skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he's smart he'll sell the company within the next 2 years and retire pretty nice on the exit. If that doesn't happen, I'd be shocked if they make it another 5 before total collapse.
And what's the point of doing anything if you're gonna die in 70 years anyways?

Just as most people can find value in doing things despite knowing that their ultimate life is rather short and finite, it's possible to extract value from doing research without trying to force it to be about a race surviving infinitely long.
CycleJS, which is based on RxJS and smaller than most of the "full blown" frameworks and SPAs, I think has a good approach to code organization in its MVI (Model-View-Intent) documentation:

http://cycle.js.org/model-view-intent.html

For a couple of projects I'm working on I've been slowly iterating towards one sort of deeper formalization of Cycle's MVI, but I haven't published any of that work yet.
Any difference with stackoverflow careers http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ ?
WebAssembly lets people write in C++, Ruby, Python, etc and for that code to work in the browser like Javascript does at the moment. Am I correct?
Google enlisted US Congress members it bankrolled to fight $6B EU antitrust case
Greenspan: America's H-1B visa program is 'too small'
All true. And the 'specific properties' you might need might not be cryptographic security. For example, I did some stuff recently in Javascript with procedural generation that made heavy use of random numbers. I used my own implementation of a mersenne twister, rather than Math.random, precisely so I could have predictable long term and cross-engine repeatability of the random number sequences generated based on the same seed.

So how good does the default random number routine in JavaScript really need to be?
So you'd want to make the UX more punitive for people who in the abstract don't want DRM but then go to Netflix and want it to work anyway when the choice is put in context.
I would definitely prefer not to have chemical compounds that haven't been demonstrated effective marketed as consumer medical products. I'm not sure how that connects to the thread, though.
He should stick to building self driving cars to spite musk.
Watch out, Chariot (https://www.ridechariot.com/) and Scoop (https://www.takescoop.com/)
If so, it's ironic, because it depicts the opposite. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be unisex toilets or just toilets for both sexes. I'd have to do a little digging.
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Nonetheless, being beat up in jail prior to being convicted of a crime (or after) isn't exactly part of what is supposed to be a fair judicial system.

We ought not to punish people for merely being accused of or indicted for a crime. Today it's this asshole, tomorrow it could be you.
> API-wise, in my humble experience, it's hell to deal with operations that are supposed to work on bit-streams but try to be smart and ask me for encodings of those - this is information I might not even have when building on those basic operations. The "oddities", how you call them, are the result of not over-abstracting the code to handle yet-unknown problems.

That's how C ended up as the security nightmare that it is. There are a lot of things you can do in C that you can't do in Python - you can reinterpret strings or floats as integers, you can subtract pointers from integers, you can write to random memory addresses.... Sometimes these things are useful, but most of the time they just lead to your program breaking in an unhelpful, nonobvious way.

Python is not that kind of language; it will go to some pains to help you not make mistakes. If you want to do bit-twiddling in Python there are APIs for it, and you could implement a "bit-level cat" using them, but it's never going to be the primary use case. Arguably there should be better support for accessing stdin/stdout in binary mode, but that would make it very easy to accidentally interleave text and binary output which would again result in (probably silent) corruption. (Writing a "binary cat" that concatenates two files of bytes would not lead to any of the problems in the linked article - it's only trying to use stdin/stdout that's causing the trouble in the link).
Err are you not a native English speaker "in the public interest" and "public interest" are very different things legally and socially.

You might want to look up what an inverse metaphor is before jumping in with both feet
Yes, all in the master plan!
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"Reserve yours for only 50% down,
$5,000 due upon delivery in 2016"

Wow. There has to be some pretty impressive stuff under the hood to have that price tag.
Haha cracking up over here. I went to West Point, was an officer, got an MBA and now I work at a big tech company. I must really suck.
It's not in me to bad mouth anyone anyway. I will definitely start looking A.S.A.P. I'm lucky because the layoff news isn't going to be disclosed for another couple of weeks so this gives me time to start the job hunt.
By that definition, no PRNGs are 'R' or 'G'.
So the issue for me was solved once I started to use bucket name instead of bucket id.

