skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hillary Clinton is nowhere to be found after her crushing defeat, and Bernie Sanders is still out there every day fighting for universal healthcare and other pro-citizen policies

At least in modern times most losing presidential candidates stay pretty quiet for some time. Also, while I guess you can call it a crushing defeat in that she lost, I will note that she did win the popular vote by a margin of several million.

As for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren it may be relevant that both are still in office.
Ages ago there was an Idea Board like site posted on here, where anyone was posting and you could browse for things

Edit: the Google now lists at least 6
I disagree. I've met a lot of super productive, obsessed people. Many are very nice. Though like Ben Horowitz put it, you have your peace time people and your wartime people. The ones you're describing might be wartime people, obsessed with making a company survive. A company like Google would want more peace time people. They're still damn good engineers but not so stoic.
I once had a job interview that had a task where only one person was allowed to view an object made of random Lego bricks, they would communicate the structure to another person, that person would communicate it to a builder. The idea being to replicate the object. It's not easy.
Very different circumstance. Jobs at that stage was a mini-celebrity and a multi-millionaire. Zuck right now is one of the most famous people in the world, hold incredible power (maybe even more than some of the worlds governments) and is a multi-billionaire.

Most people think Zuck is evil or abnormal. He is a regular dude. He is just sitting on a couple million of hydrogen bombs ready to explode. Facebook is very influential today and the parties it affects are not just companies but governments. These are not easy entities to deal with.
Can someone who is more well-studied in physics tell me: what are the implications of this? Is it a curiosity, but of no practical matter? Or is it "Oh my god, a 4% smaller proton could mean cold fusion and jetpacks"?
Oh in the 50’s? Around the time when the Democrats’ Jim Crow laws were repealed? And when 99 Democrats (starring Bill Clinton) and 2 Republicans signed the Southern Manifesto?

Can you get a little more current please? Not sure that was a good time range for your narrative.

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Jobs was on another plane entirely. One where having more than technical acumen was necessary to actually have impact in the world.
The petrochemical revolution is more than the market cap of an oil company. The petrochemical revolution guides the way we've built our cities for the past 100+ years, how we ship our goods and how we travel the world. The entire transport system - cars, trucks, ships, planes - almost all petrochemical. And the negative side too. Vast fields of tarmac (petrochemical) parking lots (petrochemical) for strip malls. Urban sprawl. Well over a million people killed on roads every year. Millions more affected by chemical byproducts. Acid rain. Global warming.

Computers are only getting started. They'll get there eventually though; computers are to the brain what engines are to the body.
Social media and smart phone attention-grabbers are bad because they bring immediate rewards, but divert you from spending your time and energy on activities that are less immediately rewarding, but have far higher benefits in the long term.

The reason they work is our brains are designed for a foraging tribe existence in which the attention-grabbers a person would encounter generally elicited more functional behavior.

I don't think regulation can work here. It seems to me that the solution is some combination of people getting smarter and deciding to get off social media and turn off their smartphones, plus technology like steemit that avoid the economic model of advertising + selling personal data.
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I send files during Skype conversations, so there's that. Sharing a Dropbox link to a file is also possible, but I always considered that clunky

Edit: oops, I didn't know that Skype got rid of P2P, now files are uploaded to their servers
What is your basis for saying this?
Scientists think they've solved the mystery of the 'alien megastructure' star
The merge request checklist
Easy also means that people are less willing to pay high prices for the company. But sometimes it's safer because you're not competing with people like Rocket Internet, who can hire a thousand people overnight capable of working 12 hours/day on some idea.
What does it preserve, then? (Bookmarks? That's the easy thing to restore. Transfer to another browser then transfer back.)
No, I'm calling lifetimes a joke, and HN to be a platform to tell jokes to others who might have the same lack of humour as yourself.
Totally agree.

Aside: I discovered touching a navbar button often doesn't work for a left hander, whereas it does work for a right handed person.

This left vs right handed UX flaw occurred with the navbar button at top left on an iPhone (e.g. back or hamburger).

A left finger comes in at an angle that makes the capacitive touchscreen register the touch as occurring at the extreme left edge of the screen. A right index finger registers the touch more correctly within the navbar button. Some navbar buttons don't extend the touch hit area to the edge, so a left finger fails to click it, whereas a right finger works...
No idea, but I find it amazingly cool that even today with our modern technology, we're finding there's more to be learned about the stuff of high-school physics.
I run an open core software company. Incentives depends on the complexity of what the software does.

