skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SLC is an unbelievable outlier in terms of producing high-value startups. In fact, there are currently at least 5 unicorns in the SLC-Provo area. Miami, which is much bigger, by comparison, has only 2. There is an incredible startup culture in the area, cost of living which is about 1/3 of that of the Silicon Valley, high human capital, high level or wealth, and it's paradise if you're into outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, and mountain biking. I could go on and on...
I think its completely ridiculous to equate criticism of American military misadventures with the catch-all "ideological flamewar" doublethink.

Its precisely because arguments against American military crimes are couched as 'ideological attacks' that they continue, unimpeded, around the world.
Its a comic book..
I would be very interested to know how the accuracy changes if you remove symbols and strings from the analysis.

Symbols and strings are free-form text that would seem to leave a lot more of a stylistic fingerprint. If you could get this level of accuracy from machine code alone, I would be very surprised.

The article says that stripping symbols reduced accuracy by 24%. This is a far greater drop than from optimizing the binary. It leads me to believe that a large part of the success in classifying is coming from symbols and strings.
In total about 4 months. Before getting into YC we had a an Ethereum developer tools project. It had pretty low traction at that time (a handful of dedicated users, but now many). But we had built other Ethereum projects together before. That developer tools project eventually transformed into Hexel, which is now consumer facing.
Yeah. Google Cloud Functions - Beta. Also had a multiple hour outage recently. Been waiting for Postgres to move out of beta for ages.

The good thing about Google Cloud is that once things are out of beta, it is usually easier, cheaper and often faster to use than AWS equivalents. The "AWS way" of charging of every little thing is migraine inducing. (Ex. IOPS for RDS is tied to instance size but can also be scaled independently.)
I find that at the end of the day, my eyes are ready for a break and audiobooks provide entertainment & insight. My experience indicates that my retention rate for an audiobook is worse even though I listen to more overall content.

That said, I find it valuable to learn how a writer thinks more so than the technical details of each point they're trying to make. Right now I'm on a deep dive for an author...listening to ~100 hours of their material. It is somewhat like listening to 100 hours of their lecture. I learn different things while listening to a lecture than I do when reading.
This is super cool. Love your unique take on making crypto useful right now and focusing on fun & community (rather than ICO hype).
Woah, there's a difference between an "internet lynch mob" doing it and the state doing it!
(Part of) HN got real salty after Google auto-published after the 90-day disclosure deadline expired,but before MS had a patch out. I wonder what the reaction would be if Project Zero adopted a 24-hour disclosure...
Trump wants the death penalty for opioid dealers. Experts say that won’t help
The Chinese social credit system has been around in some form for longer than Black Mirror. Black Mirror got the idea from THEM.
To add to this, WordML is super powerful. Modern .docx files are basically just big zip files. You can easily edit this and do some crazy things and MS Word will be pretty good about reflecting this in the editor. G-Docs can have some issues with modified WordML.

You can do some of these things in open formats like .odt and G-Docs will be better about this. However, there are still problems with things like pagination.

So overall, I think Docs is where you want to be unless you have some super niche use case. I don't have enough experience trying to do crazy things with Sheets to have an opinion on it vs Excel though.
Feels... PowerShellish.
It isn't a question of criticism but of grandiose rhetoric—e.g. equating people who disagree with you with child-haters, and whatnot.

One can argue that atrocities demand intense responses and I agree with that. But I also know that on internet forums this has long degraded into garden-variety flamebait, that the discussions it produces are tedious, predictable, and worthless, and that the end state they lead to is heat death. It's for those reasons we moderate discussion this way, not because we're secret atrocity sympathizers.

Edit: I think it can be helpful to understand how this is really a question of the medium you're posting to. Heated rhetoric that might make sense in a different medium doesn't work the same way in an online forum. No awareness is raised. All it does is provoke opposite flames, and then people try to destroy each other verbally and wreck the container in the process.

If your concern is to make points about reality in the hope that someone else will shift their view a bit, the only way to do that here is neutrally, because if you can't be neutral, the state machine simply advances to state Flamewar. If your concern is to vent rage about evil, that may well be justified, but it doesn't make sense here because the destruction it causes outweighs the limited relief it brings and the zero other good it does. This isn't personal or specific to your views. It's a way of tending to the container for everybody.
Yes, I'm adding to the tangent here, but..

