skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think machine learning vs Bayes vs sampling theory has much to do with the content of the article, which is more about causality than interpretations of probability.

> it's far more likely that coffee causes cancer if it can accurately predict it, even when you control for all other variables

I don't know about this: prediction is not equivalent to explanation in general. The "all the other variables" bit is also a bit of a kicker (what counts as "all"?) -- hence randomization, and, well, pretty much everything else the article discusses.
Just a friendly reminder that one Avocado (approx 200g) has 30 grammes of fat (44% of Daily recommended value). As yummy as they are to eat, there is a reason they are so yummy :)
I see two core problems with content addressable web:

* Dynamic content
* Private/sensitive information

Dynamic content on a distributed system poses rather hard challenges on data integrity - how would it be possible to ensure that different pieces of data you have are actually from the same [temporal] set? The very same HN - how would it be possible to see at least all the children of parent you want to comment to in a distributed manner? Anything I can come up with involves some sort of central dependency repository. Two child "commits" create branches in content tree. If these children are duplicates - we pick the better one and cast the other into abyss, the bigger challenge is how do we merge them together. This is a wide topic, so please excuse my brevity.

Private information is yet another rake to step on. I would really love my bank account information to remain accessible to me and the bank only. I don't even trust myself not to lose decryption keys, I don't trust long-term security of encryption algorithms (flaws could be found, brute forcing might become viable), therefore the information better stays in as little places as possible. Another end of this stick is authentication/authorization. Encryption does not work, because access rights change. What I'm authorized to view/do today might not be the same tomorrow. The only solution is not to serve the content in the first place. As for authentication I don't see a solution at all.

Although content addressable web is awesome solution for [more or less] static content - wikipedia, blogs, etc.
Wireless Security for Large Businesses Becoming an Important Issue
hackers attacking the wireless networks of Italian company Hacking Team, it is natural for large companies to be increasingly concerned with how to protect their wireless networks from external attack and intrusion. Because many companies are spending extremely large amounts of money in an effort to cover their wireless networks from outside intrusion or attack, it is necessary to spend money and make strong efforts to develop a wireless network solutions that can be installed in a central computer center and extend protection across the entire company, or systems of sensors spread across the area of a company’s installations in order to achieve the same protective effect.

But the fact is, even if wireless security solutions like WIPS are installed at great expense, it’s not easy to detect or prevent outside attacks or threats. This is because hackers and those who seek to expose information can use relatively simple methods, like trying to make a hotspot, to check the WIPS security and then use diversion methods to get around it. It is also difficult for large businesses to establish complete security due to the sheer number of wireless devices used on their facilities and the fact that strictly classifying all of their MAC addresses would be impossible or extremely impractical.

Because of these facts, now many of those charged with network security are instead looking at ways to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities, a more efficient and effective wireless security solution. This involves regular check-ups of the entire company’s wireless infrastructure in order to identify weak points and problems areas. This method is a far more efficient and accurate method of detecting problems or potential problems, and can be used along with sensors installed in areas where problems or vulnerabilities frequently arise. New developments will allow companies to inspect their wireless vulnerabilities regularly via drones as well.
Yes, but just because someone is an immigrant doesn't mean their motivation for working those jobs is to lift their family up. Immigrants can be selfish too. And they, too, can simply get addicted to money and power.
This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Fat good, carbs bad.
To be fair I don't understand either why the onboard computer was involved instead of just monitoring the tailpipe. But one could imagine a range of means to guess one is being tested ...

As for the firearm, let's imagine decommissioned firearms are all painted pink, because that tells other people the gun is completely safe. If you replace the pin in a pink gun (or paint your real gun pink) you are sending out fake and potentially lethal social signals. Regulation is not part of it. Convention is.

We have enforced minimum standards and behaviour on drivers and cars, because the social signals tell us something useful. And still morons drive too fast in souped up cars.

Edit: the analogy is not meant to imply you are the moron. It's a bit early in the morning
Because it is cool to do so. And it could confirm some data.

Actually, what would be a good reason NOT to do it ?
I know that writing code comments isn't in fashion at the moment, but both the original and the refactored code would have benefited from comments.
New PCB Chief Najam Sethi Wants Mohammad Amir Ban Reduced
My point!
Starship Troopers covered it pretty well

"Thirty years before the First Interstellar War, a meteorite from Klendathu System was deviated from its star during the Operation Fedmil, the first contact in Klendathu. Thirty years later, the meteorite reached and hit Earth, destroying Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, killing over 8.7 Million, and wounding a further 12.5 million."

"However, the United Citizen Federation claimed that the Arachnid launching a "Bug Meteor" by Bug Plasma from the Klendathu system towards Earth and destroyed the city of Buenos Aires."
>The appeal of microservices (much like functional programming) comes from imposing restrictions that make dangerous things harder.

