skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bradley Manning (at the time) was suicidal. Instead of actually doing it, she chose another method that is as good as suicide: Indiscriminate leaking of classified information to someone listed as an enemy combatant, confessing to her act, and waiting for others to bring the punishment: Death by military court.

In this dramatic suicide attempt, she implicated Lamo. Lamo's hand was forced: You are talking to an unstable person who just admitted to indiscriminate leaking of classified information. You don't know their level of access, so you assume they can do maximum damage to your country men.

What was the patriotic thing to do? Certainly not to let Bradley keep doing what she was doing. What was the hacker thing to do? Exfiltrating information you are formally granted access to on a lady gaga CD is not being a hacker. Manning was not a friend of Lamo, just because she struggled with similar sexuality issues.

Lamo was compromised and knew that any future misstep could land him back in jail. He had the FBI looking over his shoulder. It is not worth it to go to jail for another person's suicide attempt, not even to get those cables released (besides embarrassment and the WikiLeaks/Russia tactic of making the US intelligence community "clam up", this did not do much).

I do wonder how many of the people that despised him, called him a dirty rat, liar, snitch, would have done exactly the same in his situation. The Kevin Poulsen article made it worse than it had to be for all parties involved, though I could understand the wish to have the details come out (there is conscientious snitching and malicious snitching, and the chatlogs point to conscientious snitching to me).

One thing that nags me is that the official police report [1] speaks of "dead bodies found", not "dead body found".

Perhaps Lamo's death was a trigger for Manning's recent suicide attempt (another dramatic cry for help/attention), perhaps Manning is just struck with a perpetual urge to end her life, and this will not be last one. [2]

Perhaps this is the mystery (one can only speculate, and while not proper/classy, the article kind of invites it): Project Vigilante was a group of (compromised) hackers working for the government to ensnare other hackers and stay closely connected to the "scene". PV was the main reason that Lamo turned in Manning. Lamo got chastised and lambasted for this. Sees Manning hailed as a legit whistle blower and patriotic hero, and sees himself vilified and not belonging to any group anymore: government sees him as untrustworthy hacker, hackers sees him as untrustworthy G-Man. Decides to take his life, overdosing on whatever concoction he could find in "suicide.zip", implicating the ultimate reason by putting a sticker of the Project Vigilante on his leg and checking out.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/374066901/Wichita-PD-report-...

[2] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-manning-saf...
XKCD always delivers: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Counterpoint from Matt Ocko (DCVC):

https://twitter.com/mattocko/status/1005367508910596096

1/ TL; dr:
“Having gotten immensely rich in part due to a tax break, I now solemnly opine that it should be denied to others... with no consequence to me...”

This is “pulling up the rope ladder behavior” - here’s why:

2/ Fred’s stance screws over underrepresented VCs the most...

They are most likely to have smaller funds that - when they win (& I hope they do) - they have big carry events. They are then disproportionately taxed vs old white dudes living on big fees w/ cunning tax structures;

3/ and, every dollar coerced by the state from emerging women & PoC VCs for largely noise-level financial impact (vs killing Prop 13) and only really for political posturing means less $ to anchor their next fund’s GP commit, putting them at a fundraising disadvantage; and...

4/ ...smaller funds mean smaller mgmt fee, fewer women and PoC hired by those funds, and less reward for everyone from the partners on down - where a carry centric bonus/win for an associate might be hugely meaningful for their family.
Modern language runtimes used in the server space like Go basically multiplex green threads across processes to minimize context switches between concurrent execution paths. By leveraging the fact that I/O is much slower than processor ops and switching green threads on I/O without necessarily always switching OS process, they easily scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent requests. I don't really know about Erlang's model but it also has green threads. There's a reason why high traffic sites use languages like these.

https://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1
Normally, 1) is enough. Explanatory power. E.g., evolution driven not by random mutations, but by self-modification of bacteria/cells, based on same engineering principles as we use in programming. There's a rational goal behind all this endeavor, we will get it sooner or later. The alternative is the admission of meaninglessness of everything and total depression (recurrent topic on HN)
Because it evolved. You cannot outrun these.
Am I the only one who thinks the fault primarily lies with the driver? He trusted his life in equipment he didn't adequately understand and/or put to much faith in. This is not to say that Tesla and others shouldn't learn from this and try to improve their systems and driver education, of course. But drivers should also understand how their cars work, and respect their limitations.
It has a 15W CPU instead of 27W, and fewer ports. Not really a useful machine IMO. Marginally better than the MB though.
> Phubbing is a term coined as part of a campaign by Macquarie Dictionary to describe the habit of snubbing someone in favour of a mobile phone.
Blackface isn't necessarily racist.

Is the blackfaced actor used to make fun of black people? Probably racist. But that would also be the case if it were a black actor doing the same (it might just be more difficult to hire one for that).

