skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, of COURSE asking him to sign an NDA is reasonable. But when he chooses NOT to sign it (for whatever reason, it doesn't matter why) what then?

The law in DE states that he has a right to see the data anyway if he has a valid reason, and "valuing my shares for tax reasons" is a valid reason. So NDA or not, the company needs to show him the numbers.
Do you think when Don Wilson (founder of DRW) was making markets in the pits at the CME in the 80s that he was colluding with anyone is more what I was asking. Does he deserve to be labeled "crooked as a barrel of fishhooks?"
I sent an email to Elon Musk[1] suggesting that SpaceX should consider attaching to the ISS and boosting it to the Earth-Moon L1 point. It could station keep there more easily, it would be out of the radiation belts [2] and while it would be "hard" to keep a presence on board (resupply would be a bigger rocket), it could be a 'stocked cabin' that provides an 'out' in the event of a problem going to or from the Moon.

[1] He never answered so its likely he never read it.

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/604657main_4-%20GER%20Stakeholders%...
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I think http://bluss.github.io/rust-itertools/doc/itertools/struct.Z... would fit their use case?
As entertaining as cstross's books are.. (and I believe he's a user here)

A more relevant (non-fiction) example might be the CDC zombie outbreak exercise.

http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm
Same I asked to some Cubans few years ago. Apparently it's illegal to start a hotspot there. You can end up in jail. in fact if you scan networks you wont find any.

There is some local wired intranets between neighbours though
http://www.ycombinator.com/people/ but I don't see Sharon on there.
Is there something about Russia's muscle flexing in Syria that doesn't indicate its conventional forces are third rate?

If so, I haven't heard of it. The Syrian war is a minor skirmish. If significant strategic interests were actually at risk, the great powers would just invade and ignore the resulting loss of life. Instead, we standby and generally still ignore the loss of life.
Some gain. Some attempt could be made to then compare piracy rates of netflix's non-drm vs drm content. They'd be showing good will to those who side with "Cancel Netflix"
Can you say more about the important performance ramifications?
PHP actually is a bad templating engine for HTML because it doesn't have a feature to convert special characters to HTML entities by default. It is easy to forget a call to htmlspecialchars() (especially for beginners) so the code gets vulnerable to XSS.

That is why you should prefer Twig or other templating engine with autoescaping.

> They all start as an attempt to remove the possibility of writing meaningful code

I don't think so. Twig developers have a large list of reasons on their frontpage: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
There is also https://github.com/go-godo/godo
Years ago I casually met an owner of a small software company who happened to be hiring, and I was looking for a job. He asked if I was cheap and I instantly answered 'why, are you?'

Normally I don't think of witty things like that to say until about a week after the event.
> Protip: a nuclear neighbor is not a good invasion target.

Tell that to Russia - they've invaded Ukraine recently.
Snowden Docs Link NSA to Equation Group Hackers
Welcome to America, c. 1928. I'm not saying your criticism is incorrect, you're just really late to the party! With a voter participation that's as low as it is, is there any wonder why what you say is true? So, it's not condescension. I'm being complete sincere when I ask. Look at every democratic president since FDR. All of them are to the left of Clinton on many issues. Yet Sanders, to the left of her on many issues, actually moved the needle and almost unseated her. This is what progress actually looks like! I voted for Bernie yet I'm relieved Clinton will likely trounce Trump. So should you be. If you don't like the system, work to change it instead of claiming "it's broken" and throwing up your hands. I'll be right there beside you.
There's also the alternative of switching to a Chrome extension, no?
Good. Let's roll up our sleeves!
These are criticisms people say on the streets, and they vague, empty and lack explanation. Although I also find your answers vague and empty, it's nice that you tried to answer them.

Anyway, I think it is safe to ignore that discussion, because it is way too common and biased.

My humble suggestion is that you should start on the purely economic side of the high-level discussion. This[1] is something that raised a lot of discussion (pro and against the socialist side) between top economists of the previous century and that has lasted many years. I think you should start there.

[1]: https://mises.org/library/socialism-economic-and-sociologica...
For me it was people bringing boxes full of 5.25" floppies and multiple external floppy drives...

The fun thing, though was the postal swapping, which developed into an art-form involving defrauding the postal service (wax over the stamps etc. to let you scrape off the post mark and reuse the stamp), and dropping the envelope entirely (affixing address labels and stamps straight onto the floppies and just tape a floppy cover in place - some didn't even use a proper cover, but just taped a small cover over the hole in the floppy to prevent dust).

