skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper's abstract: This allows fitting the model
into on-chip SRAM cache rather than off-chip DRAM memory
If the problems in Japan over the last few decades are any indication, keeping people alive longer will not advantage rich countries in an economic sense.

People will continue to retire in their sixties and live longer with progressively more expensive medical treatment. Not exactly a road to riches, although riches aren't everything.
Yep. osm.org's search is only a placename search, basically.
Open source is for making things new
Bacteria don't have nuclei.

Also, you could enlist the population of mitochondria to weigh against bacteria if you really wanted to.
...and it also recently introduced HVMI (Hypervisor-based Memory Introspection)
technology that completely isolates the antimalware solution by deploying it in
a Type 1 hypervisor outside of the operating system.

"This kind of isolation separates the antimalware engines from rootkits or
exploits running in the user environment," the company said.

This completely misses the point. Yes, it protects the AV from exploits in other user software, but it makes exploits in the AV software itself even worse.
This should work well on both desktop and mobile browsers. It's now a reusable component that you could use in your own projects if you wanted to visualize reviews, etc.

If you have any questions about how it works, I'm happy to try to answer. I built this visualization in http://qbix.com/platform ... we dogfood our own stuff :)
I for one, welcome our new micro-directive overlords
But objectively Trump is pretty centrist, no? He is just not welcome by either of the political parties.

Is that not the case?
prejudice and bias similar to those reported (in the NYT
article) is alive and well in the HN Community.

How so? The examples in that article are all in academia. To generalize those results to the HN community without quoting similar, non-anecdotal data specific to the HN universe is a logical fallacy.
Interview with Data Science Hiring Manager: Nick Larusso, Graphiq
That simply isn't true.
VIDEO: El Chapo raid video
> A better experience every day. And night.

Finally I gave in & upgraded to iOS 9.x (on iPad 4). Suddenly Safari has started freezing on lightweight simple websites. Is that better experience part of "planned obsolescence" ? It's more or less the same story with any mobile device after 2-3 years.
Corporations have a bigger principal agent problem. But in capitalism you also have privately owned businesses which doesn't have as much bloat. And the corporations have to compete with these.
I usually hear from skilled people that the language is usually not a big deal and I tend to agree. I mean if you know what you're doing, the framework is not that important. It's just a constant-time overhead to learn how things are in R, if you already know it in, say, Matlab or the python-numpy-scipy ecosystem.
Is this the correct paper? It seems to cover the (impressive!) speedups from compression and encoding, but nothing about the EIE chip mentioned.
The risks and benefits of letting algorithms judge us [Bruce Schneier]
Much much longer experience?
Probably, but that's very much beside the point that a huge pile of evidence points towards theory of evolution being true.

An argument from authority (My Holy Bible says that God exists!) is quite a bit less convincing than many lines of inquiry ending up at the same place.
> Why doesn't evolution get stuck in local maxima

Is there any compelling reason to believe evolution _doesn't_ get stuck in local optima? It's not my field, so may be missing something obvious, but I see no reason that evolution requires complete avoidance of local optima. Different species could be the result of being "pulled" towards to different local optima. Local optima could disrupt evolution but, over time, a single large enough mutation or large enough change in external environment will either push you out of that optima, or stop it from being an optima.
That’s how my Apple Watch Activity history looks
First, Aaron was as much our country as the people who persecuted him. He cared about it; you should too.

You can react two ways: 1) impotent anger or 2) stand up and continue his fight. Which will it be?

Find friends and others and we can all pitch in to create a method of distributing knowledge in a way that can't be controlled. The internet makes it possible, the only thing missing is the will and the effort. Anyone can contact me: my email's in my profile.
> The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip board that undercover cops could use to take out hostage takers.

The only mention of a "clip" in the fine article as of now is: "The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip board that undercover cops could use to take out hostage takers." I imagine Trevithick id not talking about a board of magazines, but an weapon in the guise of an old-fashioned clipboard (not the computer kind).
Ask HN: What do you do if you can't pass technical interviews?
I just received yet another rejection email, tonally similar to many of the others I've gotten. This paragraph in particular sticks out [problem details omitted]:

"This was a tough decision. We enjoyed talking with you and saw strengths through various parts of the interview, in particular on the [design discussion] and [list traversal] problems. However we made the final decision because we didn't see the overall level of coding we're looking for, especially during the [interactive terminal-based application] problem. The rate of progress on this problem wasn't as fast as we'd hoped and we weren't able to build a nice, generic solution within the time available. There was also a fair amount of confusion on the out of bounds issue, which we feel was the type of bug that would have been caught faster by a more experienced engineer."

