skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you've missed my point as well. The analogy is only supposed to illustrate that before actually inventing transportation technology (which for a long time did get faster exponentially), humans had no real basis to understand the tradeoffs inherent in rolling vehicles, floating vehicles, flying vehicles, impulse/rocket vehicles, etc. Neither did they share our current understanding of a theoretical maximum speed that anything can ever go according to physics.

> AGI is fundamentally different because an AGI can design an even better AGI

Thanks for pointing this out, but while I think I understand the distinction ("AGI is technology that works like humans, and since humans can design better technology, an AGI can design better versions of itself") that statement also relies on several axioms:

1. Humans can design a general intelligence.

2. A general intelligence can exist in a stable state with a fundamentally "better" design than ours (i.e. one that can be exponentially more powerful, not just a bit better at poetry).

3. A general intelligence can improve itself and/or design better versions of itself without hitting diminishing returns, or it can design a fundamentally better version of itself from scratch if that happens.

It's fine if you believe all of those things, and I guess lots of people do, but I wouldn't just sweep those axioms under a blanket statement about AGI designing better AGI unless you know that everyone agrees with them.
You can refill Varsities, although it's apparently a learned skill. Check YouTube.

On the other hand, there's Platinum Preppys. I've been using one converted to an eyedropper much of the time for nearly a decade.
He's not saying lower the rates. He's saying charge by the project or by the week/month, not by the hour.
While its certainly true that we need to worry about these Russian products, the damage that the NSA has done is enormous.

Can I trust Cisco VPNs? Can I trust Windows? Can I trust my router? The NSA opens boxes in shipment to break their security, and they have the resources to do a lot more.

Unfortunately for us in the U.S., the NSA threat is a real one, not a hypothetical.

And a question for the people who know more than me: is there any IT vendor who hasn't been corrupted by the NSA, the Russians or the Chinese?
MuPDF seems to be unaffected.
Canned tuna is fairly common in the US but it certainly isn't seen as a luxury. I haven't consumed canned tuna in quite some time but as a kid I ate it weekly.
Despite its statement of fact in the title, this is in the opinion section and is riddled with innuendo, inaccuracies, and fearmongering, starting with the oft-repeated and incorrect idea that Russia "hacked our election". This is of course not the case - some email was hacked and it exposed some of the illegal/unethical dealings of a candidate. Had the leaked emails all been about how hard that candidate was going to work for the American people, perhaps the result would have been more to the liking of the author of this piece.

Perhaps it is a bad idea for the US government to use Kapersky software, and perhaps it isn't. I wouldn't be able to determine that by reading this opinion, because it contains no facts backing up the author's fears.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
You forgot microsoft apple and google. In many countries they are looked upon as potential vectors if not threats themselves.
I have no idea one way or the other (regarding either the NYT or Kaspersky). But it does strike me that your theory is credible.

However it also seems credible that Microsoft, Intel and other critical hardware and software vendors based in the US may have moles and/or agreements in place with CIA/NSA.
Yes.[1] We're probably approaching the point where the SEC will do something to make ICOs do the same things IPOs are required to do. All they need is a good case. Look for "I put X into token Y because they said they were going to do Z. They didn't do Z, and instead, the people behind Z are buying yachts. And we know where they are."

[1] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/09/04/2193198/paris-hilton-...
For beginners I recommend building tiny lisp interpreter with this article:
http://norvig.com/lispy.html

It's really easy so I could build it with coffeescript in just 4 hours while I was a student.
This is a good idea. Carry on. You will be able to do.
You can also use the dns challenge and not worrying for the web server at all.
Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
A while back, somebody created an Imgur knockoff called Slimgur. He specifically created it because Imgur was enforcing its TOS banning hate speech, and he didn't like that. Imgur threatened to sue, and he was forced to change his site's name, first to Slimgr, and eventually to sli.mg (though the second change was because he lost the domain when the registrar found out he was letting his users upload child porn).
Parker Vacuumatic: greatest fountain pen ever.
All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’
Are anarchists considererd left wing? Anarchists and especially anarcho-capitalists have a lot of overlap with libertarians. If you talk to a serious anarchist, they sound like they are against big government and other authority structures. The far left is suppsed to be communist, which seems the opposite of anarchy.
This is great advice. I've worked on lots of different software teams, in various contexts (realtime, embedded, win32, web stuff, dev tools).

If I see an interesting position, I just apply. I know I'll get better consideration if something on my resume resonates with the hiring manager/interviewers. But if you are any good you should be able to adapt what you know to a new programming environment with new constraints.
Google has better lobbyists. Government legislation is mostly purchased and "negotiated", voting has very little to do with it.
And illumos is similarly named (Latin for illuminate).
> Google never challenged the accuracy of the reporting. Instead, a Google spokesperson told me that I needed to unpublish the story because the meeting had been confidential, and the information discussed there had been subject to a non-disclosure agreement between Google and Forbes.

