jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For a number of reasons:

- It used to be impossible to implement securely. Until very recently, there was no hardware support for virtualizing the network buffers, which would mean emulating the network hardware in userspace. This would be very slow.

- Because even today, many devices don't have the required hardware virtualization support. For example, many (most?) ARM devices. If you give direct DMA access, you might be allowing anyone to splatter whatever code they want across whatever memory they want.

- Without kernel arbitration of some sort, there's no way to do load balancing across services, throttle, or firewall effectively.

- The kernel is designed to provide a uniform interface for all programs to the hardware. Putting networking in userspace gets rid of this abstraction, and means that every program has to be aware of the network hardware; software that works with file descriptors directly can't use the same abstraction for files and network.

- Because there are no hardware limitations on the amount of multiplexing. I don't remember how much muxing various hardware supports, but hardware has limits for this sort of thing. If you want more than N processes using the virtual network, you might be SOL with a virtualized userspace network stack.
This website's formatting is absolutely horrid (seems to be a company blog for Premonition), but the story is surprisingly interesting.

However, isn't this how people have been selecting lawyers for years? See what their win/loss ratio is, and see if there is any reason to discount a favorable ratio.

Doesn't really seem like a big data problem to me.
Ego depletion ('running out of willpower') is only partially a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Challenges_and_al...

You can expand your willpower by doing more difficult things. It's not a fixed resource, and you don't 'run out'.
If the TSA starts interfering with movement in a single state (like on the NYC subway system), we'll see pushback from the state and local governments.

Nope, in fact NYC welcomed the Terrorists' Surrogate Army invasion of the subway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juvdi2TdeXY
I believe the problem with _every_ framework out there is that they focus too much on how they solve trivial problems and not enough on how you can use them in complex scenario.

I think people are pissed when they start with a new framework is the lack of ERROR messages.

I wished errors were more verbose. I don't care if the error message takes 5 lines. When I'm used to a framework, i'll know from the second word what is the error.

On the other hand, when I don't know the framework, I have no ideas what is assumed and what isn't. Print all the remotely possible culprit. That will give me an idea how it works.

Errors will help me learn and progress.
Well, before the Web there was Gopher and Archie and BBS's.

It wasn't the Dark Ages.

Maybe more like the Early Dawn Ages.
Good point. Here's some more background on multi-layer insulation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-layer_insulation

Of course, gold foil per se would end up being too heavy for a spacecraft thermal blanket.
The fact that he's on the leaderboard means precisely nothing except to indicate he's on the leaderboard.

Plenty of other people have been banned for saying "Fuck you" on here, and it's interesting that jrockway silently edited his comment to remove his swearing at someone else on here, as well as removing his invitation to check that he's a huge karma accumulator - which he seems to think actually means something.

Anyway, I"m not a mod, just someone who's a bit tired of one set of people being treated differently.
That's the "macs" in Emacs: Editing MACroS.
Yeah no VAT at this point but seems like a road map item for certain.

I don't give tax advice but in the United States each state handles sales tax and economic/physical nexus on digital goods differently.

All of these are on my radar for MakePostSell and all online sellers should educate themselves on the rules for their region.
This is not even selling the shovels... This renting a room to cash for gold traders...
>real solution involves a hybrid system where the government supports a baseline of services

As Inread that I think: basic services are too important to miss the feedback loop and become the equivalent of universal low grade government cheese. At the same time, maybe the poor quality of government provided baseline goods and services would incentivize people to attain better, which is an improvement over direct subsidies which act like high marginal taxes when they are reduced in response to income growth. Unfortunately a significant number of basic needs are commodities, such as cheese, and are subject to mismeasure and goal seeking instead of value seeking, similar to the Soviet whaling industry of the 1960s/70s.

The F-35: similar to SLS and Soviet whalers, political considerations are weighted higher than value ones. The F-35 also has the challenge of being developed at a transitional period, in the late morning of a period that will be marked by low observability, human optionality, and high speed and precision impact. The F-35s story isn’t over yet and like other troubled weapons systems there is a lower than likely chance it may blossom like the M-16. It has already passed the Sgt York stage and is in the a state where like the BFV it will find its place within doctrine and eventually battle, or not. I think it is too soon to tell.
I totally agree.

There’s just this thing called “reality” and unless your ticket by coincidence ends up catching the eye of someone who can actually do something about it, it will be left to rot. And because nobody will bother looking at the oldest ticket known to man™, the close-bot may as well close it. Tens of thousands of untriaged reports aren’t helping anyone.
> And that will happen at one point.

