skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would nuance that:

1. investors were fighting to get their hands on subprime assets. There was so much liquidity around that it was the only way to make a little bit of money, very much like today. Investors have been piling cash into tech companies and EM markets where they probably shouldn't have. Is it financial intermediaries' role to bar them from doing so? Is it the supermarket's role to bar you from buying snacks and sodas because it's bad for your health?

2. what annoys me is that these "unsuspecting investors" were professional buyers. It is people who's job it is to do their homework and understand these products. We are not talking about selling complex products to grannies. These are highly educated, highly paid finance professional who simply did not do their job of vetting what they were buying.

Now if Goldman made misrepresentations (i.e. lied) on the nature of the assets, then there is clearly fraud, and by reading quickly the DoJ announcement it seems to be what Goldman is accused of. But in my opinion investors bear a very large part of the blame for this credit bubble. It's not a case of nasty Goldman vs nice unsuspecting investors.
LoC READ as proxy for programming skill
Over lunch a coworker proposed LoC read and actually understood would make a good proxy for programming skill level? His reasoning was that unlike LoC written you would be exposed to multiple ways of solving problems and different coding styles and points of view. I was interested in what HN thought about this metric?
You think Facebook would use it? You are an optimist.

(Not singling Facebook out -- there have been lots of open standards and every chat platform has moved away from them.)
What is Natch's advantage to farmers and artisans over existing options?
> You just have a sensation of "getting it" for whatever problem happens to be on your mind, even if asking you to articulate it right then would result in nonsense because the sensation is actually backed by nothing at all.

Another example of this is when you are drifting towards sleep and thoughts start careening through your head. At some point you might have observed that you had a wonderful "aha" moment where it all just "clicked". But when you attempt to backtrack to check what it is that suddenly made so much sense, you grasp at straws (worst feeling ever) ...

Feynman wrote about this in his bio and I remember bookmarking it because I totally understood what he was talking about. Let me see if I can find it right now.

EDIT:

"One thing that often happened was that as the hallucination was coming on, what
you might describe as "garbage" would come: there were simply chaotic images ­­ complete, random junk. I tried to remember some of the items of the junk in order to be
able to characterize it again, but it was particularly difficult to remember. I think I was
getting close to the kind of thing that happens when you begin to fall asleep: There are
apparent logical connections, but when you try to remember what made you think of
what you're thinking about, you can't remember. As a matter of fact, you soon forget
what it is that you're trying to remember" - Richard P Feynman (Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman)
We don’t know how to build conversational software yet
I would imagine the stitching required a good bit of overlap of a video with its neighboring videos.
Or even having their massive bonuses clawed back. Ignoring the motivations of the company for a second, employees at places like GS are clearly incentivized to push the limits. Personally collect big bonuses now, let the company as a whole pay fines in several years. Not a good dynamic
Onshore wind is quite a bit cheaper than nuclear at this point. It is politically difficult for aesthetic reasons though.
This author seems to have a very prescriptive stance on what a logo "should be." I see the logo as abstract art. Maybe you don't know that it says MITP or that it vaguely represents books on a shelf until you are told these things, but then you (might) go "oh cool, I can see it now." It achieved critical acclaim because it is clever and ultimately resonated with people, that's it.

I don't see how it "failed" at anything except meeting this author's subjective preferences of what makes a good logo. He even admits, "this became part of the charm of the logo for those in the modern minimalist establishment, for whom ambiguity is a virtue." So, he's free to disagree, but shouldn't act like he's "more correct" for having different values.
Brane Craft
Seems to be an internal Facebook tool.
Some BSD distributions were available under "Other Linuxes" :)
Unfortunately, commercial scale fail-safe molten salt reactors are also decades away because we haven't invested in making them a reality.
Most of all they provide marketing for the fairly bland consumer friendly sort of music that makes a lot of money.
Well, Image exists and seems to do okay, and the creators benefit to the extent that they are ditching the Big Two (Marvel and DC) in favour of creator-owned. I'm not sure what the exact revenue split is. Image's books don't get huge marketing pushes or movies either.

Re. losses: yes, that's how it works. You do a bunch of work up-front and if it flops, you don't make anything.
> Edit: Just realized [...] the laser won't be green any more thanks to the Doppler effect!

If the laser is tune-able, you could slowly increase the output-frequency based on how fast you expect the target to be moving at the time the light hits. This would counteract the Doppler effect and supply a consistent frequency to the target.
FWIW, I never went to MIT (went to a small liberal arts college); but I work at an MIT affiliate, so by virtue of proximity and affiliation, go to talks given on campus, eat at their cafeteria, have audited classes and play basketball at their gym. But basically a third-party observer to campus culture, my subjective $0.02:

The undergrad population is much to my dismay similar to any American school trained on the professional treadmill; most conversations I overhear involves seniors applying to medical school or law school or consulting or underclassmen discussing Google internships.

