skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is important:

> Mitch McConnell (R-KY) switched his vote at the last minute. He submitted a motion to reconsider the vote following the defeat. A new vote may be set for later on Wednesday.

So while it didn't advance this morning, it will likely come up for another vote later today. It hasn't been "rejected" per se, but has at least experienced a (potentially short) setback.
"If you're going to complain about biases in an article, you have to highlight your own. "

This is pretty ridiculous. I don't expect people having an opinion on child sex trafficking and talking about biases those article authors have to disclose whether they were abused as children, and are thus biased etc.

I'm not the one who wrote and published an article in a major news site.

I'll point out he didn't disclose his biases in his biography either, so apparently he doesn't agree with you, since he's literally complaining about google's biases.

"Disclosure isn't a statement you are speaking for your company, it's a statement you have a direct vested interest in the topic at hand."

Which is 100% totally and completely irrelevant to discussion of either someone else's biases or the topic of hand.
If someone wants to start a separate discussion of my biases, that's fine too, but it could not be more orthogonal.

> Such as being a significant stockholder, or receiving a paycheck from one of the companies being discussed."

Why stop at companies? When discussing the california drought, should people living in areas affected point out they have a direct vested interest in one outcome or another (because they pay more, because it means water restrictions for them, because ...)?

and again, FWIW: I am neither a significant shareholder, nor do i have a direct vested interest in the topic at hand. If Google was regulated, or whatever, it would have literally no effect on me.

In any case, i'm not going to continue this line of discussion. I have no plans to change what i do, because i think it would make for a much worse discussion forum. you are welcome to do what you want.
Was still going. GOES 3 is scheduled for final decommissioning on 23 June 2016.[5]
DDG appears to not autocomplete dirty words, but try starting with [jews are] or [muslims are] or [gays are] and you'll see the kind of stuff that eventually led to Google's autocomplete being heavily scrubbed.
Why should I trust you even if you have an HTTPS cert? All you needed to get one was a domain name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_codon and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_codon
GOES 3 is scheduled for final decommissioning on 23 June 2016.[1] :(

[1]: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/21278
Fantastic list!

I would also add "yourself / your own saving" as a source of investment.

Pros:

- Non-dilutive

- No loss of control

- Quick to close the deal

- Putting in one's own money sends a strong signal to your investors and employees that you are committed to the company

- The investor's incentive is perfectly aligned with the entrepreneur :)

Cons:

- Risky
> This is such a throw away line i'm not sure why you added it.

If you understood it, you would not have written something so naive as "Honesty, i wish articles like this were written by people without agendas, so that real discussions would be had."
How to make Slack simpler, safer, and less annoying
The certificate is presented when fairly little information has been sent by your browser, so it's tough to target it more specifically than source IP address and OS/browser.

There are a lot of ideas for catching this and some of them are starting to work, like HPKP pinning and preloads, and in the long run Certificate Transparency (including not accepting certs that haven't been publicly disclosed).

If you use HTTPS Everywhere, you have an option to submit certs that you see to the EFF SSL Observatory.

I don't mean to minimize the threat; I think there are lots of sites and browsers against which misissued certs can still be successfully used today without detection, and it's important to keep working on making that no longer true.
I don't know how much C++ you've done, but your "Ahah! BUT WHAT ABOUT" scenario sounds exactly like virtually every C++ project I've worked on. You have N libraries, and each library has its own string class and templated array class, all with different member function names.

The answer to your question is: yes. Usually you're going to do some transformation or processing when moving from one type to the other, so you just fold the conversion into that. It's stupid and you roll your eyes and you just kind of carry on.
Amazon’s new Kindle
> That neighbor to neighbor information dispersion replaces a lot of the function of broadcast advertising.

Not from the perspective of companies, who are the ones paying for advertising — their goal is to get the word out about a specific brand or product, which sometimes aligns with consumers' needs, but definitely not always.
RPy2: Combining the Power of R and Python for Data Science
Thanks! We updated the submission title.
Some NLP tasks do indeed lend themselves well to smoothing, but I was thinking of language understanding tasks like question answering where changing or misunderstanding a single word in an entire novel can easily make a correct answer completely incorrect.

I agree with your second paragraph, and if I understand Chomsky correctly, that is part of why he argues in favor of a generative grammar. I can't say that I completely understand how such a grammar would be linked to semantics and experience though.
Placebo effects in cognitive training
> (I find it funny that every sibling comment basically says i shouldn't have done that, and says "you should discuss the thing, not the biases", which is a fair point. Meanwhile, you are saying we should discuss the biases).

