skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting problem:

* If Wikileaks edits the content it can be criticized for tampering.

* If Wikileaks leaves malware in it can be criticized for circulating malware.

It may also give an excuse to search engines and other partners of the government to block the site on account of it hosting files that are infected.

A pretty nasty no-win situation.

Also think about what this means for the sources of the documents. It means that the surveillance and intelligence information from these firms was likely compromised. Yikes.
You can't fool me - this is an attempt to bring back APL!
Evidence is not binary. "Prejudice" can be "premature judice".

> Hopefully, we'll just muddle through, somehow.

This is not a good enough answer for the people who are actually being hurt, now. For these people, it's not an abstract problem.
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Not really - these days even googlebot can and does execute enough javascript to craw #/customers/10. Screen readers can do javascript and you can use ARIA to make it easy to browse for blind people.
Were you not there in 2001? Because that was pretty hard to miss.
> The site is rather vague. They provide the hardware and install it for free, which implies they're selling data to someone else. Who? There's no privacy policy. No terms of service. The "order" button just brings up a blank email.

Might I add that if there's no privacy polity, the FTC won't go after you for violating it. And the company is new, so this stuff is "tomorrow" kind of stuff. They have the limelight for right now; might as well use it.

> How does the device tell how many people are present based on counting at a doorframe? Is it counting people passing through the door? Does it detect direction? Is it good enough to estimate the number of people inside by subtracting out counts from in counts?

Doesn't seem so. Looks like they're going for the niche between mom-and-pop to something smaller than Staples.

> Will this work for wide entrances, such as malls? Is this a passive infrared sensor? Those go blind in hot weather.

PIR doesn't die due to hot weather. They go blind in heavy humidity. They start throwing errors and bounces around 40% and up. Here in Indiana, they would be nigh useless right now, unless inside AC.

> This looks like a cheaper alternative to video counting systems, of which there are many. Video systems get about 98% count accuracy.

I'm working on that. I've gotten better than 98% already. My time is "make it better and sell it".

> If you already have surveillance cameras, you can often use them for counting.

That's my point. Most/all businesses already have it. So the whole creep and privacy factor is a moot point. Might as well leverage the tech you already have installed.
Almost all of my "successes" in bringing people over to more modern practices centered around actual training. Meaning, creating sample apps and arguing effectively with upper management and the devs that I worked with daily.
Remember, we're talking about an organization that apparently employs Andy Borowitz. Possibly his mere existence sucks any humor out of all surrounding content.
In many respects all ML does is evaluate all the evidence before it. It cuts both ways.
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How does it compare (aside from graphics ;)) to Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)?
Yeah, I've been in that kind of a job before too. I don't think you're arguing otherwise, but I would just point out that 'best job available' and 'horrifically exploitative' are (sadly) not mutually exclusive traits in my experience based on jobs I've worked.
What happens if Google goes down for a while? Is it really that bad? Yes, Gmail and Drive may cause all kinds of chaos but I think I can survive quite a while without the search engine and YouTube.
It seems Léon Bottou is an important figure in Machine learning. His personal website has interesting stuff too.

https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1558013787807218/l...

http://leon.bottou.org/
Looks like an awesome product and hardware but the SAAS model sucks (for us). Here's to hoping they release a LAN model for a one time fee.
That and EU subsidies.
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I'm very curious to see if Alexis is responsible for the firing, then shouldn't the backlash against Ellen Pao change to be against Alexis Ohanian?
for no particular reason other than to extort money out of customers

Yeah, isn't it terrible that there are companies trying to get money out of customers... :P

My comment is tongue-in-cheek but the macro point here is why should a company that invents something or provide a value need to do so in a way that minimizes their profit margin?
the most impressive executing founders on the planet.

Big note: after-the-fact. They aren't gods. You're seeing post hoc fanboy hero worship of single-unit success. Sure, celebrate accomplishments, but don't elevate people to being more-than-people.
We might ask, has humanity gotten better or worse? Given this impossible query, i will try to answer anyway. A caveat being i can only comment on direct observation of about 37 of those years.

The overall answer is software systems are solving multiple orders of magnitude more problems than 40 years ago. So much better from that perspective.

I suspect the questions behind the title question however are qualitative. Are we solving these problems in better ways? Is our code more maintainable? Easier to reason about? Faster to develop? Maybe. Probabably. Yes. Certainly not by the same orders of magnitude.

Frameworks and languages continue to pile on Rube Goldberg-esque construct upon construct. Long-lived systems must ultimately be scrapped or the businesses relying upon such antiquated systems replaced. The very few notable exceptions applying engineering effort to eliminate cruft are often overlooked in favor of whichever latest marketing spiel shouts the loudest.