So Google is releasing news to news outlets and asks for NDAs? Then they threaten to sue for NDA violations. I read it as Google is using NDAs to control and force only positive "news" articles. If article is painting them in a positive light, let it slide, if it is not, threaten to sue. Did I misunderstand it? Cause that sounds pretty sneaky.

> But an entity as powerful as Google doesn’t have to issue ultimatums. It can just nudge organizations and get them to act as it wants."

Very true. These systems of incentives and constraints is what Chomsky and Herman's book Manufacturing Consent is about. Highly recommended reading. Though in this case (if I read it correctly) it is not really that subtle but more of a clearcut Politburo-style "news" control.
This might be kind of blasphemous, but I think I'd recommend against the dragon book?

I agree! It's hard to criticize a book rightly regarded as a classic, but I think it solves the wrong problems, or at least emphasizes the wrong areas.

if you design your grammar to be LL(1) you can parse your language using recursive descent

Yep, that's the way to do it.
That is a fantastic idea. Talc mixed with a small amount of Viagra. Maybe throw a little ground cows horn if needed.
Hey mods can we rename this to "an alternative to reddit" Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created or a link to the source
That must be why Chinese cities are free of traffic problems.
Two cans of tuna a day is dangerous, did you google it?
Where do your "fundamental rights" come from? Brought down on stone tablets? I mean, I like individual freedoms as much as the next person, but you can't just slap "fundamental" in front of something and then declare the debate over. The other side can just reply that societies have a fundamental right to protect themselves from societal harms at the expense of individuals.

People disagree about what rights people have and what rights governments have. Simply prefixing the word rights with a phrase like "innate," "fundamental," or "inalienable" to make it seem beyond debate is just sophistry.
That's possible as well but if you are US based at least the damage is contained --the NSA isn't going to give your data to a foreign competitor (or local for you have recourse in the legal system), whereas I'm not so sure the FSB would not "share" information with their preferred firms and if you become aware of it, you would have very little recourse.
This is interesting. Overall I had a pretty healthy diet prior to my start in fasting. I rarely ate things that contained sugar or no more than a very small amount, I did not drink carbonated drinks (although I drank green tea), but I LOVED CARBS. My go to snack was always Cheez It's or Chips. I did not eat more than a handful but I did that probably 2x a day. I also loved fresh fruit which is very high in carbs. To say that I felt Like I had been run over by a truck from the carb detox was an understatement. But it only last 3 days give or take but it was a miserable 3 days.

Now after years of regular fasting I have no troubles. If I overindulge during a non fasting period I pay for it with mild headaches but nothing like at the beginning. I think at the beginning i simply put my entire body a bit into shock and I was not prepared for the intensity of the headache and achiness. I stuck with it and am glad I did. Now it is very simple and works with my lifestyle really well.
Sure, but not everyone is going to be able to optimize it in the same place. Also, if that's what you want, don't complain about having to pay for it.
The reason you "know" the NSA is a threat is because of the increased "transparency" of western democracies.

There is no transparency in Russia. In a system of kleptocracy, bribery and a questionable judicial system, there is no boundary between state actors and any "private" corporation. If the FSB asks Kasperski for help, they can't say no, and they won't tell.

If given the choice, I'd still rather trust American intelligence services. In fact, I do believe American products to be safer in this regard.
R/anarchism absolutely hates anarchocapitalists
A lot of us already do, however audio resources are handy so eyes and hands are free to do even more healthy things like jogging.
Ask HN: What are your favourite YouTube channels?
Code is Symphony based and can be found here:

https://gitlab.com/edgyemma/raddit-app
That's entirely your prerogative. If 100% productivity is expected first week, though, I'm going to make lots of assumptions about what management is like at your company, and not apply. But if you're not having trouble finding the engineers you want/need, all the more power to you.
a coworker left my company to go work at pega-systems. They've been around for a while as a company but I visited their website to figure out what they do. Its a little better now, but...

"Pegasystems Inc. is the leader in software for customer engagement and operational excellence. Pega’s adaptive, cloud-architected software – built on its unified Pega® Platform – empowers people to rapidly deploy, and easily extend and change applications to meet strategic business needs. Over its 30-year history, Pega has delivered award-winning capabilities in CRM and BPM, powered by advanced artificial intelligence and robotic automation, to help the world’s leading brands achieve breakthrough business results."

https://www.pega.com/about
Thanks for this info. I forgot about the No Salt and Salt trick in water from my running days, but it really does work. Thanks for this reminder because hydration is really the key to success in fasting.
This comment seems to be downvoted which is disappointing, as this is one of the best pieces of advice here. Apart from when I was a fresh graduate, all of my jobs and contracts over the past 10 years have been from networking.

