skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article does a good job of showing it, but everyone talked about is seriously amazing. I made it through all the interview pieces and ran into some other life complications so wound up not getting to work with them, but having been by their space in the Pentagon they're doing some of the coolest stuff imaginable right now.

If you're looking for a new job, I'd highly recommend giving it a shot. Definitely felt like an opportunity unmatched elsewhere right now.
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Sure, throwing one apple core seems pretty natural. But a national park is full of visitors every day. If it isn't a strict policy not to throw trash and food where animals can scavenge it, they learn to expect and rely on it. This brings them in more frequent contact. With crows that's no big deal, perhaps an annoyance to visitors at worst. But other animals can be much more dangerous. Keeping a healthy fear of people in animals (and honestly of animals in people) is incredibly important.

The most extreme example of this is trash feeding bears in Yellowstone up until 1970. Humans naturally ate at hotels which naturally tossed their trash into giant piles nearby. Bears naturally came looking for all that food they smelled and naturally ate it. The humans then naturally started watching and the park naturally made that easier by putting up grandstands around the trash heaps.

Eventually a new Yellowstone park chief saw the ridiculousness and danger of this and stopped it. It then took a while for the bears to adapt their behavior back to their actual natural behavior without such a rich food source.

http://www.yellowstonepark.com/yellowstone-bears-no-longer-g...
I don't really see the point, unless you are using it to prototype react app, in which case it would make sense.

I did find some really interesting services when I was looking through the reference list, Syncano in particular.

I will stick to Middleman, I can always use React there.
So if it's not an improvement, why bother?
This confuses the average American pretty badly. The analogy I like to use is the UK-Ireland situation.

So the Iraqi-Kurds-wanna-be-Kurdistan are like Southern Ireland. In fact they broke away from the main empire around the same time "about a century ago". Turkey is like England or maybe "all UK except Ireland". The PKK is like the IRA during the troubles. So Turkey and Kurdistan are pretty chill and they're swinging some profitable oil deals and generally get along surprisingly well given the demographics. Meanwhile the PKK thinks if they bomb and shoot Britain, err, I mean Turkey, enough, then a magic wand will be waved and the ethnic minority Kurds in Turkey will secede and join Kurdistan. Which is about as likely to be successful as the American Southern Confederacy experiment a bit over a century ago, or better comparison, the actual IRA.

Its almost like an uncanny valley thing. Turks want to genocide Kurds that are like 5 miles away and blowing up their buildings, they'd rather shoot them than let them leave which seems like a pretty dysfunctional relationship, but whatever. But move that same Kurd 500 miles away and the hate evaporates and they're businessmen bros lovin that sweet sweet oil money ahh remember the good old days when we were all an ottoman empire together ahh the good ole days. Just stay where you are and don't move next door, that's all.
Microsoft's pricing model is off the rails. Ever look into Windows Server? Then the required CALS? It often costs twice the price of the hardware. Businesses will be moving to Linux/Cloud Apps like Google Docs over Office/Windows fast. There is little reason to stick with the MS ecosystem anymore.
In the ability to propose a hard fork, no difference. However, you need to be able to convince the majority of miners to vote for your fork and that's where being a core dev has a lot of influence.
Too big to fail!
>the actual ideals having more to do with post-renaissance secularism //

Could you go in to that a little, a few examples maybe of the main non-Christian ideals that underpin the founding of Europe.
This is what drives tech bubbles, catchy phrases, how would you make use of your computerized information services if it's not making use of a device?

Pc's never went away, smartphones will never go away, server side programming never went away, big data, JS, the cloud (which translates to my server on someone else location) never took away.

Different tools have different uses, that's here to stay.
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Well, its declining popularity makes it irrelevant.
How do we satisfy Tax treaties when selling software overseas?
We are based in the US and a foreign buyer has requested form 6166, which appears to be similar to a W-9. Is that right, and are we at risk from providing the subsequent certification which shows our EIN?
None of this is about the clearing system. It is about money (ie. credit [ie. debt]) creation. New money must be continually created to replace the money destroyed through principal payments. If new money is not created at a sufficient rate, the existing money is rapidly destroyed as pre-scheduled principal payments eat it up.

>Also, where's the "rolling back of prior transactions"?

AIG's CDS/O's should have basically all failed, per the rules of the system. These were just papered over. "Pre-emptive rollback" might suit better.
I agree about making selling points, however, the examples you provided there with metrics can't be easily derived and I see them often as being emphasized. One could work in a multidisciplinary large team, or help implement a test automation framework whose value cannot be expressed in dollars, however, for the team and the product owner it's of the tremendous importance and value. This is especially valid for any large, long term project that's starting from scratch.

edit: extra word
It does look a bit better (not good IMO, but amazon is way worse) but it is still Microsoft, with their main competency being Windows. Most applications don't usually run on Windows, a lot would simply perform worse.