They are just pointing out your hypocrisy.
Privacy vs. Oversharing: The Ultimate Tradeoff in the Internet Age
You mentioned it as as an aside. The well ordering property is completely irrelevant.
> Was still going. GOES 3 is scheduled for final decommissioning on 23 June 2016.[5]

Presumably the date is for the East Coast of the US, so that's tomorrow.
> One reason is that the term is exclusively used by the ideological opponents of this "neoliberalism",

No, its not. Its used by defenders of neoliberalism quite a bit.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2010/Sumnerneolibera...

https://cambridgedevelopmentstudies.wordpress.com/2011/04/12...

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31603

http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=94...

> A lot of people describe themselves as libertarians of various types, or even as classical liberals, but I've never met a person calling herself a neoliberal.

Which says a lot more about who you do (and don't) know than it says about anything else.
As other posts have mentioned, its mainly due to a bad batch that was produced in the late 90s. I have 4 30-40 year old musical instruments that are on their original caps and work just great.
They do want it to work, they just want it to be the MVP.
As like an eight-year-ish reddit user--gross.

To be honest, I may just no longer be in the target user population or something. Which is fine, it happens. It seems like none of the recent decisions have added value to the site for me.

* Changing links to be affiliate links -- doesn't apply to me at all

* Making their own baby imgur --had to happen, but doesn't have a real value-add for me personally lots of times I don't realize if I'm on imgur or the new reddit one unless imgur's dumb cat paw advertisement comes up

* Mobile app -- way too late. I mean I've had the other ones installed for years at this point

and so on. I think the last feature that I was like "oh that's cool!" about what the Coinbase integration to quickly give gold to a post
It's Okay to Not Have an Opinion About Everything
Will HireHer help the diversity issue in tech?
YaCy – Peer to Peer Search Engine
Ah, the dreaded 17-engine approach! :-)

On the Volocopter, the 18 rotors are fixed pitch, but yeah, a couple of engine/rotor failures are no big deal. Beyond that, ballistic rescue parachute: autorotation is not an option.
It's easier to track perhaps for ads more aligned with your interests, but it could be used for other things.
or they noticed any one of the hundreds of cherry picked "facts"
Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users
Now that you mention it, I do for Ford Trucks from those ads, but then when I see people on the road driving them, they don't stick.

As for the others, you got me. A Jeep Wrangler? Prius? (Environment?). BMW? Corvette (80s?).
Eve Developer Diary, March — Part 1: UI
So i see we are back to ad hominen.
I use Reddit daily, but I don't log in when I browse at work so I ended up getting this message last week. It was dismissed immediately, so I wasn't too irritated (unlike Quora's system which bothers me constantly because their digest emails open in my browser rather than their app, where I am logged in).
I agree 50%. But, it becomes pretty obvious once you realize the significance of prime numbers, their applications and the scarcity of them.
I take cash, and always let folks try before they buy. :) I do have solid means of establishing trust. None of it has anything to do with technology security. Old school, baby!

That said, I am actually trying to move to a rather isolated place, and that is a perfectly valid option, so don't knock it.
Chips with sensors everywhere is inevitable; both are cheap and getting cheaper.

The real question in my mind is whether the devices will be using proprietary protocols to communicate with centralized corporate cloud servers, or some kind of open, interoperable mesh network. Right now I don't like the way the trend is going.
> Anyone who uses the term "neoliberalism" is a charlatan.

> It is an absurd conspiracy theory that has since blown into an amorphous meme out of Marxist historiographers who struggle with the explanatory power (or lack thereof) of their framework.

"neoliberalism" as a term is no more (and, arguably, much less) an invention of Marxist historiography than is "capitalism"; its true that both terms were coined by critics of the systems they describe, but that's not uncommon.
This originates from Quora and has been copied by many such as Facebook or Pinterest, etc. It's horribly annoying, but I guess there are statistic data to back it up (increase signing up by X percent?)
"This seems really simple and obvious to me. So what am I missing?"

Personal identity is a deep philosophical problem - see Derek Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons'.
It almost seems like an exaggeration to call this an interview — it's more like a short Q&A akin to the ones that they have with celebrities near the backs of gossip magazines. (I read them at the dentist, okay?)
One of the best languages ever. Seeing the implementation of ALL the system in the IDE, the Transcript to play with code ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Cuba give some specific details about censorship on the Cuban internet.

The only direct comparison to China is in the latter, which says:

> Reporters Without Borders suspects that Cuba obtained some of its internet surveillance technology from China ... However, it should be noted that Cuba does not enforce the same level of internet keyword censorship as China

but also:

> Rather than having complex filtering systems, the government relies on the high cost of getting online and the telecommunications infrastructure that is slow to restrict Internet access

You'll need to decide for yourself what "like" means.

If I read http://laredcubana.blogspot.com/2013/11/ilegal-satellite-int... correctly, satellite internet is illegal, and expensive:

> getting the equipment in and installed costs between $3,500-$4.200, paid in advance in Miami. The bills are generally paid for by families members who live in the US and it seems that the motivation is purely business -- cheap phone calls and Internet access -- not political.
I see also that Twitter stops hashtags from auto-completing. I guess there's a department responsible for the manual maintenance of a blacklist of ostensibly offensive hashtags. I wish there was some transparency into this list for trend analysis.
Per below, yes.

