skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone expect any different from Twitter? Their main platform needs significant improvement.

Biggest disadvantages for Twitter:

1) People are flocking to other social messaging apps, especially the mobile variants (Snapchat, Instagram, etc). I suspect because its coolness factor is waring off, because of rampant trolling, and poor discovery.

2) Most of Twitter advertising is useless, in large part due to poor data collection. I have yet to see any performance campaigns really kill it on the platform. Brands only advertise because they are easily misled by agencies.

Can anyone offer realistic suggestions to help improve the company's outlook? Here are some random thoughts:

1) Trying to take a piece of the mobile ecosystem seems like a smart move, as they show genuine expertise. I liked their acquisition of MoPub and every developer seems to use Crashlytics. People seem to use Periscope and Vine often, as well. This could lead to a lucrative formula: Making apps easier to build with their tools, nudge developers to monetize through MoPub, and then take the plethora of learnings from the latest mobile craze and build an awesome new app.

2) They need to better monetize news, not just social interaction. How much content is written today because "Person said X offensive statement on twitter"? Twitter gets $0, despite the fact most news comes from them. Maybe try to attempt to be the Bloomberg Terminal for all news going forward? How about trying to beat Nielsen (16bn market cap) in actually monitoring sentiment? This obviously would take some ingenuity, but could be very rewarding. They seem to be trying this strategy, with some of their recent acquisitions.

3) Find out what other countries want. There is still a huge untapped marked in the 3rd world. Twitter could expand there by offering new services.

4) Somehow disincentivize blowhards from going on Twitter too often.
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Brings to mind the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" portions of Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love". Viewed from 52 years old you make me wish my thoughts had been as coherent when I was 30. Good stuff.
Especially since they are available via a hidden service, removing the "malicious exit node" risk: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

(Note, if you're reading Gabriel, the http://ye.gg/tor url you've handed out in various places including the privacy page - is dead and redirecting to just http://ye.gg/)
The problem is 26 bare metal servers is very different from 26 VPSes.
It's such a shame the licensing of Wolfram Mathematica is so strict and pricing is high. I get it, it's the fruit of a lot of hard work but sadly it won't get the traction it deserves.
As bad as the CA system is, I have not seen evidence that it's 'widely trojaned' or broken. The fact that a falsely minted certificate is such big news is evidence to the fact that it is working pretty well despite it's flaws. And it is certainly better than no authentication at all.

Obviously it's not perfect, but being not perfect is no excuse for refusing to use what we've got right now. And it's not a choice of unauthenticated information or no information, it's a choice between authenticated information and possibly wrong information.

Trusting ISPs to have integrity is in my opinion much more absurd than trusting CA's. CA's have a financial motivation to keep their CA status which browsers can revoke. ISPs have nobody keeping them in line.
Actually, probably most frequent users of really weird C preprocessor tricks are lisp implementations. (for the extreme example, CLISP has it's own custom C preprocessor)
If I get on your subnet with a host on which I have root, I can do a few things. First, I can now see any unencrypted traffic. Use MySQL? I can read that or even MIIT it. Use unencrypted LDAP? I can do the same. Basically you either assume your VPC is secure or it's not.

This goes doubly so for servers on your network. Either, you assume that only authorized users have access to it or you don't. You have to draw the line in the sand somewhere and say "past this point it's secure".

Now, I am not opposed to layers of security, but there are multiple options for how to define those, and assuming your network is secure isn't a far stretch on some platforms.
That was my thought too! but instead of even click on the HN comments I went and wrote a contestant. Within a couple hours all my runs will have completed; assuming no big power failure I'll make the deadline! :)

(Uh, no doubt I won't do well, since I had no time to ... like.. actually test my code on any functions except a couple trivial trials. :P ... I hope they put up some kind of ranking information as soon as it closes. I have no idea if my results are awful or merely bad :) (and I probably shouldn't share best numbers before it closes) )
Matt Blaze's Congressional Report on Cryptography and Public Policy [pdf]
Just cause something is popular doesn't make it good science. The fact that people vote against GMO's in this way is, if anything, depressing.
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python's a great operating system, all it lacks is a decent programming language
Anonymous Activist Gets Potholes Fixed by Drawing Giant Phalluses Around Them
The main issue with newer cars is people stealing your stuff from your unlocked car.

The Tesla app does show the car location on a map; they don't have a "report to police" option, but they aren't that far away from it.

BTW the Tesla modem is 3G.
I'm not so fond of editing an already published post, but I'll ask bcoe if we can/should do that and add some clarifications.
Turns out that only clmul is needed to produce fast hash functions, even strongly universal ones.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4961
Presentation slides from the workshop are now available from either of the following mirrors, in either ODP or PDF format:

https://a.pomf.se/fdgolh.odp
https://infotomb.com/z8cyf.odp

https://a.pomf.se/sjhxzb.pdf
https://infotomb.com/7ugoe.pdf

Email stormharding a t ruggedinbox.com if the links are down.

