skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read Masters of Doom and both The Cuckoo's Egg and Dealers of Lightning and these recommendations are spot on. I'd love to reread all of these soon, especially Dealers of Lightning.

Something similar but perhaps a bit drier may be Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely about the personal computer wars. And yes, that's the same Cringely from the Triumph of the Nerds documentaries.

I also do not recommend David Kushner's Prepare to Meet Thy Doom and The World's Most Dangerous Geek audiobooks which I believe are anthologies of loosely related articles he has written over the years. The prose was a little too purple for me.
Only torture
> And now, real identities are involved, so they have to be professional.

My Twitter profile is linked to my real name, but on Mastodon I'm trying to stay anonymous.

It's amazing how much more stuff I'm willing to post on Mastodon than on Twitter.
See, isn't it a negative point for you, that you have to stop and revert the video to an earlier point frequently because of this. As someone who has learned a lot through video guides (which are my favorite medium to learn, other than just reading the docs), I think that talking slowly through complex problems is the better way to go, even if that means, the video will be longer.
The possibility that different types of memories are stored in varying places or ways based on unknown criteria is highly intriguing. If there is more than one way to store/trigger a memory, that means a larger 'attack surface', and therefore the process should be easier to hack.
Seems more like they used an existing solution that was not quite up to the task. Also had the handicap of not being able to rely on the server due to client-side encryption.
> in my experience most people won't bother reading past the first page.

Those people should not be involved in hiring. I know it sucks to read page after page of seemingly irrelevant stuff until you find that one good candidate, but that's literally your job. Complain all you want, then do it. I, too, hate dealing with poor code from irresponsible vendors, undocumented libraries or legacy applications, but I don't stop reading past the second file of source code.
Yes it is but I don't see why the part of Apples EULA saying you can't install MacOS on other hardware would be ruled unenforceable or invalid.

Even if that part is invalid, only people with actual Mac computers would be in the clear because that's the only way to get a copy of the OS. Apple won't sell it to you by itself. Anyone else making a hacintosh also has piracy issues to contend with.
This, most economics programs aren't attached to business schools because of that. At a more granular level, Finance also gets a nice bump due to private sector pressures.
I agree with you and am of a similar age and experience. But how much of the above is because "we were young"?
checking hardware IDs, etc.

The OS does do that --- search the Internet for "SMCDeviceKey" to learn more. I think Apple deliberately makes the check trivial and, since Hackintoshing is a tiny minority (potentially of users who might eventually buy hardware from them), doesn't push too hard on it lest it backfire --- the SMCDeviceKey protection is quite similar to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Seems Google, Reddit (u/Ungard at [1]), and Amazon [2] have all the answers. Turns out it was Carmack with the ax. An excerpt from the book:

This happened after Romero accidentally locked himself in his office. Hearing the pleas, Carmack gave the knob a twist, paused, then deduced the most obvious and immediate solution. “You know,” he said, “I do have a battle-ax in my office.” Carmack had recently paid five thousand dollars for the custom-made weapon—a razor-edged hatchet like something out of Dungeons and Dragons. As the other guys gathered around chanting, “Battle-ax! Battle-ax! Battle-ax!” Carmack chopped Romero free. The splintered door remained in the hall for months.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/4l1si4/questionstory_...

[2] http://amzn.to/1TE2lPV
GDPR isn't new, these laws have been in place since May 2016. Overall, they're pretty common sense, actually: don't share people's personal details without their permission, make sure your infrastructure is secure, have a plan that lists all parties that you share data with and have a protocol in case of a data breach.

If you have an ethically sound company and comply with these rules you have nothing to worry about.