I use these 2:

https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle

http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/

in combination with a regular terminal application to achieve
my retro vt220 VAX/BSD UNIX goodness. Doesn't have the phosphor
fade like the above, but still feels pretty 'right'.
There area bunch of these services already, so is this YC doing a me too or is there something inherently different?
Microsoft Office has plenty of COM and VBScript APIs as well. It has really nothing to do with the product being open source.
Do I understand you correctly, that you believe that most voters in the US have been duped into their beliefs by bad-faith argument concealing the "true" agenda?
Yeah you're right, the user experience with Dapps can be pretty painful. We're trying to make this better.

Edit: transaction time depends on the gas price, email me at support@onhexel.com and I can make sure that things go smoothly!
Yeah, season 3 episode 1 "nosedive"—worth the watch (on Netflix). You don't need to see any other black mirror episodes to get it. (Don't watch S1E1 1!)
This is not what people expect, so that's one obvious reason it's very likely the wrong decision. I would have never known this. If you are relying on a public external product on github, you have to go several painful steps to make it 'safe', you have to re-upload it, and there's no good reason to make people do it. It's a giant disincentive to fork things on github. To be safe of finding things later, there will probably be another git repo website that will agree to "host" your forked projects safely, so that you can access them.

I understand on the other side, there's value in being able to stop people who forked your code. But it's a very weak stop-ability, because they could just keep the code locally and re-upload.
Good lord, if I was banned from buying anything on Amazon or its subsidiaries I’d be incredibly fucked. I never thought of this before, it left me with a thousand yard stare.
If Other Professions Interviewed Like Some of the Worst Parts of Tech Industry
Translates Haskell into Pascal, you say ...
If it's just electronic ballots recorded in a proprietary system by a private company, the system is as vulnerable as any other e-voting system.

If we were to properly distribute the process by running a public key database and giving each citizen a private key by which to sign a message in the blockchain casting their vote, it introduces a new and far more insidious problem: the system now provides a receipt for each vote that a malicious actor could use to reliably buy votes on a massive scale with complete automation: visit a website, use your private key to prove you voted for their candidate, receive a bitcoin payout.
There's a principle in art about "knowing the rules so you know when and how to break them". You can't pass off bad art as good with the excuse of "it's just my style, man". Well, maybe you can in the elite galleries, but not in the workaday world of commercial art (e.g., for advertisements, video games, comics, cartoons, etc.) You have to learn the fundamentals and work within those bounds, then once you "git gud", only then develop a personal style. I suspect the same is true of programming.
On the other hand, if you use the term "JVM Recorder" while everyone else is using the correct name "Flight Recorder", you're now forcing everyone to use non-standard language just for your benefit.

Far too often I hear people argue "it's not in the cloud, it's on a server" which makes people think it's hosted on-prem on a server that we own and control and maintain, but it's not. It's on someone else's network, on someone else's server, a server that they own and control and perform the maintenance for. But that's a really long winded response, so luckily we agreed on a single word to represent that concept: cloud. Like it or not, words have meanings and those meanings have definitions. If someone isn't likely to understand the word, explain it using its definition. Don't just unilaterally switch to a completely different word.

My CEO might not know what "serverless" means, but once I explain it using its commonly accepted definition she can now read the commonly accepted word in a trade magazine and understand what they're talking about. Otherwise she'd never know to link the word to its definition. That's the basic concept of language.
The Electric Dreams episode "Safe and Sound" also explores these issues, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6980876/
From http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/10/26/black-mirror-...

"You won’t be eligible for … positions in public office … social security and welfare … senior level positions in the food and drug sector … sleep in a bed in overnight trains … higher-starred hotels and restaurants … Your children … won’t be allowed to attend more expensive private schools …

We have made extreme advancements in health care because people found flaws in previous practices and had faith that they could improve them. This can be applied to quite literally every single industry, which is why these ranking systems could negatively affect growth, innovation, and our entire economic system as a whole.

If we can no longer challenge our current state of being and question our surroundings, then how can we continue to advance as a collective? As a collective, many of our strengths lie in our differences. A diverse society includes people with all different strengths and brackets of knowledge, but if we’re all racing to get a better ranking, then we could lose a lot of those differences in trying to become “people pleasers” and adhering to social norms."
So the solution is simple: Create a dedicated package delivery/cab pickup/dropoff lane for those vehicle that clearly need to stop frequently but for short times. /s

Maybe try to reclaim some of the street parking spots by making them 5-10 minute stop only. Given the ratio of street parking to population that's probably not enough. Enforcement would be difficult too. It seems the crux of the issue is that there are vehicles that need to make short stops at establishments and cant afford to spend an hour finding a legitimate parking spot each time. The only reasonable option now is to park illegally and try to be quicker than the cops.
Agreed. I was bringing up that in my mind they both fall under the same overarching trend I've been seeing in the west for a while.
There is a massive divide between private citizens harassing and bulling one another and governments wielding a monopoly on force outlawing and punishing dessent against the ruling class.

