skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was "Hey, a also Dutch guy, heh".

Also the credit say its a Dutch creation: https://clickclickclick.click/credits
Why do you say "without repeatability and predictability"? Social studies must be reproducible. When they are not, they are discredited (where are you getting your information about social science?) As we speak, there are academic organizations being formed to do exactly that: to reproduce more social science results. Prediction, as I explained, is generally impossible, just as it is impossible in computer science and biology in the general case, but in simplified situations, it exists and it is expected. Not only that, it is being used as a technology. Many manipulation techniques employed by large websites employ social science results to great effect.

I think you're attacking a strawman image of social science that's been constructed by people who really have no clue. That's not to say that the social sciences aren't plagued by many methodological problems, but we actually do know quite a lot.
Have you read followup tweets?
Eindhoven, Netherlands (Source: https://clickclickclick.click/credit)
He is a snake oil salesman for geek millionaires.
I think you've really misjudged me and what I'm saying. I think freedom on the web is more important than hurt feelings and that people ought to have a bit thicker skin in general or else stop making themselves so available to others. If a site wants to ban people or purge messages, that's their prerogative and they're welcome to do so. I don't need any cliche life lessons and sentiments from someone calling me a sociopath for it, lol.
Any reliable source? This is quite the accusation
Symbol property lists (like in CL: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/t_symb...) are useful, but you have to take care about the difference between symbols and variables. The same symbol in a different environment can represent a variable of a different type. Apparently symbol-access manipulates the current lexical environment, ie. a specific binding of particular symbol.

> For the more knowledgeable, is (symbol-access) a complete general purpose primitive for reactive programming, like (delay) and (force) are for laziness?

As far as I know, yes, but careful about mutual references: if updating x when y changes triggers another update of y from x, you might never terminate.
FYI, they are hiring 9k too. This is as much about profitability as a transition to electrical.
those tweets are very cool. It's very funny to see it happening.
There is no redefinition occurring here. Your claim was this:

> Yes Apple backdoors their phones for government surveillance access.

That very specifically is referring to the phone itself. Nobody would be arguing if you had said:

"Apple hands over non-encrypted information (such as webmail and other data that cannot be encrypted at a higher level) from iCloud and iTunes Store servers, in response to a valid legal demand"
TL;DR: Guy bought a webcam, installed it, and within one and a half minute it was already infected and even kicked him off his telnet connection.

The twitter stream narrates what he configured before turning the webcam on, and give details on how things unfolded.
The US isn't even a democracy so it doesn't really apply, does it? He'd not have won in a democracy.

Democracy screws folks over very easily.
I fail to see how this is HN related. Any hints are welcome.
There may not be explicit blame, but the budget cuts are fallout from the scandal. Thus there are people losing their jobs while other people with (likely) more culpability for the scandal remain employed.

A simpler way to put it would be that there is at least one person with no role in those decisions that is losing their job because of the scandal.
This is why the appliance market - Dropcam in this case - is often safe from the DIY enthusiast market. Setting these up is one hurdle. After that's done there's any combination of: network maintenance, security patches, updates, hosting a local server, DNS, troubleshooting etc.

For some people, it's just worth $150 + 10/mo to not have something else to think about.
This is just plain wrong. Timestamps of course make sense in the context of call history.
Russia. Ha. No my friend. Kaspersky. Ha. No my friend. Closed source. Ha no, and you ain't ma friend.
I'll reply to my own comment with one thing:
I was the "work-husband" of a girl. That girl is now my wife. Real wife.

I have never been happier, but the point is that the platonic-ness of such close relationship can't be always safeguarded.

I mean it not in a negative affair-wise connotation, but still you can't help it. And what if some of the two is not actually single?
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I've found the same outlet in racing cars, soccer, and working out. I've actually told people before that I think the reason racing helps so much is that you are absolutely 100% focused on the task at hand when you're being the wheel, which means no work or personal stress at all for the time you're on the track.

Soccer is one of the few things I do that allows me to interact with people in a completely different professional field.

And working out gives me a sense of accomplishment completely divorced from my career, which I can carry with me all day in the way I feel physically.

All of these help provide context to my life (and reality), which I think helps me deal with stress at work. Another outlet my dad once suggested was reading fiction as a way to remind yourself there's more to the world than your world and to keep things in context.

Some ask how you have time for these activities with work. I ask how you can work without these activities.

