skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the comments, Lee Smolin says something I agree with:

A final word: where ever you go if you leave science you are likely to face the same fight, because it is in the nature of modern life and modern organizations.

I've thought before that much of the criticism of academia (which I've certainly engaged in) mostly reflects disappointment that it was ultimately not all that different from the rest of the world.
Looks like I slightly misunderstood how the command functioned, what with proxying the traffic back to your local ssh client.

I thought it was more like `ssh hosta 'ssh hostb'`, which would be problematic, but that's not the case. Phew.

So while non-secure protocols through ProxyCommand could still get MITM'd if they own hostA's sshd, proxying ssh itself would be fine, assuming you already had fingerprints. Much less worrisome. :)
Maybe if people were given a set amount of downvotes they could use per day it might make them think more before using them? And maybe they could "earn" more downvote power by receiving upvotes, this could create incentive for downvoters to reply to the people they're downvoting in an attempt to get upvotes to use for further downvoting.
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That's a peculiarity of culture. There are many places where nobody thinks geniuses are supposed to be socially isolated, and so they're not.
50 Years of Moore's Law and Beyond
> Materialistic is not the only type of ambition. Are we actually sure it's not the problem with materialistic, rather than ambition?

This should be stressed. Look at 4nof and jasode's posts elsewhere in this thread: ambition to "start a family" can be just as harmful as ambition to "perform great works", "strike it rich", or "build a career". Relentless pursuit of any ambition can be detrimental to your happiness.

When society tells you "you have to be/do X in order to be happy", but you derive your happiness from Y (and what each person derives happiness from varies from person to person), then you're going to end up being very unhappy if you listen to society. And most people do listen to society since it's drummed into you at all ages and by all groups of people.

And then there's me: I'm very materialistic, but I'm not ambitious at all.

My only goal in life is to do everything I liked to do as a kid (or wanted to do, but couldn't), only without my parents and teachers to tell me I need to do something else. I eat ice cream whenever I want, my job involves taking things apart and figuring out how they work, I watch all the Netflix I want on nights and weekends, and I get to see the cute girl I always wanted to be in the mirror. I'm pretty happy with that... I'm basically living the life I always wanted to live.
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Two of those got a single downvote each. Those aren't great examples of heavily downvoted comments.

The other two are clearly my poor communication about report early report often means more visits, but that (and this is the bit I missed) thathose visits should be benign for the vast majority of cases. I'm not sure which comment you're linking to with the first link - you've linked to my comment which is not downvoted; the only comment in that linked thread that is downvoted is a semi-comprehensible rant, and they always (rightly IMO) get downvoted.

I'm fine with those downvotes - 9 downvotes over 4 comments isn't detering me from commenting, but is reminding me to not assume the reader will be familiar with my argument. IE, downvotes work.

Feel free to upvote them if you feel they're unfairly downvoted.
Needs more .io
‘Gods’ edging out robots at Toyota facility
How to Stick with Good Habits Every Day by Using the “Paper Clip Strategy”
"sometimes a company like Apple starts developing something internally so when they do an acquisition they have a pretty good idea on the model and have an existing team to integrate with"

Believe it or not they do that at GoDaddy too.
Unfortunately, pg said downvoting for disagreement is perfectly acceptable, so it's probably not going away.

However, complaining about being downvoted is against the rules, so you're just expected to swallow it.

If you're using Firefox and are a bit tired of unpopular comments being blotted out to spare you the indigity of reading them, here is a small userscript that fixes this "feature."

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/5b5e413220afb93c9c93
Java gets browser eviction notices from Spartan and Chrome 42
A client's app was rejected because we mentioned Android in the description.. I replaced it with "the crossplatform app for -- ($market)" and it was accepted.

Apple's review process is completely opaque to me. One time an app was rejected because the user signed in with a unique code instead of an email/password.. literally had to change the name of the textfield to "username" from "code" and added a password field that did nothing and it passed. Kafkaesque.
And if you are on the go Bluesmart Luggage:

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/bluesmart-luggage/
In such a movement, the lack of privilege would become a form of psuedo-power. The people with genuine power (the rich celebrities with large social followings) would dominate of course, but they would all argue they they were less privileged than the others and that their voices should therefore be given special status. They would use this psuedo-power to justify attempts to silence "privileged" people who in fact lacked genuine power (personal wealth and social influence).
Introducting Spring Integration Hazelcast Support
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=1

START SMELLING.

Oh lord! Gold! Where do I invest?
“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=174266581889

Deliveryable - Manage your organisation's deliveries online, with our cloud software.

