skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FFS. "Cyber" is an adjective. Not a noun.

Just because the less-technically adept parts of the infosec community & even more hapless government workers wanted to sound cool doesn't suddenly make it right.
This article is trying to rebute David Horrobin idea that if everyone is creative then the world will soon be become crazy. It takes a geniuses to see a stick as a weapon. If Everyone starts becoming creative then the whole society will quickly devenigate.We need slme order. Horrobin arguement goes against the idea that everyone can be a creative genius. What is interesting about his idea is that how universal craziness is amongst a small proportion of the population, which means it is has been around a very long time.
any links to such an LP problem? I am curious to see how they formulate the problem. thanks in advance.
> But you know, I think that for everyone person like me taking advantage of these "arbitrage" scenarios, there are like 10 people paying full price. They keep this economy going.

That seems contrary to what the article is saying, which is that for every person taking advantage, there are zero people paying full price, because it's the investors who are keeping this economy going.

As such, it may never end without a regulatory end to the winner-take-all scenario, as a different comment suggested.
Startups Poised to Disrupt the Construction Industry
With a trillion humans, a lot more of the energy available to perform work would be human effort. The humans providing low-level effort will be desperately poor, because that low-level effort isn't worth much.

The Black Death did wonders for the peasant class of Europe by killing a third of them. Those who didn't die were much richer than peasants had been previously. (Nobles were poorer, because most of the wealth of nobles was the peasants who worked their land. Losing a third of your wealth isn't so great; losing a third of your competition is.)

If you want humans to have unlimited resources and unlimited power, you should focus on driving numbers down, not up.

In a different but related analogy, Seeing like a State likes to emphasize how intensive agriculture by peasants who are intimately familiar with the local land, weather, crops, and pests is more productive (in terms of food produced per acre) than modern industrial agriculture. The difference is that the local peasant devotes all his time to cultivating a man-sized area of land. The extra productivity goes to him, and he eats it, but he's very poor. One man using inefficient machines to cultivate 20 fields at 80% efficiency is a lot richer than any of the 60 men cultivating a third of a field each at 100% efficiency, and the society around that one man is richer too because, unlike the 60 peasants, he produces a lot of surplus to trade with them.
Thats the bias though! I dont care about those things, I care about the safety of self driving cars.
Yes, this same lack of imagination is why kludge after kludge is piled on at so many software shops. That and an absolute dearth of people that actually take pride in their work.
Your knowledge is wrong.
On a related note, I think this idea explains the appeal of smart jerk god characters (Doctor Who, Doctor House, Rick Sanchez, Sherlock Holmes...) to a sizeable portion of nerds (including me). "So smart they can't help but need you" is not a healthy goal, but damn if it isn't seductive.
So what transmission rate can you hope to get with this?
Using TBTK to time C++ code
Also, source-to-source compiler can be shortened to compiler. The phrase source-to-source is redundant.
You might find my site interesting. It attempts to cover basic algebra in a more formal, proof oriented style. I designed it with adults revisiting mathematics and wanting to move on to higher mathematics in mind.

https://algebra.sympathyforthemachine.com
Designing Data Intensive Applications [0] is a pretty complete and thorough starting point.

Not the author, just a happy reader.

[0] https://dataintensive.net/
> I actually wrote some docker stuff to pull down their .debs, crack them open and install the binaries inside on a fedora/centos system.

Why would you want to do that though? Treat the whole thing as a black box running inside docker and be done with it. The second you crack it open, you get to support it. Let Ubiquiti support it, after all that's what you are paying them the big bucks for.
Get involved in grassroots politics. Support municipal or state-level candidates who have potential to be federal candidates down the road. Doorknock for candidates who you feel represent you. Tell your friends and family who you're voting for and why. Vote in primaries. Always vote in general elections.
Revisiting using Docker
> It is indeed simpler to set up a Ghost site than a Wordpress site...

I...am not sure about that. WordPress, for all its warts, is exceedingly easy for even non-technical users to get up and running; that was a huge contributing factor to its rise. And a large part of that ease of use came from its choice of PHP and MySQL.

I know that in 2018 it's a lot easier to get non-PHP web apps up and running than it was in, say, 2008, but with the exception of hosting providers that have gone out of their way to set up "one-click installs" for Ghost like Digital Ocean, Node, Python, et. al, are still harder. This is something that John Nolan's post pretty explicitly acknowledged:

"We spent several years trying to engineer our way out of this in increasingly complex ways, so that people could set up a publication on Ghost with the same level of ease as they do on Medium. We never even got close. It's just not how modern web technology works."

