skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this HN discussion from just under a year ago on pledge(): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10537268 (which lists this presentation: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00001.h...)

I couldn't help wondering that the author had somehow been bitten by something OpenBSD-related, or that he had some kind of spat with some developer(s) somewhere. I wouldn't quite call this FUD, but I don't think it has enough bullet points for the amount of "this is the end of the world" it has in it.

That said, the point about China settling for FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD for their secure computing environment is very interesting. I wonder that OpenBSD may possibly be being distracted by trying to hit some kind of academically "cute" model of functionality, instead of staying grounded and realistic. Or maybe OpenBSD is trying to stay out of the commercial limelight, so is deliberately sidestepping the mainstream enterprise ideas about MAC and so forth?

In any case, I was mildly perturbed to realize that OpenBSD's author also maintains OpenSSH, which has only just now been shaken out of its disturbingly complacent development mindset (http://lwn.net/Articles/702751/ ); OpenBSD is likely to never experience something similar, which is sad - it would be truly interesting to see the level of scurrying and fixing that would happen (and just how much OpenBSD really deserves its security track record)...

For a counterpoint, I also read this nice and positive argument recently: http://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-user...

And I found this page a while back, on OpenBSD as a router: http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-ab...
this is great but I there was recently an article that made the rounds on HN pointing out that what sounds 'Nice' to people not exposed to western music is very different from what sounds 'Nice' to westerners. This is a great site and people can learn a ton but its very western centric and it might be worth pointing that out early on.
Out of curiosity, what's your day job?
> Once again, Douglas Adams turns out to be prophetic.

As ppod said, we live in the most peaceful time in human history. Endless torrents of online vitriol suck, but they're not even comparable to the slaughterhouse of actual war.
After 6 months of unemployment, companies do start giving you glances. It's rare to get much more than that. Taking 6 months off can also put a big dent in your net worth if you have fixed expenses.
"Once we went to slabs with the original LG Prada all our phones have generally looked the same."
This [1] is also a nice video summarizing what happens in the key signing ceremony.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9j-sfP9GUU
Revenue and profit are different. For example USPS has revenue.

Based on the IG's comments it looks like the expectation is that 18F should be billing project hours.
I worked with a guy like you once. He got fired. Three guesses why.

For most game development, the code is written and compiled on PCs and then shipped to a development version of the console hardware for testing. Naughty Dog in particular had a way of "live coding" their games in a Lisp dialect and shipping individual compiled functions to a running game instance on the PS2 dev box.

You think the demoscene kids can't match that?

Besides which, today's PCs have CPUs with sixteen (64-bit!) GPRs, GPUs and audio chipsets that vastly exceed the capabilities any Amiga had, gigs of RAM, and cutting edge development tools that the Amiga never had on its best day. I could be the biggest Jay Miner fanboy ever and I'd still write all my Amiga software from the comfort of a Linux PC.
At least in the case of the database, I don't think I'd ever be willing to accept outside-the-container backups as a sufficient strategy. Not if I'm in a position to be held responsible for data loss, anyway. But that's me and my baggage.

That said, if you've got other reasons for wanting containerization, MS SQL Server can be containerized nowadays. Or you can choose a slightly different stack if you've got other reasons for wanting to not use MSSQL (cough cough price cough). Or you can shove it all into AWS or Azure or whatever and get on with your life, same as Linux. It's all good. Maybe the article's author is doing none of that, and that's fine too. Boring and old is a subjective thing, and has a lot to do with what you already know and have down cold. On the other side of that coin, it takes only a little bit of unfamiliarity to create and/or perceive something to be an unmanageable mess.
When people explain flight through Bournoulli or whatever, they tend to forget Newton's basic laws, which really are the simplest way to understand flight. It won't make you an aerospace engineer, though.
3 months into vim and I'm only starting to get better productivity than what I had in my old editor, PyCharm.

