skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is much, much easier to get a fascist talk removed from a conference

How does one distinguish a "fascist talk" from a "technical talk presented by one accused of being a fascist"? Is the difference relevant? I think Moldbug views himself as anti-fascist, and argues that Fascism and Communism are alternative undesirable endgames for democracy: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/carlyle...

And I'm not sure whether one should equate Moldbug with Yarvin. Is the blogger a pseudonym, a construct, a caricature, or an alter-ego? Should a comedian be equated with their on-stage persona? An actor with the character they play? An author with their protagonist?

I (truly) appreciate the insight your earlier comments provide.
This reminds me of the description of traffic on the Motie home world Mote Prime in "A Mote in God's Eye"

I found this quote from it at the following link:
http://aramink.com/blog/2012/08/31/the-mote-in-gods-eye-35-y...

"Tall, ugly buildings loomed above them to shoulder out the sky. The black streets were wide but very crowded, and the Moties drove like maniacs. Tiny vehicles passed each other in intricate curved paths with centimeters of clearance. The traffic was not quite silent. There was a steady low hum that might have been all the hundreds of motors sounding together, and sometimes a stream of high-pitched gibberish that might have been cursing.
Once the humans were able to stop wincing away from each potential collision…"
That's a VERY BAD THING if your aging population can't be supported by a too small younger demographic. One of Japan's solutions has been in part to simply lose a lot of their old age pension records in a conveniently incompetent computerization effort for the less powerful, the ones in the high risk, low reward sector of the economy (not the salarymen). Another has been what sure looks like unsustainable borrowing.

But eventually present consumption by definition has to come from present production, and that looks unsustainable, at least while keeping everyone at First World levels.

Addressing AnimalMuppet's point a bit, a welfare state is incompatible with unrestricted immigration by people with low earning potential, as we're experiencing today. It makes the welfare state all the more unsustainable, and at least one side of the isle ought to be concerned that it noticeably strengthens capital's hand.
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> Neo4j is a solid product and is doing a good job.

My personal opinion, based on my experiences using Neo4j, is that Neo4j is not a solid product. (At least not by my definition of "solid".) I think it has good marketing but falls apart in a lot of real world use cases.

I understand that the point of the blog post wasn't to bash Neo4j, but it does demonstrate quite well the fact that a multi model approach can be quite competitive or even better in terms of performance for many use cases.

Given Neo4j's historical and ongoing issues, if the multi model DB solution also happens to be a more mature and stable one then there is no front on which Neo4j wins.
We make the vast majority of our money from selling our software subscriptions and have ~4k employees in R&D. Depending on what data you use[1], if we were a public company we'd be the 4th largest in the world by revenue.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_co...

(My intention is not to bikeshed over who is or isn't in the "Software & Programming" industry or specific ranking, but to convey a sense of scale)
Two decades in the valley has taught me that you can't decide anything in a half hour conversation beyond recognizing an absolute bozo incarnate. You need to meet the whole team and preferably have lunch with them and figure out whether it's the right next step. What Google does instead reeks of magical thinking to me.

Because for the most part, Googlers aren't bozos (although a couple of the true believers in the Googleplex blew my mind with how crufty their skills and knowledge had become), but that doesn't rule out one of the many great engineers there promoted to their managerial level of incompetence. And that's what I had - a guy with no people skills whatsoever - and two teams with a total of 20+ engineers to "manage."
Image Processing in Cellular Neural Networks with Python on Raspberry Pi
Ignoring the content, the structure of this article is amazing. It feels like an entire magazine in a single essay. The background animations that change as you scroll, the contextual content (try scrolling really fast). I'm not even all that keen on the bright oversaturated aesthetic, but it's just so cool. I'd love to see a short piece on how they made it.
PicMonkey Inc. Is Seeking a Flash/Flex Engineer
Flex/Flash Engineer:

PicMonkey is looking for people to help us bring fearless photo embetterment to the world. We’re a small shop and that means errbody has a big impact. We crank on all pistons, work like cray-zay, and then go home to have actual lives, too. You in?

Frontend sorcerers: we know you could make this job description display:none or turn into a pumpkin in two seconds flat; what else can ya do for the best-loved brand in photo editing? Talk to us.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with our designers to improve and create PicMonkey features.
• Find trends and patterns in the photo editing space to make our product better.
• Enjoy collaboration.
• Take projects from start to finish with minimal direction.

