skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..and replace it with what?

Captalism has given power to the people. With $25, I can start a company in the US, which has the possibility of making me very wealthy.

This is not the case in any country that has embraced socialism.

Most of this is just a smokescreen anyway. Even the social groups that protest are organized and mostly paid for by people with deep pockets to maintain power.

Nobody truly wants to help the people. Money is power and it has been for almost all of humanity.

I'm just surprised that a group that claims to be intelligent clamors for a system that ensures they will never keep they money they earned.
It's not about safety, it's about EU privacy laws and Safe Harbor. It is desirable to store the data in-country to avoid the hassle of requiring/finding a provider with an EU approved Data Protection Agreement.
Completely broken using noscript
this is all i can see, no matter where i scroll: https://i.imgur.com/8WAJEmq.png
Correction: The amazon card is 3%.
Okay. You first.
I am not trying to be funny. I am dead serious.
Aeolos explained it perfectly.
I would say people matter more than the language. If the smartest people at Badoo are most comfortable with PHP, then that is what they should go with. Let them do their jobs in the most efficient way they know how, in this case, PHP.

The 1 million Badoo saved here is nothing compared to how much more money they made from having these people build their platform.
How to balance security, governance, and app performance
First, I love it when the language in a debate evolves. Everyone for secure communication is now am absolutist. It's like what was attempted with pro-life. Oh, so you're anti-life?

What a horrible argument though. We should ban a readily available technology so the average consumer's communications are no longer secure? Anyone who has half a brain is going to just download non backdoored technology (or write it themselves) when they need to communicate securely. Most criminals committing major crimes are smart enough to be this careful.

Also, saying the tech sector is libertarian? I'd give up the majority of my income to taxes if it meant no one went hungry. I still believe in a right to privacy and secure communication. My mom would never send personal information (credit card mainly) over text when I was younger. I thought she was nuts. Now I see how right she was when learning about stingrays and other cell site simulators.

You can call me a privacy extremist if you want, and paint me in there next to all the other extremists. If you ever start looking into how broken our communication systems currently are, and how easy it is for criminals to eavesdrop, you'll likely become an extremist too. Political movements can also change rapidly. Backdoored communication means to can be targeted politically, for your race, religion, sexual orientation, and opinions. I'm not willing to gamble on the government's good nature now nor in the future.
Well, i got to the frontpage of lumiverse and was catched by quite some intresting looking videos. Good job there. But i have to say, the video player could use some improvements. I switched to youtube when i could because the video player resets its volume after each video and it is kind of hard to use.
The objective and the value are not typically posited in such a restricted manner.
Staff 'fury' as penny pinching IBM offers legal minimum redundo payoffs
How difficult is it to lend AI engineer/Data engineer (fresh grad) position for someone without masters/Ph.D? What do you recommend to person like this?
State of application security: Most common software vulnerabilities
Paying upfront also implements the honor system.
I'm glad they were useful! The author of these videos is Stephen Welch(http://www.welchlabs.com/), he makes really fantastic tutorials.

Embedding notebooks is an interesting idea, I'll experiment with implementing it.
Feedback: 1) the videos go a tiny bit too fast in certain areas, but one can pause and rewind so that's not a problem 2) the background music is too loud/strong which makes it too distracting, I have to focus more than necessary on the spoken words; I'd cut the volume of the background music in half. Otherwise, pretty awesome videos :)
Why do writers abandon their native language?
How does Zube do in terms of performance when loading up?

One of my biggest issues with Waffle or Zenhub is that loading them up is often a long wait- Zenhub can be 3-4 seconds(and often is just incorrect in labels/assignments), and Waffle could be upwards of 15 seconds.

Does this do any caching on Zube's side and then real-time update it as it goes, or am I in for a long wait again regardless?
Oh, thank you for letting me know, I will work on that.
The government is good at funding research but it doesn't fund FDA trials and neither will anybody else if they aren't provided some incentive to. That's a pretty clean separation.

The second is a completely separate problem from the research. If you have a promising drug that people have been using in other countries for a thousand years but has never been FDA approved, it never gets FDA approved because nobody can patent the prior art so nobody will pay for the drug trials even if no research is required whatsoever.

Two possible solutions are to have the government fund the FDA trials or to give the party who does a temporary monopoly on the drug regardless of patentability. And if two parties offer to fund the trials in exchange for the monopoly, let them bid for the right.
Per guidelines : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on
something found on another site, submit the latter.

The youtube URL you cited would probably be a better source link.
> That is going to pose real problems for the kinds of law enforcement cases that everyone cares about.

