skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they are using mcmcs at the core. markov chain multi carlos. this might be useful if you are wondering what it is http://mlwhiz.com/blog/2015/08/19/MCMC_Algorithms_Beta_Distr...
> As it became more famous, it focused more and more on later-stage companies, and the investment sizes also grew.

Something I've wondered: was this focus change deliberate? Or is it just a result of becoming more famous, attracting many more applicants, and accepting more mature companies since their success to date looks better?
Seconded. I highly recommend the two parts interview of Bill Atkinson

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/244?autostart=f...

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/247?autostart=f...

The part about taking pictures of stones and his current venture at the end are less appealing to me but the discussion about the early days of Apple, and generally his view on technology is really interesting. There is a long part about AI.
Yes. We've been doing this w/ Digital Rebar. There are additional steps (like creating load balancer automation) that we are planning to add.

FWIW, HA is complicated in general, K8s HA is actually reasonable by comparison.

Other tasks, like upgrade and security are harder. We're working on docs in the SIG Cluster Ops and you're welcome to join in discuss with us there.
On "give users full control over their data." What about if a third party could use that user's account to gain access to their data? What are best practices around that?
I've been in the UK for a few years, and completely recognise that.
I also have found that most solicitors gthat i've contacted are geared towards handling applicants from large corporates, or fight battles for people looking to immigrate from low income countries (and do so in mass quantities).
i have yet to speak to someone who has any experience dealing with entrepeuner visas. Hence -- looking to find someone in a similar situation who has read all the same documents to sanity check my views.
As I understand it, July 2010 was literally the first commit for Swift in any form (https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/apples-new-programming-lan...), as a personal project for Chris Lattner. I think the complete history is on Github now.

Of course, age only tells you so much about the amount of work put into the project, and Rust in particular took a huge amount of conceptual work to get its current model of ownership.
Or if it, for example, does proof-carrying automatic updates that are verified before install.

Something as simple as publishing the hash of the update in a blockchain and then widely distributing the source to construct reproducible builds for that hash would go a long way. You don't even need to make it open source, you could just have a robust enough set of geographically distributed testing labs inspect this code and check the published hash code.
Also, the YC badge allows founders to raise a round at Demo Day at a MUCH higher valuation than even the 2nd best accelerator (and this has been shown to be true for almost every single company in each batch) -- the difference is staggering.
Out of curiosity, how does the search functionality work? For example, I can search for "document sharing" with no results returned. Similarly, I can search "security" and find GoodHire, which has "employee" in the description, yet if I search "employee" GoodHire does not pop up.
There's a difference. You wouldn't expect some random person off the street to understand this algorithm even when expressed in simplified pseudocode.

Similarly there's no reason to expect a random person off the street to understand the language of a modern philosophical book.

Each field of study (social sciences and computer sciences) has its own domain specific language and concepts that requires some work to get your head around.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197011
As a physicist please have faith in us. We don't all use Fortran. I use Ruby as much as possible and it's fun because it forces me to write libraries that mimic ones that are found in other languages. So I end up learning a lot.
There is a library called udatetime that claims to be very fast at parsing RFC3339
https://github.com/freach/udatetime
> Being overnight at homeless shelters suggests he was more likely exploiting women at these shelters rather than him being homeless and sleeping there

How does his staying overnight at a shelter suggest this at all? If anything suggests that, it's his other behavior (which seems quite like circumstantial evidence, to me).
How about an alternate idea of "basic employment"? The government guarantees a job to anyone who wants one, but they do have to show up to work. These can be jobs that are at a loss, and are explicitly "make work" jobs. For example, cleaning up parks, repairing roads, etc. This may solve some issues with basic income: it's not "free" money, which doesn't present as much of a problem to people's values. It won't feel like a handout, and people will more easily transition back to a real job if they want.
> Sandboxing, modularization, vulnerability surface reduction, and least privilege are already established as best practices for improving software security.

And yet Tor Browser Bundle still uses Firefox, which is going to get sandboxing Real Soon Now (8 years after Chrome released with it). Just two weeks ago, we heard about another FBI malware discovered in the wild exploiting a Firefox 0-day to deanonymize Tor users; who knows how long it was used before being discovered, or what other exploits may be lurking out there.

To be fair, I'm not sure whether the Chromium sandbox protects against 'mere' IP address disclosure, but still...
Along the line of relevant analyses, there was an insightful post by Brad DeLong recently: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/is-the-problem-one-of...

Apart from the clunky title, the bottom line is this: Most people don't want to be taken advantage of, but they also don't want to feel like they are taking advantage of others. This is a useful heuristic for living in small social groups. But most of the value that is being produced today is not really down to individual contributions, but results from our collective inheritance of technology and productive networks in society. This completely messes up the built-in heuristics of humans.

