skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If these articles get into the math behind it, I think they will realize that, currently, the brain is just a metaphor for a style of computation.

The article does state this towards the end: "Given the utter lack of consensus on how the brain actually works, these designs are more or less cartoons of what neuroscientists think might be happening."

We don't really know how the brain does what it does.
In the back of his Ruby book, Zed Shaw gives some great advice that I think is worth reading:

https://learnrubythehardway.org/book/advice.html

I think the standout piece of advice in that is to use code as a secret weapon in another profession.
I thought so, too. But the advice I've seen, quite strongly, is that you do not want to lie to federal officials about anything, ever. Even if you're just using a hidden volume on principle rather than hiding some terrible wrongdoing, the moment you say "No, I don't have any other hidden files on here" or "There, you have access to all my files now" you've committed a federal crime. If they spot the slightest evidence showing that you've lied (which, heck, might not mean much more than finding TrueCrypt installed), they'll throw the book at you.
What are they going to do if you say you don't have a facebook account? (True in my case.) Seems difficult to verify.
It would make perfect sense if they'd bundled a controller (and/or made it more straightforward to have ipads/ipods/phones usable as controllers) and put an A8X in it.

It would've been the middle ground. Not just streaming, but not as hardcore as an XBox/PS4 (which weren't $250 when the AppleTV launched.)

The big mis-step of the 4th gen AppleTV is that they didn't pick any direction for it. It's a bit like the first-gen Watch. They just threw a bunch of crap at the wall and expected the early adopters to sift through it.
That "bitching" is both constructive criticism and helpful to highlight here in the comments so others may take note.
To those interested in arguably the most ambitious boring operation in progress, behold, Bertha in Seattle: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/About/FollowBertha
How to Learn to Code the Hard Way
Thanks for pointing out, good insight. Haven't really done a deep dive for OpenVPN as strongSwan works perfectly fine for pretty much all my use cases.

However, strongSwan (IPsec) is easy to block (e.g. if detected by big brother - GFW in China) as by default is uses UDP ports 500, 4500, while OpenVPN can easily disguise as SSL/TLS or anything. In that sense, OpenVPN can be a backup for IPsec for remote access (fighting censorship).
React + Redux for frontend. react-bootstrap + Bootswatch Paper theme for the UI. This was my first foray into anything web related, so it's good to see positive feedback.
This is pretty common - many startups have literally nothing compelling to offer many experienced, successful sales person with deep domain knowledge and networks. So you are much more likely to end up with something else, unless you are lucky.
Go 1.8 Release Notes
Requiring the government to justify human rights abuses isn't entitlement. It is common sense.
Joe Armstrong had a fun talk about the general setup how it works in 2014:

https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=603

Then it was still in the labs as a prototype. He talks about some of the limitation, the history (3G, 4G, 5G) and how it all set up. It is mostly in the context of building reactive systems and this was just the intro bit.

Also fun fact: since Ericsson controls more than half of the market in smartphone <-> internet gateways and most of those run Erlang. If Erlang stops working, no more cat videos for anyone on their phones.
Many important railroad technologies were developed by the US, even very early on: the US invented the cowcatcher and leading trucks on locomotives, and built the first locomotive to be duplicated. The Janney (automatic) coupler and the Westinghouse air brakes are major railroad innovations developed by the US, albeit in the 1870s. Geared steam locomotives (i.e., the Shay locomotive) were also developed by the US for mountainous logging operations.
Just because the FCC is 15 years behind the times on this doesn't make it a bad idea.

Google, Facebook, and advertising networks with over a certain percentage of the market should absolutely be subject to privacy regulation as well (and likely will be in another 15 years).
>There's been a groundswell recently, and the GOP response: they are not in my district, they are liberals causing trouble, etc, etc.

We're seeing this in my congressional district right now (NY21). A lot of people here are upset because our representative has basically been in hiding since last year's election (which she won handily as a young republican incumbent in a very red, rural district). She has held no announced public events, has canceled some that were scheduled, and only communicates through sound bytes provided by her staff.

So there have been protests and groups have formed that regularly march at, write to, and call her offices, asking for town hall meetings where they can actually discuss the issues at hand. [0][1]

So how has she responded? She put out a statement on Facebook that included the following [2]:

>Many members of various protest groups have repeatedly harassed my hardworking staff and have personally targeted specific staff members. This type of intentionally disruptive behavior is unacceptable and unhelpful to civil public discourse. If it gets out of hand, we will continue to contact local law enforcement and U.S. Capitol Police.