Ah, so we are talking about humanity after all aren't we? :)
If it is all so dopamine related, why don't they just give people dopamine? I take it that it is much more complicated than just dopaminergic reactions at play here?
Apple makes 92% of all smartphone profits, up from 65% in 2014
Though if you'd really want to: https://twitter.com/9uuso/status/620680719245946880?s=09
In recent past, I had this thought that Silicon Valley is sitting on top of, or very close to, potential future fault activity. And I have a hard time believing that the key component of human civilization (technology) is so vulnerable, and was built after the 1906 disaster.

It's one of the factors I would consider when deciding if I really want to move to west coast.
This is a big problem and I'm glad somebody is solving it!

One question--have you considered adding the medical record or HealthKit data to the will? Much like being an organ donor, when you're gone, giving your health data to science is one of the most beneficial things you can do to help the next generation.
This is very similar to one of the reports swirling before. If true, it is pretty awful for Alexis to keep letting Ellen Pao take the hit for it. There are other reasons that people dislike Mrs. Pao, but she doesn't need this final straw if it is truly Alexis' straw to bear.
My point was simply that the details of the conde nast deal weren't shared afaik. You don't just cut and run from a company valued at >$200m (at the time) even if it's currently in the red.
SPA applications frameworks and architecture are so young compared to server side rendering and still evolving.

Why do they exist? User expectations of the web are increasing and waiting for server responses from any action isn't really cutting it anymore.

Of course it's harder to maintain state and develop - the patterns haven't been clearly defined, and SPAs introduce two sources of state (client and server) which is a hard problem. It's the cost of the demanded user experience.

Angular ui router, ember data, react flux architecture are all examples of things that have just started evolving to address these kinds of issues. All of these are very new and being constantly iterated on and updated. Angular ui router does a good job of handling things like the back button and managing the state of your page. Ember data has really powerful client side data state management, and react flux architecture presents a much needed practice of how to control the flow of data between server calls and views. HyperMedia APIs are another evolving technology for maintaining more control between the client and the server.
What's more, the founding treaties of the EU make it illegal for one member state to assume the debts of another member state. And the "no bailout" clause was added exactly in response to Northern European concerns that they would eventually be responsible for the debt incurred by Southern Europe.

http://www.cfr.org/world/eurozone-crisis-historical-legacy/p...
Iceland isn't part of the Eurozone, is it?
This was my main takeaway from the article. Ellen's changes to hate speech rules caused some backlash, but it sounds like she had nothing to do with Victoria's firing.
If the Greeks produce X euros worth of goods/serviecs and consume Y euros for Y < X, this should be a minor problem at best - paperwork, really. The actual problem is that Greece can't pay for their current levels of consumption. They haven't been able to pay for consumption in quite a while actually, but previously EU lending propped them up.

This is why Argentina's default wasn't anywhere near as bad - they were fairly close to consuming as much as they produced.

Unlike Greece, Argentina also instituted necessary reforms - for example, import substitution and breaking sticky wages via a 13% nominal wage cut for govt workers and pensioners [1]. Greece has steadfastly refused to do these things in spite of having ample time.

[1] Recall why Keynesians promote inflation - to inflate away real wages, which this cut also did.
I doubt it, I think it would be much akin to doing cocaine every day. Wasn't L-Dopa more or less pure dopamine, showed promise, and over time lost efficacy? At least, thats how it went in the Robyn Williams movie, which as far as I know was based on a true story and I doubt they would have changed the primary medication name that he discovered was helpful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9879121
This just sounds pathetic.
It is the nature of the role of CEO that you're going to take the heat for all company decisions. That's one of the justifications for their outsized compensation. Greater risk = greater reward. No one is forced to be CEO and being an executive essentially means you live your life on the line every day. It's not for everyone.

There was another thread on this earlier today and I think my comment there is applicable here too...

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Yishan seems to love to do stuff like this. While I personally find it interesting, it also seems pretty unprofessional. Some issues with this particular comment:

1. Yishan no longer works at Reddit so I don't think he can be considered an authoritative source for what happened.

2. Yishan appointed Pao so isn't unbiased when discussing her.

3. The CEO's job is to represent the company. The chairman's job is to appoint the CEO. The outcome of events seems correct even if what Yishan says is true.
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After watching the Japanese Tsunami, it got me wondering about a weather-balloon-like device.

