skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not clear on how this is a productive comment. We have 60 years more science on how bacterial infections work. It was only 10 years ago that it was found to be dangerous. How many things are you doing today that will be found appalling in 60 years?
Was that understood to be the scope in 1950 though?
Sure, but that's couched in racist ideology: you are black (or non-white) if you have any fraction of not-white blood. As the great melting pot processes along, its inevitable that 'pure white' folks will disappear.

And that's a problem, why?
For those who are curious, 46.166.163.0/24 (the hijacked IPs) belong to balticservers.com, which is based out of Lithuania[1].

http://wikiscan.org/plage-ip/46.166.163.0/24?submenu=whois
Microsoft Open-Sources Power BI Visualization Stack
I actually wasn't even thinking of the workplace. If people contribute more to the company and therefore earn more, fine. I was thinking outside of the office. E.g. a friend offering to pay for a meal when you know they can't afford it as easily as you can or vice versa.
Idea for a fix: Perhaps HN should have separate karma to reward upvoting on /new on links that are successful later, much like reddit used to have (or still has?) trophies for correctly predicting that a link reaches the frontpage. If there is more incentive to vote on new items you get more accurate estimates of the link quality, and it also does warrant reward to sift through lists with such a low SNR.
The Greek Paper: Policy Commitments and Actions for EC/ECB/IMF [pdf]
question I have is how can one use all of this to evaluate company performance in terms of productivity and morale?

I'm curious about:
1) employee turnover
2) offers made to candidates vs declines
3) promotions and job changes
I replaced iTunes with a CLI program called cmus https://cmus.github.io/
Hi there! Sunil here (CTO at Buffer). Really great question! We've had a long and hard look at our salaries and have been in the midst of overhauling how exactly we determine salaries. One of the great things with being transparent about our salaries is that we learn so much about how we've originally set up our salaries and how we'd need to further adjust things. We received some great feedback and through that, we've realized how under-market our rates have been for areas like SF and NYC, while being quite above market rates in many other regions. We've been in the middle of overhauling how salaries get set, and have adjusted developer salaries based on some solid feedback. I believe we'll update the public numbers and be transparent about the process we took and our overall learnings quite soon!

Generally our approach with salaries (and much of the company) has been to iterate with continuous feedback loops. The feedback we receive in HN may further influence how we think about things. Would love any more thoughts/advice you have :)
A small Twitter UI change that could save tons of time
This is the full paper as submitted and not excerpts being discussed in various outlets.

It is interestingly close to the old troika demands, but has a few key changes and reforms suggested by the greek side.

They acknowledged a full pension reform, which will affect even the poor, but the IWF promised a backup up to 300 eur, an essential minimal income.

VAT reform also almost as demanded. It will (i) unify the rates at a standard 23%, which will include restaurants and catering, and a reduced 13 % for basic food, energy, hotels (!), and water (excluding sewage), and a super-reduced rate of 6 percent for pharmaceuticals, books (!), and theater(!); (ii) streamline exemptions to broaden the base and raise the tax on insurance; and (iii) Eliminate discounts on islands, starting with the islands with higher incomes and which are the most popular tourist destinations, except the most remote ones.
Minimum VAT on essential goods such as books and theatres? This looks very interesting. The greek variant of "panes et circensem".

The Fiscal part, Tax administration and the Public Administration, Justice and Anti Corruption part seems to be taken from the new finance minister. Close the holes, make the reforms (at least in legislation), cut military spending by €100 million in 2015 and by €200 million in 2016.
>culture, the people and what we value as a company.

Curious if you have specific examples.
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I've lived in those places and agree. If anything, we'd have "wtf" looks on our face trying to figure out what the sound was and which idiot was doing it. If we hear gunshots, we make ourselves invisible while carefully assessing source, distance, and whether we're the target. It's usually over before we even do, we roll our eyes, and go back out our business. Sometimes, you'll see such people mock suburban type's chaotic reactions to situations that normally don't happen in their sleepy towns. Mostly, we just don't care if gunfire is happening so long as the bullets aren't coming at us.

Now, moving from an area with lots of drive-by's to an area with redneck neighbors spontaneously shooting in their backyards was an adjustment. Lol...
>> " I'm sure Buffer's intention here is largely to attract people who will fit the environment they want to foster and this draws a pretty hard line."

Good point.
Divide and conquer works.
"How do you know other humans can truly experience "yellowness"? What if we're all just pretending and you're the only one?"

To me, that's kind of a silly question. Yes, it might be true. Of course, it might be that there are no other human beings and I'm just a brain in a vat. I just find that hypothesis to be too unlikely to care about.

"We're just putting together lego blocks and at the end is a human indistinguishable from any other human.
Does this person experience qualia?"