Edit: Formatting and expansion.
Any idea why it performs so bad on ice40?

Given that ice40 is the only (unofficially) open source FPGA, I had high hopes for the architecture...
This is absolutely fascinating - and stunning that it only took ~90 seconds to be infected. Turns out the source code is... open source:

https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/6a5941be6...
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Yes, it supports tooltips. https://kirillstepkin.github.io/chartify/
This is a side effect (there definitely was a better word for this) of the crime, not the punishment.
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I love how people are like "go for a walk" or "work out" or "sleep more" or "it's all in your head" (maybe you should tell someone who has pancreatic cancer "Oh it's all in your belly"). It seems to me like most people don't understand the incredible destructiveness and pain of an actual burnout. How trapped you are and how you do not see any way out anymore. I nearly got there and I have seen people who have been crippled for life by it.
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> - all of which counter the methods of science.

Of the 21st Century Scientific Method? Are you also going to look down at the Greek Philosophers? Their method was also wrong. You are judging history with a 21st Century mindset and that isn't fair to Newton or Copernicus (Who's myth is also bigger then Galileo). Heck medicine was still doing blood letting during the founding of United States.

> it's not much of a stretch to say that the church has a history of fighting the essential components of the scientific method.

That is such a wrong statement and has been debunked by the fact that science was propelled through and by the church. The VERY fact that this article list all the scientific / Astronomical features in Catholic Churches

Sorry I was in the process of getting a PhD in Historical Theology and not a Pro Catholic shill.

*

Francis Bacon was really the founder of the modern Scientific Method, correct? Did you read his other book?

Like his translation of 7 Psalms from the Bible or his many essays and books regarding Theology? Science and Theology didn't clash like people would like to say and I actually say the reverse we are ahead of the technology curve because of the Church, Mosques and Synagogues. This war we see from extremism is actually a very modern creation.
Clickclickclick.click–Revealing browser events that monitor our online behaviour
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I wouldn't consider it bare minimum. Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.
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spot 1 on the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985644
So, does it mean that when I get a message from "Kate from Berlin" it is not longer "an accommodation" but "an adventure"?
> Microsoft has been open-sourcing a lot lately, but it seems to be mostly "peripheral" software...

How is .NET Core peripheral software? If anything it enables developers with C# codebases to move away from Microsoft's commercial products.
Which begs the question: if you had been married at the time, would you have left your then-spouse for your current wife as a result of being so close at work?

Hypothetical, naturally. For many people who are in the wife's role of that question, that situation is all too real.
I guess this might be related to the VW testing fuck up which was blamed on the software.
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Yep. It took a picture, insulted me then turned off the camera :D
Yes. My actual wife works in the same office as me, and we both have work spouses. It's actually common in my experience.
Yes they are. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls-...
I'm only using "find my iphone" myself. The rest is of dubious use to me.
I'm not sure if these are actually layoffs. In the German news it sounded more like nobody is getting fired - so perhaps they are simply not replacing workers who retire?
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Zephyr OS from Linux foundation:
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They are, and the interconnects are 4 bit. These were used by first year undergraduates for years before the Big Hex Machine was built, so sturdy Ethernet cables were cheaper and more reliable than many other options.
Oh yeah, I was already discounting the far-tinfoil type like special ops breaking into the embassy. Those ones are all but impossible.

I was thinking something more like polonium type ideas. Surely in this case the Embassy would've made a comment.
>Does anyone have any practical advice on people understand the importance of structure code, and to limit the _personal factor_?

I'd take a step back. When people "don' t understand the importance of ...." the issue is almost always a breakdown of bi-directional communication. I like to start by assuming the person offering resistance has a valid point. Start by telling them they are right. If their approach is causing a problem then describe the problem in objective terms. Present your analysis to the resistance leader and ask for their help in solving it. When you do this the person offering resistance can often become your biggest advocate.

Recently I have become a convert of the retrospective with a focus on incremental improvements. Start with the process you have and commit to making it better with 1-3 concrete action items per cycle. It can be surprising where you land.
But the article isn't about actual relationships. It's basically about having a "best friend" at work with no romance.
Personally, I am concerned around this new mantra to eliminate fake news. Who are the gatekeepers of said truthfulness. Now I am not arguing that fake news does not abound on the Internet but a call to arms for companies to eliminate "Fake" news sounds too close to censorship for my fancy.
...and examples?