All in the interest in reducing turnaround times and cost, given that top swappers would turn around a ridiculous number of floppies on a daily basis just to keep their network intact - slow down, and be unable to provide stuff that was new enough, and people would drop you in favour of contacts who provided newer stuff (which by the late 80's increasingly meant the best connected people expected "zero day" releases, and then went off into insanity where people expected cracks of games before they were released - some games were released in cracked form before they were even finished, with levels missing etc.)

This was more widespread in Europe than the US, where strict national telecoms regulation in most countries until the EU started deregulating it, coupled with per-minute billing for local calls, meant modem usage remained low until well into the 90's.
You can't reasonably limit access to a specific host anyway, because DNS allows you to point a hostname to any IP; once you have permission to access a hostname that you control DNS for, you can connect to any arbitrary IP address, including LAN addresses. (You could slightly mitigate that by blocking RFC1918 private addresses and localhost, but then you couldn't build clients to talk to such servers.)

As another alternative, which would allow applications like mail clients, SSH clients, VNC clients, and similar, you could treat Internet connections like the web treats file-pickers today: ask the browser to prompt the user for one, and get handed a connection, without the ability for the site to set the target. Combine that with persistence ("allow the site to connect to this host again in the future without prompting?"), and you could easily connect to the handful of servers a user wanted to connect to. That wouldn't let you build a web-based BitTorrent client or similar, but it'd solve many of the problems people want arbitrary connections for.
> DRM exists to counter piracy.

That's wrong. DRM ensures that piracy provides a better experience because it simply works under any circumstance.
Then again, in 1945 the following were already known:

Drone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

Jet arcraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jet_aircraft_of_World_...

ICBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbervogel
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Yes it will. If you mean the $2 part, the comment character takes the place of $1. Or did you mean something else? (either way, I tested it before posting)
This technique is used a lot by specs: https://github.com/slide-rs/specs/blob/master/src/join.rs#L5...
This was the first line in the article.

"What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016?"

It's dead obvious that they're trying to stay relevant to younger users.

A better question - how did you equate this product launch with an act of kindness?
Hardly. By any reasonable metric of post-war success, America, Germany, and Japan were the three winners of WW2. America profited massively, enjoying an enormous economic boost from the war effort, the bill for which they handed to Britain (and which was finally fully paid off in... wait for it... 2006!) and subsidizing the development of the latter two countries through the Marshall plan.

Economically, it's blatantly obvious. But it's not a perspective that's in anyone's interest to push.

I have no doubt that if the eagle-boner's wildest wet dreams came true and the US had to intervene on Europe's behalf, there'd be a big fat bill at the end.
I, as a programmer, am almost always able to migrate my data from an app to another, by using APIs, the command line and tiny bugged scripts that fetch data from one service, reformat it, repackage it and save it to another service, which uses totally different formats.

Maybe a better solution would be to create easier ways to do that, so everyone will be able to move their data.
The reason things are set up this way is that the government is great at funding long-term research, whereas industry is pretty terrible at it, for the most part. But then when it comes to making an invention actually useful to people and producing it at a reasonable price, the government is awful and industry is amazing.
Do candidates agree to work sample tests?

Isn't it basically home work for them?

How many are interested in spending their time doing a project for you?

Or rather, my question is, how do you remove those perceptions about it?
I wrote a little script that sends me a daily email digest of my rss subscriptions:

https://github.com/raymestalez/rssdigest
Having driven back and forth from Chicago to New York a couple of times, I would welcome autonomous trucks driving throughout the night, especially if they strictly adhere to the right lane at a moderate, passable speed.
Once night falls, truckers take over the road, and they typically like to go at or slightly above speed limit, making it less of a cozy environment for regular sedan drivers.
Some of them, I assume, are good mosquitoes. But who's doing the biting? Somebody's doing the biting!

We need to build a net. They have to go back!
I feel like putting heartbeats themselves into the application level is a layering violation. They go in the session or presentation layer. WebSockets does it right, with its own heartbeat frame type that gets handled in userland but outside of your app's code.
Google is currently doing this today. They have a fleet of autonomous cars driving around Mountain View / Palo Alto without any assistance on a daily basis.
TL;DR:

1. Cloud Bigtable is GA [0]

2. Cloud Datastore GA [1]

3. Cloud SQL 2.0 GA [2]

4. Persistent Disk SSD now gets 25,000 IOPS [3]

5. SQL Server images available [3]

6. Custom Encryption Keys in Google Cloud Storage [3]

7. Google Nearline Storage access latency now real-time [3]

POV:

- Bigtable can reach some serious scale for Hbase-style workloads (ex: Sungard got 34m reads per second and 23m writes per second[4] ).

- Datastore serves almost 6m qps on average [1]

- Cloud SQL 2.0 compares favorably against AWS RDS and Aurora [2]

- Persistent Disk SSD compares favorably against options in the marketplace[5]

- Nearline is archival storage with real-time access characteristics

[0] (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/Google-Cloud-Bi...)

