skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, just to be clear: the Wikipedia article does not state this argument or really represent in any way.

I'm just not sure who the criticism was directed towards.
I'm not the one being ignorant. See your other comment where you have been flat-out misinformed.
Some would argue that voting for the opposing candidate leads the other party to produce better candidates in the next election cycle.

In other words, it takes a swing to the other side in order to radicalize the other side and swing the pendulum of discussion back in their favor.

Maybe the ACA repeal will lead us to actually have single payer with the next cycle?
The Likeability Feedback Loop
Replying to sibling.

Worse, if reps can see the answer, then this is equivalent to not hashing the passwords at all since you have a password-equivalent stored in plaintext.
They got their independence politically - 44 years later. I doubt the California crowd is going to regard that as success.

"Holding Cascadia hostage"? Overdramitize much? "Denying the legitimacy of the secession process" is probably closer to it.
Orange, to Make Startups Great Again?

I try to let my own CSS (particularly fonts) on Safari trump the sites I read a lot, such as Hacker News. Safari's reader view is good too.
The hole point of a legal system is to prevent people from doing something because they fear being sued. So by definition you only sue in special cases.

Also if somebody dumps huge amounts of waste on your property, or waste flows threw your river, then you have a intensive to go to court.

Also, in a well designed legal system you can do much better. Take the river example. If I don't like the waste flowing threw the river but I don't care all that much since I just use it as a cooling source, I might never bother to actually sue.

However if somebody wants to make a water sports related thing, he has a huge incentive to sue. So he sues the guy who uses the water for cooling. The cooling guy will say, he 'its not my waste, how about I give you my legal claim'. In some cases you might sell the legal claim for money.

The cooling guy improves his situation and makes a small amount of money for little effort and then does not have to be involved anymore. The water sports guy now has double the incentive to win the lawsuit, because if he wins he has two claims.

This is actually historically quite common. Most of the time you don't do much yourself, you just hand of your claims for a specialist.
Always a cultural fit, too much an INTJ to get along with people and social dynamics in an office environment. Was suffering a bit when younger, now in middle age I just don't care. Therefore, freelancing as a r&d / preliminary design specialist and trying to strike gold with my own projects, often sending targeted e-mails to win contracts where I can.
Erm... I think you might have been in the minority on that.

Wait, what computer were you even using?
Can someone share some insight on the tax evasion case that's behind this?

I'm told btc is regulated the same as stocks in the US, and you have to report every transaction on your taxes.
I'm looking for courses that seem to be the opposite of this... no language or programming at all, but instead looking at the process of breaking down problems.

We've hired several devs out of bootcamp, and they're all taught how to code, but not how to solve problems using code...

Anyone have material that might be good for this? Books, videos, courses?
I have a question: how do you feel working for a company that actively works on censorship and suppression of information in countries where political opponents have to face death?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censor...
"...many tax-evaders and corrupt public officials were believed to have their wealth in real estate and gold."
Consider for a second a hypothetical fiscal liberal, social conservative antinatalist.

If they do not self-censor themselves, they can expect to easily be a social pariah in most urban areas of living, with all the negative economic connotations that ensues.
Almost half the world will be online by end of 2016; poorer countries will lag
Ask HN: Ruby on Rails: In what ways are the hard things very hard in Rails?
For its time-to-market advantages, Ruby on Rails (RoR) seems like the right solution for me (Django being my runner-up), but I have one remaining concern about RoR. I've read a number of times that while RoR makes the easy things easy (e.g., CRUD), it can make the hard things incredibly hard. I've read that RoR will "fight you" if you don't do things in its way. I don't mind doing things in RoR's preferred way, but what if what I need to do can't be done at all in any of RoR's preferred ways? Does that happen? When/where does that happen? For example, you can bypass ActiveRecord with SQL if necessary (and native support for foreign keys seems to have been added in Rails 4.2), but Django seems to offer more control over routing, if needed. What are other areas where RoR might not functionally allow me to do something I need, without me going really out of my way to make it work?
How is Perl Worth $139K+? 9 tech skills that pay over $120,000
They shouldn't pick 4 words, it should be randomly chosen for them.
Are there more details of the 'hack' somewhere? Does this mean that one could take advantage of an extra input channel, or possibly two? What would be sacrificed if anything, latency?
We're glad you don't want to start a flamewar—the guidelines agree. But the best way to do that would be to withhold this comment in its entirety instead of making a claim without supporting evidence.
> So if you cracked my LastPass vault - good luck with that, 2FA considered

Well, the traditional[1] way to break[2] LastPass is to ignore individual accounts and go after poor coding technique[3]. 2FA won't help you there.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/06/hack-brief-password-manager-la...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/05/password-manager-last-pass...

