skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hotel did not own the networks they were interfering with, that's why the FCC is getting involved.
CNN Uses Fallout 4 Footage in a Report on Russian Hacking
Looks like they are calling it Piwik PRO Tag Manager, and the team doing this is the gang trying to provide professional services around the Piwik open source web analytics tool.

I can't help but wonder if this is a shot across the bow to gauge reception of taking Piwik out of open source by moving all improvements they create to a commercial license. I presume this is easier or harder depending on the license chosen, but IANAL.
If P=NP is proven than that makes factorization an easy problem (and included in the proof) which would make many algorithms for encryption "trivially broken".
I'm assuming that after the bootcamp they would put you on a team based on your interests and aptitudes. For me, having a choice - or at least feeling like I have a choice - over teams and projects is empowering and exciting.
Most of the people making these decisions are primarily concerned with cost and time and not pollution, so what determines whether this will be successful is primarily cost vs time.
Most of the weight is due to the toughened design, not the battery, actually. We are talking about laptops you can use as a weapon to bludgeon someone, then take with you to swim, and they'd still be in a working state.

Actually you can run over them with an SUV and they still work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41lXVKSTOGQ

Of course, unlike common laptops, they don't need a case or anything. Just carry them as is with their built-in handle.

If they didn't cost so much I would consider buying one. The added weight may make them slightly less comfortable in one way, but in another way, if you think about it, they're not flimsy pieces of denting aluminum you always have to treat with care, put in protective bags during transport and the like. Using a laptop like this must feel.. liberating.
Chinese Information Warfare: The Panda That Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Have you read this piece?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282

I've read multiple stories last year from devs trying to establish themselves on Upwork (Some I heard firsthand) and getting 0 leads even if they applied for jobs that were like 20% of their usual rate.

Doesn't sound all that implausible that under these conditions people will just straight up buy or rent established Upwork accounts because you won't get any responses from clients otherwise.
Whenever I am walking around the house, or doing a chore and my hands are not free(to pull up a computer or phone) and I had an idea, I wanted to be able to make sure that I can store ideas or things that I needed to complete.
I understand that the actual culture might be different, but their culture deck[1] seems refreshingly honest to me.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/40-The_Ra...
Heroku + Buddy = Great combination!
I think you should be upset and do something about it. You never know if it is going to cost you missed career opportunities because some employer looked you up on facebook, found the impersonator and decided to decline your job application.

> So what would be the solution? Changing my Facebook name to my real name and uploading a scan of some document to prove to Facebook that it is really me?

Close your FB account, write a blog post and/or magazine articles about it, contact facebook and demand to remove this impersonator for slander and defamation.
I think that in practice the problem comes down to preventing sociopathic sadists from annoying everyone in complicated ways. The actual level of anonymity doesn't really matter but there are classes of solutions that work better without.

The only possible non-technical solution for that class of user would be to track them down in real life and fine them. The possible abuse associated with such a scheme make that sort of solution unattractive.
Heads up, both the job links (Full Stack and fellowship) are currently giving 404 errors.
Fewer developers? There have 15,000 employees, what do they all do?
Will Google release an AI that can play StarCraft on the same level as humans in 2017?

General AI will have to wait until after that.
Or just have a mostly unused real-name account that you use for contacting your friends, when you can't reach them otherwise.

Why even have a fake facebook account? Facebook will know it's you. The government will too.

If you don't want the whole world to be privy to what you post, then why even use Facebook? Just post your green frogs and political opinions on forums and websites that do not base their revenue around tracking you 24/7.
You did not specify "multi" further, but 30k * 1/0.5% is around 6 million. So your assessment seems at least in the right ballpark?
I like it. How do you handle intellectual property issues?
Not to mention it's really really slow when you start editing stuff with even simple effects like drop shadow, it's good for some things (like say you get an SVG file and you need to convert fonts to curves with a free app or something like that) but it's very limited and the UI is ghastly (the side panels that open when you edit effects and stuff in particular - huge controls with so much padding and ugly layout). GTK+ is just the worst for these kinds of feature packed UI (it can be OK for material design style UIs where you have few elements and don't mind the empty space, but not densely packed stuff like graphics effect panels and dialogs), GIMP and Inkscape suffer because of it.
All these "distrobutions" are going to do is further fragment the already extremely confusing terminal-text-editor world. There are so many configurations that it's never going to make sense to me.

If it was simple, there'd be an answer to this question: how do I setup Vim/Emacs as a fully feature complete IDE for C, C++, Rust, Go, Java, JavaScript (Node or Web), C#?

By feature complete I mean autocomplete, error detection, built in one-button-runs, automatic config/sane defaults.

