skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm having fun with the license

I didn't want press any downstream user with adding another BSD/MIT/CC-0/license or copyright notice to their code base

So the idea is that aArray is public domain and cc-0 and BSD and MIT and gpl and whatever you want -- simply delete the current license text and replace it with your own

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In general I'm not sure where I stand. For instance python's source contains several:

* Redistributions of source code/binary must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer...

So if an app uses python then must it reproduce what is quite a long list of licenses??

Nobody does, but code from those licenses are still present
Yes we did look into that. However sensor tower is a far deeper mobile analytics platform. We intended to build a simple platform for us to track the growth of apps and see what interesting apps we could discover, which we already have discovered a few of in the last week. We dont see this is as a sort of alternative to Sensor Tower, those who need Sensor Tower are better of sticking to it, because it has a whole lot of goodies that it is good for.

We're more focussed on individuals tracking apps and trends and most likely to stick to it.
I mean, what wording confused this concept specifically?
I know about those issues, but I don't know the answer to the question at hand:

> did people die from starvation? Was there "complete chaos"?

Unfortunately, I (and other readers) don't have time to verify everyone else's claims; that's why the burden is usually on the person making the claim.
Do not be intellectually lazy; if say two technologies differ, actually examine the specifics of those technologies so you can have something quantity to compare to.

Otherwise, are you actually equivocating technologies that were developed via trial and error with technologies that can only be developed by first having accurate, reliable, and detailed understandings of several aspects of nature? Or are you claiming that ancient societies understood statistical dynamics and quantum physics? Or are you claiming that understanding nature does not, in fact, allow one to more easily and more capably predicate and manipulate nature?

edit: One example: you say that technologies from the 30s and 50s (quite telling that you lump these two decades together) can only be said to be different from technology now, not that today's is comparatively high technology. As far as I am aware, fission weapons and energy were the most technology sophisticated tech developed in the 50s, requiring what was, at the time, the latest discoveries in what would later become quantum chromodynamics. Nuclear technology today is categorically more advanced: cheaper to build, higher energy yields, and smaller, all while no longer requiring the absolute top tier physicists to build.

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"Technological systems can be robust or frail. How would you classify the technological systems of today?"

Again, we are communicating on a world wide information network that is both theoretically and empirically robust to physical and digital attacks and misconfigurations of critical nodes. The device you are typing your replies on contains a CPU with billions of transistors that are sensitive to the slightest electromagnetic phenomenon, yet it doesn't break. The electrical grid you're a part of might not be robust to local failures, but again, that is demonstrably a cost savings decision. Localities that have spent the money building power grids with the predicted appropriate level of redundancy do not have long term power outages.
Ah, come on. It's time to get real about all the Spencer Gifts level of bells and whistles added to all this technical garbage, as a convenience upsell.

Luxury items are exactly that. A luxury. When everything is perfect, a luxury is wonderful.

But luxuries are suicidal to retain, in a crisis scenario.

The problem with the mindset of staple-gunning Specer Gifts luxury mode convenience onto practicalities of critical infrastructure, is that you wind up with a UV flourescent black light fire extinguisher. Which is awesome, if you're playing lazer tag in a party time glow-bowl bowling alley, while listening to Laser Floyd's Wall at the planetarium. But we're selling radical day glow fire extinguishers to regular people, for daily use, in the home, to Kmart shoppers.

This shit has nothing to do with domestic violence. It has to do with priorities, and graceful degradation. None of these special smartphone app convenience bonuses degrade gracefully, so that the core functionality may be retained, while stripping out the extra technical fluff of packet switched, TCP/IP, GSM 4G LTE, broadband wi-fi global availability, so that you can bounce your playlist off a router attached to satelite phone at a sub-station in antarctica for two factor authentication, because the QT library for the UI had a bug forcing you to turn it off and then back on again, so you can log back in, and change the channel on your smart TV with your phone without having to get up from the couch to find the remote control, because blu ray disks won't let you use the play button to watch the movie, and only the remote has the OK/enter button, and none of the buttons on the set-top-box player will start the movie.
> Smaller size is a feature to me.

I agree. I deferred buying the S9+ precisely because it is even bigger than my S7 edge, which is already stretching the limits of usability. However the SE errs on the side of "too small" for me. Moreover, the screen is positively coarse, regardless of the physical size. There aren't enough pixels on it.
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Only until someone does the same thing to the other chain. The logical next step is for the miners leaving the biggest chain to concentrate on a chain where they can successfully pull off the same attack that just drove them away, and on down the line until all chains have been taken over by one large participant each.

The steady-state is a reduction in mining activity across all public blockchains by ~50% or so, although that's probably an upper bound that wouldn't actually be reached.
The Intercept are voluntarily acting as an arm of the FSB.

