skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Torrents are what in mind really, low barrier of entry for viewing, and someone in an oppressed state who can get arround a website block can probably get the torrent anonymously. To me not being easy to edit is an upside, additional data should require the initial trusted party to share a new magnet
12 Unobvious Things about VMware Cloud/SDDC on AWS
Wow, the plot on the bottom of page 11 really drives home the point.
Systematic analysis of AI biases is certainly needed. We train models on data, but how is the data collected, and how biased is it? At least in AI we can compensate for biases, but in human society they are much harder to counter. There's hope for a better future if we can make fair AI.
I personally buy highly-faked stuff like this from Amazon, and only consider "shipped from and sold by Amazon" stuff. If I ever have a problem, it's very easy to return, and I've never had a problem with their own stuff.
What a lovely mea culpa. Straight to the point.

We thought another way, but here's the counter argument, we agree, are sorry, and fixed.

Rare candor.
I can't believe the complete media blackout of these emails. Maybe it has changed since a day or two ago, when I checked around, but here's how it stood:

- CNN: zero coverage. top story = Trump accused of groping

- MSNBC: zero coverage. top story = Trump accused of groping

- New York Times: actually mentioned the emails and a bit of their content...in an small article. Below the fold. Titled "Trump Finds Unusual Ally in Wikileaks" which was almost entirely about how Trump's campaign is pleased with the leak, actual content of the emails was only alluded to in a couple of sentences toward the very end of the article.

top story? Trump accused of groping.

My biggest disappointment was the Financial Times - I held out so much hope that they would actually have some integrity and report about these frankly huge stories. Nope. Zero coverage, top US politics story = Trump accused of groping.

The only places I saw that covered were Fox, drudgereport, and Breitbart. I saw RT.com had a story about them today but I don't know if they reported on it two days ago when I checked around.

I haven't seen anything like this outside of state-run newspapers like Pravda...it feels like everyone's taking crazy pills.

Maybe someone can just do an s/Clinton/Trump/g and send them to the Times?
Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected
Turns out we probably can't colonize the moon
Computer operator needed urgently
This is the proper decision here, but not merely for the reason they've given.

The best reason the list should be widely available: The exploit has already happened in this case, and disclosing it doesn't help attackers do further harm; the harm is already done. Removing the list is closing the barn door after the horses are gone.
If builds were reproducible (i.e. binaries would be identical if recompiled with the same toolchain on a different machine), then all it would take is N independent builders to verify the app store binary matches their locally built binary to greatly decrease the likelihood of tampering.

So, while being open source is not the complete answer, it certainly doesn't hurt.
There's probably some limitation based on address size that you can advertise, possibly the number of bits used to represent the size. Not sure on the exact spec.
And get upset when the existence of meeting is made public
The greatness of Redux comes from it's blinding simplicity.

It is the kind of simplicity that I am happy to use the word genius to describe.
Probably not because most writers aren't concerned with articles from an out-of-country point of view and since quite a few local reservation high school teams are named "Indians" which indicates a local acceptance. "American Indian" is pretty well the accepted form of address for a lot of tribes but people do get tired of the added word. "Native American" is used quite a bit and the Canadians went with "1st Nation"[1], but plain "Indian" is ingrained. Amazingly, I haven't run into anyone who calls themselves "indigenous people".

1) although their picking of the word "reserve" instead of "reservation" almost got me into a brawl in 87. "What reserve did you come from?" was probably a friendly question, but we were young and my friend took it really, really wrong.
I think Hacker News also blocks Tor users by hellbanning them. Anyone here can confirm?
Just applied for a position at GitLab, absolutely love this company!

PS: you can do it too, they're completely remote!

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/04/remote-working-gitlab/

https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
It's amazing both how much.. and how little the art of programming has changed. The tools we use have changed dramatically over the last 50 years - the methods not as much. I don't know if thats good or bad - or just is.
At best, raising the minimum wage results in a transfer of wealth from middle class people to poor people. Rich people don't spend any significant part of their money on the products of minimum wage labour.

At worst, it would result in unemployment and recession.
GitLab's customer service and reaction speed never ceases to amaze me. For anyone interested in constructing great customer relationships, I recommend using GitLab as a case study.
Also interesting IMO is how some in China (not sure if it's mostly a HK thing or goes for mainland as well) are focusing on producing very high-quality stuff vs just the race to the bottom on price. One niche example that I've had very good luck with is Ghent Audio, which sells audiophile hobbyist gear: http://www.ghentaudio.com
I think they're super creative, and not just in science. In fact, they can come up with super intelligent methods for killing people, including themselves. That's why they're always paranoid, cause they think other people can come up with the same things to kill them.
Why don't you publish the real data then?
Ask HN: Rest api authorization
I am working on service which exposes REST API.