However, England doesn't have a statute of limitations on breach of bail, of which he is pretty clearly guilty. (England rarely has statute of limitations.)
(preface: Riffing wildly here -- and may have gone in a different direction than your analogy's original intent --)

So, regardless of whether or not actors are a good pattern, what we need is scale-free patterns?

I can see how getting hung up on actors as a programming language feature would impede that.

How can we make the jump to scale-free, though?

- With actors, historically, we seem to have gravitated to talking about them in terms of a programming language feature or design problem -- while in some sense it implies "message passing", we usually implement the concept at scales of small bits of an in-memory process.

- With processes in the unixish family, we've made another domain with boundaries, but the granularity and kind of communication that are well-standardized at the edges of process aren't anywhere near what we expect from the languages we use to craft the interior of processes. And processes don't really compose, sadly.

- With linux cgroups, things finally go in a tree. Sorta. (It's rough trying to stack them in a way where someone arbitrarily deep in the tree can't decide to take an axe directly to the trunk and topple the whole thing). Like processes, we're still handling granularity of failure domains here (better than nothing), but not defining any meaningful or scalable shepherding of communication. And we still haven't left the machine.

I'm sold that we need some sort of architectural ideas that transcend these minutiae and are meaningful at the scale of the-internet-or-larger. But what patterns are actually scalable in terms of getting many systems to consensually interoperate on them?

I'm twitchy about trying to define One True Pure Form of message passing, or even intent passing, which seems to be a dreamier name that still converges at the same limits when implemented.

But I dream that there's a few true forms of concurrent coordination pattern that really simplify distributed and asynchronous systems, and perhaps are scale-free. Perhaps we haven't hit them yet. Words like "actor" and "agent" (divorced of e.g. programming language library) sometimes seem close -- are there other concepts you think are helpful here?
While a cute quote, I don't remember Upton providing any empirical or real evidence for this statement :)
Native translation if helpful.

> Роскомнадзор внес в реестр запрещенных сайтов домен облачного хранилища Amazon (s3.amazonaws.com). Адрес включили в реестр 21 июня, хотя Налоговая служба предписала это сделать еще в мае.

Roskomnadzor (Russian Communications Oversight) added Amazon's cloud storage domain (s3.amazonaws.com) to the register of prohibited websites. The address was included in the registry on June 12 even though the Taxation service instructed this to be done in May.

>Причина запрета домена состоит в том, что там размещен сайт, где можно скачать программу для игры в покер. По российским законам, играть в покер запрещено.

The reason is that there is a website hosted on [S3] where it is possible to download a program for playing poker. Under Russian laws, playing poker is prohibited.

>Пресс-секретарь Роскомнадзора Вадим Ампелонский рассказал «Известиям», что ведомство обращалось к Amazon, но компания ничего не предприняла. На «Хабрахабре» пишут, что домен s3.amazonaws.com уже заблокирован у провайдеров ТТК и «Акадо».

Press secretary for Roskomnadzor told [Russian News Agency Izvestiya] that the department addressed Amazon but the company did not take any action. There are already comments on the service "Habrahabre" that claim that s3.amazonaws.com is already blocked by service providers TTK and Akado.

> Многие сайты пользуются Amazon S3 для хранения информации. Например, Tumblr, Formspring и Pinterest хранят там картинки.

Many websites use Amazon S3 to hold information. For example Tumblr, Formspring and Pinterest host their images there.

>Роскомнадзор не раз блокировал важные интернет-сервисы. В разное время в реестр попадали YouTube, GitHub и «Википедия».

Roskomnadzor bocked important websites multiple times in the past. At different times YouTube, GitHub, and Wikipedia were added to the registry.
> What about the Slick team? Also growing?

Different projects require different approaches. The introduction of the community process added 5 new maintainers and the merge of Slick and FreeSlick caused a lot of activity and contributions, so I'm pretty happy.

> Are you saying two new compiler engineers were hired by Lightbend?

Yes.

> Because if they're working on Lagom that's a different (mostly Java) story https://github.com/lagom/lagom

No.
For context, in 2013 Germany was producing around 50,000 barrels per day. [1] Germany is a huge net importer and a very minor producer.

The US state of Wyoming produces more than 200,000 barrels per day. [2]

The US as a whole produces more than 7,400,000 barrels per day. [3]

[1] http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=de&product=oil...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
[3] http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=us&product=oil...
It appears the main motivation here is to maintain the same level of taxation on a business that switches from human to robot workers for a significant part of the labour undertaken.
Surprising Statistics of the Gender-Wage Gap in Tech
> Last summer, Stagefright became a household name

I knew what the title meant but from other comments here it would seem it's not as "household" as the article suggests.

