skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certain we'll see AI which is smart enough to replace a lot of tasks which humans currently perform. For example paralegal work, medical diagnosis, logistics solving for cargo and military applications etc.

What I cannot wrap my head around though is at what point AI will reach a level where it can have that 'Eureka!' moment and come up with a novel concept like humans do.

Humans are governed by an array of emotions and evolved behaviours which work in tandem. For example depression or recklessness are both pretty negative and debilitating. One might expect they'd be evolved out of the species. Depression however can be useful in that it causes us to evaluate the reasons behind our depression and (hopefully) strive to change them. Recklessness can cause us to throw caution to the wind and shoot for the stars - make that move abroad or sell everything and setup a new company.

I think that AI will rapidly reach a level where it is self aware enough to demonstrate human behaviour like self-preservation or even harbour malignant feelings towards us and some of our behaviours (environmental damage, torture etc.). But whether it will posess that yearning curiosity which causes humans to strive for self improvement, to look to the stars or deep within the atom, I don't know if we'll see that anytime soon.
My point is more so that students feel like they need to take the corporate route, instead of pursuing a more entrepeneurial path. Especially given that corporate internships help alleviate tuition and other costs, at least compared to low/no wage startup internships (this obviously doesn't apply to internships at Uber, FB, etc.)

And $16k after tax, housing, and food in NYC (Wall Street baby) isn't a ton.
What client software do you use to access the storage and to backup to it? Is it reliable and cross-platform, by any chance? =)
That makes more sense, I was picturing wooden boards or something.
It makes a lot of sense if you consider that most users don't give a damn about security.
I had a joystick called the Gravis Xterminator I used to play emulated N64 games. Its analog stick and button layout were similar enough to the N64 to make emulated Super Mario 64 almost as playable and enjoyable as the real thing.
Recreationally inhale cannabis and climb mountains
Nope the shipping company issues a bill of lading as the goods are received for shipping that sets out who owns the container.
Err .. if you have foreign employment income in the US, you will be taxed at the source, no?
This is a mess because Hanjin's top management was in denial about the possibility of bankruptcy. Just like the typical startup. They've been trying for months to get a bailout deal from somebody, anybody - a merger, loans, their parent chaebol, their stockholders (Korean Air is the largest), or the S. Korean government. Everybody turned them down. There's too much container ship capacity right now; nobody needed Hanjin's fleet.

Management didn't have a plan for an orderly shutdown, so when the company went into receivership, everything just stopped. Just like many failing startups, the web site continued to indicate nothing was wrong. They've now put up a spreadsheet with current vessel status, but that took weeks. The status has entries such as "Arrested", "Unpaid Canal Fee (Suez)", "Arrested by Bunker Supply Co. (Panama Canal)", and "Port labor rejected" (they're way behind on their payments)". There are about 500,000 containers stuck with Hanjin.

Admiralty law is especially harsh on bankrupt shipowners. In many jurisdictions, ships can be seized regardless of bankruptcy status. Some Hanjin ships have been seized. Some are waiting offshore until somebody puts up the money for unloading and refueling. There were four stuck off the coast of California. Hanjin has come up with enough money to get two of them into the port of Los Angeles and unloaded. Those appear to be ships Hanjin leased, rather than owned, and a court in Korea has told them to unload and return all their leased ships ASAP. Courts in about 15 countries are involved, trying to untangle this mess. The US Maritime Commission is trying to get cargoes unloaded, but they don't have much authority. Ports are unwilling to let Hanjin ships in unless they have enough money to fuel up, pay a crew, and leave - they don't want them stuck at their docks. Meanwhile, some of the ships are running low on food and water.

Then there's the empty container mess. In the container business, you pay a per-day fee when you hold someone else's container, so everyone tries to return their borrowed empties quickly. But most of Hanjin's empty container return points are shut down, and are not taking empties back. Many of those empties are on trailer bodies, and are tying up trailers needed to move freight. Truckers are angry about this. Shippers are having trouble getting enough empty trailers.

This will all get unwound, but it's going to take weeks or months. There are going to be really big post-Xmas sales as the delayed cargo is unloaded.
Move out of NYC. $16k is livable in other parts of the USA.
Could they just have an "accident" and get insurance money?
you should go implement this in Crash Bandicoot and make a youtube video of it.
Do you use all three for an API? JWT, oAUTH, and Sessions?
I'm working on my first api. I've been reading up on authentication/security pros and cons of each. There was a nice stack exchange post. If any of you guys could shed more light. It seems that you'd use oauth for something like Facebook or Google+ login.
I agree with your synopsis.

