skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because a SaaS call center product has to have three phone connections ongoing per each call center agent (versus the traditional two in an on-premise model)"

Can someone please clarify why 3 and 2 connections are needed in each case?
Hopefully this will be the perfect replacement for Pygments in Jekyll..?
Well, in that sort of situation you'd probably just get stabbed.
Because they can accelerate arbitrary algorithms anywhere from a percentage to 50x increase often for a fraction of the energy and clock rate?

I'd guess more so when sequential part is on top tier CPU and accelerator is on its NOC.
This is probably a dumb question, but how do I get this to work in OS X? Bash says it cannot execute binary file despite chmod +x /path/to/mailer - thanks.
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Out of the following two outcomes:

1. Tell the company, maybe it takes another week to get it fully fixed
2. Tell users, most of whom will never hear about it, while hackers will

The first still seems better. As long as Google isn't pulling the extension and uninstalling it from all chrome users, it seems like disclosure is only hurting most users.
holey moley that looks cool! I've been getting into postgres more and would love a way to use something like psql from Emacs.
Iirc, part of the last climate summit included a multi-billion dollar climate fund for projects in developing countries.
I disagree. Assume a law was passed in 2012 that made it mandatory for every citizen to vote.

Would it have produced an outcome that didn't involve Obama or Romney?

In 2016, will it produce an outcome that doesn't involve Clinton, Sanders, or Trump?

And in any case, we are worse off.

Democracy is a tool, not a solution.

The solution lies in philosophy, in morality.

An immoral society elects immoral leaders because it cannot collectively discriminate between right and wrong.

There's no easy way out of this, but if there's any way, it doesn't involve passing more laws.
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https://robovm.com supports Java, Scala, Kotlin and Clojure on iOS, with apps on the app store. PaparVM has J2ME class library support only, so it's going to be tough to get anything big running. RoboVM is based on Android's runtime class library.
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Also, H1B workers get paid the same as local workers... So if you buy the allegation that wages are being depressed by H1B workers, why don't you take a peek at the bulletin board of your break room

The idea usually is that the presence of an H1B means that someone local does not exist to do the job, which means that a company would otherwise have to pay more than the going rate to poach someone else from another company. Then the company losing the employee has to pay more to poach from somewhere else, and so on, until eventually everyone who is suitable for such a position is making more.

The fact that H1Bs are paid what the locals are paid is exactly the issue people have when they talk about wage suppression. It is in much the same vein as when Apple/Google/et al. agreed to not steal each others employees. It is not like those employees were exactly hurting for compensation, but they theoretically could have made more without that treaty between companies.
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Completely and entirely agree! It's a non-contest that Ember is the best out of all of these js frameworks. Want to get serious work done AND be able to onboard new devs? Ember is the framework you want.

You wanted to read the README's of several different tools and glue them together? Sorry Ember isn't for you. Ember makes the dumb choices for you and let's you focus on your work.

Unfortunately I'm diving deep into Meteor these past couple of months, so I haven't used it since August but if you have an API and you want to build a client app, give Ember a shot. Meteor is also extremely cohesive and integrates stupidly well with React. (It'll ruin using React with other tools for you).
Yes. Consistency guarantees in the face of distributed failure is a popular topic. (CAP theorem, etc). The whole "cloud native" (12 factor apps, microservices, immutable or disposable infrastructure) movement is also trying to describe ways to simplify most codebases so that you keep as much of the system as stateless/ephemeral as possible.

What is interesting is that , for the stateful/persistent data processing, most large scale systems are rejecting transaction boundaries as we know them (fully serializable isolation and consistently) for relaxed consistency. There are some good articles and papers on how programming needs to change to enable better self healing / "recoverable to a known state" behaviour, such as CRDTs.
I work for a company that has to maintain HIPAA compliance, and we're all utterly horrified by Win10.
This means that a person named Piotr Jastrzebski created a commit in February. This is a different commit based on that one (not in the sense of revision ancestry, but in the sense of rewrite history): this commit is the N-th rewrite of Piotr's Jasterbski's commit, for some N > 0, and the rewriter ("committer") is Narayan Kamath.

The rewrite can have different content: for instance, it can be altered to merge against a different parent.

An example of a rewrite is a simple cherry-pick (e.g. from one branch to another).

All these things are commits. The initial authoring is a commit, and this latest rewrite by a different person is a commit.
Hell yes! Intel chips are about to get exciting again. SGI put FPGA's on nodes connected to its NUMA interconnect with great results. Intel will likely put it on its network on chip with more bandwidth and integration while pushing latency down further. 90's era tools that automatically partitioned an app between a CPU and FPGA can be revived now once Intel knocks out those obstacles that held them back.

