skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which community would that be?

Being an insightful guy and a good public speaker has value. Especially in a technical field.
Your talks on things like elliptic curve cryptography are solid talks. Like it or not, you could probably trade on giving those kinds of talks alone, and never have gotten your hands dirty doing the work, to prove the theory correct in your own mind.

It's not hand-wavey to be able to give a voice to ideas, provide insight through speaking and interacting with a crowd, and people make careers off of this sort of activity in many fields, and not just technology. It's the same sort of dichotomy you'll see in other hard sciences, where there are experimentalists and theorists.

So he's not shocking audiences by injecting malicious payloads and keylogging the shit out of people, or deploying wi-fi pineapples or pen testing corporate clients. There are other vectors into the field, and sometimes skill sets are multi-disciplinary Venn diagrams.

You'd suggest that he's a Paris Hilton, but there's more to it than that.
I co-founded and ran the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup for some time. There was lots of interest right after the whitepaper up through the crowdsale, then a waning of interest in the details, and now resurgence of interest. Like the Bitcoin meetups there does seem to be some correlation between price of the asset and number of attendees but that is unavoidable IMHO.

As far as marketing, Tual was the community lead for a bit and he left to do the DAO which has broken crowdfunding records so I don't think you can say he's been unsuccessful. As to the ultimate success of the developer ecosystem, I'm not sure but I used to track metrics like github stars quite rigorously and Ethereum was doing better than any other crypto project.
Your definition of "PR move" seems quite different from the common usage, which comes with a strong connotation of "we are doing this primarily for public image reasons," which is different from "we are doing this because we think it's the right thing to do."

> I understand your point. You care more about Google discouraging negative racial speech (I don't like the phrase hate speech as its used too subjectively) than you do software freedom. And from that perspective google made the right PR move.

That's not quite my point.

In most situations where this is an issue, it's a judgement call on balancing freedom with ethical/moral concerns. I believe in neither extreme because they both represent systems that are broken in very obvious ways. Title IX and the various Civil Rights Acts are pretty good examples where freedom of speech (and some other freedoms) are explicitly limited for worthwhile reasons.

In this situation, even in its most charitable interpretation, it's probably a tool for directing unambiguously negative racial speech that's tied to a social agenda that is unhealthy for our society's cohesion.

My point is that in this case, the balance of considerations puts this app clearly on the "unambiguously bad" part of this spectrum, and it's quite possible to value software freedom or freedom of speech and still think that Google made the right PR move.
>A better solution, IMHO, is to borrow an idea from the EPCOT[1] Concept that Walt Disney created...

Thanks for the link; I'll have to check that out further. I think I've run across documentaries for cities that have similar ideas. I think new development planning should definitely take some of these ideas into account, but we also have to think about what we can do on the margin to ensure the livability of our cities.

>> that doesn't mean that all streets should be maximally employed to reduce that congestion.

>

>It does, actually, because all streets are connected and part of the same network...

Maybe I'm misrepresenting what you are saying, but generally I would think that you don't want maximal utilization of all the paths in a network. If there's a shock to the system (say a major artery is closed down due to some chemical spill) then you want alternate pathways to be available to absorb the unexpected load. Using suburban through-ways in such a case is fine. Having significant amounts of regular traffic going through them is not. Systems need slack and redundancy to be resilient.

Now, will non-residents still use residential through-ways to commute? Indeed, that is fine and can't be totally prevented anyway. But hopefully incentivizing people to use major arteries will apply pressure to improve public transit options (in order to make those arteries more efficient) and will help keep residential streets safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.

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And you got the key against which you check the signature from where?
It's optional, and to be honest, even 480p looks good on my retina iPhone display.

I agree that this weaker version of zero-rating is against Net Neutrality tenets.
Hey Ethbro, I read dozens of studies on income and happiness. What I found is summarised here: https://80000hours.org/articles/money-and-happiness/.

Some took a longer term view, in particular the ones on lottery winners.

Saving for retirement is obviously sensible. But I think the result will be the same - you won't be much happier retiring on $120,000 a year than $60,000 a year. What will matter at that point is having social connections and feeling that your work is/was meaningful.
Why the hell didn't he freelance or try to start a small business on the side. He could have made double or triple the money!

Also, I wonder how IT eventually found out.
It's important to note that not all these debates take the shape of "homeowners vs. commuters."

The article used Clinton Street in Portland as an example. Who was upset that Clinton street was being used as cut-through by impatient drivers? Homeowners along Clinton were among those calling for change, but the loudest voices calling for diverters to reduce through-traffic were people who commuted or traveled along Clinton through methods other than cars. People who biked or walked down Clinton were used to it being a pleasant, low-speed, low-volume road where they could ride with their kids without fear. "Neighborhood greenways" like Clinton make up a huge portion of Portland's bike infrastructure, and people using it to escape traffic on the major arterial 2 blocks north were destroying that.

