skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just installed it about 5 minutes ago. On the "setup your account" screen, there is no option for a local account. You must login or create a new account. Now, once you go to create a new account, there's a low-contrast option at the bottom to skip this step.

I think I'm fairly computer savvy, but had I not searched on how to bypass this, I probably would have set up an MS account. For "normal" people, I'd say this will be extremely effective at increasing their "conversion" to Microsoft Accounts.

It's extremely hostile.
I worked online, run my "little Airbnb" and travelled/lived in more than 50 countries since 2001.
The fact that your productivity suffers can be interpreted in a positive way: you CAN'T work too much because you are kept busy with the non-routine stuff.
I absolutely love it and wouldn't change this for a 100% productive environment anytime soon.
It's my protection against the work-a-lot-buy-stuff-you-don't-need routine.
So I am forced to spend money in non trivial things as keeping the flexibility is expensive.
When I need to get some serious work done I stay in Italy, Bangkok, Bali or Prague for a few months.
It takes me a couple of weeks to settle in Bali, 1 day in Prague (I just need to rent an apartment), 1 day in Bangkok and more or less a week in other places.
I also did a lot of backpacking (a few days in each place) and I agree that this greatly reduces the productivity.
You have to find the balance which works for you, anytime, anywhere.
Not easy, but it's there somewhere.
Do native apps really use third-party authentication services? That would scare the shit out of me too.

I think the point of the article is that there's a trend with web applications to use third-party identity providers like Google or Facebook. This itself is (mostly) harmless; their login procedures are designed so that you can verify that it is, in fact, Google or Facebook you are logging into, because the login form is hosted on their domain, it goes through SSL, and you can verify all that in the browser's address bar.

There's also a trend toward eliminating the address bar, by eg. putting your webapp in a WebView which doesn't show it, or by using native-only apps, or Chrome's move toward not showing the full URL for certain sites. When you combine this with the trend toward third-party identity providers, it's very dangerous, because you have no way of verifying that you are giving your identity to the people you think you are giving your identity to.
No, you'd have to be out of touch to think anybody does that.
Their "prosperous kingdoms" didn't have written language or the wheel. There wasn't that much pre-existing structure to destroy.
Yes, HN can be gamed.

Evidence? This pointless post creeping up to the front page solely due to a controversial heading.
I'll be in Budapest for a week from the 8th of October with my wife.
It would be nice to meet for a coffee and discuss our gypsy lifestyle problems :)
I was trying to address the "library" aspect, but I agree NaCl is a poor replacement for GPG in user facing functionality.

Anyone who is in need of crypto I push to NaCl, GPGME, or exec out to GPG itself before trying to build it themselves.
I love the clicks and keypress sounds.

Oh and I liked the film itself.
I've been to Zambia and the short answer is basically they have 1) government corruption 2) and don't have anything else besides copper. So even though you have a participatory political system the copper companies get insanely good deals and nothing is spent on education for example.

Besides Botswana they are actually doing really well for a sub-saharan African country. The politics have been a mess for a long time, basically two parties have dominated politics for the past forty years(one after the other) so you had a quasi single party state but a reasonable rule of law to keep things from getting out of hand and a fair electoral system for the past twenty years or so.

I'm not sure I buy the claim that the government doesn't do anything. Basically, it was explained to me that no one wants to upset the factions with political influence. Paradoxically, Botswana has a much more closed political system yet doesn't seem to have the problems with corruption Zambia has.
Personally, I find Bishop's book to hit on a good balance between developing intuition and presenting the math to give precision to understanding (the opposite of this would be Murphy's book--the math seems too esoteric and disjointed to be useful). I have a hard time feeling confident I thoroughly understand a concept without having precision in the presentation of the math behind the concept.

There is certainly something to be said for courses and books that can present a complex idea without requiring a graduate-level degree of math literacy. But at the end of the day, ML is a subfield of mathematics so not having a thorough grasp of the math underlying it will definitely hinder your understanding.
Your trolling on every thread, injecting random 'ooh NSA' comments, is just not constructive. Practically everyone here is more aware of the situation than you are.
A LOT of people do very well on $1/meal or less. It's basic frugality.
Gay bomb
Why Users Don't Fill Out Sign Up Forms
I highly recommend this book The Fate of Africa http://www.amazon.com/The-Fate-Africa-Continent-Independence...
Who said that "unripe strategy" = "strategy defined too early"?
I kind of disagree with this. I think there are huge needs for "better language" kinds of improvements with ML that gives insight into how various pieces in a pipeline get combined, how tuning happens, how feature generation relates to input data. I don't consider ML to be terrifically repeatable today due to a lot of non-standard low-level tweaking that goes on at the top levels of work there.

