skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I was thinking to make something similar: an experimental HN fork where submissions are tagged (collaboratively) but without titles, as these are rarely useful to predict the content of an article. And of course there is also the convenience of categorization.
I always like to point at Movember. A solid men's-issue foundation with no whining, no association with mras, and it generates an pantsload of money for a good men's-issue cause with relentless positivity.

MRAs complain while the real men concerned by men's issues are actually doing something. Worried about the discrepancy between funding for breast cancer vs prostate cancer? Well you can moan about the nasty feminists and how society cares about women's suffering more than men's, or you can make a difference.
The question was not whether it is be legal, but whether it is acceptable.

Being an asshole is also legal, but it's still not OK to be an asshole.
The main reason they plan to break all old plugins are because of performance issues. They will probably lose some users, but they might gain others if they make Firefox sufficiently smoother and/or less memory hungry than Chrome.

I use several plugins that won't work and I'm not happy about it at all, but what's the alternative?
Even they belonged to major parties.
> sha256(unixtime().rand()).com

Yep, that's the way to do it.
Your whole argument is nothing more than the fallacy of argument from authority.

Researchers aren't flawless, and they do make mistakes, even in the very methodology they adopt. That's why peer review is a thing, and academia subjects their work to peer review.

Hell, there's a very good reason why the Royal Society's motto is "take nobody's word for it."
Idk about him, and that article is very well written and insightful, with no traces of racism.
The concern may be discussion on the topic crowding other things out.
How to detect presence of Wannacry Ransomware and SMBv1 servers on your network
> It's always a good thing, plus the additional "bad" side-effect of less work for the populace to do, driving down the price of labor.

The price of labor tends to be lowest in the lowest-productivity areas. And there are good theoretical reasons for that to be the case -- high labor prices tend to cause productivity increases as a way to avoid paying them, and productivity increases increase the value of labor, which would tend to lead to higher labor prices.

When everybody was a pitiful subsistence farmer, barely producing more than they needed to eat themselves, the price of labor was very low. And where that's still true... the price of labor is still very low.

Can you point to a current or historical example of the price of labor going down as productivity rises?
Everyone seems to give Google the benefit of the doubt here. Is it possible they aren't doing anything because they are making lots of money from this ethical grey area?

The incentives seem perfectly aligned... the advertiser doubtlessly doesn't care about whether it's a scrupulous ad or not. Paint.NET authors make money, and Google makes money.
E. B. White, the Art of the Essay No. 1 (1969)
FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed
For Dummies – How $ 14 Stopped the Global Ransomware Attack
2019 Audi E-Tron Sportback – Interior, Exterior and Drive
Doctorow presented this at 2011 Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
I'm in the process of writing a book about FinTech industry holistically and I'm interested to know if someone has any tip of publishing business-technology book. My target readers are students, professionals either in tech or finance, entrepreneurs and investors.

If anyone could share a bit more about the cost of self publishing would be great.

For some reason, I'm more worried about the copy editing at this point than anything else.
Then, who is right, Qualcomm saying they're honoring the agreements, or Intel/Samsung? Both can not be right.
Oh, I understand what you mean. I thought you were speaking in the legal context. Mea culpa!
Always wanted to do that. Very nice project and UI; congrats !
> What's wrong with computing pre-transfer inequality? His thesis is about how the capitalist market distributes income and wealth.

It seems to me that it's quite a crass methodological error to base an analysis on income distribution on ignoring how income is distributed.
IMO you are limiting yourself by being in the analog mental model - ADSR, oscillators etc. are what made analog circuits generate sound but in the digital world they aren't necessary anymore and you can view all of it as just (periodic) function compositions in different spaces and model far beyond what analog can reach. Some new VSTis completely abandoned analog-style already.
>to me, "feminism" is about women wanting careers

Second-wave feminism lasted from 1960s to 1980s.
Unles the FRAND agreement includes pricing, this is just a price negotiation. I.e. if Qualcomm tell they're honoring the agreements, and Intel/Samsung they don't, both can not be right.
If the act of running as an outsider for high office is mostly an exercise in building name recognition to bolster future races, this may be an OK idea.

If this is a play to get younger people to pay attention to government, also an OK idea.

Seems like an OK idea.
Yeah, Schwarzenegger tried that and failed because his 2005 ballot initiatives (including his non partisan redistricting) were in an unnecessary special election and attached with some hard right propositions. All 8 went down in flames.

He then fired his chief of staff and replaced her with a Democrat and governed from the center, even from the center left. I preferred him to Gray Davis since Davis was so in bed with the prison guards union that he never used his clemency powers for fear it would cost a prison guard job.

