skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially, author believes it's more important to help the scammer recover than to help the other victims get their stolen money back.
I hate to inject politics into this forum, but my reading of the US political landscape for President is pretty grim and I think the topic is very serious. One major Presidential candidate denies climate change outright, the other one has at best a lukewarm plan (pardon the pun) and has gotten more dollars from fossil fuel donors than the climate denier (that in addition to pulling lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry into her staff). There is only one third party candidate who proposes any sort of serious push that is actually needed to combat climate change in a feasible timeframe. And even if they pull off a win, they're unlikely to get broad support from congress.
I've done this before.

Sadly - the problem is way harder.

First - you get much better results by using language models, n-grams etc. to predict the likely hood of words given previous words. That can be hard.

The really hard part comes down to language that people use.

Colloquialisms, proper names, and mixed-languages ... make this stuff really, really hard.

Getting it 'mostly right' is not hard. Getting it really good is very difficult and depends a lot on context.

'Srinivas' will not be in most people's dictionaries, but it's a common name in India. 'Le' and 'la' are words in french and some similar in Spanish - and a lot of writers jam these in all over the place. Over-correction and beta-errors become a huge problem.

It's a really interesting premise and difficult for Engineers because it's purely probabilistic there is no way to build a perfect spellchecker unless you can agree 100% on what 'language' is, precisely ... and trust me there is no agreement on that. Not even close.
Who did the author pay in bitcoin? The author received bitcoin from the scammer only after threatening to out the scammer to his parents.

Your half-assed attempt at self-promotion is not contributing to HN
>Well, yes, obviously.

It wasn't obvious and your previous statement had to be dissected to clarify it. Upthread, you stated the following without any disclaimers of "in my opinion" or "in my interpretation":

>But its not legal to use a brokering service to arrange the rental if you discriminate, so there goes AirBnB for that use.

It certainly sounded definitive but if left alone without further commentary, it's misleading.
That statement depends on how expansively one defines "brokering services". Not everyone agrees with your definition and I further would claim that the majority do not.

>the utility of the position as a tool to convincing people [...], and pointing out that that wasn't the point.

But that is the point. If you want to use an authoritative phrase like "existing law", people have to agree with your intepretation of Airbnb's utility as a "brokering service". If they don't, they believe they still have a legal basis to discriminate.

>I think your idea of what a broker/agent/salesman or any person in the business of selling or renting dwellings does is excessively and unjustifiably narrow.

On the contrary, I think it is your classification of Airbnb as a "brokering service" that is idiosyncratic.

Based on my informal survey of Airbnb renters and landlords, it doesn't seem like the majority agree with you. I ask them "What is Airbnb?" and they say "rental listings" and not "rental brokers".

For people to believe they are breaking the antidiscrimination law because they use brokering services, they need signals from the world such as the states requiring Airbnb to acquire brokerage licenses. (Maybe also add to the process that an Airbnb representative must join the transaction via chat or email to "close" the deal between renter & landlord.) Reading your interpretation of what "brokering service" is not enough.

To recap, the factors you believe Airbnb a brokerage:

- commissions payment
- payment collection, refunds

The factor that Airbnb is not a brokerage:

- self-service listings

The "self-service" is a huge mental block and overrides the commissions payment factor in many minds. The sentiment is: "If I do the work to create the listing, why would Airbnb be the broker? That makes no sense."

The self-service aspect is why some people think of Christie's and Sotheby's as auction house brokers and they "broker a deal" to sell a piece of art ... but nobody thinks of do-it-yourself Ebay as an auction broker. Ebay is auction listings.
> That's basically quibbling

It's absolutely not quibbling, the OP framed his whole post around the governance of Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice:

>> Libreoffice (LO) and Apache Open Office (AOO) both existed at a point in time of the fork, when a portion of the governed (in this case the developers) withheld their assent to the impositions by AOO and started LO.

>> Given the choice, contributors chose the LO governance over the AOO governance

>> No one person was responsible, everyone was responsible.

No, Oracle was DIRECTLY responsible (with some blame falling on Sun). Oracle dumped OpenOffice on the Apache project when it became obvious that their continued involvement would not be profitable.

>> But it is also a condemnation in the form of how open source is so loosely governed, there was no effective process of keeping it from getting to the fork or die state.