This one sounds actually realistic. The dev team seems competitive, too!
How to Detect Sneaky NSA ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks
The last paragraph about eavesdropping is interesting. The agent doesn't actually give out your key, so an attacker can't use your key to decrypt any traffic. Instead, the attacker gets at the decrypted data as it passes between two ssh processes. Agent forwarding requires the data to be decrypted on the compromised proxy machine. That's the security hole.

The data is encrypted between the workstation and the proxy machine A, which we'll assume is compromised. The receiving ssh process running on machine A decrypts the data and gives it to a second ssh process, which re-encrypts it and sends it to the destination machine B. Because it's getting decrypted on machine A, anybody who controls that machine can view or modify the data.

With a proxy command, there is only one ssh process running on the compromised machine and it never sees the decrypted data. All it's doing is forwarding a TCP connection. The second ssh process (the one connected to B) runs on your workstation. The data is encrypted on your workstation and sent to B, via the TCP tunnel running on A. But the data passing through A is encrypted using ephemeral keys that A doesn't have. In this situation, controlling A is no more useful than controlling any of the other internet routers or switches that your data is passing through.
yep, I'd have to agree. anytime you see that short URL iftt or whatever it is just someone with an IFTTT recipe that never turned it off.
define "works even when you don't have your phone with you"? I have one, and most of the useful features definitely require my phone.
not randomly generated, but it's pretty spot on

http://www.piedpiper.com
> I've noticed a shift to where people downvote if they don't agree with a comment instead of using at it was intended to downvote bad comments.

It's not a shift. It was accepted practice for a thousand days before you had this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Upcycling Textbooks
American and Italian hostages killed in cia drone strike in january
Thanks, that explained my confusion. :)
One example of where Foucault would be useful to technologists in particular is in understanding the role of discourses in perpetuating gender inequalities in technology.

Foucault talked about how we reinforce power relations through the internalization and mobilization of discourse. For Foucault, power is best understood by studying our everyday interactions, instead of examining decrees from those in authority. Power affects us so deeply that we often don't realize how our speech and actions reinforce systems of inequality. Working in software, I see exclusionary comments at least on a weekly basis that almost slip under the radar as being innocuous until you realize that this is exactly the form of power that Foucault analyzes in his studies.

So to answer your question, assuming since you're posting in HN that you're in the software field, you may be interested in reading Foucault if you're interested in obtaining additional analytical tools to understand and improve the currently horrible, exclusionary system that permeates the software world.

As a disclaimer, I'm not saying that Foucault is the only way to understand this phenomenon, nor even necessarily the best. Just trying to point out some concrete ways in which his concepts may be useful in certain scenarios.
I've taken to mostly using my upvote as a means of reverting other peoples bad downvotes. I think they should just take downvoting away entirely.
Is There Enough Meat for Everyone? – Bill Gates
I highly suggest avoiding pictures of a teratoma. It's something that cannot be unseen.
High speed video of plastic sorting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVZdqWjp7xI
Yikes! http://www.launchnik.com/slaveio
The choice of library names in Go makes your comment here sound like a scene out of Mad Men.
They normally get flagged within a few hours, and deleted by the mods. I wouldn't say it is a huge issue here but definitely something that flagging helps with.
And there were many more OS-es and browsers than MS and they got sued. And here we have totally captive audience and nobody gives a fuck ...
> ...mathematics was one of the few areas of study where one could noodle away ... with little ... infrastructure.

The New Yorker had an interesting article about Yitang Zhang and his discovery concerning bounded primes. The discovery itself is interesting for the mathematics involved, but of wider interest is that up until this discovery, he was a relative unknown in the mathematical establishment.

If it were simply a question of motivation and discipline to have math as a hobby, we would expect discoveries from unknown individuals more frequently, but, alas, that's not true, which is what makes this story precious.

It stems from the fact, among other things, that math isn't like programming. It's not like deciding, one day, that you want to write your own operating system, and then the small matter of coding it up. Math requires* those leaps of intuition that come to you after banging your head against the same problem for months. Most employers would start to question a developer's continued employment if it took them five months to resolve a single ticket.

*http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty
What happens after you spend a year implementing and executing a bad idea?
I don't think that it's easy to explain; there almost aren't words for it. Whenever I discuss this in person I tend to ramble and hope enough meaning gets across.

In the US do you have the notion of 'poshness'? For example, making fun of someone who speaks a certain way, or turns their nose up at e.g. fast food? That's a massive thing. We live in tribes... pronouncing words correctly is a thing that results in ostracization here.

It pains me to say this, but here we are:

I am wealthier than my parents and hometown friends because at some point I realised what was going on, and took an active decision to take a different path.

I had to internalize the notion that I am better than them. I will work harder and smarter and I will beat them. Do you see that?

