skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of them are likely to be able to compromise a messaging application that boots from a web page.

All of them are likely to be able to compromise your OS, the Intel Management Engine (http://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/the-trouble-with-intels-manag...), your flash drives, the baseband on your blackphone... There's so much code, so many layers of abstraction involved in doing even the most basic things and so many things for which the US IC (let alone the 5E) almost certainly has exploits for that this quoted line is entirely moot when put in the context of attack economics.

I was looking for any insight you might have into why a web application with the latest in protections surrounding the execution of unauthorized code and running in a sandboxed browser would still be more vulnerable compared to a native application running in usermode, but then you said...

> and today, they need to install software to do [address serious adversaries].

I guess I can keep looking forward to someone else to address the point you tried to raise, since your position seems to be more of an emotional one. The only way we'll be able to advance privacy is by advancing ease of use. Web applications do a good job of providing that, and the IETF and browser makers are doing an excellent job of creating and integrating security standards to allow developers to bring that ease of use to realms of secure computing which traditionally required extensive manual configuration.

Do you want wider adoption of security and privacy-assuring technologies by the general public? Be like the rest of us in the AppSec community and support the devs who try to advance the state of the art.
I have noticed the same problems.
My wife irons her yoga pants. She doesn't like even the chance of a crease or wrinkle.
Thanks! Excellent article btw
This was my experience too. I enjoyed shopping at my local Canadian Target. Clean aisles, brightly lit. Well priced, good quality. Superior experience to Walmart, Canadian Tire, or Loblaws. Sad when they exited the market.
I wonder about the provenance of those files. Looks like user eknikko is just uploading texts to the Internet Archive without any cooperation from the authors/publishers. His or her channel[1] includes copies of K&R, Stroustrup's C++ book, and Intro to Algorithms by Cormen et al, among other things.

I know the Archive doesn't have the strictest policy on copyright (tons of old commercials, magazine scans, and other ephemera that most people see as a grey area is available), but I doubt even their views are lax enough to look at this as kosher.

1. https://archive.org/details/@eknikko
> It's time that we move on to an implementation that actually works.

Android announced "Night Light" and Kindle added "Blue Shade" and iOS came in last with "Night Shift" so it appears everyone has.

When F.lux put up affiliate links hawking Himalayan salt lamps and Swarovski crystals and used "cancer" as the 30th word in a press release, I didn't feel too bad hitting "uninstall" for the final time. So Long, and Thanks for All the Tint.
Life is like http://agar.io - Everything about that game has a parallel concept in real life.

It teaches you about society, luck, greed, injustice, wealth, collaboration, risk, power, companies vs startups, etc...

If I had to have a bible to teach me about life, that game would be it.
Do you think we'd have less homeless people if the incentives for not being homeless were made stronger? "The beatings will continue until morale improves". You make it sound like people choose to be poor because it's awesome. You know what? Poor people already have plenty of incentives not to be poor, nobody wants to be in that boat.
> undisclosed commercial interest in the research findings

Where’s the commercial interest? The Broad Institute is a non-profit and the University of California, Berkley is a public institution.
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It seems like your attitude towards statistical errors is largely going to depend on the risk of making bad predictions.

For example, the problem with the denominator containing "unknown unknowns" isn't much of an issue if you're searching photographs or optimizing ad revenue. It's much more important for something safety-related like building an airplane or a driverless car.

Finance is in the middle: not directly safety related, but modeling tail risk the wrong way could bankrupt the company.
No, it's not true. Even if L1 accesses were only 1 cycle, they would be slower. The CPU will try to execute instructions out-of-order and needs to detect dependencies and possible conflicts between instructions. This is easy with registers, if the registers are the same (have the same name), there may be conflicts or dependencies. This can be tested right after decoding the instruction. With memory it's much more complex, because the memory addresses have to be calculated before any comparisons can be made. Therefore it's much harder to reorder memory instructions. There are some exceptions, like push/pop pairs, but in general memory accesses will be significantly slower.
Yale psychologists have built a mathematical model for selfishness
Why not just use all the words?
You need kids! Well, at least kids sizes.

I understand the desire for adults to have a shirt that fits, but I think that falls squarely in the bucket of "nice to have". As a parent of a child that doesn't fit any of the sizing charts, being able to predict what size of what brand will fit my kid would be a "must have"! Kids also tend to go through clothes a lot faster than adults, making the potential savings of getting a good fit far greater.
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I've submitted a Show HN post asking for assistance in getting more data for this little exercise. I'll post a Jupyter Notebook describing the model and results, along with a live "guess my age" form, in a week or so.
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I am planning to start a 2 day code sprint to make an app , where is am struggling is to find a place where I can see some good app designs as an inspiration . I want to focus on coding as much as possible in next 2 days . any good leads to websites offering the same ?
bootswatch.com is a good start
A great point regarding pragmatics. Personality is also becoming a key issue to consider.

