skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the point of terrorism is fear itself - hence the name terrorism.

If they've gotten the population to behave in a fearful manner, they've accomplished their goals, regardless of economic impact, loss of life, etc. The whole point is to elicit an emotional response and establish (psychological) dominance.

I don't necessarily think that prudent security measures are a bad thing, but some aspects of post 9/11 security like the "see something, say something" program or the security theater at airports are absolutely playing into the terrorist's hands. Good security is generally invisible.
The point is that RISC-V will be documented; you don't need to blindly accept whatever firmware is bundled, because it's possible to write alternative firmware. This is actually the case for a lot of embedded processors and SoCs too, but it doesn't do as much good their because even when things are sufficiently documented they're still not actually standardized. Given the opportunity, projects like coreboot and OpenWRT produce great results.
ssh, openvpn, ansible, git... bash :)
Switch teams.

Seriously, that's what you should do. People in this category (as everyone realizes) are "assholes", or more accurately, on the spectrum.

A team full of average neurotypicals is not a good situation for someone on the spectrum, nor is it a good situation for the neurotypicals. It's best to leave and find another early stage startup where the primary problem isn't "teamwork"; you'll be a lot happier at your new job and so will everyone else at your old workplace.
Heinous Waste of Money Officially Begins
Do you know something we don't, or do you mean to imply that anytime someone refers to another as an asshole the asshole must have a neurological condition as their excuse? I didn't see an indication from the OP that the person in question is on the autism spectrum.
Is like a devolution for desktop.

The best, by far, Delphi.

Visual FoxPro was good too.

VB meh

Winforms meh * 2

WPF good, but tooooo hard

After this, is a long fall from the climb.

(I unsure how good is cocoa for desktops, never used it except for iOS)
Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center
Money Laundering is Financial Thoughtcrime:
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/money-laundering-is-...

. . . By Former Chief Foreign Exchange Dealer; Director of Credit Card Interchange @ Visa & Founding Director of the Bitcoin Foundation . . .
They're trying to do the same time thing as Soros did, yes. But even after its recent $300 billion spending spree to defend the yuan, China still has trillions in foreign currency reserves left, orders of magnitude more than the BoE ever did. And they have a cultural imperative against "giving in" to Western capitalist pigs. I really don't think these guys have thought their plan through.
I just can't figure this one out.

> I just looked at the TkDocs, and wow! it is reasonably sane and one should be able to immediately understand the code in their language of choice.

This statement seems serious, and reasonable enough. On the one hand, the pencil-drawn UI schematics are completely out of place and not very helpful. On the other hand, the Tk examples are given in 4 languages, and do seem pretty reasonable.

But everything else in your post seems sarcastic. And then finally,

> Desktop apps are dead, long live the desktop app!

I'm hopelessly lost. I feel like I'm back in English class doing one of those convoluted assignments wherein I'm told to analyse the author's intent, symbolism, and the meaning behind their motifs, etc. Those assignments always kicked my ass.
China's already warned Soros just a few days ago not to short the renminbi.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebabbebe-c40d-11e5-993a-d18bf68267...

Edit - didn't see that the original WSJ article includes quotes by Soros mentioning his short, and also mentioned China's general warnings against shorts. Though the FT article I linked focuses specifically on Soros, and talks a bit about his history too.
Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/

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You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.

Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.
Good points. I will definitely keep that in mind.
CMS/CRM-type things. No frameworks.
Chatrooms as a concept are much older than the 1990s. I used chat rooms on the university's CDC mainframe in the late 1980s, with a system called 'confer.' People would sometimes create private rooms for online sex talk.

Minitel supported chat rooms, including for adult chats ('messageries roses') in the 1980s. CompuServe an innumerable BBSes also had chat rooms in the 1980s.

And the PLATO educational system had chat rooms in the 1970s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkomatic .

However, you limited this to chatrooms implemented with 'web technologies' - I can't address that specific topic.
Come on folks, don't just list the command line tools that come with your Linux distro :)

Let's talk about the big packages that bring value to organisations.
no linux servers anywhere? No open source network infrastructure?
> If you are using www, then this is no problem; your site’s cookies won’t be sent to the static subdomain (unless you explicitly set them up to do so). If you use the naked domain, the cookies get sent to all subdomains (by recent browsers that implement RFC 6265)

From my understanding, pretty much all browsers DON'T send google.com cookies to subdomains -- they only send .google.com cookies to all subdomains.

This seems backed up by their cited RFC 6265[1]:
> Unless the cookie's attributes indicate otherwise, the cookie is returned only to the origin server (and not, for example, to any subdomains)

Am I just confused?