You strap it on like a life jacket, and you wait for the wave to come your way. As it approaches, you pull the cord. Something that looks like a weather balloon inflates, extends the length of a tether, and then you float a few hundred feet in the air, and then float back down a while later.

Why is this a dumb idea?
Free speech is overrated.
The big danger inherent in a bank is a liquidity crisis-- their loans can't be called in all at once and their assets generally can't be sold all at once without losing a lot of value, but their liabilities in the form of demand deposits can be withdrawn at any time. So in the modern era central banks generally stand as a lender of last resort, if all the depositors want their money out at the same time then the central bank will lend individual banks cash against their assets to give to depositors. This promise, if made credibly, has the effect of preventing bank runs.

The Greek banks have a different problem, a solvency crisis. They have made investments and loans that have not done well, in part because the economy as a whole has not done well. That includes lending money to the Greek government in the form of bond purchases. So it is simply the case that their liabilities (including money owned to depositors) are greater than their assets (including the risk discounted value of outstanding loans).
Happy Birthday was not 'stolen by society.' The whole basis of the legal case is that the song was already in the public domain by the time the copyright was registered on the arrangement in 1935, either by actively encouraging its public use or through constructive abandonment of copyright (a somewhat debateable legal theory) by allowing its use in multiple films, stage performances etc. prior to registration.
This is not a matter of black and white. One side is grey and the other is pitch black. A black hole sucking money. I'm sorry, but they have been paying themselves pensions, child support, 13th, 14th and 15th salaries + other bonuses for national holidays for decades, with money they don't have. Time to pay up. That's how it goes. If they have to pay with tears, I'm truly sorry for the situation, but the party is over.
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Detroit's insolvency is backstopped by the state of Michigan and the federal government.
> Correlation and causation have the same predictive power.

Is only true in a system without feedback. If your response to observations can affect the subjets under study, then acting on the correlation can change the correlation.

If you decide to offer everyone in Nairobi a $million to join your super-jumpers space-exploration program, because Nairobi correlates to high jump ability, you will find that low jumpers will flood into Kenya to collect on your offer.

Whereas, no matter how much you abuse the fact that gravity make things fall, you aren't going to make gravity stop making things fall.
I'm not sure it's possible. I'd guess that drilling deep enough into an active subduction zone would likely encounter temperatures above what any nuclear bomb could sustain long enough to detonate.
We are indeed talking about humanity. Apparently the human condition also includes taking the easy way out at the cost of long term pain.

I was inspired to write this post after reading about people trying to design better programming languages. I realized that PL design hasn't fixed our problems in the past, and it probably won't fix it in the future. We muddle through by improving our tools and processes.
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Awesome, thanks for the links they'll be really useful :)
There's no way that the already-satiated angry mob about-faces like that. Though, I'd be impressed if it did.
I don't think the intended audience is relevant. I still don't see what about it is particularly uninteresting. It's all diatonic, sure, but if that's the criterion then a huge amount of music is uninteresting. The melody has a variety of intervals (including an octave), and suspensions on nearly every chord.
As 3JPLW mentioned, the 2001 Nisqually event was in the subducting Juan de Fuca slab, not on the plate interface, and was quite deep (52 km). The Cascadia plate interface itself does have quite regular 'slow earthquakes'[1] at the lower edge of the locked zone, where M~6 earthquakes occur over about a week and a half, and don't produce much shaking. We just found out about them by watching patterns in GPS data from fixed locations.

Regardless, Goldfinger is still correct on all the statements that you've quoted. In addition to the scientific content, it still is possible to spend several lifetimes in the PNW (which does extend beyond King County) in between the 1700 event and the 2001 event. Granted, there was the 1872 event near Lake Chelan [2], which was the biggest PNW quake since 1700, but still... there were multiple generations of people born in between 1872 and 2001.

[1]: http://www.geodesy.cwu.edu/instruments/tilt/explanation_ETS....

[2]: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/scientists-may-be-c...
"Density has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Ludlow Ventures, Jason Calacanis and Bill Draper. "

http://fortune.com/2015/05/22/meet-density-a-startup-that-le...

The cynic in me sees this as as a requirement to justify their (current or future) venture funding. So that they can justify a high valuation in their eventual acquisition and shutdown in the next 12-36 months.

It's not enough to 'just' build a good product and sell it to customers anymore.
There was a time from 2008-2011 or so when Airbnb was just another YC startup that got funny headlines now and then. Casual observers didn't know that they were growing very big and were going to be a big big business.
Ehm. This was known since the beginning: https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3c0hcz/welcome_back/

> Chooter (Victoria) was let go as an admin by /u/kn0thing.
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I've seen PHP projects that require NPM to compile the css and js...
I'm not sure how you could word it differently. It implies nothing, and the article itself explicitly denies any finger-pointing.

