skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think no matter how good you are, you need to have people skills. You may be the best there is for this moment in time, but there's always someone better. And besides, you usually need a lot of people to do something sustaining.
I don't get it

Taleb doesn't seem to be talking about 538s actual prediction, the polls plus model on the site, he's talking about swings from 50% to 20%
538 has not swung that hard at all
It's exactly a stereotype. AKA weak bayesian evidence for a characteristic based on other, easier to measure, characteristics.

EDIT: I thought the result was going to be exactly the opposite before I made this comment. My first impulse was to go and delete it. I'll leave figuring out implications of such biases in reasoning as an exercise to the reader :(
the dns attack was called "dns water torture":fix a domain such as google.com and random the subdomain such as {random str}.google.com.

This attack method is hard to prevent
It's more accurate to say obesity-inducing qualities of food, since decades of work has gone into optimizing that. It's kinda like if you can make all food function like a very salty glazed donut, you get obesity (especially when it's large quantities of very CHEAP very salty glazed donuts: and bear in mind we also drink our very salty glazed donuts)
Asynchronous Scala HTTP Client Using Finagle, Shapeless and Cats
>>Your mistake is treating each trade as an independent event.

They largely are.

The people who fall under your criticism are the old school stock pickers. For instance, people who've grown up during the long decline of inflation and rates might have hit a wall over the last few years. A lot of those guys were essentially riding the same wave over multiple trades.

But the kind of trading done in stat arb is largely independent of such long term trends. They change around their positions so often that there's hardly any regime that they are biased towards. High vol? Been long and short. Rates going up/down? Been long and short. Economy? Been long and short.

Sure, there might be some hidden regime that we've yet to hear about, that's possible. But there's quite a difference between the quantitatively astute funds and the other long-lived ones.
You would. But you're not the market - 99.99% of other people, who don't even know what a "jumper" is, are the market. So your preferences don't matter. Yes, even in most technology products.

As for IoT devices, I can't imagine average Joe or Jane prying off their smart whatever, destroying the pretty plastic casing it's hidden in, and manually setting jumpers to flash firmware.
Definitely. That's why saying "he does nothing" is a bit clickbaity.
Rich people like jerks. It's about respect - Maybe related to our animal mentality. Being a jerk is an 'alpha' male/female trait.

As much as people try to pretend that they're rational human beings, the laws of nature are still running the show. Unfortunately, we haven't yet evolved enough to view 'intelligence' as an alpha trait when it comes to social hierarchy.
But, on the other hand, if one person around is a jerk, they're a jerk. But if everyone around you is a jerk, maybe you're the jerk.
Does anyone have a two sentence summary? I am not a subscriber so I'm blocked from reading the story, and clicking the "web" link doesn't help.
Unless they can show bad faith on the part of the beneficiary, shouldn't whoever authorised the payment be on the hook for it?
This line of reasoning can be applied to ANY change.

Also HTTP isn't going away.
> All the major 2FA attacks I have read about involved social engineering of the phone provider's customer service to number port.

SS7 attacks don't.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/06/01/whatsa...

... hackers can bypass the encryption protections by exploiting SS7 to create duplicate accounts that receive all the messages intended for the target phone.

This is done by tricking the telecoms networks into believing the hacker’s phone has the same number as the target’s. That means they can set up a new WhatsApp or Telegram account with the same number and will receive the supposedly secret code that confirms they are a “legitimate” user. From there, they can impersonate their target, sending and receiving new calls and texts.
I'm Australian, and most Aussies will tell you that Australia is a no-tipping society.

But the waiters and bartenders I've known don't beleive this.
Germany is just the same (YMMV)

A possibly noteworthy difference is that there are no 'superior' schools or universities in Germany, at least I never heard of it. Of course, there are differences but they will rarely decide who's going to get the job.
I might anecdotally argue that the upper-middle 'near-rich' neighborhoods are 'nastier' than the more upper class 'rich' neighborhoods-- perhaps the 'almost rich' have more insecurity than the comfortably rich. Just an observation from personal experience.
The bad counters are probably losing money anyway, it doesn't take many mistakes per hour to lose the tiny edge counting can give you.
Show HN: Mobile laser turret – with Raspberry Pi and PS3 controller
Weird how this is not know by more people, apparently

"Kids these days" don't even know what it is to spend days having to make their X11/Xorg work * coff * coff
Specific sponsorship ie a company sponsoring a project and having mention/logo/link on a readme/sponsors page etc I think is quite acceptable.

