skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you addressing them? or their argument?
It's not just reading the code -- static analysis tools can provide some guarantees that the software isn't exfiltrating information from your box, making unsolicited connections, or leaving unexpected ports open.

In theory, we can perform the same analysis on the compiled program's bytecode. As the decompilation ecosystem gets better, we may view machine code or bytecode as transparently as source code.

Of course, your apple EULA may bind you against decompiling the machine code -- but it can be argued that you're not 'reverse engineering', you're just doing a virus scan.
Contrast this article with the techcrunch one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190942). It's just like Seattle really. It almost makes me want to move there from Seattle :-) How hot is it there in the summer, really bad, right? Seattle is where people come to die, don't move here either.

Are we just going to centralize ourselves in entrepreneurial Athenian city-states, while the rest of America groans under job loss and decay? I want to believe it's not true, but it seems like we are heading that way.
I don't understand (1). Why is Apple legally required to approve any app?
Time to rig up all my dev phones...heh. This is awesome, and kind of crazy. That's so much money to be spending on user acquisition. There's no way even traditional restaurants spend $50+ on customer acquisition. Sprig's margins must be ultra slim. I too have gotten many many free meals from Sprig.
This definitely clarifies things. Thank you for your trouble. With Mobx I'm not handling a regular object, but a wrapped object (I think). This wrapper provised the observation capability for getters and updates to observers when using setters. So, the usage patterns look to be the same than with regular, unwrapped object, but the Mobx makes sure that when accessed it always gives the latest value and when updated, the update is messaged to its observers. It feels a rather clever use of JS getters and setters.

I have an project coming up that's going to integrate several previously separate apps into one. I can't imagine how I would combine their state into one with Redux. With observables I could just get the app observe their state changes and affect changes in others without contained apps being aware of each other.
Intel OmniPath network – what happened to the performance numbers?
he should have used the sock puppet accounts to improve the feasability of this article
>> congressional inquiries into anti-competitive behavior

Anti-trust law requires having a monopoly(which Apple doesn't have) or acting together with other companies. So in this case it's probably legal.

EDIT: that's basically the opinion of Keith Rabois, who litigated several anti-trust laws.

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Microsoft-punished-for-violati...
I think greater compartmentalization of software is long overdue.

For a program like this, there ought to be a Sacred Core that Does Very Little and has implementations of key protocols that can’t be touched without the blessing of about 5 senior engineers and the personal seal of the CEO or some such.

In other words, it should be unbelievably hard to screw with parts of the program that are crucial, while making changes that shouldn’t have anything to do with it. (Heck, for all we know, they were adding Windows 10 Tiles™ when this screw-up occurred.)
Sounds so similar to Portland, and maybe Seattle in the 70s and 80s after Boeing shrank and before Microsoft came to town.
Some higher end (e.g. enterprise) SSDs have some form of power backup (e.g. capacitors) to protect against power failure induced corruption. SSDs with power backup tend to be more expensive though than the consumer grade devices (such as the 850 Pro).
It doesn't appear to be as monotonous as the tiny spectrogram suggests, it's a sequence of subtly different tones: http://imgur.com/Z7S9Chq
Are these videos of an functioning piece of software, or mockups? There are a lot of interactions that are glossed over, and it's not obvious to me how this software would function.

I'm also skeptical about the characterization of an exploration of the properties of a single 2D matrix as "real mathematical work."
It's analogous to Google removing nytimes from their search results.

To be honest though it's also anti competitive for big brands like uber to be able to bully their way to negative publicity while mom and pops are helpless if they are removed from an App Store or Google.
The Qing dynasty was an inward-looking feudal monarchy, which is a terrible way to rule 300 million people. It would have fallen apart one way or another, Opium Wars or not.

The Wikipedia page refers to the top-down reorganization, which is the worst way to do reorganization.
Anti-competitive behaviors like this are really only an issue when done with a monopoly, which Apple does not have. That's how Apple can restrict the iPhone and iPad to a single browser and only allow browser skins/UIs within their app store. If Microsoft tried to make Internet Explorer the only browser permitted in Windows, it would be a very different story.
I've been wondering about this short of thing, especially related to the App Store rules around APNS[1], numbers 5.5 and 5.6.

A little while ago, Yelp began spamming me with a "Yelp Weekly NYC" APNS message every Friday. I also believe Lyft has been doing this with promotions. Under these rules, both of those apps should be immediately removed from the App Store, and I'd support that.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pus...
I live in Austin and have to agree that the headlines made by the Austin Police Department are just as depressing as anywhere else. Interestingly though, I've heard (but can't say I know for fact) that APD actually pays well, is highly competitive to get in to, and recruits nationally. If accurate, it makes it all the more unfortunate that they can't seem to be an exemplary law enforcement institution.