>It is imperative that my staff is able to continue to focus on federal casework on behalf of the constituents of New York’s 21st District, and that my constituents understand that despite the efforts from these organized disruptors, we will always continue our work to best serve you.

Two points:

1. I've met these protesters and been to their rallies. I'm part of the facebook group they use to organize the events. They're everyday people, of all political parties, who have gathered civilly and clearly care about the issues our district faces. Maybe there are some bad actors, but I haven't met them. If they're guilty of anything it's being a little annoying, and that's not a crime.

2. Her comments in that statement very clearly are trying to paint the protesters as somehow working against her and her constituents. But we are her constituents!

[0] https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/33413/201...

[1] https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/33418/201...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/RepEliseStefanik/posts/127217631284...
What Is the US Logan Act?
I'd agree it's common knowledge, but I love reading detailed accounts of that kind of thing. Cheers anyway!
I assumed this was going to be thousands of images and 10s-100s of GB, so I started the download just to see how much it would be. Was pleasantly surprised when it was done as soon as it started.
Project creator here (but obviously not the OP).

Yes, we do collect minimal anonymised statistics in the sole goal of improving awless. All the statistics code is here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/master/stats/stats.go

As the project is Apache licensed, you're free to modify it if you don't want this. Also, if you're conscious about privacy you should use application firewalls on your client side like Little Snitch etc. since many software that you install on your machine also do this.
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NTP isn't enough, you need PTP.
Right-to-Repair is ridiculous
> allow customers to directly "feel the pain" of bloated downloads and websites
We already do, because our transfer speeds suck under congestion.
That's basically because we don't have a good solution for Sybil attacks, other than weighting votes by account balances. There are various people trying to fix that by adding real-world identities to the blockchain; the most prominent on Ethereum is uPort: https://www.uport.me/
Maybe. Seems like the FBI and federal agencies were harassing dissidents a lot worse in the 60s and 70s through COINTELPRO than they are now. I don't know if it's really worse now so much as different with new avenues of harassment into our digital lives. You think dissidents weren't harassed at the border before everyone carried a cell phone?

The post I was replying to was basically a vague reference to creeping fascism/nazism, and then implying that the same is happening in the US and that we're on the brink of descending into nazism. It's stupid sophomoric comparison to make.

Yea we should fight back against this type of legal harassment. Sure it's similar to how nazis once operated. But what does that comparison really provide in this situation other than throwing FUD onto it. Do you really think the US is about to rise into the Fourth Reich? I mean seriously... even if you feel like Trump is the antichrist, this policy undoubtedly came into effect during the Bush/Obama years when laptops and cell phones became ubiquitous.
> No one is hiring a ~25 year old remote product designer from another country based on that website.

One of the best sentences on the page.
Well.. First you can learn a lot from here:

https://www.chromium.org/developers

Then, if you need more, you will have to do it the "hacker way", by reading the chromium source code.

But hey.. you are a C++ dev, source code should be your stack overflow, and primary source of "documentation".

hint: The unit test files, can make the "how to use this" much more obvious
The Self-Hosted Reflect Agent for the Reflect Reporting and Visualization API
The argument against it from GP (if I read correctly) was it would not be profitable to do that.

My point was that profitability isn't a concern of highly-funded startups. Growth is. So if they can throw enough money at it and pull those customers away, they've met the definition of 'success' as seemingly applied by many VCs - fast growth and on-paper potential. The cost and loss is much less relevant.

I shouldn't have said "long-term" as it added confusion. I meant 'profitability' in general.

I don't necessarily think that the market is large enough to attract those well-funded startups, but we're talking hypotheticals at this point anyway...
> Bullet points on resumes that talk about non-specific day-to-day responsibilities are mostly filler.

This. A co-worker interviewed a guy last week who had 3 pages full of bullet points and when he asked him about his experience with any of them, he gave us some generic response like, "We used Java on project X that did Y". List 6-7 core skills; or better yet, list projects you worked on, the stack you built it on, and a very brief summary of how you kicked ass on it.

He has example projects on his site, which is great; most people don't even have that.

When I go into an interview as a developer, I always go in with a running example of a project that I built, with source code. Towards the end of the interview I'll bring it up: "I brought along a project I built; I'd love to go through it quick with you." At which point I go through the UI to show what it does and then open up the code to review the architecture and anything clever I did within the code itself.

Note that this all happens in about 5 minutes; no one wants to sit through a 30 minute demo.
YC Annual Letter 2017
Many people and companies are working on this. The major blocker, in my opinion, is that we don't really track outcomes rigorously and with out those, we have no way of categorizing the training examples. Yes we do some outcomes tracking but I would be interested in examining collection bias in those sets and how it affects the results.

