skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your interest. We are planning to create a web page for this soon (likely http://swarm.mit.edu -- it's not live yet). Till then, you should be able to find our papers and some upcoming ones at my advisor, Daniel Sanchez's web page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/.
Literally thousands of researchers, professors, entrepreneurs and engineers.

You know of those four (and can't think of anyone else!) because Elon Musk sold his vision to investors, employees, and the public through impressive salesmanship and an obscene amount of both grit and persistence. He aggregated resources and did what you do when you accumulate wealth for business purposes; he spent it to forward his goals. Some of which went towards impressive PR stunts and people wrangling.
An "alleged victim", fixed that for you.

No one has produce a single text message backing up their claims. Not one fucking text message. Let alone a conversation thread.

A lot of people play the victim card too quickly.

I'm a man and just got hit on by:

- 1 transgendered male at the supermarket (it was awkward)

- 2 obese women ("Hey baby, nice ass!")

- Groped by a women as I passed her by at a concert.

All in the past week.

Do I go stand on top of a mountain and go to newspapers that I had unwanted sexual advances and how awful these people are? No, because it's human nature to want to attract a mate and people will try. And I respect that and value their attention to me however simpleton, grotesque or somewhat awkward it can be.
Oh, I know it exists, and I know tons of people are using it.

But like I said, I don't think that the tooling is there right now for mass migration (or anything like it). It's really difficult to test/debug. It's difficult to dianose issues. It's difficult to even set up a "Hello World" API Gateway that uses lambdas. It's painful... as are all new technoligies.

I guess what I mean to say is: I look forward when I just jump on AWS and start using it for a production app, and the boilerplate and amount of config files I have to maintain drops.

I'm also aware of the tool called "serverless" ( https://serverless.com/ ) which is also a step in the right direction.
It's not even bad. It's neglecting any kind of "has this process ever touched win32k.sys" test.
How do you stop people from recording their messages?

Snapchat takes two approaches (that I know of): First, they don't stop it, but the messager is supposed to be notified when it happens. They know this doesn't work and can't work, though; avoiding screenshot detection isn't even considered a reportable bug. (see https://hackerone.com/snapchat )

Second, they have a legal barrier, in that using a third-party client to communicate over Snapchat violates their terms of service.

Notably, neither of those makes the messages any more ephemeral. This makes sense, because stopping people from recording messages that you send them is not an achievable goal. Barring some sort of supernatural influence, it's no more achievable for Instagram than it is for Snapchat.
not being a network guru how easy is this? I have my VPN set to run over port 443 but I assume it would be easy to see enough of the traffic to see it's a VPN and not an HTTPS connection. I'm assuming that could be obscured in some way but then I've heard even if you can't see the contents you can generally tell it's not HTTPS by looking at the traffic patterns?
I don't know about other readers here, but personally I would _encourage_ self promotion. This is a YCombinator site after all. As long as it remains on topic (which your comment most certainly was).
Do you mean the non-zero rule and even-odd rules? In the WP definition they don't inherently seem to have side effects or dependencies on previous computations, can you link to an elaboration?
That's a little better but I don't know what most of those terms (Mapnik? CartoCSS? Mapbox?) mean. What's the use case, in plain language?
I understand your point. And I agree they had successful products in a small scale through 2010 with their headsets.

But Jawbone could've become a completely new company in late 2010 when they unveiled their speaker. And being close to unveiling their wristbands. All the money and funding (like 90% of their funding) were done since then. The last 6 years. Jawbone was already flaming out in 2015 and 2016. That's only a few years after 2011.
Buying expensive toys isn't the point, it's primarily the voracious intellectual nature of the character that makes Tony Stark.

“But Robert Downey, when we were prepping ‘Iron Man,’ said, ‘There’s somebody we should sit down and talk with.’”

“[He] said, ‘This is a guy who can give us some insight into what it’d really be like to be Tony Stark.’”[0]

[0] https://www.recode.net/2016/10/12/13259344/elon-musk-iron-ma...
I'm a type, yayy!!

(Thanks for down-votes in advance.)
The word "they" in my previous post was referring to grsec.
Is Amazon really a core project dependency for software projects that use them? If prices get jacked up, I don't see why a get obect from S3 couldn't be replaced the equivalent call to Azure/Google Cloud or even an open(3)? Yes, migrating projects is a pain, but there has to be a point where it makes financial sense, and if not, what's the problem?
Warren Buffett said those things very recently. He has always been against most tech and web companies because he doesn't understand the space. Buffett was already entering his 70s once the dot com bubble burst and you could look at companies in a better sense. I can see a good example being used. I don't think Buffett is one though.
Where's the lock in?
We also have .gmail, so you can imagine some clever possibilities with that.