Maybe the title should include Stagefright in quotes, or "Android-Stagefright"?
I can't tell what this is supposed to mean.
Taxing employers for using robots as if they were human employees might be a good idea. But giving robots 'rights and obligations' as if they were human is totally insane.
Richard Muller's Answers on Global Warming [Quora]
Help Zoe and the Amazocalypse Find Seattle's Space Needle
Show HN: Breakthrough American Options Pricing
One could easily cite the number of engineers who draw paychecks at Google, Facebook, and other places who seem to be unaware that massive surveillance software doesn't just write itself. :)
From the link you posted:

> However, we were still able to find several more questionable certificates using only the Certificate Transparency logs and a few minutes of work. We shared these results with other root store operators on October 6th, to allow them to independently assess and verify our research.

So finding questionable certificates is trivially easy, but nobody ever bothers to look? What good is that?
InMobi Settles FTC Charges for Tracking Consumer Locations without Permission
One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.
The Volocopter has no ducts - same sophisticated tech as a helicopter: props are rotating a bit higher than your average human.
Its a bit like gun control laws; ultimately the criminals won't follow them. I was reading about some recent attacks and how hackers just steal certs or fool CA's into making certs for them. My understanding is that this is trivial for them to do in most cases. Turns out most CA's are run like security shitshows.

Meanwhile at work we're juggling dozens of certs left and right each with their own expiry as a handout to CAs. There's no reason why CAs cant sell me a cert that has a decade expiry. If the cryptography it uses goes bad, we'll just replace it. Why am I constantly buying these things?

Everything about CAs and browsers are wrong. Especially when many browsers ship with root certs from entities controlled by autocratic governments with zero accountability and involved in cybercrime and cyberspying. I'm giving incredible access to these nation states by downloading Firefox, Chrome, or IE. How is this "secure" again?
Perhaps you meant pica? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) ;)
If the cell had a log it would be filled to the brink with warnings and errors :)

Thinking if it like:
Just remove files from the OS until it wont start :)
That's a great start at least! Posting something that is wildly wrong is the best way to get someone who knows more to interject with corrected information, so hopefully someone with expertise can confirm or deny.
Why do you so often submit the same article multiple times? This is, for example, the third time you've submitted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946861

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11932544

Do you think everyone should submit their links two, three, or more times, just as you do?
I was shocked to learn water used in fracking is permanently "gone". Seems like an absolutely atrocious abuse of a resource we have a fundamental dependence on.
I'm sure there's a log somewhere on the Internet of a message board where people called Apple customers "sheep" when they got rid of the 3.5" floppy drive.
Sometimes you get Curtis Yarvin.
Why are you framing the loss of life solely and exclusively within the bounds of economic damage?

Obviously there are cheaper ways to cause more expensive damage. That's not what terrorists care about and that's not what potential victims of terrorism care about.
Apple.

I think with the right leadership, they could probably become relevant to the market again. They've been playing so much catch up for the last several years, and also been making several missteps in how they handle user data inside of their operating systems.

Plus, generally pissing off iOS/OSX software devs doesn't really help sell the platform very well, as some developers have dropped iOS and OSX as a legitimate platform, and develop for Android and/or Windows only.
Am I the only one that read the FAQ half-expecting to see some crowdsourced data mining / AI training piece along with this? Perhaps because it was released by Google and had the word "project" in the title.
PG&E Announces Closure of California's Last Nuclear Power Plant
30K for mio, that's a bold move!
This is a false comparison.

Jail-breaking is just a privilege escalation. You were a $USER, now you are $ROOT. This is just tricking the kernel. Fundamentally the kernel is just doing what it was programmed to do, you were just clever.

What the hack being suggested here would require is re-writing entire parts of the kernel from OUTSIDE of it. Injecting your new code INTO the kernel. Tricking your CPU into executing that code as Ring-0 (the kernel). Then having what ever you do INSIDE ring-0 not bring the whole house of cards crashing down in the process. As you fiddle with raw memory locations/address to grab what ever you were looking for.
Isn't that what deploy keys are for? See: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ssh/README.html#deploy-keys

Deploy keys give read-only access to clone a repository, and they are associated directly with the repository.
Nice to hear that sentiment, because personally I've reached "peak opinion" (that is, "peak hearing of opinions")
yet if you query those engineers, i would guess they both understand that, oppose mass surveillance heavily, and oppose anyone in their company writing it. So that would mean upton was wrong, or their paychecks don't depend on any of that :)

(whether they have power to stop it, or work to stop it is not what upton was talking about, and a completely different question)
The one in the article is actually piloted. It's just not that hard to fly. Once it's completely automated CNN will run a story about "Unmanned MUAV's"