I find the claim that their NLP generated database is 98% accurate. That would be an amazing leap forward. I hope it is true but their is a lot of exaggeration and outright bunk in this field
It's a paid service unrelated to warranty.
The Black Book of Internet, un libro per iniziare con l'hacking etico
I had to revert the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to work around that.
Philippines to Regulate Bitcoin Activities
> But with Racket you've got high-level, comparable-to-Python abstraction

Racket's abstraction is indeed high level but in no way comparable to Python. Racket's homoiconicity and syntactic abstraction put it leagues above Python in that regards.
Have been using Clojure in production for several years.

It is great language to work in. I have found it very suitable for solving a wide range of problems. Many companies are using it successfully.

Sounds like your view of reality is based on the HN hype cycle. As far as I can tell there are many more companies using Clojure in production than Rust. (nothing against Rust, but just as an example of the bias)
And for some reason, this (in my eyes useless) data collection is bundled inside the version check: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/master/stats/stats.go#...
It's not black and white, good or bad, that's the OP's point, it depends. If your goal is to accumulate wealth perhaps LT did it wrong, if your goal is to build something great then you should perhaps choose his route. Those goals may intersect and that's great, but that's not a necessary condition.
C+ isn't a language, they went straight from C to C++ (++ is the increment operator)
4G saves your battery. you could limit the speed through an app:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Bandwidth-Ruler-for-Android-l...
IMHO the real thing that Apple has been missing is not live TV, but interactive gaming. The weak performances of Nintendo with the Wii U presented/presents a very good opportunity for Apple to create an environment, APIs, and accessories for interactive gaming, e.g. Wiimote-type accessories or actual Wiimote bluetooth pairing, multiplayer with iPhone paired to the AppleTV etc. There are some APIs and MFI specs for controllers, but it could go much further, and they need a killer-game that demonstrates the power of the ecosystem.
For me personally, that would be a positive statement. I don't think any good programming language can stay good unless it keeps evolving (and yes, to me, C++ counts as one despite the occasional gotcha it comes with).
That is - any language except for Lisp :-)

And to be frank: I'd say that anyone opposed to continue to learn new things is entirely in the wrong field if he/she works on any technology-related job.
Nothing. But if you do have a Facebook account, and you're not a citizen, you should bank on them knowing that you're lying about that. Further: saying something will conflict with automated information gathering they'll have done beforehand will put you in a different bracket of suspicion. Most people will just tell them, most people will just unlock. They're going to be interested mostly in the oddballs (for better or worse).
It's a bit of a silly question. End-to-End is TLS. One end has to be the phone, and your other end is your destination host.

Encryption through some part of the middle is only useful on the radio side -- the rest of the network is wired and has the same ("meh"-) level of security.
And most people that say that they know C and how simple the language is, cannot differentiate between their compiler extensions and what is written in ANSI C.

Nor can they correctly point out all the cases of expected semantics, UB and implementation specific behaviour.

Regarding the fundamental C knowledge, part of it just leads to bad C++ code.
Maybe no training camps of the Islamic extremist variety but there are for sure right wing militia groups operating training camps on American soil
>This is interesting but I could also write perfect code if I could polish the same process over years and years.

Could you, though? It's not that they write trivial code just because they have clear specs.

And a simple mistake can make you explode while in space.

Sure, we might have to deal with unclear specs and changing requirements, but even given that most of what we do is 1/1000 to 1/10 the complexity of what NASA programmers do.
It proves that the tweet was not protected?
I'm one of the guys in that blog post. I feel incredibly lucky I got a job in this field at my age - my employer was very kind to hire someone in his mid 30s with no professional experience.

It worked out for me, and I'm 36. At 25 , you are just getting started in life. You're going to be just fine.
Good question. Noone that I know gives a shit about programming or hacking and the music I record is pretty much misunderstood, so I'm not sure really what gets me out of bed. Just hard headed I guess.
Qt is split into chunks, you can skip parts of non-core you do not use.
An Oscilloscope from 1946 Can Still Teach Some Lessons
I'm wondering if all the people who can't get over the name CockroachDB are also people who insist that professionals should dress the part. Can't take someone seriously if they don't have their shirt tucked in?

Style over substance.
I've played many games created with Inform7. All beautiful works of art. Emily short has a few on her site. Just download something like Gargoyle to play the image.
The words "inept CBP agent" get you in trouble here. If you're a citizen, by all means, play chicken! If not: remember, they have vastly more resources than you do. Money buys a lot of forensics techniques --- in fact, governments are better at computer forensics than software developers. They're the ones doing it all the time, and funding all the research.