Berlin is awesome, I'd choose it over Amsterdam (I'm Dutch) because of the insane rents. I've also heard good stories about Krakow and Bucharest.
> locating guides and configuration requires a great deal of effort

Not that. It is difficult because everyone and their dog made a 'guide'. Sifting through the noise requires science skills, same for all IT stuff. Be a Pro :))
Best thing I want to get out of OpenAI right now is 10v10 Dota 2 Pros versus Bots All-star match. Wonder if they got anything out of last year's data from all the pros playing with their bot...
Well, the real solution is to reuse bags instead of killing trees or creating plastic waste. And people have been saying that forever.
Toxic usually means full of assholes. People will get super mad at you and swear at you and say very bad things in general if you make one little mistake or don't know something. If you are a noob, prepared to get treated like shit and told you should die violently in real life.

Much like you'd hear about a toxic environment at home or in a poisonous mine, it's a very dangerous and bad place to be.

In some games, where the only way to have fun is if everyone knows all the rules and has skill and is playing seriously, one person who falls out of that spectrum can ruin it for the other(s) and thus people start to get angry very quickly and don't hold it inside. Games like League of Legends is 5v5 and highly skilled. One poor player can result in a 20-30 minute game with a guaranteed loss and no fun along the way, so it becomes very easy for people to spit vitriol at them. You get punished for leaving as well, so you are locked in for a certain amount of time, held prisoner if you will, by someone who doesn't meet your standards and whose weaknesses you can't overcome yourself no matter how good you are. Yes, this sounds like a horrible system and an easy recipe for disaster. On the flip side, if both teams are good, it can be very rewarding.

One thing I like about Heroes of the Storm, which is very similar to League, is that they solved a number of issues that results in less toxicity. It's still there, but it's taken much longer to grow and is still at such a lower level then what I remember League being years ago. I even got an email from Blizzard saying they banned someone I reported, so that makes me feel like at least something happens when I report bad behaviour. Since the game was designed to allow for comebacks and a single player's contributions can't hurt you as hard as in League, a strong team can still have a chance with one weak player. You still have assholes though and you still have rough games.
I'd argue that agreements mean much less when genocidal dictators can obtain nuclear weapons.

Also, even if a situation ends, we'll always feel that it's decently probable it can happen again throughout our lifetimes. Ex: Anyone who lived through WWII is much more concerned (and rightfully so) that it could happen again.

The fact that Britain was nearly conquered in 1941 would be enough, with that bias considered.
OpenMoji
DSLs for Ethereum Contracts
> Common folks can use Google/DuckDuckGo and find one of the readily available scripts that already do that

We seem to have quite different views about "common people".
That's already what the Awesome Bar does if it's configured to show search results (in Preferences > Search). You can also search only bookmarks with the * keyword.
This Man Is the Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget
Avoiding the next Shellshock? As bad as it was, who knows what goodies an even less-audited shell has in store
Attraction and compatibility are different and both have an effect on whether you want to be with a person. A super ugly person may have all the same interests as you or be compatible in other ways, and you still wouldn't want to date them. The attraction part is the part that is similar to a marketplace.

I think your relationship highlights what incels are talking about. In the past, more people got married like you did. Pre-internet, people's options were more limited. You chose from who ever was in your physical vicinity: at work, in your town, in your school, etc. Now with dating apps, you have an almost unlimited number of choices and you could choose the most physically attractive among thousands instead of the most attractive among the ten or twenty eligible people in your social circle, town, church or school. This makes sexual selection more like a marketplace. If you are an ugly person, you are less likely to marry up because the marketplace has become too efficient for it.
What do you mean? 0.99^62=0.53626
I think the parent was talking about so far vendor-specific solutions for 802.11.

802.15.4, meant for low-rate, low-power applications, is something completely different. This standard doesn't even compare remotely, regarding applications (you will never be able to watch a youtube video over 802.15.4) or how it works internally IMO. Even the definition of what constitutes a "mesh" is considerably different.
I've read this article without being logged in and it looked very good and was more easy to read since there wasn't any distraction.
Won't the first AGI most likely be of relatively low intelligence?

