skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is ridiculous. We really have to address the bias/extremism in the tech hierarchy and their shortsighted foolishness. Gab did nothing illegal. All this does is opens up godaddy to pressure to start suspending other "offensive" domains.

These groups of large tech companies are acting as puritans and social engineers in concert are worrying. The same companies complaining about other countries forcing them to censor and going above and beyond censoring at home.

Edit: 10 years ago, nobody with any sense would have supported this. People valued free speech. The anti-free speech brigading is rather shocking, especially on a site like hacker news.
>Andrew Ng's course definitely requires some linear algebra knowledge,

Extremely basic. Anyone with an undergrad engineering degree will have covered what's needed for the course. His course was almost patronizing, calling people who knew the basics of calculus as "advanced students".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSO2

A previous employer used their identity server for a SSO system. It did what we needed it to and seemed like it was well written.
“Killing it” all the while !
Who wants to be the judge who didn't rubber stamp that one warrant that if executed would have stopped the next 9/11? There is no bureaucratic incentive to do anything but approve everything.
yup. taught myself ASM through countless hours debugging/tracing/reversing code (and also reading Intel's docs). i learned how to reverse before i really got interested in programming. i had a tiny bit of C++/Pascal experience from high school. C# came out and I saw an easy way to bust out quick windows apps with a decent GUI. made a hacking/macroing framework for Ultima Online in C#, really hideous, horrible, awful code....but I came up with some decent patches for the many different UO clients.
GraphQuery – Elegant html/xml parsing language
Visualizing the world's population in 3D
The articles doesn't imply there are only 10,000 people?

Look at a quote just one group:

>"The largest group (9,143 businesses) is the professional, scientific, and technical services sector,"

If you add up all the categories mentioned you get 33,618 businesses above $1 Million
This argument is tiresome and insults our intelligence. Gab isn't in the spotlight because it happens to host some white supremacists, as Twitter and Facebook do. It's scrutinized because it actively courts white supremacists; it is white supremacist Twitter.

Even today, when the front page (unusually busy! during most of the day, there were at least six (6) stories circulating on "popular stories") is primarily about "save Gab", you are only ever one click away from fever-swamp racism; virtually everyone who comments there is a white nationalist. I've been screen-shotting Gab for months (I have weird hobbies) and one of the accounts I thought was a bot (Gab was overrun by bots, presumably to boost its traffic numbers and dilute the neo-Nazism) --- it posted garish landscape photos like clockwork every day --- also turned out to be a white nationalist. Seriously, even the inspirational landscape account is a Nazi on Gab.

But don't take the site's word for it. Listen to the site itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318536

People have been screenshotting Gab.ai tweets for a year (they deleted the worst of them after yesterday's tragedy). It's not like there's any uncertainty about what they are.

Now, it is true that you can make a coherent argument for leaving sites like Gab and Stormfront alone; "more speech is antidote for bad speech", etc. But what you can't do is try to argue that Gab is just Twitter, and is being singled out unfairly. That's not what's happening. Even if Stormfront added a record review section and started doing in-depths on the new Kurt Vile album, we'd still all understand what Stormfront was. But fewer people know what Gab is, so it's a little bit more confusing.
Extensive discussion, #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884
Corporate users can barely get around to patching windows desktops and are happy with Redhat being so slow moving, they're not going to jump on the arch constant upgrade cycle anytime soon.
GraphQuery – Elegant html/xml parsing language
GraphQuery is a query language and execution engine tied to any backend service. It is back-end language independent.

Project Address: https://github.com/storyicon/graphquery

Related Projects:
GraphQuery-PlayGround : Learn and test GraphQuery in an interactive walkthrough
Document : Detailed documentation of GraphQuery
GraphQuery-http : Cross language solution for GraphQuery

GraphQuery is an easy to use query language, it has built-in Xpath/CSS/Regex/JSONpath selectors and enough built-in text processing functions.
The most amazing thing is that you can use the minimalist GraphQuery syntax to get any data structure you want.
I agree, it is a slippery slope for the domain hosters. Hopefully they will just shift into tor where censorship does not exist.
From your source:

>When the Gold Standard was abandoned, our paper currency became backed by nothing but promises. Ever since then, the value of currency has tended to zero, and money to infinity.

It fails the sniff test with its naive understanding of what currency is.
Any "smart city" is going to turn into a privacy nightmare as soon as it goes beyond the depersonalized level. I.e. it should analyze traffic patterns and optimize traffic lights but should never know who exactly is and is going where. Personalized features should not be offered even on voluntary opt-in basis as this will make the people who don't opt-in a target for prejudice.
Based on your subcomment about evaluation, I'm very interested to hear your opinions about Talos' offerings - up to now I've only heard anecdotes from individuals drinking the security+ownership kool-aid.