I think it's definitely moving, but I don't think it's nearly as mechanized as, say, AES is, given that the tradeoffs one needs to balance are significantly more complex. You can't just Machine Learn something as much as people may try.
I've been doing the commit every day thing for a while. Not quite as long as the author, but it's still something.

https://github.com/zachlatta
>you click create account, then select local account at the bottom.

Sounds like something Douglas Adams wrote. It is not _total_ FUD, it's confusing, and it's obvious Microsoft wants to hide that option and force most users into using an MS Account.

Edit: Oh, then if you create a new account, again, way at the bottom, in low-contrast text, is "Sign in without a Microsoft account (not recommended)". Clicking that takes you to a screen full of text, telling you how MS accounts are better. The default selection on that page is "Microsoft account". You must again click Local account to actually continue.
The Revenue Model Will Take Care of Itself
Show HN: Android alarm app that uses your music on wakeup and lullaby
Also, don't forget corruption.
It's 3 minutes per port. In the real world, you'll want to scan for many ports at a time. If scanning for all ports, it'd take 108 days at this rate.
Say that to the American Indians or Australian Aborigines (just a few example)
I wonder how quickly network difficulty is rising now?
I think it would be rather easy to infiltrate a development team, especially a geographically distributed one.
I don't like the idea to escape winter. I was like this years ago, dreamed about being able to move to a hotter place during the winter.
Now when I can do it, I don't want it. Coping with winter helps you learn things and makes you stronger. And winter has its good sides too (especially for the busy homesteader). It's a time to relax from the hot season activities, to enjoy different food and drinks, and so on. I like it. It's not my favorite time of the year, but I see no point to run away of it. And kind of regret people who hate it so much.
Orangutans plan their future route and communicate it to others
Deconstruction is a critical technique.

Your sentence "Not that this means deconstruction is 'stupid'." could be interpreted:

"One has to take at least one grain of salt when certain critical techniques are used."

Depending on how one reads this entire post, that may or may not be considered a charitable interpretation.
First of all, we avoid well-know "darknet" monitors that generate a lot of abuse reports.

Second of all, we response personally to each abuse report and offer to include them in our "exclude" file so that we won't scan them ever again. Though, of course, I prefer they add us to a "whitelist" file: not opening their firewall, but adding us a file that ignore logging.
TEPCO and Japan's NISA are not the most trustworthy or competent of organizations, they certainly have a lot of room for improvement.

However, I think you're misinterpreting the importance of the age of the Fukushima reactor design. Specifically the important point is that the extremely obsolete nature of that design means that its short-comings should have little to no bearing on the relative risk of building new nuclear power plants.

Additionally, even with all the problems of Fukushima, many of which are avoidable, it's worth pointing out that those problems did not occur spontaneously. Somehow we've apparently forgotten about the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and 40 meter high tsunami which killed over 15,000 people while also causing severe damage to the Fukushima reactors. These are not usual operating circumstances. Somehow we give a pass to other technologies that have failed and caused injury to humans after being impacted by extreme natural disasters yet nuclear power must stand on its own.

And yet even despite that and despite many many missteps in the response the Fukushima disaster has not pushed nuclear power into being less safe than any other base load power generation technology, even hydroelectric!

That's almost astounding, but it cuts to the deep failures that humans tend to make when they attempt to judge relative risk of extremely dissimilar things (like flying vs. driving, rock climbing vs. eating cheeseburgers, or nuclear power vs. coal).
I don't know why, but this was posted before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389664) and removed. Great article though that provides interesting commentary though satire on the state of women in software development. Worthy of more than an hour on Hacker News.
You are safe.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/
>...when you consider that the free market on planet Earth does not contain perfect agents.

But the same imperfect agents, human beings, also constitute governments and bureaucracies. Markets are not a perfect institution, and it is very easy to point out flaws, but they have an observed tendency towards improvement, self ordering, and discovery of better resources that is lacking from government. Flaws in the market tend towards being corrected while flaws in government tend to become entrenched, obfuscated, and aggressively defended against any attempt to reveal and correct them.
Phonebloks - upgradable modular phone idea
>One issue is that it can be hard to get an 8 hour stretch if your days are also filled with the minutiae of travel of decision-making.

You settle down somewhere, even for 10 days or a week. After the first day there's no more minutiae of trabel or devicion making. Work 8 hours in your hotel/hostel/place/, go around/sleep the rest.

You're not supposed to travel EVERY day to a new place.
The DNS320 has been my home server for just over a year (replacing a LinkStation). You can install Fonz FunPlug in about 5 minutes and get a solid, mirrored server for about £20.

http://nas-tweaks.net/devices/d-link-dns-320/
Great writeup. I totally agree with a lot of the things you're saying.

