skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished the great audible book "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt For The Criminal Mastermind Behind The Silk Road". Ultimately Ross Ulbricht was extremely careful and paranoid. What got him was a very old forum post announcing the Silk Road when he launched it. Even though he deleted the post, it was still in the forums database (soft delete), and Ross used his personal gmail address rossulbricht@gmail.com. Oops!

Seems like the AlphaBay founder was nowhere near as careful and technically proficient in OpsSec and DevOps as Ross. Arrogance. Running a darknet site is like gambling. Eventually the house wins. You'll make a mistake.
If was my understanding that if a component has a prop which changes, even if that prop is passed down the tree, the component will still update.

This is one way I use redux, the connector watches for changes in state and then updates the component directly, rather than passing props down the tree.
Why We Created Impulse - A Crowd Sourced Decision-making App
wow, i didn't know that this is related to the eleVR thing i saw on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7yLL5fJxT4 (of vihart fame).
I suppose that was a joke.
I personally prefer Cantor's diagonal argument. Especially when considering how many useful results have come from it.
Id Software Prepares to Shake Up Esports Scene with 'Quake Champions'
Why Nvidia is overcharging us all off, just a bit
May I humbly suggest my Hello World tutorial for a quick overview of smart contracts in ethereum?

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@decentralised/hello-world-revi...
> you are 100% in control of who you choose as your wife

Don't I wish. You're 100% in control of who you don't choose as your wife; you have substantially less control over who you do choose.
Sure, you would still get that the space needed grows linearly, but you're off by almost 50% in your storage requirements. More importantly, you're confusing people with explicitly wrong statement for no benefit, people who might not realize that it's actualy ln, not log_2, and spread the mistake to other people.
I respectfully disagree. The article made considerable effort to evade techno-solutionist fantasies.
What Wikipedia’s norms can teach about creating social structures
My feeling has always been that we should reengineer our jury system. Jurists should be professionals, not a random nobody pulled from the community. They should be independent, private employees with a code of ethics and training in skepticism and the sciences of statistics and evidence. Also, they could specialize in fields relevant to certain cases. In our current system, we look for the most ignorant juries so that the lawyers can fill their heads with whatever knowledge they please, unencumbered by facts.

In the new system, professional jurists would be paid for by the courts, but not directly employed by them or the government. The prosecution and defense could have their pick that they must agree on just like now, but they would be basing their pick on the professional reputation of the jurist, not exploitable characteristics or ignorance.
> I'd make it a hard compiler error to have more than four parameters to a function

There's already such a language, it's called Haskell and it only allows one parameter per function.
If I were wearing my editor hat, I'd cross out 'well' and suggest that in that case it's redundant. "The CIA's Guide to Writing" is just as strong.
Yes, I was sloppy in using the term VC to refer to investors generally, my comments were more targeted at angels who I generally viewed as less explicitly professional in their investing profile. With a true VC at the seed stage, I would set the bar of professionalism at a prompt and explicit desision after the pitch and/or partner meeting. Anything less is a sign the VC firm is insufficiently efficient in its own processes to be agood partner. Later stage there is more data and a bigger check to write so I'd expect the decision to take a bit longer.
Scotland Fights to Keep Its Renewable Energy Dream Alive
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Obsession
Hmm, NSAIDs are generally not recommended in combination with alcohol, e.g. [1] (along with lots of other pharmaceuticals)

1: https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-1/40-54.pdf
Bret's talks outline the general philosophy, motivation, and framework for the lab's work:

- Seeing Spaces: https://vimeo.com/97903574

- Humane Representation of Thought: https://vimeo.com/115154289
How about how Smalltalk, Obj-C, Swift uses them?

It's very clear there...
Thanks. Glad I checked the profile.
Introducing Enterprise Smart Contracts
You have to balance what you're doing now with where you want your career to go, whether you like where you are now (work, location, etc.), and how much you're getting paid. If you're getting paid a lot to occupy a niche that's a career dead-end, and probably won't carry you through retirement, you should leave, even if it means taking a pay-cut. If you're terribly unhappy with what you're doing there or your company or team, you should look for something better. If you hate the area you live in, you should look for a way to move someplace you like better. But if you like where you live, you like the company and the work, and you don't see it as a resume-killer and don't see a problem getting a similar job if something goes south with this one, you might as well stay.
thanks! Very interesting. Is the standard deviation still useful for some of the other distributions you mentioned, that look vaguely Gaussian?
It's expedient for many reasons to use a major framework, but it doesn't mean there are no drawbacks.

