skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We definitely imagine saving edits as creating new versions of the same package. The most common pattern we've heard is adding more dataframes or files to a package as new results are generated. But, we can certainly imagine other transformations.
Exactly. Also the box and placing was no 'security measure', just the way it worked. It is very interesting to see how the view of the person trying to 'break the cipher' is different to the mindset of the team that had to get it to work. They were probably security paranoid about the hackability of their work but in a totally different direction to that 'seen' by someone 'breaking the cipher'.
Could someone post a link to the article (paywall)
Yes. Most mosquito species do not actually bite.
Thanks @techiefirst. I wish I had a few sample reports prepared. That would've been a good "show and tell". Let me do that this weekend.
i didn't mean the thread, i meant the blacklist.
Adrian Lamo “Ask Adrian” Published
It's hard to argue that it hasn't been an unalloyed good for founders.

Given that such a list can't have a high degree of transparency attached to it for a number of legal and practical reasons, it would be hard to argue anything in particular about it.
Humor, wrapped in a clickbait headline.
They just let someone die in prison for fighting for human rights.
Could you tell us how this compares with Synapse (https://www.synapse.org/)?. They've been doing this for a long time and have a large presence in computational biology.
Must ... find ... new ... sucker ... and ... feed.

Uber runs out of cash next year if they don't. If Softbank puts money in, it will probably be on terms very favorable to Softbank.

Uber's funding rounds: [1] The "undisclosed amount" round in 2017 was reportedly not big enough to change the fundamentals.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
> but keep in mind that median salary is closer to $100-120k

Not at regional airlines. According to http://work.chron.com/average-salary-regional-airline-pilot-... $26k is typical entry-level, $55k is average once you get promoted to captain, and the top of the range is about $60k as of 2012.

If you get picked up by a major airline, the numbers look quite different, and the median in 2016 across all airlines in the US was about $128k according to https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Transportation-and-Material-Moving/A... so presumably a lot of people have in fact made the move from regional to major in the past. What the future prospects of that happening are is not clear.
Will I Survive the Artificial Intelligence Summer of Love?
As long as you call it a blockchain, I'm in!
Tactically cutting corners to get to market is a valid strategy.

The problem is when people stop even evaluating the corners they're cutting, and when they react to having this pointed out to them with snarky comments about time to market.
Oh, that explains why it's familiar. I might be mixing them up. There's a similar ... thing in DF. Trying not to spoiler.
Hmm. If it's something you despise, then why do you still work for them?
Do normal (non-infected) mosquito bites do much for your immune system? I know it will have an effect (because every action has an effect) but will it even be noticeable?
> Wait, was that just a straight bash command? Is this installed on my computer?

Welcome to 1982..1985. This command predates bash.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc812

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/ucb...
Terrence McKenna is my absolute favorite new age(ish) nonsense spouter. And I mean this sincerely. His ideas have a beauty to them.
I’m just wondering, as we shrink our gates for CPUs more and more (the gates are approaching 10nm soon), does it become less reliable? People always want the next fastest and most power efficient device, but surely we must be losing something with the shrink in CPU gate size! If that’s the case, are CPUs such as the Intel 286s more reliable?
> Duggan allegedly told a female employee who complained about the lack of gender diversity on the sales staff that she should “tell recruiting we need to hire more boobies.”

This made me cringe. (I'm a dude).
Yes this was the exact scenario in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.
The general idea of creating lists of people who are bad actors is an interesting (and controversial) idea.

On one side, there should be a ledger of people doing shitty things, even if the behavior isn't illegal. Who wants to work with assholes? No one. If there's a record of people's bad behavior then future founders can save themselves a lot of suffering by simply knowing to avoid these people.

On the other side, what standards are used to put someone on this list in the first place? Are multiple offences required? Seems like without a process of submitting good evidence of people's poor behavior there's a lot of room for abuse. If this list actually becomes a tool that people rely on to select their investors I would start to be concerned by the potential abuse of power.

I'm curious how others feel about this idea of putting people on lists.
Interesting point. If you let your imagination run wild a bit, you start to wonder if Google can put trackers in the mosquitoes, or if they can somehow show ads.
I've been through a number of systems for this. I think where I've landed is that this is probably the ideal code-it-yourself opportunity. People often suggest todo lists as very easy, but I find those even more complicated than workout tracking. You need to track multiple lists, update existing records, etc. Workout data is pretty "append only".

For my workouts, which are fairly simple (and usually involve body weight, a simplifying assumption), a shell script to log the data and a python script to analyze the data works great. When I do 20 pushups, I say "log_exercise pushups 20", with autocomplete and all. It just adds a row to a 3 column file with the epoch timestamp, exercise name, and quantity. With that log, it's very easy to analyze my pushup/chinup/plank/running activity over time. I generally limit my analysis to things like "am I able to do more of xyz than a month ago?" or "how many pushups have I done on average over the past 6 months?" (seeing "avg 2 pushups a day over the past 60 days" gets me embarrassed!).