A few years later, in 2010 Schwarzenegger dusted off the redistricting initiative and it passed.
I thought that in terms of numbers, a majority of people in CA disliked the startup guys... am I wrong?
There are two studies cited in the article, they both appear very weak, but they are citing evidence.
They will, but it will not be anytime soon.
Do you have children? Because this is the dumbest thing I have ever read.

>who meanwhile is crying his socks off, pretty convinced at that point that a 3-minute delay means eternal starvation for the rest of his short life
> Finally, this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem. This is an emerging pattern in 2017. We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world. Repeatedly, exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today – nation-state action and organized criminal action

Did the Microsoft President just confirm that NSA develop the vulnerability which led to the attacks on hospitals this weekend?!
You don't even need to get a refund. Kickstarter doesn't collect money until the end of the campaign, so you can change, withdraw, increase your pledge as much as you want with a couple clicks.
I'm very excited about this.

Skills that would be useful as governor:

* Learning new things quickly

* Running and improving existing organizations

* Hiring great people and building teams

* Identifying the most important and undervalued things to work on or invest in

Sam:

* Learning new things - e.g. with nuclear power, see comments by nuclear power founder https://blog.ycombinator.com/jacob-dewitte-oklo-interview/

* Running and improving existing organizations - see YC since 2014

* Hiring great people and building teams - YC since 2014, https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire, YC Research organizations like OpenAI

* Identifying the most important and undervalued things to work on or invest in - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Angel_Investing

I'd certainly like these attributes in my governor!
This one, the 43", about 1.7m. So I a 50" would be about 2m away, but even more cumbersome to transport. This would give the same working area as a 25" @ 1m. The difference between focusing at 1m vs 2m is significant, it's the difference between 1 diopter and 0.5 diopter of accomodation for your eye (vs about 2 diopter working at 50cm on a laptop, or probably 3 on phone). I don't know how that relates to muscle tension or eye fluid pressure. Working all day on the 43" my eyes get a little 'cramped', but it's a world better still. I also experimented with projectors, doable, but they can have other issues, some make lots of heat or noise, or others have a soft image.
PCA can decompose sound to more accurate base functions (if you look at covariance), so if you combine a few of them together with different coefficients, you might be able to generate some cool sounds much faster than with traditional methods. Later you might feed this to a RNN and perhaps compose brand new good sounding songs automatically, make a new Vocaloid band in Japan and go on a tour, generating new music on each performance ;-)
You would agree though that a blanket that claims to cure, without evidence, is misleading and should be regulated?
> I have not seen a definition of capitalism which was not either contradictory, or which relied on sufficiently general abstractions (utility instead of profit, social contracts and monopolies on force instead of states).

That's a very good point.

When we see people complaining about capitalism, these critics are essentially targeted at rule of law and the recognition of a right to private property, and how states don't simply confiscate private property held by those subjectively labeled as "the rich".
Who do you think is going to pay the taxes and support your lifestyle when you are retired? The kids that you didn't want to help pay for.
A corporate setting is completely different. They can choose how you access their own hardware (putting aside personal gripes for purposes of efficiency and convenience)

However the real problem is hardware level DRM implementation and non-open CPUs, which really mean that I cannot truly own my own personal computer
I was going to say - obviously the author of this post hasn't looked for Minecraft mods, because there the problem is far worse.
I have my own office and no, it is not "that's it".
Predicting the number of likes of an Instagram post
I thought that the NSA itself informed Microsoft after EnternalBlue was stolen?
He will not have a chance in hell if he spouts off on eliminating prop 13. I cringe whenever I hear the missplaced blame on prop 13.

I guess a younger generation will need to experience true political mismanagement of money first hand? I don't know how prop 13 became the target for the anger?

There's no easy fix fir housing. And please, we don't need more revenue collectors, or firehouses, and teachers are being paid well on mist schools. The tuition hikes were just a an area that administrators realized they could hike, because everyone needs the college experience, and a dubious degree.

Eliminating prop thirteen might force out a few widows out, but the end result will be a rich person just raising the rent again.

I don't want to debate, but it's getting old. People need to look into why prop 13 was enacted. I was a kid, but I remember why my dad was as Mad as Hell.

Oh yea, just to prove a point. In desirable Marin County. A 70's supervisor (Giacammoni) said west Marin would have thousands, and thousands of housing units/apartments if he didn't have a huge piggy bank to essentially rob from to further his pet project. He didn't like developement. West Marin is now zoned for 1 home/per hundred acres, or something crazy. (I almost spent $200000 on a run down cabin. Due to zoning, I wouldn't even be able to replace the foundation, which was perched on a redwood stump.) And thank god. It's a beautiful area. My point is giving money to any politician is risky. They used it for the craziest things. You people have no idea.

