skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing about all the cool, dynamic things you can do with KDE, but the Gnome UI looks more consistent and polished. KDE has just seemed thrown together. However, my needs are minimal. I spend all my time inside large applications or in the terminal. So I just need a simple window manager, terminal app, and occasionally a file browser. I was frustrated when Gnome paired down their UI.

On the programming side (via Perl and Python), I never liked GTK and have always preferred Qt.
Not really... websites regularly go down when they are under a load they cannot handle
how many things can go wrong when the service is overloaded... looks like Coinbase doesn't know what stress testing or monitoring is.

* ID verification by either webcam or id pic upload fails, and eventually one reaches the daily quota, locking the feature for 24 hours (seems fair though)

* removing and re-adding bank accounts fails, the site says the account is already linked and it shows some ghost duplicates (i.e. the same bank account multiple times with different statuses)

* bank account verification fails, the site says the small amounts deposited don't match

* some buying operations fails due to API timeouts when collecting money from linked bank accounts
Alas - it's been just over a year, and the statute of limitations is up. Next time.
In this case, it's completely up in the air - bitcoin isn't an official financial product, doesn't fall under any formal juristiction, etc. At best any gains get taxed now, but besides that, exchanges can't give any guarantees about uptime or e.g. getting your money back if they're not available.
> Most people believe that if some idea is popular, then it must be right; but in reality, most of the time the opposite is true.

Isn't this just as dangerous a heuristic as the reverse?

Flat earth, fake moon landing, 9/11 was an inside job...
The cornerstone of Lean Manufacturing is removing waste.

One of the largest historical sources was inspection and repair: you built something and then inspected it and fixed any problems. The inspectors and repair people didn't really talk to the production people much.

In Lean Manufacturing, the main purpose of inspection is to drive process improvements back into production. (This is the simplistic explanation, but I'm only using this as an analogy)

Thinking about data management - there's a lot of dirty data out there, and a lot of data munging to fix it up. Lean Data Management would drive process improvements into data acquisition.

Of course on the other hand, it's extremely cheap to fix data, on a per-unit of data basis. It's rule management that's expensive.
They are very well funded, and they can afford scalability. It's not that hard, given the number of transactions even at peak so far.

So yeah, I find these weird circuit breaker patterns suspicious. The worst part is "partial" degradation, when you can't execute trades, but someone else can. It's very easy to hide all sorts of irregularities behind these partial outages.
> the fact remains that only half of college students who majored in science, technology, engineering or math-related subjects get jobs in their field after graduation

Whoops! This is a huge piece missing from the conversation. I'm in EdTech and I had no idea. Can we get a source?
I think the idea here is for life to imitate art.
Patreon is shifting processing fees from creators to supporters
Distributing data across the /tmp directories of many AWS lambda functions is the future of storage.
a) If it can't surprise you, it's not really intelligent

b) If it can surprise you, it can do so negatively

That's all you need to demonstrate that the danger exists, that an AI can mis-use the tools you give to it. The simplicity of it makes it pretty irrefutable.

Separate from that, the extent of the danger depends entirely on the details of what the AI does and what it's hooked up. Sure, an AI that can't do anything except output text to a screen isn't very scary. The assumption AI-threat types are making is that we wouldn't be paranoid enough to limit the AIs we work on in that way; we would use them to do things like drive cars or route airline traffic or design our cpus, where "negative surprises" can have disastrous consequences.
Did you experience any other benefits from that regimen of supplements?
> Your argument is comparable to saying we've as a society accepted we pay for food. What we get in return for whatever we pay is not part of the equation. I won't pay $40 for a fast food burger.

I fail to see how I said anything like that. Can you expand?
Maybe OP is referring to spray tans? That's my best guess.
At first it only loads a bit of the article, but if I scroll down it shows all the rest. It also works if I click the down arrow on the big picture.
If you want to try Lean/Toyota Way in your sofware business, in addition to reading the suggested texts at the end, check out Mary & Tom Poppendieck's books. They offer a lot in terms of already translating lean production concepts into lean software design/development concepts. They also offer exercises that can help you move towards being lean. Because being lean isn't a state, it's a goal and a process.
"Most people" don't care why they know what they know, they just know it. I imagine it's a less stressful existence.

That said, every age, every transformation, has its dissidents. Counterarguments for that are Utopia and "global unity" type sentiments, but history tells us those aren't realistic goals. YMMV.
> scroll wheel to cycle through tabs,

This is the single most infuriating thing for me and I just don't understand why this is not a standard option, especially since it works perfectly fine by default on Chrome!
This is barebones. What we also need is some market analysis and some SWOT analysis. I have been thinking of a crowdsourced website where each startup is profiled under the categories 1) SWOT 2)Market size 3)Competitors 4)what does it take to build MVP.

