skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are strong parallels between the personality concepts of self & other and the immune system.

If you take the metaphor far enough anything that exists separately from the cosmic background radiation has a means for separating itself from its surroundings for some period of time. This is true for things that are alive as well as things we don't usually assign identity to: a cereal box has a cardboard flap to keep cereal in and bugs out. A star has gravity and gas pressure in equilibrium to keep most of its mass inside a radius.

People who study consciousness (previously pure philosophers like david chalmers, increasingly mathematical physicists like max tegmark) are fascinated by this kind of thing.
There should be a standard withing the organization (we use CentOS for everything internally), and for systems which need to inter-operate, for example, the internet.

There does not need to be a standard for shells, for network script syntax, etc.

You say they duplicate effort, which is true, but you assume the effort being expended would simply be redirected where you think it's needed. If you kill off half of distros, you probably just cause the people working on them to go away, not switch to one of the remaining distros.
Do you think that books should be copyrightable? Software? Movies? Any sort of digital good?
That's a very inefficient way to store the data. You couldn't fit all of wikipedia onto one of those disks like that. I would only do that for the instructions, and pictures would be better than glyphs. Or pictures next to words, so they have at least an idea on how to decrypt it.

Once you introduce a few words, the rest may be decipherable from context, especially with such a large corpus. E.g. certain words will cluster together often, and once you know one, you can guess at the others, which lets you guess at others, and so on.
Along what dimension is this "not scalable"? If you have 100 iPhoneCs and the exploit works on all of them, it sounds like it's very scalable to me. It doesn't scale across every iphone ever made (or that will be made), but honestly, with a few tweaks (maybe a forced OS downgrade, whatever), it could be made to be.

Also, if you don't release the attack vector, things get even murkier.

Plus, the government happens to be the entity that prints our money, as well as an entity that is essentially limitless in funds because it extracts it's budget from US.

Competition from firms may keep the price of breaking the iphone down, well within what the government can pay without anyone noticing (once this dies down). Nevermind companies that would LOVE to sell the NSA a single iphone exploit for anywhere close to $1M.
But it didn't own the software, which is still patented and copyrighted by Apple, and merely licensed to end users.
Isn't that what happened in iOS9 with the Safari Content Blocker framework?
When the news of VW emissions fraud first broke, I thought, "corporate death penalty!" That'll teach 'em. Not playing by the rules on an industrial scale has the consequence that you don't get to participate in our economy at all.

Of course, the corporate death penalty would only amplify and accelerate the hardship of hundreds of thousands of "innocent" employees and others in the VW ecosystem.

Punishment doesn't work. We already know VW management doesn't feel responsible; they blame it on 'low-level' people. Does anybody seriously think VW or GM won't do this kind of thing again?

As a society, we can't allow crimes of this magnitude to occur in the first place. What do we need to change so things like this don't happen?
If nothing else, if you're going to work like that, skip the McDonald's. Your body needs good fuel to run a marathon.
This wouldn't be a problem in california

http://plasticbaglaws.org/legislation/state-laws/
Argentina has a democratically elected government. How can you say that the government's treaty agreements were made without the consent of their citizens?
Object must have name spaces by definition, because they are collections of named properties.

These name spaces do not have to be conflated with program lexical scopes, whereby if you are a piece of code such and such a "blessed" function, you "see" the name space of the class as if it were lexical variable bindings.

You definitely don't want crud like different scopes in the program which are all working with exactly the same object, and want to access slot S, but they all refer to a different S because they are associated with a different place in the inheritance hierarchy, and that hierarchy contains unrelated slots named S at different levels. A given object must just have one S.
I've seen this app come up on the App Store search page, took a look and didn't get it. Just gave it a download based on this story.

Maybe I'm just old (28, a couple years older than these guys). But I don't get it. And I'm very much over this "growth hacking" trend. Asked for contacts, I said sure, figuring I'd see if anyone I knew actually used it. I'm now being prompted to share the app with everyone I know on every view of the screen (and it tells me how many friends they have on the service, which just feels weird to me).

At least the growth hacking will aid the inevitable "pivot", where they go Sync.me and sell all that contact book data.

I know I'm just being bitter and jealous. But the app doesn't even support the iPhone 6 screen size! It's literally a hand few of views! Like, how does the New York Times do a full expose on this? Like I wish I could offer to do the UI layout fixes for free, just so I could be less embarrassed that this is one of the top apps available today in my industry.
Well, how about closure of a big psych facility and letting people literally on the street? Or the fact that the area is starting to get massively gentrified, and whereas before that population was spread across entire East Hastings, now they have to converge by Pigeon Park, so the numbers seem massive? How about the fact that foreign land investors have caused the property prices in Vancouver to skyrocket over last decade, and for developers social housing doesn't sound like something they'd do.

