skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite quote on the topic is from chapter 10 of Jaynes' Probability Theory: (http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc10i.ps)

"Biologists have a mechanistic picture of the world because, being trained to believe in causes, they continue to search for them and find them. Quantum physicists have only probability laws because for two generations we have been indoctrinated not to believe in causes - and so we have stopped looking for them. Indeed, any attempt to search for the causes of microphenomena is met with scorn and a charge of professional incompetence and "obsolete mechanistic materialism." Therefore, to explain the indeterminacy in current quantum theory we need not suppose there is any indeterminacy in Nature; the mental attitude of quantum physicists is already sufficient to guarantee it."
It actually does use WebRTC in Chrome. It falls back to Flash in FF right now.
If you own a domain name, a lot of registrars let you query some https endpoint to update DNS, which you can plug into firmware like DD-WRT. Namecheap, for one, does. I know this because I did it this morning after no-ip stopped working for me.
I created one on purpose when they promised more privacy with the circles thing. I promptly stopped using it after their mass merger with other services ( the merge with YouTube particularly annoyed me)
Is paid maternity leave not actual expenses then?
No, we are talking about examples for which it would take less than 5 minutes to show up.
Yeah the core of the pitch detection is in Flash, so that it can work in browsers that don't yet support HTML5 audio, such as Safari, and in older browsers. But where possible, we do grab the audio and do some of the signal processing using HTML5. Also, all of the UI is HTML5 and JS.
> Should CloudFlare play for judge and ban people that do not violate their terms? Because I'm sure they boot people that perform illegal activities on their network or otherwise harm their network from within, but I can see why they don't proactively take down any website mentioning "we offer DDoS attacks".

DDoS attacks are illegal in most countries, including the US where CloudFlare operates. It would be reasonable for them to include something in their terms about not allowing illegal activities. Then, if it's brought to their attention via a verifiable abuse complaint, yes, they should cease providing service to that user. They are a private company and do not have the obligation to provide service to any particular person; there is no "rights" issue here.

Proactively, as in proactively monitoring and reviewing each site they provide service to, would no doubt be a huge burden and difficult or impossible, but I don't think anyone has suggested that. The only thing they need to be doing is the same as any responsible ISP, have an abuse@ mailbox (which they do), review and take the appropriate action on complaints.
Why are there not more women in graduate science labs?
Well Paris & London are the largest cities in Europe (together with Istanbul and Moscow, if you consider those Europe) so if you aren't after the "big city experience" it's not really surprising you wouldn't want to live there :)

I wouldn't either btw - and I live in Berlin which is also a big city (but still 1/3 of London and less than 1/2 of Paris in terms of metropolitan population - and still double or more the medium sized cities I mentioned).

Vienna/Zurich/Prague/Copenhagen/etc are more like living in Portland than in London or Paris (or NYC for that matter).
Probably because Windows XP is well over 10 years old. You can't possibly expect them to support it forever just because some organisations can't be bothered to upgrade.
I will ask to the original creator of the benchmark suite to run the tests again. My development environment is very different, adding the results for Gin would mean that I should change all the results.

Just a tip, to compare martini with Gin, you can run this:

go test --bench="(Gin|Martini)"
The next step, obviously, is a Markov chain sentence generator based on this. Hell, I'd like to see a completely AI-generated news site that works off scraping current events and a market report.
Agreed. Arguably the net effect in this particular case was positive, but I can easily imagine reading this press release in a parallel universe:

"Today, Sony Pictures has upped the ante against global cybercrime, taking legal action to clean up piracy... We're taking YouTube to task as the owner of infrastructure frequently exploited by cybercriminals to infringe copyrights by uploading unauthorized movie clips... On June 26, the court granted our request and made Sony the DNS authority for youtube.com, allowing us to identify and route all known infringing traffic to the Sony sinkhole and identify users who posted unauthorized content."
>You are misrepresenting physicists.