I think what is most disheartening is how divergent the culture of the law enforcement community and the culture of the communities they serve* have become increasingly divergent. From my own perspective, it appears that law enforcement nationally is predominantly white and conservative, while the US population is growing more diverse and culturally more liberal. I believe this divide is really what exacerbates the tensions with police and communities we're seeing a lot of right now. They're fundamentally different cultures the power relationship between the two makes conditions ripe for conflict (its not inherent, just more likely). Perhaps that's why Austin, the "liberal" outpost of Texas sees this "surprising" degree of police conflict - the cultural chasm between the law enforcers and the citizens.

* Also depressing, when it seems more like law enforcement is terrorizing the communities within their jurisdiction rather than serving them.
One simple, ideal way for my utopia to really happen would be to have a wealthy patron who would be a benevolent dictator who own's the land and the building, and has ultimate responsibility for keeping the lights on, etc. The benefit to him would be the same benefit as to us all: to live simply, peacefully, among people who are striving for some level of moral perfection. Key to this would be a) sharing values, and b) having a minimum level of success with those values that your presence would not be disruptive.

Yoga and meditation tacitly imply the kinds of values I mean: morality, concentration, wisdom (actually, the 3 parts of the Noble Path of Buddhism). Part b comes from my experience: I have met many people (myself included) who believe in the path but find it difficult to stay on it. I suspect that it is far, far easier to walk the path among others with the same stated goal, and that would be the main thrust of such an experiment.

A benevolent dictator would solve the problems inherent in determining who should stay, who should go, and why. I'm less concerned about malicious people than about well-meaning people who are, through no fault of their own, disruptive because they cannot control their own behavior. Any group can survive a certain amount of this; but how much? When is the threshold reached?

Of course, benevolent dictators are hard to find - and of course, people change, so a BDFL my slowly morph into something different. One possibility is to make the BDFL a computer program, one that is revised according to certain stringent rules involving consensus. The ideal program would be extremely passive, pushing gently here and there, sometimes in quite unexpected ways, to correct patterns that it predicts will yield a terrible outcome if left unchecked. I think such a thing is possible, but may be outside of the realm of possibility as of yet, since it requires such complete modeling of personality.
Makes sense. Trying to mask an acoustic signature around 50-60Hz, by using a sound that ressembles to a whale.
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"What you can't do in Fairhope is buy land and wait for it to become more valuable. You cannot get a capital gain out of owning land there. So no one can become rich by owning land."

Couldn't you ? I have no idea if this is workable in Fairhope, specifically, but ... if this is the main feature of a land tax regime, it seems like you could fairly easily game this ...

You gain control of the land (either through purchase or 99 year lease or whatever) and then you create an option to buy (or option to assign lessee) that is transferable to a third party and then you can camp on that appreciating "asset" just like people now do with the land itself.

I'm sorry if it's a bit imprecise or hand-wavy, but you get the idea - you only need to create a derivative of the property (which should be trivially easy) in order to work around the inability to sit on appreciating land.

Am I mistaken ? Am I missing something ?
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I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about.

I submitted this link [0] which was on the HN homepage a couple of days ago and the results that I got back were more either the least important bits or in some ways implying the opposite of the article, so either the writing was really bad or the algorithm needs some work.

Submitting a "simpler" less-ranty article [1] was even less successful, leading to paraphrases of less-important sentences as the results.

Then I submitted the BBC article from this morning about Philae [3] and received much, much better results. I think it works best on articles that have single sentences that clearly sum up the gist of the post as a single, hard fact and doesn't work with anything that works towards logical conclusions or tries to build an argument. Which makes sense, because this isn't an AI and can't actually deduce anything.

0: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us...

1: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/when-is-the-2016-retina-macbo...

3: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35559503
The Tilera architecture required assembler for effective usage due to its idiosyncracies.

The main problem is access to DRAM is a terrible bottleneck, and adding cores makes this worse if they all need to access it. You can fill a die with ALUs but unless you can keep them fed this doesn't help you at all. That's why Tilera focused on the network stream use case; there's enough storage on-die for a few frames per core, and the data to operate on can "flow" through the system from one 10G Ethernet MAC to another.
The philosophy of translation
Maybe it's time to ask Google to ask for permission before updating Chrome?
How Bitcoin Disrupts Telecommunications?
- Abuse of dominant economic position

- Having had a history of having the app on their store already

So they better have a very good reason for taking their app out of the store
I'd say in America it's mostly just STEM or business/economics, depending on your family background. Business for children of business owners, STEM for everyone else. There's also a clear political divide along this line in oversea Chinese demographics.