I don't see this happening, really.
Yes, they can be used by automated system but the automated system was developed by humans who explored the RESTful service.
Tell us what you think
Will ETH hard fork after every fraud / theft / robbery? If not, then the case will be made of conflict of interest.

People behind ETH had a stake in TheDAO and they chose to protect their _dollars_ rather than the platform.
Of course there is. However, as Bitcoin Classic may illustrate, it is possible to leave the core developers working on a defunct chain.

Core developers represent a double-edged sword. They are critical for getting the network adopted, and for adapting the network to new demands, but they can also be a risk due to their influence. By all accounts, the Ethereum core developers have been open and responsive. Not all Ethereum devs wanted this fork. I do think they could be faulted for not strongly advising Slock.it to cap The DAO. That may be one reason why they were amenable to a refund solution.

You definitely should consider the core devs when investing time and money in a blockchain. They have an inertia that influences the system.
I agree with you, because that's how the legislative system works. Lobbying, pass-this-or-we-all-die-scaremongering to whip the votes, and more all fall under the rules of the legislative process. Like I said before, you and I share an unhealthy skepticism of that legislative process. But for some reason I keep having to circle around this point: the legislative process is well defined and enshrined and advertised in law (constitutional or otherwise) whereas the ethereum process is clearly not as evidenced by a 5% turnout and an immediate distrust in the process by constituents. Representatives aren't blindsided about a new kind of vote the President made up that is default "yea" that results in a 5% voter turnout.

This is the last time I'll attempt to make this point.
While it is true that the smallest states can club together to block an Amendment, I am not sure that is a real stumbling block in practice.

There have been lots of amendments to the US constitution, and I expect if a solid majority of people wanted something changed, it would not be hard to pass another. This could easily happen if one major party strongly supported something and the other party was merely split.

But in recent decades it has been easier to change the constitution by the back door through getting judgest to give creative interpretations.
>However, nothing is replacing smartphones at the moment.

Could it be wearables?
Which are all terrible in a business setting. Facebook is block at my employer, because most people doesn't seem to understand that they shouldn't be on Facebook during work hours. Also many companies doesn't exactly like it when you use a private account for business related communication.

Google Hangout is just horrible, and not only because I'm require to have an Google account (and I'm NOT using person accounts for work related communication). Whenever I get an invitation for a Hangout "call", I ask that they call the phone on my desk.

Skype works because people are just asked to create a Skype account using their work email. It's not perfect, but at least when someone leaves you can reset their Skype password and get the reset-password email.
Maybe it's not an excuse, but it seems like a reasonable explanation. The system clearly isn't ready to handle $150 million but some folks did it anyway.
I don't see the need to delete an app. Just the quicker access using the icon is reason enough for me to keep an app. Memory is the cheapest thing nowadays. I'm carrying around 64GB memory in my phone. Why limit myself, worrying about space? Even older phones don't have this problem, you can put in an SD card for plentiful storage.
Man...every single time I see a title like this all I can think is "Oh what a special little snowflake you are"
The method set out above is identical to how the Sound Control Panel applet works behind the scenes. So it is technologically identical to setting it via the UI.

As to if it requires a logout: In my experience, no, but there may be edge cases (e.g. non-OS software is also in the sound scheme, like Visual Studio and Skype for Business).

If people want to investigate further, spin up Process Monitor, and set the filter to only display rundll32.exe then set sound profiles in the Sound Control Panel applet (mmsys.cpl).
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Your account isn't banned. Except in cases of spammers and serial trolls we nearly always tell people publicly that we've banned them.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12127190 and marked it off-topic.
My current phone has the optimum width and height to fit in a pocket. I wouldn't look for any one with a very different size. Although it could be thicker if it comes with some gain, making it thinner wouldn't be of any use for me. I also would loss nothing if it weighted twice as much.

By the way, it has a removable battery and SD. I'd get a hardware keyboard only if it did not reduce the screen.

But that is me. My wife, for example prefer smaller phones because she does not carry it in a pocket.

Outside of the Apple realm, phones have some diversity. And while manufacturers completely refuse to offer some features (like big batteries) for reasonable prices, one is able to get approximately what he wants.
Apparently, the core developers could rally a quorum and gain consensus. Perhaps you could not.
It's clever. It's well done. I'm not the audience, though. I love React for, you know, "Reactive UI", the "V" of an "MVC" app, but when creating the site's content store (the "static API backend") is a "build" time event, I don't feel that there is anything to "react" to.
> It should be obvious by now, that the only way to communicate stealthily and securely is to avoid raising suspicion to the level at which the authorities might consider it worthwhile to put you under active surveillance (e.g., park a van with TEMPEST equipment by your apartment).