I think the simplest fix is to start shifting the focus away from the negative competitive aspects. Large cash prizes are a great example of one that we could do away with. As you suggested, focusing on non-monetary or community incentives would be a great alternative and the whole hackathon scene could benefit from that.

You should check out this talk I gave about hackathons a few months back. We definitely seem to be singing a similar tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocY70UORNsk

Also, thanks for the Major League Hacking shout out!
> It's the feedback loops -- clouds, biology and so on, that are the challenge.

There's a name for those systems. It's called "the climate".
Here are some facts:

1) If one can construct something, one can deconstruct it.

2) Derrida was a guy who existed.

If you have an idea for a single Wikipedia page that can resolve these two impossible contradictions, then you are a person who has an idea.

(edit: The grandparent poster's error was in making sweeping generalizations about capital D versus little D without mentioning the difference.)

(second edit: the Wikipedia page on Deconstruction is the quintessential case of original research?)
Those using Linux on your laptop is the sleep, suspend, and hibernate functions working? That's my number one reason I have kept on using Mac OS X. The other being iOS development.
I like the way you critically assess articles and it's respected when there is no substance or evidence. You're reading the references, but cannot see an evidence. How does your claim of pointlessness have a proof?
If the content is wrong or suboptimal it makes them less worth reading. If the guy hasn't spent time thinking about the content of his slides it might be a confused and confusing jumble of nonsense: sometimes the best researchers are the worst teachers.
No offense HN
Nacl is good, but is Go a suitable language for crypto work yet? I understand there were some reservations in the past, though I can't recall exactly what those were.
Amazing stuff. The scale and data the guys at Twitter are working with are simply jaw-dropping.
There are actually two halves of Matthew's law: the rich get richer & the poor get poorer. I wonder why they didn't say anything about the other half? I suppose you might think it was entailed in the first, but I'm not sure how valid reasoning that would be if it's not zero sum.
Due to the deflation, wouldn't the poor get richer in the exact same proportion?
The racist lines came from a non-protagonist, and the response from the protagonist was basically dismissive.

Consider also that he's going on to bigger and better things while she's apparently going to be stuck there (presumably she would have followed if she could). So her disdain for studiousness wasn't portrayed as particularly virtuous.
I used to play lots of multiplayer freeciv about eight years ago ad was pretty good at it. I think I even broke top 10 on their player ladder a few times. ELO ratings is a great way to keep players honest btw. When people have something to lose they wont just disconnect in the middle of a game but make a sincere effort to complete it. Shame it's so hard to find players these days. Most of the time the freeciv metaserver is almost empty.
Thats linear algebra.
I think he's hit the supply nail right on the head.

Programmers which are more costly are more productive(as a general rule), so finding a few highly-productive professionals willing to make the right decisions, is better than hiring a gaggle of newborns who figure public static is the only way to initialize data.
I'm not using % on the result of rand().

I'm using the "Feistal network" construction that is at the heart of the data encryption standard, replacing binary operations like 'xor' with the "addition plus modulus" operation.

My found function sucks, and I only do 3 rounds, so there's probably some issues there. But, if I were to fix those issues, then there should be no more detectable bias than in the original DES cipher.
Why don't they make this the default? Almost every time I see this happening to a blog, its a Wordpress instance...
Struktur - A skeleton/starter template for JavaFX applications (using FXML)
My comment was just a little snarky sharing a feeling that I could use more time to produce more value. I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm spending too much time on Hacker News; it's certainly not the case.

Obviously someone got really offended by my amusement.
Which countries did, for example, Singapore invade and start slaughtering?
Westerners, and Americans in particular, are very bad at understanding nationalism. This prevents them from understanding the failure of post-colonialism.

Throughout Africa and the Middle East we see countries with straight borders that used to be colonies of Western powers. These powers left and left behind democratic governments. These governments are plagued by the fact that the countries they rule over are not nations.

A country is a political entity - a set of borders enforced by an army. A nation is a psycho-social entity. It is a group that people identify with, normally composed based on ethnic, linguistic, or religious similarity. Nationhood marks an in-group. Americans have an anti-nationalist, universalist ideology, so their brains reject this reality to the detriment of the places their armies occupy.

In most post-colonial countries, there are many different nations within an arbitrary border. Democracy does not work because the citizens don't see themselves as the same people. When a person gets power in the government, of course he turns into a "kleptocrat" instead of working for the common good because he doesn't value the "common good". He values the good of his people.

These post-colonial countries are also prone to civil war. If one ethno-religious group gets the majority over another, the losing group doesn't see the government as legitimate. So there is war and genocide. The post-colonial idealists in the West have done more damage to the world than the colonialists ever did through the proxy of civil war.