A random Google ad (particularly with the privacy invasive tracking that goes with it) on the page is going to give an altogether different appearance, particularly if the project is using free resources such as GitHub/read the docs/etc.
I think the difference is in the secrecy. In the US, at least in principle, the system is not secret - in China secrecy is the rule - the party is not supposed to be judged from outside.
I was having this problem, but it turns out my ad blocker (uBlock Origin) had the "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek‎" filter disabled. Turning that on fixed the problem!

tldr; studies show that when presented with images of money, people were less likely to pick up pens or donate to a hypothetical charity.
I'd prefer it that way, to be honest - because your average small company has exactly zero incentive to deliver actually useful product. They can easily sell crap and avoid consequences. It's how software is done too, except that a crappy SaaS startup can't be easily turned into a botnet.

Not that big companies don't try to sell crap - but they can't so easily evade consequences, so they at least have to think about self-preservation.
What's most concerning to me is that as hackers get more sophisticated with regards to tech, the US judicial system isn't and this is providing a lot of low hanging fruit for said hackers to use draconian laws like the Computer Fraud Act against innocent Americans by pwning their PC's and utilizing torrenting against them.

I have a friend that is pretty much being persecuted by the state of Oklahoma for this very thing right now because the DA, OSBI (oklahoma state bureau of investigations.) and defense attorneys didn't understand how somebody can coincidentally be innocent of the illegal torrenting that appears to being going on from their IP, albeit said activity being totally unbeknownst to them.
To put it simply, yes. You have multiple NS records, and each points to a server that can act as an authoritative name server for your zone. When clients query for your zone from parent zones, they'll get all your name servers. The hard part is how you keep those name servers synchronised.

IIRC, bind has multiple built-in methods of keeping zone files synchronised between boxes.
We have Facebook for us to do this.
The article provides ~12 examples of how rich people are less generous. It proxies "rich people" with parameters such as nicer neighbourhoods. It shows that proximity to the victims creates more empathy (e.g. 9\11 victims vs Tsunami victims, or experience being a waiter, etc) and gives it as a reason for the rich people being less empathetic towards poor.
Reality is the ultimate intelligence[1], it has designed and created you and everything else, and origin of all thoughts and ideas. Therefore intelligence can be measured by how well it models reality. Humans model reality fairly well therefore they are fairly intelligent. I say 'model' because nothing is separate from reality, and so by saying 'a human models reality', we make it clear we understand a human is not actually a reality seperate from the rest of reality - the separation itself is a 'model', an illusion.

[1] If you're religious, you might say reality is like a mirror that reflects the ultimate intelligence of the ultimate essence, a.k.a God, but let's put that aside for the purpose of this discussion.
> I consider Ecosystem, community, dev resources / backing, encapsulation and reuse integral

Yes. No doubt.

> which React wins easily

I disagree. The old react docs were shite compared to Vue's. Not once did I feel the need to ask google. (Have yet to go through the ones released yesterday)

The tools that the team provides (router, vuex, resource, cli, ..) work perfectly.

Where react clearly wins is with 3rd party libraries and learning resources. Egghead is a perfect example.

Depending on what you prefer one might win over the other, but it's not _clear_ by any means.
> I don't see how speaking the truth and being polite could ever rule each other out.

Saying something negative or critical can be interpreted as being being impolite. It happens all the time.

There is a spectrum of civility and we're ascending that spectrum towards political correctness, not away from it.

How I know this is:

If you articulate your premise, don't use abusive language, but still are attacked for taking a bite out of something, then there is a bias.

This is natural. I have it. You have it. We all have it.

The social world is in constant conflict with reality. In fact it seems like some kind of game for people to increasingly be in denial of the extremely obvious so they can score points and be social climbers.

The result is a world where you have to have Straussian interpretations of everyday speech.

> In fact, HN is the one place where i've seen the phrase "I disagree" the most often. Not because people are so disagreeable, but because they openly, and politely, state their disagreement if there is any.

I disagree!

Well not quite. HN is better than most places where geeks gather to ponder thoughts. It is still heading in the wrong direction.

This is a testable proposition.

Make a list of five to ten statements, right now, that contravene majority held opinions. You don't have to agree with the statements and indeed you probably won't. Poll somebody to check if you're doing it right. Then post those statements on an active current thread on HN and see what happens.

You are likely to find that tone policing goes way beyond merely preventing spam and maintaining some kind of civility.
Nowhere in the article does it say that the POST data was in the URL. As I understood it, he was editing the request body before the request was sent to PayPal's server.
Ah, and local churches (the majority of the difference between red/blue states) transfer donations to CC USA? If so, that's pretty damned good.
What? No. The vast majority of the stuff the OP listed is secret. You don't know - and have no way of finding out - the various ratings the IRS, the insurance companies, border patrol, the FBI, etc. use to rate you. In fact the only rating you can easily access is your credit rating.
Does it matter in this case?
From what I understood looking at the photos in the article, "relays" are some fancy-looking external box. It is quite possible that those are "pulse relays", i.e. RPi sends a short voltage pulse to switch relay on, then another short pulse over the same wire to switch off.

