skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many .COM registrars so I'm not sure what you're getting at. Obviously we are trusting the .COM TLD operators to have implemented appropriate ACLs in the .COM database so that registrars can't meddle with other registrars' domains. And if they haven't, well, we're back to square one: External CAs use DNS to verify domain ownership, which is silly and insecure; meanwhile the .COM zone knows who is the registrar for any given domain, and the registrars know who is the owner of a given domain.

If we can't trust the .COM operators to manage their accredited registrars properly then YES we need to distrust all of .COM, because then anyone could get a cert for any .COM by way of a single shady registrar. This trust is already a prerequisite for today's CA system.

I am simply suggesting putting additional limits in place so that instead of trusting the .com TLD ops AND the relevant registrar AND all of the CAs in the world, we merely need to trust the .com TLD ops and the relevant registrar. It is strictly a subset of today's trust circle.

Edit to add: today we are paying and trusting CAs to verify domain ownership by way of insecure DNS lookups (and then email tokens or http challenges). This is absurd because domain ownership is already positively definitively proven in the registrars' customer databases and the TLD's registrar database

Edit2 to add more: The entire SSL CA ecosystem security hinges on the single web form for modifying NS records for a given domain at a given registrar for a given TLD. If you have access to modify the NS records you have all you need to get a certificate. So: This particular web form is where we should put a button to download SSL certificates. And, we should engineer clients to verify that certificates are issued only from that particular source (registrar at a registry). And get rid of external CAs.
Opera Browser Sync Service Hacked; Users' Data and Saved Passwords Compromised
I would suggest this as well, not only because I like reading what others are up to, but because I know whenever there's posts about this stuff they usually get a lot of upvotes and comments.

Also for companies that make it big and become well known, it would be awesome to possibly find entries from them on here and reading about their difficulties, pivots, growth, and the input that people have them in the contents at the time.
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I thought the ads were quite effective.

They were saying, yes "apps" for your phone are topical. The point of their commercial was "we work on big crazy complex shit and you can be part of solving a huge challenge".

The photos in this article of their manufacture engineering plants amaze me. Now couple those projects with sensors that are starting to giving off TBs of information in an hour and you can start to realize the scale of problems you could be working on at GE.

In another 5-10 years, many of the folks grinding it out in silicon valley, or other startupy things will realize they have a desire to have a family and will want to apply their talents towards more meaningful projects than "apps" that do not require being part of silicon valley.

Their commercials and this article painted the perfect picture of what's possible at GE and outside of silicon valley in my mind.
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That to me is the justification of Sci-Hub. How did a company get to control product paid for by tax dollars to resell it?

On another note, I do believe information should be free. Where I start to vacillate is with who pays to extract, create or discover the information?

For instance, I know gold is a physical object, but a corollary of saying gold should be free, and yet who's work or money is put up to mine it from the earth?
Some private researcher spends 15 years of their life, and discovers or creates something after investing their time, their money. Without a means to capitalize on it, what is the incentive to put in the hard work and money?

And before you say, it is never a sole researcher and their money, extrapolate up to a small shop, mid-sized company, and big company. The gist still holds.
That isn't to say that reds/greens don't have issues... I've seen one of each fail, but they have been very solid compared to my experience with Seagate drives... the shame is that may very well be different today, but brand (dis)loyalty tends to carry for longer terms.
Gordon – open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript
Does a famous mathematician really lead to lots of math PhDs in his home country, hundreds of years later?
In the uphill concept, consider gravity as the spring or rubber band that is stretched.
China can't be innovative because they lack the cultural foundation for it. Innovation requires creativity, critical thinking, outside the box thinking, etc etc etc... All things which China's PRC sees as a threat to their power so they squash it down. They want flesh robots, not revolutions.

So they have to steal IPs to be competitive. Whether it's plans for the space shuttle or the latest iPhone, China will steal literally anything with virtually no shame. Unfortunately, they don't see the side-effect of this IP theft. That is, it reduces innovation even more. When you shortcut your way to the top (or in this case, the middle), you don't have that same foundation for innovation. A huge part of innovation is the process itself -- it lays the foundation for future innovations. A framework or path. That foundation is just as, if not more important that the innovation itself. And that's what China is missing out on.

They're being left behind while IP theft is going to get harder and harder for them as countries/businesses wise-up.
GE Capital was quite successful. GE powered it down because it put them above the threshold for Fed regulation under Dodd-Frank, and they did not want to deal with that.
Ask HN: Starting machine learning? Books, videos and other resources
I want to start learning about machine learning.

I'm a seasoned software developer, worked with things like C#, Ruby, Go, Javascript, Elixir throughout the years.

