skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you BryantD, that is a relevant and useful contribution.

Per wikileaks:

> "Starting on Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks released over 2 publications 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series. The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC: Communications Director Luis Miranda (10520 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3799 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer (3095 emails), Finanace Director of Data & Strategic Initiatives Daniel Parrish (1742 emails), Finance Director Allen Zachary (1611 emails), Senior Advisor Andrew Wright (938 emails) and Northern California Finance Director Robert (Erik) Stowe (751 emails)."

Per Craig Murray:

"Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4034038/Ex-British-a...

Perhaps Craig Murray meant September 2015, or perhaps the Daily Mail wrote the wrong thing down. If neither of these is true, there's a serious discrepancy in these claims. Lacking such an explanation, the reasonable conclusion here given the date discrepancy would be that either Ambassador Murray or the Daily Mail is lying about the dates.
> Salary can't and shouldn't be compared accross the globe.

It depends. If you want to attract global talent, comparable salary is very important. An American who works in Europe for two years doesn't gain any of the benefits of the social system.
your counterpoint is that you don't care?
How about the fact that the vast bulk of machine-level software is written in C and therefore, by definition, unsafe? That scary enough for ya?
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It is, especially if these checks are done at compile time, not at runtime.
I don't think this is isolated to VR. The effects of playing conventional video games can lead to a similar syndrome (I never drive after playing driving games for this reason). There's even a psychological experiment where you can quickly convince someone's brain that a prosthetic is actually their arm. I assume that this effect is general to any situation where a person projects their identity into a nonperson.
The actual evidence is probably closer to 'we have moles in the kremlin and taps on their phones' but they're not exactly going to publish that are they.
Not sure what you are replying to, but I think at least parent is saying because people aren't as good as they should be, you put processes in place. I don't think anyone is saying what you stated. Most companies might believe they are hiring the best, but their coworkers are the ones that know otherwise and do things like use design documents to give some structure where needed.

In other words, you take measures to catch errors, mitigate failures, and protect yourself rather than say "go code and push to production everyone, we can just roll back!" That might work as stated in some domains, but not others.
I still have my original copy from 19 years ago, when I was 12 years old! : )

picture: https://twitter.com/RussellBal/status/814612135150055424
Usually shorthand is shorter than the alternative, but not so when comparing "5x less" to "1/5".
Any idea on what the status of ParaSail is? Seems to have been pretty quiet lately :(
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And this is getting nauseating even to these wanting to give it a try. I'm in the step of walking away and forget about it until the dirt settles down (and it becomes at least as fast as C/C++ or... even Go)
Well, you've been in the simulation so long that the only way we can safely bring you out is through subtle hints like that. I am kidding, of course, and those ads seem to be everywhere these days.
Anyone else making ’lil WebVR experiments?
Actually, Kurzweil cares. He keeps saying that according to his "laws", Singularity will happen by 2029.
Captain Obvious here with a public service announcement:

Rust's safety guarantees dont extend to logic or protocol implementation problems or misconfigured security settings.the part of the article about service providers leaking creds or other info...Rust all the things and that will still happen.

Some of this stuff is just too much. Also, why not work on lifetime and memory safety in a c based language? Rust looks like Klingon to me. functional-ish-ness is really hot right now. (Like Hansel.)

There's this really sophomoric theme that this seems to be a part of that keeps resurfacing here. its almost like a conspiracy of influences made the wrong tech choice in the past and everything would be ok now if we used X. Where X could be haskell, rust, os2, plan 9, lisp, lisp, lisp, go...theres quite a few saviors out there they resurface every now and again.
AGAIN??
>"I have not seen evidence they went out of their way to hurt him."

Here's one example to start...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/wikileaks-emails-de...
Yes thats what the article says. What I am others are saying is that that's not the whole story. The living conditions are not getting better for everyone in some important ways that means something for whether this can continue.

There is nothing new in the fact that globally the world is getting better but that primarily means the developing countries are getting better not the developed ones where the trend is either stagnating or seem to be reversing.