The latter was mentioned in online docs here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html but seems it's REALLY outdated.
This is front-end and should be fixed soon, literally working on it now. Thanks!
The casual carpools in the East Bay save a lot of time going into San Francisco because of the carpool lane. Very few people use them in the reverse direction (people take the bus instead) since there is no time saving. AC Transit hates this since they need to buy more buses for the evening commute. Curious to see if the same asymmetry happens with UberCommute.
there are people that are good, but either mislead or on the wrong path of some sort. in this case, the person lacks certain part of human-ness called empathy, which you call out; that's a clinical condition called sociopathy. you may notice the irony of invoking empathy on someone who doesn't have it and likely doesn't understand it, having never felt it. high functioning sociopaths can be a very serious danger to any society they're in and you have a great example here.
He should legitimately claim affluenza and see how that works for his defense. At least there is legal precedent.
seed = SHA256(seed + "reseed") may have fixed points, or short cycles.
Most private buses in the third world will do this.
Anyone who got that message from the film is completely oblivious to its point. A similar movie with a more extreme premise would be American Psycho. No one aspired to kill prostitutes after seeing that film, I have no idea why Wolf of Wall Street is different.
And he's just unfunny enough to make you think it's true.
When you realize that pretty much every disease and condition has similar papers written about it, you start to realize that the way we do medical research is pretty messed up.

Keep in mind that they still haven't really decided whether salt is bad for you or not, or what the real effects of dietary cholesterol are. Widespread conditions that should be much easier to research and understand than Alzheimer's are still very controversial.
For consortium chains, one possible solution is mining diversity which enforces round-robin mining/creation of blocks.

http://www.multichain.com/qa/13/multichain-blockchain-mining
The app store has a whole section of apps without IAPs. Unfortunately it lacks a method of try before buy, but someone at Apple is occasionally listening.
Containerd: a daemon to control runC
Try a soap stick like Erasmic or Arko. You rub the soap into your beard, then lather on your face. It's more convenient than lathering in a bowl and helps to lift the hair and fully coat it with lather. The soaps I mentioned are very cheap, but they're tallow based and give a very rich and oily lather.
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Some differences. Generally, it's been ported over to the main Stack Overflow site with Q&A now.
I've really tried to figure out how to use these methods properly, but in the end, the only successful strategy I've found essentially boils down to randomly sprinkling encodes and decodes throughout my code until errors stop happening. Half the time I end up using an encode where my interpretation of the documentation suggested a decode would be required, or vice versa. (This is in Python 2. I haven't tried Python 3 yet since I don't do much Python coding these days.)
I read this and don't think of Shkreli as a powder puff white guy, but as someone who probably needs to puff a little less of the white powder.
For those like me who prefer slides:

http://www.pvv.org/~oma/HistoryAndSpirit_NDC_Jun2015.pdf

They are good!
If this is true, fuck Intel. SGX had tons of promise. For example, you could run a provably secure Bitcoin mixer. Or any SaaS. MSR even published something to that effect (using SGX to run custom Hadoop jobs on their servers, without being able to see/modify your code).

Why would they gimp their platform so hard? It's not like enabling arbitrary use of SGX prevents DRM from using it.
What makes WebAssembly like Flash? Please elaborate.

You already can't just read someone's JavaScript code if they're using a transpiler or uglify or something like that, it looks like line noise and you basically have to go through a lot of work to reverse engineer it. WebAssembly is no worse.

The JavaScript environment on the web reminds me of the "walled gardens" that were Lisp machines back in the day, that force you to write code in Lisp, or if you wanted to write in C you would get end up with a bit of a nightmare on your hands. The Lisp machines were beautiful and integrated and the source code was everywhere, but they weren't for everybody, and in the end it was the diversity of Windows, Unix, and Mac OS that replaced them.

WebAssembly is Unix, JavaScript is a Lisp machine.
We are looking for product feedback & early testers who like to share content on social networks.
Facebook's PR team did zero outreach on the professional services page. It was live for a month before a Social Media Manager at Acodez IT Solutions stumbled on it and blogged about it.
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> The hard part is that we cannot define what is meaning - maybe we can't, I'm not sure

I think you've correctly identified the million dollar question in AI, and that's why I believe the major breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence won't come from scientific researchers. They might even come from PG's dreaded literary theory types, ones who are also talented programmers (...Lit theory being maybe the only field that thinks about structuralism, deconstruction, how meaning is manufactured, etc. - things outright dismissed by the scientific community as useless, but which still hold potential to produce a 'meaning algorithm').
Correct, we don't handle this case right now and one of the fields will get shadowed. We'll handle this more gracefully in the future; for now we recommend unique column names :-)
What about opengl and hardware inputs for instance? What kind of standard libraries will be available ?
Hmm, you are right, I read into it a bit too much.

Like I said, I felt insulted by you labelling my off-hand comment as "outrage", especially after you agreed that I was factually correct.

In hindsight I can see why you took offence to my original comment, but there is a massive difference in connotation between saying "I am offended" and "you are outraged". [0]

As I am a big proponent of free speech online, your implication of what I should and should not be able to say has been quite vexing to me, hence my annoyance. But I shouldn't have conflated that with whatever your views on trans women are.

