skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> only seeks out an opportunity where there are millions of dollars to be gained

This isn't just isolated to Hollywood. Many companies across industries are profit driven.

It is perhaps more in your face in the entertainment industry, but greed doesn't just occur there.
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> Haskell is odd and the type system is I feel restrictive.

Can you elaborate on this? After using Haskell for some time now I can't seem to come up with use cases where the type system is/would be restrictive.
You started revolico!? That's awesome man, I think that project "opened" the mind of a lot of cuban entrepreneurs. I know a few cool projects over there, I also know a lot of plastic artists trying to start projects that connect the "exile" with the people of the island. As you might know, even among those oppose to the regime, there is a lot of bias against cubans from America(unless they are family/friends). I'm also cuban, living in NY, I'd like to help out with whatever I can. You'll find my email on my profile.
Not an expert , but don't antibody-drug-conjugates have many problems in their design that make them less the "ideal" targeting drug we're talking about - but if those are solved , their potential is quite big ?

Also , assuming we have the theoretical tech to sample a big set of cancer cells from a patient - collect a big list of all the unique characteristics, create a large collection of drug molecules targeted at all those characteristics with very very high specificity, and give them to a patient, won't this cure him in very high likelihood ?
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Exactly...there are lots of reasons to reject a candidate, none of which have to do with the OP's opinion of the guy. Companies interview for a lot more than competence. Culture fit is a huge one. He may be the best programmer in the world, but if you can't grab a beer or coffee with the guy or grab lunch occasionally, he may not be a good fit. Also, the new company hasn't worked with him for 5 years, so they have to go on what they learn in a short interview, and many of the best developers simply don't interview well. It could have been salary requirements, or maybe they're interested in a specific technology that he hasn't mastered yet.
This sends shivers down my spine. We already have net neutrality to worry about, no doubt the far right will be using this event to fear monger that kind of legislation.
I don't know that I would take the Time's reporting on the investigation to be the end-all-be-all of what evidence there is. Like you say, accusing a Nation State probably requires a decent amount of evidence, and I doubt they would release it all to the NY Times. The article even says

> It is not clear how the United States came to its determination that the North Korean regime played a central role in the Sony attacks

To me, that sounds like they aren't privy to the reasoning used.
As a counterpoint anecdote, I did freelancing as a junior dev and believe I've turned out alright ;)
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and North Korea likely has the means to reach out and get the actors too
That's a lot of people's response. Sony Pictures does bad things, so while I have to say "this kinda thing shouldn't be done", at least it happened to a deserving company.
Hilary Mantel's short story was certainly controversial amongst the expected critics, but it was not "almost banned", or even considered for such a ban by anyone who could effect it.
Using the word that way, in parentheses, is not something I have ever encountered when intending to express hyperbole.
It's sad that most of mainstream media considers "getting semi-official government leaks" as "investigating" now, as if the government could never lie or anything. When your sources come from Joe Biden's right hand (just an example), you should be very suspicious.
I got that it was a joke, but I downvoted you because it's not really funny and a waste of my time to read.
His economic argument is just as wrong as a political argument would have been: Cuba is a complete failure economically and has been for the last 50 years.

Cuba is third world poor. A country where the average person earns $300 to $500 per month, is a slave pen. State sponsored slavery is the only way you can repress people to such an extreme extent as to hold their standard of living that low for 50 years.

Given there has never been an economically successful Socialist nation in world history, it makes perfect sense that Cuba would be a failure just like all the rest.
Precisely. Argument is that compensation should be based on time and not % of rent.
"The privacy concerns are not significant enough to merit demanding permissions" is certainly a defensible position; I'm not sure whether I agree with it, but it's not crazy.

That is distinct, though, from "there is no privacy concern."
I read a short introduction to the Philosophy of Science, because I figured I must be obviously missing something. The closest the book came to useful was suggesting that biologists have serious fights over the meaning of the word "life", as if that somehow had any bearing on anything.
Attribution in cyberwarfare is infamously difficult.

However, there is an age old equation that works fairly well for attribution: opportunity + motive + evidence. Opportunity in cyberwarfare is a complex item to tease out and has more to do with opportunity costs than anything else (the strategy of cyberwarfare demands owning everything immediately rather than later and the exercise becomes one of triage).

In this instance we do have both a motive and some evidence that point to North Korea, and it is in line with the sort of theatrical politics NK is known for. IMHO more evidence and an analysis of opportunity cost are a must to pin NK down further, but you can be assured that (unless officials have ulterior geopolitical motives) they have a pretty good idea about the cyber capabilities and actions of other nation states - more than they are apt to release to media outlets.
When can we expect legislation mandating that the NSA secure all corporate networks?
> Would you prefer the alternative: a dark room full of defenseless victims?