Small correction. Except for the first two lines of the parent post, the rest is a quote from Jaynes' paper linked above. It may be hard to tell because of the limited formatting options on HN.
Last week, I wrote a comment replying to someone asking, if we can't use experiments to determine which interpretation is better, what's the point? Rather than repeat myself, I'll just link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940647
Just to be clear, pretty much every point you made about startups directly conflicts with the sample of ~10 SF/SV companies I talked with during a recent job search

- base salaries at funded startups are good. Equity could vary greatly depending on how much salary you asked for
- insurance is 100% paid for employees and 50%+ paid for family
- I didn't discuss relocation but I was relocated to SF 2 yrs ago by a startup
- Very, very smart and capable co-workers
- Vacation days were untracked or 15+, and there was a separate allotment of sick days
- Most teams were < 10 developers well after launch
- Much easier to find jobs as an experienced senior developer than a junior developer

The one point you nailed is all open-plan offices, everywhere, all the time.

I don't know what you're basing your statements on, and maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but in SV/SF right now, if you're a demonstrably good developer, you're in extremely high demand and many, many excellent companies are competing fiercely to hire you.
What DNS are you using?

On Google (8.8.8.8) or Comcast DNS I'm not seeing this for their top domains (no-ip.org, no-ip.biz, no-ip.info).

I wonder if your ISP is working with Microsoft.
Have fun filing lawsuits and sending out subpoenas when you're just trying to host a game server as a hobby and not making money off it. Cross-jurisdictional issues will also make this very difficult, even if you know who the attacker is.
Luckily hardware doesn't have feelings. I use mine as a footrest.

It is a pretty color, though.
It's intriguing that US economy is slowing down since WWII. What are the reasons?

1. No significant improvements like agriculture.

2. Increasing regulations

3. Big middle class that have no strong motivation to advance further or have "enough money" for good living (modulo individuals)

4. Growth in domain which GDP doesn't capture e.g. Open Source

5. No obvious investments opportunities e.g. Highway
Bingo. If getting to work at 9 AM costs me five times more than getting to work at 7, you can be sure I'll figure out a way to do the latter. Motivating large chunks of the population to think about rush hour would be a "good thing".
> So, I think a better naming would have been...

Often I like to use past participles as names for stream or signal combinators.

So instead of `map`, `filter`, `fold` -- the names are `mapped`, `filter`, `folded`.

For example, given a stream, `(mapped stream f)` returns a new stream with f mapped over it. It returns a mapped stream.
And I heard they do free IPv6 tunnels. Pretty cool.
I never claimed that EY isn't smart, only that what he writes is not actually physics.

As much as I remember Feynman's lectures, he introduced the amplitudes very early?
YOTHEWORLD: Using the Yo App for Charity
It's a temporary restraining order. It obviously affects Microsoft's products and its customers. It would be equivalent to say, blocking a phone switch that was misbehaving and calling you continuously causing a denial of service attack. That Microsoft customers are suffering more than Microsoft itself and that No-IP appeared to be in denial seems to support the temporary restraining order -- No-IP, aware of such reports via blog posts, chooses to do nothing by asking for reports rather than investigating and stopping the behaviour themselves.
SecondMarket outbid on all Bitcoin blocks at USMS Auction
Emojli - the emoji-only social network
Yes it does work with the Rocksmith cable and we've seen a bunch of users discovering that. As you point out, pitch detection can be a little sensitive with that cable (depending on the guitar), and you're right that we could / should do some calibrating to improve it.
DRM for Coffee Makers? This is madness. Anything. But. This.

It'll be hacked, everything always is.

In the end, I'll prefer something like http://www.home-barista.com/brewing/cory-dcu-dcl-coffee-brew... Coffee before DRM. :)
From the article:

> Barclays was advertising LX to high-frequency traders by offering them more information, lower fees, and faster connections than it gave to institutional investors.

The "more information" being the key part - it sounds like the pools weren't as dark as their customers were led to believe. Your other points are spot on, though.
XIV up 300% on my watch!
Agreed. The use case really addresses the Job a client hires a CMS to do.

