skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article suggests that there was some sort of signature on the emails that is similar to previous known hacks.
> "instead of going all the way like Tesla's AutoPilot"

The name "AutoPilot" is misleading - it's anything but. An advanced lan-assist, sure, but compared to google, Tesla's technology is very far from going all the way.
Can you elaborate on why you believe abandoning Von Neuman will be crucial for AI?
It really depends, but I could tell a story that is pretty convincing that says they will lose more than 25%.

Lets say you get to work, sit down, and you veg out for 30 minutes to kindof ease into the zone. Then you get going on your project, and it takes another hour or so to get fully up to speed, track down a failing test that someone committed, whatever. Then in the afternoon, you chat with a co-worker for half an hour after lunch.

Now you have 6 hours of productivity in an 8 hour day, but 4 hours in a 6 hour day. The main point being that there may be some 'fixed cost' things that don't scale up or down so much.
I'm not sure that all pickled food "should" be fermented to attain sourness. It's perfectly normal to pickle many foods in vinegar, is it not? Fermentation changes the flavour in a particular way and you don't always want that (though vinegar also changes it, and in more ways than just souring).

But I'm not a native speaker so maybe I'm confused about the definition of the word "pickling". Does it always imply fermentation? When you do it with vinegar is it just called "preserving" maybe?
Crudely put, my point was that the people who freely choose C, C++ and Javascript (and PHP etc.) are the kind of people who don't care much for quality. I understand if there are availability or historic (or even sometimes performance) reasons why someone chose a bad language, but if not I'm a bit prejudiced towards them. Erlang, in contrast to the aforementioned languages, is a language for people who plan to do things properly.
Highly dependant on the situation. There are a lot of extraneous details mostly related to budgets, client relationships and scheduling that the person doing the actual work may not have the most up to date info on.
That's pretty much what they were. YC was called the Summer Founders Program[0] at the time.

0. http://old.ycombinator.com/sfp.html
Perhaps relevant, the TV Tropes page Creator Breakdown (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorBreakdown):

"[...] and it would be hard to argue that angst can't help you make some really good art. People who have something to work out through their creativity also tend to put a lot of effort into making it good, if it's concerning something important or special to them."
Google search result pages are not static resources that can be spidered. Wikileaks' content is.
COMPANIES BEHIND WARFRAME, CLASH OF KINGS GAMES SUFFER DATA BREACHES
> Rockstar North's facility in Edinburgh has roughly the same employee count (slightly more by Wikipedia's count), and all they do is put out one new game every 5 years or so.

Yeah they actually manage to ship games (that manage to make back the entire production budget in pre-orders alone), not just sit on their hands running an online store with an outdated and clunky client.
A requiem for Yahoo and the time when the web was open, exciting, and new
I've only checked 'Clean Eating.'
The cheeses in the 'other' drop-down checklist are feta, fontina, goat, ricotta, and shredded parmesan.

I just tried switching from clean to 'no preference' and saw the cheeses in the 'other' list expand to the ones I expected to see. I suppose its reasonable to exclude swiss and mozzarella from 'clean' eating, but ideally for me would be a 'clean-but-not-that-clean' option that restricts refined sugars and flours, but not dairy. That may be idiosyncratic, I know.
GPLGPU Walkthrough
I suppose I am just going off the completely non-scientific vibe I got when I first heard people describing the organization many years ago. I think how ideal it seems (or actually is) is in the eye of the beholder :)
Generative linguistics is largely discredited these days. It has been out of fashion for a little while, but the last few years have seen studies that more concretely disprove it.
Pokemon Go Hits Iran Like a Storm
Nice idea, but isn't it too much hassle?
Fyi, intended usage with most Java loggers is to just call

logger.debug("...");

and ignore the conditional. If `!logger.isDebugEnabled` then the logger will ignore the message, so it avoids boilerplate.
I don't mean training on the dataset. I mean training on the model, i.e. knowing what to pick to train on.
Payday Loan Limits May Cut Abuse but Leave Some Borrowers Looking
> the Lab VR demos

Wii minigames in VR are still just Wii minigames, whole thing feels like something I'd expect from a hackday from a company as supposedly prolific as valve.

Got a strong feeling the talent is long gone.
Fair enough, my claim was overbroad. I would still say it's true for most computation tasks: a vNA computer on typical hardware is still going to be more efficient as a general-use computer than something on a neural architecture.

Humans do currently have an advantage on certain tasks that require detection of overall global patterns adn symmetries. (But even then, only a subset of those tasks for which someone hasn't been able to specify a good algorithm for finding that structure.)