What is the best way to implement authorization for incoming requests.

* Identify who is making the request. Can we use api key for this.

* Make sure this REST api can be used just as easily using curl. I am not sure how to do this, as I dn't think exposing API key is a good idea. I can ask clients to hash request params with api key, but that makes it non-trivial to use with curl.

What are the standard practices, and what are the trade offs.

Please be kind and helpful. If I said anything wrong, please correct me instead of flagging this.

Any help would be appreciated. Glad to provide any info that makes it useful to answer
People can change fairly quickly to a new platform and it doesn't have to be all or nothing. I stopped using WhatsApp and have convinced most of my friends to install Signal for communicating with me in place of SMS.

However it's hard to recommend because of the lack of features.
Looks like GitLab is the new GitHub - open, human and doing the right thing. Great!
Who measures average latency? Nearly meaningless.
But with separate / and /home you/he/she could reinstall the OS without having to touch the user directories.
Yep. So rare to see this, especially in this day and age.

Also more justification for my decision to switch to GitLab for all my personal stuff!
People are already working those kind of hours, sometimes more. It's just difficult and they end up having to do stupid shit like have an hour and a half between shifts that isn't really good for anything. Most people who work two jobs would rather work 10-12 hour shifts instead of shorter shifts at two different jobs, often 6-7 days a week instead of 5.
> So the answer is to just shrug our shoulders and make it easier and easier for more people to get themselves into the situation because the government or the taxpayers will bail them out?

It's already easy to get into a situation where you get stuck working paycheck-to-paycheck and can't get out of it. Very, very easy. What's your solution for people who are actually in this situation?

Also, your country's obsession with controlling people on the dole is insane. In pretty much the entirety of the rest of the world, people get money and are expected to spend it on housing, food, and a little bit left over to spend on things to keep mentally healthy. If it turns out they can't manage that, then money can be sent directly to your landlord and municipal-funded organisations can come in to help you sort your llife out.
Covert Shores
Python deep reinforcement learning, battleship
It's worse than that, more like blocking the fire lane before the ladder truck can begin evacuating people.
I think this is rooted in the fact that humans don't really do intelligence all that well themselves. Most of us raise kids in a manner that assumes chuldren aren't independent thinking beings and we have a lot of social "rules" that fail to take into account actual independent thought and then humans bring these big blind spots to AI work.

Until we overcome such issues in humans, they probably are not solvable in AI.
That requires equipment! Seriously though, the only picocells I know of that are "open" enough to turn into a poor man's stingray are 2g-only, and that will show up in the phone's connectivity status icon, and it assumes cell phone use. How very 21st c.

Now that most people have forgotten their desk phone, weak security in passwords and feature access is probably worse than it has ever been in enterprise CPE. DISA/DOSA is an end-user feature, so it's not as if you are hacking the PBX configuration. It's more like hacking an individual user's voicemail. Plus it has that retro cache of "what we were hacking before we had computers to hack."

Get out your old back issues of 2600.
Ah ok that's definitely an issue also, didn't mean to make assumptions.
You can still get milk delivered in the Denver metro area in Colorado from Royal Crest dairy.
[Book] Grit to Great
> Instead, copies of the server's role in the key negotiation are stored by a centralized server for potential clients to fetch and use. This

"centralised" and "server" are just about the worst words you want to hear in the description of a system like this and yet they are just thrown in there in a flippant comment at the end of a section?

I think a more detailed description of this glorified cache is warranted.
Just ignore poor or improper feedback. That's pretty much what all other scientists do.
That's part of the problem I was referring to. If reducing hours didn't cut the cost of labor then employers wouldn't have an incentive to do it, and people wouldn't need second jobs. That 30 hour thing is fairly recent, and some companies get around it by simply having really shitty insurance that nobody is going to opt into. McDonalds does this. I don't know if that's the approach Walmart takes, but I was able to get around 40 hours a week there while I did work there. That may differ based upon the job you do though -- I was unloading trucks mainly.
I just love reading post-optimisation machine code.
> The gatherings, which were described by several people familiar with them who asked not to be identified, tend to feature discussions of nuts-and-bolts issues such as managing relationships with the board and whether compliance personnel should receive stock incentives.

That's some Illuminati-level secret society stuff right there. Clickbait much?
The article's authors don't even seem to know what sarcasm is.

Their example “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” is not sarcastic so much as colorful analogy.

The researcher's word2vec approach is really a search for 'non-sequitur' -- any sentence that semantically goes of the rails at the end, it's probably better at detecting humor in general than 'sarcasm'
The 'we' could be a bunch of people who are no longer even alive. No longer alive in body but alive in spirit through the application of the law. I was listening to a building science podcast the other day.