I heard that Riverview will be reopening, so, hopefully people with mental health issues can get off the streets.

It's a sad state of affairs, but just saying "Because Marijuana" is silly...
So we'll only really have to worry about dishonest terrorists and or plastic bags
I often use the command line utility ag to see where a particular function or method might be called.
It's also difficult to block in app ads without root / jailbreak
Can I live in a country that doesn't think a million dollars to break encryption on one phone is worth it? I value my tax dollar way more than they seem to, and way more than 50 thousand dollar air conditioners for jet fighters.
Our previous startup was with Rails and we did hit performance bottlenecks, even without Payments being involved. Consumers are very sensitive to speed, so that plays a big role in the decision as well. Team skills are adjustable - the founders are technical and the team is being built up hereafter. The big question is does GoLang still have any inherent issues that may conflict with the expected reliability of a financial company - is the Braintree objection out of date?
Ask HN: OS X: who to reset warning dialog “Startup disk is almost full”
I accidentally clicked "Don't warn me again about this disk" in the Warning-Dialog "Your startup disk is almost full."

But I can't find anything how to reset this dialog so the dialog is reappearing. (OS X Finder settings, system settings, google) even apple support @twitter can't help ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dialog image: http://macpaw.com/uploads/images/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-17%20at%205_32_06%20PM.png
There are actually places in the US where the speed limit is 80 and 85. That's not 100, but it's quite a bit more than 65.
That doesn't seem relevant unless there's a dispute over ownership, which there isn't.
Legally required qualifications may make a nod towards being for the good of the general population but there's a great deal of rent seeking involved.

In Germany until a few years ago you could practice as a psychotherapist after doing your Master's (which included a large practical component.) Now they tacked on more post graduation training time. In the USA and other unfortunate countries that follow its example medicine, dentistry and law are all postgraduate degrees, elsewhwere they're undergraduate. In the USA until recently physiotherapy was a Master's degree. Now they require a "professional doctorate" like an Ed.D. or Psy.D. You can still practice in the US with a Bachelor's in physiotherapy acquired in Europe. In Germany physiotherapy is an apprenticeship.

In my home country of Ireland they recently increased the necessary qualifications for teaching from a one year post bachelor's diploma to a Master's. This despite the fact that the evidence for positive effects of teaching qualification on effectiveness are minimal, at best.

Credentialism.
Tech always wins in the end, and all old men die eventually.
Farmers have been selectively breeding crops for thousands of years without help from patents.
Rust/django user here, but ... its 2016, micoservices has been invented long time ago, so use best tool for the job.
As for other things: SSL can be terminated by AWS/nginx/whatever, so no need to worry about that. Every ORM I've worked with, regardless of the language, makes injections thing of the past, for non-db things few type definitions solve the problem too (rust has advantage here due to sane type system).
CSRF can be solved by middleware + few hooks in right places, not a big deal.
Yes, you will need occasionally dig into golang libs and frameworks to add a feature that existed in rails, so really this comes to balance between long-term performance gains and short-term convenience. With really large space between those two.
The current search market is ~4.6 billion searches per day. Google owns about 75% of the market, with ~3.5 billion searches per day. DuckDuckGo has about 12 million searches per day, ~0.25% of the market. Bing/Yahoo are the other big players in the search market, with between ~10-12% each.
Interesting, but they seem to assume we would know in which direction the alien civilization lies. Otherwise, we'd have to contantly shoot the laser from whichever point on earth happens to point directly away from the sun.
Phew, I feel like the author of this article has been snooping in my diary. (That is, if I didn't procrastinate writing entries in it.) Quotes that really stand out:

> “It really has nothing to do with time-management,” he says. “As I tell people, to tell the chronic procrastinator to just do it would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, cheer up.”

> “The chronic procrastinator, the person who does this as a lifestyle, would rather have other people think that they lack effort than lacking ability,” says Ferrari. “It’s a maladaptive lifestyle.”

> “The future self becomes the beast of burden for procrastination,” says Sirois. “We’re trying to regulate our current mood and thinking our future self will be in a better state. They’ll be better able to handle feelings of insecurity or frustration with the task. That somehow we’ll develop these miraculous coping skills to deal with these emotions that we just can’t deal with right now.”

