skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is definitely a spirit of "have the state come and rescue us from ourselves" here in HN and it is getting worse.
WHY THE WORLD FACES IMMINENT THREAT OF BIO-WARFARE DANGER?
That was a very interesting read, thanks! It's more focused on a "scene" and monetizing than I was thinking of, so it gives a different take on the same basic problem.

My general thought was influenced by various communities (RPGs, IF, Usenet, coding, etc) I've been part of or witnessed, and how they were unable to survive the swarm of slightly-interested. A few interested are good and healthy: You need the fresh blood to both replace those that leave and keep old-timers engaged. Too many and your norms and conventions are crushed and at a minimum you lose the sense of community, most often you lose the ability to communicate effectively.

There are plenty of historical parallels as well, or at least they seem to be - history is not my strong suit, so while I'll suspect the parallels line up, I won't go asserting it too far and will stick with the communities.

Usenet in the face of AOL is one example (I was there, it was tragic, and though we live in a wonderful age with a lot more information available, I think it's harder to FIND an in-depth discussion). Another example is, say, Slashdot. Originally it was the haven for techies, which made it popular, which made it NOT the haven for techies. After /., I moved through a few attempts communities and currently HN is one of my sources for discussion. While every community has it's nostaglics, I definitely feel like the last 2-3 years have had an increase in people talking about the decrease in quality comments. At this point, I've come to expect that eventually HN will fall prey to popularity and I'll have to find somewhere else to go.

In light of the article you linked, I'm not really sure how it links up. I guess too many "mops" are attracted, and even if you don't get any "sociopaths", just throwing the ratio of people that want it close-to-the-way-it-was to people who this-is-nice-on-my-terms off too much can drown the community in noise.

The disturbing thing is that I feel like the tail of the "mops" there. I'm not the creators, I'm usually not a fanatic. For example, while I'm _willing_, I've never gone through the trouble of contributing to any open source project beyond the most thin of bug reporting or the rare cash contribution. OTOH, I don't think I qualify as entitled, and I try to learn and abide by the norms of each community, so maybe this is a variation of Imposter Syndrome, maybe I just know my limitations, or maybe I'm a mooch.

I will ponder this. It dovetails in disturbing ways with some thoughts I've had about societal futures in a Fifth Wave sort of way. Thanks for the link, I'll have to look into "The Gervais Principle" he mentioned as well.
Right. Writing code to estimate the optimum thickness was one of our homework problems in modeling and simulation class, back in the day. I expect running that sim on a PC would be trivial today, but back then it took a significant amount of time on a fast SPARCstation.

(the basic idea was to model the wall as extremely thin slices so the heat transfer between slices can be approximated easily. How thin? You kept making them thinner until the model stabilized).

The wall thickness we derived was very close to the wall thickness traditionally used by the indigenous people of the area. What are the odds? :-)
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: personal firewall, hips firewall, app sandbox

DESCRIPTION: 1) personal firewall. (ala sygate, little snitch, kerio personal firewall, etc). This is essential (and shame on ALL OS vendors for not supplying one) as it is insane that apps can just willy, nilly go where ever and when ever they want. This is the very cornerstone of insecurity (malware, hacking). For every connection I want to see an interactive popup (with IP address, app name, etc) with the options (allow, deny, make permissions permanent).

2) HIPS (host instrusion protection) firewall, the exact same thing as #1, but for apps, not internet. If an app is starting or calling another app (or link library (DLL)) I want to know about it and stop it before it runs.

3) App sandbox that provides virtual filesystem, etc for any app I want to run but want to refuse it direct access to system files, etc.

===
I tried Douane (linux personal firewall) but failed at making it run because there are no binaries provided and it didn't compile correctly and I don't have the time to debug it. So at least provide this in binary form from the unbuntu respositories.
Security isn't an absolute thing. Just the fact that you use the internet indicates that you're willing to sacrifice a significant amount of security, which is clearly worth it to you. Presumably most LastPass users prefer autofill browser integration.
> Rural areas vote red, urban vote blue.

Don't let the electoral map fool you, there are very few places that skew overwhelmingly to one side. Many places may have a majority favoring one major political party, but the minority isn't that small. I live in the northeast, which is reliable electoral votes for democrats but there's not shortage of republicans around.
This has been my experience as well. It allows you to write extremely dense code, without type checks to help you out. And it imposes a functional paradigm, again without type checks to help you out. And it makes new developers think in ways they're not used to, again without type checks to help them out. So the combination of these makes certain that some way or other, teams will write contorted code that is in major need of refactoring ... without type checks to help them out.

