skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Written text does not convey sarcasm and irony well. Observing the up and downvotes I get whenever I mention Trump - his support here is robust. Whether people like him, or there are people that are more annoyed from Trump's bashers than from Trump himself - I don't know.
From 0x90 to 0x4c454554, a journey into exploitation
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It's too dangerous to organise such a thing in this day and age of mass surveillance. When police are kicking in doors on the wrong people, flash banging baby, and otherwise shooting them dead with no accountability.

Simple virus possession, dissemination, and research is illegal, commercial companies get a pass because they're "good" and the government decides not to prosecute but technically they're breaking the law.

How well are some (now) adults with families and jobs going to fare attracting attention by sharing with the public in a hackerish way the government and other agencies don't want?

It's not worth it.
I think I mostly agree but it's hard to tell because I'm not sure what you meant by turning what seem like statements into questions.

I don't think it's necessary tho to allow free camping in government run (and government owned) parks necessarily. Maybe it would be sufficient to just allow, or not prohibit, someone from renting spots on their property for otherwise homeless people to pitch tents.

It'd also be amazing if someone could figure out how to do an end run around all the laws and regulations that make housing so expensive and time-consuming to build. Where's the 'Uber for housing'? Very likely there is none; housing is too easy to 'attack' as it's most useful when its stationary.

Or maybe that's it – maybe someone could offer 'Japanese coffin-style hotel rooms' in a bus that just slowly drives around a city.
What is exactly the penalty for missing ship date targets? Slight cost increases? Lower profit margins? Do they have difficulty with cash?
I'm not opposed to that, but you also need to fix broken systems, otherwise the problem will recur.
Why does one need a gender identity?
Lyft has been doing quite a lot right relative to Uber recently.

Due to my employer, I had been a frequent user of Uber's platform. A few weeks ago, I decided to give the Lyft app a try again after a longish hiatus. I found the app comparatively uncluttered and performant. Whereas Uber's app has six billion options along the slider bar, Lyft doesn't bombard users with mostly unused choice.

Coincidentally, I had a friend visiting who tried Uber's app for the first time right as Uber had rolled out some pretty massive changes to the UI and service. When his app defaulted to an interstitial prompt for carpooling, I thought he'd hit UberPool by accident, and had him back out to try again. When it happened again, I assumed something was janked with the app, and had him kill the app and restart it.

Lyft's focussed approach to on-demand mobility may be an in-road against the "do everything" approach of Uber. The subsidies they are offering means I have no cost incentive to use Uber for the moment--instead I roll a large portion of the $5/trip savings into tipping. This bumps the price back up to unsubsidised Uber levels, but I feel like I've gotten a bargain, and I know those dollars are going to the driver. In that sense Lyft is getting double duty from their subsidies. Clever, considering the goal is to build both the supply and demand sides of their marketplace.

Now the tipping feature in the app all of a sudden feels less of a liability and more of an asset. All told, Lyft's been handed some lucky cards and has been playing them well.
I'm the same way. After watching a friend deal with an opioid addiction I feel lucky to have that problem.
Nvidia 's GTX 1080 GPU is faster than Titan X, lands May 27
Yeah, I'm torn on it. It's clearly not the right information. But one of the benefits of an automated approach is that everyone's being treated equally, and people can't complain about unfair treatment.

In the case of the Senate, their current configuration prevents them from using HSTS or enforcing HTTPS, so the other columns will still show as lacking.
NASA launches searchable database of public domain patents
Those statements are all still largely true, they haven't been "cycled through." There are a lot of good things happening in the world of electric cars, but right now, for most people, they're too expensive and they require sacrifices in utility and convenience that aren't seen in ICE vehicles.
Regardless, these factors are in a 1-to-1 relationship for around 99% of schoolchildren in the third grade "aged 9 years old on average" including, presumably, every single child studied in this study. Discussion of the specific differences, or of the other cases, might have substantial merit... but seem less than productive on this particular occasion as the topic is at best only tangentially related.
Another way to look at it was in working with Purdue, he was able to demonstrate his ability to define and walk around FDA approvals by understanding and guiding product language to get approval.

This is a valuable skill. Purdue probably wanted someone like that on their product development team who could influence drug design early on which would make it less costly and more efficient to get drugs approved in the future.

