skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah but P53 redundancies are a pretty big deal in answering that question. We have one P53 gene and if it gets damaged the cell gets to run amok. Those other animals have like 12 p53 genes, and don't get cancer.

Correlation, meet causation.

What is the valid counterpoint?
I don't think it's objectivist at all -- it's somewhere between "let's not put all our eggs in one basket" and "it's unlikely we got it 100% the first time so don't be afraid to start from scratch."
Hmm the article mentions MITM but no mention of HSTS?

Also I have some big issues with this statement:
>Without encryption, all of your web browsing is to be considered public knowledge.

Even with encryption your web browsing history is "public knowledge", even without effective MITM attacks that break HTTPS any actor that can monitor the traffic between you and your ISP knows which websites you visit.
Traffic analysis and profiling attacks can also reveal which specific pages / content you've visited based on statistical analysis of the request / response size, response time, and other factors.

Effective HTTPS doesn't hide what you are looking at, it ensures that whatever you sent and received cannot be tampered with (easily) and as well as adds some layer of secrecy to the data you send and receive if the attacker cannot gain it via other means.
Is it "more readable" or "more familiar to you"? They're both familiar to me and I find them equally readable.

Concision gets you fewer places to possibly have a bug, and fewer things to possibly miss/misunderstand.
Isomorphic React PSA: the URL is willing and able to control the application
Well no, but I remember a long time ago reading some theory about "red indians" having atomic weapons and it was somehow linked to ORME (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ORMUS) - absolutely crazy, yet entertaining.
Double hash the url and check if it's in the database: if not, prompt the user if you want to upload the actual url.
Ideally Golang.

No other language really does it right like Go - unifying event based and traditional multi-threading paradigms in a way that transparently utilizes all the cores on your system, while allowing you to write plain old iterative, blocking code.

Go may be less than ideal in many other regards (i.e. the rest of the language), but it gets this right.
As I mentioned, there's something about athletics specifically. I don't think I've ever made a close friend at a meetup type event, but I have many lifelong friends from sports.
The clone business began in 1983 and was well established by 1985. The DEC Rainbow was introduced in 1982, and it failed largely because it required special floppy disks that were deliberately different from MS-DOS disks in order to force people to pay a premium for the disks. The Rainbow was literally laughed at by DEC junkies that I knew.

I was using clones at the time I bought an Amiga, using commodity hardware, and nothing would interoperate with the Amiga.

I bought the Amiga intending to invest a lot of time and effort developing compilers for it. After I discovered its compatibility problems, I knew it would never succeed and was not going to invest in it. If DEC couldn't succeed with its pointlessly incompatible Rainbow, how could Amiga?

DEC did eventually fix the Rainbow, but by then its bad reputation was irretrievably lost. The DEC aficionados who had been holding out for a DEC PC had thrown in the towel and given up on DEC.
In his recent Recode interview, Elon Musk said he doesn't consider Google to be a competitor to Tesla. They're not selling cars today. They're not even on the path to making and selling cars. Their most likely option will be to license their tech to car companies. They're working with Fiat now.
Another reason: some gvmt's don't like people bringing satellite phones in due to their lack of ability to eavesdrop
PowerShell 4.0, shipped with Windows 8 and above, has a pretty simple Get-FileHash command built in, so you don't need a separate download on those platforms. (On Windows 7 you still need either the download you link to, or a manual upgrade to PowerShell 4.0.)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn520872.aspx

I believe the syntax is just

Get-FileHash [file] -Algorithm SHA256
RISE conference proves the internet startup industry jargon is getting worse
Pretty much every news organization that sent someone to cover the wars sent them with satellite communications to talk to editors and file stories.
The more I see the name "Alphabet" the more crooked and untrustworthy everything associated with it feels.

It will be a cancerous flaw staining the reputation that Google has thus far earned, until it goes away.

It feels like a pre-emptive "Altria" or "Xe Services" type rebrand, and it smells foul and deceptive.
Well, it's not like there's been any positive Nest press in the last year or so to obsess over.

Based on the stories, what's been happening at Nest is an extreme case of many of the same organizational antipatterns that people in the tech industry see in their own companies on a smaller scale. The things that have happened at Nest (if the stories are to be believed) are like cancer to a tech company. If left unchecked those antipatterns can grow and consume a company, and can ultimately kill it. No amount of reform will save a company if they can no longer retain talent or recruit replacements of the same or better caliber.

