skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...Later that day, a separate team from Apple informed The Times that the apps would be removed".

Am I reading that right? Seems like the Times is not-so-subtly implying that Apple tipped off the Chinese authorities. Maybe they mentioned the scathing nature of the article that could potentially paint China in bad light.

For those that didn't read that article, it unveils billions of dollars in perks given to Foxconn/Apple: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-ch...
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Pull the plug on the server and send the disks to a data recovery company? Most file contents are probably still on the disk (just marked as erased), but the longer you wait the more likely it is that random temp files overwrite more of your data.

(Note: I have no idea how exactly mongo implements deletion.)
I get that. I'm not the most fluent in probability theory, but I'm vaguely aware that there are all kinds of ways of going about it. Even just in setting up a probabilistic model, there are assumptions to be made. Then you have to make certain assumptions about what kind of probability theory you are using. Then there is the linking of probability theory to logic... Logics themselves have their own sets of assumptions and rules.
Maybe a good solution for those who can't pay is to make them pay by time. As example I don't want to wait so I pay as example one euro/dollar. Someone who can't pay, just waits 3-5 minutes or pushes a button 50 times.
Sounds stupid, but this could work in my opinion. Anyone who has enough money can afford to pay, but is less likely to mess with a button or wait 5 mins. A homeless on the other hand, could at least wait instead of being denied the access at all.
Payment level is coerced. I'd pay less for everything, I don't have the ability to negotiate price like bigger players do.
In Fallout New Vegas it did as well (also only in the highest difficulty)
They've been working on NumPyPy since at least 2011, and to my knowledge it's still not in serious use.
I replied to a couple other people, but to be clear, I didn't grant access to the GitHub Org. I only granted access to my own private repos (personal, non-work projects). I actually don't even have the ability to grant any permissions on the GitHub org :)
No... you can't... there are only a couple pre-programmed wake-words "Alexa", "Echo" and something or another.
Oh it looks like it is not even March 31st 2017 for NRIs but it is June 30th 2017 as per RBI notification: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=1080...

So you have 6 months time to deposit your old 500 and 1000 notes which even resident Indians don't enjoy as a privilege. Why are you whining?
For context, Parfit died a few days ago, he was a brilliant man and I read some of his papers as a philosophy undergraduate. As far as the essay itself goes, it's pretty much typical run-of-the-mill anti-theist cosmology with the same arguments that have become status quo for the past 20 years or so.

Even as a Christian, I find both cosmological arguments (theist and anti-theist) wholly unconvincing. For example, if I was a non-believer, I would find it equally hard to believe in a multi-verse or a God. Not only that, but to make these kinds of arguments, we need to make all kinds of pretty serious assumptions: that we know how causality works in a multiverse, that laws of physics are invariant even at the beginning of universes (whatever that might mean), and so on.

But here's where I completely disagree with the position so many philosophers have (a field which I love):

> As these remarks suggest, there is no clear boundary here between philosophy and science. If there is such a highest law governing reality, this law is of the same kind as those that physicists are trying to discover.

As much as I respect Parfit (and many other philosophers of science), I think they're just dead wrong. What philosophers do is very different than what physicists do. This view absolutely permeates academic philosophy: that philosophy of science is, you know, basically science. It's not. I always recommend Barry Dainton's Time and Space[1] for budding philosophers of science, but don't kid yourself: it's merely a very high-level introduction to the physics of space and time. Until you really get down and dirty with the intricacies of (at first) Galilean spacetime and (eventually) Minkowski spacetime, you really won't "get it" -- but alas, many philosophy undergraduates and grad students think they do. And I'm sure that hubris follows them in their postgraduate careers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Time-Space-Barry-Francis-Dainton/dp/0...
LinkedIn is still that company based on sheer spam, right?
> So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who want to get smarter about the world every day.
> It is too soon to say exactly what this will look like.

I like the general message - acknowledging that the ad model is broken, not being a jerk to the (many) people they are laying off. I am, however, uninspired that nothing was actually said about how or what their new model will be. I can see NOT putting that in the "we just laid off a bunch of people" message, but that's when you mention that you'll be going into more detail next week, or at such-and-such conference, or ANYTHING to indicate this isn't a sign that the company is doomed and this is just the first step.
Max Levchin Awards 2nd Annual Prize for Advancements in Real-World Cryptography
Linus is effectively a celebrity within his field. That status makes him exempt from some things and more vulnerable to others. He is effectively already a respected public figure and already exposed to much of the attack face that most individuals are better off trying to avoid.
In the examples shown, AdX is referring to Google's Ad Exchange/Doubleclick.
> 40" curved screen iMac

why?