There will eventually be a more comprehensive how-to booklet, which should be released next month (late May).
There's a privilege here you are not seeing: ability. Just being capable of pursuing a startup puts you in an elite minority. Hard work and sacrifice are familiar to many people in the 8/10.
This is a bizarre and unsettling condition. Just thinking about it gives me the shudders.

I tend to assume that if there's an afterlife, it will be a positive one or at least one with hope. The Buddhist concept of rebirth makes the most sense to me, but of course I know that I might be wrong. So I don't fret death because if there isn't an afterlife, I will not exist; if there is one, it will probably be at least as interesting as this life.

The idea of being tied to a corpse while it rots, though, and fading into nothing slowly rather than abruptly, is horrifying. Of course, no one believes that this actually occurs; people are generally divided between those who believe that consciousness leaves the brain at death and those who believe that it ends at death.

Oddly enough, this delusion explains something I've always found unusual about ancient religions. People often say that religions were founded to assuage existential fears. That doesn't make much sense, though, because many ancient religions had negative afterlives. The Babylonians believed in an afterlife, but it was a repulsive one. The ancient Greeks believed in the gloomy Hades (although they later introduced the Elysian Fields and the possibility of reincarnation). The Egyptians believed that a life of drudgery in service to the pharaoh would continue into the next existence. Hells seem to have evolved in religion before heavens, which came into mainstream religious thought around 1000 BC. Religions were founded to explain away uncertainty in general, and not specifically to assuage existential guilt because most ancient religions had gods that were total assholes (if you're using gods to explain smallpox and earthquakes and war, it makes sense) and afterlives that were undesirable.

It brings up an interesting question, though, which is why would anyone choose to believe in a negative afterlife as opposed to none at all? The Cotard delusion may explain it. Perhaps this horrible state of consciousness (which seems to be a subtype of severe, psychotic depression) was more common in a coarser time, and led people to the belief that to be dead was not nothingness, and not some desirable or blissful spiritual state, but one of constant and featureless despair.
Three things come to mind:

1. A robust video-editing suite (of the quality of something like Final Cut or Premiere)

2. A high-quality audio recording/mixing program (of the quality and breadth of Logic, ProTools or even Reason)

3. A photo-editing tool that keeps up with Illustrator and Photoshop (I love Inkscape and Gimp, but I feel as if they're a few years behind at this point)
They run over the network (no, I wasn't trying to cheat, but while stracing to debug my own code, I could see it sending for each query).

Each track is split up into 1000 tests; you can run the separate tests concurrently; which more or less eliminates the latency as the largest test permits 'only' about 400k queries.
What's so unclear here? This is the store brand, and it is often times nicer than competition at the price. I have an AB branded camera bag, and it's great. I have also bought cables, and other small accessories from them and they have been of good quality. If I need a monitor arm and can get one for $100 from Amazon or $140 from another manufacturer I wouldn't think twice and just get the AB one.
I probably should have submitted the BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32448103/mystery-artis...
Not only do you need a tat, but you need a tat covering the skin under the watch that's done with metallic ink. What fraction of people with tats have such a tattoo? I have a lot of friends with tats, but none that meet those criteria.
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Stay away from the TV. Stay away from anywhere you can fall asleep. You don't need sleep. You need to do something that lets you talk to your inner voice like mowing the lawn, exercise, walking, riding bikes whatever. Talk to your inner voice about your goals and dreams and who and what you love. Spend time with family or loved ones. Call in sick to work.
Where do you live, David? And I guess you're not Italian? Drop me an email (just go to my twitter profile, @simon), I'm curious to hear your story :)
Seems to me that this is all working with the assumption that the development is on a Linux box. When developing on windows or mac using a vm such as boot2docker you're going to need to somehow share your codebase from your host machine to the vm and from there mount it as a volume in the docker container.
>I worked a regular job for many years while spending years of my free time and weekends to create a business where I can now choose what I work on.

Then you did not have a regular job. You had a job that paid you enough to support yourself while retaining enough free time and mental energy to pursue your startup idea. For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit).
This is replacing "Amazon Supply" which was the acquisition of smallparts.com , which was one of the best ways I knew to get a box of just the right bolts. But now they're closing that down and folding it in to this other thing? Does "Buy products available exclusively to Amazon Business customers" mean that those products get hidden behind some new special section of amazon? Do I have to get an "Amazon Business" account to buy bolts? Is the smallparts/amazonsupply portal going away and now I don't have a good way to browse bolts (for those times when I'm not sure if I want it made out of steel or brass or nylon)?
In short, I miss smallparts.com
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Thank you, that cleared it up for me
So... what happens when the client says "I want a database that's C, A, and P" or somesuch, and then just doesn't believe you/ignores you/etc. when you explain what's wrong with their request? Presume "working in another company" isn't an option, because, in your experience, every other company will do the same thing to you.

