skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[citation needed]

How can you even know if it doesn't affect you (either positively or negatively)?
Loaded fine for me, maybe it's been cached now, Azure end.

It is a pdf though which can be slower.
You just described a methadone clinic.

Yes, they exist. Yes, some communities are using them to combat opiate addiction.
You completely misunderstand the level of "privilege" of the average ivy league student. While there are some students who are definitely going to get amazing opportunities through their parents regardless, the average student comes from a family that makes about $200-250k/year. That's wealthy and privileged for sure, but not typically "graduate with a 2.0 straight into a six-figure job set up by your parents" level of wealthy and privileged.
I think people want to believe, whether it's angel's in their celestial Jacob's ladder coming from above, or grey colored ufo space aliens from above. I think that's one beautiful thing about astronomy, that it makes you look up and wonder. Sometimes with soo much amazement that you can't almost deny anything at all -really.
What's your opinion on cake decorations?
If you click the gray app icon it will disable that secondary bar at least.
Yeah I still think the NYT has the best science coverage out there, but business and tech has become such a joke over the past 20 years it's not even worth checking.
It's a mistake for FB users to consider themselves employers who have any effect on hiring. That's like a pig with an opinion about work habits at the slaughterhouse.
For example, the hypothetical language could require you to declare that a block of code is allowed to write only within a certain filesystem path (or list of paths). Attempts to escape from the path prefix - e.g. using /../ - would be caught by the compiler for static paths; and non-static strings representing paths would be required by the language's type system to be passed through a specific validator before they can be used for filesystem access.
Why would you lose range when it gets cold? I thought that temperature would have the opposite effect on battery performance, where higher temperatures decrease efficiency.
You pivoted away from the topic. Bill Maher case may be interesting to discuss, but doesn't change whether the_donald calls for hate. Which actually looking at the subreddit shows it does.
"The Verge: There are people who love the idea of our humanity being augmented. They think it's a good thing. More intelligent, stronger, and so on.

Author: They're living in a science fiction fantasy world. The problem is that we're not just merging with machines, we're merging with the companies that make these machines.

It might be one thing if we were gaining intellectual powers that we had full control over, but we don't. Right now, four or five big companies control the machines we're using. "

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16263366/franklin-foer-bo...

Perhaps he might say there's nothing wrong with man letting himself be augmented by a machine, e.g., a "smartphone". But when the user does not have full control over the machine and she lets some third party control the machine for her then that's not really the same thing as simply "man augmented by machine".

In the model promoted by SV man grants some control over himself to some third party, a corporation.

Apparently the author was working at New Republic when one of the Facebook founders took it over, said he hated having to sell ads and then proceeded to institute a system of generating mindless clickbait headlines.

Perhaps he believed such headlines are so effective they rob a person of "free will", such as the decision not to click.

It is certainly possible to use machines we control to access information and otherwise supplement our intellect. But I guess SV still believes one needs to be a computer nerd to do it. And everyone else still needs SV's help.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/09/11/550...
Does that include White Terrorism or just Brown Terrorism?
Does it come in plastic wrapping and has a self life greater than 6 months? Probably processed.

Sure that includes cheese, preserved meats, honey, grains, and many liquids, but you can also find those held in paper, wax, wood, and glass containers. Hamburger Helper is processed and it always comes in a plastic bag.
HEVC is definitely not lossless.
Are all beliefs fictional? What's the difference, if any, between holding such beliefs and attending a Harry Potter convention in costume?
Straw man, much? Who is "complaining"?

I am pointing out that it was "sold" as "anonymous", by the establishment. And it clearly could not be that, per spec.

In fact, I also remember that this feature of cryptocurrencies was subtly communicated to a larger audiance in conjunction with stories about "a group of hackers called Anonymous" -- you know, those guys with their suited headless figure in front of a globe with imperial laurels logo. (Someone must have gotten a good lolly laugh coming up with that zinger of a logo. Or possibly merely sniffed in contempt.)
Improve by Viewing Yourself as a Black Box
Take a closer look the next time a State of the Union speech is broadcast. They're all reptiles.
It's unimportant until it is.

Costs are high for aws. You might be able to pay a little more now but when you need to scale you may find you are priced off of aws.
A good blog
tonyyet
Can you go into more detail about the positives/negatives of your experiences at the University of Calgary?
Ξεκινά με νίκη ο ΠΑΟΚ στο Κύπελλο Ελλάδας
> 'Safe' filesystem access? Honest question, but what would that look like?

Safety is a spectrum. Consider a file system API that didn't let you obtain access to a parent directory, and didn't let you ambiently designate any path you like via an unchecked string and turn said string into a real handle to whatever lies at that path. Your program starts with a handle to what it's allowed to reference.