> MacPro replacement that looks something like the Razor Blade Stealth where a full powered GPU attaches via USB-C.

oh god why?

both of these just seem like gimmicks instead of just making a top notch dev machine.

Lots of ram, good CPU, discrete GPU option, fast SSD, decent port selection, great battery life (tweak machine options to get a bit more or less, but always good).

That's why the 2013 was such a great machine. Mine is still easily good enough today.

Now we have gimmicky touchbars, the ram hasn't increased, the CPUs are older models, they have dropped a bunch of useful ports (HDMI, magsafe power supplies), and the battery life isn't even what it used to be.

A big discrete GPU box that works over thunderbolt is just a gimmick. Windows laptop makers do stuff like that but their touchpads are still pretty much meh.
I wrote a response to this medium post, figured I'd copy it here since I'm unsure of the overlap in forum participants:

I had an idea for a model last week that I think would be worth consideration. It’s sort of a Humble Bundle x Kickstarter x Patreon model.

I’m envisioning a system that allows consumers to pay what they want for access to the content they value, but also allows creators to establish a threshold point where the content would become freely available.

So Ev Williams does a bunch of research and writes an article and says “Awesome article Ev! I probably put 10 hours into it and if I got $500 in return for that work I’d be super psyched… but I also want EVERYONE to read my awesome article cause it’s important…”

I would propose a system by which the article is published with a paywall indicating that the article is only available to contributors until $500 threshold is reached. After the $500 threshold is reached, the article is released publicly and those contributors who paid get Patron/Contributor credits on the article (or some other social reward).

Consumers interested in AI will pay for AI content, those interested in Marketing will pay for marketing content and any content in any subject good enough to reach the threshold can be enjoyed by everyone.

This is off the cuff and I’m sure there are issues, but I think this category of model is worth exploring since it compensates creators for their work, allows eventual free distribution of information and doesn’t make the platform or creators beholden to advertisers.
Making the atomic bomb scores pretty high on the evil-genius scale.
No price = expensive.
A lot of people on here are familiar with sites that run at scale with just a handful of engineers, and are also familiar with the fantastic potential for bloat to creep in to organizations if you don't work to control it.
Sadly Vala is not safe, which is an essential defect for a high-level language, and It seems to be impossible to get wide adoption outside gnome world.

Lack of inheritance is a shortage of Rust, but maybe we can have a kind of React-like GUI library for it.
Is that spam company still on business?
Virginia Tech FutureHAUS - a prototype for the home of the future
> Rust is great and all, but every time I play with it I just don't see how it would work well with the complex inheritance tree that is a widget toolkit

I haven't actually done anything along this route myself, but I think the most promising approach is to model all the widgets as traits (and traits can depend on other traits, which lets you model the inheritance tree).
Craigslist hasn't changed their UX since launch, and Snapchat is rumored to have over 1,000 employees?

There really are no examples of something at Medium's scale being built and maintained by 5 engineers.
Employer expectations of 40-50 hours of work a week, with corrective action as the stick that enforces it.
Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...

Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by himself, but I think the necessary number is much closer to 1 than it is to 4,100
Firejail local root exploit
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Your described method of understanding his moves might work for some moves, but there will inevitably be moves that are just a sum of so many different probabilities that are so far down the road that even looking at the result nobody would be able to actually recognize such a move on slightly different board.

At some point, if this method would be used, it would probably require a second AI that would help understand the main AI, because the primary "explanation" would still be too complex and/or subtle for us to comprehend.
To properly optimize you'd need conversion tracking implemented - ideally before you run any paid media.
Some go programs already have features going in that direction, where they can look at a particular board state and show you which moves they think are best from that position. People have been starting to use them to review their games to see how an AI stronger than them would have played differently.

For example Leela (a free program) does this, and can display it with a "heatmap" style: https://sjeng.org/leela.html

Crazy Stone Deep Learning ($80 USD) has some similar analysis/hint features: http://www.unbalance.co.jp/igo/eng/
Local picture: the revenue model for online publishing is still broken, Medium is in the publishing business.

Big picture: Donald J Trump, and the potential to cause widespread disruption that benefits nobody. Hopefully that will not be the case, but if it is, money for startups with hazy revenue models will not be cheap.

In either case, reducing your burn rate by $10M per year is a smart move.
You have to do the full systems analysis, you can't just look at the numbers of liquid hydrogen in isolation.

You get less mileage/kWh from a system that consumes electricity and fills up fuel cell tanks, than a system that consumes electricity and charges on-board Li-ion batteries.

Filling a tank is absolutely convenient, but gasoline is safe at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Liquid hydrogen isn't. And there's almost no hydrogen infrastructure in place. We have a lot of infrastructure for charging electric cars already, and charging stations are being built at a rapid pace to satisfy actual demand.

