skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in his profile, Vivisimo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisimo
I've worked with many programmers without degrees, including at least two who didn't graduate high school.

In my experience, people care more about your github repo, and how well you can code in person on a whiteboard, or on a small takehome projects.
You know how they have chemically pumped lasers?

So it would be awesome to directly pump the laser from H3 fusion.

H3 fusion is actually very easy - I think we could do it today. We just don't have a readily available source of H3 for fuel.
Puzzle parking systems[1] can make it quite affordable.

[1]http://www.auto-parker.com/productDetail.aspx?Id=93&Name=PUZ...
This could never happen in the old times when you paid taxis with cash. Nobody knew who you were and where you travelled to from where. At some point, there will be people who don't recognize that sort of notion of privacy: it will be the norm that each leg of everyone's journey is tracked and recorded. Yet, Uber is super convenient so it's only the logical thing to do today.

I always imagined that governments would have to increasingly tighten their grip on control and surveillance to approach that 1984 envinronment which has been looming for a couple of decades now. I would have expected that welfare states where government control is generally considered a good thing and which thus receives little opposition would gradually sink deeper into it――like that frog in a kettle being heated till the water starts boiling――until the contrast to more free countries would be blatant.

However, in the last ten years or so, it seems that people, and people even in the more free countries, are volunteering into all that very control by themselves, under the name of convenience. We use Facebook, Uber, Google, Android because it's easy and convenient and opens up social possibilities previously unheard of――surely an argument to be defended――and that is how most of us give up privacy practically for free.

Things are generally so well these days that there's little need to worry about privacy in practice. It's only the more dubious circumstances where it suddenly begins to matter who knows what you've been doing and where. In contrast, if an average person is not online today he will partially be an outcast somewhat among his peers. Thus, the social incentives will, in the average, drive people to surrender their privacy online to get connected to their friends.

On the other hand, I don't see the online world to be avoided either per se. It's simply enough that there's a backup. If things get bad, you can disappear from online services and revert to seeing people face to face. It'll be a bit more cumbersome but hey that's how it worked for centuries before. My concern there is whether the state itself still supports handling things offline. If you have to be online to pay (lacking cash), or to travel (no anonymous paper tickets), or to drive (no cars without live connection for telemetry, law enforcement and insurance purposes), or walk (face-recognising security cameras everywhere) then it becomes very difficult to revert back to the 1900's.

People's behaviour can be reverted but if the non-private way of doing things gets cemented into the fabric of the society in the form of how the state operates, then it will be very hard to opt out.
My MacBook Pro running El Capitain froze my mouse and keyboard. I had to do a hard reset.
nope, that's a myth http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
Regarding canary releases and detecting errors, one aspect that is sometimes overlooked is the possibility for bugs on the client side. At work, we have a fairly large js centric app with a non-negligible amount of bugs pure client side. While tracking http status codes on the backend is fairly straightforward, we find it much harder to get the same type of information from the frontend. Would love to hear if anyone has experience in that area.
It's not niche in terms of OS deployment, perhaps, but a user's request for a `deb` file over traditional python packaging certainly is.
This is so great. An easy way to show my friends WTF I do sometimes for math/CS work. Thank you so much.
Again, commercial product, low-end/individual pricing doesn't seem to be listed... There have been a few similar products about a faster remote experience with linux. I've tried a couple, but the commercial bit always rubbed me a little bit... I mean, if the pricing is open for personal use, and reasonably priced, I'm all in.

That hasn't been the case in my experience.. thanks for the heads up though. I tried NoMachine's NX for a while, which was very nice.
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Contrary to what people on HN seem to remember from their High School politics class, there is a lot more to journalism than a recitation of facts with the accuracy and relevancy of a phone book. In fact, some people argue it's almost entirely impossible to write anything 'objerctively', as just the decision to cover something, how much space to give it etc. are matters of opinion.

This here is a format that could be called 'analysis' or 'essay'. It's in The Atlantic, which is a rather reputable magazine, but not one of those doing 'news'. In fact, you probalby won't find a single article in there satisfying your need for formalistic objectivism. And yet, The Atlantic has given us such gems as "What ISIS really wants" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi..., probably one of the most influential articles of the last 12 months, but brimming with what wikipedia would reject as "original research".

All in all, I wish the thats-not-journalism-refrain would die, together with the equally stupid correlation-vs-causation-oneuppity^1 or the a-sample-size-of-50-is-too-small-too-proof-anything-dumbsmaggery^2

(1) it's true, but you're really not telling anybody anything new. Yes, it is highly likely that they havbe tried to remove confounding factors

(2) I'd like to invite the next 50 people using this argument to my controlled trial (n=50 + 50 control) where they will receive an injection of strychnine while the control group gets a placebo. Effect size, bitches!
I believe we share the same goal: make it easy to build smart bots. This is a very hard problem, all of us are far from solving it. It's good that different approaches are tried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisimo
ahris's response to another comment applies here as well:

"While confidence isn't an issue restricted to just women, it is a more prominent issue for them on average."

