skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exploding cost goes along with exploding opportunity. Ever since Twitter started streaming some games, I've wondered who is watching on Twitter? That must be happening, but it still seems strange.

MLB does a great job streaming baseball and we subscribe every year. There's two things I wish they would change:

1. Blackout rules. If they've sold exclusive broadcast rights to some cable channel that theoretically serves me, then the game is blacked out. Stop doing that!

2. Commercial breaks. Rather than play a commercial, they just put up a still card. I wish they would just do a wide shot of the entire stadium for the duration of the commercial break. When they do play a commercial, it's the same one over-and-over-and-over.
Downgrade iOS 11.1 to iOS 11.0.1, iOS 11.0.2 or iOS 11.0.3
We already know Blockchain's killer apps
The data has to get from office to submarine cable, VPN is needed. When logging in from home, I need to select the end-point of the VPN, so I'm pretty sure it is a VPN. This is common with any country - connecting to the corporate network must be via VPN (unless the corporate is crazy and in violation of many laws disclosing customer data).
I try to offload as much stuff from the web and into the desktop because it means I can do all my window management with cmd+tab and Spectacle. If something lives in the browser I have a second layer to manage with ctrl+tab, slowing me and increasing mental load.

My full setup is cmd+tab for application switching, Spectacle for window ordering, and ctrl+arrows for switching Spaces. Space 1 is my 'grab-bag' desktop, Space 2 is my browser windows, Space 3 is all my code editing stuff, Space 4 is messaging (Telegram/IRC/Slack) Space 5 is Spotify and Space 6 is Mail and Calendar. All applications are 'pinned' to only open in their respective Space, but can be dragged to another one manually. I like to think of it as a best-of-both worlds hybrid between stacking window management and tiling window management :)
According to Wikipedia, Plan 9 has been using fossil as the default file system since 2003.
I've been looking for another word for "someone who is interested in the same software engineering and organization practices as the rest of the team" without using culture fit.

I don't care what TV shows they're watching or the color of their skin, but I do care that they don't grate against testing a peer's ticket instead of thinking it's below them. I care that they are helpful as a human quality. I care that they are interested on working on a team that's highly collaborative.

There are places where I'm not a great cultural fit. If the team's culture is to take a problem, go off for months, and solve it, it's probably not for me, but I know people who would be overjoyed in that case. I know people who'd like nothing more to get a spec and deliver rather than gathering and implementing requirements based on conversations within the organization.

In some sense, that's people like me, but I was in turn hired because I fit those criteria. People who fit those criteria seem to be happy with the engineering portion of the job, and people who don't fit that criteria tend to be frustrated.

I use the word "cultural fit" but I'm not sure if there's a better term.
I just opened a document in two different browser windows.

Started editing in one. Changes did not appear in the other.

Pressed Ctrl+S in both windows, and it seems the last one wins. So basically the first one loses their work.
Nice little plug for Quora there. Probably tells us something about who "John" really is. For the record, Quora is a very poor place to have such debates. It's a very strict question and answer format, with many "why did Obama kill a hundred babies and drink their blood" questions on every political topic. Just about any other place, including here, is better for a political debate.
and doubling the capacity solves all scalability problems? That is still minuscule capacity to enable any serious use of bitcoin as means of payment.

And if the simple transaction is me purchasing a pizza instead of transferring a million from one speculator to another? How much does it cost and how much it takes time?
Troy very publicly carrying water for Scott Helme/Report URI looks quite a bit different in hindsight, as the number of Report URI marketers doubles to 2.

· https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/920590590223331329

· https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/920222303849390081

· https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/920173854835720193

The uBlock Origin dev compromised with an opt-out for CSP reports, even though they can be used for things like IP address leaks to 3rd party servers (similar to the as-seen-in-court Tor-busting captcha mess). Personally I would prefer only same-origin reports.

--

My biggest problem in all of this is that Scott was not careful to always document his not-quite-obvious conflict of interest, and even worse: Troy's association is only now being revealed weeks later. I do appreciate the work being done to improve the effectiveness of CSP reports in default configurations of open source tools, but can't help wondering about the motivation. Disclaimers go a long way toward keeping unsuspecting maintainers informed of both sides of an issue.

· https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+author...

· https://twitter.com/Danbo/status/920325189954654208

Scott was also blamed here on HN last week for his part in promoting the death of HKHP (public key pinning) apparently due to ease of misconfiguration.