To use a Bostonian (maybe NYC too?) metaphor that Bostonians can understand, there are just as many people with Canada Goose jackets on MIT campus as on Newbury Street.

Like any school, it is not a homogenous population, "nerd's paradise" as parodied in the 80's movie "Real Genius"; although there are people who are genuinely interested in tech, there are people who want to pursue academic route who don't care for the Slashdot culture, jocks who are also science nerds, theatre geeks, int'l students who don't get the "American geek" culture...

The only real insight I can offer in a Computational Biology class I audited, I've never seen so many interruptions in lecture when the professor is flying through the slides on the derivation of this algorithm and that proof. Hands fly up right there asking for clarification on what is this greek variable on the previous slide... whereas during the same undergrad class I took years ago, none of us would have spoken on the spot due to lack of confidence to avoid looking dumb/lack of drive to try to understand something right there on the spot.
This blog post discusses a paper by Claudio Maccone titled "Interstellar Radio Links Enhanced by Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens". I wasn't able to find this particular paper online, but it looks like there are some similar ones which are available.
I'd give money to a VPS, or what have you, that had a stated policy along the lines of, "here is a recovery key, here is the 2FA setup, here's how you recover your password with those items if you forget. If you call about account recovery and you do not have $REQUIRED_ITEMS, our service reps have been instructed to hang up on you. If you lose access to your account without $REQUIRED_ITEMS, you have lost access to your account permanently because we have set procedures from which we do not, under any circumstances, deviate. With a name like Ft. Knox VPS, our customers value the security of their accounts. As security is our priority, we have chosen to trade convenience and possible loss of data for the elimination of a large threat surface. If you regularly lose your car keys, don't use a password manager, or get angry when companies won't just email you your password instead of making you reset it, we're probably not the right choice for your VPS needs."
Chip Market Decline Deepens
In the context of Time Machine, it does not use that form of deduplication, so rsync is capable of fulfilling the parent's requirements.

In the larger scope of things, that level of deduplication has never been something I've found all that valuable; but of course most binary files I backup are images and music files; not ones which change frequently (if ever).
Taking out a loan you can't really afford is taking a risky and ill advised gamble, but at least it's a gamble where you have skin in the game.

If you default on your mortgage you will lose the house and suffer long term harm to your credit and your ability to get future loans.

What is evil about the bankers' gamble is that when things go bad, they get bailed out and get to keep everything. They have nothing on the line.
Major investment banks primary mission is best thought of as advertising not investment. They make money based on the size of transactions not how good they are at their jobs. The completion is brutal and they are really good at convincing people of things that are not true. We use artisanal ingredients ~= we employ people from the top programs.

That said, for the largest transactions there is a tiny pool of qualified companies out there. And if you’re doing a 50 billion dollar merger a multi-million dollar premium can seem completely reasonable.

Much like how search is a sideline for Google, their primary mission is to sell adds everything else is simply how they accomplish that.
How to Release Slack Bot
Ask HN: What are Ulysses/Quiver open source alternatives?
Both apps are very good, but I miss some features in both of them. Wondering if there're any open-source apps which are similar and which I could hack to get some custom features.
Or University radio stations, they're still around and have charts http://www.earshot-online.com/charts/citr.cfm
Announcing Linode API 4 Public Alpha
Natural languages are terrible interfaces. They're linear, verbose, inexpressive, ambiguous. Clearly, we need a computer-assisted language to elevate humanity's ability to communicate.

Such a platform could be as important as Gutenberg's printing press.
It's an internal project. It basically takes a "diff" from Phabricator, and goes through the process of applying it to master and ensuring that all unit and integration tests pass before committing it.

This removes the need for every developer to do a rebase, run test, attempt land, discover conflict, rebase, run test, ... loop.
Google Reader was one of many means of connecting to RSS. It became the de facto means for a lot of people, and it was a serious blow to RSS when it shut down despite the existence of alternatives.
Hello Everyone,

Wanted to jump in here to confirm.

This policy only affects devices that have not connected to CrashPlan Central in 6 months or longer. This does not affect volumes that have not connected to the device in that period of time. (i.e. an external hard drive that has not connected in 6 months.) Additionally, there is no minimum connection time for local CrashPlan backups.

It’s important for CrashPlan users to consistently connect their device(s). Part of CrashPlan’s ability to maintain the archive health and integrity relies upon regular connection from the device. CrashPlan is able to routinely perform maintenance on the archive by comparing checksums between both device and CrashPlan Central.

https://support.code42.com/Administrator/3/Monitoring_And_Ma...

