skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.. Email is async communication, unlike Slack and chat software.

I send an email when I expect it to be read in the next 24 hours, but I can give enough respect for the other person's time to let them choose when to read it.
How the Great Depression Still Shapes the Way Americans Eat
Eh, I'd give it a shot by I quit after the first few chapters. I didn't like the narrator's voice/tone at all and the writing was definitely not my favorite.
Can you post a few more lines about this? I'm in the process of standing up a server and would like to know more about controlling the load. Thanks!
This isn't a coherent theory of NSA interference with IPSEC, but rather a collection of different theories, many of which pertain both to IPSEC and (via TLS) to OpenVPN.

* Here's a deep dive on that OpenBSD IPSEC backdoor theory (long story short: it wasn't one, though even if it had been, it would have affected only an old version of IPSEC): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014197

* Virtually everyone I know in cryptography believes BULLRUN to be a code name for Dual EC DRBG, which is a backdoor, and targets TLS.

* The Diffie-Hellman attack referred to here was discovered first in (you guessed it) TLS.

As for zero-day attacks again IPSEC software, that is no doubt a thing! But it's no less a thing for OpenSSL.

I don't understand how you manage to get to "IPSEC is less open than TLS", since they're both equally open.
People have replicated silicon fab processes at home -- see e.g. [0] where Jeri Ellsworth makes homemade transistors. Of course the effort she took to do that (while seriously really impressive) probably isn't worthwhile compared to the use of an FPGA if you just want to see your CPU pipeline in Verilog come alive :-)

[0] http://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/transistor-fabrication-so-sim...
My suggestion would be that the extension should display a speech bubble icon next to the usernames their service recognizes.
While your statement is true, it doesn't explain nearly all of the problems.

The shift from tenured to adjunct positions in academia doesn't have anything to do with the quality of applicants. The shift in tech from salaried employees to contractors (offshored or not) has nothing to do with the pool of qualified applicants. Lower pay for positions that create the same value are not the fault of the worker.

When these sorts of issues become structural there are far fewer options for individuals to pursue. Whatever path they choose, their chances of success is less.
It's a tutorial, not a paper. Chill. Also, I see no indication that this human is a "he".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249307
Oh. My. Fucking. God.

It is shocking to think that my home computer is probably running a newer version of Windows than the U.K.’s military submarines

It is shocking to think that a military submarine is running any version of Windows.
I know it's long but it's really worth reading. Steve Dunleavy was an interesting man.
Can you prove facebook is really responding to consumer demand ?

The whole fake news narrative popped up over night to explain Trump winning at impossible odds.

Id say people were fine with filter bubbles truth be damned as long as the outgroup got smeared.

Its also disingenious to say its not hard to see how the fake tag could be abused. Oil companies have spent fortunes trying to get climate change labeled as fake, and look how successful it was.
To generalize a bit from your comment: basic education probably shouldn't follow a strict "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory)

Of course it's very important to study the history, but probably not in the first presentation. But at the same time, it's definitely true, for most subjects, that historical references often help to motivate less committed students and enliven the experience.

On Maudslay's role in the development of machine tools, this paper looks interesting:

FT Evans "The Maudslay Touch: Henry Maudslay, Product of the Past and Maker of the Future"
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/tns.1994.007?jour...
> If we take their past performance as evidence of what is likely to happen moving forward, we will see, just for example a conservatives shut out of the public conversation for saying exactly the same thing a liberal is given a pass on.

There are definitely examples of fact checks of very similar claims being resolved very differently, and the further left person in question being the one given gentler treatment. I'm not sure how you'd effectively test the dataset to determine whether this is just statistical noise, though.

On the other hand - whether you can test it or not, the question at hand seems to be about perception of bias rather than actual bias. I wonder if an adversarial style system wherein, say, both supporters and detractors wrote up their best cases for why something was true/false and then the best arguments were presented as some sort of a ... duel? ... would provide better information. Crowdsource the arguments well enough and the classes go away at that level, and using the resulting information to filter might be rather more useful.

The only things I'm really sure of here, sadly, are that doing nothing doesn't seem to be working particularly well, but every time we attempt to do something we find that doing nothing looks increasingly like at least a local maximum.
It's not a matter of understanding. It's a matter of city folks trying to change the way rural folks live.
Interesting that they are selling the hardware as a subscription, although they also seem to offer it for actual you-really-own-it purchase, but I couldn't find the price for that: probably the equivalent of three years of monthly fees, so around USD 7k, maybe a 25% discount to be competitive, so USD 5.5k for the hardware plus the app/support/whatever. It certainly isn't five grand of electronics though. I'm assuming from the looks and size of the device that its just the transducer and an ADC/DAC streaming to/from USB, so based on the earlier HN article perhaps less than USD 1k for it if you were to try and build the thing yourself?

