skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may feel the security flaw is an obvious red flag that should have peoples' hair on fire but not everyone understands what you do.

Horseshit. Having a publically-exposed HTTP endpoint that enables arbitrary code execution is so goddamn stupid that even an intern with room-temperature intelligence should've been like "Hey, isn't this a possible vulnerability?"

I'm all for the principle of charity, but if you are in a field where people are counting on you not to be a rank amateur then you better step up your game and not be surprised if they call you out on your incompetence.

I'll humor a kid who screws up carving a turkey--but if they claim to be a neurosurgeon, they damned well better have a steady hand.
What's stopping us from applying this math to other things? Like, every baby at the 1 minute mark of their life. Shouldn't that mean that ~10% of all babies born dies within a minute and a half?

We can take this to extremes. At the 1 minute mark we have a 99% change of being in the latter 99% of their life (and thus a 99% chance of dying 99 minutes later). It's amazing how many of them beat these odds.
This is an unproven and somewhat controversial hypothesis.
Once you're no longer the underdog, your views on the world shift 180 degrees :) But worry not, everyone is riding a "sine wave" - Google comes, Google goes. There's some physics theory that applies here - entropy, I guess.
It doesn't follow that because many European physicians come from India that few European physicians would choose to work in the United States.
My spouse agrees with my logic, but occasionally has pangs of visceral concern. We discuss these issues like adults. :)
4. (Which is related to 2) Screening college graduates. By releasing "toy" versions of their stuff, they get professors and students using their tools for projects, so when they go to interview with Google, Google already has some data on whether they are using the tools well, and it drives those kids towards google so they can work on "the real thing". It's a great strategy.
Linux is just the kernel. Distributions should certify. And I do not see anyone going fot it. There is at least one distribution posix certified: Inspur K-UX.

The equivalence in linux land should be LSB, which many distributions certify to.
Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R
Colo your hardware, run open source software, and don't tie in to external services. Most mobile apps can be mobile-web optimized, as a fallback if App stores shut you out.

I like native apps mostly for their speed, but unless you're doing something requiring a sensor on the phone, mobile web can do it all.
I agree that tax breaks for non-profits net benefit the public, but I also can see how a non-profit hording tens of billions in savings might not be in the public's interest and arguably is a form of profit. Perhaps the definition of 'non-profit' for tax purposes needs to include a provision limiting these essentially retained earnings that are not invested in the organization's mission.

Does anyone know more about the accounting and tax details?
> Branding. Google likes to show off advanced products that aren't fully developed in order to elevate their brand and recruit engineers (even though most do not work on such products). Project Soli is the best example of this: the product video shows off a small radar and some range-doppler video, but it does not show complicated gesture recognition capabilities, which is the hardest part.

Project Soli doesn't seem remotely analogous. One project is an open source library that is being run as an open source library and works today, but (so far) holds back a killer feature. The other is a product concept video.
> "I've seen moms and dads on playground who are way out there in assessing what is threatening and what is not. They'd see a man walking by the playground going by their business and start calling their children closer to them acting all scared."

This happens to me all the time in the grocery store. In the past I was a teacher, and now I'm a stay-at-home dad. If I have my son with me, everyone thinks I'm awesome for being a man who takes responsibility for his kid; if he's at school and I'm at the store and happen to be within half a mile of a kid, people look at me like I'm a creeper.
But you can't really separate these datapoints, at least not in a legally safe manner. If you take a "work", reduce it down to the basic data it probably was created from and rebuild a basically identical work, how do you defend against the claim that you copied it? You could try to go through multiple steps, done by different entities, and hope to hide that way, but coordinating that makes you vulnerable again.

How could a project like OSM make sure that it didn't happen on a large, clearly violating scale (because many people make copies of small parts, recreating the larger, protected work), especially if it isn't established what an internationally safe standard is.

In practice, you are right, you can copy a single street from google maps to OSM. I bet some mappers in the history of OSM have traced screenshots of google maps or something. But that is only safe because it can't be proven, unless you are unlucky enough to copy a canary.
What did you expect, it's only been a few months. There's tremendous inertia when it comes to build systems, people don't change them on a whim.
I always get responses back saying that the 83B was accepted.
As someone that grew up driving in the midwest I get a little nervous about autonomous driving being developed in California. It's a bit of a cliche, but CA drivers are notoriously bad drivers in winter conditions.

Of course the rational side of my brain knows there are brilliant people from all over the country (world?) working on autonomous driving for these companies, and they will have to do testing in all weather conditions across the whole country.

Perhaps it would help relax fears if companies like Google or Tesla opened (and publicised) an all-weather driving lab in someplace like northern Michigan.
How large/heavy is the rover?