I switched to F# and "get" FP much better now. I'd know what I was doing if I ever switched back to Clojure. But I have no good reason to personally, and all the aforementioned reasons not to professionally.
It hasn't been slow since basically 1.3 when HotSpot became default.
KeePassXC is a fork of the 1.x version. Fixes all the annoyances that the official 2.x series somehow never got around to. Recommended.

https://keepassxc.org/
Hmm... I was asking because I am about to graduate in CS. But I think I like Sysadmin stuff more.
I am an experienced entrepreneur in that I have both run and been a part of a few (mostly successful!) small businesses, one in which I was second-tier management on the tech side (hiring, personal and team execution, partnerships/integrations) sold for USD$48.5M. Another at which I was first employee I just sold my shares in at a still higher valuation. Currently I am running another, which I believe without a doubt will be the most successful by a significant margin, as I have multiple offers for a large portion of that capital on the table already.

I'm considering a well regarded MBA program (HKUST), in go-slow part time mode. The (ex-KPMG) head of a VC firm interested in leading our subsequent round encouraged me not to do it, suggesting it would take too much time and a mentor would be superior, despite the schedule being essentially weekend-oriented and specifically designed for people already in industry. I believe, despite the VC's concerns, that it may be useful to me at this point in my life, though maybe for different reasons than most.

1. I've spent a lot of my career working remotely or as a fly-in short term worker in different cultures (UK, US, Korea, etc.), or running my own businesses in a foreign culture (China), I haven't been in the formal business environment very much. While I have made successful VC presentations and been part of critical meetings with all sectors, I do feel I can up my game in terms of professionalism. Spending time amongst a motivated peer group from industry with similar focus and goals will no doubt do wonders.

2. By understanding the scope and depth of a leading MBA course (some of which I will have already encountered) I can better grok others I encounter in the business landscape in terms of their probable levels of education and thinking on various issues.

3. I dropped out of my undergraduate degree (though with excellent marks, multiple scholarships, and glowing head-of-department references) so having something formal and tertiary may make more of a difference later.

4. Students reside on campus with an eastward morning view of the ocean in Hong Kong, which will provide a nice sporadic (every two weekends) physical, mental and social break from urban Shenzhen, where I am currently relocating with my company http://8-food.com/ and family.

While I understand the VC's concern - "run the business! don't prepare to run someone else's business later!", as well as harboring the same concerns outlined below, and do have the Thiel quote on MBAs in my fortune database - https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup - I am frankly leaning towards doing it anyway... if they'll take me. ;)

I'll let you know in a few years!
No, here in Australia, director's information must be place of residence; although there is a process for suppression or replacement based on personal safety needs, for most that'd be closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. What's more, the information is still in the database, it's just masked in standard extracts; the data is one weak password away from exfiltration.

I believe it is most certainly victim blaming. The existence of terrible people may well induce one to recommend countermeasures, but the phrasing "stupid enough to put their personal details out there" is first-class (and thoroughly obnoxious) assignment of responsibility for bad behaviour to the victim of that behaviour. It's the same logical construction as blaming rape victims for their clothing.

As for "attract enough attention", the bar for that has been lowered in recent times to "one tweet".

These are not happy times to be a private citizen communicating online in anything but the most closed fora.
Or even in the midwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

It's going to be an ugly, ugly thing if another major quake hits there. The last time the region was sparsely populated. Now there are cities all over the place and and the seismic codes are far more lax than they are in California (if said codes even exist).
The main point that I took away from the book is the phrase that country-scale generation using wind and solar requires country-sized installations. While it's great that the cost of solar is falling rapidly, there's still a theoretical maximum efficiency which we can ever reach. IIRC that's around the 30% mark, and the updates in the OP suggest that for large-scale panels the efficiency has increased from around 10% to around 16%. It discusses other possible but unproven advances which might increase the efficiency more (multi-layer tech, for example). They say: "...companies are now developing multi-layer PV panels that will deliver (although timing remains uncertain) efficiencies greater than 30%". While this is clearly excellent news, it's still only a possible 3x improvement in the future which means we just need installations the size of a smaller country.

Basically, it doesn't matter that the cost has dropped if we simply can't generate enough electricity that way. They discuss the possibility of generating 50% of the UK's total energy needs (not electricity needs) via solar and point out that it's not as ridiculous an idea as it was when Dr McKay wrote the book, but it's clear that we still need some fairly massive increases in technology to get there - e.g. storage, transport, routing. Perhaps they will happen quickly or perhaps they won't, it's very hard to tell at this stage.

tl;dr: I'm really happy to read that solar is improving, but price alone is not the only factor. It's a big one, but it's far from the only one.

