skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this. That essay is fantastic. It's actually a perfect complement to that article and the discussion happening in this entire thread.

It beautifully highlights the modern historian's crisis.

You cannot distill history into a framework because any unique set of events seem to be reproduced somewhere else in history with different outcomes.

You must distill history into a framework otherwise it's impossible to reason about and understand.
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A centralized store is however unavoidable if you want to share and manage passwords inside an organization.

Although I share you discomfort, looking at it rationally I prefer to trust a specialized service, who's very existence and reputation depends on it, more than the alternatives.

The other alternative for sharing is stuff like 1Password over Dropbox, which is imho the worst of both worlds.
You do understand that the Apple News app is a content aggregation service and not a feed reader, right?

Apple is providing a service with your content. A feed reader is usually controlled by the individual reading the feeds. The programs themselves usually don't aggregate or redact in any way — or enrich it with advertisement.

And if they do they are just as bad. However the email is a gem in itself.
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Thanks again for responding. By 'correction' I mean rents reverting to market rates rather than speculative rates. When that happens a lot of people will go bankrupt and often in those situations there is a time where things are cheaper than they 'should' be (by market forces). Foreclosed homes in the US was a good example of this, since the bank will sell at any price, it allows the price to go much lower than if people are selling.

When your loan holders get desperate because the loan is due and no one is willing to pay their extortionate rent, they will either go broke (lender reclaims the property and sells it at a loss) or reduce rents dramatically to insure 100% occupancy (lowering prices to capture more of the demand). Sometimes both, rents will go down and the people owning the buildings will go bankrupt.

If you're willing too, let me know what city this is happening in, I'd like to put it into my crawler to flag articles about rents to watch how this plays out over time.
Some of the ad-block using crowd say that this is not about getting the content and avoiding the ads - it's just about avoiding the ads. I've started asking people who use an ad-blocker if there are any sites they no longer visit.
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This makes me think of Fight Club:

Tyler Durden: Oh I get it, it's very clever.

Narrator: Thank you.

Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?

Narrator: What?

Tyler Durden: Being clever.

Narrator: Great.

Tyler Durden: Keep it up then... Right up.

Anyway, glad you like it.
> When you hover your mouse over a title, you will now see a slideshow of images from that movie or show. We hope this slideshow will give you a better feel for what the show is about than reading the description alone.

Well, this is a standard feature of any average Joe's porn site for about 5 years now
No, they're intended to be used together.
Communism doesn't work. I don't understand why so many people here with anti-US bones to pick won't or can't understand that The idea Castro's Cuba would have been wonderfully prosperous while Pol Pot, Stalin, the Jong-un dynasty, etc all have failed is ridiculous. Cuba did model itself after these regimes politically, with requisite horrible human rights abuses to keep the population from asserting their natural rights as free citizens who should be able to petition their government, hold property, start businesses, etc.

China is only doing well because it liberalized so much so quickly and more or less run a capitalist market economy.
Hinton doesn't like that pooling loses track of the exact locations where features are located, and just tests if a feature occurs in some area.

The basic effect of this is to decrease the resolution, so it's more tractable to operate on. Without pooling you are stuck with a huge resolution at each layer.
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Granted I probably gave lousy examples. Here's what I was trying to say.

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Real-Media...
The religious and reverent tone of this article gives away the true purpose for this initiative. Power.

Make no mistake, those pushing this project are Machiavellians of the highest order. They did not spend their entire lives playing the political game and manipulating their way to the top in order to "do good" and "change government". If they truly wanted to "do good" they could very easily accomplish huge strides with a single stroke of a pen, yet this fails to happen day in and day out. Furthermore the very idea that those who control the machinations of government would want to change that system is ludicrous on face, and requires significant cognitive dissonance to believe. This is about leverage.

Before the Snowden revelations the government had most of the tech companies comfortably in their pocket with no real downside to those companies. Those revelations have forced companies to choose between consumers and the government, a choice that seems to be slightly leaning towards consumers recently (rollouts of security features, encryption by default). Regardless of the vast abilities of the NSA, they still rely on Silicon Valley for an absurd percentage of their intelligence gathering.

This scares the Washington elite (please note this elite is not constrained by political party), and so they go after the cornerstone of Silicon Valley's own power base. Talent. This is a warning shot, a demonstration that a 45 minute meeting with the president is sufficient to fully co-opt some of the best and brightest SV has to offer.