I understand informed consent—a doctor can't shrug off the responsibility to get the patient informed enough to say yes to what they're doing with a "just trust me." But sometimes what the user is paying you for is, exactly and precisely, to not have to learn X in order to do X.
> Monsanto isn't the whole GM crop industry

Of course it isn't the whole industry, but it does get most of the attention, e.g. this NPR article[1] mentions Monsanto 17 times and uses it as one of only three tags(seed saving and gmos are the other two) - despite the piece being about GM seeds, not specifically Monsanto.

> or even the biggest corporation by market cap in the industry

The "Big Six" are BASF, Bayer, Dupont, Dow Chemical Company, Monsanto, and Syngenta[2][3].

"The top 10 seed companies account for $14,785 million – or two-thirds (67%) of the global proprietary seed market.The world's largest seed company, Monsanto, accounts for almost one-quarter (23%) of the global proprietary seed market."[4]

Sure DuPont and Dow have bigger market caps than Monsanto (or more importantly, more revenue) but they're also larger and more diverse business with seeds making a much smaller portion of their total revenue than Monsanto. But even forgetting that the original point (that the oil industry has far more money than the GM industry) still stands - Dow's market cap is $60B, DuPont's is $68B, Monsanto's is $55B...market caps like that wouldn't even break the top ten for oil companies[5].

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-fi...

[2] http://www.biofortified.org/resources/genetic-engineering-co...

[3] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/%22Big_6%22_Pesticide_a...

[4] http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms/10558-the-worlds-top-ten-see...

[5] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/010715...
There's more to it than that: you probably had resources that afforded you that time, or support that valued and encouraged that kind of behavior. Maybe you had a good education or reliable parents. And you probably had fairly good health throughout all of that.

There are so many things that make your actions highly specific to your situation, and that's a privilege that you have.
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The Humboldt State map that is linked is pretty seriously flawed -- because there is a data point for each county, and it is displayed as a heatmap, what the visualization is really showing is county density in the United States.
Likewise there is immense value in having a simpler solution with fewer parts -- when appropriate and when possible. This is part of what we decide as engineers.

It's also easier to sell someone on your component strategy when you don't trash every possible piece that could plug in to the hole you've left -- from operating systems and open source crypto packages to government agencies and transnational corporations. But that little observation seems to be getting lost in the noise here.
This is actually the reason why CloudFlare has better analytics. Their system is more advanced than a regular reverse proxy and they can tell what requests are actually pageviews based on the HTML loaded.

Client-side stuff is unreliable and is open to everything from javascript blockers to network connections in the middle. CloudFlare even had a post about how their tracking was better (cant find it now).

EDIT: Yes I know newer ajax sites are completely different and there's probably no perfectly accurate way to track them unless the devs setup analytics properly, and even then its up to the same issues all client-side tracking faces.
Sorry if it seemed like I was linking them, but I wasn't in any way. All the grocery store bread where I live, unless you go to the bakery, is this insanely soft sweet stuff, like Wonderbread and such. It feels like I use less sugar then there is in 2 slices of that stuff.
Another tip for finding programmers is to check github commit history. Sometimes the email isn't on the public profile, but is marked as a commit email.
Twitter's stock plunges 18% after bot discovers financial results early
But but... A monad is a framework :-)

In the article case it is IO so if that ain't a framework, I don't know what is.
I can't find in any of the linked sources any conclusive proof that all children are born with perfect pitch. From my own research in 2011, I hadn't discovered any papers which would make so bold of a conclusion.

This proposal[0] linked by the article mentions a few studies that show some environmental factors that seem to have a high correlation to absolute pitch, such as growing up around tonal languages, but nothing conclusive about absolute pitch just being a thing that we all have but that most of us lose. There are correlations to age groups, ethnic backgrounds, linguistic backgrounds, and musical backgrounds, but again most studies have looked at the environment for clues about how absolute pitch works as opposed to presenting evidence of something innate.

Musical cognition is an absolutely fascinating field of study, and it absolutely plays a critical role in the way humans function. However, I think this article is a little click-bait-y, seemingly drawing an unfounded, fantastical conclusion about a particularly popular aspect of the field. As far as I can tell, it's completely unsubstantiated.

[0] http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2004/save/pdf00001.pdf

Edit: words are hard
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"Most people aren't willing to sacrifice time now to enjoy comforts later"

So what you're telling me is that most people can't just pursue their passion as their job but instead have to work a job they certainly do not enjoy in order to fund their real passion and hopefully make it into a career. That is, if they are lucky enough that their passion is actually a viable career option.