Combine that with OSS developments by Clifford Wolf and Synflow in synthesis that can be connected to OSS FPGA tools to show even more potential here. Exciting time in HW field.
I'd accept the claim that rates are higher due to risk, given that's normally how loans work, except that student loan debt is virtually impossible to get out of, unlike any other form of debt.

As a result, its a bit disingenuous to claim "that's not how loans work outside of Sunday school" when they're already a very unique class of debt.
Exactly.

You don't know if you have something to hide.

Either because you don't know how an irrational enemy (in case govt) will interpret your actions, so you want to minimize their ability to see your actions, or you don't know what will happen in the future. Because everything is recorded these days, you don't know if in the future you might want to hide something you did today. Say, you like to drink hibiscus tea and wear blue shoes. But it turns out in the future members of some horrible terrorist group will be drinking hibiscus tea and wearing blue shoes. Then you'd be a target all of the sudden.

EDIT: This similar to how police always can search your car if they want to -- they call the K-9 unit. The handler says "find boy" or does some other trained jesture or word, dog signals, now there is a probable cause to search your vehicle. It is very hard to prove that the dog was conditioned to signal on command and hard to refute (cop's word vs yours). So that is why K-9 units are very popular with some police departments. They provide ambiguity and plausable pretext for searches.
Where is this magic FPGA that takes an arbitrary algorithm and accelerates it 50x?

FPGAs have a nice niche for certain applications, and they deserve more prominence, better tooling and widespread use, but they are not magic.
I have been an EE for 20 years. I think one of the things driving it is the increase in productivity. I can do a lot more with my RF/Microwave design software than 20 years ago, so I am now probably doing the work of two people.

There is also consolidation with complexity. How many 5G chipsets do you need when 95% of the phone market is held by two manufacturers? Hardware is expensive to develop and takes time. Investors/companies want cheap and fast, and are unwilling to fund R&D.
Phage therapy is also present in Poland. There is a research centre in Wroclaw, they produce and send experimental samples upon request. The numbers look very nice, although it's still experimental - formal clinical trials have not been completed.

https://www.iitd.pan.wroc.pl/en/OTF/index.html
It sounds like you're saying he's above criticism for some reason related to fame? That doesn't make sense to me.

If there are details I don't know about that explain it, fine (but it doesn't look like that from what I do see) but arguments over ethics shouldn't be won by appealing to authority.

I might place more stock in your point here if he'd actually given a reason and acknowledge that he's opening up users to exploits, and say it's worth it because of X. As is it doesn't look thought out at all.
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This is I think exactly correct.

It's always funny to see people suggest that security companies should somehow be better at secure code than other companies, as if narrowing the set intersection of possible programmers from "capable programmers" to "capable programmers who can quickly write lots of different file format parsers" somehow makes it easier to find "programmers with an intuitive knack for secure programming".

No. The more specialized your application domain, the harder it usually gets to source programmers who are also incredibly diligent.

Security companies as a general rule have poorer code quality than other companies.
my grandfather would turn over in his grave if he saw my Chinese handwriting too :)
Definitely find a copy of Impro by Keith Johnstone. Most likely the source of the poster's improv games. Really a lot of great insight about status and how to play status like a game.
My understanding (from H1B coworkers and HR managers in previous jobs) was that the H1B is transferable to another company IF the other company agrees to sponsor it, and there's a fair amount of paperwork, hassle, and uncertainty to effect the transfer. That has to translate into at least a small salary discrepancy between H1B holders and permanent-resident employees.
I'm suggesting that the implication you're generating all over this thread that (a) there are hard-and-fast rules for disclosure and (b) Tavis Ormandy has somehow broken them is probably built on something other than firsthand knowledge of how vulnerability research works --- to say nothing of firsthand knowledge of how this particular vulnerability was handled.
Where are you seeing that? I only see a reference to https://github.com/aws/aws-cli
I'm not holding my breath. Even if they decide to do it, I imagine it would take a solid 5 years to flush all the crap out of the pipeline.
I'd love to see someone make a device that's sort of the opposite of this.

Compact in-ear selective audio filtering. For example, block all noises except human voice.

Or a simple noise attenuation mode that can be controlled from a smartphone.
I have a simple solution. Let H1Bs enter based on the salary their employee is paying them than anything else. Forget about degree, job description etc. Also this is how the bidding system would work.

1. Let salaries be classified in tiers. 100K 110K 120K etc. These tiers are classified and published only after an year.
2. Let companies bid for every employee based on how valuable the employee is. say a company bids for X at $120K p.a.
2. Sort the bids in descending level. Each company will then have to pay their employee a salary that is at least as much as the lowest salary in that tier.
maybe I went too far with the cultural jokes compared to typical papers written on machine learning- I meant no harm, hopefully I didn't offend too many!

