skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her name is literally Isis, and she is a core developer of Tor. If those aren't enough buzzwords to get the FBI swarming around her house, I don't know what is. I don't blame her for being paranoid, but I don't understand why she refused to talk to them at all. From the post it seems like she was okay with a phone call, but they wanted to meet her in person. So perhaps she was scared of being detained. That makes sense I guess, but if they really wanted to detain her, it would have been easy to do at the airport.
I think maybe appropriately paranoid. If the FBI called me and wouldn't tell me what it was about, I'd be concerned too.
Kinda cool, but how is this any better than just gpg signing? Is it because you could fake a timestamp with gpg but not with this?
Came here to say the exactly the same thing. :D

I would replace the sentence with:

"If your team does not use git force them to use it and give a condescending laughter if they ask for any will with git rebase."
The same can be said about any developer who think they found a business because they found a technical problem which haven't been solved.

Some business opportunities are based on solving technical problems, not all technical problems are business opportunities.
He also proposed banning all Muslims from entering the US, and tagging and tracking all curent Muslim residents.
AI and the exponential curve
Yes, we should cite the brilliant engineer who came up with the idea of storing electricity in a battery instead of the CEO that enabled low enough production cost of said batteries to make it feasible... There are many things Musk shouldn't be credited with, but this is not one of those things.
It's the most helpful advice in the article.
"The work may also have wider implications. The fields of statistics and, in particular, machine learning, may have something to learn from this inner statistician. "Humans are still better than computers at solving really difficult problems," says Kepecs."

Intuitive as Statistics is simply one of the many tools we humans use to tackle difficult problems, but definitely not the only one.
> I scanned over 500,000 words I wrote and I never mentioned the word mentioned on the headline of this article.

Funny how you're trying to avoid breaking your streak of not mentioning nazis.
Twitter gives Firefox its "simple" app for feature phones. Go to it in your desktop browser to see the diff.
>If this is really how the game is played. I quit.

It's not a game.
> I don't blame her for being paranoid, but I don't understand why she refused to talk to them at all.

One possible explanation: because "Don't Talk to the Police".
"it won't last long without subsidies from the government"

This is a fantastic example of how government subsidies can help. Had there been no subsidies, the demand for solar power would have been smaller, the industry would not have been compelled to compete that much on improving solar power, and this Harvard researcher's prediction (solar not cheap enough in the near future) might have turned true.

He said these subsidies make no sense because solar is far from being competitive, yet they are the very reason solar became competitive.
The post is tagged satire.
Adverse selection is a huge problem in insurance. And disability fraud is especially bad (like billions of dollars in CA every year).

As a result, insurance companies don't want to play in that space, since their average margin is only like 6% anyway. States backstop the insurance companies, to make sure they continue to offer the product.
Starfighter update
True, but the number of people who are good at both is very small :)
Until you do concentrated solar thermal using molten salts to store heat to drive a generator. See this announcement of one of the world's largest solar plants:

http://electrek.co/2016/05/03/worlds-largest-coal-supplier-b...
Yeah, but you didn't ask to "get ahead." Just:

> Show me a savings account in a developed country earning above inflation interest.

Anyway, 0.1% above inflation still beats 0% cash-under-mattress (in inflationary environments).
If she wants to find out what they want, then she's going to have to talk to them. Of course, she can terminate the conversation by invoking her miranda rights at any time.
After the refined-twitter post[1], I'm really starting to think I should change my user agent string. The Times mobile site is also dramatically better than their desktop site..

hmm....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631157
wharfee – Docker Command Shell
Yep, a little joke.
Lewis knew nothing of the power of global systems and automation, highly efficient at maintaining exploitation.
Marketplaces classically suffer from the chicken and egg problem. No point in distributing via marketplace if no one is buying there, no point in trying to buy there if no one is distributing (this is true even if "buying" is free).

For open-source stuff, npm is pretty much the One True Way to distribute JS libraries these days. If I'm looking for a component, I'll expect to find it by google and install it from npm.

(As far as Structor itself, I'm not at all clear on what it's supposed to do for me. The article is very long and covers too much ground. I don't see myself as likely to use a UI builder in any case, though. My current React work is all with bespoke UI controls, look of which is given to me by a designer.)
Why is this at the top? Why would you ever need or want to suppress scientific evidence, to suppress the truth, unless you had an agenda? This comment feels like astroturfing.
> Every generation thinks the old days were better as they age.

