skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I agree about VB; once upon a time, a long time ago, I too was a VB programmer (before I discovered Turbo Pascal and then became aware that I found the distinction between Let and Set disturbing; I ended up loving Pascal so much I spent 5 years at Borland on the Delphi compiler).

While at Borland, another engineer (Allen Bauer) shared his personal theory, that some engineers were great at reading code, more were great at writing code, and not so many were great at both. Sounds like your job required people that were very good at reading code. It intuitively feels very testable.
Oh yeah, we have had another. Fin-de-siecle 19/20th century.

Basically oil barons went bat shit crazy and owned everything and everyone, railways, oil etc. Whilst less pronounced in the US, most "modern" nations brought energy supply into strongly regulated industries, often price controlled

I hope / assume / fear that the (personally identifying) data industry will go the same way
> I think we were looking for a subset of the population that ordinary software development teams look for.

I think that's actually why your experience might be less representative, but I'm open to being corrected.

Security is generally considered harder than regular development, at least to the extent that it would typically be hard to get a security job without security experience.

From what I understand, your model was to take programmers with no security experience and train them on security. The effectiveness of this doesn't surprise me at all, because it's fundamentally a different problem than taking someone who's bad at programming and teaching them to program better.

I have absolutely no problem with hiring someone who's a good VB programmer and teaching them to do web programming. What people generally dispute is whether you can hire someone who's a bad programmer in general and "train" them to be a good programmer.
Thank you and the others who replied. I may have to revisit Twitter.
I would have to disagree almost entirely - their ability to pay is why they are being asked to. This much is basic economics, I should have thought. Someone who has no more to give cannot, and there is little point asking.

Most of the wealth == most of the taxes. This is justified in a basic arithmetical sense.
We need handset-to-handset encrypted communication without a server. How good is IPv6 inbound connectivity?
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In Len Beadell's book "Blast the Bush", he describes a solution (pun?) developed while building the Woomera Rocket Range. Apparently the groundwater had a terrible taste; so they built a distillation facility. But the distilled water was unpalatable because it was too pure. So, they experimented by mixing distilled water with small amounts of groundwater, eventually arriving at a drinkable ratio.
Good question, and there are couple of reasons why people buy the import feature.
(1) If you are switching from Android to iOS or vice verse, app can make the contact transfer process very simple and convenient.
(2) People like you and me can find very easy ways to transfer contacts, but there are a lot of non technical people who don't know about auto backup and restore features.
Problem is if we censor even one group then it is not free speech. I don't like racists or any other hate group. Some SJWs/Feminist attack men like the Twitter hashtag #killallmen and it does not get censored. That's sexist no matter what gender does it.

There are technically solutions for it, like spam filtering, they can use racist words to filter online posts and hide them so nobody but the post that made them can see them, etc. Even like HN have a flag option to flag suspected posts.

If you look at civil rights, it has equality for all races, genders, color of skin, etc. We have equality, but why does it not work?

Yeah I don't want to go to a news site and read a post about white power either. I'd respond to them that it isn't my viewpoint, I believe in equality. Which would make them angry and post back attacking me. So news media companies have editors that control what stories they post, but it may or may not be a true story. It may be written for ratings to get more advertisers.
In fairness to Kurzweil, he isn't talking about a simple chatbot. That's a pretty big difference.

But beyond that, there's an argument that there's no clear distinction between a simulation of a person and the person.

If you want to get into this, start out by telling me the difference between A) a new sorting algorithm you wrote vs B) a simulation of the new sorting algorithm. In particular, why B isn't also running the same algorithm.

If that's not an objection, there's the question about "completely equivalent to the previously alive human being" - pragmatically, it seems impossible to me to fully recreate a 'completely equivalent' human from their writing/output; but, if you're willing to accept a 'so similar you cant tell', the idea is no longer as clearly ridiculous as it first seemed to me:

How big is the space of potential human minds?

Lets say you've an incredibly powerful intelligence: its got someone's DNA and their writings/output. And lets say it has a lot of data on humans, and has deduced a pretty good model of how their minds form, given their DNA and experiences. How much can it now deduce about how a deceased person's DNA was expressed, and the person they became, given their experiences? How small is the space of minds it could narrow in to, from that data? Can it find a small enough space that another human can't tell the difference?

How hard is it to model a human mind? I can make pretty good predictions about what people I know well will say in response to many situations.