[0] http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2164
Do you realize we got a civil war in Brazil, where 60k people die every year?
Nice username, bub!
Threes on the Web
What's the ratio of U.S. scientists to Korean scientists? 10:1 or so? I would expect to see 10x as many fraud cases in the U.S.

But there have been some doozies in Korean science, especially the stem cell guy who really embarrassed and shamed his country with the extent of deception he practiced. Brilliant, but also crazy.
Someone could write a "PyWasm". You could then ship your Python code as a wasm blob, but you'd have to include all of the standard library parts which you use, which are probably significant. The library could be a separate resource, so clients can cache it separately.
Start tweeting him. Nothing like tweet shaming to get a company motivated.
Maybe he could launch a GoFundMe like that guy that lost $100K on E*trade shorting stocks. Although either he or GoFundMe at least had the good conscience to delete that campaign...
There are long term plans for a GC rooting API that will let you interact with the JS heap and the DOM, yes.
You can run an actor system in Javascript of course and there are partial ports of Akka available, but are not meant for production use. I wouldn't use Akka in the browser though, as it's too heavy and I feel that the kind of tasks meant for Akka do not happen in the browser, though for Node.js that would be another story.
WebAssembly will (with a few small exceptions) use existing web APIs.
Naked shorting doesn't do much to exacerbate the downside of shorting a security. Even if you have borrowed the security, you still have an unlimited downside (i.e. the stock price _can_ go to infinity).

Naked shorting is more of a systemic problem because you can put downward pressure on a stock even when the market is not willing to sell at the price you are pretending to sell at. It also makes it hard to keep track of voting shares and you can see many more votes than actual shares.
Nice but I'm looking for something that could help me normalize my Excel files or something.
Yep. Here's an example of creating a private blockchain, issuing and sending assets (all in 90 seconds).

https://makebitcoingreatagain.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/creat...
Well,

It's not just training that implies utility maximization, basic internal processes of a neural network, such as back propagation, are based on the utility function maximization. Back propagation is an approach that allows the network to do gradient descent on a utility function by propagating errors through the system.[1] Back propagation has been the way that deep networks have become tunable and effective. Without a utility function, it's hard to see how one would tune them.

And it's hard to think of what "mean maximization" could be but maximizing a utility function based on meaning.

And while you can construct a neural network that learns from a single example, the nn framework is fundamentally based on learning from multiple examples so such a construct is mostly meaningless.

But the point about machine learning being limited by the training methodology is good, it's just I'm pretty sure you'd different algorithms if you used a different methodology, the existing algorithms are used specifically because they fit the methodology.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation
Free computing dies one circus show at a time.
The ride sharing industry is finally offering ride sharing! Seriously though, I never understood why we've been calling them 'ride sharing' apps, when they've essentially been drivers-for-hire.
read up on sociopathy, you'll likely change your mind.
Isn't Martin doing exactly what the rest of the pharma industrial complex is doing - extracting money from insurance companies by working the healthcare system? You can't personify the pharma industrial complex, Pfizer doesn't have a human face or name, but Martin does, so we direct our hatred of the complex at him. Am I wrong? Misplaced hatred does nobody any good, and none of the social media commentary I've seen has expressed a nuanced understanding of why singling out Martin is justified.
If Netflix is useful for discovery for you[1] then use them to find stuff, and torrent and playback with a decent player. You know, one that can fix audio levels, do proper subtitles, brightness, and move position of the video.

But hey, this is a big win for Mozilla/Firefox for the general population that likes putting up with Netflix.

1: Netflix is now basically telling me my taste sucks. 9/10 items it recommends or shows it says I'll rate 1/5. My theory is they're trynna burn user time on crap, as their 4-or-5-star catalog is too small.
Pyrobuf: A Cython Alternative to Google's Python Protobuf Library
No I didn't! The joke is valid. You must have been reading the King James version of my comment.
Does code written in WebAssembly have access to the DOM somehow? How will that work?
trademark database

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov

you should also check the state you live in. Secretary of state usually manages fictitious trade names

checking domain names is a good proxy also. if no one cared to buy xyz.com then they probably didn't trademark it, etc.
Building complex things is hard. Every tool breaks down when enough complexity is thrown at it.

The answer is to build less complex things.
I disagree with this form of dismissal as a rule.

If someone says something and then says "it was a joke", "it was a game", "I was just making a point", that doesn't cancel out the words and their impact - social atmosphere is not an intellectually pristine environment. You will change the atmosphere by yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and once it's done, there is no going back.

Likewise, if we dismiss someone's statement because "it was attention seeking", "they didn't really mean it", "something was misunderstood", "it's just part of the culture", that also doesn't cancel it out.

