skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moxie,

I think it's fair to say that you are the world thought leader on these matters right now.

One thing that the rest of us are wondering right now is:

> I've been impressed with the level of care that WhatsApp has given to that requirement.

To what degree do you really know that? Is there a place where we can read about your interactions with Facebook, the level of access they've given you, and the degree to which they have allowed your recommendations to shape the contours of their implementation?

Nothing less than the strength of dissent lies in the balance of questions like these.

> I think we should all remain open to ideas about how we can improve this UX within the limits a mass market product has to operate within, but that's very different from labeling this a "backdoor."

I agree that the jump to scary terminology is dangerous.

However, at the end of the day, I think that many of us have been trying to make a simple point that shows that there is a sort of crossing of that line:

WhatsApp claimed that they were simply unable to intercept communications, and now we find out that, without any user interaction or approval, messages which haven't received the "double check" are re-transmitted when a new key is generated.

In some highly specific but easy-to-imagine scenarios (eg, a journalist on the ground in Tahrir Square using WhatsApp to report on conditions, receiving no replies), WhatsApp is hugely vulnerable in a way that most of us didn't think it was.

So look: nobody here is trying to diminish your tireless work and your accomplishments in bringing freedom into the information age.

But there are nuances here that are important, and fleshing them out is a big part of what this community is about.
Female workers give male colleagues simulated blowjobs at Tencent
Microsoft's CL.exe is, through the /MP option
Hey @wcbeard10,

This course will focus primarily on TensorFlow. We're doing so because, at the moment, it's the most popular Deep Learning framework and provides you enough flexibility to explore some of the newer network architectures we focus on towards the end of the program.
Trying to predict the future of VR based on tech specs is kind of silly, because I feel the determinant of the timeline of its success is dependent upon what applications are built for it. All it will take is one or two well executed applications that require VR to be used, that motivates folks sufficiently to purchase hardware (a $99 mobile VR headset being a starting price point) that will bend the curve. But, obviously its hard to predict what these are, otherwise someone would have built it already.
It seems like, to achieve diversity like this, especially in the Engineering team, you'd have to have a bias and preference to candidates that "increase diversity". How are you not passing on many people better qualified to do the job? To me, such a bias is, itself, discriminatory. Why judge candidates based on such shallow considerations as gender?
No. In order to get permission to transport what you're testing and administer it to patients you need to file an Investigational New Drug application and approval stipulates that you don't market or charge for anything related to the clinical trials until the final New Drug Application is approved.

The problem is that "young blood" isn't some new drug it's just blood. Once the FDA approves something, they have almost no control over how a legally practicing doctor administers the treatment. Various ethics and medical boards, depending on the jurisdiction, have authority to ban the doctor from practicing medicine but blood transfusions are such a common thing and liability is always enforceable so it's hard to justify here. Done properly the risk of complications is small and there are proven treatments to many of the rare issues. I think this treatment is ridiculous but whether it is clearly unethical I think falls to a matter of opinion.
~80% focusses on TensorFlow, but we are working on Keras content in other Nanodegrees!
We were doing in-place walking in VR a couple years ago with the DrumPants foot sensors. It worked surprisingly well and IMO was more immersive than using a hand controller: https://youtu.be/T2K0zWZMC5E
And doughnuts, coffee, ramen, and soda.
They are ubiquitous and compliment each other in full stack entry level developer roles.
When you are neither hungry nor tired, hack.
> I have a hard time seeing anything you're pitching as much beyond what you could get with a Wii

Try it. It's much more compelling than a Wii.

I think the Wii had part of the jigsaw. Imagine Wii/Kinect interactions, a really vibrant indie-dev culture plus that really hard to explain thing - "presence". It's a fascinating time to be part of a technology. I can only think of a few things that came close - the original home computing and video game boom (I was a child - so everything was wonderful), the early days of my time on the internet and the early iPhone/Android days ("I've got a proper computer in my pocket!").

I haven't been this excited about tech for a long time.
I don't like Obama's expansion of the surveillance state, but he's at 260 executive orders, compared to 291 for Dubya and 381 for Reagan, and a whooping 3,522 for FDR.
Did Hacker News delete the original Guardian WhatsApp article post?
> the majority of users will probably not verify keys. That is our reality

The server having knowledge of who it can MITM without getting caught is irrelevant if nearly 100% of users verify keys.

I want a better reality.
www.pixiedustVR.com It's old, but that's what happens to company websites when they have paying customers. ;) If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly doug at pixiedustvr You can see our WebVR work 3d-testing.tollbrothers.com
Your thoughts may always be in a language. I tend to have images more than words.
Would you say that this program is subset of material covered in car nano-degree program?
Not a big surprise, considering that SVN is "CVS done right".