No, this was a CLEAR condemnation of Oracle as a steward of open-source projects, and a good example of the community pulling together when the governance structure stopped working.
About what percentage of wogs choose to go through initiation these days? Does it carry any cachet if they do vs. not?
This is the very root of how modern spellcheckers work, but they add more layers, using language modelling.
It's both, but "men are better at handling risk" is a really weird way of phrasing "men are more willing to engage in risky behavior". And that sentence was originally just about the physical activity, and then I realized that the difference in risk tolerance was also a contributing factor and I should mention that as well, and the phrasing vaguely worked properly so I kept it.
> and the planet warms up by ~2 degrees Celsius and stays there

Everything I've read from the "experts" seems to suggest that we're experiencing a runaway trend that realistically cannot be stopped, regardless of what we do. Why should we believe 10 degrees, 2 degrees, or any of the figures mentioned are possible, probable, or frankly anything more than numbers pulled from a hat when they've been absolutely wrong, pretty much every time an "expert" has made predictions for more than about 5 years (and not just wrong by a hair, but by orders of magnitude)?
Java vs. Kotlin compilation speed comparison
The fact that it feels so true is a testament to how little is perceived to have changed about the iPhone 7 over earlier models like the iPhone 6s.
From what I understood, the comment was directed at hiring more engineers. Not HR, finance, ceo or cxx. The youngish engineers were commenting (maybe joking ?) that they didn't want to see engineers with gray beard...
Stop buying crippled content and download your shows without encumberances.
The link to http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ below was good and lead me to think what are the basic philosophical underpinnings of, well, an HN point of view?

Equality

Externalities

Empiricism

A good start?
Or at the very least stop distorting the market to favor fossil fuels over alternative energy sources.
Indeed. I was surprised by that as well. Sounded like a Dutch speaker with a muffled voice behind a screen.
If you don't have the network, you have to build it. There's no real way around that. If you want to start a business and need to stress test your idea like this, you'll need to do outreach. Whether that's cold outreach or attending events or joining the right groups and communities, it's all about the legwork.

But the point is you can still do that on your own time without making huge sacrifices. Taking the concept of "go out and talk to people" too literally just serves to prevent you from actually finding and reaching your ideal audience.

Need to know where to start? Angel List, LinkedIn, Meetup, and the like. Write some cold emails. You can always build a network, and you should if you want to start a business.
... how? Either your mortgage is very small, or you have somehow managed to save an incredible amount of money. It's really the latter that I'd like to know more about.
When has the human race come close to extinction by our own hands? The only near-extinction I'm aware of is the theorized population bottleneck caused by the Toba eruption, whose existence seems to be disputed and which in any case wasn't caused by our own hands.

If you're referring to global thermonuclear war, there was (and still is) the constant threat of destroying civilization, but never any chance of causing the extinction of the species.
Seems just a little irresponsible to not have a warning printed on the outside of a device that looks largely like a flash drive. Even better: a physical safety interlock; something like a red button with a shield.

In its shipping state, it's a hazard to anyone not the original buyer who happens to come into possession of the device after purchase.
So here I am, at a place willing to hire these people, but actually getting them hired isn't so easy.

First of all, yes, you do need to leave Silicon Valley. People seem strangely afraid to leave. There is a world out here! Getting houses for 10% of what they cost is Silicon Valley has got to be worth something, no?

Second of all, finding them is tough. We can show up at a large college and meet lots of people, nearly all young. There is no similar place where we can show up to recruit older people.

Older people have the skills we need, particularly assembly language. We have to sort through lots and lots of young people to find a few with potential, but at least "lots and lots" is available at many colleges.
Interesting to see the steps they took to expel the APT (physically verifying the identity of account holders on account resets, taking services offline, resetting networking equipment).

Even more interesting is that had confidence they'd actually expelled the APT. Of course, they hadn't totally eliminated a related APT already in place.

This wasn't a "provision a clean box and run a build" reset... it's a massive, heterogeneous system. I can't even imagine how many vectors a nation-state APT could use to maintain a foothold.
Hi, I got my CS degree from a university in Australia back in the early 90s. It was hard to find a job after I graduated, lots of companies prefer guys to work for them. So I had to start from a very bottom position, data entry. After a year, I managed to find a position as a junior programmer. I had the lowest salary in the team. I liked technical challenges, but hardly got any because all the interesting projects went to the male (junior mostly) programmers. Younger male programmers were more ambitious, in terms of getting somewhere. So they didn't stay in the company for long. One day, we received a job for a big government project (multi millions dollars) and there was only me, the manager and the project manager left. So I was sent to do the project with no prior experience or knowledge for this particular software. Long story short, I managed to complete the project, by myself within the time frame. I built the hardware (cards, screws, motherboard etc) by myself, installed, configured and programmed the whole thing. During the project, I was never invited to a technical meeting. I believed I was the first female in Australia to build this particular system.

Then I moved to another job, with higher salary. It was hell. The bullying was obvious, even in front of the customer. It was very stressful time for me. Then I got pregnant. After 3 months, I notified my manager that I was pregnant. I was made redundant few weeks later.