> A subscription or outright purchase includes a Lumify transducer, the cloud-enabled Lumify Android ultrasound app, software upgrades, manufacturer's warranty, and access to Philips service and education

Sadly it only seems to be available in the USA. I'd love to have my very own device that lets me look inside myself; a paltry two hundred bucks seems pretty reasonable! I think you'd get bored looking at your spleen after a month, although I wonder if drunken 'let's look inside Bob's lower intestine' (can you do that?) moments in the pub might never get old... Also great for checking if the toddler really put that marble up his nose, or checking the progress of the priceless gold C3-P0 LEGO minifig he/your dog ate.

It even does doppler imaging, so you can watch blood flow in your veins - the first time I saw this demonstrated on me in hospital I was amazed, it's pretty cool. One thing it does is colour the flows red or blue, depending on direction, but interestingly since it has no idea which is really an artery and which a vein, the doctor has to decide visually and flip the colours if appropriate.
If you use it for multi tenanting then probably you won't need that.

But 30MB is a lot yes.
I also learned to be succinct early in my career, when I emailed a VP a wordy mess and he gave me this important advice.

Every word you type costs the company money, compounded by how many people see the email. Make your words count.
> A robot or algorithm can only “take” a job if a human builds a robot/algorithm capable of it. A human can only build such a robot/algorithm if they have at least some vague notion that it won’t wildly hurt their fellow citizens, or if they are a sociopath.

Or, you know, if there’s profit to be made by it.

Besides the “hurt” would never register as something directly done by one human to another (the programmer just does his/her job as best as they can, it’s not their fault if the new process costs jobs).

And even if there’s any hint of self-doubt about the human cost of what the developer does, there are tons of excuses to cover it up (e.g.

Tons of factories have been outsourced to China or wherever with the same ease, leaving behind ghosts of ex-industrial towns and hurting tons of people in the process (who in their late 40s or 50s can hardly find another job), and those profiting from it do it without blinking twice.

The “Banality of Evil” book (and tons of psychological experiments like the Milgram experiment) showed that it doesn’t take a sociopath or a some special monster to “hurt another human”, just someone doing their job when its socially perceived as OK is enough. Not that we didn’t already knew that from real life experience…
I agree that historical context should be taught in classes. I wrote a Master's adding plenty of historical notes about "why" this and that approximation was thought of, and proposed. Sometimes it doesn't take much - just reading the early Schrödinger papers can give you an idea of his train of thought. It really helps make sense out of theory, for me.
> If you're writing a journalistic article and you're criticising something, you better have a very good reason for not linking it.

I think "I want to talk about their attitude to fake news, not further spread the salacious details of their only-sort-of-related coverage" is ... a reason.

I think saying basically that, and providing a link afterwards that one would hope readers would choose not to click, would've been a better approach from a broadsheet.
Yes. Probably the most inspiring feature of my first number theory course was a healthy dose of history: about Gauss, Sophie Germain, Riemann, Hardy, Ramanujan. It was helpful, psychologically, to see the process that gave rise to number theory, instead of viewing its ideas as God-given.
From a security perspective, how feasible is it for a state-level actor to usefully backdoor a FPGA? I imagine that part of the appeal of personally-fabricated hardware is that, if you validate the design, you have greater assurance about the code executing on your machine. Sort of like the difference between compiling from source and trusting a binary blob (though, just like compilers can be backdoored, I imagine there are theoretical attacks involving subverting the fab itself...).
Yes or at least within the context of discovery.
Math never clicked with me until I approached this way.
"Author seems to have some deep lying trouble with India/Hinduism."

Let's ignore that for the irrelevant ad hominem attack it is and get down the real issue here:

"If you don't like it, don't take it."

The implication of that (even if you don't mean it to be so) is that any old snake oil salesman or tub-thumper should be allowed to strut their stuff unhindered by criticism while leading their benighted flock up the garden path because it's up to them, and not you, to decide. Caveat emptor and all that.

Let me be the first to call that out as utter bullshit. Just because some swivel-eyed Valley tech preacher has some people swearing he healed their lumbago doesn't mean they deserve to avoid adverse examination. The author of the article in question here has every right - and indeed duty - to criticise Fried in this way if he has the information and the argument to do so. Let there be more of it, I say.
That is a good way to look at things.

Some people swear that imagining your future as a narrative, immersing yourself in it, can help you achieve your goals or illuminate flaws with your current plan.

And yet others swear this kind of thinking -- allowing ourselves to mentally reap the benefits of out labor before we actually complete it -- is harmful and satiates us to the point where we don't bother to achieve our goals because the rewards we seek are just an imaginative narrative away.