This is generally an important thing to consider. Just because a particular issue applies to you or you've seen a similar pattern amongst male colleagues doesn't mean that it isn't a more acute issue for women.

> I'm not convinced that there is widespread sexism in the computer industry, because I've worked alongside and been managed by many fantastic women, and witnessed them advance as quickly as me.

Relying on just the evidence you have directly around you is the same as relying on anecdotes. It's possible you've been lucky and work at a particularly un-sexist companies, but that perhaps the industry as a whole has an issue with sexism.
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She went to school for fine arts and traveled the world afterwards. It's reasonable to assume that her family has a lot of money and this started as a vanity business.
You shouldn't need to change your proguard config to use redex. For mapping files, the one thing that can trip people up is that we strip out source file names. After you run redex there should be a /tmp/filename_mappings.txt to do the back-mapping, similar to proguard.

If you're using third-party crash reporting tools that don't understand that back-map, though, you can always turn off the source stripping. We describe how to do that here: https://github.com/facebook/redex/blob/master/docs/Config.md.
I want to use LE for my side project that I host on GAE. Does anyone have a good tip on this? Also do I have to manually renew it every 3 months?
Woooosh.
Bah... I think that it's better to make a magnetic luncher on the Moon.
> Hahaha, I say this partially in jest, but Hacker News is basically for people to bash on dreamers' ideas.

I completely agree, though I prefer to look at it as "constructive criticism" of every flavor.
Consulting companies often have the concept of a sabatical at reduced pay. Although they work, supercommute like crazy during their own hours. Out of curiosity, what location are you based in?
A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom
If you need copyright law, you need men with guns to enforce the law. If you need men with guns to enforce the GPL, is that really freedom?

The public domain and licenses that approximate it (3-BSD) do not suffer from this problem. Eliminate copyright law, and everything still functions like a permissive license.

I want to abolish copyright because I think it gets in the way of creativity. Generally speaking I also want less dependence on men with guns. Since I want to abolish copyright, I do not like the GPL. The best way to abolish copyright in practice is to use a permissive license.
Which cameras are they using. Is this pointgrey grasshopper3? Is there a cheaper way to do this well? :)
Just 100 iterations, learning rate 0.03, activation tanh, regularization L2, rate 0.01. The network is 8,8,8 neurons per layer.
> ... dark matter — the invisible, unidentified stuff that comprises five-sixths of the universe’s mass ...

They seem to confuse dark matter with dark energy (recall E=mc^2).
This is a very interesting idea. What is after RaspberryPi and Beaglebone?
Adam Smith's invisible hand can rest, replaced by the lawyer's suit.
It's been an hour. Have you given people a fair chance to respond?
Now you can wait out biological warfare in Tesla’s Model S
It appears to be a custom NN implementation[1] in Javascript, somewhat similar to convnet.js[2]

As far as I can see the API[3] isn't much like TensorFlow.

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/playground

[2] http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/

[3] https://github.com/tensorflow/playground/blob/master/nn.ts
People said that in the 19th century. Some apologists even asserted that hapless slaves were too feeble to function an independent free men.

End of the day, it's "freedom fighters" vs "insurgents".
I was walking through the tutorial - noticed a bad hyperlink at the bottom of the page (https://wit.ai/docs/quickstart) "recipes" (s/"https://wit.ai/recipes/"/"https://wit.ai/docs/recipes")
How do you see yourself compared to someone like bench.io?
I wonder if you can do the same dodgy stuff Linux does to load kernel modules? Would there be a non-unsafe way of going about that?
whoa whoa whoa hang on a moment... did you even read the article? this is not someone that reads all your "startup today" websites and goes on how she will disrupt the industry and how she woke up one random day and found a niche in selling pencils. This is someone that wants to sell pencils. End of the story.

From reading the title I thought something very similar to you, but then I realized, none of us could probably pull anything similar. This is a person that has passion about what she does, and that's all she needs. She's probably not trying to get in the industry so she can then sell out and move to the next thing, this is simply what she wants to do.

She had a passion for pencils and she made it into her job and is succeeding, well done! That's something that a lot of people will never manage to do! She likes to share her love for pencils on instagram? well, we all have our passions and want to share them with like minded people!

Personally, I do not share her passion, but attacking her like that seems an act of pure jealousy. Maybe you should just learn from it and think how you can transform your passion in something more?
It's amazing that Pittsburgh hasn't evolved past the bad rap. A cousin of mine moved there in the early 80s, and it was already rated one of the best cities in America to live in.