I like it so much I submitted it to ProductHunt -> http://www.producthunt.com/posts/data-by-brace
Interesting- and there's also http://nixos.org/
On a podcast of Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold, he mentioned his dream is to modify his oven with copper tubing and inject water into his oven (he uses bricks for thermal mass). Of course, this was largely in relation to baking and injecting a massive amount of steam quickly, but I think a spray system over thermal mass (metal is the modernist suggestion, but I think possibly some sort of ceramic would be best).

Of course, I read this article and thought exactly one thing:

There's no way an oven like this will be affordable and reliable over a 3+ year. There's way too many things to break.
Streams are lazy. They work in the same manner as lazy collections in languages such as Scala and Haskell - if you have an infinite collection, say, the set of all prime numbers, and do a map operation on it, it does not try to eagerly execute an infinite loop. Instead, the mapping is only done when when you actually request any of the elements of the set.
How did you get the 67% white info of attendees?
Probably even less utilization if you take into account public transportation, which probably make up for a significant portion of commute time in large urban areas.
I agree they should not be policing. Instead they should allow you to contact the people who are hosting the actual content. Which is where DMCA notices have to go to, for example. Since they do not host the content, they claim the DMCA should not be sent to them, but they won't tell you who to contact instead.
> You could argue that what Barclays really should have done was channel some retail flow into LX, but sources of that kind of unlimited, innocent liquidity get snapped up pretty quickly.

To add to this: another issue with retail flow is price and volume. Only a few really big players out there have enough of this flow to make it interesting to institutional traders.
Use automated vehicles to supply an on-demand middle tier of transit. That layer could possibly provide transportation bridging low-density regions to a higher capacity fixed public transit nodes.
I have multiple horror stories from my days at Malwarebytes about CloudFlare. They absolutely refuse to take down people who abuse their network- at best they'll block a single file from being distributed, but then the malware authors simply change the name of the file (or, more commonly, dynamically name the file something completely random). Their network is fantastic for malicious activity, not only because of the technology but because of their policies around it.

They will do everything to keep bad sites up, even flat out lying. Here's Matt Prince, their CEO, claiming that Malwarebytes was blocking their CDN because of "political" reasons, even though we had emailed him actual PCAP files showing that their network was distributing malware-

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/108447-my-s...

Despite the fact that Malwarebytes actively engages with communities and groups that teach people who to manage malware removal, and have always stood for free speech and only removes harmful software, Matt Prince tried to deflect front the truth of the situation by claiming this was about censorship. Really all it was about was that multiple clients of theirs were hosting pages that were actively infecting thousands of computers.

To make matters worse they put these customers who are hosting active exploits and malware right next to their small business customers, so any time someone threatens to block them they hide behind the innocent victims who are caught in the cross fire.

I should point out that I no longer work at Malwarebytes, and this all took place several years ago. I am only speaking about the portions of this that were public, and you can find all of that in the Malwarebytes forums and other places online.
Which dynamic DNS service will be next?

But I have a better idea. Windows are an easy target for cybercriminals; maybe someone should step up and take Microsoft down.
IMHO the many worlds interpretation is one of the least appealing interpretation - millions of millions of millions of universes for nothing. What do you think about the following similar argument? Why are the laws of physics and the physical constants the way they are? There is a universe for every possible set of laws and constants and our universe just happens to be compatible with life. You can just render almost every interesting question moot with similar arguments - I would really prefer something more interesting at the heart of the universe.
It's an ex parte order, so presumably Vitalwerks didn't show up in court despite the summons? If you filed for a TRO against Microsoft and their lawyers ignored it, something bad might happen to them too.
The inherent contradiction here always amuses me.

"Don't listen to blog writer because this, that and other thing, but of course listen to ME the commenter!"

The whole point of the post is if you're a founder, you need to take care of these legal things: Founders Agreement, vesting & performance, IP, NDA, responsibilities, etc. (NOTE: not a complete list)

Of course you should get a lawyer so it is done right and suited to you. Having made all these mistakes, I wish I had known about these things before making these classic blunders.