The whole experiences were very stressful for me. It was a brutal environment. IT industry is not kind to female staff. I did not enjoy sitting and coding for hours/days/weeks. I enjoyed building the hardware, writing code to make it work etc. The commitment to long hours also discouraging. I know a few female around my age that have CS degree and were doing IT stuff but gave it up because the environment were too toxic. Most of them gave it up after having kids or switch to other non technical job. Having lots of overseas workers coming to do the job also bringing in a different set of culture into the tech world. They provide cheap labour, but it does not mean they solve the problem of gender diversity in the long run. In fact they might contribute to the current problem.
What I can see, employee would hire foreign workers (graduated in foreign countries) first instead of giving Australian female graduates the position. my2c.
I won't argue with you the difference between a technical document and a document with technical details. You're welcome to that definitional win.

There are interesting technical details in this document about the exact methods, vectors, files, timelines, etc used in both offense and defense of this incident. They would be of interest and value to many in this community regardless of the partisan agenda of the committee.
- The challenge for an organization is to recognize that there is a significant difference between the 'data engineer' working on a vertical project and the 'data engineer' responsible for integrating data across the enterprise.

- The project 'data engineer', in today's world, most likely will be a software developer responsible for ETL, etc. The data design will be more or less up to the software developer.

- An enterprise 'data engineer' is more concerned with data that affects the enterprise. This typically involves some sort of data integration. For example, how to integrate relevant data from N projects (e.g. A,B,C .. Z) where each project has its own idea of how to represent similar concepts (e.g. person, user, customer), with different provenance, truth assertions, access rules, data retention periods, granularity of metadata (e.g. at the attribute level vs entity level), etc. The enterprise is interested in questions like 'What did we know and when did we know it?", etc. The enterprise 'data engineer' will probably levy requirements on the project 'data engineer' to meet the enterprise's needs.
It claims to be a useful tool for pen testing. I call bullshit. Destroying a device is hardly the same as penetrating a device. Does this have a legitimate use case?
Have you read _Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America_ yet? I think Rayiner would find it interesting as well.
It is not my argument that this is an uninteresting or uninformative document.
Die Living
I disagree. If you're going to say "But the authors of this document had a job to do: portray administration appointees in the worst light possible." then you need to at least show some examples of that.

You're not making an argument. You're trying to pass an opinion as a fact. You need to back up statements like that.
This is one of my meany reasons for rejecting the concept of a social contract.
Anyone use VS code for Unreal Engine 4 development? Long shot but figured I'd ask.
apparently had a preferred vendor in mind: http://www.bigassfans.com/
Ember 2.9-beta released with Glimmer2 rendering engine
"I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate."

It's because there is no such a thing as 'grammar' :)

There is no such a thing as 'language' :)

Ok, I misrepresented that a little - but there is no such thing as a 'word list of all the English words and proper names'. And there definitely no set of clear grammatical rules for English. For some languages - such as German - the rules are more precise, but even then.

So what you end up with is a game of probability and a lot of risk of 'over-correction' (beta errors).

Context matters a lot as well - multilingual speakers, casual typers.

Go to a rap video on youtube and look at the comments. People are arguably not even writing English.
> "It's a executable rootkit"

I hate to join in the terminology argument, but is it really a rootkit? After all, it doesn't (according to the reports) disguise its presence, which discards "rootkit" as a classification.

It seems to be pretty much run-of-the-mill malware. It would be interesting to understand the delivery mechanism (email, or whatever).

And if people will install untrusted third-party software, delivered by an untrustworthy mechanism, then they inevitably accept a certain amount of exposure.
I thought the comment about Australia was pretty random - I'm guessing this engineer is an Australian? I don't understand the context - are they saying that Australia doesn't have problems with gender bias? Because that is certainly not the case.
The correlation between race and IQ.
I pay for a IntelliJ Ultimate license. I am so happy about it. It supports all I want. PHP? Java? Python? Ruby? all you want baby. Consistent UI across all your environment. Solid. Pretty fast. Good Vim plugin. I have absolutely 0 complains. An essential asset.
Apple has a fairly good track record when it comes to predicting the death of old standards.
"... you can work in the Bay Area and then retire somewhere cheaper"

Yes but, while working in the Bay Area you have to live in the Bay Area (assuming you aren't remote). I'm just super curious how we're supposed to save enough to be safe by 40.
Looking beyond Facebook for news and reporting on diverse topics with balanced viewpoints is a "privilege"?

On what can you possibly base this claim? This is why Internet.org and the walled garden got nuked. This is what we really mean when we talk about network neutrality. You type a URL into the address bar and press enter, and the page you requested loads.