Is it used to create tension between the obviously fake costume and the effort put into pretending that it is real? Probably not racist. I can imagine a show deriving great hilarity from casting everyone in a role they are not the least bit suited to and then trying to make it work anyway.
The obvious corollary to this would be "In favor of what exactly?"

For all the bad things you can say about "agile" (which isn't even a "thing" to begin with) one has to ask "what's the better alternative?" Do you want to adopt Waterfall? RUP? Most of the other well known methodologies (XP, Crystal, AUP, etc.) are "agile" methodologies anyway.

If anything, I'd argue that developers need to start pushing back when brain dead managers and idiotic consultants come along and push ideas as "Agile" that are very explicitly *not" "agile" in either the "big A" or "little a" sense, and demand that management actually learn what the Agile Manifesto says and apply those principles from the top down.
The Next Frontier of Police Surveillance Is Drones
The 2 of 5 encoding reminded me of "8 to 10" codes [1], which (as far as know) is still in use by disk and tape drives. It's for a slightly different reason than the 2 of 5 code but it's roughly the same idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding
The human cost of the Kindle
definitely. many browsers bundle embedded flash, so update them too.
Their best guess is that group sex among men enabled by hookup apps and enhanced by “chemsex” (where inhibitions are counteracted by drug usage) in conjunction with cutbacks in health spending have resulted in an increase in incidence.
Sure, my point might seem theoretical; to explain further, the difference is that when std::optional pointer is used correctly its behavior in the absence of a value is perfectly defined! Which is a good thing.
My guess would be that because more people are on PrEP, fewer people are using condoms.
Show me this proof that physics cannot explain consciousness.
> Yes, I really did brute force all of the combinations at first. It let me focus on getting the output correct before I worried about performance.

The programmer spoke correctly.
Are these 50 fields "logically" relevant? In other words, do you do significant joining at these fields? Or in business logic, do you switch much on the presence of these fields?

I'll assume "no" since they're so many of them and they're individually optional fields. Maybe most of them are strings and you could simply use empty strings. Or whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm not saying these cases are trivial, but they're leaf concerns and not really relevant from a "schema" point of view.

But if the answer is really "yes", then I'll say that's at least a maintainability problem (bad coherence).
People are divided into two kinds: useful and useless.
Wooing the first type is the reasonable thing to do.
What you are missing here is the fact that I/O is orders of magnitude slower than processor. Most of the time in servers is spent waiting for I/O and multiplexing green threads on processes without context switches while some execution paths are waiting on I/O gives you far higher capacity on the same hardware. See the other comment thread on GP comment.
This isn't a tl;dr, you're pasting the entire contents of someone else's twitter thread into an HN discussion. That's confusing and generally not good since it's not your comment and that person is presumably not here to participate in the conversation.
Eventually one of these walkways will have to cross a road. Do they have an alarm or something that alerts the phone users to actually look up before they cross?!
Calling this "Blockchain" sounds like buzzword bingo to me. The actual API documentation only mentions blockchain once in the marketing blurb at the top, and the most substantial justification of their use of the term on that website is at the very bottom of the FAQ:

> We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our artificial intelligence model. Using blockchain technology helps us to collect more accurate data for training. We used blockchain protocols to validate data label quality, ensuring the most accurate datasets possible.

Which is generic to the point of meaningless.

How about: less marketing bullshit and more live demos and meaningful comparisons to the many competitors in this space. I'm interested in these sorts of NLP services, but your website provides 0 reason for me to even consider you.
Am I reading this wrong? It looks like you get 40 points for having a salary of 10M yen. That's not very high for tech jobs. That plus having a few years of experience, a bachelors, and being under 40 gets you past the 70 point bar at least.
The phrase I said was “clearly articulated platform.” I don’t think you and I are in disagreement.
>You clearly don't know what deduce means.

Please explain.

>You've also clearly haven't understood anything I've said during this entire conversation.

Oh I understood you just fine. I just find it stupid.

>You've utterly failed to establish that they are lying.

That is because you are overly generous with assumptions to justify their claims, which is typical of people who are apologetic of fraudulent entities such as Musk

>Tesla already has an established history...

But they haven't save the planet yet. Please give some thought about what you are writing before responding.
The only irresponsible car company has been Tesla (and Uber). All the other companies positioned their adaptive systems correctly and very conservatively. Tesla came out and downright asserted their system was autonomous[1]. Predictably, they have since had to scale that back significantly.

[1]https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/videos/autopilot-self-driving-ha...
Interesting. I know I've read accounts by, say, ethnic Koreans claiming that even when raised in Japan the ethnic difference caused native ethnic Japanese to treat them differently.

Maybe I'm unduly influenced by a small number of such anecdotes.
I doubt anyone will read this, as I'm somewhat late to the party.