There are learning curves, inner platform effect (have to do the framework way of doing things), major breaking changes and outdated information, opinionated authors you may not agree with, huge dependencies for users to download, performance bottlenecks and gotchas arising from not using the framework properly or even the framework itself is slow. These things are basically guaranteed.
The default umode of /tmp is usually world-writeable, so files created like this could be manipulated by bad actors on the same system. Not so critical in this case, but it can be seen as "code smell"
php-fpm does the exact same thing. It scales up/down the number of workers (down to 0 if configured) with the incoming load, reusing workers up to a certain threshold.

Lambda == PHP. It's full circle. Don't try to pretend otherwise.

Never heard of HHVM (I've been out of the PHP world for a while), but I know PHP's default operational mode is complete start up and teardown on every request.
ARKit introduction: measure the distance between two points
Handsome codes with Kotlin
There's also a lot of cultural memory from te times when computation was really hard. Much can be improved in the most-data-impoverished social sciences with things like MCMC or even bootstrapping of frequenting statistics, buuuut... statistics are tools, not the focus of social scientists (who design and validate their hypotheses in a primarily qualitative fashion), so the old ways hang on for a long time.
You're mistaken. It's completely different. While all file syncing tools will let the NSA intercept and mess with your data, a web client like 1Password could trivially be modified to intercept a password or decrypt in place and send data back to the mothership in the clear. Dropbox can't force 1Password to modify its binary.
Python Virtualenv Environments versus Nanobox Isolated Dev Environments
Great video. My major takeaway: vertical farming is not economical for many crops due to the cost of electricity. Another takeaway: vertical farming might work well for some crops that are mostly water by weight and have low energy requirements (e.g. bazel, lettuce).

I wonder how the numbers work out. I guess they'd want to avoid (1) limiting themselves to certain crops and (2) limiting themselves to specific geographical areas in order to make their market as large as possible.
Oh wow. The main stream media doesn't even report this problem with Obamacare. Is there a national health exchange that you can buy your insurance from?
That's not helpful for a wide range of use cases. The most recent one I ran into was running an irc server that would be compatible with the matrix irc bridge, see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2...
I think if done in Haskell how good or bad it is depends on the chosen abstraction for effects not Haskell itself.

Haskell is a good basis but the developers need to make the API fool proof. E.g. expose limited effects rather than a big fat "IO" type.
how about: "All right you entitled cunts, we made the Android version you begged for, now leave us alone."
EOS Billboard Is Live in Times Square in New York
What is "boleto"? "provider"? Who collects the payments? What is all this about?
Can you elaborate on the nature of the buoyancy issue? It seems to me that as a container is considerably less dense than water (container ships being mostly above water), you could just add ballast. Is the problem simply that too much ballast would be required to be practical?

I've sometimes wondered why sea gliders are not used for cargo. Sure they're slow but the power requirements are so minimal they can actually run off thermal gradients in the ocean, which must make the operating costs absurdly low.
Both public and private have access to prop data. Public has more data, since the companies they're covering are bigger and so produce more data.
I am not religious but I believe that some form of religion has been fundamental to the human species historically. Humans wouldn't have become humans without it. So it is a hard thing to give up.
It's only for GitHub. GitHub has custom JavaScript on their site that listens to every key press. If they detect you pressed 'y', they look up the commit hash of the version of the code you are looking at and then set the page URL to a page that shows the code for that version.
>because they like it

Imagine going to a doctor and getting a prescription because "they like it".

>there is a wealth of knowledge on the internet about how to fix every little problem

Let's hope they're using the same version you're using.

>because it allows them to be productive with their peers

Productivity without a framework must be impossible...

>they learn something new

They learn something about the framework at the present time, which may be worthless after the next breaking change, and is not generally applicable to the web platform itself.
Alphabay Forfeiture Complaint from the United States Attorney
out Monday!

Book page: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/
But where would the money come from to fund this program?
Here's an interesting implementation of that idea, inspired by Phillip Tetlock, who's been an outspoken advocate of holding public pundits and experts accountable:

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

I discovered it reading Tetlock's Superforecasting.

I also put together a more open-ended project that similar to this would use karma instead of currency (I liken it to Reddit with accountability):

http://forekarma.com/

It's probably not ready for prime-time but it was an interesting exercise in thinking about this kind of system.
And yet it somehow works in those Western cities, maybe because the people aren't dicks to each other.

