skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe's "Photoshop for Audio" demo was pretty fascinating and terrifying

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...
Important to what? Individuals? Digital historians? Those concerned with abandonware? Companies that want people to pay for new porting work?

The majority of content that is still in flash and active use probably won’t get ported... the iPhone 10 years ago set that trend.
The first thing I thought of when I read "Hacking for Defense" was Defense against the Dark Arts from Harry Potter :)
I pay for New Yorker and NY Times. WaPost is pretty ok.

I also read BBC and Deutche Welle, as well as scrabbling through bits of Le Monde and the francosphere.

generally if it's free, you're getting what you paid for.
>> You're also short-changing those liberal arts majors. After all, many of them go on to law school, with the result that Congress is about 2/3 liberal arts majors.

Congress the beacon of efficiency, progress and wisdom.
To be fair, in comparison to DB2 or Oracle it's not hard to be a steal for the price.
I've been feeling that most "news" outlets these days (for a while?) seem like propaganda. But I think I realize now that this propaganda feeling is just a side-effect from trying to sell shit.
What have these issues got to do with public/private spaces? The ownership of the land won't solve drug use, nor will it end homelessness. All that happens is the problem gets pushed elsewhere.
I'm in the same place. I have better equipment than some of the companies I have worked for, so I wish remote positions were available. I'm even open to burst-y work, so maybe I should be a consultant.

But I'll probably go the web-dev route too.
If they begin treating their financials as if they were a public company, then that's a pretty good indicator. It's pretty much mandatory for an IPO or being acquired by a public company, and its super helpful for other exits as well.
As much as I personally dislike Flash, I have to agree that making it open source would be a net benefit to the world, even if only for preservation of existing media.
Not long. We're at the stage where virtual assistants are being deployed through the population. As soon as people find reliable ways to ensure their loyalty, a strategic turn will make them unstoppable.
Everything you said is also true of tobacco, or alcohol.
The flash player won't stop working when Adobe declare it EOL....
This doesn't seem to be all that much better. the "war" section is A at the top, and B the only headlines there explicitly generate fear and outrage.
Towards the end he says that he fights the addictiveness of the internet by not having an iPhone.

But it looks like now, its time to update this article with a different strategy. (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/575490964527034368)
Why would China be interested in distributing out of date versions of Flash? And how would Adobe more aggressively ending life for these regions affect them if they're already out of date and unlicensed anyway?
Doesn't surprise me in the least. Of the coal miners and programmers I know -- only one set enjoys a subset of people who've built and wired their own homes with little formal education and even less complaint.
But you have absolutely no idea if aggressive skiing is giving you CTE because no one has ever looked to investigate it.

In football, as in boxing, the original investigation began because head trauma is obvious, but as the study broadened some of the worst cases of CTE were actually offensive linesmen. These are generally not the players who dish or receive hard hits, and many had never had a suspected concussion in their career. That led to the dominant theory that it isn't concussions -- the big hits -- that are the main cause of CTE, but instead many small traumas (in that case the o-line engaging with the d-line) that add up to CTE.

There is every reason to suspect that many other sports yield these sorts of recurring sub trauma, and aggressive skiing seems a probable candidate [edit - note that it does not require that you hit your head, have an accident, etc. If enough of a high-G event is transmitted to the brain, that can be a subconcussion]. It just isn't terribly common to do an intensive brain study of people after death to find these correlations.
> as it puts the public in a place where they're at risk of being harassed by the police

It's private land, the police have no role. People are being harassed by private security companies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14766793 last week debate about this quote :)
> You just use WU. [Western Union]

While true, criminals dislike getting ripped off just as much as normal people and have a wider variety of remediation techniques at their disposal. Cash pipelines are really really hard to manage without losses and/or disclosing identifiable/traceable information.
Building a Simple API with Amazon Lambda and Zappa
I can understand opening 20-30 tabs but with 100 or so it would take me longer to find the tab then just searching it for in Google or history.
I went from Netscape/internet explorer to Firefox then because of the frequent crashes and how slow it was to Chrome. I am to entrenched in the Google eco system to change now so just can hope this will make Chrome cut down on the bloat.
Whatever flash is, it’s the opposite of “lagged behind modern web standards”. If anything that was the one thing it didn’t do in its lifespan since it enabled apps that are only now html5 achieving parity.

It enabled a consistent cross platform interpreter for javascript and xml based apps.
> In reality Power and Knowledge are essential if one aims to enable true change.

He's advocating for Knowledge so that you are not subjected to the whims or your "default settings" but instead are able to exercise _your_ personal Power on the basis of knowing yourself (and others) instead of just performing the script that is given to you by (this subset of our) culture.