I'd like to get in touch with a serious research group, because the barrier to scientific and social advances is the recognition of ESP (Extrasensory Experience) as the mechanism the mind works with.

I'm sure I can prove ESP and I'm not a telepath. Seriously, it is so common, that the big question is why I was blind to it. In simple experiments, with hardly any effort, I see ESP confirmed, daily. That is: mind to mind contact without relying on sound, vision, or a chemical channel.

I have a hard time theorizing the mechanism, but as distance doesn't seem to be much of an obstacle (and effects are immediate), the processes seem to involve entanglement and superposition, as concepts. Not radiowaves ;)

As the article never once mentions ESP, I think the title of the article is very apt. A reflection of the underlying scientific poverty.

A poor scientific state of mind leads to a society which doesn't know how to properly nurture itself, thus going of on a tangent. Thus it engages in madness (as opposed to doing the mentally healthy thing), and tends to terrorize, abandon and sacrifice the individual in its pursuit.
What was partisan in the comment you are replying to? Looks like standard (and on-topic) political science reasoning not politicking to me.

Edit: did you mean to respond to specialist’s other comment in this thread?
You're not simulating your mother, you've built a simple predictive model of your mother's behaviour. These aren't the same. It's like the difference between my actual social network, and the model of my social network that Facebook has. My actual social network contain considerable nuance that isn't captured by Facebook's data model.
Yes! I coincidentally just learned about that topic recently.

What’s great about that problem is that it isn’t obvious that there even is a problem in the first place. “How do trains stay on tracks? Well... they have wheels, don’t they?”

Then when the problem is explained, it sounds impossible. The solution you first think of is probably wrong.
That's weird that the article gets those basic facts wrong because it talks about the abuse of the employer thing and recent reforms for it and the lack of a path for permanent status. I was wondering why some of the people they interviewed wanted to have their spouses move there or invested so much in learning Japanese based on the facts listed in the article. It makes more sense with what you wrote.
Treating prop 13 tax discounts as debt would further discourage people from selling (never sell, because you have incurred infinite debt).

It really should be eliminated for all but a family’s primary residence, and it really should reset at inheritance, or when commercial property changes hands.

That’d fix a big percentage of the problem, at least in the bay area, and it wouldn’t tax anyone out of their home.

Getting rid of the incentive for rental properties should immediately flood the market with no-longer-profitable investment homes.

I don’t see it increasing rent much, since rent levels are already above what most markets could bear.
Cool. Looks like the guy got his stuff into products. He got raped by the investors in my view.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4335468/Briti...
I'm not sure why Ocko is bringing women & PoC into the debate when they remain a very small minority of VC GPs. The minority is even smaller when you weight by AUM (and likely future gains) vs just counting the number of people.

The fact is that a change to how carried interest was taxes would, by far, mostly affect older white dudes.

I'll for hearing a legitimate counterpoint but this one strikes me as a fairly cynical manipulation.
I noticed the video described him as MBE, so I looked him up. He also invented a water filter and was named Member of the British Empire for it: https://ideas.ted.com/since-the-ted-talk-michael-pritchard-o...
Takashi Miike is ethnic Korean. Many of his films address issues faced by ethnic Chinese and Koreans in Japan. The Triad Society, Young Thugs and Dead or Alive series, for example. For the most part, they're quite violent.
I've read Chomsky's opinion on this before in his essay ""Science, Mind, and Limits of Understanding", and I think he misunderstands the physics.

He seems to think Newton accidentally disproved the concept of locality through his theory of gravity. It's true that philosophers largely gave up on locality in the 18th century because of Newton, but that was only temporary: In the 19th century the principle of locality came back with a vengance after Maxwell.

Today the principle of locality is a key component of the Standard model: The Hamiltonian of the standard model is local, meaning you can compute what happens at a point in spacetime knowing only what is going on in an infinitesimal region around it. Even outside the standard model, LIGO proved that graviational waves exist, and therefore gravity is a local phenomenon.

Einstein was famously prepared to give up on quantum mechanics because it seemed to violate the principle of locality, which he thought was more important. That is still debated sometimes, though whether quantum nonlocality exists seems to be a matter of interpretation and is also different from the kind of locality chomsky is talking about. Locality is still a key principle in physics.
It's nice that it would end up using all the product but I'm thinking more about convenience. I often hold a bottle sideways and, while there's plenty of liquid, I can't get the spray to work in that orientation. So frustrating.
> We have genetic algorithms, so I'm sure we could come up with such laptops.

It is almost certain that we someday will. I doubt I'll still be alive to see it, though.
"braking"!
I got a chuckle from that comment. It definitely sounds like a title that Ludlum would use.
You absolutely can. If the U.K. made extramarital sex illegal and enforced it syphilis cases would fall. There are plenty of other less drastic measures that would have the same directional effect.