(And, no, "just use a Docker container" is not a viable answer to give to anyone who doesn't already know what container technology is. Sorry.)
South Korea Aims High on AI, Pumps $2B into R&D
It appears that moviepass is mostly an arbitrage play,where amazon is not....
The market conditions are set up for what is called a "natural monopoly". Its inefficient for new companies to build wires to an already wired up neighborhood.

Companies therefore become de-facto monopolies on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. The exception are cities where a dense population of people can support additional carriers for sake of competition. But at a basic level, the economic conditions just make the ISP problem complicated.

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Frankly speaking, all options to deal with natural monopolies kinda suck. Socialism simply has the government take over for example, so the legal monopoly is at least owned by the people.

Capitalism can't solve the problem. Its more efficient for companies to wire up other neighborhoods. Why become a competitor when you can simply become a monopoly holder somewhere else?

An interesting blend of capitalism / socialism is to have the wires owned by the municipality, or perhaps a highly-regulated entity (such as a utility company). The law is then rewritten to state: "It is illegal to be both a physical-wire company AND an ISP at the same time", or something to that effect.

Physical wire companies are then forced to rent out their wires to different ISPs. For example, if Verizon owned the wires of an area, they'd be forced to reorganize and split-off the wire-owning portion into a "Verizon Local utility coporporation".

Then, "Verizon Local Utility Inc." (now an independent company) will sell the time on the wires to various ISPs, like Verizon or Comcast.

ISPs will still be responsible for interfacing with the population, as well as bandwidth, routers, and other such details on the data-center side. The local-utility company will be responsible for physical maintenance of the wires, with a strict regulation regime to ensure that they provide equal-opportunity access to large ISPs, as well as any startups who wish to enter the space.

Its certainly "more regulations" towards this problem. But I've never heard of a more complete solution than this kind of scheme. Its not necessarily "Socialism" either, because the US has a long-record of tightly regulating local Utility companies, due to similar economic issues (the concept of local power companies being a natural monopoly. The "deregulation" schemes that exist today to allow local residents to buy solar energy or nuclear energy, delivered by local wires under a tight regulation / utility regulation scheme)

So its American, its a familiar model to many municipalities, and it works in practice. As demonstrated by power-companies and phone companies of ages past... as well as a few European countries who have adopted this scheme.

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Under such a regime, "Net Neutrality" can become an ISP's defining trait. And we can let the market decide if its worth the cost. If people want a "Net Neutral ISP", they simply pay for the competitors who offer such a service. So the overall regulatory burden is lowered, IMO.
The lesson your class was supposed to learn is that people aren't always rational. Did they?

(And did your economics class then go on to assume everyone is perfectly rational and understands their own utility functions, anyway?)
Basically, yes, except that SkyTran has been around for many years (since the 90s I think), and their system uses elevated maglev rails, not wheels (wheels are used at low speeds). Unfortunately, SkyTran hasn't gotten too far either; they're supposedly building a test track in Tel Aviv that will be finished in 2015...

This company looks like total vaporware stealing the SkyTran concept.
Search results without being spyed on. no 'filter bubble'
Maybe solving the 'sci-fi' problems will make today's problems irrelevant. I feel that's what they all are counting on.
Is there something particularly bad about Sonoff (as opposed to most other IoT devices, where the saying "the S in IoT stands for security" applies)?
Not so simple. A bundle of streams is not the same as a stream of bundles.
They also layout with some understanding of the yield (yield is almost entirely a function of die area at a given node). So if they decide to just entirely bin off the GPU, and they know this ahead of time enough, it makes more sense to not have a GPU in the first place. The GPU is about half the die area, so you would get better yield by just not having it at all (but all of this depends on having enough lead time to decide this before layout).
Fishing reel.
But normal people wont they will see 1 or 2
A couple clarifications: it was the cancer that had the unique mutation, Henrietta was genetically healthy. Secondly, it wasn't an experiment, they took a biopsy: an important distinction because black people were literally experimented on[1] from 1932 to 1972. Finally, the Wikipedia page downplays the racist element in the biopsy, claiming that "At that time, permission was neither required nor customarily sought."[2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
I don't think calling people bullies or accusing them of being shills is very professional or conducive to civil discourse. This is not the first time you've displayed that kind of behavior, either.

The HN Guidelines, which specifically prohibit this kind of content, can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I submitted 2FA Notifier to the FF store and got approved, but it still stuck in "Awaiting Review" state. This is my first time working with the FF store, so figuring things out as I go. If you've got any tips/resources/etc that might be helpful, shoot them my way!

I'll post here again once the extension is available to install via the FF store.
Actually the biggest key is a distinction between profitability and cash flow. Amazon has been cash flow positive since 2001. Sure, it spent huge number of years burning cash building it's revenue from $2 billion in 2001 to $200 billion today, but because they have a structure where they don't have to pay their suppliers until close to 3-4 months after the collect from their customers, they can sustain that without needing to raise outside cash.