Please let me know if I can provide additional clarity.

Best regards,

Jarrod
It's all about the underhanded trick(s) with the pointers, yours will never compile. I'm forcing clang to do horrible things.
No, I’m afraid they wouldn’t. That’s also a big part of the problem. What’s the incentive for a large player like FB to use an open chat protocol? Not much, it seems :-/
If you're interested in what pentesters (and presumably their bad guy equivalents) are doing these days on internal pen tests where they start from Local LAN access it's a good idea to look at tools like responder(https://github.com/SpiderLabs/Responder), which spoof responses to various queries and can then be used to grab hashes to either to Pass-the-hash attacks or get passed to password cracking tools for recovery of passwords.

There's also tools like bettercap (https://www.bettercap.org/docs/) which can already use various tricks to grab creds once a MiTM is sorted..
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Oh yes, thank you. I always relate free software to patent trolls, because software patents have huge impact on software development. When I relate GPL to Creative Commons, I mean they are good role models for defending legal rights and interests.
It's not an indictment of anything except human nature itself. Recently read about a very good looking guy who married an acid attack victim. It's the human spirit, when you can have anything, you can literally have anything. Perfection itself is a flaw if it's easily attainable, imperfection is worth more.

Easy is boring, hard is in charge. Or some other drivel to match the current trend. Because it's hot! hot! hot!
Documentation is for the weak
How do you measure similarity to capture what you want?

The obvious approach is that you look for "people who like this, like that". This is easy to measure and understand. And when you're faced with a person who liked this, it is usually the right answer.

The problem is that you don't know WHY people who like this, like that. Often it is simply, "Heard both at an impressionable age." What you want it to be is, "On the musical criteria that I can recognize, this music is similar." But that's a complex piece of logic, and it is not clear how to do so.

Which makes the tools really good for rediscovering all of the stuff from your childhood, and really bad for discovering new music that is similar to stuff you like.
Apply HN: Lenzy – affordable photographers guaranteed to suit you, booked in 50s
With Lenzy you can choose the perfect photographer for your needs, get a guaranteed price and book/pay within 50 seconds. Bookings will either take place via our web-app or, more commonly, our JS plugin embedded in third party websites and apps where users might need the services of a photographer (e.g. a job platform, shopify, airbnb, ebay etc). Instead of choosing a photographer based on their profile, our photo recommendation engine lets you choose the right photographer for your needs based on samples from their portfolios in a tinder-style interface.

As avid photographers ourselves, we know that this is the optimal way of finding the right photographer for your project, due to it being a much more subjective, individual perspective than other on demand services such as cleaning, transport etc, where safety and peer-approval are paramount (the photographer who my friend thought did a great job at her wedding, for example, is probably not the right person for my e-commerce product photos). Interestingly, thanks to the general increase of interest in photography and the improvement in photography hard- & software, 90% of the 'best' photographers out there are actually amateurs, art-students and other hobby-photographers who 'occasionally do shoots for friends'. By harnessing this eager supply, matching efficiently and increasing the demand by making awesome photos available to everybody at a price they can afford, we can offer a better quality experience than 'professional photographers' at less than half of the price.

We are a team of 3, who have worked together successfully on projects before...

- 1 designer & professional photographer
- 1 (mainly front-end) dev/amateur photographer/sales guy
- 1 back-end dev (not great at taking photos, but has seen thousands in his lifetime)

We have a working beta and partnerships with third party sites which are profitable.

We would love to field your questions/feedback :)
If there is any silver lining...

"The settlement expressly preserves the government’s ability to bring criminal charges against Goldman, and does not release any individuals from potential criminal or civil liability."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/goldman-sachs-agrees-pay-more...

Who may or may not do something about it?

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2016&...
I stand corrected! Seems like the best way to do your testing, then—nobody else needs to know how many times you sign your own certs.
Do you ship outside the United States?
Except they won't even pay the $5 billion. After "qualifying" for various deductions listed in the fine print and taking advantage of the tax benefits (no, I'm not kidding), the final payment will be closer to $2-3 billion.
If anyone is using xhamster it's lawmakers
Another Sexual Assault in Service of the Drug War
Try the satellite business... I had a string of 3 satellites (~8 years) that were complete and delivered to the customer, only to be blown up in the first 5 minutes after launch.
Yep, give me $100 with maybe having to give back $1 while admitting it was wrong and I'm sure I'll never do that deal again.
Not math, but physics: Of course, just like Intel and AMD constantly create more efficient computers by building better models of our universe's physics. We could make faster computers if we had different physics.