> But while the tough love approach might work for couples, the best personal remedy for procrastination might actually be self-forgiveness.
lols. as if replacing objective-c with clean c or c++ wasn't a valid performance strategy (p.s. it is. i've made real world applications hit framerate that way because a ton of objc_msgSend is more expensive than nothing every single time, and its very exceptionally necessary (are you crossing a very hard boundary like a network?)).

i agree with his basic point though. almost all ways of building an app require needless complexity that is easily solved at the tools level.
This is our tax money down the drain by scaring us to death for fear of non-existent terrorist threat. It is remarkable how such FBI directors don't get fired from their job.
That's news to me! Admittedly, I haven't been on a highway in Ontario in ~2 years, but I definitely never saw signs like that then (of course, I definitely saw people exceeding the speed limit by 50kph on more than one occasion, and given how quickly my uncle made it to my grandparents' house in Ontario the last time he headed over from Montreal, I suspect he may have too ;).

- Canadian raised in the US, spent a fair amount of time in Canada
If they had told Monsanto to fuck off before agreeing to treaties that included patent protections that would have been just fine. But first they agreed, and now they are reneging. That's not fine.
The Internet of Things: A world of opportunity for railroads
I thought you were going to say everything goes on the heap.
What bothers me is they apparently had no better intel available to spend that money on. An iPhone really? This screams of the government having absolutely nothing to do if not being outright incompetent entirely.
Subordinate is just anybody who has to take direct instruction from someone else. Doesn't have to be codified via job title. If you have a "team" that does Agile, you thereby have subordinates (the members of that team, subordinate to whomever is reviewing e.g. burndown) even if no one calls them subordinates or explicitly thinks of them that way.
Sure, and people have been writing books for almost as long. But we still have copyright law to encourage people to keep doing it.
I was not aware. I make the same case with 85 as I did 65. Throw in a GPS and you could make the distinction.
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Companies die without employees too!

A little more seriously, somehow we have to find language for different types of coercion. Otherwise we'll end up lumping the whole complicated world into one lump.
What do you think of Julia?
> From the article that could include VPNs, Outlook Webmail, Oracle E-business and MobileIron.

The article claims those are tfbnw.net, not fb.com.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I would qualify that as reflecting how many candidates see themselves, and how they've opted to romanticize their life choices, rather than it being an objective statement about why people do what they do.

Nobody aspires to be the night manager at a fast food place, but many of the people who end up with jobs like that got there because they made impractical educational choices (which might include getting a PhD without understanding how they were going to turn that into a career after the fact).

I'm not anti-PhD at all, but plenty of people get them for the wrong reasons or without thinking about what they'll do with it once it's done. In my experience, for many people it's a way to have an extended childhood/college experience well into their 30s. When you're in school you can judge yourself and others based on your aspirations (which can be especially intoxicating if those aspirations are romantic notions like "extending mankind's understanding"), but once you're out of school all that matters is what you've actually accomplished. It can be a scary transition and I don't blame anyone for wanting to postpone it if they have the means to do so.
> then it will never get done in the first place

So... you're saying that crossbreeding of plants and animals did not exist before corporations and patent law? That's just utter, utter, utter nonsense.
People bought 400 series cards for their compute performance long after they were outdated. If your software wants an nvidia card it was either that or go up to quadro. People bought the first titan for the same reason.
That is simply incorrect and probably nothing more than propaganda. Monsanto is not some alien company, it is just another company like Tesla, Google, Facebook or Ford. They are full of people working hard to increase agricultural productivity. It is because of them the third world can afford more food then ever.

Yeah, they are probably as ruthless as anyone else in seeking profit but they are not. No one has forced the farmers to use their seeds. Farmers are opting for it willingly.

I find Tesla motors far more evil that uses Tax payer's money to subsidize rich people's car that does not even run 300 miles.
What vehicle would you replace your VW with? (simply curious)
copy/paste main headline in google using private mode in any browser. Should do the trick
Thanks a lot for this! You're going to heaven!
Because sometimes shit is just boring shrug.
There's a big difference in difficulty between crossbreeding plants to get a bigger banana and genetically engineering rice to prevent vitamin A deficiencies.
How is Z score calculated? What are the demographic factors used and have you checked whether discriminating on those bases is legal in the jurisdictions where you operate?
I think you missed the part of my comment that mentioned me being in a computer store - I just played with it for ten seconds to check out the keyboard and touchpad of the machines, I have no plans to use Windows 10 thus no need to try to disable it. Useful to hear that it is possible though! :)

WRT disabling telemetry - probably the best way to go about it would be to set up a firewall or similar and try to kill all outgoing to microsoft.com. Turn it back on for updates and hope that they don't just send everything then, I guess. Disabling individual parts sounds like a losing game - you're running an MS kernel, if they want to do it they'll just do it.
i'm a drop out so i may be biased, but my experience of software developers with doctorates is that they are very consistently not as good as self taught juniors in the workplace.

