skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I miss something or is this a content free article?

Mike fly's from Australia to America.
Has chat over meal saying they want to work together.
Fly's back to Australia.
Agree on a price.
Deal done.

What am I supposed to learn from this?
Terpon is making VR webcams just for live streaming porn
Why do they have to deal with the piracy problem?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700492
Are the cards physically in the same machine, or are they in a remote chassis and connected through the network?

I think on P2, Amazon's cards are remote, and there is pretty significant latency when using them for time-sensitive computing.

What kind of performance can we expect from GCP compared to AWS P2?
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Quoting the unemployment rate at 4.9% is disingenuous at it doesn't look at the participation rate, which has dropped 3% in the past 10 years (aka 10 million people). This unemployment rate also doesn't look at individual regions like the rust belt, which won Trump the election. There's a sizable group that did vote him in on his social positions, which is the common 40% of voters (the battle for an election isn't concerned with the 'base' which is about 80% of the voters, being 40% left and 40% right, it worries about the 20% in the middle, and those middle voters were the rust belt that swayed the election). So although you can say a many Trump voters wanted his social politics, he won because of his economics.

And I understand the selection of the narratives the author used. Like I've said, I live in a small Midwest town.
Yes. I also have major in a math-y subject, with extensive minor in CS, but all the jobs seem to be in building shiny webapps with the latest JS framework to sell people stuff or services. Data Science that is much talked about seems to mostly about glorified statistics for advertising. Chances of getting into the R&D department of BigCo's moonshot project (think about self-driving cars or something) are 1-in-million.

As far as I know academia has no pay and no stable career prospects for a student like me because I'm not the top-of-the-top of my class, just slightly above the average, but at least there is a promise of a chance of doing something interesting that might wider humanity's perspectives and maybe even help us. With real technological progress.
I can only speak to Eset as it's the only one I am sure about, but it definitely does validate certs. I have screen grabs of validation errors because they were interesting.
Lol. I wonder why they're still sub-1.0.
California Secession Advocate Faces Scrutiny Over Where He’s Based: Russia
https://puttytray.goeswhere.com
So what does it mean? If GP's interpretation is incorrect then I'm also baffled. And I'd really like to know because I have ADHD...
> Why do you think it's labourious? It's just LaTeX -- see the source code for that page.

I wouldn't say "just LaTex", not in the way I mean when I use MathJax, in which case one can insert normal LaTeX in plain-text form, such as \begin{equation} (equation) \end{equation}, or $$(equation)$$, without requiring the use of special tags.

> They just need to adjust the generated PNGs to have a transparent background.

Yes, but apart from that they render rather badly and don't scale. But I know there are good arguments against loading a math processor for the possibility that there might be mathematical content in someone's page.
PDF download link: http://dx.doi.org.sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.02.002

If you're new to scientific papers, the heuristic to use is: Read the Abstract, Introduction, and the Discussion/Conclusion. Methods & Results are boring and numbery, and you can dive into those later.

I highly recommend reading the whole General Discussion section. It's four pages. The main idea is that:

- There are previous well-controlled studies that show the benefits of therapy, but

- When we are simply observing a cohort of people, the people who have some form of therapy experience a decline in positive indicators and a rise in negative indicators. (Indicators like self-esteem, depression, etc)

This might be because:

1. The therapy did help, relatively, but because of the strong force from a patient's trauma, they were still generally doing poorly. But it could have been worse.

2. Because of the broad definition of "therapy experience" and the limited data in the survey, maybe this is mostly capturing people who only received a few sessions, and didn't continue long enough to receive the benefits, or in the case of the US cohort, only received drugs.

3. Maybe everyday therapists are kinda shitty? The therapists selected for controlled studies are always up to date with modern techniques. The paper said it more eloquently:

> The third explanation concerns therapists who deliver therapy. Again, in a controlled intervention, treatment integrity is often one of the highest priorities of the research protocol. In contrast, implementation of empirically supported therapy in real-world settings may not happen with as much structure or rigor.

I think these are all good hypotheses, but the 3rd explanation is pretty scandalous.
Fair response. I agree that we all must make judgments. I might be overly biased by my post-hoc analysis of the reasoning behind the Iraq war fiasco and my notion that the broader, geopolitical themes provide most of the inertia for US/Russian dynamics.

In light of your comment I'm curious how you assess the campaign that we've been discussing in this thread. I posed the question in a different sub-thread but I'd be very interested to read your response to it as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701240
You shouldn't if you are happy with Disqus. Isso is an open source, self hosted alternative.
This is a broad overview of AI as it was in the 1980s.