What IBM offers is probably a lot more coherent and takes better advantage of what the POWER architecture has to offer, such as larger quantities of RAM, the per-node interconnect fabric, faster I/O (not just PCIe), etc (admittedly totally naive here). Plus of course there's z/OS, which I know enough about to respect (and want to play with someday :) ).

Talos basically offers only Linux and a mildly DIY standing-up experience (https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-semi-review-of-rap...), although this is likely to be reasonably painless for non-desktop configurations (and perhaps volume orders can come preconfigured).

As a bit of a pet idea I kind of want to colocate one of the 2U or 4U systems for generic web serving and similar duties, but I fear that running a blog/discussion system on such a machine may result in a constant effort (on my part) at keeping discussion focused on the "it's a different architecture, what comp-sci interesting things can we do with it" aspect instead of getting distracted by shallow OCD-meta-security bikeshedding.

(It's kind of sad that the collective consensus about new/different architectures has to always be about security nowadays, and not about unbiased exploration, which is what we're best at)
I think you mean “Pepe” for the name of the frog.
Would love to speak with you more on connective tissue disorder if you are willing. This has been a recent diagnosis we are still navigating.
A brilliant talk. And it's not about games -- the essence of it is much bigger than that.
It's just a general clear communication principle that can take many forms. If you have filler content for the sake of padding out the work, it isn't communicating anything, and the audience will know it.

Take that thought in the other direction - how to communicate more efficiently - and you end up with snappy movie dialogue and non-verbal interaction that can push a plot forward really quickly.

With any kind of communication the challenges involve a mix of both knowing what techniques are possible, and having messages worth focusing those techniques on.
The paper describes the problems inherent to bitcoin. I think blockchain might be a good fit for some things, but bitcoin makes a terrible currency.

The relevant section:

>Today’s representative blockchain such as Bitcoin takes 10 min or longer to confirm transactions, achieves 7 transactions/sec maximum throughput. In comparison, a mainstream payment processor such as Visa credit card confirms a transaction within seconds, and processes 2000 transactions/sec on average, with a peak rate of 56,000 transactions/secnsactions/sec on average, with
a peak rate of 56,000 transactions/sec
So I guess Gab is a Twitter clone like Voat was supposed to be for Reddit. As an aside, how does Mastodon deals/will deal with the issue? Because it is almost guaranteed that the most extremist elements will flock to it (I'm sold on its long term usefulness).
I'm a current IBMer, and there is a process for getting CLAs signed - it's a bit bureaucratic if it's not a CLA for a company we already work with, but otherwise IBM has no problems with contributing to projects like that.
Oy, thanks, fixed.
>This is missing the point of a PhD, which is to develop a capacity for doing science (or more generally hard thinking in relevant domain)

These days, it is more about the ability to publish. A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a friend of mine who is wrapping up his PhD. He pointed out that not one of his colleagues is concerned whether anyone can reproduce their work. They use a home grown simulation suite which only they have access to, and is constantly being updated with the worst software practices you can think of. No one in their team believes that the tool will give the same results they did 4 years ago. The troubling part is, no one sees that as being a problem. They got their papers published, and so the SW did its job.

(Should not be surprising to anyone who spends a lot of time in engineering PhD programs).
Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM
Gab.com is under attack
I am living in an alternate Universe now?

- Linus is super polite here;
- RedHat is IBM here;
- IBM is still bad, tho.

-ss

P.S. Sad news.
When I was younger, you were expected to read the manual before getting into the software. The manual gave a lot of helpful tricks to use the software effectively, and users often had a better grasp of what it was capable of.

These days, people seem to have no patience for learning their tools. Many (most?) of my co-workers learn through someone else showing them some feature instead of learning it through a natural process of using the built-in help. People seem to assume that if it's not painfully obvious, the software probably can't do it. With him, I know it's probably capable of doing what I want, so I'm accustomed to searching the documentation to automate a repetitive task.

I'm not saying that being intuitive is bad, and it's certainly the right choice for the majority of software. I'm saying that for power tools, you can often end up with a more efficient tool if you require the user to put in some effort at the outset.
That’s because race is correlated with everything since racial divisions have a long history and share a lot of circumstances.

It’s not because of the color of someone’s skin. It’s not even clear where racial lines are drawn and previously distinct “races” have disappeared into the general “Caucasian” label depending on time period.

Your comments are why it’s a problem - people are unable to understand the difference and overfit to patterns in the data. Our learning shares a similar problem to ML.

When you don’t correct for this it hurts people of that race and helps to perpetuate the imbalance - reinenforcing the historical data and increasing inequality.
It always amuses me when pro-business conservatives/Republicans aren't pro-business when it hurts their feelings. Amusing isn't the right word...but I have no other way to describe it.

