skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm is well known. The main contribution is that they were able to scale up the algorithm to a huge graph. Google doesn't go into much detail about that because it's proprietary. So whats the point of this blog post? Oh yea, free Allo/Inbox advertisement.
I'd love to see a Trending section added. Something in between the front page and New sections.

I often rely on comments to determine whether I want to read an article, but the New section has none.

The front page on the other hand, is like fishing. A new post 'catching' there is rather random. Paginating to 2nd 3rd etc is then a mismatch of popular older topics and falling newer ones.

I want to see newish posts with a few comments, but not so popular that it's on the front page, and not so old that I've likely already seen it before.
Hackers don't tend to target states these days unless they have a state to hide behind, hence being state sponsored.

If you are a bored teenager in Poland you'll get to to join the mile high club on one of the fine aircraft of Premier Executive Transport Services or whichever front the CIA uses these days.

If you are a bored teenager in the horn of africa you are likely to be placed at the wrong end of the sensor to shooter loop of a UAV.

Governments are very good at tracking down intrusions these days, and there is nearly no way of selling this information without being caught, intelligence agencies monitor all the channels, markets, and they operate both undercover agents and informants within virtually any social ring that hackers hang out in.

Cyber Crime pays when the risk is considerably smaller than the reward, just like any other type of crime, steal money from a bank and while you'll be hunted down by law enforcement you won't be hunted down by spies and the military, and since the money is insured no one really cares enough to invest too much effort into tracking you down in the first place.
The macOS, Plan 9, Windows and Inferno versions of acme do not require X.
I called Russia a superpower, not a "cyber superpower".

I freely admit that the US has outpaced Russia, indeed much of the rest of the world, in cyberwarfare.
Thanks for the link. Interesting. Seems it supports an angular/knockout-like template syntax by default, but allows you to drop down to the virtual dom layer or even use JSX if you want to. Also it has knockout-style computed properties which may be why it outperforms React. This may go nicely with something like RxJS, so maybe I should try it out with Horizon after all.
From elsewhere in the comments, the author is supposedly a volunteer. So I guess I don't see how this is pertinent here. Also, the tone is a little harsh.
Mr Musk spoke earlier this year about the fact that he believes that the chance that we are not living in a computer simulation is "one in billions". He said that he had come to that conclusion after a chat in a hot tub, where it was pointed out that computing technology has advanced so quickly that at some point in the future it will become indistinguishable from real life – and, if it does, there’s no reason to think that it hasn’t done already and that that’s what we are currently living through.

The hubris of making such statement after a hot tub chat when no evidence exists is insane. In 1880, everyone with interest in Arctic exploration "knew" that the north pole was an open sea and would be balmy. I wonder what things we "know" today will be laughed at by our great grandchildren?
Now M$ loves open source? What a joke. Most developers still don't like it and the fresh ones almost don't need to pay much attention. Farewell, M$. Now it's time to make Google and Facebook to "loves privacy", in regrets.
Wow, thanks for all the great links and ideas. There's a lot of good stuff here. Cheers.
Actually it was done in 1993. https://github.com/bvito/misc/blob/master/sam.el
Your argument against her being President is that she laughed after deciding she didn't trust polygraphs?
Plus the computed properties system from knockout. Yeah, it looks like a nice mashup of everything out there.
I am obviously biased being from Ukraine but Putin is being active mostly because he perceives EU as being extremely weak
and US President as weak so he has a window to act. If he received some serious level of resistance (not military) he would quickly back down, but he only receives very minor resistance which is interpreted as farther sign of west's weakness.
>That doesn't mean everyone involved here --- multiple departments of the US Government, the executive branch of the government at the very highest level, and several of the largest security firms in the US --- couldn't be lying. It could all be a conspiracy. If it was, it would be the largest conspiracy ever carried out by the US government. But I guess that could be what happened!

I don't think it's as simple as that. When the case for war against Iraq was made, "multiple departments of the US Government, the executive branch of the government at the very highest level, and several of the largest security firms in the US" all seemed to be in agreement that Iraq definitely had weapons of mass destruction.

Clearly, they did not, what happened is that certain facts were overstated and repeated and certain other facts were ignored or downplayed.

There is no reason to believe that this is any different because, again, there is a strong political gain for the current administration to have these facts be so.

I agree completely that Russia may well be behind the attacks but given the fact that the people making the announcement also have the most to gain from the announcement, I am happy to remain unconvinced until I see more evidence.
How to Replace El Capitan's Missing Secure Empty Trash
> Never will this happen in public educational institutions.

To disagree, this was my experience at HS and college.