God knows how widely a "ben@google" email address would work though. I'm going to guess not very.
Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits
Guess you never wanted to let us know how your comment added any value to the conversation, huh? Or why you responded?
I think it just takes a long time. Messenger is already trying to emulate WeChat, they are just not there yet. I believe Messenger is the only app in the world that's positioned to match WeChat's ecosystem. They've been copying WeChat over the past few years. They copied the voice message feature (very popular in china), QR contact scanning, Games, Mini-apps (Messenger bots), and Wallet (Facebook Pay). Other features that come to mind are stickers/sticker packs and "stories", although those were copied from several companies at once.

On market opposition, I think the biggest obstacle are the payment vendors, specifically Visa and Mastercard. Alipay and WeChat wallet had an easy time taking off because they weren't competing against credit cards. Visa makes so much money in its present rent-seeking market position they have no incentive to innovate.
RT is a major part of my working environment. From the comments here it's obvious his work has touched many lives. R.I.P.
This is true, but I'm not a cartographer. I know enough to appreciate a well rendered map but it is not my job.

In fact most of the time I can get way with just a vector layer over a 3rd party tile layer using Leaflet and some fancy fireworks showing labels on click/hover events.

I'm really glad I don't need to render tiles in the server side anymore but I remember the time when I had not choice but manage my own tile server simply because many clients could not handle something simple like a choropleth map with all the voting districts in my state.
Faraday Future halts Nevada factory construction after financial woes
> Depopulated rural areas by definition don't have many people, so they don't have a huge portion of the population.

I hope for your sake that this was an off-the cuff comment and not something you actually put thought into.

Cities are very small, and unpopulated areas are very big. Amount = density * area.

The US has about 15% of people living in rural counties. China has about 60% of people living in rural areas. 63% of sub-saharans live in rural areas. It's around 45% globally, per the world bank group.
How did this make front page of HN? This adds literally nothing to the discussion apart from rehashing arguments that were old hat in 2008, by an author who openly admits they are part of the privileged group largely responsible for the problem, complete with an oh so classy “well I can’t SAY it, but you know what I mean” as if sideways implying garbage opinions is somehow morally superior to having garbage opinions.

Is this satire?
You can walk around during most of those in between times. Not so when just driving.
I'm digressing a little here, but I'd really like to comment on this point.

I have always detested the "don't hate the player, hate the game" ethos. It's a total shirking of responsibility that inadvertently praises being able to game any existing system regardless of the purpose for which the system exists in the first place -- that is if somebody has or discovers the opportunity to exploit a social contract of any scale for pure personal gain, then the onus isn't on the person to maintain any sort of ethical footing. It's on the system to have processes built in to deal with such a situation -- if it doesn't then it deserves to be exploited.

Maybe somebody would have some valuable input here, but I see no value in that sort of ethos. It tends to end in waste. Or at the very least, the returns are diminishing.

I guess my end point is I don't understand, and as such dislike, how nonchalantly the platitude is thrown around as if it's to just be accepted.
You seem to be missing, that family only pays above $500k
So what's the meaning of caring then? If they aren't implementing the feature, it means that they don't care. It doesn't make a difference to me that they care a bit, just not enough to actually implement it.
We should be just satisfied with TOTP, to be honest. It's just 6 digits by default, and unless you've got good anti-bruteforce protection, it can be broken in a matter of hours to days by just trying enough combinations. I'm sure Google and other big players do a good job of blocking these attacks, but would you trust every TOTP implementation of the web to get that right?
That's fb.com's exchange server; I know, because my credentials auto filled. Not related to whatever used to be there.
First comment on your first comments page I agree with.
I'm not sure how something being a choice is even remotely relevant to demography.

Per the WBG, 45% of the global population absolutely has a "noticeable impact".
sha1 is very, very fast. This article seems to confuse cryptographically useful hash functions with key stretching, adaptive work hashing, and the like.
>>Add to that, an "IT" engineer expects to be a "Technical Lead" in a matter of 5-6 years, a "Team Lead" in a matter of 8 years and a "Project Manager" in about 12 years of experience. My numbers for the years maybe a bit off though.

More than anything else, this is the most important reason. Indians for some reason have fancied middle management bureaucratic roles above real work almost forever. This is not just in IT, but the very economic ecosystem of India has this problem. We are talking about a country where even house wives do a distance education MBA course because 'Just in case... I would be a manager someday' kind of attitude.

Not one person wants to do any real work. And over long times its impossible to sustain growth without productivity.

So there will be a inevitable decline in the overall ecosystem at some point in time. But my guess is those who wish to do work will always have good projects to chase after.