· https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573076

Looking back now I'm left wondering how HKHP affected Report URI and Scott's other project, Security Headers. I will disclose my bias as I watch highly effective marketing of convenience (top of HN!) triumph over my personal flavor of slightly paranoid privacy yet again.
The problem is, all this company research is locked behind secrets and patents.

No-one outside Google knows how deepmind works. No-one can reproduce it.
its likely his own wallet and he had a good idea of what the password was likely to be, rather than just brute forcing a random unknown wallet.
If you're pissed at predictive modeling being used for apps, I assume you're incensed at predictive modeling being used in general marketing, where it's been in use for many decades?
The arguments that Catholics use typically are not based on such assumptions. See e.g. Aquinas's Five Ways, which are based, more or less, on premises from Aristotelean metaphysics.
I'm surprised that JavaScript not disliked by more people given that it's probably the #1 language that developers are essentially forced to learn (often against their will).
I guess it's a testament to how good it is/has become.
This has been around for ages.
In fact, it is perhaps the best way to avoid you joining a place you will dislike, as they won't let you in to begin with.
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When I travel to asia (manila), I notice not so much that there is a GFW type firewall preventing the connections, but rather that alot of web sites are just firewalling all of APNIC netblocks. So many web sites, in fact, that the quickest solution for me is to setup squid proxy on an IP in the US and generally everything works flawless after that.
It's not "standalone" though... It's moving from being a Chrome extension to simply bundling an entire instance of Chromium that only it gets to use.

So, you're migrating from Firefox to multiple instances of Chrome...
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What can R do that Python can't right now?
Canonical Joins Gnome Foundation Advisory Board
And triggering another AI winter?

An AI winter because the current state of the art is valuable and applicable enough
Actually, the issue link you give actually states that it doesn't if you don't want it to.

It used, at time of issue creation, that one telemetry call was still sent, to tell that you disabled telemetry.

They have since removed that call too, and the only ones left are those to the update server at startup to know if a new version is available (and one to extension market to know if extension updates exists). It can be user disabled, by disabling auto update.

I hate how Windows 10 telemetry is forced down your throat, but for vs code there is no such issue
The tragedy of the commons applies in full force. Each company is just negligibly affected by their own behavior.
I use a work sample (short paid contract), but it's not perfect and boy is it labor intensive.

As a hirer, you really can't win. There's not one hiring process nor guiding principle that doesn't seem to bring out the pitchforks of those who were frustrated, disrespected, or rejected by said process:

- Show us your open source work. (You're excluding all but a lucky few who have the privilege of writing open source code!)

- Okay then, show us a personal project or some work you've done in your free time. (What, so I'm expected to live eat and breathe code 24/7 to get hired?!)

- Well, how about a short contract/work sample? (How am I supposed to find the time to do that? I have a day job and a life!)

- Shall we try whiteboarding/coding tests then? (This is so insulting! Solving CS puzzles isn't what the job is about!)

One cannot, sadly, rely on the résumé. I have interviewed multiple self-deemed "experts" in such-and-such language, only to find that they could not even write a basic for-loop on the whiteboard.
I don't see the photographer having an open and shut case especially for $150,000 for photography.

1) The player gave the photo to the writer claiming it was his property

2) The writer gave credit (Which doesn't allow for use and they should have contacted for use), but normally if there would be a cost a different photo will be used

These crazy copyright claims are the issue. The photographer suing for $150,000 is wrong and the CBS is wrong for the same $150,000 claim. It should be market value of a photo and legal fees. This would make it easy for a photographer to get his money since the company would not want the added legal fee charge. Instead in US it is a all or nothing and usually both parties lose.

Per Image Fee is the best way to move forward.

http://www.roshsillars.com/2017/02/15/much-photographers-cha...
Besides metadata, the word spacing algorithm in LaTeX tends to give a certain feel that you learn to recognize once you have seen it enough times.
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I don’t agree with your comment about “sticking to text”. Visual components make sense for form filling type transactions, presenting image/text combos like articles, and guiding the user through explicit follow up actions.
I know, that was such naive answer considering the answer is so obvious.

The problem isn't that these companies are offering huge amounts of money, it's that the universities are ignoring the market signs and not raising pay. I find this odd though because at my school, all the professors who taught lucrative fields (engineering, cs, business) were paid much higher than the other ones because they wouldn't be able to retain them otherwise.
Service workers don't solve the problem.

First, service workers themselves are updated outside a service worker, so that is code I can't easily intercept before it is executed. (And first page load as always.)

Secondly, I still need to trust you not to make a mistake or not not be malicious over a long period of time making small tweaks that look innocent but over a year cause harm.

