skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, one of the founders of ScaleFT here.

You're absolutely right that when you're using ScaleFT you're trusting both us (as operators of the CA) and your identity provider (in this case Facebook, but we have a bunch of other options more suitable for most businesses).

Handing over control isn't necessarily a bad thing. For example, I trust Google to operate a secure and reliable email service much more than I trust myself, leaving me to focus on my area of expertise. But trust is a complex thing and there are certainly situations where handing control to any third party is unacceptable.

For organizations that require complete control we can integrate with any SAML or OpenID Connect identity system, and we offer an on-premise version of ScaleFT.
Ghost in the Wires compares favorably, also being a personal memoir, although from the other side of hacking.

Exploding the Phone takes an ousider's perspective, having been written by a relative outsider, and the information having been gathered from interviews with those involved. However, I would say it's better than Ghost in the Wires, being a better told story overall. It's also pretty much the definitive history of the phone phreaking scene, AFAICT. Phil Lapsley put a lot of work into getting his interviews, and reading up on the tech. Read it, if only so that you'll stop believing people when they tell you how awesome John Draper is.
At some point everyone gets phased out. The question we should be asking, is how do we prepare to transition people from one job to the next more quickly. Coal miners are a perfect example. They're largely stuck. They haven't the money to send their kids to school to do something else, nor do they have the $$ to do it themselves (and likely not the time either). We need to rethink (as a planet), how we deal with churn.
The typical fast food employee makes around 20K/yr, and most cooks can only command up to 30-40K without certifications. The constant supply and ease of training cooks (not chefs) keeps these wages depressed.

Trucking wages are not the greatest, but it feeds your family and pays the bills. The cost savings may be small but coming from a small town where 1/4 of the working population has class 3 and class 1 licenses operating these machines. It's a middle class lifestyle for these communities.
No. Your bias is twisting my words. First, I said I would not write such a letter to my sons. Second, mutual consent is not focused on how to treat women. It is focused on how you get a positive outcome for both parties. It honors my sons as much as it does any hypothetical woman.

You are making me regret replying to you. I answered in good faith and your reply here feels like a smear campaign against me.
I've read that, as well. Enjoyed it, but never think of it when I'm trying to name a great book for aspiring writers, and it really only covers an area (punctuation) that I don't find terribly challenging. I've been searching and reading reviews ever since reading omaranto's comment, and the market segment seems to be entirely cornered by Elements of Style. There's simply nothing in the same category, in terms of size, that is anywhere near as well-regarded as Elements. Even a book called How to Write Short is nearly three times as long.

I've (tried to) read many bigger books about style, usage, and grammar, of course, but I really would like a book I can plow through just before I sit down to write something large. Like, the day before NaNoWriMo starts, or before I embark on an editing pass of my company's documentation, just read it all in one sitting as a refresher on how to write clearly and effectively. I've always used Strunk and White for this purpose. I don't want to be a grammar scholar, I just want to write better and more clearly, and I think a lot of folks are in that position; which likely explains the enduring popularity of Strunk and White, despite its critics.
It's tough finding books that don't send a message to the receiver. I particularly remember a colleague expressing disappointment at whichever secret Santa gave him The Fountainhead at the office Christmas party (he was pretty left wing).

The four I remember gifting were Asimov's entire Foundation series, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, The Phantom Major by Virginia Cowles and See you in November by Peter Stiff.
A vote for for one of the non-big two is unfortunately equivalent to not voting at all.

That's not true at all. Want your non-Big-Two party at the presidential debates? Vote, because last I looked the invites are sent based on how much of the popular vote the party got last time (15%, I think?). Maybe I'm wrong on that, or the rules changed, but it still matters. You tell your neighbor you're voting Libertarian and suddenly the Libs look like normal folk, not a bunch of pot heads who don't like to pay taxes. You think pols didn't pay attention when Perot garnered 19% even after he went all tin-foil hat and withdrew from the race at one point?

No matter who you vote for, your vote makes a difference. It just probably doesn't make as much difference as you'd like it to.
Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesis
I can't do it with docker, but with virtualbox you can configure it to be a VNC server, then have a VNC recorder connect to it. You can use that either to record the screen or even do a macro-like functionality where keystrokes would be sent in as well.

Fun thing is, there's nothing preventing you from connecting 2 VNC clients to the server, so you can watch as well, or use another VNC client to interact with the VM while the other one's recording ...

It may require some custom code to make it happen, but it's open source. Message me if you're serious about it.
Robotic automation will replace the majority of human related services in the next 50 years, much like vehicles replaced the need of horse for travel.

Any society that fails to embrace this future risks isolation and most likely, economic failure relative to those that do.