As for web/mobile, I just put my workout in Google Keep on my phone (notes like "10 chinups, 2 miles running, 6 more chinups...") and just enter it in when I get back. For me, this pain is outweighed by having complete control in other areas.

I initially thought "oh, this must be a solved problem", so I would look for apps. Over time I realized that a lot of features just weren't necessary for me. I found that graphs of my pushups over time didn't give me additional information. I could see from a table whether or not I was doing a lot or a little. Syncing across devices or seeing it on the go wasn't important. Sharing with my friends wasn't important. Nor was seeing percent increases or goal setting. The biggest benefit was from going from keeping no records to consistently keeping records, and adding a tiny bit of structure.
The docs are very light on technical details. It appears for aws they are using lambda and API gateway. If so, how do you connect to a sql db that requires connection pooling?

It looks promising, but it's unclear how to use it for a real app. Perhaps the idea is you maintain a separate set of servers which talk to your db?

Edit: Autocorrect fix
When the exit its very low value and investors fight for the scraps YC donates is shares to the founders, in my opinion it doesn't get more founder friendly than this.
Again, if that's true for a list of harassing VCs, it's doubly true for all the other stuff that gets recorded by YC on VC reports. I'm going to be more candid than I should, in the interest of not wasting time: the only reason people are freaking out about this list is:

1. It's been described as a "blacklist" and people have a visceral reaction to that particular term, even though the moral equivalent of blacklists occurs in every other business situation in which reputation is tracked.

2. There's a political/ideological interest, heavily represented on Internet message boards, in trying to establish the notion that sexual harassment and gender inequality are overblown issues.

If you don't trust YC, this shouldn't be the issue that worries you about them; they've been using their influence this way for years and years, and they haven't told you a single thing about it. The only thing that's really happening here in this announcement is that YC is being open about it for this particular issue --- obviously, in order to put VC firms on notice.

There are things I don't trust YC with, but defending the interests of founders just isn't one of them.

Finally: we should all recognize that no matter how much we might want a transparent process that gives each and every one of us all the information we need to judge YC's actions, in the real business world we virtually never get anything like that, and this won't be any different.
By far the greatest part of Trump's wealth comes from the "rent-seeking" that I mentioned. The sources are all political: 1) zoning density restrictions, 2) overregulation (e.g. in a city with mass transit and Uber, parking spaces, and lots of red tape to increase time of construction) and 3) overuse of historic landmark status. This rent-seeking is all implemented by cities run by Democrats.

Thus, it is Democrats who are most responsible for making Trump far, far wealthier than he would be without their assistance. This while adding to inequality and making rents for even small apartments very expensive.

Incidentally, in Japan in 2001 or so they passed a federal law which overruled local zoning density restrictions. The result is that in 2014 140,000 housing units were built in Tokyo compared with less than 90,000 for all of California and 20,000 for NYC.
I've probably invested 40 hr in the project, but half of it was spent on iterating through bad examples, and identifying them as negative labels for training data. I also found that the open source data sets tend to have full portraits instead of just the face which took some more data clean-up. My end goal is just to have the system be able to detect faces in a video stream, and have the camera follow you around, but I'm not comfortable moving on until the false positive rate goes down. It's not a huge problem for my use case, but I was hoping to be able to detect all faces in any size pic regardless of how far a face is in the image. I find ML development to be a little more annoying because sometimes tuning the hyper parameters can feel like magic as opposed to actually learning something. I kinda want to go back to the data and get rid of all the portrait style pics. Thinking about that as a weekend project doesn't exactly get me up in the morning though XD. Probably worth going through the fast AI course too because my ML experience ends with the ml course from Andre Ng
Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm
> since pretty much every VC in the valley needs access to the YC dealflow

Do they though? It seems every demo day some VC posts up a blog about how they are not fans of demo day anymore for X, Y and Z reasons and that they're no longer attending.

Don't get me wrong YC is great and all but you make it sound like most of the VCs need YC but so many companies outside of YC get funding I'm not convinced that's even close to the truth.
IP address is most definitely part of the voting ring algo. I'm almost positive about that much.
Reminds of when UC Riverside released some stingless wasps to prey on a whitefly infestation in Southern California. This was in the early 1990s.

