skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly, they are file signatures that OS X uses to identify and remove malware. Not sure when and how the files on your drive are checked (potentially right before they are opened?), but the XProtect.plist file is automatically updated by Apple, and that's what you're seeing.

The entry doesn't exactly mean you're infected, but just that your copy of the file was updated.

I have the entry for instance, but I was never infected. You can check your copy of XProtect with this command (I have 2076):

defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta Version

Edit: Looks like you do get a message before launching an app, if it's identified by XProtect/File Quarantine.
Yeah, Totally agree. But FFMpeg code is pretty easy to read. I created a video player with it for an embedded device, also implemented hardware accelerated YUV->RGB in it.
South Korea is one of those with too few young people and a generally aging population:

http://www.techinsider.io/why-south-korea-is-becoming-the-ol...
Sounds like we need more freedom of movement. Things will balance themselves out if we let them.
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> E.g. exposing "European children on holiday in Thailand" to what I stereotype as the fetid waters off the coast of third world countries.

Thailand ain't exactly third world. (The waters can be dirty, though.)
> For example in the Windows demo-scene world, it's trivial to do 4k/64k demos by using all the DirectX libraries available in the OS

Do you really think those DirectX libraries have music players, graphics assets (so that you don't need to procedurally generate all) and other components that intros/demos need?

Writing 4k demos is anything but trivial. It's in no way comparable to video player situation.
I see this system can take in a few statements and then apply reasoning in order to answer questions. Can we scale up this method to answer questions from Wikipedia pages, scientific papers and articles?

Maybe it could be used in conjunction with a chat bot that was trained with RL like AlphaGo (which used millions of human games as input data). People would say something or ask a question, then the net provide a bunch of answers and then people would rate the answers that are most human like, giving it a good/bad signal to use in training the RL part of the system. That would make the bot natural and human-like in conversation. Couple that with the reasoning part for answering questions and we get a reasoned/intelligent chat bot.

I'm wondering how far we are from being able to have normal conversations with bots - conversations that don't quickly get derailed or weird.
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I think you might be late to the party. It's widely known that these systems don't have any kind of security at all. The potential criminals already had this information for a long time.
You can do a case insensitive search with -iname:
find . -iname "*.txt"
I ran some of my recent emails through it. It picked up my overuse of exclamation marks and my use of "all of the time" instead of "all the time." It definitely doesn't seem to sensitive - I would lint all of my emails with it if it were easy to do so.
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There is a revolution going on in Bitcoin land. Very similar to how dictatorship gets overthrown in the real world. In the real world, dictators fight with censorship and violent force. In Bitcoin land these are social media censorship and DDoS attacks. The main Bitcoin forum on Reddit is censored heavy handed. No criticism allowed, mentions of alternative software or forums get deleted right away. People who run alternative implementations of Bitcoin get DDoSed so heavy, that sometimes whole districts of cities get cut off from the internet. But this is the internet. people manage to jump over the fence pretty fast...

http://imgur.com/xNjN0kH

...and find ways to get together and discuss their opinions without censorship:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/48zggz/a_behind...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/
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> 1. Downloading binaries from websites is what Windows users know. Package management is vastly superior as long as the packages exist and are up to date with the "official" source such as Spotify. If the package is a week late, then I'm going to prefer the direct binary. Once half my apps are direct and half are packages, the benefits of a package system diminishes.

"What Windows users know" doesn't mean that it's a good thing. Windows users also know to run everything with administrative privileges. For sufficiently sophisticated build systems (read: OBS) you can automatically rebuild packages. The reason why packaging takes time is because there is a testing process (which can also be automated with things like OpenQA), but there's lots of other maintainence that goes on when curating packages. Believe it or not, but sometimes upstream is downright irresponsible when doing version bumps and it's the maintainer's job to deal with it. It's fairly thankless work, to be honest, because you're not working on the new hot stuff. Sure, "just download a binary" works until you have multiple components that depend on each other.

> 2. Shared libraries are only good for saving space (irrelevant on desktop) and for security. Different side by side versions of libs work poorly when you reach "system" level is my experience. Several libc versions etc is painful.

"Only good for [...] security" is enough reason for me. Tell me how Windows programs deal with updates to critical libraries that everyone uses separately. I'm guessing the answer is "not well at all". And if you're going though your package manager, then no package should require a specific version of libc (besides, this problem can be mitigated somewhat with symbol versioning). The gains far outweigh the perceived costs IMO.
The US was at its most powerful at the end of WWII. Its GDP was more than rest of the world combined. Military and industrial capacity - unmatched. And the only power with nuclear weapons. At the end of the war they were barely scratched compared to the total devastation in Europe and Asia.

