skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who owns a repository with 11,529 stars (https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings), I notice a few problems with the logic presented.

I happen to have a scraper handy for tracking stars over time, and profiling the users who made those stars (https://github.com/minimaxir/get-profile-data-of-repo-starga...). Here is a chart of the daily number of Star events on the big-list-of-naughty-strings repository as of today: http://i.imgur.com/NzzjuKK.png

The paper assumes that popular repositories are popular on their own merit. But as you can see from my chart, there are clear spikes, one when the repository was first released, one a few days afterward, and one in February for literally no reason. The cause of those spikes were Hacker News, /r/programming, and /r/webdev respectively.

Here's another one of my repositories currently at 458 stars (https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper) which only got exposure after a Show HN last Thursday: http://i.imgur.com/8qpTrrb.png

There's also a huge selection bias problem with only looking at Top Repositories. While understandable from a scalability standpoint, it's also possible that repositories are popular because of good marketing.
It's seldom known to westerners but many knowledgeable Chinese know that there are financial aid programs for minorities. Similar to that of financial support from Canadian government to the natives in northern Canada.

In other words, the money from tax payers of developed areas in China feeds the people. The purpose of the programs is also quite similar to the Canadian government, (at least in the beginning): the people in those area need support.

Unbelievable? I choose some source which can not be some propaganda from Chinese government to partially collaborate my claim (the source of income):
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB868829960463522500
(BTW, the subjective speculation by the author about the motivation of the financial aid can satisfied the western readers but is far from the truth. These false claims happen all the time in almost all western media. The lies fuels anger and nationalism inside China which is not healthy in my personal view. Nobody in western world are aware of that)

Another policy that is favorable to the minorities is the notorious "One Child Policy": All the Han Chinese can have only one child while the minorities include Tibetans are not restricted by the rule.

Those information were never told by western journalist and Free Tibet Movement because they are opposite to the common belief that Chinese government is oppressive regime. The sprite of "Truth, nothing but truth" exist in science/technology/engineering. In politics and religion lies spread.

"Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions."
--Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
The GP is referring to how it was sold to the public, not what its real intended effects were.
I use this trick all the time and it works great for me. Another one that I like to use is to think about my retrospective feeling about the thing after having done it. So, in the case of going to the gym, I think about the fact that after having gone to the gym, i've never regretted going. I've never come back from the gym and thought "man I wish I didn't just do that".
Those CRT Monitors are probably the weakest part of the system in terms of durability.
Mass market products are rarely best in class, they are all about offering 'good enough' at commodity prices. Unix won because it was cheap, widely available and got the job done.
JWT is especially useful for validating requests in a microservice architecture. You can pass around the token an embed roles in them. No need to keep a session store with them!
Funny, when someone is ill and cannot afford medicine, I don't see a lot of libertarians saying "Why does this happen? We need a system where people don't die of preventable disease!"

I guess your notion of "thinking of humanity" is different from mine.
I'm echoing a previous comment of mine, but it will affect different places differently, and those with money and means to work around it will suffer less than those without. I see it as social justice question, like hunger and access to clean water.

I'm for one excited for arctic shipping as it's a huge shortcut between the northern Atlantic and eastern Asia. But at the expense of famine or war brought upon by competition of resources in a changing climate? It's a risky game.
I get the impression that a lot of people satisfy the requirements by buying publicity, either placement in trade journals or sponsoring conferences.

Both of those options were suggested by my lawyers, and once you realize it's possible and common one starts seeing it everywhere.
I agree. UNIX has some brilliant ideas, like isolated functions (executables) connected by streams, but beyond that it made a lot of mistakes that we are still dealing with today.

The biggest one being a C-centric view of programming that has cost the world untold billions of dollars when dealing with untrusted data. It could have used a statically analyzable functional middleware of some kind, falling back to micro optimization only when needed - the way that Clojure works with say, JavaScript.

The other major failing that I see is overlooking ideas from ZFS, that the filesystem can act as a virtual tree over any storage medium, so UNIX wastes a lot of time on things like dependency hell, permissions, and distinguishing between file and socket streams or local and remote processors. It could have jailed each process in its own sandbox where copies of libraries are reference counted by the filesystem, running in a virtual storage and thread space. We're just now seeing the power of that with Vagrant and Docker (technically it took so long to get here due to virtualization resistance by Microsoft and Intel).

My other main gripe is more about approach than technology. UNIX (and LINUX especially) stagnated decades ago due to the RTFM philosophy. The idea being that to be proficient in UNIX, one had to learn the entirety of the operating system. This goes against one of the main tenets of computer science, that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. So I really appreciate how passionately the Alto tried to make computing and programming approachable to the masses.