It's all business. Every actor wants more money and power, and are willing to play to their strengths to get there. No malice, obvious corruption, or bribery would even need to take place. Just smart motivated people trying to make a ton of money .... (without caring about the consequences).
Companies are betting on a new way to protect your identity: the selfie
> Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity

That's only a very recent distinction, and still a contentious one. According to Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender) and the OED (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/gend...), it's far from clear.
HoloFlex is a flexible, holographic smartphone
It's a competition to gaining knowledge.
One of the things that permeates the API is a complete lack of separation of data structures and IO.

For instance, NSData, NSDictionary and NSArray all have methods for loading and storing their contents from/to a location specified as a URL.

NSURL deals with all sorts of stuff like bookmarks, cached resources and file system properties.
8 Accountability Steps Lead to a Great Entrepreneur
It'd be nice if they stopped breaking the language at some point. I don't want to rewrite my program every year. I would have called that future stable version 1.0 (like, say, Go and Rust did).
You must be inhaling ICE exhaust.A new Tesla Model S is $76.5k

https://www.teslamotors.com/models/design
They've got the money to pursue and settle potential court cases throughout the country. It doesn't surprise me that they have the money to hire people to troll the internet and shill for the company.
"Shipping is a feature." Imagine someone rear-ends your current gas-guzzler and the insurance company totals it. Now try and buy one of the damn things. Over the air suspension upgrades are great. So is being able to walk onto a lot and drive a car home.

EDIT: "Pretty sure you can have one delivered like, next day."
Love the HN optimism. As if my comment didn't imply that I just got fuckin' rear ended and tried to buy one of the damn things. Website says June on the S. I was told July. X is several months out (no firm date).

You know what really sucks about talking to a salesman on the lot? Being told, "ain't got any and you can't have one."

EDIT 2: CPO? If I'm going to pay $130,000 for a used car it better come with C3PO. The pre-owned market is warped because you can't buy a new one. It's all part of being unable to meet demand. My argument stands.
On a scale of economic harms done by intervention in East Africa, I don't think the worst conceivable side effects of this (localised inflation and a bit of resentment from surrounding communities, basically) really compare with the harmful side effects of the everyday trade that East African countries need to participate in to grow economically, and Kenya's economy is very far from an economy untouched by NGO projects as is. On the other hand, the scheme gives a whole bunch of mostly very poor people get to eat a bit better or buy a motorbike without repaying it - probably to an aid-backed MFI - at 60% APR

(and I say that even as someone who's largely unconvinced of a case for UBI in the West, wholly unconvinced this experiment will tell us anything at all about the likely effects of UBI in the West and - from the RCT papers I've read - think the benefits of cash transfers in developing countries are overstated by their most enthusiastic advocates.)
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Sounds like a newer version of eugenics with a bit of social darwinism in it.

Actually I come from a family of people who either hide during the war (jewish/polish origins), or suffered from it. Maybe you'd also label it as "didn't have to struggle too much at life".

Eitherway, I don't think society was built to reflect the state of nature and competition. If you think struggle is good, I think you have some skewed belief of "life" in general. I don't have such belief.

Also comparing people and rabbits is really ridiculous. Even behavior psychologist and sociologists don't go that far.
The pressure that U.S. inequality exerts on parents
Oh, come on. I have seen enough of consultants and witnessed a SAP takeover of a small retailer.

This looks like as if a whole bunch of hotshots in $3k suits take you to a head office in, say, Germany, with a five star hotel, top tier restaurants and business class flights, while telling you that you are too successful and too rich to drive your own car, that only struggling, unsuccessful losers do it, etc.

Eventually, one finds oneself with a few guys in expesive suits who are sitting in the car right on your lap, totally obstructing the view, but telling you when to accelerate, stop or turn, claiming that this is a much safer and the most effective way to drive a car, so they bill you for each kilometer and each turn taken.

They, moreover, have replaced your car with their own ancient vehicle, to which there is not a single mechanic in a 1000 miles and the only spare parts available from their own garage, with the replacing procedure which requires to remove everything from the salon and from under the hood and then to reassemble it all back, which takes a few days and for which you are billed for each hour of each of twenty certified technicians, half of them flown from the head office at your expense.

And, please, don't tell me that consulting companies are different.

Btw, really smart top grads would never even come close to these scam shops, like sane people would avoid Ponzi schemes or a telemarketing crap with a hidden charges. Being fooled by meaningless titles and certificates instead of working with a cutting edge technologies and obtaining skills which could be sold later.. I can't imagine top grads being so clueless.
When investigating the intersection of unconscious attitudes (often shaped by culture) and performance, gender is more relevant than sex. It's not whether you have this equipment or that but what groups you are perceived to belong to and what groups you see yourself as belonging to. In some cultures there are third genders with different cultural expectations: the Hijra in India, Kathoey in Thailand, some other groups in Indonesia. One would expect different stereotypes about their math, science, and reading talents, so it would probably be quite interesting to study stereotype threat there. That's not the case in this French study (probably) but there's no need to collapse the terminology artificially.

