skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah
Hate to say it, but you are making this a political platform
That sounds better than my experience with a fuck up startup a while ago. I solved all their tech challenges to have the email revealed. It's fun at that time. Sent my resume to that email. Received a phone call. Had a short interview over the phone answering behavioral interview questions, such as why you want to work here. Then never heard back although they mentioned over the phone that they liked my performance.
This is an interesting piece. I can certainly believe the connection between enjoying spiciness and thrill-seeking. Eating really spicy food is a form of culinary masochism after all.

I have two little pieces of information to add.

On Mao's culinary idiosyncrasies: He was famous for his love of red-braised pork belly. And today, there are many "Mao restaurants" in China which specialize in the Hunanese-style red-braised pork belly recipe he preferred, which distinctively uses caramelized sugar instead of soy sauce to achieve the dark brown color.

On the connotations of 辣妹子 ("spicy girl"): The "spicy" implies not only a "spicy" temper and "spicy" tongue, but also "spicy" looks. Sichuanese and Hunanese girls are known for being very attractive.
True, I was a huge fan of Flipkart since the time it only used to sell books. Then the delivery charges increased, discount reduced and Amazon and Snapdeal looked like much better options.

Even now I look at flipkart to check out the price of stuff, but it is usually more than the rest.

Flipkart lost customers confidence, is what I think.
OkExpat – Expand your connections (FOR THE EXPATS, BY THE EXPATS)
Better to have something standardised with known quirks and weakness than have a complete free-for-all. Yeah some of it will be an improvement but some won't and you can't easily tell which is which. Might as well not bother reporting anything then.
The difference between sleepwalking and not remembering your wakeup is in how alert and responsive you are during the up time.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but you are aware your comment looks like propaganda as well, right?
So you have secondary monitoring to verify that you wake up "without fail"?
Thank you. snowmanak
Meet the gambling kingpin funding Eve Online's biggest war
And having nightmares and terrors about irrational impossible dangers
.... No thanks.
I wonder how well the `social security number` anchoring study replicates?
With all the hoopla going on about it nowadays, you'd think this article was published in reaction to what just happened.

No, apparently someone saw this coming. I wonder what we could have done to avoid this.
Yep, modern probability theory is dependent on being able to define a sample space that has an associated sigma algebra. The problem posed by the examples (eg “this Turing machine halts”) is that we have no obvious way to construct such a sample space (that is non-trivial) apriori. The innovation here is that there seem to be at least two ways to construct proxy sample spaces based on some of the surrounding constraints provided in the problem definition (since an many cases the sample space is binary, as the original article notes). The authors last question is whether these two approaches (that seem incompatible) can be used together.

I think it would really interesting if you could demonstrate that such 'external' probabilities could improve reasoning to better than chance because it would suggest that the answer to logic problems is partially constrained by their formulation, however I have this sense that it might also be the case that for some questions (eg the haling problem example above) no information would be shared between the question an its constraints.
Not before tesla disables the car.:) from what I read, any kind of hacking can get your vehicle disabled.
athyuttamre

I'm a student using Docker for many projects, including one for my university. Thanks!
You also have to decide whether you want to spend time on the app.
Still not a guarantee though ..
Does anyone have any more information on this or any pictures? This seems like just a fluff press release.

It seems like this project is coming from Georgia Tech and Minnesota State. Is their any information available from either of these university department sites?
This seems really interesting, I would say I'm a bit concerned of the complexity it may add to JS when most developers are fairly familiar with the single-threaded model (or at least don't need to think about it).

Where is concurrency beneficial? Are there other languages that are sometimes concurrent, and sometimes not?

Will a JS developer who is jumping between front-end and back-end get confused by the two paradigms?
If it's $5000 net, the gross the company has to pay for is much higher.
Related: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1165...
Sure a single air brake is finicky, but 8 hubs with individually controlled regenerative brakes? Sounds like a perfect job for a computer.
Something can be irrational and psychologically painful at the same time. Fear of flying vs nonfear of driving, for example.
Browserapi for new browser functionalities
If that's the case, then why aren't cargo ships already automated to this extent? It seems like automating a container vessel would be even easier - there are far fewer things to run into on the water (even in a busy port) than there are on a busy highway.
Very true - if a company/service requires me to get in touch with a sales guy, wait for a callback or watch a live presentation, product demo or similar, I'll definitely look elsewhere.