Even so, the core point remains: it's not that vNA is a bad architecture or that neural computers are more efficient in general, and the latter are probably much harder to reason about.
I admit that I'm not a typical car buyer. I have no car and no experience in buying cars. What I would like to do is go to a website, pick a new car with reasonable features and see a hard number what it's going to cost me per month/year all in. Instead they make it a very tedious process to roughly come up with a number of how much this car is going to cost me in, say, 5 years and how does it compare to other cars.

Of course I should probably just lease a car but that is not very common where I live and thus prohibitively expensive. But I'd like to see it become more common as right now the risks and costs are quite hard to calculate.
The freezing process of breastmilk does destroy some of the nutrients, making it less nutritious than an infant feeding directly on breast.
Validation functions give you control on writing, but there is no control on reading: everybody can read everything. That's more or less by design, couchdb would encourage you to create another db for another set of permissions.

Couchbase's channels allow you to segregate docs with different read (or write) rights inside the same db.
Lisp (first formulated in 1959) is still alive and well: clojure.org

New languages (such as Javascript, Ruby, Python, even newer iterations of Java) become popular to the extent that they marry Algol-like (i.e. C-like) syntax with functional features derived from 1960s-era Lisp in an appealing fashion.
HOnions: Towards Detection and Identification of Misbehaving Tor HSDirs [pdf]
The recent attacks in Germany are a particularly relevant example.

Aside from the fact that zero people have thus far been killed by Islamist terrorists in Germany (since...I'm not sure when), every single incident was perpetrated by one person acting entirely on his own. And the thing in Reutlingen which keeps getting lumped in was a "normal" murder.

No amount of domestic "anti-terrorism" law enforcement would have the slightest impact on any of this, not until you crank it to the level of a genuine police state with zero freedom.
This requires a registered DNS domain managed by Google Cloud DNS -- I wonder how much work it would take to make that also work with AWS Route53?
#thankthemedia
> 400k

Holy shit.
I think especially in the US people are being paid for 8 hours, but in reality most of them work much more. So the overtime is essentially free. If you take a pay cut for working only 6 hours your employer loses much more working time than just the two hours.

The fact that overtime is free also accounts for the number of useless meetings. The time wasted is free for the employer. When I worked in Germany the bosses were much more conscious about wasting time because they had to pay for overtime or the union simply wouldn't allow it.
The rise and fall of Yahoo
You're right, that would be very cool (but IMHO also a little unlikely). He did right though, by not forcing this deeper connection when it's not really there, instead referencing that "huh?" feeling, which is common to both.
Ask HN: Django Shops with remote positions?
I'm not talking about the ones that you can already find on remote job aggregators, but the ones that are kind of always hiring but maybe only on their site. Do you know some?
Or maybe forbid rebinding any bound symbol at all.
Simple gallery upload. Native. Less than 2kb
I have a nvidia shield just sitting around (because to be honest it's pretty useless as a console / with android on it), I've been considering looking up to see if it can run Fedora / CentOS's ARM port for some time. This might just be the push over the edge I need...
I'm curious why so many of these issues seem to differ so greatly from any other reason people may be doing something in public.

Does it really matter if they are using an app on their phone instead of reading Yelp or listening to a podcast while they crash into someone, act like an idiot, etc? If I put out a podcast that is meant to be listened to as a walking tour of somewhere do I have these same liability concerns since I'm suggesting locations to the user?

How random would an app maker have to make their AR game to make it clear they just want to make a game that people can play by moving around, without being liable for everything stupid people do in public while they happen to be running the app?
"you know they refused jesus too" - bob dylan
Look, if you're going to go around blowing white supremacist dog whistles then you don't get to act surprised when people call you a white supremacist.

Is it possible that you're not really a white supremacist, and that you're just leaving your mind open to whatever the science determines? Maybe. But if that's the case, the burden is on you to convince us clearly and thoroughly that you are not a racist.
Right on the money. curses needs to die and we need to make better use of our resources. It's eye-opening to explore these projects that "never caught on" even though they had great ideas that we still don't see today. (Granted, those projects truly never gained popularity for other reasons.) I'm glad to see that there are others thinking about these things. The current state of things bothers me enough that I will do something about it, but I'm afraid that I am something of an extremist and that my particular solution won't satisfy many other people. Because of this, I expect more popular alternatives to arise while I am hacking my own.
seems to be a derivative of the cracked.com language
Our gut bacteria is the interested party - not our brains. Microbiomes are really excited to finally be getting some press for all their hard work.
That same coercion is required of a market economy. The primary difference is that both coercion and opposition tend to be distributed. E.g., bosses, management theory, police and sheriffs, courts, collections agencies, renter and homeowner evictions, military force, etc., etc.

Perhaps the success of the market system has to do with spreading the coercive element across more fronts (as it did some of the rewards).
My memories of Popular Electronics is around seeing the diagrams for a simple microcomputer, the Cosmac Elf which was based on RCA's 1802 CPU. I begged my mother for an advance on my pocket money, sourced the parts and wire-wrapped it all together over a Christmas break. Best money she ever spent, software and computers turned into my career and still is today.
This continues to promote the easy but false narrative that there was waterfall and then there was Agile/XP.