If GoDaddy won't handle their domain name, I'm sure some registrar in Russia would glady give them gab.ru
There is a huge flaw inherent in that study.

It is assumed that the people claiming to be Americans without ID are in fact Americans without ID. It's kind of hard to verify this without ID, eh? The given percentages are in the ballpark for estimates of illegal aliens, meaning that these might be people who aren't supposed to have an American ID and in fact aren't supposed to vote.
Though I dedicated a few years of my life to OpenStack at HP, I sometimes wonder if OpenStack would be healthier if GloboMegaCorps didn't get involved.

In 2013, OpenStack felt like the "new Linux"
Is this really the case? I had always heard that part of the reason ThinkPads have such good Linux support is their use internally at Red Hat (who pushed the relevant code upstream).
That's an interesting thought, though Red Hat has a significant services group too, so they'd still have one afterward.
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (2014) [pdf]
No fees to middlemen, enabling micro-payments at scale (obviously need to drastically reduce blockchain fees, but that is an area of active development). Elimination of charge-backs and a huge amount of fraud, especially in industries that have an abnormally high level of fraud. Borderless payments. The highest density of wealth storage ever invented. Completely different threat model for theft with its own pros and cons.

Everyone immediately jumps to the criminal aspects. The existing financial system has absolutely no problem handling all the crime, the blockchain did not invent money laundering.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/19/danske-bank...
That NPR piece is particularly frustrating, because it leaves the impression that Gab sort of happened to become a white nationalist haven. But of course, Gab was founded by a dude who got kicked out of YC for harassing minorities and runs a Twitter account that posts anti-Semitic (among other things) tweets. There's nothing accidental about what Gab is.
WinSystems SBC Supports Windows 10 IoT Core OS
I have multiple FPGA designs in use today. What does or doesn’t bother you is irrelevant.

I don’t really care to explain the obvious net win that open source designs (and tools) are for society. The only argument I’d consider reasonable is that the FPGA/hardware world is too small to justify the initial investment.
Twitter is bad at removing abusive or threatening content from their site. That's not the same as refusing to remove it.
I'm in the Linux Technology Centre - we've got an extremely strong open source culture over here.
Mastodon deals with it my not being popular enough even for trolls ;)

In seriousness, isn't it federated like PeerTube? In that case, you'd likely only allow people to link to your network if you trust them, and each network would be responsible for vetting its users. If a particular network becomes a cesspool, you just remove them from your network instead of having to completely overhaul the entire system.
If you have an engineer who's paid $100 000 a year with three weeks vacation, that's 407.05 a day. It starts to make sense that you'd buy $4000 IP for an operating system, unless by some ungodly powers they can write that in less than 10 days.
One could argue that the Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc are also more dangerous because they allow the recruitment and radicalization of normal people. Before social media was around someone would have had to seek out a site like Stormfront. They would have had to take an active interest in these hate groups. With social media the hate comes to them and is mixed in with all the usual cat pictures and memes. This serves to normalize hate and creates an easy avenue to recruit disenfranchised people who might never have previously been exposed to this type of thing pre-social media.
Logical, but completely impractical suggestion.

I live in the US, am from Europe, and I would never switch to a EU number just to avoid robocallers. It would heavily damage my ability to connect with US people, for work or leisure.
Well their job (The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency[1]) by law is to regulate banks for systemic risk. Recall that this same government bailed out the banks due to systemic risks. JP Morgan is then participating in risky activities and wants to expand thus becoming more important in the banking system. The government pushes back as it has had transgressions.

The whole "unwritten rule" thing is kinda nonsense. The OCC which was preventing the expansion was chartered to ensure the soundness of the banking system. That is pretty arbitrary and they have the authority to arbitrate on that. That sounds like they can use their discretion.

What you would think would not happen in America is that the government bails out private banks that behaved badly. If it were truly American capitalism they would fail. Banks would then not be able to become so large due to people and banks not wanting to have too much liability with any one institution. So it is inconsistent to have a system where the government cannot use their discretion in the growth of banks, yet be on the line for a huge bailout to stop the economy from collapsing when the banks get too greedy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Comptroller_of_t...
Well, Canonical was never a successful business in the first place. Red Hat on the other hand has revenue in the billions... which is huge! It’s just not growing fast enough to keep up with the competition from cloud providers and others. Canonical hasn’t even graduated to that sort of first-class problem (and I doubt they ever will).
Exactly. If data is the currency of the future, and we're too conservative about permitting experiments, we'll lose out on a lot of innovation. What if a smart city encourages more walking? What if it has less pollution? What about all the people who die prematurely living in today's cities for these reasons?

