skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our site got hacked by a guy who tagged our blog with "hacked by muhmademad", which seems to have a few hundred thousand results as of a minute ago.

Even large institutions and websites have been hit: Harvard, MIT, glennbeck.com, and many more.

Make sure to update to 4.7.2 if you are running a Wordpress install of 4.7.0 or 4.7.1. There's a REST vulnerability that allows someone to bypass authorization to update or post.
What ever happened to quantum computing, DNA computing, and optical computing?

Are consumers ever going to see a general purpose computer based on any of those technologies on their desktops?
> As far as I understand it, the pipeline being fought over symbolically rather than for reasons that make analytic sense. If there's an environmental argument, it's that the pipeline will make using shale sands oil from Canada cheaper which is a Bad Thing because we use more stuff when it's cheaper.
> The correct approach would be to make fees and penalties for environmental impact higher (carbon tax, EPA able to levy big fines for oil spills, etc.) and then let the market figure it out rather than fight like crazy over specific cases.

I think you are totally correct, except that the `correct approach` only works if you have a functioning and independent (of the regulated) regulatory system able to assess the impact, and levy taxes, fees, and fines to price in all the externalities.

Defunding / freezing these agencies certainly doesn't help their ability to function, and funding the campaigns of (or challengers in the primaries of if need be) the regulators as well as having sympathetic people placed at the top of the regulatory enforcement agencies destroys independence.
If competition with basic keyword search survives, the benefit of implementing something more sophisticated might just not be worth it. With search you usually know what you are looking for and can pin it down quite well with classic keyword search, discovery happens elsewhere.
I think what he meant to say was that companies should learn it in 3 years or the competition will drive them out of business. I don't think he meant individuals will be dinosaurs, but startups that fail to take advantage of ML/AI.
I don't know Alex Zaitchik personally but I follow his work.

The Radio War Nerd podcast people interviewed him about his stay in the DAPL protest camp.

https://player.fm/series/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-1318...
Sorry if I'm missing something, but why do you care about supporting other browsers? Isn't VSCode built on Electron which is a self contained server/browser environment?
I wouldn't bother, it is an incomprehensible mess, impossible to get through, pretentious, non rigurous sloppy thinking, and ultimately a disservice to Godels incompleteness theorem.
Honestly, a statement about Haskell. Haskell just makes certain core concepts about programming and computer science really obvious and clear. Also the discipline Haskell's purity and type system forces on you leads some pretty good habits that I try to keep in mind no matter what language I'm programming in (which these days is 90+% python or JavaScript).
> Unless I'm missing something that graph's all time

Yeah, I missed that. I thought it was recent history. If we normalized by years available, Swift seems like an outlier with Go lesser so.
Or pipeline ruptures. The real point is that we need to get off fossil fuels altogether.
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The difference is that on the scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, wildlife populations have a chance to adapt or relocate. We are causing oil leaks in areas that have been historically relatively pristine, resulting in severe damage to sensitive ecosystems.
I had a dream that I had racked up a huge amount of money at a bar. In response to my exorbitant tab, the barkeep told me that he would not be able to charge me any money for it if I ran Kubernetes in production.
Higher energy costs and a slower economy are not necessarily bad

...said no politician, ever. This proposition may even be true, but it's a terrible argument.
Thank you for the writeup. What was the tool used to generate the .GIF of the shell?
> I've read over and over that the most time-consuming part of ML work is data collection & cleanup, and that matches my own experience. It is the same thing that killed so many data warehouse projects in the 90s. You don't need a Ph.D. to do it, but it is a tough and costly prerequisite. So it seems like you'll need non-ML programmers even for specifically ML projects.

Yeah, this is a very good point. I trained a simple RNN to play games a while back, and the "RNN" part was something anyone with a decent math background could self-teach pretty quickly. There are lots of tricks and speedups and complications I could have added, but the baseline product was pretty easy.

The "trained" part, though. That took huge effort, and research, and tinkering. Building up a proper dataset with usable input features was 90%+ of my effort. Most of it was too specific to standardize in any useful way, so working with an off-the-shelf system for the learner wouldn't have saved any decent amount of effort.
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I will make the argument I always make when this comes up: it's not stealing it's depriving rights holders of potential revenue. But it's really not because the market value of the content is approaching $0. That is, if I can't watch an episode of Buffy for free, I won't pay for it. I just won't watch it. This the cost I'm willing to pay is exactly $0. Therefore they lose no revenue.