Wages are too deflated for good overall economic prospects.

If I can criticize ourselves, it is with this:

I think millennials are too risk-averse, not because the opportunities are out there in waiting, but because the job opportunities are so poor.

There comes a point when you live in some degree of (relative) poverty at which not making a startup is dumber than making one.

There seems to be two cohorts of entrepreneurs. Working class ones forced into it by desperation and upper middle class ones who see it being at worst a good contribution to their CV if they fail, with unlimited upside. The acqu-hire system attests to this as a valid strategy because paper certs have such limited signaling potential now that everybody has them.

Honestly in either case it is a hard road. It is so much easier just to give up. Part of the reason I think people come here is the invigoration of seeing other minds at work.
Despite the assumption of some newer open-source developers that
sending a pull request on GitHub “automatically” licenses the
contribution for distribution on the terms of the project’s existing
license—what Richard Fontana of Red Hat calls
“inbound=outbound”—United States law doesn’t recognize any such
rule. Strong copyright protection, not permissive licensing, is the
default.

That isn't quite what I mean by "inbound=outbound". Rather,
inbound=outbound is a contribution governance rule under which inbound
contributions, say a pull request for a GitHub-hosted project, are
deemed to be licensed under the applicable outbound license of the
project. This is, in fact, the rule under which most open source
projects have operated since time immemorial. The DCO is one way of
making inbound=outbound more explicit, and I increasingly think one
that should be encouraged (if only to combat the practice of using
CLAs and the like). But under the right circumstances it works even where the contribution is not
explicitly licensed (I think this is what Kyle may be
questioning). There are other ways besides the DCO of creating greater
certainty, or the appearance of greater certainty, around the inbound
licensing act, such as PieterH's suggestion of using a copyleft
license like the MPL, or the suggestion of using the Apache License
2.0 (whose section 5 states an inbound=outbound rule as a kind of
condition of the outbound license grant).
What does a kilowatt hour look like?
sure. but somehow, among a sea of replies that either don't care for my joke, or who just don't understand that it is a joke, yours manages to be the most off putting.
I read it as perhaps some old dormant accounts never got migrated out of an ancient DB, and may have been picked up with the rest of the data.

Yahoo is an old company, I'm sure procedures have changed drastically over the years.
I don't know what to suggest in that regard, since I'm not actually a researcher in the field. But I have known a few people who've had remarkably good results with the fecal transplant process, and no one who's had an adverse reaction. That doesn't mean much, of course, but it may well be worth discussing the matter with your doctor, just in case it might be worth considering in your case.
Potentially, you could have weird locations signing in, emails you didn't send in your sent items. But yeah, seems unlikely that a 'state-sponsored attack' on this scale wouldn't be able to cover their tracks in the eyes of Yahoo Mail users.
Wall Street’s IPO Business: The Worst in 20 Years
What are these "incredibly wealthy special interest groups"?

If you're talking about pharmaceutical companies, the FDA has enormous power over them, and I don't remember them ever saying anything critical of the FDA. That would be taking enormous risks.
Not paying taxes does not mean an independent nation. The purpose of a government is not to collect taxes, it is to provide services the people need, want and are willing to pay for (all 3 conditions). The taxes are supposed to cover for these services, not whatever politicians want or what the neighbors vote for.
It is PR. It makes them seem less incompetent if the attack was performed by a "state sponsored actor".
horrible how? was anyone ever significantly penalized for being hacked?
Statically typed languages have a few large advantages over dynamic languages

Fallacies! I'd have said "lies" but I realize you just have limited information. See below.

- Refactoring. Refactoring a large JavaScript codebase (> 100k loc) is nearly impossible

Really? Refactoring large codebases in VisualWorks Smalltalk was a joy! Hyper nimble. If you stuck to canned refactorings, you had 100% confidence. For years, we were talking about how we could refactor an order of magnitude faster than other environments, and this is still true.

- Your code is now more discoverable. You can easily find definitons, and discovering all methods and properties

Discovery in Smalltalk was much superior and way more nimble. Combining senders/implementors searches, syntactic pattern matching, and runtime discovery was powerful and joyful to use.

- Code is now more readable. Objects are never opaque. You never have to dig through multiple calls

I don't know what you're getting at here. No environment has been more transparent to work in than Smalltalk. You don't just get to read a spec of the object -- you actually get to see it and poke and prod the live version of it to verify your understanding and test your theories. (I understand you can do this in languages like C++ -- it's what I use in my day job -- but it's literally an order of magnitude nimbler in Smalltalk.)

