skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found one especially ironic, where the guy has the nerve to call himself a "Creative Visionary"... He must be capable of some impressive doublethink if he's not just outright lying to his clients.
This isn't really true.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has a good security team and an active bug bounty program. They respond to reported vulnerabilities, especially serious ones, extremely swiftly. Furthermore, a good hosting service will eliminate almost all the security issues Automattic doesn't catch.

If you get a good host (e.g. WPEngine) you can automate backups and security updates, and the host will constantly monitor your account for suspicious activity and known-vulnerable plugins. It will even notify you if you install an unsafe plugin and automatically uninstall it.

I run my own information security blog on WordPress. I have comments disabled, I'm careful about what plugins I install (because let's be honest, there aren't many you really need) and WPEngine constantly scans my entire installation for suspicious activity or evidence of an intrusion. Aside from a 0day, there isn't much an attacker can do to compromise me.

Looking past alleged security issues, WordPress is a very established, robust and mature CMS for people who want stability and customization for their blog platform. I highly recommend it.
I only take cabs 5-10 times a year anymore, and never in Boston, but I've never been in a cab that pestered me with advertisements. If I found myself in one, it'd be the last ride I took with that company.

On the last flight I took with Delta Airlines they had all the TVs drop down and they played five minutes worth of advertisements on the screens and through the loudspeakers. I just refuse to deal with companies that are hostile to their customers.
Well, I don't want to dismiss the possibility too quickly, since there appear to be researchers taking it seriously:

http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior... (section 3.4, Control, although the general skepticism is noted)

But I will say that there is a difference between feedback and unconstrained evolution. Machine learning mechanisms are feedback loops. But that doesn't mean they will break out of their own paradigm without human intervention.

Malware is actually a good example.

The Morris worm is a static piece of program text, invented by a human. It took advantage of a homogeneous and static environment to spread widely (lots of computers running the same program with the same vulnerability.) There's a huge difference between spreading in this environment and adapting / reproducing so as to spread in novel environments.

Think about Stuxnet. AFAICT, this was a completely novel solution to a problem that had never been seen before: jumping an air gap and destroying a piece of hardware via software.

What do you think is more fruitful approach to designing something like Stuxnet?

1) Assemble the best and brightest minds from multiple domains, painstakingly build simulation environments based on the most plausible intelligence, test custom malware laboriously in those environments, etc.

2) Start with some existing malware (not unlike the Morris worm), and design a meta-algorithm to evolve it into something capable of destroying a nuclear plant from afar?

#2 is science fiction, as far as I can tell. The level of ingenuity required for a task like this is just qualitatively outside the domain of computers.

This is closer to what would be required for us to lose control: for AI to be designing AI, rather than humans designing AI. And keep in mind that AI designing AI is harder than AI designing malware.

I have seen the demos from Deep Mind where it learns to play video games without any knowledge of the rules. I don't claim to fully understand these techniques. (I have however worked in a research lab on robotics, and seen the vast gulf between what the media portrays and reality.)

But I would be interested if anyone knowledgeable in those techniques sees a realistic path from deep learning to something like #2.
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How to build a NewsLetter web app like iOS Weekly
How to build a NewsLetter web app like iOS Weekly?
http://iosdevweekly.com/
When the wall is made of people, its hardly a wall. Even if Google doesn't use insider knowledge to copy Uber, unless Uber had no other possible investors it would later wish it had an investor who was out to kill the competition rather than an investor who is the competition. Thus the problem with VC arms of major tech companies.
That's just the thing - I don't think 'playing it safe' is the goal in Washington, or at least not the only one. As is, the goal for contractors is to stay on a project as long as possible, earning more money over a longer period of time. Waterfall is a perfect excuse to do just that.
Well, there is Code for America. That's a volunteer organization not actually within the government, so it's not a terribly close analogy, but it's still one means of digital civic service that stops short of full-time.
10. It was a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game in Apple II Basic running on a Mac LC.
Nice. I had a an idea for something similar. More like a library that takes in markdown formatted CSV and outputs well-formatted XLS/Pages document.
Supposedly it doesn't even disqualify you from the FBI anymore.
Or Gates (Harvard), Sergey/Brin (Stanford), Wozniak (Berkeley), Zuckerberg (Harvard), ...

Why do you propose top 50 as a cutoff, why not give the same funding to someone in a school barely making the top 500? If not, isn't that just credentialism?