The old days were better. We were naive, we cared, this was Going To Be Big. I dropped out of HS the same year to start web dev as well. I never felt gross or used or like anything was fake. It was exciting, maybe irrationally exuberant but it was real. I don't recognize the valley now. It's just a slot machine with young peoples dreams painted on the side.
Sorry, started thinking like I was writing a paper. Not a Tesla Motors employee. Used "our filter" to separate it from "the TSA's filter".

For the actual question: you probably leave the filter in place until it's clogged, at which point you replace it as normal except you're wearing a hazard suit. Those filters basically don't let anything go. However, note that the filter will be exactly as contaminated as anything else on the outside of the car is; a persistent weapon will have covered every surface in the attacked area with hazardous numbers of spores or similar, not just the filters. If it's not a persistent weapon - that is, it's designed to kill or incap everybody and then dissipate so your soldiers can walk in two days later and take over - then you just wait those two days.
As much as somebody might read the above and say, "Oh wow, it can't possibly be that bad! This sounds like an axe to grind!" - hold that thought.

There's a lot of truth to what's been listed above, and the message that your #1 priority should be to micro-manage your care is actually good advice for above-average intelligent people. I can't stress this enough.

As with the parent comment, I shy away from sharing too much personal information about my own health battles. They are from birth, ongoing, and likely to stick around until I die. Want to hear something that would shock you?

My parents were advocates for my care and our insurance would pay for an innovative, proven type of new corrective surgery. The "Team" of a Head Doc and a couple others on his staff said over and over that my parents were being too pushy and that they would be the ones to decide when I would be a candidate for that surgery. My parents questioned their integrity, because it was obvious that I was a candidate.

The Head Doc got very arrogant. My parents got legal. What did they find? In the Head Doc's own notes, and agreed upon by his team in private, that I was an excellent candidate for the type of surgery being mentioned. They were lying to us, and for what?

We got a different Specialist after that. I'll never forget that lesson though, and later, having seen that Head Doc at an industry event later in life - he noticed I was doing well - to which I replied that indeed I was and no thanks to him either. Glad that asshole has retired.
What's wrong with that? The FBI is totally free to walk up to anyone and ask them questions. And yes, they're quite good at finding people since that's a big part of their job.
Just one data point: I never heard of it or honestly thought to look for such a thing. Might just be a marketing issue?

BTW, I _have_ heard of React Storybook (https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook) and happened to find OverReact (http://www.overreact.io/) which look similar at first glance. Can you give us a quick comparison?

Thanks for creating/introducing me to Structor... I'll look at it for new components. :)
But it is a little disheartening (yet also exciting) to think that when an AI is eventually developed with a human's intuition, creativity, and learning ability, we'll essentially have no advantages over them.
I guess you and I don't agree on the definition of freeloading. If these people are coming in and driving up the price of housing with their six-figure incomes, then I can understand your argument (and do a degree empathize with your sentiment). But to call those same people freeloaders is either mendacious on your part or ignorance on mine.

Freeloading is taking advantage of goodwill without returning the favor. I don't see how driving up the market price of housing is freeloading.
Chloë Grace Moretz Continues to Defend Her Kim Kardashian Comments
> but I don't understand why she refused to talk to them at all

Talking to law enforcement is the job of your lawyer. If law enforcement refuses to talk to your lawyer, is it really that far-fetched to think they may want to do other things outside the bounds of the usual legal process?
> Maybe just show up to meet them, with an attorney (of course!) and if they start asking anything serious the attorney tells you to shut up and you leave.

Cooperation is for people who did something and want to create a reason for the government to go easy. The proper course of action here is to politely state that they can deliver a subpoena to your lawyer.

> It sounds to me like the agents were doing their jobs in their normal, properly secretive if a bit ham-fisted way, and this person totally freaked out.

Telling someone's lawyer that you'll interview their client without them by picking her up on the street is more than "ham-fisted."
The first two sentences should have been a dead giveaway.
Doesn't that @ symbol at the top take you to your mentions?
It doesn't mention what #2 and #1 are, but based on the amount of attention gun control gets, I'm assuming guns are either the #1 or #2 killers.
Yes--the Earth's climate does not have an objectively "correct setting" that the universe prefers.

However, we prefer the settings we have now. We like our cities where they are, we like the sea level where it is, we like polar bears and the Great Barrier Reef the way they are.

