skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reminds me of the poem "The World is Too Much With Us", by William Wadsworth:

>The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Can you link to the algorithm itself? Thanks - cool work.
If you believe in rational markets, you should also probably consider that those rational markets are capable of pricing stable inflation into nominal pricing. Consider that money is widely accepted to be neutral in the long-run.

In inflationary economies, there is nothing stopping individuals from saving value in the form of assets; you can store your value in pork bellies or gold or ownership of a company or whatever other asset you'd like, in order to build up savings to gain security and negotiating power. The oft-repeated idea that inflation precludes saving is silly; it does make it costly to save by stuffing your dollars into a mattress, but it would still hold true in an economy without managed inflation - such economies are still subject to inflation and deflation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_A...) so if you need to actually spend your money during one of those 20% inflation spikes, well, good luck with that.

Store your value in an asset rather than a medium of exchange and managed inflation is a tremendous boon thanks to its tendency to decrease the risk (and thus cost) of investment.
Honestly, it never seems to be a problem for me and I use homebrew extensively.
If you're curious, he was writing a Metasploit script in Ruby. Metasploit is used to run exploits against target systems and do penetration testing.
> To put that in more concrete terms, the US dropped more 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia.

Just as a sort of random aside for scale: that's a little under 1/2 ton of bombs per person in Cambodia, based on the 1970 population.
Memory forensics is a thing.

Google around with terms like forensics and "Volatility" or "Volatility toolkit" and you should find some presentations and other references.
Who's saying anything about typical?

I've never been a typical employee in my life. I have, however, been the highest-paid non-manager (or so I was told; this might have been an attempt to shame me into working more for free) in a hundred-person development group, well out of band, because I brought capabilities and skills to the table that they needed more than they needed to Maintain The Integrity Of The Salary Band.
Karabiner-Elements works great for me. Some work to set everything up again though, ant it only does simple key reassignments for now.
MacPorts dev here. Problems can arise when some ports have local patches for specific versions of macOS. This might work at first, but could lead to build failures or other problems later. Some ports also hardcode the OS version into their binaries. The simple way to prevent this kind of stuff is to rebuild all ports for the new platform.

Probably there would be room for improvement, but there is only little interest by contributors. This only happens once a year and after everybody went through it, they quickly loose interest in contributing anything better for the migration process.
No seamstress did not make wages in the top 10% in the richest country on earth while working 7 hour days.
What lesson are they supposed to draw from this?

WhatsApp is free, popular and end to end encrypted. There is only one app that meets all those criteria, which is the one we're talking about.

WhatsApp is probably not that expensive to run but it's also not free, and acquiring the company certainly wasn't. So Facebook have found a way to combine end to end encryption with an ad-supported business model: use the social graph data and business integration to improve FB ads.

To me this seems like pure win: Facebook already had ads, so it's just a matter of them getting better. WhatsApp can be free for everyone in a sustainable way, instead of the western-iOS-users-get-to-pay-for-everyone model WhatsApp used before.

The habit EU governmental bodies have developed of constantly threatening internet companies whenever they change their products is meanwhile turning into noise: any impact it could have had has been lost because these cases are so often frivolous and/or can't actually demonstrate actual harm to anyone. More and more it looks like EU governments simply like bashing American companies, which probably looks free to them: free money and free voter love from the socialist side of the spectrum.

Going back to the question of what lesson to draw from this: there IS a downside, which is that in future tech companies will prefer not to set up offices in Europe at all, but they can't see that. "Set up shop and avoid punishment by being good" is no option because these judgements are so often extremely vague, unpredictable or simply contradict the need of a business to generate revenue to sustain itself. BTW good luck charging Germans for WhatsApp given how few of them have credit cards.
The ability to own property doesn't encompass property rights; especially when "own" is used as loosely as it is today. If property rights are entirely respected, how can someone be oppressed?
> You seem to be doing that extreme-libertarian thing where you call taxes "robbery" while ignoring the negative economic effects of the general lack of safety nets in the US.

I don't know what else you would call threatening people with deadly force unless they give the threatener money, other than 'robbery.'

You'll note that I didn't say that taxes aren't necessary: they are. They are, in fact, almost the textbook definition of a necessary evil: we must have them, and they are evil. We don't live in a perfect world.

What concerns me is that we have already raised the economic footprint of the State far beyond what is necessary, and that it is in fact deadweight holding us all back — to include the poor, whose ultimate interests are served not by dragging down the rich, but by being lifted up.
I'm only a layman who's mildly interested in this, but this contradicts my understanding... Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.

