skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, you say that they're just doing high-speed rail in a tube. Do you have a source for that claim? I see lots of people saying it, but nothing from the company or journalistic sources to confirm that. And what's on their blog seems to contradict it:

https://hyperloop-one.com/blog/a-wheel-revolution-in-transpo...

This says that they are using passive magnetic levitation rather than air pressure, so it is a change from the original design, but not as drastic as you suggest.
The government is a proxy for the community in which you live or at least isn't that supposed to be the idea? If people don't feel 'sort of' aligned with their community then what's the point, indeed!
I've been hosting a similar site for years now, but in a more Amiga-Friendly browser format (basic HTML):

http://www.jaruzel.com/projects/AmigaDOS-Guide-Help/index.ht...

There's also a zipfile for download.
The power of pointless enthusiasm
There's a very interesting project:

https://metacademy.org

"Your package manager for knowledge".

(mostly focused around ML)
Strong evidence? Citations please.
It's interesting that so little know what is Cgi here. It's the Common Gateway Interface and it uses environment variables to communicate to the Cgi scripts and thus the Cgi script can be in whatever language you wish. You don't even need a lib, reading env is enough. Its possible to write your Cgi scripts in assembly.

So this process-per-request thing is not exclusively a Php thing.
VW is the business. Strongly recommended.
Not having to copy big arrays when calling unmanaged C dlls from .Net will be great for performance. I wonder if this is going to open up new security holes though.
It's interesting hearing Reid Hoffmann talking about the importance of your network, the way he references people and gets referrals etc.

He doesn't mention using Linkedin as a tool to do this. All email and phone. I wouldn't use Linkedin as a tool to do those things either but given that Linkedin position themselves as a network for exactly that and he's the founder I'm surprised at the lack of mention.
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> The particle's characteristics ARE the wavefunction - or to say it another way, the wavefunction is the only real characteristic a particle has.

As far as I know not in the De-Broglie-Bohm theory (but I'm not a physicist, so correct me if I'm wrong):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/

> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-decoherence/#PilWavThe
Welp. Stupid is winning one more time :/
The entire conversation around "ops-less" systems ignores that in most cases the Ops folks are stronger engineers than the SWEs. If a company wants to ditch Ops they'll need to pay far more money for SWEs, expect a higher competency in engineering tasks, and good luck ever outsourcing again.
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As you said: to some extent! Have a look at the "What is Github Pages" [1] and one clearly feels that Pages is meant for software, projects, manuals etc. And NOT to publish documents to shame 3rd party misbehaviour and hopefully attract publicity and quarrel. Such content should go to other places (imho).

[1] https://pages.github.com/
This is an interesting read too, with various references to research papers: http://www.anti-agingfirewalls.com/2013/04/19/autophagy-the-...
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Keep in mind that if you wanted to create a simulated universe you can ensure nobody ever finds out.

> If someone does find out, you can simply fix the problem and revert to a point in time just before the data leading to the discovery was captured.

Keep in mind that if you wanted to create an operating system, you can ensure that there are no kernel exploits.

If there is some kernel exploit, you can simply patch the kernel and reboot.
> "Academics (in the UK) is there any effort towards making free-libre software available through collaboration of different institutes?"

I don't work in that field, so I can't answer your question directly, but I can pass on that EAGLE, which is probably KiCad's closest competitor, is available for free for academic institutions:

https://cadsoft.io/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)
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I'd be more interested in real life results on a small scale first.

I too felt like ML is something new to try, but the lack of real world use cases on a small scale ( not google, Microsoft, ... ) Has kept me from trying/doing.

I only saw the farm with image recognition for vegetables as an example for now.

Anyone has other examples?
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Learn statistics. Otherwise you will get yourself into trouble using techniques you do not understand.
pol has a general stance towards the war in syria: america needs to GTFO it and let russia and syria deal with it (this stance predated Trump's). The rebels, and whom they are, are seen just as rebels. /sg/ is pro-assad. The fact this 'bias' exist doesn't mean it isn't a good source of information. Many neural parties quote something known as the Syrian human rights observatory, or participate/gain information from networks of dissemination more aligned to western narratives of the war, information that cannot be de-intermediated from those who pass them along. /sg/ is not aligned to that narrative.

Astrodust, I think your understanding of politics and journalism is naive and one that deserves a thorough rehabilitation through a deep deep engagement with pol.

