skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. That bit was just the anecdotal evidence provided by a non-technical person to indicate the compromise was "bad".

Administrators at the school have now informed students that personal (SSN #, address, phone, work history) and financial (loans) information has been extracted by an unauthorized party.
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I thought that the point the grandparent is highlighting is that "important work" is not defined by what other people think is important, but by the fact that you have a unique angle of attack that suddenly makes a previously-unsolved problem tractable. Einstein had a unique angle of attack for all 4 of his annus mirabilis papers, and the photoelectric effect, Michelson-Morley, and Brownian motion were all known to be important unsolved paradoxes in the physics of the day.
If we can be automated away, we will be. No amount of organizing is going to stop that. And even in some alternate universe where it could, why would you want it to? Automation is what we do.
I actually think that there has been a long-term awareness of this fact in our industry, for decades now, and its one of the driving, motivating factors behind the entropy of the field. The OS-vendor guys know if they improve their OS'es, the systems-programming guys will get automated away, and if they get automated away, the applications-programming guys will be next .. so, subtle imperfections and flaws in the way things operate at a system level are allowed to persist, such that further downstream there are still opportunities to perpetuate the need for hands-on engineering. I can think of a few examples of where it feels like OS vendors/systems developers intentionally hobbled the functionality of their environment in order to make the long-term viability of the industry more resilient ..

So, I think it'll be a long time until 'the people at the top' get what they want. Until they start coding a replacement for Dropbox or SublimeText that will be the end-all of filesharing/file-editing, we'll always need another IPFS, another Atom, etc., etc.
This wouldn't harm me in the short term alone, it would be a lost career and a life catastrophe. A taxi driver can work as an Uber driver. I cannot become an automated programmer. So I don't give a damn about the "greater good" in this context, and question that premise also: Sibling mentions getting used to everybody being retirees, but what I see is collective poverty with token conveniences. Time will tell, etc.
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For simple data import / export tasks, simple CRUD, generic admin dashboards, I agree that those tasks likely will be solvable by AI in the not too distant future.
As a matter of fact, I think it's somewhat bewildering we still need human developers for that kind of task because the tasks themselves don't really require a lot of intelligence. Problem is, the technologies and systems we use to implement them today still require a lot of human interaction and specialist knowledge.

Other than that, implementing an AI that is capable of understanding business problems and solving them via code probably is nothing short of artificial general intelligence. In that case we won't have to worry about not being needed anymore anyway because by then we'll either very rapidly have a post-scarcity economy or you know ... Skynet ...
This is the proper way to handle recruiters:

I responded saying that working for Amazon would be awesome, but for me and Layla to move up to Seattle would require a 170-200k salary. I assumed this recruiter would take a look at that number, scoff, and politely end our conversation – but she affirmed that they could work with that, and asked if I wanted to set up a phone interview.

If you still get too many, then it's time to increase your salary requirement.
Thank you for the kind comment.
Not selling them yet, though, and the small batch might end up being a little more expensive than that (but I'm really trying to keep it under $400).
Since you typically have to wait a year to find out if the promises about raises and bonuses were legitimate, I never factor that into a decision.
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Market supply and demand is another big part of it. And you are responsible for the fate of mega $$$ corps.

If you can create something more efficient you would outcompete those companies.
The recent thread on height had a discussion about the pros and cons of being tall. The only con I agreed with was discomfort while flying. However umbrella injuries are another. Society tries to blind the tall when it rains.
System going down for maintenance now
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How one women from Texas free herself from struggled to get in shape?
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The TeXLive of the Rust world? Could be helpful. But the small std probably implies a constantly revolving cast of "best practice" libraries that's hard to keep up with. I know in TeXLive there are no stability guarantees regarding the collection as a whole. It's more of a collection than a platform.
From what I understand, HardenedBSD basically ported GRsecurity features and added stuff like default-PIE compilation and a couple userspace tools.
ban away...
I mean, I get your point on pine, but I think the jury is still out on whether she was the cause for Yahoo's demise. I think the media definitely overhyped her, but Yahoo was in pretty dire straits when she took over in 2012
We already have a post-scarcity economy. There is enough of everything to go around for everybody. Kropotkin talked about this in "The Conquest of Bread" in the 19th century. If history is a lesson, no degree of abundance will result in collective plenty.
After that Recruiter didn't even have the minimum courtesy to let me know what happened.

That's pretty common recently for companies. I'm not sure why.
It's an interpretation based on speculation, not a correction.

She might have looked at the turnstile and thought, "This is probably annoying to the other employees, so it has to go." We don't know, and 1024core doesn't know.

