skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. is not applicable even in mid-term, unless you want to break the internet

2. is breaking the internet

I'm not sure I'm ready to accept the collateral damage of your solutions.

How about looking at "C" (or any other language with direct memory access) as the culprit? (EDIT: Assuming it's a C-issue after all and not just some dumb input validation problem.)
Whereas a friend borrowing his friends car and phone for uber would be an improvement?
Almost every "language ecosystem" has a runtime which itself—at least on ⋆nix—relies on libc. This is why every modern language exposes e.g. a FILE type with the same semantics; they're all just wrapping the libc FILE struct + API.

What I'm imagining is a world where "libc", from way-back-when in the 1970s, exposed declarations for some more interesting ADT types + APIs than just register-sized scalars and ASCIZ strings. Not types that require heap allocation or anything, mind you; just some fancier on-stack value types.

Imagine the C runtime being just "batteries-included" enough that if you were writing, say, a JSON parser in C, there would be obvious "native C types" to decode each of JSON's container types into.

And now imagine a world where every modern "language ecosystem" had been built up on top of this libc, instead of the one we have. A libc one can rely on to represent almost all the basic types one needs in a well-known (or at least, consistent per machine) manner in memory.

Imagine how easy message-passing IPC would become in such a world.
> I would want to know if the new system is going to make everyone's lives easier.

If it's a large system designed by a person on their own in a corner, without interaction, without feedback on features and usability? ... it's unlikely to and I would be rightly wary.

I have however seen existing systems that have pain points that everyone complains about but no-body has the time for fixing, until someone finally takes a few days out to experiment with something different, and sometimes the results are excellent. But IMHO that's not exactly a "rewrite".
I don't have specific advice but if you are considering incorporating as in germany, I am happy to talk with you about our experience. We recently incorporated as a UG (cloudron.io). Feel free to send me an email!
Americans Are Too Compassionate for a Universal Basic Income
Well, if the key has been destroyed, to a first approximation there is no Satoshi in my book. Identity has a specific meaning here, control of the private key. If he had that, but lost it, he will only gain mere celebrity at best and at worst infamy with these histrionics.
Have you heard of datomic?
http://nowere.net/b/res/127615.html#i129473
This russian forum may contain some clues.
Don't worry, soon humans will have destroyed all habitats. We're working really hard, but we can't get to it all at once.
You know what a lot of people do to confirm the user actually uploaded a jpg, png, or gif?

Use ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php
Extraordinary Satoshi Claims – HackingDistributed
That's the fun of natural selection, sometimes you get selected, sometimes you don't.
Regarding Google's natural language abilities, I think that if they don't develop a decent chat bot soon, much more natural and conversational than Google Now, they will lose to Facebook.

On the other part if they deliver, they will have a new medium that is amenable to advertising and is fit for mobile use, unlike the text search box. That means they have to be able to answer in human language to any query and remember the whole conversation context.

Right now I am trying hard to learn how to command Google Now to do useful things. It's hard and I discover new tricks every day. I think it is extremely limited at the moment, and poorly integrated in the system. I want to control the apps, to add my own words/phrases/scripts/external apis to it, I want it to fake a believable casual conversation and to have a little more personality.

At some point in the future audio recognition will be good enough (if it isn't already) and understanding of meaning will have become useful enough to make it easier than any other way of interfacing to a computer when giving various commands or searching. Then everyone will adopt it en masse.
Pdml2flow: Aggregates wireshark pdml to flows
> That guy who decides to rewrite an entire system in his off-hours in a new language without telling anyone else?

I had a boss who came back from vacation that was so threatened by the automated testing harness myself and another coworker created, that she rewrote the entire system herself.

It was very demoralizing.
Depending where you live 'enough to live on' will vary. I lived on about $700 / month pretty happily for 4 years in college. Doesn't need to be a desirable long term amount but it does need to solve the problem of the unemployment trade off, namely that if you're getting unemployment and you get a job you lose it. A BI needs to simply ensure that you have a base level and if you get some work, you make more money...period.
Oh, I thought there was a magical way to call from C++ into Rust using only a C++ header w/o no_mangle/extern.
- Style it up a bit using twitter bootstrap.

Or just spend an hour or so figuring out how basic styling form styling works. If you pull in a framework for every itch you have to scratch (even as "lightweight" and standardized as Bootstrap), without taking the considerably greater time to actually understand the framework actually works -- you'll likely regret it some day.

Usability-wise, the biggest issues I see are:

- even after we select for English, we still get captions in German.

- in the hover help boxes (that appear over the green "Leistung" bars), all the performance metric (?)names are camelcased; presumably because they are fresh out of some database. These should also be proper names, the way they normally appear out in the wild.