I keep hoping someone will release a portable lisp machine that can run other OSs under virtualization and release us from these antiquated methodologies..
Why do people like you seem to think socialism and communism are the same thing?
The biggest problem with virtual card numbers at the moment is when you show up at the hotel and cannot provide the card you reserved the room with. Notwithstanding that, they are quite successful in some parts of the world.
So basically everybody should model their language after Finnish. I can supposedly pronounce almost any Finnish word or sentence near perfectly, and I don't understand a word of the language.

The rules for pronunciation is very directly linked to the spelling, with few exceptions.
https://xkcd.com/1379/
How about teaching in small doses at regular intervals throughout their growing up. Or give them tools to learn by themselves.
Domains used to cost $100 a year. I don't see any reason to complain (although before they cost $100 they were free).
It's talking about someone in Indiana who is not making the kind of money that GP mentioned.

> Yet in financial terms, there is almost no way for Mr. Acosta to climb out of the crater he dug for himself in law school, when he borrowed over $200,000. The government will eventually forgive the loan — in 25 years — if he’s unable to repay it, as is likely on his small-town lawyer’s salary. But the Internal Revenue Service will probably treat the forgiven amount as income, leaving him what could easily be a $70,000 tax bill on the eve of retirement, and possibly much higher.
What the probabilistic approach misses is that the blockchain can split for other reasons, so the exponentially small chance of inconsistency is irrelevant. For instance, in 2013 the blockchain was split for 6 hours (24 blocks) due to a block with more than 10,000 transactions that different software versions handled incompatibly.

The other thing the probabilistic discussion skirts is that even with an exponentially small probability, you need to wait inconveniently long. A Ω value of 6 corresponds to 1 hour. To get down to "alpha particle" levels of probability you've got a much longer wait.
What instrument and music?
Interesting, but it is all spanish to me ... What are "fractional bits"?
Then I'd like to clarify that I'm also objecting quite strongly to all companies contracting to support the US military's ability to wage illegal wars. I do think there's a fair portion of HN that is loudly unhappy about, say, Palantir. I would never work for them, although I'm not as loud about it. I think you're right that I should also never work for Google.

(Also, war is messy. I know that the insurgents also kill civilians, and I'm certainly not supporting them any more than I support the US military. I'm advocating pacifism, and if you want to say "well, pacifism doesn't work because other people want to wage war", sure, that's a debate approximately as old as the idea of pacifism itself.)
On another note I've been working on a service that generates expirable/refreshable JWTs. Its a good way to start trying them out https://github.com/hharnisc/auth-service
The Sweden study absolutely does not show that, and I've explained why elsewhere in the thread. The mere fact that something is an RCT does not make it instantly generalizable to all populations, no matter how many times you repeat the claim. You'd need to at least control for pre-intervention access to care and study a US population to even get close to what you're claiming.
Five Bicycles in Kalamazoo
China has some seriously evil leaders.
I don't believe any gold was involved.
As terrible as each of those things were, his point largely stands. Most things labeled 'terrorism' are better handled by police/. Obviously the stupidly large mountain of money the US gov spends on 'defense' didn't save people from those. A country's defense budget is really for defending itself from invasion, and our risk of that is low. The last meaningful example anyone can give is pearl harbor - which was 80 years ago in a pre nuclear world.
The famous article "The rise of 'Worse is Better'" describes the victory of Unix/C over the "right thing" style of design : https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

Edit: I've changed the link. Thanks for letting me know about the bad redirect, golergka. The jwz link looked fine to me; it's pretty obnoxious if the site does a NSFW redirect.
You know what I wish my parents had taken the time to teach me? How credit cards work, how student loans work, and why I should max my 401k. Yes all of those things could change with legislation, but I'd be much much better off knowing those 3 things when I graduated high school than when I finally figured them out years after graduating college.
My logic included an explicit allowance for those people whose best career decision is to work for the military (or for the police, or the TSA, or whatever). I don't expect a general strike, no matter how much I want the workers of the world to lose their chains.

So the same logic would be okay with people where all reasonable career decisions require working for a company that pays taxes to the military, and both Matt Cutts and I seem to be in that situation. But I think we're both in the situation where we have plenty of reasonable options other than working for the military directly. And it specifically sounds like he took an option that is worse for him personally, because he thinks it's better for the world. I disagree it's better for the world, simple as that.