Edit: also, in case it wasn't clear - I'd be ecstatic if this data were kept up to date. I was actually wondering about this just yesterday.
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Approval Letters May Be Invalid, Ed Dept. Says
One view calendar is not opensourced, but it is very slick. I was hoping someone has an opensource clone

[0] http://www.oneviewcalendar.com/
The pay is actually shockingly all over the place, in my opinion. The reason for this is that income tax is virtually non existent, so thats 30% less that they need to pay you compared to the US.

Then when you factor in the CPF, which is a mandatory contribution to a retirement fund that employers make for their employees, that's another 10% pay cut or so off the typical market rate.

Then there is a local talent pool for ~enterprise technology~ (c++ and java, mysql) that are quite underpaid.

Mobile dev jobs pay well but there isn't much equity to go around.

The only people making real money here are the bankers, lawyers, and doctors. Tech is still a side show in my opinion. Think New York in the 80s.

Still you will be just fine if you live like "us locals", avoiding the obvious scams that are reproducing Western life here, like Marina Bay Sands, Sentosa, LV, buying a Mercedes :)

The smog is a pretty big problem 1 month out of the year! It's wise to wear a mask and stay indoors, in my opinion.

I've researched the problem- it's a political one that probably won't be solved. Indonesians have the right land and climate for growing palm, which is used in palm oil soap from Dove, which Westerners buy mindlessly.

The farmers burn their land in a type of old school crop rotation, and a bunch of Singaporean and Indonesian companies pay them for their crop. So there is pretty strong demand and multiple levels.

I think it's a nuissance but not the end of the world. It's probably not even as serious as say, nuclear problems in Japan, smog in LA, seasonal depression in Boston and Seattle. It's just that it's quirky and in the news.

When I moved here, I realized how many things were relentlessly sensationalized in the American news by Americans so that they would feel better about living in America with all of its interestingly American problems :)
ProPublica Live-Crowdsourcing White House Financial Disclosure Dump
Unless your traffic goes through someone else.
Wait I reinvented Tor!
While we are at it, only let the system compiler make executables. When it does, log all the tables and columns it touches, so you can always find out everything that touches something.

OS/400 was cool.
The caveat of building OpenMP program
The Bay Area doesn't have taller buildings and public transport because the people living there keep voting against it.

Why? A mix of reasons but the biggest is that a drop in housing prices is bad for anyone that owns property.

Also NIBMYism is rampant with a bunch of entitled rich people. Great to donate to help the poor and all but I don't want a train that could potentially carry them to my neighborhood.
At-will employment, tight labour markets, etc., are a significant part of that engineering.

I suspect you and HarryHirsch are in violent agreement.
If you think evicting someone is easy, I suspect that you have never actually been a landlord.
What are the benefits for the average workstation user? What kinds of problems would I have on a non ECC development box?

I thought perhaps video editing and rendering would be a more likely area where ECC could be valuable to the non-scientific user. I have gone googling for examples of artifacting in videos caused by non-ECC ram errors, but I found nothing.
It is victim-blaming and it's shitty to say that people shouldn't use services like twitter to protect themselves from harassment while omitting that people shouldn't be assholes online in the first place.
Note that this says "per expert". I'm not sure what exactly you'd consider an "expert", but I think a reasonable definition of "expert" could result in your average expert being a million-dollar-a-year engineer.
These recent interviews with Alan Kay [1][2] cover this topic from a perspective I find valuable. In addition, there are many other relevant presentations he has made and in which he presents his own perspectives and points to the ideas of others like Douglas Englebart, Neil Postman, Seymor Papert, Marshall McLuhan, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Paine [3]

[1] Alan Kay - Inventing the Future Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVUGkuUj28o

[2] Alan Kay - Inventing the Future Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZHxUwqPVw

[3] Alan Kay's Reading List
http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Royalty-Free Video Encoding Netflix Meet-Up [video]
xc is a fork of the 2.x series. I would possibly recommend it, but it's less battle-tested and they're aiming to enable the HTTP server by default which I think is a mistake. I'm using it, but disabling that stuff.

(Either way the databases are compatible with one-another, so it's up to you what client you use)
Sorry, if I go into details it'll be pretty obvious who I am. My entire point is that internet trolls aren't just some sort of harmless fun for a lot of people.
Hamiltonian for the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function
This is for obfuscating string constants, the foreign languages included is a red herring. The reason for this is that nontrivial code often has string constants in it, and the string contents are stored in the ELF/PE file in a manner that makes it trivial to extract. Since these strings often reveal a lot about the malware (e.g. a string constant "Your computer has been infected with randomware. Please deposit %d bitcoins to address %s") antivirus signatures often use them to detect specific kinds of malware, and reverse engineers find them useful in determining what a binary does. This framework scrambles the string contents (using techniques like XOR-ing every character against a random key), and injects some code into the executable so that the strings are unscrambled on startup. They just have foreign languages in the example to demonstrate this framework correctly handles unicode.