I'm submitting it mostly because I'm interested to see what a modern BORIS or ABDUL / ILANA would be like.
I agree about the mainstreaming but I think FB is just the current easiest platform for that, like AOL in days past and Compuserve before that. People are always going to gravitate to the single largest platform with the most consistent UI and the simplest onboarding, but I argue the underlying social synamic is platform-neutral.
I'm guessing that someone has done an equation and shown that to be cost effective. Does that calculation apply when the cost of building the data centre and running it are considerably higher due to the location you built in?
> cough cough Angular 2

There is an enormous difference between poor code and a library you don't like. I may not be a huge fan of Angular 2, but it's certainly not poorly written code.
Your argument is exceedingly well reasoned. I would love to hear a countervailing opinion to compare it to. Can someone please post a thoughtful reply to PKop main point?
Not moronic. If your front door is open, how do I know who opened the door?
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Didn't mean to post with that account. Oh well.
Don't use Wi-Fi. My lag was 300ms from my desktop to US-West-2 and then I used an ethernet cable and it dropped to 30ms.
Thanks for providing your source. Having lived on both coasts and the Midwest, I've met a lot of people of a variety of political stripes, and wouldn't agree with this unqualified assessment.
I agree that it's still too easy to screw this up using lax same site cookies.

I do think that using them does provide some additional defence in depth, and specifically provides use that CSRF tokens can't. These are listed under 'additional uses' in the post, and essentially boil down to the fact that cookies are not sent at all.

In the wild, this would help today with any timing attacks looking to expose info from if/when a cookie is included in the request.
> I think the overt intention is to identify undesirable travelers and exclude them from entry.

Well, okay. Ideally, in the case of non-citizens, we would figure out the ones we wanted to exclude before issuing them visas, but that process can't be perfect, and a case can be made for allowing CBP agents to take a closer look at them and exercise their discretion.

Two points about that. First, as koenigdavidmj points out, this can't apply to citizens. The only possible reason for examining information carried by citizens is to make the CBP an extension of the police, and once you've done that, Fourth Amendment protections have to apply. (Obviously this is my personal opinion only, not something the courts have said; but the argument seems very straightforward to me.)

And secondly, there are reasons to think this is not going to be a very effective filter, to the point that it's probably not even worth doing. Once word gets out among America's enemies, as it surely has long ago, of the need not to carry incriminating information across the border, sophisticated adversaries simply won't do it. You might catch some low-level criminals, but really, what do you think the false negative rate is? By their own admission, the CBP are searching a small fraction of electronic devices, so the chance of them catching even a stupid miscreant seems under 10%; for the smart ones it's probably under 1%. This is particularly true if all they profile for is dark-skinned men with strange names -- like Sidd Bikkannavar.
Upspin users maintain their own storage servers, or use storage servers maintained by someone else. The Upspin project itself doesn't have any authority or control over the type of content stored or shared with the system.

> google drive for example has a list of known hashes of pirate files and you can't share links to files matching those

It's actually impossible for us to know what people have stored. It's all encrypted.

BTW, if you can find a way to "guarantee" that you cannot share a copy of a movie, you should talk to the movie industry and make a billion dollars. :-)
Time for me to shamelessly plug my TL;DR blog on Google's Preemptible VMs:

https://medium.com/@thetinot/google-clouds-spot-instances-wi...
West Philadelphia is mostly students from Penn and Drexel, at least up until 45th St. or so. The "hipsters" you're talking about mostly live in south/east Philly (Italian market, fishtown areas). Both are being gentrified at an accelerating rate.
> The point is that the best homes(top 10%) rarely need to go on the market.

I think that's locale specific. Except in the 15million+ bracket, auctions (here in Melbourne at least) tend to get the best money for the seller.
Sunlight imparts about a kilowatt per square meter to the surface of the ocean at noon, I'm not exactly sure how to use that information, but it does seem relevant for bounding the problem.
Rm-protection: A safe alternative for “rm”
I said this person doesn't know anybody who is okay with honor killing, therefore there is nothing to discuss. Everybody he knows already agrees it's bad, so the only thing the discussion accomplishes is making Muslims look barbaric, and that's gross.
Really interesting - thanks for sharing the findings. I haven't seen it mentioned here, but for those of us using `timedatectl` via systemd, with the default setting of `UTC` are taking advantage[1] of the recommendation in the article.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/timedate/...
Woah, this is awesome but a bit misleading in the beginning. I spend my last 15 min trying it out: https://www.dwitter.net/d/702
> Is there an option for lazy loading?

I believe Apache can run user-defined scripts to perform this sort of thing -- in this case, look at a page's content and decide how to proceed. But high-volume sites don't like such things because it dramatically slows page loading.
Neat concept. It reminds me of the Wolfram One-Liner competition http://blog.wolfram.com/2016/11/09/the-2016-wolfram-one-line...
When there is a popular article here criticising a big employer, in this case google. People commenting should be declaring their affiliation with that employer. We want to hear what you think, really! Criticising the article when you have a dog in the fight you're not revealing is just plain dishonest.