However, if there are boilerplate agreements given with the advice "use these", THEN release the hounds.
Driving home from visiting a friend recently I had a lightbulb moment on self-driving cars; much as I really enjoy driving (heck, I've got a sports car), the second a mainstream car with an autonomous mode becomes remotely affordable for me I will buy it.

I confess I don't understand why the focus is so strongly on the taxi-replacement market; it's interesting, sure, but largely unviable outside metropolitan areas. It can't serve people who go shopping and want to use their cars as lockers during the shop, or people who leave sports gear in the car while they work then go to the gym later, or a number of other cases. Who pays for them? It'd be an expensive business to set up and you'd have regular arguments about taxi licenses that'd make the fuss about Uber look tiny. Who'd clean them? You bet people would do unsavoury things inside them. No; it's a small, awkward to serve.

Fit a 'self-drive' button to my next mainstream car though, and you have a killer product. You can keep it just like your normal car whenever you want, but when you don't - just press the button, program the navigation and do what you want. That night I'd have slept. This evening I'd probably have read on my way home from work. The technical challenges are no greater and it's much easier to set up.

That's a killer app, not an autonomous taxi. Your car, with an invisible chauffeur on demand. The first manufacturer to properly pull it off won't be able to keep up with demand.
The future of the Desktop in Windows 9: What can we expect?
first	Returns the first element in the array and terminated the chain

second	Returns the second element in the array and terminated the chain

third	Returns the third element in the array and terminated the chain

fourth	Returns the fourth element in the array and terminated the chain

fifth	Returns the fifth element in the array and terminated the chain

sixth	Returns the sixth element in the array and terminated the chain

seventh	Returns the seventh element in the array and terminated the chain

eighth	Returns the eighth element in the array and terminated the chain

ninth	Returns the ninth element in the array and terminated the chain

tenth	Returns the tenth element in the array and terminated the chain

... is this a joke?
What organizations? Do you have an idea about how many small business and home users are still running Windows XP?

As far as they are concerned if it is capable of doing what they bought it for, why should they upgrade? Software doesn't wear out or breakdown like a physical good and a lot of the hardware is still fine. Those systems are going to be around forever until the hardware breaks down.

They are also committed to providing upgrades for their bigger customers, so why can't they extend to everyone else, as though it will cost them extra? The only caveat for the non corporate customers should be that if they are not under a support contract and the upgrades break their systems they are out of luck.
Heh, no. I'm a professional programmer (go figure...)
Windows 'Threshold': More on Microsoft's plan to win over Windows 7 users
I noticed that also. It is not about being annoying, it's that language matters when it comes to legal issues. I'm monolingual and not throwing any stones, just staying that in the legal arena this is not an unreasonable criticism.
It sounds like what he wants is more "wolfram language" than an actual programming language. So there are efforts in that direction.

(Personally, I'm working on large systems, programming rather than plumbing. What matters is not what datatypes are built in but how easy it is to add new ones in library fashion. So I'm very happy with Scala; look at what Spray does with HTTP to show how a really powerful, flexible language can express domain constructs).
Houston Astros Database gets hacked, Trade Notes made public
Fine. I downvoted you, and it's no longer anonymous. I downvoted you because both of your comments were filled with passionate garbage rather than any well-reasoned thought. I'd be willing to bet other downvoters were not simply cowardly Microsoft brown-nosers.
An additional leaked file can be found here: http://anonbin.com/753432515
It's strange, I've yet to see it too, in Canada. Must be within a limited area for the ISP, or thanks to the collaboration with A10 Networks.

E.g. https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/no-ip.com
"Software doesn't wear out or breakdown like a physical good"

Well, uh, then why does Microsoft need to do anything, if it's still as good as they day it was first sold?
> If self-driving cars working on a taxi model rather than a personal chauffeur model become a thing, we're going to get used to seeing traffic jams consisting significantly of empty autonomous cars. That won't be especially popular.

