skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you get better soon. And thank you for all your contributions: your books, the talk on the one weird trick, the software.
This looks like such a smart reply. I wish I knew what it actually meant.
How often do you need to write down exactly what was said?

Studies[0] show that when students use laptops to take notes, they remember less than when they use a pen and paper. The suggested mechanism by the latter improves retention is that it forces you to understand and summarize the content due to limited output speed (thereby processing it more deeply); when you are able to produce output at near the speed of input you can simply transfer words with little processing. It seems likely that this would be a shortcoming of shorthand as well as laptops. If you're taking notes in a meeting for your own use, it seems as though "longhand" may actually be the better choice (excepting of course those situations in which it's important to know exactly which words were said).

[0] http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/22/095679761452...
The sheer quality of the marketing video is eerie. It elicited a mix of fascination and disgust I don't get to experience often.
Though I disagree with him, I think this is a very well written piece that showcases a different side of the political argument. It was a pleasant surprise for me that it was written by not just any conservative but one whose name I already knew.
> If your basic needs are met, theoretically, you're free to explore and innovate (or sit on your ass, but I think the propensity for that is overblown).

It's a necessary, but not a sufficient condition. You also need world class free education, and a networking system that tries to bring the most inventive people together.

I'm not sure if the propensity for empty hedonism is overblown or not. It's hard to imagine what would happen in a system with open economic freedom and self-determination, because it's never been attempted before.

I've seen estimates that maybe only 10% of the population is even remotely innovative. A lot of people seem to want to have someone telling them what to do with their time.

But is that because of the emotional scarring left by an economically abusive upbringing, or is it innate?

No one knows.
People may make stories up, but there is often an actual occurrence that mirrors the story, even if the story and the occurrence are unrelated.

In other words, even if you can demonstrate that a particular story is made up, it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. It doesn't even mean that it doesn't happen often.
That's a very dishonest thing to say about gamers.
its interesting that people have used this as a commuter solution, i never thought of that. i guess bikes make more sense to me, and i live where there are lots of hills. now it makes sense to me how the pricepoint works. i have a lot of recreational toys, but couldnt bring myself to pay $1800 for an electric skateboard that didnt go all that far. cool to see the technology improving and the different uses it has shown.
+ 1 for GEB. I read that freshman year (now a junior).

As an example of its utility, I really like its description of formal systems which are a somewhat simplified version of context free grammars. There are many other concepts described in that book that give similar but more intuitive explanations of CS concepts that helped me understand them as part of "the bigger picture."

CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, which is mentioned on here a lot, was helpful for similar reasons.
All of the benefits of the web except it only works on Android. Does it even work in non-Chrome browsers on Android?
Agreed. The presence of a streak counter on Github did more for my productivity than any other feature or factor. They're a tremendously powerful self-motivation tool. Whenever I'm not on a streak I always find some excuse to sit around and do nothing instead of working on a cool project. A huge portion of all the open source work I've ever done has been because I didn't want to break a Github streak.

You could argue that I can always track my streak myself, but the fact that it was a public metric with visible milestones (e.g 100 days) matters. Even though it's a somewhat meaningless vanity metric, I know people will notice it, and people will notice if I miss a day and break it.

I don't mind the private repos change as much, but it could do with showing private contributions in a different colour (or maybe a diagonal slice of the box). With private contributions the boxes lose some meaning because now all it tells you is "does this person's employer use Github" rather than showing how much open source work they do.
The thing is - if you look at Musk's other ventures they were in dire straits for a long time, critics called them impossible even, but he managed to turn them solvent ... somehow. SpaceX for instance was a money-pit for the longest time and was lambasted by every sensible investor. So while I share your skepticism, the "shrugging off" you are observing here is pretty much par for the course. True, Musk does indeed have a tendency to over-promise and over-sell but this is a trait he shares with almost every CTO.
Actually no I didn't. There is in fact an increase in economic activity, there just isn't an increase in wealth. And I never said there would be.
I remember a friend made a good point once, there is arguing for truth like a scientist, and there is arguing for truth like a lawyer.
>I didn't get that the developers were switching to something new, but that the developers were shutting down and the distributors (people actually working to get TeslaCrypt onto PCs) were switching to something new - presumably because the TeslaCrypt folks were going away.

Aw, that makes more sense. I thought the devs and distributors were one and the same.
But the thing is they are never equivalent.

And really at this price people spend more time thinking about how much to spend than they are making per hour in wages.
They made one thing annoying: without a bloomberg keyboard you have to bring your B-Unit in front of your screen for 2fa instead of plugging it in the keyboard. Except for that, I fully agree with you. I find the bloomberg keyboard to be very heavy and frustrating to use. I returned it when it was delivered to my desk.
"My God ... it's full of objects!"
Bisect also becomes useless because of large commits. Even if you find the commit, the change it introduces can be so large you don't git much improvement.

