skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two issues come to mind there.

The first is that some of the intel those agencies were acting on wasn't baseless. (See Operafion Avarice.)

The other is that Hussein's deliberate strategy was to make the world believe he was in possession of WMDs. (Specifically Iran.)

True or not, it worked. So whether it was suicide by cop using a real weapon or a realistic looking fake, it was ultimately still suicide by cop on a global scale. And the more we learn as things become declassified, the more it's looking like his position wasn't entirely a bluff.

(Leaving aside the extraordinary incompetence displayed by SECDEF Rumsfeld, the WH, and numerous other senior officials.)
We have a handful of them in London, too:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/25/londons-last...
Ops guys (almost entirely replaced by containerization).

(I kid, I kid)
Hyperloop is not Personal Rapid Transport. And I don't think all PRT is a joke.

Is it your assertion that of the 200 countries in the world, none of them will ever, under any circumstances, create a self-driving car lane with higher speed limits?

Because that seems like a crazy assertion to me. It doesn't even take a country... One county could do it. And boom, Personal Rapid Transport is not a joke.
thanks, but at 5 bucks an hour for an entry-level instance (single 12GB GPU) I'm looking at 120 bucks a day if I don't want to constantly re-upload my dataset into MapD (a very slow operation judging by Mark Litwintschik's posts linked by you). That's a very very high price for such a modest hardware configuration, not to mention the more credible one which goes for an eye-watering 30 bucks an hour ie not much change from a grand a day. Not for us startup folk, clearly.

I have to say it seems your pricing for such a new entrant and before having built share, is bound to attract very stiff newcomer competition. "Interesting" business model.
I think you are missing the point of both the blog post and Fiske's own article. What she labels as "personal attacks" was, in fact, legitimate scientific criticism, and she tries to dismiss it based on it not being published according to the right norms (according to her). She's trying to bring accusations of trolling and abuse, and you are taking her word for it as if that is the right description of what has been happening so far. She doesn't "explicitly welcome" serious criticism, because criticism published in scientific journals is rather seriously flawed and ineffective (too slow, too strong an incentive to be biased in favour of already published papers: see, for example, the discussions and failed replications that arose from Bem's ESP paper, that was really terrible). This is consistent with her comment about "methodological terrorism", which is as wrong-headed as can be, and I think clear evidence that it's not about "online abuse" in the usual sense.

If you read Gelman's posts (going back quite a while), for example, you'll see that the criticism that Fiske dismisses as trolling and abuse is nothing of the sort, and being published on a blog does not make it less valid.

In the end, it is part of the culture of science and part of being a good scientist that one should be willing to accept criticism, and maybe refutations, of one's own work, so trying to get above it by claiming "personal attacks" is seriously bad form.

P.S. There was another example of this kind of an "attack" when somebody wrote a bot for finding statistics errors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643978
I switched from Eagle to KiCad and I find the user interface to be significantly better in KiCad. I can't imagine someone switching the other way.
There can be another argument in this, leaks effectively only affect already open and democratic societies, since authoritarian regimes are considerably less vulnerable to them and even immune natural selection would actually play against you.

Leaks may very well not lead to some liberal pseudo anarchist utopia but lead to further consolidation of power, secrecy and more and more tougher reactions and control of information.

And while you might think that this won't happen it will, leaks don't play that well in the public when they start touching individuals especially when you can spin them as an attack.

Unconditional release of information especially in large leaks leads to the public being against the leakers.

Releasing some DNC emails/documents might be acceptable by the majority of the public, releasing all the documents including donor information and private information of simple low level employees, volunteers or anyone who has registered or shown interest in a political party would not be well received by the public even without any spins.
>For the record, I didn't publish vulnerable systems, I published stores that have malware.

This is a crucial point, because it shows GitLab is basically nonresponsive to the key issue; it's the difference between "Here's how to hack Giant Anchor Retailer" (unethical, possibly illegal) and "Giant Anchor Retailer has been hacked, estimated NNN cards may have been compromised" (of public interest, not illegal). In my case, I want to know if I used any of the retailers on the list!

For GitLab to call this "egregious" and that they "will not abide it" suggests that either GitLab is technically incompetent in security matters, or that they've received legal notices and decided that the shortest path to resolution is to throw their users under the nearest publicly-operated multiwheeled passenger conveyance. In either case, poor show, good reason to seriously consider moving off GH and GL.
Japan to change its laundry care symbols
Agree, it's not either-or is it?
What's up with those latency numbers? Seem huge to me.
Are Android apps revenue generating?
Looking at the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00883

Can anyone tell me what the P R and F "features" mean in table 2?