Third, users will become fatigued if every update you make causes them to click ok.
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How about a pay raise for researchers
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To be fair, the challenge of nearly all security assessment tools, including Security Headers, is they don't understand the context of what they are assessing. X-Frame-Options on a blog isn't a big deal. X-Frame-Options on a SaaS app can be. That's why blindly scanning something and then saying "look at all these vulnerabilities" is a pretty poor way to assess the security of a service.
Well it’s so common Wikipedia has a dedicated category for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_a...
> That's the view of Jesus' later followers

You are absolutely right. But the Catholic faith is not about a literal interpretation of the Bible, is about the so-called depositum fidei, i.e. how the Catholic Church holds and transmits the teachings of Jesus Christ.

You may say that all Catholicism is the interpretation given by "Jesus' later followers".

Of course, when discussing Catholicism, I was implicitly using the Catholic Church's interpretation of Jesus's sayings. It would interesting to discuss if what he meant is what the Church now means.

> 27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Sure. My point there was that faith in God is needed for salvation. It's not just mercy and kindness.
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I am not a theologist, but I believe the Catholic Church does not affirm that their doctrine is the direct word of God. It is the summary of the study of ancient written word that told stories about key religious persons and events that themselves affirmed things about God.

The doctrine is open to review. What they are conservative about is implying their predecessors had wrong views.

But all that is just the facade, in practice they are not keen to losing power and prestige, which Pope Francis precisely calls them out for.
You can't logically conclude that it's not a democracy problem simply because you named a separate condition that implies lack of fiscal responsibility.
I see. So usually what you would do is run the CV a bunch of times to test various features/hyperparameters, knowing this will overfit to the data used for the cv.

After deciding on features/hyperparameters (based on the overfit cv), you train the model on all the data used for cv at once. Then test the resulting model on a holdout set (that was not used for the cv). The accuracy on that holdout would then be the accuracy to report.

This sounds much like what you are describing, except you only do one cv and do not use it to decide anything. The cv is only to give an estimate of accuracy.

Is that correct? It does seem to legitimately avoid leakage. However, it seems impossible that an anything close to optimal feature generation process or the hyperparameters were known beforehand. Do you just use defaults here?
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This is a fine lecture by John Stillwell on the question of alien mathematics, and what might constrain it:
https://youtu.be/9MV65airaPA
Even bigger smile if she gets the money he deserves :-)
17 years now: https://web.archive.org/web/20000818111401/https://www.myfon...
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it's not binary. without the safety features economy spirals even more out of control.
From the email I got:

For dedicated servers, the extra cost for Anti-DDoS will be applied to:
* OVH servers w/ 1 Gbit/s network
* OVH servers with either 10, 25, or 40 Gbit/s network

So it seems like the older, lower-network-speed Kimsufi dedi boxes will stay at the same price?
It shouldn't surprise you. Catholic branch is the most orthodox branch of Christianity. It's the one that resisted Reformation and all other attempts at change. Times change, so at least some teachings of a religion should change with them.
These lists get 'traded' amongst security professionals a lot. Quite a few of them will send Troy a copy to load in to HIBP.
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They published their Go algorithms in Nature. Also they put stuff into NIPS. So I don't think this qualifies as "No-one outside Google knows how deepmind works." If their stuff can't be reproduced, then it isn't science and the journals shouldn't be accepting papers from them. Or am I not understanding something?
AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
Each company is positively affected by their own behavior, and negatively by everyone else's.

It's a tragedy of the commons, yes, but traditionally we've used government to handle these. Would that be desirable here? What form would it take, even?
> Yes, it can, but whenever the Service Worker's code changes, the user is warned. There's an "updatefound" event [1] which both the web page and the old Service Worker get. I wrote a blog post with more background info at [2].

Unless this is an extremely rare event, a hacker could easily just piggy back on a recent change and inject a worker that does not alert on "updatefound".
there is more than faith involved.

If you compare the U.S. to the rest of the world in terms of wealth, measured by productive land, population density, industrial development, and access to critical natural resources it is still in the #1 position and has the best natural defenses with no hostile nations on its borders.

Economics is all relative. Even if the U.S. is a disaster in many ways it only has to be as good or better than other large economic blocks in order to be competitive. Since the U.S. is in a superior territorial position and has the advantages of accumulated wealth and knowledge you really have to go out of your way to f--- things up for the U.S. to ever fall out of a leadership position.

Consequently, a "plunge" is very unlikely. More likely is a few more decades of high inflation, which is just a backdoor way to default on pension, social security, and debt obligations, followed by some kind of new stasis.