The roads don't belong to the people who live on them, but they don't just belong to drivers, either.
This is the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years
Gates, Bezos and Google Are Betting This Company Will Find a Cure for Cancer
Doing it on my own. I really like how I can quickly hack with coffee but I also love the typescript intellisense magic so trying to make a hybrid.
Are you implying that the answer will be different in 2017? ;)
A bit more info on GOMX-3.

http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/gomx-3/
Speed bumps usually kill more people by slowing down ambulances than they save by reducing vehicle speeds.

The best way to keep a street quiet is to remove the cues that tell drivers that they can drive quickly. Narrow the street, remove the sidewalks, add trees and other visual noise to the margins, and remove lane markings. Replacing asphalt with gravel can also help (and is cheaper to maintain).

You don't need to fine people to get them to slow down if the road is terrifying to drive on at more than 20 MPH.
One thing that helped me during a stretch of events like that was sleeping with an eye mask on.

If I was wearing the eye mask when I woke up, then it was impossible for me to have seen something like the 'swarm of aggressive insects' in the first place. low-tech, but effective.
Yeah, but what if the pedal state was bugged?

Look, a carpet snagged on pedals a few years ago and that was sufficient to cause a recall.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/02/toyota-annou...

That's the level of service I'd expect from any major auto-company. Just because the pedal was down doesn't necessarily mean that we've got driver-error going on here.
> the university admitted a lot of people without vetting them. A lot of them failed out.

Which is pretty disingenuous. Even for citizens I've seen universities admit students to programs who have little to no chance of graduating.
The same way the doors of public schools can be locked at night, and a property tax receipt does not get you a set of master keys.

I think this is something a local government should not do, but it's certainly within its authority (assuming it is the sole funding source - federal or state money may - and IMO should - come with overriding strings attached).
Seriously don't understand the point of this story other than the implied racist undertones. Why is it important to highlight the nationality of the students in the title, when the failure is clearly on the part of the university admissions office for not vetting the student applications/GRE scores etc prior to having them fly in. The nationality just happens to be related to the country where the recruiters looked in. I bet they would have found equally unqualified candidates in any other country, but it's far easier to go to India where just by the way of shear numbers you can swoop in a lot more interested candidates in a much shorter time period.
The quest for the sacred diskettes
Impressive. Never really got into the bitcoin game and have a lot of questions, like the purpose, who it benefits etc.
Scientists offer first look at how our cells can 'swallow up and quarantine' Zika
Worst case they will probably be scooped up by a competitor, though based on Musk's record that likely won't happen.

What record is that? Musk has shown he's willing to sell his companies in the past. Between starting PayPal and selling to Ebay was only 3 years.

He owns less than 30% of tesla. So if another company wants to take it over, he may not have a choice.
Author of elm-phoenix-socket[1] here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the library, Elm, or whatever.

[1] https://github.com/fbonetti/elm-phoenix-socket
True, but I think (and this is an assumption) that most people would prefer their communications platforms - Twitter, FB messegner, Apple iMessage, etc, support free speech.

What good is a communication platform if you can't communicate certain expressions on it?

I agree with your overall point tho - we should let the free market determine this what communication companies ultimately do.
Huh. Someone should tell my phone; it still displays 'emergency calls only' when it is unable to connect to my own provider's towers.
Howl editor: A fast editor written in LuaJIT
Literally EVERY single one of these accident reports have been followed by Tesla reporting the driver log data on their blog.

EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Look, I get not trusting reporters in a lease of a review model (especially when said reporters were rather shady to begin with). But... we're onto customers and the general public now. The fact that Tesla is still engaging in this behavior is concerning to me.
Creating a content validation bot for GitHub
> For what purported crime? Are we just positing that there might be some arbitrary crime Appelbaum could accuse Assange of?

Seriously? https://www.google.com/?q=wikileaks+grand+jury

> Doesn't the same logic then apply to, like, anyone else in the world?

Presumably most people are not in a position to testify in an ongoing investigation.

> Are people trying to do the same thing to Trump?

How would I know? What does this even have to do with it?
It's basically a follow-up to a story from two months ago, which is more in-depth: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/us/recruiting-students-ove...

I guess India is highlighted because most/all of the students were recruited from India?
> Even for citizens I've seen universities admit students to programs who have little to no chance of graduating

Yes, this is very common in unfunded graduate programs (ie, for which students are on the hook for the full tuition).

