists, it is proof that AI is possible just as birds were proof that flight was possible. We just need to discover the easiest way to implement it.
Wouldn't be the first time a bunch of high-profile investors got bilked.
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My suggestion, if you really want to overkill and knock it out of the park: use both. Run it through bcrypt, then through Argon2. If something happens where one of them is deemed insecure/bad practice, you've still got the other one.
It's crazy indeed, there are some numbers in this story http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-disney-princess-hasbr... - the toy princess business is $5.5 bln, and it's not even Disney's top line.
Assets are a great point. Much like lifting the cap on earnings tax, assets should factor into the payout equation, much like they affect student grants.
I think you just described Google Now: https://www.google.com.au/landing/now/
Do US LLCs really not require you to file accounts

Yep! The standard for US LLCs is you disclose ownership and members, which become public records, but that's about it. A sole proprietor LLC doesn't even file their accounts with the IRS (required to produce them in the event of an audit, but the standard return won't include e.g. money in the bank or anything); a partnership return has some balance sheet items reflected but that information is private between the taxpayers and the IRS.

This contrasts to, e.g., a Japanese tax return, where small businesses have equivalent-to-US recordkeeping requirements for books but also have to submit a complete balance sheet with the return every year (along with a month-to-month revenue statement).
Tumblr Has Lost Almost a Quarter of Its Value Under Yahoo’s Ownership
It's not expensive if you do 23andMe then import your data into geneticgenie.org
what is Yammer?
LA riots
Yes. It's an analog digital clock.
You may find this paragraph on wikipedia interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Limitations...
There are some interesting links in this recent Economist article:
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-maki...

Example quote: "... interruptions, even short ones, increase the total time required to complete a task by a significant amount."

Including a book I'm going to check out, "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World"
Though it's almost unheard of now, a british billion = 1000 * a british million. In that context it does hold, being 2 british billionths of a metre thick.

That said, here we all bascially use the American 'billion' because it makes a more logical approach and allows for dealing with larger numbers more easily.
Crunching numbers is a lot easier now
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This is from my swiftkey.

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My girlfriends.

I am trying to get a chance to win the game is at the cough and I will be assisting them in developing an online patient care system where doctors will have a secure system to access patient files outside of the office and I don't know if you need any more information on the landing page and the other hand I am not only hardworking but ready and excited to learn about the cosmetic chemistry field of study of the month of the month of the month of the month of
> Female deaths finally exceed male deaths once people hit 80 years old

Absolute numbers-wise, simply because you are running out of males.
We have Slack/HipChat and emails, why Facebook At Work? I just don't see the value to post everything at work in a news feed style, does it provide any value?
I still have two of the original eeePC machines, which I use to run antique Teletype machines. The Linux version is crappy. The WiFi connection system gets hung up if anything at all goes wrong, and the "union" file system leaks inodes, which have to be cleaned up with a script every few weeks of use.

You can get a tablet for $39, which is useful for little dedicated applications.
People didn't trust facebook with their data. That is an issue.
> which rejuvenation therapies arrive over the next 20 years will be the dominant driver of your mortality rate for the rest of your life

I think you are being overly optimistic. Within 20 years I don't think there will be much change in that field, because you'll need clinical trials, proof of safety and so on, and if it's not ready right now in terms of what needs to happen conceptually and at the lab scale level, we already know it won't be on the market in 10-15 years from now.
How often are you talking about Banjo Kazooie?
Given what they did to Parse, this doesn't inspire much confidence. Also, tech companies would find it hard to ditch Slack for its numerous API integrations with services such as Atlassian, Github, Fog Creek.
What are you even ranting about? Plenty of 'kids today' appreciate knowing a bit of hex. Are we talking about programmers, "micro-managers", or "Photoshop operatives"? Most programmers today are familiar with hex. But if you're expecting managers or Photoshop operatives to be able to convert hex to binary in their head, then I feel you have the wrong expectations.
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One more big issue with this is, one value of Facebook is that you can carry history with it. But with this @work version, I cannot possibly see how you can have access to your previous company. It will never work the way that regular Facebook would.
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As a person who has and uses (lightly) a Windows Mobile phone running the Windows 10 beta, I'd love to see it become a/the keyboard option on there. The native keyboard isn't terrible once you learn some of the things it can do, but it still pales in comparison to SwiftKey, and I don't even make full use of the predictive buttons because I'm so used to sweeping.

I'll note that in the search / address bar of Firefox, if I type "ne" the three options it predicts are "ne", "news.ycombinator.com", and "news.google.com", where the same entry in a text field gives more expected values.
A customer was so annoying that Tesla decided not to sell him a car
EU and US reach new data-sharing agreement
If you don't trust their salespeople, why on earth would you trust them claiming that they aren't sales people? Judge based on the available facts, not superficial prejudices.
This is weird coming from Dell, reminds me of IBM in the '90s.
They're simply not seen as quite the necessity smartphones are.
Results are important, but don't worship short-term results at the expense of everything else.

Deep learning (and other machine learning techniques that are forced to call themselves deep learning to get attention) are getting great results right now, yes. It's important to follow these results, to use them, and to try to understand them.

But when this approach hits a local maximum, do you want AI Winter #3, or do you want there to be another approach that people have been working on?
>Take China for example, where the strategist sees the oil plunge helping to fuel a boom in SUV sales: "Moreover, the low oil price is encouraging Chinese consumers to buy increasingly larger cars. Sales of SUVs, the heaviest passenger vehicles category, are up 60 percent year-on-year in the last three months, while overall passenger vehicle sales are growing robustly at 22 percent."

This is terrible news for renewable energy causes.
I use pentadactyl with firefox which allows me to <C-i> in a text area which launches emacsclient (running in daemon mode) and sends the text back when I save. no mouse! Here is a short video of how it works: https://youtu.be/_ZoABZ8muy0 (huge gif http://imgur.com/iXMeZDj)
this is targeted towards people who like open-office ;)
Not only that; you can (significantly) enhance SwiftKey's predictions by giving it access to the archives of your gmail, facebook, etc. accounts. One would hope that Microsoft would at least use that data in an anonymized fashion, but regardless, the value would obviously be huge. I was surprised it wasn't listed in the article where it outlined the the value Microsoft would get from the purchase.
"In ten years, he believes, psilocybin will be reclassified a Schedule II drug; there will be clinical centers, equipped with trained and certified guides, around the country. This is his life’s mission—not only to get to the bottom of why psychedelic therapy works wonders but to legitimize it as a viable treatment."

I think that quote was the most meaningful part of this article for me, declassifying / rescheduling drugs that are currently relegated to the "Scheduled 1/No accepted medical use", and the DEA almost NEVER granting research permits, not only creates unnecessary criminal felons in the United States, it has a second harm of suppressing research into as-yet unknown presumptive medically beneficial aspects of these substances.
I wonder if they gave the original founders a chance to demerge the Parse company so they could go it alone again and continue with their product.
There's no mandate in my company that users stick with Google Apps for calendars, groups, document sharing, etc. But any department that went with their own tool for any of that would be their Island that wouldn't interoperate with the rest of the office.

That doesn't mean that Google Apps is the best tool, or even that it works well for everyone, but it means that people are willing to put up with a less than perfect solution that's integrated with the rest of the company.
That's like saying there is no reason for a single party government to investigate claims of corruption.

Management is not a monolith.
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Firebase has been returning Error 500 for the last 15 minutes or so. Also can't login to the Dashboard .
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