If you are uncomfortable with that mental gymnastics, here is a slightly less harsh approach. I currently pay for Netflix, HBO Now, Spotify, and Audible. So I am willing to pay $40-50/month for access to high quality commercial-free content on unlimited basis. But back when iTunes was the only option for streaming at something like $1/episode and $5/movie, I would not dream of it. So I guess the cost I am willing to pay is not quite $0 per each piece of content, but it's definitely not $20 each. I think a market adjustment is coming for content producers because I do believe lots of people have similar price points.
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But more oil is used to transport the oil (in trucks/trains), so I think that increases CO2 usage overall.

Also higher prices mean more oil is exctracted - and sometimes more is used to do the extraction (IE, more marginal EROEI projects are undertaken)
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I live and work in Bristol in the UK, would really recommend it. Such a vibrant tech scene here plus lots of established companies as well as newer larger ones opening offices (JustEat for example).

The city itself has a-lot going on (not all tech focused too) and is surrounded by countryside. Loads of nearby places to visit too such as Bath or Frome

Also has great transport links to the rest of the UK plus has its own airport

Some tech focused events/groups
- Bristol JS -> www.meetup.com/BristolJS/
- techspark -> techspark.co
The rule of thumb is that engineering and startup talent pool is going to be severely restricted-people will revert to job security at larger corporations due to the depressed wages, especially for engineers.

This was actually a big reason why I turned down the opportunity to do a startup in Asia, there's very few unicorns and exits, and while living standards might be very good in places like Singapore, I felt like it would be hard to find a marketplace like the United States.

Most of my Asian Canadian friends have moved to Shanghai to pursue high tech work and hyping China and frankly I just didn't buy any of that ideological/racial bullshit. At the end of the day, North America still remains a very open and multicultural place (West Coast at least) that makes it easy to do business with a diverse group of people which is far more exciting (for me anyways) without having to travel.

Despite Trump, I feel like entering the US market is a far more exciting. I think the US economy will experience another major surge while Russia slowly goes into bankruptcy (again) and China implodes under it's debt/sociopolitical unrest that follows.

I'm doubling down on North America over China & Asia-providing jobs in Canada and United States with the expectation that I will see yuge returns.
My first major project with Go was BugReplay[1], and I had pretty much the same experience as the author. As someone with a lot of perl and python experience the idea of how restricted the language is stylistically initially seemed like a stumbling block but quickly turned into a huge asset.

Now when I go back to python or perl (or javascript) I'm super conscious of the choices I make regarding type checking and parameter checking.

[1]: https://www.bugreplay.com
Is dieharder considered as the industry standard tool for testing randomness? Is it commonly used by experts?

https://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
Kadenze has a program that eventually incorporates Deep Learning (https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-dee...). I believe it can be achieved but I haven't seen anything that clearly points out how.
Or software heritage
The issue with using a thermoelectric nuclear generator like the one on Curiosity is that there's nowhere to dump the heat. RTGs are all based on thermocouples to generate their power which requires a temperature delta between the RTG interior and exterior which is hard given the extreme temperatures of Venus. Maybe one based on thermovoltaic cells would work but those haven't been tried with RTGs yet.

Wind might be the best bet. Turn one of the dangers into a power source at least, designing one that would work for a long time in those conditions wouldn't be easy but maybe.
Not explicitly. It is used by platform libraries that these application use. Given that they are provided by the platform vendor - the same that pushes DX - it's no wonder, that it was being pushed there.

CAD, GIS, or other applications that need to use 3D explicitly, on the other hand.... Basically only Autodesk ventured there, with 3ds Max and AutoCAD (since 2015).
Maybe if it were called "copying" instead of "piracy" (on the high seas).
Too bad customers aren't always voters. Voters are the ones who count.
> With search you usually know what you are looking for and can pin it down quite well with classic keyword search, discovery happens elsewhere.

Having looked at search terms users enters on a lot of client sites, I don't believe that for a second. Users are exceptionally bad at composing search terms.
> Pipelines are much safer than trains or trucks at delivering oil or LNG.

What does it mean to be safer in this context? Pipelines have fewer spills than trucks, but a truck spill is generally limited to one truck's worth of oil whereas a pipe can spill a huge amount.
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Interactivity, yes. Action, no. Getting locked inside a room or waiting for a progress blocker to be done with is hardly "keeping the action".
Yes, I've been doing this for at least a couple years. I've been writing various kinds of code for money since 1995, and no change has ever been as helpful to me as this one.

It's just a suggestion. Not everyone will like it or agree to seriously try it. I don't think it would necessarily work well for someone who's forced to use a certain editor or configuration at work, for example (and probably continues to rely on highlighting elsewhere outside of that job, preventing the mode shift from settling in).

But I think a good many developers who haven't considered this might discover as I have that it helps them to be calm and focused on higher problem-solving at the levels that matter to them. It really is liberating to read and write code more broadly as a meaningful language rather than just fitting and stacking bits and pieces together. You might reasonably claim you can just ignore the highlighting at will, but I and others have discovered after making the move (and really giving it time to set in) that we didn't realize how much the highlighting anchored our thinking to syntax.

