skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related:
Something that I've noticed when helping extremely bright kids in science fairs: If they're motivated, and there's a pair of them who are friends, then I'm essentially useless and getting in the way. That's happened multiple times (getting to the semi-finals/finals of Google, Siemens, etc.) with pairs.

When they're alone then it doesn't workout so well.
"Researchers measured the return to full attention by timing participants' response to a flashing light."

The description in the article suggests that the time was counted from the start of the voice command action.
Problem is, those arguments always assume the people are doing things fairly. In many instances, instead of extra work, it's cutting corners.
My kids' school, to some degree, solved this with "Creativity Fairs".
You want to design and sew a dress? Cool.
You want to scale up Thor's hammer from action figure size to your size? Cool.
You want to recreate Fallingwater in SketchUp? Cool.
There were even a few more traditionally science-y projects.

As long as it doesn't include food or live animals - you're cool.
Didn't log in. Don't want to. Just wanted to see if the URL returned anything.
> I see both version of this statement all the time: "Chrome is so slow. I switched to firefox![1]" "Firefox is so slow. I switched to chrome!"

I think it's simply that anecdotes are extremely unreliable when it comes to something as large and complex as a browser that's so sensitive to the specific content you browse. Firefox is slow from time to time for some people; Chrome is slow from time to time for some people.
I heard about those taps in 2008/2009 I think. Snowden hasn't really given us anything truly new. It's also bizarre how quickly everything he presented was/is accepted as fact immediately without question.

I think it's way more likely Snowden was intentional. He's still working for the Federal government and the leaks are intentional so that the Federal Government could announce to the world that they are spying on all their own citizens...and nothing happen. No real revolution, and no real end to the surveillance.

I mean yea, we have better security practices, more people use encryption, more people are aware about security ... but overall the landscape hasn't changed except in one crucial aspect: people are talking less publicly. People are afraid that what they say is monitored. There has been a chilling effect.

The Snowden narrative needs to be questioned. Since when does an NSA contractor working from home in Hawaii get VPN access to all the government secretes? Like...people actually believe that?
Could also be singular 'they' -- that's how I read it.
This opinion is about what the government can do with the data of non-citizens believed to be abroad.
If the contestants are using deep learning, I don't see why it should be any more difficult to generate a meaningful, low-dimensional representation of the game-state from raw pixels than from an abstract view input.
In other news, "Family dog blamed in home robbery hack."
> the whole site is satire which you seemed to have missed

You seem to have missed it too :-)

> I have taken a lot of inspiration from … http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
From the article:

"____Once it has communications in its custody, those limitations no longer apply____ and the government can troll through it for whatever law enforcement purpose it wants without having to worry about getting a pesky warrant." (emphasis mine)

You're not addressing this which I think is the point.

The relevant section from the ruling's conclusion:

"The government shall promptly submit in writing a report concerning each instance after December 4, 2015, in which FBI personnel receive and review Section 702-acquired information that the FBI identifies as concerning a United States person in response to a query that is not designed to find and extract foreign intelligence information. The report should include a detailed description of the information at issue and the manner in which it has been or will be used for analytical, investigative, or evidentiary purposes. It shall also identify the query terms used to elicit the information and provide the FBI's basis for concluding that the query is consistent with the applicable minimization procedures."

In other words, the FBI can query for data related to US persons without a warrant and justify it later with a report to the FISC.
Just saying what?
But there's still no difference between visiting FB.onion under a 3-hop system and visiting Google or Netflix or any of the many sites that have distributed servers.

(I suppose that different protocols are being used that have different times, but that seems negligible; wouldn't bet on that though.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548784
I have never been depressed when I was poor either, but now that I am not I worry about not being able to pay for the fancy schools and activities I send my kids to.
Seems clear enough to me. But the misreading is hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
This is entirely a "what if", so realize that I'm aware of how absurd this likely is.

Given how many NSLs are regularly given out (I believe we're well into tens of thousands per year?) I wonder to what extent unified civil disobedience is a viable answer. If thousands, or even hundreds of companies all decided to say "I Have been NSLd, and I refuse to go quietly" would there even BE a useful response the govt could take?

At the point that the govt can make secret rulings approving of secret proceedings dispensing secret legislation, I see few other ways to address a cyclically broken system.
I would usually use the term "FLOSS", for Free-Liberte, OSS"

The L part clarified the type of freedom, as the FL clarifies that it's not just OSS.
MongoDB configuration error exposed 93M Mexican voter records
Maybe.. Maybe I'm just Charitable - then?

Once I like something enough I start doing Patreon. First at $1, and then more as I can afford it / as I love the work.