You can sue someone for attacking you online if they cause provable financial or social distress. Go try suing the CCP in China for not providing freedom of speech and see how that unexplained disappearance treats you.
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
gcp pm here - got time to chat?
Heh. Good to see people like the products.
"Man, this thing is so lean and clean."

"Yeah, it's like a hacker wrote it."

"That's ill, man. It's incomplete!"
This seems to be typical for obituary threads about political and tech celebrities. Hacker News isn't known for its empathy on the best of days.

Go see what happened when Ian Murdock died, if you want to know how crass this site can really be.
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Yet again, Google tricked into serving scam Amazon ads
Momentum is definitely building on this, although still very much in the R&D phase https://semiengineering.com/a-new-memory-contender/
i think this episode and Matrix got it wrong wrt. what humans would be used for. It isn't energy production. Given that humans have largest brain with largest brain/body ratio and with good energy efficiency the opening scene from Matrix looks to me like racks of GPUs running distributed computation/simulation.

In the spirit of this episode and the totalitarian nature of China today and the whole world tomorrow, i think it will be an every [regular] citizen duty to "plug in" for set amount of hours to run your fair share of social computing "dapps" and to sync-up/check the thoughts/emotions as well.

The open office enforced hive-style collaboration/teamwork and always-on IM with implicit contract of immediately dropping everything and lending your brain is a very-very early preview of that future.
Eighty – Simple and fast HTML generation
New study suggests early humans mated with Denisovans in two separate waves
Fair enough. I'll find other ways to make my point.
on the down side, if you work on one too long, it fries those particular cones in your eyes pretty good, at least in the case of green and if the contrast is too high..

my daily driver is grey-on-black these days for that reason, though I keep a warm-and fuzzy green-on-black with vt220 font and slow-baud emulator around for the occasional one-off shell command.
That's called an exit scam, and they're pretty common in the dark market world from what I've heard.
I'm thinking of trying it out for the first time. Which version is the best? I hear people don't really like the newer versions?
Using Deep Learning to Facilitate Scientific Image Analysis
If you don't want things you post screen-shot-ed and re-pasted, don't post them on the internet under your real name?
Yeah, the USA would never have anything like an extrajudicial no-fly list for people the government doesn’t like...
If you are a UPS driver in NYC what are your other options?

This is a systemic issue, not some "bad apples". You won't fix it by naming and shaming the pawns.
The state does do it. It's called a criminal record which is strikingly easy to obtain in the U.S. which has a law for everything imaginable. If you've ever had any kind of criminal activity, ever, even from something dumb in your youth, the United States has a log of it, which employers use to discriminate against that person. Forever. It doesn't go away. The "miscreant" is then forced either into a life of crime, which puts them into prison or worse.
The CCP is not interested in progress, its interested in maintaining permanent, absolute power at any cost.
office 365 is far inferior to google docs for online collaborative document editing. You can lock the doc in office, you get into situations where it's very hard to safely have people collaborate on docs.
Hi, just a general question for tokens that you might be able to answer: let's say I create a token and I want to programmatically give those tokens to people as a reward. Think of it something like "kudos" so let's say I'm at work and I want to give my coworker a thank you and for that, as a token of my gratitude, I want to send them one of my tokens. Is this do-able at all or am I just thinking of this the wrong way?

One more question: since these tokens are created on ETH, does this mean for each transaction related to a token, I will need to pay gas each time I want to transact?
It's been so long since I've watched these shows, but like the GP I watched them regularly as a child. As an aside I can't get my kids into it, but they have enjoyed Daniel Tiger.

As I remember it, there were quite a few episodes where race was dealt with indirectly. By that I mean, the idea of difference would constantly come up in regards to things like the clothes people were wearing, or characters who wore glasses or not, etc.

Treating people the same regardless of differences was a constant theme of the show from my memory. Helping people, not holding them back. It was by no means ignoring the other-side of this, it just took the unapologetic stance that there is only one proper way to treat people, and wouldn't it be great if we could all live that way everyday?
Sesame Street's best years are definitely behind it.
The world goes around in circles. Some always want to be on top of others, enslaving them until they get overthrown.
Their intro [1] sounds like the primary thrust was to create new cities from scratch in the middle of nowhere. This has a long history of failure. See, for example, California City [2] and Fordlandia [3].

