skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It discredits the protests: it implies that opposition isn't coming from a large number of intrinsically motivated people, but from a small number of people with money.

It's the same philosophy behind paid votes being a bad thing. Even in our capitalist society, we believe that one-person-one-vote leads to a better society than one-dollar-one-vote. You can imagine systems that aren't one-person-one-vote (and they exist; see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_... in which one real estate chairperson has equivalent voting power to fifteen thousand private citizens), but for whatever reason, America's ideal is one-person-one-vote.

In particular, when the opposition holds adherence to one-person-one-political-voice as one of its own principles, the opposition can't say "So what" without appearing hypocritical. They have to actually address that criticism directly.
If the solution doesnt make it any easier to avoid memory issues (just forces you to avoid them,) its not an attractive solution
Paid action drives public policy every day, it's the normal way things work. Do you think the people who are fighting for the pipeline are doing it for fun? Like these guys:

https://daplpipelinefacts.com/

Business interests have a huge leg up here because there is money to be made, anti-business interests like not building a pipeline are the ones that have to rely on volunteers. I sure hope there are some paid organizers helping out because they're up against a machine.
How good/bad of an idea is a kernel-level VPN?
> assuming you don't slip in a password

You actually can delete a password using shunning, but it's not a regular part of the development process. (I only mention that because many potential users are scared off because they misinterpret not being able to change history.)
Thank you for highlighting this, you are completely correct. The "rule of thumb" was not a moral law to follow.

I lack the eloquence at the moment to reformulate my statements other than to say that in financial interactions between humans and companies people tend to treat companies like they would other people while companies tend to treat people like they would other companies.
>> I think that a part of the problem is that older ML PhDs are angry that deep learning is so easy (until the learning rate fails to provide convergence of course...) and would prefer that their preferred methods would still reign supreme.

I think that's definitely a part of it, and I feel that way sometimes myself (not that I'm a PhD). But there's another side of that reluctance that lies on the axis of model accountability and explicability. A lot of modern ML/Deep Learning doesn't -feel- like we're understanding anything any more than we did ten years ago. Yes our black-box results are better according to the tests we've laid out for them, but there's something more slippery about the 'why', beyond the handwave of 'complexity'. Maybe this is just the way it will be going forward (in the spirit of Quantum's "shut up and calculate"), but it is not easy to give up something that you can wrap your head around with something that kind of just takes care of itself, especially if you're in the business of seeking knowledge instead of results.
> is it safer (or energy efficient) than carrying the oil on trains/trucks?

In essence, pipelines spill more across fewer locations while trains spill less across more locations:

Our calculation implies 0.09 incidents and 26 barrels released per 1 billion barrel-miles of crude oil transported by pipeline during a 2004-12 period. Comparing that with figures for rail, we quantify the risk of a train incident to be 6-times higher than that of a pipeline, while pipelines spill 3-times more per 1 billion barrel-miles of crude oil transported, over the 2004-12 period.

[1] http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication...
OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things.

Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface.

Also - to test chat we've cut the invitation requirement. You should be able to try the app without anyone inviting you.
The science of Marxism-Leninism is always relevant.
> What do you base this on? What would they do?

PATRIOT Act Vol. 2. It’s the lizard people I’m worried about.
>And if more than one driver provides a perfect match, then the one with the most recent timestamp is chosen. If there is still a tie, then the one with the highest file version number is chosen.

I sort of get WHY they don't priorities highest file version above timestamp, but it also seems to indicate that they have an issue with managing drivers. I'm sure it's more complicated than I imaging, but shouldn't there by a way to tell Windows that you installed a driver and you want to use that one and not the bundled/updated driver from Microsoft... Well I suppose there is, give it a newer timestamp.
Mock the wife
Thanks for taking the time to respond!

I'm not unstanding why you mentioned Java/JDBC, I'm not aware of any of the mentioned tools (redash,superset,blazer; turns out metabase uses Clojure) using Java. Only redash doesn't list SQL Server support. What am I missing?
It doesn't matter how far technology gets, there are some -isms and they are the real Dinosaurs that we have to get over and we are too small.
> Gravity decreases in proportion to distance squared between objects, but its not observed beyond a certain distance.

This isn't true. F = GMmr^-2 has infinite range. This is true from a theoretical standpoint, and it's also borne out in observations. The Andromeda Galaxy, presently 2.5 million light-years away, is being pulled toward our galaxy and will eventually collide with it. Observations on an even larger scale support the idea that the equation has infinite range.