It's fine to learn the basics, but the hard part for me was to internalize not only the movements, but striving to use the smallest amount of keystrokes for any given edit. Always keep learning!
When I send a friend an encrypted Signal, it's confidential i.e. its contents are secret. My friend knows it's from me. I am not anonymous.
Hello RxJS
A little sad to hear, but still! It made it to the 21st century!
Notes from Next: Economy Conference Day 2
In respect of protection against civil forfeiture, how is it different from a regular bank account?
Not to agree with yhtl's general line of argument, but right now, I'm not sure that I know anyone I could ask, especially if part of the implied goal is to get it quickly. In college, I knew half a dozen people, and I'm positive that someone among my coworkers has access (and would be discreet), but I have no idea who. Not knowing who to ask is a practical equivalent of having no one that I can ask.
Please stop doing this. It's neither civil nor substantive, and we have to ban accounts that break the guidelines this way.

Edit: we've banned this account.
Any details on which OIDC Conformance Profiles this supports?

Interop testing done & if so, any certification plans?
Aren't they also complementary in some way, like complementary colors?

It's easy to switch between them (although that makes sense since they are the same notes...)
Palmetto is an old box and I would not recommend buying it. If it's possible to get Briggs & Stratton with only one socket populated that's probably your best bet. Otherwise look at Habanero. Resellers may be more responsive than manufacturers.

Considering that the processor costs over $1,000, trying to skimp on the case makes you look like you're not a serious buyer.
That's awesome, I had no idea you could do that. MacOS Sierra? Doesn't appear to be present in El Capitan Modifier keys - or is it a third party utility?
I guess that's not tooo surprising, given the backronym "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".
Wow, their version is much more polished but completely drops the message of the image: the huge X over the first row. That makes it clear that it is contrasting two workflows, and saying "don't do this one". I read Metalab's version as eight stages of one project.
So basically it doesn't at all solve the problem. Immutable domain names are not a good thing in general (though certainly in specific cases it could be), especially when as you noted squatting is inevitable.
> From a fundamentals perspective I'm honestly pretty surprised by the visceral instant rejection, without having seen anything about the actual implementation, by crowds at HN, Ars, etc.

Every time anything changes, there is a rather predicable response of this kind. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when laptop manufacturers stopped making models with 4:3 screens, when smartphone manufacturers abandoned physical keyboards, when Apple abandoned any type of drive or connector port ever...

It's always enjoyable to come back to such threads and read the dire predictions of the naysayers after a few years, i.e. the one where the naysayers predicted that Apple would be doomed because the iPhone 5 was too small, and the one where the naysayers predicted that Apple would be doomed because the iPhone 6 was too big.
Tanvas does this. I recently used one of their devices, it was a pretty cool experience.
https://tanvas.co/about/
There would be a lot of luck involved in a project like this. If you can't get it to go viral, you can't source the crowd; if you can't source the crowd, you can't get the content you need; etc...

I'm not actually sure how to get over the "no content" moat, to be honest. Maybe build the basic framework and then market it as a stackoverflow alternative at first? This would, of course, involve mapping more than just conceptual and procedural masteries. I was thinking of including versioned systems as well (since versioning is the one thing that stackoverflow sucks at).
Arc bugreport: URL matching error with “.../);”
See comment below.

I understand the mods see virtually all new posts regardless of vote count. If this has no replies within 18-24h I'll look for other contact mechanisms.

This is an experiment in reporting HN-specific Arc bugs via HN itself. I once reported this via the Arc forum, but it went unnoticed (which was kind of easy since the testcase I posted didn't work on the Arc version running there!).

If the mods would strongly prefer I email this type of thing in future, I can accept that.