It's basically a different angle from which to view what you wrote and sama is stated as saying in the article.
There is Monero (XMR) and ZCash.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201926 (152 points, 1 day ago, 196 comments)
So? We can still ramp up enforcement. No, another "awareness" campaign doesn't work, banning people from driving does.
Because it was a dictatorship, and Communism, not Socialism. Socialism is as practiced in Scandinavia, UK, France, the rest of the EU really, NZ, Australia and so on and on. Socialism has become a dirty demonised word in the USA and that gets in the way of the equality of opportunity benefits a decent society provides.
Basic income will have to come with extremely limited immigration EDIT: or immigrants will be ineligible for the income.

That's something that a lot of people miss, that a universal basic income in a developed country (US, Western Europe) corresponds to a lifestyle of the lap of luxury in most other parts of the world.
Blockly is awesome and often overlooked. It realises the idea of a real time scripting language, and should really be the thing devs reach for over flowcharts when they decide to implement a visual programming environment.
SimilarTech profiler tells you all of the technologies web companies are using
I once went to a committee meeting held by an interfaith organization who wants universal Pre-K education. In CA, this will cost about $4500/student by the teacher's own estimates. I asked "Why don't we just pay parents with pre-K aged kids, say $3500/year. We will say the money is to enhance the educational environment of the child, but it will be up to the parent to spend it and the money will have few strings attached.

The schoolteachers in the room told me I was an idiot and to shut up.
The barriers slice motorcyclists though...
> Predicting the grade of an essay isn't fundamentally different than classifying an email as spam

https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif

It is fundamentally very different, as the former requires domain knowledge (i.e. to a larger extent) and the latter does not (i.e. to a lesser extent). It's just not that simple; even in doing the things you mention, the algorithm will be marginally better than a different algorithm.

The magic lies in the 1% that the algorithm misclassifies, not the 99% that it doesn't.

The ML community is centered around establishing high classification rates of static data sets. This will soon change, when people realize "99.9% accuracy on a fixed data set" is a meaningless metric for real artificial intelligence, not the monkey-see-monkey-do stuff that is currently considered "state-of-the-art".

There's about to be a big reckoning in this field, similarly to what happened in 1905.
Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees
Good question, I don't know. If anyone knows anything about this, I'd be very curious to hear.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.

Another problem I can see with option 1 is that I'd have to be quite careful talking about the potential product (so no blog posts under my name, no facebook posts etc.

I'd have to create some persona, which is not a big deal but it adds up some challenges.
Yeah, at least with Microsoft, you know it Plays For Sure(tm).
Uh, Arrow? I'm not a big fan of it, really, as I've seen it to break silently on some edge cases API is not totally awesome, but this one doesn't seem to be any better. Still not sure if I should use this or that or write one of my own.
Paying people to not contribute to GDP will result in decreased GDP. Lower GDP means less income to be distributed.

UBI is not the first time someone has proposed that a central authority should determine the income of the general population. It doesn't take much research into Russia to recognize this as 'serfdom'.
Hacksaw-react: Link react components and hacksaw contexts
The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years plus an optional 14 year extension.

The first Wolfenstein game was released in 1981.
Agreed, Julia syntax is very clean. Also, you can make it look more math-like with it's support for unicode variable and function names.
It's interesting to think about where to find this information.

Big ISPs have access to these "honest" signals on a large scale.
> Boycott everything turkish is the only thing we can do

That doesn't seem to work very well. It certainly didn't with with Israel, simply pushing the country more and more into a paranoid mindset of continuous siege which is effectively exploited only by hardliners like Netanyahu. Similarly, economic sanctions didn't work against the original Fascism either. Arguably they didn't work against Iran either, they barely gave "the west" a bargaining chip when the nuclear issue could not be ignored anymore. And they are not working against Russia about Ukraine.
You can add in some assumptions in the SoW / MSA / contract. Like, "Will only be responsible for work in XYZ Repo, not other Repos or 3rd Party Services." It's really whatever you want to put in there, I start with a pretty long standard list (based on the project type). "Won't customize administration tools or workflows of WordPress / Magento / ABC Platform," to, "Will utilize Foundation / AWS / blah blah blah."

You can always do work that is in a gray area, or clearly out of scope of the contract, if you want to be nice to the client. The contracts are for clients that you don't want to be nice to. They are levers you can pull to get the client back into a manageable space. If you don't give yourself a lot of levers, you're left with just "walk away" when the shit hits the fan... and typically that option doesn't include getting paid.