Compare that to Git's author: "Subversion has been the most pointless project ever started. There is no way to do cvs right."

Git and Hg (+ the many tools that surround them: GitHub, Bitbucket, Gerrit, GitLab, etc.) have a model that makes community contribution far easier than CVS and SVN.
We think one action that raised diversity of our engineering team was raising the bar to include evaluating for soft skills in addition to technical skills. In general, raising the bar and having a more rigorous process tends toward more diversity: https://medium.com/inclusion-insights/want-to-hire-more-dive...
>Given the human body contains trillions of cells, each carrying the complete set of genes, which cells would be targeted by the therapy?

Depends on the disease being treated. Obviously it would be extremely infeasible to edit all cells of all types in an adult human with existing technology.

>If the CRISPR therapy targeted only cells in a certain organ or region, does this mean the person would have different sets of genes in different parts of their body?

Yes that's correct and would be the case in any proposed adult humam crispr treatment.

>What does this mean for any children born post-treatment? Do they inherit the new genes or are they stuck with the old crappy version?

Only if the therapy edited the germline cells (sperm and egg), which would probably be unintentional.
There were many issues with health insurance prior to Obamacare. Obamacare did not fix very many of these things, and broke a great deal of other things.

Sure, it's nice that pre-existing conditions are covered better and 26 and under people can get insurance with their parents, but those kinds of benefits could have been covered by a one or two page bill. What's in the rest of it? Special deals for corporations such as AARP.

The law does nothing about making malpractice insurance more affordable, or making the malpractice lawsuit environment more rational. Why is that?

Why is my employer still involved in my health insurance? Why not move the tax benefits from my employer (it's a company, and cannot get sick) to me? My employer doesn't need the insurance. I do.

Why can't I buy insurance across state lines like other insurances?

Why are there separate 'risk pools'? The US is a single market - there should only be one risk pool. This would put maximal pressure on the insurance companies in terms of cost as they would have to compete for my business instead of negotiating cozy deals with companies (and companies don't get sick).

Why does the gov't get to tell me what's in my plan? If I'm a single male, why do I need to buy a plan that covers ObGyn? Why can't I buy a high deductable plan anymore?

Why does Obamacare think its wrong for doctors to own medical facilities?

If controlling cost is so important, why is it practically impossible to find out the cost of anything ahead of time? This makes making decisions based on cost impossible. Why is the price one person pays radically different than what another person pays? Why does cost have no relationship to quality? I can get an MRI with a brand new machine or with a 15 year old machine that produces crap images, and the crap will cost more. Why not require publication of prices?

Why is it that my dad, a wounded combat veteran, cannot get decent health care at the VA in a major metropolitan area? The VA is completely controlled by the gov't. It is the gov't. And yet, if he goes to a private hospital to get decent care, he gets penalized.
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Probably just elision for convenience in speech - the same reason the name of the state in which I live is usually pronounced "Merlin". Perhaps ironically, the only person I've met who pronounced the full name was an English fellow.
That is only because of bad parenting really. Discuss...
I wonder why nobody wrote "Undocumented Mac OS" books. This is an issue where the confusion lasted for years thanks to Apple's documentation.
The Privacy Threat from Always-On Microphones Like the Amazon Echo
This is all new material!
Hi @halite,

I'd say that covers a larger breadth of Deep Learning than the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program. For instance, this program will cover Recurrent Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Autoencoding, and other Deep Learning applications not covered in the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree. In the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, we primarily focus on Deep Learning applications in Computer Vision. Here we'll cover applications in speech, computer vision, game-playing and other areas.
The "complex, multidimensional problem on a single, linear axis" is the economy - mismanagement of same over the last eight years results in where we're at. It should improve going forward... :-)
An artifice-ial language constructed based on ostensible ideological "homeland" based in the Baltics, is closest to one of the Baltic languages ?

Gee, you don't say.
Hey kids,

If you run any sort of database, now's the time to put it behind a firewall.

Hugs and kisses,
Common Sense
Because it's easier for people to deal with than real programming languages like C++ and Erlang.
The same practice is used by meat producers in the US.

In fact the practice was invented here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
>The fancy 'public healthcare' rhetoric coming from a UK research project is all well and good for now, but we all know that this will end up being a mandatory part of any health check for insurance purposes.

Why not? Why shouldn't people who take care of themselves get cheaper insurance?
Perhaps Trump is unpredictable... but the people he's choosing for his administration are not.
Pretty sure it's not maintained anymore, but "namebench" is a good tool for selecting the best DNS servers for your current location.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/downloads
Microsoft is having some serious issues
Facebook's grander ambitions for AI
Clicking that link will automatically log you in as Viorel Alexandru (check out the top/right part of the page).
JavaScript is a must know if you want to do web work. It's as necessary as HTML. It's the only language browsers actually natively run.