Given that so many HN readers are in the tech industry themselves, they probably worry about these kinds of cancers taking root at their own companies (I know I do). This stuff exists everywhere, it's just that for stable companies it's the exception and not the rule. I'm not surprised that it's been a hot topic.
I did not downvote (and you're clear now) but your post is not a relevant argument. The determinism that the SFWT is arguing against is that of certain hidden variable theories of quantum mechanics. It states that if the humans are free to choose particular configurations for an experiment measuring this or that spin, then bounded by relativity and experimentally verified aspects of quantum mechanics, the behaviors of the particles cannot be dependent on the past history of the universe. The main characters are the particles, people are incidental.

> "Our argument combines the well-known consequence of relativity theory, that the time order of space-like separated events is not absolute, with the EPR paradox discovered by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen in 1935, and the Kochen-Specker Paradox of 1967"

So as far as I can tell, it takes for granted the humans' ability to choose the configurations freely, which though suspect in of itself doesn't matter so much to their argument as it's not really an argument for free will, it's a discussion of how inherent to quantum mechanics non-determinism is.

> "To be precise, we mean that the choice an experimenter makes is not a function of the past."

> "We have supposed that the experimenters’ choices of directions from the Peres configuration are totally free and independent."

> "It is the experimenters’ free will that allows the free and independent choices of x, y, z, and w ."

It is actually, if anything, in favor of no distinction between humans and computers (more precisely, it is not dependent on humans, only a "free chooser") as they argue that though the humans can be replaced by pseudo random number generators, the generators need to be chosen by something with "free choice" so as to escape objections by pendants that the PRNG's path was set at the beginning of time.

> The humans who choose x, y, z, and w may of course be replaced by a computer program containing a pseudo-random number generator.

> "However, as we remark in [1], free will would still be needed to choose the random number generator, since a determined determinist could maintain that this choice was fixed from the dawn of time."

There is nothing whatsoever in the paper that stops an AI from having whatever ability to choose freely humans have. The way you're using determinism is more akin to precision and reliability—the human brain has tolerances but it too requires some amount of reliability to function correctly, even if not as much as computers do. In performing its tasks, though the brain is tolerant to noise and stochasticity, it still requires that those tasks happen in a very specific way. Asides, the paper is not an argument for randomness or stochasticity.

> ” In the present state of knowledge, it is certainly beyond our capabilities to understand the connection between the free decisions of particles and humans, but the free will of neither of these is accounted for by mere randomness."
There are plenty of interesting ideas in the libertarian school of thought - but all I have seen here is the repeated statement that taxation is theft, an idea that would be laughed at at the libertarian party convention. There simply isn't any good response to that viewpoint that hasn't already been posted in comments in this thread and many before it. Repeating the claim doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

Being forced to fight a war etc is something else entirely, and I doubt a comment focused on that would be blanket down voted.
No, only used the open source library on my own.
> "The figures are even worse in the UK. According to Cancer Research UK, 54% of men and 48% of women will get cancer at some point in their lives."

I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. If you accept that cancer is simply the disease you get when you live long enough and don't die because of anything else before (a view even supported by the article), a higher percentage could also mean that all other things are in control now, and only cancer and heart attacks are left.
StrongLink – a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system
Obstruction sensors and automatic reverse have been required for decades (in other words, the openers are already meant to be safe to operate without observation). Anyway, just knowing it is open can be useful.
I think a statistical view of that dichotomy is "parametric statistics" vs. "non-parametric statistics": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics

I see "machine learning" as exploring computational approaches to non-parametric statistics. The idea of data-driven model-estimation is not outside the scope of "statistics".
Illumos didn't exactly "adopt" ZFS; it's a clone of Solaris created by core Solaris engineers, which just happened to live on beyond its original project. So essentially there's one project. Meanwhile, the GPL is used in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOSX, Windows - and even SmartOS, an Illumos distribution.
Wow, that's kinda hard to envision.

If if you max that out continuously that's only 800MB/month.
I play volleyball, touch rugby, underwater hockey, yoga. Now that its summer I've done paddleboard yoga, beach volleyball, biking ect all through meetup.com.

curious, how do you find your sports leagues?
Maybe to offer another insight that is not obvious: When you reach a certain point in an organization, what you do and how it impacts the thing you work so hard for becomes very obvious. Yeah, you sacrifice your personal safety for it as much as that sounds awful in retrospect.

What would I have to gain getting the police or others involved in a creepy note left in my room? The fact is, they proved they could gain entry whenever they wanted and no amount of police protection would do anything about that.

And then what...start rumors about creepy notes? Have people tell me I made the whole thing up? Get told by the Police there would be nothing they could do, or worse, invite them in to a world where they're actively detested?

What would all that do to the conference? It would be another circus taking away attention away from people who rightly deserved it for the great work that they're doing. Just like this whole thing is a circus.