Just think of them as Stalin's New York Times - willing accomplices to Soviet genocide.
Whh...what? How the heck are they gonna pay gor a multi billion dollar jet? Wretched old lady.
Do I want to invest in the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world? One which has artificial controls to make sure my investment is stable, yes I do. Investment in non residential areas are heavily blocked with rules such as technology transfer, tarrifs, and management needing to be Chinese but is more appealing. Nonetheless, residential real estate in tier 1 Chinese cities is one of the best investments there is. It’s like investing in Manhattan, Paris, London, SF 30 years ago. You know as wealth is created your property value will exponentially grow. So the answer is a resounding yes.

It’s a net positive if it was a 2 way street. Currently, I’m competing with the entire world to purchase a house in the Valley. Chinese investment is in SV, LA, NYC, Vancouver, Toronto, NZ, Sydney and Melbourne. All areas where locals are priced out, income inequality is rampant, and only those who sell are realizing actual wealth. Salaries in those areas are higher solely for housing prices. That means our companies losing out on billions due to foreign unfair investment.

Chinese aren’t moving to these areas in many cases. They are just investing and parking their money, some of it through illicit means. In Canada, the majority of Chinese RE investment is through the drug trade. They are legitimizing this.

In NZ xenophobia has increased significantly so much that they are planning to block all foreign investments period. That doesn’t seem to be a net positive to me. Australia has jacked up foreign investment taxes twice and Canada 3 times in just 2 years. The latter are also turning more xenophobic and honestly I don’t blame them.
To put that in perspective there are about 400 stars within 30 light years of earth and among those stars we have found 26 exoplanets. This radius represents only about 0.00014% of just our own galaxy and an infinitesimaly small portion of the entire universe.
Indeed, I was impressed just by his PCB layout... it's so neat with that big Spartan-3, while I struggle to make tidy layouts with a simple 32-pin TQFP chip. And that's probably the simplest part of this project.
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Most traffic is HTTP/S. I would bet a decent amount of dollars the NSA can transparently MiTM any common CA certs. Look at what a mess the trusted roots are.
Excellent need, more than enough reason to switch. Now bake 1Password into Firefox.
This is more than many academic positions pay (or cost the uni) in a year; esp. in Europe. This an absurd amount of money/resources and more of a sign that this part of academia is not about outsmarting but outspending the "competition".
There are a lot of tools for this, I searched "nlp text annotation tool", and found this thread: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-tools-for-manually-a...

There's no clear "best" as far as I can see, so depends what you're looking for.
> what's taking so long

This technology is combining software, hardware, game theory, monetary incentives. It's going to take a long time, and it hasn't even been 10 years.

Picture years from now, and the big buzzword trifecta of blockchain, AI, and IoT are relatively matured.

Can you really not see the potential in combining autonomous organizations making decisions on the output of AI that learns from data sourced through billions of IoT devices around the world?
Did police ever search you, find that cash, and not take it? Congratulations on your privilege. Lots of other people, including those without bank accounts or other means of moving their wealth around, have lost money this way.
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If you want to travel back and forth between inhabitable stars, forget rockets. They're just never going to get you moving fast enough.

I'm basically talking about a propulsion system that we haven't imagined yet. Because nothing we've (realistically) imagined would make an interstellar civilization possible.

I didn't say they wouldn't exchange beings or materials at all. I'm just saying that individuals will not be hopping in their space cars and cruising off to the crab nebula for the weekend.
I like it too. I tend to be the only person in my close circle who finds HN-type content interesting, so it’s fun to go on a tangent and then see what others who went on the same tangent think.
IBMs Problem with AI is that they don’t have any AI
> outsourced third-world contractor output

Do we know that the developers were outsourced or which countries they were from?
Can anybody ELI5? It seems to me that having the long-term bonds at a similar ratio would mean good predictions? Wouldn't the rates have to be higher if trouble is coming, in order to make the increased risk of a longer term bond worth it?
Trust isn't a feature in the way a16z describes:

"Blockchain computers are new types of computers where the unique capability is trust between users, developers, and the platform itself."

So yes, maybe blockchains require a certain level of trust in the technology (and decentralization) to be useful, but they certainly don't give rise to trust between users or developers. I know that's not what you were claiming - I'm just pointing out that blockchain tech doesn't magically create trust between strangers (nor is that its intention). Still, it does allow transactions to happen between untrusted parties as long as both of those parties have a basic level of confidence - or trust as you say - in the assumptions built into the blockchain.
The United States has always had deep poverty relative to what it probably should be.

US culture is weird. We value long, hard work as well as fortunes made overnight in dubious, speculative fields. Combined, this leads to a significant percentage of the population working hard, expecting their reward to come, not bothered by current circumstances. Obviously there are religious overtones here, like something out of the Middle Ages that kept the serfs in line.