Ruby on Rails is sort of the basis for most any other modern MVC web framework. That is to say it inspired nearly every other web MVC framework, in most other languages. If you can use Rails you'll be able to use most anything else. Prior to Rails most web apps had proprietary frameworks powering them or no framework and were just an bunch of "pages" (endpoints) loosely strung together.

Rails also, for better or worse, has one of the easiest to use ORMs-- ActiveRecord. This helps new folks worry less about the intricacies of learning SQL (or whatever your persistence layer is) and more so about what writing a web service is really about.

Ruby as a language is also very expressive, is truly object oriented, and has all the right building blocks (that's kind of a pun actually), plus a very large amount of documentation and examples. It also is very good for meta programming which is what enables a lot of the rails magic (and fun).

At the end of the day learning more languages like PHP, Python, Java after Ruby is fairly trivial. I always tell noobs to learn whatever is useful for them, and stop worrying about what language.

I started with Ruby 10 years ago and now can write Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Elixir, Objective-C, and Swift; though I am by no means an expert in all of them. At some point you'll realize you've learned concepts and they're what is important. Not syntax.

P.s. don't let my username fool you ;) I'm just unfortunately hipster.

Edit: added some thoughts on why your first language isn't so relevant and a bit of clarity.

Edit 2: fixed absent minded use of rails where I should've written ruby.
This doesn't work in my office. The lights go off at 9pm and the few rare times I've been there myself, the hard workers, self starters, and "getting the job done" people that were still there, kept on working. In the dark. Half the times, I was the first and only person to go hit the buttons to turn the lights back on lol.
Programming concepts come more easily the more gradually they are revealed. Nobody has any concept of what a stack overflow is or why it's important on day 1. Ruby is approachable and fairly forgiving and (at least in MY opinion) VERY readable.

Full disclosure: I went to engineering school for 2 degree and then later attended (and currently work for) a code school.

I can say that I can see a marked difference in students that go through Ruby as a first programming language vs JS. Ruby-first students are more ready to deal with new ways of doing things and they are, in general, less likely to have serious learning issues. JS-first students tend to have more consistent problems grasping things like scope and return values. It IS possible it's bent as such due to our curriculum, but all I can tell you is what I've seen in our students.
If you just get 4 years delayed, college isn't worth the debt (same income? or worse? 4 year 'prime' delay)
Here is my version of a portal I wrote while teaching scratch coding to middle schoolers.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/
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It doesn't work in Myanmar either I have found. I'm guessing more for politic than IP right issues though.
> If it were truly the lowest-cost, best-outcome method to deliver care to an entire population, don't you think one of the hundreds of countries would have proven that by now?

So, do you think everything's already been solved? There have been 100 billion people in Earth's history. Wouldn't you think one of them would have proved P vs NP by now?

If you have a legitimate argument against a cleaner, free(r), less corrupt health-care system, feel free to bring it forward.

But no, in modern medicine's one century of existence, the problem of finding the best health-care implementation has almost certainly not been solved. In fact, only a dozen or so countries have had the economic capability to sustain modern medical practice on a large scale for more than a couple decades. The others constitute the "second/third worlds."
The entire idea of using a default null hypothesis and calculating a p-value in order to learn something is fatally flawed to begin with. If p-values are to be of any use, the hypothesis you are trying to reject needs to be predicted by your theory/model, so set that as the null hypothesis. You know... how science works. To start you off:

http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf

http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/30/why-the-garden-of-forking...
The internet has shown us how wonderful instant access to the world's information can be, and we've decided that everything is better with internet. Its an extremely coherent point to make, in my opinion.
Hope it's the next coming of WebOS, which itself was a few years ahead of it's time being javascript based on a platform that didn't give it a chance to succeed.
My guess is that they are the flavor of the month (knowing only Rails+JS is widely employable), and have a low enough barrier to entry that you can realistically teach someone enough to be useful in the timescale of a bootcamp. Add a little HTML/CSS and you can do front end as well.

I think the auto-magicness of Rails helps, since it gives you so much even if you are relatively inexperienced. Then you have a jumping off point, to start learning on the job, earning money and you can ostensibly choose your own adventure from there.

edit: I'm not sure what's objectionable about this comment. I'm new here and trying to be helpful, so if I've gone against some rule, I'd like to know so I can learn from it.
Yeah for games it's not much of an issue.

It becomes more of an issue if you are doing a "business" app, where there's a lot of moving between pages and a lot of eventual page refreshes.
Yes. The skepticism was less around whether the goal of D&I is a good thing and whether it might be more important for us to invest in other things for the success of our business.