Git allows you to clean up your feature branches to prevent these kind of fix commits.

Look at git.git. They don't require people to squash all their commits into a single patch, but still every patch should be compilable.
> You'd basically have to find a bug in the HTML or image parsing/rendering.

Like this one?

https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/mfsa2010-41-remote...

Opera Mini or a pure-JavaME browser would be safe, but just having an image decoder is too much to expose to whole internet.
Yellowstone wankery and more
Is there a reason they don't mess with UHF? Studying for my ham exam as we speak.
Is Home Security Footage Admissible in Court?
Doesn't matter. If your logo is on the product, it's your fault. Full stop.
I know of a company that experienced a data breach (one that was reported in the news) due to an employee using the same password on linkedin as on their company account.
Ken Hite describes it as "Patchily edited and occasionally drifting into the faux-lyrical", but there's a ton of fascinating information in the book, if you ignore some of the faintly silly metaphysical musings.

http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ken-and-r...
> My most common response when landing on a website is to sigh, roll my eyes, and dump it to something more readable. Firefox's Reader Mode. Pocket. Straight ASCII text. w3m.

> My half-serious response to this is to create a new web browser embodying these and a few other principles.

In all seriousness, I wonder if spoofing a mobile client (easily done through most browser developer console's or an extension) might immediately result in a more useful experience for you on the majority of sites. Given the viewing constraints of most mobile platforms, and the focus on mobile accessibility (it's supposed to account for over 50% of traffic now), I imagine many sites try to but some minimum level of effort in to at least make it usable.
See also http://rationality.org/2015/03/02/keep-your-identity-fluid/
But that's not what I'm suggesting.

We can begin by actually reviving browser user style sheets and having a well known and respected sets of names will allow for appropriate styling on the client.
how it goes down is important though. if automation follows after labor begins to move to something else then that's one thing, but the reverse, automation putting people out of work, mean there might not be anything for them to realistically move to.
>No one wants to see any "oops typo" coomits.

That's what I thought but it's not quite "no one". There are some who'd love to have all git commit history, and if it was possible, the entire editor text buffer histories and keystroke logs of other programmers' work. This was my reply to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11408221

The post I replied to qualified it with "this may be a minority position" but his comment happens to be the topmost comment so lots of HN voters agreed with him.

Based on the repetition of this "git rebase" topic, I can only guess that roughly half of git users want to see all git commits with "oops, stupid typo", and the other half don't want to be inundated with meaningless noise. I really have no idea though.
Nonce-Disrespecting Adversaries: Practical Forgery Attacks on GCM in TLS
Introducing Student Loan Hero Kickass Tools to Help Conquer Your Student Loans
Was linkedin verified to be the source of the password or is this just speculation?
To clarify you claim our economy is stagnating predominantly due to a lack of innovation?
What about HN karma?
Isn't there a standalone USB version of the B-Unit?
I have always thought of greyhats as hackers employed by governments to hack political allies and opponents or by companies for corporate espionage
There's something to be said about a person doing a bootcamp. Not only is it a drastic career pivot, but choosing to invest in yourself like that is a huge sign of maturity, growth mindset, and awareness. It's no surprise that a bootcamp grad can quickly get up to speed in their first professional dev environment.

I did the WDI bootcamp through GA, and loved the experience. My motivations weren't to become a full-time web dev, but to become a much better, more well-rounded product manager. It's paid off 5x over so far.

There's a ton of garbage bootcamps out there, and it's unfair to lump them all together -- it's unfair that these exist. period. While, you can't replace the deep technical and theoretical understanding you get with a classic CS degree, if your goal is to build web apps, do you really need the formal experience, or can you learn that on the job?
Millions of LinkedIn passwords stolen in 2012 surface online
This is stupid. They might as well let users define which squares they want filled with a config file.

Before this I could determine what kind of open source work someone did by looking at this graph and clicking on random days of activity to see details.

Now the "everyone is equally awesome and meritocracy is a swear word" attitude has eliminated the last of the usefulness of this particular feature.
Can you tell us which bootcamps have produced candidates that did well in your interviews?

I get asked about how to break into the industry every now and then--it would be nice to be able to point those people to a quality bootcamp.
It also makes it somewhat obvious if you quit or got fired from a job (that uses github).

You don't get green boxes for repositories you no longer have access to.
If it's going to be abandonware, isn't it better to be on Github where it's easily accessible, rather than a random git server that could disappear?
Phew, 186 thousand cancers included out of 1.4 million participants? I knew cancer was not entirely uncommon but... man. That's a lot of unhappy news. Feels bad to think about.