Unfortunately this seems to be common practice whenever you deal with products/services that target businesses.
Why do you fear disturbing your housemate but not your hotel neighbor?
"That aspect, that it was at one time, or still is, gender-specific, is what makes it inappropriate to call a person who doesn't identify with that gender."

Why do you think you can dictate what _is_ inappropriate for the rest of mankind?
The purpose of /usr/local is for you to put stuff there, but it actually causes a lot of problems if a package manager does it.

- your work-issued laptop might have work stuff installed in there, and the package manager will overwrite it

- build-from-source package managers like fink/ports/brew are incapable of controlling themselves and always install things you didn't ask them to

Since /usr/local is in the default search path for your compiler, that last one means your personal configure script runs are not reproducible, and you'll start linking to packaged versions of libiconv or whatever without meaning to, and your code won't work on other machines or it'll crash unexpectedly.

Fink invented /sw for this, MacPorts uses /opt which I think they got from Solaris?
Pretty much anything you'd like to do with CouchDB or MongoDB. Replace "document based storage" with table based and you have pretty much any *SQL application.

So I guess my question is: How do you expect people to use your fine grained model with databases? If the answer is "not at all" then I find the scope too limiting. If the answer is "1 grain == 1 db" then I find the claim that you are solving difficult permission problems to be false.

Note: I don't want to be too critical here, I'm just trying to pick holes in your claims of scope so I can categorise the power of sandstorm and how far it could be useful for things I'd like to build.
Maybe you need a better mattress at home, or better better noise insulation
Welcome to Silicon Valley 2016.
And any labor force can organize, go on strike or simply leave.
(edit: responded to the wrong post, sorry.)
I think he meant that evidence of your drinking might still show up on Facebook, especially if those photos are tagged with your name.
Mind that that was intentional. Due to known weaknesses in MD5, it's much easier to engineer a collision than it is to come across one accidentally.
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The 20% figure isn't actually that crazy.

A small town near where I grew up had a factory- Hershey chocolate- that supported maybe 20% of the jobs in the town. But it represented how 50% or more of the money entered the town. That money bounced around, creating jobs- stores, restaurants, even gas stations and hotels.

When the factory closed, everything was hit. A small town with few sources of external income can be devastated by the loss of a major one.

A huge percentage of America is small towns, and a large portion of them have truckers as their income.

Yes, they economy will recover, but if this automation happens very quickly there can and will be collateral damage.

I'm still for it happening, but the government would be wise to start preparing for the fallout now.
Pretty much every company that doesn't display pricing doesn't get my business. There is invariably a competitor that does display pricing and I'll have bought that before the sales rep gets back to me. My philosophy/hunch is that reducing friction equals providing value. I always aim to provide value at every link in the value chain and reducing friction (displaying clear pricing and minimal click instant signup) is an easy way to do that.
A lab also has other factors that influence sleep!
> why not impose a simple set of rules to work with the criminal-justice system

It's really simple. First you just need to figure out who's telling the truth.
Which is the justice system's whole job, and they've gotten pretty ok at it.
Docker ID: milep

Using for php and rails apps with mysql, postgres and redis.
WWDC got announced,here is a great overview about my First conference and handy tips
On the flipside, more talent would probably apply to AirBnB knowing that a guy like him can land 230k. Not to mention he's indirectly marketing for AirBnB by explaining why he was attracted to the company and chose them over Google (often seen as the holy grail of software engineering). I highly doubt that management is pissed.

More transparency is overall a positive thing. Underpaid people should know that they're being underpaid, and engineers notoriously suck at negotiation.
It wasn't long ago that I would have agreed with this article in full. I may have even posted here on HN to that effect before. I am still sympathetic to the point it makes. However:

Universities boot people out for other reasons which are not actionable in a criminal (or even civil) court all the time. Getting shitty grades, being a disruptive asshole in a class on a regular basis, and so on, can end your university career.

So, with that in mind, "creeps everyone the fuck out and is probably a rapist", isn't such a stretch. I would not put someone in jail for that for any length of time. But, I don't know if "deserves jail time" is the right comparison. Maybe "I would fire this person, if they worked for me" or "I would kick this person out of my social club" are more apt.

Now, I think that someone so expelled should have an easier time getting into another university than they currently do. Right now it seems that getting expelled because a university tribunal found you responsible for an alleged rape carries, for the purposes of college admissions elsewhere, nearly the same consequences as being an actual convicted rapist. This puts too much faith in the judgement of some other university's tribunal, which bring me to my next concern:

These tribunals are too often full of shit. There are a few horror stories going around and you've probably read a few. Some places I think are not requiring a high enough burden of proof. The regulations and standards at the federal and state levels ought to be improved, and in light of the fact that sexual violence on campuses is on the decline, the improvements should result in fewer students being expelled, not more.