I would guess so.

"How would you know?" For me, this is a little like your first question. I wouldn't necessarily know. But if this entity is physically indistinguishable from a human at even the most infinitesimal level of physical reality, I'd assume it experiences.

But, I may be wrong here, because it might be that there is something non-physical called a "soul" that resides in humans, and a physically identical entity might not be provided with one by God or whoever/whatever the soul-provider is. That's not what I tend to assume, but I have no evidence either way.

Your question "How would you know" is an interesting one because it assumes that it matters whether or not an observer knows. Maybe some entities have awareness and others don't, and an observer can't tell the difference. So what? That wouldn't imply, in any way, that the phenomenon of awareness doesn't exist.

"Once you take apart the argument like this, it's easy to see that arguments that computers can't experience qualia are arguments against materialism or reductionism, or are patent attempts to sneak souls and other woo into the discussion."

That doesn't mean that such arguments/hypotheses aren't true. It just means they may not be testable using the scientific method. Much as many people don't like the multiverse theory because it may not be testable using the scientific method. But that merely means that there are limits to the truths that can be discovered by the scientific method; it doesn't change the reality of what is true.

It's a bit reminiscent of Godel's completeness theorem. Many great mathematicians assumed that there were no truths that weren't provable within the systems they were studying; Godel proved that such assumptions were simply wrong.
I'm confused. Are you suggesting the provider didn't actually generate renewable energy? Or are you saying that it's not the exact same electrons (which I think we both realize doesn't matter)?
Why your private cloud could look a lot like PaaS – Mesosphere
Given the pain that would be associated with rolling your own, why not make the case that a new method be added to the String interface that provides the old behavior? Legacy applications still need to change, but it would be a relatively straight-forward mechanical replacment.
Why do you think it has to be web-based?
iPhone eats cell data while on WiFi – 600,000 people concerned
I find the prose format nicer because it's easier to keep going, but the Go REPL has more information density. Guess it comes down the preference.
And Hacking Team turned those tens of thousands into millions.
>yet still no word on Signal for Android.

Just in case you're not aware. RedPhone for android does encrypted calling, and TextSecure for android does encrypted messaging, so there doesn't seem to be a reason for Signal on Android aside from the brand unification.
beautifully written. It hit every irk that have been brewing inside of me for the past 4+ years or so.

Unfortunately, it's tough to find a job if you tell your employers what you really think about their choice of tech stack sucks or they have no idea what they are doing.
Hacking Team Employee Jokes About Assassinating ACLU Technologist
Bloomberg fires digital editor Josh Topolsky
> It's called bugging your friends for up votes.

I always found such behaviour pathetic, but it increasingly becomes apparent to me that trying to be decent is a handicap and successful people are those willing to do anything, no matter how despicable.
I grew up in Wisconsin and went to college in Iowa and the one thing I noticed between the two was how horrible the Iowa DOT was.

In Wisconsin we know that every year there will be snow. Lots and lots of snow. In 18 years of living there I never once remember a time where there was more than half a day of our rural road not being plowed. I remember seeing plows driving around when there was no snow falling because they knew it was coming and as soon as the first flake hit the ground the buckets went down.

In Iowa, ever year there were multiple times when I'd be stuck at home, unable to get to school or work because the roads weren't plowed. Major Highways! I'd call the DOT and their response was "we are just waiting until the snow stops so we don't have to plow multiple times." This was their response in the afternoon having not plowed all morning. One year they ran out of salt for the roads and had to use expired Seasoning Salt from a local manufacturer. Everyone complained because their car smelled like Garlic Bread. No one seemed to care about the fact that Iowa is in the Midwest and for some strange reason the people running the DOT didn't think to have adequate supplies.

Wisconsin has a huge vacation market. A large amount of road usage is by people traveling from out of state up to the north woods for hunting, fishing, camping, etc. Iowa does not have this type of road usage.

Iowa has two main highways. Hwy 80 is a shipping lane that connects Chicago to the western half of the US. Hwy 35 is a north south route going from Minneapolis/St. Paul all the way down to Austin Texas and connects a lot of major cities along the way.