Requirements:
• Commercial software development experience and BS in CS (or equivalent).
• Experience with large-scale Javascript codebases.
• Strong visual and UI development experience with a love of clean and beautiful experiences.
• Experience at all levels of the stack (a plus).
• Experience coding Flash/Flex4.5 applications (a plus)
• Experience with Python, Ruby, or SQL (also a plus).
• Mobile experience (a huuuuge plus).

Oh, us? We’re a small team that knows how to have fun and be insanely productive at the same time. We use the cooliest technologies to build great user experiences: Flash, Flex, Backbone, CoffeeScript, Bootstrap and Compass/Sass.

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The Thunderbird version numbers follow the Firefox ESR version numbers.
How do you handle a custom GOPATH like that when the current repository needs to be in there too? We've tried manually symlinking the repo dir into the custom '$GOPATH/src/github.com/user/repo' dir, but it feels really hacky.
Yep; same, I keep a list of things I'll buy if/when I can just get it through their website. I've seen too many fail to deliver stuff for a couple years now that I'm pretty skeptical of any pre-orders.

The latest thing on my list is the Marbel skateboard. Looks great on paper, all the tech exists, other [small] companies are doing it, but they've had tons of delays and I don't trust that their first products sent out won't have some kinks. I'm not really willing to pay the early adopter fee for a vehicle which could cause me great bodily harm if it malfunctions (e.g. Bluetooth has interference problems or randomly disconnects, which would definitely not be unprecedented in the world of e-skateboards).
The entire point of this resource is that companies will use it to replace the "skype with employee" part. That's what I disagree with.
1.2M people can’t be wrong
That's referring to contributions by paid staff. It's still an ongoing open-source project that may be contributed to by the community.
Or patterns.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24700762/or-patterns-in-h...
Right, and for Facebook internally, whatever the number is, it's a speed bump.

But some reasons not to use Coverity then:

* Doing it in-house gives Facebook near total control over what the system is going to focus on; they can tailor it exactly to their problem set.

* It's a worthwhile open source project, since most values of "expensive" mean "other projects won't ever use it".

* If it gets any traction as an open source project, they can draft off the work other people will put into it.
> Is this some kind of NIH syndrom by Facebook?

Facebook employs thousands of developers and has a product that is pretty much done (or, IDK what they spend all their development budget on atm); they have the room to create new tools. TBF though, if this was a hobby project that wasn't linked to Facebook, it wouldn't get the attention it is getting right now.
Without touching on the other examples, insisting that you stay for a full day isn't unreasonable, let alone abusive. While it would have been nice for him to be a bit more empathetic to your situation, it isn't his fault you didn't plan better.

They guy sounds fairly insensitive which sucks to deal with, but be careful not to twist everything he does just to fit that narrative.
Geez, I feel dirty saying this, but you could probably get some... ahem.... sponsors from 3-letter agencies
Here's what NASA is planning for a drone air traffic control system
I've spent quite a bit of time reviewing the current regulations and talking on the phone with BIS in the past month about encryption export as part of a contract, it can be complicated or quite simple, depending entirely on things like:

Is it infosec software, or a game/kitchen recipe app?

Is it using "standardized" algorithms? Can they or the key sizes be changed by the end user?

Can the encryption functionality be easily repurposed?

Binaries or source code?

Which destination country(s)?

Who is the intended end user (government vs private entities)?

As there can be significant civil and even criminal penalties for exporting an item without complying with the regulations, the best thing to do in all cases is to call BIS[1] and ask to speak with an export counselor, specifically ask about encryption and you'll get routed to someone who knows the regulations and can tell you exactly what your specific software will require to comply.

> What's the status with the US crypto export paperwork that Apple apparently requires for all crypto-enabled apps, even if they just use iOS builtin URL classes with https urls?

Apple (last time I checked) directs developers to obtain an Encryption Registration Number at minimum, but there can be additional "classification" and reporting requirements depending on the factors I listed above.

> In fact it seems strange to require non-US developers, who purchased an iOS developer program account from a non-US Apple company, to register with US government for "export" when all they want to do is publish their app on a non-US app store.

An export counselor could give a definitive answer but this is likely because the encryption they're using in iOS/OS X is still considered a U.S. controlled item for export purposes, regardless of where they are or where the software using it ends up being sold. That software may end up being considered a U.S. controlled item itself.

I've been told by BIS that re-exporting a U.S. controlled item from a foreign country without complying with U.S. export regulations can come back to bite you down the road, among other things they can completely deny a foreign entity the ability to export or import things to/from the U.S. if they decide export regs have been ignored.