If you look at accounts of the Depression, such as Stud Terkel’s excellent “Hard Times” oral history, people remark about how passive America seemed, how in the face of grinding poverty, the rebellions and revolutions the intellectuals all forecasted never came to past.
Prior leaks showed they were paying multiple telecoms huge amounts of money to do exactly that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/09/23/attver...
This is inspiring.

Don't skip logging even if you go over your goal and stay consistent.
Very nice points.
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Seems like the process just adds politics where they aren't needed. It makes it harder to fire bad employees, and incentives bad employees to play politics on the way out.

If I worked for Amazon, I'd want no part in the process. Bad situations end best when everyone cuts their losses quickly.

In my experience, the best way to get rid of someone is to offer a generous severance period. In theory, the person can take a long vacation or get two paychecks for a few months.
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This article relies heavily on findings by the Gottman Institute however the Gottman Institute's findings are suspect because they built their prediction models after the results are known and they never verified that their models hold up w/ additional data.

In machine learning parlance, it's equivalent to deriving a formula using training data and not checking if the formula is accurate w/ a validation data. I doubt many (anyone?) here would trust an autonomous car built w/ only training data and never tested w/ validation data. Similarly, I don't believe/trust the Gottman's prediction rate (94%) for a second.

More info: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/03/can_y... (2010)
Yes, journalism working hard to spread awareness of a massive global surveillance systems, with rubberstamp oversight, that threaten fundamental rights found in all western countries against dragnets and warrantless privacy invasion = must be the Russian boogiemen at work.

"Move along citizen"
I hope, and if this applies to you maybe this will be a wake up call, nobody reading this walks around with lump sums of cash like this without a receipt from the ATM or bank teller. I hope not.
Those are two possibilities. Another is that the government is the biggest player in the bond market and has unlimited funds at their disposal that they can categorize as Other.

But of course, that's illegal, so it would never happen would it. But at the same time, you and me will never, ever, hear from the bond vigilantes again.
12 years later and nothing changed. The SCOTUS killed the lawsuit and Congress let everyone involved off the hook.

Since there are rarely, if ever, any consequences for breaking the law or the Constitution, why would they stop?
Yes, because SSL is optional on port 25 and 487.

But you can chose to disregard the RFCs and disallow servers that will not encrypt to send you any mail. No downgrade attack then. It requires some manual changes. It may cause you to not receive email from some servers.

You can also only accept mail on port 465, which in practice is used for SMTP over SSL. You will receive even less mails.

Cf another reply I made today about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397500
That this is newsworthy is kind of preposterous If you look at the factory closings in the late 80’s and 90’s, it is like reading a list of World War I battlefields. 20k here, 8k there, 40k over in the this town, another 10k lost here...it is tragic.

This wasn’t globalization. It was the “deindustrialization” of America. Meanwhile all the jobs shifted to Mexico, which would be sort of okay (they need jobs too obviously) but instead it resulted in Mexico getting 0% better. 9 months after NAFTA the Peso collapsed during the “Tequila” crisis, the south of Mexico rose up in revolt, and then a few years later brought the rise of the cartels.
I think the idea is that directly quartering troops is certain to be much more capricious and unequal than paying taxes. Everyone (with some narrow exceptions) is supposed to pay taxes, while only those families who have nice houses in convenient locations (and beautiful teenage daughters!) will have to quarter troops directly.
This is far too little, too late:

* The SMTP RFC says that mail servers MUST NOT require STARTTLS to receive mail. Postfix (and I imagine most other production grade SMTP servers) has an option to require STARTTLS anyway, so if you really want STARTTLS you can already require that clients have it enabled, despite the braindead standard.

* STARTTLS ensures that mail was encrypted only in the final hop, from the last server to your server. That usually means it transited the public internet encrypted, but it definitely does not assure it.

There are interesting email security efforts afoot, notably the draft standard called "SMTP Require TLS": https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-uta-smtp-require-tls-... . Unfortunately the reality is that the internet mail infrastructure evolves at an incredibly glacial pace. The entire SMTP protocol would benefit greatly from the adoption of an SMTP/2 protocol, rethought with modern security practices in mind.
I found a couple references, seems like it was some dial-in public-access unix machine at Rutgers?

http://utzoo.superglobalmegacorp.com/usenet/news100f1/b123/c...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.news.config/Zmx4...

https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~cwm/NetStuff/Old-Me-Postings/com...
Well, there is a big difference, but not the one you've managed to come up with. Vagrant is normally used to run full VMs (although you can use it to drive Docker), so while you might run App, Supporting App, PHP, Apache, Node, Nginx, MySQL, Mongodb, and Redis all as separate containers, you'd probably put them all on the same VM. Your comment almost makes it sound like you don't understand Vagrant or VMs.
This seems like an appropriate place to plug Sourdough: A Novel, by Robin Sloan (who also wrote Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore). It's a really delightful read that lovingly satirizes many aspects of San Francisco's contemporary culture while telling the story of a coder turned baker who is on a mission to teach robotic arms to bake bread.
Is all the anthropomorphism in the article simply artistic license? Or is the author referring to automated capabilities?
I like appear.in
It depends if Trump tariffs raise enough tax revenue to offset deficit spending and curb inflation. Like to see the tariff revenue numbers at the end of the next quarter.