(I might be in favor of tying a repeal of prop 13 into funding a mandatory state UBI, but that will never fly. And even then--I'm just speculating. That money would go right back into pet projects.)
Did we even fight the war? Around here I regularly see people advocating for this sort of lockdown. It used to just be apple, but now it's in windows and Chromebooks.
This is public knowledge at this point.
NET Core Is Probably Fine
Well as long as you can still install Linux on a server or hobby board there will be some vestige of general purpose computing.
Here is a small sample of ads I have blocked from my sites: https://imgur.com/a/5SD9b
Chocolatey is like apt for Windows. It is worth the install.
You absolutely need security updates, or your system will be out of date and extra-vulnerable as soon as you plug it in.
they are not necessarily better in quality, but are required to be declared and be licensed under FRAND to be adapted by all willing buyers.
And how is that going to happen without forcing young women to do something they don't want to do in lieu of something they do want to do?

Remember that the more egalitarian and advanced the society, the more the genders self-segregate into different professions.
Choosing Compression with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot
Curious how Sam would overcome his lack of relative charisma vs people in politics to win. Paul graham essay on this is more than ever true in the world of social media http://www.paulgraham.com/pow.html
It's not "old Windows machines," it's XP to Server 2012. It also isn't clear that it came from e-mails yet. It's widespread, easy to propagate, and is hitting the places most affected by Windows 10's advanced telemetry and hidden update.
For really simple application omitting a k/v store is even better. Why isn't a simple map good enough?
I hope they host their own community page on bytemark in future for self-resilience.

guess the better option for their community, would be

community.nhsubuntu.org

the juju charm.com has been updated to Xenial 16.04: https://jujucharms.com/u/marcoceppi/discourse/

although the web-space has yet to reflect this.
If anyone is wondering these are instructions[1] to check if you have MS17-010 update, and how to stop the attack vector[2].

[1] : https://superuser.com/questions/1208741/how-to-check-if-a-sp...

[2] : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43952057/how-to-protect-f...
> An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen

This is a bad analogy. The solution to people stealing your Tomahawks is to guard your goddamn bombs. A better analogy would be the U.S. military seeing Al Qaeda has a bunch of Tomahawks and doing nothing because they might be aimed at ISIS.
That article totes copied the figures from the net without shouting out the original creators!
There was the thread here not so long ago about XEROX Park, and it had pretty detailed discussion. In the end it came down to funding.
Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the AWS Cloud
That alone is not enough, though it helps. Being well-known means a more desirable account to steal, and this is code that must be run as root.
Using ML? Why not using just Bayesian filters?
Guys from Huawei (that's nr.3 in world) and Samsung would disagree with you, as you confirmed by yourself in 2nd sentence.
Jerry Brown first became governor at the age 36. Founding a company that sold for $40M and running the most significant incubator in the world seems about as impressive as a few years as Secretary of State and a little lawyering.
REVEALED: THE 22-YEAR-OLD EXPERT SAVED THE WORLD FROM RANSOMWARE VIRUS
http://hackernucleus.com/revealed-the-22-year-old-expert-sav...
I don't think that is the same thing - preventing Jews from visiting business schools is not amenable to market forces, if there is a law against Jews visiting schools. Women had other things to do - Black people were working, too, but I suppose they were also banned from getting a proper education and from doing certain jobs.

People returning from paternity leave are not banned from any jobs.

The question is still: why can businesses get away with paying less? It would seem that their demand for these workers is not high enough, or they can enough workers without the missing experience. Otherwise, they would be competing for these workers and wages would go up.
1. Have a lot of money to hire best layers to sink bastard.
2. Work for a big corp/government.
3. Live in a country where they don't give a damn about patents.
not criminals who get caught, no. a good "criminal" is invisible and manages to get away with their crime. these aren't people you hear about, because then they'd be failures.
> We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits.

This whole incident is really raising the profile of the creation of "cyber weapons".

They aren't like physical weapons with physical controls -- they are digital, controls and costs to copy/distribute are more like digital music than anything a Goverment organization is used to.
"Did the Microsoft President just confirm that NSA develop the vulnerability "

Where did he do that? He said they found it and kept it for themself, but not that they injected it into Windows.

And about the whole thing, I would rephrase it to "many users learned the hard way about why are security-updates important".

But it is nice, that microsoft advocates a " digital genvue convention" even though I doubt anything will really change.
I personally can't stand them, however I'm moving myself and my company out of CA so I won't be able to vote against him.
REVEALED: THE 22-YEAR-OLD EXPERT SAVED THE WORLD FROM RANSOMWARE VIRUS http://hackernucleus.com/revealed-the-22-year-old-expert-sav...
Another lesson learned: don't bundle your security updates with your cool new features nobody wants, Microsoft. This will aggravate the problem as more people/companies will defer updates.
well, you are absolutely right that you have no idea why Qualcomm is being sued.