Or maybe the OP was correct, and an email complaint really did contribute to the decision. Without further evidence, or unless 1024core is actually Marissa Meyer, we simply don't know.
baned?
California (unintentionally?) recriminalizes libel
I'm thinking of the non-acquisitions. Google Fiber, Verily, X.

X who knows but they're supposed to be moonshots, but Fiber and Verily can hardly be called failures.
Even if I rather use IDEs, Emacs was eventually my rescue in the 90's after failing to find anything on UNIX that could somehow resemble the Borland IDEs I enjoyed using.

This were the days when fvwm was considered new.

So even today, if my IDEs aren't around, I get to use my old friend Emacs.
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Angular2 – how transform json received from api to classes instead of interfaces
You never establish a Military base "purely" for defensive purposes, ever.
She didn't want barriers to coming into work because she was about to eliminate the work from home program.
To me, this post is not consistent with the guidelines either.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

I consider this a "sign-up" page.
The Latin American code academy eradicating female poverty
I guess the daily updates on the CVE database have something to do with it.
So, your basic premise is that a company with up to 200 staff, does not, and cannot have any staff capable of installing/maintaining a CRM tool, despite the fact that many companies have sold on-premise CRM software for many years, including NetSuite.

It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to. As vendors of a (FOSS) ERP/CRM platform, we offer both a SaaS and a self-hosted installation, and most of our SMB clients prefer the former.

The thing about the continual income is that the salary of a sysadmin (which most companies don't have) costs way more than many SaaS plans, so it doesn't make sense until you're very big.

As for the lock-in, many business SaaS platforms allow you to export your data. And in our case, you also get a FOSS-licensed copy of the software :)
"...as it became clear that Stalin was interested only in grabbing as much land as possible to form a sizeable buffer between Russia and western Europe. Which seems reasonable: German forces had reached the outskirts of Moscow and an unbelievable number of Russians died in the war."

Wanting a buffer does seem reasonable, and you are correct that Russia suffered considerably during WW2.

But what Russia did with that buffer, and the countries therein, is a damning indictment of Communism.
It's an advantage only as long as you solely want to make business with other small businesses.

All large corporations I ever dealt with pass down their full suit of compliance regulations down to the last company in the chain - regardless if it's small shops or even single person shops.

Besides the business conduct and compliance papers (no bribery like steak dinners) you quickly end up needing a code of conduct, an environmental policy and a social sustainability policy. You will need a policy that you respect human rights, a policy against forced or compulsory labour, a policy against child labour, etc.
And you'll need to designate an officer for every topic, and you'll need to prove that you train your employees in every topic.
Transit of the future needs smarter routes, not more gadgets
And really, this is just (a hackish implementation of) an image-based runtime, ala Smalltalk. All ELISP is missing is a big list of all the globals it needs to care about saving and restoring (so it can not save all the random other memory-garbage it happens to still be holding onto), a serialize()/deserialize() pair of functions to run those through that result in a standard on-disk representation, and a boot strategy involving deserializing those structs into memory.

If you want to be fancy, you can make the on-disk VM-image format a database (SQLite, LevelDB, whatever) so as to avoid writing it all out every time. Then it becomes cheap enough to write out a differential state that you can make the runtime do it automatically at intervals, after certain operations, manually with a sync(1)-equivalent call, etc.
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There is literally no way to use the email they took from me that isn't a dark pattern.
You're right. I've trusted the content of Jordan Hubbard's presentation, seeing how he was inside OS X for a long time and is a FreeBSD expert too, and didn't question the validity.
Very intriguing data set. Would love to see more.
Programming jobs are protected by the halting problem. It has been proven that no program cannot detect if other programs halt or not (i.e. goes into an infinite loop or completes). I paraphrase, but this is the general idea. As long as this is true computers will not be able to program themselves except in very limited ways.

The only way around the halting problem is to use something other than computation as we know it. I.e. an entirely new kind of machine based on different principals. And no, quantum computers do not solve the halting problem since they are still Turing-complete machines.
He's not the CEO of Oracle anymore. He's the executive chairman only.
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I think you're missing the way Warren Buffett and Berkshire invests.

He takes low risk, profitable companies with proven track records and strong management teams. Geico, Fruit of the Loom, building products and materials etc. Its a very different mindset then what Google is doing when it invests in self driving cars.