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2
Stanford gets attacked - a lot. The biggest threat to the network is personally owned machines that need legitimate access to the network. The only way for them to protect the rest of the network is to have some kind of monitoring on those personal machines. The only other alternative would be to run personal machines on a separate network entirely, which they may or may not do already. I'm not sure. And BigFix doesn't cover only students, but also all faculty and staff as well.

Honestly, if you think that's bad, try getting a server online (in the datacenter!). The network admins take their firewall rules very seriously (as well they should).

For me, the biggest pain is the two (yes, two) backup services that must be installed for my department.
Agreed, but one small pedantic correction: the Linksys firmware was written by Chinese contractors. I know because I had to deal with them. It's also why the open source process took so long - the firmware was a binary blob and the contractors refused to cough up the GPL'd source.
I've found work on the monthly 'Who's Hiring' posts on HN, and from reading articles posted here by various companies that then had 'we're hiring' links at the bottom.

Thanks to the low Aussie dollar, and having clients in the US, I currently work half the hours and get double the pay I was getting in a full-time development position in Melb.

My advice is to try and find remote work from the US rather than locally. It's a bit more work, and it you might need to spend some effort convincing the company you're worth hiring, but if you have the skills it's not too difficult.

The benefit is that you'll get a much higher rate.

The time differences work out well too if your clients are on the US west-coast (e.g. Silicon Valley). There's an overlap of a few hours in the Melbourne morning with the Californian afternoon. This means I can speak with clients in the morning to provide them with an overview and an update, as well as get feedback and direction on tasks for the day, then I work while they're asleep and send status reports/updates at the end of the day. Then while I'm sleeping, they check out my work and provide any feedback on that, and on next tasks, which is then ready for me first thing in the morning, and so the process repeats.

You do have the worry about finding clients, but if you are reliable and do good work then you can start to build up a regular client base.

You'll also want to have a good Internet connection for video calls and screen sharing. If you're 3 zones away from an exchange, and/or have a connection that drops out in the rain it'll make connecting with customers much more difficult.
bootstrap is great for when you want to build something, you know a lot of people know it already and you don't really want to go through the process of creating your own CSS. I mean think of all the java and .net teams that don't have a dedicated resource for UI and how much they can accomplish with it just going by the docs. If they didn't use bootstrap, there's hardly another framework that matches that gives you all of the components so that you're not distracted from the real meat and potatoes of the web app with making your own modals behave. It's certainly not perfect, but it's damn reliable and as good a standard as I've seen.
Can you post a picture? I did a google image search, but didn't find any pouting chimps.

They do purse their lips, but that's a different set of muscles.
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777316
How about @hisham.hm? People are used to seeing it as part of email but it conveys that it's an internet address.
I think what you are overlooking is that kids CANNOT really do math. 67% or 8th graders are rated as "not proficient" in math, and that is compared to the government standard (which I would bet money is incredibly low). How will they do algebra in a program when they can't do algebra on paper?

BTW, its even worse for 12th grade.

http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/
A little pedantic: you already have thousands of different input sources, from the classic "five senses" to less conscious awareness of things like your limb placement and internal biochemistry (e.g., hunger).
There are even people who've "added" artificial senses by doing things like placing magnets under their skin (to sense magnetic fields) or strapping a device to their leg that buzzes in the direction of North.
Not to mention the fact that we can use things like visually inspecting a screen to access senses (via information feeds) that are not available biologically.

However, you're right that a robot/AI developed with the intention of feeding it all sorts of heterogeneous data will probably be able to process everything more effectively.
In my own research (AI with a focus on reinforcement learning and robotics) I am sometimes surprised by how effective agents can be at making sense of their input streams.
For example, an experiment will not go the way you expect because the robot can trivially solve a maze via sensing the current in the wiring beneath the floor.

Of course, there's a limit in terms of how effective raw information can be.
Humans don't need to see ultraviolet wavelengths because in general the spectrum of ~350-700nm provides all the information we need, and the brain is good at finding the salient aspects of what we see.
If you just connect a new sensor to a robot, it might improve its ability to understand the world, or do nothing at all, because it can't incorporate this new information into its representation effectively.
Or it doesn't add anything new, or at least nothing that it couldn't have figured out from existing input streams.

