skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this! I'm about to start my seventh year, and if all goes well, my last. It's been a blast, and I've learned so much: whenever I've thought to myself "gosh, I wish I knew more about ___" I could choose to learn about it from a leading expert, for free.

For people who measure their success in dollars earned a PhD is an idiotic investment. About a year ago I calculated the difference in how much money I have, and how much money I would currently have had I accepted an offer from Google after my first year. Obviously that stung a little. But I wouldn't trade the last six years for anything... not even the above-mentioned amount of money ;)
> Pinterest is different from other social networks in that it is about collecting content.

How is that any different from other social networks?

> With content being your secret sauce, you don't want to give it away for free.

Huh? Pinterest didn't even produce the content.

> Anyone can bookmark an image, not anyone can find the perfect image. Pinterest gives you that super power.

I have no idea what you're trying to say. What super power?
One of the car sharing startup Turo (formally RelayRides) has had a step in the verification process to require you to take a selfie of your ID held at your face.[1] As a backup alternative, you have to upload the ID scan to them to manually verify you.

I guess this is one step further.

[1] https://support.turo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203991090-How-do-...
As someone who did a couple of front end jobs both building and fixing css built in this way I can give you one advice: don't.

This might seem like an obvious thing to generate cleaner and more 'semantic' markup but you will end up with tight coupling all over the place. When you change anything in your layout you'll need to rewrite parts of your css, which is basically twice the effort. You'll just end up wasting your employers time and money.

If you want some deeper insight into why it's considered a bad philosophy, I highly recommend reading some articles by Harry Roberts.

Then again, some succesful professionals actually work this way, I know a few.
I always thought that came from the error rate of old radar guns?
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> Given that there is a supported and suggested pathway to achieving core functionality of the library which involves the use of metadata to define the semantics of your components I stand by my statement

Sorry, but you are just completely wrong. Have you ever used Reagent? Reagent doesn't require the use of metadata AT ALL, EVER. Much less in some fundamental way, as you claim.
Me neither, to be clear. Just saying that compression is but one drop in the bucket.
GitHub Enterprise allows you to run a dedicated instance on a virtual machine in your own datacenter, which lets you keeps all of your stuff behind your own firewall.
FPGA?

https://hackaday.io/project/2951-fpga-opencv-object-tracking
The fingerprinting could be done server side. Their legal team could force browser vendors not to carry ABP or uBlock in the add-on stores, and GitHub to take down the repositories, meaning you and I could still find the source but not Average Joe. Your response to my comment about profiling ad blockers was entirely unconvincing.

You are placing more trust in this technology than it deserves, and I just think you should be aware; there are no silver bullets.

Edit: The browser fingerprinting could be done server-side. The add-on fingerprint looks something like, "were we able to load include this asset the add-on uses in an img tag?", so obviously requires interaction w/ the browser.
Which is why I think it would be really interesting to run a set of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos on it to see how they are classified. Some of his photographs are much more explicit while at the same time are much more specifically art. He photographed a lot of posed homoerotic BDSM Large Format photos specifically staged to develop tension, but not necessarily or even usually sexual tension or disgust tension, between the viewer and the person posed in the photo as a person and as a form. Alternatively he photographed large format calla lilies or orchids that are explicitly erotic. The photos were almost always black and white, and were s seen as controversial when he was alive and then again right when he died.

Then, in contrast, run some Japanese woodblocks in the Ukiyo-e style, since many of those are actually explicit. (including straight up porn woodblocks) Most Japanese woodblocks are also highly stylized as well, and it can take a moment to realize what is going on, including in some of the pornographic or hinting at the explict/could be explict/explict personalities.

I'm not going to say all Robert Mapplethorpes are safe for all work environments, nor all Japanese woodblocks, but I am curious to know if it can see the difference of person in homoerotic outfit who looks physical and gets you to notice his form, vs a Suzuki Harunobu being a bit more sly but more more explict in he is telling a story and his story is sex
There's a distinction between 'agile' (the manifesto) and Capital-A Agile.

Yeah, that's kinda my point. People throw the word "agile" around as though it has one precise meaning, when it clearly doesn't. And IMO, the kind of "Agile" that people are railing against is so far removed that it doesn't deserve any association whatsoever with the expression "agile". And then there's the thing where people act like "Scrum" == "Agile" when Scrum is just one of many processes that claim some degree of affiliation with the "agile" world-view.