Any subroutine you passed a directory handle then couldn't obtain anything outside of that path (effectively a jail), and any subroutine that wasn't passed any handles can't read or modify the file system at all.
Or close it?
Amazon Redshift Clients to require adding Amazon certificate authority (CA)
Just received this, and wondering how to interpret the ask from Amazon, and why there's only a month of lead time:

Hello,

You are receiving this email because you are an Amazon Redshift customer. Your action is required by October 23rd, 2017 to ensure continued connectivity to your Redshift cluster.

Beginning on this date, clients connecting to Amazon Redshift clusters will need an additional trusted certificate authority (CA). Clients use trusted certificate authorities to confirm the identity of the Redshift cluster when they connect to it. Your action is required to update your SQL clients and applications to use an updated certificate bundle that includes the new trusted CA.

* How do I update clients and applications to use an updated certificate bundle?

Go to the Transitioning to ACM Certificates for SSL Connections documentation page at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/connecting-transitioning-to-acm-certs.html to download a new trusted certificate bundle, and then follow the steps on that page to configure your SQL clients to use the new bundle. The steps are specific to your application or SQL client configuration. The certificate bundle contains both old and new certificate authorities, so you can upgrade your application safely and maintain connectivity during the transition period.

To maintain connectivity, you'll need to install the new certificate bundle before October 23rd, 2017 at 17:00:00 UTC. After you've configured your clients to use the new bundle, you're done.

* What if I have questions or issues?

If you have questions or issues, please contact AWS Support at https://aws.amazon.com/support or your Technical Account Manager (TAM).

Sincerely,
Amazon Web Services
Just what I was thinking. Reddit and HN shadowban people without them ever knowing. Twitter probably should too, and allow things like current location/potential plans to be farmed.
I mean you are justifying why your process is the way it is from the perspective of the company. Great, no one doubts you have your reasons. But does the candidates perspective not matter?

He rightfully doesn't want to spend 3-4 hours of his time on an artificial interview process. You can call that combative or jaded, I call it knowing what you are worth. Or just protecting your limited time on earth.

Seems like you ultimately do want monkeys who consistently put their own interest behind the company's. No surprise that older people are less willing to do this - its not because they are "jaded", its because they recognize that no one else will put their interests ahead of their own.

Its a 2-way interview though, so overall you both steer clear of each other - great.
Myspace was a blip on the radar compared to Facebook. It was founded a year before Facebook, and its star started fading within 6mo of Facebook starting to spread like wildfire across college campuses. It was inevitable that the Myspace audience, which trended slightly younger, would abandon the platform wholesale as soon as Facebook threw open the doors to the public.
Without passing judgment on the book itself, which I have not read, I find key elements of the argument as presented in this review to be unconvincing.

> Consider, for instance, this handful of well-known distinguishing human traits: [...human mating behaviors...] none of these traits evolved in our fellow ape species. Prum argues that they evolved in humans because they help women evaluate men’s prosocial-pleasure potential.

Wait but, if they're so helpful, why didn't they evolve in our fellow ape species too? Our mating behaviors aren't any more evolved than apes, the apes of today have had exactly the same amount of time to evolve as we have. Shouldn't this case be made based on archeological species that we've since outcompeted?

An a separate note, this review makes it sound like no one else has done significant work on sexual selection. Isn't Fisherian runaway, for example, a well-known instance of sexual selection? And Ronald Fisher was a key figure in the modern synthesis.
> This is solved with shadow DOM.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=shadowdom
Just look at the progn expansion and create one like it that doesn't add the curly braces, and that ought to work I think; (perhaps call it "prog" or something).
What have you seen them do?
I remember it being telnet, not SSH. I started working with Cisco routers in the early 90's, before SSH was even a thing.
At least with the AWS ELB ones, the names can't be wildcards, so the only information that can be transmitted is info that the other party had set up ahead of time. 'gzunified-ecselast-1isehuisml2g4-663788831' is actually in someone's ELB list somewhere.
Those all have ~roughly equal tuition (except Berkeley, which is far less for in-state students).
Well ISIS must have some form of intelligence of their own? Although I have no idea how advanced it would be.
There's no merit to this biased pile of shit.

You may no particularly like the author's point of view -- but you looked carefully, you might have noticed it was placed in he "Perspective" section, which as the name implies, is dedicated to expressing what are commonly known as "points of view" -- otherwise known as "biases". Which, forming the very core of our cognitive processes as they do, are very far from flaws -- an in fact, when used properly, not just useful, but absolutely crucial to one's survival in this murky, deeply ambiguous and ambivalent world of ours.