So can we please stop all the insinuations.
Have a look at this github repo https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-so...
Everybody deserves justice. I don't think Medium posts and a lynch mob are the way this is achieved. Get the police involved when a crime is committed. Enough with the hearsay character assassinations. This time, the author even admits that he's conflicted and that his memory isn't completely reliable. So as somebody from the "out-group" it's hard to take it as seriously as it probably should be taken :(

Edit: Instead of spawning a discussion, I should have guessed this would be downvoted immediately for not representing SJW values. Sorry to disappoint.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about, and the original post of which the linked article is an update was published in 2014. That's a lifetime in AI research, which is moving very fast. Real advances are happening monthly. The people closest to those advances in AI, at DeepMind for example, are moving the field forward quickly and can see strong AI on the horizon. Compute will determine how quickly we get there, but new chips and hardware are coming onto the market that will speed this along.
this comes up quite often, most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021722
Quality news tends to be behind a paywall. That really is the best indicator these days.
Ah, right I understand now.
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So what are those potential underlying causes and possible solutions, if the elephants in the room are IQ and culture?

clicks post history

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159996

"What has been emerging especially now that genetic sequencing is becoming rapidly cheaper and more advanced at picking human genomes out of the genetic diaspora found in old fossils, is a much more complicated picture. The Chinese obviously have little need to adhere to US political correctness, so they're beginning to push the evidence that Asian hominid genes contributed to the emergence of modern humans/civilization.
The emerging picture to me is one of multiple waves of hominin advances spreading in a varied way and admixing with existing local populations. So there's pretty clearly an ancient Out-of-Africa wave of homo erectus(who were far more advanced than previously acknowledged), a possible evolution of "homo erectus+" and wave out of Asia, and likely an "Out of Arabia" mix of neanderthals and AMHs in the Levant, all of which intermixed imperfectly. The Neanderthals themselves look plausibly responsible for some advances in human civilization (Mousterians)
What you wind up with is a far more complex picture of human evolution and far more significant and long-standing difference between human populations, which I think requires a new narrative and philosophy for what human equality means and a way to ground it on something more fundamental than a wished-for genetic similarity."

"genetic sequencing"

"the evidence that Asian hominid genes contributed to the emergence of modern humans/civilization"

Hmm... where have I heard this before...

"pretty clearly an ancient Out-of-Africa wave of homo erectus(who were far more advanced than previously acknowledged), a possible evolution of "homo erectus+" and wave out of Asia, and likely an "Out of Arabia" mix of neanderthals and AMHs in the Levant, all of which intermixed imperfectly."

"far more complex picture of human evolution and far more significant and long-standing difference between human populations"

"new narrative and philosophy for what human equality means"

Oh, you're a fucking Nazi. Take your phrenology back to Stormfront, buddy.
Performance comes from being cache aware and having control over allocations moreso than safety checks.

Maybe not faster than C but at least as fast while bringing modern patterns and better safety.
Plenty of low-density suburban neighborhoods have similar HOAs and restrictions, though at a lower $/sq.ft. than a downtown high-rise.
Many of those failures were more political than technical.

For example, the internal wars between Windows and DevTools divisions at MSFT, were the biggest reason for Longhorn's failure.

MSR with Midori has proven the viability of using C# for systems programming, when no politics are in play and everyone is focused on technical improvements.
It's possible: http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-tutorials-concurr...
This is quite a bit easier to do with Btrfs since there are installers that support it; but also with two neat features lacking in ZFS.

1. Reflink copies. Basically this is a file level snapshot. The metadata is unique to the new file, but it shares (initially) extents with the original.

2. Seed device. The volume is set read-only, mounted, add a 2nd device, remount rw, delete the seed. This causes the seed to be replicated to the 2nd device, but with a new volume UUID. Use case might be to do an installation minimally configured so as to be generic, and then use it as a seed for quickly creating multiple unique instances.

Another use case: don't delete the 1st volume. Each VM has two devices: the read only seed (shared), a read write 2nd device (unique). The rw device (sprout) internally references the read-only seed, so you need only mount by the UUID of the sprout.

Seed-sprout is something like an overlay, or a volume-wide snapshot.
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I've no desire to sling javascript or work on webpages or other front-end specific things but would love to work on distributed systems and other "back-end" related things, services that other developers build upon. Is this something (looking at you hiring managers, etc.) that can be interviewed for at an entry-level level or is this something one must have experience doing? Skills: python (intermediate)
http://drshem.com/2012/11/15/cyberwarfare-and-hacktivism-in-...

I guess the Arab Spring hacktivism didn't really amount to much, and the links to the U.S. on it are extremely tenuous, so I probably shouldn't have even mentioned it.

But if those attempts were backed in some way by the U.S., they were definitely a pathetic attempt compared to what Russia has been doing.

