skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For someone interested in neural networks, deep learning and stuff like that, is this a useful course? Also, how valuable a skill-set is R?
The problem wasn't that they were trusting GET params it's that they forgot that they weren't the only ones capable of sending requests. If you wrote a website that could old be accessed by people/computers you trust then trusting the parameters is no problem.

TL;DR It's not how the data is sent but where it came from.
As someone in a similar space, I work part time on data consulting contracts. I spend 10 to 20 hours a week working for clients, usually at the end of the week, trying to cram it all in before the billing cut off. Then I go back to spending all week working on my project.
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Excellent response JC!

I like what I do. Save eating, exercising, resting and socializing. I always can't wait to get back to work.

Find purpose and stop counting.
I've never ran out of space on a smartphone, and I've never checked how much I'm using. So this phone isn't for me right? I can't see anything else it has going for it...
I don't understand what is the good from passing from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3.
Here's one proposal for an alternative to monad transformers for Haskell: http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/
The mutation from 4 to 5 is enourmous.
> It says that it is impossible for complex features such as wings, eyes etc to evolve because they will require a series of mutations that do not individually confer any evolutionary advantage.

This is just false. Evolutionary theory requires no such thing and there's plenty evidence that each step towards the evolution of things like the eye provides marginal advantage to the organism even though it's not fully an eye.
Is it not possible to learn python on the iMac?
How long does this sabbatical last? I suspect not as long as the academic term of the same name (which is one full year for every seven years of work).
And yet why only Spotify? In fact, the article makes no mention of it and the word "Spotify" only appears in the title.

Perhaps I should be thankful that this wasn't a blatant advert for Spotify. But you have to ask...
The only way this could possibly make sense is if it was somehow unsafe to walk near the schools...e.g. they are on major throughways without sidewalks. Otherwise how is walking from school to a nearby home different from walking home from a bus stop? Or do they stop at every house and verify the child actually enters?
Indeed, the old local maxima problem. Why doesn't evolution get stuck in local maxima; what pushes it out of those valleys and into the mountains? Why have all our evolution simulations gotten stuck?

Luckily machine learning came along and has shown empirically that the solution is to increase the number of dimensions. Our tiny neural nets of the 90s also got stuck in local maxima. But when we could finally make huge and deep networks, the problem more or less disappeared.

I believe this is the real solution to the local maxima problem in evolution. Real evolution works with a massive number of parameters, which means exploration of the problem space doesn't get stuck in local maxima, just as it doesn't in Deep Learning. When the number of tweakable parameters outstrips the dimensionality of the problem space then there is always some angle pointing up out of the valleys.

This is a different, and I think more general way of expressing the typical counterargument which you explained. "There is always some angle pointing up" is a more general way of saying "just one mutation is usually enough to create a functional prototype".
Can this impact Kodi side-loading in tvOS?! I don't know if it relies on any 'private framework'
There is not much here about deep learning or neural networks, but from a "how to measure and rate models" perspective, it is very helpful. I consider R to be a very useful skill-set. I have used it for solving many issues, both in and out of stats.
As someone who writes CL for fun, I think all "let's get the core language (any language) API right this time" efforts are ultimately doomed to perdition and entropy.

I'd rather have an API that's not quite perfect, but has had much thought and wisdom put into it, and is as stable as continents, than an API that's always iterating towards some unreachable Platonic idea of perfection.

As an aside, the author has also created a -- likely more agreeable -- spin off library that's a simpler interface to cl-ppcre: https://github.com/fukamachi/re21
No "tangling" is needed, just someone to file the suit. I would be surprised if there was not a lawyer in the whole state interested in working on it at a reduced cost due to the subject. The local ACLU chapter would be a good place to look.
The capability we have today is working on fully mapped, well lit, dry roads. No one has an automatic car that could navigate in heavy snow/rain or unmapped terrain. There's very few ideas how to tackle it, unless we equip every road in some sort of trackers. I fully believe that in short time we will have all sorts of very clever cruise control systems which are essentially like Tesla Autopilot, maybe a bit more versatile. But fully autonomous vehicles? I stand by my statement that they are very far away for commercial distribution, unless you plan on selling them in Florida only, or only for use on private land.
The huge disasters have been happening, repeatedly, for years.

There are botnets in the millions running on supposedly "Norton-protected" PCs.

No one cares. It's not a problem the people in a position to do anything about even understand.
PTO and sick days... "dentist appointments" etc.

I will say I stay away from companies that want you to do an extensive try out before there's an offer in place. I had a consulting gig that was like 20 hours of work to "see how I solved problems" I politely declined and told them I couldn't do it without a consulting fee.