The IT ecosystem on the longer run will resemble every other engineering services industry in India. Architecture, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical etc. Niche areas where good talent will be required and there will always be a supply. Noise, garbage and me too attitude people will largely be gone.
It's nice that she decides to call women who didn't report unwanted sexual advances "prostitutes" without having the guts to actually say that for the record.
I assume the 87 nanoseconds means the average per loop iteration, not all 1,000,000 iterations.
You're right. I didn't read the whole article. I skimmed it. But I did actually pick up on the locking problem and see the graphs with huge amounts of idle time. I knew this comment was only marginally related to the actual article. So, :-/

However I suspect that as soon as that lock regression in Windows is fixed, that monster CPU load is coming back home to roost, and the workstation is going to be just as dead as my 64 core Linux workstation has been when I've actually '-j 500' without gomacc up and running correctly.

So, by all means, Microsoft should fix this lock regression.

But there's this...elephant...in...this room here.
Or SAS Test Week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Special_Forces_...
Forcing people into less-optimal behavior isn't a win just because it more closely matches one's expectations for what optimal behavior should be.
Ah yes, I remember this person. She started an unlicensed Bitcoin-based derivatives exchange where the public could bet on the success of startups, and was fined and shut down by the SEC (not before posting an ill-advised rant first: https://archive.is/DOVJZ).

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642186

Edit: I appreciate the questions of the relevance of this fact. My perspective was that Ms. Ou appears to consider Silicon Valley / the startup world a place where the usual rules do not, or perhaps should not apply. I should have been more explicit about this in my original post.
No. Google put a claim up. They have to back it up. Not the person questioning it. That would make no sense. So either you or Google need to back yourselves up.
Although I'm a staunch supporter of progressive taxation, I think it's unfortunate you're downvoted, because I think that's a legitimate question.

To me, there are several arguments for progressive taxation.

To begin with, the wealthy benefit disproportionately from the playing field we have -- our robust marketplace and ample infrastructure (underfunded, though it may be). The further you are from subsistence, the more opportunity you have. In a very real sense, we're not actually a liberal society when so much is pay-to-play. So one argument for progressive taxation is that it's a means of rebalancing opportunity when wealth and income are grossly unequal

But I'd go further and assert that our means of wealth allocation is by no means fair, a priori. In fact, it's increasingly unfair. From that perspective, progressive taxation is a patch on the problem.

This would be a socialist defense of progressive taxation, but it's also possible to justify from a capitalist standpoint. If it's true that the wealthy are rewarded in return for their contributions to society, well then we should put them on a treadmill to keep them working. This is how corporations treat labor, after all. Unless of course real world capitalism is only for the benefit of people that happen to have capital.
To fix this, perhaps it'll need to fork and detach the session, as per the standard daemonisation sequence. c.f. http://www.itp.uzh.ch/~dpotter/howto/daemonize
Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the Future to Influence the Past
It's almost entirely mapped shared libraries. You'd see the same with a C application linking a large library, for example.

The linked libraries happen to be larger than usual because they are the debugging variants.
Have you tried light therapy? It's great. https://re-timer.com/
This was a shocker to read. I never really thought of the CEO of RescueTime, but the product that was made truly fit into the mold of "changing lives". I took my habits of random social media visits from 3 hours a day (stuff accumulates terribly), to two planned and focused visits totaling 20 minutes a day.

That over a period of 3 years, is almost 87 days of my life saved. I pay for the product because of all the good it has given me. Feels really sad to see someone who gave me back so much time having to leave so soon. RIP Joe. If anyone from the rescuetime team is reading this, stay strong. Condolences to all of you as well.
Yes. Well, either gas prices will rise or some other way of disincentivising private car use will appear, or we'll have runaway climate change, and it'll be your fault.
When taking a harmful job might be justified: an in-depth analysis
> What? I'm not sure I know what "old-fashioned word" the author is talking about...

I think she means "put up" as in "gave in", and the word is "prostitutes", because of course consenting, adult women cannot choose who they have sex with without This Author's Holy Writ.

It's just sexism on behalf of the author, it undermines her whole message (which, as far as I can tell, isn't anything in particular?) and strikes me as extremely distasteful.
PyCon 2017: Readability Counts [video]
I love Elon Musk. Calling me a fanboy is an understatement. But yeah agree with what you say. His PR and brand are top notch. The article is indeed not really needed.

He feels like the individual equivalent to Google in the 00s and early parts of this decade when they were close to being infallible in the eyes of the general public and especially to the tech community.

Impressive job by the both of them!
Pretty cool that they're offering a HIP (CUDA) version too
I'm a white male too, and have thought about this too.

So I asked some women what their experience was, explaining that I was truly interested in understanding, and listened to them.

It's different. Soooo different.

