skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite get Facebook's position here. This guy demonstrated that all of Instagram's data is publicly accessible. By jerking him around, they are resting a lot of money on their belief that he's not a black hat hacker. If they were wrong, they're looking at the mother of all data leaks. Would they want to tread a least somewhat gently with him, instead of treating him like he is black hat? I mean, luckily for them he's not, but what if they were wrong?
> I can't believe people still bash JavaScript.

Can you believe you can satisfy every programmer out there with a single language? of course not. Why did you have to use all the languages you listed? Because some made sense in a specific context, other didn't.

> Also, testing with JS is amazing - Especially unit testing on Node.js. It lets you do stuff like redefine entire objects, properties or methods at runtime (for stubbing).
Also, JS is great for writing asynchronous logic.

Testing with Python is also amazing. It doesn't matter how amazing it is if I hate writing Python code.

No, the reality is that, in 5/10 years, javascript skills wont matter, only a good knowledge of the DOM and WebAPIs. In fact I'm pretty sure you'll see more opening for C++ developers on the front-end than Javascript ones.
This is awesome news!

As a NSW taxpayer, I'm not too sure I agree with the government doling out our taxpayers to compensate a dying/legacy industry, or tacking on $1 per Uber ride to pay them out but I suppose the taxi lobby is strong, and the government needs to pander to them.

I'm curious what licensing is required, will be good to hear more details.
Not good ones!
laws aside, USD2500 for all that data? hmmm, is our data that cheap?
> It's pretty straightforward. Both tend towards the Big Binary Blackbox Blob.

A huge part of the project is to ensure decompilation to asm.js
Cool idea, some great products there.

But why would pre-order only items be included in this time-sensitive list?

As a side note, I am shocked at how non-HN-user-friendly most of these sites are. I saw an insane number of tracking scripts blocked and most were rendered completely unusable without JS.
They said they did rotate the keys.
Just what I want, a 900KiB configure file that doesn't even work. I'm looking at you lame! And then a make process that doesn't STFU!
Related reading: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=...
Reduced GABAergic Action in the Autistic Brain
Thanks for putting this together. I peruse HN pretty much everyday and I haven't heard of half of these products. Pretty neat.
Now we just need monthly subscription boxes of personalized skymall and as-seen-on-tv ridiculousness, delivered and assembled by independent contractors
Pre-crime arrives in the UK: Crowdsourced facial recognition
The USAF Will Have Enlisted Pilots for the First Time Since WWII, Flying Drones
> I'm looking forward to WebGL ads that eat battery life with excessive shaders.

As opposed to flash ads that eat battery life and bring the browser to its knees?
Supposedly he was using his synack email address, why would they assume he worked independently?
That does seem insane -- why not just make a cocoa app for it?
ok, but what I read from a file is that bytes or "something".

When save some "things" I read from utf16 file and want to save them to Postgresql who's client encoding is set to utf8, what do I do?
> very basic things like sleeping, cooking or buying clothes

Thanks, you just made me feel like a Neanderthal.
Apple releases new HTTP/2 based Push Notification API
Of course. But with all else being equal, would a manager be more likely to promote a scientist who believes in a higher power or a religiously agnostic scientist? The former implies anti-scientific thought.
Just buy an electric skillet for a fraction of the cost and then use one of the many cooking apps out there which already prompt you with times, etc. An electric skillet has the benefit that it will keep precise temperature without any action on your part. Pantelligent seems to have reinvented an expensive solution for a problem that was solved over half a century ago:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=electric+skillet+vintage
China takes this issue seriously because it has government censorship of many kinds of publications, and in international law, maps matter. (A map can indicate acquiescence to another country's territorial claim, so dictatorships that have territorial disputes with other countries censor maps.) There have been submissions to Hacker News about this issue before, and I have commented on those submissions from this standpoint of international law.[1][2] See also the Reuters news story "China tightens rules on maps amid territorial disputes"[3] (16 December 2015).

In countries that are not dictatorships, national officials may announce that they refuse to accept certain territorial claims, and simply make sure that officially published maps support the country's view of territorial claims. That can include a country publishing maps that say "boundary representations are not necessarily authoritative" when the country's government has no settled opinion on territorial disputes regarded by other countries. If you have access to maps published by a variety of official and nonofficial publishers, you can compare for yourself how different publishers treat the issue of territorial claims in the South China Sea (the example that is prominent in today's article) or in the border region of Nicaragua and Costa Rica (the earlier example cited below) or in Palestine (the later example cited below). You could also look up Kashmir on a lot of different maps and look for border details on those maps.