All of that said, I get the vibe that some people either don't agree that there is a distinction, or don't care, and have a blanket "agile is bad" mindset. It's frustrating to me, as I've experienced a shop with a well run Scrum process (when I was at Lulu.com) and I know from experience that, done right, it's a pleasurable and effective way to work.
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It's common, but I still don't like it. I deleted my Facebook last year and it was shocking to me how much "public" content Facebook hides behind a login requirement. The same with Quora, and apparently Pinterest. They make it look like a public page but after you scroll they're like "uh-uh. We need your personal data if you want to see the rest."

It really soured me against these sites to see the way they take other peoples' content and lock it behind a wall.

I just walk away when I see that stuff now. I miss the old internet that felt more like a public park than an amusement park.
Just out of interest is there a plan to make Kite work on an iPad rather than just a window on my computer - even some kind of screen sharing with (basic) touch support would be excellent.

I will probably never use it because it scares the crap out of me that I'll type my password in the wrong window though :-)
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If you read Stephen Fry you will notice that he goes back and fourth on many issues and most of his views aren't based in any kind of critical calculations or observations. Stephen Fry is _the_ celebrity intellectual, he writes whatever he thinks is 'good' to write at the moment. He also isn't very smart in that he doesn't know a lot about history and philosophy so most of his arguments and discussion end up as pure rhetoric.
And for a lot of applications trusted third parties are completely sufficient, but in many instances you're better off without.
wc, in its basic form, is made for counting words. A filename in your case is not a word. I don't see the problem here. Use wc in line mode and the "problem" is solved.

It also has nothing to do with the shell, nor does the general case of pipes you present below. Your shell redirects the output from ls to the input of wc. If you don't like the simple approach that tools consume and produce arbitrary text in a manner it sees fit for its purpose,, maybe it's your operating system that you have a beef with.
So what do you want to do instead? Do you intend to only do things that we know are safe? If so, how do you intend to prove anything to be absolutely safe? Or, if not, do you intend to do things that we're "pretty sure" are safe, or things that seem to be the least dangerous? Because, the way you're thinking, absolutely anything could have catastrophic results, and you don't give us any useful way to differentiate between stuff we should be doing and stuff we shouldn't be doing.

Of course, I doubt that any of that went through your head. You just pointed at something that caught your attention, completely failing to consider all of the other things that are likely similarly dangerous like aluminum cans, pickled vegetables, soap, clothing, light bulbs, the English language, and so on and so forth. All of those are just as potentially dangerous as cell phones.

I think that you would be well served by studying epistemology, philosophy of science, and rational utilitarianism. I believe that you will find some ideas that will be useful to to you in the future.
I'm happy to learn that VCF West (the original Vintage Computer Festival) is being held in August. I've attended many times, but the last time it was held was 2007.
100% right. Before people start looking at those guys they should look at themselves. A lot of people in corporations do things they don't agree with or find ethically questionable but since the boss says so they will do it. "The fish stinks from the head". This is not isolated to government.
They can with a modified copy of Windows. Is that what makes or breaks it from being intellectual property theft?

I ask, because it would be pretty easy to add a jump in the Windows binary to skip the EULA -- Free Windows for life!
Thank you for the deep links.
I think that, at the end of the day, most companies have no clue how to properly utilize really smart and self-directed people (Finders). And that's at least due, in part, to the way granting people serious autonomy break the "command and control" structure that most people are so familiar / comfortable with.

Many (most) of the Finder types are probably better off leaving and launching startups, as opposed to trying to carve out a niche in someone else's company.
slightly off topic, but does anyone know a good proxy-as-api service? the ones I've seen are either really bad, or really, really expensive.
> I don't use the phrase "evil" often to describe corporations but Monsanto makes the cut.

They also manufactured the infamous "agent orange" during the vietnam war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
Under an anarcho-syndicalist system you don't need to worry what your neighbor does with their share. You have your share. If you want to work towards a common goal you need to convince them to work with you voluntarily.

I addressed the second point in my original post but maybe that was unclear: if there are so many applicants that individual grants become too small to serve their purpose, you stop accepting applicants. But then you require the applicant pool to spend some portion of their time growing the grant pool until the waiting list is empty. Flipping burgers if need be. Although we're talking about PhDs so I am sure there are better ways to use that labor pool.
Latency & self-sufficiency.

The initial use seems to be as tankers for crewed aircraft. Local control means no satellite round trip delay and perhaps the ability to conduct refueling operations if satellites are broken.
Prince was instrumental in helping inspire Van Jones' YesWeCode. He was a humble and thoughtful genius. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/04/21/prince-va...
So they should be clandestinely involved, instead? They're going to do it anyways, I'd rather know about it.
I've heard these things are mostly run by the Yakuza? I guess they count as "authorities", in a certain restricted sense.
I don't subscribe to the notion that all cultural values are of equal value, or are even worthy of respect.