My guess: They figured that out and quietly axed it. There's probably not going to be a post mortem. No real point in spending more time, energy or other resources on it.

[1] https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities

[2] https://www.fastcodesign.com/90133913/this-california-ghost-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537630
I had some of my comments pruned not so long ago (not by you AFAIK) for daring offend the religion of Lisp, it seems a no brainer that half the comments in this thread should be flushed down the toilet with far greater vigour, just as my Lisp comments were. One would hope editorial policy places higher priority on human life than it does Lisp

Meanwhile thanks for popping up. I've applied my flags :)
Hi Dozzie,

That's great question

> What kind and required by whom? Most of such things are "if you have all, good, if half an hour is missing, we'll do without those", not something akin to transaction data in relational database where you cannot lose even a single byte.

So we will do log analysis from the data (counting, sum of the amount from the data, etc). So ideally need 100% precision and we will do the analysis in daily basis

> What is "not to lose logs"? Is losing a single record OK? Is losing 1% of logs OK? How long network problems should be tolerated? What to do if such network problems are longer than anticipated and disk buffer is running out of space?

In my case, losing single record is significant enough because we will do calculation for those logs. For the network tolerance, I think that's very good question, I'll take that as my consideration too. But the network problems that I mean before is the intermittent one like < 1 minutes and with assumption the data buffered is not until making the server running out of space
Kind of. I don't know that much about Chain, but it seems like they are building private blockchain infrastructure for payments. Our tokens can obviously be used for payments, but the angle right now is not that this is faster and easier (because at this point in time, it's not). It's more that this lets people explore new concepts with tokens, and we give non-technical people the tools to try those concepts out. And also make it fun.
The blog post states it is about 10% of the total sites.
You raise a great point. I would add, however, that doing this explicitly and systematically is much worse. In the US we are far from systematically banning people from riding the subway if they don't share the correct political views. There are definitely worrying trends but we still have enough of the idea of not discriminating in our country.
Appropriate hype is the motive force.

You are exactly right on this. I was a physics grad student (not particles) when the Supercollider was being pitched. We had a colloquium on it, and the presenter kept repeating the slogan "5 years, 5 billion dollars." Most of us were savvy enough to know that such a claim was pure bullshit. But hey, if you convince them to start it they would never cancel it, right? And if you needed more money they would have to give it to you, right?
Perhaps the link could be changed to a news article rather than the Facebook page? For example:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/adrian-lamo-hacker-dies/
Access control is 100% security. If you have a private GitHub repo, you have uploaded secrets. All that code is your secret. You pay GitHub to protect all the copies they know about, but you are fooling yourself if you rely on that after you've given access to that private repo away. You fundamentally can't revoke knowledge, just future access.
Posting because despite Google saying they've fixed it, I just experienced the exact thing just now on a search containing the word [amazon]. It was a different ad title / copy entirely.

They redirect selectively, either by chance or cookie I'm not sure.
This is the case in North Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbun), and it's terrifying to see it spread to other, less-totalitarian states
A lot of the cost of doing LIDAR surveys isn't just the LIDAR sensor itself.

eg, a typical high-quality survey will involve:

- Something like a Leica ALS80 [1]

- A Cessna + good Pilot, the plane needs to be really well instrumented.

- A team of surveyors on the ground to establish ground controls, and occupy points for GPS RTK calculations

- A bunch of post-processing to normalize the data, remove birdies and pits, do ground classifications, etc. (The raw data from the sensor before the processed point cloud is built is really really raw.)

A much cheaper approach which seems to be catching on is UAV photogrammetry. It's processing intensive, but no special sensors are required, and in the end you still get a pointcloud. Sensefly is a company that makes these types of UAVs.

[1] https://leica-geosystems.com/en-us/products/airborne-systems...
I absolutely unabashedly love Regex.

It's like solving a puzzle that ends up eliminating work (by doing said work) extremely concisely. What better kind of puzzle is there?
I have not. But I have used several other similar CLI tools. I prefer short programs of my own instead of long verbose commands.
President is a job title, not a name.
Start here: https://www.google.com/search?q=banned+from+amazon
This is a good description of the kind of hacker Adrian was. He wasn't a write finely crafted shell code to exploit a buffer overflow in an application or deep knowledge of the esoterica of how CPUs function Spectre Meltdown kind of hacker. He'd just try the knob on a door he wasn't supposed to go through and surprise it was open.