skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I belive in free speech, I won't host just anything on my site(s) either.

Do you have to host other people's content, anything, to belive in free speech?

I don't know what you mean by free speech at this point.
That sounded like he was accused of misconduct or something.

But apparently it was in response to an interview he did, that some people felt that some of his comments were sexist.

And this was in 2014. He replied here: http://www.paulgraham.com/ff.html
My dad was a programmer at Sperry Univac. Our scratch paper was 11 x 14 fanfold. He also brought home punched cards. I learned to read the holes (though not for punctuation characters). He had this laminated card with a list of assembly opcodes, what they did, and their time of execution. (I still remember that an add took 4 microseconds, and a multiply took 6).

Then our high school got TRS-80s in the computer lab. I borrowed the BASIC manual and read it while I was supposed to be paying attention in calculus. (It only took an hour. That's something to keep in mind when designing a language for kids to learn.) I already knew FORTRAN, but changing a FORTRAN program took a week (create a deck of cards, hand it off to a teacher, they took it off-site and ran it, and brought back the results). Whereas BASIC I could change in a minute. (Yeah, those who say that a REPL is a big deal? Instant feedback really does change things.)
I suspect Amazon's cost includes shipping costs.

In the US this would be $3.19 for EU fees see [0], and their referral fee would be $1.35

Distributor costs would include advertising, which is not cheap, as well as storage.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/external/GABBX6GZ...
The parents are facing serious federal charges there. Conspiracy to commit mail fraud is what, up to 5yrs prison and a $250k fine? I feel for them - it's the type of crime I can easily imagine myself committing* - but good that this has been put to a stop.

*while also believing that, given the opportunity, I would choose to play it fair.
It also looks to me as if his name is being subjected to some weird anti-tidal effect -- stretched out laterally -- when in fact the exact opposite happens to anything falling into a black hole. (See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification)
That appears to be contradicted in this video which was linked above, around the 8:45 minute mark, it's a different set of memory items ("Runaway stabilizer") which should be enacted in the case this system was coming into force outside of a stall situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQW0upkVus
Your first two statements I agree with but they don't really apply to this article which is about undergraduates.

Undergrads are pretty much irrelevant to major research institutions (e.g. my undergraduate alma mater MIT spends only about 16% of its budget on undergrads who are actually subsidized -- tuition is about 14% of revenue). Grad students are what matter and apart from the B school they are mostly paid (barely) to attend.
A trapdoor is something that's hard to invert: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_function

A backdoor is a hidden access, like this.

Just a mistake in the article.
I hadn't heard that, but that's exactly why he says (in his latest video and here) to avoid too much speculation, because there are other things that could go wrong under similar conditions. Takeoff and landing are the most risky parts of a flight so it's no surprise that if there is going to be an issue, it would be during takeoff.
Im not sure how elegant I think the CSS hack is compared to just making a simplistic script for it. Would a user really notice the parsing time for such a simple javascript application?
It is not obvious that this action is actually in the best interest of open source. It's obvious that it's in the best interest of Elastic, but there is nothing intrinsically special about them that means they are the best stewards for the code until the end of time itself versus Amazon or anyone else for that matter.

The ability to fork in open source is a feature not a bug and ultimately the community of users and developers of these projects will decide what works best for them. In this case it isn't even a fork, it's new plugins that the community can consume under a FOSS license.
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I'm sure Shay et al have good intentions, but to have any degree of usability with elastic.co you need to buy x-packs which goes against the grain a little. I'd still like to have auth (not just basic-http) on personal projects.
Same here. One feature I would like is to be able to change where your shopping list goes as I do not particularly enjoy using the Alexa app.
Yeah, that's a good point. People are good at mentally compartmentalizing behaviors with personalities. If Alexa doesn't allow each agent to have a personality, people are going to have a hard time keeping the behaviors straight.

Kinda reminds me of Neuromancer, where a superintelligent AI was broken into two pieces to avoid detection. One part was good at personality, and the other part had to mimic people in order to communicate. It was very unnerving for people to talk to an AI that was copying the personality of someone they knew.
You're not making a level-matched A/B comparison. That's like mistake #1 of audio engineering. Louder sounds better; plugs that attenuate -25 dB will sound better than -32 dB.
High salary alone will not create loyalty: there always will be someone who offers more.

The "strings" don't work that well either: deferred comp matching is pretty much standard these days.
What is the path to get this link from front page ? I can't get it from the homepage:
https://www.elastic.co/, "download"
https://www.elastic.co/downloads/ : no download link for the oss distribution
The bottom of the engines are a mere 40cm of so above the ground when the plane is on the runway. Hence the tight fit and need to move the engines forward so they would fit. Then the auto-fix-the-stall software isn't something the pilots are told about.