Lawyers, although well-paid on the higher-end, carry somewhat of a bad rep of being predatory and unreliable income-wise across the spectrum.
Actually no, I don't remember any time when software was better written than today. Early PC's picked up viruses from floppies and crashed all the time. The Morris worm took out most of the Internet accidentally in 1988. We had no encryption and little memory protection. By today's standards, there was little or no security back then.

We didn't have to upgrade software all the time only because most computers weren't directly connected to the Internet and because the Internet was a much smaller, safer place.

As the security threats have increased, software has gotten better. Mobile OSes are better sandboxed than PC's or workstations ever were. A Chromebook is pretty secure too. But the threats are getting worse.

Perhaps someday we will get the point where there is some critical software that's proven correct and no longer needs to change. But I think it will require open source hardware that doesn't change much either, and software that's written in newer, safer languages that make it easier to prove correctness.

That's not where we are today. People buy a new phone every 2-3 years, and they just came out with a new USB standard. When we get to the point where new phones are built using essentially the same the same components as old ones and the interconnects never change, perhaps things will slow down a bit and longevity might become a thing.
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Hah, I think my approach sides more with her than with you. I blog mostly to work things out in my own brain, and rewrite only when it helps me clarify the ideas for myself.

I explicitly refuse to have comments on my blog, so I certainly am not a poster-child for interacting meaningfully--or at all-with my audience.

But I do agree that rewriting does serve your audience.

http://braythwayt.com/2015/01/16/write-for-yourself-rewrite-...
Violating the limit 1 per customer policy is stealing.

EDIT: I wasn't going to engage but with this many downvotes I feel obligated to explain myself. Like I commented below, I'm not trying to tell you how to act. I merely wanted to point out that just because it's easy doesn't make it not wrong. As a group of people who actually run their own companies I would expect us to know better.
This cycle that you're depicting, is largely sustained by fear.

Big companies buy 'disrupters' when they fear their market share is at risk. But most of the time their market share is not at risk, and they should just wait for X startup to crumble.
> I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about.

Um... where is someone raving about the result? Most of the comments seem neutral to negative to me?
Thanks for taking my input constructively.

Our approach uses a separated LED array at high refresh rate, with each point source serving as something like a raster display source. Each point source is "injected" via fiber into a slotted waveguide which collimates of the light with a form of the pinlight system - though MEMS is actually a better way to go however more difficult to build. Thats the short version.

Actually we might not to go forward with commercialization - though we are working with some DoD labs so they might take it on. Hardware is a bitch, especially high risk hardware like this, and our business goals don't really align with it. We also think we have a bigger potential market with some of the other stuff we are doing with mapping and tracking within the AR metaverse (silly word but makes sense).
I've worked on projects before which initially had no tests, then some tests, then progressively more and more sophisticated tests.

Each time the harness became capable enough to replicate a certain type of scenario it didn't take long before those kinds of bugs dried up.

The bugs then always nearly always migrated to the areas the test harness couldn't easily create scenarios for - whether that was interactions with crazy external APIs, odd timezones or weird quirky browsers or whatever.

Continually modifying the test harness to be made capable of testing bugs reported from production was often a huge amount of work but it paid off handsomely.
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A complex system with each part optimized for being cheap, not for quality, is not going to be very reliable.
Actually it is easier to write generic code in Java than in Go.

Also many Java bashers in the Go community seem to be unaware of what is delivered in the JDK.

When I used to daily read gonuts, many weren't even aware that since Java 6, there is a similar infrastructure for HTTP(S), no need for third party servers.
How Startup Employees and Angels Should Think Liquidity in a Down Market
Heh. Really good point about the lack of sovereignty in the new global order of international treaties. Globalisation is happening and it seems the only way forward is to grudgingly sit at the table and take a few hard punches. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Everything you need to know about Oculus
Electric Cash Company is getting a good promotion with this demo, at least
Open Letter from a Eurocitizen Living in London: Brits, Vote for Brexit
This is huge!

To improve efficiency, Pedersen Commitment(i.e. g^Ex*h^r) or exponentiation g^Ex (so 1-2 exponentiations in a finite group) could be used instead of SHA256.

Con: new opcode is needed

Pros: efficiency, and PC / exponent could be proven itself in ZK in a very efficient way via Sigma protocols(can't imagine an useful example though).
Every time I see a Sun-tzu quote my cringe-o-meter explodes...
Is it stealing if the company gives you the coupons? They could have detected that his account already benefited from a 50$ rebate, no?
Triangle of Secure Code Delivery (2014)
It's not startups that are losing their luster, it's tech-for-tech's-sake companies. Now that we pretty much have everything we need to be connected, we have to look beyond technology and to the strongest fulcrum of society: culture.