Those problems have existing solutions: Place a room bug where the evildoers meet. Use real-world physical surveillance. Track their movements.

The only thing you can't do with existing solutions is to scale them up to pushbutton mass-surveillance numbers. And that's only a problem if you want to use surveillance as a tool to suppress political/social movements, and our beneficent government would never do that.
Keybindings would be great. Also, it'd be nice to see points on posts.
The other guy is being dogmatic, but you're being just plain wrong.

It's to demand the work of others be free for consumption by anyone without compensation.

This is a monumental misunderstanding of what the FSF and the GPL stand for. (And they have only themselves to thank for muddying the word "free" but that's another rant).

Compensation is not something covered by Free Software.
Yev from Backblaze here ->

Yea :D Though if we used 10TB drives we could get about 450TB in one pod, it would just be hilariously expensive for us to do so. Granted that's not 1PB per pod, but we'd imagine our costs are lower. But yes, different use-cases, and we're working on 6.0 ;-)
Right, we need executive powers to be much more willing to embrace the fact that their job is and most importantly should be hard.
Congratulations on 2.0! I tried out LXD a few months ago after hitting a few walls with Vagrant, and I've been happy since.

Mark Shuttleworth's normally responsive on Google+, and he helped point me in the right direction with initial issues that I encountered.
Stéphane and the team have also been helpful on Github with issues.

The first thing I struggled with in this containers business was "what's the difference between LXC/LXD and Docker et. al.?", and I am glad that he addressed it first in the post.

I've got north of 20 containers on our machines, and LXD allows me to create a container, play around with software config on it, and when I get it right; I just leave that container and update it regularly like the host it's on.
Agreed - I use a lot of email aliases (i.e. myname+merchantname@gmail.com) and I don't really want to upload a list of them to a website to see if any were compromised, I'd feel much better about a hash.

Either that or allow a wildcard "myname+*@gmail.com" so I can check them all at once, but that probably has privacy issues of its own.
Its unlikely that AMD is going to be able to make serious inroads in the near future. nVidia has built quite a lead not just in terms of chips but tooling. I had thought a couple of years ago that AMD should be building a competitor to the Tesla. It should be able to build a more hybrid solution than nVidia can given its in house CPU development talent. But I haven't seen them building anything like that and a competitor to nVidia may have to come from somewhere else. In the absence of a serious competitor OpenCL is not very interesting.
How to replace a pie chart
Funny page.

P.S. Hello from invaded Ukraine.
They are tracking the clicks on the link. You can see it here: http://www.capsulink.com/6aX7rv+
It doesn't matter if it's specific to base 10 or not. It's still a totally unexpected property.

And most math trivia in base 10 does generalize. The numbers change, but the patterns remain the same. But base 10 is far more intuive for people.
New York to Discard Prescription Pads in Digital Shift
It is most likely a reference to Brave New World, which probably references what you are thinking of.
Fun: Search for the 12345 sequences in this Pi API that stores 1B+ digits
Again. Thanks. Anybody tried this?
> Start a new instance with a clean profile.

Do you mean remove the .mozilla directory?
After AlphaGo, what's next for AI?
> I think Washington has changed Obama more than Obama changed Washington. He's spent seven years in the craziest bubble in America surrounded by people being paid millions to distort his worldview one way or another.

I completely agree, I bet it's not a great job most of the time and a really different and isolated world.
I would much rather read a third party summary than the dust jacket blurb.
> if there is probable cause to think that you have abducted a child or you are engaging in a terrorist plot or you are guilty of some serious crime, law enforcement can appear at your doorstep and say we have a warrant to search your home,

How exactly is this supposed to work? Are we pretending that real criminals are suddenly going to stop using safe encryption just because it's illegal? That just doesn't make sense to me.

I mean the software is out there, how are you going to stop people from using it? Or are we going to decrypt ALL the traffic, all the time just to make sure everybody still uses our weak crypto? That seems just as "absolutist" as perfect encryption.

I just can't see any middle ground here.
Really happy I came across this, been searching for a website like this for a long time. Thanks!
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yup! It's pretty entertaining! Granted we only store 180TB b/c we use primarily 4TB drives and it's inexpensive for us to do so. If we had 10TB drives in there we'd be pushing up to 450TB per pod, but the price for us would increase dramatically. Pod 6.0 will be a bit more dense!
Individual comedians no, but shows like The News Quiz, HIGNFY, Mock The Week, and so forth perform a similar act.
I think the same thing that happened to quants on Wall Street will happen to those pursuing Data Science/ML today (if it hasn't already happened). Post-2008 there was such a glut of qualified quants that companies moved the goalpost and now it's very difficult to even be considered for a role if you don't have a PhD.

