skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that only people who have been doing things since their childhood can or should become experts in those things.
The Twitter debacle doesn't seem entirely relevant here

Twitter's API was being used to build apps that replicated and competed with Twitter's own functionality and created a conflict of interest between Twitter and 3rd party developers

There isn't much else you can do with this Messenger API other than to create channels of communication between businesses and their existing and potential customers. Those businesses likely wouldn't know how to make this themselves, so you could make a bit of money there.

This wouldn't compete with Facebook, but rather ties both customers and businesses tighter to Facebook, making FB more valuable to those businesses and and perhaps encourage them to spend more on promoting user engagement.

There'd be no reason Facebook would want to shut you down. They certainly don't want to get into the nitty gritty business of connecting chat messages to all the various ways different businesses could function.
"Maybe we should try to look at places outside Silicon Valley."

Don't be silly, Peter. There are no places outside Silicon Valley.
Unenforceability of noncompetes + hot tech job market == free career insurance
Can't seem to find the link on mobile safari, care to share in a reply? (I'm in SF)
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JEPD is widely discussed, though widely accepted depends on the academic circles. Biblical studies is unusually plagued by myopic assessments of where current scholarship is at, even failing to recognize the existence of alternative scholarship (this goes for theologically liberal and conservative camps). Either everyone has too much theological/philosophical skin in the game to concede legitimate, well researched, and opposing theories exist, or it Biblical Studies is driven more by worldview than research.

On the JEPD theory, though, Umberto Cassuto's scholarship presented significant challenges to the JEDP theory as early as the first half of the 20th century. Continued scholarship suggests Wellhausen's theory was based on incomplete assumptions on the evolution of language common to his time (the late 19th century). The 20th century produced vast amounts of philological research unavailable in Wellhausen's time (late 19th century).

More recently, John Sailhamer has done some very interesting research into the Torah (Pentateuch). His research suggests the seeming fragmented inclusions are not the result of numerous authors, but a single author using existing sources to weave a single narrative, similar to the Gospel of Luke. His incorporation of both Higher Criticism, Canonical Criticism, and liteary research manage to harmonize compelling elements from the various competing theories. Would highly recommend his recent(ish) book, "the Meaning of the Pentateuch".
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“Mechanical pencils, they don't smell like anything. The lead is so small you can get no line variation out of it," says Weaver.

I heard this countless times in art and architecture classes in college, but I disagree. My favorite pencil to draw with is the Alvin Draf-Tec Retrac, http://www.alvinco.com/Shop/Products.aspx?IID=29525, which they offer for 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7-mm graphite sizes. Both the 0.5 and 0.7 are good all-around but the 0.3's are great for fine details. I love the way the weight and balance of the pencil allows very responsive feel so I can easily shift from light to dark shading or thick to thin line weight intuitively. I've never found that it's harder to get a full light-to-dark shading gradient from that mechanical pencil. I also like to exploit the point the tip develops to have different edges to use for different strokes. As the tip develops, it's more predictable, where a wood enclosed pencil requires constant tip maintenance.
It's not a flash ad problem. I have seen auto-expanding ads on Android phones without flash. I'm guessing HTML5 banners with javascript in them, but it's hard to find out if it happens only once every couple of days and only on mobile, where you can't look at the source of all scripts once it happens.
Pinterest engineer, facebook and google intern, daughter of two engineers tells us how awful her life was because her classmates were absurdly arrogant (all of them) and two co-workers were dicks. Right. I'll never get this successful, but I'm white cis male so I should pity her I guess?
Spending time with family and exercise are definitely huge goals for me that I frequently feel like I've failed at.
He said "Pretty standard way to brand your own offices", meaning using your own brand's color scheme to color your stuff. Yahoo's offices are purple, Virgin's offices are red, etc etc
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Go 1.6.1 and 1.5.4 are released, fixes remote denial of service
I think I'm more intrigued by the restaurant downstairs that specialises in Champaign and chicken. That's a pretty strange neighbourhood.
Hey we are same Cubeit, we can say we are not 3m funded it was a wrong thing written by media. Heard from others that small seed funded companies can apply for YC.
I wonder what they used as training data?
An asymmetric power relationship that is easily illustrated by how rare no-replacement-hire agreements are.
Other similar analogies:

• mining equipment: not dangerous :: enriched vein of uranium discovered using mining equipment : dangerous

• chemistry equipment : not dangerous :: nerve gas, napalm, etc. : dangerous

It's a strange situation where the equipment has a set of very legitimate uses, but once you allow it into people's hands, they now have complete unmonitored autonomy in how they use it, and might very well use it to bring about something dangerous with no-one the wiser.