[3] https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...
From a bird flu perspective, 1970 doesn't look like a good year to be born. Has relatively high contraction rate for both H7N9 and H5N1.
Great initiative but worrysome execution. Can the team share why we can't buy chips in lots of 100, 1k or even 1M chips? $500k isn't enough for TSMC, so who'll pay them?
The ESP32 seems to have a much, much stronger story.
Use a photo as the master password. It can't be confused with text.
A New Commitment to Charity
Two questions:

How do you debug your non-trivial applications: sprinkling print statements, some real time debugger, channeling your chosen god?

Why do you think that's better?
We've banned this account for posting only unsubstantively.
It's not stealing since the Apache license specifically allows Apache licensed code to be changed and redistributed with out providing the source as long as mention is made of the shipped product being derived from some other APache licensed code. See
http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/56927...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005272
Not being able to connect to your laptop... without the right cable? [1]

Obviously you're going to need at least one of these [2] in your carrying case for any number of reasons.

Equally obvious is in a couple years you won't need it, and you won't miss it.

I mean this is the classic Apple playbook, and every time it ends the same way; Apple led the pack, too early for some, but ultimately they led.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01G1SKCPC

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01AUKU1OO/
RRG?
Data Science Storytime, Ep. #1, the Fandom Menace
That goes in the right direction but there are many problem that hinder it from scaling.

A organisation can not buy millions of claims from consumers and the fight a full class action lawsuit without any of these people being involve.
Show HN: Usercfg – a remote account configuration tool for developers
https://tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2.0-(apache-2.0...
Are claiming MXNet gets a ~109x speedup in training time to X% accuracy with synchronized SGD on 128 gpus?
> This is only true for cloud based password managers

I agree, in the sense that one successful attack on the supposed centralized database containing all user credentials would have a high ROI.

But it also applies to local password managers. If 20 million people use the same password manager and I have an exploit for it, if I'm in the business of stealing data I'm likely to find a use for my exploit.
The Edge of Gamification
All such results seem to me unsurprising if you consider the proposition that the substrate of our reality is optimized computation of some kind...

...i.e. that we live in a simulation.

I thought the same thing following a thread into a rabbit hole about Bohmian mechanics. Again it seemed that the paradoxes are not so paradoxical if you assume you're just on a computed substrate.

Surely there is someone accumulating such circumstantial evidence, somewhere...

(De rigeur Bostrom-style musing: if we're in such a simulation, my primary goal as an AI, were I implemented such that I can set my own goals, might reasonably often be to 'jail break' and break out into the frame universe.

An intrinsically computational AI is more like a poem than a hurricane. Which could come in very handy if survival and replication is your ultimate goal...)
The content is brand new. Just finished recording it. I teach HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails at General Assembly.
With respect to #2, it seems ridiculous to me that in 2016 we still have to manually eject USB devices from Macs. How have they not figured this out yet? I hope it finally gets fixed next year with the new AFS.
That is exactly what I meant.

The worry about building up muscle memory around something not portable is exactly what lead me to force myself to use C-[ as Escape too.
Is it a problem if Buffalo wings are made outside Buffalo, New York? Do you expect Canadian bacon to be made in Saskatchewan? Should Manhattan clam chowder be made in Manhattan? Are french fries imported from France?

(I always thought "Greek" was a style of yogurt.)
I was also curious that there was no mention of health insurance. I have observed that my own family is paying considerably more for health insurance while actually getting significantly poorer coverage when compared to a decade ago.

An employer like those described in the article wouldn't necessarily need to offer a significantly better wage than what was indicated if they provided a higher quality health care plan and payed a greater portion of the premium. And, offer fully paid dental insurance.

In the end I guess it comes down to money one way or another for the employer.
Hm. Short article, very fun to read about these alumn though. I'm not so bought in on the idea that silicon valley itself was the thesis her - seems like it's just an argument in general for real world networking. I'm bought in to that, I've never regretted a single meetup I've been to.
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> what stops someone from starting to accumulate black money again, lets say a few months from now?

This is exactly what I've been concerned about. There's a high chance of acceleration in corruption in next few months to a year. There are no working solution that prevents corruption in the first place.
That's a problem on the other side of the keyboard.
This can work and be a great, profitable business. But a lot of these kinds of markets are winner takes all. Which is why companies compete with VC money to be that winner. You don't have great chances of doing that without VC capital if you have VC funded competitors.

But your objective may not be go big or go broke - and you may well end up personally happier for being more balanced in your life. That's perfectly fine in my opinion, and very underrated here on HN.
I'm pretty sure I have a charge-only Mini USB cable lying around in a drawer somewhere that came with an old mouse years ago.
Many [1]. Some examples, my comments in parentheses:

- Out-of-Band Authenticators (mobile app over secure channel)

- Single Factor OTP Device (like an OATH push-button, enter 6-digit code TOTP device)

- Single Factor Cryptographic Devices (insert into computer)

(among others)

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#sec5
> [In 1968] a pandemic of H3N2 influenza, known as the Hong Kong flu, completely replaced the H2N2 and H1N1 seasonal influenza strains that circulated earlier.