No, they are not hardware patents. They are mostly wireless that Qualcomm declared to be standard under FRAND terms.

Qualcomm's direct competitors are directly harmed by Qualcomm's monopolistic pratices -- such as not granting licenses to their competitors when Qualcomm promised to do so in violation of FRAND. It not only violates ETSI rules, the standard setting organization governing wireless standards like CDMA and 4G, but also US's anti-competitor/trust laws.
What organisation really produces something meaningful? Perhaps most of it is different shades of fluff.

For example many government and institutional project assignments are a complete waste of time and money to begin with.

Quite often they're a checkbox on some bureaucrat's desk.

Some perfect examples of this is you can find when looking at the (technical) tenders the European Commission issues. Pick your (tech) topic and be sure find a few million being thrown at some research projects that are never being utilised, or of which the outcome literally doesn't matter.

All being funded with taxpayer's money. There are hundreds of these projects being funded every year, and they are a complete waste of money.

While there are people dying on boats to get into the EU, they are funding machine learning and AI research projects that would be laughably outdated 3 years ago.

However, if one company doesn't pick it up, another one will. It is a whole ecosystem of its own of companies and organisations applying for useless EU projects.

Perhaps the problem is not the companies fulfilling these assignments but rather the governments that issue them in the first place. Or the general public that lets their taxpayers money get wasted like that in the first place.
[Leanpub co-founder here.]

We use Markdown for authoring (one of two dialects: either Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua).

We automatically produce PDF, EPUB, MOBI (what you were saying, essentially), but we also produce InDesign export. If you have a designer, give him/her the InDesign files. You can then produce exactly what you want as a finished product for print, with as much design as you want. But while the book is in-progress, nothing beats being able to click a button to publish.

...and if you don't want to do the InDesign work, you can just click a button and get a print-ready PDF file automatically produced by Leanpub.
I think Richard Feynman explained the scientific progress quite similarly: most of the time, the scientific understanding grows in complexity, as new research is included into the existing body of knowledge and explaining more different things. Then, at certain periods, there comes an idea, that changes some underlying definitions, and provides a simpler explanation of a bigger picture.

Elon Musk recently has also talked about, how thought process of physical science appeals to him, because it tends to deconstruct systems into fundamental parts, and then rebuild the explanation from them, rather than using analogies.

So, I thought, that in order to imagine the progress of the next century we'd need to define sort of a lowest energy state, towards which the humanity should drift one way or another. However, I didn't have any of the fundamental pieces, and I think you just laid them down quite nicely in this lecture. Thanks Alan.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=A%20Mathematician%E2%80%99s%20...

... although I don't think we'd heard from a high-school classmate of the author before.
When theoreticians talk about LZ, they mean unlimited LZ, not LZ within a limited window. If you are only interested in data compression, the existing algorithms with limited window size should be much faster, use less memory, and achieve similar compression, except in some rare cases.

The primary motivation for unlimited LZ is text indexing. You can build text indexes based on LZ parsing and achieve ridiculous compression ratios with repetitive data (e.g. versioned documents). The query performance depends on the length of the dependency chains in the parsing, so you want to use as long windows as possible.
But that's the cost of just getting the books to your warehouse. There's the additional labor cost of unpacking them and individually shipping them, which is probably more than $3.83/book.
> And anyway, America was never even close to becoming part of the Soviet Union. Nuclear annihilation was the big risk, but dogma does not work against ICBMs.

Not necessarily. The communist ideology was so appealing to the people (and the USSR so good at spreading it world-wide, via various channels) that, if not for the radical anti-communist steps, it's not impossible that USA would have its own communist revolution (orchestrated from Moscow and led by the local "useful idiots"), like so many other countries.

More broadly, I don't think that being in an open conflict with a world super power is the best time for rational reflection. Notice how democratic countries suspend most of its values during the war (i.e. they can take your property if it'll help the war effort, they'll put you to jail if you refuse to fight etc.) - they're just impractical when under attack.
Url changed from https://mobile.twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/8636744308907..., which points to this.
Why would you work in an unsafe environment without proper tools and safety measures? If you get injured the insurance company won't pay a cent, since you broke the safety protocol, and the employer will probably just fire you. Dead people can't sue for damages either.

If you are an just an employee, it makes perfect sense to throw up your hands and claim you can't solve a problem, when the alternative is taking risks that reward the company, rather than yourself.