Also stay away from any jobs posted on HireArt, their whole process is to have you do a massive "try out" before you even get through the recruiter to the company. Terrible process, massive waste of time.

Good luck in your search!
> I do find myself wondering what the next social step will be

We're already in its midst - currently, we're calling it "extended adolescence", and it encompasses ages 18-25ish.
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If/when that happens, most likely there will be way less cars on the roads.
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People are already stuffing themselves with junk food while sitting in cars. Yes, even while driving - polls show that as many as half of drivers regularly eat while driving.
Ask HN: Microsoft lied about upgradability of our computer, how mad should we be?
My father's Microsoft Windows 8 computer had the Windows 10 upgrade prompt as expected but when followed it said it wasn't possible to upgrade because his Nvidia graphics (GeForce 7025/ NVIDIA nForce 630a) was "unable to run Windows 10" and that Nvidia was responsible for not making it "compatible".

Note they didn't say it was just "not supported" but that it was _unable_ to run and was incompatible.

An example image of the error is shown here, http://ivanrf.com/en/nvidia-compatibility-issue-with-windows-10/ (nvidia-compatibility-windows-10-01-en.jpg).

Note Microsoft in their misleading error message give a handy link allowing you to purchase a new computer from them ... how, er, convenient.

The only thing is that the computer is completely able to run Windows 10. Running the upgrade using a Microsoft tool that was easily downloaded the computer ran, even without driver upgrade (albeit with reduced graphics) and after a simple graphics driver update (with an Nvidia.com downloaded installer) was fully working.

Clearly Microsoft lied in saying that the upgrade was impossible, their tool did it perfectly.

What should the response to this sort of fraud be? I wonder how many users like my father assumed they had to get a new computer to get Windows 10?
The personal versions are what get saddled with "Value Add-Ons" like password managers/website screening with colorful icons/blah blah bullshit bullshit. Most enterprise anti-virus software concentrates on finding viruses and maintaining compliance with whatever policies you have. They are also usually managed by different divisions with different goals.

(Whether or not anti-virus at all is effective is another debate entirely.)
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The scientific article makes a far from convincing case for the purported importance of this mutation. The journal its published in (eLife) is not exactly known for high-quality comparative genomics / molecular evolution work either. The Washington Post article is misleading at best. Hyperbole.
> I feel like the Open Source community could do itself a lot of favors by avoiding this kind of tone.

As someone who regularly discloses vulnerabilities in open source software, I respectfully disagree with this statement. You are, of course, welcome to have your own opinion.
Dear God, I can see it now. The traffic becoming even more nightmarish as 280 is filled with cars aimlessly driving about for their masters. A child looks out into the now fume free parking lot that is the 101 merge and sees nothing but empty cars, bumper to bumper, for miles. She asks her mother, why are all the ghosts driving their cars today mummy? But her mother just left the girl, in lieu of a babysitter, in the car while she got her hair did.
One common counterargument I ever head when talking to evolutionists is that some mutations are linked to others, so a mutation can spread through the population even though it does not confer any evolutionary advantage because it genetically linked to another evolution somewhere else that indeed confer advantage.

What do you think of it? Is it serious enough? Because I think there is an obvious flaw in it, the question: why are these mutations linked?
> Any number bigger than, say 100.000 years is just the same as infinity, regarding to time.

Tell that to a geologist or an astrophysicist and you'll be laughed out of the room. There's plenty of evidence of timescales in the millions and billions of years.
Be careful not to turn them off of computers. One of the reasons I was so interested in technology growing up was because of games. I started playing them, then wondered how to write them. My Nintendo was constantly in pieces around my room, and still worked :)

I begged for a computer and finally got a C64. Typing basic was soooo slow going then...
All seven pieces ("tetrads", from "tetromino") in standard tetris have 4 blocks, not 5.
Eh, anyone here by chance who knows how to watch the Avengers movies and the Men in Black movies in Germany? They don't appear in the catalog, but searching shows "Based on The Avengers" and the other MCU films, for example.
I made choose your own adventure games using Hypercard on the only Macintosh in the school in like, third or fourth grade. I'm an outlier though, I know. I also played a lot of Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and Gertrude's Secrets at school.
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But it was specifically said that providing those answeres was a benefit.
Where does it say that? On-board SRAM would be very strange, as it's incredibly expensive and not at all performant compared to DRAM.
I don't get how you can take its claim that a "hybrid command line" is becoming popular. For one it only seemed like a different kind of user were introduced to computers without being exposed to command lines.
There's another HN post just today, on auto-driving in snow! So we are close.
Funny to think that way back in 2004, when we were deploying Kannel at a telco to do value-added services, we did a little chat service that worked a lot like... Twitter.
During time when Sergei and Larry wrote code for Google. It won't have been possible for them to survive without huge costs, if not using gnu tools and many gpl utilities, bsd code is their but not as much at that time. Moreover using bsd and then earning by making it closed source is even worse without contributing back. Indeed for that matter even today they won't survive without gpl code. The amount of gpl code used within Google compared to the code they contributed back you will still see a huge gap.
14 by Peter Clines is my all time favorite, I also love anything narrated by Ray Porter, he's the best narrator. The Power of the Dog is a great one about the Mexican drug cartels, very gripping. Ready Player One is a classic. Rob Lowe's autobiography Stories I only Tell my Friends was surprisingly good!