- there's lots of wasted space. The entire result set should fit on one page, with no need for scrolling, if at all possible.
Flagged for being written as SEO spam, which is unfortunate because the content is actually useful.
The next big thing, after the $15 minimum wage, should be the 8 hour day and the 40 hour week. Everybody gets overtime, unless you're in the 1%.

The whole "exempt" thing needs to go.
I want a chromebook but all the ones I've seen are the price of a good laptop, or crap. Why can't I pay £200 for a good one? What about £300 then? Nice screen, 6 or 8 gigs of ram, a cpu more powerful than in the average phone? They seem very expensive for what they are (a midrange phone in a laptop body, as far a I can tell).
Ryzom Will Soon Be on Steam – Official News – Ryzom Community Forum
It's the removal of abstraction layers which appeals to me. Why secure the kernel syscall interface when you can remove it? The hypervisor will be a potential attack surface anyway, so it's not a new point of vulnerability.

Sure, it's just a different kind of jail, but I'd rather start with a jail that is empty by default and add selected features to it when I'm convinced they're safe, than start with an ordinary apartment and remove things from it until I think it's secure enough to function as a jail cell.
They will continue to save money on his monthly power bill, to a lesser extent. They will still have the warm fuzzy feeling that their existence is putting less of a drain on the planet's resources than they otherwise would have. And they may have captured a great deal of surplus value, possibly even enough to pay for the system before these changes are implemented.

In the past 25 years, electricity rates in CA have seen a 3-4x increase. If this continues, then even as some of the advantages drop away, the comparison function (monthly electric bill) will also increase, likely offsetting a lot of lost value.
We do, but in the specific case of Active Directory, we want to fail over and auth against another data center if the primary is offline. This means for our domain, the local (to the /16) domain controllers are returned first and then the others. The problem is BIND locally doesn't preserve this order and applications are suddenly authenticating across the planet.

DNS devolution isn't a good idea here, since the external domain is a wildcard. We'll be paying for that mistake from long ago until (if ever) we change the internal domain name.

This is a pretty recent problem we're just now getting to because the DNS volume has been a back-burner issue - we'll look into permanent solutions for all Linux services after the CDN testing completes. Recommendations on the Linux DNS caching are much appreciated - we'll review each. It's something that just hasn't been an issue in the past so not experts on that particular area. I am surprised caching hasn't landed natively in most of the major distros yet though.
Cabs actually have more stringent MOT tests than private cars do and have them more often. I'm not sure where your idea of 'filthy worn-out' engines comes from.

I understand that diesel engines and particulate emissions are a big problem in London at the moment but cabs are hardly going to be the worst offenders here.
elaborate?
The alexification of everything
Exactly. Everything about the way this has been handled raises the classic red flags of a scam, pseudoscientific or otherwise. The evasiveness, the obfuscation, the private controlled circumstances under which "proof" is provided.

He has a claim that would take five minutes to conclusively prove, but he keeps spinning it out.
I'm not implying this is the case here, but see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_lying
I think the mere fact that someone knows they don't need their job to survive can help them enjoy it a lot more.

Also I think a side effect of Basic Income will be greatly increased quality of jobs, because I'd imagine for a lot of jobs, making them less shitty is a lot more attractive for the cost than a higher wage.

For example, a lot of service jobs have polices of putting up with extremely obnoxious behaviour, because it marginally increases revenue at the expense of the employee's sanity, which is effectively free. But if you're not quite as desperate for a job, you're much more able to price that in, and choose to work for less at the restaurant next door, that lets you tell jerks to GTFO.
It's not like 55 million dollars is much for a company this size.
Getting $$ from investors in a planned venture? Speaking gigs? Consulting gigs?

Having people think you invented bitcoin can be quite valuable.
Shyp: Go Go Gadget CLI
> A lot of this cruft is unnecessary when compared to good domain knowledge and solid coding focus.

The counterpoint is that this good domain knowledge is bettered by considering other's changes.
I'm arguing with the notion that basic income will magically solve all problems.

If you study the history of social welfare at all, you'll find that handing out cash was tried before and failed dismally for a variety of reasons.