But yeah, totally, let's blame cars.
Cubing does refer to just taking the cube, but the cube of random variable, and not its probability density function -- the density after cubing is indeed the pushforward.
Solidity's relationship to JavaScript is negligible and way overplayed in its marketing. Similarities are entirely superficial.
The standard deviation is defined as

E[(X-EX)^2]

If EX = infinity but X is finite with prob > 0, the standard deviation will be infinite too.
On the "don't let the prototype out of the lab too early" theme, it would be interesting to read an alternative history novel about a world where the Mother of All Demos never happened. And Von Neumann never spoke about his architecture. Etc.

What are some good examples of prototypes or even mediums in the sense discussed here that were "let out" at "just the right time" or "too late"?
Working with centralized logging with the Elastic Stack
It's still not. And I am entirely in favor of getting those people help instead of locking them away.

But we're talking about those that set up the stores. They're clearly not helping any of those addicts. And they make a very conscious decision to do something that they know right now breaks the law.
Sure. There's a gradient of risk and we make exceptions for things which are very likely to cause significant harm. Should we do away with the rule because it needs exceptions? No.
No. This is the exact thing that I said not to respond with. And as I said, I'm not interested in debating the morality.
Isn't the 3 strikes system for felonies?
The long-term cost of sexual harassment
I understand Redux, have used it many times and have read the source code. I don't understand the argument that it is "basically is the same thing as having a root component handle all your state".

It's that plus actions, reducers, dispatcher, middleware, and HoCs for connecting components to global state. So it's not basically the same thing at all.
Then work to get it repealed. But I can't have any sympathy for you if you decide to start up a drug selling store, and then get busted for doing something you knew at the time was illegal.
KeepShare's auto-fill works 99% of the time for me, and it also has a keyboard for when that fails. Commercial[1] but GPL[2]. This stuff isn't exactly dark magic that only AgileBits can do.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanhuy.and...

[2]: https://github.com/pfn/keepshare
I support this and find it really cool. However, I'd love to see less hero worship and more evidence. On its face there is nothing wrong with all those Alan Kay photos, but my feeling is that it's symptomatic of how much of what's being pursued rests on appeal to authority and/or nostalgia.

To make this more concrete. Consider one of their projects (http://harc.ycr.org/project/), the Block-based programming: what's the evidence that this is a superior way for learning programming? What's the evidence that so-called computational thinking enhances cognitive ability or is transferrable to day-to-day thinking?

Furthermore, much of their computer-based education ideas are based on Seymour Papert's research and ideas which in turn was based on Piaget's theories on mental development. Those theories, however, have been thoroughly challenged and is all but outdated.

EDIT: this was the top comment and actively upvoted, now it seems that the mods have placed it at the end just before comments with negative points. I had heard of YC's sensitivity towards any criticism but this seems extreme. Whats the point discussions without criticism.
Minimum wage increases dont inflate wages. Most get the raise but some get laid off.
Please take the time to actually read the book, this article doesn't do it justice.

https://www.amazon.com/Triumphs-Experience-Harvard-Grant-Stu...
I have heard that the intent of the term "trial by peers" was that the jury should be full of people with understanding and similarly experienced to the accused, so they would be well-versed in the specific nuance and details around the accusations. Like if a banker was on trial for financial crimes, the jury should be randomly selected bankers.

Jury selection today specifically selects against "peers" of the accused. (and as you also mentioned, against "peers" of anything in general :-P )
What are soft drugs now? Interesting new neologism.
Searching for the Holy Grail
That common framework should be the web platform itself, not the various scripts on top. Hyper-specialization leads to risk of extinction.
You should add a button or some kind of subscription opt-in add the end. I just want to be notified for the future updates in this series.
Geoengineering technology could cool the planet – but it's risky
Where the Jobs Are: 2017
@tylerbainbridge and I work at Conduit (https://conduithq.com), where we are using GraphQL, join-monster, and PostgreSQL in production.

What you describe isn't a limitation at all-- some of our queries run 10 levels deep and work just fine. In fact, this method is so powerful that most of our queries start from the `user` object and just JOIN off of it.
Russian and Chinese hackers are making so much money. Ultimately we have to analyze the negative impact of crypto currencies in funding black hats and evil online citizens. The motivation to make large sums of untraceable money is just to great. I'm honestly scared for the future as these people did not build companies, invent products and technologies. They just stole money.
Release 1.3.3 - 20-Jul-2017

Added 3 new mixin to build buttons.

- button

- button-color-variation

- button-hover

Created sample blog and thumbnail listing page
I really enjoyed your post and look forward to reading the series. I would suggest you try out Steemit.com as this is their business model as well, they already have a large community, and this type of post/series would be like catnip over there.
How is this different than say, bills of exchange (at least an 800 year old instrument) which are essentially over the counter iou's

Bills of exchange created tons of credit booms and busts throughout history. How does your system control leverage and make sure nothing "blows up"?