Sounds like you're agreeing with the person you're replying to, or am I misinterpreting what you said?
Public companies give RSUs to employees. Which don't need a grown story.
I'm a pro user. I'd still rather click few buttons than write a custom script just to change settings. It's not that hard to make a decent UI that can handle a large amount of complexity.
I've taken to identifying the VPO (video platform organization) and their hosts, and adding them to my /etc/hosts blocklist.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/QZ1vdpwB...

These will catch most of them:

0.0.0.0 www.autofixinfo.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 c.brightcove.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 player.theplatform.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 link.theplatform.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ci-2862d2c8d6-68f418d2.http.atlas.cdn.yimg.com # Autoplay video

If you must watch the vids, downloading via yt-download (from another host or vm not using that hosts file) frequently works.
I'm still amazed that this incredibly ghoulish display survived the fall of Communism all the way to this day.
Extensive discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9450704
Let's motivate for a content syndication alternative.

https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-f...

Advertising is a net negative on far too many fronts.
Hehe. I have a quasi-nostalgia for the Soviet film era.
I'd agree Inkscape/Gimp have fallen behind, though I use both frequently. However, on Windows neither is very satisfactory. Lately I have been using Krita for digital photo editing, not exactly its best strength, but still quite effective. Krita works under Windows too.
Source for AWS and MTurk?
> Staying with a friend that has a child and helping out isn't the same as having a child. You are able to (and will) leave at some point.

Ain't that true. Where it hits you as a parent is when you leave the hospital and then realize that there's no one to give you a spell, check your mistakes, process the return. I can imagine how grandparents must enjoy children, free of the ultimate responsibility.
So, San Francisco is doomed revamp its grocery shopping?
Corresponding MD5 checksums:

ODP: 68E7A4812F32D807DF8480DD75355A2C

PDF: 78E17F9201E6F09189ABAC247813655B
Looks cool. Tried on Alpine Linux and no worky:

jb:~/web/journey_blog$ sh journey

journey: line 1: ELF4LS�4: not found

journey: line 10: syntax error: unexpected word

and using bash:

jb:~/web/journey_blog$ bash journey

journey: journey: cannot execute binary file

jb:~/web/journey_blog$ ls -ahls journey

11716 -rwxr-xr-x 1 jbrown jbrown 11.4M Apr 28 21:25 journey
Look at it this way: Many interesting problems in engineering have expensive to evaluate objectives with generally unknown structure and noisy multi-modal results, but are still piece-wise smooth. It's true that in the space of all possible functions virtually none meet these criteria, but many practically interesting ones do.

If your function really is some a random oracle, then, indeed, no optimizer will do well against it. OTOH, none will do (relatively) poorly either.

Effective optimization techniques can explore a function generally and exploit similarities to known models or at least any smoothness they can find. Ineffective techniques will just it caught in local minima or fail to exploit smoothness or "obvious" structure.

Powerful "generic" optimizers are a tool which is important for industry. But the common ways they are benchmarked potentially allows for overfitting in the design phase, this contest is intended to correct that, and provide a potentially better assessment of how general these optimizers are.
English version is later in the pdf
Why do you need the code to look obviously wrong when you have a compiler capable of telling you that it's wrong? It doesn't require a full-blown IDE to get fast feedback; I use a fairly lightweight vim config that gives me type-checking every time I save a file.

I also disagree about overhead. Defining new types is an O(1) cost, and decent modern languages should have type inference so that there isn't a recurring annotation cost either. Even accounting for the cost, if the benefit is 10 units and the cost is 1 unit, saying only that “it's a tradeoff” is a bit absurd. When there are tradeoffs, engineers don't throw up their hands and flip a coin, they calculate the costs and benefits and use the best solution. Types easily win in that calculation.

I don't disagree with using notation to fill the gaps when you must work in a weaker language, but we shouldn't pretend that it isn't a weakness.
Anonymous Activist Gets Potholes Fixed by Drawing Giant Dongs Around Them
I actually just sent in a suggestion/support ticket last week but here's what I think would be an improvement:

Right now the page rules system seems like an added feature but I think it should be the heart of the settings system. When a new site is created, it would be logical to just create a default page rule that covers everything like "example.com/*"

Each rule can have a summary of settings as they do now and all the other separate pages can go away. Speed, Caching and ScrapeShield can just be settings for each rule instead of full pages. It'd be a lot faster to manage settings this way and more natural to view a site's settings as a cascading set of rules with their own configuration.

Likewise, Traffic can probably just be made another tab under Firewall.

Hope that makes sense.
Something major changes within our speech and/or auditory systems after early childhood. We lose the ability to learn fine differences such as the accent. It's not clear whether this is a difference in the way speech (sound) is perceived, or our ability to pronounce, or something in between.

Sure, accent is not pitch, it's more like timbre. In any case, both are related to the ability to do spectral analysis of the sound, and act upon it.
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Yes FreeBSD got this one right.