Also, an aside: the "..." in the post title was initially removed (".../);" --> "/);"), I had to edit it back in. The "..." is definitely present on the submission page in my history. I'm very curious why this happened (I don't suspect it's a bug).
Alphabet's Access will lay off employees as it moves away from fiber internet
Testcase:

http://example.com/url/); <--

http://example.com/url/ );

http://example.com/veryveryveryveryveryveryveryloooooooooooo... <-- there is a ); at the end of this that has been eaten; it can be seen in this comment's source
Ctrl-- in firefox 45 to see Subscribe button.
Apart this, thanks :)
You're right, the original date was Oct 28th. It got moved up to the 25th, not sure why.
Sadly, I really don't. I've picked it up over a long time, and I still probably have plenty of misconceptions and less-than-rigorous understandings.
Book on .net Core on Linux; that's great timing, can't wait for you to share more info.

As someone super rusty on it, I found it remarkably easy to get up and running on the platform.

If they can only finish the tooling so that NCrunch can run properly, life will be a bliss.
AlphaBay is pushing Monero http://motherboard.vice.com/read/monero-cryptocurrency-dark-... . This is not a surprise: right now, aside from a few geeks meddling with things the only real world usage for all of these cryptocurrencies (where the word currency is strongly debatable) is one which a bank can not do because if a bank can do it, it's better to use a bank for now. See, one of the (biggest?) selling points of banks are providing a safety layer between the stupidity of people and their money. All cryptocurrencies remove this to one extent or another (I believe this https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4yru3h/scared_and... to be the sad end of the scale).
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Ask HN: Job with Little Work
I have full time remote job with little work. I was hired to do front end development for startup, have not made anything big in more than 8 month. ask for more work but I have been given task of working on skeleton.

Sometimes, the work is less than 20 hours per week. There is no project manager and only 3 other engineers at company. Superior does not want to meet or set tasks, so i have to do my own time tracking.

Do not understand why I was hired, there is no product or requirements or deadlines. Very different from what was promise at interview.

Some call this dream job, I don't feel good wasting company's money. I am concerned poor management will reflect on my performance review when it happens, and also future referrals.

I am revising an app skeleton for 8 months, changing libraries with no reqs. When I have gone ahead and implemented relevant features, I have been push back.

It is small startup so CEO may not be aware of this poor management. My career is not advancing because of little work done.

Is it better to speak directly to CEO? Requests for management, issue tracking, estimates to my superior have been ignored.

Any legal danger of letting this go on...?
Live Playing Aerodynamic from the Daft Punk with Sonic Pi
Do You Believe in Magic?
Oooh. I think I may have finally found a use for the Raspberry Pi sitting around my apartment.
Hi, Chris' cofounder here. The problem with this would be defining "apps". You would be limited by the features each one offered. While it is possible, half of the appeal of machine learning is being able to define your own inputs.

The other thing here: It would more or less be redundant. If one is more accurate than the other you're not going to bother using them really.

Maintaining something like that would be a nightmare (compatibility issues an updates among others). The ROI here doesn't seem to be there for me.

I might be the wrong person to answer this though: My prejudice against SAAS Infra (eg: ML as service) runs pretty deep. I tried building one before (NLP focused) back in 2012 and learned developers don't like to pay and they will always ask for more features. I'm also not the right kind of founder to build a SAAS business though. I don't like the idea of chasing after 10s of millions of people for $5/month when I could produce value for 1 company I know and sell software several times and make equivalent revenue (hence skymind's on premise focus)
USPS is not a government agency. Only kinda sorta.
It's not required, but it helps. Intelligence and religiosity correlate quite well.

Most intelligent religious people will reject most of the content in their holy book of choice.
ELF binaries aren't executable either: They require the kernel to interpret them, preparing virtual memory and granting it a pid. Alone, they're just sequences of bytes.
JavaScript.

This is way back in 1998, when there was still VBScript and JavaScript was still very nascent. I had no idea it would have the impact it has had on the Web today. I just found it a cool way to make rollovers and other effects.

When CSS and "DHTML" came around, its potential was starting to dawn on me. Others saw it first, but that was when I started to approach it in earnest.