Even for "simple" projects now my Statements of Work are 25+ pages. Templatized as best I can, and all reviewed by a lawyer I trust. I don't sign contracts that clients send me, without stipulating that if that contract and the one I sent over are ever at odds, then the contract I sent over wins. You have to protect yourself, especially as a one-man-shop. You can't afford to get bogged down in shitty squabbles, so like with most things... "a stitch in time saves nine" here. Longer, more explicit and detailed contracts save you time.
The crazy thing about this is that instead they could have lost less than $2M (assuming that the charges are punitive) to just let people take a break. That's not even pocket change to apple. That's take-a-penny money to apple, and the workers would've been happier and able to eat
We've already asked you not to do exactly this. Please don't lob these unsubstantive political comments into threads.
> in 2016, roaming rates were still quite high in Europe

Actually, European roaming is incredibly reasonable, and set to get even better.

Since July 2014 roaming charges were set to EUR 0.05 per minute, and since April this year that was changed to a cap, with prices varying from the domestic rate to EUR 0.05 maximum. And the legislation [0] requires the telcos to make changes again next year in 2017, that will make roaming charges equivalent to domestic charges, i.e. abolishing them. Similar rules apply to data rates - between domestic rate and EUR 0.05 per MiB just now and no extra charge above domestic in 2017.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariff...
Not true. Chez Scheme has been released as free open source software: https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
How very Keynesian.
Universal income is so complex and transformational that we have to assume that before it can be implemented in scale in the US, the prerequisites such as a welfare state with single payer healthcare will seem as a minor obstacle along the road. I guess what I'm saying is that "those forces" will have to change first, and that's the small problem. UBI is already a realistic possibility in some places but I think it's a few decades out (at least) in the US.

The places that can make realistic attempts to implement it now are those with large cradle-to-grave welfare systems and and an economic outlook that requires stimulus, which is why Finland is such an interesting example.
And, yet, this is the same CIA who we're listening to when they claim Russia hacked the election.
No matter what you're replying to, posting like this is not OK on Hacker News.
What I find makes teaching programming in JS challenging is that, by its very nature, there is a lack of a single canonical resource that you can go through to build out your understanding from start to finish.

This isn't to say that such resources don't exist, but the fact that Javascript is the language of the web will simply make it impossibly difficult to follow a nice coherent pattern and you/the child will instead inevitably slowly drift to other things, and the risk is moving onto other concepts before the necessary scaffolding is in place and before they have a firm grasp of basic programming principles. Since the "web" is right there, it will be hard to fight the urge to start to do "engineering" while the focus should be on basic cs and programming concepts.

My advice (former school administrator) therefore is to teach programming to a kid using a canonical resource that they can use as a bible, but one also that will give them the freedom to build interesting things that they can share with others. I think Matthias Felleisen's HTDP is a fantastic book. You simply can't beat it when it comes to talking about patterns, design recipes, and overall how to test and think about an algorithm. And while the syntax may be challenging at first, functional programming and LISP in general actually offers less of a mental leap for kids who are used to algebraic expressions and function composition.

If this is a gifted 10-yr old, HTDP with some adult guidance will offer you the best bang for your buck long term. Some of the projects at the end even involve networked games, so there will be plenty there to motivate a hungry youngster.
Astronomers spot 'planet-eating' star similar to our sun
From the transcription:

>I’m not claiming to be a hacker or to speak on behalf of hackers.
So maybe the metric should be traction rather than acceleration. To me, personal opinion, if anyone is talking about acceleration at seed stage then my bullshit detector is firing. If someone is measuring acceleration at seed stage, I'm out.

Yes, I'm an engineer. How could you tell?
That kind of trick was very common back in the day.

The Amiga used a very similar setup between the chipset and the CPU.

And cartridge based consoles have often included coprocessors on the carts (but nothing as potent as this ARM). At the tail end of the SNES years there was even a simple "GPU" in some of its carts.
Prior submission with good comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785164
This appears to be the case. From one of the comments:

Chuck Juhl
Contract Consultant/Analyst at C.W. Juhl Consulting

I warned folks two years ago that Scanadu was a scamadu.
It's unlikely that the reason for the FDA action is
because Scanadu could not devise a secure method to
transmit data to a cell phone. Other consumer medical
devices with similar features have FDA approva already,
including the CheckMe device. It's more likely that
Scamadu was scamming the FDA as well with its faux
"usability" study. According to an FOIA request, the FDA
has no record of Scanadu submitting a 510k application
for the Scout or any other device.

And as an aside, Scanadu did not make the final cut for
the X-Prize either.
9.5, however we did experiment with 9.6 when it was in beta, due to the parallel sequential scan feature, but it didn't seem to help much.
Would you share food with strangers?
Yonderfeast is a social network in which users can share food with people nearby; an internet-enabled potluck platform.