In it they were talking about how they used to use, and still use, a 100 year old assumption about 'make-up air' in houses which is part of setting up an air conditioning system.

Turns out the original scientific papers were formalized into regulation or ASHRAE standards without double checking whether they were true.

Practically this means every single household in the country has a AC unit which is overpowered by 30% or 50%. For 100 years.

It also meant tens of millions of buildings suffered from dry rot because the systems weren't balanced correctly if I remember right. I'll look it up if anybody's interested.
Sustaining webpack for the future
The Rise of a Cooperatively Owned Internet
The problem is that people are already getting second jobs for this very reason. People want to work more when they're only making around minimum wage, and the laws that are supposed to protect them just make that difficult.

I was saying they ought to get the same hourly rate but that the time and a half pay should not be mandated as a federal law as it is now.
It's interesting how so many of these microframework+app server type things spread across many languages have converged on a very, very, similar set of conventions and practices. The example code looks strikingly like every other recent JavaScript/Perl/Python/Ruby microframework+server that I've tinkered with lately (Express, Koa, and Hapi in JS, Mojolicious in Perl, and Flask in Python). Aside from the obvious language differences, the concepts are all so similar.

I wonder if this is a convergence on a local maximum for writing web apps, or if it's just a situation where the most popular ones did it this way, so everyone does it this way. Not that it matters too much, in the general case. The route and app setup plumbing is a small part of most applications, so it's rarely going to be ruinous if you spend an extra hour or two getting it working right. But, since I've been evaluating a bunch of different ways to build web app backends lately, I've just noticed how similar they all are, no matter what language you choose. Most of the ones I've been looking at are asynchronous, so this also has that similarity to most of the others.

While one could argue that it's obvious that they would look the same...but, web development didn't always look this way. The first 10-15 years of web application development I did looked very different, in fact (CGI or mod_perl or PHP, which has some quite different conventions).
Or we could have build systems that weren't even more convoluted and fragile than they were 50 years ago and just release software in the form it's supposed to be in.
I wouldn't count on that. You generally want to stay away from any expletives in interviews, work and anything career oriented.
Technology Review (OP link) uses a different picture than Bloomberg. Bloomberg:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRzJLFQi2dc...

Bloomberg also dates the picture (17th June in Mexico City) and sources the photographer (Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg).

The explanation that this was a one-time publicity stunt for a nice photo/short video is way simpler and rational, than either the premature claim of a fake ("I see it because of the pixels!") ore the idea of battery constrained drones being used 24/7 as advertising billboards.
The emails the article is talking about don't seem all that interesting. Basically, they show that the Obama organization and Democratic party officials were working on figuring out staffing well before the election.

I would hope that every competent Presidential candidate does that.
Click the "past" link at the top of the thread. Very useful feature added some months ago.
Oh it's not warranted is it?

Does whichever butthurt shill clicked that button want to suggest why we don't need more detail on which central server stores what in this self-proclaimed "secure" system?
Pretty much everyone who's job involves using IDA Pro does this every day.
You might want to upgrade patch, it is creating spurious diffs.
Google Trends: WikiLeaks vs. Trump Sex Allegations
I don't think it hurts! All else being equal, I'd rather have source than not have it. What I don't accept is our supposed helplessness in detecting backdoors in secure messaging software.
What is the parallax of 2017?
What do you foresee will be the major trends in web design/UX of 2017? In the past few years we've seen a huge growth in fixed headers, parallax, and similar "chrome" elements. What do you think are the big trends on the way?
That isn't necessarily true. I wouldn't expect a wholesale move to 60 hour work weeks if the overtime pay requirement were raised or eliminated. And there are many people who already want to work 60 or more hours a week who get a second job to do that, but it's a very annoying and inconvenient process, and it usually results in a decent amount of wasted energy on the part of the worker. Having two jobs is especially inconvient when it takes 40+ minutes to commute via public transportation.

Though I also agree that there should be more wealth redistribution. But without a very significant increase in that sort of thing, the existing laws are still going to be more in the way of workers than actually helping them in my opinion.
Short Film Adam Curtis Made About Your Life
Golang flavour https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
Show HN: Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day
Google Trends: WikiLeaks vs. Trump Sex Allegation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715638)
I was referring to the email dump in general. There are enormous stories in there, any one of which if they involved Trump instead of Clinton would be front page top story, no question.

With regard to the specific subset of emails OP's article refers to, I believe the big deal is that a Citigroup executive basically had his pick of all these positions.
Some time back Google also had a product for sale to enterprises called the Google Search Appliance or something like that. IIRC they were pushing it as a packaged solution for on-prem search. Not sure what happened to it later.

Edited to add: Searched Google for it (how meta). Found this:

https://enterprise.google.com/search/products/gsa.html

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance#Retire...

So it may still be available - until 2018.
Yes. I think the async syntax in 3.5 was the tipping point for the stragglers. It finally looked like a serious upgrade, not just a bigger number with a load of things to fix.

I know there are people who are stuck on old versions, but the community has recognised how much damage this dispute was doing to Python's image. They know they'll have official Cpython support to 2020, so it's a non-issue until then.

Oh and Ubuntu 16.04 defaulting to 3.5 helped too.
If you're going to go down that path then your entire argument is moot because the definition of "intelligence" is so unclear.
American worker forced to train foreign replacements
I don't know about PayPal, but even if you just have the token for recurring payments/subscriptions you can still switch PSPs. Most PSPs are able to exchange tokens and information, enabling you to switch between them (at a price of cause).
I guess this is deliberately written to be cryptic, as it's an advertisement. Terms are used before they are introduced, but maybe I'm not in the target group. What's called prediction would technically be inference. Hand wavy explanations of machine learning used for differentiation of chemical analysis data seem to be the sell here.
> Liberally sprinkle assertions throughout your code (especially if data quality is more important than resilience)

If you want resilience, make an upper layer that will recover your service on failure, deploy it on redundant hardware, add strict alerts for when recovery is impossible; and still sprinkle assertions through your code.

Data quality is never secondary.
That's really the only glimmer of hope I've seen through all this. There was a report I saw somewhere that people were experiencing unprecedented physical stress during this election season, and I believe it: seeing stuff like this everywhere you turn really does to an extent make you feel like you're going crazy.
The server role seems quite clearly described in more detail in the actual protocol description, is there something missing? The section you quote just describes the high-level idea of why and how to introduce the server in the scheme.
any ideas on the last one? It's totally different structure from all the others -- it doesn't involve combinations at all. It seems totally out of place.
It's an entertaining quote, I laughed, but I think everyone who works in AI already knows this. It's not a blind spot.
Erm. I don't get that comment.

Anyway, You can't ordinarily add compute resources to a swarm automatically, which was kind of my point with this.
You do realize American 'democracy' is absurd to the rest of the world, right?

I think most non-Americans who are cheering for Trump are doing so because the Bush/Clinton dynasties have fucked things up so much that anything different would be an improvement.
Wikileaks: Democrats prepared fake Trump “grope under the meeting table”
> I've ordered things like a dirt cheap soldering iron

Some of the manufacturers have interesting ideas around mains safety. I'd be wary of dirt cheap soldering irons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeILL08T08w
So the "robots are going to kill us" meme is good because it makes "the rest of us" interested in the idea of AI?
That explanation leaves me more confused than when I started -- there's too much to try to follow and visualize. Maybe it works in person.
>Most people who work two jobs would rather work 10-12 hour shifts instead of shorter shifts at two different jobs, often 6-7 days a week instead of 5.

Maybe we shouldn't optimize for the lesser evil but fix the issue altogether?
I thank you for the first good (if not correct) usage of the word "performant" in the history of the universe.
Hey everyone, I recently built this FB Messenger bot to help me exercise more regularly. I found that I was pretty off-and-on-again for exercise and wanted to be a lot more consistent. I feel so much better when I exercise every day. I originally built this for just myself, but I was asked by a few other people if they could use it - so I went ahead and launched it publicly.

I know, it's pretty basic. With the amazing exercise apps and services out there, what use is a silly little bot like this? I can't really give you a solid answer - but I will say it's absolutely helped me exercise significantly more than I had before. The daily reminder in the morning gets me in the mindset of wanting to do something active each day.

Let me know what you think. :)
Yeah, I use uWSGI for a lot of things (check out http://github.com/rcarmo/piku, for instance), so am more interested in figuring out if I can get a little extra mileage off it.
Ah, yes. The Progressive Conspiracy™ did this. It's 100% their fault that when someone brags about doing things which fit the definition of a crime, people who hear about it say "that sounds to me like he's guilty of that crime" and begin to persecute the poor, helpless, defenseless billionaire who said those things. If only we could get rid of those horrid Progressive™ attack dogs, the world would once again be safe for people to grab unsuspecting women by the pussy and brag about it, and then greatness would be restored to America.
I may have been unclear about how I am defining this, but it is not unclear to me and I don't see how "going down that path" automatically makes it unclear.

Humans are pretty bad about imposing third party points of view on behavior and reasoning. Until we get better at understanding reasoning from a first person point of view for humans, we are going to have trouble figuring out how to write effective algorithms for AI.

Is that any clearer? If not, what is unclear?

Thanks.