That said, you are likely right about America having the capability, but up to this point simply haven't had the desire or boldness to go as far as the Russians. Will be interesting to see if we do sink to their level, probably be a whole lot of leaked emails and internal memos if so.
Do you have any suggestion to maintain hype at a reasonable level? Basically, a lot of people are excited about it, a lot of people are writing good libraries, and they blog about them, which feeds into the hype cycle.

I think the main hype danger for rust right now is that the number of killer applications written it will fall short of the hype. But the linked article is from someone writing redox-os, so it's hard to criticize this article specifically for contributing to overhype.

Ruby had the opposite problem, which is that a lot of people were writing amazing applications, but it fell down technically (applications got messier and slower; or at least that is the perception). In theory the same thing could happen to rust, but it seems less likely.
We run Kafka (and I believe Cassandra) on top of Centos/ZFS in AWS and haven't had any issues so far. (About a TB of data moving through every 3 days)
Yea, This made me think of chinese black pr groups too.

Hillary was not liked in china or korea.
The link below showed something which was talked about, but never executed. It can be chalked up to proof that the DNC preferred Clinton (they absolutely did) but not that they actively did something to harm them. As I noted above, you can argue the emails "hinted at" the potential they did, but you cannot prove they actually did.
http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2016/02/12/ownership-borrowi...
I have found some code that matches that ruleset perfectly (see my other comment: [1]). It was surprisingly easy to find, a github search for .substr(md5(strrev( is all it takes to find this top-secret payload.

Note how the base64decode regex doesn't actually match base64_decode, but it matches

$l___l_='base'.(32*2).'_de'.'code';

which is the first statement in the github code I found.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13281008
What it really requires is the blind eye (or knowing nod) of a nation state, since with the level of unuttered evidence (and the private orgs named which no one seems to be mentioning here) the idea that "we won't prosecute you if you do this" is the nation-state sophistication here. In the US you'd normally face justice for this, regardless of the locale or the ease of the break-in.
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> You need an actual degree, if not a masters or doctorate to play. That's why there's a shortage.

That's part of why there is a shortage. The other part is that the companies in the industry either have standards that are too high (must have years of recent experience in their particular laundry list) or don't know what they are actually looking for.

I have the degree, I have years of real-time sensor experience, but nobody will talk to me because I have been doing NLP for the past four years.
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I assume they're talking about the fact that basically everyone that learns Rust goes through a period of "fighting the borrow checker". Part of the way that rust ensures memory safety is by preventing you from doing things that it can't prove are safe to do. For people coming from languages like C or C++ they've been able to get away with doing things that are probably unsafe but that work either through luck or very careful planning. But since the borrow checker can't prove that some of these tricks are safe it will just say "no" and fail to compile.

Within a couple weeks you will get the hang of what the borrow checker can actually handle and you'll mostly not have problems except when you are actually making a genuine mistake.
I suspect they do this if that client has your email address (even a previous one using the same first / last name) and gave Facebook access to their address book.

LinkedIn did this. Registered, also after years of silence on any kind of social media website other than email: "Would you like to connect with your ex-girlfriend who only emailed you one time at a different address?"
Well probably, but two years ago we were sanctioning them for a different reason, Crimea.
Exactly. China tried one path, found it didn't work, and then chose to draft behind the best economies in the world, do what they did to get there, and do it faster because they have the benefit of hindsight.
The echoes of Golang hype right now are somewhat ominous. A few years ago it was "concurrency primitives are going to change your life" and now it's "lifetime/ownership primitives are going to change your life."

I am somewhat disappointed that we still feel the need to create entirely new toolchains and rewrite everything just to support what should be an incremental improvement. But at a certain point, a lot of the reason for the hype is that it sells these solutions to newer developers that haven't had exposure to these concepts before. I suppose we can consider them fortunate for not having to do systems programming while suffering through implementing their own reference counting and garbage collection semantics.
Yes, I agree. But I also agree his hypothesis is sound, and the more voices that speak is the better off we all are as more ears will hear it.
Part of the focus on degree is similar to a business adage: "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM." In a similar way, if something goes wrong or doesn't pan out over the longer cycles, "Nobody gets fired for hiring a PHD."
> The original article was a call for marketing material, because they don't feel enough people are using it.

This is absolutely not true. I would love for Rust to have more users, but that's because I love Rust, and want to share that with people. But really, just like we try to make software better, I'm interested in how to make our pitch better.