This also seems like it misses the fact that iou's become money. For example, rather than call in a loan / iou, if the iou is to someone credit worthy, then traders just trade the iou back and forth

This works a treat until some calls in a loan and there's no cash to back it up. So again controlling systemic leverage is essential.

The desire to control / smooth boom bust cycles is what ultimately opened the door for the rise of powerful central banks to be the ultimate backstop. And even without a central bank, powerful entities arose naturally in the US for example jp Morgan single handedly backstopped the credit crisis of 1907. Money and power tend to concentrate in a few hands even without central banks
Got links for crits of Papert / Piaget and modern alternatives? Constructivism at least appears to be live and kicking in the MIT Media Lab hype world

Edit: also on computational thinking, I'm not sure that's what people are arguing for http://worrydream.com/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg/
This was a challenging read -- a bit over-engineered -- but worth the effort.

Goldwater successfully sued a magazine editor for libel after it published a pseudo-psychiatric evaluation of him as he was running for office and just like that, a weaponized media tactic was disarmed. [1] America needs more successful lawsuits like this to stop new tactics. To my knowledge, HRC hasn't pursued anyone yet (please correct me if wrong!). Rather than engage bad actors, she's instead given her party access to the weaponry that they will use in future elections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
Excluding chains likely made the study unfairly favorable to minimum wage increases.
> The counterargument is that if drugs are legalized then the crime syndicates will need to find a new line of work

Is that a counter argument? There are bad actors (in society). Some bad actors have social, moral, physical, intellectual barriers that prevent them from acting WORSE. Raising the social barrier (marketplace) isn't any different than the social barrier (legality). If you rather not compete bad actors out of the market because of what they might do, why legally punish them out of the market? Why bother trying to stop them at all?
There is a lot in here that reminds me of the Air Force's Tongue & Quill (public). For example, the CIA's "avoid jargon" section looks eerily similar to page 82 of T&Q.

http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_cio_a6/pu...
The legality of committing crimes while in pursuit of criminal prosecutions is interesting.

Here's a reference for your reading pleasure (though this is, I believe, U.S.-centric, so not exactly the case here)

https://www.quora.com/Are-undercover-cops-allowed-to-break-t...
It's an internal memo, so "The CIA's" is redundant.

Which leaves us with "Guide to Writing". Can we do better?

Stephen King's book on writing is called:

"On Writing".

Nice.
There seems to be a trend of the dark side of VC getting called out more and more, with names being named, and I am all for it.
I am not too familiar with developing on windows directly. Don't feel like learning all the tools when I am already so comfortable in Unix like environments.
What the Heck Is Shadow DOM?
Is it really identical? Try to look for differences and emphasise your unique selling points. It's rare there's only one way to spin a product and it's unrealistic to expect no competitors. I usually make a matrix of competitors against various attributes (e.g. price, features) and look for a gap.

For what it's worth, I've been on a project in a similar situation. The other project was packed with features and had tons of marketing. Our product had less features which might seem like a disadvantage but because of this we were able to make the UI much more focused, streamlined and uncluttered plus it was more robust which was important to some customers.
First Drawing Using Python Turtle Graphics. Thoughts
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That first link paints a very unflattering image of Mr. Caze, and in his own words. I couldn't dream up a more perfect depiction of the despicable personalities at the core of cryptocurrency counter-culture.
Task reliability in celery
A simulation of what it's like to hear voices
I'm ignorant of "heavy-tailed statistics" as a field, but the normal distribution in quantitative finance is justified by the Levy characterization of Brownian motion (basically every continuous stochastic process is a drift-diffusion driven by a Brownian) and the Levy representation of a discontinuous process as a sum of a diffusion and a pure jump process.

Mind, you might find different distributions when solving diffusion equations (the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process involves a Bessel distribution if I'm not mistaken). But the diffusion-jump paradigm is much better justified there than distributional (or even finite moment) assumptions in discrete land.

Put it this way: if finance is abusing distributional assumptions, there's money being left on the table.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Mr Enraged_Camel... Perhaps I can interest you in a new unsecured credit card with a $25k limit?"
> Is it a pretty safe bet to say if VC-s are not calling you asking to invest, there is little chance you'd get them to invest by calling them.

Emphatically no. Nobody's radar is that good. Waving a hand to attract some attention directly works, if you have something to back it up.