skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MANAGER: (Gets out brochure from a construction firm) See this Whiz-O-Matic armor-plated flying roof with squirrel attack system? Just make it like it looks in this picture. Come on, guys. You're professionals, right? This kind of thing must be trivial for you.
I may be reading this wrong, but it appears to rely on trusting at least one (if not more) of the other compilers to not be compromised as well.

Given that so many modern compilers can be traced back to GCC or LLVM these days, this requirement would seem problematic.

EDIT: As pointed out below, it would take a nearly AI level compromise to protect against this kind of attack, but at a theoretical level it would be possible.

Of course, if you control the GCC compiler, you control the Linux Kernel, and no programs run on Linux that don't rely on the kernel for reading and writing files...
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The UI is very reminiscent if Reddit Sync. Looks like I have found my new HN app.
Evolutionary theory is sorely misunderstood.
John Gilmore(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28activist%29) has related to me that the doored version was distributed and persisted in the ATT production environment for several months before someone noticed the unexpected debug symbols which were left in to aid discovery.
Pandoras are different class than Dingoos, considering that Pandora seems currently to sell for $300-$500, while Dingoos were more like $50-$80 iirc.

Price is kinda important factor and the reason why I recalled dingoos because they are closer to same price bracket with these "Gamebuinos".
Ask HN: Early exercising of startup options, convenient or not?
Hello,

A bit less than 2 years ago I joined a software startup in SV as one of the very first employees, right after their seed round. At that time, I got ISOs for ~2% of the equity pool. This amounts to about 100000 options with an exercise price of 0.20$. The seed round was 1M with a post-money valuation of 5M. The vesting schedule was the typical 4 years with 25% cliff the first year and monthly thereafter.

A few weeks ago, the company raised a series A, getting 5M from investors with a post-money valuation of about 20M.

I haven't looked at the official 409A, hopefully the numbers above should be enough.

Now, I'm very unsure whether I should go down the road of early exercising options (and pay early taxes), or if at this stage I can keep doing what I did so far (which is nothing). My goals are:

1) Minimize the taxes I'll have to pay in case of a liquidity event (acquisition or IPO)
2) Minimize the money I'll lose (by paying early taxes) if the company dies before a liquidity event
3) Minimize the money I'll lose (by paying early taxes) if I'll be fired or decide to leave before a liquidity event of before my options fully vest

Thank you very much.
Please do share the 1st version of the trailer. Seeing intermediate steps is always more insightful than the trying to back out the decision behind a final product.
This book was re-released because of this recommendation. Gates I'm guessing coordinated with amazon to get it back for sale, as previously the rare copies were prohibitively expensive.
I'll answer this, even though I think it's just karma-bait.

My best passive income is a piece of software I made in one week that processed payments for school events (field trips, clubs, etc). I've made over $120,000 in two years with it.
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RE: #1, it definitely made noise on my LCD. It's an older CCFL type backlight, I don't know if that makes a difference but I do know that fluorescent lighting can emit similar sounds.
I doubt it. That seems like the sort of thing that could be illegal. Getting an intern to listen to the cable in both directions and mark an arrow on would cost what, $.50/cable?
A whole lot of words for very little actual content. For one the article recognizes that there has been a response from the opposite party saying:

"the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN and Giss have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known."

emphasis mine. To me this means that GHCN and Giss did put forward arguments as to why the data was modified, however instead of showing the reader these arguments (and why he believes them to be implausible) he simply dismisses them.

And frankly, the rest of the article is a devoid of information as the above. There is a whole lot of name-dropping, and name-calling ("James Hansen, the scientist (later turned fanatical climate activist)"), but no where does he put up any actual references or data to back-up his claims.

I do not have the time to dive into literature and dissect his points one by one (again, he does not offer any references or concrete data so that would be difficult anyway), however his song sounds very familiar. Scientists adjust their data to ignore known cyclical effects: they're manipulating the facts! Scientists don't adjust their data: they're ignoring history to suit their agenda!

And slightly off-topic, what are so many Americans doing in the comment section of a UK newspaper? And why are people ranting about Obamacare on an article about climate change?
I am the fold (experiment)
How Do Unschoolers Turn Out? (2014)
SEPA is nice, but it still takes too much time to transfer money. If I make the transfer on a Friday at 16h00, the recipient might only get in on Tuesday, despite the fact that the money was immediately written off my account.

That's fine for paying my rent and such, but not for many use cases, especially w.r.t. commerce.
I get to choose box separate from screen. Means I can get a box with microphone if I trust the company, or one without if I dont.