This is unlike most experience we have with dangerous tools. Cars, for example, can easily be used as weapons—but that danger only applies in public where others can observe you using the car, and your driver's license can be revoked. Similarly, a HAM operator could, on a whim, pollute the RF spectrum around them with noise—but that's also an action that by its very nature is observable, and so their broadcast device could be tracked down and shut down, and their operator certification revoked.

But nobody sees you when you decide to mine for uranium, or produce chemical weapons, or develop software exploits. These aren't the tool being used as a weapon, being used to attack; these are instead cases of a tool being used to create a weapon, to create the potential for future violence, violence that—until it ever comes to pass—has no observable effects out on the world that will hint that this person is acting with malicious intent.

It really seems like the law doesn't know what to do about that category of things, generally.
That and other examples like "Call me an Uber" [0] are already relatively simple tasks, and adding voice interaction doesn't really add much to it. Is this going to be the next wave of smart devices, instead of an app you talk to your washing machine?

Ok it's not necessarily a bad thing (especially in terms of accessibility - plus nobody even knows which setting they should use [1]), but I don't think this is what OP is hinting at. Say you are working in HR "How many staff took a greater than average sick days around holiday weekends?", for that task what does voice interaction provide over a report, which can even be automatically generated and delivered for when you arrive at 9:03am.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403524037/autonomous-de...

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P53Bde2yq5E/maxresdefault.jpg
CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware
Thanks, we agree! Even more importantly, the definition of 'pro photo services' is changing rapidly from high prices, fixed retail location to high quality, style & subjective fit.

1. This would be awesome and hopefully we can manage it someday, however a lot of stock photo websites actually cover this pretty well already (assuming you just want custom photos of the volcano). In our experience, if you can afford to actually have your event/wedding/CV-headshots (now that would be an awesome LinkedIn profile photo) taken on location in Greenland, you tend to find shipping out your 'usual' photographer with you and putting them up in a hotel as a negligible cost ;)

2. This could be something we expand to later, but we want to focus on what we know and do best now and make it a really great service. Also, our JS plugin means we partner with companies already offering some of these services to generate free new bookings, so we don't want to alienate anybody :)
Alcohol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tlF3kGbT4
I can't help but wonder what will come out of all of these attempts to feed million's people's data (they'll spy on everyone, but that seems inevitable in this age) to some kind of machine learning contraption.

I have strong feeling that if there comes a revolution in AI, google will be leading it with their unprecedented access to human behavior.

In that perspective, feeding data to google seems more profitable for us as humans than feeding it to some state's agency furthering their own goals. Not that I'm advising for enabling every user-tracking option out there, but still.
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I can't decide whether this is a late April fool's joke or just an unorthodox concept.
Perhaps due to no citation for claim?
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Ask HN: Why do “Young” programmers think they know more than “Old” programmers
I'm not accusing every "Young" programmer of this but often on HN I see people post and make this assumption. One guy looking for work was told that he still had a chance because he was "less than 35".

I've also heard people say things like "I've got nothing against older programmers but...."

That was from a guy with only 1 programming language under his belt and experience of only 1 software process.

So my question is, at what point does a younger programmer become more experienced than his/her older more experienced self?

When do they know more languages?
Experience more processes and organizations large and small?
Have more side projects?
Have dealt with more difficult people?
Have read more books on CS theory?
Have learned more frameworks and watch frameworks come and go?

Just curious.
I would apply for that position at once.
Responsible disclosure, despite it's name is often not the most responsible course of action to take.

And in any case, what does the FBI even have to disclose here? An exploit that they may or may not have that wold undoubtedly be contractually obligated not to share. In any case, everyone already knew that the crypto on that particular iPhone model was broken.
I am an investor, with 500 startups. Originally from Pittsburgh, went to CMU- tremendous love for the place. Will come to find great companies to give them money. I particularly look at FinTech but would love to look at other stuff. Drop me a line if I can be helpful. Not hard to find me.
Bunch of javascript monkeys trying to be arm chair scientists. Go drink some coffee at your overpriced hipster cafe, and leave the real science to the pros.
Forgot to add that in a lot of cases (especially fashion shoots), there is more equipment needed (lighting, reflectors etc) and normally a second person is needed to 'handle' this equipment during the shoot.