Unlike undergraduate programs, these get far less scrutiny, and it's also much harder to compare success rates, because programs are often specialized and employment rates aren't always as indicative of the value of the graduate degree as they are for undergraduate education.
There were a number of issues involved, but you point out a major one. However, the street was already quite narrow; sidewalks only could have been added at the expense of private property (and in some cases, the houses were too close to the street for that to be feasible).
I feel the joy. A few weeks ago, I stumbled across my old Apple II, which I thought I had long since thrown out. Alas, I fear the disks were thrown out long ago.... sigh
I have seen this first-hand. Many of my supposed GTAs, particularly for more advanced courses like Operating Systems, did not know any of the material that they were teaching. In one case, I had to show them how to use the CLI. Some had wonderful questions like "Are pipes how copy and paste work". Can I get a refund on my degree?
Taxi Lineup expands its operations in Australia
I imagine part of the point is the loss of revenue at local businesses as sailors, contractors and dependents stop spending. "Kick us out of Okinawa, or Japan as a whole? OK, but our money goes with us."
Come on. I probably shouldn't respond to your post. But spoken like someone who have never been taken advantage of. Or had so much provided that you didn't care. And home invasion for my own satisfaction? Yes I love fighting for my dignity. It feels great to be walked on.

It wasn't just a "TV". It was my only possession worth anything at all. I've worked nonstop since I was 12. I started working on a farm (not my farm, we had no farm, it was the neighbor's) and delivering papers. No one has ever given me a thing. I was born fighting in my childhood, literally fighting almost daily. My money has come very hard earned. As has any career advancement, skill acquisition. I've never been given a job through a network connection, I don't have a network. I had a full hernia on my right side at 16 from manual labor. And I have a strong sense of justice when something is wrong, like breaking in and taking a poor working guy's $700 television. I was working 35 hours a week to pay for going to school fulltime. That may not have been much money to you, but it was to me. I felt very taken advantage of. You must not know what it feels like to have little and have everything taken from you because it's likely you've had a better existence or maybe life didn't require much grit to get through. I've clawed my way to where I am now. I never had any money. No ones going to take what I have, not a TV, nothing. Even to this day when I have a lot more. Doesn't matter how little it is, over my dead body. Damn right, all for the sake of a "TV".

I am a nice person. I do have some anger but I wouldn't harm a soul that didn't have it coming. I defended the homosexual kids who were bullied in my high school way back when. Verbally and physically. No one did that in the rural midwest. I hated seeing people get picked on. I rarely, if ever picked on anyone. But I have squared off with men who thought I was a target, you'll have to beat me to the ground I'm not quitting. As a developer, I believe people who say "I can't" should be fired on the spot. I feel like I'm ready for retirement and I'm not old. Everything seems like an obstacle. I'm completely sympathetic with poor people in the US and around the world. Hell, I'm a Bernie supporter. But if robbed or my wife is hurt, I'm going to come after you and I'll haunt you like a ghost.

There's a lot of different people on HN. People have different experiences and different perspectives. I think you're over the top with the 'satisfying home invasion' talk though. I know the odds of success when you don't start life at the finish line. People born at the finish line think they've accomplished something. Yeah so what, I've been involved in what is basically gang violence. Not everyone is going to match up with your exact sensibilities.
The problem with this intimidation approach is that if it works, then it can be applied not only abusive litigants, but against anyone who who sues.

Society in general and legal system in particular would not want that to happen.

So if you execute that intimidation strategy then you are likely to become a prosecution target of legal system.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation

Threat, Criminal threatening (or threatening behavior) is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of bodily injury. "Threat of harm generally involves a perception of injury...physical or mental damage...act or instance of injury, or a material and detriment or loss to a person."

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But why even go that physical intimidation route at all if there are good legal ways to repel these baseless claims?
I hear this criticism about ports a lot. Out of curiosity, how could we make it better? Do you have any examples of what you consider to be the ideal FFI? I haven't used ports a ton, but I have used them for interop between Elm and the Google Maps Javascript API, and I didn't think it was that bad.
That's neat, the symbol had no agreeable associations back then, but now it's become this nefarious looking thing, at least for me, due to things like 28 days later: http://imgur.com/Ym1PqPE

I can't tell if the symbol itself should be nefarious or not, due to all the cultural baggage. From psychology research, we know that shapes are commonly associated with sounds within a culture [1], but it's a very flower icon in an abstract sense.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/talking-apes/201505/do-...
Working for yourself will often be fulfilling, because it can provide many of the six things we list that matter:

* Work you’re good at
* Work that helps others
* Engaging work that lets you enter a state of flow (freedom, variety, clear tasks, feedback)
* Supportive colleagues
* A job that meets your basic needs, like fair pay, short commute and reasonable hours
* A job that fits your personal life.
“If they come out of here without the ability to write programs, that’s embarrassing to my department,”

Why will you admit such students in the first place? This is a lapse shown by the admissions office. Paying recruiters to find students, giving students spot admissions - these are questionable practices the university shouldn't indulge into.
New phenomenon breaks inbound TCP policing
It seems to work at model scale.[1] Geobat got a working saucer-like model flying. It's not VTOL; it's an an airplane with a circular wing.
Their "disc" is a swept back curved wing that continues around until it meets the tail. It has conventional rudders and elevators, unlike the AvroCar, which was entirely thrust-controlled. GeoBat tried to get IndieGoGo funding for a full size aircraft, but bombed out at 2% funded.[2]

Wind tunnel testing indicated good stall characteristics but less lift than conventional designs.