I had to beat them in order to win. I have to compete against my fellow human beings.

I have to reject their customs and use the customs that winners use.

Do you get that? That it's not just 'do A B C'? That the actions I took and continue to take have the effect of further seperating me from my friends and family? Every time I pronounce an 'a' or an 'h' in their presence it's effectively me grandstanding the fact that I'm not 'one of them' now.

Reading this post makes me seem like a colossal dick, right? But it's just a written description of social 'mobility'.

I am not better or more deserving than them. I just play a game. A game of emulation. I was born with talents, arbitrarily, and somehow that means I win and they lose. Meh. I think you just have to live it.
https://github.com/saw/launchnik/blob/master/words
Yeah I agree, having to keep in mind what you put into Item1, Item2, Item3 etc really isn't programmer friendly
Ask HN: Do you want an self-driving car?
One benefit is the cheaper insurance, and it will free up time to/from work to pursue a hobby, get some work done, or even take a nap!

https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/automotive-consumer-insight-revolution-drivers-seat-road-autonomous-vehicles/
Not completely, but the margins will collapse and it will go back to what it once was: a nice way for part-time workers to make a bit of money.

Startup idea: I'm a seller. Hi realtors, you may submit an itemized, fixed price bid on helping me sell my home.
Two potential effects, one is that as more people reach the cutoff level to down vote they do, and two as people grow the community, opinions about what should merit a down vote evolves.

Some services use up/down votes strictly for 'like it'/'didn't like it' others are more nuanced. Might be nice to add an interstitial for 'new' downvoters to check their understanding of the intent but I don't imagine it will change.
you're right, i hope i didn't sound argumentative. i should clarify my own point too, and add that just because they are not "built for it", or are slower, doesn't mean they are inherently a bad choice either. it's really just what you need to optimize for.

so many ways to skin a cat...
Maybe the "elegance" is a factor as well, but I haven't seen it mentioned. All I've seen mentioned is: a) can't change syntax b) can't take huge performance hits at run time or at compile time c) can't break backwards compatibility d) talk is cheap - provide a working implementation

So far, nobody has been able to show all 4 of these requirements, so nothing has been done.

But when/if someone does, I expect it to be taken very seriously.
the section "6.5 Modular type classes" was very interesting. Although they did mention some restrictions as well.
Mine isn't a lightberry. I just use the usb video card plus the Pi.

Also, an HD signal as input to the ambient light setup just isn't necessary. The software (or FPGA) is going to average pixel colors around the border to effectively reduce the resolution to match your LED spacing. With an HD signal, you're just spending more processing power/time to filter out and throw away more information.
#5: I've found booze in my car. Best guess is it spilled out of the purse of one of my relatives when picking them up for a thanksgiving dinner, and it rolled under the seat.
I keep seeing people make really interesting posts, and then someone will reply pointing out a minor error, technicality, typo, or just call part of the above post "wrong" while spouting off an irrelevant personal opinion. Those I downvote.

Unfortunately, on the internet in general, you see that all the time. Someone makes a long, interesting, and thoughtful post with a lot of ideas and content. Then someone else writes a one line criticism that picks apart 1/100th of the previous comment's content, and then everyone upvotes the correction and downvotes the original for being "wrong" on something.

Really people are just too lazy to read long posts and certainly too lazy to think about them. So a lot of people skip over them and read the first reply to see if they are worth reading. They then see the correction, upvote it as they feel as if that person "saved" them from wasting time reading the long post, and then move on (or worse downvote the original comment).

Essentially people will downvote a long comment without having ever read it and will upvote a correction without a clue how relevant it is. It literally happens all the time.
1) That post appears to be factually incorrect, so people downvote it.

2) Did you upvote it? Why not? You've said you think it was unfairly downvoted. A few people have downvotes but everyone with an account can upvote. One or two people downvoted that comment. How many people didn't upvote it?
> running to 'the press' is something Apple passive-aggressively warns you not to do.

Can you elaborate on this? What language do they use?
Probably a bit of both. What's your point?
Yea, but sometimes it's impossible to offer TLS. Like, in this case, where a forum software is being hosted remotely, and they are putting a custom domain in front of it. Squarespace is another notable example. These services simply DON'T offer ssl support when used with custom domains.

You really can't expect everything to work right when you aren't even offering the service that is being requested, can you?
With RoR it's pretty much in the description. Monolithic web apps with relatively standard and simple domain logic (i.e. CRUD). Lots of presentation code (HTML templates, handling of static assets and what not).

Go is for writing small, focused, paralellizable and likely distributed services. If I wanted to crunch data, I'd try Go.