Your criticism that "This is just meaningless babbling" which immediately transitions into advocating his point is... interesting.
Earlier eye tracking results by the Marcus Autism Center's Ami Klin and Warren Jones is described a 2011 TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ami_klin_a_new_way_to_diagnose_aut...
If these people all had the same rights and privileges as citizens they would simply be a valuable addition to our workforce. They for example would have no reason to accept substandard wages. If we place them in positions where they are indebted to their employer and can't change jobs they serve to depress wages.

In order of preference I would see them treated equally and made citizens, kept out of the labor pool, or left as they are.

As a citizen the current situation seems be the least preferable option and I see no reason things ought to stay as they are.

In fact basically destroying the H1B system as it stands is probably the best first step. The bigots that make up 40% of America would probably support it and our idiot in chief would probably sign it.

Then we could replace it with a system whereby these valuable people have a sane opportunity to come here permanently and compete on even footing with natives when the wind changes with at least lukewarm support from the business community eager for more employees.
That's like saying an informed society is better than a society that doesn't have OSHA regulations... You can't dangle millions of dollars in front of (often poor, often minority) college students and say "well you were informed of the risks" and then wash your hands of all responsibility.

I could inform you that you'll die 1/6 times you play russian roulette, but that doesn't mean that it should be ethically sound (or legal) to pay you to take that chance.
I thought it might be something like that :).
Let's assume you're meaning an exit with a high multiple on returns, rather than an acquihire. In this case there are 2 models:

1) Game changing technology. These are very hard to measure, especially from the outside. You have to ask yourself, "Is this technology for real?" and "Could a large company monetize this?" This is what's happening in the autonomous car market. Let's step aside from this.

2) Companies that are growing well and fast on their own. In this case there are 3 metrics that matter: Revenue, Revenue Growth (new business minus churn) and Margins. Revenue is the base for valuation, and Growth and Margins determines the multiple. A weak rule of thumb that answers your question is that once a SaaS business hits 50mm in ARR, Growth Plus Margins should equal 50%. (It's ok to lose 10% of revenue in margins if you're growing 50% per year. If you're only growing 20% per year, you should have 30% profitability.) If it has this it's trending towards a positive exit.

Three caveats:

1) In case 2, if the company has external venture money, they are more likely to exit. (The VC funds need to return money to investors) If they are self-funded, they can stay private much longer.

2) Very few companies pull off the high multiple exit or IPO. It is hard to maintain growth, and hard to eventually turn a profit when you are growing fast.

3) There are a small subset of VC firms and specific VC partners with disproportionately outsized success. In the absence of other information, an investment by them is a good signal. (But smart money won't help a bad business)
In Honor of the End of Flash
This ignores the fact that many journalistic endeavors have been borne out by historical factors, although perhaps in your model of the world all journalists and social change occur only at the will of powerful forces which manipulate things from behind the scene. But not you, of course.
Which parks?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_components_in_Firefo...
> I don't think air resistance is the largest cause of expense in transportation.

If you want to go fast (the plan for the hyperloop) then air resistance becomes a significant cost. The power it takes to overcome aerodynamic drag increases with the cube of velocity.

I imagine the hyperloop design where cars are independent makes drag costs worse compared to trains (compared at the same speed).
> This concept already does exist,

No, it doesn't. You are confusing the severability and frequent separate sale of mineral rights to a federalization of all subterranean property.
If someone can't pass FizzBuzz, they need a year or two of education to be useful as a programmer, and might never make it. Sure, you can hire someone to do helpdesk and help them try to grow into a programmer, but you can't hire a programmer who knows nothing, and then entrust them to not ruin your company, destroy your data, etc.
According to this[1] around half the people on Earth don't have internet access.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access
China trial paves way for ‘unhackable’ communications network
Looking at the coins as just "data" is ignoring a lot of what they are. Your bank account is just "data", but if I hacked into it and took the 1s and 0s making up your balance, well, there's no question that's a crime. Replace bank account with stock broker account and the same would apply. I don't see why it wouldn't be the same for cryptocurrency.

I fail to see how smart contracts is a grey area; if you're abusing a fault in the code, that's very clearly fraudulent behavior.

In short, there's a lot of "This is new! Things are different! The existing laws don't apply!" regarding some of these things, but I'm just not convinced. It may be harder to enforce or to prosecute, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't fall into existing laws.
You're entering an active and mainly successful research field:

https://nips.cc/Conferences/2016/Schedule?showEvent=6213

TL;DR: if a human eye can differentiate, GANs can learn to differentiate given enough training data.

however, it's unlikely that gov't regulations will catch up with technology like this for 10+ years so you can probably sell your algorithms to give companies legal protection.
I think it's both. If you're interested, I suggest starting by watching the documentary Spin: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/spin/
I never really tried to build a side project of any real substance. Sometimes I wrote libraries or other things to better understand a language I was learning, or something like that.