Credentialism also leans on alumni preference--if someone in your family is a big donor at Harvard and got you in in spite of lousy scores, they might also make your company succeed through favorable loans, connections, etc., in spite of your lousy contribution, etc.
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12. It was a console based tic-tac-toe game in C++
They're definitely building relationships in that direction... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/08/google-wants-to-sell-...
Game Theory Says Pete Carroll’s Call at Goal Line Is Defensible
Someone should. Which is why I commented.
Why are you not already using a password manager? They have existed in fantastically-useful form for probably well over five years now.

If a password is easy to remember, it is easy to guess, and if you reuse a password it's likelihood of being compromised increases dramatically.

There is no simple solution for this problem. Password managers make the best of a crappy and likely unavoidable situation.
well, they do tend to be in the boonies lots of times
The last time this showed up, the comments on HN[1] said that you're _capped_ at $155k and have poor pension and benefits.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8165082
>> Think about what you had back then, though. At best, you had Mac OS

The best my high schools had were the Apple II family and PDP mini computers -- my first high school course in BASIC (I already knew Basic from my home computers) -- we were marking up Hollerith cards with Sharpies. You don't know painful debugging until you have to manually scour a deck of optical cards looking for an errant black mark.

We did not deal with interrupts, memory access or low level components. What we learned was more about logic -- not much different than what I do today.

The closest I ever got to memory access in BASIC were the occasional peeks and pokes, and even then, you didn't need them to write a useful program. Being able to build something even as rudimentary as a CMS today on (insert language of choice here) is more broadly useful than anything I came out of high school with.

Also, remember that nothing was really cross platform back then. Most languages were procedural, and free databases (relational or not) -- forget about it. I was on Mac at the tail end of high school, and if you wanted a tool like Lightspeed C or Lightspeed Pascal - those were way out of the budget of a high school student.
I'm always curious how far a sufficiently motivated masochist could go with C... I guess it's just C++ ;)
It's organizing and connecting people.

It is not high difficulty engineering projects. Their app and website are pretty straightforward stuff.

For a self driving car you need completely different people.
Imaging that, we can get rid of all drivers, must be brilliant...
Flying robots with missiles/guns/high-power lasers/weapons should never be automated.
8 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Startup as Long as You Can
I am also having my personal project alongside my full time job. Yes it is difficult to keep your focus on side project. I use to gain focus during the time i travel back to home from office ( plan all stuff during that period )
Repost.. jk
Here's a related talk, good stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo
I had a Chipotle burrito once on, if I recall correctly, a trip to Denver with the college debate team. I liked it so much that I put the first $2k of BCC's profits (2006 and early 2007) into Chipotle shares. Then I sat on them.

This was pure, unadulterated good luck, but the present value of those shares approaches that of BCC as a freestanding business.

Fun story: back in the day, Chipotle had two share classes: CMG.A and CMG.B. The B shares were what McDonalds had originally gotten, but they could be bought and sold on the open market -- if you knew how to ask your broker for them. They had no intrinsic reasons to be less valuable than A shares -- they had 5x the voting rights but were otherwise identical. And they traded at a 10% discount to A shares for over a year, because Chipotle was growing quickly, people were logging into their discount brokerage to buy CMG, and their brokerages were giving them CMG.A.

After quite a bit of headscratching about this, I figured out the correct series of incantations to get my discount brokerage to give me the B shares instead. Two years later, larger investors convinced the board to approve converting B shares into A shares on a 1:1 basis. Instant 10% ROI kicker if you had been holding them.

(In a company which wasn't growing like wildfire you would have been able to sell CMG.A and buy CMG.B to arbitrage this price difference away, but apparently demand for shorting CMG.A was so high that doing this in quantity was difficult.)
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Given that article was completely unpersuasive to me (as a fairly long-term HN reader) I seriously doubt it[1].

But then I don't think that should be a goal. (Good) middle management is precisely what Washington needs more of.

[1] The author would be well advised reading Peopleware, and understanding that middle management is often (usually?) an exception handling layer that handles the boundary between systems.
Wikipedia in pages (no scrolls?)
Following your breadcrumbs. I found another winner: https://tommorris.org/posts/8070

Thanks for this.
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As scientists, we work towards a better future, where human does not need to work, and machine does everything for you, the only tiny bit of work human will do is to ..... be a battery... it is paradise...
I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians
Couldn't you say the same thing about Gist/PasteBin? Last I checked those were pretty popular...
Doesn't it already do that? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVYK68BPu6k/U2E6Jdhpp2I/AAAAAAAAC9...
The government isn't "the bad guys". They are, however, a large, bureaucratic organization, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.