/sg/ teaches anyone who dare engages with it that information, collection, dissemination, acting upon it, appreciating it, comes from collective intentions (not attitudes, reddit cultivates attitudes; 4chan cultivates intentions, the dynamic of the whole raiding culture, the whole you must do to participate instead of merely like/solicit likes aspect) and, if you become acquainted with pol, you will learn viscerally what collective intentions look like, you will see it elsewhere.

Reddit is for the cuck, it is a circle jerk. the lack of identification, liking mechanism, and the culture of anonymity makes it less about affirming attitudes and more about intentions and the lack of moderation on chans is why/how intentions compete.

to repeat: intentions vs attitudes.
narratives vs bias.

the differences between these concepts become incredibly illuminated if you engage with pol.
I am working on a partial solution to this kind of problem and plan to move from Alpha to Beta version later today.

https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle

This is not a CVS, so you would still need to run something like git locally on your own server, but the idea of self-hosted modules will solve for the censorship of central authorities.
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You know it. I know it. Most of HN knows it. We are, in general, not the customer.

On sites I've been involved with, in 2016, I still have to fight tooth and nail to get SSL on the payment page at all, let alone redirect users somewhere else.
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I'm the owner of hxx.se and I just found out that I subconsciously registered almost the same domain as Daniel Stenberg :(
u can build a house with just walls and a roof. Its important to understand the requirements. Then 80% of the project time will be spent polishing, so it helps to know the amount of polishing expected.
Almost all banks i am working with implementing 3Dsecure like this
Cmon. An article about kindness as top post on HN. This is taking the piss. This is a place that specializes in snark and dismissive discourse.

Everyone is a peacock here. The bumbling programmer should thank his stars his boss does not appear to be the typical agitatedly infallible HN commentator or monday would be a different day.
How do you keep track of previous HN threads about a URL ?
The computational problem of simulating a wavefunction is suspected by computer scientists to be exponentially harder than simulating classical physics (this is the question of whether BPP=BQP). So quantum physics is the opposite of a computational optimisation!
As another anecdote, after I learned how the professional chefs made fried rice, it completely changed how I made it. For example, using cooled down rice, preferably from the night before.

Also, the need for extreme heat can complete change the taste, something that most homes don't have.

So if I want really good fried rice, I have to go out to get it.
Because there's no way you'll be able to detect the launch and deploy your countermeasures, even assuming said countermeasures actually work which is unlikely: it's doubtful we can counter ballistic missiles as-is, a payload starting from orbit can launch much closer to the target (rather than half a world away) and is not fighting gravity for half the trip.
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Yeah you're right, but in the De Broglie-Bohm theory the wavefunction is calculated, and then the movements of the particles are calculated on top. So from a computational perspective it's strictly harder.
Zimbabwe was known as South Rhodesia. South Rhodesia, to pol, is very significant culturally.
Forget about the terminology for a second.

If you want to get a general understanding of circuit design, think about it in terms of connecting points. The London tube network is a good analogy for this. When starting out designing a circuit, you think only of which points need to be joined together. This is similar to the simplified tube map that many people are familiar with:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/downloads/tube_map.html

However, that map only represents a simplified version. The real geographical map looks more like this (this is still simplified as it doesn't show information about the height/depth of the tracks):

http://www.tubemapcentral.com/mythset/geomap.jpg

It's the same with circuit design. You start off with a simplified version, but the physical version is frequently more complicated because you have to work over multiple 'layers' in order to stop wires that cross over each other that shouldn't be connected from touching each other. That's where things like 'vias' come into play (vias are the points at which layers of a circuit board are connected to each other).
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Skimmed through this and didn't see Kaggle. They have a great intro competition to take part in. Great community and great way to get stuck in.
https://www.kaggle.com
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Some resources to get you started - not including any coursera or udacity courses since others have already mentioned it.

Mathematical Monk - https://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk#p/c/0/ydlkjtov... (includes a probability primer)

Awesome Courses - https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses - its a very extensive list of university courses including subjects apart from Machine Learning as well

Programming Collective Intelligence - http://www.amazon.com/programming-collective-intelligence-bu... - heard very good reviews about this

Many other resources available apart from the above. You can access more such resources at http://www.tutorack.com/search?subject=machine%20learning

I think its a good idea to go through one or more beginner level courses like that offered by Andrew Ng on Coursera and then do an actual project.

[Disclaimer - I work at tutorack.com mentioned in the comment]
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Bounties Bug Me
TL;DR What to focus on? Some statistics advice: Don't be a liar. Don't be a biased idiot. Don't fuck up. The software should handle the rest.