You can't communicate with quantum teleportation. It sends random "information" (not information at all), because you can't control how the quantum waveform collapses. So you have to collapse the waveform, create a key that encodes your collapsed form to the information you want to transmit, and then transmit that key slower than light i.e. with radio.

I guess you could argue that since the keys themselves are also indistinguishable from noise, we wouldn't detect slower-than-light key transmission either, though.
That talk is so awesome. I still watch it about once a year, just because it is so much fun to listen to.

It is also slightly depressing in how right he is - back then I thought the guy was sounding kind of paranoid, but with every passing year and every new wave of hype (the cloud(TM), IoT, "Industrie 4.0", ...), and with every case of stuff like Superfish, I think of that talk and cannot help thinking that he was right all along. (It is a lot of fun to listen to, though, Doctorow is a great speaker!)
Profitability does not necessarily correlate with better life for customers, it all depends specifically on the subject.

Averts are entirely set up from the point of view of businesses, people can live better without ads, businesses need them because another competing business is also doing advertisement, it's just an arms race. Advertising and its growth is a cancer in our society, it destroy society values just for a quick buck and provides zero value to our society. I can't wait to see that die. I can't believe some of the smartest people we have out there spend all their lives making people click on ads, this is totally insane.

Advertising is just oppression by private companies, I don't see any difference with government ads. Except that because there is a profit in private advertising, it's even more invasive and everywhere.
I shut down my facebook account seven years ago. I'd noticed fairly early on that what I did there was basically marketing myself and some stalking. I also noticed I was poor in marketing and felt ashamed of myself. In consequence my interest in stalking / following others' marketing faded, and shutting down my account was the only logical action to take. I've never regretted it.

I have a smartphone, but don't use it except for texting and making calls. Since I have maybe 10-20 calls or texts a week, I usually don't take my phone to work. For me, email at work and a phone at home is enough for setting up appointments and leading a satisfactory social life. It's a great relief not carrying this nagging tracking device around with me all day.

I don't understand what's the great thing about smartphones. They are much less convenient to use than a desktop or laptop for most of the things I do (emailing, web surfing, software development). (what things are so important that need the mobility or the special devices not typically found in desktops such as touch, GPS, camera? Maybe if I played Pokemon Go or had selfie-taking or QR scanning addiction...).

I also totally hate when I have to share others' attention with their smartphones. Personally I've learned to embrace or even enjoy boredom, or watching out the window, or sitting in a bar drinking beer, thinking of nothing at all. I feel my head is working underneath, and I need the balance I get from doing nothing conscious. A quote from Pulp Fiction that I like: “‎That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”

However my big problem is dealing with computers at work, and sitting in front of them 8-10 hours a day, at work and at home. When I don't feel productive (most of the time -- I try to make good decisions in my software designs, and thoughts need time to settle), my time is spent randomly clicking links on news sites, HN and twitter (barely sending, mostly consuming).

I would really like to be more productive and consume less unimportant news. However knowing I'm not a genious I doubt that more isolation will improve my productivity.
But you can get the miles for free with a credit card sign up bonus, so it is actually $1,000 per month. The entire point is to learn how to use travel hacking to pick up hundreds of thousands of miles.
The doubly-linked list is a really good idea! I'll have to start using it.

For no real purpose other than personal interest, I like to put a "NET" (no earlier than) date next to my page numbers in my notebook. Every time I start a new page, I write the page number and the current date (ex '#51 NET 21 Sep 2016') on the page.
That is some Alex Jones level reasoning. There's no end-user security you can provide that can't be reframed that way.
Forgive my ignorance as I'm a software engineer and not a physicist. But does this means that in the future FTL communication will be possible. Every time I work with networking one thing always springs to mind. That is that the speed of light is a limiting factor. Will this mean that in the future latency issues will be a thing of the past?

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html
FRB: Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement--September 21, 2016
So you would rather pay out the ass for the latest hardware... even if it does not allow you to install Linux?
Thank you!

I will reach out if I choose WF, I'll do some research between the two.
I'm a lay person when it comes to QM: I get my information from Brian Greene's excellent books. I kind of think it is going too far to say that it's pseudoscience and poor metaphors that make it seem like magic. Readers of the popular scientific accounts learn that the various slit experiments with partial observation etc show that these subatomic particles behave like spreading waves of probability until they are observed at which point it's like a sample is taken from the probability distribution. That seems very magical to me and has done to many scientists over the last century, right?
Fair enough, I certainly don't want any government programs to come out of this discussion. I kind of doubt he meant collective in that we need a collective solution. He meant collective in the sense of it captures the times. He's right.