I've had no more trouble at all preventing or finding bugs without highlighting than I did before. Also, while I've never used one I know that there are syntax-aware editors (or probably plugins for all the usual editors) that will show you broken syntax without drowning your code in syntax color.
The only time it'll be tested is in hindsight. If you scrape the data and put it on your laptop, they don't really care. If you then sell the data, they can come after you for breach of service.

They're not trying to keep you from scraping, they're trying to keep you from using the data in ways that would be distasteful to their users.
I 'm not even sure why it provokes such reaction. Neural networks have existed for 4 decades ; without the deep- part, but we know their potential power and we still have not been replaced. Granted, this time it's different. I think what worries most of us is that neural nets need lots of data and we don't have access to it. Still, they are easy to learn and we should be learning about them (note to self).
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I haven't looked into the moon too much, but if I recall correctly it has a much less diverse selection of resources than Mars does.

That said, I don't think it's an either or situation. Industry on either body will inevitably be just about 100% robotic, so at the point where we're harvesting a given resource from Mars it very well may make sense to also get it on Luna. In particular, metal deposits from large asteroid strikes are probably worthwhile.

I'd love to see some literature on fuel production (pref methalox for ITS) on the moon. I have no idea whether there's sufficient resources, but if there are that could certainly be useful.
You're 100% correct, but even if there are "paid protestors" I really don't get why that's a bad thing. Everyone working for the pipeline is getting paid!
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477384
We never got the 20 hour work week partially because people actually want to reap the benefits of that increased productivity, like smartphones, better food, etc. It's much cheaper to live at a 1950s standard of life.

We are also forced to spend more in many cases; taxes are higher, EPA vehicle regs are stricter, etc. I am effectively forced to give away ~40% of my work time to federal and state governments (not including taxes on the employer side, like payroll taxes), and I don't make much as a student.
This sounds like a step towards making Slack more of a knowledge repository and possibly a wiki replacement. One of my (many) qualms with knowledge repository tools like Google Sites is that searching them is basically useless. Another is that knowledge in these repos becomes stale really quickly. If you can put meaningful information in a Slack post, you can take advantage of the recency-focused nature of chat and smarter searching algorithms like the one described here, and essentially make an internal Google for your organization. Kudos to the Slack team, very interested to see how this evolves.
Yeah sure, http://imgur.com/a/iPGOv so which one am I going to select?

This is after one tick down with the mouse wheel.
As someone from Waterloo, I just feel a bit insulted :P

In terms kind of analogous to the Bay Area, Toronto is like SF, and Kitchener-Waterloo is like Palo Alto. Hamilton feels more like parts of the East Bay.
Holograms? Even a half-assed hologram, but with excellent voice would do the trick.
I've heard a lot of rumblings from the right about Soros etc being behind any real protest activity on the left. In particular with the DAPL, I'm left wondering what he would have to gain from supporting said protest at all, let alone the suggestion that the protest is entirely manufactured to begin with to further his interests.
It's not stealing, it's sharing. You're not depriving anyone of anything. It's not a lost sale. The TV and movie industries are making more money than they ever have, because of all the sharing.
> The green-card omission was a mistake,

Only in that the political backlash was unexpected, forcing the Administration to backpedal.
Should be a short list since Stack Overflow is not the place for book recommendations.
I'm not sure. But I think knowing that the default mode is usually to ask the wrong questions can help us. It provides a new lense for analyzing any ideas that come up: "What assumptions am I sub-conscioisly making here? What current paradigms does the idea depend upon?" etc.
Yet another reason to browse with javascript selectively disabled.
Exactly. Controlled, organic growth that preserves the existing mixed use culture of a neighborhood through political activism is pretty much the definition of NIMBYism to the transplant who thinks their well-paying professional job should give them a right to live in their favored city with affordable rent.

I'm pretty much a fan of Jacobs but, as the article even notes, she wasn't generally viewed as much of an advocate for affordable housing. I think it's generally fair to say that she was far more focused on the quality of life and aesthetics of the city than necessarily making it possible for the maximum number of people to live there.
Because the base Monaco editor is used in other products besides Code. The example I've seen thrown around is configuration editing in Azure consoles.
Merit based immigration solves this problem.
Perhaps I need glasses. :)
That means for the 1% to own 99% of everything, they must have bled cash from corporations for a generation, holding their wealth in cash, leaving corporate valuation at a symbolic level?
>It’s nice to see CSP in a language I can use for production, and very gratifying to find that it really is an effective tool for carving up concurrency problems. If there is one pitch the Go designers have knocked right out of the park, this is it. I’m already sure I’m going to miss it a lot in Rust.

