skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great idea, I'll look into that. Hadn't thought of scrapping it for parts.
Depends on what you count as "brilliant work". All of the Neuroscience PhDs at Stanford, UCSF and MIT (non-exhaustive list, just examples) I've met are at least 2 standard deviations away from average intelligence and many are 3 SDs away. Makes me think that some brilliant work requires being brilliant.
Black Holes in the Quantum Universe
Heritability of Lifetime Earnings
You don't need all those weird rules, all you need is a recycling tax on the product, and let market forces sort it out.
That's one reason why I built tiptap!
Read some of these on Blinkist. After reading several dozen Blinkist summaries, these self help / entrepreneurial books all start to sound mostly the same. I’d say each book seems to have just one or two key takeaways that differentiates it from other books in its field.

Thoughts on book summary services such as Blinkist?
Interference of Clocks: A Quantum Twin Paradox
Supernova signals of light dark matter
I think the I in AI is going to come to mean Idiot after a while due to the lack of nuanced perception and just going off of broad brush strokes. It’s akin to jumping to conclusions, we’ve just created computers that can do that now.
Well, I already have a desktop computer too. So if I'm going to make my little contribution to the problem by having two computers, the least I can do is minimize my impact in other ways.
As an application developer I want for my users a consistent experience, irrelevant of OS or distribution. I understand that.

But, as a user I want for my experience consistent on my os, irrelevant of that different apps are written by different people on different setups. I want consistent icons, I want menus that follow same convention, I want to change text colours and sizes.

The biggest issue is that developers don't want to follow gnome checklist. Instead of that, they hardcode colours and behaviour. They go heavy into 'it works for me'. And then have audacity to complain that world doesn't bend to their will.

Here is a gnome checklist. I wish the open letter stated how their application follows the checklist and was broken by a distribution so that the checklist now includes fails.

https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable...
The difficulty of defining a ‘species’ reminds me of one of my favorite essays about how we categorize things.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aMHq4mA2PHSM2TMoH/the-catego...
Yeah, like https://thephpleague.com/.
We used Quill before as our rich text editor at scrumpy.io … a few months later I started working on tiptap :)
I'm not sure you understand the power of the engine.

I can run the following in a jupyter notebook

image = CurrentImage[]
faces = FindFaces[image]
Show[{image,
Graphics[{EdgeForm[{Red, Thick}], FaceForm[],
Rectangle @@@ faces}]}]

and it will take a photo using the computer's camera and draw a box around my face.

Executing

DSolve[{y'[x] == y[x], y[0] == 1}, y[x], x]

returns

y[x] -> e^x

Edit: The following demos also work:

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/enhanced-graph...

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/enhanced-3d-im...

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/symbolic-geome...
Gluing batteries and similar techniques make products more robust to damage. Apple hardware is absolutely famous for surviving far longer than competing products. A 10 yr old functioning Mac is not unusual.
Yeah, cellulose is highly flammable. That's why early film was so problematic
I thought it was EU/UK residents, rather than citizens. Even if all of your users are US citizens, some US citizens reside in Europe.
First, Go had package management – it just has been optimized for monorepos.

Second, since early days of Go, they said that acknowledge their Google monorepo bias, and can't implement package manager that works for everybody without understanding what people outside of Google need.
They consciously gave time for community to grow and mature and get enough feedback before implementing proper solution, while actively studying package management solutions from other languages.

I definitely can't call it "refusing to learn from established work". Of course, they could've just copy existing suboptimal solutions without properly giving it a thought – that's what most of the languages do, after all – but that's where Go choses another path.
Average credit score in every state
Other TS products like OneTick, RDBMSs for TAQ (esp. if you need non-TS indexes), streambase for UI backends

I even met a programmer who hacked something together in Java using the same columnar kdb layout but, you know, multithreaded, so different basket optimization jobs could run simultaneously on the same store.
> The tool exploits a vulnerability in unpatched software

Eternal Blue exploits a vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft Windows software
Lights, Props, Water Fountains, Drones. Anything that can be a show in Las Vegas.
shouldn't it be patched by now?
Yeah like sugar vs fat studies, this is profound, not.
As much as people hate when vulnerabilities get sweet names like shell shock, heart bleed, dirty cow, and whatever else we come up with, you do have to admit that bit of marketing flare gets more eyeballs on it, and generally noticed and resolved much quicker. So I’m with you on this one: let’s get a marketing team embedded with mitre guys.. might actually be a solid win!
It was the same with old cookie law, btw. If you weren't using third-party trackers, you didn't have to put a cookie notice.
> I'm unclear on why I'm meant to take this particular Windows SMB exploit so seriously

the way I understand it, most of the affected, including the paper, take it seriously because it's their "tax money at work."