Toyota is spending a ton of Other People's Money on an interesting research project. The government of Japan is perfectly free to subsidize that if they feel like it, and I'm sure we'll get something useful and interesting out of it at the end, but fuel-cell cars are just not going to beat electric ones.
The prizes went to Joan Daemen, for AES and SHA-3 (on stage, Levchin pointed out that his interest in cryptography had been piqued by a xeroxed copy of DES when he was in school, and that it was an honor to present an award to one of the people who replaced the DES), and --- more notably, I think --- to Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin for their work on Signal.

Last year's winners were Phil Rogaway (a cryptographer of repute comparable to that of Daemen) and the miTLS team (of Triple Handshake, SMACK, FREAK, Logjam, and SLOTH fame).
In which case, Trump is still guilty of being just as corrupt as any politician, since he lets his children (who are and will be running his business empire) sit in on meetings with world leaders where he has business dealings, and appoints to his Cabinet those who donated most to his campaign.
To-be-catalogued at https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5180
I bet the WhatsApp team could do it.

Not the number of servers, necessarily, but running a big site with a small number of engineers.
> Here's to hoping Grumpy takes on a life of its own and is the new de facto Python.

I can appreciate you have that opinion, but I'll be livid if that's true - the last thing in the entire world I want is to do battle with dependencies and the very, very strict/opinionated Go build system.

If your idea is that all Py27 is just transpiled into Go and then jettisoned, that's fine, but keeping one foot in each world sounds terrible.
So Tom Dale is one of the creators of Ember. Now he is joining LinkedIn to work with Ember. I think this is a little sad. I can't stop imagining that he thinks that something like React is better than Ember in all situations, but since he has such high Ember credentials and somehow LinkedIn decided to go with Ember then he feels he must accept that job.
Talking mainly about inter-region transportation. Hop a "bus" from Palo Alto to SF, etc.
JeeLabs has some stuff on Forth in the uC world: http://jeelabs.org/2016/02/dive-into-forth/
That's not quite correct. Factorization is definitely in NP, because verifying whether a number has a particular factor is easy.

Maybe you meant that factorization hasn't been proven to be NP-complete, which is true. In fact it would be very surprising if it was NP-complete, because that would imply other surprising things (e.g. NP = co-NP).
If I recall correctly, the NYT website was blocked a few months ago when it published an unflattering (e.g. allegations of cronyism) article on Xi Jinping. The NYT is also pretty heavy on "China-bashing" though that's not really unique to them[0].

[0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/china-bashing.html
How did Facebook bow to China? AFAICT we are still blocked there.

Disclaimer: I work for FB, this is my personal opinion
I don't know that it was made with assumption that everyone needs a better C, but certainly that many could benefit from it. I think they were largely correct--I certainly appreciate Go's simplicity and ease of use.
What happens when another person wants to use the toilet? Two possible scenarios.

A) They have to wait 5 minutes (pointlessly) plus the duration of the next person's stay.
B) They pay to bump the person behind in the queue.

Both scenarios are bad. In A, the toilet is not being used to its effective capacity. In B, paying customers can prevent non-paying customers from ever getting to use the toilet.

Toilets should be provided for free to customers by private businesses, and to the general public by cities. The alternative is alleys reeking of urine and feces. Toilets: a worthwhile public expense.
Huh? Why would you think that?
Unfortunately, there's little chance for Rust to make inroads into the embedded market, tho I wish it were otherwise.

C++ has had many benefits over C for embedded s/w for many years and has similarly failed. Note that contrary to popular belief, C++ does not result in larger, more inefficient s/w than C (for the correct C++ subset).

The momentum behind the C ecosystem is so overwhelming that Rust simply will not get a foothold anytime soon.
My gut says, he's your brother, if you don't know if you want to have him as a cofounder, it's unlikely that you should partner with him.

I've known plenty of cofounders that had personal relationships to their cofounder and they were fine.

My suggestion would be to do a mini startup that builds on the skills you plan to use, but is not a startup either of you are personally believe in doing. Give it 100% each, and see what happens.

Beyond that, there's lots of advice on being a good cofounder online, but in the end, most of that is covered by just having a good startup/business and. It being an pain to work with.
The problem would be when a paying customer comes up while a non paying person is waiting. Does the paying customer cut in front of the waiting one? If so, the waiting time gets reset? Or do you just make the paying customer wait as well?
Corporates are a different fish to SMEs though. Every SME I've seen in the last few years has at least some hardware that's been recycled by upgrading.
While not perfect, the 2016 stock return relative to that of other technology companies is a good baseline for assessing who was a winner and who was a loser. 2016 equity performance is an excellent indicator of how NEW information impacted the long term prospects of these companies relative to consensus expectations.
Not a bad idea, I was working on something very very similar until few months ago.
I disagree with your logic. Small, technically trivial but conceptually polished tweaks can add up to a difference that takes over the market. For example, everybody used to clean their hair with soap, then somebody decided to sell it in liquid form with pretty scents, and now you always buy "shampoo".