There is a whole pile of interesting posts around building conversational services/bots.

Some interesting ones:

Sam Lessin: https://t.co/0ZFlBGPqpg
Chris Messina: https://medium.com/@chrismessina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-co...

Matt Galligan: https://medium.com/@mg/the-graphical-user-interface-will-soo...

Clement Vouillon: https://medium.com/point-nine-news/software-bots-c56aeedcfec...

Ryan Block: https://medium.com/@ryan/bots-messaging-and-the-interface-vi...

I've also written a bunch of articles on how we tackle some of these problems at Converse AI here:

http://blog.converse.ai/introduction/an-introduction-to-conv...
Put that in your about: text on your user profile, not as submission.
ISPs will continue to support IPv4 until the costs outweigh the benefits, but IPv4-only web servers will see a gradual degradation in the quality of IP reputation, geo data, and possibly performance, as more users get NATed behind fewer addresses.
>The Linux distros, for all their good, requires too much handholding and prodding to get a productive desktop development environment working.

At least you CAN get a productive environment. The OSX window manager really really sucks and you can not configure much. Why do not Apple add X11 manager support ?
I have 2 issues with flux, one personal one science related.

personal) I'm colorblind and it really messed with my ability to guess at the appropriate colors, and sometimes made it impossible to read text on the screen. (Red on black is hard for me)

science) One of their more prominent articles showcases a study of how reading on a stock iPad can mess up your sleep a lot, but reading a book with standard bulb (much warmer than the iPad backlight) has a much smaller effect. I remember studying the effect of light in neuroscience classes in college, and blue light is potent, but so is total light received. Indirect light from bulb, or having a device blast light directly into your retina. Never stood a chance. Just shifting the colors can only reduce so much light. For example, max out the brightness on any non oled based screen with a completely black image. You still see light even though those gates have done the best they can.
My general impression of the reporting is "lets throw a bunch of science at you, which doesn't quite say what we do, and hope you jump to our conclusions."
I wouldn't even say commoners. Walmart has a reputation for having very trashy, uncouth people walking about. The employees at Target also seem a bit friendlier, whereas Walmart probably scrapes.the bottom of the barrel for its employees. My mother has been the weekend manager at a Walmart for 30 years and it's a real shit-show keeping staff because most are incredibly unreliable and don't give a damn about their job.
I don't think you deserve downvotes for this comment.

But surly you'd be aware this is what the rest of the world thinks?

The first thing the world thinks of when they think of Texas is racist, backwards, ultra religious people.

I'm surprised you'd be surprised of this?
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Edit: Know where I can find the feed of user downmods?
I do not understand the problem people have with priors in Bayesian methodology. Yes, it is true that a poor choice of prior can affect results. But classical, frequentist techniques incorporate priors implicitly: a flat prior indicating we have no information other than the data. And just as a poor Bayesian prior based on subjective belief can ruin an analysis, a non informative prior implicitly made can be just as catastrophic. And it is truly a rare case when there is absolutely nothing known about a process, and in these cases, a flat prior is the kind of poor prior that these people are so afraid of.
I think that it is fair to pay close attention to the preamble of the paper where Lomonosov encourages the scientific development.
Actually am going to start a mobile app , I just want some good color combinations and some good animations so that I dont end up with a bad looking app . Just inspirations from different good looking apps .
this is a very small understanding of what they are trying to build.
Maybe. It depends on whether or not the kernel is smart enough to recognize that the pages you've referenced in the AIO operation are pages are mmap'd files rather than ordinary heap memory. It would need to do some amount of page table walking to learn that, but certainly for a large enough operation that would be cheaper than simply making the copy.

I suspect that Linux, at least, does not do this. That said, I'm curious about the difficulty of plumbing such an optimization. Unfortunately due to other implementation details of the networking stack I work on day to day it wouldn't have any implications for that, but it might have some for one of my side projects.
Maybe its just that I look around and I am more willing to label a poor performer a .25x coder, than I am someone who can really crank it out a 10x.

I think the x-factor we are talking about is too abstract to really have meaning. For example, besides speed, my x-factor takes into account things like test coverage, maintainability, code performance, etc. When you make it very multi-dimensional it tends to even people out as folks often have very different strengths and weaknesses.
They are very likely to buy drugs though
Just to underline this point, here's a very modern (incident in May, 2014, reporting apparently Jan 23, 2016) nuclear weapon mishap that was hidden: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/air-force-nuclear-missile-...

