skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spez (The CEO and one of the admins) has admitted to shadow-editing comments posted by other users without visible tracking (normally edits get a *, and I'm otherwise not aware of any mod- or user-facing ability to do so for comments that are not yours) on /r/The_Donald[1].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/spezgiving-how-re...
OpenAI's Ian Goodfellow on General Adversarial Networks
So 20 years of internet, the rise of mobile and hi-speed connectivity, the multiplication of communications means including emails, chats, text and social network and the paper mail is still here.

I still receive all my most important communications through the mail box, including anything related to administration, voting, my landlord, invitations to major life events, bank details, etc.

Now if you hope to kill email, you gonna have to remember that.
I see this decision as good in the sense that it allows the people hosting comments sections to pay Disqus directly, allowing it to be somewhat more independent.

The more I learn about advertising, the more I find arguments against it compelling. Disqus is a comment system that facilitates the free exchange of ideas. If it relies significantly on ads, then advertisers can begin to police it by threatening to pull sponsorship. This eliminates productive discussion that threatens the interests of advertisers. For instance, advertisers don't like placing ads alongside people that care too much about things, they prefer people to be lightly entertained and in a buying mood. They also don't like placing their ads alongside controversy, as it can negatively impact their brand.

Thus reliance on advertising introduces an interdependency on a relatively small set of giant corporations' goodwill, even for niche activities and will, which when push comes to shove, substitute their positions for the managers' of Disqus. Allowing advertisements to be turned off actually immunized Disqus somewhat from this problem, but having advertisements on everywhere enables it. Allowing users to pay to turn them off probably more than offsets this, though it does impact exceptionally poor users (who, for some reason, are probably more likely to dissent controversially). That could be ameliorated by case-by-case ad waivers if the issue comes up, though it does come close to Disqus endorsing a controversial issue.

Maybe this seems like a minor issue, but Disqus provides a platform for debate, and advertising can act to bound the limits of debate for better or worse. I would prefer if the Disqus managers could act according to their own moral compass when under pressure.
Agreed. I also think it's hard to make the "I forgot" defense without demonstrating an effort to comply. "I tried to help but can't remember", while still suspect, is more compelling than "I can't remember and I don't feel like trying".

Although that makes me wonder if there's any legal incentive not to attempt to comply if you're not confident you remember. Maybe there's some greater legal vulnerability if the failed attempt is interpreted as deceit and treated more seriously than refusal.
The Panasonic G80/G85 is a nice 4k cam. I use the predecessor (G7) for webinars.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g85-g80...
Make sure to check ticalc.org for your calculator community needs ;-) It is based around Texas Instruments calcs and has downloads for compilers, assemblers, utils, games, etc.
Seems to be working for me with Chrome 56.0.2924.87 for Windows.
You think a brain has to be connected to a machine to be hacked? Ask a cult deprogrammer if you need a computer to hack a brain. Ask an "enhanced interrogator" if you really need anything more sophisticated than a pair of pliers or a rag and a bucket of water.

We have always been able to hack each others' brains by manipulating sensory inputs, and by using conditioning.

And we have more recently been able to use drugs to target particular classes of neuroreceptor. Does taking a dose of LSD or Salvia divinorum count as hacking a brain? How about heroin or cocaine?

Even if you have a computer wired directly into your brain, it will likely be a long time until anyone can do anything more complicated than reading out from or injecting into one of the sensory inputs. And so guess what? No one will be typing "these aren't the droids you're looking for" into a console window and piping it into your brain. Instead, they will yank out just one fingernail, save the sensory stream to a file, and hit the "replay" button until you decide to cooperate.

Hopefully, no one will be so foolish as to connect their brain directly to the Internet, without some sort of firewall.
Sounds like Kodak's fate.
Team-based hiring and contracts are real
IBM uses Watson to fill cybersecurity gaps
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I don't know that that can work in the tech sector — you'd have to scale down "long time" to accommodate higher pay (and thus earlier retirement) and even then I'd be wary of taking a job if I knew the pay was heavily backloaded.
Humble Freedom Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Next tutorial will be "Cross-Browser Testing Is Hard" ;)
Sure, as long as you ignore all the costs of people cutting their soda consumption (e.g. costs to soda drinkers that have a healthy lifestyle, loss of utility from switching to a lower-valued activity, redirection of resources to substitutes).