In the "distro" oss companies like cloudera, red hat, us,..
there is usually a lock in component somewhere (usually in the difficulty) but sometimes in a closed source component.

We've had difficulty with "paid extensions" in real practice. The only thing that tends to work is "as a service" or "buy the proprietary part".

I won't comment on the individual developer attempting to sell a JS library. I just want to note how hard it can be for customers to even be convinced of this in the first place. The likelihood of this being a real "revenue stream" for your typical freelance OSS developer building a node library is a stretch at best.
Interesting article, including the subtitle, "Their case against frugality", may help people understand what the article will be about. The article title alone is quite vague.
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Hmm I didn't notice there was a server in between the file transfer, looks like I'll have to reconsider how I transfer files
Nope. They'll just set up around the building, peer in through the windows with binoculars, and if you appear armed snipe you from afar.

Regardless, they don't care: if you take out a few agents they'll just send in more.
Please consider replacing the term "responsible disclosure" with "coordinated disclosure", and revise your steps accordingly. Non-coordinated disclosure isn't necessarily "irresponsible", and the suggestion that it is is frowned upon among serious testers, which are presumably the ones you want to attract with disclosure policy.

And it's worth remembering that any kind of disclosure "policy" is a request for a favor from the researcher, so it's good to word things accordingly. You wouldn't generally ask for a concession (like honoring an embargo on publicly reporting a finding you took time to generate) right after also "asking" the reporter to report "in good faith".
You're saying that like being bombarded with hate speech is a good thing.
Good luck getting this adopted. A couple of months ago I was trying to responsibly disclose the complete exposure of every customer's name, email address, phone number and the last four digits of their credit card to a public QSR company that allows online orders. It was straightforward enough that I found it passively while trying to login.

It took over a week of me searching the website for a security page, trying to contact support on Twitter, emailing security addresses that turned out to be undeliverable, looking through my network for a contact, etc. Someone with a better network than me finally put me in touch with the right person in the security org, and the first response I received was, essentially, "Are you trying to sell us something? This seems manipulative. Why didn't you email our [undeliverable] address?"

As far as I'm aware, the vulnerability still hasn't been resolved. Here are the problems I see:

1. I don't know if this is a good implementation of this idea in the first place - how does this handle liability? I agree with what tptacek mentioned in this thread already: this seems underspecified, and companies looking to adopt this will want to have specific assurances with regards to liability and what's allowed. What exactly does "Disclosure Type: Full" mean?

2. If a company is not already in the tech trendy group that like to host security pages and use bug bounties, this is probably not even going to be on their radar. What is different about this that will appeal to them? How do you get a large, faceless organization which regards its security organization as more of a risk/compliance/continuity division than a technical software security division to adopt this standard?

To be clear, as someone who has gone through this song and dance several times, I absolutely would like to see improvements. But I don't know that this is the best way to do it. A more realistic standard might be a central tracker that maintains a list of key security contacts and their email addresses at various organizations. There are already lists like this floating around on GitHub, but they tend to be extremely out of date. Other than that it would be helpful to try and standardize a /security.html page with details about who and where to contact (instead of, say, a page that assumes every customer looking for a security contact mistakenly believes their accounts have been "hacked").
Would love to see phone in the future be able to detect which hang is holding the device and provide the correct layout for different apps.
Right-handed privilege.

But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.
AFA libel/slander laws, I think there is a difference between having the freedom to speak it, and the freedom from consequences of speaking it. Causing real damage to a person by lying or misrepresenting them isn't quite the same as simply voicing opposition to ruling party policy.

Regarding consequences, I have the right to tell my boss to go to hell, and him firing me for that isn't a violation of my freedom of speech. The government throwing me in jail for it would be though.

Military secrets and the like are also different, because you sign an agreement saying you will keep the secrets. Prosecution therefore isn't done under restriction of speech, it's for breach of contract.