There are plenty of young, impressionable folks who latch on to ideas unthinkingly because they cannot take anything seriously at their age and level of maturity. But that is not usually the case with a 32-year-old adult like Shkreli, or people in hiphop culture, or people in actual street gangs.

Posturing language exists to make a claim to credibility. It serves a real purpose and is used in an instrumental way, for the purpose of conducting business on the terms of those who use it. The people who exploit this language the best contain in their personality some particular combination of motivation and lack of restraint, enabling their threats to be real to some degree.

Shkreli already displays such a personality among multiple facets. There is no reason to deny him the possibility of simply being a bad human being who is in need of careful monitoring by society.
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Check out Random123, an implementation of counter-based random number generators. It won best-of-conference at the ACM Supercomputing '11 conference.

Basically the idea is that you have a seed which is used as an encryption key, and then you encrypt a counter value to produce an output. Using the next counter value represents the second output from the generator, and so forth. Different seeds produce different output sequences. If you accept that the encryption algorithm works properly, then the output is uncorrelated for a given counter sequence or seed sequence (although seed sequences are slightly less random than counter sequences).

You don't need to store state, and you can seek to an arbitrary position in the PRNG stream in O(1) time simply by recomputing the output for the desired counter value. For non-cryptographic applications, you can derive the seed value from some unique property of your dataset (eg id number of an item being operated upon) and then you don't even need to explicitly store the key value.

On AES-NI compatible hardware the cryptographically strong varients outperform even crushable PRNGs like Mersenne Twister. These are a fantastic choice where you have that acceleration. Your computer is built to do it really fast, and this lets you utilize that.

They also offer non-cryptographic but crush-resistant variants that roughly double that performance. These algorithms parallelize really well and those advantages are even more significant on GPUs, where memory is at a premium and cryptographic acceleration is usually not available.

http://www.thesalmons.org/john/random123/papers/random123sc1...

http://www.thesalmons.org/john/random123/releases/1.06/docs/
And, apparently, smoking can actually prevent endometrial cancer; so yeah, no silver bullet for them all.

Note: Obviously I'm not advising anyone to smoke.
If you're on Linux i recommend 'Hosts-Update'[1], it's a bash script that generates a Host file from multiple sources:

http://adaway.org/hosts.txt
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/justdomains
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt

[1]: https://github.com/zant95/hosts-update
He doesn't understand why people hate him because he can't step down from his ego trip enough to honestly consider the consequences of his actions. Of all the maligned people in the news deserving of sympathy, an unrepentant Wall Street CEO gloating about profiting by unconscionable means shouldn't rise to consideration.

The reason there's so much antipathy lately toward white-collar criminals is backlash against judges and prosecutors being sympathetic and lenient toward their fellow clean-cut professionals. That antipathy has only manifested in angry protests and op-eds by the powerless, not the prosecutorial and judicial decisions that Shkreli is in the hands of now.

You could say we're all good guys on some kind of path. The typical third-world warlord is 'just being "successful" as it was always defined to him.'

Everyone should get society's best attempt at impartial justice and a compassionate, non-violent, and restorative treatment. But poor folks like Eric Garner are the ones who've been lacking this justice. Shkreli will probably get probation, a fine, and some community service like the handful of executives offered up after the last financial crisis.
Not talking about utilitarianism, I'm talking about social stability.
Correct, but who's to say where the investigation would have stopped if they didn't uncover anything at first? If he wasn't so publicly reviled, it may have been dropped if wrongdoing wasn't immediately uncovered. But because he was so out there in public and so publicly reviled, he may have insured that investigators kept looking at him until they did find something they could make stick.

I would note that I have no knowledge of the investigation beyond what's being reported (and only a cursory knowledge of that). I could be totally wrong. Maybe these charges were immediately obvious to investigators and it's just taken them almost a year to get their ducks in a row. I'm just theorizing here based on some historical knowledge of famous criminals and how they were eventually brought down (see my comments above on gangsters in the 20s and 30s).
Alternative hypothesis: the institutional arrangements in place since deregulation have made it exceptionally easy for such people to gain power.
The reaction toward the article about geohot is largely positive in his favor. I wish him no harm, not even a buzzkill, but his words appeal to the iPhone jailbreak generation more than Elon Musk. They hold him as a genius that can do anything for to liberate the people while Tesla is yet another Big Corp. that ask too much for false value. Proof: someone just said he did it in his garage.

So kudos to him for making Tesla react, yes they were a bit needy, but they had to realign things a bit.
Yeah, it can also be higher. Or lower. Or bad PRNG can give the same number every time. Flipping a biased coin can also produce bad randomness. I'm not going to mention every edge case in my comment ;-)

Computers are trying not to produce results different from fair coin flips.
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