I will grant you that the Air Force tried double-speak and obfuscation to hide the incident rather than over-classification, but they did refuse a FOIA request about it and hid the incident from a Secretary of Defense appointed commission.
That is truly wonderful.

If you can't get it to work initially, click replay and paste the long japanese (?) string from the url into the prompt.
Why? do you think USA national security isn't worth more than a billion?

How can you have a doubt after all that we have known post-Snowden
Well we are in Hacker News after all - the uniform is to wear hoodies at all times.
Frankly speaking, It kinda sounds like you're so invested in the idea of privilege being fictional that my guess is nothing anyone says to you via the internet would ever change your mind.

Which, funnily enough, is one of the benefits of it, you can ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist, because the bias it implies wouldn't effect you anyway.

I don't try to convince climate change deniers either, because I learned long ago that you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.
Yes, you're generally right about caloric intake being the main problem. Meat is a problem for many other reasons.

However, it's doubtful that people would gorge themselves on vegetables were meat not available. And, even if they did, 4000 calories of vegetables is still far healthier than 4000 calories of meat.
Is it common practice to use the most frequent words as features ? It looks like they don't carry much information, by definition. As a first naive approach, I'd rank the words by the inverse of how many categories they appear in, factor in the overall frequency, with a weight or something more clever and then take the top N.

Well, thinking more about it leads me to tf-idf and naive bayes (of course), at which point you pretty much already have a classifier. So it seems feature selection is learning in itself and defines the maximum accuracy you'll be able to reach ? This is border philosophical but I'd love to read more about these matters. Pointers welcome !
If they work N hours and receive fewer than $7.25 * N, then the employer is required to make up the difference. I understand there are some accounting tricks involving another $2.13/hour floor and tips, but regardless of those tricks they can't be paid less than minimum wage without the restaurant violating labor law.
That's what people who supported Cryptocat said. It's also what people who supported Telegram said.

Not interested in this argument, sorry.
I'm not a webdev, and the fascination with yet-another-framework for JavaScript is really cute, but I really really REALLY don't get this. It's it appears to be nothing more than a CSS stylesheet. So what?
Tried http://dribbble.com and searching for apps? You can also search for specific categories if that helps.
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"You can spend all your time making money, or you can spend all your love making time."

Because money can be a means to an end but surely isn't an end in itself. If you don't need the money and you aren't passionate about doing something there's little reason to make yourself unhappy working to get it.
I think his viewpoint is spot-on. The goal of most audio systems should be to accurately reproduce the original waveform. If you want to add "warmth" or "color" or whatever to the sound, it's better to quantify what that means, then purposefully distort the audio in a dedicated device (or in software).

Think about what life would be like if displays were built and reviewed like audio tech. Imagine companies like NuForce and Schiit sold screens that didn't accurately reproduce colors. Owners of these displays would praise them for their "warmth" or talk about how much green colors "pop" or whatever. It would be absurd.

We can actually measure contrast ratio, color accuracy, viewing angles, etc. That's how we evaluate displays. People who prefer a different gamma or white point change it in software. They don't buy defective monitors. But switch the topic to audio and people forget all that. It's bizarre.
It does seem so, but Milligram seems a lot more usable. It's written in sass and everything seems nicely organised. Skeleton is just a single css file.

Skeleton also seems somewhat dead.
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I do see that these particular site owners don't mind their users using Ghostery and uBlock. Some may not go out of their way because they see it as their users denying them ad revenue or analytics (the user is "hostile".) A similar situation happens with NoScript, where some site owners view Javascript as a basic, easily-met prerequisite to using their site, and will do nothing to help users who don't want to enable JS.

I presumed that's what themartorana was referring to about why they might not bother to fix it, and why I thought it would be useful to point out that according to the error message you got, themartorana's site is broken in a different, more fundamental way.
I'd like to point out that frequentist statistics suffer from just as many philosophical shenanigans. (For examples, see any introduction to Bayesian statistics.)

If you want "rationality", you're going to have to look elsewhere.
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Oh I assure you, mid life crises are a thing.
If it was the USA the judge could have always choosen to brand them a vexatious litigant, which as Jason Scott said, "Basically means you are an asshole in the eyes of the court."

It also sets up certain requirements to use the legal system (like paying a certain amount of the defendants attorney fees up front iirc)
You need two additional (micro)instructions, a store and a load. Store forwarding will save you from going to the cache and back, but it won't be as fast a register forwarding.
And then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

Don't forget Cyberdog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjkm_fSM1g

You could drag and drop files into that browser in 1997! Sadly some Youtube videos are hard to find.

Should be here somewhere https://www.youtube.com/user/EveryAppleVideo
> That's what people who supported Cryptocat said. It's also what people who supported Telegram said.