What is the plan for getting it up and land it on the moon?
Same here, it's actually become super awesome, but it needs tagging and filtering. I haven't updated to the new Notes though.
The idea that you can't make things on iPads is kinda silly. There's all kinds of things you can make on iPads and iPhones. iMovie, painting apps and all that are creative outlets.

Yes, you need a computer to compile code, but I think k-12 is not really the code compiling scene-- maybe 9th-12th graders, sure, but that's not what the teachers are going to teach (high school teachers that can teach programming are very rare.)
What? 600M years? Really?

Are you folks aware that 1000 years is already a very long time? Any number bigger than, say 100.000 years is just the same as infinity, regarding to time.

This "infinity" problem simply requires too much faith, and will never have real evidence. Not very good attributes for a credible theory.

Maybe it's about time to get a better one, with less time involved? This way the faith required would be at a real human reachable level.
Python-for-android (and Kivy) now support Python 3 APKs
I was visiting some family recently and their ~5yo son was interested and playing with code.org. You can do the exercises without a login but with a login (which requires an email address) you can save progress and have a profile to share with others.
With a name like Paris Theodore, you really can be anything you want to be.
As I said, the driver does not know when to clear, same as HDD driver does not know when a file is deleted.
Gentoo probably avoids systemd, uses OpenRC instead.
Exactly. There should be no foul play in the headline. Purely descriptive. The writing itself is what is supposed to draw you in or repel you.
Please do! I'd love to see the outcome.
>I can enjoy music who's rules I am not familiar with. I don't need to know the rules to enjoy tonal and rythmic arrangements.

You don't need to know the rules, but most people will enjoy music whose rules they are familiar with. It's entirely possible I can put on some Mahori music or Trout Mask Replica and you will enjoy it, but I strongly suspect you are in the minority. Most people (myself included) will need time to adapt to music that is radically different than what they are used to.

Which is why I don't think it's fair to call Bowie a "consummate outsider". There is no question he became a beacon for those who were outside of cultural norms, but he achieved that by working in one of the most culturally constricted artistic mediums available.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Apple has a history of violating patents from practicing small software developers. Seems like they're pretty much only sued by patent trolls.
I see this advertised a lot on Facebook. I'm pretty skeptical of this, though. It attempts to detect energy consumption for particular appliances by the pattern of current load, but I can't imagine this being accurate for most people. Different appliances of the same type will generate very different patterns, and residential power distribution can be _extremely_ noisy.

I think it's an interesting idea, I just doubt the practicality of it.
I have explored a few other startups since then. But, the BS filter is in place when the pitch starts. Consulting or, my current role, where I get to work with startups is not quite the same but still interesting.
Losing focus and wondering about the start of the train of thought, stackoverfloing while recursing is a first order intrinsic problem.
This will be a game changer a few years down the line! Can't wait to see the commercial SW stack complimenting this.
It's based on a survey. 6-8 years after graduation, white MBA grads report $94k higher annual earnings than Asian grads.
And then you can just summon it by paying from your phone.
For me personally, I'm already used to the ugly CL syntax that it's working around (hashes), already familiar and comfortable with the underlying libraries it's using (cl-ppcre, etc.), or don't find the features particularly useful (laziness, etc.).

TBH, if I found those things annoying enough to seek out this library, I would probably just use Clojure or some other language.
You can't, not with Haskell. (Maybe you can, I don't know, with some really insane extensions and type-level programming. It wouldn't be nice.) Haskell's approach is: write out the typeclass and the implementations, and you can probably safely assume that the "natural" implementation of the typeclass will satisfy the laws.

Dependently typed languages are what you use for this kind of thing.
> but space seems to be just as much publicity driven today as it was in the original space race.

Marketing and advertising makes things seem ways they aren't.
Even as someone fully accepting of evolutionary theory, this diagram felt like a revelation:
http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/17/30/76/23/evolut10.jpg
the article over generalizes the find to be basically bereft of real information.

"Instead of working as enzymes (proteins that facilitate reactions inside the cell) the proteins were now what’s known as an interaction domain. They could communicate with and bind to other proteins, a useful skill for cells that have decided to trade the rugged individualist life for the collaboration of a group"

Enzymes switch between being enzymes and interaction domians across all taxa everywhere in the tree of life, so this is not the "money shot". Moreover, unicellular life do plenty of intracellular, collaborative communication (e.g. quorum sensing).

Reading the paper, the specific switch enabled the orientation of cell division to be communicated from one cell to another. This is interesting because this communication is not over an anisotropic chemical gradient, but encodes directional and spatial information.
Confirmed, this does not work for `Trend Micro Worry Free Business Security` clients. I do know that the enterprise / business version installs a server on the management machine. I do not currently have access to the box that our version is hosted on to test the exploit there.
The other reasons why processes are not adopted is that most employees are not thinking in terms of 'processes'. Secondly typical process/BPM tools are geared towards I.T. rather than regular workers.