I think such a site will be valuable
This is what's known as an ad hominem argument
KVM + Windows requires x86(-64) hardware. POWER9 and windows means QEMU, which is emulation and slow.
> The West has a tendency to cherry pick techniques from holistic approaches

I agree that it's worth it to spend some time to understand the holistic approach... but there's also a lot of bullshit and over-reliance on form over function.
There is no unlimited computing power anywhere, though. Not even in Google's quarters. The style difference is so profound that it is difficult to impute computing power only, because we know what kind of improvement reasonable computing power gives : it makes the engine stronger but does not quite change its style.
Direct from Instagram – Instagram's new messaging app
The NYT seems to be finding several of these new New Age cults:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/technology/silicon-valley... (the Esalen Institute)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906754 (the rationality cult related to Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong)
There is a serious misconception in your claim. Yes, analog computers, whether quantum or classical solve even NP-complete problems in polynomial time. No, they can not be constructed in the real world because analog computing does not permit error correction, and in the real world you have to deal with noise. Only very small analog computers (nothing scalable, nothing solving general problems) can be constructed before noise becomes an issue.

Three good references:

Book on quantum and classical computing: Aaronson's "Quantum Computing since Democritus" for gentle-for-newbies but rigorous discussion

Very old paper on classical computing (analog vs digital): Von Neumann's "Probabilistic logics and the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components" (pretty advanced)

Newish (old for the field) paper on quantum computing: Calderbank's "Good Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Exist"

Edit and addition: I work at Yale's Quantum Institute and we are some of the biggest proponents of "continuous variable" quantum computing. We use the continuous variables to encode a discrete "qudit" (with a "d") representation for the information, for all the reasons mentioned above (noise and error correction).
This is a brilliant startup idea. Highly needed. Nice to see the "Ksplice Mafia" still at it.
While true, I find that I have a very hard time coming up with ideas that I could implement as a side project that makes money. Something like this could potentially be helpful.
Of all the podcasts listed so far radiolab is hands down my favorite.

I also like “wait wait don’t tell me”
This is wrong. Someone could buy that btc using litecoin they bought on another exchange. Coinbase maintains a promise to cash out user's holdings.
Sure, but that's more like dual-quad (since no one uses Asymmetrical MultiProcessing).
>This is an example of someone with technical skills applying those skills to a field they don't really understand and wrapping it up with a bold claim.

Except he forgot to close with "which is why you should fund my startup."
It's because it's a value-added service that Amazon's delivery service can provide that UPS and FedEx cannot (at least as easily). I don't think it's about losses from stolen packages--it's about negotiating lower rates with big players as they flesh out their own capacity to deliver those packages.
Google’s mobile search results now include videos of celebs answering questions
Artwork Personalization at Netflix
2% is an enormous amount to put into such a shaky asset/currency.
How can anyone reliably trade Bitcoin? With Coinbase immensely unreliable, I can't see how anyone would tolerate running algos on their exchange, given they could be in a bad position unexpectedly.

What are the other exchanges that you can trade BTC and are they more reliable than Coinbase?
> Having to install an app just to unlock a door is an unnecessary barrier.

Yes, but the door is a necessary barrier, so I don't really care.
Patreon adding a 2.9% and $.35 fee to every patron transaction
Yea, if you are worried about this particular threat, you plug the hard drive into a device in read only mode, copy the data off, and put it back in your machine using a Linux live CD.

That said, Windows does keep a whole lot of information on activities in the registry and filesystem.
What is the next big thing in AI after deep learning and GANs
Thanks for all your hard work, I have used a lot of your plugins during the last 10 years!
Couldn't agree more. I called State Farm last month just to get a quote on a potential car purchase. Instead, I ended up canceling my current policy on the spot because the agent tried to push Limited Tort as if it was just an easy way to save money.

It made me so furious because most people don't understand what they're giving up, and they won't understand until they get into an accident and learn they signed away their rights years ago. The way agents sell Limited Tort gives you a completely inaccurate impression of the potential consequences.

That sort of thing should absolutely be criminal.
In cold weather a car windshield can ice over at 60mph without defroster heat, I don't think a vibrating light housing will stop freezing rain from building up.

There is one thing that is proven to work in a wide variety of situations, is easy to supply, has no moving parts: heat. And there are already solutions out there to provide heat.
> If someone wants to fund a creator, they will, and the extra couple of bucks isn't going to discourage that.

I'm explicitly hearing the opposite from creators on Twitter. People are already seeing patrons defecting from projects over this.
I submitted this because I saw it today and am not entirely sure what Google's play here is. Would love to hear your opinions/guesses.
> Congestion already has it's own price
> directly in increased travel time.

Which is clearly not enough, as detailed in the article. If people only had to pay with their own time they would, and the road would be congested, hence the high toll. This is basic supply & demand.