Analysts never use the language of the code comments for attribution, because such things are trivial to forge.
Battling xrandr is not for the feint of heart. It is tedious to get the right behavior and differs from one display to the next (the precise dimrnsions, etc..)
>"40% of the traffic Remaining has to be given to RTB"

What is RTB?
Those jobs would have been shipped to India eventually anyway. Global corporations don't care about silly things like stable economies. They care about the bottom line.

Edit: to those downvoting me, can you please explain why? Am I wrong in some way?
> My city publicly lists assessing information if you own property. Many do.

People tend not to just browse city property listings for fun.

So why were they able to get to that stage - did they have your name? Why? What did you do to piss them off? Could you have done it anonymously?
The club was actually a corporation responsible for maintaining the dam, of which Carnegie was a part owner. The other members were largely executives in or with ties to Carnegie businesses:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork_Fishing_and_Hunti...
Using synchronised and j.u.c aren't mutually incompatible. It's quite easy to use synchronised to conservatively control access to the state of a single object, and often that's all you need. It can affect performance depending on your access patterns, but it's not like synchronised is deprecated or anything.

When was the last time you saw wait/notify? I'm willing to bet that was a long time ago.
TimVideos is an open source project using FPGAs and Python for conference (and other) video capture: https://hdmi2usb.tv/home/

So if you're interested in hardware, FPGAs or Python, it's a great opportunity to get hacking! They are also part of GSoC this year, but it might be too late to apply.
>"Yeah not to be an ass but that's pretty standard."

Pretty standard in what context? Can you elaborate? Is there a name for the algorithm?
Yes but I think you're missing the point that the neural network didn't need to be reprogrammed to specifically "winterize" the photos like your script did. It's much more general in its applications, and does a decent job no matter the lighting conditions etc.
With mobile devices a large majority of power is used by the screen and radio. These two parts already within maybe 50% of theoretical max efficiency.

The only thing to revolutionize mobile battery life will be a better battery.
I want people who make software designed to do harm to be held accountable

I don't. I want people who cause harm to be held accountable. I might barely buy your position IF the software had ONLY "non legitimate" uses, but that's clearly not the case here.
All of your LastPass browser extensions should be updated to version 4.1.44 or higher

On firefox, the version I'm using is still 3.3.4, which is the version available from the mozilla addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...

Why the discrepancy? Am I still vulnerable? In their blog post, they even note:

We want to thank our partners at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Yandex and others who fast-tracked our extension review and release.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/30/contra-nyt-on-economist...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/03/one...

Neither probably constitutes an outright lie, but seem irresponsibly misleading to readers,both should cause readers to trust the nyt less
I always seen it like this: trolling: silly arguments, maybe attacking a person in a thread about their viewpoint (ad hominem) during a thread.
While harassment is insulting a person, everywhere regardless of the thread going on, as well as attacks while the person is not participating in a/the discussion.
You could also get a job that pays well, live within your means, and use the extra money to buy dividend paying stocks and bonds or rental real estate (use a property manager to keep it passive).
Technical issues aside, as a db service platform provider, the statement in its Terms, "FI adheres to policies and procedures to prevent data and information loss, including a daily back-up regime, but does not make any guarantees that there will be no loss of data or information, or that FI policies and procedures will conform to industry best practices. FI expressly excludes and disclaims any liability for any loss of Licensee's data and information, no matter how such loss was caused." will make any serious user think twice or more times ... Would welcome further comments.
A functional convergent default Unity 8 DE with essential snap apps integrated in sandboxes. Old promisse!
I have gone down the same road. I settle with Intellij, Cursive is quite good and as a Vim user, I have vimidea which is pretty ok.
Background: I find Vim or Emacs really slow when you develop big projects, Intellij is much more responsive which is exactly what I needs to get things done.
Nice coincidental timing... I literally just ordered a Lattice Ice-40 eval board yesterday, and am hoping to get started using IceStorm to do some FPGA design stuff. It's all brand new to me, so any good entry level stuff, tutorials, docs, etc. on any of this stuff are very much appreciated.
You mean the thin bags of jet fuel attached to the side of the plane? The things that would almost certainly have folded back slighly before disintegrating?

You admit elsewhere to not being an expert so your expectations are built not on knowledge of planes but on your imagination.

Also have you actually looked at expert opinion on the crash for your answers or have you limited yourself to silly graphics like you added?
All of those look to be accidental. Can you show a bias in technical errors that's partisan in nature? When Fox cut it was deliberate.
So, that's institutional?
So why would someone want to use this over GNU Social?