You and I might get ignored, or disrespected, or treated badly, this is true, and part of normal human behaviour as you say. And if this constituted 85% of the picture, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I was going to list a bunch of treatments that we don't get because we're white males. But I decided not to. Go find out for yourself. Ask some female friends who you respect about their experiences. Make sure to make it clear to them that you're trying to understand, because most women will actually minimise their grievances so that they're not seen as whinging or complaining.

Remember, we don't have a "control" either. We don't get to experience our reality and then another person's reality. It's easy to dismiss. But in order to fix it, the first step is to understand it. And the only way we're going to do that is by listening, really listening, to the other's perspective and experiences.

Good luck :) It's eye-opening, it really is.
They sure won't ever be using Google Suites
Yes, deep packet inspection with ML, read for example here [1]

[1] http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
Hi all,
I'm the author of the post and happy to take questions.
Is this relevant to the linked article and general topic?
"The global view" is that nearly half of the world population is rural by most metrics.

Your claim is also incorrect for more fundamental reasons, although it doesn't really apply here: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

Cooperating minorities can have an effect drastically out of proportion with their share of the population.
Google seeks RBI approval for entry into India's digital payments space
Managers at GameStop used to be the non-managers working there. Same in a whole host of other professions, where it is expected and required that you actually understand and have experience doing the work of the people you manage. Cos, you know, in those trades, managers often have to step in and do the work. Customer service managers have usually worked as CSRs. They know the work they manage. It has always baffled me that anyone ever accepted the idea a non-technical person could or should manage teams of developers without having written code, shipped an application, or even setup a server. They have no intrinsic experience or domain knowledge to inform their management of the coders, devops, or sysadmins. And they need it. You simply cannot manage people very well when you don’t understand the experience of doing their job. You can be the nicest, greatest person when it comes to dealing with people, but when it comes to hearing conflicts that are getting in the way of getting things done, when your team is blocked by things that you can’t understand, and you can’t actually see the way through the problem yourself, that’s not good management.
You can make it more difficult, but short of actually disconnecting China's network from the rest of the Internet entirely I don't think there's any way to completely prevent it.

I had a run-in with a particularly aggressive captive portal last week that kept injecting ads into unencrypted pages (if I'm traveling on one of your vehicles, I don't want to buy tickets to travel with you), but fortunately didn't firewall outgoing port 22 so I could use sshuttle to route 0.0.0.0/0 via an SSH connection to my personal server. This works with pretty much any server you can run Python on, so I don't know of a good way to stop it unless you're willing to block anyone from SSHing outside of the country (thus preventing e. g. Chinese companies with a global market from running servers in other countries).
That sounds like a very frustrating and untrustful interaction with one's manager. Good luck hanging on to your team members with all that.

But the important thing is that you understand, because you're the manager! Right?!
I agree with everything you say, but sadly the disadvantaged person have a tough decision to make:

A, ignore the injustices, this allows the person to function better without the victimhood mentality, and generally blend in with the mainstream better.

B, recognize the injustices and try to raise awareness and fight against them, it's easy to fall into victim mentality because of reason you mentioned, and also counter-productive for the purpose of blending into the mainstream.

So generally speaking, option a is easier, with a caveat, that if everyone chooses the easy route, then who will fight against those injustices?
'Forest kindergarten' – a fresh approach to early education from Denmark
> The EU parliament report is wrong. Without privacy, money's utility is extremely limited.

Without privacy the authorities are able to tax you and track your purchases. That is why they hate cash, because it's anonymous. You can now cross the border with millions worth of USD stored on a microSD card without declaring anything. One of the purposes of cryptocurrencies was to escape the regulating grip of governments. What the bureaucrats in power do not understand is that anything could be used as money as long as there is confidence in that thing. In ancient China and Japan bags of rice and tea bricks were used as money during interesting times, some of which lasted up to 700 years.
I'm guessing he meant who's creating all those kind of companies at the same time. There's definitely thousands of peoples/companies working on those same problems/markets.
I've used AWS since pretty much the first year they offered EC2 instances, and in that time, I believe their costs have only gone DOWN over the years.

Not just EC2 - we use S3, Glacier, Elastic Beanstalk, IoT, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Polly, Rekognition ... and I don't think I have ever seen a price increase /hr or /Gb in all that time.
Chump change for sure. But most of his net worth will prob be tied up in Tesla and SpaceX for a while. That $15B net worth number seems low actually. Forbes doesn't specify what they estimate his SpaceX stake at. Nor how much he has outside of those two stakes.

A little over 20% of Tesla is around $11B. A little over 50% of SpaceX is $7B to $8B (SpaceX hasn't been given a valuation for almost two years now). That's already close to $20B.
Good grief! I've always found using vanity domains for your project/company to be tasteless at best. Now .io is even associated with deportation, dispute of territory, and security screwups. Using an .io domain only serves to demonstrate that you care about pretending to be a 2010-ish startup at the expense of everything else at this point.