For more on the topic, see "Humans need Not Apply" on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Define recently. :) http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-liter...

Now... I deserve to be literally roasted for some of the other mistakes above. I should know throw versus through... Not even pronounced the same...
I have worked on several react native projects. The more I do the more I'm convinced you are correct
One point I always think of whenever the comparison between current day politicians and Hitler arises; was it apparent to the people when Hitler was elected that this is a man that will start the onslaught of millions of people? When I assume the answer is no, the current political situation seems very scary.
I don't get how your table example justifies the need for such a complex rendering pipeline.

There are plenty of template libraries that can optimally re-render a list/table after row insert/remove/move operations. Events generated by elements in rows can easily be associated with the proper data item.

React doesn't own declarative templating, and if you only use one-way databinding, and re-render only what changes (again, plenty of template libraries do this), you get `v=f(d)` and efficient updates. Why the extra complexity?
Grandparents killed by truck driver on speed. Robot drivers can't get her soon enough.
FWIW, it's also the only model available with a Kensington lock slot and an Ethernet port.
Trains may be easier to automate, but 100 train cars already only have 1 driver. There is a lot less cost that can be removed there than for trucking.

Even just deskilling trucking offers the opportunity for bigger cost savings.
I think he has a point in many things. But sadly, he also criticizes every alternative like Google, Microsoft and even some linux distros. It's scary but every day we are closer to the future he has told. I bet that in some years we will be thinking why didn't we listened to him.
HA, I gave Atlas Shrugged to my boss and told her it was because she really reminded me of Dagny Taggart -- she was really happy about it, as far as I can tell
I read that one and Catch Me If You Can as a young teen both really captured my imagination, something about the thrill of the hunt intersecting with lives in modern society that I could recognize. I'd recommend both for that age group, and older of course.
That's a good point, but I suspect that a lot of serious gotchas that a data scientist might encounter in the wild are not taught as part of a graduate-level statistics course.
Being able to think critically and quickly adapting to the problem at hand might end up being more important than previous experience in stats (which is still very valuable, of course).
I generally agree with your position here, but I think you're giving React a bit too much credit for separating business logic and view code. In practice, anything complicated probably requires shouldComponentUpdate for acceptable performance. Writing reasonably efficient shouldComponentUpdate in turn requires underlying data that can be compared quickly, hence for example the current interest in immutable data structures that can be tested for equality by checking a single reference. And so the choice to use React for rendering does have implications for how the underlying data is stored as well, which undermines any claims about truly separating the view logic from the business logic.
Because in the grand scheme of things, train drivers cost nothing.

A single train driver moves 100x more stuff than a truck driver.
> and cofounder and chairman of gaming console OUYA

I can't imagine why this would be a good thing to draw attention to.

OUYA's execution was bad enough that it went out of business.
Very excellent point, obtaining an education is quite the time investment and humans are definitely more fertile in their early 20s than any other time. I actually had not taken this into consideration...
>Postmodernism is more like "defense against the dark arts". Yes, much of the work of e.g. Derrida sounds like long-form trolling, because it is. It's a form of culture jamming to disrupt the cognitive processes by which we accept things as "truth" or "reality".

You mean: it's a cheap and riskless replacement for actually struggling against capitalism via a materialist analysis of the conditions of the working class.
Haters Gonna Hate –  but They Better Stop It on Twitter, or They Will Kill It
Not lose track of your own javascript?

No, not lose track of the current state of your DOM.
On Writing Well by William Zinsser was a great book on writing. Though it's a bit more conceptual than Strunk and White.
Department of Justice Official Tells Hundred Federal Judges to Use Tor
holy crap; that's cool! I had no idea it existed (maybe I came across it when it was still called xdg-apps... I definitely agree with the decision to change the name).
To be fair, it is a good book with a noble goal. After reading it, I didn't smoke any more. Granted, I didn't smoke before it, but that's beyond the point.
A cookbook is the book I have given the most. Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller is an absolutely great book for somebody that is getting into cooking.

Of the top of my head some books I gave my brother included Salt, Siddhartha, and Shantaram. There were others that didn't start with an S as well.
Is this a new form of comment spam?
Many of the books I would have been covered already but one that hasn't (ie not found via option-f) is:

"Is God a Mathematician?" by Mario Livio

It is a wonderful exploration and history of math, science and light theology (mostly historic though. the book is written by a mathematician).

I still wonder frequently if math is human made up thing or is it innate. Is the universe inherently mathematical? Can we prove it?
Lessons from 20 Years of Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in VC Funds (2012) [pdf]
>In short, a UBI will make us all poorer because people will refuse to provide the things that others actually want, and instead will engage in hobbies that provide little value to the world?