Keep in mind this is a dream list. It's perfectly fine if the list only includes 2-4 of these languages but it needs to have all of these features.

Looking at this from the outside (people who use IDEs) in (onto the people who use Vim/Emacs) we have maybe 1 IDE/Language and that's confusing for us. I can't imaginge having 3 text editors all of which have different common dotfiles.
There is research directly addressing "transfer learning" where the goal is to have more general learning agents. I don't know how advanced it is, but it's certainly not advanced enough to become anything close to an AGI by 2018.

Ultimately I think there are far more pressing issues in AI around ethics, bias, or security. It's great that there are philosophers who can sit around and worry about a possible distant future (and I think as thought exercises they're fascinating), but it's not what most people in the field should be concerned with.
Luckily that's not true; there's about 810.000 police officers in the US (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...) (or 266 per 100K people); if they were all like that, you'd see a police murder incident several times a day.

Instead, the US has toddlers shooting people every day.
It depends. If you give someone code which has a LICENSE file containing the BSD 3-clause license -- you've given them a license to use that code under the specified terms in the license, i.e. without charge etc.

In order to revoke access to the code from that user, you would have to get them to legally agree (i.e. sign something) that says they agree to having their license of that code revoked / that they will not use the code.

That is just for that one user -- at that one revision of code. If you wanted it such that _nobody_ could use your old codebase -- you'd have to get anyone who is using that code under said license to legally agree not to use it.

For new revisions of code, assuming a non-copyleft license like BSD, MIT, etc., you could simply state "we were the original owners of the code, therefore we no longer license the code under the open source license" and there is no need for you to distribute that code ever again.

In fact, this is why people can legally sell open-source software made by someone else -- even if that is ethically wrong to do.

IANAL, and some of the above is light on the details, so take it with a grain of salt / try not to be too nit-picky at me =)
The abundance of cheap older Xeons also help. You can get an Intel board, 128GB DDR3 ECC RAM, two 2670 Xeons (SR0KX stepping which fixes VT-d) for $580 altogether either separately off eBay or in one kit from natex. That's an excellent base for such a development - gaming machine. And now there's even a decent yet cheap SSI EEB chassis, the Phanteks Enthoo Pro for only $100. (Nope, Rosewill cases do not count as decent, sorry.)
“A profitable video-on-demand service aimed at consumers by 2010.”
I think this is still a cop out: first thing junior will do when he can't connect to his database from home is google it, then find out how to bind to all ip's. Network access is BARELY viable access control, as it's too easy to fail open.
Similarly when they actually get interested in something and want to play around with it at home. It's just kind of shit when students are pretty much forced to piracy, if they want to learn more about something than is taught in their classes.
You could look at their positions in lower cost areas, like Dallas.
After the recent Demonetization brouhaha, which led to over a 100 deaths[1], most of them from the lower strata of society, it makes sense for the current government to start off UBI whole heartedly, especially since they can tie in the entire demonetization/cashless economy/jan dhan etc. stories together. However, I sincerely hope that the execution is well planned, rather than hasty.

This article though seems to be a marketing report for BIEN. Remember that with a country as large as India, Government reports are many in number but very few schemes having national level adoption. I can think of numerous states that would support doling out sops for the poor instead of UBI.

Interesting times these are for the country. Let's hope sense prevails.

[1] http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-demonetization-governme...
My guess (for what it's worth) is that getting the code off github is not the same as "un-open source" it.

Open source, as far as the GPL license is concerned means that anyone that has a copy of the original codebase is allowed to give away copies of this code. I think it's still the case for the part of the code that was on github under the GPL.

What do you think?

edit : slimsag was quicker
Yes, it's a pain. So it's simplest to just buy fake-name accounts. Just as spammers do ;) But there's no point, unless you have a pressing need.

If your OpSec is adequate, subpoenas aren't an issue.
I hate to be the sanctimonious European on HN, but I was really surprised to read that 3 days and 2 detectives is all that is (or was) used to investigate a murder. From American films and tv we get the impression of maverick cops with this gung-ho attitude who investigate alone or with one partner. This article makes me wonder how close to reality is this?
What you described is free software, not open source.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

There are things that are open source, but not free, like the Unreal Engine.
As a Dutchman, it looked natural to me. (coöperatie is the Dutch word for corporation and a fancy word for coöperation)
Sure. Just ping us.
I agree in substance, but I find arguments from moral principles mostly unconvincing, so I prefer to formulate it in different ways.

* Proprietary software makes me dependent on the whims of a business. If the business shuts down, stops updating its products, or changes their products in ways I dislike, I have to discard the investment I've made (time, money, learning, etc).

* Proprietary software makes it complicated to share my work tools with friends and even family.