Every company thats profitable re-invests those profits in some way. Trying to lump the way Google or Amazon uses their excess cash is different then the way Facebook does (Facebook builds moats mostly) and definitely different then the way Berkshire does.
The document vindicates a lot of the analysis that Kennan makes in his article. However, we do have to acknowledge the outlook that drove the party line. Among the recipients of this telegram were Stalin and Molotov (then Minister of Foreign Affairs), which I think would explain some of the extreme rhetoric here. Also note, that unlike the Kennan Telegram (which was published in Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym "Mr. X") the Novikov telegram wasn't meant for public consumption. It was part of the Glasnost files which came out in the 90s.

That being said, from the Soviet perspective, the United States -- during "peace time", had rapidly increased military spending and presence around the world. This only goes in to feed the "neurotic" world view that Kennan cited in his article.

"At bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity. Originally, this was insecurity of a peaceful agricultural people trying to live on vast exposed plain in neighborhood of fierce nomadic peoples. To this was added, as Russia came into contact with economically advanced West, fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies in that area. But this latter type of insecurity was one which afflicted rather Russian rulers than Russian people; for Russian rulers have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of Western countries. For this reason they have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between Western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within. And they have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it."
Question: is unexec() more or less portable than CRIU? If CRIU is the more portable of the two (or if they're equivalent in both just basically working only on Linux), could unexec() be dropped in favor of just generating a CRIU process snapshot, and giving emacs a launch wrapper that restores from that snapshot?
True, but, it seems that much like US presidents, CEOs want all the credit for good results and excuses for the bad ones.
only if cost is something they compete on.

as it is, the most expensive universities are seen as better, more prestigious.
Always several sides to any story - super appreciated this one. Whether Marissa failed or not - this piece was well written and worth the read.
If you kept reading, most of the content he tweeted were pictures of white girls with captions like "White: It's a beautiful thing."

The post you refer to cites statistical fact of which even the BBC admits[0]. It's also the most extreme tweet that account had to offer. As stated above, most of his account content looked like a 'black is beautiful' ad campaign aimed at whites.

Do you really think what he posted is worthy of a twitter suspension? Why?

[0]: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19592372
How would you explain the existence of military installations such as Fort Worden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worden)?
It’s not life or death
nmh ftw!
A doctor also told me this. True story.
Some good examples of intentionally misleading web design patterns here.

As a counter, for those looking to create GOOD UI and UX or want to try and avoid unintentionally bad designs, I wholeheartedly recommend this video on UI tenets and traps: https://vimeo.com/168472466
ISTM "refraining from stabbing" isn't really the same as "catering".
They're cats. They have to feel they're unwelcome before they want to be there.
In theory anything contained in an employment contract is negotiable. And, they have already signaled that this negotiable by including the clause

> and will not (without [company]’s prior written consent) carry on

One question is whether this is just wording to reassure people like you at the time of hire that it is indeed possible or whether that permission is granted fairly routinely. And, even when granted what is the cultural spin? Is branching out on your own after hours celebrated as proof of ambition and creativity? Or is that kind of after hours initiative viewed as disloyalty?

I think in some ways understanding the company culture and practice is more important that formal negotiations at this point. Because even if you get the wording changed or struck out of the contract you still might be viewed negatively even if you have the legal right to proceed.
I think back to AT&T CEO John Walter who was barely at the job 11 months before he was forced out. He made a nice tidy sum of money plus a new house for his efforts.

" Under the terms of his contract, Walter, 50, will receive separation payments totaling about $3.8 million, AT&T said. This is in addition to the $22 million provided to replace salary, pension and bonuses Walter forfeited when he left R.R. Donnelley & Co. last October after nine years as the publishing company's CEO."

article: http://money.cnn.com/1997/07/16/companies/att/
article 2: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/17/business/after-9-months-at...

EDIT: added another link.
She gets paid $50M/yr for the sole purpose of being held to blame and credit for everything that happens.
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SAP and Microsoft Dynamics are the biggest, IIRC.
Maybe "goaty" would be better.
The iPhone evolved from the iPod, but it's harder to see obvious early footholds in the automobile industry. High-end consumer, or fleet vehicles with a well specified use maybe?
The emacs community might think it's "working fine". The glibc community-- which had to forego many bugfixes and optimizations for years, solely because of emacs-- might disagree.
Hey, I'm not sure what to tell you. My Optimus functionality has been working since installing the "newest" version of the official Nvidia drivers (nvidia-352) on LM17.3. I turned it on in the BIOS and have been able to select from the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" utility ever since. I remember trying out Bumblebee on LM17 and having similar issues as you mention, and was unable to boot with Optimus enabled in the BIOS.
I don't think Amazon is completely innocent either. I signed up for prime accidentally recently because EVERY time you buy something they try to sell you prime for a year and I guess I misread something. They canceled and refunded after an email, but it was still obnoxious.
Soft ball with Jack Dorsey.
So "gravity waves" are what we commonly call "waves"?
Can't find it either, might be worthwhile to contact Jonathan about it.
> No, you don't. Univalence is the axiom that transporting operations across such equivalences _always_ works.