USA could have literally taken over the world with no one to oppose them.

So ... especially after the first oil shock - you could view US in a state of relative decline. With a short blip during the 90s when they were reaping the spoils of winning the cold war.
> Doing this reminds me that I'm (probably) imposing more register pressure by passing by value.

Not for "int"s, I would be very surprised if sizeof(int*) < sizeof(int) on your system.
-404. I guess this writer isn't going to tell us, either.
The criticism should be directed at the concept of a corporation itself, then at making more money. It's not just the profit motive, it's the discourse and the tools that go around it that are even more of a problem. For instance short term thinking, price cutting, the management and employee hierarchy. Focus on form rather than function in terms of concepts like professionalism (or better labeled as a psychological disorder of forcing people to act like machines).

The whole way that we think about these things needs reform. Corporations are machines for distributing power to a certain group of people who are in touch with the capital owners, the shareholders rather than the stakeholders. This is usually at the detriment of everyone involved, other than the shareholders and their managers. The ultimate goal of such arrangement is for the reduction of the power, well-being, happiness, and contentment of the stakeholders for the financial benefit of the shareholders.
I agree - I'm not a fan of hamburgers. But against Nomran's [0] advice I blame myself. It's taken many times to realize what they are, but I assume that I'm just a fogey who is slow in understanding the new standard. :-) I assume that the game is over and eventually we'll all catch up.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
I'd love to have something like this for day to day work emails. They aren't beautiful prose, and they shouldn't be.

That said, I think there's a better way to approach this. Rather than linting based on a list of rules, I'd prefer a more technical approach that highlighted actual issues, such as garden path sentences, ambiguous pronouns, doubled words, etc.
> In a more serious tone, I was alluding to the Domestically grown weed that casual weed smokers buying from passionless business will never get to see.

Are you using `Domestically grown' with a meaning that's different from `grown in the same country as the consumer'?
> If you're not using HTTPS, you are either malicious, negligent, incompetent…

Or poor. Hosting large amounts of binaries over https isn't cheap. I just priced Amazon S3 and cloudfront and for the amount of data that I serve it would cost $300 per month. That's a lot to commit for a GPL-ed binary that brings in practically zero revenue. Maybe there's a cut rate VPS out there that can handle 150GB of data and 3TB of bandwidth per month on the cheap, but I haven't found it yet.
Pointers to character types get some special treatment. They can be used to address the individual bytes of other objects (C11 6.3.2.3p7), and the strict aliasing rule allows character types to be used to access those bytes (6.5p7) (one interesting note is that uint8_t is not strictly required to be a character type [1]).

The problem with assuming things like a pointer working like an integer, is that compiler vendors may choose to start taking advantage of any undefined behavior and point to the standard if you complain.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jibsen/da6be27cde4d526ee564
I was looking for a specific product today that could only be shipped quickly by a few sites (no where I had an account). They all asked me to create an account. I ended up not buying anything.
If you release commercial or popular open-source software, it's probably a super-bad idea to keep your signing key on a notebook computer you use outside of the office.

Have a trusted machine kept in a secure location to sign it for you if that's practical.

I bet someone's key leaked out here.
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You know it's kind of ironic. How is the customer even supposed to know how insecure these systems are without blog posts like this one so they can avoid bad companies?
The economist Dean Baker has been vocal for years about the benefits of free trade on medicine. [0] (of many)

But while the powers-that-be are fine with free trade for cars, cheap clothing, electronics, etc. or exporting American manufacturing jobs overseas, it's a different tune all the sudden when you try to do the same thing to powerful industries, like doctors or lawyers.

[0]http://www.cato.org/publications/cato-online-forum/doctors-d...
> I have some wariness that its widespread use could actually have a shaping, and, specifically homogenizing, effect on language.

This could be a benefit in industries where the goal is to have homogenous writing that meets a given set of specifications/standards. Some ideas:

1. Peer-reviewed scientific writing and/or abstracts

2. Manuals

3. Materials written for a subset of language (EFL, pidgin, children's books)

4. Documentation
The patent would have expired in the early 90s, before the internet even went mainstream...
I am not sure about the nap room situation in Google's mothership. Here in Google Sydney we are doing fine.
Out of curiosity, is this work being submitted for a conference or journal?

Also have you tried to run DMN on the Text QA / Reading comprehension datasets from DeepMind?

Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
https://github.com/deepmind/rc-data
Why would you take that risk if you can hire somebody who does not smoke at all?