Both problems can be solved by gearing tools towards end-users rather than I.T. and allowing processes to emerge from lower-level constructs like (say) discussion threads that workers normally participate in. This would gently steer workers towards a process mindset.
This seems to be a big problem for some people, but if you can stick 8 GPUs in a box with two 12 core CPU's and a 450000 IIOPS TB "disk" it seems to me that you have something interesting for Tensorflowing over.
I'm glad more companies are removing the stock option golden handcuffs. Pinterest made a similar move last year: https://medium.com/@michaeldeangelo/unlocking-the-golden-han...
Coast to Coast in a Tesla with No Driver Within 24 to 36 Months, Says Elon
Tl:dr; frequent transfers to South Africa for a long time that led them to categorise him as a Money Service that needed to provide business documentation. From his conclusion it appears that the DoJ rules would lead any bank to do the same, so now he uses wire transfers instead of ACH with his new credit union account.
I think Google has designed and developed TensorFlow as a Maui-style integrated code-offloading framework for machine learning. What is Maui you ask? (Damn, I don't have a Maui summary in my blog?)

Maui is a system for offloading of smartphone code execution onto backend servers at method-granularity. The system relies on the ability of managed code environment (.NET CLR) to be run on different platforms. By introducing this automatic offloading framework, Maui enables applications that exceed memory/computation limits to run on smartphones in a battery- & bandwidth-efficient manner.

TensorFlow enables cloud backend support for machine learning to the private/device-level machine learning going on in your smartphone. It doesn't make sense for a power-hungry entire TensorFlow program to run on your wimpy smartphone. Your smartphone will be running only certain TensorFlow nodes and modules, the rest of the TensorFlow graph will be running on the Google cloud backend. Such a setup is also great for preserving privacy of your phone while still enabling machine learned insights on your Android.

I don't see any real evidence of this in the paper, code or examples. Certainly running it it doesn't feel like it is designed to operate over high-latency connections like that.

Instead, I think TensorFlow is deigned to work on mobile so that it is comparatively easy for a pre-trained model to be deployed and run on a constrained mobile environment.

That's what Google did for the Android voice recognition model (although that was pre-TensorFlow), and they have released a pre-trained image classification model that runs on TensorFlow.
Regardless, given what was discovered in the personal version, would you trust the enterprise version?
>One common objection to the theory of evolution claims...

There is a common objection?
I find Stoics to vary in their degree of belief in the divine, but generally to consider choosing a particular stance on it unnecessary to carrying on with the rest of their philosophy, often explicitly conceding the point for the sake of argument because it's not especially important. God/Nature/Fate tend to be treated as interchangeable for the purposes of the system, and nailing down which precisely is acting isn't a priority.

I haven't seen god(s) a major component of their philosophy, a kind of tepid and only occasionally-invoked pantheism aside.

[EDIT] "panentheism" to the intended "pantheism"
I didn't know people were so generous. The experience I have is that all people want to keep their knowledge for themselves. In all the companies I passed by - including Fortune 40 ones - the documentation was non existent.

In one of them, a magician who wrote a 20k lines of code Access program doing fancy things like generating stored procedures on the fly, still knew more about the program after 2 years of development than the 10 people team that was in charge of migrating it.

More recently - last week - in another company, someone told me very naturally that the requirements were in someone's head and in the database schema and that we should rely on this person's expertise and avoid spending time to lay the requirements down before starting the iteration.

The world I live in is much more political than the one that you guys seem to live in. Please give me the address.
> My two year old can work an iPad, but has no idea what a mouse or keyboard is.

Because you have given them access to an iPad, but not a (real) computer?
An APU with Intel ethernet? This changes everything!

(Lack of Intel ethernet ruled out the APU out for me)

Also - How did you know about this? I can't find that page by browsing their site and I didn't even know this existed!
I'm pretty much for universal basic income, but in light of how our society functions it won't fix anything structurally.

People will realize that the potential for demand is greater, they will rise their prices and then the cost of live will raise accordingly. Then the rich will get richer quickly and the poor will stagnate, all proportions maintained.

If you want to diminish the gap, you would also need to regulate how people determine prices in order to maintain a reasonable cost of living, I'm not sure that hard capitalists will enjoy this.
Ask HN: Reconcile the technological and scientific definition of progress?
Science (or the theory of evolution) defines progress as improved survival and reproduction capabilities.

Technology defines progress as the maximization of pleasure and the minimization of pain.

How can we reconcile these two definitions of progress?
Mozilla's WebGL CI tests for Linux and Android run on Mesa's software renderer, though I'm not sure if we use LLVMPipe specifically. It works...ok.
Wonderful little story and I expect we'll have lots more of these cottage industry, for-love-of-art-commercially-unsuccessful-hidden-in-history stories now that recording technology is reaching consumer-level. The material by Connie seems very strong and I look forward to listening to some more - kind of reminds me of Everlast's latest album, The Life Acoustic.