They didn't come up with a common sense solution, doing so would have costed many billions for a new airframe with longer legs for the landing gear. This is how I understand the problem, coming from a design compromise and organisational groupthink.

Clearly this is my armchair speculation however I suspect there will be lessons to be learned from this that run along the lines of the 'Vasa' rather than the 'Comet'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

The Vasa story crops up on HN from time to time, it was a top heavy Swedish ship that sank after launch in light winds many centuries ago. The spec had changed with more gun decks added and groupthink drove the 'pride of the fleet' project forward. The launch date happened and it sunk.
Ironically the text is hard to read for those without high DPI displays.
That's close to my understanding of things. Tooling is often a sales pitch and doesn't really help you.

And again, the point is not that dynamic => uncertainty it's that static != certainty. It's static + man hours that reduce some uncertainty.

ps: remember the stubs of code in the Eclipse/UML era... that was tooling too. We got to be a little more precise.
It's funny this post is being created now. Google Hangouts was the primary method that my wife and I used to chat. I could talk to my wife while she was at work, even if I had no idea where my phone was. Its shutdown prompted me to look for an alternative. We ended up switching to an XMPP client, and we plan on creating an XMPP server for ourselves on a cloud instance so we know the conversation won't be intercepted by non-state actors.

I don't know if it will ever reach the popularity it once had, but XMPP is useful to us at least.
It is possible to respond to someone while agreeing with them.

But allow me to disagree with your conclusion. The problem isn't predatory pricing, but the network effects problem is still a problem.

Now, granted, the problem is as much created by the government as anything. The law (CFAA, DMCA) makes it so that people can't create a Facebook "client" without Facebook's permission.

If they could, suddenly you've got a bunch of clients that consolidate many social networks into one interface, which makes it easier for users to switch to others. If Facebook is doing something you don't like, you install another back end to your client and transparently use that service with any friends who also have it. The more people Facebook offends, the more users they lose, without any specific other service ever having to reach some critical mass before most people can stop using Facebook.

That could be brought about by removing laws rather than adding them (though you could also pass new legislation to the same effect), but in either case it does require a piece of legislation to be passed to bring it about.
For research: have another device perform "audio fuzzing" of Alexa, trying random phrases. Use a camera to look for Alexa turning on. Bonus points, check the list of Alexa recordings (via web interface) to confirm 1:1 relationship between device activation and recorded file. Publish the inadvertent "watchlist" of phrases, monitor over time.
Exactly, they can both be right. In Elastic's case though being right still doesn't mean they exist in 5 years. This doesn't reflect that what they did here was wrong but that by the time this started unfolding they were already in a bad position.
My apologies, I wasn't stating his thesis in full. "Poorly defined" in the scientific sense. And to address your concern: a title should not be a thesis, thesis' of articles can be implied, and other commenters to not appear to be discussing the content of this precise article.
The smart speaker is always fixed in place, always listening, always ready to play and independent of anything else.

Your phone needs to be in range of the 'dumb' speaker, needs to be paired to it / connected to the same wireless network, can't be used for any other audio functions, and probably can't be in your pocket if you want it to be listening for voice commands. It now also can't be trained to your voice specifically if you have others in your home who want to use it, which makes it ripe for abuse whenever you leave the home.
I wonder if you can help me understand this better. Why does a specific private university need let in the smartest or most capable students? What does that have to be their goal or they are unjust? Why can't they have different reasons and goals when building their student body? I understand things like racism and other forms of bigotry. But what's wrong with adding some students that will bring in the perspective of the super wealthy? Not to mention the significant additional funds it will provide for everyone else?

It feels like having a purely merit based population of students would create a very stagnant and dull environment.
This write-up mostly highlights the loading speed and bandwidth benefits but not requiring javascript is far better than just that. In the age of spectre and with browsers exposing more and more bare metal functionality the idea of running arbitrary code on every random site I go to is absurd. There's dozens of us that simply don't run JS. Sites like these (and, say, the way chicago public media does fallback for no JS) show that there can still be pretty, functional sites without the modern equivalent of opening that .exe attached to a random email.

Thanks and keep up the good fight.
The internet was way more social before "social media" came along.
I can come up with a list too, and many more sites have lists alternativeto.net and slant.co are my go-tos. The point of asking here is to get a thoughtful response with a genuine user preference from someone technically inclined; your comment really doesn't help.
This is great, thanks :)

Mind if I port this to JS?
Heh, I did this back in 2012: http://thredis.org/ (Not only is it threaded, it also supports SQL).
Thank you!