Let's be real here. If the President really cared about the VA he wouldn't have waited until he was a lame duck to spearhead some website when the reality is the VA is woefully underfunded and highly dysfunctional as an organization from structure to implementation. No javascript front end will change those things. This lip service to building better systems to "help people" is a poor mask over the fact that they would control the people who designed and built that very system, and thus, control the system. He who has the power to destroy has the ultimate power.

Everyone on this website knows Google is one of the most powerful companies on earth because of their talent. Everyone knows that startups die when the lead engineer gets poached. You don't take talent from Google to not compete with them... this is just war games on a much more abstracted level.
I understand your take on the problem, but one of the features of those services is that they are precisely online: I can get my passwords on my phone, tablet, desktop, laptop, abroad or at work. If my password manager is offline, it's safer, but it's also a poorer experience.

Maybe if there was a way to deploy our own personal password manager server on a dedicated server that would help the "one big target" issue.
Totally. AWS kind of snaked 'em: http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/
If you stick around for the long-term, you can make $130k-150k as a GS-15, work eight-hour days, and get a sweet pension at 55 instead of the Logan's Run layoff-crystal going off when you turn 30.
Point.

But I think it is important to note that "Shareholders" cannot be generalized. At best, you can argue that EA's (current) shareholders are short-sighted... but shareholders "in general" have different opinions and expectations from company to company.

The huge variation on PE ratios should be proof of that. No one judges a company purely on last-quarter's profits.
Uh, I think if people seceded by a real public vote, they should be allowed to, regardless of what the constitution says.

People in a region voted to be independent, hence they are, they're their own nation. Forbidding that is a violation of their basic freedoms.

Now, I do think that Russia influenced the Crimean vote and plunged Ukraine into chaos, but if it was an honest, impartial vote, they should be allowed to self-govern or join the Russian federation, it's their choice...
Its actually the opposite that annoys me: if I was watching a TV series, the last time I was logged in I watched episodes, and there are still remaining episodes, stop asking me to rate the series. Its a minor but consistent annoyance that I'll be 3 episodes into a series and it wants me to rate the entire series.
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pg was part of the east coast MIT/Lisp hacker culture and his use of the term predates YC by many years. That's why HN is called what it is. I don't see why one would begrudge this. Indeed, YC itself started as a hack, so it would be truer to say that the H led to the Y than vice versa.

It's true that the word "hacker" has morphed and become diluted, but that's what happens when subcultures go mainstream, and words are always changing anyhow. I don't like it either, but it happens.
STRIP (https://www.zetetic.net/strip/) is a mature offline password manager that has been around since the late 1990s, available on iOS, Android, Windows and OSX. It uses the open-source encryption extension to SQLite, https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher, developed by the same company.

STRIP supports mobile-desktop synchronization over local wifi or remote cloud (Dropbox & Gdrive).
We use CrowdIn, for Cachet. It's pretty good and even suggests translations for you.
I don't see why. RSS can be used by users on their own device, there's no need for a central aggregator.
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> I suspect bloggers will not be lining up to sue Apple in federal court...

Why not? It should be lucrative. If Apple publishes my content without a license that's a clear copyright violation. I should be able to collect up to $250,000 per incident.
request is a struct with the field post-data/raw, so this implies that request-post-data/raw can access the field.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=request#%...
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>North Korea, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Oligarchical-Capitalist Russia, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Burma, Communist China, pretty much the entire Middle East, etc.

>though my political ideology is pretty obviously very far from the ones you've listed

That is very arguable and not obvious at all.
Etymology is fascinating some times. It appears that the use of "duck" as a type of fabric is still alive in English, though a lot of technical fabric terms aren't really well known in the general populous anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duck (4)
Ratings are on the way, less than a month. The non-optimal UX with the country switcher is due to a significant amount of VPNed users searching for other countries' content in case you were wondering. Still discussing how to improve on that.
Just click on the category title above the horizontal list (I hate that, too) to get a grid view.
I would however appreciate more detail on the breach. This would at least give an indication of their general security posture.

I'm reading this as an embarrassing security lapse in general security, so they misdirect by talking in depth about password hashing.
I'm an aeromechanical engineer around LA and might be interested in contributing some design/analysis work in a non-leadership role. Current work is in structural analysis, interested in aerodynamics though (was my master's concentration years ago).
and this from an AWS job posting 6 months ago...