A lot of my US history classes involved covering the history of corruption in the US. As an example, we took a look at the funding sources for the revolutionary war. That was a very direct and immediate way to deflate belief in everyone being involved solely for the sake of liberty.

Add on top of that a Philosophy class that had us apply formal logic to the statements of politicians. One of the most amusing classes I've ever had, I got to diagram out political speeches and see that they, quite literally, equaled out to null!
What Bash trick?
No. AGPL does not apply to stuff connecting to the program.

It gives you the right to the source code of the program if you interact with it remotely through a computer network (directly or indirectly). It does not apply to other software(e.g. a client driver) that connects to tne program.
That thought fills me with dread. Rethink is well engineered and has a great developer experience. Mongo isn't and doesn't.
And then they will have killed Linux. Don't let they read this.
To be honest, I am often wondering: wouldn't it maybe be better to have a provider that has clear data limits in place (and reasonable charges for exceeding them) but otherwise provides full, unrestricted, unmonitored high-speed connectivity including IPv6 for server usage instead of having an apparently "unlimited" connection with lots of throttling, filtering, "best effort" and peering games of chicken? After all, "unlimited" is not really unlimited (moving bits does require physical materials which are limited) and primarily means that low data users subsidize high data users.

Now, don't get me wrong: from what I have read, Comcast seems to be a prime example of the second kind of ISP and they are implementing data caps, so yes this would make me try to switch as well. But dismissing data caps in general seems not to be the right approach for me.
Most successful (Valley) startups don't start from nothing, far from it, they start from a vast network of other rich peoples money, usually VC, occasionally the state.
Yes, absolutely, one of the goals of the program is to help researchers with strong quantitative backgrounds and experience in machine learning enter the industry, despite not having a background traditionally associated with ML.
This is a classic HN contrarian point of view that doesn't address this persons actual concerns.

What you're saying is true, but AR/VR is magnitudes of scale more immersive than any tool or artform human's have had.

You talk about IRL things like trips, hikes, etc - but AR will become so integrated into those experiences that the patina of Reality (which OP is talking about) may very well all but disappear.
WW3 IS CLOSE, USA THREATEN TO ANNILATE ASSAD RUSSIA REPLY'S Your PLANES WILL
Researchers find fake data in Olympic anti-doping, Guccifer 2.0 Clinton dumps
Sorry but those are NOT notable attendees. Notable attendees have CREATED something notable that they shared on the playa.
Hi greg,

Is there an e-mail we can respond to?
Then you're living in the past, man!
There was a bug in the game, which collaborated with a bug in NixOS to stop it from working at all.

I mailed the backtrace to support. Three minutes later, he'd mailed me back saying he'd release a patch shortly. The problem was simple, admittedly, but — Nice going!
No mention of This Is Burning Man and other media coverage in the early 90s? I'm vaguely surprised.
> Donald Trump being a racist Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain? Really? And who, in this curious conception, fits the role of Hitler?
You can do a lot worse with contrast/clarity than that.
Why wouldn't they lie?
You can pay $50/month more to Comcast if you don't want to be capped. I'm not happy about it but at least there's an option. I don't pirate and I use about 5 TB of data a month.
> I suspect some Indian tribes might be very enthusiastic about hosting something like Burning Man.

Yeah, I wouldn't be so sure about that. I get the feeling that BM might well and truly offend some of the elders. I could see a council or two wanting the money, but I wouldn't expect smooth sailing.
Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating
Most of the world isn't car accessible.
No, it's telling a child that has been hit by a car repeatedly to look both ways next time, when you know it would definitely reduce their chance of getting hit.

Performing edge ingress traffic filtering of known-trunked node addresses (i.e. BCP 38) has a high likelihood of reducing the effectiveness of DDoS attacks.
Disclaimer: I wasn't saying this as a dig. I really like what's been done with this and hatnote :D
I think they also could of, as a flat fee structure, with listed consulting fee rates, could have done what compose.io does just for RethinkDB, as well as a SaaS model for cloud-ready instances on a handful of popular cloud platforms.

That may have taken away from the core development, but may have been a better case than some of the bits they did with Horizon, which does look interesting to say the least.
It's not a guaranteed closure, but if I remember correctly an issue like is what put an end to my local LUG. Finding a new venue is a fair amount of work, and if activity is low and there's no-one interested in co-ordinating the whole thing it's easy for the group to just fade away quietly.
We need to move to a system where a tightly-regulated utility owns the wired infrastructure only, and leases access to a wide variety of ISPs, video services, etc. This solves the problem that the infrastructure costs involved create a natural monopoly while avoiding Comcast misbehavior.

Otherwise I think it's safe to assume that once the caps are entrenched, they won't ever be increased and they'll try to move everyone into a regime like cell phone data is currently: high prices, tightly metered, innovation dead.
I have had an extremely hard time getting an answer to this question. It is my understanding that it is either very negligible, or an entirely non-existent cost that is incurred by an ISP to transfer more vs less data. They basically just facilitate the infrastructure, is that correct?

I understand with mobile data you're actually competing for frequency space, among other issues, but this is not analogous to how data over cable works.
They've actually posted this comment before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974036
It'd be better to compare stars and forks. Makes much more sense.
First these counters vary in meaning and support by vendor/model, and it would be nice if someone were to come along and mandate further standardized ones. Instead you have to tune everything for each drive model. In this regard SCSI is a little better (more on that later).

Second, timeouts and uncorrectable errors are generally being reported to the controller as part of normal operation. So having SMART tracking them is just a bonus. Either of those two conditions is usually sufficient to kick a drive out of a functional RAID array because those are data loss events. Most drives have layers and layers of ECC, so in order to get an uncorrectable error a lot of bits need to be flipped in the target sector. For that to happen it likely indicates there is something mechanical going on which is likely to affect adjacent tracks/sectors. Of course if you never scrub your drives its possible bitrot accumulates on a perfectly functional device until sectors aren't recoverable.

In my previous life I found it much more interesting to track the rate of soft error counts during scrub operations. Particularly, in larger arrays because sometimes a drive would start getting slower (which is frequently caused by read retries in the drive itself or problems tracking the embedded servo/etc) and the correctable error counts would start to steadily rise followed by actual timeouts/uncorrectable errors. Of course these days, it seems most drives won't show the correctable error counts because it would freak people out. Instead you have to infer it from seek errors and relocated sector counts. Although, it might now be considered a SAS/SATA differentiator. SCSI has standardized log pages with more detailed information. (random google hit http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/scsi... page 238) Note the errors are categorized as corrected without delay, with substantial delay, and corrected on a retry. By comparison the SMART data isn't particularly "smart".
A lot of countries forget a lot of things US & other major nuclear powers conveniently forgot how they negotiated Ukraine to surrender worlds 3d largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for "security guarantees". US is acting prudently in building up missile shield around Russia since in the event of russia collapse who knows what will happen to their nuclear weapons.
OMG. The finite and linear nature of public roads is what makes streetview viable. You cannot expect to capture a panorama from every point within 10000m of the surface of the earth. That is simply impossible. So what is it exactly that you mean by mapping the whole world?

I mention this because some designers appear to believe that realtime "omniscient" panoramic data is inevitable. e.g. http://www.dezeen.com/2014/09/19/pernilla-ohrstedt-demonstra...
I'm sorry, but only someone with absolutely no appreciation of historical context would ask such a silly question.
This becomes more complex depending what industry you are in. Take mobile networks no mobile opco has the engineering talent to build their own switches, bsc or ns. One could say this is part of their core business. Yet they buy this.
It's not simply the USG reporting the attribution, but also several of the most reputable forensics firms, independently.

In more depth, see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664172
Hmm, a Friday afternoon dump like all the other ones...
In a way I agree about similarities, but in a way enormous differences remain. I've heard the same general argument (usually from progressives) before your comment made me analyze it in more detail.

> keeping established winners on top

On one hand, the unfortunate nature of politics is that interests obtain power, and then use it to protect it. However, minorities such as LGBTQ people, Black and Latino people, etc. are not vested interests.

> both parties strongly support the US foreign military intervention (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.) and massive public/private partnerships for the financial services industry and healthcare industry. These industries (defense, financial services, healthcare) make up the majority of campaign contributions to both parties.

(... and oil and gas.) Yes and no. Both parties supported Iraq and support defense spending, but Iraq was GOP led and the GOP advocates military force far more often. Both are influenced by powerful interests, but the Dems want to regulate financial services more, the GOP wants to cut back. There is a vast difference between the parties' budget plans and vision of government. Positions on climate change and immigration are night and day.

I'm not sure how to characterize it more generally though, where they are the same and where they differ. It's an important, interesting question.
Russia just told the US that if Americans attack Syrian troops, Russia will intervene on Syria's behalf. That should be the major story actually.
I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and am working as a DS for the past several years, and I can tell you that there is a hard ceiling for many of us out there, because we don't have enough of a math background (I'm looking at you "Real Analysis") to ever really understand the "deep theory" that someone with a PhD in Statistics or Math (or hell even a BS in Math) can have.

However, having said that, I still consider myself a very productive DS, and I get stuff done. I'm not going to ever be on a research team at Google, but those aren't the only kinds of DS jobs out there.

And I'm not just plotting stuff.
The text of the emails they're sending out is:

Information about a New Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan

We’re writing to let you know that we will be activating a new XFINITY Internet Data Usage Plan in your area. Effective November 1, 2016, your XFINITY Internet service will include one terabyte (that’s 1,024 GB) of data usage per month. With a terabyte of data you can stream between 600 and 700 hours of HD video, play more than 12,000 hours of online games, or download 60,000 high-res photos in a month.

[Note about your personalized usage vs 1tb]

One terabyte is a massive amount of data – less than 1% of our customers use that amount in a month. However, we still want to make sure you understand your options and choose the Data Usage Plan that works best for you. If you believe you will need more data, an Unlimited Data option is available. Our data plans are based on a principle of fairness. Those who use more Internet data, pay more. And those who use less Internet data, pay less.

One Terabyte Plan and Unlimited Data option:

One Terabyte (TB) included/month

If one TB is exceeded, $10 is charged for each additional data block of up to 50 GB/month $200 overage charge limit - no matter how much data is used

Unlimited Data Additional $50/month No overage charges — no matter how much data is used each month
You can also track and manage your usage so there are never any surprises about how much data you use. Here are a few tools you can use:

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Data Usage Estimator - Estimate your data usage with our estimator Tool. Simply enter how your household typically uses the Internet and the tool will estimate your monthly data usage.

Notifications - If you approach, reach or exceed one terabyte of data usage, we will send you a courtesy "in-browser" notice as well as an email. You can also elect to receive notifications at specific usage thresholds and set up mobile text notifications. Learn more about notifications here. Usage notifications will not be sent to customers who enroll in the Unlimited Data option.

For the less than 1% of customers who do exceed one terabyte of data usage, we’re offering two courtesy months, so customers will not be charged the first two times they exceed one terabyte while they are getting comfortable with the new plan.

If you have any questions about the new Data Usage Plan, please visit http://dataplan.xfinity.com/.

Thank you for being an XFINITY Internet customer.

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It's a tool for everyone in the writing-editing-publishing pipeline. They could all use the same tool, working on the same document & document format, throughout the process.

This will remove a huge amount of reformatting/conversion work between steps in the pipeline.
Okay, thanks for explaining all of this.
why are you posting the same comment over and over.
At the linked t it's fairly boring, but it gets much more interesting a few minutes later, when there are obstacles positioned on the road, and some of them moving!... Also the next team's car makes much more sometimes hilarious errors ;) while OTOH risking much higher speed :)
Also, C: A Reference Manual by Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele Jr.
William Gibson stated his famous maxim about the future already being here way back in 1990. Just last week, Lagos, Nigeria celebrated its own "Startup Week". Currently there are over 2000 technology accelerators spanning the globe. But the "future" you and I are living in barely appears in the halcyon dreams of the vast majority of Earth's citizens!

Stanford economist Paul Romer once theorized that breakthrough technologies don't really become productive for a generation. That lag time has shrunk to about a decade.

So instead of obsessing over the "vertical" invention, think about what it means to solve the "horizontal" problem. That in less than ten years time, something you take for granted today could be at the fingertips of 4B+ people ;)
Bertrand Russell is also a delight to read; as someone who made history of philosophy their portfolio, his 'deep cuts', as it were, are often quite quick and incisive. You can feel that wry smile of his.
The single namespace is quite useful, and if you think the macros are weak then you've only been looking at R5RS and not at real implementations: implicit rename, explicit rename, syntactic closures, and syntax-case are all as powerful as CL macros, and a good deal safer (although implicit rename is kind of expensive, and explicit rename requires explicit safety, so syntactic closures or syntax-case are the ways to go)

Call/cc can indeed be useful in real software, although it's uncommon. However, teaching is part of Scheme's domain, so it's still a good thing either way. If you have an especially fast implementation of call/cc (like Chicken), you can use it to implement delimited continuations, which are safer, and can express common uses of call/cc far more elegantly. Racket (it should be noted that Racket isn't a scheme, but it's close enough that it's kind of "in the family" as it were) and Guile (which IS a scheme) have these as part of the core language.
Poking around /usr/lib/git-core
Yes, for perhaps manual QA testing and data entry positions. I know because when my company was a startup we hired people fresh out of university.
Right. It's not that beer is available at 10am -- obviously you can walk into any corner liquor store in the US at 10am, buy a beer, and drink it from a can hidden in a paper bag like your fellow sidewalk winos -- it's the fact that drinking at 10am in an airport is apparently perfectly respectable behavior, even for the most professional of travelers. Another facet of "airportness".