That's the crazy thing about stereotype threat and related psychological phenomena: you can manipulate the same people to perform better or worse simply by manipulating their perception of the situation. Thus the effect really can't be about biological sex. Check out reducingstereotypethreat.org for a comprehensive rundown of studies.
Publishing a fleshed out version of the story after doing the brief "BREAKING NEWS" one (like the NYT usually does, for example) is very different from backfilling the original brief entry, which is what commenter is accusing Bloomberg of doing.
It's kind of scary how quickly doctors seem to prescribe it. I've had a doctor prescribe me some for everything from the flu to a mild ankle sprain.

That being said, I always used to wonder if it was because I can't take any NSAIDs- it's acetaminophen or nothing for me. This usually means where they could get away with a big dose of Ibuprofin for pain and anti-inflammatory I wind up with oxycodone and prednisone. Which means I usually just gut it out after the first day or two.
Most of those things are still true. A duded-up Honda Accord is a better value than an Everyman Tesla in every category.
Yes, currently. But in the link, it states that "For Linux, Swift 3 will also be the first release to contain the Swift Core Libraries." And GCD (or libdispatch) is part of the Swift Core Libraries :)
> Does anyone else find it a bit ironic that the same guy who wants to pay people to drop out of college is also the guy who only wants to hire from the "Top schools."

From what I understand, Thiel is not super-involved in the day-to-day running of Palantir.
Funny. I always thought the /bin vs /sbin split made more sense than / vs /usr. I very much prefer that my shell's autocomplete does not stop on binaries that I have no business running as a normal user, so I like that root-only tools are in /sbin.
We've begun to use Elixir and Phoenix at work, and it's far nicer to work with than Rails - there's far less magic going on, and being functional, there is much less mutable state to keep in your head. That said, I still miss a rich type system. Typespecs can get you some of the way, but they're unreliable, and there's no support for parametrically polymorphic functions so far as I can see, which limits the usefulness of protocols for typechecking purposes.
I wish I'd know how to do that. My brain refuses to cooperate with any attempts to purposefully "frame" something, immediately recognizing it as fake.

About the only time I was able to "convince myself" something is a game was when I was going through such a hard time that I was automatically turning everything into silly games as a coping mechanism. For better or worse, I'm unable to do that anymore.
Implemented proposals for Swift 3
I don't put too much trust into Elon time, but I do believe that if it is at all possible to achieve, Elon is going to will it into existence.
As if future income is the only "return on investment" in an education... smh
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GPLv3 mandates that your hardware be insecure

Oh please. It really doesn't, it merely mandates that the user is able to override a manufacturer's lockdown. Not that any nitwit should be able to override a user's lockdown.
Is applying in a country where you're eligible to work an option?
al-qaeda uses encryption post-Snowden and so does the rest of the world.
I opened an email account at protonmail.ch, Google is now ecrypting traffic between data centers, and many website use now HTTPS instead of HTTP.

So we can conclude that Snowden made the whole world aware of the fact that it is better to encrypt our messages.
Are you saying that he'll get to Mars, but not on time? I'm positive he'll do it alright. Whether its 2018, 2019, or 2020, hardly diminishes the feat.
I think one of the reasons is the need for autonomy. I was one of the people who more often than not cheered when we had a day off college - because education interfered with my time to learn on my own. Often, I was learning the same (or related) stuff, but without the soul-draining and distracting experience of grading and deadlines.
Why do you think this particular wildfire is due to climate change?
Kel: An Open-Source, Kubernetes-Based PaaS Built in Python and Go
$75,000 is still about 2 times the cost of a brand new traditional luxury car. It's about 3 to 4 times the cost of a brand new lower-end or mid-range car. It's 10 to 20 times the cost of a used car. Maybe $75,000 isn't as unaffordable as $120,000, but it's not exactly cheap for most car consumers.
Humans play an important role in the continuous improvement process.
All of the major browsers will support WebAssembly soon:
http://v8project.blogspot.fi/2016/03/experimental-support-fo...