From there all you need is two (or more) diodes to handle multiple pulse inputs. Some pulse relays even have diodes built-in (i.e. can handle multiple inputs from the get-go).

You can easily spot this sort of installation - wall-mounted light switches only go one way, and return to original position as soon as let go. And each press changes on/off state - sort of how Caps Lock works.
Apple Adds ARM Support to MacOS Sierra Kernel
Wasnt Google offering Google Music for Artists?
https://play.google.com/artists/
If anyone's interested in discussing this approach to things, Joe Edelman's made a couple of talks about what he refers to as Empowering Design (first two links here: http://nxhx.org/)

He's made a prototype chrome extension of the app he describes in the second talk, which is designed to collect people's reasons for using things & their thoughts/feelings around those reasons. Here's the github and gitter:
https://github.com/livable/reasons https://gitter.im/livablemedia/reasons
>>You are approximately right, but I don't think that they deliberately crashed the economy.

Deliberately, no. But they knew it was unsustainable. Many industry insiders, as well as outside observers, likened the system to a house of cards. And when you play with a house of cards, you know damn well that it will come crashing down sooner or later.
Apes are too restricted in their habitats compared to something like a racoon, and anything which takes us out, is likely to do the same for them... even assuming they survive our influence on their environment over the next few decades. Raccoons meanwhile, have adapted to us.
I've done both too: ran a entreprenurial business for close to ten years and then converted it to a Patreon when my payment processor went bust, intentionally 'marketing' it as a swing from competitive to largely charitable.

I only made money when I was prepared to push really hard and be obnoxious. These days I refer to the behavior mockingly as 'all caps' and lots of exclamation points. It translates into shouting over people and steamrollering them with enthusiasm, as engagingly as possible. It also sharply limited what I could do: I had to couple the hyped enthusiasm thing with market choices that were extremely 'safe'.

It becomes a numbers game like internet advertising. Once you're intentionally shooting for statistical positions and backing it with aggressive, emotional dominating, you're a jerk and the best you can hope for is that you can be a jerk with a heart of gold who keeps their promises.

In order to get a large enough proportion of the market listening that you can do that, there is no 'nice' option and no way to be cooperative or coexist with others: the first order of business is to shut everybody else up, dominate them so that you are heard.

Funny thing is, now I am leveraging frugality and some private capital sources like I was a startup again, in order to plausibly make the impresson that I'm like some zombie movie adversary: can't be killed now that I'm Patreon-funded, and expressing this determination to plow onwards producing frighteningly huge quantities of product for 'nothing'. I'm looking to be an existential threat to the companies I used to have to be a jerk alongside. So I am being a jerk to them, while professing how great it is to not have to be a jerk to customers and regular humans.

So EVEN THEN people are nicer to you if you're a jerk, so long as you're a jerk towards the right entities :)
> In this case, that would have made it worse.

It might have made little difference depending on the specifics of the records in question but it would not have made things worse.
I don't have enough personal interest you to be either, I'm just curious, but I guess you're not interested in answering my questions. That's fine. Goodbye.
What aircraft? Triple 7?
Everybody that pins it or retrieved the file from someone else (second one to maximum cache size that is configurable). Files and folders are referred to by hash.

Usually you still need to run a server to seed the files, but if a file becomes popular it will be served from anybody who also retrieved it and likely persist in the network even if your server goes down.

Think of it as BitTorrent for the web. It has Gateways that allow current browsers to access the network and pointers to update content with a new version (that's /ipns/ not /ipfs/ - the old version persists as long as someone hosts it).

What's also interesting is that due to the nature of the hashing algorithm (it's a merkle tree), you can "ipfs add" a directory, preserving the file structure inside, so websites on IPFS can use relative paths.
Interesting, I have two questions:

Can you create your private ipfs network? (accessible by anyone, upload only me)

If you upload sensitive material to the global ipfs network, what do you think will happen?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AIC173/history/20161015/2...

777-200LR, looks like.
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Is it true? From what I heard, people with degrees from Fachhochschule are very much looked down upon. Also, anyone with a degree feels the need to add it as a title to any kind of correspondence.
"He generally doesn't work outside 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. hours. He commutes in a 2005 Honda Element with over 175,000 miles on it. His 2015 salary was $127,121.75, according to a Nevada Policy Research Institute database."

Seems like a fairly careful kind of chap.

"Despite the investment success, Nevada only has about 73% of assets needed to fund future retirement obligations to workers."

I'm wondering what they will do about that. Increase contributions to new members? Increase employer's contribution (if any)?
Also, make yourself a personal emergency hosts file for your favorite websites.
Algorithms are trivial to come up with and nearly impossible to make money from.