For a lot of works, in or out of this field I think Merch is the big seller. You need a body of work that people enjoy so much they're willing to wear it, own things about it, etc.

So for podcasts it'd be offering Physical media with special features. A "Freemium" experience where for free you get the podcast you want, and you give money or buy things that have additional things.

This can work pretty well so long as you have a reason for people to keep coming back and spending money.

I theorize it doesn't work terribly well for Minecraft networks, for example, because most of them have a VIP "donation tier" where once you've spent it you have it forever. And then you exist for 5 years and it's like "that $100 is so long gone.."
Except it is.
"The hackers aimed to steal $1bn but made mistakes that led to the theft being spotted and stopped."

"A spelling mistake in one of the transfer orders alerted bank staff and meant the hackers only managed to steal $81m."

Boy, hackers need to be good at spelling too!
Doesn't look like it. The containers don't have network access, either so putting something like `npm install left-pad && node main.js` as the run command won't work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11539791
CommonMark: A strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown
I only had time to skim the ruling, but it seems like the petitioners only raised First Amendment concerns. Can someone with more legal knowledge explain if it's still possible to challenge NSLs on Fourth Amendment grounds? Has this avenue of attack already been exhausted?
I also recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
Really like Let's Encrypt... it's been really easy to setup both with IIS[1] and dokku[2]

[1] https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple/release...

[2] https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt
Then contrast our potential inability to keep private thoughts with the fact that the government is allowed theirs by merely stamping Top Secret across a document.
"The idea of the commons is outside the realm of markets"

No, they aren't. They cannot be, otherwise the realm of markets is too limited to be of any worth.

The commons are where we all live, breathe, work, and play. To say they don't matter is to completely ignore what it is to be human.
What’s really across the ocean from you when you look straight out?
It's what I started with too. I've seen a lot of discussion about how CS Grad students are getting underpaid.

I acquired $70k in student loans to afford to live in the city with my partner while working on my degree.
Essentially they paid about half of cost of living.
YC B1 visa letter for participation
I read that YC writes a B1 visa letter for participation in YC. What does the letter say?
I can verify this, having been poor in a very affluent part of the world, and having spent a huge amount of time in very inaffluent parts of the world.

Thanks for the insightful comment.
Perhaps now that the rising tide that floats all boats that America had going from the 40s-80s (or something like that) has peaked, suicide rates are just going back to normal.

It's pretty rare throughout history that your kids will almost surely be better off than you were. We enjoyed a brief spurt of that here in the US. It's probably over. Welcome back to the old normal.
In Bezos 2016 Investor Letter, I didn't think "We want Prime to be such a good value, you’d be irresponsible not to be a member." meant this.
Income inequality is a political problem. Nobody shoots himself because a person he doesn't know makes a lot more money.

But he will shoot himself when his wife divorces him and takes his children.
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eh...maybe, but I don't think so. What I was referring to is that if I were to guess the mindset of how an observant Jew viewed his/her relationship with the Big Guy in 2016, I think that it is very different than the mindset of those from when these laws were created. Because society has evolved. For example, when their religious text says that God loves the smell of the burnt offerings that they made, I think that long ago the people making those offerings probably thought that to be literally true. Now, not so much.

Similarly, the purpose and function of the dietary laws had (I'm guessing) a very different character in the minds of those who adhered to them way back then (and those who created them way back then) than it does in the minds of modern adherents. If that is true, then in that case it does make sense to wonder why they have had such tenacity in the face of those old reasons being brushed aside by most who still follow the rules. The reasons for doing it have in a large sense changed. Such reasons as those cited elsewhere in this thread (as a community-enhancing exercise, for example) would probably not resonate with the people who first defined the laws.

But I don't care if others want to follow these restrictions, as long as they're not imposed on those who don't want to. And of course you shouldn't expect others to see any value in them unless you do give reasons that resonate with those people.
Build vs. Buy: A Dangerous Lie (2014)
Or all the unhappy people in the happiest countries killed themselves.
"Paying for travel is a lot cheaper than paying a recruiter to find you candidates. And, while I’m the biggest believer in the value of video conferencing that you’re ever likely to find, there’s no substitute for an all-day, in person, interaction with everyone on your team."

I was interviewing at an SV company recently and was told I would be flown in for the final interview. Instead, when the final interview arrived they arranged a 3 hour Skype interview and had me do coding challenges inside Google Docs. It was the worst interview I've ever had to do, I couldn't get any sense of the office environment, and trying to write up a piece of code in Google Docs was just plain terrible.
Yeah, he's full of it. We in high-assurance community and even the cypherpunks have been telling people forever it was being abused. Because people were abusing it and its design practically asked for it. These were ignored as externalities by people motivated by convenience, feature bloat, price, and/or profit. Even getting it down to almost identical cost/speed didn't help if it lacked unnecessary feature X.