I created and played with so many cross-browser JavaScript libraries in that day. (Anyone remember 5k?) This is way before jQuery. Even made a bunch of widget libraries. Looking back, it was such a Wild West. Arguably, it still is.

Somewhere around 2003-2005, a bunch of colleagues and I started to apply formal computer science discipline and principals to JavaScript. Many others were trying similar things too. I even remember using an iframe to dynamically load and change content on the page without a refresh, a precursor to "AJAX" when it was coined in 2005. Somewhere around this time, I remember colleagues talking about using JavaScript on the server too, instead of just the client.

It's pretty crazy to see how far this little scripting language running on a Netscape browser has come.
Yes, but you have to configure it. You setup your gestures, fix their backwards idiotic "[un]natural-scrolling", and make sure you have your right mouse button setup.
Apple's annual sales fall for the first time since 2001
I'm afraid it's not. As far as I'm aware Switzerland cannot be told by EU to accept whatever number of immigrants from any place in the world. Swiss benefits model is substantially different than any other European country and I can't imagine any non-skilled immigrant would try to get to Switzerland to exploit it..

Apart from that tabloids will make a lot of noise around this, obviously it's great topic to get some news :-) In this uncertain time it is not that easy to make predictions, especially when it comes to such high level.
For the first bit - I actually meant with full legalisation in government run shops with that. What you describe - I'm pretty fully in agreement with. Just details.

I mean, they'll have to have ways to verify potency in production. Heroin, if injected, will probably get some oversight like a drug. A infrastructure for the stores - I'd imagine in the states it'd be contracted out to someone private, but that still costs money. Spot tests for potency. USDA would wind up involved in the actual plant base: I don't know who covers imports from other countries where it is also legal. Then you have tax collection, cleanliness standards, and things like that.

Overall, I think it would save a good amount of money - especially when you consider 5-10 years out. The better part is that once it levels out some, the costs seem more are more predictable.

Edit: Accidentally deleted to much on a rewording, and added it back in.
Hi, I agree we could spend some time on numbers. We are actively working on this. The problem with enterprise customers like banks is the ability to put things in public. This includes things like accuracy..I agree we need a lot more of that in our material though. Thanks for the suggestion.
This is terrible advice. I've lived the digital nomad life the author describes and worked in the areas he names [1], and his recommendation of Bangkok's Khao San Rd as a nice place to relax is alarming enough to cast doubt on everything else he says.

Or perhaps he's just really into prostitutes.

Regardless, there's a kernel of good advice here: take the opportunity to do something crazy, something outside the norm when laid off. Write, build, draw, compete, whatever it is you love that your job prevented you from doing all the time. It'll be far more rewarding during and after your unemployment than drinking cheap beers in foreign cafes for six months.

1: http://j4p3.com/the-digital-nomad
Volkswagen’s $14.7B Buyback Deal on Emissions Scandal Approved
> I don't know exactly how fragile that magic is.

It's reasonably robust for the HTML/JS part. The majority of current generation Javascript frameworks are built on similar techniques and the main thing Elm adds is the type system and guaranteed purity.

For CSS, all bets are off. I expect Elm to put more effort into styling when scoped CSS becomes widely deployed enough to rely on.
Nothing. You're finding patterns where they don't exist.

Both of those vulnerabilities are trivial. The OpenSSL vulnerability is a very weak, non-persistent denial of service, and this nginx vulnerability requires an attacker to already have code execution on the machine.
Although I agree with you it's also worth pointing out that very often the bread and cheese _is_ the local food. Even in places that aren't known for their cheese, if you head to a market you might find an inexpensive, unique and rather tasty cheese.
So why do notes sound good together when the frequency ratios are simple? Needs a section on the inner ear, stereocilia, and how overtones affect them.
I don't see anything there about zkSNARKs?
Visually monitor your pace and intervals withPaceMe for swim and dry land workouts
> duet with my regular iPad

cool. I'm gonna try this out at home. Thanks.
Or as a video

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gp98t

Awesome. Love it!
That's a really neat looking calendar. I'll play with it instead of working on the stuff I supposed to do :)
Apparently I'm merely a casual vim user, but I would struggle without an esc key.
This dismissive attitude infests HN; whenever some-one does something, the top comments are from people nit-picking and finding flaws with the work.
You can email hn@ycombinator.com to contact the mods.
Gonna keep this short.