I love living in Japan, and everything about Japanese culture (even Japanese company culture..), sometimes I just poke a little fun at it..
No, it actually wouldn't. We're not talking about the Juarez Cartel here, we're talking about 2 white people from Kansas with an extremely weak lead. If the lead was accurate, which it wasn't, it would've been 2 aging hippies, probably unarmed. Maaaaaaybe somoene with a handgun stashed in the house. Definitely not a paramilitary force of gangsters looking to get into a shootout.

The real reason for the SWAT raid is because SWAT raids are cool. Look at the gear. Look at the guns. Looks like fun. In fact, it looks like more fun than anything in the average policeman's day job. Ever seen a coder pick the more fun, cooler approach rather than the more appropriate, boring tool that gets the job done with a minimum of fuss?
I optimistic about such issue. I will say software is good occupation while everything is blooming, but you can be more secure during the down time if you are an EE. Furthermore, you can train yourself to be a good software developer if you next to a computer and have internet access(of course you need dedication), but you cannot be a good EE without knowing how to operate a very expensive equipment(i.e PNA, MOCVD, etc). Disclaimer: I am a software developer with a background in EE
I attempted to find a company I know and 6 searches later I still couldn't find it. The first two attempts I had part of the name wrong, I.e. x resources instead of x energy, but I corrected that, continued, and still couldn't find it even though it came back with dozens of results.

Google got it on the first attempt even using the wrong name.

Too much data with poor search algorithms can be worse than a phonebook.
I reproduced an English handwriting generation experiment in the previou post.

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/12/handwriting-generation-demo...
Does this mean no more DVM?
There are lot of illegal things that happen with H1B that prevent the above. For example H4 spouse can not work but then some company agrees to sponsor H1B under the condition that no payslips will be given and hence you can not transfer the visa. This is same as slavery except that the choice otherwise is to be on H4 which does not let you earn a penny but be a burden.
That may not even be before printing. Chances are the paper version even already is in stores.
That's pretty comprehensive. Thanks!

I only have access to Windows 10 Pro and would like to turn off all personalization options. All I want my operating system to do is support the applications I want to run.

I've found some of the Powershell scripts that do things like uninstall the XBox music app (or whatever it's called), but after an update it just reappears. It's very frustrating.
Cool, I wonder how difficult it would be to extract all of the stroke data. LINE would probably not put the data on github..
That is a perfectly respectable and intellectually coherent rationale for not disclosing bugs you find prior to the availability of their patches.

However, on the off chance that you are somehow (despite it being 2015) new to the Great Disclosure Debate, you should be aware that there are other respectable and intellectually coherent rationales for other disclosure schedules, and that you are vanishingly unlikely to be the Internet Message Board Commenter That The Prophets Foretold Would Resolve The Disclosure Debate.

So while it's one thing to use this incident to give voice to your own reasoning about how disclosure should be handled, it's another thing entirely to moralize about it --- in this case, repetitively --- with a tone suggesting that the debate has somehow been settled, and you've somehow found out about that before the rest of us.

Your opinions about vulnerability research also get a lot more interesting if you can tell us about your own VR/xdev experience. Because, like it or not, and I know from your comments thus far that you do not like this, if Tavis Ormandy said "new rule: you can disclose 15 seconds after discovery, patch or no patch, so long as you yourself are wearing a pirate eye patch with a large googly eye glued to it", a pretty big swath of the security research community would accept that as The New Rule.
Certainly true. Also worth remembering that only a small fraction of those 9 digits made it into his pocket. Most of it went to his investors (I know John IRL).
At least she made the news. I know of an acquintance of a neighbour from many years ago, who was working as a technitian for DNA crime testing lab, which also did paternity testing, rape kits, etc. That individual was selling their services to the highest bidder. I imagine over the years, rapists, killers, deadbeat dads and all kind of horrible criminals got away while that person acquired a nice fortune. When I think of an example of a horrible example of a human being, the lowest of the low, that particular person comes to mind.
They do, but UPS still has to sort it, right?

Amazon can sort at the origin -- make products roll out of the distribution centers in whatever order needed to fill the plane, skipping the time & cost.
"We can't afford it" as a rhetorical device in public policy cannot possibly die a slow or painful enough death. Economic "realities" were created by political power and they can (often should) be unmade by political power.

We can afford to give every American child a university education, but to do so we'd need to raise taxes or cut other spending, and we aren't willing to do either of those things. Saying that we can't afford it pretends it's out of our collective control, not our responsibility, which is a plain lie. We choose not to. We make a choice that the defense sector getting absolutely everything it can dream of is more important. We make a choice that subsidizing employers' payroll expenses (keeping their minimum wage workers alive on welfare) so that they can sustain their profit margins is more important.