CORTEX is our next generation platform that handles real-time
financial data flows and notifications. Our stateless event
driven compute engine for dynamic data transforms is built entirely
in Clojure and is crucial to our ability to provide a highly
agile response to financial events.
Our technology stack: Clojure, JVM, AWS tools, Sable

via https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/clojure-software-d...
discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8664989
Is the federal government's inability to recruit and retain top talent really a mystery? It's surprising that an institution that is capable of confiscating double digit percentages of it's people's labor and capital gains[1] is unwilling to pay market or above market salaries to its employees.

If they want to capture the best and brightest, they'll have to do more than just appeal to patriotism.

[1] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
Complex? Its building up from almost nothing, and shows how simple an interpreter can be.

If you start with a grammar, you lose half your audience within 5 minutes (numbers made up)

If you start with a program that reads a text file and plays notes for lines contaning do, re, and mi, part of that lost audience will get drawn in, complete the scale, add 'fart' commands, etc.

Also, smart kids may figure out they can easily add single-statement loops on their own, by adding a case 'repeat' that scans for the number of iterations, removes the 'repeat' and that number of iterations from the line, and then calls the 'processALine' code.

It's "learn by playing" vs "learn through study".
No word on whether any of this will apply for those who use a game console.
jQuery the useful parts.
For everyone who loves the infinite possibilities of client-site JavaScript, and who at the same time does not love the blink-taggy smell that this kind of library evokes, I present to you the world's first distributed, web-based operating system: see https://www.urdesk.net/desk

This has been under very active development for going on 3 years now, and it is just starting to get to the point where it can stop being called a prototype or experiment.
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VeraCrypt https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Downloads seems to have Linux and OSX as well as Windows - or is there something else going on?
Since he knows Niels Ferguson and understands cryptography, why doesn't Bruce get some proper analysis or statement regarding the damage of removing the diffuser? Seems like that's one obviously big elephant in the room here.
LastPass's UI is one step up from atrocious, but I stuck with them because it works, is convenient, and doesn't charge me per-OS/device. :/
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Where is revolico hosted? What are your analytics like in a country with so little internet penetration? Does being in El Paquete mean that people are seeing ads that are now weeks or even months old?
But this depends on the alternative. If, instead of using a password manager, uses only one (or even two or three) passwords across all the websites they frequent, then you are still, in effect, trusting numerous third parties to keep your password safe in the cloud--if any one of these sites is compromised, then your password for all (or half, or 1/3rd, etc.) is compromised along with it.

I agree with you that an offline password manager is better in theory. But the problem is that I am aware of no such service that is easy to use across numerous devices, so much so that none has struck me as a viable option given my patterns of usage. Maybe there are people out there who will accept much more inconvenience in exchange for avoiding the risk associated with a cloud-based service. But, for me, the inconvenience is simply too much.

So the choice once more, for me, becomes cloud-based password manager or no password manager at all.

(Though if you've found a good option, that will allow me to easily sync across my home desktop, laptop, office pc, tablet, and smartphone, without using the cloud, I would absolutely love to hear about it! Maybe something Bluetooth based?)
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I guess this is somewhat connected to the concept of the European Civil War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Civil_War
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There may be different expectations regarding spoilers.
I don't think any of my cuban friends would use "special" to describe it :)
As I understand it they both started at GS15 step 10, which even with the cost of living decrease moving to DC still puts them around half where they were before.
I've sort of given up on Netflix but maybe I'll take a look. I mean, I still pay my monthly fee but I now watch all of my stuff through Plex. I just subscribe to a show and it appears in my Plex server, with a much better ui than netflix.

I'm overseas and at first I tried to use the Plex Netflix plugin and connect to Netflix through a VPN that I would have dynamically open whenever it went to a range of ip addresses, but Netflix's amazon range kept changing - I assume to stop people like me from accessing from overseas.

And so I gave up trying to do it 'proper' and now I just download their shows and watch them from my own server. I live in a country where it's legal to download - just not share, and I think what I do is completely reasonable.

But I at least still pay my monthly fee.
I have no experience with either Go or Erlang but if you have blocking reads, it doesn't seem too complicated to get an efficient blocking write to a multiplexed channel.