> I ought to be clear from the outset: I have no information linking Wikileaks, Asssange, Hammond, Monsegur, the FBI or anyone else directly with these malicious files. That very well may change quickly as research progresses, but at no point should this post be considered finger pointing. The purpose of this post is not to assign responsibility but to ensure that the journalists and activists downloading these files or who have already downloaded these files understand the consequences and take proper precautions. If I can encourage security researchers to take a look at these files it would be a bonus.

Also answers your question of "why the [arguably] click-bait title?" To get attention, which it deserves.
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wikileaks could flag infected content and force people to click a "I know what I'm doing" button to download or view.
jni, and don't tell me now that c isn't portable.
A pragmatic solution to this problem is to follow certain key developers closely on Github and Twitter, the ones most aligned with the patterns and issues you or your company are addressing. The repos they star and the tweets they forward give you a sort of inside look into where the industry is going; this inspires confidence in decision making.
Speaking of Futurama and Copyright violations ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE
I think you should probably readjust your tact for any more comments today and in the future. Making insults, implications or even allegations about a competitor is never going to be in your company's best interest.

It is just basic marketing and public relations. Don't try to sell people on your competition being lesser, even if it's true (which it is apparently not, in this case). That does absolutely nothing to sell me on your product, but instead makes me acutely aware that you see them as a threat which needs to be quashed.

For what it's worth, I also found your use of the word "homie" rather unprofessional, off-putting and patronizing, especially in a thread which acts as public announcement of your company's product.

These things combined have opened the door for your competitor to defend themselves in a more logical and professional manner, which I would say they've accomplished in this thread. I'm entirely unimpressed with how you are representing your company, but I am very impressed with how your competitor has responded.
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That's how I noticed. I tried to tweet something about Donald Tusk and had to abbreviate his name because of the length. I know about the "D handle" prefix but apparently it also triggers for "D. handle" which is why I wrote about how I dislike in-band signalling.
The exceptions are not toys at all!

The example he gave is very common:

Whenever 2 independent factors contribute (casaully) to an effect, both factors are correlated to each the effect, but are not in generla (well) correlated to each other.
Do you have a diagnosis of something wrong with you, are did you just start taking NSI-189? I was on a medication for 5+ years and it has taken it's tool on me, as well as getting off those meds was not simple. I still struggle with side effects that can take years to go away.

What has NSI-189 done for you specifically and how does it make you feel? Are there any annoying side effects and where in the heck did you get it?
The fact that "D Name" starts a direct message doesn't explain why "D. Something" gives an error, except for shoddy coding.
Good, that seems like a smart move. It is of course possible for them to still ignore the results of that survey, or to game the results, or that a majority of respondents don't care or understand the issue anyhow. My point is that if this feature is important enough to people, they can take real action and don't have to kiss the ring and beg at the feet of power in order to achieve the result that they want.
Is anything like eval commonly used in Scala? That language is static as all get-out.
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heard no from warm intros.

My last round of warm intro (thanks sam) VC partner talks had 100% failure rate too. There's no pattern you can draw here. I had great talks with some two-partner firms. Other two-partner firms did the whole "yes, but only if you're more successful in another 18 months." I did get one absolute "not this time, but stay in touch" decline that was exceedingly professional. SV Angel was the nicest in that they further warm-intro'd me to another 3-5 people. The worst contact was a16z actually. Go figure?
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This is just an accidental coincidence. Has nothing to do with Daniel Tusk
My guess is that the number has recently increased, with most phone plans now offering unlimited talk+text but metered data. On a prepaid plan, when you've run out of data, some carriers will just do a hard stop on your data and others will reduce it to a slow trickle, so the SMS interface might be the best.
> Why not acknowledge the facts and spend money on people to help them get back on their feet and at least reap political good-will, which is sorely lacking right now.

Because giving Greece more free money will not make the Greeks reform their country. Debt relief would just mean that they could borrow more money on the market and let the party continue.

Debt relief (even more than the huge amounts they've already received and squandered) is very much in the cards and has been all the time, if only they would reform.
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This idea is fantastic. However, we can do one better. We can control the quake such that we use a sequence of low energy quakes distributed across many years to eliminate the need for the large quick entirely.
Neither does the exciting front-end developer.
You really only need to understand public key and private key, and the rest of that is not necessary for most of the use cases. If someone has any familiarity with the command line, then can pick it up quite quickly.