Autonomous cars that are "deadheading" (traveling empty to their next point) could be ushered into segregated high speed lanes/corridors (100+ mph), as no passenger means no safety issue.
Is Rail's ActiveSupport a joke?

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/a31277011814b7bdb6be41a8...
Just ran a dig +trace on no-ip.biz. Just... wtf. Who had acted upon that court order?! I thought that the days the US had full control over the internet were LONG past.
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biz. 172800 IN NS a.gtld.biz.
biz. 172800 IN NS b.gtld.biz.
biz. 172800 IN NS c.gtld.biz.
biz. 172800 IN NS e.gtld.biz.
biz. 172800 IN NS f.gtld.biz.
biz. 172800 IN NS k.gtld.biz.
;; Received 308 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(192.203.230.10) in 526 ms

no-ip.biz. 7200 IN NS NS7.MICROSOFTINTERNETSAFETY.NET.
no-ip.biz. 7200 IN NS NS8.MICROSOFTINTERNETSAFETY.NET.
;; Received 90 bytes from 209.173.58.66#53(209.173.58.66) in 150 ms

no-ip.biz. 76834 IN NS nf5.no-ip.com.
no-ip.biz. 76834 IN NS nf2.no-ip.com.
no-ip.biz. 76834 IN NS nf4.no-ip.com.
no-ip.biz. 76834 IN NS nf3.no-ip.com.
no-ip.biz. 76834 IN NS nf1.no-ip.com.
;; Received 206 bytes from 157.56.78.73#53(157.56.78.73) in 344 ms
Historic Relationship between Typed Lambda Calculus and Lisp?
> "look, i make billions while you make a few thousands, but please, go ahead and change your service because it is impacting my billion dollar windows sales and i can't be bothered to patching it on my product"

How can they patch it in their product without turning desktop Windows into something like iOS or Windows Phone/RT?

Even Android has a ton of malware so the notion that Windows is somehow more hole ridden than other platforms stopped being true starting about 10 years ago with their Secure computing initiative. If the user can install Firefox, they can install malware. If Firefox doesn't need to get permission from MS for their next version, Windows cannot distinguish between Firefox.exe and Codec_Flash_Shady.exe. Sandboxing will disable system level utilities.

MS is capable of making secure OSes. How many viruses and trojans do the 3 Xboxes, Windows Phone and RT have? Even Windows Server is pretty secure(atleast as secure as Linux) unless the admins start browsing on it. Malware is a real threat to any popular OS unless third party apps are entirely blocked or restricted by the use of a approval based App Store. Windows gives much more control to the user, which is why many users are able to stay away from infections. And it's ironic that you're blaming MS here instead of the folks that propagate it(including a YC company https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130115/17343321692/why-a...) and people who install it(users).

Remember the shitstorm that was raised against MS on here and elsewhere when they tried to secure users by preventing undetectable rootkits by enabling Secure Boot?
You say there: "How they lean will influence what sort of questions they investigate, how they investigate it, and what sort of outcomes they will look for."

If I understand you, we can expect that somebody is maybe going to be the first to discover something new thanks to the way he's used to think about the subject. Still, before that happens, what do we have?

Edit: Only real hard science. The discoverer we expect of course must decide from which side to attack the matter to reach the new discoveries.
After doing cram sessions for my exams, I've started to fall asleep during the reading of the materials I was supposed to memorize without even noticing it. The interesting part is that I would reiterate over everything I read so far in my dreams after which I would wake up and figure out that I actually fell asleep. Everytime after such short power naps, I had much better recall of information I've retained and I felt refreshed and relaxed.
You need fancy hardware to get that level of accuracy in any way that doesn't also automatically give you leap second announcements, which was the problem we were talking about. NTP announces them, GPS announces them, the various longwave time stations announce them...
No. This IRS news was known more than 3 weeks ago: http://www.bna.com/irs-no-bitcoin-n17179891056/