Sure, but the strategy I outlined is risky (as in “may lead to getting suck and having to undo work”) in a language where this isn't guaranteed to work.

> As you say "a monoid is a type plus two operations" -- so fine, we can treat the monoid And as the type bool and the dictionary of operations on it, and all this still works out.

Yup, but Haskell doesn't let you define types parameterized by entire algebraic structures. It only lets you define types parameterized by the carriers of algebraic structures.
#2 - Build an agent to win online programming competitions.

Given that online programming competitions tend to fall into distinct classes (dynamic programming, algorithmic challenges, graph problems, string problems), this seems maybe more "solvable" with a non-AI implementation?

Imagine you have a framework that can spit out sub-pieces of a solution that worked in a Unix pipe-like way (e.g, sort the graphs | find strongly connected components in each graph | spit answer of graph with lowest number of SCC).

Then you need to grind out some type of expert system to replicate the competitive programmer who currently chunks together those framework pieces.

Of course, this probably doesn't work at all for something like kaggle or stockfighter.io, where parsing the instructions and observing a dynamic system are key parts of the hacking. I am more thinking of SPOJ or similar . . .
Pretty nice of Amazon to say high hundreds, waste time, and then offer low hundreds. Even after explaining from the very start, that this was a requirement.
Only tangentially related: I'm a little skeptical about the claim that "caretaker speech" shows adeptness -- have there been any studies about whether it helps or hinders your kid to say stuff like "doggy-woggy"?
First that came to mind is niche.
Be that as it may, it does not change the guidelines for comments.

There is the flagging mechanism for inappropriate submissions.

The sitewide guidelines begin with 'Be civil.'
It's definitely not tourists, it's usually business people. I'm also rarely in central London these days, and in the east (Zone 2/3) umbrellas are a common sight. I know because constantly manoeuvring my own to dodge other people's :)
Assuming you don't mind plumbing value-level proxies all over the place, it's indeed functionally equivalent.
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> But loading these files with it to “dump” the Emacs binary? The only time I’ve heard of that was when reading a discussion about creating “executables” with Common Lisp which is apparently achieved by serializing the program’s current state to disk.

The very first Lisp implementation did that already. It could dump and read memory images to/from tape. From that on, most Lisp implementations, and not just Common Lisp, are doing it. Some have extensive capabilities in this area (like tree-shaking or generating shared libraries which can be included in programs).
It must be experts who have worked out in the OpenAI Gym. Apparently by playing video games.

https://gym.openai.com/
I second this book, there is also an audio version.

I have emailed the author a few times, he has been very helpful.
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Building slightly on that analogy:

Before setting up that tent, some random person tells getty "Hey I own this park," pointing to Central Park, "You can charge admission on my behalf."

Getty then setups up a tent without a second thought about verifying the veracity of the persons claim.

//

I'm not sure if Getty just sucked in all those public domain images and said "Is private now." or through their submission process, some individually claimed to own the copyright, and had Getty do the dirty work.
There is a free service that does this: http://letsmonitor.org
In HN terms, that's like calling a proposal for a new foundation of computing - spintronics, say - an "app", comparing it to some random social network, pointing out that the latter has really nice support for sharing cat pictures, and asking whether the proposed "app" even does that.
You’re right to slow down your hiring (but not for the reason you think)
> no degree of abundance will result in collective plenty

Will it? When you look at most First World countries in general nobody there has to starve anymore.

In the Middle Ages only liege lords could get by without ever having to work. Nowadays, even middle-class people don't necessarily need to work till retirement age.
I wonder whether anybody called umbrella users umbr-holes…
“Why I had to flee my $2,600 Bay Area rental for Seattle’s 'cheaper' pastures”
If everybody else will be automated, who will buy all of these products and services? I dont suppose that AI will need anything else beside electricity and cpu time.
It may have been down for maintenance for millennia since your comment, and just come back now, but none of us noticed!

Insert your favorite Matrix déjà vu reference here.
Car companies already cooperate closely with Apple to ensure that bluetooth works well with iPhones. CarPlay is the next step forward. So there are 2 footholds already.