If you've worked for a large, bureaucratic private-sector organization (like Intel), then you'll have a pretty good sense of what you're in for.

Remember: every committee, every rule, every baffling thing that seems to make no sense is there for a reason (even a picayune, trivial, bad reason)--that's life in an organization that's had 10,000 hands in the cookie dough before you came along.

The difference is that public-sector work is something that conceivably we all have a stake in and can benefit from, while the beneficiaries of private sector work at any given company are distinctly more narrow in scope.
I recommend reading the article, which is not only digestible and interesting, but also answers your questions and dispels your misconceptions.
No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app (2013)
Yes, you have all my votes. Words cannot describe the ire which consumes me when cute webdevs reinvent everything because it works on their industrial-grade computers with perfect internet. I agree. So. Much.

But.

It pains me to say this: what else would you want to have happen when a user presses Ctrl+S?

Are they really wrong, here? Wouldn't a user expect a "save blog" on Ctrl+S? How would I explain to a non-tech user why Ctrl+S works in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, but not in Medium?
They should be. In India concept like net neutrality is still years away. Even people don't know the meaning of the term and majority of them have not heard of it before.

THey should be worried. It's justified.
Google (probably) knows the answer to this question. How many people completely miss the WiFi connection prompt?

You could mix in data from browsers (how many people browse near a wifi point that they have connected to with their browser, but don't connect with their wifi? how many people browse in the evening/morning but not connected to wifi?)

There's probably a wealth of demographic data they could correlate through gmail content and/or chrome browsing trends to correlate user income level, although I don't know if Google has privacy controls in place that makes sharing this data between divisions possible.
The real asset for IoT is .NET. There are already some manufacturers using Micro .NET for such purposes.

Many IoT vendors are shipping JVMs on their devices.

So this seems natural to bring .NET to the Pi.
I understand your skepticism - I left Federal contracting years ago in disgust at the way things have been working, or not working.

But 18F convinced me that they have the key to change that - completely with regard to their own work, and then with a wider ripple effect. That's something I couldn't pass up; I turned down a dream job in the private sector for 18F. Six months later, I'm more convinced and excited than ever.

It's important that 18F is a brand-new organization with great autonomy. This is not an effort to make an existing Federal agency "get" open/agile. That would be noble but very difficult. Rather, 18F is built from the ground up entirely of people with real devotion to and real experience in the principles. That especially includes the people at the top (to the extent we even have a top, it's really quite flat in here). And 18F overall has the leverage to do our work our way, because many other groups within the government believe that we can and will deliver (and are delivering) effectively... there's more work lined up for us than we can possibly fulfill (even if you all DO join us). We can say "no" when we're asked to work with conditions that would change us into what we're trying to fix.

All that said, we are a bunch of idealists, too. Has our optimism run away with us? Well, we'll certainly deliver excellent product. Time will tell how far the ripple effect will go.
Surely the riders install base is quite valuable if both were to have as good tech and self driving cars
Stack Exchange has a convenient list:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts
Oh those silly North Koreans. When will they decide to stop permitting their own torture?

Their benevolent overlords have been torturing them in droves for half a fucking century, but apparently they like it that way, because otherwise they wouldn't PERMIT it, right?
> They just want their technology in front of everyone, no matter what they use.

I don't know about that - the Windows Phone people are pretty bitter about Google's current stance (no maps, no youtube, no hangouts).
i've recently found µBlock to be a great alternative
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Well, I just purchased a pocket monkey. Thanks for the tip.
SpringRTS has this. You can write and use lua plugins. To assist you with various small tasks, and add more info to the HUD.

Intro: http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_Widgets
Forum: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=23&sid=83343bd3a4...
List of plugins: http://widgets.springrts.de/
The "touch of" is pretty revealing though, in the copy for the "coder" sections of the first and third.
Besides what arrrg said, part of the reason I used embellish is that I don't know how close it is to the fact: certainly this is the first time I've heard/read about Jobs "attended" Stanford, but I have no idea whether he might have crashed there for a few semesters (if he was crashing the courses similar to how he did after dropping out of Reed, "attended" would only be a bit of a stretch).

Also, using the word "lie" is mean, and I'm with the camp that being mean for no reason is unnecessary.
It's possible to view everything through a partisan lens of course, but most of the work likely to be done by this agency is the kinds of things that most people would support: getting better, quicker or easier access to government information.

Edit: Here's a good example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988897
What would they be trying to achieve by striking? Getting Uber to stop pursuing self-driving cars?