While certainly there are populations where internet access is not readily available, that doesn't appear to be your argument. "working-class and poor people have neither the time nor mental energy to peruse a variety of sources" is a bizarre claim I can't quite get my head around.
Wave's management make up is mostly marketing guys and 1 engineer, while NVidia employs thousands of engineers. In a mature field like hardware chips, it takes many engineers to make a tiny impact.

Yet Wave claim they can beat NVidia DGX-1 by 1000% in a single 3U box.

Smells like a scam.
The scammer said it is his parents that he does not want to be told, so that's precisely where his care factor is.
Zuckerberg ran his test drive in college. He reached his audience, sold them on Facebook, it worked, so he quit and did it full time. His burning passion was already validated when he took his huge risk. What we argue is you don't have to have a platform built out to get the same validation.
Any idea why Apple is so doggedly pursuing haptic feedback for its touch button? The engine appears to take up a lot of room in the phone.

The only justication I see for it is that they're trying to unite the touch interface gestures of their Macbooks and phones.
Even if you say "plz", I'm not voting. Not because voting isn't easy enough but because there's not a candidate that I can vote for.
Youre missing the point of grossly increased and unstable weather patterns due to higher energy in he atmosphere, social and political instability due to the lack of food elsewhere, with possible wars wiping out a lot more food production, and death of so much plankton and wilds that the biosphere becomes practically inhospitable and unable to support food production for even millions, never mind billions.
"I have no preference how I die."

-vs-

"I find any method of death equal unacceptable."

______

Yes, it's true everyone dies, but we're not talking about death and it's obvious that it's possible to have a voting system that's able to tell the difference between indifference, objection, and support of the potential candidates/parties in a general election.

With most voting systems if a single person votes, it's a valid election. If the majority decent, it's still a valid election.

It should be that if the majority decent, the election is nullified - otherwise it's a recipe for a toxic political environment.
I sometimes wish descriptions of climate change would include one or two potential positive benefits, no matter how small.

This would give me more faith that the discourse coming from climate scientists is entirely objective and descriptive. Even if we accept that climate change is overwhelmingly negative for human life on the whole (which I do), I still find it hard to believe that there aren't one or two minor effects that could actually be beneficial.

Much of the left seems to view climate change as a crime that humans commit against nature. This view seems as morally blind to me as the right's view that God gave humankind the Earth to have dominion over. The objective view is that the activities of humans are changing the climate, and the effects are X, Y, and Z. Changing the climate is not wrong because it makes an anthropomorphized Mother Nature shed a tear, but because X, Y, and Z are harmful to animal and plant life, including us humans.

Unfortunately if I get what I want (an objective account that includes possible upsides of climate change), climate change deniers might seize on that as an excuse to do nothing.
In some places its typical for such legislative committees to also issue minority/dissenting reports - does that happen in the US?
I think it depends on the job the program is being used for. If the program is used in a setting where occasional crash has no severe consequences, say search engine backend, it may be useful for the company to actually run in production a program that is allowed to crash whenever severe error condition occurs. In scenarios where lives or lots of money hinge on program being alive and functioning, such as plane autopilot, or rocket / space probe control, crash or fatal error of the main program often means disaster and thus should never occur. If error condition occurs during execution, the program should withstand that and continue with default path of execution. In the past lots of lives and money could be saved if only the software and hardware conformed to this paradigm.
Belkin comes to the rescue with an iPhone 7 headphone-and-charge dongle
Well I can give an example from an old startup I worked on in the past. We wanted to see if a CRM for job seekers would be useful. But we didn't build it so they could come. We repurposed Trello as a CRM, got a group of job seekers on board from Reddit, and proved there was value in the idea. Then we built it.

The proving of willingness to pay came from surveys of those and subsequent users that said "yes, i would pay X per month for this"
Telling the brother showed that there was a threat. Not telling the parents showed that the threat was a bluff.
Doesn't this have some relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
The management on their site looked like 1 marketing guy and the rest heavy weight engineers?

A bit more detail:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/07/21/wave-computing-rolls...

With $40m funding and 100 staff, 16nm tape out done, they seem pretty far, but flying under the radar.

Some more details on the architecture coming end of Sept apparently:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330175

But as always, proof is in the pudding.
That was one of the phrases used in the program that taught me to touch type. Stuck with me for decades..and has been almost as useful to me as learning to touch type...
Aww, you don't sound like a fun-loving kinda guy :-/
wtf... do ppl write essays on resumes? even 4 pages is too long nowadays. need to tl;dr.
machine-in-the-middle, since most of this is all automated using machine learning.

Each human's window into the larger world is increasingly through a lens controlled by automated software we don't understand.