That's a huge distinction, if you start having to raise more debt or equity in order to fund your growth it's going to negatively impact the long term free cash flow per share of your business and will make it harder for your to generate outsized returns.
This DIY filmmaker made the ‘Boyhood’ of skateboarding
Just because it's not 100% accurate doesn't mean it's 0% accurate.

There's still value in a noisy signal.
My fi number has always been blocked from everything (banking, paypal, whatsapp, etc) for being VOIP. Doing some xda-dev stuff, I see two separate underlying numbers for the two profiles. I can't receive texts on either of them.
> This leads me to another thing that bothers me and that is where people think it's a situation of having to use e.g. Puppet or Ansible as if they're conflicting choices for the same tasks.

That's mainly because Ansible folks advertise it as a configuration management
tool, while in fact it's a deployment tool. The former needs asynchronous
operations, especially because a node that is supposed to be reconfigured can
be temporarily down. The latter needs to be executed synchronously, with
reports being read as they come by an operator.

There are several other operation modes that are useful for a sysadmin, like
running a predefined procedure with parameters supplied from the client, or
running a one-off command everywhere (even on the servers that are currently
down, as soon as they are up), but we don't have many tools to cover those
cases.
Trains and buses don't really work unless your density is extremely high. Not everyone wants to go between the same small set of points along a linear route. This is one reason why cars are much more efficient for many routes.

Personal Rapid Transit offers the decentralized nature of cars, but eliminated many of its problems: having to stop at stoplights, the limitations of human drivers, etc. It can't handle huge masses of people the way a train can, but for suburban use it would really be a lot better than cars, and it would also be a much better option for higher-paying passengers than traditional cabs or Uber/Lyft.
there are a number of startups that have formed in the last year or two genetically engineering phages to treat disease. resistant bacterial disease is a common target, but given the growth in literature linking the microbiome to diseases from autoimmunity to cancer, there are companies trying to engineer phages to knockout bacteria implicated in non-infectious disease

eligo, locus biosciences, biomx have received venture funding and there are many earlier stage companies as well. engineered phage therapy for cancer will be a field to watch this year
Partly as a result of regulation it seems all companies are offering ways of giving you your data. E.g. Google Takeout and Facebook’s data download etc. One thing that’s missing are software tools to allow you to do interesting things with your own data (in private). E.g. Google’s MyActivity interface could be a lot better. My interest is partly out of frustration with things like Evernote’s search, and also my desire to be able to ask questions of my data: When was I last at Costco? What was that web page I found from Hacker News during the morning last Monday or Tuesday? When did I last FaceTime my cousin?

Maybe some tools could be natural language based maybe others would be more visual.

It seems to me it would make a great open source project to build such a suite of tools.

It would also be a first step towards bringing individuals more in control of the value of their data.

Does anyone else agree (or disagree)?
or this: "once you don't look as if you are in danger all the time, people love you"
I had that happen with them, when I first finally decided to trust their system to save my credit card information and turned on autorenew. Support told me it was/is because I have a couple of dollar balance with them from years and years ago, back when something involved making a transfer payment to my balance with them and then executing against that balance.

If you have autorenew set, it first tries to draw against any existing positive balance you have directly with Namecheap. If/when that doesn't work, it then next tries your preferred payment method (e.g. your registered and designated preferred credit card).

I was told if I found a way to clear my couple of buck balance with Namecheap, I'd no longer get the warning email. The first attempt would be against my credit card, which would work, and I'd just get one success email (after preceding "upcoming" emails and all that).

I don't know whether this is correct. It's what I was told by support over chat, IIRC.
Snap I can understand, but MoviePass not. People can easily switch to another subscription.
It doesn't follow because it's just my opinion :)

I don't think the relative intuitiveness of Haskell vs JavaScript is a settled matter. I'm arguing one or the other may seem more intuitive because of past familiarity with similar languages/paradigms.

For example, some people -- though not in this thread, thankfully -- make much about Haskell's allegedly weird syntax and/or operators. Never mind that its syntax is not particularly large, but also there's nothing immediately intuitive about a lot of C code in comparison. What's with all those "{}" and ";" and "*" and "&"? Parsing operators, especially with parens and pointer dereferencing involved, can be difficult, even without deep nesting, and even experienced coders occasionally trip over some production C code. Yet no-one uses this as an argument for C being "too difficult" or "too unintuitive". I argue this is because C was a language they learned long ago, and it has colored their perception of what is familiar or "easy" about programming languages.
I'm sure they ran a lot of experiments in the earlier wild west days of e-commerce that wouldn't look so great today, but we've learned a lot about what a successful e-commerce business looks like since then.
I don't get this article. As far as I can tell, it wants to prove (in spite of the headline) that mental illness and creativity are not really correlated. Then it goes on to say that measuring either mental illness or creativity is hard on its own -- in which case the meta-analysis done isn't terribly useful?