Heft by Liz Moore was a sneaky fantastic listen, great character development and compelling story.
The difference between writing software (including machine learning, but a ton of useful software has to lunge data of some sort of another) and learning programming reminds me of the difference between learning medicine in school and then learning how to actually practice medicine in residency.
I find the number of young-earth creationists in disguise here very surprising.
Did the original accompanying text say that each step was a single mutation, or is this just general evolution of sight?
because OP refers to libertarians who are not necessarily conservative.
These fashion and lifestyle companies are making giving back the new black
“The best way for kids to learn to be hackers is on their hardware, free from school or parental controls“

That's why I think the Raspberry Pi et al are so important, they're disposable yet fully capable pieces of hardware that kids can hack on.
I doubt this. I saw Snapchat and thought "okay, this is it, this is what getting old is. There's a program I can't figure out".

Then I asked a 16-year-old niece if she finds it intuitive, and, no, she was as baffled by it as I am. So it's just bad UX. I've spent the three minutes acquainting myself with it since, so now I can use it fine, but yeah, it's definitely bad UX.
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If all you have is a compilation of facts, then yes, people can copy the data points one by one, alter the format slightly, and have a wholly separate work that has no legally recognized parentage. This is why you don't see a lot of plain collections of facts for sale.

As far as I know, Google Maps is protected from scripts copying the data points out only by its Terms of Use, which the CFAA basically eval()s into law.

Google Maps won't disappear overnight because they do provide a substantial amount of beneficial proprietary data, like the illustrations and private aerial/satellite imagery (imagery from sources like NASA is public domain), their scripts that allow easy embedding, the ability to connect to one's Google account, and so forth. But there is no legal protection of the raw data points used to build Google Maps as far as I know.

Let me reiterate that I'm not a lawyer and no one should do anything based on my posts.
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> What should the response to this sort of fraud be?

I really wouldn't assume it was fraud. Margins aren't that amazing on hardware, and it's very possible that Microsoft has more of an interest in having your father on Win 10 than selling him a new laptop. In fact, Microsoft's hardware business is supposedly just to make sure that flagship Windows machines exist, not to make Microsoft the premier vendor or have the largest market share.

This false negative was probably A) a bug, B) a design flaw in the installer that told you whether the PC could run Win 10, or C) Microsoft covering their asses.

In the past, Microsoft caught tons of flak for driver issues when people upgraded to Windows Vista. They've probably learned their lesson on that one.
Its not at all clear that the bar is that high. Humans that fail to meet that bar spectacularly are let on the road every day by the millions.

Its more an economic issue than a moral/technical one.
Readable text format at a much lower level of abstraction than javascript currently is at right now. Different is different.

It's not so much about spying on your computer and gaining extra access, it's obvious (short of implementation bugs) that you won't gain any additional privileges that way.

But what you will gain is a way to obfuscate extremely well "report such and such to some webserver" in a way that's difficult to detect. For example, you can hide the entropy inside of a fairly innocent looking URL and without a lot of digging you won't know what that entropy represents. It can look like just a plain jane resource request and the webserver can serve up the exact same resource no matter what the entropy is, but also record that entropy for a back-channel way of exfiltrating information from your browser.

Finally, it opens up a whole new world of compiler attack. Right now the attacks against wordpress involve writing some information into a file and making it look "weird but I don't know what it does so I'd better not touch it".

What happens when breaking into a wordpress install means that you can execute the equivalent of the untraceable compiler login exploit insertion attack? You can't perform this attack without 1) a compiler and 2) a low level target that's hard to understand. You don't even need to perform a stage 3 attack which is the most sophisticated, a stage 2 would do fine.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Counter what? Should people not be allowed to cross the road?!
I imagine you'd be able to pick from a few options as far as car type goes and then get a driverless car of that type. Once you knew which cars you like, then you could set it as a default option or something. Driverless cars would eliminate your concern about most of the controls anyway.

It'd be easy enough to have a car seat option as Uber does: https://newsroom.uber.com/nyc/uberfamilyfor-parents-on-the-g...