Nuance is a fair serious question. And this could easily turn into a debate of semantics or philosophy (will add links at bottom tho^).

But what I meant was statistics in practice isn't about proof of some truth but about chance of disproof. An analogy in jurisprudence: there is a difference between "not guilty" and "innocent".

Someone may or may not be "innocent". There's even presumption of innocence. But then in practice, lawyers give evidence to a jury to decide beyond a reasonable doubt if someone is "guilty" or "not guilty".

What's the focus? It sure looks like the work is more focused on "not guilty" vs "innocent".

Furthermore, in statistics there are errors...eg statistical errors, random errors, systematic errors, type 1 errors, non-sampling errors...lots of errors. You can't eliminate them. But you can be aware of them and reduce them where possible.

Now, statistical software deals with errors to the extent statistics techniques exist and the technology can handle the process. Sort of like spellcheck.

But software can't fix everything. Most importantly it can't fix if the person using software is an idiot.

Too many times I have looked like an idiot for sending an email where spellcheck put the wrong word. What to do? I could write a new algo to make spellcheck better or I can just double check the email next time.

^Links to semantics and philosophy stuff: Some fields try to have precise, official definitions for words like "error" and "accuracy".

See ISO 5725 or longer list of examples on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

Of course, philosophy also addresses the nuances. Way more fun to read than ISO technical documentation.

Short list of philosophy of statistics issues on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_statistics.

Better, longer list, which is worth reading as it includes more interesting and broader philosophy of science issues: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statistics/

If lists of philosophies are overwhelming and you want one random example of it...What is the probability the sun rises tomorrow?

Long post. Lastly, a joke: 'A physicist, an engineer, and a statistician go duck hunting. They spot a duck in the distance and the physicist takes the first shot, but just misses left. The engineer shoots next, but just misses right. The statistician yells, “we got it!”'.

[Edit] At this point I might as well add Buffet's 2 rules for investing: "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1”
No. I'm not. I'm saying people, cultures, and teams operate differently and assuming that laughing at someone's work is toxic rather than looking at the actual impact to the team is unprofessional and a sign of poor leadership.

I worked in a team where if you broke the build you had to put on a clown nose for the rest of the day. It worked well and was a bit of fun. We still catch up a couple of times a year even though I left that team more than 5 years ago.

I've worked in other teams where pressuring a team member to wear a clown nose would be harassment and deeply unsettling.
There's a really small set of programmers who actually need to work on hard problems. The rest of the world just needs their business logic implemented.
Thank you far clarifying, I was not sure if it was the same in the USA.

Follow up question, how widespread is the adoption of 3DSecure in the USA and if it's not available, is it easy to get 3DSecure activated?
> Preemptive reply to "why don't you contribute to it?": We thought about donating to the project, but the amount of money we spend on professional EDA tools per year would only buy us about 10 day of KiCad developer time (or in-house developer time) – by far not enough to fix all show-stoppers.

I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying you chose to not donate at all because you think your donation wouldn’t make any difference? In my experience, for many FOSS project standards, any contribution that can buy even a day of developer time would be considered huge. I’m sure KiCad would welcome any amount of donation :).
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Most people don't want to bounce customers to a third party site for payment, it really hurts conversions.

That is certainly true in my experience.

Also, some of the payment services have a habit of changing the appearance and/or behaviour of their hosted systems, sometimes not for the better, and typically without warning. That is a risk you might not be willing to take for something as important as your payment flow. I know of at least one local business that switched from Stripe Checkout to using Stripe.js from their own site as a direct result of Checkout being significantly changed and resulting in customer support enquiries about the new behaviour that the business had no idea how to answer.
Hi HN, I built followww. to help my online marketeer colleagues get insights in what is hiding behind short URLs. Before building this tool, they routinely came to me with URLs asking me to trace them.

The back-end is a websocket API that returns each step as it discovers it and the front-end is an Angular (1.x) application. I also built a small Chrome extension[1] that adds a followww. context menu item to all links on the web.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/followww/dmpapbgln...
At which point did you decide not to read the comments properly?

The gist was that PHP was designed for web use, so it's almost always facing the internet. C on the other hand is very much multi-purpose. Both can be made secure, but maybe it's less effort using something that helps you with security (Hack, Rust, etc.).