Selfish? Yes! But it is relevant because we are the ones who are changing the climate right now! So we are entitled to have an opinion about the changes we are causing.
Joins are coming, although they will take some time.
asyncio already allows that.

uvloop, as of now, only runs on *nix; but I hope we'll have Windows supported soon too.
I've always chosen GraphicsMagick over ImageMagick because it has far fewer dependencies on other packages and it provides the features I want.
Opinion:I'm calling it: Social networking is over
I was under the impression that ad fraud was more seen as how those sites put 6 iframe windows of ads one on top of another so while they were all loaded and "seen" by visiter, only one of them was visible. The main thrust of ad fraud was "this ad cannot possibly be seen by a consumer". As with all things, some may pervert the definition for gain but on the whole: you'd call it fraud if you paid for a billboard and the company put up your ad but then plastered somebody else's ad on top of it.
And water is wet. Er, almost certainly.
If the FBI comes knocking on your door, you have already been tagged, and likely thoroughly investigated for something bad. Or more simply put: There is no good reason for the FBI to pay you a visit. She has every right to be "paranoid."
It's interesting how the reification of statistical reasoning, that is, understanding statistics symbolically and applying it to abstract symbols is far more fraught than the implicit statistical reasoning that this article describes.
I am not a doctor, but I do have several practical defenses (I don't want to go through political ones).

There are many business processes in the healthcare field, and the impact and ease of imposing checklists will be naturally very different for each:

* Diagnosis and treatment protocols / pathways - these span long periods of time (days to months), any checklist will probably be quite complex and redundant to the already existing longitudinal case notes.

* Procedures (like surgeries) - some parts like preparation can be subject to checklist. But the procedure itself may need >= 2 clean hands and good concentration, thus glancing over checklists multiple times during procedure, or worse attempting to tick off stuff might cause more harm than good. (don't tell me to add one more guy there - we need him to save another patient, and google glass is dead for now)

* Processes related to ordering, dispensing, and administering medicines: there are probably tens/hundreds of thousands of these processes happening in a hospital at any given day. If a checklist introduces speed penalty it will be rather burdensome for the facility (and patients too). Furthermore, an equivalent of a checklist (e.g. refusing to proceed unless certain required fields are filled) has usually been codified in the hospital systems being used. Also, I feel that adding a checklist for something that you do hundreds of times a day, will not achieve anything, because the muscle memory will take over - you will just do things as per usual and sign off "all done" on the checklist, because you always do them all the time whether you remember or not, right?
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Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business
What a great point. Raver kids have quick and easy litmus tests they can use to make sure the illegal drugs they're taking are the ones they expect to be taking. If it turns blue, you take it. If it doesn't, you don't.

It seems the procedure for injecting medicine into your spine should have at least as much fail-safety built in.
There's a concept called "being the master of your own destiny". It requires that one views themselves through a lens of a business owner even while having a W2 job. Someone that believes a CEO when the latter says "I will take care of you" has not developed that ability. It's like believing a customer that walks into your shop and says "I will bring the money tomorrow."
" Should I be worried about what happens to me when I return? Why is the FBI trying to make a developer of an open source encryption tool feel unwelcome in their country of origin? Should I try to get a different citizenship? Is my family safe in the US? Should I worry about the FBI raiding my parents’ house and shooting our family dog? Should I worry about FBI agents stalking and harrassing my mother?"

So, exactly like Soviet Union then? I guess you can't learn anything from history if you haven't actually lived through it.
I just came back from an IBM user group meeting in Germany. Aside from presentations, customer experience session centered around ways to fix an installer and get rid of java in GUI. This mostly covered infrastructure monitoring (now part of middleware) products. Just saying...
Is this from Charles Duhig's or Gerd Gigerenzer's book? I remember reading somewhere this exact thing.
A long time ago I was working on a mobile application that used OpenStreetMap data for navigation. I was always really scared that something like what was mentioned in the article would happen. Its a difficult problem to solve because you need so much robust information, and that information can rapidly change as well due to construction or weather (roads can be seasonal etc).

I can only imagine this problem getting worse with self-driving smart cars where the driver probably won't paying any attention to the road. Imagine taking a nap and waking up stranded somewhere with no mobile signal.
We never provide negative info to companies. If you fail our interview, you are free to apply to whatever companies you want on your own.

The practical advantage of going through Triplebyte is that you'll pass more interviews. We match you with companies where you will pass at a higher rate. Because you only have time to interview at a fixed number of companies, this will give you more options, a higher salary (from more competition), and a better fit. We also help candidates negotiate (A big help if you're afraid to do this), and help people with bad resumes (say self-taught programmers) get in the door at top companies. Traditional recruiters do just the opposite (they filter heavily on resumes)
What's fascinating is some of the research around combined solar & battery designs which to merge the two functions on a materials level.
I've never known your work until just recently Pieter, but your writing is elegant and powerful. I will remember it when it's my turn to follow you.