I wonder if it's possible to make an IRC-like chat service that that works by using social media accounts through tor to post some stenographic messages that look like real content.

For instance, pick a random subreddit, generate some comment with some markov chain based on a bunch of posts, and use that to encode communications. If each comment had a very unused word like "Methinks" at the beginning and some other strange word inside then you could probably filter out messages quite easily.
Ask HN: Storing passwords in an app or not?(the app not being a passwordmanager)
For my employer I'm investigating remote access solutions to windows servers. The discussion is whether to use a tool that stores the passwords to the servers and users don't need to enter the password (thus not seeing the password) ie. VisionApp Remote desktop. On the other hand we have people being vocal about not storing passwords in applications like VisionApp for this is not save.
What arguments are viable in this discussion?
> increase response time by 200%

"Increase"? So now getting the response takes 2x as much time as before? Hardly an achievement... ;-)

EDIT: Also, things like these are hard to quantify (and verify) and even harder to come by - you can work for years without ever being in a situation where your work "increased something by 200%". I have a feeling that many people will read your advice as bullshitting your way through the CV-based selection, to maximize the chance of getting an interview, where you can explain all the details. Which, unfortunately, is not that bad a tactic - but I don't think it's what you had in mind.
*beat the Street" is a very common term. Google N-Grams has it being roughly 1/10th as popular as the term "silicon valley" or "wall street"[1]. That's a pretty significant amount of usage.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beat+the+Stree...
I didn't read the username but then saw 'MobX' and went 'wait a minute'
That is absurd. If Gitlab and Microsoft were equivalent, Windows 10 Home would be completely open-source under GPL. Advanced features like connecting to the domain, full disk encryption, and Hyper-V hosting would be "Enterprise".

Conversely, for Gitlab to be as closed as Microsoft, their entire product would be closed, except for the source code they use to color labels in issues, or perhaps they'd hand out the spec to their flavor of Markdown.
Spatiotemporal arbitrage will always be with us.
27 times out of 11,000 proposed amendments, and as you point out, the first ten happened in bulk. I doubt that the founders planned for 2% of the population (as conservative Antonin Scalia pointed out) being able to block an amendment.
I consider it unprofessional to rely on facebook at work. I guess facetime could work, but that is, as far as I know, apple only.
No no no no no.

It's too early to measure success. OK, there was a fork. Technical success if you like.

But, at the moment most exchanges are closed to Ethereum trading on either the old or new software.

When they open we will then have a better idea how this will play out.
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> A major advantage of employing machine intelligence early in the recruitment process is zero bias; candidates are judged purely on their merits.

I am reminded* of the AI Koan [1]:

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

These kinds of systems terrify me; there was the article yesterday about the mythos of model interpretability, and how ill-defined the term is. I am equally concerned about its complement, model auditability; how well can the system explain its decisions, or have them explained. How opaque is the reasoning of the system behind a given decisions. I agree that there's a fair argument to be made that useful models are often sufficiently complex such as to not be understandable in their whole, but I'm not convinced that that's sufficient reasoning to abandon the cause entirely; it just provides an upper limit on what can be accomplished.

I know this is, functionally, just an ad, but there are an awful lot of ads lately with the same breathless enthusiasm for these kinds of poorly-understood systems.

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* Yes, I know this is tantamount to posting "relevant XKCD" or whatever; the default call/response.

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
I think it is more about how you structure your components for development. React provides a nice modular approach using composition, which is just enjoyable to write. With static html files you need to come up with a good composition approach, forcing you to make decisions on how you want to do that.

Secondly, it also allows you to progressively enhance the static site easily if you want to in the future.
Read a bit further. It's not really about him deleting apps (his case is an absurd outlier...). It's really more about the fact that, when it comes to apps, Apple and Google are the new Atari: mountains and mountains of shovelware.
Hi, I'm the main developer of KivyMD, very cool to see it pop up here!.

I must warn that it's still in alpha status, although being used to develop business applications. Any bug reports and PRs are appreciated, and anyone has any questions, just shoot!
I guess I was treating "better" as "delivers a better shaving experience". That's subjective, but I don't know anyone who reports that DSC razors, even the top-tier ones, are more desirable than a decent line from Gillette. Pretty much across the board, the conclusion is "not enough worse to care about".