It makes everything harder for no particularly good reason. Dangerous or otherwise.

Worse, if you do happen to create a distributed ball of mud you've almost certainly created a far bigger maintenance nightmare for yourself than if you created a "monolithic" ball of mud.
> But if you want to run Java on tablets, smartphones, or embedded devices, you'll pay.

WRONG! OpenJDK is 100% open source with absolutely no restrictions whatsoever[1]. Restrictions apply to other Java licensing methods, some of them may also be free as in beer but not as in speech.

> And do you really support the copyright of API SSO?

I think there are valid arguments either way (e.g., a book's TOC is copyrighted), but the use of an API for implementing a compatible version should be allowed regardless of the copyrightability issue.

But whatever your opinion is, blaming Oracle for this is hypocritical. Their goal wasn't to copyright their APIs. Their goal was to get Google to pay for Android, and they used whatever tool they could think of in their legal arsenal. Any other company would have done the same. And keep in mind -- they didn't do it on principle. Google directly attacked one of their major revenue streams -- licensing (under a non-GPL license) of Java for mobile devices. What Google did was highly unusual. I'm unaware of any such event in the past two decades or maybe even ever. It was Google who provoked Sun to sue them, and now they're trying to gain sympathy by crying over the weapon that happened to hit. But they knew Sun (or Oracle) would come after them, they started this, and now they want people to blame Oracle for any collateral damage.

The collateral damage, BTW, is quite small (although Google is also trying to inflate that to gain sympathy). The copyrightability ruling applies only to "classical" software APIs; not protocols; not REST APIs etc.. There is no way, no how, to interpret the ruling to apply to anything other than this kind of API (copyright cannot apply to anything that isn't fixed). Implementation of an API by software that does not comply with the API's license is rare. In addition, implementation of an API for the purpose of providing a compatible, competing product may still be fair use. But that, too, is not what Google did. Android does not comply with not a single one of Java's editions, so it was certainly not Google's intention to create a competing implementation that would allow Java programs to run unchanged.

[1]: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/214724
>To me, microservices address for many the continuing need for structures that hide complexity behind small, understandable interfaces.

You can have loosely coupled software with or without micro-services and you can have tightly coupled (ball of mud) software with or without micro-services.

All microservices do is multiply the problems caused by creating that ball of mud.

If you want to hide complexity behind small, understandable interfaces that's laudable goal, but it is not one that distributing your application across a network is going to help you with.
I don't have much to add, but if this is a serious consideration of yours, you might want to explore Quantopian and QuantConnect.
For anyone interested, I have been really interested in deep learning and have been using the following resources:

For image processing (CNN)
https://cs231n.github.io/

For natural language processing (RNN)
http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

I also found the following coursera helpful
https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
blocked in Oman as well.
But wait. What if it's not just an asteroid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig
Yeah, I've got it.

The bad idea was the resubmit the story at 10 PM GMT+2, I just woken up and see the overflow of new users registration emails. That's a good way to woke up, anyway.
NASA Project Apollo Archive
I find it quite shocking how openly this article boasts about violation of everyones' privacy regarding "network analysis" (in the section about intelligence gathering, "The latest kit").

Quotes: "thanks to advances in “network analysis” software", "fed with people’s e-mails, schooling, web surfing, phone calls, banking transactions and purchases, the programs try to work out who might be a terrorist." ...

And while US americans might claim that this is of course only allowed to be used on foreigners (ignoring evidence to the contrary that just abut every countries intelligence services seems to spy on everyone including their own citizens), they explicitly mention someone who traveled abroad, comes back, and then gets his phone records screened.
What is the outlook for Dubai’s real estate market?
>Microservices enable far more resiliency and scalability simply because you can deploy more of the ones that are critical or non performant.

You can horizontally scale and set up failovers for non-microservices too.

The main difference is that you need fewer load balancers, your architecture is simpler and you have fewer points of failure.
Does anyone typically eat cooked avocados?
I'm pretty sure there was a light that did this in Virginia. Possibly on Route 7 North of Reston. Long stretch of road with no intersections, and a light seemingly for no purpose.
I really wish we have psychohistory as a science someday.
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I don't think, since they existed for years, they are probably stuck with pre-built images to spin-up.
However, being a sysadmin, I've never been a customer of such services.

The idea came while looking for interesting docker applications published on docker hub, and we saw that a lot of people was published game server images.
> I can't think up any other motivation other than greed or addiction to money/power.

A lot of people have been conditioned to achieve. In my foolish youth I spent a few years doing tech for financial traders and a number of my colleagues were former Olympic athletes. It was natural for them to jump into another demanding and competitive field.