I think this paper is relevant, but I only scanned it:

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca5106p5-67707...
Ok so in the event of an HN hack, real users will effectively be indirectly DOXed?
It seems the "Death Star" strategy is at least as flawed as its namesake, and really, can they keep selling a fantasy of just-around-the-corner level 5 automation to rich idiots?
I believe they have mod tools to help with voter ring detection and similar problems. I would guess those rely on ip addresses for some of the functionality.
Ask HN: Voice recognition: determining the gender
Is there any package or cloud service that allows you to determine the gender of the speaker? I'm not interested in the content of the speach, but just in the gender of the speaker.
great, i was not aware of this category, i will try this next time, thanks!
Microsoft was the Facebook/Google of that time, they had the most stringent hiring requirements.
These situations aren't good analogs for several reasons.

1. If someone's "crime" is just having communist ideals, then it's not a crime at all. It's actually protected by the Constitution, although that doesn't apply to an employment situation of course. Harassing someone is often a crime.

2. Hollywood's blacklist prevented people from accessing their primary source of income. The consequences were extreme. The people who might be affected by this blacklist are not people who will starve or die because they aren't getting enough deals.

3. Accusing someone of communism doesn't have the blowback for the accuser that's equivalent to accusing someone of harassment. It's embarrassing, risky, and shameful for someone to publicly talk about sexual harassment.

There's a need for a mechanism to hold VCs accountable for bad behavior. There wasn't such a need for the Hollywood Blacklist.

YC's proposal isn't a perfect mechanism, and it's definitely possible the wrong people will be held accountable. But nothing could be a perfect system in he-said-she-said scenarios.

If YC is erring on the side of accidentally punishing VCs rather than allowing women to be harmed, I'd rather see the VCs punished, as they're the ones with vastly disproportionate power.
Comparing New York City to the Bay Area in terms of final bill, not hourly rates. Certainly not true across the board, but when I compared the cost to do the same task (e.g. set up and manage an SPV, or paper a simple merger) between Wilson and Latham, on one hand, and Cravath or Greenberg, on the other hand, I found a consistent 30 to 45% premium for California. A lot of this came from having to list out, section by section, bodies of California's commercial code everyone was agreeing to ignore.

Note that the bills with these same firms reach parity with New York the moment I insist we use Delaware or New York law.
Is there a safer alternative such as using salted hashed ip addresses?
Thank you for the detailed answer
We aren't talking about what Heroku does here. I understand the confusion since the space is similar, but it's like comparing oranges to orange juice.

I won't be going into details here on HN because it's a somewhat pointless waste of time. There are valid reasons why TJ and I are upset with rauchg. I've said my piece.
Iron provides a bare minimum of concepts that you need. Rocket comes with its opinions and a lot of features nicely integrated. Iron will allow you to design anything you want easily, because all elements are as simple as they possibly can be and compose nicely, but requires that you have your own vision and enough experience to know what you need and how to build it. So Iron is great if you need thin layer of web interface added to some existing non-web project, or have enough experience with web and Rust to have own vision. It also work fine with stable. Rocket is great for all other cases - if you are new to webdevelopment and/or Rust, expect framework to tell you how to do things and don't mind using unstable. I don't have examples of sites, but none of those frameworks deals with UI, so I am not sure how would that help you.
In general, it's a poor technological implementation for such promos to be implemented as a hard clock-time boundary with no workaround whatsoever at the user level. There's a broad design issue to be considered here, for retail and elsewhere.
They are a food source, but generally not a critical one.
You use the 'salt' as the key in the keyed hash.

The difference occurs mostly when you start chaining hashes. In that case, a salt is only relevant in the first hash, whereas the keyed hash needs the key at every hash round.
I'm quite sure that would be a grossly inefficient approach. Sending a message is expensive in Erlang, less so than in other languages, but it's still very large compared to a few math operations. It's a common mistake to use processes to represent objects [1].

The recent article from Discord [2] also mentioned "Sending messages between Erlang processes was not as cheap as we expected, and the reduction cost — Erlang unit of work used for process scheduling — was also quite high. We found that the wall clock time of a single send/2 call could range from 30μs to 70us due to Erlang de-scheduling the calling process."

[1] http://theerlangelist.com/article/spawn_or_not

[2] https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b
What do they mean by "other criminals"? Is it that those who were previously been convicted for something will now be monitored? If in the future we'll find out that they monitor everyone will it mean that all aussies are criminals? Australia acted as a jail for the English once upon a time, it seems that their politicians still have the prison guard mentality.
Is your real password hunter2?
Until Americans feel better about the quality of care offered at Veterans Affairs hospitals, this won't happen.

A relatively-recent YouGov poll[1] says that 59% of US veterans would not feel comfortable with members of their family being treated by the VA. However, Fox News is probably a better source for the relevant public sentiment about this[2].