I understand also that somebody at the receiving end of the said money is not satisfied that that topic is raised.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20005512
I have just started to play around in the world of electronic music and have had my first real exposure to MIDI. I just want to say ... wow. Something like this is so rare. I have pieces of equipment from different decades that can talk to each other using a $2 cable and no computer in between.

As a programmer I'm used to walled gardens and competing standards. MIDI is a breath of fresh air. I hope whatever 2.0 brings can keep this spirit alive.
Can amateurs club together and form an organisation to administrate allocations from a common ID range? Or just liblically declare that they are going to squat on a particular range?
That's a boring complaint. Any tech can be used for good or evil. When is a movement and movement, and not a guerilla terrorist cell network?
The most common ancestry in every U.S. state
Wikimedia's thorough discussion on the pro and cons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funding_Wikipedia_th...
> GDPR has been the death knell for small and medium-sized businesses

Yeah, and drug and tobacco regulation was the death knell for many small and medium-sized businesses. Kill the GDPR, Abolish the FDA!
The free version seems to have "1000 free blocks". How far does this go? Do you think its worth the annual fee of $60?
Isn't Usenet even more fragile in terms of centralization and legality? I actually wonder why it hasn't been targeted more? Is there any reason? Or is it just that it is relatively obscure compared to BitTorrent?
No, don't go in and negotiate with sales people when you have no intention of buying anything. They are people, trying to make a living, and by wasting their time you are literally costing them money. It's a selfish move, and if there wasn't a stigma attached to car salesmen you probably would realize that. I doubt you would suggest people similarly hone their negotiating skills by stringing along a series of freelancers on Upwork with phantom projects that don't exist.
MetaMovie is a project mixing interactive theater and VR (now on Kickstarter)
Simple reminder that this can't prevent browser fingerprinting, making this technique useless
I agree, it would tend to encourage a smaller core team and a larger number of unpaid contributors. But this is often a workable model. I don't think most drive-by contributors expect to be paid and that seems... fine?
"In the end when the serious stuff comes in it was always a better choice to hire someone who really understood what he was doing." - I know this is a side point, but it makes it very hard to engage with articles when their use of gender pronouns deliberately excludes you from being 'someone who understands what they are doing'. I understand that this is often accidental, but in 2019 I'd like to think people would be more careful about excluding a marginalised group in software.
Publish it anonymously. :-)
I used to work at a company that did incorporations so I may simply be parroting the company sales pitch here, but I did get the honest impression that finding a company that helps you incorporate can really save you some huge headaches later on. The state where you incorporate can have a huge impact on a number of things and a company that specializes in this can steer you clear of some minefields. It will cost more but I think it's very likely to be worth it.
When I was a self-employed contractor several years ago my CPA did it this way for my LLC. 50% of the income went on a W-2 and 50% on a K-1. It's up to each person to decide their own risk level but my CPA was pretty confident it wasn't a big deal as long as the W-2 salary wasn't absurdly low, and my own googling at the time seemed to confirm that.

It's definitely worth it IMO since you're double-paying FICA taxes on your W-2 (i.e. paying both the employee + employer sides).
More or less the same point which Richard Hamming makes in his talk You and Your Research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw&list=PL2FF649D0C...

Except, of course, that Hamming gives a few more practical pointers.
The definition of a field explicitly requires the additive and multiplicative identities to be distinct elements. You can't induce a field structure on a singleton set. You can construct a trivial ring, but the trivial ring does not comprise a trivial field because it fails to be an integral domain.

To be fair this is mathematical pedantry when we're talking about trivial objects. But in principle it's meaningful because every field you can construct will lose critical properties if you allow one element to be both the additive and multiplicative identity. Unfortunately authors don't always make it clear that you need both existence and uniqueness when they state the field axioms.
I think the national security establishment are applying pre-digital paradigms and thinking to cyberspace and as a result have gotten things almost entirely backwards. In the physical real world, "the best defense is a good offense" often has a lot of truth to it as in limited resources situations force concentration to defeat hostile forces can be fundamentally more effective. But when it comes to information which can be infinitely and losslessly copied it might make more sense to think of security in terms of information gradients and societal model. For a liberal democracy/market economy a lot of useful information gets generated, but it can be less effective at utilizing it and more leaky. Whereas (at least in examples so far in human history) centralized command authoritarian societies don't seem to as effectively come up with new stuff, but if offered the chance to take it from elsewhere can act with more of a long term vision (and of course with panopticons and massive restrictions on individual freedoms can more effectively insulate themselves).