The above theoretical construct could in principle be contradicted by observations, and if it were, someone would win a Nobel Prize, so there's every incentive to find persuasive evidence that contradicts it.
Not really a learning resource but more of general purpose tool which includes support for Regex searching as well as a number of other operations is: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

It's got some decent built-in regex examples such as IP addresses, email addresses, dates, etc.
I can appreciate why you'd feel strongly about this, but HN's survival depends on us all not personalizing conflicts the way you've done here. This community is divided on all the issues that our surrounding societies are divided about. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect otherwise. That means you're going to get HN users arguing all sides of major issues.

The internet has an evil-genius ability to push all our buttons and drive us all crazy. There often isn't enough information to know for sure what anyone else means or intends, and imagination—drawn from our personal experience, i.e. data about us, not the other—fills in the gaps. This happens especially when strong feelings come up. At that point we start responding not to the real others, whom we have next to no data about, but to evil cartoon characters who vaguely resemble them. We end up feeling surrounded by our own demons.

The way out of this dynamic is for all of us to give one another the benefit of the doubt. It's a big risk, so we all need to be scrupulous about it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598500 and marked it off-topic.
Thought experiment:

What if the copyrighted material was code instead of media?

Suppose company A invests $500M in writing code for a major new product. Development finishes and they begin selling the product and slowly recouping their costs. Now, company B comes along and surreptitiously hacks into company A, copying their their source code (they haven't stolen the source code, only copied it). Company B now begins selling a copycat product for far less than A wants to charge, destroying A's ability to earn back its investment. Has company B committed a crime?

Certainly company B let company A keep its source code, but by copying the source code it did not let company A keep its way of earning money.
I've built up quite a digital collection on iTunes, all purchased more than 4 years ago when I realised my investment in content was completely locked to the iTunes platform, with no legal means to transfer the purchased content to other platforms. For some movies I paid the same price as a Blu-ray disk, for lower quality and vendor lock-in. I refuse to invest any further money into content that I am only legally allowed to access on one vendors platform, so I purchase Blu-ray versions and keep a digital backup available that can be played on vendor strategy tax unencumbered software such as Emby and Kodi. Itunes, Google Play, Amazon Movies, non of these are viable options.
> Second offer is official/final... They want to know if I accept this week.

Simple, you have ONE real job offer. You need the job, now accept enthusiastically.

It is impossible to know if the Large, Sought-After Company will ever get it's slow, bureaucratic act together and tender you an acceptable offer.

If their offer does eventually come through -- then weigh the competitive merits of leaving. Meanwhile, you may have gained several weeks/months of work experience at the small firm, even discovered some hidden upside potential.
Mac Developer Tip: NSTouchBar in a Share Extension
About that 1952 Sedelijk Museum audio guide, and a certain Willem Sandburg
Isn't it more likely that that individual was just being a bit facetious rather than seriously claiming these people are getting a "paycheck" for protesting? That is how I took it, and was more trying to expound on how "paid protesting" could at the very least work hypothetically.
By track the status, what exactly do you mean?

For example, they submitted an application, were rejected, meet YC, got funding, etc.
the digital nomads can work remotely, so some of them just do their work in Singapore while their employers are not there.
It's true that the pay there wasn't that great for (I worked there 14 years ago), but the cost of living is on the low end if you live outside the central area.
First Amendment: Speech – Repackaging Zauderer
I've never used Slack because last I remember they don't allow local installation, therefore no access to any documents that were dropped in, is this still the case? I have been using mattermost instead, and wrote a bot which processes all documents uploaded into mattermost, extracts metadata, creates tags and summaries for each, archives the documents in an ECM -categorizing them by their tags, and opens them up for full text solr search. My understanding is that a custom solution like this wouldn't be possible with Slack, or would otherwise require more hacky solutions?
Nobody relevant watch broadcast tv with ads.
I've noticed a lot of effort over the past year to get more startups interested in YC (deal flow). I'll say what I hear a lot of startup founders saying now -- YC is just not the same anymore. It's lost its appeal and exclusiveness factor. People are just turned off from it.

I hope some of the YC team reads this comment and takes heed.
Indigenous tribes don't take unnatural forms of transportation. 160 mph on the freeway? That sort of transportation destroys lives.

You can construct corner cases for everything. This article is speaking generally of our culture and policies around drugs and calls for a more reasonable approach. Constructing a straw-man just to make a contrarian point is completely mischaracterizing the intent of the article.
It certainly can still be sold, just look at music. The industry recaptured a lot of people through a combination of affordable DRM free purchases and easy-to-use streaming. Video is getting there, they just allowed license restrictions and greedy pricing get in the way.