It's pointless, because someone at some point will launch the self-driving version of Uber.

Also, Surge Pricing would make it difficult to get everyone to hold out for the strike.
Yes, I am aware of this. Even that strikes me as the wrong metric. For instance, AFAIK standard Italian is mostly conservative due to standardization efforts. I had known that it was largely based on the Tuscan dialect, but when I saw what actual Tuscans do to their consonants I couldn't believe it. Though this conservatism is now present in the native language of a country, it seems to have come about through somewhat artificial means, rather than a long unbroken chain to Rome.

I recall there were other such examples of a romance culture re-importing Latin words from literature, and it being fairly common to have two words with the same root, where one is conservative and another drops syllables, changes consonants, or both. Spanish is the one I know best, just to throw one out there from my head, you have "llave" and "clave", or "llano" "plano" and "plan". (All of this from the consonant + L -> ll change, then I presume a re-import from Latin happening later.)

Secondarily, who is to say some of the sound changes we see in Romance languages couldn't have somehow originated with regional or informal pronunciation of Romans? I am sure many have studied this question more than I have, but I will bet the answer here is nonzero.
this is seems to be an offshoot/extension of pf-ring.

apart from performing packet operations in userland also defines a language with functional-composition (take a packet, return an 'enriched' packet) for further processing e.g. fanout/io etc.

ast from pfq/lang application gets translated into appropriate structures, in the kernel, and gets executed on top of the driver...
I highly disagree with the last part. There are 2 reason to run as you mention: for health and for competition. Those running for health should be careful about emulating the routines of those running for competition.
Very interesting overall. I like this small factoid, "They can be made even smaller with lossy JPEG compression, but for optical navigation, precision counts; the pictures have to be returned losslessly." I think this implies that the most distant JPEG software is currently in route to Pluto.
If Facebook can get Hack to go mainstream, PHP may have a second chance. But for now, it seems like PHP is dying. There are now 2x more Ruby jobs than PHP in the Bay Area. Here's a link to Google Trends for PHP

Worldwide: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20ruby%2C%20py...

US: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php,+ruby,+python,+pe...

Bay Area: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#geo=807&q=php,+ruby,+py...

I have the most experience in PHP, but I've been purposefully avoiding it lately just in case it becomes Perl. I've been using Node lately and will probably start using Ruby.
Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.
For something that gets updated once a month, I'd go with a static site generator. I like https://middlemanapp.com/. If that seems like too much work, you should just write on Medium.

Having used WordPress heavily in the past, I wouldn't go near it for my own site. It's a great option if you need a CMS for non-technical contributors, but I find I can get things done much faster writing in my editor of choice. As others have mentioned, security is something you need to stay on top of...
Those emails were recovered (http://www.wsj.com/articles/lost-irs-emails-found-1417122396). Make of that what you will.
> Our extra characters might look very much like Latin equivalents, and amount to only about 8% of letter distribution (you will hate them playing Scrabble)

Polish competitive Scrabble player here. It's not so much hate as a love-hate relationship. While it can be frustrating to be left with a vowelless rack containing a Ź in the endgame, for the most part these letters are quite desirable. Indeed, three of them (Ą, Ę, Ó) are vowels worth 5 points each, and only two of them (Ć and Ź) don't appear in any two-letter word. Even the Ź is fairly easy to get rid of, given an open enough (read: not completely blocked) board. They're nowhere near as irritating as the Q (and to a lesser extent Z) in English Scrabble.
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So build a website and send the permits in using a service like Phaxio.com (Fax API). Show your local rep, get it funded.
Driverless cars use computer-vision to find lanes. They also can read street signs in some implementations. The required precision is not really a problem you'd want to try and solve with mapping alone.
My point of disagreement is giving the mainstream view as "the wavefunction is the fundamental description of reality". I claim that the mainstream view, as seen in type 3 theories, treats the wavefunction as a mathematical object, not a fundamental (i.e. physical) one.

For example, Griffiths (who introduced consistent histories) describes the wave function as "a mere mathematical tool or pre-probability for calculating probabilities which can, if one wants, be obtained using different solutions to Schrödinger’s equation." He goes on to contrast this to MWI and Bohmian mechanics, which treat the wave function as fundamental, are both deterministic, and are minority viewpoints. [1]

1: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.3932v2.pdf
Sure you could, if the code is complex enough you would hide dead code acting as a signature, which would be somewhat analogous to mapmakers inserting false towns in their maps [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street