The potential upside is that tariffs are stress testing industries with supply chain issues, shaking out mal-investment.
China is the world’s Factory. It also has a huge middle class population now. Basically the country is so rich, important and large, it doesn’t need to care about what the rest of the world thinks about it.

Kind of like US. We have an idiot running the country, but we have a strong economy so anything goes.

Chinese censorship is working so well, I bet a 100%, western nations will want to adopt its ideas.
> Siri is cool

No. Siri is shit.
Isn't that how bonds work? [0] Nothing extraordinary needed.

The threat is China demanding total payment at once (my vague understanding of the actual real world problem due to debt owed). Something that the US has laws protecting land and home owners [1], but no law says another country can't do this to us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_bond

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Housing_Act_of_1934

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners_Refinancing_Act
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Not quite 1Password, but Mozilla is developing a cross-platform password manager, tentatively called "Lockbox", that will support Firefox, Android, iOS, and possibly a Chrome extension.

https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/
Ah, I guess I’ve only ever shared as a link over chat apps. Thanks for the tip!
MY GOD that is painful to take in. I feel for you :( . I've shed a tear for a fellow programmer in the thick of the "shit".
I'm sorry, but the problem is more complicated than that.

SSL is not mandatory on either port 25 or 587, and SSL can not be made mandatory if you follow the RFCs (it can be made mandatory if you tweak your MTA, but you may lose some mail). Advertising for SSL over DNS means you trust the DNS records - which you shouldn't without DNSSEC. Even with it, there can be workarounds that in practice will allow MITMs.

The only real solution is making SSL mandatory, and doing SMTP over SSL as in the good old days of using stunnel on port 465 to decrypt, then netcat to forward the output to the MTA running on localhost:25

But that is not standard. Maybe the efforts would be better invested by changing the standards to have a port where SMTP can not happen at all without SSL - just like port 465 was, over 10 years ago.
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This guy doesn’t have confidence issues.

Q> Why can Tachyum succeed where larger organizations have failed?

A> I would have to say it is due to my technical instincts born from hard won experience, along with learning from others’ mistakes, and disciplining myself to work only on important challenges. Even in large companies such as Intel and NVIDIA, the real innovation usually springs from a small group of innovators. At SandForce which I founded, my competitors were Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk, Micron, Western Digital, LSI, Seagate, and many others with 1000s [of] engineers, and with less than 100 employees we won.
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That's a cafeteria.

My favorite dining experience in SF was when I got half of a deviled egg for $9, and the server was just too fucking bothered to tell me that I should order another half for my date.

I'll bet they're still going to try to slip in the "healthcare" fee for the non-existent full timers.

Just one more thing: people will absolutely pay $20 for a burger. Many places sell more expensive burgers, and at some they are the most popular and profitable menu item.

Raise prices.
Well, to be fair, this was back in the 70's or 80's, and the little Macchi back then would have had a 'fly away' price from the lot at probably about $1million - but still, more than a lifetime's wages back in the day, even for an Air Force flight instructor! :D
> Instead of actually fixing authentication they are baking "have this password been exposed in plaintext" into the browsers

“Perfect is the enemy of good” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
Windows has a much more powerful process-poking layer than Linux does. This layer is pretty much consolidated into the ptrace syscall on Linux systems (I honestly prefer Windows' APIs here). Doing any of these calls in a Windows application is going to require WINE to use ptrace.

Now why are those calls needed? I think some of it relates to DRM provisions. I also want to say that some of it is necessary to implement various features of COM (i.e., remote procedure call stuff), but that might not be the case, given that the reports suggest that ptrace support is often unnecessary.
So, a question from a foreigner, if you buy something at a counter, should you tip? I would think the answer is no, but in states where minimum wage laws are different for tipped workers, I would expect the answer to be yes, but are there other guidelines? Does it matter if you eat in vs take out? What are the damn expectations?
Please for heavens sake don't! Isn't it enough to have a binary blob for DRM? I don't want to have another binary blob in my firefox. And especially one which takes all my passwords and sends it to some companies cloud. You can't know what happens with this data because all parts are propriatary. I can't trust a binary blob with all my passwords.
No. They aren't forcing a particular private party to provide personal accommodations to an individual soldier.