I like to cook, I think the physicality of it is satisfying after dealing with computers all day. And as time goes on, the problems that get solved with code seem more and more frivolous. Though I guess you could argue I should try to change that instead of posting about it.
I originally read about this in the post you linked. There were some great charts in that article showing how performance has changed throughout the version of Firefox. I only clicked this article because I was hoping to see a direct comparison to Chrome laid out in similar fashion. Unfortunately, the title is purely click bait and the only mention of Chrome is that anecdotally, "Chrome has something of a reputation for being a resource hog".

The article that was originally posted was certainly more interesting and informative.
Let's put aside your absolute and close-minded certainty about the future for a minute. Unless you can provide some quotes, you're putting a lot of words in Elon Musk's mouth. He's made some goofy pop culture references during interviews, and it seems to be a calculated decision on his part to flirt with sensationalism in order to publicize the issue, but he's never seriously argued that the movie Terminator is a documentary about the future.

Call it conscience, intelligence, whatever you want. The danger isn't that some ominously calculating and murderous robotic mind is going to spring into being and hide from humans while plotting our downfall. In order to understand the danger, all you have to do is look at what the US military is already doing with autonomous weapons. Killer robots aren't hypothetical, they're historical.

In fact, you're the prime example of the danger of AI. You probably have a stronger than average understanding of computers, and maybe you know a lot about actual AI implementations, which is what makes you so self-assured that there's nothing magical about them. So you trust them, and you're a big fan of throwing an ever-increasing amount of trust into AI.

You even admit that there will be bugs (there always are) and misbehavior (now who's humanizing programs?), but you fail to see why that's a problem when the stakes are raised from "crap, an app leaked private data online" to "crap, the autonomous weaponized drone mistook backyard fireworks for an attack and bombed a family."

The way I see it, Musk is far from alarmist, and all the kidding about "summoning demons" is almost a way of coping with what's starting to seem like a terrifying inevitability. We've been building "dumb programs" for decades, and there's still a constant stream of breaking news about software that didn't do what it was supposed to. And you want to believe that there's no danger in building software that has increasingly fuzzy logic and connecting it to real-world I/O?

I'm guessing that Elon Musk saw this problem when he first started toying with the idea of self-driving cars. You say he has a limited understanding of AI, but Tesla autopilot says otherwise. And he probably became keenly aware of the stakes when he realized that people would willingly entrust their lives to the decisions made by his company's software, and that without regulation, it's entirely up to Tesla's QA process to make sure their cars don't accidentally kill people.
I don't really know what a normal brain looks like. A sidebar (middlebar?) about halfway through the article describes what we're looking at:

The trauma of repetitive blows to the head triggers degeneration in brain tissue, including the buildup of an abnormal protein called tau. Thin slices of tissue are dyed and the tau shows up as these darker areas.
Java and C# outclass performance in raw CPU work certainly. Phoenix does not do raw CPU work however, it is primarily a web dispatcher on top of cowboy and the BEAM will run circles around both Java and C# systems if they are programmed to anywhere near the same quality of failure handling that the BEAM implicitly supplies (/me has worked with both Java and the BEAM for over 10 years).

Also, the Erlang VM is older than the JVM, initially created in the late 1980's. The JVM, according to wikipedia, was introduced in 1994. Also the BEAM has significantly better GC handling that both the JVM and .NET both since it has a segmented memory model (each actor has segmented memory) unlike the JVM and .NET's monolithic Heap's, this allows it to perform vast optimizations that ensure that the GC is almost never called yet memory is properly and fully reclaimed due to the bounds of the individual Actor heaps, and even when the GC is called it does not stop-the-world or anything of the sort and has multiple layers of GC's that run for specific cases, the system stays running even as the GC's (rarely) runs. The average GC run time even when it does run is measured in the single-digit 'micro'seconds. If anything the BEAM VM is not only just much older than the JVM and .NET VM's, but also more advanced.
One day it will be fashionable to have human workers
Very cogent, I agree
Linux SoC based designs are fairly complex in terms of engineering cost - if you're only building 10k of something, you might in fact be better off using something like the RPi Zero or Compute Module (or another system-on-module, like Variscite or etc.) rather than trying to integrate the Broadcom part yourself. Not to mention that RPi is getting much better prices on things like the SoC and the HDI PCB than a startup producing 10k of something is likely to get, so it may even be a wash on unit cost. And the supply risk is likely manageable; 10k is a high enough volume that it would be foolish to rely on distributor stock/spot prices for components, so you're already worrying about leadtimes; I don't see why a wholesale contract with RPi would be that much riskier. (Yes, it's true that the leadtime would increase a bit since RPi needs to purchase components themselves and convert them into modules.)