Additionally, poor people often deeply resent cash handouts and the recipients of them. Housing aid, food stamps, etc are seen as a help vs a handout.
Animated returns of major asset classes from 1926 onward
Wow, haha... While you are able to spell "capital transfer" and "capital generation", you've proven your grasp on the ideas to be... suspect. I've never seen the relationship between arbitrary capital transfer rates and anecdotally slow CGRs as an argument trying to prove the existence of a fixed pie, so I guess that's inventive.
It's not for localhost, it's for the server name. While Gitlab and Teamcity normally are on the same box, they can operate on different boxes or in different data centers. It's looking up a DNS name which happens to point at the same box...does that explain it more clearly?
All that mention of technology and advertising and not touching on Acxiom - not even getting close with a 10 foot pole - kind of undercuts the notion that the article can speak with any authority regarding technology and advertising. I mean, this is just one person's experience from mid-market and Fortune-level experience, but it's a pretty noteworthy oversight. Agencies might still be in the advertising business, but if you want to lead off with tech in advertising, the gigantic elephant in the room is usually a good place to start.

The company that went from clipping newspaper bits to tracking with scary precision is at the forefront of this 'field' and it is, for lack of a better perspective on my end, creepy as all get out and rather dark-stain on the concept of advertising as anything other than trickery and brainwashing.
Thank you. I took a introductory course on elliptic curve crypto two years ago at university and this was almost entirely comprehensible.
It seems like a semi-supervised classification framework can address each of those 9 issues. I agree btw that each is important, but would emphasize the importance of understanding collinearity/correlation with multidimensional data. Maybe also consider online updating (adding new data to the old data).

I think I phrased my previous comment poorly; in the OP's example, and in a pdf linked elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11623647), the anomaly detection problem is of server data. The motivation for finding anomalies is then to prevent server outages/delays, and it's that problem I was considering (rather than simply anomalies, which can be good or bad or just special).

My thinking is that under a semi-supervised framework we would take some historical data (where each point in time is associated with n readings of a system), mark known anomalous periods (e.g. if there's an outage detected by some other system), train a classification model based on this previous data, and then attempt to classify new points in time as anomalous or not. I don't make any claims to what kind of classification model; nearest neighbors or logistic regression would surely be fine.

With that understanding, I don't follow what you mean by 'modest number of discrete cases' for classification. I follow most of your linked approach, which I'm understanding as similar to a Naive Bayes method (which, incidentally, doesn't appear at face value to deal with your point #7 about continuous data) - it's quite interesting how that eventually ends up intimately connected with the hypo test math. But if we frame the question this way, of having a desired result ('normal' data) and having an undesired result ('anomalous' data), then I don't see how a classification approach wouldn't work.
Machine Translation API
I think the comment was earnest. Check out this article: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/2/8332115/rubio-lee-basic-income

It's called the FairTax, and it would replace nearly all federal taxes with
a 30 percent national sales tax. That on its own is a regressive idea —
low-income people spend more of their incomes than the rich do, so would pay
a greater share of their incomes in sales tax — so the FairTax would give
each household a "prebate" equivalent to the sales tax they'd pay on
poverty-level spending. For example, in 2013 the FairTax "consumption
allowance" for a family of four (two parents, two kids) was $31,020. If you
spent that much money in a FairTax world, $7,135 of it would go to federal
sales taxes. So the FairTax provides a $7,135 annual rebate to families of
four, distributed monthly.

Make no mistake: this is a basic income. There is no work requirement. You
get it regardless of whether you make any money. It is a straight-up basic
income. FairTaxers object to this characterization, saying that because the
prebate is meant to compensate for taxes you pay on necessities, it's "your
money being returned to you." But if you live below the poverty level, you
come out ahead from the rebate. It's just a cash transfer program.
Yeah. As I've gotten older I've cared less and less for "my code." If the new effort is demonstrably better than the existing system, then I'm happy. Who cares who wrote the old stuff, this is better.

The problem, of course, is that often the new system is not better, it's just newer. Sure, it may be simpler and easier to understand, but is that because it is an inherently better solution, or is that because it doesn't deal with all of the the real-world conditions that the productions system has grown to support over time?

Even then re-writing is often a good thing. You can re-approach the problem domain with all the insight you've gained building the old system.
Another interesting scenario is that Satoshi is working directly with Craig in order to lend his authority on the little/big-blockian debate to Craig. This would explain the mountain of evidence as well as Craig's apparent incompetence.

Of course this conspiracy has a low prior probability due to it's complexity, but it does explain why the inventor of bitcoin would be 1) taking of screenshots of buggy code in notepad, 2) using factorial notation to enumerate combinatorics of bitstrings, and 3) being so generally dislikable.
Oncor solicited a study that showed that a mass install of Tesla Powerwall devices would be an economic solution to this problem [1], at which point all the generators lost their minds and lobbied the PUCT to prevent Oncor from destroying their market [2] (because of their position as a Transmission & Distribution Service Provider in the market, it would require a change in law for Oncor to be able to implement the project).