But, in principle, I think it's fine for a university to do this, even if the accused rapist could not possibly be convicted in a court of law.
That's a strong suggestions of what is expected by users.
my biggest interest in server side js is what i call offloading

i have server side code that can do a lot of heavy data calculations, and i client side code that can do a lot of heavy presentation calculations, and then i have the internet as a connection between them

since the presentation layer is burdened by needing to be sent to the client over the connection i have a constant optimisation interest in the size of the client code

if i am concerned about the time and data cost on the client, i can do a lot of presentation calculations on the server and send the results stead the source that found them

alternatively, if i am unconcerned with the time and data cost on the client, i can send more server code to the client to offload some of the work to relieve the server

because of this constant optimisation interest i always duplicate my server functions, whatever language they may be, in the presentation source.. currently javascript.. and vice versa

so i can decide on the fly where any function will run when situations define the optimal configuration

server side js would limit the extra work in some cases

but i doubt i'd utilise it because i find the transliterating step to be valuable in hardening the code and logic underlying
I was just about to make the same suggestion. Twitch chat is basically as low as it gets. I have absolutely no problem believing that someone would make death/rape threats out of the blue after seeing how women are treated by a random (large) Twitch chat.
I agree with this. It is why I feel healthcare (where your option may become: Pay or Die) is not a system that should be left to the free market but is better at it's place under a government. Of course this should be a government that operates with the consent of the governed, is kept highly accountable for it's actions and is insensitive to lobbying. I think that especially the latter is undoing many of the benefits of democracy.
Same author, more recent post [1]

I really like the way that he expanded on this theory and talks about the authority that universities have accumulated and the effect that it is having on students. For more on this topic, I really recommend an article, Campus Protesters Aren’t Reliving the 1960s -- (Yesterday’s student activists wanted to be treated like adults. Today’s want to be treated like children.) [2]

[1]: https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/university...

[2]: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/campus-protes...
Leaked Postmates financials suggest company may be better than everyone thought
The cult of productivity is preventing you from being productive
The difference is uncertainty. With pizza, you know pretty well what you are going to get. With an app, 90% are crap, 9% are ok but not what you personally prefer, 1% are great. So, gambling $2 with a seemingly 1% chance of greatness feels like an app costs $200. The reality is not that bad. But, it's all about how it feels.

On top of that, it's not even really about the money. You don't want to feel bad about getting tricked into paying for a crap app. You'd feel like a sucker. It would be frustrating. People do all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid feeling embarrassment and frustration --to the point that it's dangerous to call out a scammer because they are likely to get geniunely indignant and angry to avoid feeling the embarrassment of their obvious lie. Procrastination to avoid possible frustration is very, very common.
Indian Education Minisiter –  'Declare JavaScript Anti-National'
Also known as consultants, who get hired full time if the company likes them and viceversa.
Should more of the disciplinary action [involving criminal activity] be moved from the purview of colleges to the courts? I can see this making sense not only for cases of allegations of rape but also allegations of censorship, bias, underage drinking, etc. Sometimes colleges exercise a little too much discretion in adjudication. On the other hand, if we move not only grievous allegations but other less grave cases to the courts altogether, the caseload may overwhelm courts.

Is there a divide between commuter campuses vs more residential campuses?
Ask HN: I have no commitments for the next 6 months – what books should I read?
I'm a 3rd year undergraduate student and for various reasons I'm taking the rest of the year out and returning to studying Electronic Engineering next September. I know there are a lot of "Best books of 20xx" posts on HN, but I'm looking for overall recommendations for someone who is intelligent and thinks a lot, but has done almost no reading before (excluding school readings etc.) and wants catch up with the rest of humanity in terms of literature. I intend on spending the next 6 months doing a lot of reading, and when I return to college, I intend on getting into a good habit of continued reading. I'm interested to see what the HN community considers the top books of all time to add to my list, both fiction and non-fiction. My current list is as follows (no particular order):

1: Happy City (Charles Montgomery)

2: Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

3: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)

4: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel)

5: The Tender Bar (J. R. Moehringer)

6: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)

7: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)

8: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)

9: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)

10: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

11: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

12: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)

13: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)

14: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)

15: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (William MacAskill)

16: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)

17: Butterick's Practical Typography (Matthew Butterick)
I would be surprised if you weren't capable of "seeing" the typical colorful geometric patterns of a DMT not-quite-breakthrough with your eyes closed, and the experience of having something pass through your mind's eye just once might trigger dormant pathways.