this makes sense.. a doctorate is a research effort with a very different kind of end goal to the typical workplace environment. its an opportunity to explore the field and do work that most employers will never let you - but more importantly the skill set required is, imo, highly orthogonal to the skills require for day-to-day 'boring' work.

why do people expect doctorates to result in employment outside of academia? they are poorly suited to this by design... and afaik its completely intentional because of the aforementioned difference in skill requirements.
I had a similar reaction. For personal projects I use Mithril http://mithriljs.org/ which is pure JS. Solved the problems I had with setting up the tool-chain and works in a similar way to react.
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On Reuters (i.e. free): http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-snowden-norwa...
I agree that IntelliJ is OK comparing with other Java apps. It is never near performant. Visual Studio being 32 bit app is still much faster than 64 bit IntelliJ, given that IntelliJ can use much more memory. Every time, people complain about IntelliJ, they are told that they will need better hardware. The reason Enterprises chose Java, is because they don't care about performance that much.
Jack Lew did a brief stint at Citigroup but is reasonably described as having a career in public service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew

Tim Geithner is also reasonably described as having a career in public service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner

Don't despair! He has shadowy connections to the Kissinger Group (a brief stint early in his career).

Henry Paulson did in fact lead Goldman Sachs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson

John Snow was a railroad tycoon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Snow

Paul O'Neill was an industrial magnate that did a stint leading the mysterious RAND Corporation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_H._O'Neill
In what sense of ownership?
If your state performs emissions testing, they could deny you a tag renewal if the vehicle fails. You'd need the "fixed" ECU firmware to drive the vehicle on public roads.
you'd have to explain more about what you're doing, but i'm sure go is fine. i'm also sure rails is fine.

i can't speak for the first two points, but those seem simple enough to avoid with tests, really. most issues are.

the third issue is something you have to decide on. i'm sure the tooling around go is much better than it was three years ago, but you're not going to have everything in a pretty package like you do rails.

honestly the choice is probably inconsequential, unless you have some actual reason why the language choice matters for your application (which it almost always doesn't).

also if you're in fintech and doing bitcoin, i've heard the node ecosystem has the most BTC support, so that's a consideration
Crushing an 15-story SANDWICH with HYDRAULIC PRESS
Seems unlikely.

He also needs assurance the flight between Russia and Norway won't be grounded or redirected on route.
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I work as a data scientist at a nonprofit research organization (rti.org) and have to apply far more skills than the PhD researchers here. While we fall back on them for depth in subject matter expertise, we also have to understand conceptual design, research methodology, stats, newer data sci methods, software development, 3+ programming languages, user experience design, tech stacks, database design and deployment, data visualization, business consulting, public speaking, etc... Often, we lead client engagements, determine project deliverables, co-author academic papers, present at conferences, schmooze with key stakeholders, and so on. ALL of us, however, would lose our minds if we had to focus on a single domain area or spend a protracted amount of time on one problem. I worked on > 50 projects across the biological sciences, social sciences, and humanities in 2015. It can be exhausting, but it is a real blast most of the time.

So... Consider the path of a research data scientist if that sounds fun. It's also very lucrative, which is nice, too, though I'm not personally motivated by the finances of it.
I think he meant "scalable" in terms of the amount of money, time and effort it will take to overcome each subsequent security obstacle faced by law enforcement. In that sense, this whole Apple-FBI fiasco was certainly not scalable.

Also, money is a very real limiting factor. The government can't just print more money to solve its problems.
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I understand the principle here, but the specific examples given here are a bit odd.

>>> shareholders or innocent executives may lose their jobs

Shareholders are unlikely to be affected to a large extent because their holdings in Enron would probably make up a small portion of their net worth.

Executives are paid large salaries and so can deal with the effects anyway.

I'd be much more concerned with the rank and file.
Interesting question. To be honest, I'm not sure, but I'll be considering it this evening over a beer.
Presumably he'd drive, as Norway and Russia share a border.

What isn't clear to me from the article is why he'd risk it for an award from a group of writers who have branches in Russia..
Public funds purchased the phone. I'm not sure what you mean?
>>We are talking about enforcement here. Putting bankers in jail instead of imposing a large fine on the corporation saves the banks money.

Maybe you live in a different reality, but in ours, the massive reputation hit the bank would suffer from having its employees go to jail would be tremendously more costly than meager fines that they can just shrug off.