What you have to say about dynamic languages perhaps has to do with somewhat ad-hoc language design combined with somewhat ad-hoc design of the environment and distribution/execution platform. (Javascript/Web browsers?) It certainly doesn't have to be true for dynamic environments per se.
Or out of a book and in college... A community college, grant it, but a college nonetheless.
> a raid based on the IP address alone seems unreasonable.

Unreasonable to whom? If it intimidates people into switching off their Tor nodes, then to the cops it was probably worth it.

(I am a fan of Tor in case you think I am in favor of this kind of intimidation).
What does this "Arrested by Bunker Supply Co. (Panama Canal) mean?
Right, but the original poster is talking about a banking job that you then leverage up to a higher wage on the next rung up.

You're not getting that by working at Dairy Queen in BFE.
...And I hate java (for perverting OO, and being annoyongly verbose), and come from a highly dynamic background.

It's ultimately a matter of preference, though.
I think lack of trust of the government/experts is a big problem here. Leading economists can say "this expensive program is a good investment and will reduce costs in the long run", and people simply don't believe them or care. Cutting costs seems to be the surest way to win votes.
Ports are reluctant to let the vessels unload as creditors would impound the vessels tying up valuable mooring space.
I worked with a young guy that suddenly found out he had it. He started feeling ill, then pain, and wound up in the hospital for some time. He didn't know he had it: I know for a while he wound up with a colostomy bag as his colon healed, and was looking at a lifetime of restricted eating and other such things.

To make matters worse, his long-term girlfriend/fiance left him while he was in the hospital.

I wish I knew what happened to him. He wound up moving out of state to stay with his parents as he got better, and basically cut most folks out of his life at that time.
I considered both before choosing one. Ended up going with Protonmail because:

* The folks behind Protonmail are also heavily involved in the OpenPGP.js project. Interop with plain PGP from non-Protonmail accounts is on their roadmap and a feasible future feature. AFAIK that's not on tutanota's roadmap and they use a different customized crypto library, so all you'll ever get is e2e encryption with other tutanota users.

* Proton's mobile app is a top-rated android mail app, and pretty good even compared to iOS's Mail app.

* IMAP support is also on Protonmail's roadmap, but not something I miss due to the good mobile app.

* The tutanota.com and tuta.io domains are dorky and hard for other people to remember.
The prime reason: cheap capital. With interest rates plumbing historic lows, companies, which are increasingly shunning public equity, have an abundance of low-cost funding options. When they do tap it, they are finding ever cheaper ways to do so.
That's an excellent point that I have not heard before, thank you for this.
So github has no custom/proprietary code or value adding features?
They seem to be trying to strike a balance between warning their users, which has to happen quickly, and knowing for sure what happened, which takes a long time to figure out.

If they are opting more toward informing users quickly, then their language can't be definitive yet.

IMO this is a good thing--much better to warn people soon, than sit on the news for another month until they've completed the forensics.

If they haven't detected any sign of intrusion on their payment servers, then it would seem those did not get hit. On the other hand, it took them until now to detect the 2014 account intrusion! So it's still possible that they will discover some problem on the payment servers as they dig deeper. Hence the use of "may not" vs. "did not."

> It seems like they're saying anything could have been stolen.

Well yes, once you know the bad guys were inside the perimeter, it's hard to rule anything out. It's possible to construct a network with internal defenses as strong as the external defenses, but most networks are not built that way. Most are still soft on the inside--get root on one server and there are pathways to others.
I feel like I could write a nice article on why most critique's of Apple critique articles, are also garbage.

I will refrain and just offer a well rounded and fair opinion of Apple.

Apple is obviously still making well built products with slick software, but they have not created anything recently more compelling than just being an upgrade or polish to what they already have. The watches, while very nice, did not bring anything new to the table that android watches hadn't. Their phones, while having to compete with gobs of hardware running android, have certainly not changed that much, but they have incrementally gotten better.

iOS has not distanced itself from stock android, and on top of the line hardware like the Nexus 6P, the only factor people have to consider now is what ecosystem they want to live in. Either way they get a buttery smooth OS with everything they could want and all the apps they need.

From a geek perspective, I am chomping at the bit for them to shock the world with the next big thing, like they did with iPods and iPhones. I would love for them to make another laptop I can't live without, that nobody else can touch.