...yes?

Let's accept, for the sake of argument, that arming victims does in fact reduce or eliminate the ability of a mass shooter to inflict casualties. The only way to ensure that someone is carrying a concealed weapon in whichever screening is hypothetically attacked is to ensure that someone is carrying a concealed weapon in most if not all screenings. That's a lot of handguns.

The vast majority of these weapons will be used responsibly, but some small fraction of them will be used in crimes of passion or suicides that would not have happened but for the easy availability of a deadly weapon. Some other tiny fraction of them will injure or kill someone accidentally.

Mass shootings and terrorist attacks, while incredibly tragic, are incredibly rare. They also rarely have casualty counts above the low double digits. Meanwhile firearm accidents kill hundreds of people every year, and suicide and homicide claim tens of thousands. Arming ourselves to a level that can prevent black swan events is optimizing for the wrong case and will almost certainly lead to more loss of life than it prevents.
In all practical terms if the computer is not custom build for Linux or OSX, it is by default custom built for Windows (and a specific version of Windows at that).
How can this/these be exploited?
Thank goodness. btrfs has bitten me way too often on CoreOS. I eventually succumbed to wiping the /var/lib/docker mounted directory on every reboot to minimize the occurrence of the low disk space issues, but nevertheless, issues still exist. Even today, I still have some cases where docker will complain about not being able to create the container/file, due to some inane error. I've had to reboot machines many times just to try to get it to cooperate. Furthermore, that solution of wiping the partition means that my machines need to redownload their docker images on every reboot, which means they come up more slowly than absolutely necessary.
it looks really cool . do you mind shedding more light on what all stuff you are using .. frontend and backend ..
Or it was going to most likely be a commercial flop anyways http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_interview_2014/
hands on keys
Sony cancels Christmas Day release of the Interview sources say
That's obvious boilerplate, tho
Not just "anyone", but there could've been multiple unrelated groups hacking them at once. Didn't they say there's some evidence of hacking from 2 years ago? Some of them could've just hacked them and Sony never found out about it.
This is a timely post for me because I also want to study deep learning and have been researching the best way to do that without going back to school and getting a graduate degree in CS.

My tentative plan is to start with Coursera's Neural Network course and implement as many things as possible (probably in Python) along the way. By the end of 2015, I'd like to build a deep learning application from scratch that does something interesting.

While online resources will likely be my primary source of information, I'd love to have a study partner (or partners) to discuss concepts and bounce ideas off of. If OP or anyone else is interested, drop me a note at matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com and we'll figure out the best way to do that.

As a side note, I built a few a-life/AI visualizations in JavaScript over the past year, including a simple neural network which might interest anyone reading this: http://www.emergentmind.com/.
Yes, accusing a nation state requires a decent amount of evidence - however the US has a track record of lying about and and manufacturing evidence when required. Or how's that whole "chemical weapons in Iraq"-thing going?

If the US has better evidence, why not show it? I'm not saying NK didn't conduct those attacks, I'm just saying the US government isn't really a reliable source about anything.
By the way, it's ulterior, not alterior.
That's practically impossible.

Finland in 1994 had a very high standard of living. Their GDP per capita in '94 was equivalent to roughly $40,000 in today's dollar.

Maybe Finland of 1914. Nigeria's GDP per capita today, for example, is $3,000.
The last time a communist country did a hack like this was during the Cold War. The hackers were coke addicted West Berliners paid off by the KGB to infiltrate high value and key .mil servers. My guess is that this time it is no different. Read Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg and you'll see how very little for geopolitics of these attacks have changed.
Yes, and i'm saying that sharing a single IP in a botnet suggests nothing.
P0f – passive traffic fingerprinting
North Korea has done a great PR boost for this film. Now many more will see it than before. It's the movie that got North Korea officially off the sidelines and right in the middle of GWOT.
I must have missed alot, what are other instances of attacks like this? We are not talking about espionage or theft, the Sony attack was plain malice. The only prior examples I can think of are private activists (eg Anonomous) or major tactical targets (eg nuclear centrifuges).
There's no way this is a credible threat...

The physical threat? No.

But there is a credible threat here. No theater wants to go through what Sony is going through right now. And no sensible one believes that they are going to be able to protect themselves from it.
I used to work at Apple many years ago in a past life but IIRC:

Project Wonder was definitely at the core of iTunes Store. They had your typical monolithic web application and used most of the WebObjects technologies.

The Apple Store was different. They had dozens/hundreds of micro services which used WebObjects only in the front i.e. to handle request/response and routing. They may have even switched it out by now.
If you haven't yet attempted to build some sort of sentiment analysis by yourself yet, be it rule-based or on statistical analysis, you should, even just a rudimentary rule based one is a lot of fun to implement, and it works surprisingly well [0].