For example, it says "Winston Royce earned fame by suggesting that software be developed in a linear sequence of processes".

If you read the actual paper, you'll see that Royce did not suggest that. http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/files/orig... . He wrote "I believe in this concept but the implementation described above is risky and invites failure."

He then goes on to say the waterfall model "has never worked on large software efforts."

He explicitly proposes a two-stage delivery: deliver a prototype, get feedback, and then deliver the final product.

Anyone who is interested in what state-of-the-art was before Agile/XP should read the first edition of "Rapid Development", from the mid-1990s. It comes out the Rapid Application Development methodology of the 1970s 1980s. Agile draws from RAD as one of its sources.
Of course is should be an option but from a risk management perspective it makes sense to reduce the attack surface that a fraudster has to work with.

In the US at least a typical customer will never initiate an international wire transfer. Even those with friends and family overseas will typically transfer funds through a money transfer service or via ATM networks to avoid the associated high fees.

When a US customer walks into a bank asking to initiate a wire transfer its usually a red flag they are a victim of fraud.
I think the money just needs to be spent better.

In Australia "taxes and mandatory benefits" on a $100k USD salary cost the employee ~30% in taxes and medicare levy and the employer ~5% payroll tax + ~10% superannuation (401k). In total, 1.15x the salary is being spent and of that, 0.69x goes to the employee.

If the employer pays an extra 50% salary in the US, then 1.5x the salary is being spent but the employee only gets salary after tax, which (based on my payslip) is only ~0.65x salary. So the employee only gets 0.43x the total amount being spent. If the employer has a fairly generous 401k match that results in an extra ~10% going to the employee from that extra 50%, that's still only 0.50x the expense going to the employee.

As someone who's lived in both countries, I don't really get anything extra in the US thanks to that cut. The health insurance seems to be the main thing people care about but I found healthcare in Australia to be cheaper and superior to the care I've had in the US (on PPO).

I think the US needs to adopt single payer healthcare like the civilised world and work out its government spending and taxes a little better.
Rails, React, Redux and SEO
In the early nineties they didn't have one.
I keep hoping that's why there's been no new Mac hardware recently ...
Rockstar is certainly doing well profit-wise in the industry, but I think Valve still compares favorably productivity-wise.

In the last few years, Valve has developed multiple new pieces of hardware with software support; the Steam Controller, Steam Link, and HTC Vive. They've also developed and supported a new platform, SteamOS, and rolled out hardware with manufacturing partners. Besides this, the Steam platform has added live-streaming (like twitch), family sharing, big picture mode, the VR UI, and other features. They were also involved in the development of the graphics API Vulkan, which they need for their Linux-based SteamOS to become a better platform.

These are just what I can think of off the top of my head and don't even explicitly involve any games (though they released a collection of 11 small experiences for VR as well).
The author lives in a fantasy where the Supreme Court Judges appointed by Obama will somehow side with Trump's total disregard of the Constitution. And where Trump can just ask the military to go and kill all member of Congress and the military will just do it, with no regard for the Constitution, which they pledge to uphold. Where civilian do not have guns to protect themselves. And there is no NRA or well-regulated militias to protect civilians against a tyranny. Where, somehow, Trump is able to assume command over every cops to turn against each cop's own cities and states. A world where the 50 states, backed by their own militias like the National Guards, will just let a federal government become a tyranny without fighting back.

The delusion of this author is high.

People like this author does not understand the checks and balance built into our government to prevent such a situation from happening.

The many arms forces that check each other: The federal government's arm forces (the military), the states' arm forces (National Guards), the cities' arm forces (cops), the people's arm forces (well regulated militia like the the Minute Men), and the armed people themselves.

All these different arms forces will never join together under a tyranny President. They are a check a tyrant President, and they are a check on each other.

Not only that, the majority of the military will never go against the American citizens and the Constitution, no matter what a tyrant President says. In fact, the military will instead arrest the tyrant President, and put him to trail with Congress to impeach him.

Peoples like this author are delusional.
I'm an American, so my perspective is limited. But my understanding is that while Eastern parents push their kids to work hard, there is also more of an emphasis on collectivity. As a child, you're not just you, you are your family, your community. You are working together on a common goal, and you have a specific part to play. You may be pushed hard, but you are not the CEO. And neither is your Dad. Everyone has a specific role, and an understood sphere of influence.