I'm not sure that's a valid comparison. There's a relatively fixed and fairly small pool of companies who need quants. Machine Learning, OTOH, can be used by almost any company in existence (even if most of them don't realize it yet). And plenty of companies don't need somebody doing cutting edge academic research in ML... they need somebody who can use a pre-packaged library or service and apply linear regression, or k-means, or build a simple neural network with backprop.
I know people with hundreds of thousands of rounds of reloading supplies, some with as much ammo.. They're not unique.

We've been making "modern" repeating firearms and ammunition for over 100 years - it's foolish to think that with modern precision technology being so cheaply available that the people would be unable to craft ammunition at home.
this is helpful. we already use rabbitmq for our golang services. This would ease the task of setting up publishers and subscribers in the node APIs we're building.
This is the thing that mystifies me the most about the ideas of consciousness and the soul. If we are more than our mind, then how do we explain how changes to our brain, artificial or natural, can drastically change who we are. What does that mean for an afterlife, if we can't even really say who we are in this life.
Should we try to read intentions beyond what he is literally saying? The defense of Trump is solely based on the idea that he doesn't mean what he says. But this is tantamount to say that he is a liar. If that is the case, how can someone ever trust him? If you need to build on fear and lies to be elected, it is anyone's guess what might be the result.
Yev here -> Let me just say you're welcome and thanks for joining the party :D
I agree with you. That's something that frustrates me about the "Going Dark" debate. Crypto can pose real problems for justice and safety, and the answer still probably isn't to suppress crypto. Maybe we should just do a better job of funding investigatory work?
Hey Jen,

Congrats on 1.0. Our development team uses a micro service architecture that has 1 project spread across multiple repos, and I think the biggest problem with most project management software with extensive Github integration is that they are on a per repo basis. We can never get a holistic view of our entire application without duplicating work into another Project Management platform. Is there anything inside Zube that would alleviate this? How does Zube handle multiple repos for teams?
> pump already sick people full of poison

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for explanation/references/proof of what you mean when you say 'poison'. I don't know your particular experiences with chemotherapy, but I hear this soundbite parroted too often without any effort to actually research what chemotherapy is actually trying to accomplish. I'm not saying people shouldn't investigate their recommended treatment plans, but this often unwarranted suspicion of modern cancer treatment techniques is mystifying to me.
Even that would be confusing, as "Erlang process" != "process" for anyone that's not an Erlang programmer(or who doesn't parse "process" as the Erlang variant by default)
It does throttle on AC power. Look at the "temperature" paragraph
I was looking around and trying open a FasTrak account online and noticed the option to open it anonymously. Does anyone have experience with this option? Is it more hassle compare to regular account? For me mailing a money order monthly to replenish balance is acceptable but is there any other catch?
Great question. We built Zube is speed in mind even for repos with hundreds of open issues. If you have over 1000 open issues you'll probably notice a lag on any platform and it will take about 2 seconds on Zube. We're obsessed with speed and we'd be happy to work with you to make things fast!
"New York is the first state to require that all prescriptions be created electronically and to back up that mandate with penalties, including fines and imprisonment, for physicians who fail to comply."

The benefits are less fraud and errors. The drawback however is that patients will need a primary pharmacy at all times and there may be issues with going to another pharmacy for pickup which requires another confirmation from your doctor.
> The difference between supervised and unsupervised is that the inputs are paired with known outputs for supervised. In unsupervised the agent has (initially) no knowledge of what the outputs will be, given the inputs.

I'd still call learning to move, supervised (or reinforced) then. You're feeding the world some input (muscle contractions), and the world immediately gives you the output in terms of pain. You are using it to adjust your internal function. After a while you have pretty good function that maps you muscle contractions to whether it valid move or not and you can generalize it to when your position is different and get to some other stuff like trying which moves can alter what you see and feel (apart from your hands that you already know).

> If there was no basic structure to the brain, I think it would be almost impossible for an unsupervised agent to develop and learn to the complexity and level of a human brain.

I agree that there's some stuff built in, but I think it's surprisingly little of it. How little I think we can see when we learn about people blind from birth or with deformities. They still learn to operate their bodies as well as it's physically possible.

Whatever person can relearn after physical brain damage I think can't be built-in. I think the structure we see in the brain is result of built-ins + various structural optimizations that make some stuff faster (or more energy efficient) than if the structure was different.