[1] 1387 days ago, comments to submission "The First Google Maps War" from the opinion page of the New York Times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3645784#up_3645845

[2] 958 days ago, comments to submission "Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine' from the BBC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651456#up_5651804

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-maps-idUSKBN0TZ1AR20...
Correct me if I am wrong, but wont this result in the mines being placed in the front more often than not? sort(function() { return math.rand() - .5; }) doesnt result in a truely random distribution.
Pencil manufacturers can't comply, either, because their pencils are not equipped with sensors and antennas. None of the mass-market writing instruments do.

To extend the analogy, the government might order all manufacturers to build sensors and antennas into every writing instrument. That might work, until people start smuggling cheaper, foreign-made, non-spying pens into the country.
"On the other hand, streaming shows — by which here I mean the original series that Netflix, Amazon and their ilk release all at once, in full seasons — are more than simply TV series as we’ve known them."

The unacknowledged: the costs of transmission, have been passed from TV stations/producers/advertisers to the consumer.
I would have to differ on this. I only ride uber in Sydney since I got back from o/s in Jan-2015. I would say, once the locals have ridden uber (i have introduced family and friends on the service), no one that i know prefers taxis.
It was my (Jessica Livingston) idea. I'm giving one of these as a gift to someone who will love it and am simply printing a picture of it. Not as great as the real thing on Christmas Day for sure, but I'm hoping they'll still be pleased.
PowerDNS extension scripting with mruby
More likely it will be alcohol legislation unfortunately...
You asserted:

> When [scientists] perform comprehensive experiments then, depending on the results, [they] finally know what the truth is.

and contrasted that with the beliefs of religious people. Your assertion isn't quite true, and I explained why.

Then you told me off for (a) not reading your fine comment; (b) irrelevance; and (c) having poor apparel recommendations.

I concede the last point gracefully. Have a great weekend.
Why ? Let's face facts here : humans can't do a lot of things. There are so many useful things that AIs could do, from space exploration to cheap food and housing, to deep sea operations that humans can never hope to do.

General AI will be a massive advance for our economy, for our culture, for science, for military, for ...

A lot of things humans want to do but can't, effectively because of human body and/or brain limitations. From efficiently building buildings, taking risks that our bodies effectively don't allow for (e.g. being abandoned on Mars with little equipment would be a bit harsh, but not catastrophic, for an AI. And bringing him back means a data transmission), doing things that our bodies don't allow for (like building buildings/houses/... using huge premade blocks quickly. Humans can do it, but if we had hands the size of cars we could build those houses like we build lego houses). Defense/policing. An AI would not be risking life nor limb. An AI could just walk into the middle of a firefight, and worst case, he/she needs to be restored from backup)

All of these things sound like very good things. And yes, in the very long term AIs will replace humans. But in the very long term the human species is dead anyway. Does it really matter that much if we get replaced by a subspecies (best case scenario), another species, or AI ? Plus, you won't experience that, nor will your great-great-great-great grandchildren. At some point it doesn't matter anymore.
Amazon in talks to lease 20 cargo planes
Aerial Photos Reveal Vanished Ghost Streets
Shouldn't the headline be "It's a New Medium"? The article mentions shows spanning many different genres and it's emphasizing the change in storytelling due to the new format.

This is not meant as criticism of the submitter but rather of the NYTimes headline writer.
Is gathering up the credentials of employees not also a privacy violation? At this point you're going way beyond proving that you have access to something - you're actively trying to probe and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I don't (personally) believe that this is acceptable behaviour under a white hat program.
Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1.

I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look beautiful and not be annoying in the countless ways it seems to be currently :)
Intelligent Energy Hydrogen Fuel Cells Significantly Extend Drone Flight Time
The government has sold taxi licensed/medallions for the right to provide this service. If this were real estate eminent domain would apply and the owners would be compensated. It seems consistent to compensate existing license holders.
Making all pilots officers is pretty done for perks to be able to attract exceptional individuals and compensate them accordingly since most armed forces have pretty strict compensation bands which are based on rank and deployment conditions.

Pilot training is long, many air forces train pilots for 3-5 years, and depending on the air force it self may require the candidates to be over a certain age and with a bachelors degree (some air forces integrate the degree with the training plan it self).

This means that the prospective pilots would be naturally older and would be less inclined into getting and staying in their position as they would most likely be supporting a family by the time they get their wings.

So making all pilots go through officer training pretty much allows you to naturally set them on a career path with the appropriate compensation.

Since operating drones require substantially less training than becoming a pilot you will get younger recruits, if you recruit your drone pilots at 18 then by the time they finish basic and advanced training and are ready to fly a drone they will probably not have turned 19 yet.