This was helpful, concise, well written, yet did not throw a SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER popup in my face, did not ask me to create an account, did not bombard me with ads and did not come across as the usual LOOK AT ME I'M AWESOME HIRE ME. If I could upvote this more, I would.
* Agreed on blood sugar vs. dietary sugar.
* This paper launched a whole series of mouse studies.
> I went and bought rail stocks in anticipation for the inevitable outcome where individual farmers would pay more for access.

Tangent - I don't know any other country in the world where the public is actively picking stocks like this. Given that, it's probably bad for the majority of people, I wonder if, at some point of US history, it was pushed upon people by some PR campaign (for example, by the finance companies who profit from it).
In patent cases, if one wants to pursue it far enough, it winds up at the Supreme Court. They seem to be perfectly happy to slap down the Patent Office and the Federal Circuit. It is beyond Trump's ability to decide whether the Supreme Court will continue to enforce the laws.

Unfortunately, that's a really slow and expensive process...
Three things a superpower should never outsource:

* energy production

* food supply

* coinage
> The alternative would have been changing the height of the plane, which probably also results in other problems.

There were more alternatives but all negate the selling point “it’s the ‘same’ plane so you don’t have to pay to retrain pilots, just buy, fly and use less fuel.”

Marketing driven solution, with a bit of lie.

Remember that selling point whenever somebody claims that the “pilots didn’t follow the proper procedure” involving even initially undocumented new behavior and the new software dependency on the single point of failure sensor.
Random datapoint of course, but you don't use nasal steroids do you?
I can see benefits to keying off the IP, but also to keying off some cookie that can expire shortly. One of the reasons I imagine a download might fail could be because of a spotty of problematic VPN or proxy, or attempting to get it from a location that can't handle it well if somewhat large (some random coffee shop wifi that's overused).

There's probably enough complexity and possibility for abuse in allowing automated requests for files again (i.e. a button on the view page) or special logic for second attempts that the safest option is just to have the receiving party ask for the file again through whatever medium originally kicked off the request (an email, an IM, etc).

Firefox could do any number of things to make it easier on the user, but I expect them to take my security and privacy very seriously and to error on the side of those ideas rather than usability, so hopefully if they come out with something it's not at odds with those goals.
You're not even sitting in the box where the sound engineers are tweaking the mixing board. Every location in the hall sounds a bit different.

Boutique plugs sound better because they attenuate less. Louder sounds better.

A fair A/B comparison of two audio signals requires them to be level-matched. When two samples are being compared, where one is louder, listeners will tend to be biased toward preferring the louder one.
That's great to know, could you point me towards any other companies?
Unlikely, npm has a reasonable belief that a bank employee entering into a contract with them has the right to do so, and that is generally sufficient for the contract to be binding on the bank.
"the person's politics"

I interpreted it as a how a person deals with internal politics not what their political views are. the latter would most definitely be illegal.
Did he ever find out more about that donut-shaped universe?
I suspect that there is some correlation between abstract thinking and preferring FP, and between concrete thinking and procedural programming. However, I know of no research to either support or disprove this.
Exercise is great for many reasons, but if you want to lose 50lbs you're going to have to focus on the input side. Eating about 500kcal/day less than maintenance level will get you to your goal in about a year. Most people find that rate sustainable.
Except that that's perilously close to telling a patient that we don't completely understand the mechanism of action for this medication, so they're just going to have to die.

Government, like medicine, means making decisions based on insufficient information. More and better information should be preferred, but it's important to recall that doing nothing is also a decision. Its being a default decision does not make it exempt it from the possibility of doing more harm than good.

We want to make the best decision possible, but that needs to take into account that any multi-dimensional problem is easily diverted into taking no action even when there is widespread belief in favor of some action. "Belief" is one of the ways we cope with the absence of information: we just ask people and do what the majority wants. So it's very easy to take a complex problem and present multiple competing solutions, any of which would be preferred by a majority but no one of which will be the single best choice for more than half.

Sorry that that went into an abstraction, and you probably know all that. It just raises a red flag for me when somebody says "It's complicated" but means "Well, not doing anything just happens to suit me, so I can continue to declare that it's complicated indefinitely, because it is."
> Although if you'd realised it was a 737 MAX, you might already be clutching a medicinal gin & tonic ...

I wouldn't, haven't all the problems so far have been during takeoff? So once you're cruising you're safe from them?
I'd love to hear more about this. Could you expand on how you measure your insulin response and as a result how you avoid erratic energy levels?
Agree, that's better. But what do we do then with the people who don't like them and still come there and complain?
This attempt to obscure the fact that it's actually super-targeted can also backfire too, though. It wouldn't take too many of them for a savvy user to be like... now wait a minute.