But if you're going to make that assumption, just ban soda, since you no longer recognize any upsides to it.
It's not easy to tell who is who unless they investigate, so they end up investigating the innocent as well as the guilty. Take the inauguration, there were so many peaceful protesters, coupled with a few idiots who chose to be violent, like this guy, who was charged in a plot to attack people by dumping acid into a ventilation system at an inaugural party:

https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-conspiracy-commit-as...
You may have to pay extra for the iPhone 8 wireless charger pad
Browser and OS?
Was an interesting talk, thanks!
This headline seems a bit overzealous, as if this new theory is the final answer.

This new theory, noted as contradicting one from 2014 and 30 years of previous conventional scientific wisdom, came after researchers "looked into larger computational samples of iron than studied previously". What will be the headline and tone in several more years, when someone comes along and studies an even higher number of samples and coming to an entirely different conclusion?

Doesn't it seem more appropriate and useful for the scientific community and publishers of these studies to be careful not to state their findings as conclusive and act as if their most recent study does much more than to estimate what might be happening?
Sorry if anyone considers this spam. I don't, since it's 100% to Charity - and they're even matching $300,000.
Instead of digging through OP's Reddit history, it would have been much more useful for everyone if you lent OP your trained eyes and had a look through his project's codebase (which is quite small). Screaming "NO!" at every attempt to implement crypto primitives is not a constructive form of criticism.

Regarding the Reddit thread, I actually enjoyed a response much more than the comment you linked:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5iv1ti/rolling...
Those programming jobs exist because someone at some point discovered a problem that could be solved through statistical techniques. The difference is between moving quickly and exploring new problem spaces and really hammering home on well-defined problems that have solutions that need to be implemented in a way that looks a lot like normal software engineering.
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Here are some things that I'll try to remember to get to:

1. Disposable Code
2. History of the Design of the compiler, including all the other stuff I've tried.
3. My own programming background.
4. Comments in the code
5. Smaller code vs. Readable Code and Quality vs. Size
6. Abstractions and their proper use
7. The aesthetics of programming
That's what 'perfect forward security' is intended to solve. For more details please look up the Off The Record (otr) protocol overlay.

The basic idea is that any given session is authenticated temporally; when a session is completed the details for it are leaked so that anyone could forge content as having been within that session. Thus there is reasonable doubt about anything that was said/transferred having actually been said/transferred.
Updates to the Box .NET SDK and Support for .NET Core
Depends on the camera, but for the 1" sensors in the DL mentioned in the article, they have been using Sony chips since the Nikon 1 J5. Before that, the 1" sensors used by Nikon were made by Aptina.
The official live stream is up now here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086
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Many of these people are passionate about building the future. ...that's why they left Google.

Bear in mind, many of them are still working on self-driving cars, they just went to work for other companies. If as you say, it's a passion project, they are going to go to whoever they think is best equipped to accomplish the vision. Especially since money is no longer an issue for them.
VivTote
The average person is never going to have to use anything but basic arithmetic in 'daily life',

The average person may only have to use basic arithmetic in daily life, but I'd argue that pretty much everybody could benefit from using more math (including calculus) in everyday life. I mean, just think of anything in life that can be counted/measured and can be described by a function that can be optimized. Boom, there's an application for calculus - minimization and maximization.

This is why I disagree with the recently popular narrative about how "we don't need to teach all kids calculus" and "math isn't all that important", etc. Me, I wish I'd studied more math when I was younger. I feel like you almost can't teach too much math. If anything, I'd say the problem is a combination of pedagogy and not spending enough time on applications when teaching math.
Exactly. What reasonable company would not want slaves?

Of course, in the age of welfare, its typically better to have your employees be slaves to the state than slaves to you so you dont have to pay to feed, clothe, and house them.

But for businesses where the market rate of their employees is above the wage to keep that person alive and housed, then slaves are a very attractive thing to have. Many people (~millions) have no moral opposition to slavery.
VivTote is a personalized rental subscription to designer handbags and jewelry
I'm only part way though this book, but I think you might find it interesting, vis-a-vis the above question:

https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Calculus-Discovering-Hidden-...
The Power of Disruption
Frankly, I can't tell you the last time I found comments on an article to be valuable. I spent the last half hour trying to work out the model before realizing I wouldn't pay a dime for it.

But I'm also not the likely demographic, so I'm left with my foot in my mouth! I can say I would pay for HN if it came to that, weird as that would be, preferably in a flat fee because it's easier to budget. HN is the only similar service I use.
Because of firewalls, proxies, and NAT.
> It's really hard for some people, especially kids, to resist getting jacked up on sugar.