This was censorship by business and security communities plus apathy by consumers. Plain and simple. The business communities didn't want to spend crap on INFOSEC. The ones that did faced two obstacles: (a) low volume meant real deal was ridiculously expensive with slower development; (b) mainstream INFOSEC conned companies with bandaids or fake security because they made more money that way. Constantly charging to fix problems they left in or upgrades people didn't need.

So, result was everything is shit security and stays that way. Neither proprietary nor FOSS learn from lessons 99% of the time. All due to what Schneier always called "perverse incentives" that keep bad stuff produced.
"It's unfortunate that you lack the imagination. In the past several centuries we have seen a level of personal freedom which is unprecedented. With that increased freedom we have the highest standard of living, ever. Now when someone comes along and theorizes on how we might increase that freedom you seem to fear the possibility of change--like the slave afraid of what's beyond his plantation."

Except you're not theorizing on how to increase freedom. You're theorizing on how to carve people into separate little boxes. There is no freedom whatsoever there. Only servitude to the corporate masters who would control things.
None of the complicated components are made in Red China. The CPUs are made in Korea, the cameras in Japan, the batteries in Japan, and the power control circuits in Free China, The CNC machines, and glass cutting instruments are made in Germany and the USA. The software is American as motherhood and apple pie.

Red Chinese fingers do the final assembly and Red Chinese tax laws provide loopholes but iPhones are not a Red Chinese product.
The "no meat on Fridays" rule is intended as a bit of a personal penance, which can be change for something else to give up or endure (former Catholic).
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I'm pretty sure Galois get a lot of contracts from the government.
Opening Minds on Ed Tech
Makes sense in a place like San Francisco. One good hail storm in the Midwest and you'd have a lot of broken solar panels.
Google Is Getting Too Close to the Whitehouse
> You, seemingly, have taken the stance that a business hiring security personnel is a manifestation of a market failure. It's a non-sequitur.

No. My stance is that innocent-people pay for the crimes of others in your hypothetical.

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

In a perfectly efficient market, you only pay for what you use. The market failure occurs when you pay for things that OTHER people use. (IE: you get lung cancer when a Coal Power Plant burns Coal. Market failure, specifically an externality. You pay for lung cancer that was caused by other people.)

If you don't care about efficient markets, then you probably shouldn't call yourself an "ancap".
Why will they do it? Corporate entities like Apple exist to make profits. Change is not on the agenda. It's not healthy to be that hopeful when you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Facebook users can invite non-Facebook users by email to events, if they want to.

But for viewing what your friends and parents are doing on Facebook? Well, they could change their privacy settings to be public, but that would hurt their privacy. You want to be in their social graph, but not have a Facebook account. What does that even mean? Do you just not want to have a password? There's no rule you have to post any content, if you just want to view other's.
> The vast majority is filled up with ad-tracking garbage and Facebook videos.

There is the problem then, and the solution? I for one don't make bloated sites nilly-willy, I suck at what I do but at least I do love to fiddle and tweak for the sake of it, not because anyone else might even notice; and I like that in websites and prefer to visit those, too. Clean, no-BS, no hype "actual websites". So I'd be rather annoyed if my browser brought some more stuff I don't need along just because the web is now a marketing machine and people need to deploy their oh so important landing pages with stock photos and stock text and stock product in 3 seconds. It was fine before that, and I think a web with hardly any money to be made in it would still work fine, it would still develop. The main difference is that it would be mostly developed by people who you'd have to pay to stay away, instead of the other way around. I genuinely feel we're cheating ourselves out of the information age we could have, that is, one with informed humans.
I think they are blaming the court for finding the statute you quoted is constitutional, when they believe it clearly should not be. Warrantless mass surveillance is bad enough for the special purpose of national security. It's obvious they would never be allowed to perform the same exact wiretaps directly for use in non-national security cases. So why is the obvious loophole a get-out-of-Constitution free card?

Information aquired under 702 may not be introduced.... Exactly, we call this parallel construction.

Those limits on retention you mention, which don't apply to evidence of a crime which has been, is being, or could possibly be committed (aka "about")... are those the same limits FISA just recently blasted NSA for not following and hiding from the court that they weren't following? [1]

They are not saying this is a new problem. This is a very old problem and also a very big problem. And for finding this constitutional, the only one to blame is the court.

[1] - http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/04/govern...
U.S. 2015 Internet Ad Revenues Hit $59.6B, Up 20% Over Record-Breaking 2014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
"Sixth Consecutive Year of Double-Digit Growth"

But ... Adblockers!