My biggest moment was when I finally learned and understood how artificial neural networks (ANNs) - and specifically back-propagation - actually worked.

It happened in the fall of 2011 - I took on the challenge of the Stanford University sponsored AI Class (Thrun, et al) and ML Class (Andrew Ng). I wasn't able to complete the AI Class due to personal issues, but I did complete the ML Class. In 2012 I took Udacity's CS 373 Self-Driving Vehicle course (and completed it) to "make up" missing the rest of the AI Class.

But it was the ML Class that really drove things home; learning and using Octave was a revelation for me (vectors as a primitive? COOL!) - and learning to think on how to parallelize problems for that (and then later learning that an ANN was just such an application) - woke up a lot in me. Finally - a practical use for a home Beowulf cluster!

These experiences have led me to this year, where starting on November 28th, I'll be participating in Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegree program. I believe that as we move forward in the future as software engineers, knowing and understanding ML and AI algorithms, etc will be something employers will increasingly want and expect of developers. I'm keeping my skills current - you should too.

/43 years old, been professionally coding since I was 18 - and coding in some manner or another since I was 11 (yep - TRS-80 Color Computer w/ 16k FTW!)
I don't know if it counts as unusual, but I want a robotic gardener that identifies weeds and zaps them with a laser (or otherwise kills them).

https://www.google.com/#q=infrared+plant+identification

...and it seems like there could be quite a sizable market for such a device that automatically helps grow your food.
> second place behind a late-'90s IBM model that is long out of production.

You try http://www.pckeyboard.com/ ?
Same was true for the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, etc. Yet this is the first time in 15 years Apple revenues have shrunk year over year.

That means something.
I can explain it: if you drew a frequency graph of how often a piece of music in those scales used each note, the graphs would be different. The tonic (first note in the scale) would likely be the highest point in the frequency plot. The note seven semitones up would also likely be prominent.
Transistor Production Has Reached Astronomical Scales (2015)
Perhaps Vapnik was speaking from experience when he said that "generalized problems suck."
We leave in such interesting times :-) We will observe very future of this political project. It evolved a lot since it's beginnings, I can't wait to see what will it evolve to.
apps? not sure that is the right term. I'd much rather see the word program. apps is a thing of the various phone providers (apple, android)
Can do it using Karabiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/).

Sadly doesn't support Sierra properly yet.
Oh, I thought they were sarcastically putting that in at first, like "you can't put your problem into the size of a tweet". But reading on I see they are serious. Hmm.
I saw the 28th then the 25th More agony
Look at the utter contempt that the Washington Post is displaying for free individuals here. They refer to comments sections, where actual human beings who are not paid and bought for by corporate interests get to voice their opinions, as cesspools. What arrogance on their part!

Yeah, you'll see some ugly comments on all kinds of social media once in a while, but seeing an uncouth phrase or three is absolutely nothing compared to the WAR PROPAGANDA on behalf of the military industrial complex that leads to the deaths of thousands and thousands. So yeah, I'll take the cesspool of a comment section where I might see some truth every time over bought and paid for presstitutes, which we all know as absolute and undeniable fact now from Wikileaks.
If you don't have users, you don't have a company. My guess is, that's why they are rejecting you.

Or your $10bn/year metric is non-sense. I see 0 ads per session because I use an ad blocker.

What exactly is the pressing problem you're solving?
ZCoin uses an old, weaker research paper by Christina, Ian and Matt, ZeroCoin. ZeroCoin offers weaker security guarantees than Zcash.