I find that each mentality suits different career paths and different people; there is no one correct answer.

But as for immersing yourself in past guilt...I find that this happens to me, and my rationality is that I deserve the guilt from my failures and misdeeds. That if I "live in the now" I am doing a disservice to those I may have wronged (even though they may have completely forgotten whatever it was by now and moved on).

I have trouble escaping this negative, self-hating mentality despite knowing it is folly.

It's easy for me to forgive myself for dropping the ball here and there, for missing opportunity, because I understand the power of negative vs positive thought loops. But it feels so selfish when I apply this mentality to my transgressions upon others. What do.
> Your body has to work harder to digest

Does it, though? I could see plausible reasons it would work less hard, and the only ill effects would be long term from weight gain.
Cool. I love interesting raspberry pi ideas.
Canadian, eh?
Best is to first replace all your information on those services by fake information. Then create a bunch of accounts with the same name, and also enter fake information. Then delete all the stuff.

Remember: you can decrease the signal-to-noise ratio by decreasing the signal, or by increasing the noise.
I see this attitude fairly pervasively in hacker news when it comes to consuming media.

When famous tech people like Bill Gates post lists of books, there is almost never any fiction on there.

It's like reading is frowned upon as a waste of time unless it's non-fiction. You can get away with literary fiction but only if it's high-brow enough that it still feels like learning.

Can I not just read a fantasy book because I find it entertaining?
It's a pun.
Using this bot you can open connections with your servers directly from Slack
If you re-read the quote you pasted, you'll see that I accommodate your point of view (I think) - they human in your scenario BELIEVES that they do no wrong. I am trying to at least ask the question, "are you sure about that?"
I think this isn't right because P(attack | alarm) is not the right quantity to study/optimize. That's what you optimize only if you believe that you "win" if you guess right whether the attack was real. But that's unreasonable in this context. One must consider that installing sensors comes with a cost of its own (even in terms of having to come up with protocols for handling them), one must define one's own utility function for the different outcomes, and one must come up with a sensible decision rule. Estimating P(attack | alarm) is not quite the point.

I think P(attack | alarm) > P(attack) does not by itself imply that paying attention to alarms is the right thing to do.

> Remember that the penalty for missing a true alarm is possibly even worse that reacting to a false alarm.

The outcome of reacting to a false alarm is exactly the same as the outcome of reacting to a true alarm, and, arguably, the same as the outcome of not reacting or reacting only partially—it's all -∞ basically.
> it's more likely people in the know are rejecting the crowd-funding model due to Star Citizen, not signing up for it.

And your source for that nonsensical statement is?

Star Citizen is the most successful crowdfunded project to date and second most successful kickstarter project at the time of its completion (after Oculus Rift). The two successes together that year were what made Kickstarter famous and turned it from a niche site to "the american dream 2.0" where anyone's greatest ideas can be funded.

I don't care about the crowdfunding model and you're completely mistaken about my reasons on why I backed Star Citizen. I don't particularly like or dislike it and I do appreciate your stance that you prefer buying the finished product - I think it's a healthy stance.

But your comment on people rejecting the crowd funding model "due to star citizen" is absolute nonsense. And so is your comment on budgeting, by the way - You should keep in mind that the number on there isn't "Star Citizen's budget", it's CIG's budget. There's no particular point in time where anyone says "Alright guys, time to pack up, stop making sales, we'll do with the money we have right now because it's more than enough to finish the game".
> He's merely asking for a method to delete his online footprints, in which case there are many services to accomplish this task

There are not.

Unless you're willing to spend millions, of course.
Bringing up Whitehead and Russell indicates you may have somewhat missed the argument here. The point is to be guided by the history, not build up from axioms. Mathematics was not historically built up from axioms! Whitehead and Russell are very recent historically, so you would certainly not start with them (or even get to it at all) by following a historical approach.

Essentially this is saying that you can use the sequence of historical discovery as a guide to the appropriate sequence of lies-to-children [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
ARM made this announcement about a year ago, not heard much about it since then: https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-...
You don't think that a little historical perspective helps bring the subject to life? I think it's great for both the mathematically inclined students and their not so interested counterparts. Context helps those who care see the bigger picture and those who don't to at least understand why this might be important.
It's not only that, but doing something like writing your own assembler probably isn't going to be terribly relevant to someone creating a web app or making a game in Unity - particularly so 5, 10, or 20 years later. Heck, I'm not even sure that working on an assembler is going to be terribly useful to most people who will be writing in assembly.

Students who aren't interested in a particular requirement will complete it and then soon forget most of the things they learned. Heck, even students interested in it will probably forget most of it if they're not using it for a particular task. If they're not, you're probably better off with a quick survey course which gives them the basic understanding they need.