One of the harder parts of making a decent one based on statistical analysis however is the lack of good training data, other than the analyzed twitter dataset [1] and another movie reviews one [2].

[0] http://fjavieralba.com/basic-sentiment-analysis-with-python....

[1] http://help.sentiment140.com/for-students/

[2] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/
My gut feeling is the valley has turned sour on fb far ahead of the facts.

These app (especially gaming) companies are profitably running ads on fb. Many of which have spend hundreds of millions on advertising, primarily through fb (by a long shot over Google).

Other genres of apps are starting to migrate to the gaming strategies of acquiring users and increasing retention with ads.

CPMs on fb are rising, not falling.

Brands haven't successfully migrated to mobile advertising as a whole, and when they do I think fb will be the primary choice.

I don't think VC funded negative value ad campaigns are a notable portion of fb revenues.

I would love to be proven wrong on any of these assertions.
GEX was one of those projects from hell (1997)
Saying that since no one has yet "paid for a team of people to do it" then it "must not be worth doing"

Except that it's much less declarative than you're stating ('kind of implies' is pretty far from 'must'), and even has an emoticon added to indicate commiseration: "kind of implies that no one thinks it is worth doing :(". I agree that context can be missing, but at the same time, you shouldn't be significantly changing the visible context like that - you seem to be more about projecting your own issues rather than reading what's on the page when you do that.
Perhaps the reason for anger is because of Go ignoring years of research and innovation. I would imagine people who were early adopters of power tools felt the same way.

Imagine if you were used to using power tools, but all the jobs available forced you to use hammers, screwdrivers, etc. Wouldn't this make you a little angry or at the very least disappointed?
What is wrong with a "needless tasteless" movie? The primary purpose of movies is to entertain, and neither being "needless" nor "tasteless" prevents a movie from entertaining.

Seriously, how is your appraisal of the content relevant at all?
> He made it sound as though it is technologically trivial

This is a guy who built three operating systems and countless revolutionary apps under his watch. Many of which given the constraints back in the day would've been incredibly complex.

By comparison web transactions IS trivial.
Critics' reviews can mean jack shit, especially for stupid comedies like this one. Movie critics rarely rate crude and stupid comedies highly.

Looking at the audience section, with 27k entries, 96% wanting to see it and a 3.8/5 score pre-release, it's clear that it wouldn't have been a flop.
Yep. It's fun when your entire etcd cluster dies at the same time (because you started a global unit that pulls a huge docker container).

You'd think they have safeguards to automatically rebalance on certain conditions (metadata filling up, etc) but no, you have to babysit btrfs.
This is my concern - they are starting with a motive and the DPRK and then working backwards to fit the evidence in.

Everybody seems to have forgotten that this started as a financial ransom demand and the attackers made no mention of the movie or the DPRK until Sony and the media did.

I'm not suggesting the DPRK are not involved, but that it is a very big leap to go from media speculating about motives to the US government formally accusing them. The details leaked to the NyTimes do not substantiate this leap.
I can't think of any reading off the top of my head, but Patreon and other services usually work this way: many creators provide their primary work (the web comic, the podcast, etc.) for free, regardless of backing. Backers typically get extras. For example: I received a digital sketch of my choice for backing a comic artist.
I just used this and bought something - so that's the best feedback I can give, isn't it? Good luck with it! Also if you have a newsletter for potential investors please put me on it. Details in my profile.
That whole comment was a mistake. I completely missed the point's of the article.
> there is a window where I'm rather productive and less ADD when I'm fasting.

Something happens to the brain during prolonged fasting (within reason), and it's something that seems pretty darn good overall.

If you practice meditation, fasting seems to help a lot.
Old man yells at JavaScript
Server costs have become so minuscule that they can be considered a non-factor nowadays.
Sony should use this opportunity to capitalize on a digital distribution model since they aren't going to release the film to theaters.
I just got one of these and like a lot so far.

The only Achilles heel for this is getting the data out and doing some real analysis of what your sleep cycles are, how your fitness levels trend, etc.

Hopefully in the near future, they will come out with something, but thus far, the data you see is quite limited.
The vituperative nature def. does not seem like a PR stunt gone awry. The flip side is the US may want to blame a state because they don't know who did it.
You meant The Day of the Jackal, the thriller about the assassination of de Gaulle, right?
Lots of movies that have bad reviews still have a pretty big following. Comedies generally have worse reviews than other movies anyways. In 2014, I hear people talk about how much they loved Step Brothers all the time. Its rated about 55% on rotten tomatoes.