I do wonder how much Gillette oversold their innovation, or at least made advances that could be copied just by looking at their product. They certainly seem to have been throwing a lot of R&D at near-zero returns on actual quality.
Influence is like money. You have an equal right to pursue it, but no right to some quantity of it. Some people have more of it, others less. If you want more, you're gonna have to work for it first.
If it's that simple, if you can just make decisions by fiat based on some set of core principles, no matter what the people say, then you don't need to take account of the popular will at all. Just have a government of philosopher-kings.

In reality, it's in no way the simple ground truth that Turkish coups have uniformly sought to achieve "greater democracy". What they are in fact is a terrible misfeature of the Turkish system; a way in which Turkey joins the ranks of Pakistan and Egypt on a faster or slower arc towards autocracy. Which is the other word for "democracy that remains democratic until the people do something that make you uncomfortable".
I would imagine Microsoft abandoned direct peer to peer communication because of patent trolling, just like Apple had to change Facetime to no longer support direct connections.
With fiat, there are legislative and legal recourses. Those aren't perfect, but they are something.

With ETH, it's a handful of inexperienced individuals with possible case of conflict of interest.
that being said OSX's defaults system is IMO far better than the windows registry. You set your defaults once, using the terminal, and it all migrates over to your other / next generation macs using migration assistant, which can be really fast over thunderbolt. It's a long time since I had to deal with basic settings like this. There's also nothing rotting underneath - I can go and delete / rename userland settings from any app anytime I want and set it back to factory. Basically Unix, but consistent over all native apps.
> Even older phones don't have this problem, you can put in an SD card for plentiful storage.

Unfortunately, not a solution for iPhones.

I have an old but trusty iPhone 4S with 16gb, so I certainly have memory problems. however, I've found that programs usually aren't that big – it's usually the data. Photos, podcasts, caches... those are the things that really add up without you noticing.
ETH miners haven't enforced anything. Do you really believe that they're not playing both forks as an option until it's clear what's going to happen?
Is PHP Dead?
It requires consensus in the chain to make such a fork. While you can argue against raw direct democracy of hash power like that, anyone who believes the state does not represent the will of the people should be strongly interested in something like Eth where the will of the majority is absolute.
I am so tired of JavaScript. Please stop writing it.
That statement was made about 18 months ago. It is no longer true. Microsoft's revenue in FY 1998 was $14.48 billion as per https://news.microsoft.com/1998/07/16/microsoft-posts-record... .

Last 12 months rev for G and M are $75 and $85.3 billion per Google finance.

edit: M's revenue had actually decreased $8 billion over the prior 12 months.
The idea that unelected judges or putschists are required to keep a political system sane indicates that the system is flawed (in IT terms, they are hacks rather than features), so I think it is, at least somewhat germane.
Four your (historical) interest, the OSI people (opensource.org) invented the term 'open source':

https://web.archive.org/web/20060924132022/http://www.openso...

'Free software' was considered to be too scary for businesses and the rest is history. So, in other words, yes they have a say in this. The made the label with the associated definition.
In the interest of objectivity, I'd change the title to read "Open Core" instead of "Open Source"
Where do you got that data? Russia has 2500 2000s+ era MBTs? Where? Which ones? Armata is not in mass production yet. The only other modern tanks you 'could' consider is T-90 and maybe T-72B3 which is deep modernization. Both are old designs actually. Still, it would be hard to find 2000 of them.
Hell I'm in an industry many consider somewhat shady and practically the only telemetry we use for ads is "user installed the app" and "user paid us." Even that's mostly just to keep the ad partner honest. Everything else really is used to make the product better for you (and us) and it even really helps resolve customer support issues.
Because its not yet another politically managed currency. It still has a sound and revolutionary premise. It just had a bump in the road.
Another way is to be not as blatantly greedy.
Like, steal half a million instead of 60 million.

That would have made it so much harder to justify a hard fork...
The real disruption will come when the non-bearded come to learn all the joys of not shaving. Then we will be reading on the front page of HN how Dollar Beard Club disrupted DSC and Gillette.
The federal government hires a team of young, talented, motivated engineers and managers, puts them in charge of failed software projects, gives them the resources and authority they require to turns things around, and -- surprise! -- it turns out they do a GREAT job.

In hindsight, this shouldn't be too surprising. What might be surprising is that the same logic should apply to ALL government functions, not just software development. Who says government projects and agencies have to be poorly run? Who says we can't devise better systems and/or mechanisms (e.g., market-based mechanisms) for attracting and retaining great people in government?

Throughout history, there are examples of government bureaucracies that have been reasonably well run, in some cases for centuries. The Habsburg empire, in particular, comes to mind: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/habsburg-empi...