Anyway, interesting to see your list of annoyances from real world usage of a car sharing service!
That's not what the chart in the article shows
I don't understand the comparison with the neural nets of the 90s and deep learning today. There was _human intelligence_ operating on the transition between these two technologies. How does evolution compare to this?

(honest question, because I probably didn't get the angle and problem space thing)
It wasn't displaced, it delegated|dispatched|forked and is having a hell of a time piecing the puzzle and getting rid of the excess.
Better: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Diagram_...
This does not undermine your point, but perhaps we also miss some failures i.e.: the NSA does something evil and we never hear about it. Certainly they are not incented to let everyone know.
> - My phone is already connected to the sound system, and ready to take calls, with contacts and built-in SatNav already knowing my home and work.

> - I'm familiar with all controls. How to set all lighting, interval wipers, and know how to set the climate control, and quickly defog.

These things can be synchronized with the cloud... you just authenticate at the car and it will download and apply your preferences. IIRC 7er BMWs have this, based on the key (e.g. one for the man, one for the wife and one for the son).
> If $THEORY is correct, then under the same conditions, I will observe $OUTCOME

Let me rephrase this as:

Assuming $THEORY is correct, then under the same conditions, I will observe $OUTCOME

A theory is an assumption.
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I know, I actually read that article :-)
It says that the car could navigate the snow-covered road based on the data it collected from the same street when it wasn't covered in snow. So.....I get the idea, but that's not really "working in snow".
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it is impossible for complex features such as wings, eyes etc to evolve because they will require a series of mutations that do not individually confer any evolutionary advantage

The answer to this proposition is that the fact we aren't aware of the evolutionary advantages which were obtained en route doesn't mean there weren't any.

The feathered wing is very complex and it won't fly until it has fully evolved, for example -- but as we learned quite recently, feathers evolved (and were an evolutionary advantage) because dinosaurs needed to stay warm. Birds can fly because a feather which is efficient at capturing air and keeping a giant lizard warm also turns out to be very efficient at pushing air and keeping a proto-avian aloft.
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The University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)[15] is generally recognized as world's first electronic computer that ran a stored program—an event that occurred on 21 June 1948.[16][17] However the SSEM was not regarded as a full-fledged computer, but more a proof of concept predecessor to the Manchester Mark 1 computer, which was first put to research work in April 1949. On 6 May 1949 the EDSAC in Cambridge ran its first program, making it arguably "the first complete and fully operational regular electronic digital stored-program computer".[18] It is sometimes claimed that the IBM SSEC, operational in January 1948, was the first stored-program computer;[19] this claim is controversial, not least because of the hierarchical memory system of the SSEC, and because some aspects of its operations, like access to relays or tape drives, were determined by plugging.[20]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer
I'm afraid that puts him at least 10-20 years behind the curve.

Still not someone whose words on the subject should be dismissed lightly, of course.
Check Reddit Netflix subreddit there are a bunch of ways of getting the full catalog there is a neat software which makes it seamless although a regular vpn is just as good
The conclusion absolutely follows from the assumption. But there are two questions.

1. Is that a reasonable assumption to make? (In a surprisingly wide variety of cases, yes. But not always.)

2. How do we update the conclusion of the argument given a variety of other information that we have available to us? For example we have a great deal of information about the US system of government, current political state, potential threats, and so on.
It's mostly popular because of the huge budgets (plus a state of extremely low musical and cultural education of the population).

All other things (e.g. marketing budgets) being equal, much better music could be in the top 10. In the 60s and 70s, before MTV and tightly controlled playlist radios, it was.
BGR linkbait aside, the amount of positive attention Peach has been receiving is suspicious, even for a startup from a founder of a successful startup.

Meerkat is a surprisingly good comparison.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying all knowledge is just a bunch of assumptions. This raises the question, how do you know that statement is true? On that view, you can only reasonably say, "I've assumed it." The belief that all knowledge is based on assumptions is just a rephrasing of the postmodern view that there is no objective truth (is that true?).

I don't want to sound like I'm attacking you here, but our beliefs about knowledge and truth are very consequential. If we cannot know anything aside from our assumptions, then all assumptions are equally valid (since we can't know which to discard). This naturally leads to situations where, e.g., racism is assumed to be good by one person, assumed to be bad by another, and there is no way we can determine who's right. In fact, "right" and "wrong" become meaningless because they're only assumptions, as does all language.
Am I missing something? This looks like they bundled a subset of Slack's features and called it a social network.

Typing "GIF," for instance, lets users search for the appropriate media to post

Seems a lot like /giphy
From 1 to 2 you get directionality. 2 to 3 improves directionality a great deal (it's basically a continuum from depression to pinhole eye).
A giant heavy doona is pretty comfortable itself though!