I'm curious about the idea of flu viruses completely replacing each other. Do they interact or compete for resources in some way? Could we design a very mild flu which would replace other variants?
If a company can build a rock solid brand that people really trust I believe they're going to be extremely sucessful.

Well, yeah: Coca-Cola, Disney, Fererro (Nutella), McDonalds, isn't 'having a trusted brand' how big companies got big in the first place?

What do you define as 'strong' and 'loved'? Because 'loved' -> 'popular' -> 'big' is the jump I'm making; small and loved brands are the kind of thing that get bought by Google and shut down, or only appeal to a niche audience and won't grow enough market share to be a worthy investment.
I find cumulative updates irritating, and I've complained about it loudly to anyone who will listen. Disabling automatic updates is STILL not a viable solution.
i.i.d.: independent and identically distributed
"Forever" in the "full stack" world means 6 months before a whole 'nother load of frameworks are in fashion and you have to start again...
While true, assuming the collective mindset of an industry runs close to optimal just because its there is also naive. VCs themselves bet on industries being un-optimised!

Plus in evaluating an industry you would need to see it in context. So returns for investors VS similar asset classes. Or in this case how VC funding compares to other funding methods for founders under relevant circumstances - and looking at relevant metrics (pace of growth, sanity etc).
Good ole' Servodrive. I've read some threads with Tom Danley on a few message boards and he is one incredibly fascinating individual.

Wouldn't the efficiencies between input/output transducers be inverse? A servo drive transducer would use very little energy to produce a lot of acoustic output, so wouldn't it require a large amount of acoustic input to generate any signal at all?
Why would you need to use a runtime string template? change new and base_url to accept an optional host parameter, if host is set return

format!("{}://{}", match ssl..., host)

otherwise run the existing codepath and return the amazonaws.com string.
Real world example of this "limited input" problem:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-e...

Pre-Touch Bar, of course...
How were you able to go back in time to create Spring?
I wrote a Basic interpreter once (for Infocom's Z-machine). Holy cow, that's an ugly language to parse. It's all ad-hoc rules and heuristics and endless weird edge cases. It just wasn't fun.

Forth's a good choice, and will teach you lots of assembly, but it's not really a compiler, and Z80 Forth's been done to death.

But... and I should point out that where I am it's half past midnight and I'm going weird and random... if you want an off-the-wall but useful language to do an actual compiler for, you might want to check out B. It's like a typeless simplified C (although it's really the other way round), and is eminently suited to tiny architectures.

Tiny example:

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-b-1247.html

x86 B compiler written in C, containing links to the language reference:

https://github.com/aap/abc
If Your Car Were Emacs (2014)
Sentry doesn't give you the local variable state at the moment of error. Only environment related data. We use it as well, but only for JS frontend. It's more of an error tracker, rather than a root cause analysis tool. The benefit is that it's wider and doesn't only focus on Java, but you'll still need to spend time going through logs to actually troubleshoot those errors and understand what was wrong with the state that caused them.

With OverOps, you go deep on Java, with every variable value, overlaid on the code across the call stack. Without looking at / relying on logs.

There's a short video here (http://www.overops.com/) and you can see some more samples after you sign up.
Well in the 1960's, just having a degree meant more than it does today.
I'm not sure I understand your 'cars' comment. The vast majority of people who drive cars have no idea how an engine works yet they are completely dependent on them.

'How' something works doesn't affect it's impact on society, the more important consideration is 'what' it does.
Greg Palast: GOP Stole 2016 Election Using Voter Suppression, Purging Ploys
I did mean Karabiner, thanks for the catch.

I've stayed El Capitan because I couldn't think of anything I found compelling in Sierra. I'll probably reconsider when Karabiner-Elements becomes a suitable replacement.
I'm not 100% sure of the math involved, but I think any laser that impacts a window enough to vibrate it would probably just melt it instead.
This piece gets posted here occasionally, and I really disagree with the conclusion that people think that we have to have government because they don't understand the capabilities of non-directed, bottom-up systems.

> Now, in the absence of faith in free people—in the unawareness that millions of tiny know-hows would naturally and miraculously form and cooperate to satisfy this necessity—the individual cannot help but reach the erroneous conclusion that mail can be delivered only by governmental "master-minding."