Somehow that reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
Yeah - basically all working real-world systems include "and don't get clever" as one of the rules. If you can't refine your rules to be unbeatable, just put in a ban on beating the rules!

There's an old story about a Soviet pin factory that was judged by number of pins, so it made huge numbers of tiny, useless pins. In response they were switched to a weight metric, so they switched to making giant, 100 pound pins. It's not a true story, because whoever tried it would have gone to prison immediately. You don't actually need to legislate exactly how to behave, because you can just demand good faith and punish people who don't offer it.

I might sound sarcastic there, but it's pretty true. Employee metrics can work on a code of "don't cheat, jerk" as long as the cheating is detectable.
> If only the Earth were a perfectly featureless sphere how simple things would be.

<rant>

Blah, boring. I remember a girl describing how nice everything would be if everything was symmetrical and deterministic, from language, to language, to numbers, to nature, to math... In the end she went on describing heaven as such a place... Man, for the first time in my life I thought that if heaven is like this, I'd like never go there :-)

When Homer described Helen, he wrote "The most beautiful woman in the world", he left the details to the reader. Now imagine if he had added the slightest hint of determinism...

</rant>
That's the issue. They are breaking the standard contract between the reader and writer:
- We readers only pay if the writer is paid.
- We writers only write for free if the reader does not have to pay.
Name one person who doesn't have a name.
Something that beautifully summarises the Orwell/Huxley discussion for me is this quote by Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.
Of course Apple can do it. IIRC, Microsoft has. And Apple does with their iPhones -- the keyboard is on screen! So of course it's possible. They're just ... busy? :)
> they're also slooooow compared with a P&S,

You're using the wrong smartphone then - I can be taking a picture with my iPhone before most P&S cameras finish powering on, let alone are ready to take photos.

Also most P&S cameras have horrible battery life combined with proprietary batteries and chargers to ensure that your camera is never charged when you need it.
Infosys in trouble
July, really?
I thought this thing was still pretty much vaporware?
> There are numerous studies that link artificial sugar to overeating even when you account for the self-selection bias. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, so you should evaluate their quality for yourself but the story goes something like this.

Sources? This is something I spent a bit of time looking into and the consensus at the time was there was no strong consensus.
A key aspect missing from your list: Always Be Closing. Good execs are always selling, internally and externally. Your list mostly concerns the internal aspect of being an exec, but a huge part of it is selling externally. Whether they are the ones actually closing the deals or moving things along doesn't really matter, the point is they're always selling.

And at the end of the day, what's going to make or break your business is how much product you're moving. Execs are hugely important for this, in addition to all the points you mentioned.
This is really amazing. I have added it to my list of websites I am curating (https://my.mindnode.com/y4oVGAm2vzypkm3sxqzxVySu5VzN8bRhzRzP...).

It's all part of a bigger mind map I am making. :)

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/research
The problem was likely that gpg2 made a /copy/ of your gpg(1) keyring when it first ran. After that they were out of sync.

gpg2 really just needs a gpg1 comparability shim that's good enough that it /replaces/ the gpg1 tools on a system and seamlessly gets them to use the gpg2 keyring.
I can relate to that. I had my doubts about a former Chinese exchange student we hired. I was relieved when he made a very public display of anger against this 3d/globe thing we had to illustrate user activity because it happened to show Taiwan as a separate entity from China.

So I guess I can recommend that as a trigger... (Someone with a mission would have kept quiet, I think.)
And 30 years ago, how was life for these 1.6 billion that were in poverty?

Answer: it was much much worse.

Yes, things are bad right now. But in the past things were worse. And now they are getting better, very quickly.

I see no evidence that this trend won't continue.
I thought they were funny, too. Especially the one about the man who was too thin.
My wife's a professional wedding photographer, so she's got the glass as you say in the game... I'm a dunce photographer, but I've been taking photos using my phone (like everyone) and I enjoyed it, so one day I picked up one of the DSLR's with a "decent" 85mm lens on it and took a photo.

The difference is astonishing - it's night and day. The world is filled with light and depth, colours are like bonfires shadows are like the pits of the deepest mine.

But then again I guess that's one data point! It may be that in fact phone cameras are great and I'm just deluded.
Really? How so? Lenses are pretty close in price & the D600 had a much better sensor than the 6D for example.
>> Phones have eaten the DL's intended market

Dunno about that, DL's were targeted for enthusiasts. Basically Sony RX100 buyers.