Here's a modern analysis of a circular wing, as a PhD thesis.[3] This uses the "blown wing" concept, an idea which has great theoretical potential and has been tried a few times, but has been only marginally successful in practice.

[1] https://vimeo.com/65578829
[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/geobat-saucer-aircraft#/
[3] https://core.ac.uk/download/files/14/337571.pdf
In general, I agree.

Temperature changes will likely be dealt with by living underground, and there's something to be said for the ability to nope out of there in a couple days instead of months/years.

I think there's value to figuring out both - a giant space telescope on the far side of the Moon would be amazing for science - but Mars seems like the more logical first spot.
Atom 1.8 and 1.9 beta
Yes we have two datacentres and we do have a few VPS mostly for triangulation of monitoring, but honestly, in four years - we haven't had to failover once, although we practise it with our applications almost every single day.

Thank you for the kind words there, I think one major thing for us is that we've hired a small number of just the right people, each with quite different backgrounds and we work VERY closely with our developers. Every bit of configuration is kept in GIT and we CI / CD whatever we can.
Sorry you just lost me. I thought you were genuine but now I realize you're wasting everyone's time. Good bye.
As automation comes about detroit and the EPA will lean on the people who write laws to do things like make 4 way stops into 2 way stops, make it legal to rolling stop at a right turn, get rid of red arrows at dedicated left turn lanes that don't cross 3 lanes of traffic, etc etc in order to save fuel.

There will be a lot more flashing yellows in a few years.
This is past silly. A faction of the USG has tried for six years to come up with a "conspiracy" charge for Assange, and failed to do so. No surprise: Assange was not legally obligated to protect the documents he received, isn't a citizen of the US, and wasn't even on US soil when he received them.

Something had to be done. That was something. They did it. Nothing came of it.

This same kind of logic is used to justify Assange not reporting back to Sweden to answer to prosecutors. "They might extradite him to the US". But legally it's even easier to extradite him from where he is now!

The reality is he's not going to be extradited.
https://motherboard.vice.com/blog/jacob-appelbaum-utopia-int...

>in the US, I’m fairly certain I’ve had a black bag job on my apartment, my mother was arrested and jailed supposedly for unrelated charges, and – at at least two points – interrogated about my role in WikiLeaks. I’m fairly certain that my partner woke up with night vision goggles pointed at her by unknown parties outside her house. And here in Berlin I’m certain there’s a similar amount of spying, but I don’t feel it in the same way. It’s the ability even for a moment to imagine that I’m not basically treated like an enemy of the state or a dissident of some kind; I couldn’t really pretend that in the United States.

http://www.dw.com/en/snowden-ally-appelbaum-claims-his-berli...

Here he talks about it explicitly in testimony to the European Parliament. Maybe you should watch this whole thing where he talks about what he knows about his own surveillance because of mistaken lack of redactions in government documents:

https://youtu.be/SdLKje1IydQ?t=1667

You say that the vast majority of security people are not being targeted severely by the government, so it's statistically very unlikely that a sex abuse claim against Appelbaum, along with a coordinated PR attack by "the victims" (which is an explicitly documented method used to discredit people, per the Snowden leaks) is a government operation to discredit him. I say the statistics do not matter, because there is sufficient evidence that HE SPECIFICALLY IS TARGETED. Therefore you CANNOT simply wave off the possibility.
> When a socket polls for readiness in Unix, it does not mean that a subsequent read will succeed.

Yikes, I didn't know Linux did that. That sounds like a serious spec violation to me. POSIX says:

> POLLIN

> Data other than high-priority data may be read without blocking.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pol...

It's hard to interpret that other than as a promise not to block. Oh, and the Linux poll(2) man page doesn't even mention the caveat. The select man page does (I assume the actual behavior applies to poll too), but here POSIX is even more explicit:

> A descriptor shall be considered ready for reading when a call to an input function with O_NONBLOCK clear would not block, whether or not the function would transfer data successfully. (The function might return data, an end-of-file indication, or an error other than one indicating that it is blocked, and in each of these cases the descriptor shall be considered ready for reading.)
Qwiki 1.0 is Released
Some, in the case of Hmong and Somali, are because of groups in Minnesota encouraging the migration specifically to Minnesota. This is a reasonable recap of the Somali side:

http://tcdailyplanet.tumblr.com/post/7081807388/ask-a-somali...

TL;DR - Lutherans
People are spending much less time on social media apps