Hwy 80 (and hwy 88) are used so much in Illinois that Illinois actually charges you a toll to use it. Iowa has the same traffic on 80 but does not charge a toll. One state has figured out how to pay for their road usage while the other has not. THIS is the real issue with why Iowa's DOT can't do anything right. They spend money in the wrong places, don't get enough income to pay for things they should and for some strange reason don't understand that they have a problem.
Anyone tried to play competitive multiplayer games like CS or Heroes of the Storm with such a setup? I can imagine that streaming adds a bit of latency, which isn't a problem in singleplayer games, but could add too much lag for fast-paced multiplayer games. Any experiences?
I also made a chat app, it's like the exact opposite of this, its totally distracting
http://quatshy.com
Most government worker salaries are already public information. Everyone's property value and home/condo sale price information is already public. I don't see personal financial information moving towards being more private anytime soon.
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In the mid-1980s, I was at Grinnell College in Iowa. One summer, there was a tornado warning - one on the ground, a couple miles away from campus. A bunch of students visiting from California for some academic thing ran out to the soccer field to watch. The native midwesterners like me told them to get inside NOW (we didn't mention that the part of campus they were on was completely destroyed by a tornado in the 1920s). One sneered, "Hah! You've never lived through an earthquake!" I told him that I won't go into the basement of a brick building during an earthquake if he won't stand in an open field during a tornado. Then I went to the basement, because I'm not stupid. Dunno if they did or not.
After spending eight years in the military (where everyone's salary is public, even Generals) I was kind of shocked when I got out and everyone was so secretive about how much money they made. When I got my first office job a few friends had to coach me to not talk about salary. To me it seems the only one really benefiting from not talking about money is the company paying you.
Guess my wife and I have been lucky. My 401ks have always offered good funds, and hers is actually managed by Vanguard.
Conversely, should you learn to drive in a lamborghini?

Tools matter as a result of what you want out of them. In this case learning to drive. They honestly don't have that much value themselves. A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.

The same is true for programming languages, even though we love to pretend it isn't
All of these defenses post-date sslstrip/sslsniff, and if you look at mailing list conversations in the early days of HTTPS Everywhere, you can see that it was developed as a direct response to these attacks.
Ask HN: Discussion board implemented on BitTorrent?
With the chaos on Reddit and the discussion of how discussion communities have a limited lifespan, I was wondering if anyone has tried implementing a distributed discussion board on top of bittorrent? Imagine if a channel's discussion were stored in files with some naming/numbering scheme, and to participate you used bittorrent to download/seed the files. There would be specialized trackers to help you find channels to subscribe to, but the archives would be stored by the channel community. It seems a lot like Usenet but even more decentralized.

Or perhaps instead of bittorrent the implementation would be more like a blockchain, so people can post comments? I'm not an expert in either tech, but it seems like either one might be workable for something like this.

It's a bit hard to google for, so I'm curious if anyone knows of something like this.
Intentionally pissing off people is childish.

Using the name of this language in a workplace creates a hostile working environment[1]. That guarantees that no sensible person in the English speaking world will ever use the language at work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment
We can't even replicate the intelligence of a rat or even a cockroach, let alone a chimp.
Kinoscopia – Kodi library in HTML
Do you have a Github profile I can follow? Don't know many other former Marine developers.
I consider that private information. Why do my friends/neighbours whatnot have to know, that I make more money than they do? It creates all sorts of awkward situations, at least in the culture, that I live in.
It's asking for trouble along several axes.

There is the social aspect. If people you know and interact with on a daily basis know your income, they'll preload their assumptions about your money management skills into every interaction. Sometimes they'll ask for money and resent you if you decline, even though they probably have no idea what kind of liabilities you're facing (and it's reasonable to keep those private too). They'll judge all of your choices against your income; if you buy something that's a bit of a stretch, like a nicer car, you may get lectured on, but you'll definitely get judged on, how you can't really afford that, or how you're terrible at managing your income, etc.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Publicized salary information makes personal interactions more difficult all around.

It can make business more difficult. Consider a world where everyone's salary is public, and anyone selling you a product can look up your income and demand certain payment based on a percentage of your income. It'd be a lot harder to negotiate or deal with salespeople this way.

"Salary history" is one of the HR department's great tools for screwing over employees; instead of paying you a salary commensurate with the value you bring to the company, they just have to offer a marginal bump. Again, it neuters negotiation, since they know your hand ahead of time.

There can be legal ramifications. Consider a situation where you get in a car accident, exchange insurance information, and the other party looks up your salary online and discovers that you make enough to be worth bringing to court. Even if he'd lose the case, and even if it's small claims, it'd cost you time and money in transportation, time off, etc. If it's not small claims, it'd cost you legal fees too. The claimant would anticipate that your lawyer would recommend a settlement and may sue even if his prospects were poor; since your income information would be public, said lawyers would take your case on contingency, since you have enough money to be worth trying to wring out.

The old saying "good fences make good neighbors" applies and can be generalized as "a reasonable amount of privacy keeps people civil" (it needn't refer exclusively to fences). Your personal affairs can and should stay personal.
The do-everything F-35 was actually supposed to be a cost management idea, since the exploding cost of new generation fighter programs was so big, we were just going to do one of them, rather than several for different roles.