Evolution isn’t magic. The USA used to have malaria. Now it doesn’t.
https://docs.rechat.com

This is our API Documentation and it's generated automatically from our E2E tests. It's almost free for us to maintain.

Can you tell me if this is OK enough comparing to a GraphQL that wouldn't justify a rewrite?
It’s a never ending battle.
Various corrections:

The article says that ternary uses exponentially fewer symbols (actually, in further nitpicking, it says "bits" rather than "symbols") than binary, but that's not correct. The decrease is just linear, by a factor of log_2(3).

The comment about subtraction being a lot easier doesn't really make a lot of sense in light of 2's-complement notation; yes, it's a tiny bit easier, but... (the comments about sign bits also seem a bit out of place in this light).
heap allocation that comes with std::unique_ptr

I think it may be worth mentioning that std::unique_ptr can be used to "manage" non-heap pointers as well.
The thing is that a bunch of data with something like objects and velocities isn't a world model. "How Large" a given thing is, is only one of a multitude of questions.

I think we humans are so good at just passively keeping track of everything in our environment we forget how difficult it is "keep a world model" from what one sees.
But why is there a thinking like that?

Have we observed quantum effects or non-deterministic behavior in neurons? People have spent a lot of time poking at neurons in a lot of different organisms.
Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Preventable Tragedies of Suicide
P-zombies do appear to ponder, though. They are in every way externally indistinguishable from normal people. That's the whole point of the thought experiment.
In parts of the UK, seniors get free travel on buses. That’s very popular. Even where it’s not free, buses can be great for older people who aren’t able or confident to drive (due to mobility, eyesight, etc).

If your buses aren’t popular with old people, you have bad buses.
isn't your comment intellectually sloppy by simply appealing to authority rather than providing actual counterarguments?
He had the option to reject the deal, no? It's a free market for venture capital, so if that deal is so bad and the opportunity is so good, he should have been able to find a better one.

From my perspective, having a great idea is not enough. Even having a proof of concept is not enough. There's a lot more that goes into building a successful business. Investors have to price in the chances of all the things that can go wrong in the process against the perceived value of the product.

Likewise, as a founder, you often need at least some investors that can help propel you forward in some way. That can be worth a lot more than dumb money.

I haven't watched the episode you mention, but generally this is how I think about it.
They have also been asked to rename the "Autopilot" feature..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2016/10/14/german...
> Not that I have an actual example to try this on, which is why the issue is a source of endless debate...

This is the core of the issue. Until we can build an apparently conscious entity, there will still be people claiming there's something ineffable and magical about consciousness. Probably even after we've done it once, there will still be folks who so claim. But eventually, people will stop wondering about it once it becomes commonplace.
Like... an office?
H-1B visa to green card: Wait time for Indian workers is up to 151 years: report
The UI element typically used for this is the "Snackbar", so if you search for "Android Snackbar", you should find some examples.

But yeah, I definitely also see a lot more confirm-dialogs still.

Seems to be a classic case of such a UI pattern being great and hyper modern and marketable in 99% of cases. But if in 1% of cases, the user accidentally deletes a file that they didn't want to delete, then you lose that user in that exact moment.

That is, if you are not a preinstalled app.
If instead you are Google, then users are generally not aware of alternatives and cannot switch away from your app, if this happens to them. They just live with your UI eating their files.

Not to mention that it was quite clearly their fault for not finding the Undo-button quick enough. Which is also generally an opinion that users manage to hold, who have not yet progressed to looking at alternatives of programs and comparing different UIs for their merits.
Away from computer right now, but off the top of my head:

Youcompleteme (works great for me, but I think I had to tinker with it)
NERDTree
NERDcommenter
Gitgutter
pdb (experimenting with it)

Probably forgetting something.
Right. Someone is going to miss out when you fix a loophole. You should still fix the loophole.
Maybe it made sense before the internet? I'm definitely not arguing that these patents are a good idea, and the argument that they're defensive feels weak since just straight up publishing puts it into the public domain where it acts as prior art to prevent other patents. The only way defensive patents make sense versus just publishing in the open is if you're using them as a threat against other people with patents in your area. The whole thing is gross.
编程的时候 命名 方法或变量 词穷了怎么办？
Most GPU mining blockchains can be obliterated by hash power moving from Ethereum. It is ASICs that are protecting smaller chains.
[Discussion] iOS 11.4 Jailbreak Exploit Possibilities: Electra 11.4, H3lix
Dude, that is not an attack. Only if you have written software, you ll be aware of how seemingly innocent changes can break it in unexpected ways...And your "proof" article does not change anything...
Off topic, but are there any accessible resources to learn:
1. How fonts get rendered? What happens when I present browser with a font file and some utf-8 bytes, how does it convert this into viewable text.

2. Once browser creates DOM and CSSOM how does it use this information to create the view that I see?