They use F-score ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score ) which doesn't take into account true negatives at all. Maybe not an issue since they are evaluating the same set of GoodReads quotes across all four.

The unique features contribute to an F-Score improvement of around 1% with baselines in the 50-80% range. That doesn't seem to be a significant improvement and the F-Score is just a within-test percentage measure of how good the technique is at measuring sarcastic vs not sarcastic. Both of their unique features give improvements across all encodings, but they aren't additive and they differ depending on encoding. That may be statistically significant in some sense (regardless that the improvements are around 1%), but I don't see any statistical evaluation.

Table 2 apparently shows baselines for word2vec, but I expect the baselines are different and the improvements are relative to the appropriate baseline.

The model of how the features determine sarcasm is created using SVM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine ).

Can someone with experience in NLP comment on this paper?
What would it take to get some paying customers? Perhaps a grant or seed stage funding could come after that maybe?

I'm in the UK too and have had seed funding from a couple of schemes so they are out there. I'd be happy to help with suggestions. My email is in profile if you want to discuss.
Best name ever.
Except you still need autoloading configured for most libraries in the ecosystem to work, unless you want to manually chain absolutely huge quantities of requires.
‘It’s the End of DDoS as You Know It’
I wonder if their approach can be simulated without being sued for a.patent infringement.
High-Speed Trading Networks and Societal Value
The lamp lighter job still exists in Wroclaw: https://www.inyourpocket.com/wroclaw/The-Wroclaw-Lamplighter...
Ask HN: What's the most amount of entropy two humans can create in 30 seconds?
Every day, my colleague Jonny and I give each other N handshakes, where N is defined by:

N = 2 * (closest lower prime to today's date) % today's date

This has worked well (today, for example, is the 15th, so we shook hands (13 * 2) % 15 = 11 times today.

But we want to increase the complexity of it for fun, so we're looking to add some random process. But how do two humans generate a random number just by talking to each other? (We don't want to use a computer.)

So the idea is, we need to generate the most amount of entropy and output some pseudo-random number... but it has to be done through a human process (like talking.)

Any ideas? Thought this crowd may enjoy the question.

This is not a homework question... we actually do do this and are genuinely seeking your help.
Barely a blip about companies like Costco in this. Costco and Publix are my favorite in terms of using culture and compensation to get great results. Here's two links on them:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/reasons-love-costco...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/07/24/the-wal-...

I think it's important in discussions like these to point out that Costco got to $100 billion a year without advertising by just paying people well and keeping management out of their way. The result was they did a great job with high customer service that spread business by word of mouth. Remember that this $100+ billion business started in 1983. Publix, founded in 1930, similarly minimized number and cost of management and executives while keeping large numbers of production workers whose personal stock rewards them based on company performance. Founder, like Costco's, still rich despite taking care of employees. The result is Publix is most profitable of all grocers with highest service level. Almost twice the margin of Walmart despite selling less stuff with very, conservative expansion.

This shit isn't rocket science like biased NY Times and other corporate media would have you believe. Virtually every company that does these things outperforms those that don't. Toyota Production System probably being one with most media coverage. They rarely talk about most, though, since the owners of corporate media are themselves pulling outrageous amounts of money out of their semi-micro-managed companies. Any widespread change of the compensation situation in America to favor workers would pull money of out media managers' own pockets. So they seem to censor companies like Publix and Costco a lot while making a big fuss of how McDonalds might handle a raise. Sickening but makes rational sense given incentives of media executives (highest compensation) and business model (ad revenue from companies screwing workers). Don't bite the hand that feeds.

It's that simple for vast majority of cases. As I always say, most of these medium to high margin firms could take care of and enable workers if a 1.6%, 2.2%, or 5.6% (IIRC...) margin company can do it. That those companies outperform micro-managed firms treating people like cogs despite less management & executive compensation means companies forgoing this strategy are doing it for reasons that have nothing to do with company performance. More like executive's paychecks and managers' egos. ;)
Lol. Predicting the survival of passengers on the Titanic is meaningless and misleading - there is literally no connection to reality, despite the framing of the task which suggests a certain connection. There is absolutely nothing that could be predicted. It is just a simulation of oversimplified model which describes nothing, but an oversimplified view of a historical event. It is as meaningless as the ant simulator written by Rich Hickey to demonstrate features of Clojure - it has that much connection to real ants.
Maybe the person you reply to was confused by the original title in HN, which was "Walmart generated higher sales, profits by paying workers more, better training" (that's not the NYT's fault, tough).
Iraq used chemical weapon agains Kurdish people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program .
Someone posted this on HN a few months ago under "Tools of Trade". Could be useful:

https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
That job still exists, except in the very far future, and is known as a "mentat"
Or it is a FrankenAlto. I wonder how many different systems the components have been in.
Gotta go faster.
At least in my neck of the woods, a rat catcher's job is primarily monitoring. The rat catcher will trap and bait, but if fumigation is required, they'll call an exterminator.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the headline.
You might also be able to buy glass bottles of milk at the grocery store when you're buying other groceries already, which would save the milkman the extra trip. You'll get your deposit back on the next grocery trip.
This link appeared on HN a few days ago:

https://github.com/ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-eng...