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/about-bis/contact-bis
I was originally address joesmo's comment: "being a police officer is not even a very dangerous job"

And I apologize if my words suggested a dig at you - I was still addressing the idea that it's a safe pedestrian job filled with intentional racists. I really was speaking to the general HN'er, rather than you specifically. I think you'll agree that there is a lot of armchair activists who have never seen a battle field, or a bullet wound, and whose opinions are shaped more by Twitter and emojis than reality.
Lose the neon yellow, and you aren't far off from what an american police car looks like.
No, the school of social philosophy associated with Carl Grünberg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse.

Check out Eclipse of Reason, Escape from Freedom, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, and The Theory of Communicative Action when you get a chance. Primary sources and all.
Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible.

So, if you're a talented and competent dev, be super aggressive with these predators and take everything your hands can grab before they have the upper hand and show us their true colors.

Happy Coding!
I read down to the part where she said she had savings and a partner to rely on. That's great that she has a safety net...which gives the author a choice to quit at all. She kind of slides that information in at the end when it's pretty important to the equation of just saying, "screw this."
No, for multiple reasons. But if you're looking for people with that experience, I suggest talking to some American backpackers.
Sex Dolls That Talk Back
I see where you're going with that premise, but there's a particular character in The Wire that was one of David Simon's not-so-subtle devices to critique militarization of the police. A three-finger fade is wholly unnecessary.
It means that unencrypted data is never written to disk. In the case of S3 it means that if someone gains access to your S3 buckets the data is encrypted.

Of course if you have root-level access to Apple's servers that read S3 you could find the decryption key, though that might not be an easy task.
3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal
You can separate multiple paths with a colon.
I too wonder why ESA and NASA have chosen Python over JavaScript or Lua? The later has been especially design from the ground up for that task. It probably has to do with that their engineers already know Python and Python has a C API too.
Racism is stating a superiority of one race over another. The last sentence was controversial, at worst an overgeneralization, but not racist.

Can we please stop this politically correct nonsense of calling any controversial comment involving race racist?
> auto company VP

The VP is not in charge of a software company. Presumably some sort of widget/manufacturing operation ("cycle reduction"), so it is unfair to accuse him of not knowing what is going on in IT (at the level of engines/drivetrains for an auto company).
Code is a demonstration, the ipothesis are the requisites. Actually, the test class is the proof!
Without surgery or medicine- How to LOOK young all the time
I guess, the OCaml committers are French, because Ocaml was invented by French dudes?
I was going to try the same thing but ran into trouble installing the RNN software dependencies.

Please try it and let us know how it turns out, good or bad.
Facebook Open-Sources Infer to Help Developers Identify Bugs
Makes you question the faith Microsoft has in HoloLens.
Nicely put. It's actually rather agile: Excel becomes a prototyping tool to allow the business users to describe what a solution looks like, helping to guide development of that custom solution. Sadly few IT organizations are confident enough to trust their users and work like this, instead starting from zero with a pedantic requirements gathering process before building something less flexible and useful. The problem is partly a lack of domain knowledge in the internal apps team (which is understandable), and partly a kind of technology-first arrogance which prevents that team from making use of the intellectual capital originated by the business in their spreadsheets and processes (which is inexcusable really).

Ideally, an organization comes to understand that Excel is a fantastic tool at the frontier where the business needs to adapt rapidly, but once a process is fixed, replacing it with a fixed system is worth the tradeoff in reduced operational risk.

To your second para., much of that falls to internal apps to provide decent RESTful APIs across their systems. Some companies are doing this, in the process getting to a point where the Excel frontier is just analyzing and reporting on data, not acting as a source in its own right. Then you have traceability for every data point in the organization, and you're in a pretty sweet spot operationally.
I was a little disappointed to not find the one thing i really wanted to see on this site: a buy button. But I want it NOW!
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Well I'd suggest that this actually started in 1971, when Richard Nixon started the Drug Wars. Since then the threshold for use of deadly force has been so lowered (hey every criminal could be a violent drug dealer connected to a violent drug network) because every civilian is a potential adversary.
Announcing Apache Spark 1.4
Yes I think it's a function of time and process. This could just be the start vs the "why now"?
Anyone else disappointed that they announced a new interface controller (Oculus Touch), but did not show any type of demo?
Source code: https://github.com/facebook/infer

71.9% OCaml, 19% Java
not sure how many songs kids these days are exposed to, but maybe it's easier for young children to be reminded of "let it go" since it's very popular and they haven't heard a lot of other songs?
You can actually upload client-side encrypted data to S3 buckets. With one-time upload tokens. So what they are doing may be perfectly fine.