This is a pattern: when I'm given a trivial code problem or a design problem, I tend to do well, but live coding and whiteboards are trouble because I frequently make tiny mistakes (always unrelated to my understanding of the underlying algorithm). I know this about myself as a coder, which is why I obsessively test my own code to catch my own errors.

But, especially under stress, these mistakes are continuing to cost me job opportunities. I've purchased cracking the coding interview, programming interviews exposed, and I've done scores of practise questions online at sites like HackerRank, but I keep hearing the same thing back: "You're clearly smart, but you didn't do well on the whiteboard, so fuck off." I've heard some variation of that nearly a dozen times in the past six months.

I'm at my wits end. I'm consumed with self doubt (which doesn't help in the interviews). I'm depressed, I don't know what is wrong with me, and I don't know what more I can do.

Should I just burn my CS degree and get a job a burger king? At the very least the interview would be shorter.
Is there any reasonable reason why anti-virus vendors often include shady or insecure software like this? It honestly the worst case of security theater where it looks like its helping but is honestly doing the opposite. And I really wish AVs didn't try to include extras, as this really lowers my disposition against the (scammy) Anti-Virus market. And this isn't the first time that an AV turned out to make the computer less secure.

I have Avira Free installed, But only have the AV part and have disabled Web/Mail Protection. So I am hoping that Avira are trustworthy enough and don't push anything my way.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604

+ a bunch with no or fewer comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Sad%20State%20of%20Web%2...
There are actually a lot of places that snow in California, you just have to get up into the mountains. There's a lot of snow within just a couple hours of Silicon Valley.
The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems
> The only thing I've really found lacking is support for basic string operations. I'm sure there is a solid library out there for things like replace(), but it seems silly for everyone to possibly be using separate libraries

It's not that bad, there are other languages which have this problem - you can see exactly the same situation in JS-land, for example. It would be much worse if not for quicklisp. I think quicklisp and asdf are among the best package distribution tools: I feel it's better than pip and gem and similar to npm. Installing a library is literally a single line in your code. There's the problem with finding the package you need and it's harder than with JS and npm, but doable.

BTW: what do you do to learn CL? I'm using StumpWM as my window manager and I think it's one of the best ways of learning CL. With SLIME, then, you get almost Lisp-only environment, especially if you use Emacs for your other editing too. I wrote a couple of blog posts[1] about StumpWM and posted my config on GitHub[2].

[1] https://klibert.pl/posts/stumpwm.html https://klibert.pl/output/stumpwm-better-modeline.html

[2] https://github.com/piotrklibert/stumpwm-config/
Study and practice. I failed a bunch until I decided to prep.

Try these tips.

http://kelukelu.me/interview/prep.html
I'm not angry. But I am disappointed to the point I think we need serious reform. This means a call to action. This is what Aaron did.
I think it's a little bit the competition from Twitter's own product and a lot bit that live video broadcasting is a pretty small niche. I don't think there's room in the market for multiple participants.
> All password managers store plain text passwords. That's literally a requirement for them to work at all.

> Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite database[0] using Windows' CryptProtectData() API

If its encrypted, then its not plaintext. Its ciphertext. In infosec lingo plaintext specifically refers to the unencrypted and otherwise unaltered original information.
It'll all be iCloud. Caching server I'm kinda surprised they haven't done P2P content distribution. or at least sold caching servers 'Appliance'-style.
Yes. If you know - say Python + Scikit + Numpy, or Matlab then R isn't that valuable.

If you don't know any statistical processing package/language/whatever, then learning one is valuable, and R isn't a bad one to know.
Angular 2 is now MIT-licensed
If not all then how can we as a race be special? I'd say that if we lump going to the moon onto our collective accolades, so do we lump the Holocaust and various other genocides.

My personal opinion, but it seems like there's a desire to overstate our differences with "other animals." Which generally seems like a prelude to exterminating them without feeling bad about it / trashing the environment / generally believing in our manifest destiny and right to same as humans. But that's my personal opinion.
Does the data reflect true geographic boundaries or just USPS boundary definitions?

USPS addresses are based on delivery convenience and may not accurately reflect underlying political boundaries.

For example, in the San Jose area, there are many Los Gatos addresses that are actually in Saratoga (or unincorporated land) and vice-versa. There are even properties with Los Gatos mailing addresses that are actually outside of Santa Clara County altogether (in Santa Cruz).
CarPlay isn't new, and it's head-and-shoulders better than the OEM environment on my car.

It's got some bugs (9.2 seems to have introduced one where it messes up system audio playback at times), but interface wise it works very well.

