skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I was getting at is that any no-free-lunch objection you make to learning algorithms in general also applies to the specific learning algorithm in our heads -- and yet we manage to function well enough to have this conversation.
It's a headless browser. Node is a server framework that runs js.
Internet.org – Charitable?
Reminds me of this 2012 story about two British tourists being barred from their flights for tweeting they were going to "destroy America" (slang for "having a blast"):

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16810312

I wonder how they connect the tweets to the persons? Do they actually actively search Twitter for keywords, and when they hit they dig into it until they have found a name, which they check against their passengers lists? There's probably some shortcuts they can use, but it still seems weird to me.
Yes, some may have a genetic disposition, but they still have choices. There is a difference between substance abuse and treating a medical condition.

Simply down voting people because you disagree with them isn't cool IMO.

edit: Myself (and many others) have also been stigmatised from getting the correct medication because of a fear becoming addicts.
This isn't really the same thing. Haskell (and Ocaml) make you deal with the null case, whereas C# just lets you propagate the nulls. Haskell's way is safer, c# is just handy syntax.
Some of the top schools on this list only let in people who are already extremely good _before_ they even get in the school (École normale supérieure for example), 42 accepts almost anyone. If people getting into a school are already very good before they get in, how do you know they got better thanks to the school? They would probably have scored very high at any school.

I think, if you consider that the job of a school is to educate people, then if 42 can turn someone with little education into an average to great programmer, that's a great accomplishment. In comparison, Ecole normale sup turns extremely bright and knowledgeable people into great programmers, not such a great accomplishment IMO.
"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew"
This is wonderful news. Information (including Tor onion services) wants to be freely findable ;)

Obscurity should never be the major aspect of OPSEC.

Even with the sorry state of Tor onion services, sites can authenticate users at both network level, using the "stealth" authorization protocol, and application level. Of course, prudent users will use end-to-end encryption for sensitive information. And they'll consider carefully before sharing.

All of the "hidden markets", by the way, are little more than honeypots in waiting, enticing customers to pwn themselves.

Edit: See Roger Dingledine's reply in the "Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex" thread on tor-talk <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/0....
Heh. I had a moment of sudden panic when a security agent at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv asked me if I had packed everything myself, and I remembered I had a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah gift from a client in my case. So I said 'No.'

Then, with images of airport holding cells and enhanced interrogation jumping to mind, I hastily explained what I meant. Interestingly, the agent was happy not to unwrap and open the present, and just inspected the rest of the contents...
WSJ publishes three lost pages of a Wrinkle in Time
BooJS supports the browser DOM. You can call `document` in BooJS but not NodeJS. You can't import arbitrary browser javascript libraries into NodeJS but you can with BooJS. It's purpose is to assists with unit tests in a sane manner but it's great for other random things; reminiscent of netcat.
If you ever have to service or install Windows (and everyone has to eventually) then that is even harder because it's not primarily designed to be worked with at that level. Windows rests on a cushion of someone else providing IT support. Why should Linux perform usability miracles no other OS does?
You're right, they don't ( i've interviewed people from the epitech, which was created by the same people). That's the one big shortcoming of the curriculum. They're claiming to teach the next zuckerberg or page, but they forgot that those two people have a strong general scientific background.

Yet, they do create people that are truely amazing at coding.
> When only high-quality trials were included, exercise had only a small effect on mood that was not statistically significant.

That seems pretty clear.

> There are numerous other benefits

Yes, recommend exercise because it is undoubtedly a good thing. Just don't recommend it as a treatment for depression, because "exercise [has] only a small effect on mood that [is] not statistically significant."
Sounds like you're somebody who doesn't have much to be proud of beyond a diploma.
Well, you have a large graph defined with multiple end points, so the DAG itself doesn't necessarily point to any single vertex. Only once you define which endpoint you want does it collapse.
You beat me to it. While you can "avoid" the debt by working around it, you're still paying by having to implement the workarounds rather than being able to do it in a more straightforward manner. All you're doing is swapping interest costs with opportunity costs. The piper has to be paid, one way or the other.
I suppose they save a few cents licensing costs per DVD this way.
I've seen a lot of people cheering for him. I've seen the man in person at various cons, and I think he's brilliant. The problem is, what are we supposed to do? Responsible disclosure: companies don't give a shit and will hide it. Full disclosure: you get sued and thrown in jail. Stunt hacking disclosure: people get scared even though it's easy to do. People demand something be done about it. The person who did the disclosure is alternatively viewed as a hero or a villain, but the thing is people are talking about the issue.