Thinking back to this classic where Target figures out the trick to not creeping out someone they suspect may be pregnant is to shuffle the maternity coupons in with a bunch of other random stuff: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
The only way that you could make another Facebook client is by allowing third parties to access the social graph. Then you get Cambridge Analytics. When you give a third party access to “your” data with respect to your friends, they also have access to my data that I never gave them permission for.
> To register his car, the D.M.V. insisted on a real name — not an L.L.C. — and a street address.

I don't understand: whose name appears on all the corporate vehicles driving around? A security van for Google, and Amazon delivery truck, a Brinks van: I'm supposed to think there's some employee's name on the title? What if that employee leaves?
A textbook example of this would be Bezos dropping diaper prices through the floor and doing it long enough to nearly drive diapers.com out of business. After which, he squired the company.
Thanks for the info. I guess the question for me is: even with a bad AoA sensor and the current MCAS behavior, can it be safer flying a 737 Max than whatever equipment I'd end up on if the 737 Max were grounded until the s/w update is deployed.

I seem to recall after the MCAS came to light as being involved in the Lion crash, some folks here were arguing that there was no way that exact crash would happen again because all pilots would now be aware of that failure scenario. And yet here we are. Unless the Ethiopian plane crashed for another reason entirely.
Eventually the bill can get so high that it doesn't make financial sense to still attempt to claim to be the owner. As of January there was a McDonnell Douglas MD87 in Madrid thats abandoned. Three 747 were sold for scrap in 2017 after they were abandoned at Kuala Lumpur.
pipx is rad. `pipx install ipython && pipx inject ipython numpy pandas attrs pendulum toolz` is ... very nice.
yes, it's achievable for folks with disposable income

People living in NC and TX generally have a lot more disposable income than people in CA at the same gross income level. (In that sense, those other places are more free.)

pay for the house in full. A mortgage was not going to be possible.

It's entirely possible for an LLC to lease property. I also know for a fact that there are people in Chinatown who, for a variety of reasons, can't get a mortgage, but they can get alternative financing to the tune of several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

> 9. Buy a boring car.

Very affordable. I just did this.

> 10. Buy a decoy house to fool the D.M.V.

In the Blues Brothers movie, I think one of the characters had Wrigley Field as their address. If you have friends at an organization like a church, you could use that address.

The subject of the article did it with money. There are other people who do some things like this through their connections.
I prefer MMA :D
I generally agree with you but FWIW most of the corn (90%+) grown in the US goes into animal feed, e.g. for cows.

Which is of course its own little tragedy, considering you get 1 calorie of cow for every 12 calories of corn.
It can happen any time if it’s the MCAS issue again. Which we don’t know yet.
Solar storm: Evidence found of eruption from Sun
I've seen a number of people pointing at this likely being more an issue with untrained pilots than the plane itself. EI, the flight crew on the crashed planes may have had considerably less experience than the minimum requirements most major airlines and all US airlines set for flying these planes.
Chicken and egg problem. How does the pilot know that the automation is malfunctioning? The pilot has to go through their mental checklist and make the realization that intervention is necessary to prevent catastrophic results. All this while in critical take-off situation.

Apparently, the plane thought all was well, just needed to point the nose of the plane down a wee bit.
> Not all Ippudos are the same. They franchised all over the world. There in an Ippudo in Changi Airport Singapore, trust me, it's not the real deal.

That Ippudo at the Singapore Airport is fantastic. Best dish I've ever had at an airport.
Their PDF reader actually freezes Chrome on my phone. I was forced to kill it.
> Well, you were referring to Cliqz, Pocket and Mr. Robot, which where trust issues, not security issues. Google has at least as many of those.

Yes, but here's the thing: these issues have shown that Firefox is not at all more trustworthy, they just don't have as easy a time getting away with it because they aren't in the lead. I have no reason to trust that they won't be just as bad if they think they can get away with it.
Why? Why wreck a good thing so no one else can enjoy it?

The torrent protocol is already there. Don't put that cost on the Mozilla Org.
I think anonymity was a big plus, including getting to know them part. It took work, but it was a lot of fun. Just like making friends in real life.
A great step that could be taken before full on conversation ability would be the simple ability for the assistant to ask questions and seek basic clarification when encountering ambiguity and then using the user’s answer to learn so clarification won’t be needed next time. This way, over time the voice assistant would refine itself and acclimate itself to its user’s way of communicating.

This alone would make for a much more usable experience, and yet no voice assistant has implemented it yet, which flabbergasts me. I don’t have much knowledge in this particular realm so maybe I’m missing some big blocker that prevents it from being possible, but to me it seems like such an obvious thing to do.
He didn't get targeted for having BTC -- he got targeted for being very public and loud about promoting BTC.