If it is true that exercising regularly reduces the risk of cancer, I wonder what the mechanism is? Exercise builds muscle mass, improves lung capacity... Why would that have anything to do with cancer?
where does one begin with automated testing? I realize it's importance after reading countless posts about it, but for the most part to me it seems like a lot of work is required to design the system that will perform the automated testing, depending on the complexity of your project
As an aside, it can be so difficult to get this across to folks who aren't in the infosec headspace. I've seen even technical, computer science types absolutely not get that their ad-hoc memorable password "but no one would EVER guess that!" schemes are probably much more vulnerable than they estimate. Nevermind, even, true computing laypersons.
> I think in many ways this is the exception not the rule. Many students certainly go through their CS degree without thinking this way, and some of these students go on to get phenomenal jobs because they spent a lot of time programming.

Huh? Even if you didn't want to learn to think abstractly, you would still be enrolled in courses like "Data Structures" that force you to. Did you get a CS degree?

You're also making the assertion that you can code successfully without learning abstract thought. That's like saying you can paint a picture without knowing how to use a brush. Quite literally, you can't program without keeping an abstract model in your head of one form or another. Things like OOP helps make these abstractions tangible, but it is nevertheless, just your own vision of how 1s & 0s gotta fly around.

I think it's bad form to assert most students who complete a 4 year degree don't ever think at an abstract level. It's rather ridiculous from my vantage point (again, it's 4 years), but maybe your experience is different.
Incredible... The email says:

"We've recently noticed a potential risk to your LinkedIn account coming from outside LinkedIn."

That's almost as bad as saying "we take security very seriously" after a hack!
Was hoping the website was a .it domain.
It's hard to say:

1. is CLTV > 3 * CAC?

2. do you have a way to get leads consistently

If so, keep going. even if it runs out of steam you can sell it if it generates cash flow.
>It's especially pointless now that everyone has a touchpad or touchscreen and can swipe back and forth.

You live in your own little world, don't you?
Damn, my desktop is a total of 80000000000/3000000=26666.6666667 times faster than the Tianhe-2 supercomputer!

More realistically though, Kaspersky just really sucks at password cracking.
There was a time, not terribly long ago, where the HN hivemind could tolerate a bit of sarcasm. Now it goes full on "mommy and daddy are fighting again" at the faintest whiff of real controversy. I leave it to the reader to decide if this shift represents an improvement.
Couldn't they solve this by just having a drop down to toggle display of public or private commits?
>San Francisco/LA is only 400 miles. We need a 700 mph train...

Or a bed on a truck. $48, no subsidies needed, get there in ~0 waking hours, sold out, mostly 5* reviews http://www.autoblog.com/2016/05/09/sleepbus-la-sf-overnight-...
I think you're missing some key points

- Good models are important
While the traditional computer model is good at explaining behavior, it doesn't help us ask new questions. And no matter how well what we currently know brain fits the traditional computer model, if it can't be used to inspire new questions then we need to explore new models. Feynman explains this better [https://youtu.be/NM-zWTU7X-k]. Even though our finite non-magic brains could fit in a computer, a computer isn't the best metaphor.

- Computers don't act like brains by themselves.
In any FUZZY LOGIC compiled and ran on a computer, all your code is translated into functions and data. LOSSY COMPRESSION is actually the application of experiments on perception, and not an inherent property of computers. A jpg is designed to look the same while using less space, but the information from it is not integrated in the same way as a human. Our MEMORY is not like a computer's. It is shockingly constructive, something that isn't expected with the computer model.

- New programming paradigms might be better models.
My beef with the metaphor is that is has very separate memory and computation. I don't think the brain "reads and writes from memory". I think it creates and updates a mesh of functions. Something like FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING could be used to model this. What if instead of looking for a neural hard drive, we treat each neuron as a function? What if generation of a dollar bill is actually OPTIMIZATION of our recognition function? What if we are a PIPELINE of functions, each feeding into the next from retinas to occipital lobe to thalamus to motor cortex to muscles? I would rather see new ideas coming from us than holding on to an outdated metaphor.
This is fantastic. It's especially interesting to see how differently the exact same stories are reported on each side of the political spectrum.

Although (this coming from a huge Bernie supporter), it seems like both sides are in agreement that they should be attacking Bernie Sanders.

As an aside, the format of "And now you won't believe THIS happened" as a headline/tagline with almost no additional info to get more clicks is absolutely infuriating. I've always made it a point to not click on headlines/links written in that format.
Sounds like Windows 8 where the desktop was an "app" on the Start screen.
Programming languages have evolved around the keys present on the QWERTY keyboard. It would be interesting to develop a programmers keyboard geared at providing more useful symbols for programming, and then write languages around the new keyboard.