Other people I worked with were indeed addicts of various sorts. Finance is great for workaholics, adrenaline junkies, and thoroughly broken people. The intensity and the pace leave you little time or energy to think about the things inside you that you're dodging. And the money lets you paper over the holes in your life.

I agree it's a struggle to find compassion for people pulling down a lot of money. But I think it's worth the struggle. If there were fewer fucked up people in the world, we'd have a smaller, saner financial industry.
It's on the same sort of humorous level as something Douglas Adams might write.
Yep. I think one reason religions spread and became common is that humanity simply didn't know any better. Today we would diagnose supernatural experiences as mental disorders. Back then, they were "witnessing miracles" or "conversing with God".
I'm glad it works for you, but $10/portion is crazy to me. I cook from scratch and average around $5/portion, and it adds up. (I cook in bulk a little more than Blue Apron wants you to, though, as it's mostly cooking for me.)
Is that delivered? Or just the cost of the product with an additional delivery/service/other charge added on top?
Ask HN: What are some things done on paper that can be replaced with software?
In your industry, what are some inefficiencies that you noticed which are currently done on paper or some outdated technology that could be potentially improved by using better software?
We are able to dynamically provision new VM on public cloud providers.

We currently support AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, potentially anyone who as a decent remote API for creating new VM.

However, the cloud is put there mainly as eye-catching.
A huge part of the problem is that we taught users the wrong thing when the web was in its infancy. The lesson was "Look for the padlock" to check your connection is securely running over SSL. That was, and is, only half the story. You can't just defend against a man-in-the-middle attack and assume everything else is secure. We should have been telling users only to share the bare minimum of their data, to use encryption, to use systems that enable them to revoke access to their data (although that would be a very hard problem now, let alone in 2003).

Ideally we should persuade the web industry to adopt a system for users to check how their data is being stored, who has access, and any relevant code should be opened for an audit by an independent expert group once a website hits a critical mass of users.

That's probably a somewhat unattainable goal though.
In 2004, South Korea self-reported enrichment of uranium to weapon grade using laser isotope separation. It seems that nobody suspected it before self-reporting. This was a blatant NPT violation, but IAEA decided against pursuing formal charge, due to political considerations.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_research_...
As opposed to [for example] mining/milling/refinement/etc operations, which are also generally highly centralised?
Thats why its open source. you can fork a copy improve on it and then send a pull request.
Thanks for expressing this better than I could.
You say it's location-based, buuuuut... I entered in nothing but my out-of-area phone number (read: no location) and I was texted a price for some avocados. One hour later I got a completely unprompted text with a different price for the same number of avocados.

Otherwise, is it possible to get same-day delivery of these? I can easily get avocados in general for way cheaper at Costco, but getting ripe ones last-minute is always a time-consuming challenge...
This sort of treatment is not distant history. It all boils down to the concept that women were their husband's literal property. A husband being bossed around by his wife was akin to a farmer being bossed around by his horse. And if you think treating people as legal property was abolished alongside slavery, think again.

"Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20th century; according to the jurist and historian James Bryce, writing in 1901, wife sales were still occasionally taking place during his time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_%28English_custom...
> deck of talking points

I can find https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150724/15501631756/smoki... (and a bunch of other articles about the same emails) but that doesn't seem to have the deck you're referring to. Any chance you can dig out a link?
Hey, that's a really cool idea! Using an asteroid as its own propellant.
That doesn't address the point at all, because the meaning is in the thought you expressed, not a fixed phrase. Consider the difference between "no one in their right mind would want a four-hour commute" vs. "no one in their right mind would marry you". The first is not a slur. The second very much is.
Let's say a mass-extinction causing space object hits Earth every 100 million years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event) . That gives us a 1e-8 chance of all 7e9 people being wiped out in one year. That's an average of 700 people killed every year if it were spread out in time.

Definitely a serious risk even if not the most pressing right now. It is however more dangerous than terrorism in America, and plenty of money is being spent on that!
Figure out what you want to eat: generally, people fall into a few habitual meals, even when they're eating out all the time.

Finding a recipe: skip this. It's a waste of time. I haven't followed a recipe for anything that wasn't a cake in the last 15 years.

Getting the ingredients: you have the causality reversed. You choose the meals based on what you have, not what you will have based on what meals you want.

Figure out the recipe: see point #2, but also, recipes are extremely standardized. It's your failure to have learned the language that is the problem.
Proper tablet / mobile support will come, at the moment is better if you look through a desktop computer.

At the moment we don't have yet published a pricing policy, we have just throw everything on the internet to learn if this is something interesting.

Just to have an idea, the total cost will be the cost of VM on the chosen public provider, plus a fee for us for the management service.