We are working with our photographers to give every one of them access to this service/equipment and normally one of the models will help out as the second person, keeping costs low.
Source: http://conservationmagazine.org/2011/03/frog-fable-brought-t...
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Govt will do nothing due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Well I don't know the guts of Stanford's CS program either, but the term 'introductory computer science class', particularly pluralized, could easily be a course of the form 'Introduction to X' where X is some broad CS speciality, not necessarily a programming one. It could be Introduction to HCI, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity Theory, whatever...

And of course, if she had no programming ability beforehand, the fact she overcame your hypothetical hurdle to be able to put 'Software Engineer of <famous silicon valley company>' on her resume suggests she's not in the class of programming-incapables to be completely written off.
This assumption is correct under the traditional model of equity crowdfunding (where a company makes a public offer to potential investors).

Seedrunners works differently. Every month, we aim to raise €1,000,000 to invest €40,000 in each of the top 25 most upvoted startups.

At the end of the month, the most upvoted startups receive an investment offer, which they can accept or refuse. As such, startups applying on Seedrunners do not actually make any form of public fundraising offer and are not subject to any public fundraising regulation. As a result, startups from any country can apply to Seedrunners and “run” for funding (similarly to how any startup can run for the YC Fellowship program with “Apply HN”).

As you might guess, Seedrunners is very much for prototype stage startups looking to raise some initial funding.Our long-term goal is to invest €100K in each of the top 100 startups every month.
Except that men disproportionately "awkwardly show interest" in random colleagues, strangers, passer-by.

All the women you know have experienced it, several times. Most of the men you know never experienced it.

So there is something sexist here, because women experience a flow of continual "akward interests" from random men that they have to manage. It's all on the women to manage men's akward interests, and from what my female friends tell me it is really stressing and wearing them down.

(I did an art-documentarish piece a few years ago, going and interviewing my friends about public space harassment and how they built techniques to manage mens. There's an excerpt in french there: https://www.facebook.com/Le-sac-%C3%A0-main-269196498659/ )
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Having accepted me as an employee, the company also has invested some resources and is reluctant to lose me. As such, I never had problems removing any annoying clauses in contracts. (True, being from a former communist country my tolerance to restrictive clauses is much higher than that of US citizens, so maybe that accounts for the difference.)
How does it do propulsion?
Ask HN: How would you start a SaaS business that's profitable from Day 1?
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In 2009 the USA embarked on a radical strategy of creating base money at a previously unheard-of rate:

http://imgur.com/MjdJNbz

Basic Econ 101 tells us that inflating the base money supply should eventually result in higher nominal prices for goods and services.

Meanwhile the basket of goods and services used to measure inflation has remained mostly flat, meaning "low inflation", ensuring that the Fed can continue its cheap-money strategy, while also helping the government minimize its expenditures by keeping cost-of-living adjustments to a minimum.

Meanwhile, as Peter points out, investment and speculative assets have increased wildly in value. Fortunately for the wealthy, these are not considered part of the "basket of goods and services" used to calculate inflation.

It's almost as if the very wealthy have more money than they know what to do with, and cannot find enough rational places to invest it. It's almost as if none of this wealth is "trickling down."

It's almost as if there is a disconnect between the economy that the very wealthy live in, and the economy that the rest of us live in.
Honestly, I don't think JSON config files are a big problem. What's shitty is when humans are expected to manually create and edit plain JSON, but what's stopping us from using whatever tools we want to generate those JSON configs?

There are some very nice tools out there for this; I have taken to using jsonnet (http://jsonnet.org/), which is excellent as a configuration language. It's pretty comparable to Hashicorp's HCL, but it's a standalone thing.

Summary: Write your config files in a language of your choice. Render them to JSON for your apps to consume. Be thankful that every app doesn't have its own special snowflake config format like they used to.
Art expresses something ineffable about the self of the artist. Or at least this works for me, so far.
Doesn't this just make you a bad interviewer? The fact that blaming someones college is even on the table just makes it seem like you aren't doing your job as an interviewer. I've met tons of CS degrees from UC Irvine and other great schools who can't program worth a damn.
So you're advocating a permit system for, say, having a copy of nmap? Don't tell me we need to go back to that discussion again?
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A story by the founder of SEO PowerSuite about how the product grew from an idea to 2,000,000 users. Fascinating read.
I think most of those things will remain important:

+ Designing the network architecture is a means to instill your knowledge of the problem into the network. For example, using convolutions over images encodes some translational invariance into the network. It makes up for lack of data. I don't think data augmentation alone is enough, either: if you use a "stupid" architecture with heaps of data, the computation will become too expensive or slow.