What I don't like is paying for smart tv features that don't work or don't trust just to get a screen. Maybe the company that makes great screens make untrustable smart tv features, and maybe the open source smart tv of the future sits in a crappy screen.

More probably the smart tv features gets outdated before the screen.
It is completely clear to me when I go shopping that Walmart employees are (1) older, (2) less attractive, and (3) less well spoken than employees at Trader Joes or Starbucks. The difference is pretty big.

Your intentional exaggeration aside, I would be very surprised if most Trader Joe's and Starbucks employees didn't have some college.

To the extent that there is classism, it is in the people at Trader Joe's and Starbucks doing hiring, and the customers that these companies cater to when they making these hiring decisions. Not me for documenting the facts.
Yep, too late to edit though. It's annoying that they both start with the same letter because otherwise I probably would have noticed :)
Popcorn Time dead again?
Introduction to Distributed Messaging with Elixir
Many people believe that the world is flat. Doesn't mean that it is.

There has never, ever been any expectation set that internet email is private. There have been many examples in the broader media that show how one might compromise email. Also, you have no way to assess the quality of the email service provider, network provider, or client environment.

Postal mail is more secure for 99% of the public for several reasons, including:

- A paper envelope is tamper-evident. My dad used to correspond with radio operators in the Warsaw Pact... envelope tampering was trivial for me to detect as a 5-year old.

- Stolen mail is stolen. You don't get the message. Detecting a pattern of missing mail is pretty easy.

- If you're not a police organization, tracking postal mail metadata is risky. Bystanders will notice somebody rifling through a mailbox every day. There really isn't a way to surveil outbound letters.

- It's a serious felony to tamper with mail. Linking physical mail theft to a perpetrator is pretty straightforward. Also, Postal Inspectors take mail integrity very seriously, sometimes too seriously. With electronic crimes, you probably have a 1/100 chance of finding a cop who understands your complaint AND has the means to do anything about it.

- It's much easier to implement physical security practices/procedures that keep secrets transmitted by mail secret than via digital means.
the whole jitter thing is nonsense in the context of something like an Ethernet cable since only the data is being sent, the packets only have to arrive 'fast enough', the timing doesn't matter.
A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers
It's worth noting that the 100GigE standards only allow copper cabling up to 7m (or 30m at a push). Despite the advert's claims, 100m is fibre-only at this point.
I think this is generally true, although I think there are a couple of languages that are exceptions just because they're so ridiculously complicated. C++, for example. A very practical language, but there are so many gotchas and traps in that language that most people learn the hard way, when they're debugging a corrupt virtual table jumping into god knows what. The thing is, there's probably like 5 people on the planet that actually completely understand all of C++.

Anyway I think most programming language knowledge transfers well, but for some languages years of expertise actually means a lot.
So you're telling me Bill Gates is no longer the paragon of intellectual honesty we all know and love?!
"the GNU GPL qualifies as an open source license and most of the open source licenses qualify as free software licenses."

There are open source licenses that RMS considers non-free, but the modern (3 clause) BSD license isn't one of them.
Could you please re-read my last sentence in the message you responded to :)
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I mean, I get it, but it just looks like it would get really boring fast. Also, this should be submitted as a 'Show HN'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Motivation is temporary, discipline is permanent
What does that have to do with EME?
I think you have a great point, although some people are able to do what you did and some are not. Even if some people can do fast just-in-time learning there is value in expertise of the sort described in [0].

[0] http://norvig.com/21-days.html
As a general rule, do not trust recommendations made by powerful people, be they magnates, presidents or generals.

They are all politicians (or else they wouldn't be where they are), so everything they do has an angle.
Has anyone seen their JS visualizer or tool source?
Prefer Testing Public APIs Over Implementation-Detail Classes
> It is like asking a Carpenter to build a cupboard and thinking he's unqualified for the job if he's only ever used Craftsman screwdrivers because that means he can't use Husky screwdrivers.

I get what you're trying to say and I agree 100% it's foolish to make hiring decisions primarily on having X years experience with Y technology but let's not pretend all technologies are as interchangeable as a Craftsman screwdriver vs a Husky one.

Just because someone has a lot of experience working with wood doesn't mean they can do anything with wood well (at least not without sufficient time). You probably wouldn't want Antonio Stradivari to build you a house or Bob Vila to make you a violin.
In general, I have been horrified by the book recommendations about various fields, by experts in those fields. I used to teach, and the masters of the craft, folks who could silence a room with a glance, and inspired kids to harder work than they knew possible, used to recommend books that seemed embarrassingly trite.