Direct link to the report [0] "2015 Internet Advertising Revenue Full-Year Report" [pdf]

[0] http://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IAB-Internet-A...
This is totally unsurprising to anyone that has seen in person the state of "enterprise" IT at a large organization in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.
Bitbucket adds “Ignore whitespace” button
Elisa tests aren't that difficult to make, assuming you've got access to a lab somewhere. Since it tests the body's immune response, you just need someone who recovered from ebola.
I use https://www.e-renter.com to screen potential tenants along with http://www.experian.com/connect/ for credit checks.
Semantics aside, if this story is to be believed the unknown hacker theif was even a bit put out by Bob. Especially if they guy robbed his employer after compromising & sabotaging key infrastructure and tech, then selling that to other people to exploit.

I mean, that's baseline treachery right there.

I like shapeshift and have used it a bit. If you(generic) hate them, alt currency, or the CEO, I think it is fair to say that Bob is pretty shitty. Yes there are sociopaths and criminals everywhere. If you have met a sociopath in real life, it isn't simply a myth that they are charming and appear normal. So I agree with the sentiment that you should expect bad things at your company, but you seem to imply:

1. it should have been obvious Bob was a criminal

2. Bob is blameless?
Only if they were forced to buy food at a grocery store because their farm communes ran out of food because no one wanted to work on it.
If they led / lived in a communist area, yes.
If China keeps giving western tech companies a hard time they might stop making their stuff in China. That would hurt the Chinese economy far more than they gain by local companies taking a little business from Apple and such.
TrueCrypt has been subjected to an independent security audit. As have successors like VeraCrypt. Any alternatives likely haven't.
Interesting data, thanks for sharing.

On top of that, while everyone uses jquery, everyone uses different version of it (say, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, ... hundreds of different versions in total probably).
Even drunken drivers have constitutional rights
While I think the parent underestimates the impact stated, I also think the point was that the experiment can be done at home by nearly anyone with the will, science fair or not, privilege or not.
4/20's Enormous Mess, by the Numbers
Not the parent commenter, but I feel it's because our society doesn't value knowledge or scholarship. Whenever I get depressed, I feel it's because I want to spend time learning and discovering but instead I'm forced to race against all the other rats just to have a decent standard of living (and I'm not talking about $50k cars). There's no time or energy left to, say, study differential equations or chemistry or anything that would actually benefit humanity. Instead, I must devote myself to activities that essentially have no value.
Year of the OpenBSD desktop
The French conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories
It's not alarming (to the average person) because in the human species, females are precious and males are disposable. You can see this theme running throughout a huge gamut of social situations and media.

When bad things happen to girls, this triggers a low-level concern response that isn't triggered when bad things happen to boys.

Boys are supposed to get back up, shake it off, and try harder. If they kill themselves, we feel a little bad, but the badness is the same level (give or take) as throwing away a plate of food before it was finished.

It has taken me a very long time to accept this as true (and am far from accepting it as right).
If you ever spend an extend amount of time on the East coast of America and then spent time living on the West coast you'd see there is a real cultural difference.

One of those associated with California (in recent times) is that they love adding countless small regulations and rules that businesses and citizens must follow (almost like Germany, but not as bad). Somewhat related to the smug/elitist leftist stereotype.
Stonewalled by NSA, Members of Congress Ask Really Basic Question Again
I doubt they purposely stalling the shipment. When they are waving orders at their DCs. Priority of standard shipping is last. Some companies charge to be in the first waves, like newegg and their expedited processing.
Just like in software development, a framework/methodology is not a replacement for competence. People apply idioms blindly without putting things into context.
If you use Laplace succession then 50/50 corresponds to an expected success rate of 51/52 = 98%. If you use the KT estimator you get a hair over 99%.
The problem is the same as "Downforeveryoneorjustme". Just because a site is loading slow once or twice doesn't necessarily mean that it's the site's fault, it could be any number of issues. But by crowdsourcing this data the truth is revealed.
"In most businesses if a man wears anything except a suit and tie it is a topic of serious consideration, and possibly a firing offense."

I don't know if that's as true as it used to be. Business casual has pretty much taken over most of corporate America by now. True, you might not be able to roll into work at a non-tech Fortune 500 company wearing a hoodie and jeans -- but you aren't expected to wear a suit, generally speaking, unless you're in the C-suite or in a high-profile, externally facing role (investor relations, BD/CD, etc.).

Suits are generally relegated to the professions these days: big law firms, banks, and what have you. I'm sure there's the occasional company (F500 or otherwise) that mandates suits for cultural or traditional reasons, but such a company is likelier to be the exception than the rule in 2016.
While I think both of these are great, it still doesn't explain calling it "social serfdom number".