You just keep asserting that people should pay for their pollution, I agree! But that's not always the maximum price you should pay.

> charge based on odometer readings.

Which would be another case of not charging based on the actual cost. You could drive your street legal car around in circles on a private track, and you should pay almost no road tax, but someone who exclusively uses public roads should pay more. Under this scheme you'd pay the same for both cars.
When I click the down arrow, I am brought to the bottom of the page with the links to other articles but there is no article between the big picture and the links, just the "Read Our Other Stories" header.

EDIT: Resizing my browser to a smaller vertical size made it load. Strange UX.
You'd be surprised at what can occasionally be found.

I think that I might be able to cover my tracks, but I'm definitely not sufficiently certain to stake my freedom on it, there's always a chance that I'd make some mistake and they happen to be more thorough than I am, and the same applies for everyone (e.g. including authors of APT's employed by the major intelligence services around the world); a 90% chance of getting some extra money on top of what he got isn't worth a 10% chance of criminal prosecution. Knowing that the machine is going to be analyzed by someone with a lot of resources is a sufficient deterrent IMHO.
i'm not defending patreon here, but it is pretty normal.

Even the state takes both income tax and sales tax.
Please be more specific than "most of europe".
As you are talking out of experience, you can just say where that happened.
At least in Germany no delivery person will call me to check whether I am home.
Also https://status.coinbase.com/
Glibness aside, there is probably more written about NYT's revenue from ads vs subscription than any other major media company.

IIRC they recently made more money from digital subs than they made from ads for the first time ever. But if they removed ads tomorrow it would still destroy the business as it currently operates.
This is one area where I am interested in.

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

This is what you are looking for. Its built into the Brave browser as well so you can automatically send tokens every month to the sites and video creators that you visit.
Ask HN: Is anybody using AWS Glue?
Our team is evaluating AWS Glue and Databricks. It seems nobody is excited about glue. Even in the blogosphere, there's virtually nothing! What gives!
5 Gotchas of Defer in Go (Golang) – Part I
This is really neat. I love the idea of applying sabermetrics to historic generals.

However, one failure of this approach is that it assumes that the numbers of soldiers given for ancient battles is accurate. The Greeks will tell you that the Persians came with millions of soliders, but that just wasn't even possible given the state of military logistics at the time.

So, look at the #4 general in the article, Khalid ibn al-Walid. As an example data point, the article on the Battle of Yamama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yamama) says he fought at nearly a 4:1 disadvantage, and as far as I can tell, the only source for these numbers is the Quran. Much like how the Greek sources love to tell you how big, bad and numerous the Persians that they defeated were, how great is God's glory if the army of God is steamrollering equal or smaller size armies?

I'm not sure how the author could account for this. IMO this underweights more recent and well-attributed generals such as Napoleon or Wellesley.
I was assuming middle-out compression.

It's routine during a netpen to download very large unlabeled files, especially VM images. You don't know whether they're a security threat until you check, and your goal is to escalate as much as possible. Even if it's named backup-20141120, you don't know what it's a backup of, or whether it's encrypted. You need to at least start downloading it to check the file headers.

A good pentester will try to suck down as may different things as possible and sort ruthlessly for anything that could be useful: keys, passwords, notes, bash histories, logs, everything. But that's why we do so on an encrypted, isolated drive. The data never leaves the partition, and it's deleted at the conclusion of the test.

People working on HackerOne don't have that kind of discipline, so it's important to err on the side of caution. But it's totally valid to grab a VM snapshot and look through it to check how to pivot elsewhere.

But the moment you realize it's super sensitive data, you want to wipe it and contact them immediately. (Perhaps after checking whether there's anything you can use to escalate privileges.) If it's named "ssns.txt", you probably still want to download it just to check it really is SSNs before you go running to them about their exposed text file.

The point is, it sounds very dramatic to say "Hacker downloaded 57M user records in 1GB of data", but sometimes you don't know they're user records until you look, and sometimes you can't look until it's fully downloaded. And your goal is to safely simulate what a real hacker would do. That's the point of a pentest, and why ethics and trust are so important.

I've snagged several VM image files during pentests at various companies. I don't remember whether any of them turned out to be useful, but I do remember poking through them in vmware fusion to see what the devs had littered around.

Now: I was under strict NDA. That isn't true for HackerOne finders. Every company has different rules. Some tell you up front not to do this, e.g. https://hackerone.com/deptofdefense ("You do not exfiltrate any data under any circumstances.") https://hackerone.com/square ("Never attempt to view, modify, or damage data belonging to others.")