Never touched machine learning, but eager to get started.

How would you recommend a developer start diving into machine learning?

Any paid for video resources or books?
As a researcher, I don't think the money should go to the researchers. Mostly because I'd be scared to see what'd happen when research (and wanting to publish in high impact journals) is completely money-driven.

Simply, the papers should be made immediately free to the public.
All iPhone owners should update to latest iOS 9.3.5 version immediately
I gave a 89 Toyota that kinda took care of, with 240,000 miles. She still has 125 psi in the cylinders. Changed the oil when I felt like it. Changed the oil filter only sometimes. Never changed the air filter. Never repaired a tapping valve. In other words, didn't take care of her like other vechicles I owned.

One day, I think, even 80's and 90's Toyotas will be collectors items. I know some of them are collectors vechicles now, but I feel the 80's to 90's vechicles will see a huge boost in interest.
The author of the article is clearly confusing the Android version of the Linux kernel with the Debian userspace that is running under that kernel.
I just want to see a higher end Mac Mini that's closer in specs to the higher end iMac... Going all the way to Mac Pro just isn't going to happen, and I don't want an integrated screen.
Yes. I find it amazing that people running startups apparently have a problem with this concept. How else are junior developers supposed to gain experience and be exposed to hard technical problems, get the benefit of mentorship, etc?

There is nothing wrong at all with less experienced devs working for a startup. It is one of the components for building a successful company. As your junior employees grow, they move into roles of greater responsibility.
Yeah, I don't understand this either. I know that for certain cases FreeBSD has better performance, OpenBSD is possibly more secure, NetBSD more portable, but hasn't Linux proven itself enough at this point that these debates are mostly irrelevant? It's a decent UNIX like kernel, it's already used in Android and then obviously a lot of servers.

But what features or cabalities are you missing with Linux?
This lecture series specifically talks about the different problems faced at various stages of scaling, and it includes a lot of reputable people who have actually done it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RrVmv5WwA

The YC series is of course good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI

I'm not actually qualified to answer your question, but it sounds like you haven't discovered a bottleneck in your business yet, and until you do, you probably shouldn't hire any employees.
>The government demands and punishes non-compliance with expropriation of private property and or prison.

In your ideal world, when you legitimately owe someone money and you're past due, what should happen when you refuse to pay, and you're willing to escalate as far as possible? You seem to object to the idea that repeated noncompliance can increase the severity of punishment. But what's the alternative? To not enforce small crimes at all?
It's painful how much I agree.
Do you know about Coursera Machine Learning Course:- https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Does this apply to artwork? I ask because a lot of people were upset when Zara, the retail clothing manufacturer, apparently 'pirated' an indie artist's artworks as seen on little appliques on their apparel.

It was most likely one of their thousands of graphic designers making squat who found it on the internet, their design manager didn't catch it as a copy of something, and it wound up on their clothing.

A fury storm on Twitter with very strong suggestions to take against Zara was being proposed by many. I am sure there were some 'IP is a racket' people among them, but the argument seemed to be a one-way street: IP is free, except if you're a company who profits from it and we don't get our cut.
To me, the speed of light is actually really slow - meaning, if you think classically you assume c infinite (at which point, as far as I understand, relativity theory essentially behaves like classical physics).

Learning that information travels way slower than the universe expands is quite unnerving. Similarly, learning that earth's fate could be determined already since hundreds of thousands of years through a hypernova directed at it - that we'll only know about when it hits us and wipes out our atmosphere. Well... light speed is far too slow for my taste ;).

Edit: It still doesn't answer my first question though: If you have something really energy dense like a neutron star - what fraction of gravity does energy make out then? 1E-3? 1E-10? 1/2? I'd find that interesting to know. According to wiki, neutron stars fall in temperature within years of creation from up to 1E12 K to 1E6 K. Six orders of magnitude. Depending on how much this decreases gravity I could imagine this effect alone influencing stellar orbits (I assume that a supernova would still allow other stars in a multi star system to continue existing). Has such a thing ever been measured?

Sorry.. there's just a whole can of worms opened about this in my head right now. Need to find an astro physicist to shake down :D.
>I say this because we (a) hire MBAs, (b) hire less qualified developers for roles that do not require deep technical knowledge, (c) have motivational posters, etc...

I can't say this inspires very much confidence. Why does hiring MBAs mean you are successful? What exactly do they do to make you successful? On developers, if they have the knowledge for the job then they are qualified, not less qualified. This terminology is very worrisome. And motivational posters? That was a joke I guess?