Has some great links if you already have some knowledge about software engineering and want to get into Machine Learning

Josh Gordon from Google also has a extremely nice handson "how to start with Machine Learning" course on YouTube featuring scikit-learn and TensorFlow:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIuiBfYad6r...
I'll second https://instantdomainsearch.com/. Despite lots of copycats and more "feature-rich" alternatives, I find myself using IDS by default because of its speed and simplicity.
A lot of projects do a rewrite from PHP to Ruby on Rails or some equivalent migration. What the project really needs is a rewrite/refactor/cleanup however it's much easier to frame that in the context of going to a "better" choice than it is explaining it just needs a rewrite with better practices/engineers (ie maybe more and easier tests or using the prior prior/current architectural lessons to create a better architecture). The reality is one could just rewrite it in the original language/stack but that is apparently harder to sell even though it's less risky.

So if the first language/stack is less respected, it makes it easier to sell that rewrite to non-technical/management. Thus PHP is a great choice for the first stack.

The one huge trap here is if the second team isn't experienced enough in the holy grail (next) stack. I've seen that and been relieved to walk away from those projects/companies.
You could imagine a man kissing you or grabbing your crotch without your permission. Maybe you have a different definition of sexual assault that differs from current US law.
And how does that brutality compare to the 96% (or more) of the rest of the world that falls below the US median standard of living? You're trying to pretend those systems aren't extraordinarily brutal to their people? It's absurd.

I see no evidence to support your premise that the US is brutal toward its people, given the high wages the US pays, the high standard of living the US offers at the median, and the extraordinarily high disposable income levels the US offers at the median ($44,000 household disposable income vs eg $28,000 in Finland). Where's the brutality? The sole thing I can see that is actually bad is in healthcare.

Let's compare the US median to the medians in: Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Czech, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Turkey, New Zealand, China, South Korea, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia.

The only thing you're going to find where the US lags significantly, is in regards to healthcare costs. In nearly every other economic respect, the US exceeds those nations and the radical majority of the planet.
I'm somewhat confused about how they would be doing that. Do you have any references to blogs/papers on this technique?
This was the point. You have to pay the price for the principles and hope that the tide turns one day.

If you take your suggested easy route then this day may never come.
Yes, but one by one the word "censorship" loses it's meaning. It used to mean preventing people from publishing their work. Now all it means is disagreeing about what should get shown prominently on social networks.
Operations for software developers for beginners
New UN Chief Can Tackle World Problems by Promoting Bitcoin
They're running Bravo. That's a fun editor. An improvement on most of its successors.

You edit both programs and documents in Bravo. Programs in Mesa are usually written in variable-width fonts. (Somehow this never caught on. It looks nice. I used to bold Mesa keywords.) The file format is plain text, then a control-Z, then formatting information. The compiler reads up to the control-Z and stops, thus ignoring the formatting.
I think the article gets this mostly right. I describe Dev and Ops as a continuum and DevOps as the concept that each side needs to get better at doing the others job.

Noops and/or serverless are both newer terms that are early on the hype cycle. I wouldn't get too bent out of shape about them.

My advice in this regard has been the following.

Devs: start thinking more about running your code in production and solving user needs. Works on my laptop is over. There are a whole slew of things that you need to understand to build at scale. Talk to your Ops people. Especially those who have the good sense to show you mutual respect.

Ops: Move up the stack. The days of providing just OS support and load balancing are gone. You have to learn to code. Spend time in IDEs, work in source control, do code testing. Learn from your Dev counterparts. Especially those who have the good sense to learn from you.
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read ISLr (by the same authors), not ESL

Everyone keeps linking ESL, but really ISLr is much easier to understand, provides more important clarifying context, and covers more or less the same information.

ESL is more like a reference and prototype for ILSr

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
When it comes down to brass tacks, developers don't want to be on call. They want to work on the things that they want to work on, when they want to work on them. Look at the proliferation of 20% projects ("keep them happy and let them do what they want 1 day a week rather than what they get paid to do"), and the outright refusal to fix their own bugs. How many developers do you know who would turn their noses up at being placed on a sustained engineering team rather than creating new features? There's a stigma there. You think that stigma won't be there at 3AM Pacific when Europe starts hitting their new feature to the breaking point?