At least I hope that's what he meant as collective solutions aren't called for here. Thoughtful thinking and discussion are called for online, please. I like online.
I think you're wrong. This website appears to consider CD, IRA, 401(k), and stocks/bonds as "savings accounts".

See https://www.gobankingrates.com/personal-finance/how-save-mil...
Airfare is super cheap right now. So that helps. But most people in the US in tech will have access to credit cards. So it doesn't make sense to complain about someone showing you how to travel the world cheaper.
I like what you guys have been doing. What I want is an integrated CMS (content management system) that I can easily manage content, text and images. Create new content nodes to combing e-commerce with content.
Embrace Your Inner Geek: CNC Periodic Table of Elements Poster
You can pretty easily check the SHA hash on them, and confirm. The newest dosdude patcher, actually logs into Apple and downloads the legit installer.
Can a cop commit rape or murder? Normally a cop is only allowed to do minor illegal things that aren't on the level of directly harming a person. Since the government argues child porn directly harms the child (as otherwise it would be protected by the first amendment), a cop should not be allowed to engage in activities related to it.

On a related note, why doesn't the mafia just require any suspected cop to commit rape of some target. Or are cops allowed to go that far?
I used to read his blog. He's kind of a quasi libertarian not your ministry of stats kind of wonk.
Well, I think the answer to that is going to vary a lot based on the personal experiences of the person answering, so here's my take:

I can’t speak for everyone, but it’s been my personal experience that many groups of friends partake in “shit talking” or “gossiping” when no one is around.

This leads me to believe that many people can be uncaring behind closed doors (which is what I think Seinfeld was meant to show, and which is why many people could relate to the show).
It's not really a toxin though, it's a plant hormone.

http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/N4I1C

Trapping that gas is why confined bananas will ripen faster.
I have an obligation to respect other peoples rights (which essentially all boil down to property rights). I have no obligation to help others if it isn't mutually beneficial. I might choose to, but it would infringe on my rights to force me to - that's called slavery.
Propeller Thrust
The advent of both these kind of challenges as well as Youtube have brought to light a level of durability of the human digestive tract I wouldn't have previously expected. One only needs to watch someone like skippy62able (L.A. Beast) to have their eyes opened (and possibly their gag reflex triggered). For example, witness him consuming baking soda and then drinking a glass of vinegar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke1el2TsDs
RhodeCode 4.4 Released
Creationism Invades Europe
I believe this is William Wordsworth.
If you like Mr. Robot, you should watch Person of Interest.

I strongly disagree. You could maybe say that about season 1. It devolved into a pretty crappy show after that and I bailed completely by season 3.
It would be pretty hard to separate the effects of nicotine from the effects of a lifetime of smoking + potentially poor dental hygiene (gum disease is rampant https://www.perio.org/consumer/cdc-study.htm) + aging.

Per wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine) the general medical consensus is that nicotine poses few risks on its own for nonpregnant adults, besides vasoconstriction and dependence.
I have had and have devs making more than 300K working for me in:

+ London

+ Singapore

+ Hong Kong

+ Tokyo

Edit: and NY, Chicago and Houston but that doesn't really make my point.

I have very good reason to believe (I've seen their salaries) also in:

+ Paris

+ Frankfurt

+ Dublin

The trick is to have skills that are needed in industries that understand the value of tech and have the money to pay for it.
I didn't had an iphone 6 until today.
See also their previous non-deterministic usage of IPv4 vs. IPv6: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-t... (paragraph that starts with "When an iOS 9 or OS X 10.11 application")
I have less than $1000 in my savings account because I still have a student loan that has an 11% interest rate. I work two jobs and pay upwards of $3000 a month towards my student loans.

I've had zero luck refinancing my student loans because I "don't have enough money in savings", despite being years ahead on my payments.
> I found it kind of funny that the author's big conclusion was less state-directed action, leaning on the thought that somehow the economy will work out for everyone...

The original undirected market [that is: the natural environment, and evolutionary selection] seems to have regularly turned out OK results, even for sub-optimal organisms, for millions of years.

Now, do we have any guarantee that a similar system would work just as well in our economy? No -- but I read the point of the article as stating that the current system may claim such guarantees, but the housing crash and subsequent slow recovery can be read as proving the ineffectiveness of the "incantations" used by the government to direct the economy.