I'm definitely not a people person, and you don't need to be, you just need to keep up to date with what people in your network are doing. If there is anyone now in a management role, try to meet up with them for a coffee once a year just to chat. Maybe they are looking for someone with your skills (that's happened twice for me). I've also been in the situation where they aren't actively looking for someone, but knowing that I'm available and that I do good work they've made a position just for me.

I've only worked at smaller companies, so I'm not really sure how this would work at the scale of something like Facebook, but other than them having to navigate HR I don't see why it couldn't work.
Not sure why this was posted. None of the issues occur in MySQL 8 and if you change the SQL mode to be more strict it doesn't occur in older versions.

If you are going to blog about how bad a particular technology is it surely makes sense to understand it first.
It doesn't fit neatly into the left-right divide. If you look at the political spectrum as a 2 dimensional grid with (0,0) in the center, the limits are -10 and 10, and economics on left/right and authoritarianism and libertarianism as up and down, anarchists would be (x, -10). You can basically plaster any economic system on top. IMO, they do tend to the extremes of communism and full on capitalism because it's not very practical to have a mixed market economy like ours without a government entity to do regulation.
To be fair, those tools (videos and descriptions) are directly below that paragraph. Which makes it many times clearer and more direct than the majority of the websites discussed in the article.
What's the difference between influencing and anarchic disruption? Disruption increases noise, influencing manipulates the signals that gets through.

Putin is not the only actor here. The Clinton campaign publicly employed crowdturfing, and I would be extremely surprised if conservative forces aren't doing the same. Not to mention corporate policy astroturfing (eg climate change).

America's foundation has been crumbling for decades... and I predict we're going to keep sliding downwards for a couple decades at minimum.

Effective democracy requires an educated electorate that can publicly manage law, economics, and culture. We're failing because the public is literally no longer equipped with the skills to govern themselves anymore. Our public education system is stuck in the 1900's, the world has gotten more complicated while our standards fell to the lowest common denominator - turning K-12 into a degree-mill crossed with a day-care for minors.
Do you have to pay to use that? If so do you find it restricts you? Sounds like something you want to self-host. I've used Wraith before which works OK but their version of PhantomJS is pretty old.
Russian propaganda to the contrary, there is a difference between the workings of the CIA and FSB, and the general political and judicial systems of Russia and the USA.

If ex-CIA employees work for Cisco, their work is subject to corporate leadership. Whatever they do, or are allowed to do, is the responsibility of the company as a whole.
And if you're looking for meaningful books to listen to, there was a solid discussion 2 days ago:

Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833
> The far left is suppsed to be communist, which seems the opposite of anarchy.

Communism: weak central government, strong communal (local) democratic decision making - let people make decision that effect them directly (locally).

You may be thinking of the old-fashioned idea of a socialist state as a "tyrrany of the many" as a transition from an armed uprising towards a communist state?
All anarchists are left wing, the majority of which are communist (some are mutualist). Anarchism has always been an anti-capitalist movement (I guess it's fairer to say, it's an anti-unjust hierarchy movement), it's only been co-opted by propertarians ("anarcho"capitalist) in the past 50 years. And even then, that's largely localized to America, outside of America libertarians have always been anarchists (communist anarchists that is).

You should read Pyotr Kropotkins "The Conquest of Bread" and Alexander Berkman's "What is Communist Anarchism?" if you'd like to know more about anarcho-communist ideology. Or if you'd like to know more about mutualism (essentially a workers run system with a market), then check out the works of Joseph Proudhon.

I'd also argue that anarcho-capitalism and right-libertarianism are not anarchist in any sense, as they uphold the inherently hierarchical system of capitalism.
I find Siri reading company wiki pages helps a lot. I only get about 50% but enough that I know what to revisit at work
Maybe then a simple one-dimensional spectrum cannot encompass the vast breadth of political and philosophical views out there? :p
Unfortunately, the part they didn't tell you was that you should put more users first before putting fewer users first. (This is what "impact" means on the job ladder.)

Given two otherwise equal tasks, if one helps 60M users and another helps 12M users, you are usually expected to work on the one that helps more users. And if a product develops too many bugs of the latter type (affects too few users to ever be prioritized above other work), it will usually get shut down.

Fixing bugs for one or two or even a hundred users doesn't scale, and Google wants to scale so it can live up to its "potential to improve the lives of millions of people". (If you ever work at or start an early-stage start-up, you want to be the opposite of this because Google can't; see Paul Graham's "Do Things That Don't Scale" essay.)

If you come back (for another internship or full-time), the Intern Host, Product Manager, Director, and/or VP Engineering in your management chain can provide more context on how to apply "put the users first" in your specific context.