Look at all the CS papers with algorithm upon algorithm. Arxiv has about 7 new submissions per day under "Data structures and Algorithms", https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/recent , and that's only a small part of the published literature.

You need an algorithm which can solve a problem people have, and which is worth money to them to solve, and you have to convince them that what you have is worthwhile.

For example, I sell a product which mixes some existing algorithms with some of my own improvements. People don't buy it for the algorithm. They buy it because it is very fast at what it does, and people are willing to pay for the performance. It's also a very widely used concept in my field, which means I don't have to convince them to use some alternative approach, which would need its own set of justifications.
A self driving bus still faces that capacity issue and is significantly slower. Even BRT is much slower than light rail.

Sewer systems have pipes that get wider the further they go. Road systems have to do the same. The problem is that there are road systems that already have 20 lane highways.

Seattle is a small city currently but it's growing and will continue to grow and there comes a point where you'll have to build absolutely massive highways right in the centre to accommodate all the self driving cars and buses.
Yeah, get a G-Suite account and you're free from Google using your data for advertising purposes.
Breezing through life without life changing adversity gives little opportunity for self reflection and contemplation unless one happens to be interested in problems beyond one's own.

And if the thinking of 'us and them' takes hold whether in the rich, poor or other groupings there is always dehumanization, reductionism, blame and sociopathy.

Those in adversity or have faced adversity will identify with others and may need or have received the help of other people leading to some kind of mutual empathy.
> I never expected a "thank you". But a little consideration and respect from the leftists would do.

Kudos. Have you ever done something nice that you haven't told anyone about? (and don't interpret that as a personal attack, it's a serious question.)
Socioeconomic status is an important factor in how we behave. The argument here is that people with more money are less kind because having more money makes them less kind. Unless you're making a specific argument were someones skin color is the prime factor in making someone more criminal that statement isn't factually correct. So no, it's not the same thing, but your frequent rhetorical outrage is noted.
This might be accomplished by something no more sophisticated than a repeater, they're cheap and readily available to provide GPS location inside buildings. Simply stick an antenna on the roof and the indoor transmitters will cause indoor devices to resolve the location of the roof antenna.

I wonder if the same principle could be used to pipe an authentic signal a few miles then amplify it sufficiently to be preferred by nearby devices
Good point. I believe also this will become a new 'standard' in most countries across the globe in this century. And this order is inevitable - the only hope that the humanity will move on, after living a few generations under this order. The consequences are too invisible for people masses that it's impossible to resist it now.
not impressed with Merge Conflict Editor, would be a lot better as visual diff with two versions next to each other (ala meld), not to mention arrow buttons to quickly pick version without touching text.
It works because artists accept it. If artists refused to sign to big labels they'd eventually ran out of content and forced media to look elsewhere to fill space between adverts. Artists have means to self publish, promote and it is easier than ever before, but still big labels have best content and change will take years if not decades.
Does it sound at all enjoyable to wade through a legal battle?
It's worth noting that there have been discussions about bitcode and ARM in the past, notably ATP 122 and Bitcode Demystified. Both are worth listening to and reading respectively if you're interested in how this stuff works on a low level:

http://atp.fm/episodes/122
http://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/
Even with a free software tool like mitmproxy modifying requests is trivial. You don't even need Burp.
IPFS appears here every 6 months, every 6 months the same questions get asked, the same problems get raised, the same collective sigh of bewilderment/disappointment appears to emanate from the comments, and it goes away again for another 6 months. Everybody wants something this clever and community-spirited to work, but the basic problem is, I don't want my data to be vulnerable to slow, unreliable endpoints, or people switching off their IPFS servers. I can't really trust an unremunerated volunteer system with my data, and I don't believe that my keeping your data is remuneration enough for you to keep mine forever.

Peer-to-peer is excellent for ephemeral streaming stuff like chat, file transfer, even gaming. But it is not good for permanence unless some monetary remuneration gets involved, either via a centralizing entity asking for payments (dropbox et al), or a distributed monetization system like bitcoin. Somewhere, somehow, someone needs to get paid to keep the system running.
Sweden didn't have any problems with "y2gay", noone from the tax authority complained about massive changes there.

However, the whole transsexual/intersex phenomenon is causing more issues. Basically, gender is encoded in your ID number, and stored in the census database, so people who change gender won't get a new ID number, so there will be a discrepancy between their number and the (correct) database value, but some systems don't bother checking the database, they just infer it from the number, and choke when the gender is "wrong" for something, usually systems around registering parents.

I think the long-term solution will be to just stop registering the gender of people, and not make any system care about it anymore, thereby reflecting the current cultural norm. :-)