After experimenting, then we as a society can decide not to permit something, not before.

As an analogy, what if burning fossil fuels were banned worldwide in 1900 because people were too conservative about pollution? We all agree that pollution is bad, but we should be willing to permit some amount of negative side effects if we want progress. Otherwise, we'd still be living in medieval times.
That doesn't mean it's useless, it's just that the current state of the technology does not have the same throughput as other technologies in regards to payment processing. Bitcoin has many other aspects that make it more than a "useless commodity", which wasn't implied by the linked article or the fact you quoted.
I have the same problem in academia, being in a non-CS department, I'm required to notify the University's Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization about assigning my copyright over software to another entity (like the FSF), but so far I have been unsuccessful at getting them to sign the letter the FSF wants, despite the code I would be contributing being completely outside of my work at the University and so therefore theoretically outside of their purview. I suppose the moral is that all large organisations converge towards bureaucratic processes that waste the time of high$/hour employees and attempt to hinder all not immediately commercialisable progress.
It’s a spectrum and the boundaries are unclear. By this definition https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/serv... they are more serverless than PaaS imo.

Either way, serverless is a superset of FaaS.
That's exactly why Red Hat had said permission slips. The ridiculous thing was that IBM refused to sign them
It doesn't have to be. It just is, because there is no need for the overhead of dealing with threads.
Coercion combined with ignoring customer complaints is the most accurate characterization.
There's nothing more liberal in 2018 than worshipping at the altar of billion dollar banking institutions and web hosters for colluding to suppress the speech of people they disagree with.
Bayesian updates to beliefs
I think they are more serverless than PaaS by this definition. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/serv...
Ignoring the offending content in question: What does a registrar have to do with the content of the website the domain points to? They are not hosting the content themselves, nor are they even pointing to it (assuming private nameservers are used).

I don't see any grounds on which godaddy could reasonably claim policy jurisdiction over objectionable content they do not actively host themselves. To me, this seems like a conservative phone company bricking users phones because they've been used to watch porn. If the hosted content is illegal, they should be reported to authorities. If it is not, godaddy should act like the transparent utility service that it is and not intervene.

Am I wrong in my line of thinking?
One could also argue that twitter, reddit and facebook also discourage people from joining hate groups and so on. All of these platforms can be used for good or bad. Maybe someone was a jew hater before but then they watch a documentary about Israel and realize that the jews aren't so bad etc. That same person might also watch a documentary about hate groups and realize they are a member of one and decide to make a positive change in their life.
This is a pretty good example of "you have the right to free speech, not consequence free speech" IMO.
Downvoters, care to explain? Or is it just because it's effectively anti-DDG?
Software income is because those fine consultants pushed the IBM Solution on unsuspecting customers.
Are you being intentionally ironic when you say it is a “safe space” for the alt-right?
Context for those unfamiliar with Andrew Torba: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...
> I think you are right to not use a pseudonym. I once did, and regret having done so.

Did it cause you some problems later, or?
"There’s only two things that will improve your situation:

1. Concentrate on your users, audience, customers, fans.
Figure out what they want. Develop a deep connection with them.

2. Improve your skill, expertise, competence, product.
How can you get better? How can you make your product better for the people who use it?"

There is also a responsibility for well-informed people to encourage and join initiatives that are 'good' and interesting. This is the way ethical and useful initiatives can be promoted and can 'win' in the marketplace of ideas.
Well, the permission exists to ensure that the contributions will be owned by the project and not anyone's employer.

If that permission isn't secured, though, and the employee has a contract with their employer that signs ownership of some or all of their off-hours work over to their employer, and the employer decides to try and exercise those rights, then it's anyone's guess who the real owner would be. Might vary by jurisdiction. Might be down to whether the open source project can afford to lawyer up in the first place.

Given all that, a FOSS project isn't unwise for asking for a permission slip. You could argue that it's being over-cautious, but that's the project maintainer's decision, and it deserves to be respected.
It depends on the type of CLA. There are many CLAs that do not imply copyright assignment, it's just legalese to make sure that you are taking liability for making sure that you have the right to add your contributions to the project -- basically a longer-form version of the Linux DCO.

In those cases, your employer would own your contributions and thus you need permission from them to license their copyrighted work (your changes) under whatever the project license is.

But in any case, contributing under a pseudonym is something that you should think about very seriously. This has been done before in the Linux kernel and luckily nobody got sued over it, but it is basically copyright infringement mixed with various levels of fraud and deception. Don't do this to us poor maintainers.
The thing is that "nothing illegal" is too low a bar. From a purely ethical standpoint taking money from a platform that supports hate speech is pretty sketchy even if it's not illegal