Training drone pilots is also substantially cheaper when you invest 5 years and several million $ in training some one you will have to go out of your way to make sure that they'll stick around.
When it takes maybe 6 months and the cost of a flight sim an a joystick to achieve the same you wouldn't care as much if they continue to serve after their initial contract / national service period has ended.
If a million people were driving cars twice daily with no passengers, and now they have the option to fill their cars, then I'd say the former situation was "the bottom" for them. So it depends who your archetypal "driver" is -- the /true/ average driver, or the career driver.

Maybe there's no room for a career driver anymore.

fwiw, I don't like Uber the company, but this dynamic will continually resurface, with or without them.
> I want the candidate to plan

Then ask for that, and assess the plan, otherwise you're expecting Carnac the Magnificent: http://raganwald.com/2015/05/08/carnac-the-magnificent.html
Obviously on this topic (and many others), you can't expect everyone in the government to have the same interest in secure communications that we have. However, this conversation worries me. It appears that the EFF and Access Now talked extensively about their position. According to them they called the debate on the topic "laughable". Which is true but...

The response was: "While they seemed well aware of our concerns about the technical infeasibility of inserting backdoors, they didn’t necessarily share them." In other words, the White House was already aware of the EFF's position -- so the talking at length will not result in the White House having any new insights.

If you believe that negotiation with the other side will be fruitful you need to find out what you need to say to make the other side understand. "Your position is laughable" followed by a repetition of something they are already ignoring is not going to help.

I would much rather the EFF had a conversation with the White House and said absolutely nothing. I'd love it if the EFF's report of the conversation consisted of a list of misconceptions that the white house has about encryption and a strategy for correcting those misconceptions. Right now their strategy seems to be, "Write in and tell them how stupid they are". While it might be true, it's not going to change any minds.

So my question: Why does the White House not share the concern about the technical infeasibility of inserting backdoors? Have they been told otherwise by someone they trust more? If so, why do they trust the other party more? Are they just closing their eyes and hoping that science will eventually triumph? In either case, how do we educate them otherwise? Is there some way to demonstrate the infeasibility in a way that will attract their attention?

I'm happy the EFF exists, but this seems to have been a giant waste of an opportunity (We complained very loudly and they politely ignored us).
Asking HN users to be civil defends nothing except civility.

There's a relevant general point here though. Reactions like this, and many others in this thread, are reflexive. That's really not what this site is for. Good comments for HN aren't reflexive, they're reflective. Practicing that distinction is the most important thing for being a contributor here, and it's orthogonal to one's actual views.
It's standard wording for something like this even if they had 100% evidence of absence.
Try looking at the source of Google.com and saying all it's doing in under a minute.

You could look at the APIs it's using - why is it calling XMLHttpRequest or looking at the user's cookies? - but you can do the same with binaries, you just have to use a tool, e.g. 'nm -D <binary>' shows you the external functions the program calls.

I held the same position until circa 2008 (?), when JS minifying became truly widespread; nowadays, I think that battle is already lost.
Personally I haven't looked into the AIG fields above, however it appears "obvious" that layered "hybrid" approaches will be fundamentally more useful than either deep learning or expert systems alone. In that context the article doesn't seem light on details to me since it's primarily advocating layered approaches and I think there are only limited set of layered approaches that would be useful. Why would a practicioner in AI not agree with a hybrid approach being necessary is what I'm wondering. Are there arguments supported with theory or evidence to the contrary?

The definition from Wang makes sense. How does AIG differ from other methods? For example, I noticed this article on Bayesian Program Learning a few days ago which IMHO takes a layered approach and is based on human learning models. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723485] Interestingly there were no comments on it.

Could you post refs to some the relevant publications your published opinions? I'm curious about your approach!
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Yes, exactly this. Without escalating an RCE, how would he have been able to expose this absolutely huge flaw? The initial report was inconsequential, but this seems like at the very least a much more than $2500 bug. If things like this are considered "unethical" it kind of makes finding million dollar bugs in a bug bounty close to impossible.
In the future, all recording devices will be stream their feeds through a content approval system before being accessible for replay. Any unapproved reproductions of sounds or video captured will be replaced by approved promotional videos or ads featuring the starving children of burnt out artists, ruined by the lack of DRM.

Owning a tripod, any analog media player, and any non approved recording device, will be considered a felony, punishable by a full screen video add sent to your mandatory content approved augmented reality headset every 30 seconds to slowly pay off the lawyer fees and damages. At 0.1 cents per ad, the strongest will only survive a few hundred thousand before going completely insane.
I think this is a side effect of the revocation of the old 1024-bit VeriSign Class 3 root.
Your link is wrong and returns 404. Even https://mosermichael.github.io/ returns 404. Can you prove the correct link?
Go 1.6 Beta 1 is released
> scheme is not powerfull either

In what sense is Scheme not powerful? It has TCO, syntax-rules, call/cc, etc.