>> if there was a mirrorless Nikon camera that could take advantage of decades of F-Mount lenses

There is a mirrorless Nikon camera that can take advantage of decades of F-Mount lenses. It's called the Nikon 1 series.
Artist-Names are possible. In germany, atleast, you can carry it on your Passport with ur real Name.
Blue Shift (short sci-fi story about entropy)
I don't think so; I think we're just going to wipe ourselves out, or go back to banging rocks together after devolving, as in the ending of Vonnegut's novel "Galapagos".
I'm learning linear algebra in tandem with Andrew Ng's - machine learning course on coursera. Challenging would be an apt description!
Gita doesn't say that God created the caste system. The four "varnas" are loosely translated as "castes" but that is not quite so. A varna is defined by an individual's occupation. Those who teach are brahmanas, those engaged in ruling the kingdom and protecting people are kshatriyas, those involved in business are vaishyas and those performing jobs like construction, farming etc. are shudras.

It is unfortunate that many consider a "varna" to be the same as "caste". The latter is a degeneration found aplenty in the Indian society whereas the former is simply a way of classifying people based on their occupation.

There is no parallel to the teachings of Gita. In 18 chapters, it covers all aspects of God, universe and individual and also the means of attaining liberation.
there is literally ZERO reasons that camera needs to say GoPro, Nikon, Garmin,
or Sony when the Chinese version will do the same for a fraction of the cost.

Brand and trust still have a big factor in consumer sales. Price is also often used as a cue to quality, so in some cases, being more expensive can induce sales.
And here is a great example of the valley dysfunction in action: why would you found a start-up predicated on an exit strategy?
>His teachings are just the opposite of Gita (and other Hindu scriptures), which prescribes caste based society as the act of God.

Huh? That's not really what's in the Gita. If anything it's usually read as an argument against that.
Yes. And to add a missing piece, seismic waves radiate out from the point of vibration. Some of these waves pass through the core of the earth and are received on measurement equipment on the other side. Some of these waves pass through the mantle or the crust. If we know the epicenter of the quake, then we can estimate how long these waves should take to reach our different measuring stations assuming different densities.

Given that we can know how long they actually do take, we can turn around and estimate the mean density along the straight-line path they took. When we determine that the mean density is significantly higher for paths through the center of the earth, that tells us that the material there is much denser, and so we suppose that it could be solid.
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But really only internally, at least in my experience
I think the headline is correct, in that the theory explains it. That is, the theory offers an explanation for the phenomenon. It may not, in the end, be the correct explanation, but it's an explanation.

And that's how science advances, with better and better explanations.
Preventing infinite loops in JavaScript code using Esprima
The programming community became globally dependent on a single commercial company. Using GitHub would mean contributing to that dependence and monopolization even more.
Is there truly nothing you would not do or relinquish for a large enough payment?
> The shortest path between two points is a straight line

uh?
Hey I'd love to hear about how your learning experience is going! Care to share your experiences?

I'm about to start a self-directed learning exercise focused on CS related math. I've never used online resources to learn / brush up on complex topics before so I'm a bit unsure what to expect.
Don't Nikon DSLRs generally beat Canon with their DxO sensor scores?
What's this then? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17180/windows-10-ma...

Narrator can run at the login screen too. https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/17173/windows-10-he...
You don't need to pass the tax on to those effected for it to work. As long as people pay something like the costs they impose, they'll only do it when it's worth that cost. After that, it doesn't matter if the money goes to those effected, or the local schools, or road maintenance, or whatever.

I agree that not subsidizing sugar production would be a much better step to take here.
Yea, as discussed in other parts the idea that programmers believe "People's names do not change" is demonstrably false. I am a programmer, I understand names change but you are right, there is a chance I don't account for it.

Semantically believing something is false != I didn't take it into account.
Riot might be a great platform for doing business, but it's pretty useless for any other kind of activity. If you're a political activist having an app called 'Riot' on your phone or computer is not going to look good to anyone in law enforcement.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0
and proper q/a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086
Or 3) people whose every interaction with said group of people seems to confirm the bias. At what point am I allowed to criticize the culture as a whole?
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Ask HN: How do you interview someone more senior than you?
I work with a small team of developers, and my boss wants everyone to be involved in the interview process for new hires. This was great when we were looking for an intern, but now we're interviewing for a senior position, and I'm feeling a little out of my depth (I'm 100% self taught, with a degree in Political Theory. The impostor syndrome is strong).

How do you interview someone who will more than likely end up leading you later on down the line? What should I be looking for? My gut instinct is to ask process questions, but any insight would be appreciated.
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