But I don't know; I don't think we know enough about minds to say one way or the other.
They laid out several solutions, and none of them are specific to their platform. They also highlighted how the attacks are changing and if you're to effectively defend yourself you'll need to have more resources on hand.

You can pay them, you can do it yourself, you can pay someone else, but at least you have options.
Pay wall!
I would say it's not trivial and there isn't a clear path.

YouTube is not just a web server for videos. You can't set up a decentralized, P2P real-time streaming network (like webtorrent) to replace YouTube. Many of the features that make YouTube virally successful and a continuing platform are developed based on research produced by its analytics which sacrifice privacy to improve insights into what users care about.

YouTube also has a profitable business model, which provides a capitalist incentive to improve the product according to user demand. To make a comparison - which are you betting on in 2016 - IRC or Slack? Even if you set up a successful open source project to replicate YouTube, how will you develop it as well when your best employees are poached because they aren't paid as well as centralized companies?

How about the analytics features? How do you design an anonymous or decentralized recommendation engine with the same or similar utility? How do you power search relevance in a meaningfully private and decentralized way? How do you add the social networking features that people care about without a centralized social network?

The fact that you can technically make product clones with distributed graphs does not on its own constitute a feasible replacement. The basis of modern product research and improvement is data tracking and analysis. You can argue that it can be curtailed or scaled back to improve some privacy, but we haven't even started talking about the performance constraints of decentralized search, streaming, etc. Where will the primary files (e.g. videos) and supplementary files (e.g. recommender models, analysis features, graph, infrastructure, etc.) be hosted? How will you guarantee similar uptime and performance rates to AWS and GCP with a decentralized network of seeders?

You strictly cannot replace products like YouTube, Facebook, Netflix or Google with decentralized counterpoints. The demand and feasibility is not there.
Ok, I don't think you get the point. The home of rich people will have a backup electric supply, water tank and other such conveniences to offset what should have been a basic good infrastructure provided by the government to begin with. The attitude of acceptance of crappy infrastructure is the chalta hai attitude that the article speaks about.

It's the same acceptance of crappy roads, crappy Internet, crappy service, crappy foo... that is consumed without expecting better. The rich also just accept it because they can afford to spend on backup options like a different phone line, multiple service providers etc. However the acceptance of good enough is independent of wealth in India.
What's interesting is that, even though they're not well-defined, there certainly are specific communities on Twitter. There's tech, and sports, and science, psychology, politics, music, etc, and each of those can be further divided. I'm sure that if Twitter put in the work, they could suss out all these communities based on who is following who and what they tweet about. (In fact, I'd be surprised if they aren't already doing that.) They could then make these communities accessible to the public.

Twitter currently has lists, but the problem is that these lists aren't crowdsourced (to my knowledge). They're maintained by individuals, which is unsustainable, because one person can only do so much work keeping a list accurate and up-to-date.
It's been a project of mine for about 6 years now. The algorithms trade off of "orderflow" principles. Same algorithm is applied to equities, currencies, futures, etc. with decent success. I use compiled linux distributions for a little bit of an "edge" with trade execution.
I can definitely sympathize here. There are so many people that I wish I could have one last conversation with and this would maybe help.. I, personally, would _really_ not want to be reanimated and potentially misrepresented by Markov chains and some early deep learning system.
Yeah I got that much, but what does "The Emergence of Gravitational Wave Sect" mean?
I run a couple of virtualmin web servers which do virtualmin based backups (backs up each website with all its files/email/db's/zones etc into a single file, very much like how cPanel does its account backups), and those are rsynced (cron job) to my home server than runs two mirrored 1tb disks. A simple bash script keeps a few days of backups, plus a weekly backup that I keep two copies of. Overall pretty simple, and it's free since I'm not paying for cloud storage.
Tiny Houser here. Could be insane. Mz called me eccentric recently. Sounds like a prelude to the full thing!

> There's nothing wrong with downsizing, but just call it what it is: a mobile home or a trailer.

You can call it whatever you like. There is a certain amount of class warfare between Tiny Housers and people living in RV parks which I won't try to justify.

> Companies have been engineering mobile homes for decades to be highly efficient, long lasting, and fuel efficient for towing.

This is not true at all.

1. It is not legal to live in trailers.

2. Most mobile phones are not capable of being 4 season dwellings because they don't meet air tightness and insulation levels of traditional houses.

3. Mobile homes were originally not supposed to be for permanent trailer parks. RV living is a hack like THs are. I think it started after the Great Depression, which would be analogous to the Great Stagnation we're in that produced the popularity of Tiny Houses.

4. The most important thing is the use case for a TH is totally different to an RV or mobile home. A TH is supposed to be lived in full time and quite rarely traveled around with. 90% of tiny housers would only move their house once a year and many of them never will. The people who have them light enough for frequent travel are the exceptions.

5. A properly constructed Tiny House will last > 60 years like a traditional house. RVs don't have that longevity.

> Slapping a bunch of heavy wooden shingles on one and calling it a "tiny home" is just feel-good hipster nonsense.

Traditional housing has identical materials and procedures to Tiny Houses. I suppose a house is just a bunch of material slapped together as well.

I think if you stepped inside a well built and designed Tiny House, your skepticism would fade away. They really are different to mobile homes. The sills are thicker, the furnishings are more homely, the walls aren't plastic. There are some really nice mobile homes out there but they just don't have the same use case.

One negative thing I shall say about Tiny Housers is that some of them think they 'chose' this lifestyle being they're superior beings. A minimalist lifestyle is fine but it is primarily about economics.
In Manufactoria, your bitstring exists in an abstract space. Your program is still written in Befunge, and so the execution cursor must physically travel around a 2D grid, but instructions affecting the bitstring just happen -- there are no requirements for you to have positioned the various bits within the grid.

So yes, the Befunge cursor in MFT is the command-issuing tool, and you could view the bitstring as being acted on by a separate color-blob-manipulating tool.

In Spacechem, the command "pick up object" will only work if the logic cursor, which doubles as the robot, is currently over an object. In MFT, the command "rotate right" acts on your ineffable bitstring no matter where the logic cursor happens to be.
SSLH – Access https and ssh from the same port
> Especially if Bob should actually be paying three million dollars in taxes, but has used creative accounting practices and tax avoidance schemes to reduce his tax burden.

If the accounting schemes and tax avoidance schemes are legal according to the tax code, then they are what determine what he should pay.

The amount someone should pay is the amount he or she is legally required to pay. The tax laws are the only standard by which the amount of taxes someone should pay can be determined.
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Bit off-topic, but Eggdrop was the very first thing I ever compiled from source WAY back in the later 1990's. I figured out how to hack together a (absolutely terrible) TCL script to monitor #fatefiles on EFNet for messages by certain nicks (a few XDCC bots) and echo them to another private channel. It was trash but it worked. One of my earliest experiences that I can remember with any sort of real code. Ahhhh, the good 'ol days.... great times. :-)
According to Paul Graham (April 2009):

>[Twitter] is a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisely, new protocols that take off are. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer.
Hmm, you didn't address his point about corporate loopholes and capital gains, which I thought was the more interesting part of the argument.
I've found it to be very useful, my college firewall blocks pretty much all ports except 80 and 443. Using this I can both host websites over HTTPS, while being able to SSH into my server.
> Most of the wealth == most of the taxes. This is justified in a basic arithmetical sense.

No, most of the income == most of the taxes, and that is the situation we are already in. My point is that it's hard to justify asking for even more money from the group of people who already pay more than half of the taxes.
Click the "web" link at the top of this page. This will lead you to the Google search result for that article. From there, there won't be any pay wall as it is against Google's SEO rules.
I'd be pretty sure that "Who to Follow" is based on some sort of social graph though probably in a simplistic way, e.g. lots of people you follow follow this person and you don't.
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Absolutely. There was a research project last year where they uses sensors built into the visor foam and they could reproduce your emotion based on your face movement. Of course we'll eventually all be scanned into the system and at that stage you can decide to use an avatar or your normal face. The real benefit here is social VR. Being able to co-exist in VR to do your work will be ground breaking.
People keep saying this, but I don't think it's as easy as you make it sound. What about the candidates that talk so much that it seems like they are stalling and therefore don't get a reasonable and reasonably complete solution on the whiteboard in the alloted time, despite repeated prompting? What about the guys who don't explain much and take way longer than expected on simple problems, and when asked about it reveal that they are just blowing all this time internally debating the perfect solution?
I fully admit I may be wrong, though I don't believe I have contradicted myself.

Are Uber drivers running at a loss? Perhaps. At least the analysis I've seen (such as [1]) don't point to that, especially if we assume drivers aren't buying an extra car exclusively for Uber (just wearing it more). The earnings are crap, but then again, the NYT article I linked above mentioned pre-tax income of $19k, which would be around $11/h today. And there more people driving, so the overall effect is positive.

The monopolization effect is worrying, but while it may be naive, I believe it's a short-term concern. Uber has no "moat" - especially as they refuse to actually hire people, hence they can "hop" between apps -, and while some competitors may be in dire straits, others are still popping up (around here, the new one is Cabify).

I don't like Uber; they're dishonest and I'll probably stop using it as soon as new competition arrives. But I think the medium term consequences will be beneficial to both drivers and users, at the expense of middle men.

[1] http://therideshareguy.com/what-are-your-rideshare-expenses/
Your interview process probably _is_ bad. Having preferred candidates bypass entirely while leaving it there for people who aren't cool kids isn't the solution.
I've always been at least mildly interested in game development, but what has stopped me cold to this point is my inability to create the necessary artwork. Did you create the art yourself, or did you have someone else do it?
I think this implementation isn't tackling the root of the problem here. Implementing this as a state machine that can load arbitrary node, status, and links would better model the problem.

Good work though on keeping this very simple.
Small CSS framework is not good enough - you have to cut corners. Are there any light CSS frameworks with nicely themed form controls? E.g. <select> styled to look the same on all browsers. Or working list nesting? I don't mind loading additional 4kb just to have complete(er) implementation.
You hit the nail right in the head, it was a different time. I remember back then how many people had completely fake and fraudulent resumes and a very large part of hiring was just trying to filter our the fraud. It was massive at some point. It seems to be better now but back then it was just incredible how much resume fraud there was :(
It's also pretty cheap to live, or so I hear.
Wow, cascade of downvotes. We're talking about whether or not Twitter constitutes enough of a public benefit to consider whether it should be a non-profit. I'm genuinely interested to hear why the idea that it should also be an open platform is also controversial!
There are definitely ways to add SSL to Github Pages https://superdom.site/
An important point here is, that public sector institutions can rarely compete on salary with the private sector, and thus, innovation in regards to things like cutting edge technologies get insanely hard. Grants, education and a healthy regulation policy on the capital markets is most likely one of the best things a government can do for technological innovation (which covers pretty much all aspects of our society) today.
> Who wants to be patching the OS? Who wants to be dealing with package vulnerabilities?

Choose OpenBSD (and don't install stupid stuff like bash) and you won't have to deal with any of that.
Well, it is not so easy to change countries as an individual. Not to mention you basically have to pay off the US and renounce citizenship to do so.
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For a static site put it in version control and keep as copy of your full site and deployment code.

For a database driven dynamic site or a site with content uploads you can also use your version control via cron job to upload that content. Have the database journal out the tables you need to backup before syncing to your DVCS host over choice.

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My first reaction was to associate this with https://papertrailapp.com/
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You are getting downvoted because it's not a vulnerability.

It's well documented and very useful feature in aws and it also exists in gcloud, although gcloud documentation is not as good^1.

It only becomes a vulnerability if you don't read the documentation AND don't follow best practices^2.

I don't know if azure provides this feature.

^1 I use gcloud now and have used aws in the past.

^2 Don't run unknown code without proper sandboxing
Ha, yes -- the second paragraph was referring to the gp, not the linked article.
If such a thing existed, why would there not be plenty of entrants in that field?
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Not in WA, even in the 39.6% Federal bracket. Unless you own a very expensive home relative to your income (approximately 33x income at 1.5% property tax works out to 50% of income).
What specific complaints do you have to "how industry leaders have chosen to respond"? I'm not even sure what that means and I follow these things quite closely.

This isn't just about women in gaming, it's about making gaming more accessible in general. Shooter games where all you do is blast things in the face can be fun, and I loved the hell out of the most recent DOOM, but even given that I do enjoy other kinds of games. There's a need for variety.

When everything is "shoot monsters/zombies/Nazis" in the face then gaming becomes boring and tired. It's like a world where the only kind of film was zombie/horror. It would suck.

Gaming as a medium is easily as capable as telling a story and conveying emotion as film, and that games aren't as emotionally diverse as film is a huge problem.

Representation in gaming is important and when done right it's not even an issue, it's not even obvious. The last instalment of Wolfenstein, a game not exactly known for depth of story, had multiple women characters, one of which had a physical disability, plus a character with a severe mental disability.

Maybe they were trying to tick all the boxes, I don't know, but it felt more believable and authentic than the usual Gears of War style bunch-of-generic-burly-dudes-plus-token-(sexy)-woman. This was an underground organization in the middle of World War II and you can't be picky about who you get. Their talents aren't necessarily physical.

So maybe you can explain more about their "response" because I'm not sure I understand your take at all.