- The systems engineering part will probably get automated. I bet there are Amazon engineers crying at their desks while working on AWS Elastic Tensorshift right now. So unless you're specifically interested in that side of things, maybe this isn't the best area to focus on.

+ There are always going to be problems, so knowing how to debug is a useful skill.

+ ML/stats fundamentals aren't going away. You need to know what you're trying to do before you can do it.
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Url changed from http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/home-security-system.html, which points to this.
> If the bubble is in cash, illiquid startup investments may be a place to hide.”

How can a bubble be "in cash"?
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More power to him! Saving money when you're young is a great attitude to have. When I hear that 50% of Americans have less than $1000 in their savings accounts, I can only shake my head in despair.
News sites that automatically play videos once I load them are also definitely overvalued.
That depends on the service. If you can afford outages that may be fair game. But if you have a high traffic service that's running hundreds or thousands of hosts, you can't take them all offline at once. Deploys can take hours, so can rollbacks. In that situation with high SLA requirements you can't really "expect" bad deploys.
Yeah sitting on cash at the moment because I suspect the market will crash the second I move it into stocks. :(
I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the swiss roll specifically. Big gains in neural net performance have been made through better initialization schemes (not dataset specific, just in general, e.g. an initialization scheme might adapt the initial weight distribution depending on the number of hidden units in the next layer), and smaller models are in general more sensitive to initialization.
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Yeah, so your parent is asking how much Uber, who obviously know more information about their riders than LocalTaxiCashCo., are doing to remove the excess on their responses to regulatory requests.
Here's what keeps me from job-hopping:

The 6-12 month gap that's created when I can't participate in a new employers retirement or healthcare plan. These benefits should start immediately.

Losing accrued vacation time also sucks.
I could not recommend Carbon Copy Cloner enough. It makes your external hard disk bootable and verbatim has the same files as your mac. This is for Mac only. Think of a dd with a nice interface. Costs $40.

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> hadn't it been resolved by investing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, would've tanked the global economy

First off, it was trillions AFAIK.

Secondly, the impact of the bailout on the global economy is still playing out:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m...

While I'm agreeing with you, I'd go further to say that the impact of socializing the fraudulent losses of these firms simply has yet to be felt.
I broadly agree here, but I'd suggest that its more nuanced than 'western culture' sexism in britian is different to in america.

However, I work in tech, so I can't comment on other areas. But I'd love engineers to stop being arseholes, it make life much easer, and we'd get more things done.
>Skepticism is the natural worldview of an engineer

This is in a nutshell why me and my (MBA)boss get into arguments.
Thanks, I like this response. Is this worth more than the contributions made towards war, the erosion of privacy and general corruption? Could you (in theory) instead give your money directly to these causes.

Some jobs may also enable others to do their jobs more effectively, who may in turn enable someone to benefit the general welfare.

Having a direct, measurable effect is admittedly rather nice, but that isn't the majority of jobs.
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This is so true. Especially SW is overvalued and undervalued at the same time.
Move over unicorns, it’s now the age of the cockroach
“ignore this shit. it's just a scam” (C) Reddit comments about the #badlock
As long as a politician can say the words "Too Big To Fail" with a straight face this will continue.

"Too Big To Fail" should mean "Too Big To Be Allowed To Exist" but apparently it still means "Open Checkbook to Taxpayer-Funded All-You-Can-Eat Buffet"
That brings up another distinction - profilers don't distinguish between a method that takes very little time to run but is called very often and another method that is pretty expensive, but is not called very often.

Ultimately, we do care about the total time taken, but the approaches necessary for the two cases above are very different. In many cases, the method that is simply called very often will call for some type of caching solution in the caller, while the more expensive method will require retooling within the method itself.
No, because (a) it has to be posted by the creator and (b) they can't do it repeatedly.
? The FBI probably assumes that yes, other actors do have access to unknown exploitable vulnerabilities.

It's 2016. Any data that hasn't been airgapped for the entirety of its existence needs to be considered if not public, then at least known to the enemy. (if accountants in tax havens would take that to heart, they wouldn't be in the predicament they are in now...)
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I asked a Uber driver in China why he thought DiDiKuaiChe (local competitor) was more popular, and he said "because you can order one through WeChat... And everyone has WeChat"

Of those services, gaming is probably the most mature which is why it generates the most revenue, but give it a few years and I'm sure more of those will become far more significant..