I can really dig how tech might be a great way to preserve non-public talent, rather than taking somebody with extremely limited musical talent and forcing them on the public (i.e. Fetty Wap).
I think Google was unique in that most of the people who were hitting their sabbatical had done very well with their stock options, and realized that they didn't need to work anymore and were quite happy not working, or working on their own stuff.
What's the best way to find a tax professional that can help with one's specific situation? I see references to Teaspiller all over Quora, but it's apparently shut down :(

Any advice here?
Sure, if she was over 25 and fully aware that it is "no strings attached".
OpenRTB API specification: real-time advertising bidding protocol [pdf]
SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Trolls Arrogant Fighter Pilot with Ground Speed Check
Confidential Informants like the cop writing down the license plates outside of the hydroponics shop?
Some Americans think this is normal parenting.

Europeans think hitting your children is abhorrent - many EU countries have made it illegal.

If someone posted messages about hitting their spouse they'd have similarly strong responses. And there's no difference. The people who hit their children use the same language that was used by people who used corporal punishment on their wives.

In this situation a parent didn't keep their child safe in a potentially dangerous situation (by their own admission the child was poking things into an electrical socket). And for that lack of parental awareness the child gets hit?

It's a revolting interference with the child's human rights and I have no problem telling violent bullies that their behaviour fails to meet the standards a decent society demands.
Some of us need to own cars. Those with children (unless you want to move carseats every day), those with special needs, the elderly and differently-abled to whom familiarity is extremely important. Those that live far away from paved roads and need trucks to get to town. Farmers and DIY enthusiasts that haul stuff every week.

Others want to own cars because they like to modify them, or restore old ones.

Personally I'm with you -- if I could pay a monthly fee and be able to summon a Tesla 3x/week, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I just can't see how we'd be a big slice of the market, which will keep innovation slow.
This is the closest that article gets to an "explanation":

> A single mutation that repurposed a certain type of protein. Instead of working as enzymes (proteins that facilitate reactions inside the cell) the proteins were now what’s known as an interaction domain. They could communicate with and bind to other proteins, a useful skill for cells that have decided to trade the rugged individualist life for the collaboration of a group.

Which is total gibberish. Yet unsurprisingly the abstract to the actual paper (helpfully linked in the wapo article: http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e10147) is gibberish to me for different reasons.

Is anyone expert enough to attempt a "for technical dummies" reading?
Not necessarily! It depends! It could be that the constant popups about updating the AV, about allowing access to trusted programs etc. constantly reminds him of the aspect of security and has this aspect in the back of his mind while browsing, so it may actually enhance security awareness. As in "I'm the sort of person who cares a lot about viruses, so much that I have an AV and adblocker etc., so I'm also the kind of person who doesn't just install any crap."

Installing an AV doesn't automatically reduce your defenses. Only if you over-trust it.
I don't see why they couldn't work with Google Authenticator. The app doesn't necessarily need to be uninstalled. The files for the app just get offloaded to their servers temporarily.
As someone in a similar space (libGDX creator), i wonder how you finance development. Could you give insights on that?
I think the tone is actually quite restrained given the situation.
I do have children.

I don't hit them when I've been inattentive in dangerous situations.
Printed RGB colorspace atlas (2012)
The Wirecutter's new best office chair is the Steelcase Gesture
If I was to use antivirus it would have to be whitelisting. Everything else is a toy in my opinion.
Around 100x80x50 cm. Between 30-40 kg (depending on payload).

The plan: Rover into the landing module (LM), LM into the rocket, rocket brings us to the right orbit where it releases the LM, from there to the Moon, soft landing.
You might have meant this link: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/11/whats-new-in-ios-9-3/
The free labor argument isn't particularly compelling in this case. Academic researchers focus on publishing their results in papers, and published neural network architectures are comparatively trivial to port between software platforms.

Even when code is published, it's a few hours work to copy a (say) Torch based architecture to TensorFlow - indeed most platforms import (and export?) Caffe-style (ProtoBuf based) model descriptions.
This should probably be taken as a huge hint to them (or other manufacturers). I'm surprised nobody has done a phone with an e-ink back (I know there are cases).

I'm not sure anybody cares about what Nextbit has created here. From the comments on HN, I'd suggest they haven't identified the market need.
Actually it does.

You just need to look to the correct JVM. Apparently people keep forgetting Java is like C and C++. There are plenty options to choose from and OpenJDK only plays the role of reference implementation.

If I am not mistaken IBM J9 is one of those JVMs.
They're grossly incompetent. You don't feel bad for people who are grossly incompetent, you feel bad for the victims of their incompetence.