> ...proliferation of "schools" and "think-tanks" that provide a selection of justifications to do what you already wanted to do. The science of how governments should handle money is too important not to be made into a political football.

Given your description of economic policy markers as "justifications" rather than some manner of lever / control, why should we believe governments' monetary policy is based on science? If it is not, the author claims (and I am prone to agree) that abandoning this false belief in search of the truth will improve our lives far more than the comfort granted by it.
They're badly expressing the idea that there may be only marginal benefits to optimizing the genus of password hashes used, so long as you're using a serious construction designed for storing (or generating keys from) passwords.

The debate over whether scrypt is better than bcrypt is not really still open. The debate over whether the difference matters that much in practice might be.

For what it's worth: for new systems, I use scrypt. But if someone asked, and they didn't have a very specialized application, I'd tell them that switching to scrypt from bcrypt, or even PBKDF2, would be a waste of money.
Thanks for the heads up. Not that I know it's at least possible, I'll spend some time and did a little deeper. I'm interested in seeing how it compares to Slack (basically, how well it uses the defined groups and membership in them that are already configured).
Apps, Bots and Cloud Oh My
Use something like Vault: https://www.vaultproject.io/
On Chrome on Android, at least, if you don't use "Request desktop site", you can't get messages on messenger.com or facebook.com (the messages icon doesn't even show up on the latter, and the former just directs you to an app download.)

You can use "request desktop site" on messenger.com (and probably also facebook.com), or use mbasic.facebook.com to get messages without the messenger app.
My bad, I only considered desktop access. I'm interested to know the name of he wrapper though.
I'll take the government's advice over the advice of a profit-driven business nine times out of ten.
Approaching Kubernetes Adoption in Your Organization
Oh, gosh! That's an entirely different story.

Collins seems like a genuinely nice and generous man, I've seen him speak. I didn't know that about the tabloids.
Moment is Made in the USA
Teach the controversy! Even if there isn't one.

> But if someone asked, and they didn't have a very specialized application, I'd tell them that switching to scrypt from bcrypt, or even PBKDF2, would be a waste of money.

Argon2/scrypt/bcrypt/PBKDF2 are fine. I think PBKDF2 is the worst choice, but is still acceptable.

The real problem is the prevalence of md5($password) e.g. in software like Piwik.
Considering that Edward Albee was mentioned in the article with a quote, I find it worth while to mention that he has unfortunately passed away at the age of 88 - just now.

Edward is/was known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and A Delicate Balance (1966).

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/16/462191417/...
Do app integrations have a way of storing arbitrary data on resources, such as products?

For example, Shopify has "metafields" which allow Apps to add strings of data within a namespace/key, which can then be used in the liquid templating engine.
No, you're thinking about quantum entanglement.
As an aside, I really wish there were something that really, truly duplicated the experience of pen and paper, but were digitally indexable and searchable. There's just something really special about the tactile feedback. I also really like the way I can bounce between two arbitrary pages extremely rapidly with a physical notebook, or even look at two at once.

Plus, depending on how well you remember what, rapidly searching for a given entry is way faster if you flip to the approximate point in a physical book. That's my biggest complaint about my Kindle: random access is incredibly slow; in a physical book I've read within a year or so, I can reliably find a quote I was looking for within 30 seconds, but on my Kindle it takes forever.
I'd be very interested if you could elaborate a little on what tools and how you applied formal methods on that old code?
Quantum teleportation can't be used to send data faster than the speed of light, more accurately understood here as the speed of causality. As far as I'm aware, there's really no hypothetical way to violate the speed of causality.
Outside the US, many don't really use SMS ;)
Here is the citation: Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Martin Helander, ed., 1990. Chapter 21, Section 4, "Key Size and Shape" on p. 483
It's part of the current "A plan for Scotland" [0] which mentions:

"deliver a baby box offering essential items for
a child’s first weeks to the families of all newborn
babies in Scotland, to promote the fair and
equal start we want for every child regardless
of circumstance. We will consult with key
stakeholders and with parents in autumn 2016,
with full roll-out in 2017"

[0] http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0050/00505210.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(weapon)
Yes, and as others pointed out below, this is essentially entanglement.
The series definitely doesn't portray the government as a force for good, or even a significant player.

"Politics is for puppets."

"We voted for this, not with our rigged elections..."

"I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys who play God without asking permission..."