[1] (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/google-cloud-da...)

[2] (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/Cloud-SQL-Secon...)

[3] (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/why-Google-Clou...)

[4] (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/financial-servi...)

[5] (https://medium.com/google-cloud/new-google-cloud-ssds-have-a...)

(Disc: work on Google Cloud)
To me, the referenced discussion is the sort of context where if I'm outraged enough to write a rebuttal to someone's political views, I'm probably better off just downvoting...and so is the thread and so is HN.

There's no escalation. There's no feeding trolling behavior. There's no toehold on my future: I won't be curious about replies. It's cathartic. One click and I'm done expressing disagreement.
let's just say it was a bit late in my timezone ;-).

I probably replied to the wrong post, but I wanted to say that math is in fact a tool for science - instead of being the most fundamental science itself. I've met some people, including mathematicians, who think that because everything can be described with math, it means that math is all that's needed to find the truth about reality. My point is that the process of appying math to find the model that best fits our own world is something that's outside of math itself.
My first computing experience was with the Mac 512k at age 5. I grew up in an Apple household and then discovered how behind I was with not knowing DOS. We became a Windows household in the age of Dell vs. Gateway PCs. I learned how to work on machines, replace hardware, work through software conflicts, and got a job at 16 working in a small office making broken things into Frakenstein boxes. Taught myself HTML from books. I can whistle the 28.8 modem handshake from memory. Went from QBasic to C++ using the Borland compiler. Went to University on a CS scholarship and hated having to work in Unix and play with algorithms instead of focus on modern skills. So I quit and went over to English, and turned my attention to using my technology skills to enjoy the burgeoning and blossoming nature of computer assisted art.

Honestly I don't care for your thinking that you're going to explain anything to me, because it's obvious that my attempts to explain artistic creator perspectives are follies.

So, in turn, it'd be helpful if you could give a short indication of what your creative experience is to set a parity of baseline: Have you published a creative work? What instruments do you play? How good are you at drawing? Have you ever been on a film set, professional or otherwise? How have you distributed your creations? How much have you made from them?
> Yeah, you did in arguing that just because some Murders happen doesn't negate the utility of a law

OK. Your claim was that I equivocated DRM and murders. So, given what you are saying here, that would mean that I have said something to the effect that "just because some DRM happens, doesn't negate the utility of (copyright?) law"? Could you please provide a citation of where I said that?

See, I would be happy to discuss your actual arguments, but I won't even try if you insist on strawmanning my position.

Also, if you want this discussion to go anywhere, I expect that you refrain from derailing it by insisting on discussing form over content. If you understand an analogy, I expect you to discuss based on what you understood, instead of starting a discussion on how I should have expressed my argument to make you like its form better. I write what I write in order to be understood. Analogies aren't perfect, that's what makes them analogies. The point of an analogy is to show commonalities, despite all differences. If you understand an analogy, it has served its purpose, and any argument as to how I should have expressed myself instead therefore is completely pointless and only serves to derail the discussion. If you actually don't understand what I mean to say, ask, and I'll be happy to try and explain. If you disagree with the content, explain why you disagree with the content.
There was a thread on reddit the other day about what problems a NN could solve that an SVM couldn't.

Apparently there are things such as structured SVM's and SVM networks, and models where they attach an SVM instead of the output neurons.

It isn't dead, and people are coming up with some pretty cool stuff, but NN seems to be where it is at right now.
I always ask what the typical workday is like for someone in my position, preferably getting the answer _from_ someone in a similar position. It's never failed and in addition to getting the hours answered, it gives you insight into other practices you may like/dislike such as standups and number of meetings in the average day.
I think people are afraid of tinkering with existing security arrangements because they seem to have worked. There hasn't been a major war between two countries in Europe for seven decades.

Personally, I don't see any reason to station US troops in other countries, but I'm outnumbered.
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Normally I would agree, but not in this case. It is unlikely they will EOL these services any time soon. They are paid services and could represent a significant revenue stream for Google.
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I suspect many people will migrate to electron instead of web apps. APIs for USB and Bluetooth and the isolation offered by Chrome apps have no equivalent in extensions / web apps
Yes. What if mosquitoes inoculate us (and/or other animals) against diseases during childhood? Absent mosquitoes, I wonder if we would become more vulnerable to those diseases entering our systems through other vectors.
Dynamic homogeneous structures (lists) have uniform structure, but must be able to resize dynamically. The former helps performance (run-time type info can be hoisted out of the structure), the latter harms it (extra runtime machinery needed).