It's not that people wont pay for media content, it's that they won't allow rent seeking behavior to stifle cultural innovation and enjoyment.

I view trying to silo culture to extract maximal rent as considerably worse than taking away their artificial monopoly in response.
Barrett Brown is free.
Influencers should negotiate more than they do
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Exactly. You can see whether or not they applied, got an interview, and got accepted.
Lifting the (Hyper) Visor: Bypassing Samsung’s Real-Time Kernel Protection
The article title "Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm" is naive since psychopaths do not feel emotions like fear or empathy, or at least not spontaneously.[1]

I've tried to test a psychopath in the wild using a word association psychoanalysis method[2], but they are hard to find. Hospitals would not divulge names (no surprise there) and many psychopaths are senior corporate professionals who run successful companies.[3]

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-empathic-brain/2013...

[2] https://criticalstimulus.com/

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-p...
For those that do not click the links...

Applications for YC Summer 2017 are open now:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600594
Likewise, there's debuggex.com too to visualize your regex.
Danish cable companies have very recently begun to offer mix your own channel packages (I assume some channels costs more) that was great for me because I called up my provider and finally got them to give me just an internet connection.
GitX – Git GUI for MacOS
I have to agree. I applied to YC a few years back, failed, and subsequently shut down the business. If I ever start another company, I doubt highly that I would apply to YC. I'm not even really sure why. I just don't equate it with prestige anymore.
Please stop stealing from them.
Of course we will or rather we will understand what causes the phenomenon which we attribute to dark matter.

I don't really see the failures mentioned in the article as failures. We had an idea about how nature works, tested it and showed that we were wrong. It's just the scientific method at work.
CLRS is there at 14... but listed with 1 author :(
Does YC still require founders move to the Bay Area? That is a significant burden for say, older founders with families.

I mention that because the pitch says:

"We know that great founders can come from anywhere — any city, school, country or background"

But the application form says:

"If we invest in you, your group is expected to move to the Bay Area for June–Aug 2017."

There's a bit of a disconnect, and I'm curious how it's reconciled.
I agree completely. I don't have cable, but I pay for SlingTV, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and CBS All Access. If a tv series isn't on one of those platforms, I will find it somewhere else. But I won't pay $30 for one tv series.
Given that we're talking about bugs, I don't think this is a valid argument. Being forced to avoid bugs is good, yes? Even if it's not necessarily less hard to make them in the first place (which is arguable, too!).

I mean, I spend most of my time coding searching for bugs, not avoiding them.
Can you recommend somewhere else then?
Appropriate punishmments, which drugs should be illegal and under what circumstances is a totally different area of discussion but the general attitude of most societies to the recreation use of more powerful drugs is quite sensible. Drug use is also nearly universally accepted in medical circumstances so we aren't really all that polarized.

>> Why is nearly every culture against it

Sobriety and self-control are essential to a functioning society and especially a liberal democracy. Freedom, to the extent we have it, requires that we can govern ourselves.

>> People are always going to take drugs, and by and large, they are harmless

This is an argument that has never made much sense to me. People are always going to commit every crime. Laws exist because people will break them. And laws are effective deterents if the penalties are appropriately harsh. Consider that alcohol consumption took almost a generation to return to its pre-prohibition levels (around the 60's-70s').

And most illegal drugs are demonstratively not harmless, to the point its almost axiomatic.
Google's cache of this bug (loads quite slowly for some reason):

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mVrrFL...
Any rust lovers out there: Could I ask you do a benchmark comparison and a fuzz comparison. I'd be genuinely interested in the result and if (as you might hope) the Rust::regex is as fast as boost:regex, and never crashes, that would persuade at least me to finally learn some Rust!
The new REST API is turned on automatically as of version 4.7.0.

My site was hit, as far as hacks go this one wasn't too bad. They defaced the last post, the solution was to revert to an earlier revision and upgrade WP to version 4.7.2.

If we would have had auto updates enabled then this attack would have been prevented. So the takeway from this is make sure that auto updates are enabled.
grep ASIN so_dump.csv | sort -u
I disagree? It's better to not have memory safety problems than to have them!
I think you nailed it when you said exclusiveness: with so many companies per batch, there's less incentive for a startup to be one of the hundreds of companies in the YC portfolio now over any other VC firm. Yes, YC carries some brand weight still, but with less of the benefits it looked to have had before.
To say something in defence of the deep learning religion: it's a very flexible framework for expressing lots of different ideas and the ability to train all those ideas jointly if you can frame them in terms of SGD updates is very appealing.