And what does any of this have to do with being on the brink of failure or not? You can have a perfect team and still fail because of a bad product direction or market fit.
This isn't a courtroom, it's OP's anecdote. Stop concern trolling.
> probably someone else than Robert Kearns would have thought about it between 1969 and today.

Yeah, most great inventions would have been made within a year anyway. The truly great ones maybe in 5 years. That doesn't mean big rewards for the first inventor are wrong. The incentives from that is why so many push for these inventions.

The argument that if it wasn't for unions 100 years ago, we'd all still be working 14 hour days is based on a similar fallacy.
If you know the numbers

http://paulgraham.com/aord.html
I hate jira, but I agree with your point. I always have notes that i can reference.

More to reference = less time to get back up to speed
We're all riding on the shoulders of giants. The men who designed the postwar world were remarkably prescient in their engineering of affairs to benefit the United States.

The US has another decade or two of riding that wave until things get hairy.
The purpose of those ads is not to attract developers. The purpose of those ads is to invest in GE's brand by creating the impression that young smart developers want to work there.

If the ads do attract some developers, that's great too, but that is not enough return to justify the (huge, enormous) cost.

These ads seek to do for GE what the "Think Different" ads did for Apple in the 90s.
What is an Algorithm?
A couple notes from a heavy Excel and heavy R (and heavy several other similar products) user...

factories run on excel...terrifyingly so. I know semiconductor semiconductor fabs that basically run on queries in a many sheeted workbooks. The reason is because not everyone codes, especially not factory foreman, technicians, etc. They don't need a continuously running app (well they do but they don't know it) they just need formatted data.

That links to comment two. The issue that Excel solves over code goes back (IMHO) to two issues that come up with coders/noncoders. First, most users of excel are interested in the answer rather than the process. I get the value of being able to audit your steps visually, but the transition from Excel to R is a transition from the primary visual being data (i.e., results) to process. Depending on your perspective that can be highly meaningful.

Second, and probably more importantly, Excel lets you visualize your data as it progresses. For those with lower (or just different/less abstract) spatial and visual reasoning ability, seeing the progress of data from column to column can have a fairly profound effect. This extends to students who are trying to learn by seeing the progression as steps of a processing algorithm are applied. Doing so in code abstracts that process heavily. For some, especially those not used to treating data in the abstract/blind via code.
Ghost cities? You think the real estate developers are idiots developing flats they can never sell? Please read more about real estate market in China
Agree. I didn't mean that the role is not there. It is more about people walking around and saying "I am the architect". I've heard that once. He wasn't joking.
They don't say that all Chrome apps have been truly superseded by web standards. Just that most have, and combined with the low usage numbers it isn't worth the maintenance effort anymore. In Chrome OS they are the main application format (I think?) and Google has active interest in maintaining it, so they stay there.
MIT Creates material that can remember its original shape
If you are going to leave being solo, don't start by bringing in people from the top. Start with the bottom.

Define one or two jobs that you are doing now that can be spun off. Perhaps customer support or material writting. Document how to do that job, then bring someone in, train them, learn how to manage them, and update you docs with what you learn that you've missed.

In this way you stay in control, you can back out if you need to, and you can gradually replace yourself with systems.

A good book on doing this is the oddly named "E-myth revisited". Just don't take everything in the book too literally.

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Remember, a startup is a search for a product that people want to buy. You already have both. That means that much of the startup advice is actually posion your company. Listen to your gut.

And good luck! I wrote a backend system for a training and certification company - I'm familiar with the nutso profit margins.
Searching google for "scihub" (no quotes) from California has sci-hub.cc as the first result and the wikipedia article second. I don't know where this complaint came from.
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Plus the legacy of purposeful pollution, stuff like stack ranking and other scumbaggery.

They were a customer of mine, they used to incorporate pencils into leases of capital equipment to reduce tax exposure.
Here seems to be a good analysis of the 6.7% figure by Christopher Balding on FT Alphaville, and apparently it doesn't match the constituent granular data: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/08/02/2171409/guest-post-fur... Also, direct comparisons between China's and US's GDP growth rates are usually very flawed or misleading because of differences in how developed those two countries are; it's a tricky/unsettled matter, but 6.7% > 2.2% does not imply anything much, because it should be much easier for China to grow before it reaches US's levels of wealth.
US students may get lower grades from spelling errors, but they're not going to suffer from people misunderstanding them.

Foreign students are much more likely to actually produce something unintelligible (regardless of spelling!), but also much more likely to be unaffected by it because they're not trying to communicate anything of any importance.
The problem is that if success comes too easily and/or too early then it is undervalued.

I made a big pile of cash very early in my career and thinking that such big piles of cash were easy to make, promptly wasted it on "starting a company". I certainly gained value from that money though. The value I gained is the wisdom that I imparted in the top level suggests to the OP.

Cash never came as easy again.

The OP doesn't realise that he has attained one of the possible levels of startup holy grail nirvana of success - the incrediprofitable one man company.
Stanford Develops Chiclet-Sized Device That Purifies Water Using Sunlight
This man launched a website so people can invite refugees to stay in their homes
which is precisely why tyre choice is more or less equally important on your little buzz box as it is your high end sports car.
I've spent a lot of time using Excel in ways it was never meant for.

If anyone is trapped using Excel to make a box plot, it is possible (disclamer please for the love of god never do this): Make a stacked column chart. The first series should be equal to Q1 minus the graph minimum. Format this to be invisible. Series two should be median - Q1, formatted as a black outline on a white bar. Series three should be Q3 - median, formatted like series two. Error bars can be added to give the whiskers. Here's an example: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ucWmfmXb1kk/maxresdefault.jpg

Again, don't do this.

For a histogram, just make a min and max for each bin, and use countifs(range, ">=" & min, range, "<" & max) to get the amount in each bin.
A lot of C++ coding styles do something like that. I guess because C++ is so large.
To your last point: when Bob Slydell appears, it's never a good sign.
Wow. Great work. Soon going to make some show case or tutorial on w3clan.com with your library (y).
Wow. Google deprecating Chrome apps will hurt the Chromebook ecosystem, who will develop apps that can only be run on a Chromebook? What's up their sleeve here? Expanding the Play store to desktops?
I'm a young graduate student and face this on a continual basis.

Articles are difficult to find because our university does not pay the subscription charges.

I need to publish my work in quality journals, all of which charge high publication charges. Some are even higher if you want a 'public access' option.

Luckily, there is a growing movement for open research and open publication. Many researchers, myself included, will publish pre-prints and papers to arxiv or self-host them on personal websites.

I'm extremely grateful for sci-hub and just hope I can help end this stifling of scientific research in my own way. All of my work ends up on github/arxiv for anyone to use.
Start by learning statistics.
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
The money to/from the publication doesn't fund the research or the author, or even the peer reviewers, just the journal itself.
Yes, but unfortunately people tend to make a lot of critical decisions based around what they interpret other people's motives to be; leaving out that bit of human behavior from the equation can be a big deal.

One ceo may may look at a worker exhibiting stereotypical output of a "lazy" person and decide this person must not care about their work and thus should be fired. Meanwhile another may see this as a symptom of burnout from caring about their work too much and decide the worker should get some time off to relax. Regardless of who's interpretation is correct, it is a decision than can have a big impact on a person.

The behavioural economics approach is definitely worth keeping in mind regardless of people-reading ability, but we should be weary of interpreting such things as being too 'directly applicable' in anything other than very generalized circumstances. Unfortunately, I've seen my fair share of cases like the example I stated above, so it is worth remembering that there is no such thing as "the average person". Not to say there aren't definite patterns of behavior of course, but that's a whole other conversation.
Jeff Bezos: Import Foreign Workers to Replace Spoiled Americans
This explains the awkward "I just got a cool software engineering job at GE" commercials that have been airing on TV. I was wondering who they were targeting with these ads. It sounds like they might be targeting their own employees.
There are no real estate developers in China. At least, not the kind you're thinking of. The government itself, the PRC designs and builds the cities. They are the alpha and omega in China.

See here about ghost cities - "The unreal emptiness of China's Ghost cities": http://www.wired.com/2016/02/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities/
As a graduate student, I've been quite determined to post all of my papers and code to github/arxiv/personal website.

Most journals allow you to freely distribute pre-prints, and most researchers I know do this very frequently.

The entire scientific publication environment is quite convoluted but there is a large effort for open publications.
I generally agree with you that many if not most computer security problems don't rise to the level of damaging a business enough to effect the stock price.

There was a recent hack and short incident in the crypto currency world though where an unknown individual shorted a large amount of ETH right before revealing a major flaw in the design of the DAO that allowed them to steal all the funds. They forked ETH shortly there after to deny the stolen funds to the would be thief but they still made a killing of their short position.

On the investigative journalism front the case of Lumber Liquidators and Herbalife come to mind both of which had damaging information exposed by investors shorting the companies' stocks.
On the other hand, peer reviewers are generally paid by the same people who pay scientific journals--academic and research institutions--with contributing to peer review usually being an understood part of their duty.
It'll never take off. Even if people want to use it, which seems doubtful, there's no way it can ever be economical at scale. Where's the value prop here?
FYI the original article has much better readability, formatting, and references: http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/