Static heterogeneous structures (tuples) have a non-uniform structure, but need not resize. The former harms performance (run-time type info must be kept for each element, though usually few); the latter helps it (most accesses can be compiled to simple pointer arithmetic).

On the other hand, dynamic heterogeneous structures (Python's lists) do not have uniform structure, and must be able to resize. So run-time type info must be preserved (adding memory/access overhead), and accesses can't be optimized at compile time (more runtime machinery). It is to avoid these issues that things like numpy and JavaScript's typed arrays exist.

There is almost never a reason to use a dynamic heterogeneous structure, so they are best avoided. A dynamic heterogeneous collection can neither support indexing a priori known components (since it is dynamic), nor support iteration (since it is heterogeneous). (Note that a collection of objects of different types but with a shared interface is in fact a homogeneous collection of objects with that interface.)

(The final combination is static homogeneous, but these are a subset of both the first two cases, and do not occur often. The only example I can think of are sets of statistics: all statistics have the same type, but there are a fixed number of them which are known at compile time. They can be optimized very well.)
As the saying goes: yeah, no.

Sure, Google's less-loved consumer-facing products and minor dev stuff tend to die various kinds of sad deaths.

But they don't make much money. Not compared to the Mississippi of Money that is advertising.

But let's remember: most of the money in the world isn't flowing from consumers to businesses. It sure looks that way, because many of the largest companies in the world make their money selling to consumers.

But it's an illusion. Most of the money sloshing around is in the structure of production: the vast web of inputs, transformations and services that fan in until it gets to you presenting a wad of the hard-earned.

These days the structure of production needs information to make it work. And you need some sort of Turing machine to do stuff with and to that information. Other machines to acquire, retrieve and store it. Still other machines to make all the others go. And someone clever to run all these things.

Now that it's simple to take chunks of information work and just magically send it somewhere, why the hell would you do something as capitally, criminally inefficient as buy super-rapidly depreciating atoms? Squirting electrons down a wire is fantastically better business.

The worldwide economy is measured in the many trillions. Some major, majority fraction of that economy is the structure of production. Some not-insubstantial percentage of the structure of production is in managing and transforming information.

Total addressable market is billions, heaped on billions, with a side serving of deep-fried billions.

If Google abandon GCP, the shareholders won't need to have voting control to exact vengeance. They'll bodily drag execs into the street and beat them to death with rolled-up Amazon boxes.
1. Not nearly just punk. What?? 2. I hate short articles
If you can't see why people prefer the first to the second, I don't know what else to tell you

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Yes, I was specifically referring to the findings from those kitten experiments.

Of course there are plenty of other things that the visual cortex is involved in, as far as we can understand it at least. I'm talking purely about the macrostructures that are involved in elementary vision functions like orientation.

I'm in the camp as well that conflating brains and ANNs is a dangerous and hype-prone line to walk, but I'm not sure you can categorically say that the layers in V1 and the layers in a CNN have nothing in common, with respect to the computational capabilities they model. Likewise with convolutions and columns.
In what way could this comment possibly be worthy of a down vote? It's complete and thought-provoking.
Update: slightly better summary of Dave Aitel's article.

I'm speaking about the greater issue of unchecked government power that the EFF raised. That does not come from a a simple appeal to authority, I hope we don't need to rehash the reasons we have a Bill of Rights and a government based on checks and balances. Dave Aitel's article was very focused on one of the EFF's concerns, management and disclosure of vulnerabilities, and much of what he said boiled down to, "Our enemies operate without oversight and so we need to also. Sorry, you are just going to have to trust us."
To be clear, _every_ panic has to have the same implementation; you can't choose unwind vs abort for some panics vs others.

The default allocator crate always does an abort, both before and after this change.
I took it differently. If the fine was coming from the executives paychecks he wouldn't be opposed to it. But as it stands the fine is coming from the shareholder's pockets who have already been stolen from. So all he would be doing is becoming a thief in addition to the executives.
But be careful not to obsess over it. I've seen some worry about the runtime complexity of collections in Python for a handful of elements.
Why does the policy on how the us government uses exploits depend on its current secret behavior? How can you derive ought from is?
> Discounting the dark-side capabilities of technology is, apparently, inherent in your premise.

This, BTW, pretty much betrays that you don't understand the arguments of the other side at all.

The core of the opposition to DRM and in particular to the criminalization of the bypassing of DRM is precisely because of the dark-side capabilities of technology.

There are more dark sides to technology than the ones that you are considering. It's not that people aren't aware of the dark sides that you are thinking of. It's not even that they don't care about them. It's that they think that the other dark sides are way, way scarier in their long-term consequences.

edit: typo
I thought this was about reducing it from 40h to 30h or so, but it was about fighting for the 40h themselves. I am in Japan now and things are really crazy here for my friends.