We believe that inclusion is worth the investment. At the core, creating an inclusive environment is about employee engagement. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_engagement) One company that studies the importance of employee engagement consistently is Gallup. Here is an interesting article on the intersection of diversity and engagement: http://www.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/190103/using-employee-e... "Engagement and inclusiveness are closely related. Gallup has also found that engaged employees are more likely to say their company values diverse ideas."
I don't think that's possible because the first person never really has a complete tree picture to begin with. Instead you have a while bunch of sub-impressions which your brain dynamically invents from old experiences as your attention wanders.

Even if you transfer all the input-requirements, the other person's procedural generator will give a different set of outputs to satisfy them.
I felt like after a week in winter in Seattle and then returning to summer in Australia. Everything was so bright and colorful.
I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me, or proving my point by example.
Any one anecdote is not sufficient to establish truth, yours included. Instead we usually employ the scientific method. In that context, the following two studies (which are good, frequently quoted examples, but are reproduced in many other context) make it more plausible that your observations are either outliers, or are colored by a personal bias:

- Blind interview where the gender is unknown lead to gender parity in hiring (example of a particular industry, reproduced in others): https://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

- When everything else is equal, the same applicant is rated lower if they are female: http://www.yalescientific.org/2013/02/john-vs-jennifer-a-bat... (link to the study itself http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full )

If you would like so, I can provide some more links to aggregations, rebuttals, and meta studies that as a whole confirm the general ideas uncovered in the above studies, but with cursory googling you will be able to do the same yourself.

I can agree that poorly instituted or misapplied affirmative action policies are harmful for everybody. I can agree that "PC culture" can be poisonous and detrimental. But most objective measurements do show that there is indeed bias against minorities and women.

P.S. The self-aggrandizing talk about unicorns and millions is making the rest of your argument difficult to take at face value. Similarly with the fairly off putting implication that respecting women is the same as being subservient to women (the talk about "betas").
Nobody is guilty of anything. It just isn't really true that the name is completely unrelated to slavery and lynchings.
What do you mean by verifiablity?

If you are using a casual, inspection = verification definition then I think most would agree that it is true that open source is easier to inspect.

But "verified" software often means formal mathematical verification, and that is orthogonal to if the source is open.
Being able to lift 300 lbs. is also very often a useful life skill, but it's a skill that shouldn't usually affect one's salary unless it actually leads to better job performance.
You mean over the last 40 years?
But does it really need to be said? Most utterances are not unique; ideas and insights can be found with a simple Google search. For example, there was a recent screening of "Hidden Figures": http://www.forbes.com/sites/katieelizabeth1/2017/01/10/silic.... Maybe it's what this post refers to, maybe not. But reading similar articles for a year would produce a set of insights about Silicon Valley, just as being at Y Combinator would, and it's not clear that the one set of insights would be any less valuable than the other. YC insights might even be counterproductive, because they're designed for a different situation: http://twocents.lifehacker.com/chasing-habits-of-rich-people... http://nathanbarry.com/ignore/
Nowadays you can use something like Cheat Engine, and many emulators have built-in support for freezing values in old games.
"Wow!" products usually don't happen overnight though. Take the iPhone for example! Apple was playing around with ideas for tablets, handhelds, PDAs, and other stuff for decades before they launched that. A lot of "what if" prototypes were made and dead end projects ensued.

Google kinda had the right idea with 20% time, I think. In order to make truly ground breaking ideas, you have to have a little bit of margin for playing with ideas. If you make your entire business about trimming fat, making synergies, and maximizing the efficiency - squeezing it out of everyone involved, you're no longer an innovator, you're just an assembly line.
> It'd be trivial to sign the new public key with the old private key

How would these 'trivial' steps look like if a telephone gets stolen or upgraded? What easy steps did Facebook & Moxie overlook?
Shouldn't college get you a higher salary? If all it does is delay your earning potential for four years why would anyone do it?
California must have a supermajority in the legislature to approve taxes. [2]

That's not true, and your referred source doesn't say that.

That said, the Democrats have full supermajorities now.
Given the state of the economy in 2008, I think we're going to need to back a little more than eight years I'm afraid.
Stop misusing the word "fake news."

Business Insider is not the New York Times, but even they would not openly fabricate a source [1]. My guess is they ran a story with an actual source, but the source was speculating.

[1] Outright making stuff up is the definition of fake news. 100% made up.
Another +1 for TypeScript. I've been doing almost all of my development in it using VS Code for over six months now and it's been the most enjoyable JS-related experience I've had to date.
But keys changes are pretty frequent and normal things that happen between clients - this would be an awful and inappropriate warning almost every time it was shown.