A lot of comments here, not many saying "Disclosure: I (used to) work there"
You complained that the article's assertion of scope was simply false, then later wrote:

The author of the article is living in a bubble. But to its credit, the article does admit
> It is difficult to estimate just how big the Gamergate movement really was [..] 10,000 users discussed Gamergate on Reddit.

The claim you dismiss as false only seems so when taken out of context. Since additional relevant content was supplied in the article, it's inappropriate to consider it in isolation.

Sorry for being terse and replying so late, I've had a busy day.
To be fair, it's also a lot harder to penetrate an underwater datacenter so the risk of attack is likely much lower.
And a record level incarceration rate.
> To me, they key point is that "Kelly" did not apologize.

I'll agree. Mistakes can be made in the moment, but they're worse if they aren't corrected after some reflection.

> That said, there are circumstances where a person with dark skin tone is hard to see.

My wife is darker than the author seems to be, based on her photo. At night, if she's (my wife) wearing dark clothes and comes out of a dark room unexpectedly...well, we'll say that she has startled me a few times. Several circumstances have to come together at the same time for that to happen that I don't usually associate with sitting in a conference room for a meeting, though. So while the statement's true, it's hard to imagine a work situation that it'd apply to.
My main reason, or probably only reason to root my devices is to populate the hosts file with anti-advertising entries. Which may be safer than a device that is exposed to all the advertising crap.
That's for the "unstable" repo. I was quoting for the "testing" repo (see [1]).
It's apparently coming to stable in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13695267
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Ah that makes sense. I had seen that map before and wondered how western Illinois could be included in the 100 mile border zone when Lake Michigan doesn't share a border with Canada. Lake Huron does and a boater could enter the US from there but dock in Chicago.
This is a possibility. But downloads have been served out of "the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/" for years. Yes, it's owned by someone else and exploding turtles all the way down [1], but now that "the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/" is HTTPS, the checksums are properly authentic as attested by the same operator as the one who has supplied PuTTY downloads for years.

I've mirrored the most important checksums here, another HTTPS site, so that if any of them ever differ you know to distrust the files.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334269
Totally, I think you're right. I suspect there are lots of infrequent and different ways to associate two words, and my brain conflates them all into one concept. It would be surprising if a random dissimilar anagram was frequently a pair of synonyms, but it might not be surprising that a pair has some association of some kind, where there are tens or hundreds of different ways to associate words.

Probably not a perfect analogy, but this is vaguely reminding me of Ramsey's theorem from combinatorics; the idea that if you have enough stuff, some of it must be structured.
Your Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity
I regularly write C++14 on cortex-m0 with 4 to 16KB RAM.
Maybe not the hardest part, but the most consistently annoying is that you are dealing with really low level issues, and you can't take anything for granted.

Memory allocation, compilers, threading, libraries etc. - you have to be careful at each and every step.

You're probably going to end up working with C or C++ - which is fine, and they are common enough, but you don't get a lot of nice 'VM-ish' things along with them.

You end up often having to know specific things about chipsets etc..

It's great because you 'learn a lot' and will come out a better Engineer - but sometimes that knowledge can be arcane.

You'll spend a lot of time doing things that 'everyone else' in software takes for granted and it can make it feel like you're moving slowly.
You could find something like this in or around most major areas.
Just run a cuda container.
What is missing in this post is:

- Why does glibc check /etc/localtime every time localtime is called? Wild guess: so that new values of /etc/localtime are picked at runtime without restarting programs.

- Corollary: why does glibc not check /etc/localtime every time localtime is called, when TZ is set to :/etc/localtime? Arguably the reason above should still apply when TZ is set to a file name, shouldn't it?
The article I link below is one example of the substantial smear campaign waged against Hans Blix during the buildup to the Iraq war. There were many, many other examples of this, led by neoconservatives in the US and Britain:

http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2003/03/31/weapons-hans-bl...
I'm surprised that they're so dismissive of heat pollution. Google's Finland data center, which is cooled by ocean water, has a holding tank used to cool the ocean water before pumping it back into the ocean[1] in order to prevent a similar problem. I would like to see additional research here rather than baselessly dismissing it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ
I'm always curious when research like this comes out, as it flies in the face of my (admittedly anecdotal) evidence. I myself am diagnosed with ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive). I've also been part of a few hacker groups over the years, and they had/have the best and brightest minds I have ever witnessed. They have an uncanny intuition and ability to traverse complex problem spaces, much faster than most people. There is also an unusually high concentration of people with ADHD in these groups (along with some other mental 'inflictions'). My best guess is anywhere from 20-30% of them have ADHD to some degree, sample size is about 30.