* Proprietary ecosystems prevent me from learning. On the other hand, I am profoundly grateful for the learning opportunities given to me by the free software community ever since I was a teenager.

* Proprietary tools are hard to integrate with. For example, whenever a new version of Apple's mail program is released, the makers of the GPG plugin have to reverse engineer the changes before they (hopefully) can update their software.

* Proprietary tools often use proprietary formats, which prevents collaboration and contributes to the problem of digital rot.

And so on...
I had an initial phone call with them a few years back for a London based position. I had been working in London in the finance industry so had an expectation of what my salary should be. They were after the same caliber of developer that works in finance but not offering them anywhere near the same level of pay. Perhaps the culture would be interesting but a good salary is also important.
I think it's generally not possible to un-open-source something. Once you release it with a properly open source license, that version is released with that license. Otherwise a single person could release something open source, wait for it to become popular and then revoke the open source licensure and cause all kinds of headaches.

That said, if you take down the source code and no one has a mirror, barring any other legal obligations (like those created by the GPL), it's not like you are compelled to provide your source, even if it's been released under an open license.
I've just completed my PhD as well. My research was all computational and consisted mainly of molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning. However, I did a lot of quantum chemistry work (QMC, DFT) as well and have taken QM classes — quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, density functional theory. Any other knowledge that would be relevant for quantum computing I've learned on my own (Nielsen and Chuang, etc.)

I'd really like to work for one of the quantum computing companies (Rigetti, etc.) or research groups (QuAIL), but I'm not really sure how to proceed in applying to these places given that my background isn't exactly quantum computing research. Since you have experience in this area, would you have any tips on how to apply to one of these groups? My current line of thought is to just apply directly via their websites, and if I don't hear anything back, begin contributing to the relevant Github quantum computing projects as proof of capability. Would you have any suggestions for a better approach?
Fork it, fork it all.
I very often need to change the volume while speaking to someone, I'm not certain but I think the play/pause button acts as a mute button while in a conversation as well.
I just don't see how it won't cause massive inflation. basically to the point that the payout is practically worthless.
Assuming that good process fixes bad people

Corollary: Assuming that good process doesn't restrict good people.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves: management decisions that don't account enough for outliers; that is, their best people. Management has never done it, therefore it cannot be done. This, as much as anything else, drives your best developers away.

Give us the hard stuff to do and let us alone to do it. That's all we ask.

Otherwise you're left with terrible code.

Great post. You struck a lot of nerves. Thank you, OP.
Mentor IT. Kim Jest? Co Robi?
I find it strange that you think the CLI is clunky on Linux.

Up until recently Mac shipped with an 3.x version of Bash. To star it had a version of sed that was in effect broken in several use cases. Mac also lacks the system profile capabilities of Linux such as perf and the new BPF tools.

Most of the tools like top, netstat, strace, and vmstat aren't as up to date on Mac either.
Congrats on finishing the project! As you've already linked at the bottom of your post, it's possible that OpenAI could've solved most of your I/O issues.

One thing I'd suggest is exploring a reward function, instead of using only pre-recorded training data. That is, give the AI a goal to complete (in this case, finish the race) and let it learn by itself!
Oh Gnome components failing at mildly not-common edge cases (note that I don't mean rare, I mean not common)? Color me surprised
If you're including water for shower/bath, dish and cloth washing, it does not seem a lot.
Your preferences aren't necessarily optimal for others in the same way that macOS, Windows, and Linux may not be optimal for various people. Many assumptions about what a "real" developer is.

I don't develop on Windows, but I know a few engineers that use Windows are some of the best, most productive engineers I've met. I went to college with one that's been at a few high profile places and live-streamed and his workflow is pretty amazing.

As for me - environment is never the bottleneck for me when it comes to solving hard problems, and those are the problems I care about.
Heh, I was expecting some weird reStructuredText/Markdown mashup.

This is actually pretty interesting – e-ink tablet with a custom Linux-based OS, pressure/tilt stylus sensitivity and a solid build.

Would be great if it gets some traction, but the price seems a bit high.
Cheers, made it more decentralized.
This sound like the glass-makers fallacy. To really evaluate this kind of thing you need to see the entire economic chain.
Is there a clearer more understandable word? Your definition of 'distribution' sounds like something much more specific (changes to binaries?) than mine.
That's bad, worse than I thought. Sounds like someone needs to start collective legal proceedings. Maybe edri.org can help?
It also matters if it's likely. I mean, it wasn't João Maria de Souza's fault that a cow fell on top of him, but I'm not going to live my life in fear of falling cows.
If you could die using your real name on an internet service, you are much better off not using that service at all, especially if they require that you use your real name.