It's interesting that CMU just isn't enough to help the scene. Silicon Valley and Manhattan are hard to beat for access to money, personal ambition and risk appetite.

I hear you on the cost of NYC. It's a city that sucks every dollar out of bankers and hedge fund traders - everyone else can only just run the treadmill.
are you living under a rock for the last 10 years?

here, first google result for the "ios location data": http://bgr.com/2015/04/01/iphone-location-tracking-map/
Don't think anyone asked the obvious question:

Which VPS providers do it right?

Which are safest from social engineering attacks?
No doubt, Hillsboro is not for the young and hip, nor anyone with a possible allergy to suburban un-culture or parking-lot-sprawl. A number of my coworkers commuted from downtown or the eastside (and MAX light-rail makes that pretty easy, modulo the time commitment).

But, eh, I didn't mean to turn this into an ad for PDX! One thing I do appreciate very much about Pittsburgh is the walkability. It's hard to beat a 45-minute walk through Schenley Park as a morning commute, at least in summer, and I have... 5?... coffeeshops and as many pizza places within a 15 minute walk. And, yes, if you're in a position to buy a house, there is a lot of character to be had.

Anyway, my views on the housing market may be slightly colored by PhD-student glasses (and the two-year west coast industry detour...). To anyone reading, do consider it here -- it's a very unique city.
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Should doctors learn like this in the future?
> Somebody is obsessing.

Welcome to biblical studies.

This is relevant because people have traditionally argued for later dates based on literacy rates; this provides shaky evidence against that argument. It's more like the null hypothesis than firm dating data in itself.
Okay, looks like NoMachine is now free for desktop/personal use all around... didn't use to be the case (outside linux version)... May have to give it another look.
> the Snowden/tin-hat wearing crowd who thinks the government is out to get everyone

Insults are not good discussion.

> The FBI's duty is to actually protect the public

That includes protecting the public's communication from criminal eavesdropping, which they are undermining when they keep an exploit secret instead of responsibly disclosing it. The idea that they can keep it secret and nobody else will rediscover the exploit - and the "nobus" (nobody but us) attitude in general - is hubris.

> not to protect the customers of a single corporation.

I suggest reading older HN threads on this topic, because the fight against the FBI's order was not about a "single corporation".
Code is not a weapon. bad analogy.

Also, LA gangs used EV cars for modern drive-by's. Should EV cars now have a "gun tax"?
My next invention will be a sarcasm detector.
That grade is actually mostly about your TLS configuration (available cipher suites, etc.), and not about the certificate. Aside from some major no-goes (like SHA-1 certificates), TLS security is about server configuration; certificates are relatively straightforward in that respect.

It's true that they embrace a lot of best practices, like short certificate lifetimes, automation, logging all certificates to CT log servers (which StartSSL started doing quite recently as well), etc. The client also helps with securing your TLS configuration, among other things.
I've observed that said economists don't fight to unchain their institutions for the overbearing tenure arrangements that restrict the free trade of professorships.

After all, wouldn't the university operate more efficiently with underpaid adjuncts?
Boston area.
I think this is the strongest statistical work possible given the dearth of physical evidence.

I do agree that a) the grant money might have been spent better elsewhere and b) the conclusions are anorexic.
For a bigger company, most of the time, they tell you to go away.
Even more troubling.. There's a similar generation nuclear reactor about 40 miles from NYC. Just imagine the cost if Manhattan was in an exclusion zone.
No need to extrapolate into religion. Most of what was happening in Israel and Babylon at that time was based on the worship of the one God of Israel vs the worship of the many gods of Babylon. Everybody worshiped one god or another and they went to war based on their worship of one god or another. Similar to today in fact.
Simple B&W image converter in just 100 lines of Red code
What California used have was worse than non-competes. They had secret covenants between manor tech companies not to hire each others employees. I don't know if that has been completely eliminated.
As for other states, you could ask why they have lots of stupid laws. As for California, you could ask why they have that stupid Proposition 13.
Kepler is definitely one of the most important space telescopes that we have (and will have for the foreseeable future). It has both long and short cadence data for many very interesting targets over 3 month periods. TESS will only give us data for one month on each arc of the sky it is scanning (although, it means we'll get a full picture of the sky) but it won't observe the K2 field (the ecliptic plane). It's such a shame to see it losing so much fuel and energy.
The Cubic Equation as Poetry
If a potentional employer cared more about my previous education history than they do my skills or previous work, than I personally wouldnt really value them either. Not sure if that's the 'correct' way of going about it.
oh so there is no pdf2html involved. just image overlay. do you plan to open source this tool?
Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools
Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals
Sonar May Have Turned Up a Long-Lost Civil War Ship, the Agnes E. Fry
I really like the "deliberate overfitting of stories to make them behave like rules" approach. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious as soon as you say it, but only comes from deep immersion in the problem space.