People don't watch comedies to see oscar-winning performances, they watch comedies to laugh. 50% isn't that bad.
Sony Pulls the Plug on Dec. 25 Release of 'The Interview' After Threats
The vomit scene was awesome. I saw it with my grown up daughter. She laughed so hard she couldn't stop. Then people around her started to go out of control laughter, too. Then she bolted. Apparently she was laughing so hard at the idea of a scene where a puppet vomits unceasingly that it triggered her gag reflex!
Revenue generation pays for ad spending which generates more revenue. The only thing that stops this cycle is people stop playing and making in-app purchases.
While I agree with the author's point that anyone who is not Facebook will be screwed, I disagree with this part: "Facebook has two natural constituencies: its advertisers and its users."

Facebook does have two constituencies: its advertisers and its shareholders. There has been very little improvement for users in the past few years. While the site has become filled with more and more advertising, users have less and less control over their newsfeed. After years of changing the setting, I don't even have the option to show posts by Most Recent any more.

Meanwhile, small businesses, who helped build up the Facebook brand are being forced to pay to reach their own fans. I hope this misalignment of incentives really bites them hard.
Why repeat your comment from above word for word, when the facts clearly do not support your conclusion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8764077
Oh wait - it was the Rachel Maddow 2012 mug, not the 2016 mug. Still - nicely done. You had me.
This rant isn't very constructive. Yes, JavaScript has it's problems, but then again, so do many languages.
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There is no silver bullet, but that situation cannot get much worse than it already is. Even if the country collapsed into anarchy, the chaos would at least provide the opportunity for some to escape.

Organized evil is more harmful than any sort of chaos. The only exceptions involve WMD deadman switches.
The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy
>AFAIK that barrier of good taste has never been crossed by Hollywood before. Close, but advocating assassination of a current world leader by name?

How many people does a dictator have to send to a concentration camp before they lose the right to complain about such a movie being in bad taste? Personally, I think the answer is 1.
A concession to uncertainty is the difference between a religion and a science.
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I found that the most odd thing here. Obama personally needed a Pope to remind him about Cuba? I mean, it's good a church is doing something beneficial but it sounds strange.
Who knows, maybe this rough period is just prelude to a big boom from their products they're always getting press on. Either way, I love Google and, almost certainly always will
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>There's a quote by Hillary Clinton, like it or not, likely to be our next president, describing that movie as "despicable".

And she's a despicable person. Sadly, she's probably going to be the best candidate in the next election, but she's a horrible person whose opinion counts for nothing.
The movie was unlikely to make much money and was risking the other, more major releases.

I bet they will release it later in the new year with excellent financial results.
This is a sad turn of events. Now that unethical groups out there know they can "censor" films, they will be motivated to do the same to other art forms to prevent them from being released.
Behavior of all involved parties is highly indicative that they at least believe the threats of violence to be real. Body guards, cancelled media appearances, unprecedented cancellation of a theatrical release, jumpy reactions in public, and more. Internet death threats are nothing special. They happen all day every day. Especially for celebrities. Hacks aren't an every day occurrence but we hear about them regularly.

That doesn't mean the threats are legitimate. Or that North Korea is involved. But the actions of folks involved do give serious weight to such an accusation.
So, nothing to back that claim. No data or announcement from Facebook. Just a remark about external web links being shit on mobile and that's it. Not even a decent argument there. It's like saying elephants will grow tall necks in 2005 because of some random reason.

Am I missing something here?
Oracle Application Express can do something like reverse engineer a database and produce a full CRUD interface.

And it's perfectly, utterly awful.
Never considered that, but I think this is the only explanation.
> It's not an accident; medical societies have blocked medical school expansion for decades until recently as the population grew.

Sort of. There are a lot of very common misconceptions around this.

The AAMC (not AMA!) limited the number of medical school students until about ten years ago, at which point they announced an explicit goal of expanding the number of graduates from medical school.

However, this doesn't mean anything in practice[0], because the bottleneck isn't the medical school graduates - it's the residency programs. As a medical school graduate, you have an MD, but you are not actually qualified to practice medicine. That requires usually four years of training (minimum), plus several more for various specialties.

These programs are costly to run, and so hospitals that offer residency programs are funded by the federal government to do so (through Medicare). The only way to expand the number of practicing physicians in the US is to skimp on quality during training (which nobody wants to do), or to increase funding through Medicare (which nobody wants to do.

> US doctors are fewer and have more responsibilities and thus must be paid extraordinarily to work very long hours and not retire at the usual ages

They also have to be paid a hefty amount to pay off massive debt. If you see an attending physician in his 30s (or even 40s), even if he's making a respectable amount of money, there's a good chance he still has a negative net worth. The level of debt of course varies by location, specialty, and quality of education, but it's rather misleading to look at an e.g. $200K/year income for a physician and compare that to the equivalent amount in the tech industry.

[0] pun not intended, but very a propos!