And at least the author gave some supporting observations to back up their (clearly labeled as such) point of view. OTOH the sentence you're offering above provides no insights or justifications; it is, quite literally, a pure expletive.

Journalism should be objective.

Should it, now?

“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”

-- Hunter S Thompson
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
I am admittedly pretty solidly middle-class, but I've never had a non-Apple computer last anywhere near 5+ years, so I'd say they were still getting a pretty decent deal relatively speaking.

But in any case Macs and iDevices are different; Macs tend to stay backwards-compatible for quite a while longer. 32-bit apps still work fine and will as long as Macs are on Intel processors. Even Carbon[1] apps still work (compiled as x86 binaries) on the latest MacOS, and those will also run (compiled as PPC binaries) on MacOS 8.1, from 1998.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)
I didn't go to Harvard and I'll freely admit that when I come across Harvard people, they are as a general pool, stunningly impressive in whatever discipline they are in.
Global mutable state is just the worst-case of a more general problem. Unnecessary scope and mutability make programs harder to reason about because when trying to understand code they require you to investigate things that you might otherwise be able to instantly rule out as impossible.
One of my favorite undergrad electrical engineering classes [0] took an innovative approach to introducing this. Instead of learning about clocks/pipelines and HDL at the same time, we only looked at the former. We created our own simulators for an ARM subset, fully in C, where there was only a single for/while loop allowed in the entire codebase, representing the clock ticks. Each pipeline stage, such as Instruction Fetch, would read from a globally instantiated struct representing one set of registers, and write to another one. If you wanted to write to the same place you read from, you could only do so once, and you'd better know exactly what you were doing.

Because we didn't need to learn a new language/IDE/environment at the same time that we learned a new paradigm, we were able to keep our feet on solid ground while working things out; we were familiar with the syntax, so as soon as we realized how to "wire something up," we could do so with minimal frustration and no need/ability to Google anything. Of course, it was left to a subsequent course to learn HDL and load it on real hardware, but for a theoretical basis, this was a perfect format. Much better than written tests!

[0] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall10/cos375/de... - see links under Design Project, specifically http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall10/cos375/Cp...
Reminds me of this Fishing for Hackers post https://sysdig.com/blog/fishing-for-hackers/
I dont have any user logins at this point. I'll https once that is supported
This sounds way simpler and 10x better than what most organizations do (secrets in virsion control, secrets on local file system or environment variables). Do you mind doing a quick how-to? It could probably help 90% of organizations take a step towards better security.
Can you imagine being the first tech hire in a company that started this way? "We just sold a contract with Y but they need it to do X" "Well... Google Sheets duct-taped to Zapier duct-taped to Twilio can't support X, so the first step to get X is to re-implement features A through... uh.. W by prototyping, producing, and testing some actual software product as well as a big migration... so..." or doing any debugging of intermittent delivery failures between third-party systems with a customer dogging you for updates...
Technological waste traced in blood of Africans inmigrating to Spain [spanish]
It looks as if they are interviewing people for skills related to the use of high level, dynamic languages.

Someone who has been doing nothing but C++ for years will probably not be able to "code golf" some data munging problem, say. By the time they get their function right for tokenizing a string on whitespace delimitation, the time is almost up. :)
One of the issues I think is that people no longer are making a distinction between opinion pieces (which this is) and articles. They're only looking at the domain name. Given that you describe it as an article, might you have done the same? (This isn't meant as a slight. We all have overlooked things at one time or another.) I'm not sure how to rectify this. To their credit, the publications still label them as such. Perhaps the labels should be larger.
The great risk of AI to survival is in military applications, I believe. Not because of super-intelligent Skynets - in fact their lack of general intelligence may make them more dangerous - but because of superhuman response times. While banning military AI is as useful as banning nuclear weapons (impossible on a practical level), I feel that Google and Facebook and others should be leaders and address these issues, rather than conveniently bury their heads because the problem, though unavoidable, is still on the horizon, difficult, and disturbing and inconvenient to their happy visions.

Imagine a human stock trader trying to compete with a 'flash' trading program, which operates on the scale of (micro?)-seconds. Now imagine they have guns and are trying to kill each other. Imagine that the survival of millions, of your nation, of democracy and liberty depend on winning. The military has no choice but to build robots that autonomously decide and act to kill people and to destroy the things that people build; it's that or surrender and learn to speak Russian (or Chinese or the language of whoever does build those robots).

The U.S. military already has systems that do this, such as the guns that defend ships from incoming missiles - no human could identify, aim at and shoot down a supersonic missile quickly enough. They plan to implement it in other situations such as, interestingly for HN readers, defending and attacking IT systems: Imagine an AI that can launch and adjust attacks in micro- or even just milli-seconds, while the human sysadmin's brain is just having the first inklings of thought about the response procedure to the first attack. Again, either surrender or use autonomous AIs yourself.