The best thing that could have happened did, some friends of mine were scheduled to crash with me--one of whom was sick the entire time. After that, the notes stopped.
Storm hits Amazon's Sydney cloud services
Yea, well it is that hand wavingly easy. Mobile has gotten a lot better over the years as well, especially on iOS because you can use TouchID to unlock the password manager.

On desktop it could not be easier, I hit command-\ and it autofills the username and password for the current site I am using and if I have more than one login for that site there's a list of logins to use. You can activate it the other way around too by choosing a site from the password manager and it will open the site in your browser, auto-fill the login and then submit it so that you're ready to go.

I would still use this setup even if my passwords were all simple to remember like yours are.
I wouldn't be surprised if your smartphone was listening to you, but sadly these particular feats would be feasible simply based on all the information these people have been willingly sharing with google/facebook/etc.

If a lot of her friends/family are searching for "Motorbike accident, Thailand", it seems likely google would suggest it to her.

Similarly, if someone's boyfriend mentions to a third party on facebook something along the lines of "sorry we missed the <event> last night, @girlfriend was having a migraine", it's not so surprising if said gf is shown migraine ads soon after.

Bottom line is, I think people vastly underestimate how much private information they are willingly sharing. Sadly, these companies don't even need to listen in sneakily these days.
But proposing incremental improvements at Google when I was there was death, you were accused of "not thinking big enough" and everything had to be a "moonshot".

Sounds like this was used as a bludgeon for attacking competitors.

Bottom line is that competition within a structure is good, its something that lots of organizations have applied successfully. Google's style, when I was there, was never structured enough to head toward anything. It always went all directions at once, leaving the organization with a net zero momentum in any direction.

My experience with such competition, is that groups actually tend to undermine each other instead of pulling together with cohesive effort. Here, the lowered cost of transactions within a company can allow other groups within a company to act as gatekeepers -- otherwise "enemy" in-company groups can be penalized with higher (outside company) transaction costs for getting things done. This is especially true when project budgets are made with in-company costs in mind.
Someone should at least add Max/MSP/Jitter to the list. Visual programming is really fun. https://cycling74.com
See ChuckMcM's cousin comments.
Been thinking about doing the same for the same reasons and moving out to Switzerland or Germany. Have you already started the process? I'm curious how others have done it and what their thoughts are during/before/after the expat plunge.
I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about this than I:

How well do we 'understand' modern chips? I know that computers play a large hand in chip design. How well do the humans who specialize is chip design 'understand' the final product?
Trump doesn't fit, but Hillary is only fit as an oppressing empire leader.
Came into work this morning, log into my Amazon workspace. Hmm, looks like it has been restarted, everything closed. At least Chrome remembers my tabs.

That's alright I say, I'll just RDP into my Linux box where I do most of my work anyway. Oops, looks like it was restarted as well. What the hell was I running in all my tabbed terminal windows? It's going to take a while to figure out.

Hard reset of the CDH cluster? I'll just assume everything is corrupt. Perfect for a Monday morning.

Goddammit.
I believe that double-hashing is "equivalent" to single-hashing. See this issue: https://github.com/ipfs/refs-denylists-dmca/issues/2

There are some ways of doing it, depending on exactly what your threat model is, but I think it's risky in general. Right now this is just in the planning stages, but I want to have submitting URLs be a manual button click for each download, and also provide an option to use a local copy of the database (so that all lookups would be completely private).
The use, and more importantly the development, of nuclear weapons leaves distinctive isotopic signatures that last for literally billions of years. In fact, an ancient naturally occurring "fission reactor" that is 2 billion years old has been discovered in this way. There is no other evidence of such activity in that time frame, a time frame that includes the history of all multicellular life on the planet. We can, with fair certainty, rule out the existence of any previous nuclear capable civilizations on Earth.
One should never expect a thread not to be interrupted.

When I see code like the latter in PRs it drives me nuts, to the point that I start building up a case to have the knucklehead that does it moved off onto another project.
OSQA

- http://www.osqa.net

- https://github.com/dzone/OSQA
Pretty standard for that type of thing. Most packet radio(which is awesome, been playing with APRS) is 1200-9600 baud.

CDMA and cellphones are amazing but only work in specific circumstances. HF packet radio is pretty incredible where you can reach.
I think this was true for a while in the mid 2000s when radio units were more or less commodotized, but these days the big center console touch screens are deeply integrated with the car. Even settings like engine timings (sport/eco modes), suspension, steering feedback, etc. are a page or two away from the FM radio. Some have HVAC on the same system. There's also integration with steering wheel buttons, and sometimes the instrument cluster is actually a second screen rendered by the radio unit and displays the radio station or driving directions, etc. The FM radio and GPS may be part of the same transceiver package as the GSM "connected car" radio, and the Bluetooth and OnStar/automatic 911 dialing systems may share the same microphone, all running through the radio unit.