The people buying US debt are not dumb. They fully understand that it is impossible for the debt to ever be "paid" in any conventional sense. What they are betting is that the U.S. is still a better investment than other nations and that owning U.S. debt gives them leverage and access that outweighs the nominal losses. That is unlikely to change.
I use VSCode to work on medium-sized VueJS+TypeScript projects (maybe a grand total of 200 code files), and it regularly consumes around 800mb - VS territory. Perhaps it's very sensitive to how it's configured/what plugins are installed.
No university can compete with the pay that these big companies can offer.

This becomes especially an issue in continental Europe, where private universities are basically unheard of.

Do you want your tax money to pay many many times more for a single professor at a university, than for even the head of state?
You can easily short BTC since 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K844yk2BAuI
It is a known fact, that people in big cities tend to be more distant (is this the right word?) from each other. A lot less social interaction the bigger the city.
Yes we must take saxioms on faith alone. Embrace pluralism and move on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O45LaFsaqMA by the late great Voedvodvosky is more interesting.
I'm not sure about the boundary where "editor" ends and "IDE" begins, and I'm not sure which side VS Code falls on at this point.

Either way, I think it worth mentioning that the Vim emulation plugin for JetBrains' products is truly the best out there... and a great milestone for others to strive toward. The scope of what's emulated (including Vim-style search and replace), the ability to cherry pick which keyboard shortcuts use Vim mappings and which use the native editor mappings, etc.

In my humble opinion, IntelliJ is a better Vim than Vim is. I noodle around with VS Code here and there... but it's approaching an uncanny valley point where it's too heavy for use as a plain text editor, but not able to compete with WebStorm (or whatever) as a web IDE.
This is what we do. We created a small programming test that's very representative of 80% of our work. Candidates are asked to only spend 2 hours on it. If they can follow simple instructions and write a reasonable implementation we'll have a face-to-face.

This saves us a huge amount of time and I don't feel it's overly burdensome on candidates.
Maybe "methodology fit" or "workstyle fit"?
It also happens far less frequently and I can do it at my leisure, or even just compile it on my own.
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> Please point out at least one empirically established fact that contradicts universe-creating unicorn pixies that drink coffee.

Nope. See Russell's Teapot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

> No, nothing is justified by "util we know the answer", that is what is called the god of the gaps.

Unlike many who make the God-of-the-gaps argument, I don't assert that you should believe my conjecture; I simply point out that the conjecture is not an irrational one and that it has at least some evidentiary support.

> If you don't know whether every effect needs a cause, you don't know, and that's it, you don't get to just make up anything in addition to that.

I agree, but only for some values of "just make up anything in addition to that." Much progress has resulted from our making conjectures, i.e., "making something up," and then successively refining those conjectures as they're tested against extant- or experimental evidence.

In any case, we all make bets in life based on our mental models. My personal mental model includes (A) the existence of some kind of Creator who kicked off some kind of Great Project, in which we're participants, and (B) that we best participate in that project by (1) facing the facts, and (2) seeking the best for our neighbors as we do for ourselves [5]. I don't insist at all that anyone else adopt that mental model; I simply note that I find it both appealing and useful.

[5] This is a rewording of the Summary of the Law in Luke 10:25-28, which itself is a quotation from the Hebrew Bible, Deut. 6:5 and Lev. 19:18.
NYC is full of transplants from other places, so quite a few people know how to hang out and chat. If you're obviously not a New Yorker, they might realize that friendly out-of-town norms apply and engage with you.

But being considerate in New York usually looks like staying out of others' way. It might seem like unfriendliness to out-of-towners, but it's a (perhaps counter-intuitive) form of courtesy.
> - Childish talk. For an atheist it will be "Haha! You believe in fairy tales and fiction books", for a Christian it will be "You are going to burn in Hell, and I will laugh at you from Heaven".

I don't really subscribe to the categories "childish" vs. "grownup". The former is a pretty accurate summary, the latter a sign of delusion. Saying the former to a believer might not be productive, and in that sense childish--but this is obviously not a forum necessarily for talking to believers, so there is nothing wrong with expressing this perfectly rational assessment of the situation.

> My argument is objective: a contradiction between A and B is still a contradiction, even if you think B is false. Moreover my argument does not require faith to be understood, and answers to mathw's original question.

Yes, but you are still missing the point (unless I am misinterpreting their question).

The question is not really "what precisely is their doctrine", the question is "why would they accept that doctrine as true" (and maybe by extension: what could one possibly do to to get them away from such epistemologically damaging behaviour)? Explaining what the doctrine is simply is not an answer to the question that's being asked.