Now if your product is Arduino based (or another microcontroller platform) the barriers to doing a fully custom design are a lot lower, the markups on the Arduino board are a lot higher, and so the cutoff volume for where it makes sense to do a custom design is going to be much lower than 10k.
Techmeme headline: China to expand quantum communications network, which can't be surveilled, for defense and finance sectors after successful trial that connected 200 terminals (too long for HN's 80 character limit).
Correct, the entire Israeli census database has leaked and is now freely available for anyone who knows where to look for it.

I gave a short talk about this leak at 28c3 [1], if anyone's interested in more details.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow7cvZOzp6w
I don't have a horse in this race. I think either position is defensible based on reason.
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>Some researchers claim

>helps to

>create new pathways

>a lot more stuff

could this statement be any more vague?
Having Flash on iOS, even through the browser, would have allowed people to develop apps for iOS without going through Apple. It would also allow trivial Android porting. Flash was not in Apple's strategic interests.

It was a risk not supporting Flash in 2007, one that has paid off in Spades. Apple made the right choice for Apple.

In retrospect, Macromedia would have needed to open source Flash, and aim it as a viable open web standard circa 2007 or 2008 (making it even more difficult for Apple to reject). This would have required starting the process in 2003 or 2004 at the latest. But IE6 was still dominant in 2003/2004, Firefox's success was far from assured, and open web standards were a joke.

The original iPhone was amazing in 2007, it was really a game changer for the open web. I don't think Macromedia could have anticipated the reasoning behind the death of Flash in 2003, never mind make the contemporary case to save it...

The real question I have is: Has Adobe ported their Flash dev tools to produce HTML5/JS/CSS? Are they as good the Flash version, and do they provide most of the same features? I ask because that shift has been foreseeable, and should have been a top priority (to minimize the rise of alternative platforms).
I'm very glad I found Hacker news. Sometimes I read the news just cause I'm bored. Now I can just read hacker news which helps me be a better coder instead of draining me of emotional energy
I started using the "Firefox Focus" browser for iOS a lot specifically because it has one tab.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-the-privacy-br...

Removing the ability to even make tabs (which I love and hoard) is nice. Big button to delete your current page, which you have to do if you want something else. You're constantly at "inbox zero" for your tabs.

Will look through the comments here for similar solutions on the desktop. Perhaps something that limits the number of tabs you can open. Or automatically closes old tabs if they're on the website's "home page" as opposed to a specific article.
For whatever reason this make me think of my swap partition. :-)
SoftBank Seeks Multibillion-Dollar Stake in Uber
I'm aware, and it makes me sad. But I think I understand why---that is, I am some form of selfish racist, ignorant and bigoted, liable to give moral cover to a return to Emmett Till-style lynchings, hiring discrimination, or perhaps unsafe working environments. I should cast aside my fear and prejudice, realize that all humans deserve dignity, and take an Econ 101 class.

In other words, I think I can understand the views I'm criticizing.

I do not get the sense that the same is true of the comment to which I replied. It seems to carry a level of tone-deafness that would be mystified by any pushback.
This view is popular to get hashed around, since it makes everyone feel good. But the reality is that many/most algo questions being asked, are very basic. If you don't know how to use binary search or a heap to solve a basic problem, that already raises enough of a question mark that I don't want to hire you.

People always push it to the extreme and mention some very difficult algo question they were asked, and say how it's irrelevant. And if you have been asked a question like that, I agree it's irrelevant and that sucks.

But having a basic understanding of algorithms and data structures is important to writing decent software. Can we please stop pretending like expecting people to roughly know and understand the content of the freshman data structures course is some kind of unreasonable expectation?
Both me and my sister received full scholarships (poor family + smart genes I guess). She got a degree in creative writing, I went the IT route. Part of the problem is that most STEM jobs just aren't fun...
Why not? Wage competition is a legitimate byproduct of increased immigration
I'm no financial independence role mode. Generally I do try to keep my expenses down for the big items (no car, shared housing). Easy enough to save that way.
Alphabet announces Q2 2017 Earnings
Safari never shipped with Flash to begin with, and Apple has regularly published metadata updates, which blacklisted old, insecure versions of flash that the user might have had installed.
Not really any 'build' way, but the 'patterns' of it are more similar in that being immutable, functional, and single-owner languages.
Maybe there is when your Gini Index is in the 20's, or hell, even the mid-30's. When it's 46.1, closer to Brazil than to most other developed countries?

Then I'm not so sure.
I'm waiting for the code samples :)

Thanks