For example, adding a stock ticker feed to your robot would probably not help it solve a particular task, unless your robot happens to be 50 feet tall and the task in question is "rampaging down Wall Street".
Exactly right. I was a contractor in the UK from 1997-2001 and I used to get double the full time rate. Then the dot com boom busted and the market for contracting collapsed for a while. When I emigrated to OZ I hoped to find the same kind of market but it doesn't really exist in the same way.
Rails

ElasticSearch (And Kibana, holy shit)

MySQL

React

Ractive

Ubuntu

NGINX

Redis

We stand on the backs of giants. Yet, for some reason, corporations feel entitled to not give back. Modern computing lives by open source. Companies should be obliged to contribute similarly.
Only 26% of high school seniors are considered "Proficient" at math, which I can assure you is a MUCH lower bar than knowing calculus.

http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/
My guess is you're being downvoted for profanity and negativity, nothing about technical explanations.

Try rephrasing your question in a way that the parent is more likely to respond to.
Inside the mind of Raoul Moat
Isn't everyone and their dog trying to devalue their currency these days to boost exports? What's the problem with weak yuan? Sure, iPhones will get even more expensive to buy in China (rather funny since they are made there) but other than that it should be a boon to exports, no?
Yes and no, UEFI will look at those vars when determining how to boot the computer but clearing them shouldn't brick the computer.

Basically the UEFI spec is crap to begin with and there are implementations that make egregious mistakes that don't matter if the guest OS is Windows but goes horribly sideways if something atypical comes up.

For instance, a while back there was a case of Linux bricking a bunch of laptops because while efivars had space available, trying to use some of this "free" space would leave you with a paper weight.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22855.html
I've seen some sites that redirect to m.example.com if you're accessing them from a phone. Do you think people are getting confused by that?
My Major Skills are .NET, MS SQL, mainly backend with APIs - comfortable with JSON and XML - I'll certainly shoot you an email once I'm ready. Thanks a lot for some hope.

Cheers !
I too think measurements like that are "fair", it is one of THE events in the US, so it makes sense to take special precautions.

That being said, the NFL should pay for this 100%. They should also pay for their stadiums (not threaten local fans / politicians they will move if not being financially supported), and frankly they should pay for any security measures during any NFL games.

The government paying for it is nothing but a quite heavy subsidy they don't need. It's the same though with any big sports league around the world where police / government is handling such affairs and the league is not paying for it.
>Make no mistake, much of this is puppetry in the same way that the cold war, or terrorism, or the reds etc was used as a mechanism to gain political power in the US.

It turns out that protecting people from their enemies is (sometimes) good politics. It's very much a desired quality of a democracy, that politicians pursuing their own self-interests will be driven to pursue the interests of the people. Unfortunately, it can also work when the enemies are imagined or exaggerated. Again, we can only look to the particular circumstances for the answer. I take strong issue with your particular implication that the Cold War threat from the Soviet Union was in any sense overstated. If anything, McCarthy was more right about Soviet infiltration than he was ever given credit for until recently. That doesn't justify blacklists and the horrifying HUAC sessions; those are the self-defeating measures I was talking about.

>So I show the political leaders saying that they want to kill us and I get more power. I show all the repressive state tactics of the Americans on their own people, I get more power. "Look", I say "Even at their sports games, the evil Americans treat their own citizens like they are in a prison!"

There's a lot of clever propaganda against the US, but I can't imagine this being a big winner. And anyway, the ability of demagogues to twist our actions for their propaganda purposes cannot be an overriding consideration. The US is very rich and very powerful, so people will hate us no matter what we do. And if they can't find any facts to base it on, they'll just make some up. Defending 50,000 people's lives from an attack has to be the primary consideration.
Given how much heat racks of servers on land generate, I don't understand how they can claim that there is no heat being added to the ocean.
Do people fall and bust their nose?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802046
Berkeley Snap [1] and MIT Scratch [2] come to mind.

I'm not a teacher, so I'm unsure if these are applicable to your age/time constraints, but they might be worthwhile.

[1] http://snap.berkeley.edu/

[2] https://scratch.mit.edu/
UVic scientists create a blood test for the faint-hearted
Unfortunately, our schools DON'T teach 12 years of math. They act like they do, but kids don't learn it. And very few kids get to the pre-calc level. Particularly in the schools that will be targeted by this government waste.

If you read HN, you had a better math and science education than 90% of this country, don't act like every kid was as precocious or as motivated as you.
It has been my observation that when many folks ask for open source software, what they really want and mean is free(as in beer) software.
Hate blood tests? UVic research team just needs one drop
Very encouraging !

I'm in Ivanhoe. Coffee would be great for a technical chat !

So I guess you're a Hawks supporter ?
Poettering's behaviour ultimately reflects poorly on his employer, Red Hat. It seems like they just allow this behaviour to continue unchecked.