You have a good point on things like incitement and "fighting words" tho. And I agree that we in the US are far from the ideal of truly free speech. There's a lot of ways around it that the government has come up with over the years.
It doesn't even make sense if you assume the terms are defined, because disclosure obligations are bilateral. If I'm reporting a bug to your site because I've found a new ImageMagick vulnerability, it is more likely that I the reporter want an embargo from you the site operator than the other way around.
In the absolutely epic space opera "Hyperion" (and its sequel "Endymion") the author Dan Simmons theorizes -- through the plot, not through a monologue! -- that AI creatures would offer us tech that we could never invent -- impossibly minituarized personal computers (the size of a discrete and thin silver bracelet, an earring or even smaller implants under the skin, and which are basic AI by themselves), and real-time worm-holes through which humanity finally achieves inter-stellar civilization status.

However, the author is very realistic (pessimistic?) about such an AI community -- actually there's billions of them living in a place humanity can't ever reach or even guess where it is, with internal politics as foreign for the people as our societal dynamics are a mystery to the bacteria around us. Anyhow -- the tech they give to humanity is heavily backdoored and this becomes very apparent and dangerous as the plot progresses.

I'd recommend those books to anybody with a heart and some curiosity about a seemingly optimistic future (which is actually pretty dark).

Be warned though: if you decide to read them, the first ~120 pages of the first book are DARK AND HEAVY. However, enduring it was the best sacrifice of several hours of patience I've ever done in my life. I just couldn't stop reading before I finished all 4 books.
To be more specific, it is a number used as an argument to a function. The bit stream input into a video decoding algorithm is what makes the video. The video binary itself is mostly nonsense.

But the other way to look at is that it would be possible to have a set of data that is essentially illegal to use one function on and legal for another function to be used. Could someone unknowingly generate or acquire a set of data that is illegal to access and own? There has already been cases of terrorists hiding information within legal media.
It's generally easy to maintain on my server. With normally fewer than 40 processes/daemons running at any time, I can reason about what's going on, as opposed to Linux or macOS.

This really can't be emphasized enough.

It's very simple to see what's running. Right now on my OpenBSD system, when I do

ps ax |wc -l

the answer is 51. But that's misleading. Because:

nsd 5 processes
ntpd 3 processes
nfsd 5 processes

Etc. So there are really very few processes, and they're all easily understood.

In contrast, I just tried the same ps on my macOS Sierra laptop that I'm typing this on, and the count was 510. Ten times as many!!!

Mere mortals can't easily understand all of that.
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https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=216...

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAS ASSESSED SAN JOSE AS BEING A HIGH-THREAT LOCATION FOR CRIME DIRECTED AT OR AFFECTING OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT INTERESTS.
Having more force is irrelevant if it can't be properly applied. Easy when a few yahoos take over an abandoned building on federal land, a little harder when an insurgency of thousands has metastasized throughout a society.

See the outcomes of asymmetrical warfare in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
> "Reason" is a far right-wing publication funded by the Kochs.

I'm going to need you to substantiate your claim that Reason is a far-right publication, because it really seems like a centrist libertarian publication. They predictably project a pro-individual and pro-business (in that order) message, I've seen them argue for NAFTA (not popular with the right these days, which is more protectionist), they consistently argue against restrictions on social taboos (social controls being the primary distinguishing factor of the right).
These are really two sides of the same coin. Commercial companies are getting people to behave in ways that are contrary to their own benefit. Now the people are starting to realize it, and are stopping. Soon the commercial companies will realize what is happening, and I guess go into some sort of panic.
This seems like a packaging problem. In Java 9, it's possible to produce a single binary containing the JRE and application code; same way as go producing a single binary containing the Go runtime and application code.

> Python

Then you have to install the right version of python, and you get even more of a nightmare than a Java install. At least the Java ecosystem doesn't suggest a separate tool (eg, virtualenv or similar) to support things like JAVA_HOME.

This applies equally to any non-statically-compiled application distribution; I don't see CMake files + some specially blessed CMake version that you also have to install as coming close to that.
Not the same approach.
As soon as it's politically advantageous for those in power to make it so, yes.
> With no way to define intelligence (except just pointing to ourselves..

..and anything else considered to be alive)

Not to make an attempt at arguing whether or not machines can be intelligent but machines are not submerged in an environment that effects them, giving them no merit to be intelligent about anything; and even if they were they still have no ability to influence the environment. (Sensors for example)

It seems many that speak on AI have completely disregarded coming up with a reasonable implementation of intelligence in favor of pondering its potential uses. (Typically in ideals central to humans)
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But this part isn't science fiction, we already have AIs that do this. See AIVA for pretty good musical composition[0], new sites are using AI to write and compress news stories[1], and screeplays are being written via machine learning[2].