There are times where I was expected to put IE 9/Win XP above Firefox because that would help more users. And yes, that sucks, both for me, and for Firefox users.
It's pretty confusing, but it seems to me that the uniting factor between the anarchists and the statist left is a common belief in human freedom from hierarchical structures, but each chooses different method to implement it.
I think that this argument holds up, but fails to justify the huge engineering cost of supporting large amounts of proprietary consumer hardware.

If you want to evaluate it but don't have the hardware, try qemu.
I'll cross-pollinate my Reddit comment to see if anyone here has something interesting to add. Techempower's benchmarks seem to run on pretty beefy hardware. I'd much rather see how these stacks fare on low-end hardware like little Digital Ocean droplets.

I want...

- A decent language (totally subjective... I don't want to write Java, C, C++, or Ruby... I wouldn't mind writing C#, F#, Kotlin, or Elixir, and I'd love to write Clojure)

- High throughput on cheap servers

- Low resource requirements (e.g. most Erlang frameworks hum along nicely with a few hundred MB whereas some Java frameworks are only happy with a few gigs)

It's hard to garner this information from the benchmarks as they currently stand.
International Prototype Kilogram
Minimal ARM support would probably be pretty easy. 3 or 4 weekends tops.
"looking at leveraging my experience... anyone have a resource that shows me how to do it in detail?"
That's something I wanted to avoid by design. But I understand. Many thanks for trying it out!
You really don't need FSB moles if the property and even personal survival of the CEO is in the hands of an authocratic regime.

No Russian citizen in Russia, especially not anyone with any kind of wealth, can deny the government's requests. Whether the influence on Kasperky is from the top or only starts further down the chain, is more of a stylistic aspect of handling intelligence assets...
> If the FSB asks Kasperski for help, they can't say no, and they won't tell.

Isn't that _exactly_ how it works in the USA, with National Security Letters?
most libertarians are for a small state, not a state of anarchy.
Sounds like the return of 90s "best viewed with IE" but for Chrome...
> The reason you "know" the NSA is a threat is because of the increased "transparency" of western democracies.

The reason why we know so much about what the NSA does is because a few NSA contractors have broken the law (for good or for ill) and leaked classified information about operations. Without leaks, there would be no information about what NSA does or doesn't do.

The only difference between NSA and FSB is that FSB hasn't used as many contractors and hasn't had as many leakers in Snowden-like positions.
> I think where we're likely to agree is that, if popular dissatisfaction does lead to fundamental change, it's not likely to be the dissatisfaction of middle class folks demanding Western-style freedoms. It's much more likely to come from the bottom layers of society, who are fed up with gross inequality and horrible injustice.

This is not how revolutions work. Revolutions are always and everywhere the work of frustrated elites, people who have the education and skills to be the ruling class who aren't. The only successful slave revolt in history was lead by the educated creoles of Haiti. Revolts never come from those at the bottom of society because they're too poor and weak to riot and demonstrate. Social unrest happens when things have been getting better and then they get worse. The Party-State is secure as long as the economy keeps growing.
> The reason you "know" the NSA is a threat is because of the increased "transparency" of western democracies.

Except it's not. It's because of leakers who were aggressively pursued/prosecuted by the US government...
I don't know. It looks pretty general purpose to me. A clone of Reddit is almost by definition general purpose.
This is very much the truth, anarchists and communists want the same thing, a communist society, they just disagree fundamentally on how to do it. That's why you see them join forces and fight together, like in the Russian Revolution and Spanish civil war
Right, that was my point—if only an async+aggregate-statistical API for likes to a page was exposed, you wouldn't be able to implement [accurate] like-gating in terms of that (i.e. you wouldn't be able to be Evil), but you'd still be able to do most other things people use the like-button API for, like showing current number of likes (i.e. not Evil).
Anarchism can be considered either left or right, as its a completely orthogonal ideology to what is typically considered left and right wing ideologies. Libertarianism is just a form of minimal government, but not anarchism.

Left and right are not really well defined ideologies[0]. They're just archaic and lazy ways to generalize political stances.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_s...
According to Wikipedia, the density of Shenzhen is 15,000 per sq mi. Somerville, MA, is 18,000 per sq. Mi.
> Since facebook isn't going to change licence anytime soon, how long before JS community comes up with a truly "open source" create-react-app?

Kind of confused what you mean, as I understand it both react and the boiler are open source, but facebook has this policy which apparently means they can revoke access if they want.. Anyway if this is the issue then your question is really about alternatives to react, which there are certainly a few of.
In the site's own words:

https://raddit.me/wiki/history

BTW, the footer links to the source:

https://gitlab.com/edgyemma/raddit-app

(php symphony based site)