Wait until he realizes that Rust has channels, too. It's not as pure as Go's implementation, but it's a superset.
No. If you begin committing identity theft, Yes.
No, it hasn't, which is why most of the times people say this they do it without specific examples, and when they do provide specific examples they are immediately shown to be radically different than what Trump implemented.
Hey I work on Metabase, thanks for the kind words and feedback.

Regarding pulling data from APIs, there's nothing inherently stopping us (or you) from pulling data from APIs (in fact that's what the Google Analytics driver does). Are you looking for integrations with specific 3rd party APIs, or an easier way to integrate with your own APIs?

Feel free to respond here, email me, or file a GitHub issue. Thanks.
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How some of the most captivating Super Bowl ads could be revamped
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> From a business owner you're essentially saying "I achieved the tasks, things are stable. Now pay me less and I'll go do other things" Sounds like a better deal then "now I shall fill up the time with tasks I claim are important that you don't understand but must pay for."

I'm still confused. Are you formally getting paid less than a comparable full-time (40 hours) worker, or are you getting paid with the assumption that you work 40 hours a week? You said you get "full-time pay" earlier, but now it seems you're saying you actually have a special reduced pay arrangement of sorts.
We do need more Venus exploration, but the reason Mars is getting all the attention is that we can actually settle Mars with our current tech, whereas Venus is probably only habitable with floating habitats that will need to be constantly supplied from Earth. There's a difference between exploration and colonization.

As an example, you can visit an Antarctic research station, but people actually live in Arizona.
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That's yet a different issue. Watching an old episode of Seinfeld does not violate anyone's privacy.

Theft: you have a painting. I took it.

Copyright infringement: You painted a painting. I took a picture of it and sold/gave away prints to all my friends.

Violation of privacy: I got into your phone and looked at all your dick pics.

Warrantless search: The police got into your phone and looked at all your dick pics, possibly finding evidence of a crime.

They are different issues which can look similar at times, but are actually completely separate. Pretending like they are is just adding muck to this discussion.
I agree, but I have both and it's much less useful than Google Home because of how limited the interface is. I'm a little butthurt because I was an early adopter of Echo and I have seen little progress in their voice recognition, interface, and capabilities.
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Even if Rust were as complicated as C++, with its ridiculous number of interacting features and backwards compatibility constraints, it manifests very differently: the Rust compiler keeps track of the complexity and tells you when things go wrong, while the programmer has to do pretty much all of this manually in C++. Many of the constraints Rust requires are constraints that people often try to do manually in C++ (e.g. avoiding dangling references and use-after-move), hoping that they get it correct.
Dieharder works OK, and you can easily install it on Ubuntu as a command-line tool. PractRand and TestU01 are more stringent and give you more knobs to play with.
From reading the article, it looks like one political appointee decided that additional review was required, and her replacement decided that the original review was convincing. Given that it would be the replacement that evaluated the new review, is there any reason to wait for it if the original one is already convincing to him?

More to the point, is there a reason to trust Jo-Ellen Darcy's opinion over that of Douglas Lamont and Colonel John W. Henderson, P.E.? (It seems like of the three, the Colonel's opinion is the least likely to be politically biased and most likely to be based on engineering judgement.)

EDIT: Actually, I think I might have been overly harsh on Mr. Lamont here. He is also a PE, and was appointed in 2004, which makes me think he might not be in a political job, either. http://asacw.hqda.pentagon.mil/Lamont.aspx
with fleet you could have a single kubernetes master that would've been started on another node, as soon as one node would go down. that won't work with just systemd units.
Isn't voting in India already anonymous?

I suspect that even with anonymous voting people's psychology will compel them to vote for the party who gives them a gifts.
Is this site opensource? I am curious to see the source for a Phenomic project.
I fully understand your issue. Creating a new cluster means for me running a script that sets up a new cluster in ~15min. There is https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic which can help simplify your cluster setup if you run in a enterprise environment.

You can also take a look at https://coreos.com/tectonic where coreos provides a enterprise kubernetes distribution that supports updating a kubernetes cluster without downtime but I personally haven't tested tectonic.
I am not sure what that purpose would be if not to spread life into a cold, empty universe.

In my view, sending our physical bodies elsewhere is irresponsible unless they are a container for a store of meaning and magnanimity that we've not yet expressed here on earth. It's as irresponsible as the US sending forces to Iraq with nothing to offer except carnage and art lessons about Marcel DuChamp's Toilet. (See Adam Curtis' amazing docu, Bitter Lake.) We acted as envoys of freedom and democracy, but it turned out we lacked the substance.

I'm reminded of Cpt. Adama's speech in which he essentially asked "Who are we? Why do we deserve to survive?"