Just that people tend to not see bias when it agrees with their personal notion of truth.
Maybe Kahn Academy but more likely Stamford's https://giftedandtalented.com.

As the cost of a good education declines it could diminish as a test of capability. That leaves the test of actual practice in the art - an apprenticeship.

Broadly I agree that apprenticeship is a likely model if what you are learning is the trade of discovering a market for your creativity. The market will determine if creativity is improved when primed with a broad or narrow education.
It's a lot if they want to hack millions of iPhones each year. As a one-off engineering project to break into an iPhone, it seems remarkably reasonable.
Aren't they trained to judge size and distance by eye, though?
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Odd. I, owner of a 2014 Passat TDI, never received any such survey.
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Very true, avoid at all costs. I would change your sentence to ". . . grinding our employees into hash browns."
The movie "The Big Short" has a brief scene with reference to this that you reminded me of and I highly recommend the movie. In the scene one of the main characters is discussing with his brother's ex who is an SEC regulator and she says something to the affect of "the regulators are a revolving door of industry insiders and you aren't going to get looked at when applying for the cushy bank job if you're known as the stickler regulator."
You don't really.

The question that the revolving door complaint raises is whether these people can competently perform in these regulatory positions without bias.

The solution isn't picking different people, it's transparency and enforcing the checks and balances. Articles like this are important, because the SEC is notoriously bad at being transparent (getting a D- on FOIA) and it exists as an independent agency in the executive branch.
False dichotomy is false. They didn't have to do this, and by all accounts, received nothing of value for the money.
On Autonomy:

For those developers who are complaining about management anti-patterns, I don't think they necessarily want autonomy. I think they really do want just better managers, but the truth is that, whether or not they want it, they need autonomy to counteract/avoid bad management.

Everyone is flawed, including managers. You can try and "fix" managers, but that generally works out as well as trying to "fix" anyone else that isn't yourself. The best thing to do is to restrict the scope of those who manage you and increase the scope of your own self-management.

However, most people (if they are honest) are their own worst boss. They work for other people because the alternative would be to work for themselves. Having come to that realization a few years ago, I have definitely been working to improve my self-management. A consequence of this is that I come to crave that autonomy.

I also get to be more picky about who I work for: if I do a pretty decent job at managing myself, you're going to have to really impress me if you want me to hand that job off to you instead.
Printer ink wars may make private property the exclusive domain of corporations
Photographing software (thoughts on web and software preservation)
Isn't it Wikileaks that data dumped, not Manning? I guess you could say Manning is partially responsible by not giving the data to journalists instead? Not really sure.
What's wrong with "legacy" systems which just WORKS and makes VALUE for people?
On iPhone 5. Until Apple updates the software to fix the vulnerability.
> Most developers don't like getting rid of stuff. They want to keep chunks of code around in case they need them again.

Really? I LOVE being able to delete stuff.
The fact that a lot of screwups occur on the way to discovery in no way ennobles screwups, except in hindsight.
As long as you use our service, you have access to that dispute system. Also we aren't just for cleaning or repeat services like homejoy. People will still use the app when they're in a quick need of something, as this is the niche its meant to fill.
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a) The amount is nice since I think they apparently approached them after figuring out how to do this. So impossible to think anywhere near that amount of work was actually involved.

b) Establish and prove they can do the job. Will get other work like this and be able to charge more. Really no different than what the local handyman or plumber does in some cases.
So if someone engineers trees to grow CDs you still wouldn't protect their intellectual property?

How amazing does an invention have to be before you guys will let a company protect it?
Lots of Project Tango + AR/VR presentations. I'm willing to bet the next Google/Nexus phones will have tech from Project Tango built in and become standard on future Android phones. Lots of apps/games could be built for it (and some that have been already built will debut during I/O). It could be one of those things that differentiates Androids from iPhones. Take a look at the 'Introducing Project Tango Area Learning' talk for May 18 for an example.

More info on Project Tango - https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/
Yahoo releases large scientific dataset for your next machine learning project
I always thought MemSQL was a strong contender with the commitment to the MySQL wire protocol and SQL. The addition of a column store for larger than memory storage also seemed like a really good way to balance the concerns of speed of access vs storage cost.

I always wished we had taken a few pages from their playbook when I was @ VoltDB. Including ignoring BEGIN and END transaction :-)
Nostalgic:  Comparing 1995’s tech to 2015’s.  and yes, 1995 had VR
At what scale are they accessing the hardware of terrorists anyways?
Going by the diet and extreme hours they obviously have a young group of engineers convinced that their lives should revolve around work.
What's to stop the NSA from becoming be the credit bureau of the 21st?
Effectively that's how the law is enforced anyway. I've never seen someone pulled over for doing <= 10 over the limit on a highway. On large highways you can typically get away with going <= 15 mph over.
> I'm sure we can all agree that the current state of shells needs some work, but I don't think inventing a new one is the right solution.