I guess I should be a little more clear on my assumptions going into this, chiefly that "you can send enough information to get a worker to non-blocking-send an acknowledgement back to you telling you that they accepted the workload." If you can't do that then I'm not sure what would happen, and that seems like a legitimate language problem. Call this ACK-mechanism a "private channel", say.

A blocking write consists of opening a private channel, issuing a write to the multiplexed channel that contains some sort of "address" for your private channel, and then issuing a blocking read on the private channel. To do this, workers need to be designed so that the first thing they do when they pick up a work order involves sending the ACK containing the ID from the work order and the ID of the worker. Then, when there aren't enough workers to pick up your request immediately, you get to block on your private read until someone picks up your workload and messages you, "hey, I'm just getting around to this...".
Related: http://swimbots.com/

Similar evolution simulator with more complex 'physical' phenotypes.
You should give them your payment card credentials first. I know they are big but it doesn't mean they can't be hacked. And when you submitted card credentials, only way to remove them is send email to privacy@netflix.com and wait for reply.
Why is 1Password over Dropbox the "worst of both worlds"? Seems like it's potentially safer, because it's encrypted with your passphrase and also your dropbox credentials. Sure, the NSA can probably get it, but J Random Hacker can't.
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Deep link to listing: yes, as you open up the details view on a title, the URL updates to reflect that. You can use that URL to go straight to the title, for example here is Daredevil: http://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80018294&jbp=2&jbr=1
I was about to say that sounds even more vomit-inducing, when you consider all the g-forces going on, and then add goggles on top of it. But then, if the g-forces match what the passenger is seeing through the goggles, that could actually be less vomit-inducing maybe? It's an interesting idea. I personally find the idea of spending an hour in a tiny enclosed space with no ability to move to be quite disturbing, and I'm not sure if the idea of doing it with VR goggles makes that less disturbing or more.
Built this for our site (stream.me) in like a day and a half. Makes you feel good about your work when big companies with much bigger teams "announce" features you have already tackled :)
In fact, etymology-wise history preceded and begat story. It was only as an analogy to history that we invented that signifier for the concept of story.
Me, too.

Until then, under chrome/userContent.css in my Firefox profile folder, I will keep:

@-moz-document domain(netflix.com) {

.slider .agMovieSetSlider {
position: relative !important;
width: 100% !important;
}

.slider {
overflow: auto !important;
height: auto !important;
}
}

Edit: It strikes me that this may break with the coming redesign. Oh well, that drawing board's not such a rough thing to be dragged back to.
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Yeah, such a solution is difficult -- and costly -- to implement. For the reasons you mentioned, government tends to choose subsidization options where money isn't explicitly exchanged: i.e. rather than paying the landlord the difference between controlled and uncontrolled, they just tell him certain units are controlled and he has to deal with it.

A solution such as the one you described also makes it difficult to distinguish between who to subsidize and who not to subsidize. How do you make sure you're not giving big payments to people who don't really need the money and just want the house? What's the difference between a family making $90k/yr and wanting to live in a $5k/mo apartment and a family making $500k/yr and wanting to live in a $25k/mo apartment off central park west? Neither can afford the rent in the area, but where do you draw the line?
Was hoping this would be a device with a bootloader capable of reading QR codes printed on cards, or maybe a historical perspective about the boot process of a punched card computer.

Clicked, was disappointed.
Thanks for the suggestion. I skimmed their docs before briefly; I'm giving it a second look now, and realizing I passed by way too quickly last time.

It looks like they did tackle acausality head-on; I like what I see about previous message IDs being included in https://matrix.org/docs/spec/#pdus

Nervous about ever christening JSON "today's technology". JSON has the same problem XML in XMPP does: can't tunnel binary e.g. video without extreme backbending (jingle for XMPP is pretty much a textbook example of "too much friction -> not fit for purpose and near zero adoption"). But it looks like matrix is pluggable on transports, too, so that's potentially a sweet spot for lazy REST clients and powerful performance situations to coexist.

... And I popped into their self-hosted chat room. Observation 1: It works (!). Observation 2: the devs are dogfooding and seem both knowledgeable and friendly :) I haven't taken the leap to self-host yet (will later!); but from preliminaries, matrix is looking remarkably solid and well thought out. I'm going to try to build something with this! Thanks again for the link!