(Whether this logic would forbid working for companies that support the military indirectly is an interesting question, and I think 'BinaryIdiot has convinced me that it should.)
Raising cattle for meat produces a huge amount of methane, and also is the number one reason for rainforest destruction, and overall is (surprisingly) the greatest contributor to global warming, so if you are truly worried about the greatest of out problems, then you would reduce your meat intake.
BDS doesn't lead to peace — it's prclaiming a different kind of war. So far, it affected PA residents more, than israelis, stripping their sources of income and creating additional barriers between people, helping otherification. It aids the same culture of hate and intolerance that created the conflict in the first place and now helps keeping the palestinian opressors, from PA to Hamas, in power — and if you want peace in the region, they're exactly whom you should be rallying against.
Olli – Autonomous, 3D-printed bus debuts rides in Washington, DC today
> While I am sure the load is high, everytime you look up a .com you are not connecting to Verisign Server.

It depends on what's in your resolver cache. If coming from a cold cache, you would start from the root hints file[1] -- if you ask them for an A record for news.ycombinator.com, they give you the NS records for com. ([a-m].gtld-servers.net, and some A and AAAA records for those); these are the Verisign servers, then you ask one of those, and they tell you to go to amazon dns, then you ask amazon dns and they tell you it's a CNAME to cloudflare and you have to chase that down.

Next time you ask, hopefully, you'll have the delegations for com., ycombinator.com, and cloudflare.net. still in the cache; but if you have a small cache, or a large amount of diversity in domain names, you're still going to make a large number of requests to the Verisign servers; anyway the delegations are served with a 2 day TTL, so you'll need to come back periodically.

[1] ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
The defense.gov story has much more detail than
the phys.org version I was working from.

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-hack-pentagon-reveals-flaws.htm...

defense.gov:
Starting this month, DoD is embarking on three follow-on initiatives.
First, will be the development of a vulnerability disclosure process
and policy for DoD so anyone with information about vulnerabilities in
DoD systems, networks, applications, or websites can submit it to the
department without fear of prosecution. Next will be the expansion
of bug bounty programs to other DoD Components, in particular the
Services, by developing a sustainable DoD-wide contract vehicle. Lastly,
incentives will be included in our acquisition policies and guidance
so that contractors practice greater transparency, and open their own
systems for testing - especially DoD source code.
Reinforcement learning has a problem in that it gets very little labelled data. You may have a million frames, but the only label is the score. Which may only change a few times per game.

Training the net to predict the next frame is sort of unsupervised learning. It can learn the rules of the game without score information at all.

The second thing is that RL is different than prediction. Even if you can predict the next frame exactly, finding the optimal set of moves is still a hard problem. The algorithm needs to learn more than just predicting what will happen, but also what the optimal action is in every situation. That is something that can be practiced in simulations, or "dreams".
A Simpler Twist of Fate
Being immoral and being unlwful are different things though.
Corning: A 150-year Old Category Innovation Company
I have also never heard of nor received such a talk. I do, however, wish I had been given one.
Allow me to share some of my perspectives.

I grow up in Seda County in the late 70 and early 80s, and am intimately familiar with culture there. Tibetan Buddhism is not what people in the west think what it is. It is actually quite repressive and brutal. After 1950s, many regular Tibetans were glad to worship the new religion of Chairman Mao instead. Yes, it was true. Chairman Mao was worshiped as one of major Gods at Tibet when I grow up there. Then Deng Xiaoping took power and demolished Chairman Mao worshiping (one of his major blunders, on the same scale as that of 89 Tienanmen massacre), now we got this huge slum town of "religious learning" at a hot basin of Buddhist rebellions. Yes, going unchecked, that town would surely become such a terrorists base, because Buddhist monks in that area had always been very militant and had launched numerous rebellions in 60 and 70s. As a child, I heard all kinds of horrific stories Tibetan monks and their rebellious army inflicted on the Chinese soldiers and civilians alike. For that reason, many Han Chinese families kept firearms at home in that area, a rare thing in China.

On the other hand, Tibetan people in general are good people. One of my cousins married a Tibetan man and we are good drinking buddies. However, Tibetan religious upper class are representatives of a theocracy at worst: greedy, deceptive and brutal.

I am surprised that this town was tolerated for so long. I guess Deng's power was still strong even after his death.
This is an unintended consequence of the 2005 US bankruptcy "reform" act. That act made it impossible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy.

Because those loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, it's less risky to make student loans. Therefore, lenders don't have the same incentive as before to underwrite their loans. That is, it isn't quite as important to make sure their borrowers have a decent shot at repaying the money.

So, it's easier to get a student loan. And, it's easier to borrow more money. So, it's easier for educational institutions to increase tuition and fees, and still fill up their classes. This turns into a vicious cycle increasing tuition and student debt.