Car manufacturers can't mess with it. Apple pre-maps certain buttons and supports a scroll wheel, but they can't customize it at all, Apple has control.
We actually had a "campus" so the buses were able to get you incredibly close to your school. Any walking you did was on a path similar to what you might find on a typical university campus outside of major urban areas. In this regard, walking was a bit different given that you had no roads to cross when walking from the bus to your school. In the end, I think it all really came down to not wanting to hire people to maintain crosswalks.
They advertise the virtually comprehensive nature of the App Store. To a non-programmer, what’s the difference between a general-purpose computer and one that features apps?
> How many times did a stranger talk to you as a child? More than none? Were you kidnapped?

Just to share anecdotes, I had a few memorable experiences as a kid (and probably many more that I don't remember).

A very nice person helped fix my bike chain when it slipped off the gears and got wedged against the frame. Without them, I'd have a long walk home with a stuck back wheel.

On another occasion, while I was playing outside my house, a man came by and invited me to attend his church. My parents weren't keen on that, and I was rather uninterested so we never took him up on the offer. I presume he was a Jehova's Witness or a Mormon.
If you're going to lump together everything even tenuously connected to the military (all of NASA? all of the State Department? all of the Department of Energy?), I'd feel entitled to lump together everything that sends out checks, and the military would still be smaller -- much smaller, in fact. Interest on the debt isn't going to help you either, as we'd have to slice out the entitlements portion of that as well.

And, of course, this doesn't even get into the question of whether the amount of military spending is right or wrong. "Look at this huge number! It's bigger than this other number!" isn't a meaningful argument. "This number is bigger than it should be, and here's why" is.
Yes it's a road bump, yes China is back in the front row, yes they're hungry. But once the U.S. has accepted this reality that its not a solo play anymore, there should be no need for Europe to choose, because the battle we will have to fight is against a big chunk of the planet sinking back in the dark, and we can win this battle only if we go together, U.S., Europe and China.
> mostly going to appeal to newcomers to CL ... you'd have to focus on attracting new users

It's my observation that CL regularly attracts new users, who grumble a bit at first and then fall in love. Then they drift away to other langs, keeping an affection for sexps, macros, and the numerous elegant aspects of CL. But drift away they do. IMO, if CL could keep more of the people who learn it well enough to love it, then it would be thriving. I have some opinions on why people drift away and how that could be addressed but they're not especially well formed at this time.
A lot of people care: e.g. the Rustonomicon[1] spends a lot of time caring about unsafe code (that is one of the main reasons for it to exist), and the massive RustBelt project[2], which Ralf (author of the blog post) is part of, is because people care. Even the lowest level developers (working on OSes) care about being very careful about how they use `unsafe`, e.g. [3]. One thing that some of us are hopeful will come out of RustBelt are more advanced `unsafe` checkers (i.e. some sort of proof assistant, possibly with lints built into the compiler).

In any case, talking about "order of magnitude" misses the point somewhat: there might be a large amount more code, but a lot of it is trivial to verify, e.g. the declaration of a struct doesn't need any verification, nor do comments, and if T, the type with invariants, has no internal mutability (which is fairly typical for unsafe code outside std, IME), then any safe function that takes &T is automatically safe.

[1]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/stable/nomicon/
[2]: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
[3]: http://os.phil-opp.com/printing-to-screen.html
Learn to code on iOS app
You took Houellebecq too seriously.
My only suggestion would be to set him up with a Gmail and try and play around. I think there could be mail forwarding in the settings.

Although its probably just best to let get his own personal address. I had an email at the age of 10.
I wonder if he made a video apology and released it on Twitter for all his followers to watch.
He admitted "I am a vocal, animated and sometimes foul mouthed CEO" so how can we trust his words about support and shared goals? He can proof something by making significant donation say 1MM to EFF https://www.eff.org/about/contact
Money quote at the end:

> “It is good that we all now have a better estimate to quote,” says Peer Bork, a bioinformatician at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, who works on the human and other complex microbiomes. “But I don’t think it will actually have any biological significance.”
Finally a worthy application for nanotechnology.
The taxes aren't double though. A highly simplified example:

1. Your company gives you $1400 to exercise options (I don't think Clearbit is doing this, to be clear)
2. You pay $400 in taxes and early exercise $1000 of options in exchange for 1000 shares at $1 each
3. Later you sell those 1000 shares for $1m total

At step 3, you will pay capital gains tax only on the $999,000 of actual gain. You don't have to pay taxes again on the original $1k.
This seems to be a relatively stand-alone app, not connected to the main scanning engine.