That would be a huge accomplishment to get that far right?
Uber will no longer force victims of sexual assault into arbitration
Are You Ready for 30 June 2018? Saying Goodbye to SSL/early TLS
Saying that it's okay because Apple doesn't stop it does not hold water to me. They shouldn't be required to stop it if it's already against the EULA. There wouldnt be much point in disallowing it if they had already made it impossible.

Anyways, there is Apple hardware. Apple hardware is hardware that is sold by Apple. I understand that they dont manufacture it.

The real issue here is that when Apple sells you a Mac, they include a copy of MacOS and say you can use it on that hardware. People with hacintoshes are saying "no, we can use it on whatever hardware we want". My question is, who's right?

Some people are also saying "I don't have a Mac and therefore Apple has never given me a copy of MacOS, but I pirated it anyways". I think that those people are fairly obviously in the wrong because of the piracy involved.
Fwiw, meditation has been an amazing tool for me here.
When it comes to social status, women tend to date up or sideways. When it comes to physical attractiveness, men tend to date up or sideways.
Features a modern-day HTML5 Video Player has to have
I forget the exact context, but I remember my elementry school math teacher telling us "you wont have a calculator with you at all times" when memorizing the times tables.

While she may have been dead wrong on that one, i'm definitely glad I don't have to rely on looking up / deriving the basics for every domain.
So does Safari, but without bookmark sync with Firefox.
Joan Taylor's tilings
It has a slower startup, but seeing as it is one of only 4-5 apps I run on a regular basis, I don't really notice.

What I would notice is constantly having to look up my sync-data like history and passwords from elsewhere because Safari is a walled garden. That would seriously hinder me and slow me down on a quite so regular basis.

Different folks, different strokes, I guess.
Not to mention the social shaming of people trying to sell things is always pretty scathing on forums. In general they tended to promote good content by liberal application of both the carrot and the stick. No one wants their product associated with a 17 page thread about how product X is sold by a bunch of annoying spammers, oh and by the way for anyone interested, turns out CEO of the company shilling this product has a kink.com account looking for a strong domme in the SF area to punish him :thinking_emoji:
Maybe this is a naive reaction, but it is genuinely horrifying to me that these basic tricks could influence professional diplomats, who are negotiating treaties and policies influencing the lives of millions of people.

Sure, I understand that a random person on the street might be more supportive of "I support the division of Jerusalem" over "I support dividing Jerusalem".

But someone who's entire skillset, career, and purpose is to deal with this question? SURELY, even in this post-truth age of Trump, the facts have to matter for SOMETHING?
I’ve had this idea once or twice of developing an always-active IRC web client to help the newer generation of users join networks and channels that they’d most identify with. Mostly in an effort to get more people in these said channels and keeping discussions flowing.

Given what a more accessible Internet has done in general, I’m not sure if the IRC idea would be better or worse…
OTOH, having many of our most brilliant minds all working on putting more ads in front of more eyes to get more clicks isn't such a great thing.
Doesn't OCB allow you to stream and verify in a single-pass (because the MAC is embedded in the 128-bit blocks of the underlying cipher blocks)?
How to Make SFINAE Pretty – Part 1: What SFINAE Brings to Code
We keep getting back to the actuators. If the birds would "design" a human being with the intention to keep it in a cage, why would they provide functional arms and legs? Don't imagine a fit human being. Imagine Stephen Hawking in a bathtub. He's not going anywhere.

Besides, an untrained human won't just figure out how to make fire. Obviously we figured it out at some point, but if you were to raise a human without ever showing them how to make fire, they would probably never figure it out. Many of us know (in theory) how to make fire but probably couldn't do it in practice just by rubbing two sticks together. And even if you are an expert fire-maker the birds can easily claw out your eyes before you get a fire going. Or you'd die because you're locked in a cage that is on fire.

You make several assumptions that I disagree with:

1) That AGI will automatically be (much) smarter than a human
2) That AGI will be motivated to break out of its cage and/or do harm.
3) That sheer intelligence is sufficient to escape any trap.