I can imagine no worse fate than contracting alzheimer's disease, and its a prospect that frightens me all the more knowing that in the US, it would be very difficult to avoid suffering through it to the bitter end. In the US, you have little control over your death.

Your eloquent advocacy for planned death is much needed. Thank you for your work.
I feel like I used this years ago...

Oh, I did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809929
Just pointing out it was an estimate and the end cost might be very much higher.
Oh, it does! That's an odd place to put it. Thanks!
If they consistently decline to ask those questions to your lawyer, and drop the matter within hours of a foreign country giving you a long term resident worker visa, you're right to be concerned.
Right, the GPG timestamp is trivial to fake. There is also RFC 3151 timestamp protocol, but it uses a trusted third party rather than distributed trust.
I tried it on different research papers. Good quality of concepts extraction, but works with English texts only. Summarizing photos - cool option, really impressed
Well, that's another nail in the coffin for all nonprobabilistic views of cognition.
> Sigh. Always someone willing to be the mouthpiece of evil.

Whoa. That's a personal attack and you can't do it here.

Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all. Calling someone a "mouthpiece of evil" is obviously uncivil no matter how wrong they are, and the rest of the comment calls names ("Your narrative is laughable") and adds little of substance.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11629209 and marked it off-topic.
I think you mean the Jordanians vs Palestinians, propping up a remote group to fight a proxy war against an invented enemy to avoid taking damage at home.
Desktop Firefox looks the same. Chrome is different though. Wonder why they do that?
> There is no good reason for the FBI to pay you a visit.

Conducting a background investigation on someone else applying for a security clearance is arguably a "good" (or at least, not-bad) reason for the FBI to pay you a visit. (Also, criminal investigations in which you are not a target may also be not-bad, depending on the exact circumstances.)
Any plans for a Safari plugin?
Are there any lightweight CSS frameworks with cards?
You should never talk to the police. Ever. They are never on your side.

I don't think she's being overly paranoid in the slightest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
How about being a little less hysterical?

Perhaps the comment could have been worded a little more diplomatically ('cuz we're all sensitive, special flowers here), but I'd say the criticism is spot-on. If one thinks that "oooh, my apps get updated, who cares about OS updates?" (yeah, I know what you actually typed), a little correction is deservedly coming your way. The explanation for your "comparison" still doesn't tell me that you have a good grasp on the point 0xFFC was trying to make.
There actually are several time stamping services based on RFC 3161 - many CAs offer this service, and Microsoft uses it as part of driver signing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
A big obvious candidate is organics. It is not clear what kinds of short term gains are possible, nor what kinds of designs it would allow. But it looks very likely that the theoretical optimum substrate will turn out to be some kind of organic compost.

If not them, there are all kinds of III-V crystals. They come with their own share of problems, but they might be good for something beyond LEDs.

I think the greatest help from any non-silicon design will be from better heat dissipation and lower leakage. Those still have a lot of room to improve.
Stop ruining our fun! Seriously though, there seems to be some portion of the programming community that like to shit on people for enjoying exercise and caring about how they look. Doesn't bother me a whole lot. I know I'll always get opportunities to beat those people in an interview if I am just better dressed and more sociable.
I'll have to dig up the source but anything you say to a federal officer(even if you believed it to be true at the time) that is false is a Felony.

Small stuff that doesn't seem important can fall under this and then they have leverage against you.
Sure, but publishing an opinion piece blasting the FBI for things they did in your imagination is ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with what the FBI actually did.
It may have been that it just took 7 years to actually get a new course in place, but it wasn't until fall 2007 that MIT officially got rid of 6.001 as required course, well after the dot com crash.

There were a TON of changes that happened with the MIT EECS curriculum at that time, so perhaps it was a holistic response to the dot com crash that was beyond just 6.001.
I can't up vote this comment enough. Law enforcement are not your friends and they are not on your side. My very close friend's dad has been a cop for 35 years and he has told us this over the years. Want another opinion?

See this from a cop and a law professor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I think that old mail-it-to-yourself trick was a myth, so probably not.
soo, the same thing as google docs but you have to pay for it..
Are you hiring interns for Summer 2016?
"Veertu" is a VMware/Parallels competitor that uses this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veertu-native-virtualization...

But as far as I know it doesn't support attaching to USB devices so I'm still stuck with VirtualBox.

Edit: There's also xhyve: https://github.com/mist64/xhyve which is a port of FreeBSD's bhyve.