They don't have to decrypt. They just have to decide you're suspicious enough to confiscate equipment and bar you from entry.
Too bad my laptop can't use those crimson drivers, as AMD no longer support the APU part of the setup that make things like external displays work (and will you please stop trying to be helpful and silently "upgrading" my drivers, Microsoft!).
One simple example would be Verizon only allowing free nights and weekends to certain services. For example, Verizon allows free night and weekend data usage for Hulu but not for any other streaming video services. This is a huge loss to Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube and any other streaming services, including those whom don't yet exist since it would be harder to gain users due to the newer service "using more data" than using Hulu (read: the Verizon subsidized alternative).

At least, I'm assuming that's what OP meant. Not simply that "free nights and weekends" would be anti-net neutrality on its own, but that it could very easily be made more proprietary than it initially sounds. And we've seen it done in the past when free nights and weekends were were restricted to those within your telco, the x-amount of people within your network that are free to call[I believe AT&T made it 10?], the free mobile to mobile that was eventually restricted to free mobile to mobile only within the same telco again, etc., etc.
I see nothing in these "neuromorphic" architectures than hogwash trying to bullshit governments into giving them money. There's no conceptual advancement offered by these computers that can't be simulated with matlab. Until the day when we actually learn how neurons work, these will just be extremely premature optimizations.
The problem with this comparison is that, while it's not remotely easy, it's far easier to compete with Facebook or Google than to compete with an ISP.

Facebook barely existed 10 years ago. And it wasn't until maybe the last five years that it was recognized as a competitor to Google.

Compare that to Google Fiber's 7 year slog.
Getting these issues fixed in the drivers is great, no doubt. But it's moot if nobody actually updates to those fixed versions. How hard are nVidia/Microsoft trying to actually push these out over Windows Update so that end users will actually benefit from all of this work?
So you will be a position of "can't login to that site". How does that square with:

"if an alien attempts to cross the border with a device they can't unlock "because they don't have the corresponding 2FA token with them" (as one friend suggested they do), they'll be detained, their devices confiscated, and then put on a flight out of the country."

I guess they haven't yet started asking for social media passwords, so maybe I'm overthinking this. I'm certainly going to be prepared to unlock any devices. It's the web passwords I'm not sure what to do with.
Amir Shevat on enterprise workplace communication
"Net neutrality" is a problematic term because it seems to mean different things to different people depending on their perspective/motive. For instance, I've seen arguments that T-Mobile not charging for SD video streams is net neutral because any company is allowed to get into the program.

In its strictest (and IMO, most useful) sense, "net neutrality" is the concept that data is data is data. It doesn't matter whether it's carrying video or whether it's carrying text, whether that comes from Google or whether it comes from the server in your basement, or whether it's being transferred at 11am or at 11pm.

IMO that definition is the most useful because it's the clearest - anything else ends up getting into some debate about why this applies and that doesn't. I'd very much like to keep my neutral internet connection - the creeping preferentialism on my cellphone connection is not welcome.
Ah yes, let's not forget the solid branding behind some of Adobe's work:

https://pig.apache.org/

https://hive.apache.org/ (Look at the anguish in this creature's face)

http://hadoop.apache.org/
The series is certainly worth reading for the learning, but actually doing it? Don't bother. The books were written when hobby-level machine tools were very expensive. In these days of cheap Asian imports, it's not worth building your own from DIY castings unless you're doing it for fun.

I will say that the first book (metal casting) is very useful, because you can learn to make aluminum castings easily and then machine them on your cheap import/worn out old American Iron.
Hedge fund AI system predicts Le Pen is on course to be France's next president
Best tips for you.

- Never mention where you're from or where you live. They'll figure it out when they'll give you a call (discrimination is bigger than you think). People hire similar profiles and take a lot of unfair shortcuts. If I'm not "franco-american", I'll have one extra information that could potentially make up my mind if I have 1000 Resume to look at. You're different than me, I will have to go outside of my comfort zone...

- Don't mention your age. It also gives people something to consume. A quick info that can make an early unjustified decision.

- Since you're applying for a Product Designer, make your personal website look like a portfolio of apps, not a Resume. Use a simple plain background and list your apps. Don't use text, make it easy for them to visualize what you've done in max 5s.

- Don't share your failures publicly, it will also give them more negative information about you.

- focus on building a network not on sending cold applications. You need a referral not a job.
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