(BTW, your comment contains a huge fallacy: Just because a majority of packets touches something written in C, that doesn't mean a majority of C code written is exposed to the internet. This is arguably the entire point of e.g. iptables.)
Richard Spencer once said that politics to culture is mist to a lake. You cannot have politics without having culture. IRL actions are not gonna do squat (see: ows, arab spring) without cultural shifts. What pol is doing is more insidious in effect: it is shifting the culture that will enable the politics. If 4chan reach in memes is wide, as internet history has shown, and if the memes from pol become sentiments embraced by others outside of it, pol is creating the lake for whatever mist.

To change politics, it requires a cultural change. Tumblr is another place on the internet that is a space for cultural change, albeit the opposite kind.
> Most of the owners probably barely know the Googles from the Facebooks, so even if you email them saying 'you have this JavaScript thing that's bad' they won't understand and will blow you off.

So, because you expect the owners of the affected websites to be dumb, users should not be protected from malware?

But I'll give you an example of how such sites would get fixed: I used to own and work for a CSE, where thousands of stores are listed. If I had easy access to this list, I'd take a quick look at it for possible clients and ask my former company to contact them. They'd first delist the affected shops from the comparison shopping website, then spend enough time with the owners to make sure they understand and can fix the problem.

Github in their ignorance prevented this, but thankfully archive.org exists...

On the other hand, the safe browsing feature of modern browsers usually creates enough pressure on affected shops that they are fixed quickly - so if some shops don't seem to act quickly, they're probably fraudulent themselves.
US bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones from airliners
$500 a day is quite inexpensive for a competent developer. Perhaps you overestimate how far your donation will go.
They don't want the world to know where they live? /pol/ is a board of peace tho
So when GitLab finally bothers to respond they do so from a new account? Any proof this comes from GitLab?

Which terms specifically does it violate? The terms page you linked to is 10k words long.

As others have mentioned, this is not about responsible disclosure. If those merchants have the good of their customers to heart, they will act to cleanup their sites and disclose the breach themselves. If not they will move to censor this to avoid losing face, maybe not even bothering to remove the malware. And you're just helping them with this.
I was taught this as "The Principle of Least Surprise" or do the thing that causes the least surprise.

Where it gets tricky is that as programmers we are also power users and our mental model of what we expect to happen and what a user expects to happen diverge, I try to have empathy for the user.

One of my tricks is to imagine what my mum would expect to happen (not because she's a woman, it's not a sexism thing I hasten to add) but because she's a 60yo woman who didn't start using a computer until she was in her 40's and is slightly wary of them still.

If it passes the mum test then I know I'm on the right track.
> It says the phone may not be carried on board or packed in checked bags on flights to and from the United States or within the country. The phones also can't be shipped as air cargo.
No, that's not what was being said.

The options on the table are:

1. Pay the licencing fees for proprietary software that already does what you want it to do.

2. Sponsor development of an open-source project so that it will eventually do what you want it to do.

The argument being made is that, in the case of KiCad and this particular institution, option 1 was seen to be cheaper than option 2. In other words, it was deemed to be cheaper to pay the licence costs for the proprietary solution than it would be to pay a developer to make KiCad fit in with what they wanted.
Just as a keyserver for your org would?
Brazil is now one of the "great civilisations"?

RIP Civilisation, your quality is been declining every iteration anyway and if I want a fantasy world, I'm better off with Endless Legend, at least they have good mechanics and the game doesn't need a NASA server to run properly.
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On sites I've been involved with, in 2016, I still have to fight tooth and nail to get SSL on the payment page at all

I'm reasonably sure that every payment service I've ever used requires payment pages to be served over HTTPS, not just HTTP, even those that have minimal other requirements and take on most of the security burden themselves with some sort of hosted arrangement.

Are there really significant numbers of merchants who aren't doing that?
it sounds like they'd be happy donating some amount comparable to the cost of current tools if the donations would result in the project being made usable for them.

it's not about it making a difference or not to the project, it's about it resulting in a sufficiently improved tool that they can use and get some ROI on
There are Operating systems without Kernel exploits, they are simply less efficient than modern OS's.
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It's pretty slow tho.
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Does this definitely extend to UK academics? They mention a .edu address is required, and I didn't hear back after applying with a .ac.uk address.
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The malisious code on those websites isn't your bussiness guys. If their owners wish not to respond and not fix it -- they have a right to do so. Why are you all so anxious? It has nothing to do with you all. Just don't buy from them, that is simple.

Needless to say, I've seen most of those websites for the 1st time.

The world is unfair? No, it's fair and this proves that it is fair.