Democracy in the Congo led to decades of Civil War and now we even see Bantus eating Pygmies[1] - rape, disfigurement, and even cannibalism have become weapons in a brutal civil war. Likewise, if American troops leave Afghanistan, we will see a recap of the 90's civil war between the northern and southern ethnic groups.

There is no "Afghan" people - there are Pashtun and Tajik and Uzbek[2]. And they were on the tail-end of a civil war before the USA invaded, and now the USA wants them to vote together. What insanity. In an ominous sign, no Pashtun will join the "national" Afghan army. Putting people within the same borders and putting a single army in control over them doesn't magically make them care about each other.

This is leaving behind the absurdity of trying to impose Western norms on an African continent lacking thousands of years of western history with literature, law, and democracy. You don't get to Tom Paine without Cato - and there was a 1700 year process connecting the two. Western thinking about the rest of the world is full of unicorns and pixie dust.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/09/congo.jamesasti...

[2] http://origins.osu.edu/sites/default/files/2-12-map586.jpg
Nice anti-nuke story. I know people want us to give up our Nukes, but with a host of middle eastern countries within grasp of nuclear technology, doing so would be asinine.

Not sure. Nuclear weapons serve a purpose in war, that is to take out a large installation, an air force or a navy base, say, with just one hit. Then you send in ground troops. But whatever "host of middle eastern countries within grasp of nuclear technology" there may be, they still have no capability to invade North America. On the other hand, the United States have the capability to invade any Middle Eastern country. The scenario is very unlikely.

The real risk is false alarms, and the true heroes are Vassili Archipov and Stanislav Petrov. These, and their unknown American, British, French, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Israeli counterparts.
I find your streak particularly impressive, since it is all public contributions. The authors streak (as well as any, much shorter, streak that I have made) has always relied much more heavily on private repos for personal projects.

I appreciate your contributions much more!
“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome”
Wealth can't be created by transfer payments, it can only be grown.

Many countries, like Zambia, are really bad at economic growth. The reasons can be kleptocracy, bad legal systems, but also lack of investments in infrastructure.
"basically two parties have dominated politics for the past forty years(one after the other) so you had a quasi single party state"

AKA the USA model.

If you swap/replace "auto companies" with "copper" its basically Detroit with a slightly healthier economy and political system.
All phone numbers in the US (actually, North America and some Caribbean islands) are the form AAA-XXX-YYYY, and there's a finite number of AAA (or area codes) that have been issued so far. And some types of numbers are not possible, mostly for historic reasons. I'm not sure how much a block of numbers actually cost in the US, but they're not free. I know a company I worked for tried hard to compress the range of numbers they had so they could give back part of an exchange to save money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#N...
Teen Drops $33K on Historic Wikileaks Server Using Dad’s eBay Account
I used to do this with the BSD split(1) utility back in the day. (8+ years ago) I ran a BSD only shop back then but now I have GNU split(1) and it lacks the -p argument for pattern.

Either way, my Macintosh still has BSD split(1) so here's a command example.

split -p 'Table structure for table `' my_dump-20130913.sql
This is in the last few years up this year, so it is nowadays. It's easy to keep it cheap, but many people have standards of living which say that a night out should be at nice bars and clubs.

For example: Buses that run most of the night (roundtrip) - about US$2.75, Beers (four Skols from supermarket) - about US$3. That's US$5.75. Meet your friends near the beach, in Lapa, at someone's home or at some predetermined free event (of which Rio has many). Even if the beer is bought while out, the night's bill upon returning home would be no more than US$10. Plus when I lived where I didn't have to take the bus in order to meet people on most occasions, it was even less. In places where there were nicer bars, there'd usually be many people hanging out on the sidewalk in front of the bars and inevitably, there'd be street vendors selling food and drinks.
I didn't get anything like this out of Heidegger that I didn't get out of Wittgenstein, but that's probably too inside baseball.

(seriously) Can you rephrase your question after skimming this wikipedia article[0]?

edit: I find it almost impossible to have longer conversations about this topic without knowing a little bit more about the order in which the reader first encountered each writer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
Leap seconds are not accounted for in epoch-time. Basically, 23:59:59 and 23:59:60 have the same value (this also makes it easier by not having to handle the 60 :) )

We disabled leap-seconds at work in our NTP servers, and just use the normal mechanisms to compensate slowly.
The Winner's Curse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse
The quote that the article refers to starts at 14:05 in the video of Neil Gaiman's speech.

While Gaiman's conditions for keeping work are addressed toward freelance jobs, they would seem to apply to conventional employment as well: someone lacking all three qualities probably won't survive in any job very long.