You can't just replace it and get identical/better functionality.
Google has shown that they fire sysadmins who put their nose into customer data even though tje sysadmin in question had good intentions. AFAIK they also have a fairly strong security record. I'm not saying Samsung doesn't but I don't know.
I'd argue that any use of pickle is a misuse of pickle. Language-specific binary serialization formats should not exist, much less be used.
Are you seriously saying that foreign students subsidize the education of US citizens? That is one of the most absurd statements I've ever read on HN. US student's educations are paid for by student loans, they fund their own tuitions I can assure you.

Attending university in the US is a privilege and that does not mean you should be guaranteed a job in the United States upon graduation. You seem to have a real sense of entitlement that because you went to school in the US the US owes you a job. Wow.

This idea that the most talented people can only be found from outside the US needs to just die. If the US were so bereft of talent none of these companies that these H1B visa folks want to work for would exist. Ditto for the US universities they attend.

This idea of relocating people to London for year is just gaming the system.
So we hear about how eating healthy and exercise and yada yada help your cancer and heart attack risks. How much would each go down if we were perfect?

My gut feeling is we could fix 75% of current heart attacks with weight control + exercise + whatever, but only say 25% of cancer... i.e. that heart attacks are very much in the group of things we know how to fix, whereas cancer is still very much in the group of things we don't know how to fix.

But curious what the real numbers are...
Cryptocurrencies will be deeply embedded in society before any legal regulatory decisions will be enforced.
Good vs. Bad Retention – The User and Revenue Impact
> Well, unless you don't want the utility at all, you have no choice but to either pay whatever fee they want you to, or move. When you move, it's possible an exclusivity agreement exists there too. One could argue that it's not any better the way it currently is (Comcast, etc.) however you couldn't make it better by making everything privately-owned without regulation, and you could make it better by going further towards the public side.

Smart, minimal regulation is often a better alternative to no regulation or to government ownership.

I think there's a simpler combination approach here which works out better in most if not all cases. Rather than having a central government to provide the utility themselves (ie: government gives you internet instead of comcast), instead use the government enforce competition, sharing of delivery lines, etc. This is the system that's been adopted in Canada and the UK and has generally solved the issue a lot better than the net neutrality rules and such which have been put in place in the US have.

It's cheaper on tax payers and still allows the market to ultimately provide many options and technological advances to consumers more rapidly. It's better for a government to make a market than to kill a market.
Thanks, I've made a note to add this to the FAQ.
> It seems like a lot of the time for the sort of things people do in vvvv it's not so important.

It's not so important until it turns out it is. Say, because the project, while initially small, has grown to a size that demands using abstraction. Or because, while the original programmer unwittingly reimplemented the same patterns over and over, the next programmer is less willing to put up with so much duplication.

Every attempt to lower the craft of programming to the level of those who aren't willing to learn it has resulted has resulted in:

(0) An eventual admission that this approach doesn't work, e.g., how JavaScript was originally supposed to be easy for non-programmers to learn, but eventually grew programming patterns and practices that require programming knowledge to understand and put into practice, while keeping the gotchas and rough edges that were supposed not to matter.

(1) Half-assed attempts to retrofit means of abstraction into languages with too much bad legacy code, e.g., generics in Java or modules in JavaScript.

(2) Yet another attempt to lower the craft of programming, this time by someone else. Loop.
This is why it took me so long to come out with this story. The last thing I want to do is put myself out there only to be dismissed as part of a larger smear campaign (as I was at the time.)

Further: This is a direct description of what I have come to know as Jake's M.O. Not an isolated incident. This has to do with one person's behavior, it has nothing to do with the projects that person was involved with.

Maybe what Jake did to me wasn't all that bad. Maybe I deserved it. Fine, call me whatever form of coward or weakling you want but in the end, this was my hobby and I found other things to do with my life where I didn't have to put up with this level of stress.
Great point bringing up web browsing history; I considered mentioning "private" modes, like Incognito Mode, but my primary concern with this post (as a sort of PSA) was that HTTPS does not mean we should trust services.

It might be worthwhile to provide another short-and-sweet (at least, that's my goal) post clearing up what I find to be common misconceptions about such private modes and what they offer, including what's stored in history, cookies, etc.
Or VV https://github.com/bradp/vv