What's going to get people talking about security? "Target got hacked" "Oh, what a shame, I'll replace my card then go shopping at Target again". Or what about "I can bring down a plane while it is flying without needing a bomb. I can shut down hydroelectric dams from my living room and flood the entire state of Washington". Now you've got people talking.

"It's not particularly difficult" is the precise problem. It should be difficult. People should be demanding that gaining access to flight control and SCADA systems be made impossible by the general public. Dismissing a hack as "easy" means you're forgetting that it's a hack. It's not supposed to be possible, let alone trivial.
Nice idea, but you failed to do your market research properly and identify the hundreds of competitors in this space.

Good luck though.
Is it possible to pick up what they're missing later? Or is it something like Calculus or Accounting, where if you don't pick it up by college, the odds of picking it up later are negligible?
ah yes, strange behaviour from curl, example above is fixed.
[Putting on my project manager's hat]: Visible progress toward achieving a goal that is important to you makes motivation easy!

* Pick a specific goal that you care about. It can be as simple as I will lose 10 pounds or I will write software that parses a specific data format.

* Create some milestones. Maybe I can't lose 10 pounds all at once, but I bet I can lose 1 pound. Make sure that these are visible.

* Chart your progress, so you can see how your previous work got you closer to your goal. Review this chart regularly.
I have adhd and have noticed that some of my own behaviours fit this characterisation.

1) I typically pace when talking on the phone

2) In general, going for a walk is a really good way to clear my mind.

3) I will walk around a lot, and quickly, when I am anxious.

4) It is easier for me to sleep when there is rain or a fan on in my room. Any kind of white noise.

5) When I need to think about something particularly abstract, I will take a shower. Going through the routines of cleaning my hair, using soap etc, all while having the physical stimulation of water falling on my back, helps to get me in a very focused and 'zen' state.
With only a brief skim of your talk, I wonder what you think of the moral implications of this project being DARPA supported.

> ...DARPA said Memex wasn’t about destroying the privacy protections offered by Tor, even though it wanted to help uncover criminals’ identities. “None of them [Tor, the Navy, Memex partners] want child exploitation and child pornography to be accessible, especially on Tor. We’re funding those groups for testing...”

Doesn't this sound like the same "protect the kids" line embedded in every press release for not-so-subtle government spy programs? $1 million is a lot of money, and I'm sure being able to name drop DARPA in any conversation about your company carries its own cache -- surely you feel pressured to design your optimizations to fit DARPA's needs. Does it feel weird to write code that's being used to track people? Or is that off base?
The linked Ellison interview is pretty good.

I have a similar feeling about open-source software and engineering and development. As michealochurch pointed out, we're quite good at producing value, but shitty at capturing it.

I love helping out my fellow engineers and folks starting out, but the fact that the majority of projects are just going to be used to line some fucking MBA's pocketbook in saved expenses kinda sickens me.
There is a culture of down voting for no-value-add. I think people use it as an opportunity to shape the community which may be fair enough.
Good call, I made that change.
If nobody did anything because something already exists, nobody would ever do anything. Many of the best ideas are just rehashes of old ones with some new stuff added in.
So I would admit that there is no strong evidence either way. For these types of issues, you can always find studies that contradict one another.

Nonetheless the sheer magnitude of the issue is a signal that something widespread is going on. This page says 40 million US adults are affected, or 18% of the population. I've heard similar statistics before.

http://www.adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics

This article is saying that exercise helps ADHD, which is another increasingly diagnosed mental disorder.

That doesn't prove sedentary lifestyles are the cause, but the evidence seems consistent with that hypothesis.

Yes, it's a vague hunch. I'm just saying it seems credible. I don't think it's very controversial that if you go to a psychiatrist for depression, they will ask how much you exercise, and if you don't, they will recommend it. They don't really have proof that it will help. But they will tell you that. It's the best they can do.

Whether antidepressants or ADHD drugs help is also of some controversy as well, I believe. Certainly they do in many cases, but not in all cases.

There's certainly nothing WRONG with exercise for a typical sedentary person, while there are known side effects to medication. And that doesn't mean they are exclusive -- medication + exercise may be the best solution for many people.
You're being downvoted for your stigmatising ignorant comments about people with addiction.

Downvote to disagree is going to happen; it's not forbidden on HN (PG has a post somewhere talking about the acceptability of using downvote to disagree) although there are a large number of people who strongly dislike downvote to disagree.
Automating Transparency (2015)
I'm troubled by the usage of terminology that have legal definitions that do not necessarily follow your usage. Specifically, "thief", "robbing content", "steal", etc.

Those words seem to me to imply depriving someone of something with monetary or otherwise significant value.

I am sure that copying bits is not equivalent to stealing because it does not take something away from someone.