Having said that, if you enjoy those assumptions I would recommend you read 'Blindsight' and 'Echopraxia' by Peter Watts if you haven't already, I think you would enjoy them :)
My understanding is that it doesn't apply to Europeans not in the EU at the point of processing. The GDPR would apply to Chinese companies providing services to EU residents. I am certain the Chinese courts would not enforce GDPR, but EU courts may enforce it against Chinese companies within their reach by e.g. cutting them off from EU markets or confiscating assets held in the EU.
Ask HN: Analytics Implementation Engineer – what skills?
Aside from the generic front end developer, tag manager, analytic system skills - what would you look for when hiring someone to instrument multiple sites?

They would not be doing the analysis - but working with a dedicated analyst to develop a measurement plan and troubleshoot it once in place.

Have you ever hired such a person? What did you find helpful? What would you have done differently?
Signs of Successful Medical Abortion
Why would studying criminal activity be "less serious" than studying, say, cell biology?
Exploring the GitHub Archive
Good lord is it just me that thinks wifi-org needs a better technical writer - this reads as low quality google spam.

"Wi-Fi EasyMesh™ networks employ multiple access points that work together to form a unified network that provides smart, efficient Wi-Fi throughout the home and outdoor spaces."

That that is what a properly designed wifi network does - doesn't even seem to mention that its using wireless as the DS (distribution system)
Bypass paywall: https://archive.fo/lqb1Z
This philosophy is an integral part to the good error reports in TypeScript: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/05/anders-hejlsberg-compiler
Bear in mind (pointed by the article as well) that variable assignment doesn't allow spaces around the equals sign, and that in this case the outer parentheses are unnecessary anyway.
I will make sure to revisit this comment in 2020.
I suspected as much. It doesn't seem worth the flame war (accusation of racism) online to even approach discussing that one group of people are naturally "messy" (for lack of a better term) while another is not.

I find it amusing though that since I don't know the language or the area, I have no idea what any of the names you listed implies. Maybe that's good.
4chan is nothing but conversations. They can span 7 minutes or 7 months depending on the board and the topic, but they otherwise work exactly like forums where the order is determined by post bumping. Try hanging out around a slower board like /lit/ and you'll notice they are essentially forums.
The main subs are super super stupid. Pun after pun. Maybe the parent comments are a bit thoughtful but that's it.
I'm not the hiring manager. We are a startup, we don't have any bureaucracy.
I currently find some users have python2, some have python3, some both. It's fine in a controlled environment, or if your users are Devs, but a pain with normal users who I just want to send a script to.
Reminds me of the old joke, back when people had to manually touch up photos.
Man goes to the photographer with an old family photo. Says, "This is the only photo we have of Grandfather, but I don't like that he's wearing a hat. Can you remove it?"
The photographer says, "Sure, what sort of hairstyle did he have?"
And the guy says, "Won't you find out when you take off the hat?"
When I started looking into Functional Programming, Professor Frisby's book was instrumental in my learning the concepts and applying them to a language I already know & code in.
3 Winners and 2 Losers: NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1
I guess I could, but not having to sounds easier.
> only people with actual Mac computers would be in the clear because that's the only way to get a copy of the OS

I have a real Mac and a hack. I can legitimately download OS, and I paid for Snow Leopard CD years ago and still have it. Am I in the clear?
Ah, so not related to Filesystem in User SpacE[0] that has existed for much, much longer time?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
For my fellow italians, I wrote a free "Introduction to functional programming" PDF, check out https://github.com/gcanti/functional-programming
Then please explain exactly what these "politics" are then rather just throwing around the word around in the abstract. I find it odd that people say "oh its politics" without explaining what or how IPv6 is being "politicized."
Dr. Booleans guide is excellent. Another nice intro to functional programming using JavaScript is Kyle Simpsons functional lite:https://github.com/getify/Functional-Light-JS/blob/master/RE...