And even if you don't want to use SGD to fit your model, the deep learning machinery can be reused for other things like bayesian inference, eg PyMC3 and Edward are built on Theano/TensorFlow respectively.

There have even been papers showing differentiable trees integrated into the deep learning framework. There is work on how to input graphs.

Maybe this is just my own desire for unifying frameworks shining through, but joint training seems to have real benefits and feature learning has clearly had a large impact on reinforcement learning.

Maybe it's not the best tool for day to day data science work, but that tends towards what tools are accessible and good enough, rather than what is best.
There are plenty of vpn we don't keep any logs services that you can run a torrent through - at that point it doesn't matter how safe the tracker is.
What does that example prove, other than the two methods aren't compatible?

If a properly designed method were passed into map it would work fine.

In essence: ["10", "10", "10"].map(Number)
https://hamilton.craigslist.ca/search/sof

Three jobs posted in the last month.

Realistically there are only 3 cities with a vibrant job market in IT in Canada. I would think that is the most important consideration when trying to list "top" cities. If you're not earning money, who cares how cheap the big macs are.

I'm not familiar with other countries, but I expect most of the other cities on this list have the same problem.
This reads like they are actually proud of this...!
I imagine its more acceptable to prohibit or demonize affectations of a minority culture than it is to prohibit the culture itself. The original American war on drugs has testimonies to suggest it came from a desire to persecute blacks and anti-war protesters.

Anecdotally, where I live the city has passed ordnances against selling or displaying wire-wrap jewelry on the streets, and I can't think of a reason to single that out except that, because the materials are cheap it is a common source of income for transient populations. You can't make them illegal directly, but you can make all their activities illegal and arrest them when they inevitably break the law.
He was already released, sort of:

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/anonymous-barrett-brown-free-r...
Hofstadter gave the keynote at Strange Loop a few years ago (the conference was named after his ideas, so Alex Miller was thrilled when he accepted). Quite an interesting talk.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/strange-loop-keynote
This sounds like a really interesting problem to work on. Are you hiring anyone for this team (esp those new to search)?
>After bending over backward to accommodate the ride-sharing company’s driverless car ambitions, city officials are tired of being taken for granted.

>Pittsburgh wrote a letter in support of Uber when the company was fined $11.4 million for operating in Pennsylvania without permission.

>Pittsburgh opened its streets to tests of self-driving cars with real people, and played along with Uber’s hasty and elaborate press event.

>Peduto asked Uber to spend $25 million on a new transit connection

So the local govt "bending over backward" is that they "wrote a letter" and allowed use of streets.
In return they wanted a $25M project. Ok.

>On Feb. 4, protestors marched on the Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, decrying the company’s “one-way” partnership with workers.

Ah, I think this is the heart of the matter. Mayor Peduto wants to seem supportive of the protesters.
I think it's because 'civilization' is fundamentally about getting everyone to agree to abide by a common code of conduct. The restricted standards of behavior that follow offer various advantages over anarchy, albeit with fewer freedoms. Drugs are essentially anarchic because they inevitably lead to less constrained behavior and thought, which are threats to those standards and the willingness of others to play by the largely arbitrary set of rules that define and sustain civilized behavior in a fundamentally uncivilized world.
Agree, as someone that's applied to YC multiple times in the past, I've decided that I will not be applying because I increasingly feel that there's a disconnect between YC's orginal purpose and what it's become.
It would help your argument if you cited public records. Is there a news story, social media discussion, some other documentation of the incident? Do we know who was involved... was it law enforcement or private security? Was the protester in a space they legally had access to or had they moved onto privately owned land?
I just read through his Wikipedia entry. I'm confused: He got 63 months in jail for uploading a "threatening" YouTube video? The rest of the charges seem to be vague "resisting arrest"-like charges (i.e. charges they just piled on to get a plea, which they got).

In fact the original reason for the raid didn't seem to result in charges against him. It is a bunch of artificial charges they piled on later, and his response to the original raid in a video that they got him on.

Not to mention that they had twelve charges at one point because he posted a hyperlink? The whole thing is really odd. I've read a few cases like this where the federal government just piles on tons of charges because they just want to "get" an individual and they're quite indifferent for what.
John Cleese's talk on creativity is both funny and inspirational, and it's become a key part of how I approach creative projects and how I encourage people to explore their own creativity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPvvPTQaMI