skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a religious atheist, or a mystical one, by choice. (Please don’t pick on my choice of words)

That road is full of drama and pain, and I’m very glad to have discovered Carl Jung, Alan Watts and Robert Bly.

Health wise, it may be too late, but I’m still very very thankful, and wish I discovered all this earlier.

If anyone here is suffering, send me a message. I will do my best so you suffer less in this world.
If you're into radio, PRI's The World (https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world) and the BBC World Service (https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio) both do a great job covering world news, as well as the Associated Press, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Apple's been in this game a long time. NewtonScript had a powerful function called "IsHalting". See Page 23-84 of http://www.newted.org/download/manuals/NewtonProgrammerRef20...
It is known Khaleesi.
Am I the only one that hates that the “fediverse” is not on the web?

We didn’t need a separate protocol/app and closed servers to do what are actually just blog posts and replies.
The Economist is somehow accused to have a bias in every direction. Some would call it "Ecommunist"pushing a far-left agenda, others decrying a right capitalist ideology.
No expert, but the latest studies have been about the correlation with the herpes virus and how the plaque build-ups that are part of Alzheimer's may be the immune system's attempt to protect the brain.
EdgeHTML and control of the web platform
My Steam account has had high entropy, sole use passwords cracked in the timeframe of months, which would seem to indicate (if Valve is not leaking [1]) a botnet using their "simple" HTTPS login endpoints to brute force passwords. So far Steam Guard (2FA) has stopped the attacks, but that doesn't make me feel that much better given the speed in which the passwords seem to be cracking.

That's just one account I see as currently most at risk. There are plenty of others I'm concerned about as well.

Passwords are fragile, brittle things. "Simple" security is no longer an answer when dealing with passwords. FULL STOP. It's time we moved past passwords altogether, but even where we can't, we absolutely have to be serious about password security from top to bottom.

You can victim blame "hacked websites" for "badly implemented security" all you want, but that's part of the point, too. Password infrastructure will always be lowest common denominator, because it is "easy", because it is "simple". Everyone thinks they can implement password security, and everyone is wrong. There are still people that don't hash, much less salt, their passwords in 2018. There are still people that don't realize "Security Questions" are Plaintext Passwords and a giant security risk. In the age of bitcoin mining there is no such thing as a hashed or salted password that cannot be brute forced. Bitcoin mining is password brute force at massive scale, and dropped rainbow table hardware to the price floor.

I'm sorry that you still have any illusions left that passwords are and/or can be "simple". Passwords are dead and yet we're all going to be fighting that forest fire for decades to come.

[1] Which admittedly, is a possibility, but it would be a surprising shock for an application as big as Steam.
I don't know if this applies to Hue, but did your product flicker when controlling the individual R G B color channels. I notice that with cheap gaming mice with the awful RGB LED's and it's maddening.
As someone who's been on a few NDA'd betas before... I just don't understand why people leak. Is it the feeling they can break the rules without likely facing truly serious repercussions? (Has anyone ever gone to jail or even been seriously fined for violating a video game NDA?) Is it the notoriety of it?

I mean, I won't deny there was a fun factor to having a New York Times reporter beg me to violate a Google NDA once. But even then, I had more fun knowing something the New York Times didn't than breaking my agreement, ruining my personal reputation/credibility as a trustworthy individual, etc.

And generally if I have access to these sorts of things, I'm enthusiastic about what the company is doing, and the last thing I'd want to do is sabotage them.
Of course they are. Many, many companies offer a “voluntary first” incentive to avoid the bad press and services they might otherwise have to provide to laid-off people. Jobs went away. Sugar-coating the exact method of ending the jobs doesn’t change that.
It sounds like they were offered that in lieu of a less favorable outcome...Also 3 weeks per year of service is in my experience less than standard.
How does it typically work if I am riding my own bike or scooter and something like this accident happened? Most people don't carry liability insurance for their bicycles, skateboards etc.
The comments on HN tend to be so completely out of touch with reality, that it's sometimes hard to separate the wheat from the proverbial chaff.

If the negativity was constructive, I'd be with you, but I don't think it is. It's the incorrect or incomplete application of concepts people pick up in blog posts or half-read books about one person's opinion about how to do a certain thing, represented as gospel.

Regarding your link, I urge you to check the dates those comments were posted. You'll find, I theorize, that the number of these quality posts has gone down over time. I believe the "good parts" are fading, getting lost in the increasing noise.
> There has to be an optimum level

I don't think there is any level where more equality does not lead to more innovation (any evidence to the contrary is welcome).

The thing with innovation and inequality is that some government programs that help (or claim to) the first can harm the second at the same time. But AFAIK, there is no absolute antagonism between them.
> The door while having an impact doesn’t really change much.

What do you mean? Without access to the controls of the plane, they hijackers cannot accomplish their goal of using the plane as a big bomb. They are deterred because it costs a large amount of operational resources to only fail the mission. If they wanted to simply kill people, they have simpler means (much cheaper means) to hit soft targets.

Not only that, the complex, involved missions involve more people which raises the risk of failure, of being caught ahead of time, and of unwinding the clues up the stack. If they are going to take those risks, they want a certain chance of success * size of outcome.
I guess, this is the weapon of choice for any patient spy unwilling to send a message.
One pinbrick, and the nuclear scientist/dissendent/oppossitional spy has half a year to write his/her memoir.

Are there statistics on Creuzfeld-Jakobs in Langley?
I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_detection ?
YC has talked about how startups die of suicide, not homicide. Shutting down is a hard decision, and there always seems to be pressure to do it. Raising money looks like success to others - so it's tough to declare later that you have made nothing of value and will close shop.

Here were my shutdown articles after I closed Staffjoy:

https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-is-shutting-down-39f7b5d6...

https://blog.staffjoy.com/denouement-abe7d26f2de0
Is this not just the same thing but with golden handshakes? Still looks like cost cutting.
I submitted that article on HN but it didn't get any attraction.

It seems Ford CEO thinks they can collect and monetize drivers data:
-- So the case I would make is that we have as much data in the future coming from vehicles, or from users in those vehicles, or from cities talking to those vehicles, as the other competitors that you and I would be talking about that have monetizable attraction.

--The issue in the vehicle, see, is: we already know and have data on our customers. By the way, we protect this securely; they trust us. We know what people make. How do we know that? It’s because they borrow money from us. And when you ask somebody what they make, we know where they work; we know if they’re married. We know how long they’ve lived in their house, because these are all on the credit applications. We’ve never ever been challenged on how we use that. And that’s the leverage we’ve got here with the data.
White Mirror. :)
There are no published odds in the crypto lottery, You’ve been doing nothing but lose money for a full year and have nothing but some heavy bags to show for it.

The counter would be so what if craps is gambling? I go to the craps table every payday and throw $1000 on hard eight. Why? Because the odds of winning at craps are better than the odds of winning at anything else in the casino!

At least craps odds are published.

Even as everyone is freaking out about a market downturn right now if you’ve been putting that same money in the S&P 500 over the course of the year you’d be either break even on ticker price or probably up 2 to 3% in total returns, instead you’re down 80% and that’s if you’ve been only in BTC, some of the alts are down 99.95% and you’d have shares of real productive companies and their future revenues to show for it.
The really interesting part is that the highlight marketing photos are using pictures of an Apple Watch and when you actually check the product, the "real" photos is nothing like it.

This is basically adding a known brand onto cheap tech knockoff products.
No, you're not
You're missing the point by actually arguing the merits of the case, the ruling is in China. Politbuto decides the "Court" cases. USA messed with Huawei, China answered. Popcorn
The fear may be rational, but the response to it needs to be rational as well. That means treating the things that are known to do the most damage currently, while maintaining containment procedures that can handle your black swan epidemics.
Profit.

YouTube has struggled to make money.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970777/YouTube-rou...
Did not receive my YC application result of Summer 2019 yet?
We applied for YC (Summer 2019) on October 18th,2018. Haven't received a response yet.
Show HN: CertMagic – Caddy's automagic HTTPS features as a Go library
That is if there are funds, no? I’m surprised they can do this. Is it because US laws are more lax or vague on crypto?
There's no conspiracy. Flutter is new, it's from Google and it's growing fast. Hence people are trying it out and blogging about it. Others are intrigued and reading the blogs and liking it. That's it.
I'm sure there's plenty of junk in landfills that will make for interesting fossils. The material doesn't have to be "stable", it just has to make an imprint. Most existing fossils don't comprise the original material, but are rather "mineral shadows" of what was there before.
Philanthropic foundation's use of offshore investments to raise money: Report
Some people say that Brexit was a similar act of norm-breaking, and now the govenment is stockpiling insulin in advance of their planned disaster.

The current US government is actually not all that bad in practical terms by the standards of its behaviour in the 60s and 70s, but this is mostly because it's corrupt and ineffectual. They can't even prevent their own money launderers from being jailed.
Always amused me: Sky used to use a pint glass on subscription sports package for pubs/bars. But some sneaky publicans were sticking pint glass stickers to the corner of their screens to fool inspectors... So now the glass has a different filling depending on the day.
I’ve seen 2 weeks at a lot of places.
Dot-com addresses prices to swell, thanks to deal between Uncle Sam, Verisign
anandtech is an unofficial spokesperson for Intel. Team red ftw.
I wasn't aware that recent versions of Airport Utility don't support the 802.11g Airport Express. That's annoying.

But why wouldn't it work with modern routers? As far as I know, even the newest WiFi routers still support 802.11g clients.
China bans import and sale of iPhones
Yes, it's a common acne medication.
This is why China will beat any other countries including US on AI and ML hands-down, it has no privacy law and people don't care that much either so it collects such a huge volume of data for training and mining.
Are people reading this article surprised that your devices know your locations? We are constantly getting "helpful" notifications that should make it VERY clear that's happening: "Parked car location updated" "It's 8am, are you on your way to work?" "Can you share feedback about that restaurant you were at but didn't check in at?" If people don't already know, then good for the Times for making sure everyone is checking their settings and paying attention.
What to do when a company has found a market, reached sustainability with regard to its employees and customers, yet probably will not be providing the anticipated return for its investors? I'd like to hear about ways this has been bridged. Have there been any SV "exits" to a ESOP? Unfortunately, an ESOP requires at a minimum 30+ people to be legitimate exit option and quite a bit of administrative attention and expense. It seems an unlikely path for a technology startup.
If they're able to save up for a down payment they can wait a little longer and save up a six month reserve.
Wonder if he got a supaman game on dat hoe
Seniors Who Exercise Regularly May Have Younger Hearts, Muscles
Will Harry Potter AR Make $100M in 30 Days?
paths | awk -F / '{ print $1 }'

(edit: format)
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition
Real-Time Communications and Bots Leads to Easier Business Interactions
People have bought stock in companies which violently subvert democracy and do irreparable damage to nature, with no consequence. It is good that accountability in finance at least comes this far.
Yeah I used to be a network engineer and there were a number of tools that to some extent offered an advanced and simple view.

They were usually pretty terrible about picking what went where (I suppose that's the real trick) but the idea was always a good one.
Movie genre prediction with the Object2Vec algorithm
Top 10 reasons people will start HATING your blog. They're hard to believe!
This seems legit:
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employee-morale-dro...

I think if the WSJ posted factually incorrect information, Facebook would have reacted and asked for a redaction and probably an apology.
Headlights, no. Blinking taillights are allowed though (with a minimum blink frequency of ~3.3 Hz / 200 per minute) and those are the ones I mentioned. Blinking taillights do make bicycles stand out more which can only help in a country like Sweden where cycle paths are as rare as hen's teeth. In the Netherlands (where I'm from originally) this is less urgent as there are plenty of cycle paths.
Elon Musk on 60 Minutes: “I do not respect the SEC”
Dan Carlin's "Death Throes of the Republic" series goes way into the fall of the Roman Republic. It's $10 if you buy directly from his site and absolutely worth it.

Along the same lines, fans of Mike Duncan's "History of Rome" podcast should consider purchasing his book "The Storm Before the Storm." It covers this period with nuance and depth.
Supply-side economics in action.

This is what you get when the theoretical underpinning of your government is a napkin.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...
one of the main problems with {setting} is that most its users actually didn't {enable/disable} it intentionally (because there are {software implementations} that {enable/disable} it by default).
It takes most people a lot more than 6mo to save up a 6mo reserve. Delaying a house purchase by a year or two is not a practical option for most people. You have external things constraining your timeline to buy.
In many cities, two-wheeled vehicles are required to not be on the sidewalk. I'll bet parent is equally annoyed by being almost run down by bicyclists while on the sidewalk....
To avoid further cardiac anomalies maybe change the title a bit?
Proteins fold based on minimizing energy states. Any amino acid sequence (large molecules) can be folded in many different ways. For example enzymes binding to proteins can cause desired protein folding changes. Generally if a protein gets misfolded (happens all the time) it doesnt do anything, in some cases misfolding causes bad effects.

Prions misfold in a way that induces other of the normal version to misfold in the same way and therefore spread.

On the plus side prions kills pretty quickly and so there is unlikely to be much underlying mutation in their form or function.

Protein folding is incredibly complicated but I could imagine enzymes which could snip the prion or another similar protein which induces it to fold back into the preferred state. I doubt we have the science to explicitly design such a thing, but you could expose prion molecules in bacteria and put them under evolutionary pressure and they might eventually develop something that disables/fixes the prion.

You would essentially align survival of the bacteria to disruption of the prion molecule.

This link has an image of the two versions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/creutzfeldt-j...
The FBI's Vault is surprisingly informative.

https://vault.fbi.gov

https://vault.fbi.gov/civil-rights

https://vault.fbi.gov/anti-war-movement

https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

https://vault.fbi.gov/Helen%20Keller

https://vault.fbi.gov/Howard%20Zinn%20
Haha, I'm rewatching the series now. Just finished season 2 last night.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm no expert just passing on things I've read.

Regardless, it's unrelated to prions.
It is unfair, and may be financially devastating to some people. I would imagine that at least some of these people took their profits, invested them in other things that didn’t pan out, and now are faced with being sued by the trustee for money they no longer have, many years later, through no fault of their own. There should be legal limits on clawbacks in those cases where the target was unaware of the fraud and paying it back will cause them financial ruin.
But 'purley and simple' doesn't fit.

News/consume gives you the zeitgeist. No popculture/news no zeitgeist.

Also news doesn't work when no one reads them. So for him it works and for you also but it would probably remove an important organ if noone would spend any money on it. Yes we are far from it and yes there is too much news but his viewpoint is too simple.
It's the "Plasma Science Experiment" I believe. Voyager 1 did have one, but it broke along the way. This is based on https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7301
I find this really interesting because not only does it find programs which solve tasks, it captures some basic intuitions of human software development:

- Having the right library of reusable components makes it easier to solve new problems.

- We find reusable components by abstracting out patterns (not merely subexpressions) from existing code.

- Even before we begin seriously searching for a solution to a specific problem, good programmers have an intuition about what a solution must look like, which strongly informs how we find that solution.

It's also interesting to think through what programming might look like in several years if research like this matures into common tooling. Then it seems the work of getting computers to do new things will consist in:

- specifying the domain-specific likelihood model

- specifying the structure of the recognition model

- creating and refining task definitions by selecting and growing sets of examples

- curriculum design

- combining components from different domains
Swarz was an activist himself. You might say, not a "political" activist, but today even acknowledging science is political...

I think reading Twitter is generally a terrible idea, unless you carefully select who you follow, but you risk staying in your bubble, and adventuring yourself outside of it is even worse.
[1812.02342] Arbitrary Style Transfer with Style-Attentional Networks
Curvature of a Bézier curve (2018)
Thanks for the book. How does it compare to 'Math for CS'.
I'm involved with a startup that I believe has a wonderful solution to this and other related problems. Our website: http://qalocate.com/

Our platform: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Lo...

The biggest issue with solutions like this isn't that they aren't clever, or even that they aren't better than say a geohash or lat/lon, but that they have the wrong target. Computers don't really care since its just as easy to parse a geohash, a lat/lon, or an open location code. The tricky bit is when humans get involved.

Its humans that have way more limitations when it comes to using complex systems. And frankly, humans still use addresses because the system co-evolved with us and our needs. Addresses solve the problem well enough, and have "outs" for when they don't work. For a bit more in-depth discussion on this see: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/2018/04/04/addresses-are-complic...

So if we want to replace addresses, then we really have to think outside the box. Fortunately, the web has done a lot of the heavy pushing by introducing all kinds of new, useful, and exploitable semantics that we can apply in other domains.

Humans are pretty good at using names for things. When computers were first networked, we soon replaced IP addresses with names. Thus was DNS born. We then combined that with another id, and soon we had email.

We believe that a similar system can be used for locations. No one really cares about the exact geohash or lat/lon of a location, or the niftyness of your coordinate system. Instead, what we need are memorable names. So why not just use names?

That's what LNS (http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Lo...) is. It works very similarly to DNS and allows one to link arbitrary names to exact coordinate locations, structures, or even regions.

For example, I can have "thelittlenag.frontdoor" if I want to point someone to the exact coordinate of my front door. If I want drone deliveries, then maybe I tell Amazon to use "thelittlenag.deliverydrone". The lawn guy can use "thelittlenag.propertyboundaries" to figure where my property lines start and end. And "thelittlenag.house" and "thelittlenag.gardenshed" can logically reference as entities(!) the two structures we have on our property.

PM me if you have any questions.
With Int you may be right.

But there are an infinite number of strings (and indeed every Turing machine may be represented as a String in swift), so it is indeed related to the halting problem.
Lots of people post exaggerations here about tech salaries that “other people they know” get. Last time I pointed this out (and shared links to salary.com and Glassdoor) I was personally attacked for it. There seems to be some strong undercurrent of motivation somewhere for maintaining this meme that entry-level engineers are making $400k and all have second homes in Monaco.
I watched the documentary The Farthest (really good, highly recommend https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/) on Netflix a few weeks ago. I might be misremembering; feel free to fact check me.
Which London? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation)
Comment of the year. Absolutely wonderful.
This section had been sitting unfinished for about half a year, and with Raph's post on smoothness it seemed as good a time as any (well, no, a better time than any) to just finish it up, and get it online. It's only been missing for about six years, so... finally got that problem fixed.
Yeah this post is literally the same argument as “my vote has never changed the outcome of an election so why vote?”
Three Keys to a Successful “Pre-Mortem”