I'd argue these are wrong choices, but the politicians saying so don't poll too well. They are simply the choices we've made.

You're right though, expecting students to pay for it themselves is unreasonable. But it ought to be a burden shared by society, not restricted to the rich. Elementary education too was once a luxury for the children of aristocrats; that we've expanded it is progress.
I know people that draw two circles, one on top of the other.
It's really absurd that we've outsourced the Fourth Amendment to dogs.
Not if you're sitting around waiting for data stored on some DB or distributed file system. FPGAs don't do much to address that. However there are certainly cases where you could design very lean systems where you could win with an FPGA, but my guess is the average developer wont be any better at that than they are on the CPU side developing tight high performance code.
IT/CS industry is the major consumer of H1B visas. IT/CS is also the industry that relies mostly on outsourcing. Guess how healthy this industry is, guess which computer major pays the most salary in USA today and so on and also the consumers are happiest with the laptops, iphones, apps and Uber.

Now compare it with the heavily regulated industry of Healthcare. No one likes paying hospital bills in USA, almost everyone works on wafer thin margins and a constant fear of law-suites. Only the doctors and that too only few of them manage to earn a fortune but everyone else is worse off. Far more importantly USA has very inefficient and expensive healthcare system.
>In Germany, your track is based on grades and tests

Germany is also not militantly opposed to the idea of public investment in public welfare. Your track has to be decided based on how much money your parents have because a majority of American voters don't want their money going to help other people's children.
It's dated 2014, which explains the omission of Seveneves.
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Google does have a policy not to release within 90 days unless a patch is released, and this does seem to be pointing out a vulnerability that hasn't been patched. What am I getting wrong? Am I misunderstanding something?

Separately, even if they had no such policy or it was an independent researcher, I don't think discussing the ethics of disclosure should be off bounds by someone not directly involved.
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Please, it's a podunk middle-America state, full of ignorance and local Republican governments who are control freaks when it comes to this sort of thing. This is precisely the expected outcome of having such a state and local government. That's why I don't live there anymore.

And it's not just simple ignorance, it's prideful ignorance, and active resentment of people who question the local politics, status quo, religion, and anyone liberal.

And the judge in the case? George H.W. Bush appointed him. So yeah, this story is not a surprise to me at all.

Now in defense of podunk, they're incentivized by our militaristic culture to behave this way. Not merely the violence, but also the money and arms the Feds have thrown at them in pursuit of "drugs" without respect to the drugs' relative risk factors. And these dense states who pay less in taxes than they take in are more than happy to lie through their teeth like in this story to get more Federal drug war resources.
Ok, but the "all-blue channel" is just the TV turning all the lights blue when it can't find a signal. Why bring a TV into it if you can just put up blue lights?
I'm no expert in Bayesian statistics, but I think the outcome would have been exactly the same if the law enforcement officers were trained statisticians:

1) Some percentage of people > 0% who buy hydroponic equipment are using it to illegally grow marijuana. Depending on what percentage you assign to this, this is reason enough to go to 2.

2) Some percentage of substances > 0% that test positive for THC are marijuana. Again, depending on what percentage you assign to this, this is enough reason to go to 3.

3) The house is searched, and the suspects are determined not to be growing marijuana.

The huge problem with Bayesian statistics, is that incredibly difficult to assign these probabilities objectively for many real world scenarios. How many people who purchase hydroponic equipment in Johnson County, Kentucky are growing marijuana? 1%? 50%? 90%? You could analyze this to death, and you'd never be able to put an exact number on it.
In no world should this be surprising. Law enforcement officials have always wanted all power possible to do their jobs. The job of the government is not to give into every demand that law enforcement puts on the table.
I'm excited about this too, but the article suggests this is an industry wide thing; IBM is doing this with Xilinx, Qualcomm is experimenting with ARM stuff (not sure how this is different than the Zynq), AMD also with Xilinx. If there is something that works here I'm sure Intel wont be the only game in town.
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Fpgas really only accelerate parallel workloads, sequential computation is done easier and just as good with a CPU.

Problem with massive parallelism becomes communication costs and spatial routing. Nothing is free.

More excited about commodity chips with 100s of cores. Rather have something that's easier to program with a faster dev cycle if I'm going to tackle parallelism.
Fails at the math example. Teams of mathematicians consistently come up with novel strategies and approaches to all sorts of problems and their collective intelligence does beat the intelligence of their smartest members. See http://polymathprojects.org/ for an example.
We're currently doing this internally for the dermatopathology lab that I work for