This playground uses Binaryen(https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen) to interpret the WebAssembly code on the fly, so it works in current browsers that do not yet have native support.
Reminds me of Louis CK rant "..cause now we live in, in an amazing, amazing world and it's wasted on the, on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots...". The dude disrupted 3 major industries and all we can do is complain
that he is not hitting ship dates or volume targets let's just stone him for this horrible transgression.
So, you mean using it like a GPIO? It's there. All it requires is loading a GPIO firmware.
It's the ability to do board-sanctioned sales of stock to buyers. It's basically an equity follow-on sale to previous investors (or new investors if there's a round concurrently underway).

This is significant because private companies typically have clauses in their option agreements that you can only sell shares pre-IPO if the board approves. So, a company like Palantir structures things so that, before an IPO, you can only make money off your options if you're still working at the company. Oh yeah, and if you leave and want to exercise your options so they don't expire (so that you can have a nest egg that vests when they IPO), be prepared to pay AMT on the difference between the strike price and the current value.

They call it "golden handcuffs" for a reason.
This is an awesome build. It has everything I was thinking of building, dual xeon, huge ram, a nice gpu. I may use this as a model for my first desktop in years. I will probably add a couple of spinning disks so I can easily move between linux server and a windows (oculus) desktop.

Usually pcpartpicker builds have comments, did you not submit your build for review? (I don't actually know how the site works).
Your response seems unnecessarirly harsh. Please be more civil (HN strives for civility) and understand that HN has a global audience with differing laws (the parent could use this same perspective that HN is global).
The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies
Sure, but you can't equally review your employers, so whatever they say will sound more authoritative than it should.

With this system, "not so good review" means "bad employee" and "good review" means "good employee".

If it was possible to equally comment on the employer, a "not so good review" from an unreliable employer would be less important than a "not so good review" from a reliable employer.
Yes, that's correct. My cohort had a former music teacher go straight to a front-end role at Apple. We also have graduates working at Salesforce, Coursera, a16z, and others - to my knowledge none of these people had prior tech experience.

My running theory is that companies know what they're getting into with a bootcamp grad, and what is important to them is that the candidate is a quick learner, hard working, and motivated. Someone unproven like a college dropout, or someone who has worked retail for the past few years will have a much harder time proving that.
Pretty sure you can have one delivered like, next day. And not have to deal with the salesman on the lot.
"Functional" tends to have a more narrow meaning when discussing software requirements and specifications. The meaning is usually restricted to business logic requirements and non-functional requirements are issues relating to implementation such as performance, extendability, and ease of maintenance.
Asking the students wouldn't help -- very few of us are aware of our unconscious beliefs, especially since they are often in conflict with our conscious beliefs. Asking the students might be an interesting side project on awareness among 9-year-olds, but it won't shed any light on stereotype threat, which encompasses confidence anyway (that's one of the mechanisms).

After all, if you can get Asian women in the US to score significantly better and then significantly worse on a math test by first reminding them "Asians are good at math" and then "girls are bad at math", do you think they're going to be able to report on that "rationale"? And if they're aware of it, won't they subvert the whole experiment by using other sophisticated techniques like

(1) externalizing difficulty ("that researcher is just a jerk who doesn't know anything!"),

(2) reminding themselves of their complex self-identities and membership in several groups ("I'm a complex person; gender stereotypes are societal constructs; and remember, I'm Asian and I'm good at math -- let's use this stereotype for personal good!"), and

(3) using previous teachers' communication of high standards and assurance of capability, along with some role models,

to blow that test out of the water and confound all the study results?

(All of the above are techniques to combat stereotype threat that have been studied and found somewhat to very effective.)
Individuals don't build highway systems, rail networks, school systems, transparent and fair courts or the myriad of other things which make countries wealthy.

Africa doesn't need the American cult of the individual to develop. It needs (among other things) America to stop covertly supporting the illegal and corrupt transfers of wealth to tax havens.
To me the big flaw is that FDA approval and the associated studies were enough to drive the prescriptions. It would be pretty easy for the healthcare system to systematically run their own comparative studies on new drugs (during the course of normal care). There's some ethical mumbo jumbo around best possible care to look at, but I think being cautious about unfamiliar products is probably a nice offset to those concerns.

I find myself thinking back to this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627213

Where I quoted Peter Pronovost (the checklist guy) saying:

The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is ensuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine.

This is literally a case of boxes 1 and 2 being checked, with little attention to box 3.
HSBC got slapped hard Wachovia laundered >100 billion and got slapped with 160 mil. fine