In America, to a greater extent, it's just you. Your bad grades are yours, it's not connected to your parents, or your class background, it's just you. When you go out into the world, you are in the driver's seat, your success hinges on your decisions. And when you achieve something, it's your achievement. Not your family's.
In what way are EU states 'allowing this stream of immigrants'? The refugees are entering through illegal crossings. By definition, their entry is not allowed, but happens regardless.
I think it's clear from your first comment which of us feels superior. Smugness seems to pass as argument in this debate.

I was clearly distinguishing between those who hold that position because they think there are no significant differences and those who would maintain that position if uncomfortable differences were discovered.
No, one language (Python) isn't the right tool for every job.
Ask HN: What are your pain points using react native
Hi HNers

In three weeks, my internship will end and before I start a job, I have taken one month and an half to do open source.

I'm willing to focus on react-native pain-points or easy stuff that takes outerly long time to do.

My ideas so far :

- a RN library of components that is based on bulma.io so I don't recreate styled components evrytime

- a RN library that, given a list of fields create a bunch of react-native-router-flux scene, put some textInput with app side validation and generate a apollo-server url route that allow progressive creation of a ressource, as far as the user fill the form. That prevent me from taking a full week to write a form.

- a react-native CLI, that generate components, containers and so on, a little bit like redux-cli

I will be thrilled to have other ideas/pain-points.

Thanks.
Awesome! It wasn't readily apparent that delivery is handled by a third party before signing up. I've used Instacart before, so it's cool that it's just an integration, but I wasn't sure if it was an addon I was missing somewhere that had to be added to my subscription before I checked out.
The book shown in the article was authored by Robert G. Middleton.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IDA7ZC/
This is precisely the thing I was thinking because I'd be that guy.

I've been writing software since I was 13 years old and have been lucky to be writing software in the language I want to write in, and with code that is challenging enough to keep it interesting. Here's the thing: Since I got my first "real gig" (the one that can be called "a career"), I have averaged well over 40 hours/week.

During that time, except for one brief period[0], I had never been pressured to work an hour over 40 hours. In fact, the only time at my last job that I was actually had some moments where I was unhappy was during a year that I worked for a manager who gave me a hard time because this manager believed I was "working too much"[1]. If a job involved a "powerful credo from above to preserve such a position amid politics", it'd be a job I wouldn't make it at. Or I'd just work the extra time and shut up about it, giving the appearance that I'm some sort of super-hero with code.

I love what I do and work extra hours because I enjoy the challenge and the specific work I'm paid to do. And there are a lot of us like this out there. I have some side projects that keep me from spending all of my free time working on "work stuff" but my job is my hobby as much as it's my career.

[0] There was a period of time that I reported to a manager on a team that was entirely made up of operational support. The expectation was that the salary paid to the support guys included a stipulation to work at least 45 hours/week. He made it a point to mention this during every staff meeting. It pissed me right off, partly because I can't stand managers who hyper-focus on "hours worked" and ignore "work completed" but mostly because my salary was low for what I was doing and couldn't, objectively, be considered to be taking into account a 45 hour week. I mentioned it to this manager and was told to ignore the statement because it was meant for a couple of guys on the team who barely handled 40 hours and being the only developer on the team, he knew my job was very different.

[1] I'm not knocking this manager. This individual ran a very effective team, and part of that was their deep investment in staff. It was done out of the same caring nature that caused this person's team to be so effectively. I told my manager that I felt pressured to falsify my time sheets, which was something I would never do, because of the grief I was getting and that put an end to the grief since they were now aware that I knew there was no pressure to work the extra time and that being in control of the time I put in is important to me.
His work was foundational for the theory. However his later contributions to it was mostly detailed critiques. The critiques were brilliant and proved critical in shaping our understanding of the theory. (Even though Einstein wound up losing over and over again.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Einstein_debates for a brief history.
> > They're not saving 25% on payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, PTO, training time and management overhead. In fact, more people working fewer hours increases most of these costs."

> Payroll taxes: OF COURSE they're saving the same amount on taxes!

No, they aren't, in the US.

> It's a % of what they pay you.

Not a flat percentage; the social security portion of payroll tax has an income cap (the smaller Medicare portion does not), which is less than what most programmers make, so payroll taxes do not go down proportional to income for workers who are above the cap to start with.
Just another little reminder that you must never confuse the government's interests with your own.
As a generative linguist I don't really see this. Popular perceptions fluctuate, but the field is still carrying on more or less the same. Nothing in particular has been discovered in the past few years that would give anyone cause to abandon generative linguistics.
This is interesting, but I don't understand why the existence of CB coin would necessarily lead to traditional bank accounts losing their status as means of exchange.

Money is whatever other people will accept as money.

CBcoin accounts could be more stable form of money (though as many emerging markets show, it's not like central banks are always risk-free), but that doesn't mean it would crowd out all other forms. On the contrary, just seems like a return to fractional-reserve gold standard, where instead of gold, people use CBcoins...