[0] Work for a multinational in their energy & utilities consulting practice; above comment is my own.

[1] http://www.brattle.com/system/news/pdfs/000/000/749/original...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2014/12/15/state-law-could-shor...
Volkswagen Beetle – The Most Hackable Car
Looks like it's the first suggestion in their production developer guide, https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/production
It will allow property owners to pull in higher rents and ultimately reduce the availability of things needed to support children -- good food, healthcare, etc.
That's where I'm a little confused. Some of the changes (like the ones you've called out here) look pretty clearly like they're designed to counteract maliciously-constructed filenames, but the PR-type page talks instead about testing magic numbers as the way to avoid the issue.

This one [1] seems to deal with ImageMagick's feature that reads the contents of a file into the command line: "The special character '@' at the start of a filename, means replace the filename, with contents of the given file. That is you can read a file containing a list of files!" Again though, that's a filename-based problem, not something you'd use magic number checking to defend against.

Edit: I guess with the "@filename"-based one, you could defend on the basis that the payload will be a text file of filenames, but that seems rickety at best.

1: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/58a2ce1638...
> For some there is no burden of proof high enough

later:

> You should be sceptical. You should question. I would.

So he's saying people are being too skeptical, and then he says people should be skeptical. This guy really has no idea what he's talking about. There's no way he's Satoshi, he reads like a con-artist.
I'm often annoyed when reading reports that use percentages instead of the actual ratios. For example, "2 out of 3" is much better than "66.7%".
> it looks they are just one step away from driverless cars

That step, of course, is actually inventing a working driverless car.

Coincidentally, I am the same number of steps away from writing the great American novel.
Don't be reductive – OP made a very good point, and you're not arguing it head-on.

> There are all these gotchas when you have stuff running in the same OS and it just takes one little mistake and your adversary has root.
DJB maybe is a prominent cryptographer, but his code and security practices,
especially around Qmail, are simply atrocious. I wouldn't quote him for
anything that touches real C code.
Using Java Generics to Express Variance of Collections and Functions
_ The immorality comes in when the program actively subverts its own purpose for existing_

Depends on what you think its purpose is -- I don't block ads because I have a moral problem with advertising revenue paying for content I view -- I block ads because I'm tired of overly disruptive ads that interfere with my web browsing experience. I really don't mind if there are some unobtrusive ads and I might even click on them if they are particularly relevant (i.e. Google ads tend to be relevant enough that I click on them).

_ It's also a conflict of interest, and gives the developer a perverse incentive to allow more ads,_

But AdBlock devs have a strong incentive to not piss off users so much that they'll stop running the software or will click the button that says "block all ads". If developers remove that button, then users will move to different software.

I don't care how much money ABP makes from publisher payouts, I just care that my browser no longer freezes while I wait for a 2MB pop-over to load as it chews up my limited bandwidth.
Everything in Smalltalk was pretty much polymorphism, lambdas, and reflection. I suspect that's why I like golang. (There are a few other tricks, but better not to go there unless you really know what you're doing.)
I grew up by one of these in NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yards_Creek_Generating_Station

I remember parking at the lower reservoir and hiking to the upper one and being amazed at how big the water pipe is.
Stratified Synthesis: Automatically Learning the X86-64 Instruction Set [pdf]
It's the same design choice as most C compilation toolchains: you get debug symbols during the compilation process, and you can strip the binaries later if you want.
The thing that kind of annoys me about the XPS is the location of the camera. It's in the bottom bezel of the monitor. They should have simply not put a camera in the machine because all you will ever get are upshots of your nostrils, closeups of your hands while typing, or the bottom half of the image being a close up panoramic shot of your keyboard if you try to bring the camera up to eye level.

I don't know what Dell was thinking, but clearly they weren't thinking much. It's horrible.
That wasn't serious enough. Did any browser ever reject a Web page just because it wasn't well-formed XHTML?

Basically, give people a hand, and they'll grab your whole arm. It's human nature, and Web developers aren't above it.
What would be nice would be if all sites supported this system:

1) go to site
2) enter email address (cached by the browser)
3) go to email account
4) click on long, unguessable link which is only valid for 2 minutes)

er..that's it.

You could even skip the `enter email address` step and just get users to keep a link provided in the initial signup process. This link could either be the one you always use to log in, or for better security could prompt the remote site into sending you another single-use login link (as above).
Can empathize with that.
The problem with OpenGL is not really the API but the impossibility to really have something correct.
There is a sheer difficulty of finding combinations of GPU x drivers x OS to test OpenGL. It's quite common that the drivers lie or reject something valid.