I attribute it to the fact that they were natural experts, and not necessarily book lovers. It would be like asking a sparrow for their favorite work on the dynamics of flight.
Essentially same type of four pair cable that is used for SpaceWire and Ethernet on-board of ISS is readily available and generally costs less than 10EUR/meter.
they thrive on indiference.

you know how nigerian scams are badly written and full of typos to avoid anyone with half a brain? well, audiophile scams put on a price tag like that for the same reason.
Um, does one of the demo avatars have to be Ian Brady?
We're still cleaning that up for a proper release. It's based on js_of_ocaml and d3.js, but we're now porting it to use Irmin as its persistence model so that we can rewind the simulator to arbitrary points in the traces.
How big brands can use Product Hunt to become more useful
How can it be "the original" when it states in the opening paragraph I didn't write this, so I can't take credit for it?
Its possible he's using some site wide tool to monetize and that added the link automatically. Though the graphics suggest he did it with some forethought.

I think its also kind of funny that I stopped reading this article half way through and jumped to the link since I was so curious if it was going to have a tag code. That says a lot about the nature of affiliate marketing.

BTW, I don't see anything particularly wrong with it.
Does anyone think it would be complicated to port it to Sublime Text? I'd like to, but I'm learning to program.
I think it's a lot closer to the PalmOS cards functionality, which a lot of people really enjoyed.
Great job! What made you make it in the first place? Did you know there was a need for it?
RPi2 with HDD+UPS+Tellstick
In MA you need two-party consent for audio recordings, but not for text or audioless video. CA may be similar.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that wiretapping applies specifically to sound recordings.
One beer a day is not abuse? I drink 1 beer at workdays and probably 10+ in the weekend usually in one night. Needless to say, the day after having those I do not drink any beer at all and suffer from a hangover... Which in turn sometimes sort of is enjoyable because it makes you stop thinking for a day.
The location and context of these credentials seems to suggest that they were intended for mostly internal use. Another comment here mentions that the updated client contains just an api_key and client_secret (makes sense), implying that for normal user operations (syncing a user's files) the client probably just communicates with Box's servers, not directly with S3. I guess it would be possible to use a single set of S3 credentials and still lock down per-user access with other means, but I have a hard time believing that's how Box syncs your files.

In any case, this really doesn't seem like the place you'd store user-specific storage credentials (if Box were to use S3 directly in that way). Remember, this was found in a pre-compiled .pyo file, within site-packages.zip.
>> "Abstraction is dangerous"
>The fact that Javascript people keep saying this with a straight face is getting really absurd.

I stopped expecting anything of value in the article after reading this in the introduction, too.
I don't know what @webwanderings does to backup the external drive, but most cloud backup providers give you the option of backing up external drives (in addition to the internal ones).
It seems to be a stretch to call this a "digital currency", since it is "directly tied" to the local currency. Besides, digital currencies are not really interesting, as one can make digital transactions of traditional, "non-digital" currencies.
Probably not Amazon as much as a publisher.
This is an interesting follow up for sure http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Great-Books-on-Science...
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Somebody else said a laser pointer works, but I can't confirm myself yet as I don't yet have a pi 2
you might consider storing in amazon s3 ..its highly durable and cheap and wont suffer from local hdd failure. it probably wont be sold in the near future.
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Most of those products locally recognize an activation command: "hey siri", "ok google", "alexa", ... and then send the next phase to the cloud for interpretation. With Samsung's Smart-TV, however, it sounds like everything you say is uploaded so that they can recognize "Channel Up", "Smart Hub" etc.
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This is how I feel about "The Rosie Project." It's Big Bang Theory in book form making fun of an autistic person. All of the jokes are about him not understanding social cues. Surprised someone like Gates thought that was funny.
The UK papers are among the few English language papers that are willing to report on this issue. It's almost ignored by outlets like the NY Times unless it fits the narrative. You hardly ever see any contrarian stories published by the NY Times. As far as Obamacare, I didn't read the comments, however the government control of 1/5 of the US economy (health) is analogous to the attempted government control of the entire economy through anti-carbon initiatives. It's a debate of the role of government and 'climate change' legislation is but one part of it. However that being said, there are a bunch of nutcases that seem to spew spittle at their screen anytime the government is mentioned. But, given the alarming track record of government overreach (i.e. NSA surveillance of everything, civil asset forfeiture, etc,) their apparent tin foil hats do seem to have a basis in some reality.
>A KTH virus would have to anticipate all tools which may be written to detect it

I wonder if you couldn't reduce this to the halting problem to prove that this is actually impossible.

edit: Ah, never mind. It's already been mentioned in the OP that this has to be the case.
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In the US, the self-proclaimed hardest workers are the conservative Republicans and they support the Church and the Industry of War like no one else. Besides, aren't the scientists today's clergy?
Gamer's arguments have always been that shooters are artificial environments with no personality involved.
In Counterstrike you're fighting against stereotypical terrorists that are in no way related to your personal life.