(One of the best thing about D3.js (as an approach, not only - a library) is "examples (with working code) first". First both in terms for priority, and exposure.)
I don't understand how the bot net found his camera so instantly when he turned it on or installed it. Within moments/seconds, it was attempting to infiltrate a brand new device.
What editor were you using in xming?

According to MS, vscode doesn't work and perhaps all Electron apps wouldn't work: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138
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It's interesting to compare with DOS, where a do-nothing program is a single byte:

C3

A Hello World is roughly 20 bytes, the bulk of it being the string itself:

95 BA 07 01 CD 21 C3 48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 77 6F 72 6C 64 21 24

The ELF in the article, which is 130 by my count, could be reduced to 45 with some tricks:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

Also worth looking at is what the demoscene has done with binaries of 128 bytes or less:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=32b&type%5B%5D=...
Thanks, I guess I deserved the down votes for not reading this before.
HackerNews now considers all automotive companies the enemy of Tesla, and hence many people take pleasure in their problems. Perish the thought we root for the success of everyone.
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It's not uncommon for influential scientists in different fields to have similar names, but when I was a student I was astonished that there were several with the unusual (to me) name "Jay Forrester". Eventually I figured out that they were all the same person!
Internet ends when every country will start to force everyone else to do what they think is good. In digital world physical geo-location doesn’t matter unless you want to fool someone. You can store data in Russia but give access to it to CIA. You can store data in USA but make it impossible to access by CIA.
I have a feeling about half of the "Global warming isn't real/isn't bad/can't be sure/too late" posts here are by paid astroturfers.
There aren't so many IPv4 addresses and connections are fast enough even for residential users. If considering a botnet, even faster.

There is even services that scan the whole ipv4 in less than 5 minutes: https://zmap.io/

And a list of how to do it: http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2015/10/15/how-to-scan-whol...
REQUEST HN: Collaborators in advancing technology-aided magick
http://shrine.nuchwezi.com https://scry.nuchwezi.com https://cbd.nuchwezi.com http://crypto.nuchwezi.com http://ghost.nuchwezi.com http://tiny.cc/ai-diviner

What's common with all the above? They are real-world, active experiments in attempting to bring pragmatic, real-world magick into the cyber realm - extending the practical work using the technologies readily available to all - especially the web.

These are mostly the works of NES (NuChwezi Esoteric School). We are very active and passionate in this area, but need collaborators worldwide - the reason we started to put some of our work on the public web, and also attempts to establish a community.

We are mostly Chaottes, and so have interest in creative magicians with technical knowledge such as this other project:

Hyper Ritual: http://hyperritual.com/

If you think you have a practical idea for how technology might be used to aid the practicing magician (at any level), either propose the idea, share your work or get in touch, so we can work together to push the bounds of what's possible with tech and magick.

The time is more than ripe to build the esoteric tools that will empower the mages of the future and beyond (yes, we are definitely starting to reap the benefits already... but there's much work still to do.)

If you are interested, visit the community section at the Black Shrine, or reach out via: esoteric [at] nuchwezi [dot] com

May The Force guide us all.. Mena.
I've had similar, but not with skydiving. I've only done one dive, and it was pleasant, lovely view, but did absolutely nothing for me in terms of adrenaline, at all. What did work for me was commuting by cycle in London, flat out race with everything for 10km. Legs burning, drop the temperature, maybe some snow in the eyes, bring on the elements. Great stuff. Winter is great for that, cold at first, but ride hard, warm up, and get to work without needing a shower.
what about a programming language optimised for this purpose?
What choice do we have? All other operating systems send your information either to NSA or China. State surveillance reigns supreme.
It's logical cores vs physical cores.
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Commercial EDA tools almost all use Tcl. (Cadence's Skill is a notable exception.)
> Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

More accurately, most of the web is broken, whether or not NoScript is installed — it's just that you can see that it's broken when NoScript is installed.
OK, but did this pre-2.0 Klar have the problematic telemetry/data collection without an option to turn it off?
"Typing cmd in the run dialog will launch PowerShell as well"

What? I'm a big PowerShell fan, but I see the need to keep cmd around for a while. Clobbering it before it's phased out seems problematic.
Ask HN: Rules of thumb to test feasibility of Machine learning applications?
With the recent developments in the field of Machine learning there are plenty of problems that can now be solved that were not possible a couple of years ago. As someone with only a basic understanding of the field I find it hard to judge the feasibility of product ideas involving machine learning.