I'm thinking of lots of other places I can use it too now - is there a name for this approach yet?
ITT: Hacker news believing that sexism isn't a big deal or otherwise downplaying it's role. It's like watching people who have never had a mental illness wonder why it's a big deal. For any normal feeling, assume it's greater magnitude and a peergroup doesn't exist for support.

Sexism isn't necessarily intentional (socially inexperienced college guys hitting on the only girls in their peergroup when they are unwanted). However; it exists and is very measurable. The least we can do is acknowledge it, even if we don't know what to do about it.

I'm not sure about most of you men, but I happen to like having women around. If we can't encourage more to work with us, we can at least do our best to be accepting to the people we already work with.

Edit: We do have great, data-backed responses to all posts as always. Its a difficult problem to understand because most people won't experience it and are probably tired of being reminded about.
I also moved to the US recently, got rejected so many times due to the lack of US-based degree. I already got a degree in CS from my home country, but it doesn't help. I'm not saying 100% companies/startups in Silicon Valley required a degree, but you better to get one.
Database choice: MySQL over Oracle or PostreSQL: suboptimal due to silent data corruption issues and lack of OS authentication mechanism in MySQL.

Database provisioning: why not implement a generic createdb(1M) program with required command line switches which OS packages delivering the required filesystem structures could call in their postinstall phase? I wrote such a program (for Oracle DB) in shell and AWK and it works great for all sorts of OS configuration packages which create all kinds of databases; it makes Docker completely unnecessary, not to mention superflouous;

Substrate choice: what techical advantages does Docker provide over imgadm(1M) and zones built into SmartOS ("people might be more familiar with Linux and Docker" is not a technical advantage)?
By believing in the Inductive Principle and the future will be like the past. How do you prove that? By relying on the Inductive Principle... circularity is unavoidable and this is where faith comes in.
Mostly agree but with one exception: I, and I believe people in general, do not much visit individual blogs or websites anymore. Instead we visit aggregators and feeds, whether there apps or websites like reddit, HN.
Does this work together with a speech recognition/TTS API from Wit? My use case is a Unity3D VR app
>If that's to apply, then the people who are using it first need to have convinced society at large.

Just FYI, the controversial speaker at issue here quotes Carlyle - a man who advocated slavery, and using lethal force to put down a rebellion of disenfranchised former slaves in Jamaica - approvingly.
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The Apple/Google/Adobe/et al. non-hire collusion is probably on hold for now due to the govt. investigations.

The only good thing I can say about that era was that Google had their ass handed to them by Facebook, which was one of the few non-participants in the collusion. Google employees had few options but to go to Facebook in droves.

Proposition 13 has nothing to do with tech employment directly. It was created because politicians just couldn't help themselves from raising real estate taxes voluntarily.
Does the scientific method rely on the Inductive Principle? How would you prove the IP without relying on the IP?

If you believe something that can't be proven, what do you call it?
Wassenaar would not exist if you were correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement
The problem with this theory is that every time 'big brother' is empowered, all other parties are empowered as well. People can organize easier than ever before against malicious causes. The number of communication channels available to us is growing each day, making it increasingly impossible for any one entity to control all of them. People and entities trying to leverage private information are increasingly under the microscope themselves. Perhaps one day congressmen are mandated to conduct all their work on camera, similar to the way policemen do. Technology doesn't care about intent. Some people will use it for good and others for bad.

Edit: For clarity, my position is that no Uber customer's routes should be accessed without a warrant. However, even if they fail to observe the constitution, they will eventually loose. There may be a politician writing a law today so that his uber rides to visit his mistress stay private.
"consensual slavery" is a tautology more ridiculous than anything the Soviet Union ever wrote in their propaganda. Nobody would sell themselves into slavery if they had a choice.

Which kind of brings up an interesting angle - if every company is asking for an NCA, can't you argue that you signed it under duress, i.e. you didn't have a choice in the matter, and therefore that part of the contract is invalid?
" especially since many of your prospective employees won't read it"

Why is this on the employers, exactly?
> I would be a lot less pissed if an account that I've never touched in 10 years got compromised...

You don't need to log into your VPS provider's account or domain name provider's account very often, compared to how often you use the machine or domain. But you don't want those getting reset more easily just because you haven't logged into them in a while.
Basically, Airbnb is going to take advantage of the lessons learned from Arcade City[0] during their downtime, and try to stay relevant.

Ethereum is enabling the killing of Giant-Killers. This is a move by Uber to try and create a response to that. We wish them luck, but this is like watching Microsoft scramble to beat Google, or Google scramble to fight Facebook. they're steering a giant boat toward a new direction, as the small and agile eat their lunch.

it's an exciting time to be programming contracts in Ethereum.

0. http://arcade.city