To make use of an analogy, if apple is car maker, its top of the line supercar is still a formidable foe on the drag strip and the track, and while other supercars may outpace it one area or the other, and Apple has the edge in other aspects, its still an amazing all around supercar. It's just not showing any signs of pulling away from the pack any time soon, and for that matter, for the money there are other good options out there that may be more your style.
The explanation is simple: Canada is socialist. As Margaret Thatcher said, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.". The problem with Canadians is that they don't like to run out of money to support their socialism, so even suggesting to consider giving up to taxes is worse than blasphemy, it's counter-revolution.
At this point, the average million dollar home in the far suburbs of Toronto costs about 4K a month (mortgages, utility bills, etc.). A condo in a better location costs 1500 a month. We're just starting out our family (which is why we need a house, but we can also not depend on my wife's income). A 10K salary results in 6k after taxes. While we could put everything into the house, I am very very afraid to do so. When I've asked how others do it, I get crazy answers from parents helped get the downpayment down big time to unregistered rental suites. Craziest story I've heard is people buying a house and living in the basement. It all makes my head spin.
There's a stigma against community college in the US for high-achieving students. At least where I went to high school, it was where the kids who did okay/poorly in high school went to get a second chance in hopes of transferring to a university or at least have an associate's degree.

If you were to tell the average high school student who's in the top ~10% of their class to go to CC, you'd get laughed at.

Also, we're spoiled in programming and engineering in that we can go to almost any valid school and still get a job if we can build and ship software. In other careers, college or location choice really does matter!

On a better note, where I went to high school most students (even top ones) went to in-state schools, but that's because Texas has pretty good public colleges (though last time I checked they're getting more expensive).
>potential adversaries can be reduced to corporate or state actors //

Don't black-hat hacker groups exist?
> YHOO mostly tracks BABA. BABA is up over 3% today. If YHOO is flat, then it's actually down about 3%.

This is correct. For reference, $YHOO, $BABA, and $SPY all one one graph:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
EADDRESS=$([[ "$1" == "" ]] && echo "noreply@example.com" || echo "$1")

could be replaced with:

EADDRESS={$1:-noreply@example.com}

From the man page:

${parameter:-word}
Use Default Values. If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted.

For:

EADDRESS=$(echo "$EADDRESS" | sed 's;@;%40;')

you could use:

EADDRESS=${EADDRESS/@/%40}
Angular was a Bad Idea. For so many reasons. I'm barely acquainted with it, but I could already go on about all the problems I had, which other, more experienced people also had.

And I do a lot of Lisp programming in Emacs, where the support for REPLs and livecoding is ungodly. Really, really good.
Yeah I was definitely oversimplifying. There is still a difference, I think, between the younger countries made up of diverse immigrants, and old, traditionally homogeneous cultures that have recently seen more immigration.
Couldn't agree more, this is one thing that Python/PEP8 got completely wrong. (Leading) column-aligned code falls down more-often-than-not in practice and is a terrible reason to sacrifice tabs. Tabs are superior. [0]

[0] http://lea.verou.me/2012/01/why-tabs-are-clearly-superior/
8. Solomonoff's inference + compiled pattern recognition (a la "compiled regex")
> LibreSSL has historically been vulnerable to less of the bugs than OpenSSL and, for a long time, none of the sev:high bugs.

You say this like LibreSSL has been out for a long time. It's just barely crossed it's 2 year mark... and for most of it's life, it's difficult to call it "production ready".

Coupled with its low adoption rate (really only some select BSD's, and some adventurous linux folks), it's not surprising more vulnerabilities haven't been discovered (yet).

The OpenBSD folks do good work, but let's not pretend they are infallible.
What exactly are those services? There is no public education, no fire department, there is probably nothing, but they cannot just recognize "we give you nothing but we want you to pay taxes, so move somewhere else where we can give you something so you continue to pay up". It's a tax game, not a service game.
I do, but when I read others' (typed) code, I don't often find the types helpful...

(Although that's usually C code, so that might have something to do with it)
The Politics of Pockets
ES6 is is such a lovely language to write
"Arrested" in this case means, from what I can tell, "seized by authorities on behalf of a creditor based on a lien filed against the ship by the creditor". See, e.g., http://www.presstelegram.com/business/20160907/mammoth-cargo...

EDIT: More on arrest of a vessel: http://www.maritimelawcenter.com/html/arrest_of_vessel.html
If you want to be an entrepreneur, don't bother with the college at all. Just my humble opinion, and I understand many will disagree for various rather good reasons.
Well, yeah. Lisp/Scheme, Python, and JS all have really good type annotations now.