Most of these people do fairly well in life. Their skills are extremely valuable and prized. They also almost always (95-99%) did not do very well in school. There are a couple of explanations:

1. Studies like these simply track educational achievements, which do not necessarily correlate with success in life.

2. I only ever see/meet the success stories, each of which there is a much larger amount of failures for.

3. There are multiple conditions that are all erroneously grouped under the moniker of ADHD. Most, if not all, of the successful ADHD people I know lean more towards the inattentive side of things.

4. Some combination of the above theories.
awesome tool, go on!
In a similar style, but with WebGL: https://www.shadertoy.com
Before the printing press, people couldn't really judge sources either, because there was generally only one source. That's quite a bit different than having many sources of wildly different quality hidden behind many layers of social media sharing, all reporting second- and third-hand content.

I'm not advocating government control, but that's definitely where Trump is heading with his "FAKE NEWS media... is the enemy of the American People!"[1] He's trying to go down the path of many tyrants, discrediting all sources of information except for those run by or blessed by the state. The way content is distributed today, with so much noise and so little clarity, directly feeds into Trump's agenda that it's all illegitimate except for the sources that he's personally vouching for.

I don't really know what the solution might be. Google's been able to develop very good algorithms for identifying spam, mostly in email but also in Google Voice and their web search results. They've also got pretty good classifiers that can automatically tag content. Maybe Facebook, Twitter, and other sharing sites need that kind of algorithm to tag everything that's posted. Fake news would have a much harder time getting distributed if it had a big "FAKE" label applied to it. The devil's in the details though; we already know how Facebook's Like buttons get gamed, and we wouldn't want that for tagging. Tagging should be showing you the information you don't want to know, but need to know.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/83270829351663206...
They have a Deep Learning AMI which does, though: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0AXXQB
Yes, it did. The DoJ fixed the price of Windows for all the major OEMs, and all sales had to be made via the same OEM-only website.

I don't appear to have a record of how many OEMs that applied to (or else I can't find it), but the number I remember is 40.

This had the very amusing effect of increasing the price that IBM paid for Windows. IBM went to court to complain that Microsoft had tripled its price, but as far as I recall, that price increase was from $9 to $27.

Either way, nothing stops anybody from setting up a company to sell Linux PCs -- you could do it yourself. Is there really nobody in America who can sell Linux PCs at a profit, when the OS is free?

Since that's evidently the case, blaming Microsoft just looks like a fig-leaf for some more fundamental failure(s).
That's a very debatable point, and I'm not sure what you're trying to say really. The closest analogs we have are the native groups of the Americas, Africa, and Australia, and nearly all of them pair and form alliances of extended families without more than the occasional competition.

Most primitive life is harsh enough that you don't need to compete too much over mates. People with injury or chronic illnesses get knocked out just from going about their daily existence.
There's a postmortem of my first startup's failure (pre-Google) up here:

http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/

I'm still working on the 2nd (or 5th, or 11th, or ~50th, depending on how you count)...not exactly ready to declare it a failure, just, well, a whole lot of pivots.
Flexibility in job position is a matter of industry -- since one can not take a skill everywhere -- so looking at data that is across all industries won't speak to how fair (or not) the market is with regards to a particular role/salary/conditions combo.
What about 1% of people doing this? Or even 0.5%?
That is easily enough to live off, and enough to slip under the radar.

To me, getting this done on interesting domains seems to be the hard part. For people with their own domain, getting a separate server to deal with email for that is some hassle. You can't really do this on a generic domain either, cause that looks a lot less professional. Signing people up for gMail accounts might work, but that's probably against google eula. I'd guess the same for other webmail services that are at least somewhat professionally acceptable.

Best way I see is to give people with their own domain as easy a time as possible to set up DNS correctly. Getting through DKIM and SPF reliably seems like a minefield though.
On Android, the standard root system most people apply to their device prompts you when you launch an application if you want to allow it root access. This makes it trivial to block malicious applications - that new game you downloaded probably doesn't need root for any good reason. Just hit deny. The sandbox is still fully in place, just now you can poke holes in it for certain applications of your choosing.

What you're thinking of are things which use exploits to gain root - this may be done by some users, but most often Android devices are rooted via bootloader unlocking these days, which does _not_ use an exploit.

Exploits however are used by malware - and not having your device rooted won't prevent them. They gain root via exploitation, whether you want them to or not.

Not to mention that the kind of root detection done is by looking for things that only the legitimate sort of root leaves behind, like a su binary which prompts the user if they want to permit root or not.

Often times, rooting your device legitimately may allow you to flash a custom ROM and get updates that your original vendor hasn't released for your device, allowing you to actually _prevent_ exploitation by malware, even after your vendor has long abandoned the device.