Indeed, that's why I hire only teetotalers. After all, if they like to have a drink now and then, there's still a risk that one day they turn up drunk for work.
I come from a Mediterranean island and I spend my summers swimming and diving, always with open eyes. I don't want put my feed on sea urchins or crash with a boat or rock! My eyes only hurt in swimming pools after a while. In the sea, my eyes don't hurt. I'm in my thirties.

[edit: added "and diving"]
> Have you ever built LLVM from source? If you want to hate yourself and your for a few hours try that sucker out.

I really have to hand it to the LLVM team, getting LLVM to build on Windows was absolutely nothing more than a matter of installing CMake and running it. It's usually far easier to build from source on Linux.

The documentation on the other hand...
Thanks for that, nicely summed, I get many clients who think marketing is promotions, they've already missed the boat and it's a tough job to pull them back far enough to re-assess their market.
Raspberry Pi 3 UART baud rate workaround
Yes, that is horrible. But also goddamn awesome. Sure, I'd never think of doing something similar where it was critical, but you've got to admit that is a fairly clever hack.
Normally, in the order of many months.
Truth is that peace doesn't make money, it doesn't grease the wheels of industry, the difference is that where is the industry?

I will start by saying that I hate war. And war is VERY anti-capitalist. The only time war makes countries money is when they pick on non-industrialized enemies. People have realized that war is very costly to trade and industrial elites outside the military-industrial complex. [0]

But... Can we really say that we can turn a blind eye to the world's most evil people? Perhaps we can say "Let Europe handle itself" in 1915, but can we really say that in 1941? Even if 1941 was caused by 1915, can't we admit that there are some things worth fighting over?

This isn't to defend the current war-mongers running for President. It's just to say that a 0 wars policy doesn't seem to stand up to reality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree
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Looks clean. Maybe false positive from Windows Defender...

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/73d82ff580cd445b907c6334c7...
Uh? Do you know anything specific?
Don't have to go all the way to India if you live in the US. Mexico is close by. And soon, Cuba will be even closer for some.
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Yet another reason why you should have a (offline) backup of all your important files.
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Python and lua both have good frameworks for developing such models (tensorflow, theano possibly with lasagne or keras, torch, caffe...).

The visual part need access to efficient GPU-based implementation of convolutions (typically using cuDNN from nvidia or neon from Nervana Systems).

You could write bindings for other languages or even work directly in C++ but I think that an interactive programming language with a REPL like Python and lua is very helpful for faster iterative model building, interactive exploration and evaluation.
Ruby's achilles heel
Have you tried dask?
That's not weird, even on sand hill road. I met with about 75 firms before getting a seed investment, and did probably 10-15 meetings with that one before we closed. First time founder, and they made it clear how serious their interest was at each stage (meetings after the fifth were with every intention of investing, which they did).
The last statement thing seems to be much nicer then ruby's due to static typing.
You're right there.

My impression of this might have been different if the list of rules included CMOS instead of something that tells me not to use the term "jump the gun" because it's a cliche.
A signed contract.
I find the concept of intellectual property and patents ridiculous.

What would be the benefit of granting IP over an invention or innovation to a corporation or a group of individuals versus releasing the knowledge under the public domain? Except the corporation or inventor(s) making money off of it, I can't think of anything significant. Instead, if the knowledge is made freely available under the public domain, the limitation becomes how well the innovation is used for the benefit of humanity instead of the limitation being access to the invention itself and IP.

Maybe the existence of IP and patents was important to get to the present as a way of rewarding innovation, but it's high time to look for a better model.

I know this is a very complex issue for which there are no simple answers or solutions, but a good starting point might be to think about a society where the motivation for innovation is not financial reward.

Taking the example of patented drugs, how is it justified to keep access to life saving drugs beyond the reach of most people(including people in developed nations)?
Live demos for the AWS Lambda in Action book (and half off with code mlpoccia)
The newest update removes it automatically.
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A lot of this insecure IoT/vehicle etc. like stuff reminds me a bit of the early days of phreaking. Discovering "secret numbers", using open conference lines and the like.
I think mere discovery is in the spirit of hacking since I'd define it as "curious exploration".
I don't know if you can have a conformant implementation, but to be honest, I never really thought about it. Non-conformant (subtly or not-so-subtly) compilers are something that I have come to accept with resignation. I may not like them, but software has to be written, and it's not going to wait for another team of developers to get their compiler right.

At the moment, each one of the two codebases I'm maintaining has about a dozen workarounds for compiler bugs. One of the compilers is already at its 6th major version.

It's things like these that bring a smile to my face whenever I see people valiantly calling for rewriting everything in Rust :-).
These "small guys" are re-selling metered resources of leased hardware, and has a lot of competition, so they need ads. Their ads are usually factual, not deceiving or cryptic-misleading, like that AWS nonsense-marketing-speak.
yes,is good to know.
This is true too. When there's too much money it blows a bubble.
Can someone explain in layman's terms how this is any better from an app like the Hemmingway Editor [0]? Both analyses the text and makes suggestions to make it better.