Disagree. A shell is a domain-specific programming language, and all the existing such languages are terrible. We'd be better off with a properly designed language, like a shell language based on OCaml: Caml-shcaml [1].

[1] http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jesse/pubs/caml-shcaml/
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That looks incredible. Such a lovely video particularly when you see the fourier transform of a hand moving in space!
I'm sure you've heard of the Shellshock bug.
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> The company posted earnings of $7.50 on revenue of $20.26 billion, while analysts were expecting earnings of $7.96 on revenue of $20.38 billion.

I'm assuming they mean 7.5 billion, and 7.96 billion respectively but if they aren't then it seems that they should check the couches in the offices.
At my day job, running >100 servers.

Those include

Web facing servers (Nginx+Rails)
SOLR clusters
MySQL clusters
Memcached
Redis

Most of the instances now include Docker images running on them, those host microservices that the main application is communicating with.

Everything is managed by Chef (including Docker orchestration), CircleCI for testing and deployment (Docker push and provision to the servers as well).

For side projects, I always choose Heroku for the simplicity of things, nothing really beats it for what I need.

I also have Digital Ocean with nginx on it, that's where my blog is hosted, proxying to S3 files.
Gotcha. Look into REBOL/RED while you're at it. RED is a REBOL clone/modification for system programming. They're LISP like advantages without the parenthesis and having small footprint. RED is already used in one OS project. I keep thinking of modifying it for system use. People keep telling me to check out Nim as it's like Pascal and Python combined with extra safety, macros, and C code generation.

So, there you have it: REBOL, RED, and Nim. Maybe Ivory language from Galois, too, but you need to know Haskell for that.
Bullshit. You are speaking in abstract terms and then seguing into the subject matter at hand as if it actually applies. Did you actually read the article? Even at their inception the "credit agencies" were full of inaccuracies, gossip, and otherwise unreliable information with little to no foundation.

Let's extrapolate to their current form, to the complete and utter racket that FICO scores and the big three are. The algorithms are secret, there are some regulations on what they are supposed to use, but those who have taken the time to hack[1] the credit system have found they use them anyway.

The entire credit/debt based system is a racket, a mere section of the myriad of tools in the ongoing class warfare that the rich are winning. It's a tool of social and financial repression, not one of imagined "stability" or "necessity".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFDnQGr6WU

Addendum: If anyone or anything needs to "verify trust and impose consequences on those who abuse it", it's the people who need to do it against the oligarchy. What you are positing is basically the other way around.
Yes please.

I have worked with multiple large legacy codebases and usually need to do global searches across them in order to figure out basic things like how functions are called and from where for one example. When this generates a huge list of search results you then need to consider all possible paths in order to complete a bug fix, new feature or refactor.

One thing I see way too often are files sitting next to each other that look like this:

SuperImportantCodeFile

SuperImportantCodeFile2

SuperImportantCodeFileOLD
And that's precisely where the disagreement lies.
McAfee's offer was a PR stunt. He admitted it a week later.
The battlecruiser HMS Hood was the pride and joy of the British Navy, until it was exploded by a lucky shell from the Bismark in WWII.
It is PR to sell one of their products
With FICO algorithms being secret, and parallel construction being a thing, who is to say they aren't already sharing info?
In Canada, there's a "saying" with the big Yelcos like BRM or Rogers: if they need a law passed, one of their VPs resigns and joins the CRCT (FCC equivalent). That'd explain how they pass laws like the one that mandated that competing DSL providers couldn't price services lower than Bell or offer uncapped data.
No, it's EPS (earnings per share).
The only reason it would be 'Worth it' is if they found something of note (something to help prosecution of other criminals or prevent further attacks). Is there any reason to believe that this hack accomplished this?

What else would make it 'worth it'? Or is this just politicking?
I think git has made it easier to clean up code secure in the knowledge that we really can get the old code back in all its crufty glory if we really must.
I'm using it in prod for a site with roughly 200k request per minute. It has been great. We were on bootstrap 2 and doing significant changes where upgrading Bootstrap made sense. We've been live with it since December.
This one had the very fancy giant expansion box I never had!
Lemmy was 2015 though.
Earning per share....
I dig your solution as well as some kind of limitations on "crossing the aisle" once you've gone over. Like former regulators have to have n years out of the job before being legally allowed to work for financial institutions or other ways to add distance and disincentive lenient regulation.
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What other solutions did you consider for your project and why did you went with MemSQL?