Medium can have the same key ingredients as Blogger and still replace it.
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> I kind of like the idea of having access to the Python library ecosystem from Go

I'd like to see an example of this, because from the blog post I get the impression that this mostly allows accessing the Go ecosystem from Python, rather than the other way around. For example, how would Python classes be handled from Go?
I have noticed the same thing. I have a lot of topics selected there, but my front page is still usually full of 'how to succeed in life' posts even though I even mark those as 'don't show more this kind'.
While tragic, that is substantially different from one per day :) I don't know if there is anything we can do to fix stupid, but better education may reduce the frequency of these tragic events.
Lots of other things suck too, lets not discriminate against particular things that suck.
> article is only available to contributors

So contribute $1 then copy-paste to pastebin?
Yes, the inside views were what captivated me as well. From the outside, I didn't think the buildings looked as massive as the claims I'd read. But as soon as I was inside, I realized that my mind just wasn't equipped to judge the size of the building from the outside.
World lithium reserves 2016:
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mc...

Also enlightening, world lithium reserves known in 2010:
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mc...

Note that reported reserves have increased by ~41% in 6 years (14 million tonnes in 2016 up from 9.9 million in 2010) even as extraction accelerated. Companies have been putting more effort into discovery which has increased known reserves much faster than increasing extraction is drawing them down.

So no, no lithium shortage in the foreseeable future.
That goes along with what I'm saying. RMS doesn't acknowledge that there is a cost. There's a lot of value in ensuring that people have access to a toilet when they need it, but that doesn't negate the fact that someone has to pay to facilitate that.
Given your list of games that you like, I suspect you might find that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is right up your alley. To me, it feels like Half-Life or Far Cry with inventory. It's more open than either of those two, but not completely open either (or rather, it sort of is, but you'll likely find yourself naturally following the progression as presented). Depending on your definition, it is or isn't a RPG. Another way to describe it might be a realistic and gritty real-time version of Fallout 3 without Perks or leveling.

I just completed the original (Shadow of Chernobyl, ca 2007), with the bug-fix and enhancement mod from 2009 (Stalker Complete 2009) last week, and it's hands down one of my all time favorite games, such that I immediately started the sequel.
His speeches had a /lot/ of barking, and very little in the way of actually saying how he'd bite (tackle the issue).

Trump as a politicization reminds me of one of the Foundation series books that Azimov wrote. A politician of sorts visited the foundation, and after someone there actually took the time to look at everything he'd said they realized that effectively only puffery and no actual promises had been made.
I believe this person is referring to the Republican-controlled US federal government and Trump presidency.

(I'm just explaining, not making any value judgements.)
> Which is more interesting - a massive touch screen computer that moves weightlessly, with a hockey puck sensor that makes those cool radial menus we see in every other science fiction movie, or a laptop with a touch screen above the keyboard?

The former.

Which would I buy? The latter. Which would I rather use? The latter.
No One Questioned This Hedge Fund’s Madoff-Like Returns
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Maybe you don't like Grumpy as a name. I think it was named after NumPy (pr. ˈnʌmpaɪ) so I guess it's pronounced ˈgrʌmpaɪ rather than ˈgrʌmpi:

Around 2011 the beta releases of the static typing additions to Apache Groovy were called "grumpy" but the name was dropped after objections from the Grails crowd. I think the quality of the product is more important than the name, so Grumpy should do OK regardless if it's built and maintained properly.
This is so annoying to me. I love Maxfield Parrish's work, as well as other American illustrators, and this would be a great addition to any city. Perhaps I'm biased but I just have a lot of trouble understanding the objections that have derailed a couple of the past proposals.
...or it could be a description of something this part of the world needs: better safety nets that encourage more people to take risks without worrying too much about ending up in crisis.
Alberto discussed Vala here: https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoughts-...

> Vala has been a great tool for prototyping, I love it myself, but debugging it is a nightmare, it’s filled with security issues and even if we fixed those really difficult problems, we’d be maintaining our own language on top of everything else. I would like to see us maintaining less stuff other than a desktop and the application development framework, not more.
Samsung Series 9 notebooks are rock solid, with a thin alloy chassis and rank anecdotally among the best keyboards out there. You can even upgrade/replace your SSD, which simply isn't possible with modern Apple machines.

Mine runs Xubuntu beautifully (I prefer the minimalism of XFCE).
Yes, I'd really like some insight into why they need _that_ many people.