[0]- http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Thank you but no thanks.
It happens to the bests: compromised server and infected updates ( can you hear me, PROFTPD? )
Seeing all the supposed $5,000 LED TVs on Amazing selling for $1,200 is always a good laugh...

A tangent, but it was a fun conversation recently with the girlfriend in Hawaii staying at the St. Regis. (Hawaii has a hotel rate 'fairness' law) Inside the closet there's the legal statement: "Suite maximum daily rate $9,600". You're never going to see that rate unless either the Olympics come to town or it's New Year's Eve... "no, we did NOT pay $10k a night" ... "wow, but that's what this costs!? Wow!" ... "No... no... but how else would you comply with a maximum rate law?"
it works when you are in a physical store, because the 'exit friction' is much higher, and you're much more invested in physically being there.

closing a tab of a website or closing an app is easy.
mild frustrations equal lost business on the internet.

that's why sleazy salesmen work in stores.

if you want to learn more about this, look up 'captive market'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_market
See our discussion of this at http://proselint.com/approach/. I'll note that we do not consider Proselint a complete product — it's in its earliest stages, perhaps at 2% of its final capacity. That number has steadily decreased as we learn more, which we take to be a good sign.
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> Knowing this, defenses of "variables at the top" often seem like rationalizations to me.

Like I said, it's a matter of style. Defenses of one or another that span more than one paragraph often seem like a waste of time to me.
Ask HN: What happened to 2Checkout?
A few years ago everyone was using 2Checkout for receiving payments from customers. Now it looks like it is totally forgotten in favor of Stripe.
Yeah, I have 2076 too. Now after the update of Xprotect you get the message, but what if you ran the app for example on Friday (4th) and got infected then?

Checked on IRC, it seems that sparkles prevented infection for those who updated their app, like I did. Screw all this, as I read in one of the comments here, I will run transmission through Docker container on RPi running FreeBSD.
Can you describe the progression of what happens in those 15 meetings? What do they need at meeting #14 they couldn't get from meeting #5?
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I think 200 years in the future that's no way we will still be burning dinosaurs. We really need another nuclear age, one with safety and innovation.
Hi thanks for a great paper. I have read it as well as the nvidia articles a lot of times but I am failing to grasp some important details. If you could shed some light that would be great.

The attention mechanism is a feed forward single layer neural network. The problem is that the input sequence is variable length. How are the outputs of the bi-rnn fed to the attention mechanism. What happens if I have a 80 word sentence as input and what happens if I have a 10 word sentence as input ?
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Ask HN: What was your biggest regret about learning programming?
What could you have done better? Or you wish you'd known certain things before?
I wonder if people declared they would rather quit than work on the backdoor project if that would be an undue burden on the company.
Turkey has a semi-dictatorship these days, no?
Well it's not really one time use than is it. Compound literals are your friend.
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> Now, however, other types of nanolight are on the rise. Some have a rare ability to absorb lots of low-energy photons and combine the energy into a handful of high-energy photons

Doesn't it violate the second law of thermodynamics?
You're right, but the problem is much worse than that. Examining 200 entries from Garner's Modern American Usage at random reveals that half of them are easy to implement, the kind of thing that could be assigned as a homework problem (e.g., recognizing that “$10 USD” is redundant, that “very unique” is comparing an uncomparable adjective, or that people from Michigan are called “Michiganders”, not “Michiganites”). Thirty percent are moderately challenging, requiring a week’s effort. Fifteen percent are hard — they are entire projects, requiring advances in AI. And the remaining advice (around five percent), the best kind, is AI-complete. Consider, e.g., "John hit Peter only in the nose". Does this mean that, of all Peter's body parts that could have been hit, John hit only Peter's nose? Or is it a grammatical error that was suppose to convey that, of all the people John could have hit, it was only Peter who he did hit.

We're interested in incorporating deeper NLP. In particular, we've been eyeing https://github.com/spacy-io/spaCy.
For the Bitcoiners, there's the nano-paywall from https://satoshipay.io/ . (I'm part of the team working on this). We're currently trying to integrate fiat payments too, which would make this a browser wallet of sorts that can be used to pay micro-amounts to publishers. Still early days, but think we're on to something with a lot of potential.
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I think they meant, that's how all government programmes measure what they've done.
Actually, unless the customers are as incompetent as the makers of these devices, they should have asked themselves how come they could configure their device with no authentication, and if they could, who else could.

This is not really a bug, this an unfit design.
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