Kyle wrote the You Don't Know JS series. This book is just as good.
Like the other comment in this thread, I've read all three and think The Fugitive Game is my favorite. It was definitely an enthralling read. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend The Watchman, also by Littman, but about Kevin Poulsen.
The average erect P-NIS is 8.57 inches long
Trump just appointed himself the White House’s top AI adviser
It's not just me, but convincing my team to switch to a new scripting language. Especially if they've never heard of fish and have been using bash/sh their whole careers.
A Potential Cure for the Common Cold
To have a political discussion without getting people too self-defensive, it's good to pose opinions in the third person:

"I support Trump because he's tough on immigration."

vs.

"People support Trump because he's tough on immigration."

Others are less likely to get combative when it seems like you are making an observation about a third party rather than planting a flag on a core belief.
Hey HN. I'm the author of this post. This post is a starting point for helping people experiment with Wallaroo. I'd be happy to answer questions or discuss some of the ideas that went into this specific project.
Out of curiosity, do you have a mathemathics background? I.e for me the scaryest part of this is type inference and type checking.
Something is broken there, the ads aren't shown to me. I opened the inspector and loaded the images manually, for example https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2018/05/10/facebook-ad...
In the early 2000s when I was a grocery sacker, many customers would ask to get their items put in a paper bag and then into a plastic bag so that their paper bag had handles.

I'm so glad that we're seeing a shift to reusable bags and, hopefully, a culture of reusability.
It seems like the website is getting ready for an announcement.
I doubt it's as effective in diplomatic contexts. Dipolmats (in the broadest sense, including politicians) do not walk into a room, get faced with a single question and then vote yes or no. They work in teams, they discuss issues over many years, they engage in numerous debates and conduct studies and theoretical scenarios. No one phrase on a topic is going to decide their objectives, policies or strategy.

What this sort of thing can do his promote trust or at least tolerance of individuals prepared to talk in this way. That's not necessarily a bad thing, someone who puts in the effort to use diplomatic language, is more likely to be someone who considers their words and actions more carefully, so this could be a useful and actually relevant social signal.
> What obvious reasons?

You cannot set another browser as the default one on iOS, that's the main one.
Making AIs use natural human language to express their "thinking" is extremely anthropocentric. I wonder if we will need to build AIs with patience settings.
How to Git Stash Your Work [the Correct Way]
A recent study found a UK river to have the highest recorded inshore levels of micro-plastics in the world.

I suspect there are few records, but still.

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/uk-rivers-micropla...
Ask HN: Convert any link(mostly blog articles) to a discussion thread
I am working on a small service where you can convert any blog link to a discussion thread and share annotations and comments etc. any thoughts, comments ?
Climate denialism outside the US (and newly within the US)
When Google did that 180 and went from recommending that people use anonymous user names to attempting to require that they use real world identities, that's when I knew a sea change was happening on the internet, for the worse.

Anyone who isn't using an anonymous handle on a regular basis somewhere is missing out on an essential life experience. It's one of the few channels in the world where we are all intrinsically equal - aside from text skills - and can bypass surface judgments or historical baggage to just say what we're actually thinking (or a lot closer to it). I think this is a healthy and even necessary outlet for a lot of people.
> All the big social networks employ this model of throwing everyone into the same arena but humans aren't wired to feel at home in that environment, so we get all these weird side effects like social media causing depression, loneliness, and the angst expressed by this writer.

That is an amazingly good point - its very easy to be lost and lonely in a crowd.
I remember watching MASH, Sanford and Son, Carol Burnette and Flip Wilson with my mother when those were first run shows. 5 minutes per half hour for ads and credits. But the shows were good enough to tolerate the garbage.

That has not been true for a long time now.

Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well-done. -- Ernie Kovacs [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs
Turn off your adblocker. :-)

I had the same problem.