Of course, all of those are things scheme has that JavaScript doesn't.
I'm not sure anyone really understands how the law works when it comes to bug bounty programs and legal retaliation by companies. Is there any case law precedent yet?
> "I asked to take it in C# but they refused and said it's not about specific language knowledge."

So.. "This isnt about a specific language, but you must use the ones we tell you!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683627
mmmm if you only knew
Practical limitations can be overcome.

At first it was artificial light sources, then glasses, then machines speeding up calculation and now machines that do calculations themselves.

There is certainly a practical limit of what a human mind can grasp but that limit is far away and with tools, it is even much farther.

We won't run out on difficult problems to solve anytime soon.
Maybe, but I feel that the answer to such biases is to introspect and understand your potential prejudgements, and then not let them specifically sway you. Anyway, the accepted alternative, an entirely meritocratic process, is fraught with issues too, as the playing field is inegalitarian to begin with -- so those candidates who might be the victims of unfair biases could already be at a disadvantage since they might not have received the privileges that preempt meritocratic success. It is assumed that relying totally on a candidate's coding ability somehow avoids the issue of bias and works to mend our diversity issues in this sector, but it actually merely plays into the entrenched state of things. I don't have a solution, but this entire problem-set is certainly deserving of more nuanced thought.
Well, not really.

It's not like the government took away the rights of taxi drivers to drive people around. It's just that there's a new entrant now, and they actually need to compete.

In fact, taxi medallion prices went down post-2011 (before Uber) because the government released more, because consumers (i.e. everyday people) complained about crazy prices. You don't see the government compensating people there.

It would be like if the government handed out licenses to build 1000 apartments.

Then, they realised, jeez, house prices are crazy, we better issue more licenses. Or we better re-zone to allow super-high density apartments, or allow people to sub-let apartment (cause in this make-believe world, that wasn't possibly before).

Would the original 1000 apartment owners be clamoring for government handouts?
The Mast Brothers fooled the world into overpaying for crappy hipster chocolate
Yeah, good highlight. My skim seems to indicate it means working memory too. That's a different concept than the kind of memory lapses most people associate with Alzheimer's--more about holding information in your head long enough to process in a subsequent step or file in long-term storage.

It's one of the major deficits in ADHD, to the extent that clarifies what the effects might be.
> I'm not too sure I agree with the government doling out our taxpayers to compensate a dying/legacy industry

This is a tradition in Australia. When our law creates property rights that shouldn't exist, and people spend money in good faith to buy those rights, we compensate them when we fix the law and their property stops existing. We did the same thing with water licences: it wasn't the farmers' fault that the legislatures stuffed up and sold them water that didn't exist.

Of course, a lot of the money paid for taxi licences was speculation. When people speculate on bad laws staying in force, then lobby the government to ensure that they do, those people deserve to lose their money. Twenty thousand dollars per licence sounds like a good balance to me.
Devils, Deals and the DEA
You would get a better selection of movies straight from Youtube if they didn't use DRM.

The studios are pushing it, and they have no interest, even disinterest, in the success of Netflix, so there's no reason for them to budge.

For Netflix, it's DRM or don't exist, with everything in between being pretty shitty (including the full DRM stance that they're at now).

I can see that you don't like DRM, but wishing a company didn't exist due to lack of compromise is just silly.

Every time I go full "anti DRM", I just think back to how everybody I knew purchased a Dreamcast, but non ever purchased a game. It's easy to have a strong stance of not supporting businesses that you don't like. It's much more difficult, as a society, to support businesses that you do like when you don't have to, especially when your demographic tends to be more towards the youth who is rarely monetarily stable and easily justifies their actions by "everyone else is doing it".
Bkuhn: Fighting for Social Justice Is a Major Contribution to Society
I'm not sure that's fair. Clang has excellent warnings, but it's not as if no progress was made on that front between 1979 and 2007.
Can you please define "this"?
I think you're right. While downloading a VM doesn't make sense for a small site, for many cases it could. There are also fairly compact VMs for some languages. And WebAssembly will make the VM download substantially smaller.
Why call the CEO and not his Mom?
Being fed ads was already a form of paying for those costs; they simply changed the currency. Besides, cable had already done that.

Also, in many developed countries, you can watch streaming video with the lowest connection plan, so unless you'd give up on Internet access if not for video streaming, the marginal cost is zero.