I don't want to pick on Valpo. I don't know anything about their law school.

If the lenders were taking a close look at the Massachusetts College of Law (MCL, local to me, and struggling a bit) and asking whether their grads were getting decent jobs, they might make it harder to borrow so much money. That would put downward pressure on MCL's tuition and fees. But the lenders are not doing that.

But why should the lenders bother? It's a hassle to underwrite an educational institution. Student borrowers can't declare bankruptcy and get out from under those loans, even if the education bought with that money turns out to be worthless to them. So the lenders risk little.

It's time to repeal that part of the bankruptcy "reform."

Until then people who sign student loan papers should realize they are literally signing away their lives. Student lenders are clever and dangerous predators, and student borrowers are their lawful prey.
To play devil's advocate:

I think Trump supporters would say that there are simple truth about the universe that faux sophisticated liberals don't grasp or weight equally with less important things.

I believe that orthodoxies of the past half century have been a failure. If average wealth has not risen for decades, a fact, then there is something wrong with your model. Notice the slogan is not Make America Great. It is Make America Great Again.

That admission of failure is fascinating and completely ignored.
I've captured this exact workflow, and it works really well in practice on mobile and browser (probably anything that can curl with JSON) https://github.com/hharnisc/auth-service
This blog post [1] and its predecessor explaining Huffman Codes [2] was a very helpful guide for me.

[1] https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/fractional-bits-part-i...
[2] https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/huffman-codes/
Researchers track the secret lives of feral and free-roaming house cats [2011]
And you have every incentive to give (just) positive reviews...
It;s actually much more than the 50 states. There are the territories and the feds. Then there is the precedent used by various boards and committees such as the NLRB. Canada and the UK have similar splits (ie scotland) but the biggest and most relevant divide is that between nations.
OK, well you may be right, but I really feel obligated to say: Grothendieck didn't want to "overcome" his political obstacles. Turing didn't want to "overcome" his personal obstacles, etc.

I'm having trouble coming to the conclusion that these people being unsuccessful in the world has a lot to do with them, for example, being too stupid to overcome their sexual orientation, or because they were not clever enough to abandon their moral resolve...

We are not islands unto ourselves, and we did not evolve as islands unto ourselves.

All I'm saying is that it's more complex than "stack the odds in your favour and you'll always succeed," for a number of reasons... we evolved in groups, we live in a complex world, intelligence is a broad and complex subject, and we don't know everything.

I, personally, don't even want to live in a kind of world where we describe people with strong moral principles, or sexual preferences different to mine, as not clever enough to be successful, regardless of their other achievements.
I saw the headline and initially assumed it would be some droll Game of Life invention. Then I thought, no, maybe its some automatic sci-fi art generation script. And I was rewarded!

Procedural generation like this is quite possibly key to the future of indie games- if you don't have the team to design large sets of art assets, its important to be able to put something pretty out there using your own wit. (A good example would be No Man's Sky.)
There are numerous subway stops in NYC where the noise is so loud that a death metal band would be an improvement.
Microsoft tests new tool to remove OEM crapware
Introduction to Angular 2 – Part 4
User Onboarding Best Practices
Here's hoping for a grellas comment on the matter, as in https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas.
Larry Page was held back by Google execs from flooding with new gTLDs [2015]
It makes a difference to mining centralization. If you have a short confirmation time, it decreases the variance in revenue for individual miners and thus the incentive to join a mining pool.

Similar for the mining algorithm itself; memory-bound algorithms decrease mining centralization because ASICs become less useful.
The house that fame built
> ~23,000 people who blindly jumped on the hypetrain

I haven't touched ETH or the DAO personally, but it is unfair to label every investment in them irrational. Over the past 5 years cryptocurrencies have provided multiple opportunities to convert, say, $10k into $100k or even $1M within a year or two; once your networth exceeds a certain amount, risking 1-2% of it on an opportunity like that is arguably wise - i.e. would be worth repeating - even if it does fail spectacularly.

It is certainly true that as long as that reasoning delivers 10-100x+ returns to some of the people some of the time, a giant fount of speculative money will continue to moisten a lot of scammers, con artists, and insufficiently-careful SW developers though.
> objectively regulate

I think you misunderstood...regulate as in increase or decrease the creation of the medium of exchange through technology, not government entity.
The app looks great Anand! Cheers for such a good job.
Not far from Kangding. You will pass Kangding if you go there from Chengdu.
1. By that do you mean each to-do has it's weight displayed?
2. I agree. The flow doesn't feel quite right yet and I will need to experiment with it.
3. How do you mean?
4. Thank you! :)