When not programming, many of the symbols on the QWERTY keyboard are useless, and it's missing a lot of typographic symbols that I end up having to use shortcuts, character maps, or unicode for. It doesn't even have a real apostrophe or left and right quotes, let alone en and em dashes, bullets, or various space widths.
This is great for people applying for a new job. So much activity happens in private repos that it can look like you aren't that active at all. (Not that showing off activity is necessary or sufficient, but it's still nice. Recruiters and hiring managers do look.)
> people often do not have sufficient liquid holdings to pay the taxes.

This is the "death tax" argument and has been debunked over and over. When they tried to find one of those, as the story goes, "farmers who lost their family farm", they couldn't actually find one.

If this is a genuine concern, then personal holdings of property should have capped tax increases until they transact. At point of transaction (inheritance generally), the assessment jumps to match the market.

As for corporate holding of property, it should get no such consideration. If you can't pay the tax, you transact the property. California is having a massive problem with the fact that a bunch of really expensive real estate in places like Silicon Valley have subleases that are 20+ layers deep to avoid triggering a reassessment.
Their conclusion doesn't follow from their numbers.

> Overall, we find that, on average across the 21 OECD countries, 9 % of jobs are automatable.

As in, right freaking now? Blimey, what about the next few decades, then? Not to mention that 9% is already a big number.

That being said, the more automation the better. We just need something better than punishing the jobless with poverty.
I'd guess it doesn't really prevent cancer so much as boost your immune system so it can eliminate early tumors.
Not that one.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...

Complete law: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...

Paragraph 66 talks about cookies.

A later exception was made by the EU for session cookies.

Guidelines for webmasters:

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...

It has a sample banner which is similar to those which most users display.

Spanish official directives (with further protection because of a local law called LSSI): https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/canaldocumentacion/publica..., page 17. Also comes with a sample banner

Did you really think that everyone else was wrong or didn't read the law and is programming these banners as some sort of fad?
I don't know, we pay people to do a job. Sure some coworkers become friends, but most don't. As long as people are somewhat easy to get along with I don't think we should focus too much on other stuff.
> However, not everybody turns out to be a star and in some companies (plenty still foster it) they don't want their average employees to be completely rogue.

I think it's more that most companies don't want employees challenging decisions made higher up in the org chart, star or no star. A lot of people don't like having their decisions challenged, especially when they're wrong or they have a hard time defending those decisions.
Yes, I have tried typing on these. As keyboards, they’re garbage. (Caveat: I have high standards for keyboards.)
Oh yeah, it was vulnerable to the exact RCE bug you'd guess at first glance.

In fact, the hack coincides perfectly with that php-cgi bug being released. Coincidence?
Michael Reichmann, founder of Luminous Landscape, has passed away
What about those adapters causes the issue? Is it the devices themselves emitting radiation? The cabling in a house?
I tried, indeed I did try, trice upon a time I didst, sorry, I just can't, I just can't get to the end of the article; reminds me of trying to tackle a Henry James novel in school, one knows one is not going to succeed but regardless one forges ahead in the vain glorious hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel, or at least an end to the paragraph, only to flounder, in a miasmic fugue of cognitive disphoria .. :)

ps: It's a fiction that LSD helped certain people in their creativity. These so-called psychonaut are selling a dangerous form of snakeoil. Terence Mckenna and the rest, after decades communicating with DMT machine elves etc, what have they brought back from the 'other side', absolutely nothing of value. Going on the blurb on Amazon 'Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America' reminds me of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. A very interesting section in there on 'Ken Kesey'. He of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ' fame. I don't think Tom Wolfe could have wrote 'Acid Test' if he actually was on LSD.
If you are savvy and feel its worth the cost, there are keyboards available that are fully programmable, depending on how much customization you need. A Poker 3 would be probably be the best option for something off the shelf, featuring 3 separate fully programmable layers. If you go diy, you can do literally anything.
I'd be very interested to hear more about your experience. How long have you been taking them? Have you noticed an effect?
Especially HN karma.
Google's mapping cars are the metaphorical nanites in the bloodstream we've been reading about in science fiction for decades, applied to the planet. Mingling with our other cells, traveling our veins, arteries, reporting on the general health of and providing a more complete picture of the system overall.
It's a totally fair comparison if Uber is what Boosted Boards are replacing, which it has for me as well.

Anecdote: the other day I had lunch with coworkers 2 miles from our office in SF. I happened to have my board, so I rode it back while they Ubered back. We left at the same time. I beat them back to the office by 5 minutes.

That probably wouldn't have happened on a bike or skateboard, but if it did I'd be sweaty as hell. Plus I'd have to lock up my bike in the garage.

I'm convinced electric skateboards are the fastest, cheapest, most convenient, and most fun (albeit dangerous) form of transportation in a dense city like SF.