Why?
CMS replaced the guy who turned your .doc into HTML (this used to be a job). Many of these people became LAMP CMF specialists. That transition was at least a decade ago. Sysadmin roles have been under the most pressure since.
How is this different than the Serverless framework?
This article is making me want both a new PC and fried chicken for lunch...
If there's a message that says "This call may be recorded..." then I would consider that to be adequate consent for either party to record the call, not just 1 party.

But IANAL.
"infantile".. you nailed it: http://jollo.org/LNT/public/nursery.html
What are you all using instead?
> The new approaches disguise that nonlinearity as a more digestible set of linear approximations, though their exact methods vary considerably.

The idea of reducing a nonlinear problem to a sequence of linear problems is the bread and butter of nonlinear PDE, both theoretical and numerical. The trick is always in the reduction and I guess here you want the reduction to have a nice "quantum" solution.

I'm not qualified to say what either of these papers have to do with "chaos". You'll notice that this word only appears in one of the papers and then only once in the intro.
I can't speak for Harvard, but in the vast majority of the world, going to college is strictly on the basis of entrance exams, with some countries also using high school grades, nothing more.

This is done to avoid bias and/or favoritism. I am not an expert in U.S. admissions but my understanding is that they give points for things like whether your parents are alumni or have donated, whether you play sports, whether you were school "president" or other tests of popularity, and a host of things that in my opinion are pretty poor indicators of whether one should be admitted.
It feels like you're looking for something like git-annex (https://git-annex.branchable.com/). I've never used it but read a bit about it, here's how you would use it:

- Install git-annex on your cloud

- Tell git-annex that you have a remote there

- Do your stuff on your local drive, push to the cloud when it's done

- If some of the files are not needed locally, tell git-annex to drop them from your local drive. git-annex knows that there is another copy in a safe storage

- If you want to work on some files you don't have, ask git-annex to transfer them to you.

The manual steps might be a bit tedious, so git-annex also has an assistant mode that is a good-enough copy of dropbox (https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/). See the archival walkthrough, that seems to fit your use case (https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/)

(I have more or less the same need, but haven't committed to doing it just yet)
"It does not make sense in a strategic way"

"It makes no tactical sense"

This is a pretty good summary of much of the last four years.
FB pays astronomically well. You don’t have to work there, but if you do, this is what you have to do. Saying that it creates a “monoculture” is like saying that soccer teams only hiring people who can run this fast, jump this high, and kick the ball this hard get to be on the team. Sure, they might miss the occasional great talent who is unathletic but has some great gift for the game, but it’s not a bad set of hiring standards for the task at hand.
"What even is a good specification, or the Huaqiangbei test"

Those three points are pure gold!

I'd also add that you don't need to be working on a major project to benefit from standing back to writing it out first. Much of what I write is just a few pages, but it's still useful. It saves time overall, helps others get up-to-speed fast, and is fun!
I would like to add my own little anecdote. I first started to suspect that the iPad [1] might substantially change how we use and perceive computers after my sister told me that instead of magazines the hairdresser recently offered her an iPad. This is not some trendy big-town hairdresser [2], this happened in a small town in Germany. My sister loved being able to check Facebook [3] while her hair were cut.

There is just something different about the iPad [1], it has qualities which make it ideal for certain uses, uses for which laptops or netbooks are just not right.

[1] It’s just the iPad now but I’m sure there will be many similar devices in the future.

[2] Ok, maybe somewhat trendy: http://www.projecth.net/

[3] The privacy implications make me cringe. I suspect that many customers forget to log out, but that’s just a software problem and doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
If he refuses to analyze the data, his meta-analysis is worthless. He could point out that Assange seems to focus on corruption and violence perpetrated by the United States and its allies, and appears to shy from reporting on non-allied regimes. But the consequences might exceed indictment for rape.
Having it in Kindle format would have been nice (also, Instapaper needs some recursive option).
If this really is information that other countries don't know, then interested parties will make much better use of it than American citizens will.
I have to agree with Drew here.

I believe that our government should be more transparent and that its primary purpose is to serve its citizens.

That said many of the documents being leaked contain information that was exchanged under the assumption of privacy.

Just as it is sometimes necessary to defend anonymity on the Internet and a citizens right to privacy, the same right should be granted to many of these documents. The expectation of privacy in diplomacy can be an extremely powerful tool in creating honest and helpful dialogue.

It can also be abused and has been in certain instances to keep information from the public but I do not think it is the right of Wikileaks to rectify that mistake. Especially at the cost of individuals' safety or diplomatic relations.
While government secrets can be useful, I think that the lack of secrets is far less damaging than entrusting the government with determining what may or may not be kept secret.