So maybe from a strategic point of view government security should be working to shore up the weaknesses of the societal model while maximizing the strengths, the best strategy for each model are opposites. So for the USA, I think it'd be better if nobody had any ability to hack anything and the government acted aggressively to maintain an unequal information gradient. Then the problems that come from short term incentives, less decisive/unified responses, and so on continue to get made up for by a major technological edge. Whereas for a polity like China in a world where information is smoothed out they can leverage their authoritarian governance for more advantage.

Which means the NSA has been doing the opposite of what they should, because for America in the digital domain "the best offense is a good defense". America has the most to lose from having all of its information generation/infrastructure (R&D, networking/governing systems etc) get taken and/or disrupted. Rather then thinking of digital security issues as weapons to be exploited against less technologically advanced enemies who by definition have far less to lose, they should have long since been thinking of them as big strategic risks and working to eliminate all of them as aggressively as possible, and to be a dependable source for best practices in general. I think maybe there is a basic mindset mixup in the leadership given the last 50 years and their military backgrounds, and that's really caused America to squander enormous amounts of strategic value (and goodwill as well for that matter). Very foolish and unfortunate, and I'm not sure if anyone in government is currently thinking about reworking the NSA into a role focused on actual national security.
Do you trust your government more than Microsoft?

Absolutely not. And yes, I'm American. You're probably right that this is a core cultural difference.
It helps, which is why global warming scientists are concerned about the destruction of desert crust and so forth.
Crossfit Quits Facebook and Instragram over Privacy
Also they have 30 days to respond, so at most you can force them to grab your data every 3-4 weeks even without that clause.
I didn't call it "perfect". Slate.js is great but has some downsides too. But for Vue.js there was like nothing, so I took the first step.

There is also a core package of Slate, so it's up to you to build a wrapper for Vue too. Slate is still in beta. That's why I chose to built on top of ProseMirror.
Do you know whether the "62k free monthly emails limit" of the free-tier is available to existing AWS accounts, or a new AWS account must be created to enjoy free-tier billing?

Thanks!

EDIT: BTW, nice project!
> Forth is nothing special with regard to this concern

When we look at a clump of Forth code that's supposed to be a function, unless there is commentary, we don't know how many arguments it takes or how many values it leaves on the stack.

We don't have this problem with VBA, Java, Perl, C, Newlisp, Fortran or Python.

Forth is an assembly language for a pretty low level stack-based virtual machine. (And such machines are very popular, though rarely programmed by hand.)

It's not a good VM for compiling dynamic languages; it provides no run-time check on mismatched function arguments, and generating code to do that would be inefficient and incompatible with regular Forth function calls. (E.g. we can have a calling convention whereby we push the argument count that the callee will pop and check.)

Forth could be a good target for a static language where function calls are checked at compile time against declarations.

> Forth is unforgiving in many ways like an old master.

Forth is completely forgiving, like an old buffoon. Pass four arguments to a three-argument function? All is forgiven.
I find a lot of these books too abstract. I much prefer books about people and their methods and accomplishments, as opposed to books that try to distill what they perceive as common characteristics of "succesful" people/businesses. Currently I'm reading "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" and its quite wonderful.

"Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla" is a good read as well.
Just checked the postmake website, it's great for solo entrepreneur. Thanks for curating those lists.
Also https://www.codeshelter.co/ https://jazzband.co/
I fully agree with your position on the relative utility of this exploit vs any other.

However I do think there is benefit in looking at this as a portent of state-sponsored backdoors being inevitably stolen and used maliciously. If the NSA can’t protect their tools, who can?
A lot of good usage tips in this thread. One that not enough people use (IMO) is to get a notification inbox app. Like this one (although I use one I made myself):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wandoujia....

Basically it sucks up notifications from all (or selected) apps into an inbox-like interface similar to email. You can check it when you want, but it's not in your face.

There are a lot of apps where I don't want to disable notifications, but I also don't want them interrupting me. NYTimes is a good example of that, since I do want to read the news but only on my own schedule. A notification inbox has helped me a lot.
i am 45 ( soon to be 46 ).
Since my late 20's i tried to succeed as an entrepreneur ( dropped college, went freelancing and then ran my small software consultant company in Brazil for 14 years ). Made a little money, but never got really successful, until the day i got bankrupted for the second time. Got back to the college to pick a degree ( HR people are a bit too conscious about hiring an early 40 without "formal education" ) since then, i got 3 different employments ( changed jobs for better positions/compensation/quality-of-life ) all 9-5, making more money than my average days as an entrepreneur, without the risks, sleeping better and without half of the stress.
Currently things changed a little, and i have been working 10-14 hours/day as a Solution Architect/Tech Leader ( weekends also ) in a great project for my current employer ( at 10 minutes walking away from my home ) but being very well paid for all the extra-time...
I failed miserably as an entrepreneur, but now i am doing a (very) decent living as an employee.