And I'd say they probably use C or C++ for most other things, which isn't exactly safer.
No, because Western countries' populations aren't going up in the same way that poorer countries' populations are.
That to me shows an income disparity of approximately 20,000 between white (and asian) men and black (and hispanic and native american) men 6 - 8 years after getting an MBA.
Aaron Swartz: The Internet's Own Boy
For the second time in human history, we are witnessing a new geological epoch
>no one at T-Mobile filters me either (no, they don’t even try).

They may not filter you, but I'm sure they pressured you to make this apology.
To be honest, for commensurate reward, I'd probably be sufficiently confident that I could get something done bug-free in 5 years if it was something that I felt could hack out bug-full in a week. Much of that time would go toward task-specific verification-related tooling...
Right. (But that's one AV vendor. Others have the same possibility, of course.) But is it still better (more secure) to run without any AV at all? Something like this leaves you vulnerable to that flaw, but no AV leaves you vulnerable to everything (unless a firewall saves you).
Thats an insane requirement.
The author was using redigo (https://github.com/garyburd/redigo), which by my analysis is fairly performant.

One of the likely causes for issues is file descriptor limits or TCP tuning that you suffer when stress testing two dependent networking apps on the same server. BoltDB, being embedded, just works out of the box.
While email can't directly call JavaScript, these URLs look like they'd work if just loaded, so an <img> tag might suffice to cause shell execution.
Alternative links:

http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58

https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/the-internet-s-own...
Who the fuck is John Legere?
I'm curious if you could find a link to that blog, it sounds interesting.
Who's paying him?
He did link the letter:

https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/686669027679141889
I think it's important to differentiate between countries of our present era and countries that "fell" in past eras, when evaluating or speculating on the potential for longevity...

The technologies of today, especially the ease and rapidity with which information can be exchanged by private citizens, seems to me at least, a hindrance to an "overthrow" of our government...a freely functioning "Fourth Estate", journalism--the press, also acts as a safeguard...

At the point where either of those are verifiably co-opted I'd become very concerned...

Surveillance, per se, doesn't worry me so much...tens of thousands of covert operations are in play every day around the globe...those in play to guard against terrorism on U.S. soil are likely just the tip of a vast iceberg...
That's the right thing to do (to apologize, not to defend Net Neutrality violation of course). Let him go back to making fun of "the dumb and the dumber", instead of attacking EFF ;)
"Sign the Petition for Better Oversight for Federal Attorney Misconduct"

http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy#takeaction
> In the case of danger/damage to human lives a la direct physical injury, there should be a much higher standard.

Agreed. In some jurisdictions, people rely on security software to keep them from being identified, and then tortured and/or killed by their governments.

If a given piece of security software that claims to protect its users instead makes them substantially more vulnerable to attacks that would reveal information stored on their machines and/or permit the attacker to install arbitrary software of their own choosing, that is both a breach of trust and -in some jurisdictions- tantamount to handing that user over to the jurisdiction's Inquisitors.

> This is what courts have upheld as well.

Courts have repeatedly upheld that members of the American public don't have standing to challenge the NSA's dragnet domestic surveillance program. While the notion of standing has great value in helping to prevent groundless suits from wasting everyone's time and money, [0] it's pretty clear that the courts

* Are slow to adapt to rapid changes in the nature of the activities they're supposed to adjudicate

* _Often_ fail to be as infallible as they wish they were

While it may not be illegal to be an incompetent security software vendor in America, I -and many others [1] in the industry- think it's entirely reasonable to name, shame, and disparage companies that deem it acceptable to ship "security software" that contains vulnerabilities that anyone with a year of relevant experience [2] under their belt would be able to spot and fix.

> ...it is not reasonable to expect a Therac or NASA level of diligence.

While it would be ideal for security software companies to adopt avionics-software-style design and QA procedures, the errors found by Ormandy are things that would have been obvious to anyone with more than a year in the industry... It's obvious to anyone who reads that bug report that Trend Micro couldn't be arsed to do the industry-standard level of QA and have one of their mid-level guys spend a couple of hours reviewing this part of their consumer-level security software.

While Trend Micro might not be legally liable for it, that's still negligence.

[0] Yes. I'm very aware that court is expensive, slow, and often used as a cudgel against regular folks by people who have rather deep pockets. The requirement to prove standing likely prevents far more nuisance suits than it kills suits that should be heard and judged.

[1] Frankly, I hope that most folks in this business hold this opinion.

[2] In this case, web development experience.
Can't edit anymore :/ But to provide some more context to my comment:

The summer work time obviously make up for it and 30+ days actually seem quite high for an US company. (No legally mandated minimum vacation time).

And in case any founder is wondering if he should start the company providing such benefits:

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/686556086174920704
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/686556263690448896

DHH clarified on Twitter saying this wouldn't have been possible in the beginning.