So, yes. I do say that governments should have no secrets.
The question is: is it more trustworthy than your particular government? How will we know without Wikileaks to tell us when they're lying?
Or maybe our algorithms just aren't good enough.

Suppose you use bayesian filtering on the text surrounding the links to determine whether the connection is good or bad. With a reasonable amount of data it should be possible.

Note: I'm not an algorithms guy, I do business and strategy and a wee bit of programming, so maybe the example isn't good, but I thinkthe point is.
No kidding. What were the diplomats' reactions to Obama's being really truly elected? What last minute orders came down from the Bushies? What new !orders were issued by Obama's newbies?
I wonder if the Trump administration will enforce their executive order calling for maximized penalties for anyone damaging federal property [0]

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
always suprised to see the divergence of discourse on twitter vs HN. Twitter supports anonymity like HN.

top comment on HN is how this could be dangerous road to go down on.

top replies on twitter are how this doesn't go far enough.
I understand, truly, the value of free speech. And I understand that censorship is an incredibly dangerous road.

But yesterday, a mob breached the Capitol attempting to stop the peaceful transition of power. In no small part because of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

The people running these companies, I believe, have a moral responsibility to act.
No it’s not. The biases that infect the white supremacist are just one side of the extremist coin. You live on the other side of extremism. Unable to see the scientific truth past your idealism.

The white supremacist sees himself as superior even though reality says he clearly isn’t and you see everything as equal even though it clearly isn’t the case. The truth is far more complex. But that is irrelevant to you. You don’t care about the truth, you only care about defeating your enemy, the white supremacist.

Thats why your childish response tries to turn the whole topic into a war against your personal enemy. Almost no one here is a white supremacist so your statement serves no one other than yourself.

How can I say so much about your character without really knowing you? First off you made a huge logical error that reveals your biases.

IQ scores do not make white people look good. They make Asians look smart. If anything IQ scores will be utilized by Asian supremacists NOT white supremacists. It is totally illogical to think that IQ scores are used by white supremacists when Asians have Superior scores.

Yet here you are calling it a white supremacist dog whistle. Totally illogical. So why do you do it? Again the only reason here is because your statement serves your own personal biases. My advice to you is to to cast your biases aside and try to be more logical. You are a software engineer and logical thought is a required trait for all software engineers so it's good for you to train for this because clearly you lack training in this area.
So how is free and fair debate supposed to work? We may not want the government to decide who to silence, somewhere in the debate people have to say "I think what you just said is abhorrent and I'd rather you didn't say it in my café".

Problem is, there are only a handful of cafés in the world that everyone frequents and so there's an onus on the people who run them to make a lot of decisions about who gets to say what. Add to that the cafés don't live off selling coffee or having debates, they sell adverts for other things, which complicates their incentives.

I think it's awful how all the social media firms have waited until now to grow a spine, but I'm not sure what the best course would have been.
yeah, sounds like an impossible situation to get our of over there. also sounds like facebook have essentially monopolised messaging services in Mexio. I also read something similar about Brazil too.
I have Signal on Desktop and iOS. I would like to save my chat history to an external hard drive. How do I do that?
this is a very insightful comment, i'm going to bookmark your post and set a calendar event one year from now to come back a re-read it. I think you're exactly right.
> A house isn't just a thing you buy and sell

Oh great I'll take one of those. Maybe two. Where do I sign up?
I commend you for getting people to pay for a color theme - something that people think of as a freebie.

I would just think that no one would ever pay for this and not even try. You tried and you are succeeding. There's a lesson in that.
IF your company thinks spending $X on keeping you from unionizing is worth it then the benefit to you is at least ($X+1)/$num_workers to unionize.
Don't use Flutter lol.
> This work has led to some unfortunate misconceptions.

Agreed; the weaknesses reported should definitely not be taken to affect only convnets or only deep learning. Ian's "Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples" paper (linked by @Houshalter) should be required reading :).

> backpropagation allows us to efficiently compute (with dynamic programming, basically) exactly the single most damaging noise pattern out of all billions.

True. By using backprop, one can easily compute exact patterns of pixelwise noise to add to an image to produce arbitrary desired output changes. However, it's an important detail that that most of the images in the paper (all except the last section) were produced without knowledge of the weights of the network or by using backpropagation at all. This means a would-be-adversary need not have access to the complete model, only a method of running many examples through the network and checking the outputs.

> ...there are billion tiny noise patterns you could add to the input.