For me the real trick in neural networks is to find out how exactly natural neurons learn because it's not back-propagation and it's important. Do we know that? In detail? How scratching yourself on the face as a baby translates to chemical changes in synapses of neurons that fired recently?
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I have (from afar) also witnessed the Bush presidency and regarding tone of voice and speeches, Obama was the far better diplomat and seemed very concerned with humanitarian causes.
Ahh, makes sense.

Many engineers I know would love to work near a farm, heck I'd even consider that a perk of the job. "Sick of twitter? Go look at some livestock."

This is subjective, obviously.
I think Bernie Sanders is proposing some rather mild reforms that most people (in the world) agree with. It's only in the country of far right-wingers like the Republican party where the solution to everything is giving corporations all the tax breaks they want and that most social programs should be cut, are his ideas seen as more "radical" - and even that it's mainly coming from the Republican/Fox News types, or corporate media in general (who sees itself potentially directly impacted by his proposals. If you look at the polls, most Americans agree with all of his proposals.

I for one think the US is lucky - yes, lucky - that it got a candidate so honest, that cares deeply about making the middle class and the poor lives' better, and that he's also about as anti-authoritarian as you can find (he's even been saying from day one of his campaign that he can't get anything done by himself unless the people want it, too).

The reason I say the US is lucky to get someone like him to reform capitalism, is because if he doesn't get elected, you're going to get someone that's not just more extreme far left, but also authoritarian, and the people will be so fed up with the government's and the elites' cronyism by then that they will have NO QUALMS with seeing that authoritarian leader put all of the corrupt politicians' heads on spikes in front of Capital Hill.

I still believe that Trump is still quite unpredictable, and he also may not be that guy because he's also a billionaire himself, one of those very elites - but who knows, perhaps him getting to be president will be far more important to him than not hurting his businesses with various reforms.

But what I'm actually trying to say is that the next next president may be far worse if the cronyism continues. The "saner" elites should welcome a degree of reform that strengthens the middle class and the poor - and it would also mean more customers with more money to buy products from them.
I agree with you that it's ridiculous in both cases, but I have to point out that PACER, the Federal Judiciary database, isn't free.
Even if a court could order you to produce a key for a cryptogram on paper, there are practical limits, like providing evidence the key continues to exist.

Warrants are powerless against deniability, whether that's about electronic data, cryptograms, or any plausibly unknowable information. Deniability regularly stymies legal cases, but it is a fact of existence, and nobody is begging "the experts" to come up with a fix.
Yev here -> One of the reasons we started opening up about our Backblaze Pods and Hard Drive stats was so others would do so. We approve this message :D
10% commission taken out of each task price? That's steep!
I would be especially interested to hear how a focus on actual customer experience was maintained during all of this deep technology work.

One of the ways tech companies wrong is by putting the tech first and the users second. I think Dropbox's early competitive advantage was putting the user experience first. Everybody else had weird, complex systems; you folks just had a magic folder that was always correct. User focus like that is easier to pull off when it's just a few people. But once you break the customer problem up into enough pieces that hundreds of engineers can get involved, sometimes the tail starts wagging the dog and technically-oriented decisions start harming the user experience.

How did you folks avoid that?
I personally think people should prepare themselves for a future in which compelled production of passwords (or, at least, compelled unlocking of devices and documents) is the norm. The 5A argument about crypto seems really flimsy, and allowing compelled unlocking seems constitutionally more straightforward than a ban on strong cryptography.
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I won't comment on the legal aspect, but there is the practical aspect as well - how would it ever be possible to distinguish someone refusing to produce the password vs someone forgetting the password? Everyone forgets passwords to things all the time. We can't make forgetting your password a crime.
That reminds me of the 'hookworm' therapy to help alleviate allergies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/01iht-01prof.141229...
The same court decision that was thrown out by the SCOTUS? The same jury that used the 51% "more likely than not" standard to assume that the difference in pay was due to discrimination, there being no actual clear evidence?

That one?
Trainline buys Captain Train for up to $189M (train tickets in Europe)
We Have 5 Years Until the Virtual Reality Revolution – ARC
Ask HN: If your biz plan tops out at $10m/yr revenue is it too small for VCs?
How about incubators or accelerators?
Russians develop nosecone-cloaking technology
For me (Colitis), they made me worse. I had tried many brands, then settled on GB for like 3 months, I kept records, they made it worse. Within two weeks of stopping my symptoms improved.
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That's true, but I think it misreads the law enforcement concern about crypto. The issue isn't that it's possible to deniably and unbreakably encrypt things. The issue is that unbreakable crypto is becoming the default, and that we can clearly see a future in which no phone call, document, hard drive or device will be available to an adversarial court proceeding.

It is much less likely that deniable encryption will be the default any time soon.