Use of a particular service or website is not a human right. If your particular situation is such that it's unsafe or you need to violate TOS/regulations/laws by using a service... don't.
No board recommendations--there are soooo many now I have zero clue about "best" or if it even matters. I'm a little wary of the RPi 3 because of the heat issues; there are very competitive boards available at more or less the same price point, often with features I need (like actual SATA instead of via USB).
No. This [0] is 4-5 years old and I don't think much progress has been made in getting a computer to classify that image as 'funny' and explain why.
And if/when it could, I doubt we'd call it intelligent. And this is just computer vision, not mentioning other branches of AI.

[0] http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
I don't really understand why you cannot fully be in control over electromagnetic radiation that occurs solely in your own private property? Logically it doesn't make any sense, unless of course there is leakage of that radiation affecting someone else outside of your private property.

Will we soon be banned from using red light bulbs at home, because their wavelength is illegal?
Interesting, converters from a broad flood of advertising at the start, or do you implement conversion tracking before launching a campaign?
Fair enough, the recruiter never specified who the "great" opportunity was for. Haha.
I remember using OS X in the early years of its existence, and it was non-stop spinning beach ball of death. I switched to Windows for a while and then Ubuntu in 2006 which I still use. Everytime over the past 10 years that I try out a new Mac laptop or even desktop, the spinning beach ball still happens, even just clicking on a text field, despite faster processors, more RAM, SSD, etc. I see it in Windows 7 & 10, too, but basically never in Linux.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavian_general_election,_...
Why can't we have something like this for individuals?
The argument is particularly poor considering that normal Turing machines can simulate quantum TMs (albeit with an exponential slowdown).
Relevant: https://curlpipesh.tumblr.com/
I forgot the toilets.

I found a breakdown there: https://www3.epa.gov/watersense/pubs/indoor.html
I still don't understand why one would use a laptop as their main development environment instead of a proper workstation (more cores, more ram, larger disks).
Yes, you can set what time it will reboot, but you can't set it to "never", or even "next week". And the pop-up to reboot does not take control of the screen, so if you're doing something full screen like a game or a Powerpoint presentation, you miss it and have to wait for the reboot. Even if you're in front of a client.

When I'm done with my work for the day on Windows and I go to bed, I'm never sure if everything will still be there when I wake up. Far too often I wake up and I'm at a login screen with all of my active windows and documents closed. That's incredibly disruptive, and there's no way to stop that.

There is no way to tell Windows 10 "don't reboot until I explicitly ask you to do so".
This story is so frustrating. I feel like this is my "Gell-Mann Amnesia" moment, and it's turning me off from WaPo, NYTimes, NPR, and all the sources I used to read.

It's so bizarre to me how big this story has become only now when the DNC hacks themselves were done back in June. It's certainly hit a fever pitch since Trump's election, but I can't tell if that's from his tweeting and provocation, or from the Democrats angst at losing the election and trying to save face.

Regardless, compared to China hacking us and stealing our fighter jet plans or the data breach of 18 million personnel records from OPM, compromising the DNC and releasing some authentic but mildly embarrassing emails seems so... minor, I guess. Every time people say "hacking the election" it makes me so frustrated since it minimizes the very real fear of actual election hacking the more we're moving to electronic voting machines, that Bruce Schneier talks about. It's also no surprise that half[0] of Clinton voters believe "hacking the election" means that Russia actually fucking tampered with the vote tallies now.

Surely any impact of the DNC email release months ago was minor compared to say, Comey re-opening the Clinton case right before the election. And I dunno, does an article in the BBC or The Economist count as foreign influence? What about the Snowden leaks to The Guardian?

The evidence that APT28/29 were in the DNC servers is moderately compelling, I think. I can't find the data on the connection between APT28/29 and GRU/FSB, though. In any case, it's clear Russia could have not left a trace if they were so inclined. Maybe they didn't think it was such a big deal so they were a little sloppy? Certainly, a priori, it's hard to imagine the amount of attention releasing DNC and Podesta emails would have gotten.

[0] https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies...
No. I looked into it at one stage between jobs but didn't qualify for it because I had savings. I've had numerous friends who have been on and off various forms over the past 10 years though.

I'm not implying it's not do-able, but it's definitely not the same as having a job that pays even 30k AUD a year.

How comfortable you're going to be also depends on where you live naturally, as renting a room in Brisbane is about ~$120 a week minimum. Melbourne is more expensive and Sydney same again.
Marginally, yes he's loaded but Facebook didn't destroy thousands of smaller mom and pop businesses and concentrate whole sectors of the economy like Amazon, or hundreds of newspapers and advertising agencies like Google.

Facebook is totally too powerful and far too greedy but I wouldn't blame it for inequality.
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