Perhaps because the CPPN fooling images were created in a different way (without using backprop), they seem to fool networks in a more robust way than one might think. Far from being a brittle addition of a very precise, pixelwise noise pattern, many fooling images are robust enough that their classification holds up even under rather severe distortions, such as using a cell phone camera to take a photo of the pdf displayed on a monitor and then running it through an AlexNet trained with a different random seed (photo cred: Dileep George):

http://s.yosinski.com/jetpac_digitalclock.jpg
http://s.yosinski.com/jetpac_greensnake.jpg
http://s.yosinski.com/jetpac_stethoscope.jpg

I thought this was surprising the first time I saw it.
>Sure if your a statistician then maybe Spreadsheet won't work as well for you as an Excel replacement.

We had a client send us a questionnaire in an Excel document with macros to compute various things based on our answers. You underestimate just how many things are done in Excel across companies (ie: you can't even force both side to switch to Libreoffice) that you would, probably, write a quick webpage for.
Was that before OKcupid was bought by Match?

They used to be very critical of other dating sites, but I think those posts have been removed, now that they're owned by Match.
The overall height, especially of the hood is also really important for the pedestrian's chances. if a sedan hits you, ideally you can roll over the top. if a truck or suv with enough size hits you, you go under it.
> but can anyone do any real work that you'd do in Excel? Let's be realistic

At my company, they do. They're not particularly tech-savvy users either.

> does no one care about design? LibreOffice's interface looks awful

Design isn't about looking pretty; it's about being usable. What's wrong with LibreOffice's and Gimp's design?
Most women I know would want to meet at a very public place for safety reasons. If a guy comes on hella strong and suggests you meet up at his house and doesn't understand why meeting at a public, neutral place is a good idea, that's a huge red flag.
Not trying to be rude, but genuinely curious: what else is there to discuss?

Is this a new record, or just a record for the price point? What was the previous record? Will this have a large effect on how the kernel is developed?

For what it's worth, I understand how hard it is to focus on a project when compile times get more than about thirty seconds.
It's a near-certainty that any tech giant is going to have patent issues with any other tech giant, not bundling the consequences of this with their open source licenses would be a good start.
I totally get this. Most people I know who are on welfare also describe themselves as "entrepreneurs". Unfortunately, they are not very good at making or saving money.
VR is going to be a real game-changer for entertainment, but it's AR that's going to change how we work and live our everyday lives. The key to making VR work is reducing lag, but this is even more important for AR, which carries additional complexity in sensing and blending the virtual with the real. The difficulty of sensing and correctly modelling the real world in real-time is immense. There aren't many companies I'd believe could make the leap directly to functional, useful AR, but MS's experience in gaming, with the Kinect, gives them a huge head-start. This could be the real deal!
Negatory, chief. The legal term “copyright infringement” was created precisely because bootlegging media could not meet the criteria for theft, (ie a pirate is not depriving someone else possession or ownership of the media that they copy).
It all started with a man that was selling copied cassette tapes of an Elvis Presley concert through an ad in the back of a magazine.
Are you trolling? Air fresheners don't work 24/7. The automated ones only spray at intervals so it is still going to smell bad for a little while.
> What about Linux (Android) being used as the prime spyware vector

To deal with that, consider using GNU/Linux phone Librem 5 recommended by the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide.

> and Linux being used for cloud lock-in

What do you want to discuss here? There is always a possibility to use tools for the evil. Non-free software is used for that, too (much more).
Academia moves too slow in adapting to innovation, at least in terms of practice oriented fields like engineering. It's well suited to teach and progress theory but horrible in terms of preparing practitioners.
Two-way would be nice too.
I guess that makes sense in-story, but if you want to take it seriously as an eye-witness account, it is somewhat problematic that deception-magic is used. They might just as well be under deception magic when they believe they recognize him, right?
Great article. The diversity in tech is definitely apparent in Oakland. Not just in employee demographics, but in how companies tend to think in a different manner.

The article mentions that start-ups in Oakland are driven by a social mission, and it's very true. I work at VSCO and we're based in Oakland. VSCO is not about giving likes, being popular, or generating money through ads. We are simply about empowering the community with the art of photography. Without trying to sound too self-righteous, I like to think that the tech companies coming to Oakland also share a sentiment of contributing to social causes bigger than themselves.
Many British publications only capitalize acronyms if you pronounce each letter separately http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent...
No, they're all on Google Compute Engine. (Which means one person could very easily stop this cold…)
This whole series is a very, very good read. Real voices from the finance world.