Even ceding that point, I do not believe the publisher stating terms linked from publicly available documents binds me to a contract, ethically or legally. If it's a site that I've signed up for, and require an account to access the content on, then I am more sympathetic to the argument.

But the internet works because things are open. Publishers know this -- they know they cannot paywall their content (generally). So they want the benefits of the open community (discoverability, traffic, etc.) but they want it on their terms.

Pretending that one implicit contract (I serve content you will also request the ads I tell you to look at) is more important than another. If you want openness on the internet, you have to accept it when things don't favor your business interests.
These things are by definition not for everyone who is driven out by high property prices
Not necessarily. Otherwise it would be impossible to prosecute someone for meticulously planning a terrorist action, who is only stopped when they are just about to purchase the materiel required to carry out the act. No action has tajen place - actual terrorism has not occurred, and there are no physical tools or similar present. But the intent (or Mens Rea, guilty mind) is there, so you can be prosecuted.

And, of coure, there are crimes of "Conspiracy to X" that involve merely the intent to commit a crime.
Nowdays they might flee from muslim immigrants, just suppose.
It might still happen for a variety of reasons. I live in London, and not all boroughs/districts are equal. Compare posh Kensington on the western edge of the London Underground Zone 1 with Whitechapel and Hackney at the eastern edge and you'll see a massive difference. Interestingly both areas are seeing a huge increase in ethnic diversity, but in Kensington it's the ultra-wealthy.
On a slightly different note, the musical version is nice too: https://vimeo.com/8022406
It's not the odds of picking it up, its the need or willpower to do it. Most people just get by with what they already know and don't bother to try and learn anything new after a certain age.
Canada day doesn't conmomerate Ypres, but Canadians are still quite proud that we were cannon fodder for the British.

I guess those celebrating are those who weren't left behind.
Yes. This analysis was amateurish and naive, given the guy's credentials. A 1st year undergrad in business and finance could do a better job with half an hour to spare.
No one, which I believe is his point?
Ask HN: How do you organize sysetm admin notes
How do you store system admin notes and how to guides for your own reference?

I being an Emacs User, use org-mode to organize. Emacs org mode contains an org to html mode which generates static html files.
The generated static html files are stored on github or bitbucket which are available via the web.

It's not a blog, just dump of steps and commands I keep to duplicate something or jog my memory.

I have tried to use wikki, tumblr, ghost and wordpress, but none of them stuck.

Curious to learn of any hacks
In 2017, Norway will be first country to shut down FM radio
I used to struggle with motivation. Especially at your age (I'm about to 30). Motivation is a byproduct of discipline. You need to integrate some kind of discipline in your life.

Something huge that changed my work ethic was when I bought a whiteboard. I always have two lists on it. One of the lists is "Everything I need to do." This has things like 'pay my taxes by X date', 'call my insurance company and find y out', 'start this project', 'build that dream car i have always wanted to build'. Some of the stuff might always be on it, at which point I can start really looking at those things and figuring out whether I plan on doing them, how bad I want to do it, and if it's worth my time vs the other stuff I want to do.

The second list is titled "Today", and always leads with today's date. Under that are things that I should really do today, or at least try to start. Some times the things on it roll over to the following day, sometimes they get dropped back into the larger 'everything' list. But when I do something, whether it's "Take out the trash", or "Call Person X", I get to cross that thing off the list. It stays crossed out for the whole day until that night when I reassess my everything list, erase crossed out items, change the current date, etc. It has helped me stay on task and get things done tremendously. The whiteboard has had a tremendous impact on my productivity.
Ask HN: Do you run a non-tech business?
The question is simple - tell us about your main business or side-business as long as it is not directly related to technology? Examples: Real estate, hair salon, catering, food truck, advisory services, tax accounting, etc.
I'm going to risk moving completely off-topic, because this is fascinating. Could you elaborate further (perhaps in a new topic or blog post)?

I often visit threads and see the top-most comments being somewhat incredulous reactions to a (percieved) large number of sentiments to their contrary, so it would certainly be interesting to see at what point threads begin to evolve a critical mass in terms of which 'side' of a discussion a reply is likely to take.
These things are very hard to compare. If one steals $10 from every person in the US, he stole 3 bln. dollars. That's huge. However, mostly nobody's life has been seriously, permanently and unrecoverably affected - at least excepting some really untypical random occurrences. If one robs one family of all their possessions, or causes one person be permanently disabled, or dead, that is very grave permanent and unreparable consequences, even though it is for one or few persons only. Humanist morals dictates the latter is worse than the former, so should be punished harder. Of course, in real cases it all gets mixed and unclear, especially when also question of intent comes into discussion.
And it might help to tell people that you only cover locations in the UK, and apparently only near London.
Extensive discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9391711
Chicago’s losing battle with sexual assault
I don't think it's impossible, but if you have any desire or love for abstract reasonning and theory, you'll probably feel a bit sad eating projects after projects of low-level C programming.