Anyway, as a quasi-professional, my advice if you were going to pick just one to try, would be vaporized freebase DMT.
Well, in the absence of any evidence the earth is round, it's perfectly reasonable for him to believe the earth is flat until he's presented with a plausible argument that it's round.

Have you ever been exposed to religion?
"The legal verdict on whether sex is non consensual still often rests on the perspective of the alleged perpetrator rather than the experience of the victim."

I'm not sure I entirely understand this quote to its fullest. It is being argued that it is the experience of the victim that matters if sex is consensual. Isn't this quote logically wrong? Consensual by definitions means both parties agreed. But is the author arguing that it is the victim's opinion that makes it consensual only?

How would that work in a situation where both parties start having sex, then it stops being consensual half way (from the victim changing their mind). The victim changes their minds but says nothing, and continues as before during the act. From the authors opinion, the victim experienced rape, hence the perpetrator should be convicted. But from the perpetrator's perspective they have no knowledge the partner's consent was revoked.

As far as I understand, an accusation should examine a perpetrator's perspective more, since that person is being charged with a crime. Why is the author arguing that the victim's experience is what the trial should hinge upon? If the victim raised an accusation, that is enough! It is the perpetrator that is being tried and attempted to be found guilty, hence the trial focuses on the perpetrator's actions and perspective.

Can someone better weigh in? This seems like one of those thoughts that sounds profound, but does not stand up to scrutiny.
Would love to explore this further.

ID: mentalpiracy
You're proposing that Amazon's employees, customers, and shareholders pay out of their pockets to fund your social engineering project.

How about this instead: You get together with a bunch of your social justice-y friends, pool a few hundred million dollars, then offer it to Amazon, on the condition that they start serving these neighborhoods.

Everyone wins! The only difference is that now you are the one who has to pay for your virtue-signaling social crusade. But you're cool with that right?
I think you're underrating the significance of the rate at which one is able to learn and acquire knowledge. I'd argue that this is actually more important than experience within a large organization with plenty of mentorship.

This guy was able to accomplish a ton in a year, acquiring the technical chops to get offers at top companies like Google. If he can do that in one year, imagine where he'll be in another year.
are there VPN out there where you can purchase a static IP of your own for it?
It could be. Probably not, at my age, but you never know.

More likely, the people reading this and assuming the root of the whole thing is, incredibly, a woman who's being attacked for doing a good job (and not being a tax collector or similar government functionary) are simply credulous.
Uh, isn't the headline obvious? Crime such as sexual abuse should never be prosecuted by anyone other than the government!

This is precisely the reason why the Roman Catholic Church and other institutions were able to cover up child sexual abuse on a massive scale!

Australia is learning the extent of this now because the much maligned former Australian PM, Julia Gillard, established a Royal Commission into child sexual abuse within Institutions. This has been painful but cathartic for Australia - and a key thing that is emerging is that institutions who investigate the incidents themselves almost always cover up the abuse. This isn't just the Catholic Church - it's the YMCA, Buddhist organisations, dance schools, the Salvation Army, and numerous boys and girls homes. The Catholic Church is probably the most egregious offender, and its illustrative to note that rather than report serious sexual crimes to police, they shamed the victims and moved the offenders to different parts of the country (or overseas!) thus spreading the abuse.

I wonder how many Colleges have done similar cover ups?
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Trying to clean up our local machine dev setups
The major problem with this is the person booted is “convicted” of a very serious crime. Getting kicked out because you have been found guilty of rape by some sham court is a lot more harmful to the person than getting kicked out because you are disruptive in class.

I sometime think we should adopt the Scottish system of not proven [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_proven
Break’n mental models – A rap about mental models
The automated part of the journey could be done by a driverless / cab-less / HID-less prime mover which drops the trailer(s) / cargo containers off at an interchanged where they are picked up by human driven vehicles for the last mile.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2016/04/12/dont-trust-...
>As far as I understand, an accusation should examine a perpetrator's perspective more, since that person is being charged with a crime.

It depends on the way the law is written. You can certainly be guilty of criminal offenses absent any understanding or intent.
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