If the left in the US wants to expand government-run healthcare, they need to tackle this credibility problem. I don't know why Democrats (esp. ones like Rep Moulton) don't make this a bigger deal and why in the Obama era, they kept voting down bills[3][4][5] to reform the VA. Yes, there is a trade-off around maintaining the ironclad protections for federal employees' jobs, but that is a trade that seems to make less and less sense. It leaves an organised constituency unhappy with them while the message, "we aren't willing to reform a government agency in the name of providing better health care, even to a highly electorally-photogenic group".

[1] https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/05/21/veterans-administra...

[2] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/16/gibson-va-has-los...

[3] http://capuano.house.gov/e-updates/eu2016-09-16.shtml

[4] http://capuano.house.gov/e-updates/eu2015-07-31.shtml

[5] http://capuano.house.gov/e-updates/eu2014-08-01.shtml
If you can even automate giving things away without worrying about people hacking/stealing/vandalizing your robots, then wouldn't it also be likely for you to spend all your resources on combat robots to take resources/land from other robot owners instead of wasting them on people that aren't giving you anything you want?
Oh FFS, who wrote this title? They used quantum teleportation to copy the state of a photon to another photon. No objects were teleported. Ugh.
No need to apologize; I wasn't criticizing your project; it just doesn't make for a very interesting HN submission until some detail is added. :)
At least they aren't attempting to go viral.
Ha, I just had a not-short discussion with someone who was annoyed by why his screenshots for Twitter were getting un-optimal crops -- i.e. you have to click-through to see the full screenshot, which is a bit of annoying friction if you're screenshotting a text highlight.

But on Twitter, highlighting/screenshotting text is one of the most effective ways to have impact, especially when tweeting about a long article. This is partly because of Twitter's format -- you can only fit so much of an excerpt in 120 chars (+ the actual link).

A screenshot of text allows you to show a full excerpt of the source, and devote the 140-characters (minus the chars for the URL to source) to making a comment. Especially helpful when the excerpt in the source takes a non-trivial amount of work to find, such as in a PDF.

Example: my "Top Tweet" this month, according to Twitter's analytics tool, is a screenshot of a particular section of a spreadsheet: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/880899407939424257/
Given that even the 'premium' end of IoT things we have so far range from insecure to dangerous, I think the onus is on those attempting to sell them to demonstrate that their product isn't literally worse than useless.

After that, they can make the case of being better non-connected devices.

And, never say never, but there are some classes of devices of which I will never buy IoT versions, or if I have to, I will cripple the connectivity. Frankly, house locks are one of those - the dangers are far greater than any convenience for me. That reduces to one's threat models, of course, and I totally get that others may differ. (I live alone in an urban environment; having eight kids and house staff in the 'burbs would be entirely different.)
I hope they're very careful with this. If even a couple of unscrupulous founders threaten a VC with false accusations in order to secure funding (ie blackmail), then VCs will stop taking meetings with female founders. Game theory can be used to make sure this doesn't backfire, so hopefully they consult a good game theorist.
Indiana woman cancels $30,000 wedding, invites homeless to reception
I expect everything on time. The fact that I get let down so often is a problem that Amazon solves for me. I can't remember the last time I had a late delivery from them.
They are really bad here in the Midwest US this summer (it's been consistently hot and wet). I have removed like 11 from the total of myself, my wife, my dog (accounts for 7 of the total, even on tick meds), and my son. Last year it was 2.
In practice they split the stock once they brought back too much of it, so people can sell part of their holdings and the cycle goes on.
I was hired to design embedded electronics in my last job. Came a project. I would have designed it with one microcontroller in the 50-120 MHz range, or two of those to make it easy to deal with all interfaces, and called it a day (on the electronic side) because almost nothing more was needed. It was basically just a glorified RS485 extender + Web -> RS485 interface. But our boss decided of the design: mandatory Linux and Python scripting, so we ended up with a Big Mama Ubuntu on a 1 GHz dual core processor with 512 MB DDR2 RAM... Because yeah, on the software side, you 'just' have to throw ready-made drivers and link pieces of ready-made software developed for the desktop. Supposedly...

The board ended up with 1500 components, it took 1 extra year to get just half of the features kinda working, the rest of the features was discarded. And the power budget was blown, which probably led to interesting negotiations with other involved bodies, but I had already quit at that time.

Obviously, 'embedded' meant very different things for me and for him.
Not to take away anything from the incredible achievements of autodesk, but $60,000 in 1982 was roughly $155,000 today.

That's a non-trivial amount of cash to be able to dump into starting a company.
There are a million people killed every year by mosquito-borne diseases, mostly in poor countries with weak governance, and you are complaining about US politics?
Every time someone says or writes "bcrypt", the GPU prices go up $10.
OT: Why is Drupal 8 such a trainwreck? It's been out for quite some time now, had beta releases available since 2014 and so many modules are still unported or in early alpha status with many issues.
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