The kind of people going out of this school will most likely build OS implementation stuffs, or security appliance, or VM or compilers. But probably not a new compression or distributed concensus algorithm, unless they already have a personnal interest for the fields.
Using EEG in focus groups for commercials, instead of self reported metrics
California proves that one shouldn’t sweat the small stuff?
The meaning of the holiday is not so clear cut. In general its merely honouring the armed services, and remembering the fallen.

To others it straddles the line between anti and pro war (some decrying the glorification of pointless losses, others emphasising understanding those losses should help prevent them occurring again).
Maybe B&T was an insult 30 years ago but since some of the most trendy neighborhoods in NYC today are in Brooklyn....yeah not so much.
That's good to know, and I welcome the data point, but I'm fairly doubtful of the relevance of this Google contest. Way too many factors enter in consideration (did the best programmers of x and y school enter? did they prepare the same way? did they take it seriously? ...).

Does this provide real proof that the model on which 42 is based is wrong? Moreover, how well does a score in this programming contest correlates to real world performance?

From experience, the strengths of school networks is a much stronger reason why employers are biased towards elite schools. Please note that I'm not saying elite schools aren't good (it's a pool I hired and will hire from), I'm just welcoming the initiative and wondering how it will pan out.
I simply give no weight to your assertion that it isn't fake, because I haven't seen any convincing, independently researched evidence of that, and because your livelihood depends on convincing people that it isn't fake. Your clients trust you, and that's why they're your clients. I don't trust you, and that's why I'm not.

I think that modern advertising is based on faulty, outdated psychological theory and that all the statistics you can come up with to demonstrate otherwise are tainted because the studies are all funded by ad company dollars.
- Thank you for Smoking
- The Big Lebowski
- Reservoir Dogs
> 42 accepts almost anyone

Well, that's not what the article says.

"Last year, 70,000 people attempted the online qualification test. ... In the end, 890 students were selected for the school’s inaugural class"

But I agree that it's difficult to judge the quality of formation considering that the student populations are different. But still, I don't see how how throwing programming challenges at CS beginners with no supervision can be better than university professors.
Much slower, why?
The article certainly doesn't make it sound like they let in anyone:

"""
Last year, 70,000 people attempted the online qualification test. 20,000 completed the test, and of those, 4,000 were invited to spend four weeks in Paris doing an intensive project that had them working upwards of 100 hours a week on various coding challenges. In the end, 890 students were selected for the school’s inaugural class, which began in November, 2013.
"""
Do you think there is a reasonable way to provide this useful functionality without the Ruby dependency? Pure JS, perhaps?
If you actually read the next sentence..

"in which the words for yes and no are da and ja, in some order. You do not know which word means which."
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402744
The problem is the incentives go to one side (winning the case) without a counterbalance incentive (being not punished for misconduct). If police misconduct such as perjury and fraud routinely led to grave consequences for the person doing it, the balance of the incentives would be closer to what it needs to be. But the Blue Wall[1] and general reluctance of the justice system to punish their own, prevents it from happening. Even when the fraud is discovered, the perpetrators frequently are not sanctioned in any way, the worst that happens is that convictions get thrown out, but that does not create counter-incentive. Thus, no balance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
Physical exercise is generally repetitive,boring and requires discipline to stick to.

It could be that forcing someone to overrule their impulses for a period of time might be the solution, rather than the exercise itself.

I would ask for a control group who are forced to do some boring, repetitive activity without physical exertion like meditation and see if the results are mirrored.
For my own reference only, a completely unorganized plain-text file I call "scratchpad".

For information that others (may) need to refer to, an internal-only Dokuwiki instance with a separate page per host works pretty well.
Have you ever tried meditation? I wonder if it would influence how you handle yourself. I think your behaviors are fine, I'm not judging or suggesting you change, but I wonder how it would help.
That's what voting is for. But so far it's not working very well - most people prefer "tough on crime" to "honest and impartial judicial system".
There are compulsive travelers, who can't/won't stay in one place. Our society doesn't cater well to the always-on-the-move because it's both rare (most people stay put) and difficult to cater to (wanderers rarely earn much money)

There are also those that can't/won't accept responsibilities like maintaining a house, paying bills, etc. Our society caters poorly to these people because we are not full-on socialist; adults must accept responsibilities to function in our world.

Those are two rough groups that come to mind.
>The only requirement is that they be between the ages of 18 and 30.

I'd estimate that well over half of my bootcamp cohort was over 30.