If you invent better math, you can use it in our universe!
VIP CALL GIRL EIRINI – Escorts
This sounds pretty extreme. I would love to know both sides of this story. Without independent objective data I can't tell if this is a desperate plea for help from a lucky individual wrongfully sentenced to death without trial, surrounded by innocent victims also killed, or if this is anti-drone propaganda. But I would like to know.
Also for the 3d every direction needs to be visible by at least 2 cameras.
I don't know... Apple did this for a while, and it backfired on them. The average user (even technically savvy user) simply wasn't competent enough to understand that they really truly would be locked out forever.

From 2014: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/12/08/lost-apple-id-learnt-...

They no longer do this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921
A great purpose. Is there educational literature or research behind the pedagogical model?
No silver lining there. This is just pro for a bullshit to keep the pitchforks at bay. To see just how seriously these "deferred judgements" are taken by parties on either side of the table, see HSBC (found guilty of massive and very deliberate money laundering for Mexican drug cartels), which has continued to rack up offences with impunity while operating under one of these agreements.
No I don't want to throw it out, I kinda like C. And you can also do seemingly weird things with it. I was trying to bring some light to how const and immutable could be conflated. A lot of people see const and think, no aspect of this is changeable.
Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine
I don't have much experience with ARM… I'm trying my hands on a stm32 board at the moment and things are very different from x86 so far. If someone has ideas or suggestions, I would appreciate a comment at [1].

[1]: https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/142
Off topic: Is anyone else getting an SSL error trying to connect? This page opens fine on my Mac (OS X 10.11.4, Safari 9.1) but my iPhone (iOS 9.3.1) asks me to trust the certificate (ssl376366.cloudflaressl.com)

Edit: Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/wdfDt

Also, this appears to not happen on Wi-Fi. Willing to send any information I can gleam from this -- I'd be interested to know if this is a MITM attack or a mistake on CloudFlare's side.
Actually that's not true. Have a look at the airflow project by AirBnB.

https://github.com/airbnb/airflow
$5B - not pocket change, but operating on $40B revenue not exactly too damaging either.

Its stock hasn't nose dived. Nobody is going to jail. Investors think they are ok. This is just business as usual.

They have 0 incentives not to do it again. In fact they'd be stupid not to do it again. Given they know better how fines are calculated and can just fold that into the total equation.
Verizon won’t fix copper lines when customers refuse switch to fiber
Great, will do + you can get me on rory_at_madetech_com
There's also the benefit of not having to do any appropriation of funds in congress for the consumer relief portion to actually be paid to the consumers that it is relieving. No possibility of that money not going directly to what it is being extracted from Goldman Sachs to do.
Yea, david-given links to one of Forward's old paper elsewhere in this thread.

http://path-2.narod.ru/design/base_e/starwisp.pdf
The Best Apologies, According to Science
This class of errors is sometimes fairly easy to catch with canaries.

If a button is obscured or inactive/non-functional for some reason, then chances are some metric is going to be statistically varied enough to call out while in the canary phase.

For more manual canaries, this same approach can be used for metrics like memory usage, latency, number of upstream/database connections, and so forth. Of course, that could be the _purpose_ of the change, which is why it likely will be checked with manual canaries (ie, not the canaries used for the continuous deployment process).
You mean the Blit terminal. The Plan 9 window managers use a different architecture that takes advantage of Plan 9's design. Both are from Rob Pike though so they look basically the same.
Don't call them hackers! A better word would be thief or vandal.
This is Facebook's gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera
Wit.ai cofounder here. We would love to get the community's feedback for our new Bot Engine. It's still early beta. Thanks!
Completely agreed. Their bottom line is to collect all your personal information.
I would phrase it as "In Science It's Always 'Just A Theory'". There is always a doubt.
Clearly this isn't for you then. I, however, use messenger frequently - too frequently. And I welcome all these changes, as they are really maturing the platform and making it a delight to use.

I have a group chat on messenger of all my friends, and when they added the simple options to change the group colours, add nicknames, and even change the default emoji to something other than a thumbs up, messenger became a whole lot more fun to use.

I can't wait to see how it develops with these changes.
GitHub and Amazon Pair to Boost Cancer Research with Data Visualization
For a while, Messenger supports some partners-only kind of program for bots. For example, if someone posts @dailycute then a random image from imgur aww is posted [0].

I am quite interested whether they have plans to extend this and make it more open (some kind of chat apps so that you can't just reserve a bunch of good keywords with non functioning bots?).

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/facebook-messenger-bots/
Awesome, I'm doing the same thing this summer, Good luck.