I'd expect, say, a RoR app to connect to a Go service for some of its heavier domain logic. I'd neither write a RoR-type app in Go, nor a Go-type service in RoR.
OTaaS (One Template as a Service)
SPJ is certainly a bodhisattva.
The Scam of Heartburn and Indigestion. We’ve All Been Fooled
Yes, it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than anything else from virtually any angle for local heating, at least. Cooking too, in most cases.

Basically, wood is a huge win because it doesn't rely on having a vehicle, a credit card, a petrochemical distribution system, a bank, electricity and bureaucracy to manage all that, etc. Once you tally up the pervasive bullshit (transport, regulation, real state of reserves, enabling technology, overheads for the above) around most energy sources, you realize they're a hell of a lot more expensive and less long-term reliable than wood.

One axe, some land, a bit of time: sorted.
This has no been the case historically, I'm not sure why it would be now. Why would ms invest in languages like vb.net and f# if so? Choice of languages that target the CLR has always been a selling point even though c# is dominant.
And yet, TrustWave gets to keep their certificate despite doing the same thing intentionally (as opposed to accidentally through incompetence). The system does not work.
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=12342

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Some best practices:

1. keep all software on local machines up to date, and make sure you run virus scanners. many of today's malware will infect your machine so that it can do things like grab your Filezilla XML for a larger botnet.

2. keep all software on remote machines up to date, and use malware scanners. I can't tell you how many times people get hacked from having outdated WordPress plugins etc.

3. if you are small, services like sucuri.net are great for basic malware scanning and removal.

4. have some sort of HR policy regarding passwords and security. things like if someone gets fired, removing their email address and changing their passwords.

that's what I've got off the top of my head!
Riak CS is. I said Riak CS, not Riak.
http://www.launchnik.com/whaleio

OP's doesn't have enough io. Yours does. Is winner.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-ope...
Eat Up. You’ll Be Happier
New Pentagon strategy warns of cyberwar capabilities
"heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion are due to a lack of stomach acid (HCl), not too much"

Crazy but make sense for it becoming more of an issue as you get older.
> But nobody will pay me for my used plastic bottles.

In California and some other US states, you can sell them, though this is in part due to a redemption fee charged when you buy them. Here's a price chart from this year (price per pound):

Aluminum Cans - $1.59
Glass Bottles - $0.104
#1 PETE Plastic Bottles - $1.16
#2 HDPE Plastic Bottles - $0.59
#3 PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) - $0.56
#4 LDPE Plastic Bottles -$2.03
#5 PP Plastic Bottles - $0.60
#6 PS Plastic Bottles - $5.69
#7 Others Plastic Bottles - $0.31
Bimetal - $0.35

This is profitable enough that crews of people come around to steal curbside recyclables in many California cities [1].

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Battle-brews-over-raiders...
There needs to be a compelling way to run it on AWS for this to happen.
Thank you, just added the link to the README like you suggested
Because it's easy to understand why cheating on tests is wrong, and easy to explain to a jury what people did that was wrong. Try to explain LIBOR manipulation to a jury and explain why it's wrong.
Would that have to do with its anti-inflammatory property?
Can the Defense Department Rekindle Romance with Silicon Valley?
The Haskell community is very friendly in general (same with OCaml). You will find a few "I figured out how to open a file in Haskell, therefore I am smarter than John Carmack" types, but they're not prevalent.
MS open sourced only a certain parts of dotNet. Important legacy parts like WinForms are closed source.
The difference you're seeing is the blending that my setup does. For each LED, not only do I average a box of pixels nearest each LED, but I also average over the past X number of frames, where X is typically between 5-10 (configurable).

It makes color and brightness transitions smoother, which makes the overall effect less distracting, and likely less seizure inducing.
Another awesome functional library / extension for PHP is https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php
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>The Startup Generator is a collaboration between Tiffany Zhang and Mike Bradley. Girl is not a real company.

Just in case you get too excited! :-)
It's possible that after multiple decades of the louder parts of society (i.e. the media, and groups with opinions that are far enough from mainstream for the media to consider newsworthy) the rest of society has come to expect more from white males. When comparing two equally qualified applicants, of which one is a white male, people may tend to favor the other applicant based on a perception of rarity. They may expect that if they ran the ad looking for applicants again they'd get a few more white dudes just like the one they're considering but aren't as likely to come across another woman with these qualifications (which is true when you consider the gender makeup of the STEM fields) so they select the woman based on that perception of rarity, rather than by further comparing the applicants or tossing a coin.

On the other hand, diversity is one of those education buzzwords. Every university wants to be "diverse" and none of them would be caught dead with an all white male department group photo on their website. So if one wanted to nit pick, the women do have an additional qualification that's important to their employer, diversity.