>Your phrasing suggests you favor a UBI, yet your actual claims echo mine (and I'm a UBI opponent). I'm intrigued

Your phrasing, with respect to the GP, suggests that you consider "things like further education and the arts" to be "hobbies that provide little value to the world", and "the things that others actually want" to be "stuff like McDonalds".

As a consequence, I'd encourage supporters of UBI to avoid engaging you on the topic. Your revealed worldview speaks more eloquently than any argument you could come up with.

Unless, of course, that's not your position in re higher education/McDonalds, and you're just mocking him. Either way!
An Interview with Enix Programmer Toru Hidaka
Read the book and find out! The Volvo story is also worth reading.

Correction: Video Seven story.
http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#chapter-64-quake...
One word, the illuminati. Started in around 1960.
PowerPC is close to being done (also, the armv8 support is quite solid but the v7 needs work and thumb isn't integrated but is mostly complete).

A few of our early users are also working on some other architecture plugins so I think MSP430 or AVR might exist soon.
I was a talent buyer for the live music industry - booking bands for a music venue. Involved being physically at the space a few times a week.
Not right now -- we might change that in the future though.
Unfortunately, highly technical jobs have a floor problem. It's sort of like the "You must be this tall to ride" signs at the amusement park, except its "You must be this smart to do this job effectively." Not everybody that can drive a truck or swing a chainsaw has the mental tools to handle the increased complexity.
First person that comes to my mind is Erdogan in Turkey.
You might want to re-read your comment. Your argumentation is only relevant for grossly over-engineered projects.

React isn't about the number of elements on the page or the performance, it's about making it possible to build the UI in a declarative way. It raises the barrier of entry but immensely improves clarity, testability and maintainability.

If you ever work on a non trivial frontend with people who are well versed in the React stack and functional programming, you're in for a ride full of amazement.
> Why 3 years? My MacBook Air 2012 runs Linux better than some brand new machines.

Not if you compensate for how much extra you paid for it.

> As a browser and a ssh machine it's good enough.

So you're just offloading the needed upgrades to someone else, while still ALSO needing to maintain your own computer (though to a lesser degree).

Unless you need the extra battery capacity (how often do you need to work for several hours without being close to a plug?) then it's much simpler to just run everything locally. Plus you don't need an internet connection! Plus using an IDE or anything else graphical will actually be a bearable experience!
The distinction is being made on end outputs -- is it more like a Powerpoint deck, or more like a production data pipeline -- not on techniques.

"Machine learning" includes plenty of activities that can be used to provide evidence for one-off human decision making (e.g., using a model to produce forecasts or to understand sensitivities).
I remember thinking Buzzfeed's long form articles (I think they have a name, but I forgot it) are actually really good. Not just "good for Buzzfeed", but legitimately interesting, insightful and well written.
You can't deny that social welfare programs feed a self enforcing cycle of apathy in some segments of the population that contribute to the ability to remain lazy while still surviving. You are 100% correct that I should have phrased it better to not generalize all poor people, only a specific subgroup. I understand that some people bust their asses to scrap by and it wasn't my intention to demonize them or throw them under the bus.
I'm in my late 30s.

Couple years outta college? People are still using the PC they bought for college probably. I don't know a whole ton of people who went to college anyways.
https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
My cat and I got drunk together. This is what happened
Debate participation is based on the national polls.

Federal election funds are scaled to the results of previous elections.

http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml#General
On the topic of IO. I'm actually a fan of java.io.Reader/Writer and java.io.InputStream/OutputStream. It seems to me that most java protocols and parsers are quite composable by default due to these simple little abstractions. Granted, they might not be a good fit for async IO, but I'd still argue that they've held up quite well during the past fifteen years. I'll go out on a limb and claim that standard C++ IO haven't worked out quite as well, although it might just be my skip-the-oo-and-template-everything skepticism. Rust seems closer to java, although I feel like the Jury's still out. I'm not a enthusiastic of doing everything asynchronously as in Node. Haskell does seem to get the composability right.

Python has some of javas thinking through a standard convention on the method names for reading and writing (an interface!), but it seems common with departures from those simple rules when people get creative. From that perspective, an initiative like this is quite understandable and convenient. Nevertheless, I don't seem to feel the need in the same way in certain other languages.
Define inherently mathematical.
Who's "we"? Honestly even after Snowden and the rest the amount of people who really care about privacy and software freedom is tiny, even among technologists and programmers. Most people stop when they realize being "free" means barely using anything, for better or for worse.
The professional market has absolutely been part of their target audience. Do you really think the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro is aimed at casual users?