How it works:
angel.co/yonderfeast
If you write about fashion in programming, then sure, you have a lot of
competition around. But if you write on a (a) technical, (b) advanced, and (c)
rarely touched but important topic, then there is some space. And there still
are such topics if you allow yourself to see anything beside web applications,
running stuff in Docker, and Arduino.

The drawback is, of course, required knowledge and experience.
In Britain, that's all done privately.

I think the only exception is the maintenance of London Underground trains, and possibly cleaning. eVen the other publicly owned railways in London contract out cleaning and maintenance.
I was describing a class of responses of which the actual quote is only one. This seems evident by the grammar I chose, but maybe not?
The Portable Realm Project: Porting Magic Realm to iOS and Android (2014)
The biggest turn off for me is that most UBI advocates seem to have the opinion that people freed from jobs will turn into philosophers or artists or otherwise make productive use of their time. I argue you don't really have to look very far to find the answer to that question: check out what an underemployed ~25yo from a small rust-belt town is up to. Chances are not a whole lot.

That's why I'm really in favor of a scheme like this. Ensure that people supported by the community at least give something back. Go a step further and increase funding for the arts so we can create jobs there too.
> Paul's basic premise is that it's not the class quality that matters, it's the unicorns that matter... You want the one or two superstars, even if they're in a crap class....

I used to wonder at this thinking and so apparently have many other observers until I hit upon the realization that the narrative from YC was misleading.
It doesn't make sense to rest your entire strategy on seeking one or two superstars from a crap class. What is really going on, is that they organize the most promising applicants into a class then nurture and wait for unicorns to emerge. The midlings make returns too
How would you suggest a partnership agreement could look like. At the moment I am a contractor, but they are in the process of offering me 2% of the company (still not signed or anything).

Your case is very interesing to me, what would you have done differently looking back?
R (the language, originally S) was created to be a "glue language" for compiled code, most of which was written in FORTRAN.
> What are any of our membership credentials aside from being people who program?

Haha, nice provocation. I'll try though: some people will say it's pwning boxes, others will say it's writing open source software (others still - free software ;)). Many will agree it's about finding novel and unintended uses of technology, for good or for bad. TFA itself mentions distrust of authority, meritocracy, seeking beauty in technology being quoted as part of the Hacker Ethic™.

And I think most people who call themselves hackers would agree it's not about having a boring job as a Java developer churning out repetitive proprietary code for some bank 20 months past deadline, so your definition is probably out ;)

Also, "hardware hacking" seems to be a thing and it need not involve programming. Some will accept social engineering too - maybe the closest to what the author seems to be doing ;)
C has native support for complex arithmetic since C99. What kind of support do you think is missing?

http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/complex
That Doom music. :D
It's not just the financial costs...
How would that be different than what we have now?

I think there are things that would be incremental improvements (like having more members in the House of Representatives) and maybe better districts, but most elections have the candidates crafting a message based at least partly on what they hear from people and pretty high desire to get reelected (so they have to at least appear to follow through on their message).

There's a lot of things I see people proposing that end up boiling down to wishing that others would 'vote better'. That's a tough problem to solve.
Wouldn't you measure traffic fatalities by deaths per miles driven? Doing it by population completely ignores factors like the percent of people who actually drive and how much they drive each year.

If you use deaths per inhabitabt it wouldn't surprise me that NYC has a very low rate as well (hint: many people don't own cars in NYC).
If large multinational companies like this are violating employment law I can't even imagine what smaller companies are doing.
I completely disagree. I think it looks horrible and cluttered and wouldn't like to look at a complex version of this over flowcharts.
We've known for years that HTTP (clear-text) traffic can be middled out of exit nodes. What FalseCONNECT showed was that HTTPS (encrypted) traffic via web proxies could be middled. We should all be very, very, very troubled by that.

In terms of the EFF article, it's just one of many which recommend the use of proxies and was just an example providing that this has been guidance that's been provided for quite awhile. There are even commercial web proxy providers like TorGuard which market web (HTTP) proxies:

https://torguard.net/anonymousbittorrentproxy.php
Fascinating stuff:

> A face recognition test on the photograph, taken on 3 July, 1946 in a camp for displaced persons (DPs) in Bamberg, southern Germany, returned a 95% likelihood – considered the highest possible match.

So, I wonder if Facebook could check to see if there are any close matches among user photos...
Let me ask from anybody who works in google ?

How do you feel to work in company that spy people, broke people's privacy, hide search results, delete peoples accounts, censors opinions and youtube channels ?

Haha, google ?
- no thanks
Thats still heavily subsidized. If you commute twice per day it's under €2 per way which is relatively cheap in a city where a beer is €8 and your lunch is €10.