The problem on how to put custom mods isn't solved yet, but we are thinking about giving FTP access to the game data folder, or just package the mods in the base image if they are famous enough.

At the moment everything is on Azure since we got a bizspark plus offer and we are not paying anything for it.

Please, don't ask what I think about Azure.
Location: Michigan

Remote: Would prefer onsite

Willing to relocate: Yes - Chicago / New York / EU

Technologies: Windows (Desktop/Server), Linux, Ruby, AWS, Jenkins, git, Apache, PeopleSoft

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw9-wAELR1zURmNKSXdFSHlzbnM...

Github: http://www.github.com/JJJJust

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jjjjust

Email: JJJJust@gmail.com
(I've been JJJJust at something all my life, no need to mangle.)

Self-taught IT jack of many trades who requires little hand holding. What I don't know, I download and learn... just like every other piece of tech I've ever used. Started with Windows 3.1, moved to RHEL in middle school.

Interested in DevOps, systems administration, and cyber security. Looking for a company to grow with -- one that is accepting of someone who got his CS education actually touching software instead of being lectured at in a classroom.
Blendle Is Up to Something Big
TCP/UDP/ICMP traffic over UDP tunneling
The House Is on Fire, the Fire Trucks Are on Fire, the Fire Is on Fire
From 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058277
Yeah! Has anyone actually investigated this or written about it??
More likely that these were just fun pictures, not intended to be very predictive. I mean, what else would explain the sea horses.

For what it's worth, the telegraph was in regular use by then and Morse code is a digital signal.
I have no problem with an honestly branded cheap frame. A counterfeit is completely different.
He was a disgusting person to have treated people this way. It's mildly annoying that he was also brilliant because people end up rationalizing his faults away.
At the moment we are using Chef, but behind CloudParty there is a 2+ yrs startup idea about creating a generic application marketplace.

If I will have the possibility to rewrite it from scratch today, I will be prefer using Ansible instead of chef-solo.
I saw an exhibit of da Vinci's sketchbooks which had many sketches of a horse rearing. The early sketches had the musculature of the horse's rump wrong; it showed human musculature. The later ones got it right. Since horses don't rear often, it probably took some time to see enough examples to get this right.
Re your first question, see https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/40

In terms of revoking access rights, that's not really a problem unique to IPFS (cf. DRM)
This is fascinating but also tendentious. Is the information reliable? If not, is there a more accurate source?
Apollo 16 astronaut General Charlie Duke walks on the moon again with VR
All those factors can be addressed with a small hub motor and battery which together is much cheaper than the high-efficiency parts. If you set the power level right, you could even tune it to give the same reduction in effort for the rider.

Batteries and motors are more energy efficient than humans, so it's good from a more pure energy point of view too.
Statusify – An Open-Source Web Application Status App Written in Ruby on Rails
Good advertisement for Azure, I've discovered this incredibly low quota yesterday at 16 PM GMT+2, I've open a medium priority ticket to increase this quota, and they haven't replied to us yet (and we are also a bizspark plus partner).

I hope they fix this by the end of the day.
I have placemats, because I don't want hot plates on my nice table. But they don't require frequent cleaning. In any case they're plastic fake leather.
How to Report Bugs Effectively
“We use content-addressing so content can be decoupled from origin servers, and instead, can be stored permanently. "

Why should I believe that claim? What are the incentives for storing my data in the network? As far as I understand, no incentivization is done for running the network. That's why I wouldn't trust it to store anything but a trivial amount of data.
Want to be overweight? Sleep late at night
1. Cost per month per instance size, depending on the cloud provider, plus a fee for us, paid upfront.

2. We are thinking about giving FTP access to the game data folder.
> Once a country has a nuclear bomb or two, there is not much other governments can do to stop it from making more, says Ilan Goldenberg, a former head of the Iran team at the Pentagon. Plenty of states want such capabilities.

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

The unstated implication is that weapons and military power are for the US, and its allies. Others can't have any.

The brazen arrogance of that idea is probably among the chief reasons the US is so vehemently and passionately disliked throughout the world.

What precisely is wrong with other states acquiring nuclear weapons, beyond the fact that it threatens US power?
> If you use a bike for exercise, then you want it to be hard work.

Garbage equipment isn't inspiring or enjoyable. Nice frames and wheels are nice to use, and that gets a person out on the bike.
I don't think the difference between 1995 to 2005 and 2005 to 2015 is a factor of 10x. Looks pretty linear over the last 20 years.

The big innovations of this decade is the smartphone and Uber. Last decade had WiFi, ubiquitous internet, the cellphone. I think it's hard to say we moved forward 2005->2015 10x what we did 1995-2005.