Hell, when it first came out the Mac Pro was aimed almost above most professionals needs. A solid desktop with 32gb ram and a top end GPU would more than suffice for most professionals in graphics, development, and data analysis.

Besides, even if they were not targeting professionals, they would still be failing that market. Targeting a market is not a prerequisite for being judged suitable for a market.
Are you looking for white-washing or journalism?
- 48 Law of Power (Because we all have to deal with power games and politics)

- The Intelligent Investor (Because people ask how do I invest)

- Fooled by Randomness (Same ideas as Black Swan but oriented towards the markets)

Edit: formating
That's a postmodern way to say 'wrong', right?
Still using an early 2011 MBP. Replaced the drive with an SSD on day one, and have since swapped out the DVD with a 1tb hard drive. Upgraded the RAM and it works well for its age, but it's had its main board replaced as part of the 2011 video card recall and it's definitely got some issues that would benefit from a clean install of OSX.

I'm a buyer of their refreshed MBP ... whenever that comes to market.
Hi Geoffrey, thanks for sharing this, very interesting!
Motivating the Middle [0] by T.J. Sullivan

It's a relatively short book and it's focus is on college fraternities (which is what I was in when I first read it). I bought about 20 copies and handed them out after reading it. While it has nothing to do with software development I have found it's core message to be applicable to working on a team. The core message is you can normally divide your organization up into 3 categories, these will not necessarily be equal in size. These categories are the highly motivated "top" go-getters who will do everything they can to help further the org, the "middle" who with the right motivation can work just as hard and be just as driven as the first group, and the "bottom" who rarely make more than minimum effort if that and are extremely unlikely to go out of their way for the greater good of the org. The book suggests to more or less ignore the bottom and spend your energy on "motivating the middle" to use them to their greatest potential. It says that spending your time on the bottom is a fruitless endeavor and will only result in alienating the middle people who are somewhat on the fence.

Now this applies much more to a community-run (in this case student-run) organization where letting someone go is often off the table (in greek life removing a brother/sister can be a much bigger challenge than one might assume). I do not bring any of this up to debate the pros and cons of greek like of which there are many (you can talk to me privately if you wish to do that), but just to bring some clarity to what I'm trying to say.

Often as an employee not in a managerial role you are in a similar situation and while I'd be a lier if I said I always applied this logic but I do try to always remember that being annoyed/angry with under-performers is, in all honesty, a zero-sum game. It's best to focus on what I can do to make the place I work better and work to bring the "middle" to want the same.

It's probably not the best book to bring up here but it's really the only book I'd ever bought for more than 1 person (and the only one that I didn't by for purely entertainment/enjoyment reasons, I've gifted fiction books on a number of occasions).

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Motivating-Middle-Fighting-College-...
Take this analogy. Some people have rare diseases. However, because the diseases are rare and not common, not enough resources go into finding cures for this disease. Should no one work on the cure for a rare disease because it will provide little value to the world, in comparison to a more common one?

I'm not saying this directly translates to UBI, but it is something to think about.
Were you also remote? What was the interview process like?
> People will still have the same incentive to work they always had (to make money) -- but some people will quit jobs they don't like, which will drive wages up (due to falling supply in the labor market).

The market is already "suffering" from labor shortage, but it's just a cover for companies to demand more H1-B visas. Seeing jobs Americans are perfectly good at doing go overseas says American labor isn't being cut for quality or demand, it's being cut out for cost.
That's why we write in C# or Java instead of C and machine code. We accept abstractions at the cost of more computations in exchange for maintainability and reduced complexity.

React is similar to how innerHTML became more popular than appendChild and createElement.

In fact, I could almost say React is innerHTML for the web, without the negative effects.
Recursion, formal languages, math, the general structure of things.
Effortless Kii RING
> Granted, I was also making a huge upgrade because some tech-illiterate person bought us 32-bit Windows licenses and 4GB RAM (2.9 usable.)

A bit off topic topic, but is there any reason 32-bit Windows is still a thing? Every Intel processor I've seen since Atom failed is 64-bit.
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

Karin Boye: Kallocain

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Raymond Chen: The Old New Thing
This exactly. The experience both in term of customer support, driver stability and hardware reliability of business line of PC is very different from the consumer side. It's a shame most people don't know that.

And IMO Thinkpad,latitudes and elite books have much better keyboard that the current MacBook, but apple still wins in screen and battery performance
Wow, I never knew the articles were written concurrently with writing the engine. It's truly inspirational to hear that you as a high school student could create a similar engine at the same time by following along; favourited!

I really should read the Black Book, the snippets I've read are great, and anyway I've started writing a software rasteriser for fun...