You would think Hacker News, of all places, would understand that.
Imagining motives and then working backwards is, in general, a terrible way to parse the world.
> "He said users can visit a page in Facebook’s help center, which provides links to the opt-outs for six data brokers that sell personal data to Facebook."

The link provided is: https://m.facebook.com/help/494750870625830?helpref=uf_perma....

LOL. The amount of personal information requested at those "opt-out" links is suspicious and/or ironic.

Examples of information requested to "opt-out" of the USA partners' reach include: Social Security Number (!), date of birth, "all variations" of full name, all recent mailing addresses, ... (!!)
dont forget microkernels.
I'm not sure if you realize it - but your comment is the problem, not the original poster. Sometimes facts don't fit a political narrative. Comments like yours are what have polarized the nation. Your knee-jerk reaction to anything that disagrees with your position is to name-call and shame. Not very good form.
You should address actual points instead of appealing to authority and ad-hominem attacks.
In general, if Rust is significantly slower than equivalent C or C++, that's a bug. We track them. Please file them.

Rust should be roughly the same, speed-wise.
> I'd actually say this is, a priori, a lot more likely than "everyone coincidentally discriminates against these particular racial groups but not any of these other ones".

How would you change that prior if you were informed one of those groups had been enslaved on the basis of race for a couple of centuries, ruthlessly oppressed for another century, then blamed for most of the problems in the country for the lion's share of the next one, becoming the primary subject of every leadership discussion?

> Most Asian (South or East) immigrant cultures in the US aggressively push for educational and professional success. Black culture in the US doesn't.

Educational attainment is more difficult to translate into professional success for blacks in the US; black college graduates have twice the unemployment rate as white college graduates[1]. With the rising costs of education and the yawning gap between white wealth and black wealth, the value proposition is only becoming worse. In my experience black people think that their best chance of success lies in sales and/or entrepreneurship. The only other choice is being the best of the best.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/05/when-a-...
Step 1: You choose C.
Step 2: There is no step 2.

You can keep it simple.
iOS has facepalm emoji (I actually copy-pasted the above from my iPhone's native emoji keyboard).
I've always wondered: why should recursive intelligence improvement be possible?

Why does intelligence improvement have to be recursive improvement to the intelligence "source code"?

Why can't it simply involve adding more hardware?

Maybe the resulting intelligence of putting a million pieces of human level hardware next to each other would only be at the level of million human beings working in close cooperation with perfect communication ability. But that seems pretty powerful.

That might not be perfectly omnipotent but it seems like it would be pretty effect, in the fashion the humans are effective and constantly improving themselves, slowly on average, and quickly in the best instances.
You're on the money.

Sadly, the only way to even discuss culture's role without being labelled a bigot is to discuss the cultural differences within white Americans. When you're talking about how cultural traits prevalent in Appalachian communities like the one I grew up in exacerbate inequality, suddenly you have an audience. See the author J.D. Vance who wrote 'Hillbilly Elegy', and has subsequently become a darling of the political left.

It's funny, because my time spent in poor white communities and poor black communities allowed me to see how radically similar the two communities cultural traits often are. And also very similar is the fact that these communities have mixed within them families who go against the grain and succeed by not succumbing to the cultural norms around them.

Thing is, if we're honest, it's a lot easier to become popular as a minister or a politician when you tell a disenfranchised group of people that they are victims of someone else than to tell them they need to fix their own culture. Poor white families whose fathers abandon them have the same issues as black families whose fathers are absent, but the media would rather focus on the edge cases where racist cops shoot black men without cause.

Nobody ever asked black Americans to vote for a spokesman. Instead the media has decided that Al Sharpton and his ilk should be the ones consulted as to what black folks care about. He's in New York like they are, so it's easy for them and lucrative for him. In the meantime, kids hold signs saying "Black Lives Matter", but nobody wants to hold a sign that says "Black Dads Matter" even though a movement like that would do more to help black America than any government program. 70% of children being born out of wedlock has a huge effect, whether anyone is willing to admit it or not. And blaming incarceration solves nothing. The majority of absent fathers in the black community are not incarcerated.
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AFAIK, Google Voice is only available in the US, and this trail is in the EU.
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Not exactly what you're asking, but here's an FDA advisory on the use of fluoroquinolones: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm511530.htm
What do you mean by the second point? I am confused about

>President Trump is much better for the United States than acknowledging that Russia can elect whoever they want.