From my experience, the biggest problem with "CS" education (which tends to be a catch all for most software related computer studies) is the lack of focus. Students get a little bit of experience making a toy in language A, then they get a little experience making a toy in language B, then they get a little dusting of algorithmic theory, etc.

My suggestion would be to try to get them quickly up and running on projects they're interested, to the point where they feel self-sufficient. Then teach them what they need to make their project better. They're going to both retain a lot more and come out of it being able to do a lot more. Trying to make every CS student a jack of all trades ends up being a colossal waste of their time and money.
Not directly related but just last week I just gifted two Intel 8088 machines including one in a really beautiful case with original "3 year warranty!" sticker, along with other stuff (period disks, Apple LCII, Apple II, SGI/SunOS/Solaris stuff, etc.) to http://acms.org.au/ who are looking for an exhibition location for their huge collection. As a registered charity, space donations are tax deductible and can help meet council public space/cultural requirements for new developments. Requirements: Sydney or Canberra, 100-300m2 exhibition space (really 200+), 500-1000m2 storage space (500+ already in use).
You are looking for an argument that isn't there. I was asking because someone else brought up the question, and I still think it is interesting to know the answer.
I love the idea but I'm stuck on the "Logging in" page looking at a diamond-shaped spinner on both Firefox (50.0) and Chromium (53.0.2785.143), both on Linux. I notice the page is trying to load a script from facebook.net, something that's not going to happen on any system that I have control over. Not sure if that's the problem or if it's something else...
Which cloud host do you use? Isn't in expensive to get the kind of specs you want?
Just to clarify, our pricing [0] is per year. So the cost for 50 users is $1950 a year, $162,50 a month for Enterprise Edition starter.

We have been thinking about a model that would allow us a more smooth ramp from CE to EE, hence the change to EE starter and Premium. However, this doesn't mean certain attractive features might still land in paid tiers.

I'd love to get more feedback on this.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/products/
One might take the claims — and hubristic comparisons to production-ready systems like Redis, Cassandra, Firebase and Riak — more seriously if the code weren't such an inscrutable ball of spaghetti [1]. I commented on this a year ago [2], and the author's response was... not great. Anyone who considers using this project should definitely read the code first and make up their own mind.

[1] https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/gun.js#L584

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683467
David Mitchel has some interesting (and humorous) thoughts on this issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTt6QJqzxk
Whoever finds that these skylines look "realistic" spends to much time in front of a machine and too little time out in the mountains. This is ridiculous.
Yup, it doesn't make sense to me when there are so many rooftops.

Putting solar panels between tracks on railways makes way more sense.
INSANE 1000 DEGREES KNIFE
In ye-olde planar layouts (TTL-era) they were routed quite similar, like arteries and veins, with small 100n caps and the TTL chips as a sort of capillaries.

However, this kind of power supply routing (not sure Am. call it idiomatically, some here call it a "ladder supply/layout") has poor electrical properties, unsuitable to operating logic beyond a couple MHz.
That's assuming that all game engines are created equal.

I'll give you that Unreal and CryEngine are similar enough to make that comment, but there's plenty of space for innovation within engines. Amazon seems to be trying their hand at it with twitch integration for example.

In general, game development is filled with archaic processes, boilerplate, inefficient workflows etc. Unity3d was the jQuery of game development in that regard, and we're nowhere near peak.
There are generally quite a few forms of griefing, a popular one in Starcraft was to join a game were people were trying to pad their score 5 humans vs 1 easy computer opponent, then to betray the humans in a 1v4 game (an easy computer being irrelevant). There was a small asymmetric advantage, you were preparing for a hard game, they were preparing for an easy one, it was still a challenge though.
What I am trying to point out here is that griefing is quite complicated and just points out that not everyone gets their enjoyment of a process by playing with the same rules as others.
depends on the actual code. I work with someone who likes to code by "works on my machine, in my limited tests, ship it, if it breaks then fix it" which is terrible since this person isn't on call and wouldn't have to deal with the fall out.

It gets picked up in review, but the attitude is unfortunate.

If your code is ugly by stylistic preferences but works and you are a responsible coworker, then, meh, I'd only code review in changes if they were pertinent to the issue being solved.
Yes, I think you could call it a fractal. The Wikipedia page linked to from the article says that this technique is also called a "random midpoint displacement fractal".
Well, if you look at the bar graph, exports of coal from the USA to all the main users has dropped precipitously in 2016, so Alberta isn't going to make a huge difference.

Also, there are a lot of factors behind the decline in coal (particulate pollution, CO2, lowering cost of renewables, etc), so it seems highly unlikely that the downward trend is going to reverse itself.