AIs and associated military robots raise other serious issues: Throughout human history military power was tied closely to the magnitude of wealth and population; this restricted the major threats to just a few great powers. But perhaps you will only need to build a robot army, not a human one; one good AI development team and an underground manufacturing facility (anywhere in the world) might be sufficient; your AI doesn't have to be precise or make good decisions, it only needs to kill so rabidly that others surrender. Nuclear weapons at least require very specialized materials, limiting potential manufacturers (though even NK can do it now). Could Singapore do it and become the Rome of the future? Saudi Arabia? Japan? Finland? In fact, who needs a nation - wealthy individuals, groups, or corporations might pull it off. What about GE, Boeing, Google - and those are just a few American companies.

Putin recently said that "the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world."
My experience is the opposite. The reason that I use vim is because I frequently have to work in environments that I ssh into, where X forwarding is blocked or very poor due to latency. It became too painful to constantly switch back and forth between vim, emacs, eclipse, netbeans, etc, so I gave up and settled on the lowest common denominator.
No, that's because the server is melting and giving 500 errors ;-)
> which is why gender evolved in the first place

You mean as a social construct? Because if you mean that in the biological sense, then sex has probably more to do with sharing beneficial mutations, and error correction against the bad ones:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/missing-mutations-suggest-a-r...
good race bait, 8.5/10
Is gitlab throwing a 500 for anyone else?
As a 33 year-old, self-employed/self-taught web developer looking to become a more proficient programmer this interests me. I've been debating finishing up college to obtain my CS degree but it's only to fill the holes in my knowledge base rather than benefit from holding a degree. An arrangement much like a personal trainer at a gym could be an excellent model: identify areas to work on, come up with a plan, and check in.
You may as well just block LACNIC IPs wholesale and save the trouble at this point
Similar in what way?
this has never become a law afaik
Are new to programming
Already code in a backend stack like Node, Python, Ruby, Go, or Java
Are an ASP.NET MVC developer

Consider me sold!. Have been watching .NET Core from the sidelines while I have been "teaching myself" Python. But being constantly on a Windoze systems there is so much more that one could with .net core. Thanks for putting this together.
High. EPFL: 55% (http://sae.epfl.ch/echec-statistiques).

[I've never heard any very good arguments for either high or low pass rates]
>Does this confusion typically happen to engineers who are trying to teach themselves hardware design, or is it just an indication of a terribly-designed curriculum?

Your curriculum seems very sensible to me, you learned the basics first. After all HDLs are just describing the underlying circuit, you need to know how to design it first.

The basis of most confusion in my experience is that for most people (including pure electronic engineers) their "first contact" with anything digital is through software programming which, despite the recent trend in multicores and parallel execution, is highly sequential.

When you try HDL for the first time after years of programming CPUs it's natural to approach it with the same thought process. It just takes time to adapt to a new "way of thinking", nothing more. I'm sure if someone learns HDL design without prior software experience will face the same issues when he/she later decides to jump to software engineering
Because your users cannot be trusted. I run servers which coworkers, all developers, get access to. It's either ssh keys or 2 factor authentication because most don't give a fuck about security and will insist using garbage passwords if not prevented from doing so (and then they will complain), even though the use of a password manager is mandatory.
I've watched that, and it almost certainly contributed to my comment above. Thanks for linking it for others to enjoy - it's an A+ watch IMO.
Sorry, it was a reference to Twitter hiding some content behind a button that says "Read more replies".

There is some chance that the bans and content suppression are using the same information.
Study from University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the Hospital Insular found that the blood of African immigrants arriving at the Canary Islands, regardless of their country of origin, is contaminated by vanadium and other remains of technological garbage at levels unknown in the West.
Lol, I'm so sorry, this is unkind and very possibly inaccurate, but I read your "what department" question like this:

"Where were you on the internal Harvard hierarchy that we both know is incredibly important to Harvard folks, but that the outside world generally knows nothing about. I need to know where you were on the status ladder so I can decide how much of your comment, like the article author's (she's on the lower side of the middle of the ladder) is sour grapes from someone who hit a velvet rope inside the club and is bitter about it."

Like I said, this is probably deeply unfair, and if it is then my apologies, but after spending five years there I can't help but parse it this way.

FWIW I was at the Div school, which is near the bottom, so we're all keenly aware of these issues because the lower you are on any hierarchy the more that hierarchy and your place in it defines your experience of the whole. It's only the folks on top who can afford to be ignorant of the kinds of issues that everyone below them has to carefully navigate.
World’s first quantum-cryptographic satellite network is likely to be Chinese