Obviously these are still in their infancy, but doesn't this perfectly encapsulate your point? There's not really an interesting story or thought piece there, because people are working on these in all sorts of fields all over the world, today.

If we can build AIs that create "good" art, is it much of a stretch to teach a super AI what "better" means? By default a super intelligence doesn't have to start out as super intelligence, just have the capability to improve.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebnd03x137A

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc
Be oh so careful. We ran into issues with alpine node images that would only show up in minimal images like that. Switched to Debian and never looked back.
which law?
Next in this series:

- Deep Learning vs. RESTful APIs

- MRI scans vs. the sport of soccer

- Listening to music vs. Earth, the planet
>Even in the small city I live in, population ~87,000

My guess is things like this are a lot more likely to happen in a small city than a large one, or at least a much higher percentage of the population will be involved.
While I agree that the best time to speak up is when the precedent is being encoded into law, the phrase "better late than never" does come to mind.
By this point I'm convinced there are bots which auto-upvote anything blockchain related. I'm not sure how else to explain how this is so high with so few comments.
Slightly off topic but I strongly recommend subscribing to this amazing YouTube channel: PBS Space Time. It'll give a bit of background and I've enjoyed learning it.

https://youtu.be/z3rgl-_a5C0
I just learned about this thanks to an email from https://haveibeenpwned.com/ alerting me that my account info was leaked.
Automatic speech recognition that would spell out the menu item next to the corresponding digit would be sweet.
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That's a fair criticism. And I guess it still applies even though I was more specific than good vs bad. Because you just need a few dozen predictions for one to be right.
Jobs had many flaws which are often elided in his hagiographies.
That's one theorized explanation for the Fermi paradox, that highly advanced civilizations upload into their Matrix where they live a life of bliss.

I wondered many times if an AI could invent something more viral than "cats", something maybe so viral that it causes your mind to melt (ie, you go insane by the cuteness or whatever)
The proton is very fundamental. Almost all of the visible matter around us is either protons or neutrons, and their mass is almost completely generated dynamically from QCD (forget Higgs). Its size and mass are cornerstones. Being able to calculate them from first principles would be an enormous achievement.

For me, it's mainly interesting because two different fields of physics meet, nuclear physics (electron scattering) experiments, and atomic physics (spectroscopy).

Otherwise, it's the same as with all basic science. We don't know what it is "good for" until somebody figures out how to cure cancer with it.

The paper this article refers to is in particular interesting, because it finds a value not in agreement with earlier measurements of the /same/ type. The indicated 3.3 sigma shift in the Rydberg constant, one of the most exact measured quantities in existence, is a little bit worrying, but such shifts happen more often than they should.
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I'm about half way through his book and it's pretty good - there's this story in the beginning, but the rest of the book is pretty grounded (as opposed to Superintelligence where I found the arguments in the first couple of chapters pretty weak and disappointing).
pp is not on the wrong track. The first is clearly under assault from several quarters. Without the first we cannot even question authority much less dig in and speak about it. The second seems meant to shore up the first. I guess you have to try to think a little like a man that has only just gained his freedom and whose aim is hold and maintain that freedom for all of his and on equal footing. How would you proceed?

Either way, the costs are only ours to bear and Ms. Rudd's fantastically dystopic sales pitch seems to be selling tickets like hotcakes for a fast moving train.

The blatant assaults have become vicious. There is no authority over minds. We mustn't allow the mere access to information the means to determine or contain the freedom of the mind much less our bodies.

First they came for the children and then they came for the drugs. They are currently coming for "terror" and ache to expand that access without burdens or bounds. They will not stop until they have everything, which we must not permit.
Hate to tell him, but welcome to the real world. This is not a problem specific to academia!

Stars not having really earned their status? This is true in all institutions, businesses, governments, schools, home owners associations, book clubs, sewing circles, etc. Any group of people where "resources" are allocated by a human, there will be people who earn their status and there will be people who instead focus on influencing the allocators. Strange to have to tell grown-ups this.
Nope, ICQ is still going. Wish they'd go back to looking unique but they've gone mobile-UI even for the desktop app. At least the user list is functional and voice and video chats work. You're SOL if you wanna sign up without giving out your phone number, however.
Also, pledge is everywhere. Seppconf, not. And SeLinux just in few distros.

Pledge is instrinsic. You have it right from the beggining with C and Perl. And it's straightforward to use.