...and if you ever bought that, they've also got a bridge they'd like to sell you. The goal is to spend money. This is just their latest innovation in achieving that goal.
We had the same experience launching a chat on HN last week. Some valuable feedback, but some pretty brutal comments as well, and lots of (failed) crash attemps.
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He had more personality than most in his writing. Insults aren't necessary for that but they didn't bother me. He can find out how sensitive people are when he says it to our face and experiences the reaction firsthand. He instead said it safely behind his computer once at a great distance away from the people he's describing. Says more about him. ;)
This is also known as 'language'.
I think the article was intended to be about company/firm size.

Calling Google or Apple small is kinda wrong ;-)

But also, if you interpret it as technology, then it's still pretty wrong to describe the original smartphones as small or simple -- they're not the sort of thing you could slap together and make work. The partnerships and supply chains and software and scale necessary to get smart phones working "well enough" would have been extremely difficult for a small player to pull off.
> "Racism is so deeply embedded in this country not because of the racist right-wing radicals who practice it openly, it exists because of the silence and hurt feelings of liberal America."

I think the author acknowledges that.
I don't understand it either. I got to a point where I couldn't buy more of anything and my advisor was warning me I didn't have enough catnip. I left it open with some JavaScript gathering catnip for me, but finally closed the tab when I seemed to be at a standstill.
> If whites were 1) running the country and 2) racist
then the immigration policies of this country would have kept the USA as a white majority country.

Why? Why would the whites holding the majority of the power oppose having greater non-white subject populations as long as they were still subject? (One might argue that this would be short-sighted, on the assumption that minority dominance isn't indefinitely sustainable, but at a minimum this requires assuming that the white rulers were not merely racist, but also uniformly long-term strategic thinkers.)
Mind if I ask which expression? I liked the twin cities the one time I visited, but I've never heard of it described as a tech city.
This was more about the pains of learning driving habits for a Tesla, and also building confidence in the distance one can go in a Tesla. Gas-powered cars require little such planning, as there are many gas stations, so a lead-foot isn't a big deal.

He noted at the end that he thinks he could get the same road trip down in a pretty reasonable time.
OPM Director Katherine Archuleta Quits
AOT compilation is in the works. Also you might have been using features that numba didn't support yet. They just added more numpy ops, array allocation and vector ops, so your code might be working now.
Nitpick: it wouldn't be a potential 216. Some three-"letter" sequences code for the same amino acids, so instead of 4^3 (64) possible amino acids, only 20 are generated. Adding new letters doesn't change what these old words create, so I think there would only be a possible maximum of 172.

(I think I did my math right, but maybe not.)

(edit: thanks duaneb, had my basic bio facts wrong - codons code for amino acids, not proteins.)
Sorry guys. The problem was solved by a server restart. I had uploaded the default config.json file from the public Github (https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat/blob/master/config.j...), realized my error and changed it, but forgot to restart the server.

Regardless of how modern your encryption is, human error will always "fix" that.
Katherine Archuleta, Director of Office of Personnel Management, Resigns
You probably took that pronunciation from wikipedia. But there is no "nju" in the vernacular (that's like a british thing to say "new" like that). Just "nu"
Lmao that's hilarious. "Hey, it's one of those things that put objects through brick walls and fling trailers through the air. Let's get close to it!" I nominate them for At-Risk Survivor status on Darwin Award page.
> one could jailbreak their phone, pull the binary into their computer, decompile it, and inspect it for implementation structures that would be coherent with how the two or three most popular encryption algorithms are commonly implemented.

There's a much easier way. Turn off your phone's cellular connection, but turn on wifi and connect it to a wifi network you control. Then just sniff the packets.
Just because they don't think about or stress Z doesn't mean it isn't there. Sometimes Z is a subconscious brain heuristic developed as a response to competing interests, threats, social consequences etc.
In the early game it makes far more sense to keep your assets as catnip until you need to spend them (or your barn fills up).

Your strategy only works if you have enough farms to cover
your base needs (that's a lot of fields). With 10 cats you need to be producing 40 catnip/second baseline.

5 farmers and 5 woodcutters will only work if you're producing at least 15 catnip as a baseline. On an average winter (-75% from fields) you're screwed.

On the other hand if you leave 10 farmers running, you'll generate at least +10catnip/s even if you have no fields. It's simply not worth it for the extra half wood.
Sequel to GATTACA(PZ)?
And between them they have over 40 moons; some likely unremarkable rocks but others with observed or theorized geological activity, trace atmospheres, and unusual orbits and who knows what else.
It's a much, much harder step, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Kind of renders all of his information theoretic calculations moot.
Am I ridiculous for wanting this to be a sort of on demand service with a small markup?