Culture companies are the future. When you can get anything anywhere, the brand matters far more than the product. Anyone can make a burger or a pizza, so why are McDonalds and Pizza Hut crushing it across the globe, especially in China?

We're already seeing this with news. Traditional media companies are struggling to adapt while media outlets with personality like Vice (and Slate, and Quartz) are doing better than ever.

When all the gold is mined, when all the tech is made, the only thing that's left is to sell yourself.
They're not legally required to approve any app. Banning Uber's app would not be cause for criminal action, but for a civil suit for damages or breach of contract. The argument might go something like this:

1. Uber's app had previously been approved.

2. Apple, by their previous policies, therefore led Uber to believe that they could build a business around an iOS app. Relying on that information, Uber invested billions of dollars into their business.

3. Apple, by now banning Uber's app, has committed an act that damages Uber.

Also, it would be difficult for Apple to come up with criteria for an acceptable app that would disqualify Uber but not also millions of other apps, without having some new condition specifically aimed at Uber. This could be used as evidence that Apple intended to cause damage to Uber.
Sorry if this is off the topic of Palantir's and Dropbox's diminishing valuations:

I would like to see pushback by consumers against very large Internet companies and corporations in general. Even though some businesses need to be large for economy of scale, I think of non-local businesses as parasites. When local goods and services are not directly exchanged then some remote business entity is sucking off profit.

It seems like huge valuations are all part of a rigged game in much the same way as the military industrial complex and mega sized corporations are rigged games. Except for pushing back as a consumer to prefer smaller and local businesses, I am not sure what else to do.
That makes sense, thinking of the whale sharks.
That's a great analogy. Definitely a lot of old money as well.
1. it would have a severe negative impact on their new customer rate, probably leading to a "fail" in whatever cities they opened that month.

2. It would however lead to a very important debate that has not happened yet - who "owns" the platforms of iOS and android and who can play gatekeeper? Because Apple has not yet abused its position, the problem has not arisen.

But there will be plenty of political and economic incentive to force Apple and Android / goggle play to open their gatekeeper roles to "some other bodies", possibly with public service remits.

Ultimately access to the platforms will always be a privilege, but the platforms are rapidly becoming a public good and as such will one day be regulated differently - just as the electricity industry did.

One day soon the Apple Car App will be directly competing with Uber - I would not like to be Uber then if I had not spent the intervening years quietly lobbying for a "open platform" reform.
Does anybody know of any decent layman-oriented summary of the successful measurements performed by Philae & Rosetta? And any interesting and/or surprising findings and conclusions? After quick googling I've found this: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Scie... from July 2015 (e.g.: "[CONSERT] results show that the small lobe of the comet is consistent with a very loosely compacted (porosity 75–85%) mixture of dust and ice (dust-to-ice ratio 0.4–2.6 by volume) that is fairly homogeneous on the scale of tens of metres") but I'd be interested in more, more recent, and with more explanations and details.
There was that period known as industrial revolution. A lot of the great inventors were either born nobility or knighted. So Britain valued their best engineering minds.
Time Magazine, apparently. http://observer.com/2016/02/time-magazine-put-evelyn-waugh-o...
Hierarchical Temporal Memory, NuPIC, and Numenta’s Commendable Behavior
We would love to add other datasets in the future and have plans to do so. That said, this is just a fun side project so we have to triage what data sources go in and when. NYT is high on that list.
You're conflating two fundamentally different kinds of forks. The ones activated through voting were soft forks, where old nodes still accepted all blocks mined by the new ones, and the voting was to ensure that enough miners would enforce the new rules to overtake any chains created by the old nodes and bring everyone back onto the same chain - that is, it was necessary to ensure there wasn't a permanent fork. This simply doesn't apply to hard forks because by definition, the old nodes will not accept the newer fork no matter how long it grows. Calling it "voting" is kind of a misnomer - it's a purely technical measure to make sure soft forks don't break Bitcoin when they activate.
What you describe for testing and merging is a needlessly manual process. Using e.g. Phabricator, I can make a local feature branch and when I think it's ready open a request for code review. My CI system can run tests. I can update my request in response to test failures or reviewers comments. When my code is ready, Phabricator can squash all my commits into one and rebase that onto master.

If for whatever reason I did want to back out this code, there's a single commit to revert. This is unlikely though, since until a feature has proven itself in production it will be behind a feature flag.

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/recom...
You should have a list of top packages so we can easily test out the site.

On a related note. It would be nice if there was a https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ for AngularJS and NPM.