Here, you "kill" real people with a face. Objective? Motivation?
Kill him before he kills me?

I'm deeply concerned about this and find it disgusting.
Gigabit Ethernet already does have different conductors flowing in different directions.
Epic typo in the submission ("durrency"), that is not on the original page. Somebody please fix.
You seem to be talking about mutual recursion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecursion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_recursion
Welcome back Mel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922844

1 point by SixSigma 18 days ago | link | parent

currentoor > Why is HN so interested in linear algebra lately?

me> It happens to all topics.

One topic gets voted to front page, then people fall down the rabbit hole, posting any links they hit on their way down.

Once every 6 months or so Plan 9 gets a front page hit, probably from someone getting into Go-lang. Then we see all the related papers and websites flood in for a while - Russ Cox' site, cat-v, Rob Pike Interviews, Utah2000, The birth of UTF-8.

It's like the September that Never Ended.

The Story of Mel is on the same cycle.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
"We've been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work for Gen Y", read an ad that I saw recently.
Cloud based versions work significantly better. They are able to put perhaps 10,000 times* more processing power into recognizing what you said. They are better able to deal with different people, background noise, and tick accents. When you are making a consumer device this is critical.

*I pulled this number out of the air
I always thought the argument was "it's just a game".

If you can't separate fiction from reality, you have deeper issues than violent video games.
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I'm one of the game creators and this submission is not mine. I couldn't resist to upvote it though.
As for the game getting boring I really hope you're wrong: most of the players find it very addictive and it will get better if more people will find adversaries online.
Yeah paintball and airsoft and laser tag are disgusting, no one would ever play a game like that in real life.
I don't think anyone actually wants to do that. I work in advertising with video and the people I've talked don't appear to think this is a good idea.
> There has never, ever been any expectation set that internet email is private.

Of course there has.
This is also why having rules about when you can release new features or big changes is very valuable. Or at the very least training your team to stop and think about the timing before pressing the deploy button.

There are rarely cases when a new feature needs released Fri at 4pm or days before a holiday break.
Agreed. I also felt it was a book made with the intention of a movie in mind, which seems like it is happening now.
"Books I recommend" usually means:

A. Books that reiterate and reinforce my ideology.

B. Books that reiterate, sum up, and improve, my knowledge of something I personally and/or professionally, and very very subjectively, find interesting and/or useful (for whatever reason).

C. Books that opened my mind or lifted my sprirt.

There are probably one or two more categories.

Which of these are true for a particular recommendation depends on the reader's motivation for reading the book.

Whether it's A, B, or C, it just might not be useful to nor resonate with anyone else.

Though with B, sometimes the knowledge provided requires a certain level of experience with the subject matter. And if your experience level is either too low, or too high, the book will either not make any sense or will just seem useless, of little importance, lacking originality, or freshness.
With destructuring and tco, the only thing its really missing is pattern matching on multiple function bodies.
I can, but other people might not.
You're a technologically savvy person who keeps up with privacy news. At issue here is the precedent set: more and more devices by default transmit private information to third party servers without the knowledge of the users. Further, people who do not intend to be users (i.e., guests in a home with a SmartTV) suddenly are having their private information scooped up and stored without their consent. It requires a level of vigilance that not every person will have. Do I need to ask my host if they have a SmartTV with this function?
Of course not. Germany has a policy of producing a trade surplus. In order for that to happen other countries must run a trade deficit. This isn't some moral failing, it's simple fucking arithmetic.
In my experience Trusting Trust is required reading in many CS programs.
The fundamental problem is the low market price of unskilled labor. A living wage is one a way to deal with it, along with social programs, education and basic income.

However living wages suffer from the problem that they only benefit people with jobs. Even if they didn't increase unemployment, I would not support them because I don't think a person deserves more than their employer is willing to pay. However, I do think that all people below a certain income should have their income supplemented by the government (what we call welfare in the UK/Aus/NZ, US welfare is much more complex).

I think one problem is that the left has encouraged people to think in terms of rights and justice, when the problems around poverty are really problems of redistribution and charity. Saying that you want to help poor people because they need help and can't provide enough income for themselves sounds arrogant, but it's the truth.
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I've seen the landing page and "watch in action" video. I still have no idea what are this game's rules. I only saw some flashing images of in-game screens, which didn't really explain anything