The personal attacks on Poettering should be directed to Red Hat instead, who actually have the power to do something about it.
I don't typically comment on things like this, though in this case I very, very much want to.

My son is autistic. He's 8. We had him tested when he was 5. He also has ADHD. If ever anyone cares about working with non-NT folks and those on the spectrum it's me. We moved to where we live specifically so we could get early intervention for him.

My five year old daughter might be on the spectrum, we are having her tested. She does have expressive/receptive language disorder.

Our youngest daughter, now 2, seems NT so far.

For the record on the original material. There's a chance the person was non-NT, as you suggest. However, that same percentage chance exists for at least three, maybe four, of his co-workers as well, the ones that were effected by this person.

I'm not dismissing your original statement. I do think it is harder for non-NT folks, even in tech. It's why my style is the way it is. If anything, I'm likely overly sympathetic to the non-NT folks given my situation.

I've written two other things that I often reference when talking about these topics that might be interesting. I hope you can appreciate my side knowing more about my personal situation and how that influenced and shaped my current views.

https://medium.com/@jasonwarner/no-one-is-the-villain-in-the...

https://medium.com/@jasonwarner/just-one-weird-trick-95fe7b5...
Ask HN: Have Chess Programs Become Even Better These Days?
There was a lot of media coverage when Big Blue from IBM had beaten Kasparov, but what is the state of Chess programs these days with Deep Learning and the latest tools of the trade? Have they improved significantly so that no human can every hope to compete, even the best chess champions ? Is there any hard data available recently ?
Cool little board, I'm impressed with the different ways that companies put these boards together, and how cheap they are. It was a nice project writeup, I like how he presented not only how it went, but problems that he had. It gives the rest of us something to look out for.
Drawing a smiley face on a rock doesn't make it "happy", even if your primate neocortex tells you so.

That's one of the best analogies we've got with regard to "deep learning" versus reality. People around here seem to think the AI apocalypse is 3-5 years away and are rushing to fund billion dollar "sentient rock" research.
I'm guessing not, but the resin liquids do have their own concerns. They're certainly not friendly chemicals; the ones I've been exposed to seem to stick to your hands quite well, and irritate mucuous membranes (don't scratch your eye or pick your nose unless you've very thoroughly washed your hands with soap and water).
How does the taxation work if you're earning foreign money? Do you get income taxed in the US and Australia or just Australia? Sorry for the noobish question, but I am curious.
The main problem is a devalued currency stokes inflation, so consumer costs go up (so do producer costs, but that's offset by better export earnings).

China is in the middle of a shift from an export-driven economy to a consumption-driven economy, part of the normal development arc of major economies. But increasing export profits at the expense of households pushes that balance in the wrong direction.

For more (much more!) detail on this, I highly suggest the blog 'China Financial Times' by Peking University professor Michael Pettis: mpettis.com.

But generally, yes: the world has a savings glut, and devaluing your currency helps export your domestic weakness (some economists call devaluation 'exporting your unemployment'). China is in a rather unique situation though.
Cool. .NET would be good. I just hadn't taught myself that, but I'll need those skills....

Look forward to hearing from you
Non WSJ-paywalled article by Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-forex-hedgefunds-idU...

Not the same article, FWIW.
Very good points, thanks for taking time to write this. Always good to know an Aussie making progress overseas ! Cheers !
Perhaps they use commercial distros, like RedHat and buy a support contract.
See https://swift.org/blog/swift-api-transformation/
Exactly this. China also likes shows of strength, and would be more than happy to expend large amounts of cash to bankrupt the people trying this, rather than lose face being broken by them.
I don't think it is. But that doesn't mean it doesn't still work :) But yeah, Nuitka is probably a more interesting target for new code.
That's a great nickname here if you're business is that kind of testing. Do the spools of plastic used in these printers typically ship with the appropriate MSDS? I'm only familiar with the plastic "pellets" that are used in injection molding plants. There are definitely MSDS posted in the plastics store-room (and obviously the machines are very well vented).
ah, yeah that would make sense, thanks!
I am not a tax accountant but…

if you're an Australian resident living in Australia, you only get taxed in Australia.

You will need to have an ABN and you may need to be registered to charge GST and do a BAS on a regularly basis if you're earning more than $75k/year however, you don't have to charge GST on income from overseas as far as I am aware.
.NET, MS SQL, mostly web development - backend, not getting much time from full time work to learn and update skills, so hoping freelancing will provide that opportunity
An AI doesn't have to understand the world in order to destroy it. In fact, the less it understands, the more dangerous it could be.
Why would I want to suck up those delicious solder fumes?