My own unempirical take on genius is it's not so much "you need some insanity to have groundbreaking genius-level ideas" but "some people are so into doing thing x that they will choose to do it almost all the time, and some of these people have talent and luck in thing x too, which is a potent combination that looks like what we'd call genius".
Kurzgesagt video on bacteriophages released a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
You are pretending that a 'wave election' is a thing that people decide to do, instead of a label applied after the fact as a descriptive aid after the occurrence of the circumstances you describe. In other words, this is circular logic.

In practice, heavily-gerrymandered districts rarely swing parties, and when they do, they almost always swing back.
Exactly! Cash flow =/= profit.
is Ghost still a thing? I thought they ceased to exist after nobody used it.

I guess wordpress beat them in every possible aspect.
Ask HN: You just made 1M. How do you invest? How do you make it last?
I started interviewing people this spring and since I hate algorithmic questions, I didn't look up any on the internet; I just wrote my own questions based on some data manipulation I've done in real work. They are basically data-normalization questions (given a 2d array of data from db, populate this class). But I found these to be a very good filter. You only need to be comfortable with Java Map and List interface, which is bread-and-butter of a Java dev in my experience. Yet still 75% of people couldn't solve these questions. However, the 25% nailed it and we made a couple good hires.

All this to say, if interviewers actually spend half a day and write practical questions that test the skills used in real work, it IS possible for both the interviewer and interviewee to be happy.

Also for the in-person, I just delete an existing integration-test we have and give the candidate our laptop and we pair program on rewriting it. This has worked well.

No memorization or trivia or tricks, just standard development exercizes.
It had been essentially dead for a while even before AArch64. It's slightly obfuscated by the fact that there's a version of Jazelle that's basically a nop mode that'll trap on each bytecode.
Senate votes to reinstate Net Neutrality protections
I hate that the US Govt wants me to give up my fingerprints so I can get faster travel through the airport. There's one other thing that caught my eye in this article, "Clear just won biometric aid contracts with Washington State and Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, to start IDing people at bars". I'm highly opposed to this biometric checking, so we can fight off becoming a perfect surveillance state like China is becoming. A quick web search couldn't find any news articles discussing this in WA state. Anyone know about it?
> Intellectual honesty demands that we admit that there really are problems with NN as it had been implemented. Trying to fit the technology of a massive packet-switched data network into very specific regulations designed for an ancient circuit-switched primarily voice network really was a kluge.

It would have been, had that been done, but it wasn't, so it wasn't.

The specific regulations applied to the telephone network under Title II weren’t applied to the internet, an entirely new set, specifically crafted for the internet and largely following the same outline as the net neutrality regulations adopted citing Title I authority in 2010 were.

The idea that PSTN regulations were being applied to the internet is an outright lie that was told by net neutrality opponents designed to manipulate the opinions of people who have ould trust the people selling the lie and not actually read the order and the regulations it included themselves.

So, while you may make the argument in good faith belief that it is true, I cannot agree that intellectual (or any other kind of) honesty required repeating this tired old lie.
> Buy some land and build a collaborative space

So, a ghost town?
My last girlfriend's father had been a Mason, and she was heavily involved in the Order of the Eastern Star for a while. It was nice to not have to explain what I did when I went to Lodge, and so forth.. and when she attended our (public) installation of officers ceremony, she knew a bunch of the high-muckety-mucks that were attending :D
> It's arbitrary when you claim there are no sensible divisions in software.

It's about the fungibility of the problem space. I don't know how you expect your core team to make reasonable decisions about the tradeoffs if they a) don't understand more than one of the platform elements; and/or b) don't have any responsibility or accountability for the tradeoffs that get made, because now it's another segment's problem. Indeed, when I've been on teams primarily comprised of non-generalists, these decisions were almost always a matter of bureaucracy and politics.

> I think your entire lengthy argument is a sort of elaborate, lengthy fantasy about how much better the world would be if everyone was just like you or at least, just like you imagine yourself to be.

I've worked on teams that were mostly "generalist" and teams where the "generalist" type was either absent or artificially constrained. My perspectives are drawn from those experiences, and have developed based on a hard-earned worldview that says people reliably act in favor of their own expedience. Doesn't seem very fantastic to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think the house of cards is going to fall. In this case what is happening is that the money made in a few lucky startups (Facebook, Gogole etc) are reinvested into those trials.

In the end, it is the circle of life, A few mega winners are subsidizing those losing experiments.
We should be there to take advantages of those as we are usually paying the price to the huge winning ones (indirectly, but still)