Crucially, Uber does not: https://hackerone.com/uber

Searching for "data" shows that everything is in scope. So it's really tricky to say there was malicious intent here.

edit: Usually it's the other way around, though: You find an exploit that gives you a little drip of data, so you know that you could technically enumerate the entire dataset if you wanted to. Obviously, don't do that, because you already know from the first drip whether there will be anything useful if you keep going.
Future Tech Podcast Interview with Erick Miller of CoinCircle on Blockchain, ICO
JavaScript is one of the official GNOME languages.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs

https://2017.guadec.org/talks-and-events/index.html#abstract...

Electron apps across GNU/Linux users are the final nail of the desktop Linux aspirations.

When the world is a Web VM, the kernel and everything UNIX related is irrelevant.
Kickstarter's got one, but it's invite-only right now. https://d.rip - I could find no sign of their fee structure anywhere on the site.
There's also https://liberapay.com - a non-profit Patreon clone, whose code is public. You may have to be creating open source content, I'm not sure. Seems to pay weekly, does not take any cut themselves (?!?!?).
For those using OSX, increase the height to 40px
no matter how insidious that organisation is, it's never lead to a mass suicide.

Neither did the Davidians, to be fair
Show HN: Simple Computer Graphic Effect Implementations
You consider MS Word and Internet Explorer in the same DLL to be "the same software" rather than 3 different pieces of software packed in the same DLL?
Wasn't chess solved early because the number of possible moves within the next x moves is limited? I think that's the main difference to Go where a bruteforce approach doesn't work.
Flash crash.
On GDAX the trade volume for BTC/USD is now about $1.4 billion per day. And there are other exchanges too. So yes the market could fulfill that trade. Would probably bring the BTC price down but it wouldn't be catastrophic.
Wow, even ambulance chasing personal injury attorneys only take 30-35%.
The Obama administration's "Computer Science For All" initiative and the Trump administration's new effort are both based on the idea that computer programming is not only a fun and exciting activity, but a necessary skill for the jobs of the future.

Why should I read beyond this? If this were truly the justification for the program, it would be patently ridiculous — as ridiculous as claiming that solving algebra problems was a necessary skill for the jobs of the 20th century — but I doubt anyone ever seriously described it that way. The Obama announcement is still on the web[1] (I assume Trump's initiative is only described in a semiliterate 3am tweet) and it describes tech careers as fun, not programming, and it touts the value of "computational thinking skills" for many jobs, not programming. Teaching programming in schools is akin to teaching algebra or history. There's a spectrum of effects: some kids will develop the skill further and use it directly in their work, some will get a basic understanding that will enable them to work effectively with the first group, and the rest will get some exposure that will make them more effective people (for their own purposes and everyone else's) in a society where it's a powerful force shaping everything around us.

If the author can't make their point without basing it on this fundamental misrepresentation, I won't bother clicking through.

[1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/01/30/compute...
yobit.net
True. But I was thinking in the context of sc where the maps is normally mirrors of each other.

So you will still have a good idea where the guy spawn. But your now forced to scout to see where to take engagements and not.
It literally suggested my current company. Nice work.
It's worth remembering that less than three months ago, Patreon raised $60M in a series C (https://patreonhq.com/new-round-funding-816d5a592477):

I’ve got some exciting news! Patreon has just secured an additional round of financing ($60M!), which means we will be scaling our team, building faster, and building more — all in service of getting you paid what you deserve to be paid, for the value you give the world. YESSS!

So why is Patreon changing their fees now, when they just got a ton of money and can basically do whatever they want in order to grow? Their Zendesk article (https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963) isn't much help:

Q: Why is Patreon doing this now?

A: Patreon exists to allow creators to get paid what they deserve to be paid, for the value they give the world. This is awesome and to continue this vision, we need to constantly evaluate our processes. As we work to deliver bigger and better features for creators and patrons in 2018, we felt like sooner than later made sense to put this change into effect.

This doesn't actually answer the question: why do the fees need to be changed at all, whether sooner or later? Were creators asking for this change? What was wrong with the way it worked before?

The obvious answer is that Patreon needs more money for some reason. But… they just raised a bunch of money. So I really don't understand how this change makes sense or helps anyone.
Scuzzy UX. Hijacks browser history on scroll. :/ Pity, an interesting site otherwise with in-depth articles.
Hardware can usually be spec'ed reasonably accurately from the start. "The Toyota Way" can incrementally optimize building against a specification, from the bottom up, starting with smaller details.

Software however is all but impossible to spec from the beginning, or perhaps ever at all... so with only working with the smaller details, the larger picture is lost. At any time, any team, is instructed to stop a problem and immediately fix it, it's band-aids on top of band-aids.

Having multiple teams working on overlapping projects, with little communication leads to the spaghetti code that was mentioned.
Well, the analyses that I'm seeing suggest they'll see about $0.05 more per pledge. So, not "no gain", but very little gain, and almost certainly some cost as patrons leave the service over the price increase.