My 2cents to the OP is: at the very least, cover your bases. Make sure you have an exit plan, in case things goes down the drain ( in my case, it was getting my degree, getting my CV out in the world ).
Note that a single-person LLC can file taxes as a pass-thru entity, which is essentially the same as a sole proprietorship. You do still need to separate your finances/accounts/etc tho.
Yes. A strategy that works because it sets you apart is pretty much by definition not one that can adopted successfully en masse.
“We can’t protect our own dangerous secret software tools, but trust us to protect your keys in escrow.”
Why is it "sadly"?
I would say that it is happily a wrapped around SES. There are use case for using mkdown in email and this tool helps address those use cases.

Good job OP!
True, although I think most people would be much sadder about missing the 1% of Everest. The whole reason to go there is to stand at the top of the world's highest mountain. If you just wanted a beautiful climb, there are many less dangerous/expensive places to go.
This is a strawman. You are talking personally identifiable information and data usage policies which is an entirely different thing than the requirement for all data to be deleted.
Vision intelligence techniques are heavily used in China in relatively critical scenarios such as the one in this news, door security systems or bank check in systems.

This is so stupid because none of those techniques are reliable enough to be put in such kind of scenarios.

Not mention that software developers work for gov or bank in China are usually worse than developers in tech companies.
Yes, this problem can definitely be seen on some of the trackers, but many old school players have crews that are mature and behave normally. The only proof for this is their long track (10+ years) of successful existence.
What the regular person gets from it is the access to the great quality of content in easy way.
That doesn't mean people haven't been hurt before it was patched
I agree torrents aren't great for content availability.

Is this a 1080p rip of The Good Place, season 1 and 2? https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/24818297/The_Good_Place_-_S...
Thought of this when I read the article. Probably similar process.
I don't believe that is true. Credit Bureau's and Insurance companies have information about every place you have lived and worked, what school you attended.

The actual ratings may be waited on information in the last X years.

Also, it is much easier to implement a policy where no data can be retained after X years than on-demand wipeout.
Sure, but I said 'animal fats'. Lard was used extensively in those times.
Seems the tool mentioned in this post is more for transactional email. But I wanted to comment on moonmail. Looks like that is for newsletters. I think https://sendy.co is sort of the same offering but much cheaper (you do have to host it yourself).
I wish that was always the case. It really depends on who you ask, how tired they are, if they care ect...
Show HN: Deploy a Jenkins Cluster on AWS
then I'd block them...
As roughly zero people who would click an ad use a pihole, I'd guess roughly zero engineers are working on the problem.
I don't think the law is ambiguous. It's usually the situation when GDPR is already violated or going to be violated and data processor wants to find the least expensive solution to reduce the risks. In other words, it's not "How we should do it?", but rather "How difficult it will be to challenge our solution X in court? What our chances to win?" THIS is ambiguous, but it's the same with any regulation.
I have one. I should post a longer review at some point. It works great for email, sending/ receiving. As they tell you, external sites treat your email as spam at first because it's coming from a new domain, you have to mark you email as not spam.

I wish it had a web page like interface like gmail. I suspect they didn't do that for security. Also I'd like more support for basically hosting domains on it - I have multiple domains and get email and that all works reliably. I'd like to have an easy way to setup other web page references on the domains and host simple pages I setup. You can get them to configure your dns to add more sites but I haven't bothered. I'd like an easy to use setup. The big negative is they will host your name servers for your domain, not you.

You have to use the app on your cell phone to administer it. A web interface would be much easier to work with.

Android and ios phones have built in apps, uses what looks like good security (tls etc). It has tons of space on it. I have a catchall account on the main domain, so junkmail@<mydomain>.com goes to it. I have bought a few domains over time and I put them on their too. I can't figure out how to setup the catchall account.

If you want personal email server, this is great, works reliably.
> I can't go to my school or a credit bureau or an insurance company and say that all my past history should be forgotten.

> Why should we enforce such a regulation online?

I'm a bit confused. Exactly the same laws apply to the insurance company and credit bureau. They have to have valid reasons for keeping the data, and if they don't have those reasons they need to get rid of it. Which applies equally to online companies.
What would you fine people advice for a single guy making money through a website in Europe? What kind of corporation? At how much revenue do I need to think about that? How much money (and time) does it cost per year? How does it differ among EU countries? What do I need to take care of, when I take money from customers around the world?
That statement sounds to me to be synonymous with "this doctor does not / should not have their license"; given that a court actually decided otherwise, this looks libelous to me.