> Not interested in this argument, sorry.

You shouldn't have started it then.
By default I reach for Skeleton[1] on side projects, which is similar in a lot of ways, but I really like the way the grid looks/functions in Milligram.

Also, defining pairs of CSS classes to accommodate the user rounding in either direction made me smile (ie .column-66 === .column-67).

Definitely going to try it out on my next project.

[1] getskeleton.com
Previous (short) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954709
The first question to ask is: how much would be owed and a payday loan shop?

The second question to ask is: what is the percentage of non-payment. What is the expected return of LendUp per customer?

I don't know these answers... But asking is better than accusing
Not only was it too much, it was of low quality. I very rarely went to any Zellers and ended up having a negative association with those I did. When they turned into Targets I still avoided them, never actually stepping foot in any Target stores.
Blue Origins launches and lands again in another first for booming space industry
There are many of the substantive tweets preserved in the legal record of the case.
Note that autobrightness with f.lux is currently broken in OS X 10.11, and they suggest you to disable it: "Note for people using f.lux on El Capitan (10.11): The new version of "Automatically adjust brightness" in El Capitan seems to cause flickering with f.lux. For the moment, you'll have to turn this feature off to use f.lux.
To make the fix, use System Preferences > Displays and uncheck. Occasionally, a reboot may also be necessary." [0]

[0]: https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/macquickstart/
Now it would be great if android included it in the system soon. I used an app for it, but as soon as 6 came out, I dropped all unnecessary privileges from installed apps.

Unfortunately you can't have any app drawing directly on the screen if you want to change privileges. That means I had to choose between silly-bright screen or more secure system... and that's a terrible tradeoff to present to users.
It's not so much Washington fronting the bill as making an investment. And the cumulative effect of those investments globally is working. LCOE of wind is now $83/megawatt hour compared to $82 for natural gas(1).

1 - http://fortune.com/2015/10/06/wind-cheap-coal-gas/
Atlassian Bamboo does this really well: if your tab is open on a build that's in progress the favicon will represent how far along building it is.
Hey, I'm kinda torn on the issue as well. If not for the EU, we would not have that huge brain drain that left our country kinda stupid and slow to develop (lots of unskilled workforce left, as well).

But then again, I am fairly certain that EU integration helped with our progress, especially since we had corrupt ex-commies running the show ever since '89.

It stopped them from being too greedy, plus the aid, advice and reforms did help.

And now if some people who left return out of a feeling of patriotic duty or just wanting to improve their home country, they'll be much more effective with the knowledge they gained in western Europe...

The ability to manufacture for cheap and export without too many taxes and customs headaches really helped, too, and we've set a very low corporate income tax to attract foreign (mainly EU) companies here (which worked).
>since rumour was Target is owned/started by a fundamentalist religious family(?).

I think you might be confusing them with Hobby Lobby, the company that went to the US Supreme Court so they could deny contraceptive coverage in their employees' health insurance plans. I won't set foot in a Hobby Lobby now.

With them closing the kiosks, that just sounds like your typical dick corporation move, to try to shut down competition and drive up traffic in their store.
Opam-ios: an OCaml compiler for iOS via opam, with example server code
https://www.lendup.com/ Dragging the sliders around, the APR varies between 203% to 755%. Granted, these are risky loans offered to people with bad/no credit record.

It seems that rates "as low as 29%" (still higher than a credit card but lower than payday-type loans) are only offered to repeat customers with a demonstrated repayment history.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the abbreviation was necessarily idiomatic Haskell. I've just seen so much Haskell code that contains abbreviations that it kind of turns me off from the language. :/

I really look the like of the code now :)

Printing will definitely be a bottleneck unfortunately, but I imagine the non-printing code will be quite fast. I'm mostly curious how it would compare to a well optimized C version.

Are you planning on developing on top of this anymore? One interesting use case I have for interleaved streams is for the streams to contain Promises (not sure what the equivalent is in Haskell) that must be run while only allowing a certain number of them to be run concurrently. Additionally handling multiple consumers (based on the value in the Stream), each with their own limit on how many Promises of that type can be run at a time. Adding time-based (say, a max of 10 items per second, per consumer, regardless of how fast the Promises finish). I'm sure this has been implemented many times, but it can be quite useful.
I still have a problem with my big and tall shirts - I have to hang-dry them to keep them from shrinking vertically when run through the dryer (due to my body type). This backs up what I've complained about for years :)
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>It's pretty well known that tees made using 1920s-era loopwheeling machines don't suffer from size changes, and age really well

Well don't I feel stupid, I didn't know this pretty well known thing. Thanks for the share. :)