Given that unique and relevant data sets are often hard to come by (for obvious reasons) I'm wondering if there are any good rules of thumb to judge feasibility of different ideas.

Let me give you a concrete example; build a system that looks at medical records and approximate the risk for a certain illness. It is possible to fairly easy get overall data on the how common the illness is, which symptoms that are relevant and even if those symptoms are commonly recorded in medical records. But the granular data in the actual medical records are fairly hard to come by and would require a significant effort to collect. In this situation it would preferable to do some approximations on e.g. how many medical records are needed to get certain precision before pursuing the idea and start collecting data.

A less defined example would be; build an application that identifies if a picture contain a golden retriver dog with a red scarf around the neck. Also here relevant to have rough numbers on the number of data points needed etc (even if the actual data in this case is probably much easier to come by).

In the first case I could probably get ok approximations using statistics assuming normal distributions, but less straight forward in the second example.
Good. Regardless of the details in this particular disclosure, the sooner these huge online companies are properly accountable for the money they take and the results they provide, the better it will be for everyone using them.

But remember kids, there are only two metrics that truly matter here: how much did you spend on Facebook ads, and how much revenue did you bring in as a result? Everything else, all the other metrics, all the different forms of advertising and different relationships Facebook invents in their world, these things are merely tools to optimise the ratio of the two metrics that count and they have value only to the extent that they do so.
That part of the web hates the user so win win.
When you spend more time with a work colleague than your actual spouse it is only natural that it becomes a real thing.

I guess there are many complications, particularly when all parties involved have a different view of what this relationship means to each of them?
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There is a difference though. I can selectively turn things on / off.

If I have to turn on >5 websites to see the content it suddenly has less value and I shrug and close
> prices were hovering around 2 Ferrari 458

What does this part mean?
https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Zebras-Dont-Ulcers-Stress-Related/...
LinkedIn denied to play by rules of idiots. Shame on Google etc who supports and promotes censorship by accepting the rules of censorship. Internet ends when every country will start to force everyone else to do what they think is good.
It used to be called 'having friends.' Everything has to have a stupid new name for it now.
Horrible dread? Can't say I do. If I get a relevant ad from a keyword in my email, that seems like a pretty minor event in my life.
One of their developers said they're using C code generators in Haskell in this OS:

https://youtu.be/f6TmB6Zw8MQ?t=1860
`echo` is a shell builtin on my machine. In that case, we certainly have access to an interpreter (the shell), which means we should have access to other interpreters. Why not define `true` as

#!/bin/sh
exit 0

? Similarly, why not use `sh` or one of those other interpreters to write the rest of the utilities? `cc` probably isn't that important after all. `chmod` and `sh` are!
But hurricanes are big and affect a large area (you might be thinking of Tornadoes)

Not easy, but maybe doable
Highly recommend Robert Sapolsky's work on this.
You can find his lectures on youtube, very educational and entertaining on Human Behavioural Biology. And more to the point his book, https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Zebras-Dont-Ulcers-Stress-Related/...
What rubbish. Capitalism requires one (or a government) to enforce property rights. The more one can declare as valid property (e.g IP) the better it is for the holder of that property. These motivations for more property do not simply evaporate when the government stops granting monopolies over works.

I'm as against copyright as anyone, but to say the push for it does not arise out of the conditions created by capitalism is false. Besides, in "free market" capitalism, there is still exploitation of the workers and disregard for the environment so long as that disregard does not hamper profits. The fact that there would be no copyright is hardly motivating in these circumstances.
Ray Kurzweil also talks about routinely using sleep and dreams to gain new perspective to difficult problems:

http://www.afb.org/info/living-with-vision-loss/using-techno...
And people worry we won't have enough jobs when the robots take over.
Since businesses make money and money leads to political power, business will inevitably use their power to influence governments - it's capitalism working as intended.
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Ought to mention that Trump has, post-election, explicitly called for getting NASA out of the "logistics" business. Let's see if he can kill the Senate Launch System and move NASA from being so much of a public works program to doing what it's ostensibly supposed to do.
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I'm not understanding why the submitted title has "can ask questions" in it.

The only obvious user action I see is "+Add story" at the top of the page and also in the hamburger menu. This makes the site more like a HN/reddit news aggregation site rather than a Stackoverflow q&a.

(The about page at https://frontendfront.com/about does mention "ask questions" so maybe the brothers intend that to be possible in the future?)
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