Hard to tell without seeing the complete request.
If openbazaar succeeds in creating a robust decentralised platform for trade, the portion of black market transactions done in bitcoin will grow significantly, and anyone holding bitcoin (eg. a16z) will get big returns.
Palmer said it'll be demoed at the E3 booths. Yeah, you're right they should have demoed it onstage.
Also, no price point, and I did not notice any compatibility / minimum requirements information yet.
Agreed. I do think YouTube will survive whatever collapses come, because they hold too much of a monopoly on video to fail (something similar goes for Facebook). But their profit model is still that of a social media company.
> How does someone with that line of thinking even get a job in the gaming industry?

The page I linked spells it out in pretty plain terms. In short: being in the right place (in terms of general business experience and family connections) at the right time.
They missed the opportunity to get it out by Q4'15. Would have been a great Christmas seller.
> There is a sloping rib of a ridge there, a relatively unremarkable feature called Lost Brother.
It is mostly a protection in cases where an attacker gains physical access to a system (or dumpster dives hard drives). If they are holding on the the encryption key for you then they can obviously decrypt them. I wouldn't consider it safe for anything important.
krowdster.co curates stats about crowd funding. I think it is mainly aimed at people running campaigns, but i think you can get it to make predictions on any campaign if you give it the right inputs about the campaign.
Starting small
And more often right, at least in the tapes I and people I trust have analyzed. In theory (yes, I know, you can stop laughing), per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._Garner police can only use lethal force in self-defense and in defense of others, no shooting a non-violent fleeing criminal, they have no more rights in that area than us armed civilians.

I wonder if you grok the concept of per-capita statistics, or comparing like demographics, and I'll note that one of the hallmarks of modern police states is slaughtering a lot more people than they publicly acknowledge.
I am still not sold on VR, but I feel that AR (Augmented Reality) really is the future.

1) AR seems to help in real world situations vs VR which actually makes you feel vulnerable due to lack of vision and impaired hearing of what is around you.

2) VR also has the issue with physical issues with nausea and 10% of people with lazy eyes or other optical issues that make them unable to see 3D clearly.

3) Star Trek Holosuite is AR and that is my dream one day.

4) If Wii motion controls didn't continue their popularity how will making a helmet make that physical exertion more appealing?
Show HN: Test and edit tilejson in the browser
See https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/
...but we are le tired.
Skype is like Hotel California.
I'm not questioning its profitability. I'm questioning its societal usefulness.

Smart watches will help with health, safety, communication, logistics, etc. Old mechanical watches were innovative feats of craftsmanship and engineering of their time. We should carry on that tradition instead of staying in the past.
Yeah, I was disappointed they didn't announce the price. I can understand as if it were expensive (which I expect it will be), it would probably be a distraction to their announcements.
SFUSD Board Approves Plans to Expand Computer Science Curriculum to All Grades
What do the rings on the controllers offer that could not be put into the base of the handle?
> there's still a corner-office audience for "what is a computer?"

There's a technical audience for "what is sales?", and that's thousands of years old. Generalists, especially good generalists, are rare.
No, I did not take a look at the data being sent. I'm sure that in most of the cases I cited, the HTTP payload is encrypted or at least signed. At the very least, using plain HTTP to communicate with S3 will leak some additional metadata contained in HTTP headers. That may or may not be sensitive or privacy-compromising metadata, but it is metadata that does not need to be leaked.
I don't believe that there is no such thing as a right brained person. I think this is a cultural myth. Same as, "you only use 10% of your brain's power". These, and similar, are false memes - iow hokum.
This is a pretty quick hack we did, because tilejson is useful in our apps, and we started to get lots of support requests for help making/importing files.
"Under the agreement, he's prohibited from making misrepresentations about crowdfunding campaigns and failing to honor refund policies in the future."

I may be naive here, but isn't this already illegal? Like, isn't this stuff that you should be doing already?

I would think a more fitting punishment would be to ban him from having anything to do with a crowdfunding campaign, ever.
Parallel Implementations (2011)
Teaching women to fight today could stop rapes tomorrow
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Looks like they may have IR LED's around the outside that are used by the camera for positional tracking. Might also be used to track finger movements on the inside of the ring, but not sure there.
> I've always wanted to attempt this piece: to take all the many layers of abstraction that we deal with, parse them, convert them, and render them through my formidable linguistic talents into one elegant, beautifully constructed piece of prose that magically makes it all comprehensible to lay readers.

This is my own, personal, incomplete work in progress in that vein: http://www.leannotes.com/
Protection from hitting your hand while swinging the controller around?
They mentioned finger gesture detection (thumbs up, pointing, etc). Maybe that's part of it?