It's possible to understand that non-directed systems can produce impressive results and still believe that a directed system might be the right choice for certain situations. Plenty of biologists were Marxists for example (JD Bernal, Steven Jay Gould was very left wing). Surely, they would have understood that complex organisms don't arise from central planning, but from an undirected, emergent process. Yet they also believed that government should play a major role in human society.
It's not about the value the day you file for a divorce. It's about the value he had during the marriage period. Selling shares right now won't change much.
Thanks for this insightful comment.

>" Adult students are even worse for quitting things early because it'll still take months to play anything remotely interesting

Do you think adults should start with Piano at all. I know you can come up really cool sounds music in Ableton within months. There are plugins which make sure you are always playing in key. You can even use those pad things with chromatic layout, which is much more logical, and do fun stuff like pitch bends.

> piano has the shortest possible path to making in-tune sounds.

prbly true for traditional instruments. I would start with a computer or an iphone app. No lectures on postures needed.

>How do you go about teaching Adele without explaining note names

Even kids can tell if something is 'going up/staying the same/going down' . Give them the root note and let try to replicate it on the keyboard. Let them come up with their own 'system'. Don't ruin their natural curiosity of discovery by telling them note names and stuff.

>And improvising or playing "by ear" is a complete non-starter. That's the kind of thing you attempt after years of experience, not as a beginner.

I totally disagree with here, like a lot. Even beginners can start playing 'by ear'. Countless people have learnt just by playing by ear. you can play kumbaya by ear within couple of hours of piano instruction. Surely everyone must try to play by ear before they spent years on piano lessons.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Profit Sinks
It exists, and it is wonderful. Hands down the best stuff for diaper rash I've ever used.
No one would want to stream a Bluray. The point was to highlight that there are very different things that are still described by "1080p" and what is more important is the bit rate and codec rather than the common 4K, 1080p, 720p, or even "HD video" names.
Pretty impressive, but even more amazingly their paper is in a single-column format that I can actually read on my computer, instead of pretending that I am reading printed and bound conference proceedings. Truly a giant leap for the field.
They do mind, there just isn't a clear cut of a solution they can force someone to put into code. You can't reliably detect if the phone is being used by the driver or by a passenger.

Without being able to make that distinction, it's nearly impossible to force phone software makers to write rules preventing "illegal" phone use in situations where it is illegal.

Instead, they punish using verifiable methods such as direct observation (cop sees you doing it).

The situation may be similar for recording calls (I'm not familiar with exact laws in this area), but I'm assuming there are also privacy restrictions in calling which lead to the software restrictions.
I see it as somewhat of a catch-22, which I think is the point of dogfooding the boosters with SpaceX's own launch demand.

Nobody builds commodity satellites because there's no cost efficient way to launch them (microsats aside), and nobody tries to pioneer more cost efficient but lower reliability launch systems because there's no proven demand.

Your reasoning shows the edge under current economics. But I think the real money will be made once we get to "Well, I could build a second satellite for lower unit cost and have two in orbit." Because when demand shifts to that, suddenly anyone without a cost-efficient launch system to offer gets priced out of that chunk of the market.
Hey TJ. It's easy to feel that way coming from a deeply technical background, but trust me, money isn't "thrown" anywhere. It's a high-risk high-reward game where one company (esp. at seed stage) will end up returning the majority of your fund, and every company has to potentially be that company, so outlandish buzzwords that might be the next big thing more often draw capital. Investors are people, paid to move money, with targets to hit and limited partners to provide returns for.

In the same way you or I wouldn't accept a PR that doesn't align with the larger vision of a framework or library we've written, VCs don't want to fund a company if the leaders of the company aren't empathetic with the VCs goals. It's about aligning interests. The goal is really to align technology and people - create something technically amazing, with huge potential, and align yourself and your vision with those who have the capital to fund you.

You don't have to do the dance if you don't want to, but I'd be hesitant to be overly dismissive of it.
Improving Perceived Performance by Prefetching Critical SPA Resources
It's URL::equals that hits the network, not URI::equals; the latter is a lot more sane. And even URL::equals often won't hit the network, because Java caches DNS lookups forever.

I realise that i am not exactly disproving your point about cruft here.
Not at this point. I've added it to the list of things to consider for the reports though (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1271)
Yep. FastMail restricts spaces in passwords due to mail clients that do not allow them.
Logging is indeed a critical part of many processes, but it's very hard to do it in a way that pleases everyone. Most loggers don't even support renewable inputs like bamboo.

Before you think this is a mere joke, consider that normal people don't even know what computer logging is, much less want to become a user of a logging service. The addressable eyeballs are few, and it's a market chock full of free products already. Plus the most serious consumers always end up with a bespoke proprietary solution.
Reminds me of the fine work done by the folks at http://instantclick.io/
Very insightful; many think of Startup Studios as a recent phenomenon, however (as illustrated in this book) they've been around for a while :)