I've been an ops engineer in a "lean startup" where developers were on-call for their services. It didn't work super well because people ignored their phones or put phones on silent at night. As a backstop, they put me (ops engineer) as the fallback secondary notification because they knew I would wake up. Ergo, everyone ignored everything and it all rolled to me. They'd wake up at 7AM, find everything ablaze (because they ignored all my phone calls), then would fix it and go about the rest of their day.

Let's face it though. They probably don't want to be on call. Why force them to do this? There's the concept of ownership and closing the pain loop, but most people really don't understand what it truly means to be on call. "Sorry honey, can't go to the movies tonight I'm on call." "Sorry bro, can't get wasted tonight I'm on call." Only huge organizations with huge dev teams can go through a developer on-call rotation. Most leaner (smaller) companies have 1-2 devs per project, and it's unreasonable to expect that developer to be on-call 24x7.

This stuff works at Uber, Facebook, and Google. But the vast majority of the world isn't Uber, Facebook, and Google.

Also, I'd expect more pay as a developer if the job required on-call shifts. I don't think companies are willing to pay even more than they already are.
Putin made two points about this in June, 2016[0]. First, it's not possible to verify what's in the warheads of anti-ballistic missiles. Second, defense and offense are part of a single set of capabilities. If you remove the opponent's ability to retaliate against a first strike, that is just as dangerous to them as if you had increased your offensive capability. I'm well out of my depth in terms of judging if these statements are true, but this is what he said.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo
All these things only came out after 2000. Basic bloom filter is earlier, but modern bloom filters (and varieties like cuckoo filter) have improved quite a bit. The standard paper on modern bloom filters came out in 2006.

It's also true for other areas. Let's take sorting. The best general purpose comparing algorithm is timsort. timsort came out in 2002.

Keep in mind TAOCP was originally published in the early 70ies (first book came out in 68) and even though there were some new editions (upto late 90ies) they didn't really change all that much.

You can just scan over TAOCP's bibliography and see the average year of the cites. It is usually 60ies.

Claiming that CS has not improved since the 60ies is fairly absurd.
What if they provide the code samples for download?
Show HN: Data Pipe Generation for Hybrid Analytics
I wish https://angel.co/skeptive still existed!
Both those links got shortened for some reason, into invalid ones.
Compiled JavaScript?
You can cherry pick good qualities from past companies to emulate. That's what people are doing here. They aren't saying "Do everything exactly like Henry Ford." They are saying "Pay your workers like Henry Ford."

On worker pay, Ford is a good model to emulate.
Sure, I wasn't making any judgement on its utility.

BOUND would have been great for compiling any language with built-in bound checking (I wouldn't be surprised if it was made with pascal in mind, same ENTER with nesting level > 1).

MPX was specifically designed for the C family languages, but it has a fairly high cost, we will have to see whether it gets widespread.

Re culture, aren't there quite a bit of high profile projects that are compiled with hardening by default ? At least firefox comes to mind.
I'm curious if anyone has done any analysis on the "other Walmart" phenomenon -- when there are two walmarts (or malls) in a given area, one of them (the older one, usually) rapidly gets far worse. Overall, it seems like it gets worse than it would have on its own, and worse than simply removing customers. What amazes me is that this happens even in suburban/rural locations where everyone drives to the stores, so going from the bad store to the good store is at most the direct-drive distance between them (sometimes just a couple of minutes). Why would anyone at all continue to go to the bad one?
Definitely feels like a bad interpretation on Gitlab's part, but not done out of malice.

The person was not exposing sites that nobody previously knew about -- the sites were already compromised, there is nothing to compromise again except maybe having more than one attacker in your compromised account. The damage is already done, though.

These are likely web applications that were not kept up to date so the responsible security disclosure already happened when it was reported for WordPress/Drupal/Joomla. It is the site owners responsibility to pay attention to those security disclosures, which they likely failed to do.

And those compromised sites, in my experience, are usually attacking and infecting other sites and servers on the Internet. That makes them a public nuisance and so public disclosure is necessary so they can be appropriately blocked/isolated.
Redux may not be the greatest and the most innovative technology. But I love the community around it. Bringing always something new and progressing in steady pace.
Here's the text behind the link (which I recommend!):

The Claim: Trump says Clinton 'acid washed' her email server.

The Truth: Clinton's team used an app called BleachBit;
she did not use a corrosive chemical.
"The BrainFuck computer is an attractive solution for servicing high throughput BrainFuck cloud services, both in terms of performance and cost."

Love it.
It's from section 4.1.4 of Musk's original paper. Air bearings are usually that thin, but at the proposed speeds, the inside tube surface can't have any irregularities.

[1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...